Each device may be tied to a rate plan, but also each device can rack up serious service charges, depending on how and where it is used.

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In a nondescript building, down a largely unmarked hallway, is a series of rooms, each with a rack of servers and a "ground control station, " or GCS. There, a drone pilot and a sensor operator sit in their flight suits in front of a series of screens.

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Traditionally, a server within a rack would each have its own group of resources.

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My BodyMedia armband is both a tracker and a motivator, as I strive to rack up active minutes each day, which, given my current schedule, can be challenging.

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And here's what all that means: This debate, which affects millions of middle-class families, isn't happening in a typical Washington bubble where pundits and policymakers talk past each other as they try to rack up political points.

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Since ARM-based chips produce less heat Mr Gopalakrishnan said more could be placed on each "pizza-box-shaped" server rack unit.

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Virgin estimates that each flight of SpaceShip Two can hold 1, 300 pounds of scientific payload, and the rack setup will include window access for the collection of spectrographic and other data.

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And applications would each run on their own tower of power hardware that was often running in a unique data center rack or racks.

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The ramp-up of Rack openings is impressive with 24 units slated to open this year and probably 30 to 40 units each year thereafter.

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