If you have DSL or a T-* line you are basically guaranteed to have a UPS'd and generator powered internet connection since the telco's are required to have emergency power. Sure if you use an ilec they may not have an agreement to hook their DSLAM to the telco power plant and remote shelfs don't all have generators, but the chances are pretty good. The cable companies are also pretty good about it since they are now offering voice service (though it's definitely not to the level of the telco's).
Exactly, the NEC requires that electricians assume that people are stupid. I guess I'm fine with that, but it means that using the service panel size to estimate actual usage is pointless. To me the better solution would be load based pricing so that people don't do things like run every large appliance in their house at once, but you still might have to design things for worst case scenarios since some people would figure it's only money and still do it.
Yes, he has two options and they are both extremely easy. He connects to the network and then either launches his Notes client and selects internet profile or he goes to our secure gateway and launches Notes from the nfuse page. It's been even easier when I did Exchange administration, just use a URL for RPC over HTTPS and then have internal and external front end servers, then the client acts the same way no matter where it is.
This type of problem and customer choice is why manufacturers need to use discreet PCIe ports with GPU daughter cards. I know at least Dell used to do this on some of their lines, you could select from a variety of different cards and even upgrade after purchase. If they were using that kind of system universally then the fix would be obvious, just swap out the cards for non-defective ones. Of course I think there might be an issue with slightly increased power usage for the discreet cards vs ones soldered directly to the motherboard.
Service amperage is 240V, so a 200A panel is 48KVA, like I said in a previous post I have a 150 server datacenter that pulls just a bit more than that for power + cooling. My estimate in that other post was even in a fairly large all electric house with EVERY major appliance on you'd only pull a bit over 24KVA if you include lighting and a fridge so unless you are a moron a 100A service panel should be enough. My goal is to be able to run everything I normally do off an affordable whole house generator and since I currently have a 50A service panel that's guaranteed, a 12KW generator with transfer panel is about $4k installed. It's meant buying an AC unit that had to be special ordered since they don't stock units that efficient around here (the estimated payoff for the extra efficiency when I bought it was like 12 years, more like 9 with energy prices where they are today) and switching to CFL's for lighting and building an efficient gaming rig, but it's worth it. Not only that but I'm helping to reduce my carbon footprint along the way.
Huh? The energy content is going to be LESS than the equivalent amount of transportation in gasoline since electric vehicles are significantly more efficient thermodynamically then gasoline powered ones. We already deal with fairly large quantities of potentially explosive fuel for transportation, this won't be significantly worse.
Yeah geothermal is cool, I tried to get my company to use it for the new 135K sq ft building at our headquarters campus, but given the ground area available it wasn't practical even using vertical pipe drilling. I still wish they would have decided to install it at least as a partial solution for our datacenter (use chilled water rack cooling with only peak supplement coming from the CRAC units) but after the whole building solution turned out to be impractical they didn't want to spend the money on the engineering study for our cooling.
The only thing I'm confused by is how in the heck your average houshold could ever use 48KVA. A hot water heater is say 4KVA, a range plus oven is 10KVA, a 3 ton 15 SEER AC unit is about 4KVA, an electric dryer is 4-5KVA, so for the major appliances even assuming it's ALL running at the same time you only have 22-23KVA less than half of what a 200A circuit provides. I guess an electrician has to make allowances for some idiot running all that at once so I can kind of see how you might need to size larger than 100A for an energy pig all-electric house, but like I said my average usage is about 5KVA since I heat and cook with gas and my AC unit is a paltry 1.5ton.
Do you live in an area supplied by hydro power? Even then electric is more expensive than natural gas for cooking and heating and less efficient than solar heating if you want to go green.
Dude, I have a 150 server datacenter that only draws a bit more than 48KVA including cooling! If your house draws that much power you either have a freaking mansion or are doing something terribly wrong. Like I said the only person I personally know that even has a 200A panel installed is someone who heats a four lane 50ft long indoor pool and dehumidifies with electric.
Just a guess, but probably the big publications in chemistry still have the outmoded no republication clauses in their submission agreements. Many areas of science have been successful in getting these stupid clauses pulled by having many top researchers band together to demand it, but in some fields the publications are seen as having more leverage and the community is more fragmented.
Holly hell, 200A service!? The only person I personally know with 200A service has a huge indoor pool and his mom had a childhood accident involving natural gas and so they use electric to heat the pool. My house has 50A service and my average load is more like 5A. Hell, the specs for my AC unit say a 10A breaker is usable but a 15A is recommended to handle the occasional rough start.
