Shut down innovation, folks, as nothing's perfect! Close it down, boys, and head back to the caves.
Seriously, this is a ridiculously-early look at the technology. Calling it a fail is incredibly premature. FUD's not cool when anyone spreads it, remember?
Your arrogance is startling. You seem to think that your experiences of the world are entirely accurate, and portray existence exactly as it is for everyone else. I have no idea why you think you know all homeless people's affairs. It seems most people who cry foul of "political correctness" are speaking out of their arses, and are upset at being called out on it.
Or you could just calm the fuck down and stop jamming up the discussion with your inane posts. Yes, you have a point, but god damn the way you post it sucks.
No it hasn't. Clearly you are not someone who's used the cloud for large projects where it beats, hands down, any non-cloud solution. I can't believe I'm having to explain this to someone I presume isn't a jaded toddler.
A cloud? And no, it's not a mainframe. Yes, you might think of it as such as you know of mainframes, but that's simply not the case. It would be more akin to a company hosting mainframes which you could enable, disable, and rebuild all remotely (hundreds or thousands of miles away), for cents on the hour. Which is nothing like the mainframes of the past. I really hope you were joking.
How is having a room full of mainframes even similar to having datacenters full of cheap machines all being shared by different companies around the world, all communicating over thousands of miles to millions of customers? Now people don't need their own mainframes, and can dynamically scale up or down the number of computers they use, all for cents. Yes, you have a box connected with wires to a larger box you don't see, but that's about as far as the similarity goes and to pretend any differently is being intellectually dishonest. Mainframes are awesome, but don't let your apparent hard-on for them cloud your judgement.
But it already demonstrably is progress. The thought of being able to run hundreds of virtual machines for pennies each an hour was unthinkable 10 years ago. Not to mention practically-unlimited storage for next to nothing, with edge locations around the world. The cloud has clearly changed the way many businesses and people use computers and the internet in general. I find it strange you've not noticed that.
You not having a clue how to code JavaScript doesn't mean JavaScript is a bad language, merely that you are out of your depth with it and simply don't understand how it works.
Not all cloud applications are using MP. The vast majority are websites or application back-ends. It's not about software using more cores in a single computer, it's software running on the same number of cores, but on many computers. And with the cloud, you don't have to own your own mainframes and allocate them as you see fit - you can just request more computers without having to pay for them when you're not using them. You also don't seem to understand what the cloud actually is. I'm sure you're not doing it on purpose, but there are clear and fantastic advantages to cloud computing than mainframes which clearly separate them in terms of their *shudder* "paradigms".
Wow. You've not really thought your argument through. With the cloud you are not restricted to the number of mainframes you own. You couldn't flip a switch in the good old days and suddenly a new mainframe would pop out of thin air.
You don't really seem to know what you're talking about. It's almost as if you've never actually used the cloud for anything decent. Your summation as simply being asynchronous form submissions speaks volumes.
There are similarities, yes, but the differences are far greater. I doubt you could send a few bytes across a network and suddenly have another mainframe at your disposal, priced at cents per hour to run. Not to mention have millions of people being able to use said mainframe at the cost of cents per person/hour. It reminds me as well, but then I laugh as I remember the vast differences in both ability and cost.
And for the record, I am familiar with mainframe operation, especially due to my parents being mainframe developers in the 60s and 70s and introducing me to computing in the first place.
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They probably are earning large returns, but they're dwarfed by the ad revenue Google sees.
You have seen what many people do when they are upset/mad/in a bad mood, right?
FTFY
Vista ended up being a pretty decent OS. True, it's slower than 7, but it ended up being waaaay faster than it was when it was first released.
And you don't see steps 2 & 4 being a massive fuck-up of monstrous proportions? You're not very good at this.
You don't make much sense. Parts of your post do, but the rest is just the dribblings of the insane.
Don't bother bringing facts to this dispute. We've got a story about the UK government and Jimmy Wales. Game over, man, game over.
