Google Drive Said To Launch Next Week, With 5GB Of Free Storage For All

[danrok]

Cloud storage from Google, see front page:
http://www.aoaforums.com/frontpage/s...e-for-all.html

Comments?

[WonderBread]

Anyone going to give more of their life to Google?

[robbie]

Yeah, I'll store all my porn pix on it.

[robbie]

Hey Wonder, I'll be coming out to AZ in June. Hope to hook up with you and the fam one day. We can do lunch or something.

[WonderBread]

You pay and I'll be there, lol!

[robbie]

In that case we'll goto Costco and get the hotdog drink combo for $1.50.
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[WonderBread]

Booman should come with. He now lives like 1/4 mile away from me.

[robbie]

Yeah, we'll ll get together and I'll even make a new thread cuz we re crapping this one.
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[booman]

Hey, I'll be there!
Also (on topic) I'll always give more of my life to Google... I need more space for my games and Open Source downloads

[WonderBread]

Lol

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[Aedan]

Originally Posted by Google T&C

When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide licence to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes that we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights that you grant in this licence are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting and improving our Services, and to develop new ones.

Nice - nuff said really. Upload something to Google and you give them the right to do pretty much whatever they want with it. They might well say "limited purpose", but I don't really want stuff I created to end up being used by Google to further their ends without any benefit to me.

[Kaitain]

Compare and contrast with Dropbox

Originally Posted by Dropbox Terms and Conditions

Your Stuff & Your Privacy

By using our Services you provide us with information, files, and folders that you submit to Dropbox (together, ?your stuff?). You retain full ownership to your stuff. We don?t claim any ownership to any of it. These Terms do not grant us any rights to your stuff or intellectual property except for the limited rights that are needed to run the Services, as explained below.

I still wouldn't use it for anything to personal or important though. At least, not without encrypting it locally, first.

[WonderBread]

I'll just store everything on my own HDD's

[Kaitain]

I have a dropbox account and do use it quite a bit for various things - mobile backups (as Titanium Backup integrates well with it), for transporting files that are too big to email and for sharing files (e.g. my CV) with third parties, without having to worry about sending updates all the time.

So the likes of dropbox, Box and Google Drive are useful; however I wouldn't regard them as my primary backup for anything and wouldn't store anything on them that I wouldn't want others being able to see. Treat it like a drive share on a company network

[booman]

yeah, I guess using it as a backup is a bad idea, but transferring/sharing files would work.
Like artwork, music, games... etc.

Oh, and I like to put my taxes, bloodtype, credit card numbers and intimate information about my family on it too!

[Daniel ~]

Originally Posted by robbie

Yeah, I'll store all my porn pix on it.

Sorry Rob...only 5 Gigs, maybe you could get friends to donate space for your collection...? ":O}

[Daniel ~]

Speaking of search engines, Google no longer comes with Mint!

Mint has worked out a revenue deal with Yahoo, Duck Duck go and several other search engines that will be paying Mint when Mint users access thire engines...

For me that's a win win deal, No more Google and Mint gets paid! ":O}

[danrok]

Originally Posted by Kaitain

I have a dropbox account and do use it quite a bit for various things - mobile backups (as Titanium Backup integrates well with it), for transporting files that are too big to email and for sharing files (e.g. my CV) with third parties, without having to worry about sending updates all the time.

So the likes of dropbox, Box and Google Drive are useful; however I wouldn't regard them as my primary backup for anything and wouldn't store anything on them that I wouldn't want others being able to see. Treat it like a drive share on a company network

Dropbox and the rest are relatively expensive.

I have FTP on my PC and phone. So, I can just store files on AOA's server or my own little NAS drive at home.

[WonderBread]

Originally Posted by Daniel ~

Speaking of search engines, Google no longer comes with Mint!

Mint has worked out a revenue deal with Yahoo, Duck Duck go and several other search engines that will be paying Mint when Mint users access thire engines...

For me that's a win win deal, No more Google and Mint gets paid! ":O}

What Mint?

[danrok]

This mint I think... Main Page - Linux Mint