This is an old one, but I somehow missed it.

Sony shut down thier music store last March, and any music tracks you purchased from them can no longer be moved between machines.

The current tally of companies to screw their customers over by shutting down DRM authentication services servers is Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Major League Baseball, Google, and Yahoo.

If you can't trust these major corporations, who can you trust? Authenticated DRM will screw you eventually, it's only a matter of when.

One of my co-workers got an ad about this from a hardware providers. It solves the three-fold problem of 1. having too much money, 2. writing software for normal computers is too easy, and 3. lots of sad PS3s sitting on store shelves unloved.

The abbreviated version:

6 Node PS3 Cluster

A light weight but powerful cluster, ideal for the development of parallel, Cell optimized code. Seamless code migration to a Mercury Cell blade, 1U, or CAB product offers a smart, powerful upgrade path. This cluster offers a theoretical performance of greater than 1 TFlop

• IBM p5 185 head node: dual-core 2.5GHz 970, 2GB RAM, dual 74GB drives.
• 6 60GB PLAYSTATION 3s.
• HP Procurve 24 port gigabit ethernet switch.
• Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed.
• ...

6 Node PS3 Cluster: $18325.00

From here.

I simply can't believe that PS3s, devices designed for gaming, is a cost effective way of assembling computing cycles.