It is an off-site backup that can go away in a poof at any time.
This whole 'poof-at-anytime' argument about the cloud isn't about this sort of scenario, it's about using the cloud to CREATE the content. If Google Docs died right now, I would lose a lot of work because I'm too stupid to back up my files from their site. *That* is the problem with 'poof-at-any-time'. When you're making backups to the cloud you STILL have the data. You can even, and here's the best bit, continue to do off-site backups.
Any off-site backup can go poof at any time. Media goes bad, a natural disaster that hits your HQ can also hit the nearby place you store the backup, and the off-site procedure can be so obnoxious that the backup happens less and less regularly because the dude in charge of it would rather go out for drinkies. Here you have an automatable off-site backup. Don't forget that your backups are only as good as your dedication to procedure, that's the value of automation.
Also, where do you keep the encryption keys? In a self maintained archive like the one you want to replace?
Is this really that prohibitive of problem? Somehow worse than the problem of where you keep the keys to the off-site backup? I don't get this one. I brainstormed half a dozen ways to deal with this before even hitting 'reply'. Seriously, non-issue.
Encrypt your data and suddenly it's an off-site backup!
I know it's fashionable to poo poo the cloud, but try to apply a little critical thinking. Afterall, the added benefit here is you can schedule updates to the archive without having to actually drive anywhere.
Back in 2000 there was a fad where people would say "This is not news!" and poo-poo whatever announcement was made. One time there was a story about a CD burner that reached speeds of 55x. I jokingly posted "All you have to do is use your old CD burner and just wait longer. This is not news! " It was taken seriously and modded insightful.
When I hold my Tab next to my iPad, I see two devices that look as though they could be from the same product line. It's like I'm holding the 'iPad Widescreen" Even the bevelling around the edges is the same. I don't think you could count 20+ vague similarities on the PADD to the iPad, let alone get the dimensions on each of those details like what happened with Samsung.
We're talking about design patents, here. This image doesn't do anything at all. The PADD doesn't even have a centered screen!
When I hold my Tab next to my iPad, I see two devices that look as though they could be from the same product line. It's like I'm holding the 'iPad Widescreen" Even the bevelling around the edges is the same. I don't think you could count 20+ vague similarities on the PADD to the iPad, let alone get the dimensions on each of those details like what happened with Samsung.
We're talking about design patents, here. This image doesn't do anything at all. The PADD doesn't even have a centered screen!
I don't carry an AppleTV around. I have, however, plugged my iPhone into the TV at a hotel in order to watch some stuff. It's just one little cable that sits in my bag and doesn't even require power. The wifi at that hotel was pretty shitty, I'm not sure I could have gotten the phone talking to an Apple TV in ad-hoc mode... I certainly would not have fun trying to set that up.
I like plugging my phone directly into an HDMI port without having to go through some powered device first. On the other hand, my HP Touchpad uses a USB cable and I hate it. Plugging it in is like threading a needle and it feels like it's just this close to breaking. Both Apple's and Samsung's connectors just snap right in.
Apple, if you really are going to make it magsafe and not reliant on which way is up on the connector, please do it and ignore these knee-jerk responses.
It's a bummer your post was modded down. You bring up a good point, it's really hard to get past this guy's warped sense of priorities.
I propose a do-over. How about instead of asking how to protect his video game in the event of global catastrophe, how about just a discussion of how we (as a society I mean) bank a few things so that if that event does come it doesn't turn out as bad as what happened in Dark Angel? For example, what if the US Gov't built a vault somewhere that could supposedly survive this even and stored a few computers with tons of data about history, technology, maybe a backup of Wikipedia, etc?
Well my idea may be dumb but I have to say a discussion about that would be way more interesting to me.
With all the talk about solar flares and other such near-extinction events lately, I've been wondering: is it actually possible to store or protect data in such a way that if such an event occurred...
So you're worried you might go extinct or even worse... expelled?
One size does NOT fit all. A better way to handle this would be to use the term 'Nickel and Dime' a great deal more often. The idea is to start raising public awareness of all these fees these companies charge us so they'll look at the costs with a more critical eye.
Well...I can dream. But, hey, look what happened when a major bank decided to charge an extra fee. They retracted that in a big hurry because it was an issue that affected the masses. When these little fees start getting collected under one umbrella term, I think we'll see more of that.
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It is an off-site backup that can go away in a poof at any time.
And this just appeared in my news feed. Heh.
Am I the only one that pictured 10 monitors in a circle, each showing porn, and a swivel chair in the middle?
It is an off-site backup that can go away in a poof at any time.
This whole 'poof-at-anytime' argument about the cloud isn't about this sort of scenario, it's about using the cloud to CREATE the content. If Google Docs died right now, I would lose a lot of work because I'm too stupid to back up my files from their site. *That* is the problem with 'poof-at-any-time'. When you're making backups to the cloud you STILL have the data. You can even, and here's the best bit, continue to do off-site backups.
