"This is a gaming card marketed to extreme gamers."

"And since games are probably the most resource-intensive fucking thing, you should expect your GAMING CARD to kick major ass at everything else if it has the capability."

Did you not understand what he said?! It's a GAMING CARD - it's designed to kick ass when rendering games. Everything else is secondary - it's not a general purpose card, and it's not marketed as anything other than a high end gaming card. If it happens to kick ass as a more general purpose GPU, then that's just a bonus - it has nothing to do with its gaming performance. Nvidia sell other cards that excel in general purpose GPU work. I really don't think they care less whether this card, or any of their gaming cards, perform better at cracking encyption keys than something from ATi. Nor do the vast majority of people who buy it.

Personally I'm getting a pair of 680's instead, as it seems a better buy for slightly better performance, but this card does exactly what it's designed to do: be the fastest graphics accelerator for the gaming market.

Do not question our infallible overlords. There's no way this idea could possibly fail. It's foolproof...

You're right - also, if Ferraris are so much better than Ford Mondeos, why are there so many more Ford Mondeos? It must mean they're much better cars, right? Right?

I remember using a 1200/75 accoustic coupler with a ZX Spectrum to "get online". The upload speed was so slow that it couldn't actually keep up with normal typing. Good days.

I'm also at a loss as to why it's such a difficult problem to solve. People have their registration form -> enter voting station building, show form which is stamped or somethnig so it can't be used again & get an anonymous RFID card or something. That card allows them to vote once by putting it in a machine and pressing a couple of buttons. If you screw up the voting, reset and do it again as the RFID card would be valid for an hour or so.

If you still manage to screw up after an hour then you're really too stupid to be involved in the political process - except maybe as a politician.

"I have never heard of the UI of a handheld application requiring significant processor resources"

Guessing you've never played any games that were more demanding than Angry Birds then. The fact is that WebKit is fine for rending web content, but developers need lower level access to get the performance required for non-web apps.Even if the device could just about grind along at a reasonable pace using a WebKit based version of a native app, the fact the processor is working a lot harder will lead to much shorter battery life, and in some cases the device becoming noticably warm.

Web-based interfaces on mobile devices are find for simple apps with mostly static content, but for a nice responsive and efficient UI then native (or at least a fast virtual machine) is required.

Just visited a site with 1.4MB of Javascript - used to display an image carousel and do some Google analytics. 1.4 fucking megs. Ridiculous.

As others have said, they'd have little to no chance of success in the UK.

They tried something similar back in 2000, when they claimed they owned the patent to the hyperlink. The judge wouldn't have any of it and they were told to go away.

I've heard a sense of humour is also good.