Comments on: Amazon and its cloud computing outage: Next time it rains, will it pour? http://www.teleread.org/2008/07/21/amazon-and-and-cloud-computing-outage-next-time-it-rains-will-it-pour/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:38:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: pond http://www.teleread.org/2008/07/21/amazon-and-and-cloud-computing-outage-next-time-it-rains-will-it-pour/comment-page-1/#comment-856239 pond Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:48:52 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/07/21/amazon-and-and-cloud-computing-outage-next-time-it-rains-will-it-pour/#comment-856239 Yes, for any household with 3+ computer users, the server and clients is the way to go. As for the power savings, we have to remember that monitors burns watts, too. And the 'cloud' is a problem for government control, indeed. The US government is already snooping on an incredible amount of world internet traffic, thanks to the way so much traffic is routed through the US. It looks like a race between Big Brother spying and rolling blackouts and loadshedding to see which will sink Web 3.0 first. It's too bad. The future was nice while it lasted, eh? But where's my jet pack? And my flying car? And my cheap ebook reader? Yes, for any household with 3+ computer users, the server and clients is the way to go.

As for the power savings, we have to remember that monitors burns watts, too.

And the ‘cloud’ is a problem for government control, indeed. The US government is already snooping on an incredible amount of world internet traffic, thanks to the way so much traffic is routed through the US. It looks like a race between Big Brother spying and rolling blackouts and loadshedding to see which will sink Web 3.0 first.

It’s too bad. The future was nice while it lasted, eh?

But where’s my jet pack? And my flying car? And my cheap ebook reader?

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.org/2008/07/21/amazon-and-and-cloud-computing-outage-next-time-it-rains-will-it-pour/comment-page-1/#comment-856152 David Rothman Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:14:38 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/07/21/amazon-and-and-cloud-computing-outage-next-time-it-rains-will-it-pour/#comment-856152 Brian, what a great idea. I hope you'll update us on how that approach with your kids works out. Might be a nice little TeleBlog post. A little off-topic but still of interest. Thanks. David Brian, what a great idea. I hope you’ll update us on how that approach with your kids works out. Might be a nice little TeleBlog post. A little off-topic but still of interest. Thanks. David

]]> By: Brian Carnell http://www.teleread.org/2008/07/21/amazon-and-and-cloud-computing-outage-next-time-it-rains-will-it-pour/comment-page-1/#comment-856114 Brian Carnell Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:30:59 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/07/21/amazon-and-and-cloud-computing-outage-next-time-it-rains-will-it-pour/#comment-856114 "Power consumption is just two watts, perhaps 1/50th of the usual desktops. Environmentally, then, in terms of reducing local CPU and storage requirements, cloud computing has its definite pros. But what if someday Washington uses cloud computing’s centralized nature to assert yet more power over citizens?" Ugh. What people need is to put a server in the basement (which is cheap to do these days) and then use these cheap computers as clients. That's what I'm doing with my kids...getting them each one of those shuttle kpc desktops with Linux...Internet+local fire server FTW. “Power consumption is just two watts, perhaps 1/50th of the usual desktops. Environmentally, then, in terms of reducing local CPU and storage requirements, cloud computing has its definite pros. But what if someday Washington uses cloud computing’s centralized nature to assert yet more power over citizens?”

Ugh. What people need is to put a server in the basement (which is cheap to do these days) and then use these cheap computers as clients. That’s what I’m doing with my kids…getting them each one of those shuttle kpc desktops with Linux…Internet+local fire server FTW.

]]> By: Mike Cane http://www.teleread.org/2008/07/21/amazon-and-and-cloud-computing-outage-next-time-it-rains-will-it-pour/comment-page-1/#comment-856113 Mike Cane Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:30:22 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/07/21/amazon-and-and-cloud-computing-outage-next-time-it-rains-will-it-pour/#comment-856113 FYI: The free WordPress.com service uses amazon S3 to store all the multimedia files (audio, video, JPEGs) people put in their blogs. My blog was without JPEGs for most the day while S3 was down. Some blogs are *nothing but* photos. Some by pro photogs who use them as online portfolios to show clients! FYI: The free WordPress.com service uses amazon S3 to store all the multimedia files (audio, video, JPEGs) people put in their blogs. My blog was without JPEGs for most the day while S3 was down. Some blogs are *nothing but* photos. Some by pro photogs who use them as online portfolios to show clients!

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