On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Dave Howe wrote:
> Jim Choate wrote:
> > On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Dave Howe wrote:
> > The scaling problem is a valid one up to a point. The others are not.
> > The biggest problem is people trying to do distributed computing using
> > non-distributed os'es (eg *nix clones and Microsloth).
> not as such, no. the vast majority of "free internet cloud" users couldn't
> care less about computer resources and/or distributed computing
They don't care....Yet!
see...
Smart Mobs: The next social revolution
H. Rheingold
ISBN 0-7386-0608-3
Leonardo's Laptop: Human needs and the computing technologies
B. Shneiderman
ISDN 0-262-19476-7
As to the other points you make, they are all addressible and are in fact
being implemented now using existing technology.
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