Word: dumbness
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...some old-timers, the idea of a stripped-down desktop machine harks back to the days of bulky mainframes, when all data and software were stored on big, centrally located computers and users had only "dumb" terminals on their desktops, with little or no memory or processing power. Today the operative paradigm is the so-called client-server model, where data may be stored on big file servers but the software runs on real, full-powered desktop computers. Over the years, the pendulum swings back and forth between the decentralized desktop and the centralized machine. In this instance, the idea...
...turning of the tables is widely anticipated. Japan is stimulating itself out of a long depression with interest rates near zero. What could be more stimulating than that? Japanese companies missed the personal-computer bonanza, but they may be catching up with new products that turn the dumb TV into a smart...
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...
...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...