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Mouse eggs

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There are some things that our kids will have no idea about.

This comic is a good example of this. There will be people who read this, who will not immediately know what it is about.
They never knew the simple pleasure of needing to pop the ball out of your mouse to clean it, and improve your computing experience.

Of course, this is not the only example of this. The speed at which technology moves means that many ‘modern improvements’ are just considered as the way things work, by younger generations.
The old “cassette and pencil” combination is already beyond many people.
Another old habit that kids see these days, and laugh at, is the “blow the cartridge” technique. (This still works well on so many things, by the way)

I am almost embarrassed to tell my children that in originally, to play the classic “Frogger” game at home, I used one of these in order to run this.

But, of course, until it is released as an online MMORPG with a 3D film adaptation and erchandising, my kids won’t know what FROGGER is anyway…

Tablet Computing

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Yep, that’s right!  Agent-X comics has jumped on the tablet computing band wagon.

Okay, not really. But I AM making fun of tablet computers.

And let’s face it – that is what you came here for, right?

 

 

 

 

 

Right?

 

 

 

 

…right??

 

 

 

 

 

Hello? You still there?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fine. Bugger off then.
Your mum stayed…..

Furry Download

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You wouldn’t download a bear…

Well, what if you could? I am pretty sure it would not end well. That bear would come out of your computer pretty cranky at having been squeezed through the tubes that the internet is made of.
I imagine the tubes to be pretty small, judging solely on how long it takes me to download nude photos of WWF wrestlers informational articles about cooking.

This comic was inspired by this poster, which of makes fun of the Anti-Piracy ads that appear on videos and DVDs before a rental movie starts. Oh, you have no idea what that ad is?  Then by all means, go and watch it.

Anyway, if I was going to download real things off the web, they would be:

  • Comic books (real ones)
  • Money
  • Pizza
  • A Unicorn.

In that order.

 

Dangerous Clouds

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The practice of cloud computing is here to stay.
Like it or not, you will be storing or accessing items in ‘the cloud’ for many years to come.

Already, the term ‘the cloud’ is not completly accurate, as there are now many different ‘clouds’ out there.
Think of it as a ‘Cloudscape’, if you will.
It is made of some very large cloud locations, such as the Amazon cloud, Microsoft cloud, the Sony PSN cloud and the Google cloud. Of course, there are many other smaller clouds as well. (Geez – I am sick of writing the word cloud already).

This shared cyberspace is already very splintered, so it is best to think of it in terms of what these different clouds offer, from a service point of view. It breaks down into 5 basic  “cloud services” markets.

These are:

– web-based services (eg: Google & Flickr)
– software-as-a-service (SAAS) offerings (eg: Box.net & Microsoft Exchange online)
– app-components-as-a-service  (eg: Google APIs & MSalesforce App Exchange)
– software-platform-as-a-service (eg: salesforce.com & Netsuite)
– virtual-infrastructure-as-a-service (eg: Akami)

For many, this all means pretty much nothing and the bottom line here is that pretty much every man & his dog is in the cloud now.
So, you need to unclench and just embrace it.

You should even start to learn some of the cloud computing terminology that comes with the territory.
Then, when people discuss it with you, you won’t seem to be in such of a fog.

 

 

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