I will laugh when ATT and the Iphone cease to work entirely.

While they're at it, charge extra for text messaging while moving faster then 10mph, stupid car texting people anyway.

It's a problem when the offshore camera looks like a canon, has a not-quite-canon-but-damn-close logo, and tells the computer it's a canon, but actually installs a rootkit and fails after a month.
That's an issue because if they think they can get away with selling it as a canon, they will!
Go buy an "8gb" MP3 player off ebay, odds are good that it's 8gigabits, and while that isn't terribly dishonest, if you look at the partition it displays to windows you'll see 7.99gigabytes available space.
My point being that the offshore vendors will love this and abuse the hell out of it, to the detriment of everybody, they're unscrupulous bastards, after all.

It's about on par with a 2.2ghz northwood P4(remember P4s? That was back when AMD ruled the world). Which is indeed very, very slow compared to a modern anything.
Intel can't tell people how slow it is, who would want to buy tech from four year ago that sucked then?
Admittedly i have a dell mini9 powered by an atom and love it, but i knew exactly how slow it'd be when i bought it.

My dell mini9 gets ~3h in xp, or ~3:50 in ubuntu.

How is defeat not inevitable from the very beginning?

Your numbers aren't much better, my Pentium Dual Core e5200's 45nm transistors think you're funny.

A misfire is still a misfire, and a misfire is what is caused by a plug wire with internal breaks. It can be part time, but it is still a misfire and is very obvious, like i said.
A weak speak causes a misfire under load at low RPM, that weak spark can be caused by a high resistance plug wire, or other factors. However, it still either causes combustion or doesn't cause combustion.

What you mention, checking plug wires with an ohm meter and/or flexing them is first year stuff, it's not exactly a secret. I was not talking about how you find the source of a misfire (random or not), the diagnostic process isn't relevant here. Nor is the very true fact that you can have a misfire in some RPM bands and not others. The point, is that plug wires that are not causing a misfire do not effect fuel mileage significantly, something you seem to have missed.
The ECU's #1 priority is the mixture, all other things are secondary, and it's the mixture that primarily controls fuel mileage, assuming there aren't failures elsewhere.
I'm glad you're certified in heating/cooling/AC, but i don't see where that gives you any special knowledge in ignition systems of internal combustion. It means that you're a passable automotive HVAC guy, which is great for HVAC stuff.

I've spent entirely too much time under the hood of a car(21 year auto mechanic), and you are entirely incorrect.
Degrading plug wires either cause a misfire, which is blindingly obvious and kills mileage horribly, or doesn't. There is no middle ground. Plug wire misfires happen maybe once or twice in the 300,000 mile life of a (japanese...) car.
Modern electronic ignition systems are fairly immune to spark plug wear until extreme circumstances, such as missing three tuneups in a row with standard plugs. Then you will sometimes get drivibility issues and lose 1mpg, tops.

Back in the days of points it was different, plug wear and point wear (mostly point wear) had huge effects on mileage between tuneups. These days, the effects are minimal at most.