Active Networks - deja vu all over again (Score 3, Interesting)

More power to the network !!! Wunderbar ! What the active networks community has been trying to solicit for all these (well, not all that many) years.

Of course most fashionably cynical geeks obviously have strong opinions about "new" technologies (e.g. MDA etc. etc.) because they know everything that there is to know ... right ?

I once read an article in Spectrum or something about degrees of ignorance (about not knowing something, or not even knowing that one doesn't even know and stuff) well all these meta-models are a little difficult to digest if you've spent the last 40 of the 50 or so yeas of the computer age reinventing and relabeling technologies over and over again and patting each other on the back.

Dammit, GUIs (ala windowing intfcs) haven't changed in 40 years, basic networking hasn't changed in 30 years ... simply because un-insightful programmers heavily dependent on psuedo-geeky-techno-jargon-crap feeding idiots hype up brain dead hacks as "bleeding edge technology" (ever notice how happy we feel relabeling or re-"inventing" design patterns ?)

So of course, the lesser mortals who compare malicious viruses to mobile code, obviously don't appreciate the nuances of responsible meta-models. I think PARC has a good thing going. I wish them luck...hopefully Steve Jobs and/or Bill Gates will productize this one too :-) ... and shame on you non-abstract thinking pseudo-geeks ...