The Altair may have been frustrating, but it drove the nerds to experiment, finding real uses for the useless box, turning it from a curiosity to a computer.
As we all know by now, the latest software update to the iPhone may in some cases turn it into a useless brick if you happen to have put hacked software on it or unlocked it (ahem, John) in order to make it work on a non-AT&T carrier (such as T-Mobile, in the U.S .. Apple, of course, is free to try to lock in customers to its partner AT&T and to control what software will work on the phone.
It was a good move, but in the end, the size of Fassbender turned it into something completely useless, the equivalent of a nude selfie showing of the Dirk Diggler size member.
Behaviors: It's all theoretically useless until you turn it into actions.
To make insulin powder that could be safely rehydrated, they had to find ingredients to surround the molecule to prevent it from turning useless in its dry state what Lechuga-Ballesteros calls "the dough that surrounds the insulin raisins".
"It turns out it's completely useless.
Freeman and Lowe carefully populate their installation with those objects most prone to turning into useless crap: betting forms, posters, videotapes, pornography, cosmetic surgery technologies, beauty products, industrial electronics, public safety notices.
Out of necessity, India is emerging as a model for tackling these problems, both because its companies have become expert in turning useless graduates into useful ones and because it has allowed industry to take the lead in creating a huge new programme to tackle skills shortages.A second challenge is for governments to create the right conditions for businesses to create more jobs.
The manufacturer, which abandoned it as unprofitable when it turned out to be useless against its intended target, cancer, has made one last batch, enough for 1,000 patients.
Wise regulation, however, is how human societies turn a useless jungle into a prosperous garden.
But the goal of piping electricity around countries without wasting any (in Britain nearly a tenth of the power in power lines turns into useless heat) has remained much harder to attain.
