Can I say that some of it is automated, some of it is slated to be automated, and some of it is getting archived but not backed up, depending on importance, ease of recovery, etc? Don’t filesystems get a bit “branchy” sometimes and need to be pruned? Shouldn’t some things only be brought online when needed? (Maybe I should have said digital spring cleaning instead?)
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Cloud code (github), cloud photos, cloud storage (dropbox), cloud email (gmail) - what else is left? applications?
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Who stores all their photos on the cloud? Who would trust such a service to always be there? And aren’t the files just too large to do that affordably?
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Aren’t I more of a “maintain control of the whole chain” guy? When I do offsite, don’t I want to know where all the bits are kept and who’s in control of them? How do you audit secure data destruction “in the cloud”?
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Errr… google docs?
Flickr? Is $50/year terrible for the pro service?
(though not all my photos are there, but are on two different drives)
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What is Flickr going to do with them?
“Yahoo reserves the right to update and change, from time to time, these Additional Terms and all documents incorporated by reference. You can always find the most recent version of this Additional Terms and the most recent version of the TOS, Privacy Policy, and the Community Guidelines at the URLs above.”
Oh, and they can change the rules anytime?
For two years of cloud service I can just have control over all my imaging and not give them away to a third party who gets to decide while I pay them.
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This data backup you do regularly of your non-cloud files – you send the physical device to another location at least 50 miles away, right? Although since you’re in hurricane territory, shouldn’t it be 100?
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Is storing it in the office every week good enough for you? It’s 22 miles away and much higher off the flood plain.
Are those terms terrible? Credit Card companies have the same verbiage? Do you have a credit card?
The photos are still copyright to me…or whoever uses the service. Now someone who keeps the flickr copy only is definitely stupid. Also a lot of people are not server admins, web gurus, etc and hell I play server admin all day for work, and maybe I don’t want to deal with that when I get home?
Unless the change the TOS and wrap up shop, like Radio Shack, right?
I just don’t even bother with web for my images. There’s 40K of them, and I don’t want to spend all that time uploading.
…what are backups? Is that like Google+?
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Then I go to another provider? Also whats to stop a provider from doing the same to the remote VM? Or if you have money to pay for your own hardware the data center says we are done come get your stuff?
It still comes down you have to eventually trust someone doesn’t it?
(and 40K images, ewwww thats a lot to upload)
But with images once they’re out it’s too late to go to another provider, didn’t I mention that friend of mine who had images show up in a calendar in Bangladesh?
I might do it but it would involve encryption before sending along and that level of paranoia warrants just two hard drives.
You don’t have a shutter speed control on your camera? Bummer.
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As a reader of D.F. Wallace, will I want to see Jason Segel playing him in this movie, or should I skip it?
How bad can it be? It’s based on an interview and the interviewer is heavily involved. And Segel is getting into a part of his career where he only has to do work he genuinely cares about, I think you’d be safe.
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Or wait till it is on DVD/Streaming?
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Haha, isn’t that what I almost always do? Doesn’t my spouse (the movie nerd) keep reminding me that we have a whole bunch of Regal cinema passes that are just collecting dust?
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