*The End to that annoying rant from before...*
Right, when I said I'd finish this in a minute, I lied. I meant that I would finish it when my brain wasn't racked by fucking crazy ass cravings. And as we all know, those suck balls. I hate them so bad.
Where were we... hold on, let's look...
When you start basing your business model after a Microsoft "We run the world so let's do whatever the hell we want to" idea, then you have problems. You're ideas become too bloated, your goals too lofty. And when you don't succeed, people call you a failure. Microsoft hasn't failed though. They've not delivered on a lot of their promises to the world (especially Bill Gates. He told me in 1995 after the innovation of the internet and...
And what? Oh yeah... and computers, specifically the desktop OS, was going to change the world. I would have to carry around a laptop. And you know when I read that book of his he wrote after releasing Windows 95? 2003. You know how much stuff he was sort of right about? A lot. He saw search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Lycos coming.)
There was a reason I had that parenthetical statement, I know there was. It had something to do with the fact that this Senior Editor, writing her own little column would think it'd be great to not have to worry about ever really using a computer for anything. In fact, she wrote:
It's also gotten me thinking about the always tricky problem of remote access. I mean, it's not like I'll be offline, and we'll be taking plenty of photos and video and even blogging while we're gone. But even though I'll have a laptop with me, I'll still have storage problems--all that video, for one thing--and my notebook doesn't have all the same software as my desktop, so I may not be able to Photoshop my digital images or track all of our expenditures in Quicken.
You know what, let me tell you something you whiney pampered bitch. You have a laptop and a desktop. That's a step ahead from what the rest of us have. And unless you CNet writers aren't as pampered as I thought, you should have at least a decent laptop with at least a decently sized 40GB hard drive. Yes, it's not exactly what I would call the best laptop ever, with the best features... but hell, you can still do some stuff with it. You shouldn't want to edit full feature motion pictures on the son of a bitch. It's a trip to Japan to a trade show. And if you have problems running photoshop and Quicken (Fucking Quicken of all fucking things) then you deserve to be dragged into the street and stoned by a rabid pack of tech geeks who think your death will please their gods.
Oh, hell, if you have a problem with the fact that you don't have enough storage, then you need to figure out how to FTP your home computer. It's not hard. You're broadband company should be able to help you figure out how to set up your desktop as a web server...
But wait. We're expecting too intelligent of an audience to understand what a webserver even is. There's a whole market of computer books in local bookstores for this sort of thing. Hey everyone, over here! You want to have more portable storage space? It's called FTP. USE IT!
So anyhow, where was I? Oh yes, I was explaining why the desktop OS will never be replaced by Web Apps.
It will NEVER HAPPEN. EVER! No one wants to pay for software over and over. People don't want to upgrade. And eventually, when you do something terminal based, you have speed concearns. You can have as much gigabit ethernet you want all over the nation, but it will never, EVER match the speed you have of saving your files onto a hard drive. And yes, you say people could still have local hard drives for private files. But that would never be enough. And there are not enough large mainframes in the world to have the whole of the United States, even the world, to store that much data, route it, manipulate it, have CPU power crunching it.
So as I was saying...
It will NEVER EVER EVER HAPPEN. I can't emphasize that enough. She is living in a fantasty world of computing if she believes that. Jesus, they pay people like her to write about something that will never happen? Has speculative columns become science fiction in the technology world? At least make it sound plausible. You covered only about half of the issues.
Fucking hell is all I have to say. Fucking hell.
I really am being a bastard for no reason.
I got a Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Extra for myself at Best Buy tonight. I just wiped out my bank account to do so, but you know what? It was worth every penny. I've been waiting for something like this for over two years now. Ever since I saw the Ipod, I've wanted one so bad. It's better than the iPod though, and cheaper. I took it upstairs to show my friend Chris, aka defiantwyant who has a Nomad Zen Micro 5GB player. I told him how much I paid for it, and he pretty much saw it at the same price on the internet. Hahahaha!
Mwohahahaha!
Where were we... hold on, let's look...
When you start basing your business model after a Microsoft "We run the world so let's do whatever the hell we want to" idea, then you have problems. You're ideas become too bloated, your goals too lofty. And when you don't succeed, people call you a failure. Microsoft hasn't failed though. They've not delivered on a lot of their promises to the world (especially Bill Gates. He told me in 1995 after the innovation of the internet and...
And what? Oh yeah... and computers, specifically the desktop OS, was going to change the world. I would have to carry around a laptop. And you know when I read that book of his he wrote after releasing Windows 95? 2003. You know how much stuff he was sort of right about? A lot. He saw search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Lycos coming.)
There was a reason I had that parenthetical statement, I know there was. It had something to do with the fact that this Senior Editor, writing her own little column would think it'd be great to not have to worry about ever really using a computer for anything. In fact, she wrote:
It's also gotten me thinking about the always tricky problem of remote access. I mean, it's not like I'll be offline, and we'll be taking plenty of photos and video and even blogging while we're gone. But even though I'll have a laptop with me, I'll still have storage problems--all that video, for one thing--and my notebook doesn't have all the same software as my desktop, so I may not be able to Photoshop my digital images or track all of our expenditures in Quicken.
You know what, let me tell you something you whiney pampered bitch. You have a laptop and a desktop. That's a step ahead from what the rest of us have. And unless you CNet writers aren't as pampered as I thought, you should have at least a decent laptop with at least a decently sized 40GB hard drive. Yes, it's not exactly what I would call the best laptop ever, with the best features... but hell, you can still do some stuff with it. You shouldn't want to edit full feature motion pictures on the son of a bitch. It's a trip to Japan to a trade show. And if you have problems running photoshop and Quicken (Fucking Quicken of all fucking things) then you deserve to be dragged into the street and stoned by a rabid pack of tech geeks who think your death will please their gods.
Oh, hell, if you have a problem with the fact that you don't have enough storage, then you need to figure out how to FTP your home computer. It's not hard. You're broadband company should be able to help you figure out how to set up your desktop as a web server...
But wait. We're expecting too intelligent of an audience to understand what a webserver even is. There's a whole market of computer books in local bookstores for this sort of thing. Hey everyone, over here! You want to have more portable storage space? It's called FTP. USE IT!
So anyhow, where was I? Oh yes, I was explaining why the desktop OS will never be replaced by Web Apps.
It will NEVER HAPPEN. EVER! No one wants to pay for software over and over. People don't want to upgrade. And eventually, when you do something terminal based, you have speed concearns. You can have as much gigabit ethernet you want all over the nation, but it will never, EVER match the speed you have of saving your files onto a hard drive. And yes, you say people could still have local hard drives for private files. But that would never be enough. And there are not enough large mainframes in the world to have the whole of the United States, even the world, to store that much data, route it, manipulate it, have CPU power crunching it.
So as I was saying...
It will NEVER EVER EVER HAPPEN. I can't emphasize that enough. She is living in a fantasty world of computing if she believes that. Jesus, they pay people like her to write about something that will never happen? Has speculative columns become science fiction in the technology world? At least make it sound plausible. You covered only about half of the issues.
Fucking hell is all I have to say. Fucking hell.
I really am being a bastard for no reason.
I got a Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Extra for myself at Best Buy tonight. I just wiped out my bank account to do so, but you know what? It was worth every penny. I've been waiting for something like this for over two years now. Ever since I saw the Ipod, I've wanted one so bad. It's better than the iPod though, and cheaper. I took it upstairs to show my friend Chris, aka defiantwyant who has a Nomad Zen Micro 5GB player. I told him how much I paid for it, and he pretty much saw it at the same price on the internet. Hahahaha!
Mwohahahaha!