Generally, a data center doesn't need too many high tech employees. Most of the expertise needs to be in facilities management, electricians, plumbers, etc. There are probably a good number of people leftover from the textile factories who have the necessary skills. Racking, stacking, and cabling don't require too many people with a BSCS or BSEE. 90% of the tech work in big data centers is done remotely. Yeah, you'll need a few hardware engineers and the like to fix broken equipment and install tricky stuff. Various vendors will have a few people nearby that can fulfill 4 hour response from Charlotte and make day trips for other on site work.

It doesn't explicitly say that. But I believe the "Wifebeater" clause as interpreted by the Supreme Court does permit one to go sleeveless.

But they do have excellent lawyers. Jackson wouldn't come to the table for The Hobbit in any way shape or form until Warner wrote him and his partners the big fat check they owed him.

Football field...American or European?

She was on a ventilator, so it really didn't matter. There did have to be an opening to get the tube through.

What keeps a major third party from really developing in the United States?

I guess it's where you are on the network. Ten years ago, I had no problem reading my webmail on a server hosted in the US from an internet cafe in Cape Town without much noticeable latency. Not much different than dialup in the US at the time. I bet the physical routing from Pietermaritzburg to Durban goes through Jo'burg and the bandwidth on the first link is low. It's probably physically longer than it needs to be. I'd love to troubleshoot the problem. I wonder what the ping times between hosts, packet loss, and the TCP buffer settings on the hosts in question are. I'm sure there is some optimization the company could do to make this better. Although the pigeon may still win. We were able to improve file transport times across the US (~80 ms latency coast to coast) by 4 times by tuning TCP properly. Are they using Win 3.1 and Windsock?

Are they calling it SkyNet?

Great debate! I hope someone can mod this part of the thread up.

Saturn's strap on stuck in one of its rings. News at 11.

I prefer to wget a page and render the html and execute the javascript in my mind.

Mine stay on, too. I know at some point that $36/yr my company spends on SETI is going to find those aliens. I'll be the first to welcome our new overlords.