Cloud computing is just like using natural rainfall to irrigate your fields when they need water. If there are no clouds over your head, you are out of luck! Cloud computing does not work with dial-up, and it does not work well at all with satellite internet systems (DSL) either. They tell you it works great, but you cannot stream much without getting extreme buffering. They also have a download limit that you will reach very quickly, and after that you will pay through the nose for their lousy service. They are not interested in good service as much as they are interested in high profits with as little service as possible.
I live in a very rural country in southwest Washington. High speed internet, the type that is fast enough to stream movies, has been available 2 blocks away from me for the last 5 years or more, but when I asked the provider (Comcast) if they would push their cables into my neighborhood, they said that it would be way to expensive. They also stated that the main emphasis of their business is not providing maximum speeds, or connections, for internet use, as much as it is, again, for the making of profit. There are not enough residences in my neighborhood, they say, to make them consider ever going into my neighborhood.
The local phone company feels the same way. They also will not install fiber optic cable to your residence unless there are a lot of houses to connect up and charge.
I just read the wiki on cloud computing, and they didn't even mention the slow speeds and high costs for such terrible service.
Efficient capitalism has always been a far right wing agenda, but does it need to be so profit oriented that its cost isn't affordable by all Americans?
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