*Charges and smashes into you with his huuuge 386 laptop*
Re:This is what I want in a future OS
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IMHO:
"Imagine a future where you could (securely) get to "your" computer, from any location on the whole planet."
You can do that now, with tools like VNC etc.
"Imagine a future where you never have to worry about hardware failures, or backups."
I personally am less worried about what I have stored and backed up in my home, than I am about that which resides on some remote server of some company that could totally reorganize any minute, or decide I've disobeyed the TOS somehow and decide to just delete it all.
"... if your webserver gets slashdotted, your VM merely takes more time on a hosted cluster and you pay usage."
Conventional hosts allready charge the bejesus out of you if you use more bandwidth than you guessed. My preferred behaviour would be to stop traffic until the demand had reduced to something I could afford.
It's "your" VM, so if you don't like your hosting provider, you switch to another at any time.
If it were mine, companies could still be awkward as anything if I wanted to switch - "administrative" charges, advanced notifications, massive downtimes, interpreting my calls to ask what's happening as vocal cancellation of the switch, etc. That is if any company would ever grant ownership rather than just lease it to me.
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I feel this is a way for them to make brand new games less attractive.
*Charges and smashes into you with his huuuge 386 laptop*
IMHO:
"Imagine a future where you could (securely) get to "your" computer, from any location on the whole planet."
You can do that now, with tools like VNC etc.
"Imagine a future where you never have to worry about hardware failures, or backups."
I personally am less worried about what I have stored and backed up in my home, than I am about that which resides on some remote server of some company that could totally reorganize any minute, or decide I've disobeyed the TOS somehow and decide to just delete it all.
"... if your webserver gets slashdotted, your VM merely takes more time on a hosted cluster and you pay usage."
Conventional hosts allready charge the bejesus out of you if you use more bandwidth than you guessed. My preferred behaviour would be to stop traffic until the demand had reduced to something I could afford.
It's "your" VM, so if you don't like your hosting provider, you switch to another at any time.
If it were mine, companies could still be awkward as anything if I wanted to switch - "administrative" charges, advanced notifications, massive downtimes, interpreting my calls to ask what's happening as vocal cancellation of the switch, etc. That is if any company would ever grant ownership rather than just lease it to me.
The future seems to be here already.