You forgot to mention, why would anyone store anything "extremely"
important on any computer media or in the cloud? That's why safe
deposit boxes were invented. Safe from almost anything except maybe a
nuclear blast. And even then...
Other stuff just really isn't that important for the average user. If
you really are going to need something while traveling and worried
about one service or the other being down, email it to yourself and
have multiple mailboxes set up on different servers. Mail it to all
your email boxes at once. I doubt they'd all go down at once.
I may or may not have the idea of the cloud down pat, but from what
I've gathered, it takes out a rather key aspect in safety, that would
be multiple duplication in separate systems.
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On Nov 20, 2009, at 10:25 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
mike escribió:
I get the feeling Betty is that farmer on the side of the road 100
years ago
ridiculing his neighbor for using a fancy tractor with one of those
engines
to plow his field instead of the tried and true mule or team of
horses.
Sure the next few years...decade...the horse was pretty reliable,
but it
didn't take long before that farmer was left behind still crowing
about how
bad those jalopies were.
I think back to teaching my great uncle the computer basics, a man
with
two doctorates, a world traveler, decorated officer in WW2,
composer...friend to several presidents. The computer was just
beyond
him...technology had grown from his grasp of the age he was born
in. Will
we be like that when our children or grand children are running
around with
the newest tech?
Hej sonny boy. Old folks in your great uncle's generation--and
older--invented computers.
I studied programming long before PCs. I've worked for companies via
the Internet and never met any other employees in person. My brother
and I built a mechanical computer as a school project [after the 5
foot slide rule was done]. There are sensible uses for technology,
fun things to do, expensive business applications, and pie-in-the-
sky geek fantasies.
It makes sense to use redundant remote storage for business. It's
overkill for an individual to store all personal files remotely.
It's also stupid. Why? The Internet isn't everywhere, so your files
are locked away in the "cloud" until you can get them. I store
duplicates of important files on the Internet for when we're
traveling. Most of the time I can't access them from our remote
locations, so I have to carry cryptic info with me.
Put your imagination to work on something more useful. Why not write
some viruses? That's a fun hobby.
Betty
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