Everyone is like, OMG backup/OMG too costly for backup/LOLOLOl!!!1one!!.
WTF, where's the backup my harddrive button??
Amazon didn't start runing an FTP server for you to store your crappy pictures and emo mp3s. They are providing a web service, the whole point of a web service is to provide the building blocks for developers to take advantage of.
OMG is costs so much.
You can build your own subscription download service that charges users to download from 'you' while in the back-end you fetch content from amazon's servers. What amazon is providing is a reliable, no-hassle back-end solution to whatever you want to build ontop of it. Or use BitTorrent, they support it too...
ZOMG backup.
Will everyone quit talking about backups. Start thinking about what else you could do with with this an the rest of Amazon's web services. plz? kk, thx
That's for you to build, the whole point of a web service is to provide the building blocks for developers to take advantage of. You can build your own subscription download service that charges users to download from 'you' while in the back-end you fetch content from amazon's servers. What amazon is providing isn't a ftp server to host your files, it's a reliable, no-hassle back-end solution to whatever you want to build ontop of it.
All I see posted are stupid remarks about how ironic this is... but nobody seems to want to do anything about it.
/. has enough people reading it to destroy the bandwidth of half the servers out there, but it looks like nobody is going to take this as a serious threat to privacy and call up their congressman or write a letter/email to major news networks, or anything else that will change things...
It's a sad day seeing this article exist, but it will be an even sadder day when 90% of these comments are scored "Funny" and we are doomed to sit idly by our world is taken away from us... thanks guys, i appreciate it.
Actually, there has already been a power outtage here... everything turns off except a few mood lights? were on... makes everything look really creepy. The door locks still worked... but it was a pain to find my server in the dark
Well, I being a current inhabitant of this "amazing" building... have yet to see this wonderful technology. Sure, I didn't really read what's been said in the papers about it, cus I know what's actually happening here. It's really stupid, the whole building. When I first walked in, my inital reaction was that the 70's threw up on it. They still haven't finished building the damn thing. And it's got way too many bugs (just like a CS building should....) like the pretty light fixtures that hang in the conference rooms cast a lovely shadow onto the projector screen. Plus, the screen in my conference room doesn't have a switch to lower it. But it's nice to know that a screen should exist. They've just installed all this RFID stuff and touch screen kiosks today... so it doesn't look like crap for the Grand Opening.
I wouldn't believe all the hype if I were you. Just like everything else, including the project I'm supposed to present at this Siebel Center Open House, it's a lot of buzzwords and catch phrases...it doesn't really do what I say it does... But a man can dream can't he?
But on another note, the elevator shafts provided a lovely rappelling trip... to bad they had to install elevators in them. (Which I mananged to crash and get stuck on the 3rd floor...like software-wise not bloody death crash)
But I'm stuck here until I graduate... what fun it will be to break the rest of it. It is however nicer than our old building... Thank you Mr. Siebel for giving us a lot of money before your company started to fail, and thanks for not asking for it back.
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Everyone is like, OMG backup/OMG too costly for backup/LOLOLOl!!!1one!!.
WTF, where's the backup my harddrive button??
Amazon didn't start runing an FTP server for you to store your crappy pictures and emo mp3s. They are providing a web service, the whole point of a web service is to provide the building blocks for developers to take advantage of.
OMG is costs so much.
You can build your own subscription download service that charges users to download from 'you' while in the back-end you fetch content from amazon's servers. What amazon is providing is a reliable, no-hassle back-end solution to whatever you want to build ontop of it. Or use BitTorrent, they support it too...
ZOMG backup.
Will everyone quit talking about backups. Start thinking about what else you could do with with this an the rest of Amazon's web services. plz? kk, thx
This is a web service, it is meant for developers not regular joes... move along.
That's for you to build, the whole point of a web service is to provide the building blocks for developers to take advantage of. You can build your own subscription download service that charges users to download from 'you' while in the back-end you fetch content from amazon's servers. What amazon is providing isn't a ftp server to host your files, it's a reliable, no-hassle back-end solution to whatever you want to build ontop of it.
All I see posted are stupid remarks about how ironic this is... but nobody seems to want to do anything about it.
/. has enough people reading it to destroy the bandwidth of half the servers out there, but it looks like nobody is going to take this as a serious threat to privacy and call up their congressman or write a letter/email to major news networks, or anything else that will change things...
It's a sad day seeing this article exist, but it will be an even sadder day when 90% of these comments are scored "Funny" and we are doomed to sit idly by our world is taken away from us... thanks guys, i appreciate it.
Actually... here in the ACM office that dream may become a reality...
Caffeine is our own little magcard swipe internet enabled (crappy) soda machine...
It is out of Dew right now, however
Actually, there has already been a power outtage here... everything turns off except a few mood lights? were on... makes everything look really creepy. The door locks still worked... but it was a pain to find my server in the dark
Well, I being a current inhabitant of this "amazing" building... have yet to see this wonderful technology. Sure, I didn't really read what's been said in the papers about it, cus I know what's actually happening here. It's really stupid, the whole building. When I first walked in, my inital reaction was that the 70's threw up on it. They still haven't finished building the damn thing. And it's got way too many bugs (just like a CS building should....) like the pretty light fixtures that hang in the conference rooms cast a lovely shadow onto the projector screen. Plus, the screen in my conference room doesn't have a switch to lower it. But it's nice to know that a screen should exist. They've just installed all this RFID stuff and touch screen kiosks today... so it doesn't look like crap for the Grand Opening.
I wouldn't believe all the hype if I were you. Just like everything else, including the project I'm supposed to present at this Siebel Center Open House, it's a lot of buzzwords and catch phrases...it doesn't really do what I say it does... But a man can dream can't he?
But on another note, the elevator shafts provided a lovely rappelling trip... to bad they had to install elevators in them. (Which I mananged to crash and get stuck on the 3rd floor...like software-wise not bloody death crash)
But I'm stuck here until I graduate... what fun it will be to break the rest of it. It is however nicer than our old building... Thank you Mr. Siebel for giving us a lot of money before your company started to fail, and thanks for not asking for it back.