Cloud Computing

[Sonny Limatina]

I do a daily back up of all my data to an off-site server now.

I also trust my accounts to banks and brokerage houses that I have no control over.

Sometimes I even give my credit card to a 17 year old waiter who disappears with it for a few minutes.

It was a statement so silly that I--feeling kind--assumed he was being sardonic.

 

[islandman]

17? That's a bit young.

 

[Byron In Exile]

I do a daily back up of all my data to an off-site server now.

I also trust my accounts to banks and brokerage houses that I have no control over.

Sometimes I even give my credit card to a 17 year old waiter who disappears with it for a few minutes.

But you know who they are, right?

If "The Cloud" leaks or loses your data, can you hold "The Cloud" legally responsible for your loss?

 

[Byron In Exile]

Irony indeed.

Reverse Irony.

 

[thør]

As long as iCloud makes AAPL increase in value......

 

[where]

a friend of mine works for a cloud printing company. Despite being quite small in terms of direct personnel, it's got a huge global network of clients and suppliers. One of the sales points is that it's much more environmentally friendly and cheaper than traditional printing processes. Apparently.

 

[where]

~double fucking post~

 

[islandman]

Reverse Irony.

Infinite irony plus one and a big piece of chocolate cake on your head.

 

[Byron In Exile]

~double fucking post~

Fucking n00bs...

 

[Byron In Exile]

Infinite irony plus one and a big piece of chocolate cake on your head.

Aleph-Null Reverse Irony (an innumerable set, tyvm, yw) plus two and a half, with that piece of chocolate cake multiplied by the proportion between the size of the earth and a grain of sand (size of the earth being the numerator) and you located at the center of it trying vainly to claw your way out before you run out of air. Times five.

 

[Byron In Exile]

a friend of mine works for a cloud printing company. Despite being quite small in terms of direct personnel, it's got a huge global network of clients and suppliers. One of the sales points is that it's much more environmentally friendly and cheaper than traditional printing processes. Apparently.

Oh, joy!

It's "environmentally friendly" and "cheaper"!

Yay!

 

[phrodeau]

Aleph-Null Reverse Irony (an innumerable set, tyvm, yw) plus two and a half, with that piece of chocolate cake multiplied by the proportion between the size of the earth and a grain of sand (size of the earth being the numerator) and you located at the center of it trying vainly to claw your way out before you run out of air. Times five.

http://www.engrish.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/04/irony-fire-extinguisher.jpg

 

[Byron In Exile]

As long as iCloud makes AAPL increase in value......

"Well everybody has their own story to tell! Even if they don't amount to much in the end..." ~ Wisdom of Father Pickle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ2qFmLTUkA

 

[Byron In Exile]

http://www.engrish.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/04/irony-fire-extinguisher.jpg

Engrish is lacism.

 

[where]

Oh, joy!

It's "environmentally friendly" and "cheaper"!

Yay!

I see your 'wit' is still just as turgid as before.

 

[phrodeau]

Another Global Warming thread?

Oh, joy!

It's "environmentally friendly" and "cheaper"!

Yay!

Guess I was right.

 

[Byron In Exile]

I see your 'wit' is still just as turgid as before.

I see you're still in need of something turgid.

 

[where]

predictable.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Guess I was right.

Don't count your chickens, furry-foot-monster.

Sales makes the economy go 'round.

Do you beg the conservatives to strike??

 

[Byron In Exile]

predictable.

As I am unpredictable.

So what, then, have you predicted?

That you don't know whether it will rain today?

Thanks for the forecast.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Engrish is lacism.

In east Asian languages, there isn't the distinction between "L" and "R" that exists in western languages.

We who might have learned that distinction from birth can't understand how anyone could possibly not get it. But, growing up without there being a difference, and then suddenly in this new language there is one... that can be hard to process.

I wonder what speakers of Hindi think when Americans try to pronounce an "S" - when there are four different ways of doing it, each of which has its own letter. One, "sh," as in "should," happens in English. As for the rest, it depends on where the tongue is in one's mouth.

People who make fun of Asian-language speakers' L/R confusion need to try to learn Hindi and take a vacation to India.

 

[John Doe]

http://www.engrish.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/04/irony-fire-extinguisher.jpg

http://www.engrish.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/03/sausageparty.jpg

 

[BarGuy]

Dumb terminals have been renamed "thin clients."

It's official.

Get with the program!

LOL.

In the interests of being PC -- and just so nobody feels left out -- there are "thick clients", in honor of all of us that have a few pounds to lose.

 

[eyer]

This cloud...

...is actually 145 acres, 220' below ground:

Iron Mountain Primary Data Center...

..."the world's largest provider of records management services;" "120 drillers and miners put 3,000 sticks of dynamite into the limestone and detonated those 3,000 sticks of dynamite everyday for 50 years."

Take a visual and aural tour @

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-09-22/secret-internet-servers-data-centers/50498816/1

 

[John Doe]

http://www.engrish.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/03/broadbang-network.jpg