Of course I know that every meter is absolutely positioned, I didn't mean that they needed to look all around when they got there, I meant that you only needed a few men on staff to do site visits as a normal course of action. Which costs more, 30 meter readers on staff or 3 "inspectors"?
And you have to admit most smart meters don't know their actual location on their own, it's the coordinating central office computers that store that information. Yes sure, some models may have that as a feature/benefit, but it's not a requirement.
As for which uses more energy, I would have to do the math and I've not yet had my coffee, but at a few partial-amps per device it would take quite a few homes to equal the cost of one truck. Plus, power plants have more efficient means of energy extraction than a truck does so I don't know what those conversion factors look like.
As someone who writes analysis code for the readings collected by smart meters, do you know how easy it is to isolate unusual activity by studying the averages versus actuals on a system like this and then send a few men out to do an inspection in a specific area versus the fleet of vehicles needed (carbon footprint) to read all those meters?
And I'm not going to go into the privacy concerns cos smart meters only relay usage, they know nothing about their installed locations.
I'm considering buying the iPad, have been. I want two for my house. I'll likely purchase an iPad before I purchase any other Apple computing device aside from the two iPhones my wife and I carry.
Maybe I wasn't explicit enough, or maybe it's local colloquialism rearing it's ugly head again.
In the States the most popular cordless handset in a home in the 90's was the 900MHz band variety. They had a further range than most other cordless handsets at the time, allowing you to make it as far as a large backyard with no problem.
Thus the connotation is that it would have a range as far as your home.
I don't normally feed the trolls, but in this case:
Meh, I'm glad that I'm able to walk to 40% of the places I want to visit instead of needing to use my auto. I chose to live in an area that was downtown and if the price I have to pay is the lack of satellite TV, well, I guess that's the price I'll pay to try and live a little bit greener. Not that I need a satellite anyways. I'm a bit more interested in getting out and seeing my community than staying at home watching TV.
I have a feeling, however that you may enjoy coming over to my "historic apartment roof" and correcting your own miserable life with a little fast-action freefall-dive instant-stopping.
Ya know, I really wasn't going to worry over it. I was getting my mind all made up to just move over to a completely wired-delivery life, and go ad-hoc like the up and coming trend seems to be (or: like the trend seems to be if you listen to twit.tv) and have been trying to get my wife to understand just what Hulu and the like are, and to use DSL for that delivery, but then I read that there may be a way to do it from inside the apartment.
Ah well...
As for putting things on the roof, nope. But installing a phased array in the upper part of my living room is an option. Right up until I looked at those links you sent me and found that it would cost well more than it would be worth to me to try and put something in... for $2100 I'll buy the shows I want to watch on iTunes;)
The rule does not apply to common areas that are owned by a landlord, a community association, or jointly by condominium or cooperative owners where the antenna user does not have an exclusive use area. Such common areas may include the roof or exterior wall of a multiple dwelling unit. Therefore, restrictions on antennas installed in or on such common areas are enforceable.
Ok, but I live in an apartment in an old (historic, something like 117 years old so far) building and they won't let us attach anything to the exterior walls/roof. My windows all face north. I want to use a satellite to receive more programming. I am adverse to paying Comcast one more dime.
What are my options again?
This sounds great, if it would work for me. The 16 foot ceilings mean I could talk the wife into letting me mount even a mesh in the ceiling area of the apartment, if I could conceal it afterwards.
how many unique devices it has been installed on...
Flipside5 does this with their apps, and when I swapped phones, even though I had done a restore (which transferred over all my other settings for everything else) I lost all my game status with them. Hence, based on UDID.
I didn't mind, but just thought it was interesting that was how they tracked uniques.
Check with your power company, especially if you are with a smaller co-op. I write software that does the analysis and historical reporting on modern (aka, "smart", the kind that can phone home with readings on usage, peaks, etc, and all over the powerline itself) meters, and we have all that data like you're describing. More complex systems allow for complete home monitoring, but they do require some specialized devices inside the house.
Slashdot Mirror
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Whatever it is, they need to make the URL available
Using multi-TB scratch disks on SSD would kill the SSD in a matter of months, as opposed to years on rotating disks.
Or do what I did, and move out of the town.
8 years ago and counting.
direct urls:
http://preview.rrauction.com/content/images/scans/3223/3223557_1.jpg
http://preview.rrauction.com/content/images/scans/3223/3223557_2.jpg <-- note it just shows the rear of the card
Of course I know that every meter is absolutely positioned, I didn't mean that they needed to look all around when they got there, I meant that you only needed a few men on staff to do site visits as a normal course of action. Which costs more, 30 meter readers on staff or 3 "inspectors"?
And you have to admit most smart meters don't know their actual location on their own, it's the coordinating central office computers that store that information. Yes sure, some models may have that as a feature/benefit, but it's not a requirement.
As for which uses more energy, I would have to do the math and I've not yet had my coffee, but at a few partial-amps per device it would take quite a few homes to equal the cost of one truck. Plus, power plants have more efficient means of energy extraction than a truck does so I don't know what those conversion factors look like.
