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Nice article on the death on mainstream computing

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Nice article on the death on mainstream computing
Well it's more about that in 5 years what we call mainstream computing will be radically different to what we call mainstream computing today.
I'll let you be the judge as to whether what he says is plausable or not.
And dsepite the title of the article, it has little to do with flash.

The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash
The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash - Charlie's Diary

And one comment on this article seems to think Jobs is most scared of his successor. He saw MS post Gates and he saw the years of Non-Steve Apple and both were bad. Do you think Jobs is scred when he leaves Apple will turn sour?
 
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very very good article, nice to see someone taking the long view
 
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Very nice article.
 
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I agree with a lot that is being said there. Especially when it comes to cloud computing. It actually works in my best interests as well since I'm a VMware Certified Professional (VCP) and quickly moving towards my VMware Certified Design Expert accreditation.

More and more processing resources are being thrown in the direction of virtualization. While desktop virtualization allows you to run Windows apps on OSX, Server virtualization allows companies to put tens, and sometimes a hundred or more, servers on one piece of hardware. There are layers upon layers of redundancy built into these systems to provide extremely high up times and greatly reduce cost. These systems even shut down entire host servers (and perhaps datacenters) when processing power is not needed. All this is good news for my personal future as a consultant.

But there is a downside. If you put your data into the cloud, you lose control of it. The FBI has already busted child pornographers that were stupid enough to store their data a cloud network. That's great for catching the bad guys but it also gives the bad guys one huge target to totally screw you, the end user, over.

I see the huge benefits in cloud computing on a business, governmental, and consumer level. However, you can say goodbye to your last thread of privacy when you join in. Facebook, Flickr, Google, and even Twitter are examples of cloud networks that store every shred of data that you dare give them. That data isn't going anywhere. It is just waiting to be used by you or abused by someone else.

Never has the future seemed so bright and yet so very scary..
 
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Nice article, thanks for sharing.
 

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