{"id":2885,"date":"2019-12-11T05:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T13:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2019-12-11T05:22:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T13:22:19","slug":"vendor-lock-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=2885","title":{"rendered":"Vendor Lock-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2885-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/w1a-2_point_naught.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/w1a-2_point_naught.mp4\">https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/w1a-2_point_naught.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2885-2\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/w1a_offbutton-1.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/w1a_offbutton-1.mp4\">https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/w1a_offbutton-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"page\">\n<div class=\"g mnone\">\n<div id=\"editor1\" class=\"g-b g-b--t1of2 split split-editor\">\n<div id=\"editor\" class=\"ui-resizable-e ace_editor ace-dillinger\">\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\u201cThen I\u2019m afraid were just going to have to cut our looses \u2013 for the moment anyway \u2013 before something truly awful happens and switch it off.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cSwitch it off?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"preview1\" class=\"g-b g-b--t1of2 split split-preview\">\n<div id=\"preview\" class=\"preview-html\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"has-line-data\" data-line-start=\"6\" data-line-end=\"7\">\u201cYeah, very good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-line-data\" data-line-start=\"8\" data-line-end=\"9\">\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-line-data\" data-line-start=\"10\" data-line-end=\"11\">Following an upgrade of the BBC\u2019s cutting-edge Syncopatico in-house operating system its syncopaticaption intelligent live subtitling software is still doggedly refusing either to learn from its mistakes or to give up and switch itself off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-line-data\" data-line-start=\"12\" data-line-end=\"13\">\u201cAs I say I\u2019m not technical, but would it help if I put a hammer through some of this crap in here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-line-data\" data-line-start=\"14\" data-line-end=\"15\">\u201cYeah\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-line-data\" data-line-start=\"16\" data-line-end=\"17\">\u201cI\u2019m not being funny \u2013 I\u2019m including you in that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-line-data\" data-line-start=\"18\" data-line-end=\"19\">\u201cSo one thing that\u2019s really impressive about 2.0\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-line-data\" data-line-start=\"20\" data-line-end=\"21\">\u201cImpressive?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-line-data\" data-line-start=\"22\" data-line-end=\"23\">\u201c\u2026 is that, once it\u2019s up and running, it\u2019s design to be pretty much bomb-proof.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-line-data\" data-line-start=\"24\" data-line-end=\"25\">\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-line-data\" data-line-start=\"26\" data-line-end=\"27\">\u201cYou can literally pull the plug and it\u2019ll keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-line-data\" data-line-start=\"28\" data-line-end=\"29\">\u201cI don\u2019t believe this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-line-data\" data-line-start=\"30\" data-line-end=\"31\">\u201cSo the thing with fail-safe protocols these days\u2026 I mean they\u2019re brilliant, don\u2019t get me wrong, they\u2019re pretty much close to perfect as long as everything works fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-line-data\" data-line-start=\"32\" data-line-end=\"33\">\u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-line-data\" data-line-start=\"34\" data-line-end=\"35\">\u201cBut the second something starts to go wrong \u2013 which technically can\u2019t happen, by the way \u2013 to be honest, you kind of miss the off button. Do you know what I mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-line-data\" data-line-start=\"36\" data-line-end=\"37\">\u201cAh!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-line-data\" data-line-start=\"38\" data-line-end=\"39\">\u201cI know. Who\u2019d have thought?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"page\">\n<div class=\"g mnone\">\n<div id=\"editor1\" class=\"g-b g-b--t1of2 split split-editor\">\n<div id=\"editor\" class=\"ui-resizable-e ace_editor ace-dillinger\">\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"preview1\" class=\"g-b g-b--t1of2 split split-preview\">\n<div id=\"preview\" class=\"preview-html\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[video width=\"640\" height=\"360\" mp4=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/w1a-2_point_naught.mp4\"][\/video] [video width=\"640\" height=\"360\" mp4=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/w1a_offbutton-1.mp4\"][\/video] \u201cThen I\u2019m afraid were just going to have to cut our looses \u2013 for the moment anyway \u2013 before something truly awful happens and switch it off.\u201d \u201cSwitch it off?\u201d \u201cYeah, I\u2019m sorry.\u201d \u201cYeah, very good.\u201d \u201cWhat?\u201d Following an upgrade of the BBC\u2019s cutting-edge Syncopatico in-house operating&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-work","kind-note","h-entry","hentry"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2892,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions\/2892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}