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hooch
.. 1.5 petabyte of storage, 2 petabytes of tape, or a top 200 supercomputer
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hooch
Since its offering, Google has quadrupled its staff to more than 9,000 employees - many with doctorates from the world's leading universities - and it is still hiring more than 100 a week to fill more than 40 offices in more than 20 countries. Last year it received more than one million résumés.
hooch
It is pouring billions of dollars a year into research, computers, and a global communications network - not to mention its investments in solar energy, a new campus at a decommissioned naval air station, and an army of private chefs cooking free meals out of organic produce and hormone-free meat.
hooch
.. by many measures, Googleâs stock price is not at the extreme level of the turn of the millennium. Googleâs value today is only slightly higher than the $150 billion that Yahoo reached in January 2000. That year Yahoo only earned a profit of $71 million on sales of $1.1 billion; Google, in contrast, is expected to record profits of $2.8 billion this year on gross revenue of $10 billion.
2006-11-21 06:04
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hooch
"an integration plan for digital immigrants is the theme I have chosen tonight"
hooch
"When the Internet was first invented and innovative people began to contemplate how to make money out of it, it was assumed the Net would simply be a distribution pipe for content as opposed to something that users might be able to influence."
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2006-11-13 13:09
hooch
160 characters in just 41.52 seconds
hooch
the standard text for all SMS compos is: "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human."
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hooch
hooch
"Ask.com operations VP Dayne Sampson estimates that the five leading search companies together have some 2 million servers, each shedding 300 watts of heat annually, a total of 600 megawatts.
hooch
"These are linked to hard drives that dissipate perhaps another gigawatt. Fifty percent again as much power is required to cool this searing heat, for a total of 2.4 gigawatts.
hooch
"With a third of the incoming power already lost to the grid's inefficiencies, and half of what's left lost to power supplies, transformers, and converters, the total of electricity consumed by major search engines in 2006 approaches 5 gigawatts."
hooch
down-to-earth discussion prompted by George Gilder's unbridled enthusiasm in Wired
2006-11-10 01:38
hooch
OpenMoko has announced the availability of "a completely integrated open source mobile communications platform." It's based on the OpenEmbedded platform and is meant to be hackable. Some pictures are available on the OpenMoko site.
hooch
Much of the system-level software was done by Harald Welte, who says "So basically, from a Free Software community level, this is exactly the kind of phone you want to get involved with, and play with. Yes, it's not the perfect phone.
hooch
"It runs a proprietary GSM stack on a separate processor. There are some minor, self-contained proprietary bits on the back end side in userspace. But well, it's probably the best you can do as a first shot of a new generation of devices, and without too much existing market power to put on upstream vendors."
hooch
2006-11-10 01:22
2006-11-09 23:12
dools
Found this one while looking for the exact wording of a Gary Larson comic (what we say to dogs vs. what they actually hear)... quite a nice document
2006-11-09 15:38
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hooch
analysis of the effects of globalisation on US govt economic policy
2006-11-09 04:43
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pixelbot
pixelbot
"I'm not into this detail stuff. I'm more concepty." In an interview with the Washington Post
pixelbot
"It is unknowable how long [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months." To U.S. troops in Aviano, Italy
pixelbot
"Needless to say, the President is correct. Whatever it was he said."
2006-11-09 00:41
hooch
channel your life into IRC
2006-11-08 03:02
hooch
hooch
"To design a website you need to know about HTTP, XHTML, and URIs.
hooch
"To design a web application you need to know about HTTP, XHTML, and URIs.
hooch
"To design a web service you need to know about XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, WS-Policy, WS-Security, WS-Eventing, WS-Reliability, WS-Coordination, WS-Transaction, WS-Notification, WS-BaseNotification, WS-Topics, WS-Transfer..."
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hooch
"The 2006 Software 500 reflects deep concern over information security as 40 % more companies than last year identified information security as their primary business sector, and those companies increased employees 40 % over the previous year.
hooch
"Outside of the security sector, employee growth was strong in human resource management systems (39 % increase), healthcare (23 % increase), content management (22 % increase) and customer relationship management (17 % increase)."
2006-11-07 04:04
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hooch
"The Think Tank is an art installation created by kinetic sculptor Trimpin and programmer Seb Chevrel which prints random President Bush speeches on a typewriter.
hooch
"The Think Tank consists of a system of 24 bobbing chicken toys that trigger random pulses in the form of MIDI signals. These signals are routed to solenoid plungers attached to the keys of an IBM Selectric typewriter. Custom software translates these signals into readable output from the typewriter."
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hooch
also known as WTDCs (white trash data centres)
hooch
2006-11-03 12:50
hooch
"It's like taking iTunes, ripping out the music store, and replacing it with the rest of the internet."
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