Not only for laptops or server rooms. My power consumption at home has increased by 25% in three years due to increasing computer use by kids & wife.
I'd like to install still more always-on equipment like webcams, video servers and such. But, with energy prices that will probably triple over the next 10 years, I'm not going to be able to afford these increases much longer.
For physics sake, dude, get your dimensions right.
weighs in at 2800kg under earth gravity ?
5.5 tera-newtons of mass ?
half a newton/meter of force ?
car engine doing a couple of hundred Newton/meters ?
weight (a mass under acceleration) is measured in Newton (kg.m/s/s, not kg)
mass in kg (not in newton)
force in Newton (not in newton/meter)
torque in Nm (Newton times meter, not Newtons per meter)
Explain what the torque of a car engine has to do with moving an asteroid, unless you have found a place to stand on and use Archimedes' lever ?
It's a psychologic thing. People who don't like A are going to misspell, mispronounce or not properly remember A's name. I don't know if they're doing that on purpose or unintendedly.
But it's very common behaviour. I'm sure studies must have been done about it.
BTW By the look of your id you don't seem to like yourself, 'hndrcks';-)
Untrue. I contacted a MEP and recommended him to look at the FFII information. He replied that they were on top of it. After the vote in the parliament it was clear from the voting that his faction followed the FFII guidelines and even added some positive amendments.
I received another e-mail from the MEP confirming this. The way they stated their position convinced me that they had put in a lot of time in understanding the issue. I was impressed.
We have European elections coming up. Guess who will be having my vote ?
Thanks for your comments; I think we're thinking along parallel lines (japanese style).
You don't know how to "get into" things. Running is a frame of mind.
Yes I do. Same goes for biking.
Why do you insist on measuring the value in terms of distance travelled and time spent? I do not. I just like the flexibility.
Sounds like you need a whole bunch of shit to prevent yourself from being bored while performing your "hobby." I don't need to, but I can.
Folks, it doesn't get much dorkier than being concerned with what your clothing looks like. Exactly. I can jump on my bike wearing what I'm wearing. No need to change clothes.
Sounds like you bike because somebody told you it'd be good for your health. Everything you've said seems to imply you don't even enjoy doing it -- complaining about exertion, relief from boredom, physical discomfort, etc...
Not at all. I love biking so much that I like to do it in varying circumstances. The flexibility allows me to bike more.
Feel free to bike, and tell others to bike, but don't compare what you do to what a runner does. It's cliche to say it, but if you have to ask why we run, there's nothing we can possibly say that will ever explain it to you.
Touché !
Why jog when you can bike ?
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I don't understand why people choose to jog instead of bike.
The advantages of biking:
infinitely much easier on your feet, knees and back.
you can spend much more power, and you have more flexibility in choosing a suitable power level
you can cover a larger area so it's less boring
more flexibility in duration. Biking 8 hours a day is no problem for an untrained person, but running is.
you can carry some luggage easily (iPod, phone, gps, book to read while pausing, drinks)
you don't need to wear silly clothing (although you certainly can)
a modern bike is way more interesting technically than running shoes.
Hint: the last T in VAT stands for TAX. The VA stands for - meaninglessly - Value Added. It's just a kind of hefty (+/-20%, depending on the country) sales tax.
As to keeping the taxes low in AL: Good For You !
By the way: are the jokes about the trailer parks true ?
As a four-year old the batteries in my electro game (where you have to link the contacts of question and answer with two probes to get a buzzing sound) died.
Somehow I noticed the wall socket...
A flash, a bang but I'm still alive. Close call though since there were no differential interruptors installed at that time.
If you build a house in my country, and get help from a volunteering friend, you have to be extremely careful to avoid paying VAT on his/her services. The government will assess the house, and calculate a higher VAT amount if they think that you haven't payed enough.
A potential of 220V over a resistance of 0.5 ohm would produce a current of 440A, dissipating 96kW.
During my MSEE studies we were installing some lighting equipment for a show. A fellow student made the following 'insightful' comment about the kind of electrical connection we would need: "WOW ! 15 amps and 3000 watts ! What an unbelievable voltage !". My sober reply was: "I hope for you it's 220V.".
1978: A simple synth with a circular 'keyboard' etched on a printed circuit board. To operate it you had to touch the exposed copper parts with a stylus (a probe from a multimeter...). 3-way toggle switch for octave up/down. 1979: a 4 channel drum machine with 16 preprogrammed rhythms in a 256x4 PROM. 1980: a synthetic drum (pad activated)
After that it became cheaper to buy the finished stuff instead of the components. And nowadays FruityLoops and Cubase rule my studio, together with a disklavier grand for that real piano touch.
for removing the shameless hype about Go Corp from the IT press.
