I am the eternal wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Bhairitu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The tech industries are always inventing things to make money for >> themselves. Most are a waste of time. The real solution would be to >> get rid of the need to keep inventing shit just to survive. It's a very >> screwed up dog eat dog world we live in. Bring in the asteroid. ;-) >> >> > > Sorry but I see the utility for cloud computing. It's cheap, it's on > demand, it's flexible as heck (a dozen different operating systems and > machines, dozens of database and application software supported). > Yes, in principle this is MVS revisited. But MVS wasn't at all as ad > hoc as cloud computing. Now I do agree that there is ever a new > implementation language being developed. We all remember that the DOD > spent billions of USD when billions were real money, for a language > which would be the end of all programming in a few years. The DOD > envisioned thousands of Ada classes which could be strung together to > create any and all new software. Well, it was a good idea in > principle. And what happens when the network goes down? I think that was the issue others raised here. Are you saying it is a good idea for businesses who find their employees playing around too much on their desktops and some more like a dumb terminal will get work done. That might be a little short sighted because sometimes employees need to access the Internet. When I go to Hollywood Video the store has an ancient database system which looks like its running Turbo Pascal. They can't access their own company website to answer a question for a customer.
I get customers that want software on the iPhone. Lame Apple made the language on the iPhone Objective C instead of C++ or Java. Who the hell wants to learn a dead end language like that? Apple is all about Steve Jobs (Objective C being one of this legacies). We have all these companies like Apple, Microsoft, Sony, etc behaving like fascists trying to set up their own fiefdoms and trying to rule to the world. They all need to be broken up into 1000 smaller companies.
