This Day All Tech Gods Must Fall

No, this isn't about the evils of technology. Quite the opposite, if you must know. I believe that science and technology are tools that can be used for the betterment of humanity. Religion and superstitions are tools also, but tend towards the dark side of the Simian Force. Therefore, I tend to steer clear of them.

What brings me to title this blog in such a manner is because I'm getting tired of the “Tech Gods” telling us what their technologies do, and how we must use them. Microsoft has already proven to be a despot when it comes to computing technology: Buying off competitors, unleashing an unwieldy and ever error prone operating system in the name of progress, trying to push their proprietary technologies as standards, and so forth and so on.

Thus, when Google came about and took the internet by storm, I thought that finally MS had its day and was going to slowly disappear into the darkness of Flight Simulator once again. But no, that is not to be, at least for a long while. Apple, Simius bless them, tried but is now falling to the dark side. So, what happened?

This is what happened: Power made these people brutal, unyielding, and instilled them with hubris. That's what happened.

The first I noticed that Google wasn't going to be the “benevolent dictator” that some people thought they were becoming is when I saw their video on Chrome OS. I know some things about computers, and I know some things about the technology that goes behind the computing. So, imagine my surprise when I saw this video about how Chrome OS isn't a standard OS and it was a completely different OS type. I gasped. Could it be true? No, they lied, and now I can't find that video anymore because I'm pretty sure everyone caught on to their lies.

This is how they proceeded to lie to us about Chrome OS. I'll break it down on how I remember it since it's been a while and there is no video to back my observations. Unless I just can't find it since I used GOOGLE to find it in the first place. Here it is:

1. Chrome OS is not a standard OS because it doesn't have a BIOS to depend on—thus:
2. It doesn't need POST, nor any bootstrap operation to load the OS.
3. The hardware will be stateless, which means that it won't change states—a static ROM chip is what they seem to be getting at, which can't be written to by the OS.
4. Lies I say.
5. The OS itself will be Chromium (Chrome browser to most of you), which will mean that the internet will be your OS and application provider.
6. More lies I say.

OK, all this looked nice at first but then they made a fatal mistake. They said that Chrome OS will have an underlying bed of LINUX to lie upon. WHAT??? I said. How does that make it a non-standard OS? As far as I know, you need to bootstrap LINUX. That means have the OS load by the BIOS. Then I thought, HA! What they meant was that Chrome OS, which lies on top of LINUX is a non-standard OS. Duh! Dumbasses, your OS is a stupid browser running on LINUX with nothing else on it! Which brought me to gasp—stateless my ass. Chrome browser, as far as I know it, is a standard web browser, which means that it needs to download the HTML, Javascript, CSS, and any other files that the browser needs to your computer in order to render it to screen. OK, OK, so how are they going to deal with cookies and such on top of this nonsense. Well, it seems that a portion of that great mystical Cloud Computing Sphere of Existence is going to keep all this information for you. Great, there goes my bandwidth: So my computer will be ping ponging with a Cloud Server Heaven that will store my cookies, HTML, Javascript, and CSS computers that my browser needs in order for me to use my computer. Maybe they'll make better network cards so all that work it'll need to do won't make it die quickly.

I may be overreacting, but I just don't get it. I haven't tried googling “Chrome OS” for a while now, so I don't know if they brought the video back just to annoy me, or the likes of me. Maybe there is something I'm missing, like Google perfected quantum computing so there will be no need for network cards or other such mundane devices to connect to the internet. Maybe it's magic. Yes, it must be magic.

Lies, I say.

And talking about lies, how about these slew of Microsoft commercials about how we, You and I, built Windows 7? No thank you, I'm not going to take credit for a Microsoft product, not even if it makes me a million dollars. Windows 7 doesn't suck, but that's about it. It's better than Vista, but that's like saying that a Pinto is better than a Yugo. At least it won't blow up in my face, like Vista used to do constantly. Why, I wondered, is Microsoft on this warpath of making me responsible for their crap. Then I understood their sinister plot—responsibility.

Yes, if Windows 7 proves to be junky just like Vista, then they could say, “hey, we documented a whole bunch of people who said that they built Windows 7, so we're not responsible.” Great. Sorry, Microsoft, but when I was beta testing Vista, I kept complaining about your stupid new Windows Explorer. I kept putting in this issue: “The left pane where it shows the tree structure of my computer, keeps jumping around, isn't steady, and keeps scrolling out of bounds when I click on a folder, thus making me scroll again to get to the folder I want.” Maybe they didn't understand what I said. I also said that Vista's networking keeps me from sharing a folder on my Vista machine with my Linux box, and vice-a-versa. Well, where are those fixes? You obviously didn't listen to me. Obviously, I was not involved in building that stupid interface. So, stop those stupid commercials because those people you listened to were your Q&A people, insiders! Idiots.

I lament the passing of Windows XP. As far as Microsoft OS's go, that was their best, and now I can say it was their Swan Song. Instead of making Vista, they should have worked on XP 64-bit, then made changes to the GUI in XP 64-bit and release that as Windows 7. No, instead they had to get their not so talented software engineers to engineer that masterpiece of a Vista operating system. Yes, I'm not making sense because I'm just flabbergasted.

Anyway, that's it for now. I need to relax so I can go to sleep. I'm going to add more songs to my “Music for Psychosis” play list. Good night.