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Slippyblade:

--- Quote from: pbj on June 14, 2014, 11:21:29 am ---Will you please buzz off? 

Multiboards are openly available at all online retailers.

ROMs can be downloaded off mainstream archive sites.

Nobody cares.

--- End quote ---

Whether "nobody cares" or not does not change the fact that it is, in fact, illegal.

pbj:
Yes, and you're the clown that thinks multiboards are "amazingly illegal" IIRC.

My, what a sheltered life.


lol @ haze thinking cloud computing isn't 50+ years old

DaveMMR:

--- Quote from: Haze on June 14, 2014, 11:49:08 am ---lol.. cloud..

the most stupid idea the industry has had in recent memory.

local storage is cheap, fast (latency and transfer rate), private, and dependable.

so let's try convincing everybody to replace it with a system that is none of those things.

I'm happy to say we have no intention of ever integrating any kind of 'cloud services' into MAME.

yes, it's a popular buzzword, no, it is not a good idea.

--- End quote ---

Cloud storage has its usefulness.  For example, I have all 40+ Gigs of music on Apple's "Cloud" through iTunes Match which means I always have access to my music on my phone/tablet without worrying about space.

Also, at my company we use an online storage system as one of three backups in case something ever happens to our building (without having to schlep hardware offsite constantly.)

But otherwise, I do agree with you.  People take to storing things on the cloud when there's no conceivable need for it. The amount of data the average home user needs to "protect" can all go on an SDCard that's fits in a wallet or a thumb drive that can go on a keychain, both costing less than $10.

Haze:

--- Quote from: DaveMMR on June 15, 2014, 09:03:28 am ---
--- Quote from: Haze on June 14, 2014, 11:49:08 am ---lol.. cloud..

the most stupid idea the industry has had in recent memory.

local storage is cheap, fast (latency and transfer rate), private, and dependable.

so let's try convincing everybody to replace it with a system that is none of those things.

I'm happy to say we have no intention of ever integrating any kind of 'cloud services' into MAME.

yes, it's a popular buzzword, no, it is not a good idea.

--- End quote ---

Cloud storage has its usefulness.  For example, I have all 40+ Gigs of music on Apple's "Cloud" through iTunes Match which means I always have access to my music on my phone/tablet without worrying about space.

--- End quote ---

As long as you have internet access, which isn't always a given*.  Also it depends on the level of integration, 'cloud' typically seems to be used for something far more overbearing these days - applications and storage you basically have no final control over, integration into applications that REALLY don't need it, geo-locking and other nonsense over things you think you own.  It's just a way of trying to push a rental / subscription model onto people.

I'm aware that the idea has been around for a lot longer, but it was buried for good reasons.


* I just helped a guy I know move house, he has no internet access (and won't for another month) so he decided to whip out his laptop and listen to music instead only to realise none of his music was actually on his pc, he didn't even realise that was what 'cloud' meant because it was integrated with his desktop. (not the smartest of guys I'll admit)

nitrogen_widget:
Storing my Roms on my media server increased load times of the front end and ROM launching a little.
Wasn't horrible but really busy layouts had some lag when loading artwork every time you cycled through the Roms.

I'm sure if you tried it from online storage it would be really bad if you didn't prefetch the artwork.
 

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