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ParticipantIf my apartment has a fire when I’m not there, my laptop is likely to be with me. If there’s a fire and I’m there, I’m grabbing it as I run out the door. If someone steals it, it’s encrypted and it’s synced to another computer at home.
Not all that worried about fire. It’s a brick and stone building, built 4 years pre-war. WW 1 that is 🙂
Lastly, billing, time-tracking, payable, receivable, sales tax due, etc info isn’t on the servers of my bank, at least not in the form in which I use it. Client lists? Nope. Media/vendor lists? Nope.
ParticipantI don’t either. But you mentioned several hundred TB of data per person — I did not.
ParticipantIt’s unlikely to expect that kind of storage from a laptop as well.
Not unreasonable to expect that kind of storage from an appliance, though. If the cost of storage comes down to the point that several hundred TB of storage are reasonably priced, then it will also become reasonably priced on physical devices.
As far as tablets and phones, you’d probably keep the 1000 most recent photos and those flagged important, and sync the rest.
ParticipantYeah, they also don’t know how to use a computer. BTW, who ever said they’re dumb. I never call any one dumb for doing something I wouldn’t do. You on the other hand…
Misusing a computer by uploading info that should remain personal to unknown hands is as bad as not knowing how to use one.
ParticipantThe photos and videos would also have been synched to the Macbook and iPhone, basically in real time, or as soon as the iPad obtains an Internet connection.
Devices could be encrypted, as devices can be right now. Since a lot of cloud-synched apps store authentication info, storing data in the cloud right now doesn’t provide much security unless you wish to implement it.
ParticipantIt’s only hard when you’re trying to use it for what it wasn’t designed to do. I hope in 10 years, you still have devices that will satisfy your tin foil needs. I don’t see the cloud services back tracking. In the future, I can see EVERYTHING will be online somewhere. You’re just fighting the inevitable.
In the future, assuming that the Internet and ipv6 become ubiquitous enough, there will actually be less need for centralized servers of ANY type. Cloud or local.
iPad turns on. iPad pings iPhone and Macbook. “Any changed files for me today?” Storage on devices is cheap. Bandwidth is also getting cheaper. If the data are available and stored on several devices, this would also reduce the need for backup.
ParticipantYou sound worse than my parents. Maybe more like my grand parents.
Maybe your grandparents weren’t so dumb after all, then 🙂
ParticipantI use online banking (though I go to the physical bank for check + cash deposits and seldom use credit cards). However, the bank only has access to info on my account with them, not all accounts I have.
And yes, I think that users of mint.com are f**kin’ idiots. I do my taxes using desktop tax software, not by uploading personal info to some website.
Office is an example of an application where you have choice. But many other apps don’t give you that choice, or are murky about where data are stored.
And with some mobile devices (iPad), it’s hard to transfer data from certain apps on them unless you’re doing so via the cloud. Harder than it needs to be, IMHO.
ParticipantI personally fully embraces the Cloud services and it seems like all the major ecosystems are heading that way too.
OK, so you’d be comfortable uploading personal financial information to a “service” with unknown security? Then you’re either an idiot or the most trusting person ever.
The desktop paradigm provides that CHOICE. I can either work on files locally, or upload data to a cloud service. But it generally remains a choice, rather than software choosing for you.
And unless my device is stolen, what’s on my drive (and backed up to a Time Capsule or similar) is likely to remain my property. I want to know WHERE my files are, and have access to them as discrete elements that can be copied, shared, and backed up at will.
Lastly, the irony is that with ipv6 (a chicken in every pot, a public address for every device) is that true peer-to-peer data sharing becomes much easier. Why bother having central “cloud” providers if individual devices with shared keys can synchronize data directly and handle versioning themselves?
Unless it needs to be public, then that model makes sense even with ipv6.
ParticipantPretty much yes, I want a touch-screen MacBook Air. Better yet, install pirated OS X on an appropriate touch screen ultrabook.
ParticipantLinux laptop, Macbook, or Android tablet are all pretty close.
And I hope to have the opportunity to take a protracted piss on Steve Jobs’ grave for coming up with the idea of locked-down computing, which Microsoft is now adopting.
Stallman was right: “glad he’s gone.”
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.
ParticipantTop-heavy? The Windows 8 Pro Surface is the same weight as the original iPad. That seems to work just fine for the iPad.
Yep, top-heavy. It needs to be supported if it’s used with a keyboard.
ParticipantRegarding the Surface:
I’m currently limited to Micro$hit as the manufacturer. Also, Metro apps are still officially limited to the Microsoft Store. Lastly, it’s top-heavy. Fine if you’re using it on a table. Not so fine if you’re using it on your knees or on a soft surface.No thanks — I’ll stick with an actual laptop, ideally with a touchscreen. I actually DON’T want a damn touch screen as the primary interface.
I type a lot, so I need a keyboard. Moving my hands from the keyboard to operate a touch screen actually takes more time than using a nipple stick or touchpad. Plus touch screens are almost always dirty/greasy.
I can see the utility for some things like CAD and drawing, but for day-to-day computing, I prefer a pointer and keyboard.
I guess what I really want is an Ubuntu tablet.
July 2, 2012 at 10:50 AM in reply to: Obamacare bill contains 3.8% tax on homes sales capital gains for high income earners #747054ParticipantMy point wasn’t an exact scenario. My point was that it isn’t 1861, and the stakes in case of civil war are much higher — therefore a peaceful breakup of the US isn’t as impossible as before. Weapons are worse, international media is much more advanced and nosy, so the alternative becomes unthinkable.
Even the Soviets weren’t crazy enough to try to hold things together when the end came in the 90s.
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