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Freeshadow · 09-10-2010, 08:57 PM

@harry
the one half of this marketbuzzwording "cloudstorage" refers to old fashioned fileservers, which if really badly needed can be realized as an @home solution, even with syncing abilities, so there is absolutely no need to put your precious private files on somebody elses machine. This remoteapps thing is as i pointed out an even older idea referring to the mainframe with terminals setup as in the beginning of computing.
This is even more stupid, since i hardly believe an avarage person needs more computing power than can be produced with todays desktop PCs. My experiences on how seldom and under what circumstances I needed as much computing power, at once, that i had to run the boxes over night to master the task shown.
show mw on the contrary any use of a "cloudnet" supercomputer the average user needs when taken into consideration how much computing power his machine produces?

my critics are
the whole "cloudcomputing" thing is:

presenting ancient IT-concepts wrapped in new marketing buzzwords
completely useless when looking at the ratio on how many power the average user uses and his average computer can produce.

this +the point that the all new shiny clowds cover the shine of your privacy and control over your data...

09-10-2010, 08:57 PM	#145
Freeshadow temp. out of service Posts: 2,815 Karma: 24285242 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Duisburg (DE) Device: PB 623	@harry the one half of this marketbuzzwording "cloudstorage" refers to old fashioned fileservers, which if really badly needed can be realized as an @home solution, even with syncing abilities, so there is absolutely no need to put your precious private files on somebody elses machine. This remoteapps thing is as i pointed out an even older idea referring to the mainframe with terminals setup as in the beginning of computing. This is even more stupid, since i hardly believe an avarage person needs more computing power than can be produced with todays desktop PCs. My experiences on how seldom and under what circumstances I needed as much computing power, at once, that i had to run the boxes over night to master the task shown. show mw on the contrary any use of a "cloudnet" supercomputer the average user needs when taken into consideration how much computing power his machine produces? my critics are the whole "cloudcomputing" thing is: presenting ancient IT-concepts wrapped in new marketing buzzwords completely useless when looking at the ratio on how many power the average user uses and his average computer can produce. this +the point that the all new shiny clowds cover the shine of your privacy and control over your data...