October 2009
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taitran: Handbook of Online China
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Google Can Keep All Web in Memory
infoneernet: alexpopescu: A standard Google server appears to have about 16G RAM and 2T of disk. If we assume Google has 500k servers (which seems like a low-end estimate given they used 25.5k machine years of computation in Sept 2009 just on MapReduce jobs), that means they can hold roughly 8 petabytes of data in memory and, after x3 replication, roughly 333 petabytes on disk. For...
Oct 24th
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Google CEO: Vast Web changes coming within 5 years →
infoneernet: A Web where Chinese is the dominant language, and connections are so fast that distinctions between audio, video and text are blurred is perhaps just five years away, the head of Google said Wednesday. Seen at Yahoo! News
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“Beijing Goes After U.S.-Made Nylon (NYTimes): http://bit.ly/1dMITb”
– NiuB
Oct 19th
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“China’s new stock market to begin trading Oct. 30 (MarkeWatch):...”
– NiuB
Oct 19th
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10 Productivity Tools for Computer Addicts |... →
taitran: Click here to see my Pipes (via duylam)
Oct 19th
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“O governo do estado de São Paulo lançou hoje um programa de banda larga, em...”
– Made in Brazil São Paulo lança banda larga popular a até R$29,80 | Gizmodo Brasil
Oct 18th
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“And they’re afraid of your product and your service. Whatever you sell,...”
– Seth’s Blog: Fear of apples
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“Nine countries of ALBA, a leftist bloc conceived by Venezuelan President Hugo...”
– LatAm Leftists Tackle Dollar with New Currency | CommonDreams.org
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“Demand. On a global basis, chemical output is now back at 2006 levels, having...”
– Budgeting for a new normal (Chemicals & The Economy)
Oct 17th
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YouTube’s Bandwidth Bill Is Zero. Welcome to the...
taitran: YouTube’s Bandwidth Bill Is Zero. Welcome to the New Net By Ryan Singel October 16, 2009  | 2:10 pm  | Categories: Broadband, Miscellaneous YouTube may pay less to be online than you do, a new report on internet connectivity suggests, calling into question a recent analysis arguing Google’s popular video service is...
Oct 17th
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“As in high school, the winners are the ones who don’t take it too...”
– Seth’s Blog: The Rule of High School
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Reading, E-Books and the Brain →
infoneernet: This research suggests that the act of reading observes a gradient of fluency. Familiar sentences printed in Helvetica activate the ventral route, while difficult prose filled with jargon and fancy words and printed in an illegible font require us to use the slow dorsal route. Here’s my rampant speculation (and it’s pure speculation because no one has brought a Kindle into a...
Oct 16th
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“Major milestone! All eight sectors of the LHC have been cooled to...”
– symmetrymag
Oct 16th
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50 Must-Listen-to Lectures for Tech Lovers
infoneernet: notational: taitran: 50 Must-Listen-to Lectures for Tech Lovers Culture In these lectures, you’ll learn about the culture of technology, and how technology affects culture. Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures: Find out how literary criticism and cultural history have accommodated and embraced contemporary media from this lecture. [MIT] Privacy Under Pressure: Privacy Under...
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