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How Facebook Is Eating the $140 Billion Hardware Market
mattydread23 writes: It started out as a controversial idea inside Facebook. In four short years, the Open Compute Project has turned the $141 billion data-center computer-hardware industry on its head. This is the comprehensive history of the project, including interviews with founder Jonathan Heiliger and members of the financial services industry who are already on board, plus a dismissal from Google's own data center guru Urs Holzle.
236 points when playing buzzword scrabble?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Given that this is Slashdot, I believe the appropriate reply to your question is "a Raspberry Pi Beowulf cluster, enclosed in a 3D-printed 1U rackmount unit with a cooling system controlled by an Arduino".
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Monitored by drones.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
And not employing enough females and minorities.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Do people not see the connection between increases in privacy breeches and the moves to cloud systems?
Well, I'm not wearing any pants.
ID: the nose did not occur naturally, how would we wear glasses otherwise? (apologies to Voltaire)