Roy, Devices would all have "limp home" procedures to run free of web for days. Imaging anything anytime and making it global nulls BB. Besides, the Cloud in some form or another has always been. Why do you think Heaven is up? Where do you think scenic god-rays in landscape photos come from? That's data emanating from BB. Otherwise we'd point downward to the data and call it the Inferno. And we'd like scenic satanic flare in our pictures. AZ Build a 120/35mm Lookaround! The Lookaround E-Book 5ed. NOW SHIPPING http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [SPAM] Re: data storage (again) > From: PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx > Date: Tue, August 04, 2009 10:38 am > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Some on Motley Fool have been pushing investments in companies that are > expected to run the cloud. > However I see the two problems with the cloud.One you have centralized > access to all info which Big Brother might make use of and two what happens > when your cloud fails, is offline or your access method goes down? You will > get no work down, not be able to work the toaster or have your state of the > art green home run efficiently. People using image programs like Photoshop > are going to have to have access to the fastest communication links possible > as a lot of manipulations are very intensive.The cloud is like any other > technology - a two edge sword. > > Roy > > > In a message dated 8/4/2009 10:04:14 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > Storage and software from the "cloud"; processing power will be > shared with other computers
