Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> ...which works out to $216/day or $1,512/month - which is slightly 
> outside most people's budget.

What, $2/day for a 24-hour pov-ray renderer? If you only need 100 compute
rs 
for a day, $216 is really not a whole lot of money.

> 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.

Well, sure. You can buy one computer and take a month to do something, or
 
rent 100 and take a couple hours to do something. Note that if your progr
am 
takes a year, that's 100 computers for about 1.2 days, so you come out 
ahead. Admittedly, you don't have the computer at the end of the year, bu
t 
you saved a year's worth of time and electricity too.

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

Uh, OK. I'm sorry to hear that.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Forget "focus follows mouse." When do
   I get "focus follows gaze"?

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