So I "think" that is a bad knife (from my experience using it on a big government system) and you thinks is a good knife[citation needed], so what? Is ony your opinion against mine, and I seriously doubt that your opinion carries more weight than mine only because you want so.

PHP is a very bad knife, and even a good cook can do a better (or easier) work when he have good knifes.

All your base belong us! How would you forgotten this one :-)?

And as usual someone moderated you as flamebait, even though you are completely correct.

Good way to turn reasonable people in religious nuts.

it was possible to do this with PqMagic few years ago. It's a shame that it was discontinued, it was simply the best disk partitioner I have ever used.

I hope that does not happen. But think what happens if your favorite operating system - that you need to make your computer run - begins to work only if connected to a cloud?

Nothing is stopping people writing desktop applications. Are you just annoyed that people are choosing cloud services out of convenience?

No. My fear is that they end up trying to implement the "cloud" in anything and everything just because it's "cool", no matter the consequences. Just imagine: Windows depending on the cloud to work, Linux too, Eclipse refusing to work unless you have a connection all the time with a cloud, Photoshop or GIMP refusing to save your images in any other place than a cloud, Word or LibreOffice refusing to save your files because you are offline. Everyone embarking on the cloud hype without worrying about what happens when you lost your connection.

Brazil, you only have 3G connections in large cities and in an unstable manner, 4G is still only in the promise. Short version, you can not depend on internet access here because is too erratic.

But this is exactly the problem: So far no one is forced to use. But for how long?

I know, my patience is running out for this hype. And my fear is that this gets to a point where applications you need to work (or operating systems) begins to stop working without "cloud" services and reliable 24/7 internet connections that simply do not exist everywhere in my country. And I will not even get into the subject of the serious security breach that is trusting critical data to third-party "cloud" servers on which you have no control.

Enough. No, I do not want "Cloud" services, thanks. I want my good old desktop with local applications that do not need be connected to the internet 24/7 to work, not everyone have a fiber connection available all the time for this.