Get a transformer that steps the voltage to 155 volts. Then you'd be logarithmically right in the middle of the 100-240 volt range most PSUs can handle. That would cover a rather wide range of sags and swells (surge is a transient... swell is the term for a longer term rise in voltage).
Most switching mode power supplies work more efficiently at the higher AC voltage of 240 volts. So, what draws 26 amps at 120 volts should typically draw less than 13 amps at 240 volts. You can thus run more than twice as much computer capacity on the same wiring gauge, which means additional savings in energy loss through the wiring feeding to the computers.
Most homes in the USA have 240 volts. If you are going to put a lot of computers in a room, wire up a 240 volt circuit for it. Just be sure to use double-pole switches (which the power supplies do). The 120 volt surge protectors won't work or won't be safe. Get some 240 volt ones with the IEC connectors (same as the PSU input) which should have the double pole switches.
TFA seems to assume "seemed to be influenced by activities inside the sun" and "something produced by the sun had traveled all the way through the Earth"... e.g. that it is the sun affecting the isotopes. Why not the other way around? I'm sure there are some of these isotopes inside the sun. So if their decay rates change, won't that have an effect on the sun?
It is obvious to us that these statements from both parties about the other being evil, and will destroy the country if allowed to govern, is about the only real truth we get from either one of them. That's why we have to keep them carefully balanced against each other to keep them both from being able to govern.
Just tell users if they want your online services, they have to come to your server in (whatever state or country). Isn't it great that the internet allows people to go to so many places where so many companies are.
I wanted to print this out for internet-challenged members of my family. But their print-this page still includes the comments. At least in this case, so far, there weren't very many. But I suspect it will grow.
Can't they make a version of the print-this page that leaves out the comments and just sticks with the article. I don't like wasting precious ink.
And if people want service from that ISP enough, they'll pay up. But, if there is no competition, then that's where either monopoly regulation or government subsidy of competition needs to come into being. This is the core infrastructure for a network economy much like the highway system, including interstate highways in the US, are for a transportation economy.
... TV per day works out to 2.7TB per month. That's using 20Mb/s for high quality, a figure that broadcast TV cannot reach (in USA it is limited to 19.39MB/s... and the cable/satellite companies are known to ruin the quality by over compressing).
At Comcast quality (definitely nowhere near high), that works out to about 24 hours a day. And given the choices on Comcast's channel lineup, one clearly must include internet video feeds in nearly all of that.
IMHO, internet services for year 2015 should be tiered at:
I'm looking for a small computer like that that includes sounds and wifi, so I can free up a netbook I currently have dedicated to a special function (capturing sound on a microphone input and relaying it over to my server).
Bonus points are awarded for identifying the universally supported formats that are not encumbered by any kind of IP issues. (Hint: There aren't any.)
Let me fix that for you:
Bonus points are awarded for identifying the universally supportable formats that are not encumbered by any kind of IP issues.
Of course there isn't any universally supportED format of any kind. Get past that silly requirement and consider what COULD BE DONE. Formats like Dirac and VP8 do have the potential to be universally supported. The problem is, the decision to support it is made by those who control all the closed platforms. And they aren't usually inclined to make decisions that are good for us.
Video is not a replacement for many other things Flash does. Flash won't go away because it is a platform for many non-video, or video-embedded, things like games. But... that also doesn't mean Flash is the best platform for those who want to just watch a video without borging their computer.
What I want out of video is for video sites to just stop trying to lock out the actual video file, unless they have some reason to not want me to see it. If you want me to see it, add a link to the video file under that big blank box that is nagging me to install Flash.
I'm not trying to eliminate or destroy Flash any more than I'm trying to eliminate or destroy Windows. Instead, I just want things that don't really need Flash (or Windows), to work my MY choices of things (like Mplayer, BSD, Linux... all chosen for reasons of safe computing that I can verify).
All the tools to play native video can be ported to any platform. Open platforms already have them, now. Closed platforms... that's the responsibility of whoever controls the platform... nag them.
You've just written some cool new fangled program for something. Maybe it automates a process. Maybe it creates a new interface for something. Maybe it's the next app killer. And best of all, you wrote a test suite for it during the development.
But does the test suite itself work right? How do you know that your test suite tests correctly, and completely? Did you also write a test suite test, too?
Really? You think patents are a measure of innovation? The vast majority of patents issued by the USPTO would have failed the test (that it be non-obvious, novel, and unique innovation), had it even been applied (which it won't, because that would cut deep into the revenue stream).
