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Buying Computing by the Computon
theodp writes "Seeking to emulate the pricing models utilities use to charge customers for kilowatt-hours of electricity based on the ebb and flow of power demand, HP Researchers have come up with a new unit-of-computing metric, the Computon, which is not to be confused with the 'Power Unit' and 'Service Unit' pricing metrics from Sun and IBM. California, here we come!"
i get ten rods to a hogshead, and thats the way i likes it!
Get yer Computons here! Only 3 for a farthing! Get 'em while their hot!
Trolling is a art,
Can the computon handle?
Also not to be confused with a ton of computers.
I thought that was a measurement of the weight I've put on since starting to work in IT.
NIH (Not Invented Here) reported an outbreak of a new virus, now running rampant in the IT industry. Researchers are quoted as saying "We thought we stamped that out, but we are going to have to setup the quarantines again, since now HP has caught it".
Here is the official conversion:
1.6 energon cubes = 1 computon
The MEEDO is how long it takes for me to do something.
This post is .30 MEEDOs. You owe me 10,000 dollars.
(I only need to sell one.)
Since large amounts of traffic on the Internet are porn, unit-of-computing metric should be base on amount of porn clips encoded and decoded for given time.
1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d
Rearrange "computons" and what do you get?
UN COMPOST
Stop messing with our heads!
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Does that ever sound like something Professor Frink would invent or what?
Due to the fact that it is based on the kilogram, the bang-for-your-buck value of the Computon is steadily getting worse.
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For the time wasted here, i call it the slashdoton!
I feel like the proffesor from the simpsons!
Everybody has a purpose in life, maybe mine is to lurk in slashdot.
"We will eventually get to a point where [IT vendors] charge for usage in real time," said Thornton May, a futurist in Biddeford, Maine
If you're going to be a futurist, Thornton May seems like the perfect name to have. I just don't see this guy doing construction...
A spokesman for IBM said it's now offering mainframe Linux hosting customers a "service unit" pricing approach. The pricing is based partly on the cost of the hardware being run by IBM, as well as its IT labor costs. It runs on a free operating system for homosexuals, by homosexuals, competing head to head (pun intended) with Apple's OSX.
gives a whole new meaning to RTFA!
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Works well in large groups...
Someone please let them know they're 56 days late for their April Fools RFC.
... yes, but in California, all computrons must pass state EMF emissions tests, and because of contamination with "e-vile bits" that have leaked into the grounding rods, a Superfund Cleanup effort has to be funded with more state bonds to the tune of 87 billion dollars. Grey Davis claims that the state was ripped off by middleman bit traders after deregulation passed, and was forced by contracts to purchase overly expensive bits. The Green Party has issued a press release saying that the evile bits are DOUBLY evile, because they were created with "brown" power, not green. The Libertarian party has issued a statement saying "who cares, let the bit bucket market decide who pays what". The Democratic party has issued a statement saying that cronies of the current administration established shell companies in offshore havens in order to not pay "their fair share" of the cleanup. The Republican party has issued a release calling everyone a "cyberterrorist" and has established "computer camps" at guantanamo bay where recalcitrant anti e-vile bit protesters go to break large bits into smaller bits with hammers. The Reform party has said that all the evile bits have apparently crossed over the border illegally, and Pat Buchanan has said we all must "breed more americans before it's too late". The Constitution party has said "toldyaso, it's the debble" and advised that all evile bits be blasted with 12 gauges. The EFF has fled to an armored compound in maryland where combining hacked GPS receivers and supertrooper stage lasers manned by union stagehands, they have issued a decree to "You want some of this? Come and get us, ****wads!"
So all in all, looks like another bad idea by those dastardly multinational heartless corporations.
Technogeek website slash-n-burninator website is exploding with posts decrying that "it's all SCOs fault, or microsoft, and we don't care who gets nuked"
Mozilla.org has issued an emergency decree that henceforth, all bits will be named firebits, until next week, when they will be called phonexiabits.
Gentoo supporters are dropping like flies as they try to compile programs that are contaminated with evile bits, and vow to never speak the word california again.
*BSD users have moved to canada en massee, the largest IT refugee movement in world history, where they have issued a release saying " eh, it's colder up here, eh, but we don't care mon, look what's legal here now".
France, Germany, China and Russia have stopped all trade with california, and the UN has put california on the "sandbox" list of contaminated areas. Unfortunately, drudgereport has broken with a scoop that in reality, all the contaminated batches of evile bits got sent to california on Cosco container ships, with joint funding from the various "axis of dastards" nations. They are also issuing a demand via the UN that all computron evil bits be measured using the metric system "or else".
In the mideast, it's the same ole crap, and no one cares really.
Time warner AOL msnbc fox cnn abc and the RIAA and MPAA have declared that they have checked and there are "no" contaminated bits anyplace in their websites, but 85 million zaZZaers dispute this, as all files that have been traded since the begining of the crisis all say $%^&**((*%^&%%&&^*^* YOU!!, and have been apparently been done by the trio of madonna, yoko ono, and william shatner.
It's GENERAL MAYHEM AND PANDEMONIUM!
In economic news, sales of manual adding machines and typewriters were brisk today.....
www.computon.ru belongs to, well... IN SOVIET RUSSIA computon measures YOU!
=)
Intriguingly that was the first link returned when I googled the proposed term.
computon: not to be confused with Computron the Transformer, formed when the Technobots merged together.
After all... would *you* want to submit a "lightweight process" that will be measured by the compuTON?
Okay, bad joke. I only hope this gets modded down as repetitive. Someone else must have come up with this by now.
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