Written by a (spiritual) descendant of Dickens?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/19/2008 05:19 PM, Marc Velasco wrote:
> >
> > >"It appears that desktop-based applications are more secure from face
> > >value,
> >
> > Incomprehensible.  Or did he mean "more secure from Facebook"?
> >
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>"from face value" --> at face value, at first glance, at first blush, etc.

Thanks for the translation!


>what the writer is trying to get at is that, a total picture of 'data
>security' doesn't just mean 'safe from hackers' (ie, deliberate theft), but
>data being safe from all types of calamities (deliberate + accidental
>(including natural disasters, acts of God, War, ...)).
>
>
> >
> > >but our model discounts data loss from hard
> > >drive failures, bad backups, and all of the other means that isolated
> > >pieces of hardware can refuse to work. When you add in the added
> > >convenience of accessible-from-anywhere, continuously backed-up, low
> > >administration services,
> >
>
>the rest of these are jargon/near-jargon terms which wouldn't trip up the
>target audience too much.

Nor those in the target audience who can't speak coherent sentences
either.  (I know all the jargon here, but I've read better paragraphs.)

Joel




> >
> >
> > I prefer high administration services -- with lower cost.
>
>
> > Joel
> >
> > >it is quite easy to see
> > >how many people prefer using webmail and equivalent systems."
> > >
> > >Written 9/18/08 by a native speaker of AmE for a ZDNet article.
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