The Rise of the Virtual Machine

I've got a quad processor supercomputer in my pocket with an accelerated graphics card called an iPhone. I wouldn't necessarily put it to work, but it certainly has a JavaScript virtual machine on it and it can process stuff. So then start thinking about generating PNGs and GIFs on the server side of pie charts. We still do that. These machines have more power. Not enough people are as adept at the other scale of life. One man's competence is another man's laziness. It's a lack of organizational willpower. People like myself, I'll put myself in the guilty party column. But when you have the same year's experience 20 times, you can be really, really