It is not the same with the Prius. At least not as far as energy consumption is concerned.
In case of a car the energy consumption in manufacturing is on average an order of magnitude smaller than the energy consumption during its use. We are talking 10% of total consumption vs more than 80%. You can refer to page 10 of these notes (pdf) to see the figures for an average family car.
In case of assessing energy impact of various stages of product manufacturing common sense will never help you. You just have to do the calculations.
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Sadly, dd-wrt doesn't support ipv6 out-of-the-box. And this is the only way in which I dare use it on my network equipment. After a careful look around, it looks like Apple ships the best wireless routers (working ipv6, super-easy linking routers via wireless or Ethernet to extend their range)...
This reminds me of an old joke about Russian scientists. Here it goes:
Russian scientists decided to do an experiment on a fly. They put it on a table and asked it to walk. The fly walked as expected. Then they cut off one of its legs and asked to walk again. The fly walked, but obviously a little but more slowly. They repeated the procedure, and when the fly had half of its legs cut off it was only crawling on the table. When they removed all of its legs, it stopped reacting to calls to walk. They wrote down their conclusion: fly lost its hearing upon having all the legs removed.
Well, this is simply because Apple develops the kernel, desktop environment and many, many applications for OS X.
What else than "do not care. don't have to. I'm system programmer." can a system programmer say? It's a consequence of the development model of Linux and its distributions. High modularity doesn't pay off when there is nobody coordinating the whole thing...
Well, not really. Phone calls are not obligatory packets that have to be send for the communication network to function, so they certainly create the need for more computational power. Case study: emergency, New Year's Eve - remember your mobile operator's performance then? So the more phone calls are made, the more the operator has to pay for maintaining the network (more hardware).
And although text messages are zero cost for the operator, they need to charge for their services in order to cover permanent costs such as hardware upgrades, data centers maintenance, infrastructure improvements, commercials, customer service etc.
Shifting the coverage of these costs only to phone call charges would be... weird?
Because we exactly understand the way in which they work (less the extreme cases of unproven yet used mathematical theorems) and easily modify them to meat our other needs. Relying on much autonomous beings such as dogs is riskier and harder in the long run.
Thank you for the clarification. I may have gone too far with my praise of Microsoft. Yet still - my main point that it's not only Linux that has a network package manager is still valid.
Offtopic: how would you compare the network software managing capabilities of Linux distributions and Windows versions? (I mean desktop applications, as that's apparently what the article is about.)
PS: I did mention that a lot depends on the developers' implementation.
Or where windows is required, so we can't use linux's update mechanisms.
The truth is that Windows is a corporate OS too (or... in the first place), so it has perfectly working corporate software management mechanism. You just have to be maintain it well and have support from the application developers (who need to stick to good practice while coding their applications - that's usually the most difficult part).
Actually, if you are so serious about standards and appropriate document formats, I see no reason why the staff department should have any text editor installed on their computers for reading the resumes... PDF reader would do and they sure have one.
Using one text editor in place of another when a totally different piece of software (PDF reader) is theoretically required does not mean anything as far transparency in government is concerned...
When the people writing the standards write standards with the words "SHOULD" or "SHOULD NOT" or "RECOMMENDED" or "MAY" or "OPTIONAL" you now have a standard which can have many different faces, or compliance levels.
Not quite. If you look at RFC 2119, you will notice that each of the words has its precise definition. So for instance, not implementing a "SHOULD" still doesn't break standards compliance. Full stop.
Remember that we are here discussing the most simple fact of stating standards compliance and not practical aspects of specifications' requirements. You may have a point (however the authors have explained in RFC 2119 the need for different key words for stating requirements), but it is off-topic and not valid in this discussion.
Would it also tend to keep a light beam within the empty space thus increasing the speed back up to the speed of light through air (...) ?
No, it wouldn't. It is because the phenomena of total internal reflection occurs only when a beam of light tries to pass from a medium where it has slower speed to a medium where it has higher speed, e.g. from glass to air. It doesn't work the other way round, e.g. from air to glass. So light cannot be trapped in a hollow space.
Apart from that, the delays are also caused by the fact that light doesn't travel directly along the fiber, but bounces off a lot of times and thus the length of its path is increased.
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Or rather, wait until the next night after release...
0.002 Amperes * 500 = 1 A, presumably what a standard light bulb draws (at 100 Volts). DC Power = voltage * current
Please stop propagating lies.
It is not the same with the Prius. At least not as far as energy consumption is concerned.
