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Cloud?  Nah, just Client/Server like the old days...

I have been using Cloud Computing for YEARS.  My first computer was a dumb terminal that talked to a mainframe via an acoustic coupler.  Without the coupler it was capable of NOTHING useful.  So the "cloud" marketing sillyness lately has mostly just made me laugh.  My computer needs to have its own data and computing power, not someone else computer elsewhere, just so they can sell my info (looking at you Google) and save me what?  Anyway, today I was gratified to see that I am not the only one who thinks "cloud computing" is just silly.

From PC Magazine, this was written by John Dvorak:   "I have never been all-in with the cloud. I want my processing power to be local, preferably right in front of me. People were trying to get away from central control for decades when the first personal computers appeared in 1975. These were wimp machines by today's standards and off-board storage was a cassette deck. Now we have incredible processing power and you can get a high-speed 4 Terabyte hard disk for $180 at Costco. Yet people are returning to the big mamma in the sky, accepting a client-server relationship that was a consistent flop decades ago. That is, until the Internet began to dumb down the majority of users.  With Linux never catching on and the rise of the cloud-centric operating systems alongside the weak phone/tablet OS taking over, everyone is back where they started: pre-1975. Centralized control wins out. I guess that is what the public wanted all along and the "personal" computer movement was actually a fad. Who knew? "

(link: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2419744,00.asp)