magiccarpetride;612209 Wrote: > OK, so I record a track with my band, mix it down, and master it as a > FLAC file. I make a safety backup copy (make that four or five copies, > one burnt on a CD, another one burnt on a DVD, another one stored on > the external hard drive at home, the other one on an external hard > drive in the office, etc.), and also store my backup of that FLAC file > in the cloud. Are you now saying that the vendor (Amazon) can hand my > data over to a corrupt government. So fucking what? What's a corrupt > government to do with a poor old FLAC file containing some noodling on > electric guitar? > > Let's get real here for a moment. No one, and particularly not some > corrupt government or some fucked up terrorists, give a shit about the > inane little files that we create and store somewhere. And if the > vendor goes belly up, I still have my files stored on CDs, DVDs, hard > drives, etc. > > No one here is suggesting that you store your files ONLY in the cloud. > > If politicians decide to shut down the entire www and then rape our > wives and kidnap our children? You paint a pretty bleak picture. I'm > sure that right now you have about 1,800 pounds of canned beans stashed > in your bunker. Do you have enough ammunition to last you while the > zombies are roaming the earth? When are you finally going to make that > call and run for the hills?
This post made me chuckle. One thing though - there are some folks - not necessarily on this thread - who seriously are suggesting that the Cloud may not be just a backup... These folks are almost certainly one diskette short of a full install... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF x-dacv3/x-10/x-psu(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85651 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
