If you have ever used any of Apple's products (especially OS X, iTunes or iOS) you know how great they are. They are also innovative to no end. Windows and Linux shows that innovation requires hard work and only Apple magically manages to do it. Apple is fantastic for this and deserves all the credit and patent fees.

How is that MS AstroTurf? There is no turf.

Didn't they try to? Google was building some data centers on boats. I bet they were capable of carrying terrorists and weapons too.

You can't heat pizza ovens with servers that never heat more than 80 degrees... Google is stupid, but they're not that stupid to actually try it.

Why is only AOL and Microsoft doing this? As much as I like Google, I can clearly see that they don't care about the environment.

Very few Slashdotters actually are poor people. Even those writing from third world countries. Not many of slashdotters have to use webcafes or really worry about money. You're just living way beyond your means, but you are still not poor.