I'm willing to bet that a ton of people complaining about the standards compliance not being an issue, and "user's needs first..." etc are the same people who rip on Microsoft and IE for not being standards compliant on the web.
It's funny how people are so inconsistent with their evangelism.
Did you rtfa?
They use Reed-Solomon error correction methods to break up the data. This allows for distributed storage and reconstruction, where the equivalent of roughly 6 copies of the original file are stored, and assuming constituent users are online 17% of the time, allows the file to be retrievable 99.9999% of the time.
But I agree, I'm also iffy. I can't see myself using this service.
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Not only are we supposed to guess that "cluster" has nothing to do with clustering in any shape or form...
It is *Clutter*, not cluster.
I'm willing to bet that a ton of people complaining about the standards compliance not being an issue, and "user's needs first..." etc are the same people who rip on Microsoft and IE for not being standards compliant on the web. It's funny how people are so inconsistent with their evangelism.
Zuckerberg and Co are the biggest backpeddlers on the planet. Grow some balls.
Damn... what happened to the good ol' days when people used to eat real crackers...
Did you rtfa? They use Reed-Solomon error correction methods to break up the data. This allows for distributed storage and reconstruction, where the equivalent of roughly 6 copies of the original file are stored, and assuming constituent users are online 17% of the time, allows the file to be retrievable 99.9999% of the time. But I agree, I'm also iffy. I can't see myself using this service.