Yeah, and MS Office still can't deal with long file names. Why don't we put Apple in charge of MS Office? Pretty quick, we'd catch up with Open Office.
We use waste heat all the time. It's called cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) syetems. If they are wasteful, why do they save you so much energy and money?
BTW, Stirling engines were not presented as magical, they were presented as useful. Nor are they low power, as SoCal Edison is proving with their buy of 25kW solar/Stirling generators.
FWIW, your premise that the second engine inpedes heat rejection in the first engine is simply wrong. Waste the residual heat as you did without the second engine.
RTFA! The article doesn't require use of fuel cells or microturbines, in fact they are not mentioned. "You" probably won't be involved as anything other than a customer. The existing utility companies are very likely to run the microgrid system, provide the generators, meter and charge for energy usage, etc. You have nothing to fear from your neighbors.
The key benefit, other than distributed generation of eletricity, is efficiency. If there is a heat engine involved, the most efficient locations will use the waste heat. Other generators (PV, solar Stirling, wind, water, etc.) can be placed almost anywhere. Well, it helps to have good head if you want to use water. It helps to have good head anyway, though.
FWIW, if you produce heat for your generator (gas turbine, etc.), a Stirling engine could efficiently use the waste heat and you wouldn't need a campus environment to achieve high efficiency. Feed the Stirling engine solar heat during the day and stored heat at night and you have a 24/7 micro power source with two "fuels".
China is a large part of mankind that is rapidly industrializing and has no Kyoto restraints. What happens when China reaches 10 tons per capita? They'll outpace the (current) US by more than 2.5X. What is the net impact of Kyoto? About half that. Maybe that's why some people are not very entusiastic about Kyoto, while remaining concerned about greenhouse gas emissions.
If you're going to quote Wikipedia, please read the entire article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Treaty The world's second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases is China. Yet, China was entirely exempted from the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol.
and
India signed and ratified the Protocol in August, 2002. Since India is exempted from the framework of the treaty...
There are seveal exempted countries, which means their signature on the treaty is pretty much meaningless.
The technical aspect of this discussion has been covered well by others and puts Intiut in a more favorable light. The financial aspect is also easily handled by those willing to risk $5 in an online auction.
An older copy of Quicken continues to run, without online bill pay, if you choose not to upgrade. If you require/desire/lust after online bill pay, you will typically pay $5+ per month to your bank for the service. Surely you can pony up the extra cost of an older copy of Quicken as well.
My ADT service was hooked up to become the first device in the daisy chain of POTS equipment. That allowed it to disconnect any call and make a call to ADT in the event of an alarm.
As others have noted, your alarm system is probably hooked up in the daisy chain and can be served by the VOIP box. In my case (and perhaps yours), that still left me with a dead connection when an alarm went off, because I was providing phone service from the other side of the alarm system. My box immediately noted this (well, after an alarm) with a trouble light. I simply reversed the leads and the alarm system was once again working, although it is not the first device, it is the last.
Some day I'll drop the Vonage box into the right spot and reverse connections again.
I've been doing this for more than a decade without the horrific failures described here (can't remember the last failure, it's been so long). But it's strictly low end and I'm only serving 10 users at the moment (has been as many as 35). I'm serving office documents and AutoCAD files almost exclusively. While not as sexy as saying I have "Server X", I'm quite happy with a dual CPU linux box (Netmax, so anyone can figue out what to do when I'm out) and I backup to Windows boxes with the bundled software.
My server is an older Intel server board with dual PIII-600s (as are some of my older workstations) and a 10/100 NIC (due for an upgrade, though, so we can go gigabit for the CAD machines - to match our new color printers). The server and workstations are all built with similar Antec cases, so I can maintain one stock of spares and change drive clusters faster than you can blink (and still with no need to do that).
Full backups of documents and drawings are done nightly, about 20GB total. Static files (photos, etc.) are backed weekly and monthly. Any time I want, I can have redundant backups, just backup to another workstation with $50 of spare drive space.
Servers are not magic. Pick the criteria that suit you and build/buy the machine and OS you need. Redundancy is a given. After that, no one but you will give a damn if it's sexy or not. They willl care if it means they get a better workstation out of the deal, though.
there is a comment by the actor that essentially says the point of the movie is uncovering the "deep dark secret truth" or something like that at US Robotics (what might that be, people don't like modems?
US Robotics took their name from Asimov's stories.
Agreed. Dive the computer until it breaks. Then abort the dive and log it as if you dived the tables. The purpose of the computer is to give you more bottom time and shorter surface intervals, in particular when you are not diving square profiles.
