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>> 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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