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Comment Re:No, they don't. (Score 3, Interesting) 35

by EvilSS (#65929184) Attached to: Amazon Is Buying America's First New Copper Output In More Than a Decade
When I worked for a large beer company, we made the 3rd party can producers buy aluminum for our cans from us. We bought it and sold it to them at our cost. That way we knew what their primary input costs were, and therefore what they were marking us up. This kept their prices in line. We also had our own can and bottle plants that produced part of our needs, mainly to remind our suppliers we could do it without them if we wanted.

Comment Re:I don't agree (Score 1) 149

by EvilSS (#65924110) Attached to: Bezos's Vision of Rented Cloud PCs Looks Less Far-Fetched
This. VDI makes sense for some corporate use cases, but for individual users I don't ever see it happening and one of the main reasons is the need for an endpoint device. That device can be cheap, but most users are still going to want good screens, keyboards, etc. And it still needs some RAM and a CPU. GPU if you want to pass down decent graphics (it doesn't need to be a powerhouse and integrated will work but it does need some capabilities to handle streaming things that use the GPU on the cloud PC.) At that point, why not spend the extra to just get a real PC.

Comment Re:Pulled a Steve Jobs (Score 1) 380

by EvilSS (#65922008) Attached to: Scott Adams, Creator of the 'Dilbert' Comic Strip, Dies at 68

The NIH link was seven days after infection. That doesn't sound very early to me.

That is with in the period you expect symptoms to start showing up, and people to start seeking testing/medical attention so yes, that's early in my book.

India included it in their pill packs and we didn't have the crazy stories about extreme numbers of deaths there.

India reported ~45M infections with ~533K deaths, or around 1% which matches basically every other country including the US.

Comment Re:Eye Opening Breakdown (Score 1) 33

How many companies switched from running Exchange in their data center to outsourcing the email server? How many are big enough to justify the IT costs of running an email server? Keeping up with security against minor and state level actors. Purchasing the bandwidth to ingest spam that come in alonside legit emails.

Quote a few. Getting rid of on-prem Exchange is usually the thing everyone is most excited for. Almost no-one wants to manage Exchange anymore, and I don't blame them. It's a pain in the ass and way over complicated for what it is.

How many colleges and Universities no longer run email servers for students and staff?

The market to run those private copies has shrunk too. What can't you do on a phone or tablet or a computer's web browser (being win, mac, linux, chromebook). The capabilities are increasing too. Emulators can run in web browsers. And CAD systems.

Again, quite a few. Both Google and Microsoft give academic institutions sweetheart deals on their office suites.

Comment Re:2-year schools (Score 1) 93

by EvilSS (#65906819) Attached to: 'The College Backlash is a Mirage'
The only really stagnate section for 4 yr public was 2018 to 2020 and 2020 to 2022 (flat, 100K decrease) but in 2024 it rebounded back and the gain between 2022 and 2024 is in line with the gains seen prior to 2018. I'd say that anomaly lines up pretty well with COVID. At the same time, enrollment in 2yr public colleges peaked in 2010 and declined until 2022, with a 300,000 uptick from 2022 to 2024, the only gain in enrollment since 2010.

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