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Stupid title, good (old) point. I think solving this issue could/should/will be done by whatever ends up really nailing item 18 of Paul Graham's "Startup Ideas

by davi 18y ago

Stupid title, good (old) point. I think solving this issue could/should/will be done by whatever ends up really nailing item 18 of Paul Graham's "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund" (http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html): "18. The WebOS. It probably won't be a literal translation of a client OS shifted to servers. But as applications migrate to servers, it seems possible there will be something that plays a central role like an OS does. We've already funded several startups that could be candidates. But this is a big prize, and there will probably be multiple winners." I'm imagining something (begin hand-waving) like a VM image hosting service that lets you take your VM from hosting site to hosting site; which knows about your friends' VM images; and which is to VM images as ZumoDrive is to FUSE fileystems.

jwilliams 18y ago
Yup - very old - so it doesn't really do much more than rant. This article also completely glosses over the fact that most people don't keep their data backed up, or in a secure place (even people that know better). It doesn't even consider that fact that... if you could accept that not all people offering cloud services are incompetent/misguided/evil... Cloud services have the potential to help people (!).
ntoshev 18y ago
No, there is no problem here. Consumers don't backup because it's messy. The could takes away the messiness: backups (and all the other sysadmin stuff) happen automatically. It is an improvement over the current situation. There is a similar case with businesses: businesses do backup because they have to, but it is still messy. Businesses like to outsource messy stuff that is not core to what they do to others, and these others are in the cloud again because it is cost effective. So you may use Google Apps and back up your mail on Amazon S3 if you are that paranoid about losing your data.

by davi 18y ago

jwilliams 18y ago

Yup - very old - so it doesn't really do much more than rant. This article also completely glosses over the fact that most people don't keep their data backed up, or in a secure place (even people that know better). It doesn't even consider that fact that... if you could accept that not all people offering cloud services are incompetent/misguided/evil... Cloud services have the potential to help people (!).

ntoshev 18y ago

No, there is no problem here. Consumers don't backup because it's messy. The could takes away the messiness: backups (and all the other sysadmin stuff) happen automatically. It is an improvement over the current situation. There is a similar case with businesses: businesses do backup because they have to, but it is still messy. Businesses like to outsource messy stuff that is not core to what they do to others, and these others are in the cloud again because it is cost effective. So you may use Google Apps and back up your mail on Amazon S3 if you are that paranoid about losing your data.