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Title: Did you just say cloud!?!
Post by: Brehvolution on November 15, 2011, 12:59:01 PM
*Phone rings. Boss picks up*

"Hello, this is so and so."

*pause*

"Hold on a sec.... did you just say cloud!!! Yeah, not interested!"

*smashes phone onto receiver*

It's one of the pet peeves of the IT dept.. 99% of all people who say 'the cloud' have no fucking idea what they are taking about.
Title: Re: Did you just say cloud!?!
Post by: Eric P on November 15, 2011, 01:10:16 PM
the cloud is really overhyped though it can be very beneficial to many professions

like meteorologists.
Title: Re: Did you just say cloud!?!
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on November 15, 2011, 01:16:34 PM
everytime I say "THE CLOUD" I say it like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJkzmgPUBhQ
Title: Re: Did you just say cloud!?!
Post by: Brehvolution on November 15, 2011, 01:20:06 PM
Quote from: Eric P on November 15, 2011, 01:10:16 PM
the cloud is really overhyped though it can be very beneficial to many professions

like meteorologists.

Outside of tech positions though, it's just a marketing term for "where the magic happens".
Title: Did you just say cloud!?!
Post by: Reb on November 15, 2011, 02:03:52 PM
I would just blast face in a cloud by the audiobullies through the phone.
Title: Re: Did you just say cloud!?!
Post by: chronovore on November 15, 2011, 04:46:20 PM
I'm waiting for "the cloud" to be as overused as "nanotechnology," at which point, a cloud of nanotechnology, the long-feared mass of grey goo, will sweep across the land, eradicating all call-centers and reconfiguring them into fembot production factories.
Title: Re: Did you just say cloud!?!
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 15, 2011, 05:14:48 PM
Quote from: Rebiak on November 15, 2011, 02:03:52 PM
I would just blast face in a cloud by the audiobullies through the phone.

Good song nukka!
Title: Re: Did you just say cloud!?!
Post by: Cormacaroni on November 15, 2011, 06:46:32 PM
lack of cloudwalking ITT :fbm
Title: Re: Did you just say cloud!?!
Post by: Tasty on November 15, 2011, 07:29:47 PM
Cloud is so mistunderstood. Storing data on other computers isn't really the cloud... the Cloud is like, Folding @ Home. Stuff like that. Distributed computing.

But it's a buzz word so I use it in ways that will get a point across to others. *shrugs* I rarely say it though.
Title: Re: Did you just say cloud!?!
Post by: Bildi on November 16, 2011, 04:35:04 AM
:lol We just had someone yesterday trying to pitch "the cloud"

"You and your clients can access the data from any device, anywhere, anytime!"
"You mean like the internet?"
"No no, it's cloud-based!"
*click*

Hopefully this marketing shit dies soon.
Title: Re: Did you just say cloud!?!
Post by: Momo on November 16, 2011, 12:19:46 PM
Quote from: Bildi on November 16, 2011, 04:35:04 AM
:lol We just had someone yesterday trying to pitch "the cloud"

"You and your clients can access the data from any device, anywhere, anytime!"
"You mean like the internet?"
"No no, it's cloud-based!"
*click*

Hopefully this marketing shit dies soon.
O_O
Title: Re: Did you just say cloud!?!
Post by: fistfulofmetal on November 16, 2011, 01:07:02 PM
Quote from: Bildi on November 16, 2011, 04:35:04 AM
:lol We just had someone yesterday trying to pitch "the cloud"

"You and your clients can access the data from any device, anywhere, anytime!"
"You mean like the internet?"
"No no, it's cloud-based!"
*click*

Hopefully this marketing shit dies soon.

with our "cloud" based services we tell them they need internet access

also we tell them we don't support macs and mobile devices!