I’m just this guy. You know?
Back in the 90s and early 00s when I was in HS and college, going to the video store and finding gems like this and watching them at midnight so I could return the tape the next day made movie watching much more of an adventure. I enjoy my streaming services, but might suffer a bit from too much choice. The closest I get now is when I watch some movie I never heard of because it is on Netflix’s removal list.
Well. I think we need to start giving WWII era Germans a pass. Even the people who see what’s happening are just sitting here shaking our heads and, at most, getting a little excited, hoping that it means a few more points for the blue team next gametime. Also I guess there are the ones doing the proactive thing and posting things to social media with headlines like “MAGA World Has Meltdown Down Over (x nonsense they aren’t melting down over.)!” Maybe that will do some good. Really, anything we actually try to do will just get us arrested and not help anything.
Time was when you would be in a forum and think “This is the second post in a row where nobody referenced Douglas Adams.”
We wouldn’t even know if He had to turn it off and back on again a couple times.
Thank you, I’ll give it a look.
Unfortunately change is difficult. If it was just me and my controls team we would probably do something like that, but my boss is a little older and I had hard enough time getting him to work on the cloud as it is, and he works in 2 cities, so he isn’t always in reach to help him. If it doesn’t behave exactly like windows folders, it might be a lost case.
The other people in the office I could train easier. It’s a small office with less than a dozen people on the system at any one time. I am “head of IT” but that isn’t my main job. Having something that installs and sets up quickly is a boon. Not that the sharepoint folders update all that quickly, it takes almost a full day for all the files to show up properly, especially if it is a new user. And if onedrive chokes on any one file it completely stops updating file changes until you fix that. Not a problem for anybody with some savvy, but half the people don’t even notice until their files have diverged and somebody calls them and asks why they don’t see some change or another.
All that being said, if I can save a few hundred dollars a month I could probably eventually talk them into moving over to something cheaper like I did with the Wondershare PDF editor. That was an easy move because it works exactly like Adobe but doesn’t crash on large files nearly as often. It is sort of a shame that Adobe is worse at handling their own file format than nearly any other PDF editor.
It seems like they are doing this to push back on mono-culture. Probably just to save money really. Using 365 saved our small office a lot of time, but it is pretty expensive since it is a constant subscription. I already switched away from Adobe at to Wondershare for PDF editing since we can get a single purchase from Wondershare and have to pay a subscription to Adobe. I would be tempted to do the same thing with 365 but we do a lot of traveling and the integrated sharepoint files is pretty useful.
It means what it means, “freely” pulls its own weight. I didn’t say “readily” accessible. Torrents could be viewed as “readily” accessible but it couldn’t be viewed as “freely” accessible because at the very least you bear the guilt of theft. Library books are “freely” accessible, and if somehow the training involved checking out books and returning them digitally, it should be fine. If it is free to read into neurons it is free to read into neural systems. If payment for reading is expected then it isn’t free.
If you try to sell “the new adventures of Doctor Strange, Jonathan Strange and Magic Man.” existing copyright laws are sufficient and will stop it. Really, training should be regulated by the same laws as reading. If they can get the material through legitimate means it should be fine, but pulling data that is not freely accessible should be theft, as it is already.
More random anti-ai fear mongering. I stopped looking at r/technology posts in reddit because that sub is getting flooded with anti-ai propoganda posts with rediculous headlines like this to the point that those posts and political posts about technology ceos is all there is in that community now. (This one is getting bad too, but there are at least 25% of the posts being actual technology news. r/technology on reddit is reaching single digit percentages for actual technology posts. )