We show that the renormalized masses depend on the external source, and point out the consequences of that fact for the design of computer simulations of the model. We point out a simple but interesting consequence of the results, regarding the role of the model in the Standard Model of high-energy particle physics. Using the experimentally known values of the mass and of the expectation value of the Higgs field, we determine uniquely the values of the bare dimensionless parameters and of the model, which turn out to be small numbers, significantly less that one.