"Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once……" — Charles Platt
"Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer installations - is now a standard item both in home offices and all the networked tiers above, protecting servers and online service providers, Internet backbones, phone companies, and even cable TV networks."
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18 Quotes by Charles Platt
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At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal…
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The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions,…
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Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of…
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The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.
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When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of…
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Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by…
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Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So…
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If low-temperature fusion does exist and can be perfected, power generation could be decentralized. Each home could heat itself and…
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Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode.…
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Even if major funding is obtained for cold fusion, conceivably the phenomenon could suffer from problems as intractable as those…
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In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation…
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The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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