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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Mike;
I don't know if you're a paid shill or not. Frankly, I don't care when you're a new account promoting a blog and making precisely the same tired corporatist arguments about needing to remove user rights.
Cloud computing is inefficient for many uses. Processing speed advances faster than bandwidth prices fall - only for tasks involving a considerable degree of computing power (such as rendering farms) does it make sense now to offload tasks to a "cloud" at the end of a long internet connection, and the business case for it will never be better than todays!
There is a case for a local distributed mesh network, but that is NOT the cloud as currently envisioned.
Storing "content" in the cloud is an entirely different use case and no more and no less than taking content out of consumer hands and adding additional restrictions on its usage, without an appropriate price drop. Most consumers are not going to agree to that. All you're doing is, indirectly, chearleading the darknet.
HTML5 is a red herring, HTML5/CSS3 is all about empowering web designers at the expense of everyone else. To quote reddit's CSS3 dev:
"Perhaps the biggest annoyance with CSS3 is the need to define multiple properties multiple times. Each rendering engine seems to have its own prefix for most everything, so you have to do a lot of copy and paste coding."
That's your future, right there.
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No, not a paid shill.
And I still would like a link to your well-designed, well written blog, as you seem to be quoting from a position of authority there.
Your argument against cloud is basically counter to what most people who understanding computing efficiency and networking would say.
Anyone whose hosted a trafficked site on a single server without scalable compute knows hosting on a virtualized compute system is way more preferable. Sure, broadband is always the "soda straw" in the equation, but not sure how the move to cloud-computing away from single-server or local resident content is more efficient.
HTML5 isn't a red herring if you want persistent connections to your content offline. Its also a move away from proprietary plugins (like Flash), which most would consider a good thing.
I'm not really a conspiracy theorist and conversant in darknet theories. Apparently this is part of your worldview, which is fine. But large-scale enterprise and web services aren't moving to cloud computing infrastructure to take away rights as their primary goal. They just aren't.