totally disagree

The combination of commodity hardware, the f/oss world, modern desktops like gnome, real cross platform native options like gtk, ubiquitous dev tools like gcc, open networks, and omni present on-line information is nothing less than the most amazing achievement in the field of computer science ever! The usefulness and power that gives everyone from the little guy on up, is remarkable. Is it for everyone? It never was suppose to be.

So if you want to jump in the fire with the superstition, anarchy, and decay that is the dark age of ajax, iphones, flash, and big brother in your firmware, then go have a good time - but get off my lawn. :) In ten years I guarantee people like me will still be making money with our beloved C, *nix, ipv4, and yes desktop computing. Not the least of which will be the ones developing everyone else's little sandboxed browsers they think are such a big deal.

(the more I pursue this character of senseless antagonism towards "web technologies", the funnier I think it is, and the more I love it!)