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  • In computer parlance, this relationship is known as master-slave communication.

    Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001

  • In computer parlance, this relationship is known as master-slave communication.

    Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001

  • Time for us to listen, again to the wisdom of our elders and to the Native Peoples of this land and across the world when it comes to have, instead of a master-slave relationship, a healthy, respectful and joyous relationship with Nature and her elements of earth, fire, water and air, if not reverent.

    Mitchell J. Rabin: Rachel Sequoia Branches Out to Invite us to Share the Air, for a Fee Mitchell J. Rabin 2011

  • But the film is considered at least a little insulting, because of its facile naivete, rosy suggestions of slavery, and what the NAACP called the "impression it gives of an idyllic master-slave relationship."

    Savage Kingdom SVGL 2009

  • MythTV also has the concept of a ‘master-slave’ server relationship.

    MythTV and Me 2009

  • Time for us to listen, again to the wisdom of our elders and to the Native Peoples of this land and across the world when it comes to have, instead of a master-slave relationship, a healthy, respectful and joyous relationship with Nature and her elements of earth, fire, water and air, if not reverent.

    Mitchell J. Rabin: Rachel Sequoia Branches Out to Invite us to Share the Air, for a Fee Mitchell J. Rabin 2011

  • But the film is considered at least a little insulting, because of its facile naivete, rosy suggestions of slavery, and what the NAACP called the "impression it gives of an idyllic master-slave relationship."

    Archive 2009-04-01 SVGL 2009

  • Yoshikazu Tsuno/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images With Kyokko Electric's master-slave remote-control robot system, an operator uses a 3D head-mounted display and flexible data gloves to operate a humanoid robot.

    International Robot Exhibition 2011

  • He does not seem to have probed far into the dynamics of master-slave relationships, which historians are now portraying as more complex and nuanced than Mr. Parker's emphasis on sex and brutality suggests.

    Sugar in the Raw J.R. McNeill 2011

  • Read more: Literary Life: A tender spot in master-slave relations

    Read this: Virginia professor explores slave-mistress life in new book The Reliable Source 2011

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