Watson was right.

[dave <dave () immunityinc com>]

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"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Watson may never have
really said it, but it's currently right. (c.f.
http://www.perturb.org/images/1/dilbert-unix.png )

Here's the thing: If you're at Google, and you compile Hello World, it tells you that
it takes about 80 cores. We're at the point where we need to define what a real
computer is and what it can do in terms that makes what everyone has on their desk
obsolete, if we want to solve real problems. The brain shift that happens when you do
this is interesting - when you say "I have a problem that is parallel" and your
solution is to run it all at once, without even thinking about how many cores it
took. When for all parallel problems, O(n) == O(1) in your head, then you've made the
shift.

Steve Yegge has some notes on what makes a real system, but the only one I like to
steal is this: Computers don't reboot. If you can reboot it, it's a calculator.
Likewise, computers don't fit in a data center. And computers are general purpose.
Google's can drive a car. If your computer can't drive a car down I-95, then it's not
a computer.

I mean, if you haven't read it, you should read it now:
http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/google-at-delphi

But the simple thing is this: Google has a computer, Microsoft may have a computer,
the NSA most likely does, Baidu might have one, Amazon probably has one. That's five.

And if you don't even have a computer, how are you going to win a cyber-war?
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