Posted on 04/16/2011 6:58:13 PM PDT by Revolting cat!
Isn't it great? You no longer have to buy your software. Why, it's on the "cloud". Maybe even Cloud 9. Like beer, which you never buy, you rent it. It won't take up valuable space on you 1,024 gigabyte hard disk, no updates to worry about, no fees for updating the damn thing.
But wait, something ain't right! Let's say you are using Google Docs (and let's not get into the discussion of Google being Communists, as they all supposedly are according to some here. If they support the RATS it's only because we've allowed the RATS to control the gummint and control the dispensation of gummint favours), as I have been for several years, and suddenly, without a notice, the software changes - items disappear from the menu, behaviour is different, and you've downloaded nothing, updated nothing. What's going on?
Well, pal, the Lords of the Cloud have made the changes for you, why do you think Google's expenses for the last quarter have dramatically increased? Improvements are on their way, like it or not, and you can kvetch about it all the way to the FCC or the Commerce Department. That's the way it's gonna be on cloud 9 of software development and usage.
I am a fan of the cloud........in the sky.
To put my docs on? No thanks.
Orwell would have been all over “the cloud.” It’s a perfect tool for controlling information and finding out who (in political terms) has been naughty or nice.
Ah.... back to the days of having a DUMB TERMINAL sitting in front of me. At least it will boot up faster.
You’ve stumbled on one of the many reasons the cloud is a painfully stupid idea. The Egyptians stumbled on another. A couple years ago when a guy fleeing the police crashed into the cable company’s repeater nearest my house and took me entirely off the grid I stumbled on another.
The cloud is really cool, all the way until ain’t.
So.... basically if you lose connection with the internet, you have a large paper weight in front of you.
Yep. When it does go dark, hope the client has a large enough cache to hold on to whatever was being used until comms are restored.
I use google docs for a few mundane things that wouldn’t mean anything to anyone except to treat insomnia.
It’s another paradigm shift, isn’t it. In corporate IT every software update had to be approved by the user community before it could be rolled out. When the software resides on the cloud the user community (now in millions) suddenly doesn’t count, and the geeks plus their MBA managers rule.
Cloud software is wonderful for some things and unacceptable for others, for various reasons. Best uses I know of for it are Yahoo mail and SalesForce.
And online storage has been all the rage before...like from the mid to late 90s up until a lot of true believers found their data vanishing into the ether as the hosting sites went belly up.
There is one born every minute - and two to take him
For document sharing and development Google Docs can’t be beat, and connectivity issues are small potatoes compared to the problem of constant changes to the software (and, speaking from experience, not only in Google Docs.)
You are VERY Correct.
Cloud computing is danger to freedoms. It’s intentional.
It’s a plan. It is being done in cooperation with the government and leftist companies like Google in order to harm us.
No computers except what they allow us access to is the end goal. No storage. No programming power. All controlled and turned off with the flip of a switch.
Those promoting it. Well.... check my tag line.
Put them next on the list.
No, it’s trying to sell something old like it’s new. It’s just 1970s dumb terminals using the internet. There’s some benefits to IT but they’re generally out weighed by the problems. Normally when the corporate internet connection goes down people lose the ability to goof off and productivity goes up, if you’re on the cloud productivity ends. Then there’s the problem of your software providers being able to hold your data hostage until you renew the support contract. The companies that shift to it will learn the hard way and shift back.
***
this is, I think, a great but not quite the ultimate example of what McLuhan called an "implosion."
***
this is, I think, a great but not quite the ultimate example of what McLuhan called an "implosion."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110421/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_amazon_outages
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.