Look at how cheap computers and Web connections have launched a revolution in stock-trading prices.
The mavericks had also proved they could run the algorithm on cheap computers chained together.
Every nation could have had a national recommended reading list decades before we had cheap computers.
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Lenovo has mastered the art of selling cheap computers to people with not many yuan to spare.
You need only a fraction of that if you can gin up a virtual supercomputer from thousands of cheap computers.
Widespread private ownership of cheap computers and the network to allow them to communicate with each other would come much later.
Back home, they hooked up their cheap computers and hard drives to each other to form a sort of homemade parallel processing system.
They may see 3G handsets not as expensive phones, but as cheap computers, with which they can call up scores, prices and even crime reports.
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Now there is free stuff to read with cheap computers.
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Industry observers believe this nesting trend could sustain demand for products -- Blu-ray players, stereos, video games, cheap computers -- that brighten the family room while easing the sting of canceling that Disney World vacation.
Just as cheap personal computers undermined the mainframe business in the 1980s and open-source programs like Linux and Mysql are challenging Microsoft and Oracle today, outfits like Fastcase are attacking Wexis' stranglehold on legal research from the bottom up.
To protect the company from the danger that cheap new computers will squeeze the margin on refurbished ones, Mr McKie is developing direct sales of more powerful second-hand machines to non-profit bodies, such as charities and schools, and to individuals.
Cheap notebook computers offer another.
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The availability of cheap, fast computers and storage, as well as open source tools, have made it okay to capture first and ask questions later.
Like Nintendo, the new generation of small fabless firms capitalise on some special skill (designing cheap but powerful computers in Akia's case) and then use their compactness to run circles around the heavyweights.
But in addition to creating headaches for developers trying to build games that will run well on tomorrow's machines, cheap, powerful computers are making it easier for small teams of developers to create polished games on a budget.
Nakamura and Wong started GR in 1994 as a "zine" -- one of thousands of underground publications born in an age of cheap photocopying, home computers and a healthy amount of leisure time.
Young engineer Nolan Bushnell sat down in the mid-1970s, looked at the falling prices of memory chips, extrapolated where they would be in a couple years and precisely predicted when computer games played on college computers would be cheap enough to operate in bars.
Video Networks' breakthrough was to develop software that turns cheap, standard Intel-based computers into video servers.
The search engine's IT infrastructure is built entirely from Linux software and computers that are so cheap they're junked instead of fixed.
To make the product more appealing to them, O'Reilly will soon launch cheap software to connect home personal computers to the web through the Internet, thus building up the advertising base.
Portable computers such as the MacBook, cheap netbooks and smartphones are where the biggest growth is happening, and Intel needs to focus there.
South Africa's trade unions recently complained that domestic industry was being flattened by cheap imports of hi-tech goods, computers, telecoms equipment and the like.
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Thirty years ago, as I started my so-called career, not a single person told me that computers and technology would get so cheap that they would practically end up being given away in boxes of Cheerios.
While affordable, computers with more capabilities will not be as cheap.
Mr Dell hopes to turn the tide for a firm that has struggled to compete with cheap Asian rivals and the boom in smartphones and tablet computers.
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So it is that the world of silicon chips divides itself into two camps: the all-purpose ones that power desktop computers, and the fast, specialized, cheap ones that run cellular phones, answering machines or car engines.
The first scheme, in Kensington in Liverpool, will provide 2000 computers available free on loan to local residents, along with cheap internet access and a special local web portal and extra training opportunities.
However, while he can see its popularity for disabled or elderly people, Faisal remains uncertain about whether cheap eye-tracking devices are ready to take over from the mouse and touch-screen computers.
The combination of mobile broadband and cheap netbooks will resolve a long-running argument within the technology industry about the relative merits of computers and mobile phones as tools to promote development.
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