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The Weight of an e-Book
whoever57 writes “According to Prof Kubiatowicz from Berkeley, each time an additional book is downloaded to an e-reader, the mass of the e-reader increases. The effect doesn’t really make the devices more difficult to carry: the professor calculates that 4GB of books would increase its weight by a billionth of a billionth of a gram— […]
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The Weight of an e-Book
whoever57 writes “According to Prof Kubiatowicz from Berkeley, each time an additional book is downloaded to an e-reader, the mass of the e-reader increases. The effect doesn’t really make the devices more difficult to carry: the professor calculates that 4GB of books would increase its weight by a billionth of a billionth of a gram— […]
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Federal Contractors Are $600 Screwdrivers
ideonexus writes “Last month an article appeared on Slashdot about how the government pays IT contractors twice what it pays its own workers. Missing from the article was how much the IT contractor pays its own workers. After working for a federal contractor for 10 years, a document accidentally leaked to employees by the contractor […]
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Federal Contractors Are $600 Screwdrivers
ideonexus writes “Last month an article appeared on Slashdot about how the government pays IT contractors twice what it pays its own workers. Missing from the article was how much the IT contractor pays its own workers. After working for a federal contractor for 10 years, a document accidentally leaked to employees by the contractor […]
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Wall Street Won't Share the Wealth, But It Will Share the Code
Wall Street isn’t a place where you’re likely to see anyone give away anything for free. But NYSE Technologies is happy to play against type, open sourcing a market data tool that it has long charged good money for.
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Wall Street Won't Share the Wealth, But It Will Share the Code
Wall Street isn’t a place where you’re likely to see anyone give away anything for free. But NYSE Technologies is happy to play against type, open sourcing a market data tool that it has long charged good money for.