Yeah, you are probably right, on average at least. It's just that computers can become a large part of 2kw, after you get more than 5 full systems.
4 of mine are motherboard only, but they each have a seperate power supply (ever try to hook ATX up in parallel? It's possible, but likely a hassle)
At work, out server room has about 15-20 servers, when we used to have monitors on every one, with everything on, including the RAIDs, we were pulling right around 3kw. With less monitors now that we got switchboxes, we are running a little lower I'm sure.
Except that your monitor only refreshes the screen from 70-120 times a second, depending on what your refresh rate is. Framerates above the refresh rate of the monitor are pointless.
Well, I have 6 computers that are on constantly, 1 that is on as needed. 4 of the 6 that are on constantly are motherboards only, so they don't use too much. I always turn monitors off when not in use. I'd say when all the monitors are on, and the computers are being actively used, they can easily be 2kw by themselves.
The figure you point out is an average. I mean, during the day you probably use a lot less power than the evening. I'm sure most houses peak out well over 12kw when they have a microwave, electric stove, and electric hear pump running, along with a computer and TV.
Of course, people that live on solar power, as the original post was talking about, generally use a lot less electric power. They pay for it in other ways though often, like buying gas for heaters and stoves.
Heckenkamp said he wanted to subpoena Nadel's "client" to appear in court, and Ware asked him who, exactly, he wanted to bring into the courtroom. When Heckenkamp replied, "The United States of America," Ware ordered him taken into custody.
I think they meant at this point the judge ordered the defendant to be taken into custody, but it could equally mean he ordered the United States to be taken into custody.:)
2KW? My computers use that much by themselves! That's only around 20 amps.
Most houses have 100 or 200 amp service. This is about 10k-20k watts. (ballpark figure, things like the nature of the loads make it impossible to directly translate watts to amps when talking about AC power)
Some nuclear reactions actually create more radioactive materials, or more dangerous ones. Nuclear reactions aren't zero sum danger-wise. Remember we are busting up nuclei and making new elements.
Oh, and that $9900 pentium computer that they want to sell us? The current one that they sold us before is in a standard desktop case. We are really talking commodity there, not ruggedized in any way.
Anyway, I understand your point, and I don't want to encourage people to put lesser hardware into diverse environments that require ruggedized to have any sort of reasonable MTBF. The trick only works if you can find the exact same or better hardware for less, which you usually can. The OEM that the vendor bought it from is usually not picky about who they sell to, and their volume is usually low enough that you can talk them into selling you small quantities.
I'm not talking about buying lesser quality items, I'm talking about buying the exact same hardware, down to the model number, just from the original manufacturer, rather than from the vendor. The vendors usually whine and cry, but so far that's about it, they can't say much if we are using the approved part, just not from them.
Look, do I need to explain it in simpler terms for you?
RHAT IPOed. Their stock became worth several hundred dollars. Was the company worth that? Hell no! RHAT knew that, and spent this "funny money" buying companies that had real worth. The price difference between what the companies are worth now, after being absorbed into Red Hat, and the price they paid (with fake money, remember?) is Goodwill. Goodwill is taken as one-time charges.
When a company like Cisco writes off 3 billion in inventory as a one-time charge, that is a real cost, there is physical goods that are now, in esscence, worthless.
When a company like RHAT takes a goodwill one-time charge, it's vastly different. That is money that would not exist today, had they held on to their stock reserves, and not spent it while it was way overvalued.
You have a good take on this situation, a person obviously speaking from experience in the real world, unlike a lot of the obvious early-teenagers posting in this article.
I've pretty much been in every IT role at the company I work at. I've been the fix-it guy at one point, I've dealt with all the users directly, and now I'm on the other side of the fence, as a concurrent senior sysadmin/and programmer. (fairly small manufacturing company, about 150 employees, so we have to wear more hats at the same time in our 4 person IT department)
Anyway, I've also found that the "grunts" are hardly ever the ones abusing the system, at least not the lower level administrative ones. I've never had a secretary-type do anything worse than forward junk godsheep chainletters, or install stupid screensavers or run e-greeting cards.
I think the spam that you are seeing to the conservative types is precisely due to this though.
We had a wave of religious chain letter type things going through about a year or two ago, and I think that those lengthy forward lists that of course were fully quoted in each consecutive forward, wound up in the hands of spammers. It's really not their fault a lot of the time, even if they don't forward the letters themselves, just being included in the forwards at some point makes them vulernable to spamming. And also, I finally convinced all the godsheep to quit forwarding crap, now that they get spam about how to increase their ejaculation every day.
That was the best troll I have seen in a long long time. Why did you have to mess it up by having such an obvious name? If you were billysue3242 you would have been modded up to at least 3 or 4.
