You seem to have only read the first 2 sentences of my post. I'm going to go ahead and let you read that again because it's relevant to your post.

One of these I can exchange for goods and services in the real world and have a reasonable expectation the other person will want it. I'll let you figure out which one it is. And no I don't care that your shitty blog takes donations in bitcoin.

And historically 100% of people have died. Who gives a shit.

Don't make me laugh.

You just gave them real money and got nothing back in exchange. Stupid beyond belief.

That's no longer my problem. It's now an operating expense for me instead of a massive up front capital expense.

Nooo... when you reserve a VM that VM is yours whether you use it or not. You are paying for it after all. I have a very tough time buying that any of the major cloud platforms are oversubscribed. You will have to back up that claim.

It doesn't matter anyways. If you have grown to such a monstrous scale that you start to outgrow the capabilities of these cloud platforms, the capital cost of rolling out your own data center is likely no longer an issue. Operations on that scale are few and far between.

Yes and it was done by buying a shit ton of hardware and all the complexities and expenses that come with it. The problem is that 90% of the time that hardware was sitting around idle. Or that you would have to purchase a bunch of hardware for a one time project and then hope and pray that someone would buy that hardware from you when you were done. It doesn't take a tech website genius to realize how incredibly inefficient that is.

And you have never copied files from one device to the other. Amazing. Allow me to repeat myself:

Do you only have one device in your house? Because I'm pretty sure a lot of us have multiple.

Remember kids, "I can't use this" is not the same thing as "nobody can use this".

The good news is you won't have to wait long. Windows is moving to an annual release cadence.

The bad news for you is the desktop is dead. The writing has been on the wall for years.

Can we please all agree to stop using this lame weasel word. Thanks.

WTF. How did you expect that to work at all.

You must be new here. We have a Microsoft bitch-fest everyday even if they don't make anything newsworthy. It's either a Windows 8 post, or some rumour about DRM on the xbox, or Stallman saying something dumb, or something about UEFI, and if all those fail then we find some random guy that quit a decade ago and writes a butthurt blog post.

Daily Microsoft bitch-fest in 5...4...3...2...1... GO!

Python... our ultra underground language that only the super secret priesthood of unix admins knows about?? You are letting our divine truth out to the unthinking public! You better believe you are going to get shunned at the next invocation.

Looking forward to watching the usual mental gymnastics from you guys trying to make him out to be evil or something. Bonus points for not reading a word he says.

You guys making this argument really need to start picking better examples.

They defined the PC as we know it including a lot of standards that persist to this day. It was immensely successful and allowed for IBM to dominate the personal computing space for years.

Was doomed from the start. IBM is equally to blame for its demise, despite the haterade that people on slashdot are drinking.

I seem to remember that involving more lawsuits than any sort of cooperation. In any case Java is currently a very popular language in the enterprise.