Re: Your point about the promenade of new software versions: that's an
easy issue to deal with:
Just stick with what you have got ... ignore new versions until it
becomes obvious ... until you know a compelling reason for upgrading.
The companies are doing it mainly to keep their revenue stream going so
there is very little if nothing you really need and usually upgrading
just makes your situation worse... you have to relearn the program and
suffer it's new glitches.
If your employer insists on upgrading your tools ... you have to go with
it and it's no loss to you because they are paying for it and your
wasted efficiency they are paying for also.
Re: the cloud: I do sometimes wonder if this huge infrastructure will
ever founder ... like wall street's deriviative system did when they
built it on a false assumption. But maybe the better analogy for the
cloud is with the auto: It could bring us related unforeseen problems
but it won't completely fail us in any significant short term way.
But other than that seemingly esoteric arguement ... the cloud is
getting to be a wonderful tool.
I myself find backup and remote access systems like Amazon's ..15/GB/mo
JungleDisk and Google's .02/GB/mo Photo PicasaWeb to be incredibly
powerful, rock solid and inexpensive tools, making incredible leveraged
use of inexpensive storage hardware, broadband network and large scale
of operation.
For me and many I know these two systems: so effortlessly solve one of
computing's biggest problems (reliable backup/ restore), are "falling
off a log" easy to use and they do their unseen job around the clock,
meticulously and effortlessly..
It's true someone is thinking up a new cloud app every day... but
similar to new software versions, ...I don't worry about them until the
time that their importance becomes evident to me. Anything great always
eventually makes it presence known. I look for others... riding the
bleeding edge ... to sort them out and let me know when and why I am
compelled to use them.
Lists like this are a great early warning system for exactly that purpose..
db
Constance Warner wrote:
I don't know about you, but the computer/ technology stuff you really
need to know for an office job--or for most jobs, for that matter--is
pretty easy to pick up. And will be, as long as there are Visual
Quick-Start Guides and O'Reilly books. Computer books are a booming
industry, the only problem with which is how to recycle the old ones
for previous releases of Quark and Photoshop. The other way you pick
up on technology, software, and the web is that everybody is always
talking about it--talking a LOT about it--both the stuff you need to
know and the stuff you don't. (Remember "All your base are belong to
us", for example?)
As for security: a backup in the Cloud: yeah, I suppose, depending on
what you're storing--I can think of stuff that would raise extreme
security concerns if stored in the Cloud.
The main problem I have with the Cloud and similar phenomena is that
there are only 24 hours in a day. I have a lot of things I need to
do, both on a computer and otherwise, and the time needed to master
the latest bells and whistles takes time away from essential tasks. I
think, Holy Smokes, ANOTHER release of Photoshop? When it's got more
stuff in it now, than any one person even KNOWS about, let alone
uses? And what's this Twitter thing? So, SO boring. I'm not even
interested in what I'M doing every minute of the day, let alone what
anybody else is doing.
There is SO little time in life for writing, which is what I like to
do. So far, the Cloud isn't necessary to do that.
--Constance Warner
On Nov 21, 2009, at 1:55 AM, mike wrote:
A little less of your ego and you might actually consider what I'm
saying.
We, you and I have no idea what technology will be here in a decade, two
decades, longer..it is presumptuous to assume you are just smarter
than the
previous generations and will just grok it.
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