Stanisław Lem (staˈɲiswaf lɛm) was a Polish science fiction‚ philosophical and satirical writer. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. He is perhaps best known as the author of Solaris‚ which has twice been made into a feature film. In 1976‚ Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world. His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology‚ the nature of intelligence‚ the impossibility
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factor to people’s dreams—it is no exception in the novel‚ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. Narrator Chief Bromden refers to society as the Combine. The definition of a combine is “an agricultural machine that cuts‚ threshes‚ and cleans a grain crop in one operation‚” or a machine that cuts and levels out that which it consumes. Society is like a combine in that it restrains‚ manipulates‚ and obliterates anyone who tries to stand up against it. Through his recount of the story of McMurphy
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character made by a Japanese cartoonist. Doraemon is a robot comes from the future and has many great machines with various wonderful functions in his pocket. As an ordinary people‚ there are many things I regretted in the past‚ so that I need one of Doraemon’s machines‚ which is called ‘Time Machine’. By using this time machine‚ I can go back to the past to correct my repented mistakes. The time machine does not only function to bring us to the past‚ but it can also bring us to the future. Hence‚ besides
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Machines This is an age of machine. Machine has acquired a high priority in the modern era. It has come to occupy a place of major importance in the life of man. In all spheres and walks of life machine comes to the aid of man. Right from the time of waking up in the morning till going to bed at night‚ man continues to make use of some machine or the other. For example‚ man wakes up with the help of a machine (alarm watch)‚ takes bath with the help of water brought by and heated by machine‚ enjoys
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meThe Time Machine H. G. Wells This eBook is designed and published by Planet PDF. For more free eBooks visit our Web site at http://www.planetpdf.com. The Time Machine I The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled‚ and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burned brightly‚ and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed
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Title: Trurl’s Machine Author: Stanislaw Lem As a boy Stanislaw Lem showed an early interest in science as well as in the imaginary worlds of fantasy and science fiction. The young Lem’s interest in tinkering mechanical devices of all sorts was put to use by secretly damaging the German vehicles during the Nazi occupation. Later on‚ he became a full time writer establishing himself as leading science fiction writer in Eastern Europe. This writer from Lvov Poland (now Ukraine) worked on serious
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Stanislaw Lem’s “Trurl’s Machine” is the story an inventor who makes an eight-story thinking machine with a major flaw. The story is an attempt to portray the censorship of the people by a communist regime. Lem does this through the use of character‚ plot and C. The characters in “Trurl’s Machine” have very different personalities. First‚ we meet Trurl‚ the constructor. He is a scientist and an inventor‚ but he has an artistic side. This he shows by giving the machine face. He has a quick temper
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ABSTRACT Most research in Machine translation is about having the computers completely bear the load of translating one human language into another. This paper looks at the machine translation problem afresh and observes that there is a need to share the load between man and machine‚ distinguish ‘reliable’ knowledge from the ‘heuristics’‚ provide a spectrum of outputs to serve different strata of people‚ and finally make use of existing resources instead of reinventing the wheel. This paper describes
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1. Envelope machine FCI is deciding on whether to buy a machine that makes envelopes for their cards. The cost of envelopes is one of FCI’s largest cost components. Referring to Ms. Beaumont’s estimations the project would generate $218 000 increase in profit after taxes every year during its eight year economic life. Cost of acquiring the machine is 500‚000. If we suppose that FCI is able to convince banks to loan $500‚000 to invest in the envelope machine‚ we can first use FCI’s normal interest
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Machine Gun Test M240B: Characteristics: Air cooled‚ belt-fed‚ gas-operated‚ fully automatic weapon that fires from the open bolt position. Operational Data: Ranges Max Range: 3725m Max Effective (Point): 800m Max Effective (Area): 1800m Grazing Fire: 600m Tracer Burnout Approximate: 900m Weight Receiver: 24.2 lbs. Barrel: 6.6lbs Spare Barrel Case With Spare Barrel and All Sl3 Components: 12.90 Lbs. Tripod with Mounts: 20 lbs. Dimensions Length: 49” Rates
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