Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Slowly, the plot develops; the audience watches the aforementioned Italian played by Kevin Krim, the dumb blond (Kristen Rolf), the girl with a cold (Ona Hahs) and the vulgar staff member who proudly wields her cigarette (Anna Lewis)--all under the direction of the constantly angry boss, Emily Stone's Marge (often called--surprise, surprise--Sarge). The action picks up when a health inspector, played by Mark Bagley, has to review the kitchen, which for years has passed the test. This time, things are different. Bagley portrays a slimy 70s type, who will only give the kitchen a passing rating...
...boss" from start to finish? The other characters often fall into the same trap. Krim and Lewis are good actors with a bad script. So, their caricatures become borderline annoying, as they do not progress during the course of the play. The audience knows that Rolf, the blond, is dumb after five minutes of the play, but then must listen to every dumb line she submits. Hahs slips on a couple of her lines, which further prevents finding any reality within her character, while hindering the comic flow...
What can a $500 dumb computer do? Not much. A decent 17-inch color monitor costs about $700. Most people want to see their information in color on a nice, big screen; how will IBM and Oracle overcome this difficulty...
Powerful applications require lots of Random Access Memory (RAM). Minimum requirements for most operating systems plus applications are at least 16 megabytes of RAM. Presumably, a dumb computer on a network using modularized applications will mean the demise of RAM-hungry applications. Assuming this is true and that a dumb PC only requires about 8 megabytes of RAM, this is still about...
...that somehow, companies will reduce their costs by packaging all of this together, you have a mediocre to poor, monitor-less computer selling for about $500. Considering you can buy a fairly powerful machine these days for about $1,000 (with prices still dropping), why would anyone buy these dumb computers...