During a few months you couldn't open a computer magazine without Go Corp being hyped in every article.
Every article during that time had Go Corp hyped in every paragraph.
I got so fed up of reading about Go Corp in every paragraph in every article in every computer magazine that I cancelled a few subscriptions.
Then good enough access to the internet came along, and I didn't need those subscriptions anymore, and Go Corp was but a vague memory.
Can we stop bringing up daemons from the past, and leave Go Corp for once and for all behind us ?
On the national radio today in an European country:
A 60 year old has been brought before justice because he offered 137,328 music files in MP3-format. The man also offered CD cover copies. The Computer Crime Unit tracked the man after a complaint of IFPI (the local equivalent of the RIAA). The man risks a fine from 100 to 100,000 euro.
Quite true. This year one of our horses ran up 400$ in expenses. It got an eye infection first, and after that was cured, managed to hurt a front leg on the fence wire. We should have installed the 2 miles of electric fence sooner...
This would be funny if this weren't already implemented in my wonderful european country, where a per-copy tax is levied on photocopy machines. Yes, we're being taxed for copying our own internal documents.
I have no idea where exactly society is going, but it sure isn't moving in a direction that makes sense to me.
Some cars are so energy efficient and some drivers drive so little kilometers (note: this is a situation that only occurs in Europe) that they need to fill up only once a year.
3 l/100km, 1500 km/yr, 50 l tank.
When I was young one of our cars had only 5000km after three years. It consumed more than 3 l/100km back then, though.
You may be aware that the SCO Group is offering a Linux IP 'License', and that this is seen by a large portion of the internet community as an attempt to threaten and extort Linux users. More information about this case can be found here: http://www.groklaw.com
It is my opinion that entering a business relation with the SCO Group is a dangerous proposition. Therefore, as your customer, I would like to be assured that you have no plans to license anything from the SCO Group. If I do not receive this assurance in due time, I will be obliged to start contingency planning.
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Not only for laptops or server rooms. My power consumption at home has increased by 25% in three years due to increasing computer use by kids & wife.
I'd like to install still more always-on equipment like webcams, video servers and such. But, with energy prices that will probably triple over the next 10 years, I'm not going to be able to afford these increases much longer.
weighs in at 2800kg under earth gravity ?
5.5 tera-newtons of mass ?
half a newton/meter of force ?
car engine doing a couple of hundred Newton/meters ?
weight (a mass under acceleration) is measured in Newton (kg.m/s/s, not kg)
mass in kg (not in newton)
force in Newton (not in newton/meter)
torque in Nm (Newton times meter, not Newtons per meter)
Explain what the torque of a car engine has to do with moving an asteroid, unless you have found a place to stand on and use Archimedes' lever ?
It's a psychologic thing. People who don't like A are going to misspell, mispronounce or not properly remember A's name. I don't know if they're doing that on purpose or unintendedly.
;-)
But it's very common behaviour. I'm sure studies must have been done about it.
BTW By the look of your id you don't seem to like yourself, 'hndrcks'
Untrue. I contacted a MEP and recommended him to look at the FFII information. He replied that they were on top of it. After the vote in the parliament it was clear from the voting that his faction followed the FFII guidelines and even added some positive amendments.
I received another e-mail from the MEP confirming this. The way they stated their position convinced me that they had put in a lot of time in understanding the issue. I was impressed.
We have European elections coming up. Guess who will be having my vote ?
Thanks for all comments below. I read a lot of interesting answers to my wondering.
You don't know how to "get into" things. Running is a frame of mind.
Yes I do. Same goes for biking.
Why do you insist on measuring the value in terms of distance travelled and time spent?
I do not. I just like the flexibility.
Sounds like you need a whole bunch of shit to prevent yourself from being bored while performing your "hobby."
I don't need to, but I can.
Folks, it doesn't get much dorkier than being concerned with what your clothing looks like.
Exactly. I can jump on my bike wearing what I'm wearing. No need to change clothes.
Sounds like you bike because somebody told you it'd be good for your health. Everything you've said seems to imply you don't even enjoy doing it -- complaining about exertion, relief from boredom, physical discomfort, etc...
Not at all. I love biking so much that I like to do it in varying circumstances. The flexibility allows me to bike more.
Feel free to bike, and tell others to bike, but don't compare what you do to what a runner does. It's cliche to say it, but if you have to ask why we run, there's nothing we can possibly say that will ever explain it to you.
Touché !
The advantages of biking:
- infinitely much easier on your feet, knees and back.
