On Mar 4, 2009, at 7:43 PM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> At 07:05 PM 3/4/2009, Jordan Hayes wrote:
>>> expound on the virtuosness of cloud computing ...
>>
>> The only thing that's kind of cool about it from that angle is that
>> it's basically a resource that's "in" the Interwebs; so anyone
>> "can" use it without, for instance, having to go buy hardware and
>> software and stick it some place and get some network
>> connectivity. But: it's typically not free, and it's typically
>> owned by someone big -- Google and Amazon are two. Who knows what
>> happens to your data when you store it there?
>>
>> I don't see it as particularly "democratizing" ... it's more
>> eqivalent to really cheap web hosting: you can put it up this
>> afternoon, but you don't really have full control over it ...
>>
>> But maybe people think that it's Just One Less Barrier to entry?
>>
>> Ok. Whatev.
>>
>> /jordan
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>
> dewd. come'on. I was hoping for a good laff. You've ruined it for
> me. :)
>
> shag
>
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