When computer clouds drop its contents, there's no umbrella

Adobe software has been deleting people's files. Our two weathermen at the met office did not press “agree”.


Weather Man 1: I read that Adobe's cloud has been deleting files without asking the owners.

Weather Man 2: Well if we will put files inside a cloud, we can expect trouble. Things fall through clouds. I learnt that as a child. 

 

WM1: It was an update which deleted files stored on a hard drive, in alphabetical order.

WM2: I've got lost a few times trying to work with clouds – they should call them fog or mist.

WM1: It was sexily titled 3.5.0.206.

WM2: Software manufacturers aren't very creative with names. It's not like Daz. New improved formula washes whiter was the sort of slogan they used. Not 3.5.0.206.

WM1: Daz version 6.2051/C doesn't mean very much.

WM2: It doesn't mean much with software either. How could anyone know if version 3.5.0.206 was better 

than 3.5.0.204 or 205?

WM1: Because Adobe tell you it is.

WM2: Daz told me so as well, but I never believed them. The budget soaps still got the washing done.

WM1: And if you were a Daz user but your white shirts weren't getting cleaned white, you wouldn't use Daz 

anyway. It's white or it isn't. There's no grey in there at all.

WM2: And if you are happy with software, why update it? I did once and it made the machine worse. These daysI try to avoid updating. 

WM1: But they nag you. “Have you updated yet? Would you like to update now? Are you sure? Oh go on, 

updating is really good for you. I don't believe you won't update. Your prehistoric. Everyone will laugh at you 

when they see you are using version 203.”

WM2: It's worse than the pester power of children. At least I can lock them in their bedrooms if they get too 

irritating. You buy a new computer and it says “use our pre-loaded software.” You say “no thanks”, but it keeps 

popping up. “Hello, have you reconsidered using our software?” If I lock it away, I spite myself. All computers do

it. 

WM1: The software designers know that; that is why they pester. And designing some sort of obsolescence or 

snooping facility gives them commercial power. 

WM2: If Daz's new improved formula washed whites whiter, but knew how to recognise a blue shirt and turn it 

into yellow, well I'd be peeved. And if I put two socks in but only got one sock out….

WM1: I have a draw full of single socks. Software manufacturers are more subtle. Changing colour is drastic, but what if my software could just relax a thread of a button each time I used it...and then the button dropped off so eventually I purchased a new shirt.

WM2: Pernicious and in league with Lewins. 

WM1: So we need to be dinosaurs. Retro is good. Not keeping up with Mr. Jones is a way to keep safe. Change nothing unless you have to. Ignore their nagging. Tell your computer you will count to three, and if it hasn't 

stopped going on about it by then, you will turn it off.

WM2: I bought a pencil, a rubber and a sharpener the other day.

WM1: Dangle those in front of the computer's in built camera and it will soon behave.

WM2: It will probably just instruct the printer to spew ink all over my paper in retaliation.

WM1: Thank goodness for Daz then.