No, that's not what I'm saying. At what point did I (or the article) say that having only one way to do anything is good. I could quote myself, but you should be able to find me in the original with no trouble. Read it this time.
The article is about screwing up the methods Windows provides. The original poster missed that, an error I can only attribute to his desire to flame Mac users.
FWIW, there are several ways to to most things on Macs. If you'd ever used a Mac instead of trolling/. for comments, perhaps we wouldn't be here.
I will note, however, that I'm glad Windows retains its keyboard menu access. At least when the mouse driver dies, I can do a controlled reboot instead of simply pulling the plug.
PS. Log in and let us know who you are, next time. If you don't have the guts to stand behind your comments, STOP SHOUTING them to the four winds.
You read the entire article and all you got was a complaint about having multiple means of closing a window? Then you just don't get it. There's nothing bad about multiple methods. There is something bad about inconsistency and complexity. The article showed, in great detail, just how inconsistent and complex something very simple can be.
when we go the the local gas station lit by these lamps?
Last I knew, folks with pacemakers were to be cautioned about microwave oven usage (remember that sign on the 7-11 door?). Should we expect traffic signs that indicate you should take the next exit or risk "the big one"?
The other downside was that days "off" were docked against vacation, but overtime was not recognized, so if you worked from 8:00AM one morning, through the night, to 10:00 AM the next day, and left to get some sleep, you got DOCKED 6 hours against your vacation.
As far as I know, what you described is illegal. Hourly workers are compensated with overtime for more that 40 hours a week or 12 hours a day. Salaried workers can not be required to work 8 hours per day or 40 hours a week.
Virtual workspaces are easier to use and I am finding them indispensible for working with sets of applications.
I use it switch focus very easily, with one click. Instead of switching apps via the Dock on a one-by-one basis, I switch among workspaces that have related apps open. For instance, I keep a "Comm" workspace with MSIE, Mail, First Class, etc; an "Office" workspace with MS Office apps open: etc. I also keep "Palm", "News", "Text" and "Util" workspaces. There's still a sticky workspace for common apps. You may like "Games", "Code", etc.
Trust me, you'll be an addict sooner than you think. Ask Riley for features you want, complain about what you dislike, and expect a response. Free stuff and authors should all be this good.
I've been all ATT for 18 months. Their combined billing was a joke & I dropped it, but dial tone, in-state and interstate LD, cable tv, cable modem, and cell are all ATT. They even discount $5 for each service with multiple services, so I save with them instead of paying a premium. I ring up at about $205 (including taxes & discounts) with one wired phone line, ATTBI internet, ATT digital cable service (extended basic & 2 premium services) and 450 minute ATT OneRate cell service.
Of course, with new local channel updates to satellite TV, it will be somewhat ironic if I get everything except TV from my cable TV drop. Go DISH Network!
So what are you buying for $800? Compaq's Presario 5000, similary equipped, is $1258. It adds a floppy, a 1.1GHz Celeron, and you have to pay for shipping. It lacks FireWire and an Airport slot. It also only has an 8MB shared memory video system.
I'm not sure what miscolored Cubes you are referring to, and the vast majority of the "cracks" - weren't.
As for your broken iMacs, you would know better than I what happened, but iMacs are not prone to 50% failure.
Does the monitor arm look fragile? Perhaps, if you're the Rock.
With regard to your concern for spreading platform bigotry, why not rein yourself in before you spew all over/. again?
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Can OS X work? Between Mac OSX and Classic mode, you should find just about every Mac app workable. Other than that, what to you want to do?
Is smbclient an option? Does it have any apple OS native support for SMB shares? As a client. But you can turn on Services for Macintosh. On a related note, I like Netmax's flavor of RedHat Linux for simple web-enabled file and print services. Share to Mac, Windows, and Unix.
Use Sharity to export SMB from the Mac.
Does OS 9.2 (besides Dave)? Nothing I'm aware of.
Could I print to my wife's USB HP inkjet through a windows share? I don't think so. The OSX Print Center allows addition of Appletalk and TCP/IP printers. Netmax will export printer shares on Appletalk, though, and Win2K Server might.
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Yeah, and MS Office still can't deal with long file names. Why don't we put Apple in charge of MS Office? Pretty quick, we'd catch up with Open Office.
We use waste heat all the time. It's called cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) syetems. If they are wasteful, why do they save you so much energy and money?