Why not use a metal hydride storage both at home and in the car. Then your car tops itself off during the day and the stuff generated at home is available to refill the car for the next days commute. You size your panels and home storage to be big enough to handle your average number of severely overcast days plus a buffer, and worst case you buy electricity off the grid to make hydrogen.
So you chain grub through boot.ini using ntldr? Hmm, that's an interesting solution and one that potentially avoids lots of problems with MS not liking other stuff being present in the MBR.
You CAN'T turn off the awsomebar, that's the freaking point! There is one addon that mostly neuters it, but I shouldn't need an addon to get deterministic functionality. If I want a semi-random search I will use Google, at least IT is generally correct at guessing what I want, and it's only an Alt-Home away =)
Old location bar brings back about 90% of the functionality of the 2.0 bar. I think most of what it does can be done through prefs, but it's a convenient way to make it just work.
I use the park almost every week during the warm months and quite a few times a month during the cold ones. I know I'm not alone as a good percentage of my coworkers talk about their plans to go out hiking/biking/running in the park most weekends.
It's funny that the term justice is used for the highest and lowest courts in the land, from the justice of the peace (often a laymen without a JD) to the justices of the Supreme Court.
Uh, theft in office or graft are among the most serious of crimes in a republic as they erode the foundation of good government. Anyone who doesn't think so is simply an idiot too blinded by their own greed to think of what's best for society. I don't care what side of the aisle you are on, if you are a dirty politician I want you out of office and into a jail cell asap.
Dude, they STILL haven't upgraded the entire fleet to double hull designs which was known to be a necessary precaution back in the 1950's! They also still routinely flare off gas instead of capturing it and either processing it or returning it to the wells. The oil companies ain't anywhere near green.
In return the send us seafood and oil, kind of like some other place I can think of, only the subsidies to Alaska cost us a LOT less than that slightly warmer place....
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If you have DSL or a T-* line you are basically guaranteed to have a UPS'd and generator powered internet connection since the telco's are required to have emergency power. Sure if you use an ilec they may not have an agreement to hook their DSLAM to the telco power plant and remote shelfs don't all have generators, but the chances are pretty good. The cable companies are also pretty good about it since they are now offering voice service (though it's definitely not to the level of the telco's).
Exactly, the NEC requires that electricians assume that people are stupid. I guess I'm fine with that, but it means that using the service panel size to estimate actual usage is pointless. To me the better solution would be load based pricing so that people don't do things like run every large appliance in their house at once, but you still might have to design things for worst case scenarios since some people would figure it's only money and still do it.
CPUID can be intercepted so it shouldn't be a big deal to grab the call and return whatever you want.
Yes, he has two options and they are both extremely easy. He connects to the network and then either launches his Notes client and selects internet profile or he goes to our secure gateway and launches Notes from the nfuse page. It's been even easier when I did Exchange administration, just use a URL for RPC over HTTPS and then have internal and external front end servers, then the client acts the same way no matter where it is.
This type of problem and customer choice is why manufacturers need to use discreet PCIe ports with GPU daughter cards. I know at least Dell used to do this on some of their lines, you could select from a variety of different cards and even upgrade after purchase. If they were using that kind of system universally then the fix would be obvious, just swap out the cards for non-defective ones. Of course I think there might be an issue with slightly increased power usage for the discreet cards vs ones soldered directly to the motherboard.
The 4000 series are pretty damn good printers. Ours need serviced WAY less than our Xerox multifunction devices.
Service amperage is 240V, so a 200A panel is 48KVA, like I said in a previous post I have a 150 server datacenter that pulls just a bit more than that for power + cooling. My estimate in that other post was even in a fairly large all electric house with EVERY major appliance on you'd only pull a bit over 24KVA if you include lighting and a fridge so unless you are a moron a 100A service panel should be enough. My goal is to be able to run everything I normally do off an affordable whole house generator and since I currently have a 50A service panel that's guaranteed, a 12KW generator with transfer panel is about $4k installed. It's meant buying an AC unit that had to be special ordered since they don't stock units that efficient around here (the estimated payoff for the extra efficiency when I bought it was like 12 years, more like 9 with energy prices where they are today) and switching to CFL's for lighting and building an efficient gaming rig, but it's worth it. Not only that but I'm helping to reduce my carbon footprint along the way.
