Google's Rumored GDrive May 'Kill' the PC
The Google drive would shift away from Microsoft Window's operating system, in favor of "cloud computing," where storage and processing is done in data centers. Users would no longer have to rely on their computers' powerful hard drives.
Yeah - right. And users will no longer have control of their personal data, either - Big Google-Brother will have complete control of all data. Sheesh - and liberals were SCREAMING about intercept of terrorist cell phone calls as "trampling of personal rights". You'll not hear a peep from those hypocrites about this.
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No Jimbo, you won't hear a peep from liberals, not while Algore is a major stock holder in Googgle! Even the govt. wouldn't pull this.
Why would a keyboard, mouse, monitor, motherboard, power supply, peripherals, CPU, case, network card, etc suddenly become considered software? That makes no sense at all. If anything, Google is taking over the software aspect of your computer making the computer all hardware and no software on the user end. Does Fox News have editors?
This is hype, pure and simple. In fact, there are already services like this. It's simply a service that would back-up your onboard HDD every time your shut down your system. I wonder how slow that will get when a million people attempt to log off at once at 5:00 o'clock on Friday?
Missy,
what they DON"T say, is that your computer will STILL have to include a HDD so it will start up and run, to connect to your distant data. Operating systems for PCs are just too big now, to be put on a chip to eliminate that current HDD.
The best news about computing, is that Toshiba and several others had 1TB and 2TB thumb drives for viewing at the Consumer Electronics Show recently. Right now, they cost THOUSANDS of $$$, but a few years ago a 42", LCD, HDTV was THOUSANDS of $$$ too. There is actually a much bigger market for the high capacity thumb drives than there is for the TVs. That will drive the price down much quicker.
IF a Terabyte doesn't mean anything to you, a 1TB drive will store
- 424 two-hour DVD-quality movies or
- 1500 hours of VHS-quality video or
- 880 days of around-the-clock MP3 audio or
- 372,500 vivid digital photos
Personally I can't wait for the thumb drives to happen. As diligent as I am about backing up our data here at the home network, I recently had a major casualty. My file server HDD went south. $1400 later, I have 90% of my data back.
Try Carbonite.
Carbonite?
How bout Diet Dr. Pepper?
trinoacetol
Damn...computers? I thought they were killing the "politically correct." Wishful thinking.
Carbonite is a really good back-up service. They'll hold everything from your computer unless you choose not to save something. It's about $50. a year.
Carbonite--when you really need to preserve your Corellian pilots.
Hutt-recommended!
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