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Internal Costs Per Gigabyte — What Do You Pay? 420

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 29, 2010 @04:29PM from the wonder-what-the-dept-of-education-pays dept.

CodePwned writes "I recently took over a position at a rather large company where I discovered my group was paying $30 per gigabyte per month! That's $360 per year per gigabyte to our own IT department. While I understand costs are different depending on the scale, redundancy, backup and support methods, there doesn't seem to be any good papers on what range you should expect your costs to be. So far, my research shows an average of $1 per gigabyte or less for internally hosted space. What do you pay?"

Stieg Larsson Is First Author To Sell 1M E-Books 122

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 29, 2010 @03:46PM from the nice-tattoo dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that the late Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson, author of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, has become the first author to sell more than one million e-books on Amazon. The Swedish noir thrillers feature Lisbeth Salander, an asocial and extremely intelligent hacker and researcher, specialized in investigations of persons, and investigative journalist Mikael Blomqvist. Quercus has sold 3.3M copies of Larsson's books in the UK, and estimates that worldwide sales of the three novels are somewhere between 35-40M copies."

A $20 8-Bit Wikipedia Reader For Your TV 167

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 29, 2010 @03:00PM from the thought-experiments-welcome dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Wired about another entry in the ongoing quest for low-tech-high-tech educational tools to take advantage of distributed knowledge: "The Humane Reader, a device designed by computer consultant Braddock Gaskill, takes two 8-bit microcontrollers and packages them in a 'classic style console' that connects to a TV. The device includes an optional keyboard, a micro-SD Card reader and a composite video output. It uses a standard micro-USB cellphone charger for power. In all, it can hold the equivalent of 5,000 books, including an offline version of Wikipedia, and requires no internet connection. The Reader will cost $20 when 10,000 or more of it are manufactured. Without that kind of volume, each Reader will cost about $35."

Comment Re:Probably not significant (Score 1) 355

by PSGInfinity on Sunday September 02, 2007 @05:57PM (#20445659) Attached to: Virtual Earth Exposes Nuclear Sub's Secret

Please Mod the parent up. To my eyes, it look like a fake prop, which would likely be standard procedure. For example, here's a link to a known photo of the USS Ohio, the first Trident missile sub. Note that the propeller is fully submerged in the known photo.

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