[hinkley]

And then we agreed that location transparency was bad in RMI, and then again in EJB. It's regular as the tides. In a couple years you'll hear everyone talking about how stupid the Cloud is and everyone will be buying their own servers. Then we'll decide that peer-peer is the way and the light.

Didn't Vonnegut have a line about how it affects you to see the same mistakes repeat over and over?

[JoeAltmaier]

Its more about bandwidth vs capacity vs dollars. The optimum changes as the technologies change.

[hinkley]

Touché. Every time we hit a new balance in the inequalities we have to re-evaluate all our answers.

I guess what bugs me is not the mind changing (I do that all the time myself). It's that those without a history lesson behave as if this is a bloody revolution, and they have to pick sides. And the people who think switching solutions will magically fix all of our problems.