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> If you really are constantly seeing this then that says a lot about the corporation using severely outdated practices. They probably just used now-outdated p
by LoganDark 2y ago
> If you really are constantly seeing this then that says a lot about the corporation using severely outdated practices.
They probably just used now-outdated practices before those practices were outdated. This happened in the past, remember. Sure, the cloud is a thing today, but was the cloud such a thing 5, 10, 20 years ago? Do you really think it's their fault for not knowing in advance how much of a thing the cloud would one day become? Oh, how outdated. Sheesh.
- dgfitz 2y ago[flagged]
- codetrotter 2y agoAh yes, git and mercurial – the perfect place to save 3TB of binary data that changes weekly.
- LoganDark 2y agoYou know tech savvy was not really a thing back then for the everyday uneducated person, right? You kind of had to have been a geek to have known this stuff. There are a number of dead-simple cloud solutions today, but you cannot just scold, say, WB for not using a company cloud back in checks Wikipedia 1993!
- mulmen 2y agoOk but preserving media seems like a thing Warner Brothers should be really good at. Why did Warner Brothers have an everyday uneducated person in charge of archival?
- LoganDark 2y agoWhy would an archivist back then happen to know computers that intimately? I'd be surprised if the average archivist knew much more than how to do data entry... and I wouldn't even hold it against them if they happened not to know how to do data entry.
- mulmen 2y agoYou don't need to be an expert in the technology to ask a few relevant questions like "where is the information stored?" and "what temperature and humidity does it prefer?" Of course WB is famously bad at storing film too so maybe I shouldn't be surprised.
- mulmen 2y ago20 years ago is 7 years after the show ended. I looked it up.
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> Sure, the cloud is a thing today, but was the cloud such a thing 5, 10, 20 years ago? Yes, yes, and no. For example, https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/908:_The_Cloud https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/908:_The_Cloud is from 2011.
- LoganDark 2y agoThe Onion also made some pretty good cloud parodies back in 2012: https://youtu.be/9ntPxdWAWq8 https://youtu.be/9ntPxdWAWq8 Old animation though I wouldn't necessarily expect to only have been 10 years ago, and 10 years ago I wouldn't expect to be scolded for not using the cloud.
- soco 2y agoI would think policies should also be updated every X years in light of new regulations, new possibilities, new limitations... but who enjoys policies and even updating them? So here we are, everything done "by the book" and losing data because of that.