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by fr0sty 14y ago
This is the building that is home to the "Bucket Brigade" that has been getting so much press lately.
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75 Broad Street; Turning Buildings Into Telecommunications Hubs (1999)(nytimes.com)
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Here is some information on the setup @ 75 Broad St: "The 17th and 18th floors of 75 Broad have been reserved for generator farms that can accommodate as many as 40 machines. Big doors will be installed in the facade of both floors so the g
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Nit-pick: These generators burn diesel not, gas. And to the poster below: 500kw generator is not unreasonable for a fully populated datacenter. That is power and cooling, remember.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
You are confusing latency with throughput. If you are downloading 1MB of data the difference in delivery between the two speeds (42mbps vs. 72mbps) is 80ms (190ms vs 111ms) Hardly life-changing.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
> Doing so would at least validate how quickly students are able to gather and synthesize information to arrive at correct conclusions - a skill set that will serve them well even in today's rapid-access-to-information world. That only
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by fr0sty 14y ago
And someone finally implements the killer-feature for the "Family Tablet": Multi-Account Support: > But what makes Nexus 10 unique is that it's the first truly shareable tablet. With Android 4.2, you can add multiple users and switch be
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by fr0sty 14y ago
This may be true for the intermediate steps but but the last step is still a DAC changing integers to analog voltage. If you are attenuating the signal before that point you are still losing bit-depth (even if, by the magic of floating poin
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by fr0sty 14y ago
You can't make any useful comparisons between "water" and "healthcare" outside of saying "people generally want as much as they can consume with minimal cost". If you can point me to a faucet that I can use to fill a jug with a few gallons
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Can you give some examples of countries that have no natural sources of fresh water that currenly benefit by importing water at "below market" prices? Such places may exist but I am not aware of them.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
You can take good phone pictures if you are outside in the daytime or are shooting stationary subjects. Any motion combined with less than daylight guarantees blurry pictures or that lovely cell-phone-flash look. That being said: The big ju
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by fr0sty 14y ago
1080p is via the HDMI port, I reckon.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Comparing: Processor: Atom n450 (single-core 1.6ghz vs Arm 15 (dual core 1.7ghz) Fan: Yes vs No HDD: Spinning rust vs. SSD Weight: 2.75lbs vs 2.lbs Screen 10.1" 1024x600 vs 11.6" 1366x786 Innovation continues apace from what I can see.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
What was Tesla's "one overriding idea" in your opinion? The major pursuit of his life was wireless power over great distances which was (and is) wildly impractical.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
That traversal doesn't traverse. It just skip list to entry->next and would keep resetting. You could do something like this instead: link = &((*link)->next);
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by fr0sty 14y ago
The amount of control you can exercise with hooks as well as the features available in repository management systems like gitolite should be more than adequate to enforce whatever policy you may dream up.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
> "Did you even read TFA?" Yes. Did you miss this? >"If you update an app to an iOS 6 version in iTunes on your computer and then try to sync your iPad 1, the old version of the app will just get removed from your iPad 1. The home s
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Without commenting on the rest of the article: The claim being made, as I understand it, is that the anesthesiologist is there and administers drugs to paralyze but not to anesthetize. So the presence of an anesthesiologist administering dr
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by fr0sty 14y ago
UN Food and Agriculture Organization website: http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/wfs-home/foodpricesind...
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by fr0sty 14y ago
They are largely boilerplate answers to softball questions. Nothing you couldn't get from listening to a White House press conference. Questions about the state of Iraq, Syria, Libya, Iran, Egypt, et al would have been more interesting. Cha
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by fr0sty 14y ago
He answered questions on these topics: 1. Space Race 2. Internet Freedom 3. Favorite Basketball Player 4. Small-Business tax breaks 5. First Activity on Nov 7 6. Most Difficult Decision 7. Money in Politics 8. White House
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by fr0sty 14y ago
The child was 9, not 12. http://www.creators.com/opinion/lenore-skenazy/why-i-let-my-... Futhermore "attachment parenting" is not the antecedent to "helicopter parenting" and certainly does not require constant contact past 1 year of age
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by fr0sty 14y ago
> If I'm at a cybercafe somewhere, there's a high degree of probability that it won't let me just run some untrusted binary from my USB stick or the web. 1. You shouldn't be typing in high value passwords at <random cyber-cafe>.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
> Also, someone mentioned "garbage" being underground citizen. I think that's wrong. It's true. Roosevelt Island has an underground network of "trash-sucking tubes". http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/trash-sucking-island/...
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by fr0sty 14y ago
> Remember the 'roaring 20s?' Yes. Remember what followed? The Great Depression. The trend in China may be upward but is that because of real growth or just due to the inflation of a huge bubble?
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by fr0sty 14y ago
> And while we're at it, have you noticed how few $10 bills you see in the wild? Most ATMs stock only 20s and 5s. THe only place to get a $10 is from the teller or as change.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
It still was a $440M pre-tax loss. The $270M figures is post-tax.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
I believe their new datacenter is in New Jersey now. They still have a Manhatten Datacenter but that is not where the trades are matched.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
They do require it. If you remove it 2-factor-authentication is disabled. Nothing says that number needs to be your mobile (or one that you have regular access to) but you do need to provide one.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
I can guarantee you that google knows your mobile number already. Do you have friends? do they know your number? do they have you saved as a google contact? game over. If you are sufficiently paranoid there are probably call/sms-forwarding

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