As someone who writes analysis code for the readings collected by smart meters, do you know how easy it is to isolate unusual activity by studying the averages versus actuals on a system like this and then send a few men out to do an inspection in a specific area versus the fleet of vehicles needed (carbon footprint) to read all those meters?
And I'm not going to go into the privacy concerns cos smart meters only relay usage, they know nothing about their installed locations.
I think this is about pot myself.
Sadly I haz no modpoints, this was teh funniez
In addition to this, some of these will be a wonderous godsend
http://www.nexternal.com/icycles/images/61018.jpg
So your aspiration in life is to work at McDonalds and hope to serve Bill Gates? Wow, what an aspiration...
Because not all extensions can be "disabled" from the UI. Then there's others, like Java, which don't remove old versions... go figure.
I'm considering buying the iPad, have been. I want two for my house. I'll likely purchase an iPad before I purchase any other Apple computing device aside from the two iPhones my wife and I carry.
You were saying?
Oh that's right, YOU'RE A TROLL! Begone forthwith
Maybe I wasn't explicit enough, or maybe it's local colloquialism rearing it's ugly head again.
In the States the most popular cordless handset in a home in the 90's was the 900MHz band variety. They had a further range than most other cordless handsets at the time, allowing you to make it as far as a large backyard with no problem.
Thus the connotation is that it would have a range as far as your home.
and does it use a lot of "femto-cell" style towers? It would seemingly have to. Meaning, how well would it work in a car?
can't read the article, the site's down :p
I don't normally feed the trolls, but in this case:
Meh, I'm glad that I'm able to walk to 40% of the places I want to visit instead of needing to use my auto. I chose to live in an area that was downtown and if the price I have to pay is the lack of satellite TV, well, I guess that's the price I'll pay to try and live a little bit greener. Not that I need a satellite anyways. I'm a bit more interested in getting out and seeing my community than staying at home watching TV.
I have a feeling, however that you may enjoy coming over to my "historic apartment roof" and correcting your own miserable life with a little fast-action freefall-dive instant-stopping.
Ok, that's enough feeding the trolls for one day.
Ya know, I really wasn't going to worry over it. I was getting my mind all made up to just move over to a completely wired-delivery life, and go ad-hoc like the up and coming trend seems to be (or: like the trend seems to be if you listen to twit.tv) and have been trying to get my wife to understand just what Hulu and the like are, and to use DSL for that delivery, but then I read that there may be a way to do it from inside the apartment.
Ah well...
As for putting things on the roof, nope. But installing a phased array in the upper part of my living room is an option. Right up until I looked at those links you sent me and found that it would cost well more than it would be worth to me to try and put something in ... for $2100 I'll buy the shows I want to watch on iTunes ;)
Or deal with it? I don't have a balcony.
The rule does not apply to common areas that are owned by a landlord, a community association, or jointly by condominium or cooperative owners where the antenna user does not have an exclusive use area. Such common areas may include the roof or exterior wall of a multiple dwelling unit. Therefore, restrictions on antennas installed in or on such common areas are enforceable.
Ok, but I live in an apartment in an old (historic, something like 117 years old so far) building and they won't let us attach anything to the exterior walls/roof. My windows all face north. I want to use a satellite to receive more programming. I am adverse to paying Comcast one more dime.
What are my options again?
This sounds great, if it would work for me. The 16 foot ceilings mean I could talk the wife into letting me mount even a mesh in the ceiling area of the apartment, if I could conceal it afterwards.
And then there's this sort of evidence that we're more like 300 years off (or 4300)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/Niemitz-1997.pdf
I'm just gonna wait and see what Paul Thurott has to say on WW
Que the Emperor and his new clothes?
the F doesn't stand for File, it stands for Format
So, what format would that be then? The PDF format? ;)
The Portable Document one ...
That's funny, I always thought the UK was about the size of Wyoming ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_us_states_by_size and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
Now if you only mean England, then we can talk about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England and the size of Alabama ... which is pretty remarkable.
Spiffy, compare the flags of the state and the country...
how many unique devices it has been installed on...
Flipside5 does this with their apps, and when I swapped phones, even though I had done a restore (which transferred over all my other settings for everything else) I lost all my game status with them. Hence, based on UDID.
I didn't mind, but just thought it was interesting that was how they tracked uniques.
Check with your power company, especially if you are with a smaller co-op. I write software that does the analysis and historical reporting on modern (aka, "smart", the kind that can phone home with readings on usage, peaks, etc, and all over the powerline itself) meters, and we have all that data like you're describing. More complex systems allow for complete home monitoring, but they do require some specialized devices inside the house.
Here's a link (ok, the first on google I came across on the terms you need) but still, this will get your foot in the door. HTH. http://www.sdge.com/smartmeter/homeAreaNetwork.shtml
If you're in with a bigger firm, sorry charlie, not much to suggest there.