Technology I'm sick of hearing about

[Halo Jones]

3D printing will become more relevant to me; it’s really starting to pick up in construction.
But the cloud (known as offsite servers) have been around for years.

[VectraMan]

I was looking for information on virtual hosted servers the other day, but of course all the people who did virtual servers don't do them any more. They do "cloud servers".

Obviously it's more important to use the right buzzwords than it is to tell your customers what it is you're actually selling.

[RasputinDude]

The Cloud
Can't envisage any conceivable situation where either would be remotely relevant to me (for my own use anyway).

You don't use netflix?
Amazon prime?
Channel 4 on demand?
Amazon?
GitHub?
BitBucket?
Evernote?
Spotify?

Personally I'm not interested in 3D printing, but the cloud is very relevant to me - and it also makes me rather a lot of money

[VectraMan]

You don't use netflix?
Amazon prime?
Channel 4 on demand?
Amazon?
GitHub?
BitBucket?
Evernote?
Spotify?

You mean The Internet?

[RasputinDude]

You mean The Internet?

All those services are hosted on the public cloud.

[SueEllen]

You don't use netflix?
Amazon prime?
Channel 4 on demand?
Amazon?
GitHub?
BitBucket?
Evernote?
Spotify?

Personally I'm not interested in 3D printing, but the cloud is very relevant to me - and it also makes me rather a lot of money

3D printing will become more and more useful for the normal person, right now there are just specialist uses for it.

Oh and I love the " cloud".

[JRCT]

The slow cooker.

It's just a small oven that's not quite as good as a big one so it takes longer.

Get over it.

[VectraMan]

All those services are hosted on the public cloud.

I see. What does that mean? Why is it different from being hosted on the public Internet?

[lilelvis2000]

The internet of things: more total bollox.

Cars stuffed so full of electronics that they're unrepairable.

The cloud.

Orifice365.

- internet of things..don't tell my brother-in-law, he's making millions off that.

- Now this is why I drive a 25 yearold banger. and guess what? Its the most damn reliable car I have.

- Okay so its my job at present, so Yippeee!. But I do want to retire to teaching! (arthritis kicking in)

- office 365 - the best thing out there.
at least on the cloud I won't (hopefully) have to worry about my data on 3.5" floppy or the data on 1/4" tape that I can no longer access because who would have thought those would become obsolete!

[lilelvis2000]

The Cloud

3D printing

Can't envisage any conceivable situation where either would be remotely relevant to me (for my own use anyway).

3D printing means I can fabricate parts for my Morris! No hunting around through boxes at swap meets. - well okay its probably a bit of a ways off and my lovely will probably fall to dust by that time. But ya gotta dream sometimes.