According to your post, the time between initial observation and commercialization of major energy producing methods has been decreasing by orders of magnitude as history marches on. Maybe it's not so stupid to ask about commercialization of the technology within a single generation.

Phones are banned for patients and families. Clinical staff use them all the time. (I'm a medical student.)

Essentially the best possible case, and the one that seems to be shaping up, is that Windows 7 will be the latter-day equivalent of Windows 2000: on current hardware, fast, stable, functional, and not chock full of garbage.

There is still the multitude of terrible design choices MS made that we can harp on, don't you worry :)

Well, crap, hit Submit instead of Preview. Meant to say, <- as an assignment operator (I know = works now, but still...)? Bizarre data frame and object semantics? R is quite useful but I really dislike writing anything nontrivial in it.

Actually it may not suck. But having used it on and off over the past few years while not being a statistics pro, I find the R language bletcherous and annoying. - as an assignment operator?

Wow...talk about FUD. Does SAS imdemnify against plane crashes?

Please allow me to contribute to your efforts.

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Correct, but after this the correctness of your comment ends.

It's called the "placebo effect" and pure science has shown it many, many times, in many, many test scenarios.

We know the human body gives off energy but people refuse to accept the "auras" are possible or significant for some reason.

Define "energy". Heat? Or something else? Show some kind of evidence backed by data rather than groundless assertions of the significance of auras.

What do you propose it is then?

If there's anything to be learned from this, it's that God is a lawyer who is easily kept happy through the use of legal technicalities.

Couple issues with this as an alternative to the garden-variety x86 cluster connected with InfiniBand:

Slow network interconnect. For problems that are not trivially parallel, network latency is usually a big deal. Ethernet doesn't cut it.
Lack of RAM. 'Nuff said.
Have to care about Cell and PS3 architecture. The codes ("codes" has a slightly different meaning in the context of supercomputing) have to be modified to take advantage of this very specific architecture. Software always outlives hardware, so in the long run the effort may not be worth it.

That said, it's really cheap. If your application isn't held back too much by these issues then enjoy your insanely cheap cluster!