Huh? The energy content is going to be LESS than the equivalent amount of transportation in gasoline since electric vehicles are significantly more efficient thermodynamically then gasoline powered ones. We already deal with fairly large quantities of potentially explosive fuel for transportation, this won't be significantly worse.
Yeah geothermal is cool, I tried to get my company to use it for the new 135K sq ft building at our headquarters campus, but given the ground area available it wasn't practical even using vertical pipe drilling. I still wish they would have decided to install it at least as a partial solution for our datacenter (use chilled water rack cooling with only peak supplement coming from the CRAC units) but after the whole building solution turned out to be impractical they didn't want to spend the money on the engineering study for our cooling.
The only thing I'm confused by is how in the heck your average houshold could ever use 48KVA. A hot water heater is say 4KVA, a range plus oven is 10KVA, a 3 ton 15 SEER AC unit is about 4KVA, an electric dryer is 4-5KVA, so for the major appliances even assuming it's ALL running at the same time you only have 22-23KVA less than half of what a 200A circuit provides. I guess an electrician has to make allowances for some idiot running all that at once so I can kind of see how you might need to size larger than 100A for an energy pig all-electric house, but like I said my average usage is about 5KVA since I heat and cook with gas and my AC unit is a paltry 1.5ton.
Do you live in an area supplied by hydro power? Even then electric is more expensive than natural gas for cooking and heating and less efficient than solar heating if you want to go green.
Dude, I have a 150 server datacenter that only draws a bit more than 48KVA including cooling! If your house draws that much power you either have a freaking mansion or are doing something terribly wrong. Like I said the only person I personally know that even has a 200A panel installed is someone who heats a four lane 50ft long indoor pool and dehumidifies with electric.
Just a guess, but probably the big publications in chemistry still have the outmoded no republication clauses in their submission agreements. Many areas of science have been successful in getting these stupid clauses pulled by having many top researchers band together to demand it, but in some fields the publications are seen as having more leverage and the community is more fragmented.
Holly hell, 200A service!? The only person I personally know with 200A service has a huge indoor pool and his mom had a childhood accident involving natural gas and so they use electric to heat the pool. My house has 50A service and my average load is more like 5A. Hell, the specs for my AC unit say a 10A breaker is usable but a 15A is recommended to handle the occasional rough start.
Why not use a metal hydride storage both at home and in the car. Then your car tops itself off during the day and the stuff generated at home is available to refill the car for the next days commute. You size your panels and home storage to be big enough to handle your average number of severely overcast days plus a buffer, and worst case you buy electricity off the grid to make hydrogen.
fast searching
BS, a webforum with all posts contained in a database is going to be MUCH faster to search than the flatfile formats that almost all newsreaders use.
So you chain grub through boot.ini using ntldr? Hmm, that's an interesting solution and one that potentially avoids lots of problems with MS not liking other stuff being present in the MBR.
Um, you're doing it wrong, you should be enjoying that stuff WITH your wife =)
You CAN'T turn off the awsomebar, that's the freaking point! There is one addon that mostly neuters it, but I shouldn't need an addon to get deterministic functionality. If I want a semi-random search I will use Google, at least IT is generally correct at guessing what I want, and it's only an Alt-Home away =)
Old location bar brings back about 90% of the functionality of the 2.0 bar. I think most of what it does can be done through prefs, but it's a convenient way to make it just work.
I use the park almost every week during the warm months and quite a few times a month during the cold ones. I know I'm not alone as a good percentage of my coworkers talk about their plans to go out hiking/biking/running in the park most weekends.
It's funny that the term justice is used for the highest and lowest courts in the land, from the justice of the peace (often a laymen without a JD) to the justices of the Supreme Court.
Uh, theft in office or graft are among the most serious of crimes in a republic as they erode the foundation of good government. Anyone who doesn't think so is simply an idiot too blinded by their own greed to think of what's best for society. I don't care what side of the aisle you are on, if you are a dirty politician I want you out of office and into a jail cell asap.
Dude, they STILL haven't upgraded the entire fleet to double hull designs which was known to be a necessary precaution back in the 1950's! They also still routinely flare off gas instead of capturing it and either processing it or returning it to the wells. The oil companies ain't anywhere near green.
In return the send us seafood and oil, kind of like some other place I can think of, only the subsidies to Alaska cost us a LOT less than that slightly warmer place....