Natural gas furnaces are 25% more efficient than fuel oil furnaces, so natural gas costs 30% more per BTU input than fuel oil.
I have to disagree. I did the math on this years ago when deciding whether to replace my gas furnace with another gas furnace or get an oil furnace. The data point very clearly in the opposite direction of what you are saying.
This may vary geographically, but the most recent data I could find for where I live (upstate New York) is this: Gas costs $11.49 for 1000 cu.ft. as of last November ; #2 home heating oil costs $3.934 per gallon as of the same point in time. Natural gas has an energy density of 950-1150 BTU per cu.ft.; heating oil is 139,600 BTU per gallon. That works out to a price of $9.991-$12.095 for 1,000,000 BTU worth of natural gas, or $28.181 for 1,000,000 worth of heating oil. In sort, because of the lower efficiency of oil heaters (25% is exaggerated, BTW), you get shafted twice for using oil.
The only real difference is with oil, you get to choose who does the shafting.
We also look for illegal transmitters, like the cordless phone that a local Chinese restaurant had imported and used the same frequency as our 2m repeater.
As always, location is key. I pay $0.17/kWh where I am located. I know for a fact that one of my friends who lives on the other end of the state only pays around $0.065/kWh, and I have heard that folks to my south pay as much as $0.25/kWh, all inside the bounds of one state.
People easily forget that one issue doesn't fully define a political leaning, and assume that because you agree on one issue, you agree on all. It's very annoying.
BTW, my wife and I are liberals and there is a gun in our home as we both believe there should be. I feel Nadaka's pain.
If it should ever serve the purpose of such government agency as may wish to access your home, I think it is a pretty solid prediction that they will try it.
It is an old-style syntax, but valid. A more modern expression might be "It is too bad that there aren't more in both major parties who think like this."
I had been tinkering with the idea of implementing HPC tasks in Javascript so that the compute nodes can be anything with a web browser. It wouldn't be the most efficient thing in the world, mind you, but I think it would be an amusing way to structure distributed computing. A popular enough site might be able to overcome not using GPUs just by sheer brute force of its viewership.
I'd stop there, except that Slash had to put it its two cents worth. It says, "Filter error: Your comment looks too much like ascii art." Fuck you, Slashdot.
I think this is probably as close as you are going to get, though it is not specific to this particular machine; YMMV. Essentially, you get an image that is compiled for ARM and stick it on a USB device or SD card and plug it in before booting.
Given that the source of the story is from Europe (RT = Russia Today) I would expect that the article would be composed in the Queen's English, some of the conventions of which differ from here in North America. Add a dose of copypasta to it, and you have the article summary you saw above.
Broadcast TV has been 60 here in the states since digital TV, and quasi-60 (i.e. interlaced) prior to that.
Going beyond 60 in TV is only done with interpolation, so it's basically an upconversion. I am not willing to count that as equivalent because then you could just start applying this trick to every 24 fps movie out there and claiming HFR.
Where this is interesting, though, is that, besides the word "interlace" never even entering the conversation, this is >30fps and >720p at the same time and that gives them an edge over TV.
In my experience, prior to the introduction of Cat 5 most people who were using 10baseT were doing so over coaxial cable.
That's called 10base2 when you run it on coax.
I've seen 10baseT run on cat3. In my sophomore year of college, I lived in one of two dorms that was experimentally set up with a college-owned computer in every room, all networked using DECNet. 10base2 emerged from the back of the computer, through the usual T-connector and resistor, followed by a short run of coax and another T-connector and resistor connecting it to a media converter. Cat 3 cable then ran from the media converter to the wall jack. It sucked ass during the first semester, while they were trying to bang out the bugs (they gave us a partial refund for the extra we'd paid to be in that dorm) but come the Spring semester, it rocked.
I used it mostly as a terminal to access the VAX. It was a faster terminal than anything that was in the computer labs, where everyone connected at 9600 or 19.2k. That was kind of nifty to have a terminal that would, as far as the eye could tell, update all at once.
Note both Skype and mobile phones have very bad audio quality compare to copper or properly setup VOIP
Agreed completely on mobile. Disagreed by an equal amount on Skype unless your connection sucks. Of course, if your connection sucks, then that's a more general problem and falls under the same category as improperly set up VOIP.
Yes, Skype, like a cell phone, uses a lossy codec. Unlike a cell phone, however, Skype actually assigns it enough bandwidth, and the frequency response of the audio is far better than the 300-3000 Hz response you will get out of a standard wired telephone system. You won't miss what's missing because of what you get in return for it.
