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""If my computer, or server, or laptop dies or really slows down, everything keeps working just fine because there are lots of other computers that remember wha
by rakkhi 16y ago
""If my computer, or server, or laptop dies or really slows down, everything keeps working just fine because there are lots of other computers that remember what the other lost and they start working as soon as I need them."
See that actually kind-of makes sense in a scenario like a desktop virtualization. When Microsoft talks about "to the cloud" with photo editing for example I wish they would just say online backup, why confuse people with to the cloud?
- adamwiggins 16y agoBecause it's not an online backup. The canonical version of the photo now lives on in a remote service, managed and maintained in perpetuity by someone else. The user's local computer has become just a cache. This a fundamental shift in how people use computers. I think it's reasonable to assign that shift a label, and that label has turned out to be "cloud." (No argument that the term is overhyped and overapplied.)