> I apologise for the unnecessary harshness of my previous post.
And I apologize for mine. It was far too early, pre-coffee, and I should know better.
That being said, they aren't mutually exclusive services, however. And I did mention a push method as well. How this is accomplished could be as simple as a Dropbox method, maybe with a temporary store.
Being able to easily grab any file on one machine from another machine without having to do anything different (open find, browse to directory, open file and have it sync-on-read) and not being reliant on the disk space available on a remote service is key.
I'm not suggesting a dropbox like service would be useless. I can see the value in having an online store you can easily share with friends (something I wouldn't want my service as described handling, or at least, not in the default setting).
Consider the context of the discussion: Dropboxing your entire computer. That's silly. Rather, Dropboxing selected files, and syncing everything else on reading. Together they could work.
Edit: I realize now where the confusion might have arisen from, and why I think I answered it in my original post. I'm a moron. =)
And I apologize for mine. It was far too early, pre-coffee, and I should know better.
That being said, they aren't mutually exclusive services, however. And I did mention a push method as well. How this is accomplished could be as simple as a Dropbox method, maybe with a temporary store.
Being able to easily grab any file on one machine from another machine without having to do anything different (open find, browse to directory, open file and have it sync-on-read) and not being reliant on the disk space available on a remote service is key.
I'm not suggesting a dropbox like service would be useless. I can see the value in having an online store you can easily share with friends (something I wouldn't want my service as described handling, or at least, not in the default setting).
Consider the context of the discussion: Dropboxing your entire computer. That's silly. Rather, Dropboxing selected files, and syncing everything else on reading. Together they could work.
Edit: I realize now where the confusion might have arisen from, and why I think I answered it in my original post. I'm a moron. =)
I did, however, answer it in response to a question here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1911813
The idea of forcing a push was always in my head, but assuming people can read that is pretty poor manners on my part.