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Balliner was challenging Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's recent announcement that the growth of the network meant the death of the personal computer. Ellison and others argue that the utility of computers lies in the information they provide, and that a stripped-down computer--essentially a monitor and a keyboard--connected to the Internet was just as useful (if not moreso) than a very powerful computer sitting on one's desktop...
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...
Assuming 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...
...reluctant to send their trucks into Mexico. More than a fourth of the approximately 5,000 Mexican trucks crossing into Texas every day carry corrosives, chemicals, explosives, jet fuel and pesticides, according to Morales. While many trucks keep within guidelines, the volume makes it impossible for authorities to monitor the trucks closely...
...carefully chosen, it has a clearly defined sense of its parameters, unlike many other United Nations organizations, which are diffuse and disorganized." UNICEF's new ten-point anti-war plan calls for systematic reporting of war crimes against women and children, moves to discourage child conscription, to monitor the effects of economic sanctions on children, and to ban land mines. During the Iran-Iraq war, Iran sometimes sent armies of children through Iraqi minefields, sacrificing them in order to make a safe pathway for troops...