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The opening of the new centre on Monday will see a group of local children swimming the equivalent length of the English Channel to raise money for charity.
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Manx residents are being challenged to swim the equivalent length of the TT course to raise money for charity.
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Soon that capacity will hit 15 trillion bits, meaning that the switch could spew out the equivalent of 400 feature-length movies every second.
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Sending or receiving a text takes a driver's eyes from the road for an average of 4.6 seconds, the equivalent of driving the length of an entire football field, blind, at 55 mph, according to researchers at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute.
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The newest of these set-top boxes can store the equivalent of 30 feature-length films, a few even more.
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That's the equivalent of 40 full-length feature films, or a handful of books by Dickens.
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But it is hard to see how it can keep track of the ever-growing traffic that passes through or leaves big corporate IT systems, for instance through a simple memory stick (which plugs into a PC and can hold the equivalent of dozens of feature-length films).
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One square-eyed user downloaded nearly two terabytes in a month the equivalent of 2, 000 feature-length films.
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This deluge of data can only be managed with more and bigger routers and switches, such as Cisco's Nexus 7000, which can handle 15 trillion bits, the equivalent of 1, 350 feature-length films, every second.
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Because a determinate prisoner is released at the half way point in his sentence, a life sentence with a minimum term is the equivalent of a determinate sentence of double that length.
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