How much usage is needed before your extra electricity bill costs eat up that $50 savings? 60W extra at 8 hours a day 365 days per year and $0.10 per kWh is $17.50 for just one year.

Many economists would argue we passed that point some time ago.

Name 3.

Interestingly, Stephenson is also the one who coined the modern use of 'Avatar' in virtual worlds.

Not true. In recent editions of Snow Crash (a fine book) Neal admits he did not coin "avatar":

After the first publication of Snow Crash, I learned that the term "avatar" has actually been in use for a number of years as part of a virtual reality system called Habitat, developed by F. Rnadall Farmer and Chip Morningstar. This system runs on Commodore 64 computers, and though it has all but died out in the U.S., is still popular in Japan. In addition to avatars, Habitat includes many of the basic features of the Metaverse as described in this book.

...failing to convince the federal government to give them billions of dollars. It's all the rage among business plans these days.

It is not clear to me how this post is a "troll" as it is currently moderated. Perhaps a moderator has confused "that with which I disagree" with "trolling?"

What I find interesting is that Obama is being criticized worse than Bush ever was, for doing less than Bush did.

You are either seriously confused or suffering from near-fatal confirmation bias. Obama? Being criticized worse Than GW Bush? No one has ever been criticized as much as Bush!

Hahah, sure they are, as long as it's not in their backyard or "sullying their view of the ocean." Ask Teddy Kennedy why he opposed Cape Wind.

As someone who is making ASICs for 4G (including LTE and WiMAX) $7.2 billion for 4G wireless is stimulus I can really believe in!

(I hope no one tells him that many rich people are going to get a lot richer thanks to this. Or that it would have been done anyway without the "stimulus" because it's a huge fat cash cow!)

You'd be surprised how often I'm told that I'd be surprised when, in fact, I would not be.

Hahah, nice. Unfortunately, they're both quite clearly mere claims. Your posts all completely lack evidence. Maybe you should look up a few definitions before trying again.

So, how about all that non-English documentation for APL. Oh, wait...

But I didn't state a claim about language!? I simply asked for the basis for his. My only "claim" was thAT "An unfounded, unbased assertion is not an argument" -- are you disputing that? I can back it up if needed....since it's a tautology and all.

Besides the proper trouncing that Jonner already gave you (see! I knew you weren't a programmer.) Why don't you tell me what some of those common abbreviations/acronyms/alphabetisms in most assembly languages mean. BEQ? BNE? JMP? MOV? MULT? ADD?

I suspect you won't bother to try again.

Second you are listing a sales price with both a $499 sales discount and a 3% special club discount while comparing the MacPro at full retail without any discount. Apples to Oranges

That's because Apple's are never discounted. What choice is there to compare? Pure retail undiscounted Dell that no one in their right mind ever buys?

Apple already offers significantly more models than some computer makers with a larger market share than they have (like Asus).

I have an iphone and a mac mini and I love Apple, but why do you feel the need to make shit up like this? ASUS has over 150 laptop models currently available and Apple has less than a dozen. You're off by an order of fucking magnitude!