In case of a car the energy consumption in manufacturing is on average an order of magnitude smaller than the energy consumption during its use. We are talking 10% of total consumption vs more than 80%. You can refer to page 10 of these notes (pdf) to see the figures for an average family car.
In case of assessing energy impact of various stages of product manufacturing common sense will never help you. You just have to do the calculations.
2011-03-14. Do you really not understand it?
Sadly, dd-wrt doesn't support ipv6 out-of-the-box. And this is the only way in which I dare use it on my network equipment. After a careful look around, it looks like Apple ships the best wireless routers (working ipv6, super-easy linking routers via wireless or Ethernet to extend their range)...
Did you report them to the police?
They could add a "Report a dead user" button...
You almost got caught in my subconscious spam filter...
How much is that bitrate in kibs?
This reminds me of an old joke about Russian scientists. Here it goes:
Russian scientists decided to do an experiment on a fly. They put it on a table and asked it to walk. The fly walked as expected. Then they cut off one of its legs and asked to walk again. The fly walked, but obviously a little but more slowly. They repeated the procedure, and when the fly had half of its legs cut off it was only crawling on the table. When they removed all of its legs, it stopped reacting to calls to walk. They wrote down their conclusion: fly lost its hearing upon having all the legs removed.
Well, this is simply because Apple develops the kernel, desktop environment and many, many applications for OS X.
What else than "do not care. don't have to. I'm system programmer." can a system programmer say? It's a consequence of the development model of Linux and its distributions. High modularity doesn't pay off when there is nobody coordinating the whole thing...
or 2.2 billion MD5 hash/sec with reversing
Keep in mind I have completely no idea what "reversing" means.
I mean, really, who uses Limewire to D/L ISO's?
Microsoft_Office_2007_Windows_FULL_CRACKED_1337_HAXXOR.iso
Well, not really. Phone calls are not obligatory packets that have to be send for the communication network to function, so they certainly create the need for more computational power. Case study: emergency, New Year's Eve - remember your mobile operator's performance then? So the more phone calls are made, the more the operator has to pay for maintaining the network (more hardware).
And although text messages are zero cost for the operator, they need to charge for their services in order to cover permanent costs such as hardware upgrades, data centers maintenance, infrastructure improvements, commercials, customer service etc.
Shifting the coverage of these costs only to phone call charges would be... weird?
Because we exactly understand the way in which they work (less the extreme cases of unproven yet used mathematical theorems) and easily modify them to meat our other needs. Relying on much autonomous beings such as dogs is riskier and harder in the long run.
Thank you for the clarification. I may have gone too far with my praise of Microsoft. Yet still - my main point that it's not only Linux that has a network package manager is still valid.
Offtopic: how would you compare the network software managing capabilities of Linux distributions and Windows versions? (I mean desktop applications, as that's apparently what the article is about.)
PS: I did mention that a lot depends on the developers' implementation.
Or where windows is required, so we can't use linux's update mechanisms.
The truth is that Windows is a corporate OS too (or... in the first place), so it has perfectly working corporate software management mechanism. You just have to be maintain it well and have support from the application developers (who need to stick to good practice while coding their applications - that's usually the most difficult part).
Actually, if you are so serious about standards and appropriate document formats, I see no reason why the staff department should have any text editor installed on their computers for reading the resumes... PDF reader would do and they sure have one.
Using one text editor in place of another when a totally different piece of software (PDF reader) is theoretically required does not mean anything as far transparency in government is concerned...
No, there are no commercials.
Not quite. If you look at RFC 2119, you will notice that each of the words has its precise definition. So for instance, not implementing a "SHOULD" still doesn't break standards compliance. Full stop.
Remember that we are here discussing the most simple fact of stating standards compliance and not practical aspects of specifications' requirements. You may have a point (however the authors have explained in RFC 2119 the need for different key words for stating requirements), but it is off-topic and not valid in this discussion.It's even more funny that neither banks have to guarantee full availability of money if we are already talking about such things.
No, it wouldn't. It is because the phenomena of total internal reflection occurs only when a beam of light tries to pass from a medium where it has slower speed to a medium where it has higher speed, e.g. from glass to air. It doesn't work the other way round, e.g. from air to glass. So light cannot be trapped in a hollow space.
Apart from that, the delays are also caused by the fact that light doesn't travel directly along the fiber, but bounces off a lot of times and thus the length of its path is increased.
I think that you might find the answer in the original science paper, which unfortunately costs $30. (Link thanks to this comment.)
I would guess that if it's not unique, it already has a name and all the waiting is just to clear it up... Not to make any mess with double-naming.
At a time, not constantly.