>> The average person can't afford to buy a hundred big computers. But 
>> then, the average person can't afford to rent a hundred big computers 
>> in a cloud either. 
> 
> Nonsense. Amazon's computers are like $0.09/hour.
> 
> http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing
> 
> 100 "small" amazon computers are $9/hour.

...which works out to $216/day or $1,512/month - which is slightly 
outside most people's budget.

By contrast, buy a big computer, put it in your loft, leave it running 
all year. It'll cost maybe £500 to buy in the first place, but at the 
end of a year you'll have a finished result.

> You asked for a good reason; I gave you several.  Some of us actually 
> make money with computers.

Some *companies* make money with computers; it's news to me that 
individual people can do this.

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