Irony

[ng_nighthawk]

If only I was independently wealthy, I'd turn some of my ideas into great money-making opportunities. But of course without that safety net the risk is just too great. Especially as some of my ideas are pretty much crap, but I don't know that until I reflect on them years later

Comments

[dr_tectonic]

I would say there are two main attractions to cloud computing: ubiquity and zero-investment setup.

I could put all my photos on a backup hard-drive in my closet. But if I use Flickr, I can easily upload photos while traveling, I don't have to buy the storage space, and setup consists of picking a username.

A home network has none of these attributes, so what it's really competing with is not the cloud, but the other computers/devices in your house. The question is, how does the home network approach compare with just doing the task using your desktop or your Xbox or an external HD?

[ng_nighthawk]

Er, I tried to reply but it didn't post it as a reply?

[ng_nighthawk]

Hmmm... I suppose the idea was to offload tasks that required no visual interface from your main system through the use of terribly cheap hardware. So your computers that render images and have effective user interfaces can focus on doing that, and not be drained by background processes that aren't directly related to giving you UI and display/audio.

Which then begs the question: do those tasks exist for the average home user and what are they?

The question you're asking is, would those processes really be significant drains on your display systems? That's a good question....

[dr_tectonic]

I think those tasks mostly don't exist, or that if they do, it's okay for them to take over the device.