Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for September 06, 2012

Ugh! spoken like a true drone. The “cloud” (aka the internet for the most part) has it’s place and is a good thing. Everyone jumping on the great marketing campaign that is “cloud computing” drives me nuts. "Lets all take what we used to buy once and control and secure ourselves and put it out on someone elses hardware, let them hire people that we may or may not trust to secure it and then pay them every month FOREVER for the right to access our OWN STUFF. Oh, and if there’s a payment dispute? Forget it, pay them what they want or your stuff now is unavailable to you anymore. OH, and if your internet connection goes down? yeah, “stuff” no longer available.

ARAAAGGHHHH! The cloud is not a miracle people! It’s a marketing campaign to try and put the cell phone model in place for everything you use on a computer!

and before all of that, there was Pong.connected to the console by wire. 4 exciting variations of the same game. low res, white on black screen. the bare minimum sounds. the only thing you controlled was the vertical movement of the curser to return the ‘ball’pretty archaic stuff, for sure ……but when if first came out in the seventies, it was huge.HUGE

Nowadays I prefer console games to PC games, partly because I spend all workday at a PC and partly because consoles have fewer bugs and compatibility issues.

When are they getting their dog?

And you don’t want to get stumped!

What? A sunspot? You do know it’s not an actual cloud right?

Sorry the cloud is the best way for most of this. Most of you are speaking about present day technology vs where it’s headed. Owning the physical game? That;s absurd. Outages? My internet is much better than my cell phone.

The “cloud?” Boy am I out of my element.

Big-a Bros. are-a ALWAYS watching a-you!

The cloud is NOT new. It was “around” in the 80’s, and 90’s with giant server rooms in buildings.

Up grade to an Network Area Server with internet capabilities.That’s a box that connects to your modem, with 2+ TB memory. Currently start at @ $150, with prices falling as memory gets cheaper.Store all your goodies on it, as well as on your desktop.Access all your goodies through the cloud with your tablet or netbook when away from home.You still own everything, still have the game media, and can always access them from your desktop or other devices at home, even if the cloud crashes.And it serves as a backup if your desktop crashes.