> Gates and his then-wife Melinda took a decisive step by limiting screen time to 45 minutes for games, with an additional hour allowed on weekends. This was in addition to the time required for homework.
Bit of a misleading title. Not really banned, limited use, which should the case with consumption of any of these technologies anyways.
But the market has actually rewarded companies pausing hiring and doing layoffs. In other words, if company is saving money by reducing fixed salary costs, market appreciates that move.
It's common to let people go on the same day. You don't want people to cause issues through malicious intent, by not caring or just being Debbie Downer. Some people might argue differently but when you know that nothing you do will matter in a few weeks, then your output will suffer.
oh no! I really loved your reporting. One time I was on the job market and I was talking to a company that had so little information about them on the internet, I saw you had profiled the company and its founder. Helped me immensely to know about the company's business model. Wish you all the best in your next adventure.
> The Pentagon said in the press release that it still needs enterprise-scale cloud capability and announced a new multi-vendor contract known as the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability. The agency said it plans to solicit proposals from both Amazon and Microsoft for the contract, adding that they are the only cloud service providers that can meet its needs.
I can understand Google employees' passion to curb the power of military. I myself strongly support keeping government's power in check too. But the hatred towards the military, to the point of actively sabotaging military's effort to improve itself? That I don't understand. I really wish those employees travel back in time to experience the European people's life under Mongolian's reign, or the Aztec's life when Spaniards attacked, or the life of people in Manchurian when Nurgaci's tribe was rising in the early 17th century, or the life of Chinese people merely a hundred years ago when Japanese invaded. Shouldn't it mean something when millions of innocent people were slaughtered in a matter of years, or when a civilization (especially a more advanced one) got destroyed, or when a nation's human rights were stepped on?
P.S., it's worth mentioning that it was the Manchurian who restored slavery in Qing Dynasty. The word Nucai in Chinese or 명사 in Korean, meaning Your Slave, was such an honorary title that for more than 300 years until early 20th century only those who were trusted by the royals could use. Yeah, don't wanna be a slave? Build a good army.
isn't the US Military the equivalent of the "Manchu" here? (The US Military wiped out the natives, took all their land, and brought and enforced slavery on this land?) Didn't the US just annex Hawaii as an official state a few years ago? Isn't all of California land that the military just kinda stole from Mexico?
Then, it means that they are run by people who are not blinded by greed, and care about earth .... Ahh who am I kidding! They will both say yes. Amazon even sued the government for it
If GCP have fedramp high that’s roughly equivalent to AWS govcloud (fedramp high ~= IL4).
AWS and Azure also have IL6 regions (able to hold secret information).
Finally AWS runs a top secret cloud for the intelligence community. I believe Azure announced a similar project but not when it’ll be open for business.
A memo went out last year about all federal networks supporting IPv6 only in the coming years. Since Google's cloud doesn't really support IPv6 at all, I don't think they were going to win the contract anyway.
That was an excuse and a convenient cover story. GCP can't even serve the needs of large organizations, they definitely can't service the government. Couple that with the leaked plans to shut the thing down because it's an abject failure (it's a money pit for Google), and why would you want to be on the platform of certain disaster?
I've had demos from GCP sales reps, and the platform is shambolic. It doesn't even work during sales presentations.
Your example of a "large organization" is the state of Arizona? Australia Post, a tiny regional mail delivery company? What's your definition of "large"?
Also, it's evident they cannot service those customers. Australia Post has a large contract with AWS. Whoops.
I've worked in many large organizations. I've received GCP pitches. I've participated in evaluations of GCP as a technology solution. It's substantially worse than Azure, plus according to their leaked massive losses on the product it'll be shuttered this decade.
>This feels very hyperbolic to me
Their dashboards are typical Angular heavyweight clunk, with confusing error messages, infinite loading spinners and things break constantly. It's been discussed here extensively. [1]
Their actual decent products (BigQuery) are hamstrung by the rest of the failing platform.
The best thing that happened for Windows Server and Exchange is Microsoft started to run them at scale in house. Suddenly things that had been complained about for decades magically started getting fixed :)
GCP has some good bits. They're just running into the same problem everyone had catching Windows: it's really hard to compete from a fresh start with something that's been incrementally improved over years of significant use.
Especially when you're Google (our customers aren't as smart as us) competing with Amazon.
Everyone bar AWS is focusing on multicloud. And VMware's offerings are utter shite and very poor features wise ( where it matters), so I doubt they'll be impacted.
( Their offerings were so bad they were forced to sell their vSphere as a service arm to a low cost hosting provider. Even with the popularity of that dumpster fire in DCs and most companies moving away from DCs they still couldn't capture any market share)
> Logs are written to the flash memory every time the car is in use, which soon reaches its lifetime number of write cycles; once this limit has been reached, the touchscreen dies
wonder if the write cycles are reset when the car is restarted?
I get the gist of what the author is trying to tell us here, don't fall on the hype train(trending on Netflix, YouTube, social media etc.) now, instead allow media contents coming out today to settle, undergo the test of time, and if it is truly good content, in a few years from now it may still be regarded as worthy. The author seems to be applying the same logic when choosing contents that are 10 or 20 years old, only those that have continued to sustain its popularity/fame is what's considered as worthy.
Bit of a misleading title. Not really banned, limited use, which should the case with consumption of any of these technologies anyways.