[Newsbot]

Title: How cloud computing will change everything
Category: Tech
Posted By: Strutz
Date: 2012-02-14 21:58:02
Canadian

[Smacle]

Ever heard of steam? It's a gaming platform exactly like this which has been around for years... I got it in like 2003. The game Half Life's mod Counter-Strike was the first game I played on it.

[DrCaleb]

Smacle Smacle:

Ever heard of steam? It's a gaming platform exactly like this which has been around for years...

Similar - but not quite 'cloud' computing. Steam is a centralized download facility, like iTunes or Spotify. But what the clueless reporter is trying to get by is the nature of the cloud.

For example, on your PC might be Microsoft Office, and all your Office files. If you lose your computer (fire/theft) and your useless BOFH forgot to run backups for the last 6 months - you are screwed.

If Office and your Files were 'in the cloud' that your company created, then it would be backed up on multiple server in many locations. All you would need is another computer, and you are back in business just as if nothing happened.'

It's not just about storage, it'a also about applications being cloud based. I've been taking a lot of courses on it, and frankly it reminds me of the good old mainframe days, just clouds are more expensive.

[hucat]

Well, a new idea is to offload part of the mobile phone's process to the cloud server and it can speed up your mobile application by 20 folds and save 90% power

[DrCaleb]

hucat hucat:

Well, a new idea is to offload part of the mobile phone's process to the cloud server and it can speed up your mobile application by 20 folds and save 90% power

Like the iPhone in general, that is just another way to charge you through the nose for a service you didn't need anyhow.

My phone makes phone calls. My computer runs applications. If I wanted my computer to have a 3" screen, I would still be running Netware on an amber CRT.

[andyt]

But you can watch TV on your phone - how cool is that?

[DrCaleb]

andyt andyt:

But you can watch TV on your phone - how cool is that?

Absolutely! I'm going to run to Futureshop and see if they have any 4" TV's that cost $5 per hour to watch a show on!