Incomplete Posted April 10, 2008 Report Posted April 10, 2008 This will probably happen, I got a bad feeling about it though.
»Lynx Posted April 10, 2008 Author Report Posted April 10, 2008 What's the bad feeling? I can't see anything too bad which can't be reversed coming from this.
Incomplete Posted April 10, 2008 Report Posted April 10, 2008 A bad feeling because there is no privacy whatsoever. You probably wont be able to download anything and would have to pay for everything that you do download. Songs, software, movies etc...
»Lynx Posted April 10, 2008 Author Report Posted April 10, 2008 Yeah, but I presume that people won't be putting their whole lives on-line, just things which they might not want to take on their USB disks like their songs, movies, applications etc.
Incomplete Posted April 10, 2008 Report Posted April 10, 2008 Well eventually what will probably happen is everything would be server based. As in no one would have a desktop at home. All they would have would be a monitor, mouse and keyboard. They would connect to a server which has all of their saved do!@#$%^&*ents, settings, files etc. I know of a certain company that is trying to install such a system but i'm not really allowed to say what one. There are a few problems that I see with this kind of system though. One being the lack of privacy, you can't be absolutely sure if anyone else is able to see what do!@#$%^&*ents and settings you have saved on your profile. Also, upgrading would be expensive and definatly not easy, say we had such a system now and in 5 years time a nbew game comes out that requires a meaty graphics card, how would it work then? You would probably have to pay for everything you have on your profile, such as software, music, movies, games. Pretty much whatever you can think of. The memory that would be required would be stupidly big. I'm not sure if they are going to be able to pull this one off or not. I don't see how it can work.
ThunderJam Posted April 10, 2008 Report Posted April 10, 2008 Well eventually what will probably happen is everything would be server based. As in no one would have a desktop at home. All they would have would be a monitor, mouse and keyboard. They would connect to a server which has all of their saved do!@#$%^&*ents, settings, files etc. I know of a certain company that is trying to install such a system but i'm not really allowed to say what one. There are a few problems that I see with this kind of system though. One being the lack of privacy, you can't be absolutely sure if anyone else is able to see what do!@#$%^&*ents and settings you have saved on your profile.The government already does this to some extent. Mainly cuz at gov locations you dont have a right for your work to be private.. so yea
rootbear75 Posted April 10, 2008 Report Posted April 10, 2008 security? am i the only one concerned about security?
»Lynx Posted April 10, 2008 Author Report Posted April 10, 2008 Well eventually what will probably happen is everything would be server based. As in no one would have a desktop at home. All they would have would be a monitor, mouse and keyboard. They would connect to a server which has all of their saved do!@#$%^&*ents, settings, files etc. I know of a certain company that is trying to install such a system but i'm not really allowed to say what one. I really doubt they will ever make home storage obsolete, and I know that they will never make it so computers which aren't connected to the internet obsolete. I believe that having information stored on the internet is a step forward, and that privacy isn't very hard to tackle. With tunnelling and encryption through trusted services, I really doubt there will be many problems. I'm sure that companies and employers will expect their employees to make sure that all private information is stored outside of the internet, just for security from hackers.  For personal use though, I don't think that there will be much at all to worry about. You have to think about what the hacker is going to get out of taking your private information. If they are going to be able to hack into things which are secured by professionals who know what they're doing, I think it's easy enough to say that they could easily get access to the private information on your computer anyway.  All I'm saying is that this seems like a very good idea, if my applications, movies, music and files (that aren't too private) can be accessed from any computer, then I'm all for it, provided that there is significant security precautions taken. If I'm asked to purchase a computer which will only run server-side, I'll say no, I think that if Microsoft makes Win7 completely server-side, they are going to be committing marketing suicide, and that goes the same for all the popular OS's. Thankfully, from what previews of Win7 I've seen already, it looks like a good OS (Yes, Microsoft appears to have made a good OS) - with a good foundation and good ideas behind it. I think that server based will only go as far as applications - RIAs and such. gOS seems to be the first Linux distro to go down that route, we will see how long it takes for other OS's to support RIAs more.
Smong Posted April 11, 2008 Report Posted April 11, 2008 I think the author/editor of the article has liberally applied their artistic license to the facts. This seems fair enough for a newspaper, where their business relies on people reading it, so they have to make it interesting. There may be a future for online applications, such as google docs, adobe photoshop/premiere, media convertors. However online applications and the grid are not necessarily the same thing. One downside of online apps is the service provider is free to change the app for better or for worse (like remove some obscure feature used by power users) and they can also discontinue the service for copyright reasons, unprofitable, etc. Actually that reminds me of the incident with flickr where someone didn't know that their settings were marking uploaded images as "reusable" or whatever they call it and were surprised to find it used on billboards.
»Lynx Posted April 11, 2008 Author Report Posted April 11, 2008 I've been looking at the pros and cons of RIAs a lot lately, and I must admit that they only really draw a relatively small audience - if we look at the larger scale of things. I also agree, I think the author has over dramaticised this article a lot, considering it won't affect the average Joe user for many years to come.
Drake7707 Posted April 13, 2008 Report Posted April 13, 2008 I'll never use the internet as a primary storage place. Think of all the problems you get when you're have to work on something and your internet connection is down :/. It's ok as a backup (for non-sensitive data)
candygirl Posted April 13, 2008 Report Posted April 13, 2008 you dont have to use it if you dont want to.
»Lynx Posted April 13, 2008 Author Report Posted April 13, 2008 Also, if it does go public, think about how much online gaming can progess.
Smong Posted April 14, 2008 Report Posted April 14, 2008 If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail eh?
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