Dead boffins deflate the cloud

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Anonymous Coward

Nice idea #

Posted Thursday 6th November 2008 23:24 GMT

Should have run it past Verity Stob.

Anonymous Coward

Title required. #

Posted Friday 7th November 2008 10:57 GMT

I want some of what the author is having.

Bill Cumming

Watson might end up correct... #

Posted Friday 7th November 2008 10:57 GMT

Think about it!

You've got Apple Cloud (when its working)

Then there's Microsoft's Cloud

Then there's Google's Cloud

Then Nokia's OVI might end up as a Cloud network.

Even Shuttleworth's Ubuntu might get on the Cloud Bandwaggon.

Every person in the world using 5 Massive computers to do all their day to day work using NetBooks or NetTerminals.

The Personal PC's cutting / bleeding edge will drift back to the enthusiasts and gamers.

jake

::sighs:: #

Posted Friday 7th November 2008 10:57 GMT

I didn't personally know Tom Watson (although I worked at the Lab named after him).

I wasn't yet born when Alan Turing sadly took his own life, but I've studied his work.

But I knew Prof. Edsger at Austin. I attended Tuesday Afternoon Clubs with him presiding, when I could make it. I have a wet-ink EWD framed in a prominent place in my house, next to my nano-second.

Prof. E. would have told you your paper was poorly thought out, in excruciating detail.

I'll leave it there, I don't expect this to make it past the moderator ... but I hope it does.

Anonymous Coward

Other debates #

Posted Friday 7th November 2008 10:57 GMT

That was pretty amusing, and an interesting debate. How about other discussions such as how to clean up Afghanistan with Joseph Stalin (the loving touch of Stalinist Russia), Queen Victoria (how the British Empire would deal with it) and John Lennon (for a pacifists approach)?

Rafael