"Do you dare to question the abilities of the MASTER CONTROL PROGRAM?"
Posted on 12/09/2010 6:22:50 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Stop worrying about when the hard drive in your computer will die. Google wants to kill it permanently anyway.
The new Google Chrome operating system, which was unveiled Tuesday, as well as hints and suggestions from Apple and Microsoft, offers us a preview of the PC of the future. And it will come without that familiar whirring disk that has been the data heart of the PC for the past 25 years.
The Chrome OS will at first be available on all-black laptops from Samsung and Acer. And because the new platform stores everything -- files, applications, data bits and bytes, literally everything -- on online servers rather than on your home or office PC, those new PCs running it won't require gobs of storage. In fact, they won't require any storage at all.
The new Google laptops come without hard drives, in other words.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Google OS is a stripped down version of Ubuntu on which rests the Google Chrome browser and the Google services. That’s it. Nothing else. And the download metaphor is obsolete because you can’t install and run software in the traditional sense of the world. Its all in “the cloud.”
They'll start treating your data like they do your financial records. If they catch you holding too much cash, they sieze it until you prove it's not from drug dealing. They want you to keep it in the bank. They can make the bank turn over information about you on demand that they would have to get a search warrant for if was in your personal records at home.
Wow - big enough to hold a whopping 10 BluRay discs!
Sarcasm aside, that points at the issue: no matter how much storage you throw on a machine, it's still not enough to hold your whole digital life without selection, pruning, and maintenance. Far easier (maybe cheaper) to give $50/year to someone to give you all but unlimited storage, rather than having to upgrade to the next bigger drive each year and fiddle with moving everything around (I'm trying to shuffle 5 drives onto 1 new 1TB pocket drive; hassle!).
Anyone here ever read “The Shockwave Rider” by John Brunner?
Remarkable vision considering when it was written. I read it when it came out and have never forgotten it throughout the evolution of cyberspace.
Solid State Drives, in my computer = fine, no problem, especially when the price comes down some and all of then have TRIM.
NO drive, and all my data stored at Google = NFW. Not now, not ever.
Aside from the US Government, Google is the creepiest entity in the world at this point in time. Their lust for power and control is second only to professional politicians and lifelong government agents.
OLD IBM saying: "If it's not water cooled, it's a terminal"
Sheesh. Everything old is new again.
I can see business deploying "dumb terminals" (Example: VMWare View back-end, or XenServer from Citrix) but they will point at the "local cloud" in the company's datacenter.
250Gb is plenty for my purposes.
I have no desire to trust Google with my data. I know they do not respect anyones privacy. I’ve also tried their online apps. Feature rich they are not. They also fail in the dependability department.
The Chrome OS will at first be available on all-black laptops from Samsung and Acer———
Guess if I get one, I will definitely wait til it’s white ones.
I’ve yet to learn how this “cloud” paradigm is going to work without encouraging rampant fraud and taking away privacy.
"Do you dare to question the abilities of the MASTER CONTROL PROGRAM?"
When 386 and 486 started replacing the VT420s, my boss, an old timer from the ‘70s, said, they’ll be back! He also argued at a DECUS conference, one of the last ones, that object oriented programming was nothing new, but a name for old IBM code libraries. He was right, of course, except that the geeks who invented OOP made it impossible to understand to gain on all those amateurs who were beating them with Visual Basic.
>> Its all in “the cloud.”
That seals the deal, then!
I MUST (never) HAVE IT!
I have my own personal cloud I carry everywhere I go. It’s called a 16GB thumb drive.
I’ve got all my important stuff on it, even my email (via Thunderbird portable version).
The cloud is a POS. Good way to let all sorts of characters get at your data. Likewise Facebook, MySpace, etc. No thank you.
Here’s the thing. The supposed reason for the new NET NEUTRALITY is because it would cost more for those who have higher bandwidth usage. IF more people used a GOOGLE PC, their bandwidth needs would increase.
And here I thought they were complaining that people watching movies were clogging the WEBS and making it slower for everyone else.
Back to mainframes and dumb terminals, sorry, servers and thin clients ?
Once your data is remote you lose control of it . . .
Got a 2 TB external hard drive for $89 on Black Friday sale.
For the same price as a real computer.
Great book. Great writer. I never see his stuff in bookstores; I don't know if there is some sort of copyright problem with his estate, or something else. Brunner seems to have become a forgotten giant.
Have a SSD as primary drive on my newest computer, as soon as prices drop a little more the secondary will be changed to SSD also.
Internet based can not match the speed in the foreseeable future, no way.
Great news! Google will possess everyone’s most private and personal and sensitive data. In partnership with the U.S.Govt.
Secure?
Fear not! Nobody can hack Corporate/Government computers!
(Wilkileaks — quiet please! Don’t disturb the livestock going down the chutes leading to the slaughter house.)
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