Cue the religious war no one really cares about...

I've got my own computer (unspecified), I like it so fuck you corporate religious bum toys.

That a data centre in their deprived region provides jobs for a few security guards and maybe some physical equipment install. If your area does not already have the sort of folks who can design and operate such a facility, they will do it remotely rather than move to your festering dump of a town / state / county / country. A big building with a serious fence and security cameras is not going to automagically create a 'high tech economy' out of the people who didn't make it out of your town.

So, $46m over a decade for, being generous, a maximum of 100 local jobs, including the 'posititve impacts on the local economy' is going to cost the state $46,000 per job year. Well, wouldn't it be cheaper just to pay them a salary direct?

If it has to be put in one of the states poorest counties surely they would have trouble finding skilled labour?

Does it really matter where they put it? Jobs are jobs

ODFO

Looks like iphone is getting Voice Recognition with a twist. The Voice Analysis is to take place on a Server Farm translated into commands which are relayed back to the phone. Thats the only reason this server farm would cost this much.

This allows the iphone to have near perfect voice analysis.

ie. 'Add Jame May as a contact, this phone number is 0201112222' this is voice data is processed by the server, and sent back as a series of commands to the phone to add the contact (and probably added to your mobileme account too)

James May, telephone number etc. It then appears the iphone has very clever voice processing when processing is taking place on the server side.

Don't know why el-reg is saying this is for something "secret", it'll probably be to support the expanded push notification services on iphone 3.0.

Sometimes, when the place is nice enough, like the mountains and foothills of NC, people stay for the view, the pace of life and good neighbors. Reaping that sort of psychic income is requires separation from one's computing device for an hour or two now and then.

Err I'm pretty sure they use servers in a data centre not PC's Mac or otherwise

... a big seamless, silver, windowless box with rectangular outlines with no knobs for doors.

Cool.