TheBrain 10 released

Posted by 22111
Nov 15, 2018 at 07:02 PM

Amontillado,

Thank you for this info, which is not in accordance with what that other users (link above) said, but he could have been mistaken. Thus we probably have:

- metadata (only, but incl. titling) in XML (which would explain why a 500,000 items “brain” would remain manageable; with (text) content in XML, too, that would have been another story; btw, the Adobe pic management software “Bridge” also uses XML, in a seemingly identical model (with Adobe LR, it had been just a little bit different: metadata and previews in an SQLite db, pics in the file system: in hidden folders, and named by strings assigned by the db):

- content/pics as separate (for text: XML again? or rtf? hmtl?) files in the file system.

IF this is true today, I don’t see any problem with this model:

- XML metadata readable by the import script of other (in case db-based) programs > “tree” and several link architectures can be completely rebuilt

- XML/rtf/html content data readable by other programs, ditto for pics and “external” documents (in fact, this system would then probably not make any difference between internal and external documents, or perhaps (but not necessarily so) for document titling: “internal” content = a “thought” ‘s note field = external file in hidden folder and titled with string assigned by XML (similar to LR above), and “real” external files in regular folders and with their original titles

> NO scrambling (encryption) of your data while it’s on your own system = XML/rtf/html readable by ANY editor, so as long there is always all the (un-encrypted) data on your pc (, too), no problem.

IF that is the current state of affaires with TB.

As for data leaks, there is traditional industrial espionage, too, of course; just today:
https://www.focus.de/regional/koeln/koeln-china-spitzel-enttarnt-e-mails-an-herrn-u-irrer-spionage-krimi-mitten-koeln_id_9917256.html

where two Germans with Chinese origins spied for the Chinese, in Lanxess corporation, which is the new denomination of the traditional (and universally known) Bayer Chemical and Polymerics plants.

Considering the fact that “fully-functional” mobile devices have been slimmed down to around 1 kg (Windows 10 i7, Apple ditto), that mobile storage contains 2 tb (and more now) without problems, I don’t really see the alleged necessity for TB-or-other-third-parties-rented web space, with the risk of data leaks from there, for most use cases; I see the necessity/utility, for a traveling salesman in the industrial sector, to the “plant” db (the plants probably being in China, nowadays, while the mainframe is somewhere in the U.S., but access to it would come handy indeed), but for most use cases, almost anything could be duplicated on mobile, fully-functional devices, with sync to the office pc once (or maybe even several times) a day.

Then there is collaboration, not bound to the same premises anymore: I see these use cases, but I doubt people, once the will have gone back from iPads and the like to (now really) mobile “full” pc’s/macs, will really need or profit from web storage, except for select, very minor datasets, and Towne didn’t need such a thing as “collaborative screenwriting software” for “Chinatown”, whilst for that incredibly unbearable German TV crap for the masses, today’s writers probably are asked to use such software: they then get a pittance each, Town got paid decently.

And Bayer-Lanxess probably didn’t only made at least two very gross mistakes in the HR department, but also in their information management, and probably continue to do so.