I'm not sure that the 'cooling pads plus box' enclosure is a good idea. It looks like it will make the drive less efficient at radiating heat away. Might lead to overheating, especially in the fanless system in the article.
Since it is mostly irrelevant where a data center physically is, and cooling via electrical power is going to result in a comparable draw to generating the computing cycles in a warm climate, I suspect the greenest thing Google/Microsoft could do would be to site their data centers in the coldest northern climates feasible (rather than, say, California). It makes generated waste heat potentially useful as well, rather than just pumping it straight back out into the atmosphere.
(Thinking about it, Iceland would be ideal for a big datacenter. Cold climate and lots of cheap renewable energy via geothermal.)
This seems to me like a drunken captcha. I expect a new outsourced market to develop - dictating email messages (while hammered) to armies of third-world operators to put in on your behalf to get round this.
Isn't that getting into dangerous territory (popping balloons, instant blindness etc)? Recently, high-power laser pointer sales have been banned on eBay and Amazon here in the UK, I'm wondering if similar restrictions might appear for drives like this.
"Silicon doesn't wear out; microchips were effectively immortal. The Wig took notice of the fact. Like every other child of his age, however, he knew that silicon became obsolete, which was worse than wearing out"
Why is it that the 'original' netbook - the XO1 - can get 9-10 hours of battery life, even with a basic NiMH (rather than Li-ion) battery, and yet all the followup netbooks seem stuck at 4 hours tops? Even with the new ultra-efficient Atom processor, most new netbooks seem to have a relatively heavy power draw. I wish somebody would sort that out.
It's all very well capturing the CO2 generated when burning lignite, but since it is the poorest form of coal with the lowest energy density, much more of it needs to be burned than with traditional anthracite (black) coal and so a lot more of the other air pollutants and ash are going to be generated as well, which seems like a bigger worry to me.
Personally I am just happy that some of the music of Bach is on the Voyager Golden Record, traveling off into the cosmos, and will in some small way survive even the heat death of our sun. That's _real_ immortality.
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
I remember reading about him a few years ago and being struck by his reasons for doing such dangerous work - "the oil won't last forever". It's sad that a bright, enthusiastic young kid has more insight into our future than most of the people in power seem to have today.
This reminds me of the case of the Birmingham Six here in the UK, where part of the evidence against them - the Griess test - which was supposed to prove handling of nitrate-based explosives - was later overturned when it was discovered that simply having handled laminated playing cards could generate a false positive in the test.
Since the Internet is really just a collection of smaller privately-owned networks connected on common backbones, is it even possible to 'replace' it? I'm not sure what the goal is here. Sounds like herding cats to me.
This is the kind of laptop that would run Puppy Linux perfectly. This distro is specifically designed to run on older/slower hardware, so should be nice here.
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I'm not sure that the 'cooling pads plus box' enclosure is a good idea. It looks like it will make the drive less efficient at radiating heat away. Might lead to overheating, especially in the fanless system in the article.
Since it is mostly irrelevant where a data center physically is, and cooling via electrical power is going to result in a comparable draw to generating the computing cycles in a warm climate, I suspect the greenest thing Google/Microsoft could do would be to site their data centers in the coldest northern climates feasible (rather than, say, California). It makes generated waste heat potentially useful as well, rather than just pumping it straight back out into the atmosphere.
(Thinking about it, Iceland would be ideal for a big datacenter. Cold climate and lots of cheap renewable energy via geothermal.)
My inbox now seems to be filling up with lobster thermidor aux crevettes instead.
you can give one of these poor unwanted IP's a home.
This seems to me like a drunken captcha. I expect a new outsourced market to develop - dictating email messages (while hammered) to armies of third-world operators to put in on your behalf to get round this.
Isn't that getting into dangerous territory (popping balloons, instant blindness etc)? Recently, high-power laser pointer sales have been banned on eBay and Amazon here in the UK, I'm wondering if similar restrictions might appear for drives like this.
Liquor in the front,
Poker in the rear.
"Silicon doesn't wear out; microchips were effectively immortal. The Wig took notice of the fact. Like every other child of his age, however, he knew that silicon became obsolete, which was worse than wearing out"
Why is it that the 'original' netbook - the XO1 - can get 9-10 hours of battery life, even with a basic NiMH (rather than Li-ion) battery, and yet all the followup netbooks seem stuck at 4 hours tops? Even with the new ultra-efficient Atom processor, most new netbooks seem to have a relatively heavy power draw. I wish somebody would sort that out.
Must remember to think in Russian when using the USSR version.
It's all very well capturing the CO2 generated when burning lignite, but since it is the poorest form of coal with the lowest energy density, much more of it needs to be burned than with traditional anthracite (black) coal and so a lot more of the other air pollutants and ash are going to be generated as well, which seems like a bigger worry to me.
Personally I am just happy that some of the music of Bach is on the Voyager Golden Record, traveling off into the cosmos, and will in some small way survive even the heat death of our sun. That's _real_ immortality.
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China has already mandated USB charging for all new mobile phones
I wonder if it will go the way of Biosphere 2, another attempt at a self-contained living environment from the 90's
The mention of gardening brought to mind section 5 of the alt.sysadmin.recovery FAQ. Well worth a read.
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
I remember reading about him a few years ago and being struck by his reasons for doing such dangerous work - "the oil won't last forever". It's sad that a bright, enthusiastic young kid has more insight into our future than most of the people in power seem to have today.
Didn't George Orwell warn us about trying to change our history? I'll keep my photographs as they are, thanks.
This reminds me of the case of the Birmingham Six here in the UK, where part of the evidence against them - the Griess test - which was supposed to prove handling of nitrate-based explosives - was later overturned when it was discovered that simply having handled laminated playing cards could generate a false positive in the test.
Only if he attaches one of these to the front of the cart though.
Now everyone can be John Malkovich.
Since the Internet is really just a collection of smaller privately-owned networks connected on common backbones, is it even possible to 'replace' it? I'm not sure what the goal is here. Sounds like herding cats to me.
This is the kind of laptop that would run Puppy Linux perfectly. This distro is specifically designed to run on older/slower hardware, so should be nice here.
I'd much rather see into Steve Wozniak's head. The 'Mozart of the Motherboard' must have some beautiful stuff going on in there.