But many pros say that at their level, the equipment matters.
Heinrich Popow, a 29-year-old German runner who lost a leg to cancer when he was young, said equipment mattered only to a point.
And the right equipment matters: After two weeks' employ in an Upper East Side penthouse, he was handed a pair of Reeboks by his new boss, the better to withstand the apartment's wall-to-wall granite floors.
All the students were able to control the equipment, no matter where they were physically.
They include the hoary old issue of whether and when European-only operations can borrow NATO equipment, a matter on which American (and Turkish) politicians have tough views.
The national accounts are good at measuring capital spending on things such as plant and equipment that matter in an industrial economy.
But a company that decides it has too much capacity is unlikely to invest in new equipment no matter how low interest rates go.
"Exposure to salt and humidity are decidedly bad for tanks, vehicles and high-tech equipment, no matter how well wrapped they may be," The Globe and Mail said today.
There's certainly a market for high-end audio equipment (no matter the quality), and Kaufman says that the earphones are just the beginning.
As an incentive, Harper promised "If you will go to Germany and get the best possible scientific equipment, no matter if it takes you five years, I will give you the professorship of Egyptian in the new University of Chicago!" The following year, Breasted traveled to Berlin to study Egyptian, Arabic and Hebrew.
Think how you would recreate an image taken by someone else, even when there's nobody around and utilize the functions of your equipment, no matter how amateur you think they are.
