This post continues a Nothing New Under the Sun arc started in Nothing New Under the Sun (Buying Computer Time, part 1).... I've written previously how being around long enough in any field teaches you that there's nothing new under the sun in that field, one time dealing with privacy and another time dealing with RIAs, specifically AJAX. This arc was prompted by an article, Amazon puts network power online, in Nature that talks about Amazon.com making its computing resources available for a fee. The reason this is nothing new under the sun to me is because, way back in high school, we had a TTY (I think that's what it was called) in one of the math classrooms. If you were very good and an even better student, Ms. Foley, head of the math department, would give you an access number (mine was "10022,14506", that I remember) and a password (nope, not telling you) so you could log into Dartmouth's computer and play games.
I wasn't that good a student nor was I that good, period, so Ms. Foley decided I didn't warrant computer time. I shared my plight with a friend at church. This friend is ten years my senior and took me under his wing, I think because he needed help building a harpsichord at the time (Hi, John!). John taught me to love Bach (still do), how to play manual instruments (still do), was and is one of the greatest minds in Logical Calculus I ever met (still use his methods for the most part), and, as it happened, was a researcher at Lincoln Labs in Lexington, MA. (to be continued...)
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This topics been around for a while this year already but I recently discussed it with a friend of mine over lunch and so thought I'd stick a post up about it. It seems that as we're all falling in [Read More]
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