Do I need Google Drive?

I am a (Mac) Power User

Actually Mac or PC power user, same answer applies: no, probably not. A power user would already have Dropbox or SugarSync installed. Dropbox, the most popular cloud syncing solution is reliable and fast (internal synchonization is through the local network. Sharing is now easy with a contextual right-clic Dropbox menu designed to get the file direct url. The only flaw is that Dropbox only synchronize one folder (and everything inside it).

SugarSync users will like that they can choose the folders they want to sync inside their hard drive. Like Dropbox sharing is a through a right click. More, folders can be mirrored between computers with no restriction (if not storage).

Google Drive is a one folder sync, like Dropbox. Sharing is through (web) Google Docs exclusively. That is lame for a power user. Google Docs syncs to your Mac/PC, you open them in a browser. Even more lame, sharing a PDF or any other kind of file implies you have a Google account. That makes sharing very limited. Though, Google releases then improves products. Google+ is one example of that. So maybe that rule will lax.

I am a standard user

I have a Gmail acount, so do my buddies. Google Drive will work just fine, but so will Microsoft’s Skydrive.

I am corporate user using Google Apps in my organization

Drive is obvious. Sharing is easy and standard (your collegues are using Google Apps too). Sharing to the rest of the world can be done the good old way: by e-mail. Backing up laptop/desktop data is a need for most corporate users. Small and Medium Businesses barely know how to do that. In that case Drive is a godsend. Once they adopt Google Apps — which they are with more and more incline to do — SMBs are served with Drive backing up any file copied on it. Plain and simple. My files are everywhere with me, (physically) close to my heart with my Android/IOS device (what’s space does that leave to BlackBerry, by the way?). Drive should be a hit for Google Apps equipped organizations.

The question is not “which is the best system.” It is more of who is in the right position to distribute it massively. Google is. Microsoft is not in for they don’t own Android, a super strong vector to cloud sync adoption.

Links

Google Drive https://drive.google.com/start

Dropbox http://dropbox.com

SugarSync http://sugarsync.com

A "state of denial in France" says again The Economist

"It says something about the state of denial in France that the one candidate, the centrist François Bayrou, who warned voters that they were in for some tough choices and hard times, took a miserable fifth place. His score of 9% is less than half his achievement in 2007, when he managed 18.57%. His is a message, it seems, that the French just don’t want to hear."

Source: http://www.economist.com/blogs/elysee/2012/04/first-round-results

Where comes the comma

I have always had a slight problem with the comma: where it put it?

This article gives hints. In a nutshell, do as you like or almost.

Give this NYT article a shot.

The Walking Dead, seriously?

"The walking Dead? Seriously?"

That was approximatly my thought when considering watching the AMC show.

A virus, people dying, then waking zombies, eating alive more people to become zombies.

All déjà vue.

But this was different.

Yes, the Walking Dead (TWD) is about freaking zombies and survivors, but that's ultimately about people living an extremely tense situation and how they act and react to it.

Some of these characters are brutal — well most of them have to be, actually — others are totally bellicose even with fellow non-zombies (and their were few of them left).

All alike, the characters embed their own behavior faced to terrible events. Some in a good way, others don't get that good.

Terrible events, extrem tension, beautiful/horrible acts. That is how TWD will get you: beautiful/horrible acts.

Watch both seasons. Season one is six-episode long. Season two is thirteen. And tell me what you think.

You'll get a real thrill.

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