SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
But, while sales pitches may anthropomorphize "The Cloud" into a sentient and unstoppable being, the reality of "everything as a service" offerings is not quite as tidy as that—yet. And, while a few brave companies with greenfield IT projects may be grabbing onto "almost everything as a service," not everyone is ready to follow them. As many of you told us, all of these new options increase the scope and complexity of a cloud migration. While moving email from local hosting to the cloud may have been obvious (yes, it really is past time to migrate off of Lotus Notes), the vote isn't nearly as automatic with each new level of "as a service" abstraction.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/everything-as-a-service-is-coming-but-were-no
Personally, I was relieved this was mostly about Enterprise infrastructure. Still, things like Stadia https://www.stadia.com/ and Office 365 https://www.office.com/ don't give me a vote of confidence for the future. I don't know about you, but I try to reduce my monthly bills, not increase how many I have.
(Score: 3, Disagree) by darkfeline on Thursday September 05 2019, @07:38AM (4 children)
> I don't know about you, but I try to reduce my monthly bills, not increase how many I have.
The nature of reality is constant upkeep. Take your body for example, you've got you pay your daily bills for water and food, and your minutely bill for oxygen, as well as your waste disposal bills for carbon dioxide, heat, excrement. You have to repair and maintain your house/car. You have to pay for electricity, water, public roads, etc etc.
I mean, theoretically we could advance to a point where all you have to do is pay (have extracted automatically) a single living expenses bill to a central AI system that manages all of society and every individual's life, but I suspect you'll have objections to such a world (Soylentils doth protest too much).
If you dislike centralization, then you'll want your monthly bills as fragmented as possible, and if you dislike continuous maintenance costs, your best bet is shuffling off the mortal coil.
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 3, Touché) by gtomorrow on Thursday September 05 2019, @10:43AM (2 children)
Every time I hear someone spout this line of thinking, I think of Joe Chip trapped in his apartment [wikipedia.org] because he doesn't have a dime for the door.
And as far as...
...please, by all means...after you. I insist.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Thursday September 05 2019, @07:36PM (1 child)
Uh, you were the one who complained about regular maintenance costs, not me. I'm perfectly content paying bills for my continued existence. I have no idea how you were modded touche.
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Friday September 06 2019, @04:31AM
I saw a reply from Freeman, but didn't notice that the GP reply was not the reply from Freeman. Mea culpa, substitute "you" with "Freeman" in the above post.
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday September 05 2019, @02:35PM
There are certain things, that you need to pay a monthly bill for. Clean Water, Electricity, Waste Disposal, etc. For some definition of need as in some areas it's pretty easy to get good water from a Well, reliable power via Solar or Wind, and Septic Systems for waste. Requiring a monthly bill for everything, means you have less wiggle room, if your budget is tight.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"