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   Have you ever...

   

   Anonymous Coward, Mar 13th, 2003 @ 9:11pm

   
   

   ...given up control of critical computing assets
   to a group of dimwits with a mono-agenda of
   distributed/grid computing?
   
   Well, if you haven't then I suggest you do and
   the come back to report what life was like 6
   months after "transition". Only if you're very
   lucky, you'll still have your job and your users
   won't have lynched you on the company flag pole.
   
   My rule of thumb on this issue is "if they can't
   fit it in a screen saver, screw'em".

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   Nonsense!

   

   machineman, Mar 14th, 2003 @ 1:05am

   
   

   This is just a trendy argument that comes around again and again - and always dies off. It happened to the network computer it will happen to grid computing 9except for very specialised apps). The bottom line which you will never change is that people like to have their own machine with their own resources. Computation is not like electricity (a module that is often given by the grid people), you cant just plugin and compute - you need a substantial amount of compute power just to plugin, enough to do most people's word processing easily.
   
   I want control over my personal stuff not someone else. We would all live in hotels if we did what they wanted in day to day life

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