>The police answer would be:
>There is NEVER a reason to speed
But the police THEMSELVES find ample and frequent reasons to speed, at least here in the states. I don't know what rules police work under in the UK, but I bet they speed too. "When conditions warrant it", of course, of course.
>Seriously, if this article were a comment, it would get modded into the ground as flamebait, because Michael is making claims that are not only tenously grounded in reality, but which he completely fails to back up at all.
Agreed. I don't have a problem with Michael voicing his opinion on the matter. Granted, there is not much room to go into detail in a/. headline. But he could have embellished below the headline and first paragraph. He could embellish here in the user comments. He hasn't.
It's just not what I'm used to here on Slashdot. When a Poster makes some strong comment like this, they usually explain. Many times I'm convinced by those arguments. But just throwing out the opinion without any arguments is unlikely to convince anyone.
>First of all, the "body" inside the womb is the combination and product of two humans. Without the support of at least one of them, that "body" will most certainly die.
And without support, a newborn infant will most certainly die. What is your point?
>.. There is nothing un-natural about death or selected killing (even indiscriminant killing).
Does it follow that anything which is natural(like killing) is moral? No, I do not think it does.
>The question becomes what is best for the species, the individual, the particular organ... Or fetus.
Would it be "best for the species" to kill any elderly person who is no longer contributing to society, but just sucking up resources? How about chronic mental patients?
>Why is it BAD for me to want my children to be >happy, healthy, attractive, and smart - as long >as my concern is helping them not controlling >them.
Wake up! Mistakes are made all the time based on good intentions.
Another thing: Where do you get the notion that genetically engineering your kids will make them happier? That is nonsense.
Suppose, hypothetically, I genetically engineer my kid and he grows up miserably because of it. Should i feel fine as long as my intent was to help them?
Jeez, I think i was smoking crack when i posted the parent. A watt is a watt for sure, but the computer power supply does not neccesarily convert 120AC power to 5 and 12 volts DC 100% efficiently! If, for example, it is only doing this job at 50% efficiency, the $ per year estimates in my original post could double. Does anyone know what a typical power supply efficiency is? (Also, if someone sees some crazy errors in the calculations, let me know.)
"...point out the hidden costs of running the chips as hot as AMD runs them,..."
I thought your idea was interesting, so I decided to compute the cost of the extra power the Athlon chip dissapates as heat when compared to a PII system of the same clock. I made calculations based on power comsumption data from http://users.erols.com/chare/elec.htm.
A K75 core Athlon at 750mhz consumes 36.3W typically, 40.4W max. An FC-PGA PIII at 750mhz consumes 19.5W max.
Since no typical dissipation is given for the PII, I will use maximum dissipation rates for both processors.
This Athlon consumes about 20W more than this comparable PIII. If I leave my computer on for 8 hours a day 365 days a year I will use it for 8*365=2920 hours.
Therefore the additional power needed for this Athlon system is 20watts*2920hours=58.4 kilowatt-hours. (This is, of course, neglecting the different power consumption of each motherboard.)
Assuming a cost of $.10/kilowatt hour, the Athlon 750 would cost you an additional.10*58.4=$5.84 per year.
Assuming a cost of $.15/kilowatt hour, the Athlon 750 would cost you an additional.15*58.4=$8.76 per year.
True, though i'm impressed that they chose NiMH D cells over some propietary cell size/design. As more and more things in consumer electronics switch over from NiCad to NiMH, I don't think it will be as expensive to replace them as it could have been had they done some custom design.
I like a good sarcastic post as much as the next person... and I like this one. However, the criticism surrounding this particular quote does not have anything to do with communism. In fact, much of the arguement is pro-ownership (I want to be able to _own_ something I _buy_). Personal "Ownership" of objects, in the strict sense, is what communism sought to do away with, did it not?
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>The police answer would be:
>There is NEVER a reason to speed
But the police THEMSELVES find ample and frequent reasons to speed, at least here in the states. I don't know what rules police work under in the UK, but I bet they speed too. "When conditions warrant it", of course, of course.
yeah. I think one of them realizes that one seat is still up for grabs in maine, the other doesn't.
Agreed. I don't have a problem with Michael voicing his opinion on the matter. Granted, there is not much room to go into detail in a /. headline. But he could have embellished below the headline and first paragraph. He could embellish here in the user comments. He hasn't.
It's just not what I'm used to here on Slashdot. When a Poster makes some strong comment like this, they usually explain. Many times I'm convinced by those arguments. But just throwing out the opinion without any arguments is unlikely to convince anyone.
>First of all, the "body" inside the womb is the combination and product of two humans. Without the support of at least one of them, that "body" will most certainly die.
And without support, a newborn infant will most certainly die. What is your point?
>.. There is nothing un-natural about death or selected killing (even indiscriminant killing).
Does it follow that anything which is natural(like killing) is moral? No, I do not think it does.
>The question becomes what is best for the species, the individual, the particular organ... Or fetus.
Would it be "best for the species" to kill any elderly person who is no longer contributing to society, but just sucking up resources? How about chronic mental patients?
>Why is it BAD for me to want my children to be >happy, healthy, attractive, and smart - as long >as my concern is helping them not controlling >them.
Wake up! Mistakes are made all the time based on good intentions.
Another thing: Where do you get the notion that genetically engineering your kids will make them happier? That is nonsense.
Suppose, hypothetically, I genetically engineer my kid and he grows up miserably because of it. Should i feel fine as long as my intent was to help them?
Jeez, I think i was smoking crack when i posted the parent. A watt is a watt for sure, but the computer power supply does not neccesarily convert 120AC power to 5 and 12 volts DC 100% efficiently! If, for example, it is only doing this job at 50% efficiency, the $ per year estimates in my original post could double. Does anyone know what a typical power supply efficiency is? (Also, if someone sees some crazy errors in the calculations, let me know.)
"...point out the hidden costs of running the chips as hot as AMD runs them,..."
.10*58.4=$5.84 per year.
.15*58.4=$8.76 per year.
I thought your idea was interesting, so I decided to compute the cost of the extra power the Athlon chip dissapates as heat when compared to a PII system of the same clock. I made calculations based on power comsumption data from
http://users.erols.com/chare/elec.htm.
A K75 core Athlon at 750mhz consumes 36.3W typically, 40.4W max.
An FC-PGA PIII at 750mhz consumes 19.5W max.
Since no typical dissipation is given for the PII, I will use maximum dissipation rates for both processors.
This Athlon consumes about 20W more than this comparable PIII. If I leave my computer on for 8 hours a day 365 days a year I will use it for
8*365=2920 hours.
Therefore the additional power needed for this Athlon system is 20watts*2920hours=58.4 kilowatt-hours. (This is, of course, neglecting the different power consumption of each motherboard.)
Assuming a cost of $.10/kilowatt hour, the Athlon 750 would cost you an additional
Assuming a cost of $.15/kilowatt hour, the Athlon 750 would cost you an additional
True, though i'm impressed that they chose NiMH D cells over some propietary cell size/design. As more and more things in consumer electronics switch over from NiCad to NiMH, I don't think it will be as expensive to replace them as it could have been had they done some custom design.
I like a good sarcastic post as much as the next person... and I like this one. However, the criticism surrounding this particular quote does not have anything to do with communism. In fact, much of the arguement is pro-ownership (I want to be able to _own_ something I _buy_). Personal "Ownership" of objects, in the strict sense, is what communism sought to do away with, did it not?