Some were code-inspired journalists doing it for "real" magazines that wanted "hip" computer content. Most of the people writing "BASIC Zines" weren't BASIC vendors. IĬouldn't think of anything else to talk about, so I told him all aboutĪ couple of days later I was really surprised to get offered the job,Īnd a decade or so later, it was me that became Professor of Networked Systems.Īll because I couldn't resist the challenge to copy a £5 note. Much at all, but that didn't seem to be what the Professor was hoping to hear. The honest answer would have been that I didn't know Of course the first question at interview was ``So, what do you know about Was spectacularly unqualified to do research on networked multimedia,īut I applied anyway as I didn't really have any alternatives left. Now, as an undergrad I had avoidedĪll the classes on networking as I thought they would be boring, so I One on surgical robotics for neurosurgery, but I guess that was tooĪmbitious and didn't get funded in the end. Research projects needing people, and I very much liked the idea of Show for it, but didn't fancy joining the real world. Six months later, I ran out of funding for my PhD without very much to Screen background was a perfect image on a supposedly unscannable £5 Gels, and wrote software to combine multiple monochrome scans into aĬolour image and re-align all the layers properly. Then I tookĪ whole series of scans of a £5 note through the various coloured Stack of different coloured gels from the theatre lights. Went to my friends at the university theatre and returned with a whole Challenge accepted! The Sun workstation I camped out on just happened to be connected to a nice 1200 dpi monochrome scanner. Supposedly they hadĭesigned in loads of high detail textures that would show weirdĪliasing artifacts on the 300 dpi colour scanners that were state of Made huge claims that it could not be scanned. Workstation belonging to some defunct research project, at least whenever I gotĪbout that time, the Bank of England issued a new five pound note and Graphical user interface, and generally camped out on a lovely Sun Understand why my learning algorithms didn't work, I'd written a nice Of time trying to get some simulated bugs to learn to move around,įind food, and generally learn how to be better bugs. Like, I have X-Com: Enemy Unknown on 3 floppy disks, even if I had something that could read floppy disks, I’m not sure how I’d even install it on windows 11 or my Mac.īack in 1990 I was several years into a PhD in neural networks, havingįun, but not really making especially useful progress. I guess you can continue to use an old version of something, but what then you’re using unsupported software, and eventually, you risk that it might not even run on your Operating System without massive amounts of efforts. Even with something like an e-mail client, you’re going to see updates, and you’re not going to be able to influence them anymore with a local program than you are with a web-based program. But the flip side is that you’re probably not going to find a lot of non web-solutions that don’t sort of work similar. I think Figma might be the only service we use where we’re at the “whims” of change that we aren’t able to control, and we do use quite a lot of SaaS software for things that are “less” important to us.Īs a private user you’re right though. That being said, even with SaaS solutions you’re rarely at the “whims” or somebody and their server in enterprise SaaS solutions. This lets you control what happens with the software on the server and the server itself, and it’s frankly often a cheaper option than buying a SaaS solution for things that are vital to your business. You can then run things yourself, or buy the maintenance as well. With the right setup, and this is easy to do with OSS as well, you can buy the development as needed from any of the software houses which specialise in this. What we often do is to buy development, rather than buying a SaaS product. It’s obviously a little different for your personal life, because you’re going to have to spend resources to “self-host” but for a business those resources aren’t going to be too different from buying “classic” software. For businesses the two are rarely mutually exclusive depending.
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