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Comment Re:What the hell is cloud computing anyway? (Score 1) 141

Buzzword, hype. That's all.

Big Server gets a lot of request that handles spreading the process in a variable number of machines in paralel. The point is to try to make big servers (aka big companies) an internet necesity, instead of the original intent of the net designers, that is: every IP it's a source of information/processing.

Google, MS, Amazon, etc, etc are making his bests, technologically and politically trying to subvert the nature of the net. It's really sad that Google and others are using open source to try to close the net! :(

Comment false dicothomy (Score 1) 256

It's not about M$ vs G$. Both are big monsters, both are trying to sell you his 'services'.

Let's no mistake, open source is the punch baloon, here.

The need of a broader use of GPL v3 Affero license is becoming evident, just to stop being used by those big and greedy corporations.

Comment Crap, plastic crap. (Score 2, Insightful) 461

I am tired of films made for all the audience. The plot so simple as to be ridiculous. The players pathetic, (not his fault, just an horrible history that should ever been ever filmed to start with). The effects and sound over-emphasized. And the result, well, if you have 8 years it's a great movie.

But that's not SF, that's CRAP.

Comment False (Score 1) 247

This would be outrageous if the top result (not the sponsored link) was for Coke, but its not.

False. Google routinely trumps perfect matches with aproximate ones if they link to big sites. Coincidence? No, money.

The unfair point, is that pople selling web space cannot set a minimun price. Google pays what they want, NOT what they are being paid for web advertising space.

Comment False (Score 1) 247

But Google does accurately provide the link to the brand you asked for. It's almost invariably the top link of the actual search results

If I search for my site name (not a real word, just a couple of letters (5)), a very big web social site, with a name similar to mine (1 letter changed), appears always on top. A loose match wins over a perfect match.

Google advertising is not fair, people dispalyng ads shoud be able to fix the minimun price for his web page space. Without this mininum, Google pais whatever they want, not what advertisers are paying for the page space. Someone said 'abusive monopoly'?

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