If Hoboken had the "Robotic employees" [glad "Robotic was capitalized there] escorted off the premises, presumably Hoboken owns this garage. They must have spent lord knows how much money to build this state-of-the-art robot parking garage they own, and then they plan to indefinitely lease the software by the month, and of course the whole thing is worse than worthless without it.
All modern power supplies use a rectifier and switching regulator arrangement, which unlike an old steam iron, does not draw amps in proportion to volts. Instead it has a very non-linear power curve, full of sudden peaks and drops, and even some reverse current flowing during every AC cycle!
Sure, an analog "amp clamp" or one of these digital inline "kill-a-watt" meters might not be 100% accurate in measuring the erratic power consumption of a switching power supply. However, I doubt the mechanical meter on the side of your house would fare any better. Isn't that what really counts if our goal is a lower electric bill?
I love how people/companies use "number of homes" to demostrate the output of a generator...
20Kw generator that can power four 3000 sq ft homes
Yeah, until the everyone is up in the morning taking showers and four 5500W hot water heating elements kick on together.
Even looking at it from an averaging standpoint, that only allows 5Kw per household. My home is 2000 sq' and we average about an 8Kw draw over the month. Just about everthing here is electric; hot water, heating/cooling, cooking, clothes dryer. Any two of those types of devices powered up together would utilize more than half of that 20Kw generator.
I submitted a story for the humor section a few days ago about laser-scribed chicken eggs that will "fight terrorism", and it was rejected within an hour of submission.
But not anymore? Why? It's _so_ much easier to blow away the OS and upgrade if it resides in its own partition. Upgrading over an old Linux install works only half the time. I know, I've tried.
To clarify... I still do break/home out to it's own parition. When I said that "I used to", I meant that, now, it's not such a big deal as it's more consistent with the design of the OS to do so. Where-as, with Windows, if you do anything out of "the norm", you are constantly reminded of your non-conformance by having to enter alternative install paths and file save paths.
I would love to partition the drives so that the OS resides on a separate partition from the user data, and yet another partition for the extra installed programs. That would be sane.
Serious question...
I fully agree with you on breaking out data to it's own parition. I do that...well, did that myself back when I ran Windows. However, what benefit is it to dedicat a partition for installed programs when "installing" a Windows program generally entails files being copies to system areas and/or registry keys being created by the installer? Even if the programs partition survived, you'd still have to re-run all the installers so that the necessary registry keys are created, etc...
"They're like the hot rodders of yesterday who did everything to soup up their cars. It was all about horsepower and bling-bling, lots of chrome and accessories," said Cindy Knight
<ghetto>Oh no, she di'un!</ghetto>
I'm sorry. But, "bling-bling" is not the phrase that comes to mind when I think of old school muscle cars.
That's funny, because a mildly scratched CD plays fine.
That is, unless the scratches are on the *top* of the CD. Scratches on top of the disc, if they are deep enough to go through the silver layer, will kill a CD more-so than scratches of the same depth on the bottom of the disc.
2) It's flashy. Terrorism is "the new coolness." It gets a lot of attention, very quickly.
And, that's a big problem. The media is turning "terrorism" into a catch-all buzzword for anything that even closely resembles any of your six points. Kinda like back in the early 90s when "multi-media PC" was used to describe anything with a sound card and a CD-ROM drive.
FWIW, Cisco 2500 series routers run on a 20 Mhz 68030 CPU and I've seen them bog down on a saturated T-1 after adding a few dozen filter rules.
What does that have to do with 386 vs PII for a BSD-based router/firewall? Well, I don't know since I'm not really sure how a 68030 stacks up to a 386 clock-for-clock. Just some food for thought.
It might interest you to know that most, if not all, gun manufacturers include, with the gun, one spent casing that was fired from that weapon.
So, while they may not be intentionally scoring the barrel in a deliberate pattern for the purpose of tracking, they are giving the purchaser a copy of that firearm's fingerprint, if you will.
What's my point? I don't have one, really. Just an interesting tidbit of info for the guns to printers comparison.
Microsoft yesterday said a test version will be released by Aug. 3. The "beta" will be distributed to about 100,000 enthusiasts to gather their feedback;
"Enthusiasts"? Is that what they're calling them now?
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If Hoboken had the "Robotic employees" [glad "Robotic was capitalized there] escorted off the premises, presumably Hoboken owns this garage. They must have spent lord knows how much money to build this state-of-the-art robot parking garage they own, and then they plan to indefinitely lease the software by the month, and of course the whole thing is worse than worthless without it.
Who would buy something under those terms?
Everyone who buys a Microsoft Windows PC?
All modern power supplies use a rectifier and switching regulator arrangement, which unlike an old steam iron, does not draw amps in proportion to volts. Instead it has a very non-linear power curve, full of sudden peaks and drops, and even some reverse current flowing during every AC cycle!
