The cloud is a big place..

As an aside.. be sure to give plenty of time after the upgrade is finished for Spotlight to index things again. While my laptop isn’t unusable, it slows things down quite a bit.

To the cloud!
A few weeks ago, I was working on a project at work to load test our application on EC2. One night during the project, we discovered that the fridge in our apartment had stopped working. It had been degrading over time, but we just kept turning it down (up?) and finally figured out what was happening. Anyway, that night I had a dream that our fridge had stopped working, so I wrote a script to push the stuff from our fridge into AWS to cool it so nothing would spoil. It was a perfectly good plan. I was going to pay per hour for them to cool our stuff and then pull it back down once we were all fixed up

Kicking the tires
Lately we’ve been looking for a new place to live that’s a little closer to work. We looked at a number of places last weekend. This last week at work, we had some issues with a newer version of PHP and some configuration options. And the dream? You guessed it. I was walking through one of the places we had been last weekend making sure each room had the right version of PHP for us.

Nice work, VMware. Some classic software developer English, right there.. Perhaps Ralph from the Simpsons wrote this dialog?

better logging (see syslog)
Pain is about as worthless as an error message on your computer screen reading just: “error”. Sometimes it takes a doctor just to figure out what in the world is wrong with your body. Having some better logging would just be much easier and more efficient.

kill
I’m not talking about killing other humans. When I go to sleep at night and can’t stop thinking about some event the next day or one that happened that day, I just want to make it stop. Being able to manually kill off a process would make things much easier.

search (see Spotlight)
While it’s not the best practice, good search can overcome the worst of organization skills. When I’m having problems remembering something, why can’t I just search for it?

a good antivirus
Like a good ol’ Windows 98 machine hooked directly to the public Internet, our bodies are susceptible to all kinds of viruses. A good antivirus would help increase uptime due to stupid things like viruses.

delete
Sometimes you see or hear things you just didn’t need nor want to hear. Having the ability to remove those unwanted memories would be awesome.

better multi-threading for males
Guys don’t multitask. If they say they do they’re lying. I know because I am one. With all the devices and thing competing for our attention, we as males need better multitasking.

improved process scheduling for females
I wouldn’t know, but I’ve heard and learned that females spend most of their time multitasking. I know sometimes I wish that my wife was able to just turn off thoughts about certain problems to not think about them for a while.

file sharing
Have you ever had to share memories or strategy with people in those archaic, analog fashions like speaking, writing, or typing? That’s just ridiculous. We need to be able to just open up a file share to let others grab that data for their use.

video chat / screen sharing
Let’s face it, sometimes there’s just no substitute for being there. Being able to share experiences with others as we see them is sometimes necessary for them to understand how we feel. Otherwise we have to resort to those old-school, ridiculous processes I mentioned above.

a good firewall
Sometimes people are just annoying. Sure, you can do your best to ignore them, but it takes resources for our brains to process who they are and what they’re saying before deciding to ignore them. Having a firewall in place could help eliminate the need for those unnecessary time wasters.

live migration (see vMotion)
Ever been working on a project at work and had to leave, only to realize that the person coming in needed to get brought up to speed? Imagine if you could just vMotion that project to the co-worker who was coming in to fill your spot. Your project wouldn’t be slowed down a bit, nor would you miss that important lunch date.

process delegation (see Xgrid)
This is possible in the human 1.0 firmware, but through a much more manual process. Once again we have to use these antiquated processes like talking and typing to delegate tasks. Automatically handing out tasks would speed things up for sure.

better battery life
Eight hours of down time every day?! That will never hold up, even with the most lax of SLAs. Good uptime will be key for human 2.0 to be a success.

people management (see Group Policy)
It would be far more efficient if we could just set policies to not allow humans to break laws than to pay police to be sure humans are caught if they break laws. This would also be helpful for parents, teachers and cult leaders.

copy-paste
Why should we constantly be trying to read things and memorize them? Let’s just copy-paste them into text files to search and share with others.

What about you? Are there any features that we need in Human OS 2.0 that you use every day on your computer?

Now my whole day is going to be ruined with constant refreshes of Google Maps of Sioux Falls to see if their Street View is available..

“Bing? Interesting. I’ll have to Google that when I get home.”

Hehe that’s exactly right. They can’t take down Google for search when it’s a household word the way it is now. Time will tell, but I can’t imagine any market share going to Microsoft for quite a while (of course excluding a short burst of traffic from the launch).

The second opinion reads:

“Finally a search engine for the Zune age!”

So true.. Microsoft has done a great job with market penetration with Windows, Office, and Internet Explorer. With iPods and Google.. er, media players and search engines? Exactly.

It’s only funny because it’s true.

“noob” is one of several words vying for the position. A word is added to the dictionary when the GLM has on record 25,000 uses of it in media outlets. If one counts forum posts and some other outlets online, I can’t imagine that it’s lower than 25,000, but it’s nice that noob will finally get the recognition it deserves. As the author of this forum post says “Now gaming culture has “pwned” the English Dictionary.” It’s just too bad that the word wasn’t recognized when there was 25,000 n00bs in existence, rather than how many times it was used. We would’ve had a word a long time ago..