You know...I wonder if anybody has ever calculated how much it costs the electric company to carry out every calculation the do on every single bill to 10 decimal points. Think about it.. Every decimal point requires significantly more processing power, storage capacity, bandwidth, paper, printer ink, and increases the liklihood of errors. Go ahead and set the float to the max on a TI nSpire CX and run some calcs. You'll see what I mean. Granted, the processor and memory in a TI is a far cry from x86 based servers...but think of the scale and the number of accounts and entries.

No...you got it backwards. The fact that you could design a working prototype without expensive and unnecessary testing only works against you in the job market. To TRULEY excel in the corporate environment you have to fuck something like this up routinely. By virtue of repeated fuckups, you will inherently make your supervisor look "smart". At the very least you won't inadvertently reveal how incredibly fucking incompetent they are for proposing to test a product already doomed to fail at both poles as well as the equator. Sweet jesus... Homo sapient really is going to extinct, aren't we?

Are you from planet Earth? Stuffing an x86 in cell phone and calling it an "advancement" is like heaping praise an automobile company who is able to somehow eek another 5mpg out of essentially an early-90's engine design. Sure...it's an "advancement" in the technical sense of the word...but the only purpose it serves is to perpetuate our ongoing addiction.