Your "rule of thumb"? Have you looked at statistical methods for determining valid sample sizes from a population? A much smaller sample size than 100,000 is going to be a valid sample in many cases. There's real math behind this determination not just a rule of thumb.

The left like Mark Zuckerberg who was on stage at Trump's inauguration?

Being able to download videos in the app on my phone is a big benefit also... saves me a lot of mobile bandwidth.

It's frustrating that you truly think you are one of a few people that understand why library records should be kept private. You should try attending an ALA America Library Association conference and see just how "few" people understand that. (It's not really "few" people that understand that.)

So that article is about a lawsuit that doesn't appear to have been found correct either way. When I try to search to find more information I'm quickly seeing sources like the Daily Signal. Seems to be a pretty extremist take on the situation.

It really seems like you are cheering for more people to be "jobless on the streets" (your words). That's some dystopian crap.

Uh... I don't have any hybrid benefits or eligible software assurance benefits so I guess I didn't fuck up. I was just doing exactly this comparison for a new small business... we don't have any existing Windows licenses etc. Starting from zero. GCP was the option we were going to go with as it's slightly cheaper.

Yes I did... in GCP's pricing calculator you select which O/S you will use and the pricing reflects that... the same size VM is about $116/month for Windows or $49 if a free Linux distro like CentOS. Azure pricing for the same size VM is $154/month (for a Window VM), so more expensive than GCP.

Ah... maybe the issue is more related to Enterprises that already own Windows (and other products) licenses and want to be able to move those licenses to a cloud.

I did this exercise recently for a real product, but just did again after reading this story... priced out 2 vCPU, 8GB RAM, 50gb disk Windows Server VM in GCP and Azure. It's slightly cheaper in GCP. Definitely not 5x more. Is this about other products like MS SQL?

There's probably not many companies the size of LAUSD that use paper and pencils to manage their payroll. It sounds like classes will be on track today.

I'm not sure why you'd design your AD environment like that though.

Here we are... MIcrosoft changed course in response to feedback.

I guess that's because you are a physicist and don't work in IT? Or you are just trying to be willfully ignorant? Visual Studio is a development tool, I don't know why you think Windows boxes are always installing C++ runtimes?? There is plenty of information to be found about what ".NET" is.

NPR is definitely not far left. As a progressive I find their news ridiculous... they are apologists for warmongers.