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In Reply to: RE: Having read some of the other responses.... posted by AbeCollins on April 25, 2012 at 09:43:47
compared to other countries.....
USA has some of the worst Internet and cell phone access going....
And with the way we embrace monopolies here, it's not going to get better. The cloud is not a viable solution, and it doesn't look like it ever will be, at least in the USA.
I am watching companies that tout this, and steering clear...
"In this land right now, some are insane and they're in charge. To hell with poverty, we'll get drunk on cheap wine."
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the reasons and motives for offering free storage of any kind, and why do computer users go for it?
Worth discussing.
front loading....
When they build a nuclear power plant, the contractor/salesman is long gone, gotten paid, and has flown far away. He cares not that the welds are not done to spec.
That leaves room to charge a ton of money when the hard drives get close to being full. They don't ever tell people that their connection is too slow to access anything. "Well, - we offer this 'second-tier' service that everyone is moving too, it's only $49 more per month."
"In this land right now, some are insane and they're in charge. To hell with poverty, we'll get drunk on cheap wine."
Surely inmates know this and do not pay up for the costly service. No?
f.b.n. fly by night.
"The cloud is not a viable solution, and it doesn't look like it ever will be, at least in the USA."
Please define "cloud" before you say "it" is not a viable solution. ;-)
The general public has no idea what "the cloud" is. In fact, many businesses are still defining "the cloud". There are public and private clouds, web based cloud services, Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Managed Service, Service Commerce, etc. etc.
My best explanation, - in lieu of too much elucidation, - is any website, or hosting site that you have to pay a 3rd party ISP to get to.
If someone like "Unwired.com" gives you some hard drive space at their facility on their line-of-sight link, - then woo-hoo. But something like Unwired.com isn't cheap; and therefore not viable.
In this case, - me saying the cloud, - is anything beyond the standard, 600ft of CAT5 or wireless connectivity on your own router.
One cannot get effective internet access that makes music "usable" outside your home, and it's not going to improve: IMO.
"In this land right now, some are insane and they're in charge. To hell with poverty, we'll get drunk on cheap wine."
My entire library is available, via lossy format, on any iDevice at any time. Skiing in western CO. Beaching in the Carribean. Business in Vermont. Moving a child from NJ to CT.
To say the cloud isn't quite 'there' is nonsense.
--eNjoY YouRseLf!.....
You're committing the same error of assumption...
"In this land right now, some are insane and they're in charge. To hell with poverty, we'll get drunk on cheap wine."
Apples fee-based Music Match service is not syncing, it's using cloud services.
--eNjoY YouRseLf!.....
Cool....
I am not quite in Tony's boat. But, I have a giant database that is too big for icloud, and I don't want to use lossy formats.
Glad that it's working for you.
Cheers,
"In this land right now, some are insane and they're in charge. To hell with poverty, we'll get drunk on cheap wine."
For some of us, lossy format is unacceptable. I'd rather listen to silence.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
In a car? On a plane? Skiing downhill? You're such a pompous ass. Music lover? I doubt it.
--eNjoY YouRseLf!.....
There's no shortage of them in this forum.
Always quick to shit on someone aren't you?
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2137152/Lonely-life-techno-addict-thousands-48-hours-speaking-human.html
Yeah, you're a real specimen.
And you're the same low end stroker.
IT and technology guys are way out of their depth when it comes to reality, risk, and probity.
In Britain, idiots like political advisers to key ministers are still being described openly in emails by News Corp staff as providing sensitive information illegally! These young turks never learn.
"In a car? On a plane? Skiing downhill? You're such a pompous ass. Music lover? I doubt it."
What kind of music are you talking about? Music that is designed to be enjoyed by idiots so that there will be a mass market?
When I drive a car, fly a plane or ski I don't listen to music. These activities require one's full attention for safety. Also, one must be able to hear outside noises, which makes it necessary to play decent music (which has dynamics) at such high volume as to be dangerous to one's hearing. If one has noise cancelling headphones then it is possible to enjoy music as an airline passenger. However, I do this as infrequently as possible as I don't like to be treated like cattle and irradiated and molested at the security theater checkpoints.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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