Sure, an analog "amp clamp" or one of these digital inline "kill-a-watt" meters might not be 100% accurate in measuring the erratic power consumption of a switching power supply. However, I doubt the mechanical meter on the side of your house would fare any better. Isn't that what really counts if our goal is a lower electric bill?
I love how people/companies use "number of homes" to demostrate the output of a generator...
20Kw generator that can power four 3000 sq ft homes
Yeah, until the everyone is up in the morning taking showers and four 5500W hot water heating elements kick on together.
Even looking at it from an averaging standpoint, that only allows 5Kw per household. My home is 2000 sq' and we average about an 8Kw draw over the month. Just about everthing here is electric; hot water, heating/cooling, cooking, clothes dryer. Any two of those types of devices powered up together would utilize more than half of that 20Kw generator.
More to the point... BOSE?!? The loudspeaker company from which comes a never-ending flow of outrageous claims and even more outrageous pricing?
How about we realize that, in this case, CNet is just a shill for the Microsoft PR department.
Just in this case?
I don't suppose you were a newspaper carrier, eh?
Sounds like his pipes need cleaning.
At least you can be relatively sure that the rep's real name isn't CoolElf
I don't know about that. Earthlink has leprechauns and fairys on staff.
It's a pretty good idea, but what about people with dynamic IP addresses?
Or those behind a NAT box.
I submitted a story for the humor section a few days ago about laser-scribed chicken eggs that will "fight terrorism", and it was rejected within an hour of submission.
Linkage?
I know everyone isn't fond of the Evil Empire (myself included), but this guy did essentially "screw over" MS.
Then I say, "Goody for him!".
NEEEEXT!
You can spin this whatever way you want, but I'm looking forward to seeing Sun trash the company that brought us the "Dell dude".
:)
Yeah... But, they also brought us the intern chick. She was hot. She can come check out my data center anyday.
Perhaps they should code a plug-in for their webserver to turn it into one that can handle a Slashdotting.
HEAR HEAR! You're absolutely right...
There IS no second "w" in Windoze!
What's your problem, Taco?
"Using the Windows operating system, we have programs to record the images and put them in a database of patients."
One has to wonder how much was paid for that plug.
But not anymore? Why? It's _so_ much easier to blow away the OS and upgrade if it resides in its own partition. Upgrading over an old Linux install works only half the time. I know, I've tried.
/home out to it's own parition. When I said that "I used to", I meant that, now, it's not such a big deal as it's more consistent with the design of the OS to do so. Where-as, with Windows, if you do anything out of "the norm", you are constantly reminded of your non-conformance by having to enter alternative install paths and file save paths.
To clarify... I still do break
I would love to partition the drives so that the OS resides on a separate partition from the user data, and yet another partition for the extra installed programs. That would be sane.
Serious question...
I fully agree with you on breaking out data to it's own parition. I do that...well, did that myself back when I ran Windows. However, what benefit is it to dedicat a partition for installed programs when "installing" a Windows program generally entails files being copies to system areas and/or registry keys being created by the installer? Even if the programs partition survived, you'd still have to re-run all the installers so that the necessary registry keys are created, etc...
"They're like the hot rodders of yesterday who did everything to soup up their cars. It was all about horsepower and bling-bling, lots of chrome and accessories," said Cindy Knight
<ghetto>Oh no, she di'un!</ghetto>
I'm sorry. But, "bling-bling" is not the phrase that comes to mind when I think of old school muscle cars.
That's funny, because a mildly scratched CD plays fine.
That is, unless the scratches are on the *top* of the CD. Scratches on top of the disc, if they are deep enough to go through the silver layer, will kill a CD more-so than scratches of the same depth on the bottom of the disc.
That's right. If you can't fix it, NIX IT!
Quake 2 at #93?
Blasphemy.
2) It's flashy. Terrorism is "the new coolness." It gets a lot of attention, very quickly.
And, that's a big problem. The media is turning "terrorism" into a catch-all buzzword for anything that even closely resembles any of your six points. Kinda like back in the early 90s when "multi-media PC" was used to describe anything with a sound card and a CD-ROM drive.
FWIW, Cisco 2500 series routers run on a 20 Mhz 68030 CPU and I've seen them bog down on a saturated T-1 after adding a few dozen filter rules.
What does that have to do with 386 vs PII for a BSD-based router/firewall? Well, I don't know since I'm not really sure how a 68030 stacks up to a 386 clock-for-clock. Just some food for thought.
You ever bought a gun?
It might interest you to know that most, if not all, gun manufacturers include, with the gun, one spent casing that was fired from that weapon.
So, while they may not be intentionally scoring the barrel in a deliberate pattern for the purpose of tracking, they are giving the purchaser a copy of that firearm's fingerprint, if you will.
What's my point? I don't have one, really. Just an interesting tidbit of info for the guns to printers comparison.
Microsoft yesterday said a test version will be released by Aug. 3. The "beta" will be distributed to about 100,000 enthusiasts to gather their feedback;
"Enthusiasts"? Is that what they're calling them now?