Looking ahead, managers expect EBITDA to grow modestly in the fourth quarter and into 2013, assuming the U.S. economy continues to plodalong, as most experts expect.
This ability would allow a quantum computer to do the mathematical heavy-lifting required for, say, cracking secret codes, while even the fastest and most advanced supercomputers plodalong on the same problem.
But our technology arguments diverge from disagreements about music and religion in that we have numbers and statistics to fuel things along, allowing the arguments to plod forward seemingly forever.