Any off-site backup can go poof at any time. Media goes bad, a natural disaster that hits your HQ can also hit the nearby place you store the backup, and the off-site procedure can be so obnoxious that the backup happens less and less regularly because the dude in charge of it would rather go out for drinkies. Here you have an automatable off-site backup. Don't forget that your backups are only as good as your dedication to procedure, that's the value of automation.
Also, where do you keep the encryption keys? In a self maintained archive like the one you want to replace?
Is this really that prohibitive of problem? Somehow worse than the problem of where you keep the keys to the off-site backup? I don't get this one. I brainstormed half a dozen ways to deal with this before even hitting 'reply'. Seriously, non-issue.
Do they use scientists in Germany to create law?
Encrypt your data and suddenly it's an off-site backup!
I know it's fashionable to poo poo the cloud, but try to apply a little critical thinking. Afterall, the added benefit here is you can schedule updates to the archive without having to actually drive anywhere.
What'd I do?
Back in 2000 there was a fad where people would say "This is not news!" and poo-poo whatever announcement was made. One time there was a story about a CD burner that reached speeds of 55x. I jokingly posted "All you have to do is use your old CD burner and just wait longer. This is not news! " It was taken seriously and modded insightful.
We could just show a still image from TNG with Wesley holding his school PAD. Not only does it have a similar anme to iPad, but it's also rectangle with rounded corners : http://www.newfangled.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/2/516f36353ced7a44696bdaaffbc0f7f0/misc/star_trek_padd_3.jpg [newfangled.com]
When I hold my Tab next to my iPad, I see two devices that look as though they could be from the same product line. It's like I'm holding the 'iPad Widescreen" Even the bevelling around the edges is the same. I don't think you could count 20+ vague similarities on the PADD to the iPad, let alone get the dimensions on each of those details like what happened with Samsung.
We're talking about design patents, here. This image doesn't do anything at all. The PADD doesn't even have a centered screen!
Seriously, why is this considered 'off-topic'?
-1? Why?
When I hold my Tab next to my iPad, I see two devices that look as though they could be from the same product line. It's like I'm holding the 'iPad Widescreen" Even the bevelling around the edges is the same. I don't think you could count 20+ vague similarities on the PADD to the iPad, let alone get the dimensions on each of those details like what happened with Samsung.
We're talking about design patents, here. This image doesn't do anything at all. The PADD doesn't even have a centered screen!
I grew up with cable, turned out okay, and have more to talk about with my coworkers.
I will concede, though, that Clarissa Explains it All hasn't come up in recent conversation.
Wouldn't that just be a matter of statistics? The more data that's captured, the more patterns will emerge.
Well... anybody that'd rush in here thinking they'd be the first to say that couldn't be very bright.
I don't carry an AppleTV around. I have, however, plugged my iPhone into the TV at a hotel in order to watch some stuff. It's just one little cable that sits in my bag and doesn't even require power. The wifi at that hotel was pretty shitty, I'm not sure I could have gotten the phone talking to an Apple TV in ad-hoc mode... I certainly would not have fun trying to set that up.
I like plugging my phone directly into an HDMI port without having to go through some powered device first. On the other hand, my HP Touchpad uses a USB cable and I hate it. Plugging it in is like threading a needle and it feels like it's just this close to breaking. Both Apple's and Samsung's connectors just snap right in.
Apple, if you really are going to make it magsafe and not reliant on which way is up on the connector, please do it and ignore these knee-jerk responses.
It's a bummer your post was modded down. You bring up a good point, it's really hard to get past this guy's warped sense of priorities.
I propose a do-over. How about instead of asking how to protect his video game in the event of global catastrophe, how about just a discussion of how we (as a society I mean) bank a few things so that if that event does come it doesn't turn out as bad as what happened in Dark Angel? For example, what if the US Gov't built a vault somewhere that could supposedly survive this even and stored a few computers with tons of data about history, technology, maybe a backup of Wikipedia, etc?
Well my idea may be dumb but I have to say a discussion about that would be way more interesting to me.
With all the talk about solar flares and other such near-extinction events lately, I've been wondering: is it actually possible to store or protect data in such a way that if such an event occurred...
So you're worried you might go extinct or even worse... expelled?
Nothing says you have to have a cell phone.
One size does NOT fit all. A better way to handle this would be to use the term 'Nickel and Dime' a great deal more often. The idea is to start raising public awareness of all these fees these companies charge us so they'll look at the costs with a more critical eye.
Well.. .I can dream. But, hey, look what happened when a major bank decided to charge an extra fee. They retracted that in a big hurry because it was an issue that affected the masses. When these little fees start getting collected under one umbrella term, I think we'll see more of that.
Awww... angry cos somebody's filling in for Rush today?
I like how you try to distance yourself from Rush, yet for the second time, you spout his nonsense almost verbatim. Good little sheep.
Give us a little credit, Mr. Limbaugh we know you're not that old!
Actually last fall they released a new version of the OS. The Rover doesn't need to be plugged into iTunes anymore.
Nope, it's true, CNN reported it.
Why are you on a blog asking about the state of journalism?
I'm still having trouble making that leap from hacking to sexual assault. It stinks a little of the theory that GTA causes violence.