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- emudeath, on 04/23/2009, -1/+45eewww, its made to run in IE, says Firefox isn't good enough for it >:(
- ihavebeenseen, on 04/23/2009, -4/+29nothing is free
- Clearmedium, on 04/23/2009, -1/+23Computers are just a fad. This is a pointless article.
- jpp672, on 04/23/2009, -2/+24http://www.eyeos.org/
this is a better free cloud computing os, in my opinion. - disappointed, on 04/23/2009, -0/+18No mention of Google App Server?
If you have hard limits on storage and bandwidth it really doesn't matter to the end user whether it's "on the cloud" or on a traditional server rack. Cloud computing is all about scalability. This service seems to have nothing to do with that. - techdever, on 04/23/2009, -2/+12spam spam spam spam spam
- ePuck, on 04/23/2009, -1/+9They lost me at m$ exchange server.
- jbell1, on 04/23/2009, -0/+8Nothing like trusting your sensitive data to a company/person that you don't know, heck you might as well just publish your S.S card, credit card numbers, and D.L number and whatever else you don't care if it gets into hackers hands on facebook....
- dbz253, on 04/23/2009, -0/+7not having firefox support is pretty much a death sentence for new things on the web.
- TechnoRabbit, on 04/23/2009, -1/+8Or, you know, you could read the ***** article. It's talking about other cloud services it found.
If you scroll down from the bold text you copied and pasted it mentions the free cloud service.
So, shut the ***** up and actually read the article, dumbass. - Grotm001, on 04/23/2009, -1/+7when it comes to hosting... if it's free, it's typically low quality
- Klowner, on 04/23/2009, -0/+5This is in no way a competitor for ec2, this is just a web based desktop thing like EyeOS and all the others.
- Simplysped, on 04/23/2009, -0/+5iCloud only works well in IE, and it's pretty CPU intensive. Doesn't load in chrome, and I can't pull up any menus in Firefox. It's pretty neat, but I think I'll just stick with Dropbox's web dashboard until something better surfaces/
- opposite225, on 04/23/2009, -0/+5You can't just call everything *****, *****, and ***** again because the buzzwords make you angry. Go smoke more weed.
- ElRayQuieres, on 04/23/2009, -0/+5Once people realize that, they'll see that I've just been ahead of the curve by not using computers. I'm dictating this message to my intern right now.
- Myztry, on 04/23/2009, -0/+4That's not the idea of cloud computing I imagined at all. The singular instances are akin to boring old remote computing terminals. Like those legacy mainframes we laugh in retrospect about.
I had hoped the cloud would have multiple drops. Be like clusters but more distributed. Software would mist out onto available computing surfaces balance the load out. The more homage you paid to the rain Gods, the bigger the cloud you got.
And when you need data far away raining down, the cloud nearest you would open to provide the same syncronised drops. - freshgrease, on 04/23/2009, -0/+4There's a reason I keep my hdd volumes encrypted, deploy IDS, and VPN tunnel into my network from the outside: I don't want my data available to the Internets. I can't help the email portion for most of my stuff, but everything else should be locked down. The last thing I want is more crap going to advertisers and government agencies to fully-detail my surfing habits for big-brother/selected advertising.
If that isn't enough, I can send an email to my home server to DOD wipe my storage through Outlook rules tied to a script. I'm not telling you the email address or command sequence, though. - sdive, on 04/23/2009, -0/+4it's possible though :) works OK here
- AutoTom, on 04/23/2009, -4/+7excuse me?
this has been around for about 4 years now, and its not a new buzzword, people have been dreaming of this since the late 90's - dotnetwebdev, on 04/23/2009, -0/+3Cloud computing. So, what happens when (not if ... when) the internets come to a screeching halt - even if only for a small period of time, in an isolated location? It's going to happen, it's inevitable. Even short-term outages could have a massive negative impact for people and companies who rely solely on cloud computing.
- and386, on 04/23/2009, -0/+3IMHO, cloud computing is when your processes and/or data are on the cloud. Meaning they are not on any particular computer.
That's what they achieve with Google App Engine : http://code.google.com/intl/fr/appengine/
A Google appp, running on app engine can be accessed at several different places in the world, the processes will run in different data-center, and the data will stay synchronized troughout the world. Also, the processing power is shared in a common pool. You don't have one server that is idle 75% of the time, every % count.
This article is very poor and deceiving. Regards. - SkippyDoorknob, on 04/23/2009, -0/+3Air?
- LordBacon, on 04/23/2009, -0/+3Not for long.
- protodon, on 04/23/2009, -0/+3thanks mom and dad.
- KingofGnG, on 04/23/2009, -0/+3Free crap is here.
- RealmDown, on 04/23/2009, -0/+3Bloody Vikings....
- devnullDood, on 04/23/2009, -0/+3It uses to many local resources to be "Cloud Computing". I signed up, used the browser to go to several sights, and each sight showed up in my local computer's browser history. Thats messed up!
- digitalArtform, on 04/23/2009, -0/+2Can I render 3D CG on it?
