Some statistics, after all, do not require fancy analysis.
Other scientific disciplines, like physics and genetics, require fancy equipment, large labs and major funding.
Brazilian steps require fancy footwork, Ms. Vitti said, "but I'm determined to master them".
This time, however, there are more efforts to predict what it will do and how to cope with it.Not all of them require fancy computers.
In the fifth-grade class at Santa Rita, the children have made a tile floor (requiring fancy maths to estimate sizes, shapes and numbers).
Some £30bn in assets have been frozen in Britain and the US, but getting hold of it will require fancy legal footwork.
But because a lot of things that people do with computers, such as e-mail, writing and web browsing, do not require fancy graphics or lots of processing power, netbooks can still be extremely useful.The number of netbooks available is growing as more producers pile into the market (but not Apple at least, not yet).
The solid-oxide fuel cell requires fancy ceramics for its electrodes and an exotic mixed oxide (yttria and zirconia) as an electrolyte, while the electrolyte in a molten-carbonate cell is so hostile that its electrodes tend to give up the ghost regardless of their composition.Only the remaining two cells, therefore, look like serious candidates for commercialisation.
"I cannot believe how effective and affecting this 'collection' is as a way of conveying the catastrophic proportions of this attack without requiring fancy displays or resorting to gimmicky technology," Ms. Stern wrote in an e-mail message that day. Lee Ielpi, a retired firefighter who has long prodded officials to preserve the remnants of ground zero, has a personal link to Column 1001-B.