You can't really dock pay for behavour directly in the US, the way I understand the laws. You can always cut someone's future pay rate (or fire them), but I don't think you can go back and say, "well you only really worked 5 hours, so here is that much pay".
Or the number of times a vendor gives you an outrageous price for a piece of hardware that isn't quite mainstream, but not proprietary either.
We have already saved money bypassing vendors and going directly to the manufacturer on exotic things like embedded system components.
Another example that is current, a company that supplied one of our large industrial machines wants $9900 for a pentium computer to run a DOS app and control some solenoids via multiport adapters. We are going to research our way out of that one if possible. This stuff happens all the time in manufacturing, vendors try to rape you on commodity hardware with their kiss of approval, when the exact same thing can be gotten directly from the manufacturers.
I think he meant earnings, but of course he counted one time charges, i.e. worthless goodwill that came from the purchase of companies when Red Hat's stock was high. You can't really count that as a loss, since that money appeared out of thin air in the first place, due to their inflated stock price.
Also, Red Hat was profitable before the IPO, and has broken even the last three quarters once you take out one time fake-money charges.
It's true. I built a server that was pushing the bounds of the maximum capacity of the drive bays, about 6 hard disks were adjecent to each other. This is normally bad, but it was a full tower case which let me put three fans blowing out of the back of the case. The side panels had vents cut in stripes down the side close to the hard disk bays, and also slots on the other side (bottom of the motherboard side). I used tape to cover all the vents except the ones adjecent to the hard disk bays, and used negative air pressure to pull air through and between the drives. They stayed at room temperature as long as the case was on, but quickly (within 20 minutes) went up to the "almost too hot to touch" range if they were run with the side off.
I'd have to agree, we have over 48 Maxtor drives in RAID configurations, havn't had one fail yet. We also havn't seen any Maxtor failures in desktop computers in years.
I'm sure there is a technical reason, but if that is true, then why leave the pads on the outside of the chip? Why not just hide them so people can't mod it this way?
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Yeah, you are probably right, on average at least. It's just that computers can become a large part of 2kw, after you get more than 5 full systems.
4 of mine are motherboard only, but they each have a seperate power supply (ever try to hook ATX up in parallel? It's possible, but likely a hassle)
At work, out server room has about 15-20 servers, when we used to have monitors on every one, with everything on, including the RAIDs, we were pulling right around 3kw. With less monitors now that we got switchboxes, we are running a little lower I'm sure.
Just like I said to the other guy, it's in the state consitiution, of all 50 states.
It's the the state constitution of all 50 states, in one form or another.
"these cases"?
What, you mean normal criminal cases?
The government is always the plaintiff in criminal cases, and the district (or commonwealth's) attorney is its representative.
And by the time the newer games come out, you could have spent 50% less for the same hardware.
Except that your monitor only refreshes the screen from 70-120 times a second, depending on what your refresh rate is. Framerates above the refresh rate of the monitor are pointless.
Well, I have 6 computers that are on constantly, 1 that is on as needed. 4 of the 6 that are on constantly are motherboards only, so they don't use too much. I always turn monitors off when not in use. I'd say when all the monitors are on, and the computers are being actively used, they can easily be 2kw by themselves.
The figure you point out is an average. I mean, during the day you probably use a lot less power than the evening. I'm sure most houses peak out well over 12kw when they have a microwave, electric stove, and electric hear pump running, along with a computer and TV.
Of course, people that live on solar power, as the original post was talking about, generally use a lot less electric power. They pay for it in other ways though often, like buying gas for heaters and stoves.
Heckenkamp said he wanted to subpoena Nadel's "client" to appear in court, and Ware asked him who, exactly, he wanted to bring into the courtroom.
:)
When Heckenkamp replied, "The United States of America," Ware ordered him taken into custody.
I think they meant at this point the judge ordered the defendant to be taken into custody, but it could equally mean he ordered the United States to be taken into custody.
His position is "on Linus, on the desktop". Kinky.
Oh that's "Linux". My bad.
Also, Joel stated that the problems with Outlook were with "1%" of the code
5000 parts per million (0.5%) of lead in your water is a lot.
It only takes one bad line of code to crash everything.
Who does this guy think he is kidding with this 1% figure?
2KW? My computers use that much by themselves! That's only around 20 amps.
Most houses have 100 or 200 amp service. This is about 10k-20k watts. (ballpark figure, things like the nature of the loads make it impossible to directly translate watts to amps when talking about AC power)
Some nuclear reactions actually create more radioactive materials, or more dangerous ones. Nuclear reactions aren't zero sum danger-wise. Remember we are busting up nuclei and making new elements.
Oh, and that $9900 pentium computer that they want to sell us? The current one that they sold us before is in a standard desktop case. We are really talking commodity there, not ruggedized in any way.