BTW, Stirling engines were not presented as magical, they were presented as useful. Nor are they low power, as SoCal Edison is proving with their buy of 25kW solar/Stirling generators.
FWIW, your premise that the second engine inpedes heat rejection in the first engine is simply wrong. Waste the residual heat as you did without the second engine.
RTFA! The article doesn't require use of fuel cells or microturbines, in fact they are not mentioned. "You" probably won't be involved as anything other than a customer. The existing utility companies are very likely to run the microgrid system, provide the generators, meter and charge for energy usage, etc. You have nothing to fear from your neighbors.
The key benefit, other than distributed generation of eletricity, is efficiency. If there is a heat engine involved, the most efficient locations will use the waste heat. Other generators (PV, solar Stirling, wind, water, etc.) can be placed almost anywhere. Well, it helps to have good head if you want to use water. It helps to have good head anyway, though.
FWIW, if you produce heat for your generator (gas turbine, etc.), a Stirling engine could efficiently use the waste heat and you wouldn't need a campus environment to achieve high efficiency. Feed the Stirling engine solar heat during the day and stored heat at night and you have a 24/7 micro power source with two "fuels".
This is cooler than you think.
China is a large part of mankind that is rapidly industrializing and has no Kyoto restraints. What happens when China reaches 10 tons per capita? They'll outpace the (current) US by more than 2.5X. What is the net impact of Kyoto? About half that. Maybe that's why some people are not very entusiastic about Kyoto, while remaining concerned about greenhouse gas emissions.
If you're going to quote Wikipedia, please read the entire article.
...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Treaty
The world's second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases is China. Yet, China was entirely exempted from the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol.
and
India signed and ratified the Protocol in August, 2002. Since India is exempted from the framework of the treaty
There are seveal exempted countries, which means their signature on the treaty is pretty much meaningless.
The technical aspect of this discussion has been covered well by others and puts Intiut in a more favorable light. The financial aspect is also easily handled by those willing to risk $5 in an online auction.
An older copy of Quicken continues to run, without online bill pay, if you choose not to upgrade. If you require/desire/lust after online bill pay, you will typically pay $5+ per month to your bank for the service. Surely you can pony up the extra cost of an older copy of Quicken as well.
When 2005 has been sunsetted, trot on over to eBay and pick up 2008 for $5.
My ADT service was hooked up to become the first device in the daisy chain of POTS equipment. That allowed it to disconnect any call and make a call to ADT in the event of an alarm.
As others have noted, your alarm system is probably hooked up in the daisy chain and can be served by the VOIP box. In my case (and perhaps yours), that still left me with a dead connection when an alarm went off, because I was providing phone service from the other side of the alarm system. My box immediately noted this (well, after an alarm) with a trouble light. I simply reversed the leads and the alarm system was once again working, although it is not the first device, it is the last.
Some day I'll drop the Vonage box into the right spot and reverse connections again.
I've been doing this for more than a decade without the horrific failures described here (can't remember the last failure, it's been so long). But it's strictly low end and I'm only serving 10 users at the moment (has been as many as 35). I'm serving office documents and AutoCAD files almost exclusively. While not as sexy as saying I have "Server X", I'm quite happy with a dual CPU linux box (Netmax, so anyone can figue out what to do when I'm out) and I backup to Windows boxes with the bundled software.
My server is an older Intel server board with dual PIII-600s (as are some of my older workstations) and a 10/100 NIC (due for an upgrade, though, so we can go gigabit for the CAD machines - to match our new color printers). The server and workstations are all built with similar Antec cases, so I can maintain one stock of spares and change drive clusters faster than you can blink (and still with no need to do that).
Full backups of documents and drawings are done nightly, about 20GB total. Static files (photos, etc.) are backed weekly and monthly. Any time I want, I can have redundant backups, just backup to another workstation with $50 of spare drive space.
Servers are not magic. Pick the criteria that suit you and build/buy the machine and OS you need. Redundancy is a given. After that, no one but you will give a damn if it's sexy or not. They willl care if it means they get a better workstation out of the deal, though.
US Robotics took their name from Asimov's stories.
to cover the boxes.
Agreed. Dive the computer until it breaks. Then abort the dive and log it as if you dived the tables. The purpose of the computer is to give you more bottom time and shorter surface intervals, in particular when you are not diving square profiles.
Thank you. Broadband = shared, baseband = dedicated.
Ethernet = 10baseT because it's dedicated, not because it has any speed relationship to a broadband signal.
