Syncing: iCloud vs USB dumbed down

Can someone explain to me, and please dumb it down, iCloud vs USB syncing. My needs are pretty simple iPhone 4-wise and computer-wise.
I have a Macbook with Leopard. I am not wifi. I just want to make sure that if my phone crashes I have my information and if my computer crashes I can get my information if I need to. Until yesterday I didn't even know I could sync using iCloud.
I don't want duplicate information if I can help it. I also don't have a MobileMe account but I think I need it to sync using iCloud?
Can I get some clarification?
thanks

Thank you so much for the clarification. I may get wifi but doubt I'll upgrade to Lion. So if my phone and computer crash at the same time I'm SOL for the most part right?
Can I ask then, how did my contacts get to my gmail account? That happened and I have no idea what I did to get that to happen.

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Graphics
Internet
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Office
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<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>wew64 wrote on Sat, 10 September 2005 18:48</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
brian, I >recommend you stick to your Unix command prompt.
>Then when you want something, you'll be stuck in your little home
>directory, and you'll only be able to type commands of programs you
>know.
>Example: if you want a web browser, you'll have to type in mozzilla, or
>konqueror, or firefox, Web browser will not work any more, intuitive
>enough??
>Hows that for simple.
One of the great things about modern Unices is the ability to
quickly switch back and forth between command line and
GUI. However, especially when bringing in new users who
have never used anything but Windows, you need to have a
good GUI.
I routinely introduce students in my university genetics
courses to Unix. We do all of our bioinformatics on
Unix, and the last thing I want to have to do is
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Windows.
In our research work in genetics and bioinformatics,
again, we need a fully-featured desktop. The command
line is sometimes ideal, but other times more ackward
than the GUI.
>If you don't know how to change/rearrange/organize menu startup
> items, documents, etc... Maybe your just too smart for your own good.
>If you were a Unix/Linux administrator, you would know how to add
>profiles for users, then you could change all those little pee-ons you talk
>about.
In fact, I do know how to change menus in GNOME, which
is no simple task. I do not have root permissions on our
campus system, so changes would have do be done
using vfolders, which as I've pointed out, has many limitations.
As well, I don't relish the mess involved in getting new users
to each fix their menus.
The issue is not that there aren't workarounds, but rather,
that I consider Sun to be the best computing platform on
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my desktop since 1990. Therefore, a trend toward dumbing
down what has up to now been a great system is very
troubling to me. Sun should be leading the way in providing
power without sacrificing useablilty.
>I also think you should learn more about a product before hackin it like
>that.
I speak from experience using Sunview, Open Windows, CDE,
KDE, Red Hat's GNOME, Java Desktop, not to mention Windows XP
and limited Aqua.
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use Windows for anything. Everything from routine office
tasks to DNA sequence analysis to programming
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The convenience of not having to switch back and forth
among several Windows boxes for different things is
priceless.
My comments, then, are from the perspective of someone who routinely
does real-world work in the Unix environment.
>This is just me blabbin away, as I do not like to hear negative comments >about JDS.
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