Anyway, I understand your point, and I don't want to encourage people to put lesser hardware into diverse environments that require ruggedized to have any sort of reasonable MTBF. The trick only works if you can find the exact same or better hardware for less, which you usually can. The OEM that the vendor bought it from is usually not picky about who they sell to, and their volume is usually low enough that you can talk them into selling you small quantities.
I'm not talking about buying lesser quality items, I'm talking about buying the exact same hardware, down to the model number, just from the original manufacturer, rather than from the vendor. The vendors usually whine and cry, but so far that's about it, they can't say much if we are using the approved part, just not from them.
Look, do I need to explain it in simpler terms for you?
RHAT IPOed. Their stock became worth several hundred dollars. Was the company worth that? Hell no! RHAT knew that, and spent this "funny money" buying companies that had real worth. The price difference between what the companies are worth now, after being absorbed into Red Hat, and the price they paid (with fake money, remember?) is Goodwill. Goodwill is taken as one-time charges.
When a company like Cisco writes off 3 billion in inventory as a one-time charge, that is a real cost, there is physical goods that are now, in esscence, worthless.
When a company like RHAT takes a goodwill one-time charge, it's vastly different. That is money that would not exist today, had they held on to their stock reserves, and not spent it while it was way overvalued.
Let me know if you still have more questions.
You have a good take on this situation, a person obviously speaking from experience in the real world, unlike a lot of the obvious early-teenagers posting in this article.
I've pretty much been in every IT role at the company I work at. I've been the fix-it guy at one point, I've dealt with all the users directly, and now I'm on the other side of the fence, as a concurrent senior sysadmin/and programmer. (fairly small manufacturing company, about 150 employees, so we have to wear more hats at the same time in our 4 person IT department)
Anyway, I've also found that the "grunts" are hardly ever the ones abusing the system, at least not the lower level administrative ones. I've never had a secretary-type do anything worse than forward junk godsheep chainletters, or install stupid screensavers or run e-greeting cards.
I think the spam that you are seeing to the conservative types is precisely due to this though.
We had a wave of religious chain letter type things going through about a year or two ago, and I think that those lengthy forward lists that of course were fully quoted in each consecutive forward, wound up in the hands of spammers.
It's really not their fault a lot of the time, even if they don't forward the letters themselves, just being included in the forwards at some point makes them vulernable to spamming. And also, I finally convinced all the godsheep to quit forwarding crap, now that they get spam about how to increase their ejaculation every day.
That was the best troll I have seen in a long long time. Why did you have to mess it up by having such an obvious name? If you were billysue3242 you would have been modded up to at least 3 or 4.
You can't really dock pay for behavour directly in the US, the way I understand the laws. You can always cut someone's future pay rate (or fire them), but I don't think you can go back and say, "well you only really worked 5 hours, so here is that much pay".
Or the number of times a vendor gives you an outrageous price for a piece of hardware that isn't quite mainstream, but not proprietary either.
We have already saved money bypassing vendors and going directly to the manufacturer on exotic things like embedded system components.
Another example that is current, a company that supplied one of our large industrial machines wants $9900 for a pentium computer to run a DOS app and control some solenoids via multiport adapters. We are going to research our way out of that one if possible. This stuff happens all the time in manufacturing, vendors try to rape you on commodity hardware with their kiss of approval, when the exact same thing can be gotten directly from the manufacturers.
Why do you print it out? Why not just send them to a folder in your mail account? Do you have something against trees?
I think he meant earnings, but of course he counted one time charges, i.e. worthless goodwill that came from the purchase of companies when Red Hat's stock was high. You can't really count that as a loss, since that money appeared out of thin air in the first place, due to their inflated stock price.
Also, Red Hat was profitable before the IPO, and has broken even the last three quarters once you take out one time fake-money charges.
It's true. I built a server that was pushing the bounds of the maximum capacity of the drive bays, about 6 hard disks were adjecent to each other. This is normally bad, but it was a full tower case which let me put three fans blowing out of the back of the case. The side panels had vents cut in stripes down the side close to the hard disk bays, and also slots on the other side (bottom of the motherboard side). I used tape to cover all the vents except the ones adjecent to the hard disk bays, and used negative air pressure to pull air through and between the drives. They stayed at room temperature as long as the case was on, but quickly (within 20 minutes) went up to the "almost too hot to touch" range if they were run with the side off.
I'd have to agree, we have over 48 Maxtor drives in RAID configurations, havn't had one fail yet. We also havn't seen any Maxtor failures in desktop computers in years.
I'm sure there is a technical reason, but if that is true, then why leave the pads on the outside of the chip? Why not just hide them so people can't mod it this way?
You could always cut and scrape the paint with an exacto knife, the process is reversible.