Stardate 20011121.1512 (On Screen via long range sensors): Wanna buy a Cray? It's rated 266 MFlops. It originally sold for several million dollars; it's immense and chews the power like it's going out of style. (It's probably all built out of ECL, with all that implies.)
What's scary about this is that the desktop computer I'm running now (1.4 GHz Athlon Thunderbird) can probably out-compute that beast, and the one I'm about to build (dual 1.6 GHz Athlon MP [Palomino]) will leave it in the dust. We've come a very long way. (discuss)
