Plus you spent billions on all that fancy hardware, when all the time you had the best pilots and the best planes in the business already in place.

The drawback is that Windows itself is not particularly easy to learn, and Windows also requires fancier hardware than regular DOS applications.

"Without plug-in capability, a hybrid is just a gasoline-powered car with some fancy hardware"

But also various communication, entertainment, and productivity apps work noticeably better with fancier hardware.

And my mother never used any fancy hardware.

They eschew fancy but cumbersome hardware, preferring to rely on their own well-honed sense of how hard they're working and a trusty old watch.

Others question whether Poland can afford fancy military hardware when its economy is in its worst shape since the end of Communism there 13 years ago.

Shoulder bags hang from chains, and belts are adorned with fancy hardware.

Local telecoms-equipment makers can supply only feeble 1950s gear; and foreign exchange is so scarce that importing fancy western hardware or technology is impossible.

"They don't waste much on fancy hardware."