- cubicledrone, on 04/23/2009, -7/+9Cloud computing is *****. Just like n-tier development (*****) and thin clients (*****) and netbooks (*****) and all the other "cram a bunch of servers in a room" technologies. The people who come up with the buzzwords do not understand how computers work, they don't understand software development, and they don't understand technology.
But that won't stop a bunch of Pepsodent smiles from hiring a bunch of programmers with a CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY COMPANY(tm) (with a $12 million logo) and then realizing they don't have a ***** clue, pocketing all the cash, firing all the programmers and heel-cramming the company into a toilet.
Then all the "capitalists" will run to their defense because nobody is entitled to a job. - AutoTom, on 04/23/2009, -0/+2pretty much summarizes digg, if its not a pro-marijuana / pro-obama comment it's going to be burried.
keep in mind when posting that your audience has an IQ <90
back in my day digg was for the enlightened, now its just for stoners and chanfags. - freshgrease, on 04/23/2009, -0/+2If that's what you call a CISSP that happens to be a control freak, then yes.
- AutoTom, on 04/23/2009, -3/+5getting sick of this *****.
- jameson5, on 04/23/2009, -2/+4Stupid affiliate-link sites...
- philodygmn, on 04/23/2009, -0/+2Without freely transferrable and interoperable archives of one's user data and the means of keeping it usable locally even offline, this is just the beginning of an online slavery, and even with it could easily still amount to being as bad if "clouds" control their interactions... Think of Mactard menus versus SOAP-style open back-end protocols that are always-on and standards-based rather than having to breathe through the straw of a user interface at absolutely all times. Ever want to batch process things without Shift-clicking or smart-search aggregating piece-by-piece? Few GUIs implement it. This caliber of functionality-clipping happens all the time with virtually no one noticing or caring because they never think about how important lateral liberties with data are, let alone understand how useful they can be. It's what plugins are built on all over the place yet people just don't appreciate how important leaving an open infrastructure is, even as people are beginning to grasp this at the hardware level about so-called "network neutrality" (i.e. the much better-named, older term "common carrier").
- consciouseffect, on 04/23/2009, -0/+2ON LIVE COMING SOON
- DiggTag3000, on 04/23/2009, -1/+3Why would I need a web browser in an OS that I can only access via a web browser?
- Buelldozer, on 04/23/2009, -0/+2Thin clients and thin computing have been successfully deployed in business since the introduction of the damn mainframe about four decades ago. To call them "*****" tells me that YOU don't understand how computers work, software development, or technology.
Netbooks have a real, and growing, market niche. Again, you obviously don't understand how computers work, software development, or technology.
In short you're an ignorant individual with an angry and ridiculous rant. - jabbajabba, on 04/23/2009, -2/+4Others are digging you down for some reason unseen to me - but I agree with you 'Free_Cloud_Computing_is_Here' is far from accurate....I was using g.ho.st about two years ago for free.
- stonebear, on 04/23/2009, -0/+2You are correct actually; that's what cloud computing is. This is a case of a remote computing service, who's time never really came, attempting to hijack the "brand" of a distributed computing technology who's time is not quite here yet. As can be seen in P2P, "the cloud" is quite dangerous to existing political and economic power structures, so its time may not really come either. But, on the other hand; the collapse of those structures seems to be imminent anyway, so the cloud may be in the offing regardless.
- klitzbtc, on 04/23/2009, -0/+2Yeah i've been using this on my home server for about a month now. and it's really awesome. Only thing that would make it better is support for exporting as ODT file formats in the word processor.
But most importantly, most of it is written in PHP, which is kick ass imho. - asgardshill, on 04/23/2009, -0/+2Jeez, if Big Brother and/or hackers want my lifetime collection of curry recipes and copies of letters to the editor THAT badly, they can have them.
- epheterson, on 04/23/2009, -1/+3http://www.icloud.com/en If it comes up in another language for you, like it did for me...
- ebcak, on 04/23/2009, -1/+2cool stuff in the Clouds
- mellenger, on 04/23/2009, -1/+2I'll take a couple curry recipes if you are offering.
- inactive, on 04/23/2009, -3/+4The Clouds are really Bushes.
- pw378, on 04/23/2009, -0/+1Ever use hotmail, gmail, facebook, google apps, flickr, etc... guess what, its all cloud based computing. Just because you hate the buzzword, doesn't mean its ***** marketing.
Cloud computing is here, has been here, and will continue to be here. Welcome to the internet, leave your hard drive at the door. - tractordriver88, on 04/24/2009, -0/+1Why is this big news? I've been using Windows Live SkyDrive with 25GB storage for a semester now. Free to anyone who has a Hotmail address!
- Topher06, on 04/24/2009, -1/+2All I know about cloud computing is that it makes me Tweat like its Web 3.0.
- digitalArtform, on 04/23/2009, -0/+1Not free, but at no cost to you.
- pw378, on 04/23/2009, -0/+1How do you pay your bills and managing your finances? Use a bank maybe? Guess what, you may not think of it as a cloud, but the banking system is a cloud based system. You don't own stock certificates, you don't hold bundles of cash in your hands, they record all your transactions, and even report them to the Government when legally requested... If you trust your finances to the cloud, why do you worry about stupid email messages?
Seriously, think about it... -
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