Ehm. Sorry about that mental image if you a synonym person.
I love the web. Love it. But spending my life in web apps all day long sounds like a nightmare. This because Internet bandwidth and Javascript speed is not the problem. People see YouTube and suddenly think it's like TV, except it's not. And people see "web apps" and think they're like other apps. And for many people Facebook is "the killer app". But the thing is that the biggest problem in computing is latency. And 3G sucks at latency. And yet mobile computing and cloud computing is seen as the future.
Studies have shown that people will drop a company if the website loads too slow. Heck, they will drop the services of billion dollars companies and try out the new upstart because they think they have better servers. There is no limit to the amount of retarded web application developers talking about how their new service is "faster than Twitter". Yes, and if you don't understand why then maybe software development is not for you.
The questions so becomes. Can you compete with Google's dark fiber or simply create a desktop application ? Because if you want to compete on latency, there is only one choice. The cloud is just bullshit marketing resulting from government spending and a truckload of servers sitting idle in huge AC cooled data-centers. Even at idle, they still need AC. And AC creates "the cloud". And it's all powered by cheap electricity produced by nuclear power and coal. The cloud will never scale as a dominant computing platform. A laptop with a solar panel powered battery will. Apple will build it and Google will looks like planet haters. And what do you expect ? Google is an ad agency. They sell bullshit for a living. Don't be evil is a SQL injection attack without the hostile code. *Zing*.
San Francisco is flat. I live in Norway. We have tunnels, mountains and one of the best 3G networks in the world. And it's crap compared to a hard line. It's like living in 1996, then 2009 and then 1987. I know an inside industry guy who tells me that some places in the city has so much radio noise that it's impossible to move a signal from one building to the next. There is a loudness war going on right among us and nobody notices because we can't hear those frequencies. We just complain about lost cell phone signals. Yeah and the fact that human fertility is going down for some reason. *Gulp*.
The mobile web app has been "the future" for ten years now. Maybe it's time to deliver. We can't all be Google, Twitter and Facebook. I'm just so utterly unimpressed by everything. I use Spotify, File Explorer, Dropbox, Open Office, iTunes, Putty, QtCreator, Eclipse, Firefox, Thunderbird, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Battlefield 2 and wonder what the hell people are talking about. The only web applications I use are related to hosting, blogging, sales and advertising. Is this the world of a "normal" person or a blow-hard marketing guru ?