Hence the word "supposedly", and the quotation marks around "Christian". He was making a point, and he did so rather well.
Shut down innovation, folks, as nothing's perfect! Close it down, boys, and head back to the caves.
Seriously, this is a ridiculously-early look at the technology. Calling it a fail is incredibly premature. FUD's not cool when anyone spreads it, remember?
Your arrogance is startling. You seem to think that your experiences of the world are entirely accurate, and portray existence exactly as it is for everyone else. I have no idea why you think you know all homeless people's affairs. It seems most people who cry foul of "political correctness" are speaking out of their arses, and are upset at being called out on it.
So for 3x the price of the Raspberry Pi you get something slower, larger, and unsuitable for the task at hand. Great jerrrb.
They sell that for $35? Oh, wait...
Or you could just calm the fuck down and stop jamming up the discussion with your inane posts. Yes, you have a point, but god damn the way you post it sucks.
You are needlessly gambling with the lives of others. That means you are a selfish tool.
No it hasn't. Clearly you are not someone who's used the cloud for large projects where it beats, hands down, any non-cloud solution. I can't believe I'm having to explain this to someone I presume isn't a jaded toddler.
A cloud? And no, it's not a mainframe. Yes, you might think of it as such as you know of mainframes, but that's simply not the case. It would be more akin to a company hosting mainframes which you could enable, disable, and rebuild all remotely (hundreds or thousands of miles away), for cents on the hour. Which is nothing like the mainframes of the past. I really hope you were joking.
How is having a room full of mainframes even similar to having datacenters full of cheap machines all being shared by different companies around the world, all communicating over thousands of miles to millions of customers? Now people don't need their own mainframes, and can dynamically scale up or down the number of computers they use, all for cents. Yes, you have a box connected with wires to a larger box you don't see, but that's about as far as the similarity goes and to pretend any differently is being intellectually dishonest. Mainframes are awesome, but don't let your apparent hard-on for them cloud your judgement.
No, it's not a fancy marketing word for outsourcing. Seriously, get a grip. That is being deliberately obtuse.
But it already demonstrably is progress. The thought of being able to run hundreds of virtual machines for pennies each an hour was unthinkable 10 years ago. Not to mention practically-unlimited storage for next to nothing, with edge locations around the world. The cloud has clearly changed the way many businesses and people use computers and the internet in general. I find it strange you've not noticed that.
You not having a clue how to code JavaScript doesn't mean JavaScript is a bad language, merely that you are out of your depth with it and simply don't understand how it works.
Lots of people in Europe drive more than that to work. I don't get what you are complaining about.
And? You said #1. You were wrong. Very wrong.
Not all cloud applications are using MP. The vast majority are websites or application back-ends. It's not about software using more cores in a single computer, it's software running on the same number of cores, but on many computers. And with the cloud, you don't have to own your own mainframes and allocate them as you see fit - you can just request more computers without having to pay for them when you're not using them. You also don't seem to understand what the cloud actually is. I'm sure you're not doing it on purpose, but there are clear and fantastic advantages to cloud computing than mainframes which clearly separate them in terms of their *shudder* "paradigms".
Wow. You've not really thought your argument through. With the cloud you are not restricted to the number of mainframes you own. You couldn't flip a switch in the good old days and suddenly a new mainframe would pop out of thin air.
You don't really seem to know what you're talking about. It's almost as if you've never actually used the cloud for anything decent. Your summation as simply being asynchronous form submissions speaks volumes.
There are similarities, yes, but the differences are far greater. I doubt you could send a few bytes across a network and suddenly have another mainframe at your disposal, priced at cents per hour to run. Not to mention have millions of people being able to use said mainframe at the cost of cents per person/hour. It reminds me as well, but then I laugh as I remember the vast differences in both ability and cost.
And for the record, I am familiar with mainframe operation, especially due to my parents being mainframe developers in the 60s and 70s and introducing me to computing in the first place.
Pretty sure based on what?