Word: proletarians
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Such proletarian computing systems are doing some impressively high-end work. A Stanford University lab recently launched Folding@home, a public project that uses the technology to investigate how proteins fold into the shapes that determine their function. Meanwhile, Distributed.net is working with the U.K.'s Sanger Centre to help map the human genome...
...jump significantly over the past six months. "They can be worn with jeans or under a $1,000 jacket, and they've replaced blouses and sweaters for the office. We're not talking about undershirts here." Part of their appeal, however, is exactly those qualities they share with their proletarian cousins: they travel well, rarely wrinkle, fit comfortably and, not incidentally, are machine washable...