On May 6, somebody, Hunsader says, opened up a fire hose worth of quotes straight at the NYSE.
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Draghi re-financing operations are more a band-aid than a fire hose, providing temporary support but not a long-lasting solution.
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That fire hose of electrons was far more than the servers could handle.
This phenomenon presents both an exciting and daunting opportunity for businesses looking to tap into this fire hose of information.
Topsy uses Twitter's high-volume fire hose of data to look at every tweet in the world, and establish a neutral baseline.
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There are ways to systematically sort through the fire hose of data based on applying the principals and discipline of pattern recognition.
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Finally, this summer, the Fed ceased spraying money like a fire hose.
Every time the Fed opens up the fire hose, equities go higher.
As consumers of the internet, of pop culture, we are faced with a fire hose of content that we cannot possibly keep up with.
Now the fire hose that is the social web sprays (often very) personal details about others across your screen, whether you like it or not.
"We're drinking from a fire hose, " says the venture arm's Rieschel.
Companies will begin to leverage this fire hose of data to design products that will better match customer needs which will provide an exponentially more valuable customer experience.
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He can turn on a fire hose anytime he wants.
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Video from the scene showed people clambering on the wreckage -- including parts of the fallen plane -- and working together to hold up what appeared to be a fire hose.
Instead of Facebook limiting the number of posts from the people you follow to make the fire hose manageable for you, what if you used the filtering scheme of your own choosing?
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And if YouTube gets it right, the job of video curator could truly be a whole new job that turns the noisy YouTube video fire hose into an elegant and accessible video gallery.
Earlier, Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon presented Rivera with a mounted fire hose nozzle, and New York City Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano gave the game's greatest closer a mounted call box during a brief ceremony inside the ballpark.
But those who sip from Twitter's fire hose can get much more information, including a sender's location, the biography on his profile page and how many people have subscribed to his messages (see blog post on the map of a tweet).
Lovingly nicknamed Anna Konda (no explanation necessary), the Norwegian bot was assembled using 20 hydraulic motors powered by a regular fire hose, whose 100 bars of pressure give it enough strength to break through walls and even lift a car right up off the ground.
When their 3-meters long robot, nicknamed "Anna Konda", is connected to a fire hose the hydraulics enable it to project a powerful stream of water and give it enough power to lift 650 kilograms, strong enough, its developers believe, to punch a hole through a door or wall to get to the flames.
Twitter knows that one of its greatest strengths, the largely unfiltered fire-hose of information the service spurts out at around 95 million tweets per day, is also its greatest weakness.
Twitter followed suit: Its private accounts are rare, meaning Twitter's fire-hose of updates is becoming an invaluable stream of the world's consciousness (incidentally, this month saw that stream licensed to both Microsoft and Google to bolster their search efforts).
As well as cutting up and burning the hose on an open fire, she washed and replaced bed covers in the room where her husband was poisoned.
His reorganization of the state budget sought to eliminate the root of the shortfalls, not simply eliminate various state-funded programs that would have amounted to bringing a garden hose to a wild fire.
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With firefighters stretched thin, he used the hose this week to douse flames from the Rice Canyon Fire.
Crews used breathing apparatus, hose reels and a thermal imaging camera to tackle the fire, which is thought to have started in the communal hallway.
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