It makes a hell of a difference, whether they are bound in chemically forms completely harmless to mankind or not.
Think CFCs. They are no trouble if sealed away. They are not even a so though problem if their are in the lower parts of the athmosphere. But IF they get up (and things lighter than air tend to go up;-), they destroy the ozone layer. Bad thing.
Other example.
Carbon. Coal. Lumber. Do you think a tree has the same hazardous effect on people when it stands in a forest and when it drifts as ashes through your city?
Doesn't have to be a 'computer' as such - my router will trigger wake-on-lan. Since I remote access my machines from work, I'm also not always physically present to go around flipping on-switches.
How can the router be informed about the address of the computer you want to switch on or is it just broadcast "wake 'em all"?
Can you wake from a suspend mode (Windows Term is hibernate, Linux can't suspend to HD though)? I tried this once and it did not work with Linux...
Plus, leaving cars around with running engines is just asking for them to be stolen.
Now this is a bit lazy thinking of yours here. Of course you lock your car...:)
In other words, it's an apple and oranges thing. Comparing leaving a power-managed computer on to leaving aq big hungry fossil-fueled car chugging away is not a sensible comparison.
Maybe I have choosen the dimensions between them all to logarithmical, but the point was and should still be:
If you have got an easy and uncumbersome way to save power, energy (which all hurt the environment one or the other way) then why not do so?
The Californian hassle, which was caused by ridiculous economic decisions rather than engineering ones, simply does not apply to me.
The Californian hassle might be economic but is much more due to the laissez-faire and "I don't care about energy"-attitude you also promote. Air conditioner, VCR standby, 24-7-idle-computing. Environmental concerns apply to you whereever you are and just because a liberated market makes your power cheap, it does NOT make it more ecological or environmental friendly.
Hardly. With the power management set up (including such things as monitor blanking and hard-drive spin down) and wake-on-LAN enabled, it doesn't really take a lot when not in use.
Yeah and to use Wake-On-LAN you need just another running computer... Very good energy saving indeed...
To quote http://wattwatchers.utep.edu/pages/PowerManagement.htm: According to EPA Estimates, the average powered workstation costs $37/yr.: a computer with full Power Management configuration can cost only $16.40/yr. 75% of a workstation energy usage comes from the monitor.
Alright, this is more than I thought, but I don't think it justifies letting a computer run over night for 10 hours, just to save one minute boot time! That's you brushing your teeth in between and the computer again almost in screen saver state.
Now you're being foolish. Sharpen up the debating skills a bit - 'examples' like that are too easy to knock down
Well, your opinion seems to be, that if cars had power managment and such, just to say, they don't use so much energy (and money) any more, you wouldn't care.
Recent research has revealed that standby power consumption accounts for 11.6% of Australia's household electricity usage, costing Australian households more than $500million and generating more than 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum. This is equivalent to the greenhouse impact of more than 1 million cars.
And believe me, Australia is nothing in comparison to the US.
I would not say so. Games only transform real-life challenges into an virtual environment. Tactical and strategical decisions from games like chess, go or real-time-strategy games can be of worth for your real life.
Instead of "What if" questions I would say that games pose "What have I to do to achieve X". Say pump out 2 more infantry to secure that bridge to win the game. That's why games enforce reasoning about the given problem environment while offering a defined set of possible responses by the user/AI. This makes them just perfect for studying AI.
gprof is maybe not the most impressive tool to use, but it's quite useful. At a IA64 course at university [German, sorry] we used gprof to identify the bottlenecks in the c-code of the xvid-codec. Then we assembler-optimized like mad and got quite a nice speed-up.
Just a small addition to the best idea, I've heard in the discussion since now...
Hopefully the world wants America's Way of Life. A way of life which speaks of freedom and democracy but all along brings McDonalds, TV (violence, pornography and Hollywood), Pokemon...
For us this all are great things (my little sister just loves Pokemon), but to others this is almost cultural blasphemy. The blessings of modern american civilization aren't so welcome everywhere. Sometimes it is perceived to take away the freedom from you.
So while I like all of those, I can understand people hating them...
One last remark:
Everybody is praying right now. I'm asking myself what god they pray to. They can't be Christian. Christians hold the other cheek. Jesus told us to get over this "eye-for-an-eye"-mentality.
Does vi/(X)Emacs support Code Completion, Class Browser or jump_to_declaration? (not talking about tag-creation beforehand) Is there a possiblity to use this comfortably?
I think this are the really comfortable features of VC and Delphi/Kylix. For everything else (GUI aside) gcc is doing the job.
