For every one of us/. crew who use high-end programs like Photoshop or FlashMX, how many people are out there buying the latest 2-3GHZ box to write email and look at pictures of their grandchildren online? Or just to look at online p0rn?
I think a lot are. That's what MS has to fear: the slow erosion of their "hardware tax". If you could build a box that has a 20gig hard drive, a cpu in the 1Ghz range, that boots up with Firefox covering the "desktop", there are a lot of folks out there who would sign up.
Think about it: geeks know that Dell isn't necessarily the best hardware maker out there, but because they make it easy to order their products, non-pencil-necked people also believe that their machines are easy-to-use as well.
There will always be a vendor and place for multi-purpose machines but I think the market is going to fragment into the high-profit, low volume, high-end rig vendors (gaming machines, nerd boxes) and the "low-end", "easy-to-use", high-profit machines (e.g. the Mac
Mini)
Margins in this industry are just too low to sustain if there continue to be additional rises in fuel costs.
Unfortunately, TFA points out that cancer cells don't need as much oxygen to continue their growth. Basically, your healthy cells would be hibernating but the cancer would keep growing and they'd have to keep moving your body to a bigger and bigger vat.
Is it just me or does the whole process just smack of controlled oxygen deprivation with a side serving of reduced metabolism?
9 Hours is a long time to be oxygen deprived and there was no mention of how the mice did on standardized tests after they were revived. After all, what's the point of sleeping all the way to Mars and then not being able to operate any of the machinery (let alone wipe one's own buttocks) after arrival?
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For every one of us /. crew who use high-end programs like Photoshop or FlashMX, how many people are out there buying the latest 2-3GHZ box to write email and look at pictures of their grandchildren online? Or just to look at online p0rn?
I think a lot are. That's what MS has to fear: the slow erosion of their "hardware tax". If you could build a box that has a 20gig hard drive, a cpu in the 1Ghz range, that boots up with Firefox covering the "desktop", there are a lot of folks out there who would sign up.
Think about it: geeks know that Dell isn't necessarily the best hardware maker out there, but because they make it easy to order their products, non-pencil-necked people also believe that their machines are easy-to-use as well.
There will always be a vendor and place for multi-purpose machines but I think the market is going to fragment into the high-profit, low volume, high-end rig vendors (gaming machines, nerd boxes) and the "low-end", "easy-to-use", high-profit machines (e.g. the Mac Mini)
Margins in this industry are just too low to sustain if there continue to be additional rises in fuel costs.
Unfortunately, TFA points out that cancer cells don't need as much oxygen to continue their growth. Basically, your healthy cells would be hibernating but the cancer would keep growing and they'd have to keep moving your body to a bigger and bigger vat. Is it just me or does the whole process just smack of controlled oxygen deprivation with a side serving of reduced metabolism? 9 Hours is a long time to be oxygen deprived and there was no mention of how the mice did on standardized tests after they were revived. After all, what's the point of sleeping all the way to Mars and then not being able to operate any of the machinery (let alone wipe one's own buttocks) after arrival?