Since governments have been devoting resources (read: money) to fighting the recession, they have less money to buy "superfluous" items like computers for kids.
To date VR films tend to be short and superfluous: floating down a computer-generated river, for example, or watching helicopter footage of a safari.
Someday computers could even make superfluous a few of those million-dollar-a-year block traders manning banks of telephones.
Superfluous email accounts used on public computers, prepaid phones--there are ways to do this if you think it through.
Locations and sets were recreated on the computer so the flying bats would not be superfluous once incorporated into the finished film.
The ledger, which the city displayed as recently as 1980, became superfluous when record keeping for the bonds was transferred to computers.
But recent improvements to memory control and computer graphics capabilities of processors have made the Timna chip superfluous, Intel said.
There is a widespread belief that we are nearing a stage in the development of computer-generated figures and motion where live actors will become superfluous.
Although I am still a novice, I really liked that it allowed me to tell the computer exactly what I wanted it to do, without having to navigate endless menus or other superfluous features.
One highlights a general lack of stationery, outdated forms, superfluous and duplicated reporting requirements, incoherence in indicators as well as inconsistency between systems that rely partly on computers, partly on manual filing.
