There used to be hundreds of IT firms around me building or reselling PCs and servers to a vast audience of willing buyers happy to pay for the hardware.

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"It's hard for me to swallow, but the box isn't as important as it used to be, " says Mark Hudson, an HP sales manager.

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It seems to me that the frequency that will be used to host all this high speed traffic belongs to none other than Clearwire.

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But one of the upsides is that it has made me a lot more tolerant than I used to be about the bodily choices of others.

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Alain Fracheboud, a gun shop owner in Geneva, told me that if it is proved to be the weapon used it is "a bizarre choice for a professional killer".

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Richie Havens said to me once recently, he said, you know, it used to be that everybody was our age, and now they're every age.

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As it approaches, I am reminded how disappointed and hurt I used to be when my stepdaughter didn't acknowledge me on this day.

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