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[ccp4bb]: RE: OSX: A great Linux alternative. But Stereo?
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Apple Computer Corp. - Marketing Demographics Presentation (imagined)
Consumer requirement Estimated size of
driving demand demographic group
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Chasing bipedal lizards 1,750,000,000
through gloomy tunnels
with a shotgun
Depriving Metallica of two 935,000,000
dollars in royalties by
burning yourself a bootleg
CD copy of their latest album
Using a cut-and-paste image 1,250,000,000
editor to superimpose a photo
of your baby's/girlfriend's
face on a tropical sunset
background, tastefully set in
a red, heart-shaped vignette
Adding wacky animated titles 785,000,000
and a Hootie & the Blowfish
soundtrack to your boring
holiday videos
Using stereo graphics to build 1,327
the activation loop of your
new kinase into a 1.5 Angstrom
resolution electron density map
(calculated with SIGMAA
coefficients to reduce bias)
Yep, the burgeoning international community of
structural biology geeks certainly presents
Apple with a strategic dilemna!
Gordon
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Gordon Webster Ph.D.
Harvard Institutes of Medicine
Tel: (617) 667 0566
Fax: (617) 975 5243
email: gordon_webster@hms.harvard.edu
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