Panel Discussion - Death of the Desktop @ COSSFest 2010

The final topic of COSSFest, was a free-for-all as to whether cloud computing would herald the "Death of the Desktop". Comfy chairs and beer helped facilitate the casual conversation and occasional raised voices.

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Science & Technology

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• 2010
• COSSFest
• Panel
• Discussion
• Death
• of
• the
• Desktop
• cloud
• computing

[bit4man]

Very badly edited .... great content!

[gordonmcdowell]

@bit4man What did I do wrong?

[bit4man]

@gordonmcdowell There's a lot of short-cuts that interrupts the flow. Clearly you tried to make it shorter by cutting out "the fluff" but the result is very shaky and it looks like you're trying to manipulate the content. Almost like cutting individual words together from someone to make them say something they did not want to say.

Listening to the video is great though. It's the visual side that makes me a bit dizzy.

[gordonmcdowell]

@bit4man OK, thanks for the feedback. Yes, I'm usually focused on the audio and just editing video to make the audio editing as tight as possible... I should probably back off a bit, leave a bit of stammering and pauses in. I've been toning it down a bit since I edited COSSFest.

[bit4man]

@gordonmcdowell May I ask what Linux (I presume) app you used for editing?

[gordonmcdowell]

@bit4man SONY not-Linux VEGAS. I kept looking at Linux solutions every year, didn't find anything that fit my needs, so 2 years ago shelled out $ for VEGAS. So now I'm not checking constantly, until I need to decide on VEGAS upgrade $ vs switching platforms. I was looking forward to VideoLAN's editor taking off, but it looks like development has stalled.

[tsatm2011]

Who gave that kid a beer?

[TheShowThatSUX]

... what it comes down to is when people have the ability to back up will they? every time I hear a story about a gmail outage: my answer is not why is Google failing everyone, it is why don't you people back up your Gmail to a local T-Bird

[TheShowThatSUX]

... the rule of if it is not in 3 places is increasingly becoming more and more important as this tradition takes palace. If you look at cloud solutions as a universally accessible back up, then the issue is a non issue as anyone knows when your back up is your only copy it is not a back up any more.

Now the point of if the back up is proprietary so it needs the service OK, right not a backup. But if the docs are od-downloadable and the email IMAP accessible...

[TheShowThatSUX]

Some of this is very good points. And some of it is FOSS FUD. You can back up your gmail or google docs, and export it to anywhere you want. All my G-stuff exists in 3 places: Google's server, my local drive, and an off site back up. Google could have a data loss or go out of biz today and I would have no loss of data.

I am all for 100% open source, but am more for open standards. Open Standards more than open source is what lets needed back up to prevent data Apocalypse. ...