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It makes a hell of a difference, whether they are bound in chemically forms completely harmless to mankind or not.
;-), they destroy the ozone layer. Bad thing.
Think CFCs. They are no trouble if sealed away. They are not even a so though problem if their are in the lower parts of the athmosphere. But IF they get up (and things lighter than air tend to go up
Other example.
Carbon. Coal. Lumber. Do you think a tree has the same hazardous effect on people when it stands in a forest and when it drifts as ashes through your city?
How can the router be informed about the address of the computer you want to switch on or is it just broadcast "wake 'em all"?
Can you wake from a suspend mode (Windows Term is hibernate, Linux can't suspend to HD though)? I tried this once and it did not work with Linux...
Plus, leaving cars around with running engines is just asking for them to be stolen.
Now this is a bit lazy thinking of yours here. Of course you lock your car... :)
In other words, it's an apple and oranges thing. Comparing leaving a power-managed computer on to leaving aq big hungry fossil-fueled car chugging away is not a sensible comparison.
Maybe I have choosen the dimensions between them all to logarithmical, but the point was and should still be:
If you have got an easy and uncumbersome way to save power, energy (which all hurt the environment one or the other way) then why not do so?
The Californian hassle, which was caused by ridiculous economic decisions rather than engineering ones, simply does not apply to me.
The Californian hassle might be economic but is much more due to the laissez-faire and "I don't care about energy"-attitude you also promote. Air conditioner, VCR standby, 24-7-idle-computing. Environmental concerns apply to you whereever you are and just because a liberated market makes your power cheap, it does NOT make it more ecological or environmental friendly.
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Hardly. With the power management set up (including such things as monitor blanking and hard-drive spin down) and wake-on-LAN enabled, it doesn't really take a lot when not in use.
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l iances/standby/
Yeah and to use Wake-On-LAN you need just another running computer... Very good energy saving indeed...
To quote http://wattwatchers.utep.edu/pages/PowerManagemen
According to EPA Estimates, the average powered workstation costs $37/yr.: a computer with full Power Management configuration can cost only $16.40/yr. 75% of a workstation energy usage comes from the monitor.
Alright, this is more than I thought, but I don't think it justifies letting a computer run over night for 10 hours, just to save one minute boot time! That's you brushing your teeth in between and the computer again almost in screen saver state.
Now you're being foolish. Sharpen up the debating skills a bit - 'examples' like that are too easy to knock down
Well, your opinion seems to be, that if cars had power managment and such, just to say, they don't use so much energy (and money) any more, you wouldn't care.
Maybe you also take a look at:
http://standby.lbl.gov/
Or read http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/energyefficiency/app
Recent research has revealed that standby power consumption accounts for 11.6% of Australia's household electricity usage, costing Australian households more than $500million and generating more than 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum. This is equivalent to the greenhouse impact of more than 1 million cars.
And believe me, Australia is nothing in comparison to the US.
Instead of "What if" questions I would say that games pose "What have I to do to achieve X". Say pump out 2 more infantry to secure that bridge to win the game. That's why games enforce reasoning about the given problem environment while offering a defined set of possible responses by the user/AI. This makes them just perfect for studying AI.
I hope you don't leave your car running in front of the door, so you can save that 3 1/2 second for starting the engine...
gprof is maybe not the most impressive tool to use, but it's quite useful. At a IA64 course at university [German, sorry] we used gprof to identify the bottlenecks in the c-code of the xvid-codec. Then we assembler-optimized like mad and got quite a nice speed-up.
Result can be found in our wiki:
Pre-OptimizationPost-Optimization
Without gprof we would have been lost... our IA64 wiki
Just a small addition to the best idea, I've heard in the discussion since now...
Hopefully the world wants America's Way of Life. A way of life which speaks of freedom and democracy but all along brings McDonalds, TV (violence, pornography and Hollywood), Pokemon...
For us this all are great things (my little sister just loves Pokemon), but to others this is almost cultural blasphemy. The blessings of modern american civilization aren't so welcome everywhere. Sometimes it is perceived to take away the freedom from you.
So while I like all of those, I can understand people hating them...
One last remark:
Everybody is praying right now. I'm asking myself what god they pray to. They can't be Christian. Christians hold the other cheek. Jesus told us to get over this "eye-for-an-eye"-mentality.
Does vi/(X)Emacs support Code Completion, Class Browser or jump_to_declaration? (not talking about tag-creation beforehand) Is there a possiblity to use this comfortably? I think this are the really comfortable features of VC and Delphi/Kylix. For everything else (GUI aside) gcc is doing the job.