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Let me share a little marketing secret with you. Any press is good press[^]. As more people talk, post and write articles and continue to mention icons in the news... the marketing guys will push to keep mentioning icons in the press releases.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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As has been very adequately shown by current American politics, not all press is good press. Even Mr. Orange has gotten tired of the responses to his antics, so he hurries on to try the next topic. Marketing should as well, because at some point the general populace will think they are idiots. (Based on current conditions, that may still be a bit in the future for the icons.)
Best wishes,
David
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Twenty years on, the ILOVEYOU virus remains one of the farthest reaching ever. And I love you all as well
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Today, news broke that Zoom signed a deal with Oracle Cloud to host their cloud infrastructure, beating out AWS, Azure, and GCP.
...
The Reuters article helpfully points out that Zoom has 217,000 terabytes a month of traffic flowing through it. If we assume all of that is from inside of Zoom’s environment out to the internet (it absolutely isn’t, but it’s a fine worst-case data transfer scenario) and all of it is moving to Oracle now that the deal is signed (certainly not happening, but work with me here), according to public pricing that data transfer would cost, per month: $11,186,406.55 on AWS, nobody knows on Azure because the pricing calculator thinks I’m screwing with it when I put that big of a number into it, and $1,843,630
Yet another harbinger of the end times.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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For Azure, the lowest advertised price is $0.05/GB* (above 500gb/mo the price is $contact u$), or $50/tb; and suggests a pre mega volume discount bill of $10.85m to host all of Zoom on Azure; slightly better than AWS but not world changing like the $1.8m Oracle lists.
* this is the price for your first 150-500TB in the default central US region to Zone 1, lower amounts are higher priced, but are a tiny fraction of Zoom's total, so I'm ignoring them as rounding error.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: The Reuters article helpfully points out that Zoom has 217,000 terabytes a month of traffic flowing through it.
Now the question is... is it just traffic or storage what are they looking for?
M.D.V. 
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That's just data traffic; mostly video streams. Storing it all in AWS Glacier would be an extra ~$ millon/month of data/month stored if hey just wanted to horde it all.
To actually use it, they'd need to put it in normal storage, for which Amazon S3 would charge ~$20 millon/month of data/month stored.
All prices before call the $ale$ team di$counts. Pricing on competing services is an exercise for the reader.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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In other words... the "privacy" is more or less given, just because it is too expensive to store it?
I think Google and Facebook didn't read that memo 
M.D.V.
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Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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The fact that Google only lets your free account have ~19GB of storage - for the data you consider most important, and thus which should be easiest to monetize - says a lot about the effective limits of how much value can be datamined from your data. Zoom not only has far fewer data points to cross reference and thus less scope to try and monetize; but the video/voice calls it could collect have much lower information density.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Thanks for the explanation, but you did see the joke icon, didn't you?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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mail notifications don't come with icons.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It helps you prepare for likely questions, then analyzes your responses. It's all a ploy so that the AI can get hired instead of us!
First they take our jobs. Then they take our red staplers! Beware! Beware!
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So why hasn't anyone written an AI that will do the job interview for you? I would imagine, if I wrote such a thing and brought it in to the interview to answer the questions, I should instantly be hired!
main()
{
var stupidInterviewQuestion = true;
while (stupidInterviewQuestion)
{
Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine("Please don't ask me questions for which I can simply google the answer.");
}
}
Yes, I've actually used that response.
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And a great response it is! So much so that you want the interview to last forever. 
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IIRCEinstein said: I don't put in my head, what I can carry on my back.
Referring to not learning the WHAT by heart, that can be found in a book. Just learn the HOW and WHY instead.
M.D.V.
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For most of us, traveling faster than the cosmic speed limit—the speed of light—is a science-fiction fantasy that breaks the very foundation of modern physics. "Fantasy will set you free"
Oh, too many layers of indirection in that blurb. It must be time for a cocktail...
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Quote: As Cleaver says, “I think we’re all Star Trek fans.”
tsk tsk...
That explains all... if they were Star War fans, they would have already found something...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Microsoft's Build 2020 event will be very different this year. And not just because it will be a virtual-only conference. And free, free, free. I may actually attend for a change.
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"Free" is usually a marketing term that means "pay more than usual".
Want me to forward all my emails containing the word "free" in the headline? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Rarely paying with money, but rather with butthurt.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: "Free" is usually a marketing term that means "pay more than usual".
Another possibility for "free" is to mean "we will make money out of you somewhere else"
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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We’re introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles. And then they came for the bad songwriters, and I did nothing as I was busy covering my ears
"With my toe sis with my oh sis with time,
At last we woke up with a mind." Me thinks there is little to worry about in the world's recording studios.
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Let me know when it's taken a shot at finishing Bruckner's Ninth.
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Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts
With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Still better than the output of that AI.
TTFN - Kent
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