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Opera: we will reinvent the Web

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Curiouser and curiouser...

Very little to read on the page...
http://www.opera.com/freedom/
15 years of browser innovation
On June 16th at 9:00 a.m (CEDT), we will reinvent the Web.
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A stylised cloud with a lightning bolt:
http://www.opera.com/bitmaps/freedom/design.png​

A rather curious comment in the source code:
<!-- We start our little story with the invention of the modern day computer. Over the years, the computers grew in numbers, and the next natural step in the evolution was ... -->​

Very little in the way of info at Opera Campus Crew Blog

And a rather enigmatic tweet from Hickensian ("Designer and cheese fetishist working for Opera Software from the Cotswolds, UK"
We are! We've put the internet on a USB stick so that you can always have a connection wherever you are!
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Hmmmmmmm.......
 
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If it turns out to just be a portable version of opera as an app (to be run from thumb drive), I'll be pissed.
 
What is cloud computing? Please answer in short words and simple sentences.
 
I'm guessing it will be something more than just the release of Opera 10... right?
 
Darat said:
Opera 10 is in beta, perhaps it will just be the release of the final version of that....
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Pretty ballsy to announce they're reinventing the web with one app's next point release...
 
AgeGap said:
What is cloud computing? Please answer in short words and simple sentences.
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Another attempt by major software and hardware vendors to get us to pay for something they are currently providing free-of-charge to end-users.

Slightly less cynical, just good old distributed computing, i.e. you would seem to be running Microsoft Office on your PC but all your PC is doing is displaying information, all the processing and storage is being handled by a bank of computers somewhere in the world.

It's a great leap forward back to the 70s when we all time-shared on the local college or uni computer with our dumb terminals.
 
AgeGap said:
What is cloud computing? Please answer in short words and simple sentences.
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Thanks for the replies. I can't see any advantages unless it will let me play crysis with full eye candy on a low spec PC.
 
Darat said:
It's a great leap forward back to the 70s when we all time-shared on the local college or uni computer with our dumb terminals.
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Err, to a degree. The key points are it's supposed to be dynamically scaleable, virtualized resources and a big emphasis on software as a service. The Cloud_computingWP article on wikipedia isn't bad.
 
AgeGap said:
Thanks for the replies. I can't see any advantages unless it will let me play crysis with full eye candy on a low spec PC.
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OnLive is a new company is aiming to do just that. Personally, I am skeptical but I suppose we'll see.
 
AgeGap said:
What is cloud computing? Please answer in short words and simple sentences.
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Facebook. LinkedIn. GMail. SalesForce. Google Docs / Zoho. Bubble.us. Et cetera, et cetera.

Essentially, web apps.
 
Am I being too paranoid about not wanting my spreadsheets and letters on some server somewhere "in the cloud". I am happy to have them on my hard disc and perhaps a backup or two. My ISP are giving me 5Gbyte to store my docs.
 
AgeGap said:
Am I being too paranoid about not wanting my spreadsheets and letters on some server somewhere "in the cloud". I am happy to have them on my hard disc and perhaps a backup or two. My ISP are giving me 5Gbyte to store my docs.
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You can totally trust them not to divulge that job application to your current boss. Or that letter critical of the government to some 3-letter agency. Especially Google, as they do no evil, especially not in China.

[/ sarcasm mode off ]
 
Re: http://www.opera.com/freedom/

If it is to do with cloud computing maybe you are getting some online storage.
There is a browser called Flock 2.5 that "integrates social networking and media services." It is based on Firefox.

Thanks ddt. My paranoia does not seem out of place. Here anyway.

I have found an old magazine and it has an article about cloud computing. So the cloud is the internet?

"Dynamically scaleable." Big words are excluding me from the internet.:(
 
AgeGap said:
So the cloud is the internet?
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Often, the internet is represented as a cloud in schematic diagrams of 'information systems'

A cloud is a metaphor for 'stuff that happens without concern/worry of the systems manager/lusers/etc'

E.G. When you post a snail-mail letter, the way it gets delivered isn't something you need to think about... as long as you write the right stuff on the envelope, it'll be delivered... all you need to be concerned about is how the intended recipient will react/respond/etc
 
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