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mainframe -> minicomputer -> PC -> smartphonemainframe -> minicomputer -> PC -> smartphonePosted Jun 23, 2012 10:43 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: mainframe -> minicomputer -> PC -> smartphone by dlang Parent article: Why We're Fighting for an Open Cloud (Linux.com)
with 'old' solutions, you can run your application directly from the network, you can't do that with dropbox. You can, if you really wish. there's also the issue of simultaneous access. Well, this is price you need to pay if you want to work with WAN. CODA also had this problem and in the end was even worse: you kind-of had the ability to use any programs with it, but in reality if was recipe for disaster. IOW: "lost functionality" is not lost because people had no way to implement it, it just interfered with "hassle-free" principle of the cloud and this is why it was removed.
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mainframe -> minicomputer -> PC -> smartphone Posted Jun 23, 2012 20:16 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
and this is why I disagree that the cloud provides more functionality.
I would agree that it provides different functionality.
but "more functional" implies that you can still do the same things as you could do with the "less functional" system. If neither system can really do what the other system does, one isn't more or less functional than the other, they just have different functions. Under some conditions you will value one function over the other, and under other conditions the value of the functions will flip.
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