If you're mining to turn a profit, maybe.

I'm more interested in just making a slow and steady conversion, since my computers are always on, from dollars into the electric bill to BTC.  Will I ever need them?  Maybe, maybe not.  TigerDirect takes them, and so does my preferred site for MP3's, so there's that.

That being said - 2 new Antminers fired up today, they'd already hashed more shares in the 5 minutes they were on than my GPU had in what was the 90 minute lifetime of the chrrent block so far.  Yay.

I wouldn't get your hopes up.  Mining hardware has been pre-ordered already which will probably trickle in all the way to 2015.  The odds of the network hash rate going down are pretty low unless the price is low enough that newer ASICs can't even beat the costs of electricity.  You can't factor in device RoI for network growth when it's already been paid for and the companies have terrible track records of providing refunds.

That's just recently. I'm wondering if it was putting downward pressure on the S2 price prior to them being shipped. Seemed the discounting stopped this week on the S1 just before this. The S2 at it's current price isn't a whole lot better deal. Still uses the same power hungry ASIC. I expect that one to drop radically after the first batch or two goes out. Too much more efficient competition for it soon.

Look at all those lovely block being found! Keep it going, let's get that luck up to 2000%!

Scratch that, just new blocks being found and the counters catching up. Not used to so many new blocks...

^^this

I already pay to have my computer on all day, 2 U2's drawing another 4W off of the already running 600W PSU is a net zero change.

I'll just pretend it's my electric company giving me back 0.1% of my bill per month.  In BTC.

Agreed. There's something wrong. On your "account" screen what is it showing under the "Mhash/s*" column? You should see something just under 300,000. Estimated rewards should float somewhere around .006 with the pool at it's current size.

Is this a serious question or an April fool's joke?

Mining on a PC does not produce enough hash power to be correctly be displayed. you are being lost in variance and rounding error. Don't wear out your PC for nothing.