It seems in this highly toxic world of fast food, cheap and plentiful booze and lifestyle factors such as exhaustion and job stress, are making us reach for solutions that promise some sort of transformation and purity.

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Dell, meanwhile, has made great strides in retuning its hardware business toward the enterprise market but continues to wrestle with how to improve the performance of its consumer business, and could face the same sort of disruptive transformation HP is now undergoing.

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That sort of development and transformation is difficult to predict, and largely irrelevant from an investing point of view.

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These sort of interactions will alter Furby's character, sending it into a transformation with flashing eyes.

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