Geek Jokes

[Clockwork Cupcake]

geeks said:

That's the truth

[Gman20]

[mko9]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

geeks said:

That's the truth

That is what I always said when "the cloud" became a buzzword - you mean on a server somewhere?

[timbo999]

mko9 said:

That is what I always said when "the cloud" became a buzzword - you mean on a server somewhere?

Well, I'm no IT geek (not for 30 years or so!) but doesn't 'cloud' imply a virtual server running on one or more physical servers which can be located anywhere and you don't know where necessarily... thus a cloud? I may be due a parrot!

[ZesPak]

timbo999 said:

Well, I'm no IT geek (not for 30 years or so!) but doesn't 'cloud' imply a virtual server running on one or more physical servers which can be located anywhere and you don't know where necessarily... thus a cloud? I may be due a parrot!

The fact that you don't know where doesn't mean it's not just someone else's server.
So you're both right.
As for "one or more physical servers", you could also achieve that on your own machines.

[i4got]

timbo999 said:

Well, I'm no IT geek (not for 30 years or so!) but doesn't 'cloud' imply a virtual server running on one or more physical servers which can be located anywhere and you don't know where necessarily... thus a cloud? I may be due a parrot!

You know those cheap holiday deals you can book where you know you're going to a resort but you don't know what hotel you'll be in till you arrive? Well, that.

[glenrobbo]

mko9 said:

That is what I always said when "the cloud" became a buzzword - you mean on a server somewhere?

No, it's here:

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g312...

[MartG]

[K12beano]

Gman20 said:

Yay!!

Classic

[kambites]

"Formulas" is not a word.

[Munter]

kambites said:

"Formulas" is not a word.

If enough people use it, and understand it's meaning. It's a word. Although quite what the formulas are to decide officially. I'm uncertain.

[Munter]

i4got said:

timbo999 said:

Well, I'm no IT geek (not for 30 years or so!) but doesn't 'cloud' imply a virtual server running on one or more physical servers which can be located anywhere and you don't know where necessarily... thus a cloud? I may be due a parrot!

You know those cheap holiday deals you can book where you know you're going to a resort but you don't know what hotel you'll be in till you arrive? Well, that.

I think you're both missing the key "on demand / self service" part.

You can setup a cloud and know exactly what hardware something is running on if you want. That's not the point of "cloud". The point would be that people given access, can do things I let them do, when they want to do it. The exact location can be known, or unknown, that's just hosting, not cloud.

[Gman20]

kambites said:

"Formulas" is not a word.

Correct, it is a string

[deckster]

Munter said:

I think you're both missing the key "on demand / self service" part.

You can setup a cloud and know exactly what hardware something is running on if you want. That's not the point of "cloud". The point would be that people given access, can do things I let them do, when they want to do it. The exact location can be known, or unknown, that's just hosting, not cloud.

Indeed. The idea that a cloud service is just a bunch of VMs running your software is somewhat outdated, largely perpetuated by frustrated infrastructure architects who are just annoyed they can't hold up your project by saying you can't have a dev environment before the end of June

[Abbott]

Munter said:

kambites said:

"Formulas" is not a word.

If enough people use it, and understand it's meaning. It's a word. Although quite what the formulas are to decide officially. I'm uncertain.

Are you suggesting that the formulae are meeting to decide what to self identify as?

[Gman20]

Algorithms

[toasty]

Abbott said:

Munter said:

kambites said:

"Formulas" is not a word.

If enough people use it, and understand it's meaning. It's a word. Although quite what the formulas are to decide officially. I'm uncertain.

Are you suggesting that the formulae are meeting to decide what to self identify as?

Latin words appropriated by the English language usually form their plurals by the English method of adding an “s”, except in academic circles where the plural formulae is often the norm.

Formulas is correct as PH is not an academic circle (not even the Geek Jokes thread).

[Voldemort]

kambites said:

"Formulas" is not a word.

F1 and F2 cars will both be racing at Aintree this weekend. This will be the first time both formulae have raced together.

[timbo999]

deckster said:

Indeed. The idea that a cloud service is just a bunch of VMs running your software is somewhat outdated, largely perpetuated by frustrated infrastructure architects who are just annoyed they can't hold up your project by saying you can't have a dev environment before the end of June

I'm not surprised my view is outdated tbh... the last time I did anything really techy it was cracking line printer dumps from a 2900...

[Magnum 475]

deckster said:

Munter said:

I think you're both missing the key "on demand / self service" part.

You can setup a cloud and know exactly what hardware something is running on if you want. That's not the point of "cloud". The point would be that people given access, can do things I let them do, when they want to do it. The exact location can be known, or unknown, that's just hosting, not cloud.

Indeed. The idea that a cloud service is just a bunch of VMs running your software is somewhat outdated, largely perpetuated by frustrated infrastructure architects who are just annoyed they can't hold up your project by saying you can't have a dev environment before the end of June

Or by infrastructure managers who're busily stting themselves at losing most of their responsibilities when their workloads all move off to cloud.