[quote=AN][quote=spdrun]Lastly, if being 5 years behind means actually having control of what software you can install, and having control of your data (not having it synced to the cloud) then I’m all for the past 🙂 We’re moving from personal computing to corporate computing, and that’s disturbing.[/quote]
I think you’re a dying breed. Linux will be your only option (assuming Linux won’t try to follow the market down the Cloud services road). I personally fully embraces the Cloud services and it seems like all the major ecosystems are heading that way too.[/quote]Well… he is not the ‘only’ one of that ‘dying’ breed. Though lot of ‘ecosystems’ are heading that way, it cedes control of your data to some ‘cloud’ provider… who then controls your data, and may end up deciding how to use that ‘Facebook style’ at some later date when they need to realize some income. Besides, why use the ‘Cloud’ in the first place.. 1TB now fits in my shirt pocket! and I can pull data from that device faster than I can from the ‘Cloud’.
[quote=AN]I guess the millions of users who uses Mint and Quicken are idiots. I assume you go to the physical bank and deal with physical cash then. No online banking for you? I’m not as tin foil hat as you are.[/quote]Logic fallacy.. Straw Man Argument. If you want secure banking, electronic tends to be the more secure. .. want to guess my crypto key? There is over $100k behind it.. wait 1 day and the key is different. BTW: it is AES based. For secure banking, always use ‘push’ and avoid ‘pull’. I schedule my bank to send out the payments. I don’t have my payments done by the payee, ie Sprint, on a ‘pull’ basis. Now, if I don’t want a trace.. I do use cash. 😉
[quote=spdrun]
You sound worse than my parents. Maybe more like my grand parents.
Maybe your grandparents weren’t so dumb after all, then :)[/quote]Touche’
[quote=AN]Good luck trying to back up those data. Oops, I just drop my iPad. There goes my photos, videos, etc. Also, good luck trying to keep all of those devices safe. Oops, I just lost my iPad. There goes all the personal data I have on that iPad. [/quote]I wonder what the price of 1TB of storage is on the ‘Cloud’… https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/pricingandterms Looks like $120/month. Almost the cost of a 1TB portable hard drive for just 1 month of ‘Cloud’ storage. I have 4.25TB of storage @ home with backup of critical located somewhere else. That would be costing me around $400/month on a ‘Cloud’.
[quote=AN]That would be impossible. I have over 600GB of photos and videos today and most of those were taken with 2MP cameras, etc. Those data will only get exponentially larger with the 20+MP cameras and 4k camcorders. It’s impossible to have a tablet that have several hundreds of terabytes that would be needed to store all the photos and videos I would have over the next 10 years. [/quote]You have not been paying attention to the progression of storage capacity on hard drives and SD. My 1TB pocket drive is obsolete already. Current Tech is 1.5TB. Looks like it is following Moore’s Law. Six months from now 2TB or more. Before you bring up security — the drive has hardware AES encryption, and it is enabled.
BTW: How about this for those ‘Cloud’ oriented.. http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/amazons-cloud-crash-destroyed-many-customers-data-123632
It isn’t as secure as you think…
