No, of course, no one knows whether this will continue into the future but those relative prices are, and have been, moving in the wrong direction for cloud computing over recent years.

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If the ash cloud were to drift in another direction flights could be sent around or above it.

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The cloud had drifted in a northeasterly direction and occupied much of the airspace over the Gulf of Alaska.

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Extending services to customers and partners, a la cloud style, certainly moves them in this direction.

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But with the combination of mobile devices and the cloud, the momentum is clearly going in the direction of computing without the computer.

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Long-period comets can arrive from any direction in space and are believed to originate in the Oort cloud (a reservoir of comets encircling the sun, the existence of which was worked out at the same time as the Kuiper belt by Jan Oort, a Dutch astronomer).

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Any ambient starlight or moonglow is diffused by heavy cloud, and the road is simply too twisty to get any solid idea of direction.

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