And that's why you have several backup solutions available for the
data you just absolutely can't loose. I recommend a DVD and/or flash
drive you store in a fire-proof box. You can get these at most office
supply places and for not much money. I've not tested it, but my
understanding is and the manufacturer says it'll work. grin
On Jul 25, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Yup, and it assumes that wherever you park that data will keep it
up. Yahoo Music users learned about that the hard way
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080724-drm-still-sucks-yahoo-music-going-dark-taking-keys-with-it.html
and they even had copies of their files locally. I suspect it will
be another thing you have to pay for. Apple certainly would keep
storing your files as long as you keep paying them. The Internet
itself is very robust as it was designed to route around dead or
congested areas as part of its military design. For internet itself
to go down every one of the jillions of connections and routers
would all have to go out at the same time. Servers/services are not
quite that robust but Akami and its ilk are getting close.
CB
James Austin wrote:
Thanks for the clarification Chris,
But surely all of this assumes that the internet is forever and is
constant. What if, one day, the whole WWW was suddenly to
disappear, clients like these would be obsolete immediately. At
least until the internet could be brought back up.
Just my thoughts
With warmest wishes
James
On 24 Jul 2008, at 22:29, Chris Blouch wrote:
Not sure if this is what he is referring to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
but the general idea is to have thinner clients with less storage
and instead beef up the communications so we can keep all our
stuff "on the internet" somewhere. Sort of what mobileMe is
starting to do. It eliminates the need to sync different devices,
backup files or having collections of bits in different piles. The
idea has been around for a while but the internet infrastructure
was initially too slow to be usable and then it wasn't wireless.
We're right on the edge of a new thing with fast wireless. Do I
really care if my files are not on my device as long as I can get
to them anytime from anywhere? This is what's pushing new devices
like the cherry pal.
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/07/22/1735222.shtml
Extending that you could have a dumb box with no OS or apps or
documents and store all that in the cloud. The box would have just
enough software to get its network up and download everything. No
more getting updates and installing them since it would always
have the latest version when it downloads the bootup code. Novell
used to do something like this back in the day with diskless PCs
and special network cards.
CB
UCLA Bruins Fan wrote:
Who exactly is this Scott guy anyways? Why should we be concerned
about his speculations?
Just curious; he just seems like a blogger to me. What is all
this cloud business he's talking about?
Olivia
On Jul 24, 2008, at 7:18 AM, James Austin wrote:
Hi folks,
How do I leave a comment on this article? Sorry for asking what
is probably a really obvious question, but I have not yet found
where this is. Although I have read the comments that were make
by some on this list.
Is there any way we could get in touch with Apple directly to
pass along our concerns. I mean it is very likely that Apple
have people who search for Apple related publicity and such on
the web, but it is also just as likely that they miss a lot as
the internet is such as vast place.
Just my thoughts
Thank you
With warmest wishes
James
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Skype - saulky1984
On 24 Jul 2008, at 05:11, Janet and Felix * wrote:
I read your comments. Very well spoken. Scott didn't have
much of a comment back though. I thought he was just
patronizing. But the seed is planted. The idea was put out
there.
Janet
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To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: what do you think?
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:58:05 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I sure hope it doesn't go backwards. Apple is just getting good!
On Jul 23, 2008, at 7:34 PM, Mike's Western Account wrote:
i did as well. and this does have something to do with vo,
what do
you all think will happen with vo?
On Jul 23, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Tiffany D wrote:
I made a reply over there stating that I'd found the post
here and
expressing my concerns. This is definitely something that
we all
need
to watch very closely. It doesn't sound good at all, and I,
for one,
would hate to see Apple go backward, especially considering
how far
they've come with relation to accessibility.
On 7/23/08, Mike's Western Account wrote:
so this makes someone wonder what will happen to vo, If
this is the
direction that apple goes It makes you think for sure that
if this
is
where it goes and apple does choose to keep voiceover
included, then
there would be access to the iphone. Anyways just
speckulation, but
check it out:
http://weblogs.redeyechicago.com/iphoneblog/2008/07/its-the-cloud-s.html
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