[lbo-talk] Cloud computing sucks

[Sean Andrews]

Not at all.  I use both of these all the time and rarely have that
kind of problem.  I had a little hangup once uploading over a gig to
google drive, but nothing that crashed the CPU.  But I have really
good broadband at home so that might make a difference.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Big time.
>
> I was sold into the idea by a coworker - we do quite a bit of
> teleworking and file sharing so it seemed like a good alternative to
> sending multiple email attachments. Except that buying a $10 USB drive
> and taking a train to Baltimore seems a faster way of exchanging files
> than using cloud computing.  Yesterday I tried to synchronize about
> 1GB of data using Google drive - it took about the whole day to upload
> the files from my laptop and the files are still not synchronized with
> other machines.  Today I had the same problem with Dropbox - I tried
> to synchronize a 30k document and after about 20 minutes of 'syncing'
> I turned the fucking thing off because it was using 70% of my CPU and
> similar amount of bandwidth and sent the file as an email attachment,
> which took about 10 seconds.  BTW, I checked my internet connection -
> it does not set the world on fire but it works.
>
> I heard other people complaining about it, in addition to the usual
> rant about privacy concerns, especially about Google.  Do others on
> this list have similar experiences?
>
> --
> Wojtek
>
> "An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."
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