Damn. I have 95% of my PC's processer available at any given moment. In a year that will probably be 98%, in three years it will be 99%. This model of the Internet is so messed up. The fact that over 90% of the computing horsepower on the Internet sits idle at any given moment is insane (in fact, 98% of my DSL connection is dead too). It is going to change. It has to change. The notebook (the shift to notebooks is going on at a furious pace -- soon will be the day that fewer than 1% have two machines) will be the center of everyone's computing life. It will be the personal producivity tool, the server, the media station, the entertainment console, publishing system for writing and multimedia, etc. At a 1:1 (one computer to one person), computing hit it's sweet spot. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
The model of the Internet is messed up because we share information over it, not capabilities. I can't harness somebody else's CPU for my calculations or rendering and they can't harness my CPUs. Sun's GRID initiative may be a good idea but unfortunatelly it will only be viable for high-end computation, not for guys like me who would just like to speed up their rendering in Premiere...
My ADSL line isn't occupied all the time and this is OK because in a way the physical network is like a interconected funnels pouring traffic into each other. If everybody uses his/her connection at 100%, the network will just burst.
Another thing that frustrate me is the artificial urge to get a bigger machine created by Intel, AMD & co's marketing department. Do you really need a P4 to do word processing and surf the net? If you use Window$ probably, because that OS if full of "features" not everybody really need. We need a modularized OS. An OS from which you only install the features you need. Linux could be the one but it isn't user friendly enough yet. Eric S. Raymond pointed out this issue in this post to the kernel mailing list.
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