This can't be for real...

I have huge amounts of power available on computer. A dual core with a lot of RAM available. This dual core is 64-bit capable so of course my OS(the latest Ubuntu if your curious) supports it. On occasion I use it to browse the web. I landed on "Aftonbladet" and the JavaScript coupled with a couple of Flash ads. Guess what, my beautiful dual core with 2 gigabytes of RAM memory became sluggish! From visiting a web page!

Why would anyone in their right mind think that everything in the future of computing is going to be Rich Internet Applications? Seriously, we have enormous amounts of hardware in our homes to browse the web. But the crazy thing here is that our monster machines idles when we use them to browse the web. We are wasting clock cycles on inefficient software that is supposed run the wave of the future by enabling new whizzbang Rich Internet Applications! Think about it... is this really the way to go?