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"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." - Leslie Lamport
I consider this quote tounge in cheek. A properly distributed system will keep your system functioning even when remote components are down.
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I don't have the data to back it up, but (for example) data loss as a whole have probably considerably gone down with transitions to SaaS. Sure you can self-host, but who do you trust more: some guy on your team who has other things to do, or a team that does only that ? And a team whose livelyhood depends on uptime/data protection. Here people can't work, but imagine the amount of work if there was a data failure on…
The other thing is that this outage is affecting whole departments. If you lose your laptop, that's one person out. If the SaaS goes down, all users lose out. In a department heavy with photoshop users, it brings that department to a halt.
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I don't know about you, but I happen to live in a place were those things are still mostly under government control, and we very, very rarely see blackouts of the kind that have hit eg parts of the US from time to time. And I don't need banking 24/7 to do my job. I don't need water 24/7 to live, especially if an outage is made public in advance. I am (too) dependent on electricity -- but there are alternatives if I n…
I happen to live in a place where utilities are deregulated and people can choose from any number of competitors for their supplier, and US-style blackouts are literally completely unheard of.
Yes, you can usually pick your own retailer for you utilities. But you cannot pick the distributor (downstream of the retailer, owns cables or pipes in your street) or transmission (upstream of the retailer, owns the cables or pipes providing your city).
The sales/distribution company usually doesn't own anything, they are just sales and marketing office. Everything is physically provided by companies, that you cannot choose.
And this is why I won't trust SaaS that doesn't provide a viable self-host solution (which for practical purposes tends to mean Free software, although I suppose "binary" only self-contained jars might be a realistic alternative). And also why I can't see myself selling/working on such a solution without providing some form of viable / realistic exit strategy/alternative. With traditional apps, you run the risk of eg…
I'm not sure to understand your point. Does it boil down to "single point of failure are bad"? There are alternatives to each of the Adobe products, self hosted and available offline. People going the Creative Cloud route for their daily job are in a situation where the alternative costed too much or doesn't allow them to do their job in a sufficient way, so there was no real viable options from the start. The proble…
Having worked with designers I'm going to disagree. For most designers Photoshop or Illustrator are the only tools they'll even consider using because they're so much more powerful than the competition. That's changing a little with things like Pixelmator, but even then people have to learn a new workflow after decades of using Photoshop.
And this is why I won't trust SaaS that doesn't provide a viable self-host solution (which for practical purposes tends to mean Free software, although I suppose "binary" only self-contained jars might be a realistic alternative). And also why I can't see myself selling/working on such a solution without providing some form of viable / realistic exit strategy/alternative. With traditional apps, you run the risk of eg…
I'm building a POS app for the invoice. One of the main requirements (self impose) is that the data is local-first and sync with the cloud. THIS point is one of the hardest to implement for me, and I still have not figured how do it well.
But still can't release this app without this. I believe that have a exit strategy for the app data is too important (the data is stored in a sqlite database, with decent naming and very simple structure).
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I happen to live in a place where utilities are deregulated and people can choose from any number of competitors for their supplier, and US-style blackouts are literally completely unheard of.
Are you sure that the deregulation is not just empty word? Yes, you can usually pick your own retailer for you utilities. But you cannot pick the distributor (downstream of the retailer, owns cables or pipes in your street) or transmission (upstream of the retailer, owns the cables or pipes providing your city). The sales/distribution company usually doesn't own anything, they are just sales and marketing office. Eve…
With non-power utilities, even this isn't an issue - water or gas are never randomly shut off without warning.
[1] There is a small deficit of generation capacity under some conditions, primarily due to recent underinvestment in nuclear energy, so power is purchased from France routinely, who have a large surplus due to their much stronger generation infrastructure, but even if this became unavailable, the capacity is enough to prevent US-style grid failures.
Adobe Management: Oh no, our users cannot work. Let's remove the requirement for our software to phone home just to open/work.
What will probably happen:
Adobe Management: Hmm, maybe let's try to make our servers more available?
Complete non-hacked photoshop CS2 is freely available with serial - http://www.techspot.com/downloads/3689-adobe-photoshop-cs2.h... It works pretty well in Wine as well, if you fiddle with the settings.
If you're happy using software you don't have a license for, why not grab CS6 off of the your favorite torrent site. People bitch and bitch about DRM (and god knows I do as well), but as soon as a company tries to release software without any licensing hoops or other checks, people jump all over it and shout "Hey everybody, this company isn't going out of their way stop me from using their software, it must be free!!…
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I don't know about you, but I happen to live in a place were those things are still mostly under government control, and we very, very rarely see blackouts of the kind that have hit eg parts of the US from time to time. And I don't need banking 24/7 to do my job. I don't need water 24/7 to live, especially if an outage is made public in advance. I am (too) dependent on electricity -- but there are alternatives if I n…
> I don't know about you, but I happen to live in a place were those things are still mostly under government control, and we very, very rarely see blackouts of the kind that have hit eg parts of the US from time to time. That's just propaganda. I'm sure there's places where water and electricity are under government control and it still sucks, and i bet there's places where they aren't and everything works great. It…
And this is why proprietary lock-in is wrong. Adobe seem to do all they can to screw up the computer their software is installed on. On a Mac you are supposed to drag an app into the Applications folder; to delete it, drag it to trash. Adobe software doesn't work like this. To install a trial of their software you have to install multiple apps, that can't be easily removed, and put up with their stupid Adobe logo in…
If you enable case sensitivity on OSX filesystem, adobe photoshop won't install. http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-case-sensitiv...
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why would you do that to yourself!?