The Cloud is the future! Except…

[Andrew Kimery]

Yup, it’s not like the good old days when tapes never got lost in the mail, severe weather never delayed shipments and people never had to wait a day or two (or longer) to get their package. 😉

[Charlie Austin]

[Craig Seeman] “It was so much more reliable in the old days when you’d just wrap up the dub and UPS or FedEx would lose the package for you… Or the client wasn’t there to get the package and had to wait an extra day to get it.

All time best story was when a shipper lost a 1″ master which had to be rush shipped without a protection… and have it show up in the office 4 years later with a shipping label from Tokyo… this was a New York to New Jersey package!”

Nice. lol Yeah, while we still use them, waiting for messengers isn’t fun. The problem is we depend on the “tubes’ so much now and there’s the expectation that things just happen instantly. It’s the norm now. So when it doesn’t, havoc ensues. True for editing as well. Adding a couple dissolves when you’re cutting on film used to take a day or more. Now? you’re expected to do a complex multilayer matted green screen composite animated rotoscope shot in about 2 minutes. Which, of course, you can. 😉 I guess what I’m saying, is that I am old. 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Andrew Kimery]

Louis CK on Conan last year, Everything is amazing and nobody is happy.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8m5d0_everything-is-amazing-and-nobody-i_fun#.UVs9Slta3Q8

[Joseph W. bourke]

Yeah, Gary. And I pay 100 bucks a year for my Dropbox account, too! It’s not that I’m totally in love with SoShare at this point – it’s still in Beta after all, and it doesn’t have the “storage of critical files” capability that my Dropbox account has, since a file transfer only lives for 30 days…but that said, I’ve had some reaaally large files transfer to my clients in roughly 2 thirds or less the amount of time it took via Dropbox.

I think of it as a Dropbox alternative, when I’ve got really big stuff that needs to get there more quickly. And what I’ve liked about SoShare is that the developers get in touch via email to see how things are going, and ask for input – I sure don’t get that from Dropbox!

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Chris Harlan]

[Andrew Kimery] “Louis CK on Conan last year, Everything is amazing and nobody is happy.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8m5d0_everything-is-amazing-and-nobody-i_...

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One of my favorite bits. I need to watch it at least five times a year just to remind myself to shut up already.

[Andrew Kimery]

[Chris Harlan] “One of my favorite bits. I need to watch it at least five times a year just to remind myself to shut up already.”

Mine too. I’ve watched it a number of times and it never gets old.

[Clint Wardlow]

Cloud computing is the way of the future. And it does offer a lot, not only in the world of video. But it does come with caveats. As one who works in IT, the biggest frustration is that you no longer have a piece of hardware to work with when things go wonky.

Time, that in the past was used to troubleshoot and run diagnostics, is now spent fighting your way through the many tiers of help-desk techs and opening trouble tickets. It is a feeling of helplessness. It is out of your hands. And you are not always sure you are getting straight answers. And when it will be fixed is anybody’s guess.

Ah, the cloud, with its many wonders. I use it and am glad it is there. Still, in a way, it is like religion. You have to give up a measure of control and have faith it will work in your favor.

[Joseph Owens]

[Chris Harlan] “Louis CK on Conan last year, Everything is amazing and nobody is happy.”

I think its older than that, but never more true.

I don’t know the accreditation, but a number of years ago the story went around that a retiring or leaving-the-position flight steward issued the following departing message to the passengers (paraphrasing): Welcome to [city, time, and temp]. We hope you enjoyed your flight, and the next time you feel like hurling yourself through the stratosphere at just under the speed of sound in an aluminum tube, sitting on 3 tons of kerosene, please think of us, and thank you for choosing [airline].

Which is kind of the way it is.

jPo

“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.