Long ago, people had dumb terminals that were useless without the mainframe,
while a centralized organization decided what software you could run, and
snooped on your data.
Luckily the PC was invented to free us from the tyranny of IT and the
mainframe.
The IT people tried to regain their control over us with "thin clients", but
we didn't fall for that trick.
Now everything old is new again, and we have "the cloud" and "devices" and
"SaaS" which basically means renting software. And if the cloud goes down,
the devices are bricks. Even game consoles, even school textbooks, even
Belkin routers.
Can you imagine a book publisher going out of business, and the books on
your shelves suddenly have blank pages? Pontiac goes out of business, and
your Firebird stops running?
-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Mattinen via Af
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2014 4:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Playstation, Xbox Live networks reported down?
On 12/25/14 11:30 AM, Mathew Howard via Af wrote:
Xbox? is that just because the game is stupidly made, or is it everything?
That's how it all works now. Things call home to authorize you're
allowed to use it.
~Seth
