[lbo-talk] cloud computing

martin mschiller at pobox.com
Thu Mar 5 15:54:06 PST 2009


On Mar 4, 2009, at 6:03 PM, J T. Ramsay wrote:


> Cloud computing is just a sexier way to describe what we've been
> doing with email for years.
>

I would like to know what some people have been doing with my email for years, but suspect that data will remain clouded.

'cloud' is so loaded with 'aetherial' context it seems best left to the imagination. Does it have anything in common with torrent swarming?

Yes, wiki says that it does. It's a revenue stream, too. That may have been the handle that the original poster was looking for. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Computing

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martin



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