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Dear technology, Your use of the word cloud confuses and enrages me. Please promptly feel ashamed, stop it, and beg the forgiveness of the millions you've wronged.
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:19:10 UTC from web-
@pony Who is wronged exactly?
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@ceruleanspark Everybody who's ever come in contact with the term's use in technology. The one's who aren't confused and don't mind have been wronged by being brainwashed into believing it's OK to use 'cloud' in such a way.
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:25:02 UTC from web-
@pony I don't see how it's an more of an issue than "Desktop" "Mouse" "Scroll" or any of the other dual use terms that come up in Information Technology.
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@ceruleanspark How did we come up with "scroll" anyway? At least the others evoke imagery that is actually somewhat consistent with the terms used.
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:30:47 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel I'm not sure. The mental imagery on my part is of gradually unrolling a scroll to read more of what's written on it.
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@toksyuryel Classic scrolls. http://www.ambrosedesigns.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/ancient-scroll-vertical.jpg You wind away the bit you've read and unwind the bit you haven't read yet.
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:32:14 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin @ceruleanspark Ah, ok. That makes more sense then.
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:36:41 UTC from web
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@ceruleanspark I can excuse older terms since technological vocabulary had to start somewhere, but there are ample words used to describe every doodad and whatnot nowadays. Among all the possible terms, why name something after a fluffy white-ish thing in the sky?
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:38:15 UTC from web-
@pony Because clouds are big, public, and everyone can access them?
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:39:54 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin so are bathrooms
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:40:41 UTC from web-
@pony I can't think of many developers that would want to associate their technology with public bathrooms.
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:41:51 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin something something something microsoft.
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@ceruleanspark Micro, Soft toilet tissue.
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:43:59 UTC from web
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@thelastgherkin All I want is something that makes sense.
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:43:04 UTC from web
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@thelastgherkin wait a minute.. since when are clouds accessible by everyone?
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:41:49 UTC from web-
@pony Look out a window. There's one!
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:43:27 UTC from web
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@pony Historically, on network diagrams, the internet is typically represented with a cloud. I'm pretty sure that's where it got started.
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@ceruleanspark I guess that makes sense harumph I still think the word cloud should only be used for cloud computing and similarly appropriate things.. none of this 'tag cloud' and iCloud backup or whatever.
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:44:44 UTC from web-
@pony Tag cloud also makes sense. It's just a bunch of tags floating together, like water particles in a cloud.
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:46:11 UTC from web
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@pony It used to mean something and was an accurate description for the way a large computer network operates, especially the internet. But then marketers got ahold of it and turned it into a buzzword that doesn't mean much of anything.
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:29:53 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel yes! I remember when the word made more sense. I was OK with that.. xD
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:39:30 UTC from web-
@pony In some cases it makes sense, like in "cloud storage", where it's used as an analogy for it being floating above instead of occupying space in your place.
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:44:29 UTC from web-
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:45:19 UTC from web
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@pony Cloud storage makes sense if you imagine your data as an object passing through a cloud. You don't know where it is specifically, but you know it's somewhere inside the cloud.
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@ceruleanspark @nerthos @thelastgherkin this is a cloud http://thebowditchgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/clouds.jpg There are better words. I'm just bitter about companies trying to manipulate how I feel about their products by using such a pretty word to describe them rather than something that would be less ambiguous and more immediately understandable.
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:51:23 UTC from web-
@pony U just mad bro.
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:55:20 UTC from web-
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:58:32 UTC from web
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@pony u hatin'
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:58:50 UTC from web-
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 11:59:22 UTC from web
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@pony I'd say "love and tolerate" to carry on with the joke, but that's kind of a bad word and I'd be banned.
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 12:00:13 UTC from web-
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 12:04:00 UTC from web
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@nerthos I maintain that it should be in the wordfilter.
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@ceruleanspark It should have it's own replacement.
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 12:09:43 UTC from web -
@ceruleanspark Something along "I'm new to the fandom"
Tuesday, 20-Nov-12 12:10:13 UTC from web-
@nerthos *along the lines of
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