Cloud Computing: the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.
I'd been doing this since 1997 when I had my first T1 line backhauled from Digex to where I was working in Topeka, KS using my own servers set in Laurel, Maryland and custom configuring various FTP clients, and just love how people think this is something new.
[edit: Also this whole thread is amazing as well.]
[edit 2: Okay after actually reading the product description I am pretty convinced that the Meh copywriter composed it specifically to achieve maximum humor for people with that extension installed. Well played, Meh. Well played.]
We got like an inch of rain today. So there's that.
Clouds have a tendency to piss on people.. If only we knew they meant it.
Cloud Computing: the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.
I'd been doing this since 1997 when I had my first T1 line backhauled from Digex to where I was working in Topeka, KS using my own servers set in Laurel, Maryland and custom configuring various FTP clients, and just love how people think this is something new.
@Pavlov Butt Computing
@Pavlov Marketing people.
@Pavlov your geek is showing. Tuck that away when you are in public.
As a man who works in (or rather, ON) the cloud, it is a thing of absolute beauty.
When you're in the cloud it's called fog.
I know lets outsource all of our systems and desktops to a remote server!
What the data connection is down? Guess were out of business until it comes back up.....
I've seen The Cloud from both sides, now. From up and down and still somehow it's The Cloud's illusion I recall. I really don't know The Cloud at all.
It makes me feel yawny.
This poll is amazing with the Cloud to Butt extension enabled:
[edit: Also this whole thread is amazing as well.]
[edit 2: Okay after actually reading the product description I am pretty convinced that the Meh copywriter composed it specifically to achieve maximum humor for people with that extension installed. Well played, Meh. Well played.]
@The_Tim i think you're right. i can't stop laughing. i haven't laughed this much in a while. ow.
@The_Tim Do you keep all your digital music in your butt?
I felt dirty after reading about the cloud....or did I feel lile having a cigarette?
@TheDagda Depends... were you the clouder or the cloudee?
I haven't seen the sun in weeks.
It's great, except for every time something goes horribly wrong: Like that time Bitcasa gave people two weeks to migrate their multi-TB accounts (Terabytes, 1000 GB/Gigabytes), and was woefully underprepared for it).
ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY GLOW CLOUD.
ALL.
HAIL.