Tech Discussion Thread: Long live the Calculator Master Race

[Divair]

This is a cool ad

Yes.

[Shnercropolis]

This is a cool ad

Wow, it seems like they're appealing to reason rather than emotion. Already beats any apple ad.

[Divair]

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I probably won't use it, but it's supposedly going to take the best of Siri and Google Now, and then add a bunch of features on top of that. Should make it more appealing.

[Tlik]

This is a cool ad

"No-kia"? What's up with that pronunciation?

[Divair]

This is a cool ad

"No-kia"? What's up with that pronunciation?

Canada.

[Tlik]

"No-kia"? What's up with that pronunciation?

Canada.

It explains a lot, tbh.

[Divair]

Canada.

It explains a lot, tbh.

Indeed. North America generally fucks up the pronunciation.

[Hladgos]

It explains a lot, tbh.

Indeed. North America generally fucks up the pronunciation.

You're welcome. No-keea.

[Shnercropolis]

Indeed. North America generally fucks up the pronunciation.

You're welcome. No-keea.

How else would one pronounce it, without being a nazi commie terrorist?

[Divair]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucKcBZNbMiU
This'll do.

[Ainin]

This is a cool ad

"No-kia"? What's up with that pronunciation?

We're not big fans of Kia.

[Shnercropolis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucKcBZNbMiU
This'll do.

I thought that was an advertisement for linux mint on the windows phone.

[Aeken]

Woooooot?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft ... 00271.html

[Breadknife]

Woooooot?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft ... 00271.html

I'm obviously a fuddy-duddy. I just can't get excited about these "new directions" for Office. I don't begrudge Cloud-capability, per se, but I don't like things like the 365 licencing model (or, to be honest, the interface ever since they gave us the so-called "Intuitive Ribbon").

But, as I intimated, I recall Office from before it was officially Office. Let's see how long I can use the 2003 version (alternating with its two main free Office rivals...). I think I can ignore MS's latest output to the same extent as I learnt to ignore or get around the vaguaries of the various Works suites, in years past...

[Shnercropolis]

I would be so much happier if everyone stopped saying "the cloud" and started saying "servers". Because, you know, that's what the cloud is.

[Breadknife]

I would be so much happier if everyone stopped saying "the cloud" and started saying "servers". Because, you know, that's what the cloud is.

As a useful shoftcut to "amorphous combination of multiple address-abstracted servers using dynamic load-/demand-handling and RAID-like failsafe mechanisms for both data and processing services across both geographic and subnet separations" (depending on how little or much "cloudlike" a given example actually is), I think it's probably acceptible to use "the cloud" as less of a mouthful. And with less need to know the precise capabilities of whichever cumulus analogue one happens to be describing at the time (e.g. whether indexed by a single master server (with backups!) or treated as entirely multipeer-indexed once you get the initial introduction...).

Ultimately a Cloud might as well just be a further 'OSI Layer 5-7' abstraction on top of mirrored FTP/whatever servers, of course, as has been practiced for a long time by those who cared to implement such a system. It's not as if even "cloud processing" is a new concept, although not known by any such name until fairly recently... But now it's open to non-technical users, so a non-technical moniker gets adopted and popularised.


(But I still don't liket he idea of everything becoming "Cloudy", when it doesn't have to be. Especially if it means I can't use applications on "not-always-online" devices, which for pretty practical reasons I would rather like to do.)

[Shnercropolis]

I would be so much happier if everyone stopped saying "the cloud" and started saying "servers". Because, you know, that's what the cloud is.

As a useful shoftcut to "amorphous combination of multiple address-abstracted servers using dynamic load-/demand-handling and RAID-like failsafe mechanisms for both data and processing services across both geographic and subnet separations" (depending on how little or much "cloudlike" a given example actually is), I think it's probably acceptible to use "the cloud" as less of a mouthful. And with less need to know the precise capabilities of whichever cumulus analogue one happens to be describing at the time (e.g. whether indexed by a single master server (with backups!) or treated as entirely multipeer-indexed once you get the initial introduction...).

Ultimately a Cloud might as well just be a further 'OSI Layer 5-7' abstraction on top of mirrored FTP/whatever servers, of course, as has been practiced for a long time by those who cared to implement such a system. It's not as if even "cloud processing" is a new concept, although not known by any such name until fairly recently... But now it's open to non-technical users, so a non-technical moniker gets adopted and popularised.


(But I still don't liket he idea of everything becoming "Cloudy", when it doesn't have to be. Especially if it means I can't use applications on "not-always-online" devices, which for pretty practical reasons I would rather like to do.)

Well basically it'd be nicer if instead of saying "it's in the cloud!" people said "It's on a server!" It would just make the whole thing seem like less of some magical abstraction where you put data in and it comes back out later.

[Breadknife]

Well basically it'd be nicer if instead of saying "it's in the cloud!" people said "It's on a server!" It would just make the whole thing seem like less of some magical abstraction where you put data in and it comes back out later.

Minus the "magical" (arguably) that's what it is, though. (Or could be. YCloudMV.)

Without the mystical "cloud" term, we'd have Hoi Poloi asking "but which server is it on?", and we have to say "Ummm... dunno. Could be any one of several. Or any several of several."

[Bezombia]

Thread revival, go!