... at the level of a startup. I'm not even sure Dell ever was truly innovative (and if they were, they've definitely exported it out of the country, now). Intel really once was, but now days all their real innovation is in the very challenging and very expensive effort to keep making chip components smaller (e.g. 32nm, 22nm, 16nm, etc). And Google, which has been very innovative, is already on its way to that point (as clearly seen by things like buying out other innovations, and its changing stance on things like Net Neutrality to one favoring big behemoths). I guess I'm glad I've thrice turned down advances from Google recruiters and work for yet another startup (this time, for once, right from the beginning).
I've been doing this since way back when Firefox 1.0. I have a script that front ends the startup of Firefox. It creates a fake home directory (sets the HOME environment variable). It is populated with an initial set of files Firefox expects or needs and then launches the real Firefox program. It adds about 0.5 seconds to the startup time (was more like 3 seconds way back when I first did this). Another script can scan all these fake homes and figure out which ones are still busy, leaving them alone, and deleting all the rest. As a result of this, each time Firefox is started, it creates a whole new instances. So each are separate processes, too. One added benefit of that is if some bad website messes up Firefox in some way, I can just exit or kill it, and all the others are still running unscathed. Even though there are many Firefox processes running this way, it actually uses less memory because I exit them when I leave a site. Exit is very effective at cleaning up memory leaks and structure fragmentation.
Flash for a freaking slide show? This is too easily doable without Flash. Even Javascript is overkill. And it requires Flash version 9 as if no earlier Flash version could do a slide show.
And I still have my identity, even after being a victim of "identity theft". Of course, someone else is "sharing" it. Still, its stupid terminology. The "thieves" are committing fraud. In the case of handbags and such, they are committing fraud against the buyers by not divulging that they are not getting what they think they are getting. OTOH, 2/3 of big business does this, too (though, under their own brand name).
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Get a transformer that steps the voltage to 155 volts. Then you'd be logarithmically right in the middle of the 100-240 volt range most PSUs can handle. That would cover a rather wide range of sags and swells (surge is a transient ... swell is the term for a longer term rise in voltage).
You can also save on energy by just turning the computers off when you don't need them. That's why we got remote control PDUs on ours.
Or just put them on ONE circuit with 240 volts.
Most switching mode power supplies work more efficiently at the higher AC voltage of 240 volts. So, what draws 26 amps at 120 volts should typically draw less than 13 amps at 240 volts. You can thus run more than twice as much computer capacity on the same wiring gauge, which means additional savings in energy loss through the wiring feeding to the computers.
Most homes in the USA have 240 volts. If you are going to put a lot of computers in a room, wire up a 240 volt circuit for it. Just be sure to use double-pole switches (which the power supplies do). The 120 volt surge protectors won't work or won't be safe. Get some 240 volt ones with the IEC connectors (same as the PSU input) which should have the double pole switches.
TFA seems to assume "seemed to be influenced by activities inside the sun" and "something produced by the sun had traveled all the way through the Earth" ... e.g. that it is the sun affecting the isotopes. Why not the other way around? I'm sure there are some of these isotopes inside the sun. So if their decay rates change, won't that have an effect on the sun?
I'm curious how they are able to block one single page. Does SK have a "great firewall", too?
It is obvious to us that these statements from both parties about the other being evil, and will destroy the country if allowed to govern, is about the only real truth we get from either one of them. That's why we have to keep them carefully balanced against each other to keep them both from being able to govern.
Just tell users if they want your online services, they have to come to your server in (whatever state or country). Isn't it great that the internet allows people to go to so many places where so many companies are.
I wanted to print this out for internet-challenged members of my family. But their print-this page still includes the comments. At least in this case, so far, there weren't very many. But I suspect it will grow.
Can't they make a version of the print-this page that leaves out the comments and just sticks with the article. I don't like wasting precious ink.
And if people want service from that ISP enough, they'll pay up. But, if there is no competition, then that's where either monopoly regulation or government subsidy of competition needs to come into being. This is the core infrastructure for a network economy much like the highway system, including interstate highways in the US, are for a transportation economy.
... TV per day works out to 2.7TB per month. That's using 20Mb/s for high quality, a figure that broadcast TV cannot reach (in USA it is limited to 19.39MB/s ... and the cable/satellite companies are known to ruin the quality by over compressing).