No, that's not what I'm saying. At what point did I (or the article) say that having only one way to do anything is good. I could quote myself, but you should be able to find me in the original with no trouble. Read it this time.
/. for comments, perhaps we wouldn't be here.
The article is about screwing up the methods Windows provides. The original poster missed that, an error I can only attribute to his desire to flame Mac users.
FWIW, there are several ways to to most things on Macs. If you'd ever used a Mac instead of trolling
I will note, however, that I'm glad Windows retains its keyboard menu access. At least when the mouse driver dies, I can do a controlled reboot instead of simply pulling the plug.
PS. Log in and let us know who you are, next time. If you don't have the guts to stand behind your comments, STOP SHOUTING them to the four winds.
You read the entire article and all you got was a complaint about having multiple means of closing a window? Then you just don't get it. There's nothing bad about multiple methods. There is something bad about inconsistency and complexity. The article showed, in great detail, just how inconsistent and complex something very simple can be.
It's clear what's fucked up here.
I found out from my good buddy, the Mac salesman at CompUSA. Being a good guy is a requirement if you want to carry a 'Book.
Seriously, you weren't carded?
when we go the the local gas station lit by these lamps?
Last I knew, folks with pacemakers were to be cautioned about microwave oven usage (remember that sign on the 7-11 door?). Should we expect traffic signs that indicate you should take the next exit or risk "the big one"?
Well, you start by putting aircraft antennas outside the plane.
The other downside was that days "off" were docked against vacation, but overtime was not recognized, so if you worked from 8:00AM one morning, through the night, to 10:00 AM the next day, and left to get some sleep, you got DOCKED 6 hours against your vacation.
As far as I know, what you described is illegal. Hourly workers are compensated with overtime for more that 40 hours a week or 12 hours a day. Salaried workers can not be required to work 8 hours per day or 40 hours a week.
So spend a buck or two and add some ram instead of bitching about what you can't run.
Virtual workspaces are easier to use and I am finding them indispensible for working with sets of applications.
I use it switch focus very easily, with one click. Instead of switching apps via the Dock on a one-by-one basis, I switch among workspaces that have related apps open. For instance, I keep a "Comm" workspace with MSIE, Mail, First Class, etc; an "Office" workspace with MS Office apps open: etc. I also keep "Palm", "News", "Text" and "Util" workspaces. There's still a sticky workspace for common apps. You may like "Games", "Code", etc.
Trust me, you'll be an addict sooner than you think. Ask Riley for features you want, complain about what you dislike, and expect a response. Free stuff and authors should all be this good.
THANKS RILEY!
I've been all ATT for 18 months. Their combined billing was a joke & I dropped it, but dial tone, in-state and interstate LD, cable tv, cable modem, and cell are all ATT. They even discount $5 for each service with multiple services, so I save with them instead of paying a premium. I ring up at about $205 (including taxes & discounts) with one wired phone line, ATTBI internet, ATT digital cable service (extended basic & 2 premium services) and 450 minute ATT OneRate cell service.
Of course, with new local channel updates to satellite TV, it will be somewhat ironic if I get everything except TV from my cable TV drop. Go DISH Network!
So what are you buying for $800? Compaq's Presario 5000, similary equipped, is $1258. It adds a floppy, a 1.1GHz Celeron, and you have to pay for shipping. It lacks FireWire and an Airport slot. It also only has an 8MB shared memory video system.
/. again?
I'm not sure what miscolored Cubes you are referring to, and the vast majority of the "cracks" - weren't.
As for your broken iMacs, you would know better than I what happened, but iMacs are not prone to 50% failure.
Does the monitor arm look fragile? Perhaps, if you're the Rock.
With regard to your concern for spreading platform bigotry, why not rein yourself in before you spew all over
Can OS X work?
Between Mac OSX and Classic mode, you should find just about every Mac app workable. Other than that, what to you want to do?
Is smbclient an option? Does it have any apple OS native support for SMB shares?
As a client. But you can turn on Services for Macintosh. On a related note, I like Netmax's flavor of RedHat Linux for simple web-enabled file and print services. Share to Mac, Windows, and Unix.
Use Sharity to export SMB from the Mac.
Does OS 9.2 (besides Dave)?
Nothing I'm aware of.
Could I print to my wife's USB HP inkjet through a windows share?
I don't think so. The OSX Print Center allows addition of Appletalk and TCP/IP printers. Netmax will export printer shares on Appletalk, though, and Win2K Server might.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20020106/tc/new_im ac_features_flat-panel_display_1.html