That's one definition of cloud computing - but another says that it doesn't always have to be outsourced hardware, e.g. it can quite easily be a bunch of stuff in your company computer halls.
Only if the consumer uses this much. If they only maintain a 1MB spreadsheet they can easily back that up to floppies, the web, hell - they could even print it !
Most consumers can't fill their 80GB drives of 4 years ago...
If the format is documented then it is a great archiving format. Any conversion from RAW to an RGB format is lossy, and there will be advances in conversion methods over time.
No, there is no guarantee that someone using and extending your GPL code will give anything back.
I am quite within my rights to extend a GPL program and keep that extended version closed so long as I don't give anyone a binary. Even if I did give someone else the binary, I don't have to give YOU (ie a third party) the source unless they also somehow get the binary.
Many of us in fairly respectable jobs are lucky to earn 100 UKP a day, and most of that ends up going in taxes (either directly or hidden taxes), on huge fuel prices (unleaded works out to about $9.20 per US gallon at the moment here).
Go price them up - you know how hard it is to hardlink to anything once specd up on these sites.
I bought Mac Pros for work (fully kitted out, just after the refresh) and they were significantly cheaper than the Dells, plus I can triple boot them. The key is it needs to be high end and fairly close to release - Apple generally don't reduce their prices much over time so the deals get less attractive.
There are plenty of good methods of deploying and updating applications on desktops these days.
The distribution problem was definitely why web apps became popular. They stay popular because people think they can standardise on a single UI framework for everything, even where it doesn't fit.
Lots of us (in enterprises at least) are realising (or rather, we are able to convince the project managers now) that webapps aren't the solution for everything, and that overall development time is often increased by the difficulties when developing in javascript / html.
Presumably they'll end up merging over time (one would hope). There are enough 'issues' with both of them that it seems the logical thing to do. That said, maybe everything will change if we ever get a Java3 and things actually get deprecated(!!!)
PCs can run all three too, and in some cases easily.
And expensive Apple software does use serial numbers (I assume this what you meant as activation codes on Windows are one off use items generated when you install). The stuff that doesn't use serial numbers is given away free with new Macs anyway...
Thats a long time off. Windows2000 is supported until 2010. XP is likely support for another couple of years beyond that. Plenty of time for everyone to move to Ubuntu or OSX!:-)
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That's one definition of cloud computing - but another says that it doesn't always have to be outsourced hardware, e.g. it can quite easily be a bunch of stuff in your company computer halls.
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/07/yahoo-hadoop.html
Besides, Google's search engine doesn't run on MapReduce - they use MapReduce to build the indexes. The key with Google is the GFS...
Real geeks use FLOSS. Duh ;-)
You'd be surprised the number of people that buy USB floppy drives so they can carry on using the media they've got used to over the last 20 years...
But any limited storage media would do, as I suggested in my original post! Emailing, USB flash drive, printing it, etc..
Only if the consumer uses this much. If they only maintain a 1MB spreadsheet they can easily back that up to floppies, the web, hell - they could even print it !
Most consumers can't fill their 80GB drives of 4 years ago...
Why on Earth is this marked troll?
If the format is documented then it is a great archiving format. Any conversion from RAW to an RGB format is lossy, and there will be advances in conversion methods over time.
No, there is no guarantee that someone using and extending your GPL code will give anything back.
I am quite within my rights to extend a GPL program and keep that extended version closed so long as I don't give anyone a binary. Even if I did give someone else the binary, I don't have to give YOU (ie a third party) the source unless they also somehow get the binary.
Why would they need a cookie to track what you are doing? They can just monitor your connection directly as it flows through their network.
Yeah, Firefox works so well for all those other passwords / certificates, e.g. for SSH and PAM passwords.
I know the thread was on web security, but having multiple places to stash potentially the same information is just hassle.
Or you could just use Gnome Keyring
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Keyring
How on earth did this get modded troll?
Many of us in fairly respectable jobs are lucky to earn 100 UKP a day, and most of that ends up going in taxes (either directly or hidden taxes), on huge fuel prices (unleaded works out to about $9.20 per US gallon at the moment here).
www.dell.com
www.apple.com
Go price them up - you know how hard it is to hardlink to anything once specd up on these sites.
I bought Mac Pros for work (fully kitted out, just after the refresh) and they were significantly cheaper than the Dells, plus I can triple boot them. The key is it needs to be high end and fairly close to release - Apple generally don't reduce their prices much over time so the deals get less attractive.
To be fair, I read your post the same way - it was as if you were suggesting one should save money because the boss cares about expenditure more...
7 pass DoD... 35 pass Whitehouse... ;-)
There are plenty of good methods of deploying and updating applications on desktops these days. The distribution problem was definitely why web apps became popular. They stay popular because people think they can standardise on a single UI framework for everything, even where it doesn't fit.
As was 1.5 / 5.0 - it is only 6.0 that change from J2SE to Java SE
Lots of us (in enterprises at least) are realising (or rather, we are able to convince the project managers now) that webapps aren't the solution for everything, and that overall development time is often increased by the difficulties when developing in javascript / html.
Presumably they'll end up merging over time (one would hope). There are enough 'issues' with both of them that it seems the logical thing to do. That said, maybe everything will change if we ever get a Java3 and things actually get deprecated(!!!)
PCs can run all three too, and in some cases easily. And expensive Apple software does use serial numbers (I assume this what you meant as activation codes on Windows are one off use items generated when you install). The stuff that doesn't use serial numbers is given away free with new Macs anyway...
Too bad IBM don't think to support their version and configuration management tools on OSX.
So the huge numbers of iMacs and MacPros in all the Apple stores that I've visited are servers? I think not.
Actually no - they had 30 and 60 gig drives failing well before the 80gb shenanigans. We had dozens of them, and all replaces under warrantee.
Thats a long time off. Windows2000 is supported until 2010. XP is likely support for another couple of years beyond that. Plenty of time for everyone to move to Ubuntu or OSX! :-)