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Google and Their Server Farm

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-heard-there-are-at-least-fifty-boxes-in-it dept.

JR writes "CNet has a very interesting story about Google, operating systems, and where Google may be going. The upshot is that they may make OS issues totally irrelevant by supplying everything anyone needs over the web from their mega-server-farm."

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  1. Christ by jb.hl.com · · Score: 0, Troll

    Slashdot must need one hell of a server farm to keep coming up with all these dupes...

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  2. Google will win some with this by emarkp · · Score: 0, Troll
    Google has already shown where this approach will work: when the data is online and you only want to look at a small amount at a time (which will change as broadband gets faster).

    Think of Google's current successes

    • Searching the web
    • Google Maps
    • Language Tools
    If you have to churn through a lot of data at high speed then your desktop will still win. So where can Google move to find business where the web will win?

    I'm on record as saying that once the WWW is available everywhere (wirelessly) it will be as revolutionary as the WWW first was. That thought struck me when Google announced their intent to digitize huge library collections. Someday, I'll be able to read any book anywhere. Wow. And Google will make that happen.

    Just think of the possibilities.

  3. Re:Brilliant by Leo+McGarry · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you run your own servers to be online 24x7 to collect your email and serve your web pages?

    No, but all of my e-mail messages are downloaded to my computer where they're archived forever, and my Web sites on hosted servers are just FTP-uploaded copies of folders on my Mac.

    The proposed solution here ...

    Did you read some different article? There's no proposed solution. Just pie-in-the-sky ideas which are, frankly, pretty bad.

  4. Re:Not surprised by Leo+McGarry · · Score: 0, Troll

    so your saying

    Telltale sign of a straw-man. Never read any comments that begin with "so you're saying." Because the only response to such a comment is, "No, I'm not saying that," and that's just a waste of energy. Why bother?

    Just killfile the offender and move on.

  5. Re:Not surprised by Leo+McGarry · · Score: 0, Troll

    By that logic

    Why not just post a sign that says "straw man fallacy begins here?"