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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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