At Comcast quality (definitely nowhere near high), that works out to about 24 hours a day. And given the choices on Comcast's channel lineup, one clearly must include internet video feeds in nearly all of that.
IMHO, internet services for year 2015 should be tiered at:
I'm looking for a small computer like that that includes sounds and wifi, so I can free up a netbook I currently have dedicated to a special function (capturing sound on a microphone input and relaying it over to my server).
Bonus points are awarded for identifying the universally supported formats that are not encumbered by any kind of IP issues. (Hint: There aren't any.)
Let me fix that for you:
Bonus points are awarded for identifying the universally supportable formats that are not encumbered by any kind of IP issues.
Of course there isn't any universally supportED format of any kind. Get past that silly requirement and consider what COULD BE DONE. Formats like Dirac and VP8 do have the potential to be universally supported. The problem is, the decision to support it is made by those who control all the closed platforms. And they aren't usually inclined to make decisions that are good for us.
When HTML5 becomes widespread and video tags work everywhere, you'll have to find a way to block the annoying ads in those formats, too.
Video is not a replacement for many other things Flash does. Flash won't go away because it is a platform for many non-video, or video-embedded, things like games. But ... that also doesn't mean Flash is the best platform for those who want to just watch a video without borging their computer.
What I want out of video is for video sites to just stop trying to lock out the actual video file, unless they have some reason to not want me to see it. If you want me to see it, add a link to the video file under that big blank box that is nagging me to install Flash.
I'm not trying to eliminate or destroy Flash any more than I'm trying to eliminate or destroy Windows. Instead, I just want things that don't really need Flash (or Windows), to work my MY choices of things (like Mplayer, BSD, Linux ... all chosen for reasons of safe computing that I can verify).
All the tools to play native video can be ported to any platform. Open platforms already have them, now. Closed platforms ... that's the responsibility of whoever controls the platform ... nag them.
... is that I have to read with my eyes and key with my fingers, which so many newfangled devices can't handle.
You've just written some cool new fangled program for something. Maybe it automates a process. Maybe it creates a new interface for something. Maybe it's the next app killer. And best of all, you wrote a test suite for it during the development.
But does the test suite itself work right? How do you know that your test suite tests correctly, and completely? Did you also write a test suite test, too?
The new meaning of BFG.
Really? You think patents are a measure of innovation? The vast majority of patents issued by the USPTO would have failed the test (that it be non-obvious, novel, and unique innovation), had it even been applied (which it won't, because that would cut deep into the revenue stream).
... at the level of a startup. I'm not even sure Dell ever was truly innovative (and if they were, they've definitely exported it out of the country, now). Intel really once was, but now days all their real innovation is in the very challenging and very expensive effort to keep making chip components smaller (e.g. 32nm, 22nm, 16nm, etc). And Google, which has been very innovative, is already on its way to that point (as clearly seen by things like buying out other innovations, and its changing stance on things like Net Neutrality to one favoring big behemoths). I guess I'm glad I've thrice turned down advances from Google recruiters and work for yet another startup (this time, for once, right from the beginning).
I've been doing this since way back when Firefox 1.0. I have a script that front ends the startup of Firefox. It creates a fake home directory (sets the HOME environment variable). It is populated with an initial set of files Firefox expects or needs and then launches the real Firefox program. It adds about 0.5 seconds to the startup time (was more like 3 seconds way back when I first did this). Another script can scan all these fake homes and figure out which ones are still busy, leaving them alone, and deleting all the rest. As a result of this, each time Firefox is started, it creates a whole new instances. So each are separate processes, too. One added benefit of that is if some bad website messes up Firefox in some way, I can just exit or kill it, and all the others are still running unscathed. Even though there are many Firefox processes running this way, it actually uses less memory because I exit them when I leave a site. Exit is very effective at cleaning up memory leaks and structure fragmentation.
Listen to Wolf instead of Fox.
It already belongs to Denmark.
Flash for a freaking slide show? This is too easily doable without Flash. Even Javascript is overkill. And it requires Flash version 9 as if no earlier Flash version could do a slide show.
And I still have my identity, even after being a victim of "identity theft". Of course, someone else is "sharing" it. Still, its stupid terminology. The "thieves" are committing fraud. In the case of handbags and such, they are committing fraud against the buyers by not divulging that they are not getting what they think they are getting. OTOH, 2/3 of big business does this, too (though, under their own brand name).