- you can spend much more power, and you have more flexibility in choosing a suitable power level
- you can cover a larger area so it's less boring
- more flexibility in duration. Biking 8 hours a day is no problem for an untrained person, but running is.
- you can carry some luggage easily (iPod, phone, gps, book to read while pausing, drinks)
- you don't need to wear silly clothing (although you certainly can)
- a modern bike is way more interesting technically than running shoes.
Disadvantages:RobberTux ?
Michaelux ?
As to keeping the taxes low in AL: Good For You !
By the way: are the jokes about the trailer parks true ?
Somehow I noticed the wall socket...
A flash, a bang but I'm still alive. Close call though since there were no differential interruptors installed at that time.
Oh yes, my government can.
If you build a house in my country, and get help from a volunteering friend, you have to be extremely careful to avoid paying VAT on his/her services. The government will assess the house, and calculate a higher VAT amount if they think that you haven't payed enough.
Primus, Secundus, Tertius, ... Septimus, Octavia...
Maybe you could put the Roman numbering system to good use and call your child Brivd.
A potential of 220V over a resistance of 0.5 ohm would produce a current of 440A, dissipating 96kW.
During my MSEE studies we were installing some lighting equipment for a show. A fellow student made the following 'insightful' comment about the kind of electrical connection we would need: "WOW ! 15 amps and 3000 watts ! What an unbelievable voltage !". My sober reply was: "I hope for you it's 220V.".
1978: A simple synth with a circular 'keyboard' etched on a printed circuit board. To operate it you had to touch the exposed copper parts with a stylus (a probe from a multimeter...). 3-way toggle switch for octave up/down.
1979: a 4 channel drum machine with 16 preprogrammed rhythms in a 256x4 PROM.
1980: a synthetic drum (pad activated)
After that it became cheaper to buy the finished stuff instead of the components. And nowadays FruityLoops and Cubase rule my studio, together with a disklavier grand for that real piano touch.
Gee, I forgot about that lone voice ! Thanks for reminding me.
for removing the shameless hype about Go Corp from the IT press.
During a few months you couldn't open a computer magazine without Go Corp being hyped in every article.
Every article during that time had Go Corp hyped in every paragraph.
I got so fed up of reading about Go Corp in every paragraph in every article in every computer magazine that I cancelled a few subscriptions.
Then good enough access to the internet came along, and I didn't need those subscriptions anymore, and Go Corp was but a vague memory.
Can we stop bringing up daemons from the past, and leave Go Corp for once and for all behind us ?
Update: this is the biggest catch for the CCU in the last 10 years.
8000 hours of music / 11000 CDs were downloadable from his website.
On the national radio today in an European country:
A 60 year old has been brought before justice because he offered 137,328 music files in MP3-format. The man also offered CD cover copies.
The Computer Crime Unit tracked the man after a complaint of IFPI (the local equivalent of the RIAA). The man risks a fine from 100 to 100,000 euro.
Do you mean hippocracy ?
Are Americans being ruled by horses ?
That would explain...
in a school far far away I used to mentally multiply two 5-digit numbers during certain boring lessons. (Religion, anyone ?)
No tricks involved. I did it just like you would do it on paper.
A benefit seems to be that I'm able to remember phone/pin/account numbers and random passwords easily. And I avoided being brainwashed...
Quite true. This year one of our horses ran up 400$ in expenses. It got an eye infection first, and after that was cured, managed to hurt a front leg on the fence wire. We should have installed the 2 miles of electric fence sooner...
This would be funny if this weren't already implemented in my wonderful european country, where a per-copy tax is levied on photocopy machines. Yes, we're being taxed for copying our own internal documents.
I have no idea where exactly society is going, but it sure isn't moving in a direction that makes sense to me.
Some cars are so energy efficient and some drivers drive so little kilometers (note: this is a situation that only occurs in Europe) that they need to fill up only once a year.
3 l/100km, 1500 km/yr, 50 l tank.
When I was young one of our cars had only 5000km after three years. It consumed more than 3 l/100km back then, though.
I cannot. My browser warns:
- The server's name "www.thescogroup.com" does not match the certificate's name "www.sco.com".
Somebody may be trying to eavesdrop on you.
I do not take my browser warnings lightly. It again looks like SCO is a lousy incompetent company.
Dear Sirs,
You may be aware that the SCO Group is offering a Linux IP 'License', and that this is seen by a large portion of the internet community as an attempt to threaten and extort Linux users. More information about this case can be found here: http://www.groklaw.com
It is my opinion that entering a business relation with the SCO Group is a dangerous proposition. Therefore, as your customer, I would like to be assured that you have no plans to license anything from the SCO Group. If I do not receive this assurance in due time, I will be obliged to start contingency planning.
Regards