Of course, if your experience differs, then I would suggest going back to the start and figuring out why your network sucks.
No. It is past time. We should have done this a decade or two ago. While we were not at it, we should also have gotten rid of the penny, and arguably the nickel*. Adopting the metric system would have been nice, too.
(*If we took this step, we would also want to change the quarter for a fifth, i.e. a 20 cent coin in place of a 25 cent one)
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Yes. Two fails for the price of one. It makes me wish I could mod the story down.
I have to disagree. I did the math on this years ago when deciding whether to replace my gas furnace with another gas furnace or get an oil furnace. The data point very clearly in the opposite direction of what you are saying.
This may vary geographically, but the most recent data I could find for where I live (upstate New York) is this: Gas costs $11.49 for 1000 cu.ft. as of last November ; #2 home heating oil costs $3.934 per gallon as of the same point in time. Natural gas has an energy density of 950-1150 BTU per cu.ft.; heating oil is 139,600 BTU per gallon. That works out to a price of $9.991-$12.095 for 1,000,000 BTU worth of natural gas, or $28.181 for 1,000,000 worth of heating oil. In sort, because of the lower efficiency of oil heaters (25% is exaggerated, BTW), you get shafted twice for using oil.
The only real difference is with oil, you get to choose who does the shafting.
Because you like to. If you didn't, you wouldn't. If you don't, then stop.
We also look for illegal transmitters, like the cordless phone that a local Chinese restaurant had imported and used the same frequency as our 2m repeater.
As always, location is key. I pay $0.17/kWh where I am located. I know for a fact that one of my friends who lives on the other end of the state only pays around $0.065/kWh, and I have heard that folks to my south pay as much as $0.25/kWh, all inside the bounds of one state.
People easily forget that one issue doesn't fully define a political leaning, and assume that because you agree on one issue, you agree on all. It's very annoying.
BTW, my wife and I are liberals and there is a gun in our home as we both believe there should be. I feel Nadaka's pain.
If it should ever serve the purpose of such government agency as may wish to access your home, I think it is a pretty solid prediction that they will try it.
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It is an old-style syntax, but valid. A more modern expression might be "It is too bad that there aren't more in both major parties who think like this."
Then you would have two 700MHz cores on two boards, not four 1.5 GHz cores on one.
I had been tinkering with the idea of implementing HPC tasks in Javascript so that the compute nodes can be anything with a web browser. It wouldn't be the most efficient thing in the world, mind you, but I think it would be an amusing way to structure distributed computing. A popular enough site might be able to overcome not using GPUs just by sheer brute force of its viewership.
Um . . . yes.
I'd stop there, except that Slash had to put it its two cents worth. It says, "Filter error: Your comment looks too much like ascii art." Fuck you, Slashdot.
I think this is probably as close as you are going to get, though it is not specific to this particular machine; YMMV. Essentially, you get an image that is compiled for ARM and stick it on a USB device or SD card and plug it in before booting.
Sometimes, yes. Overwhelming, no.
Given that the source of the story is from Europe (RT = Russia Today) I would expect that the article would be composed in the Queen's English, some of the conventions of which differ from here in North America. Add a dose of copypasta to it, and you have the article summary you saw above.
My mod points just expired. If they hadn't, you would have gotten some for them, because this is exactly what it is.
Broadcast TV has been 60 here in the states since digital TV, and quasi-60 (i.e. interlaced) prior to that.
Going beyond 60 in TV is only done with interpolation, so it's basically an upconversion. I am not willing to count that as equivalent because then you could just start applying this trick to every 24 fps movie out there and claiming HFR.
Where this is interesting, though, is that, besides the word "interlace" never even entering the conversation, this is >30fps and >720p at the same time and that gives them an edge over TV.
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Yep. I use old network cables for antenna feedlines. My 2m and 10m antennas at home are both connected this way.
Just barely out of the 80's. It was 1990.
Those of us who have been taught how to repair furnaces know this, also.
(For those not familiar, home heating oil is the exact same material as diesel fuel, just taxed differently)
That's called 10base2 when you run it on coax.
I've seen 10baseT run on cat3. In my sophomore year of college, I lived in one of two dorms that was experimentally set up with a college-owned computer in every room, all networked using DECNet. 10base2 emerged from the back of the computer, through the usual T-connector and resistor, followed by a short run of coax and another T-connector and resistor connecting it to a media converter. Cat 3 cable then ran from the media converter to the wall jack. It sucked ass during the first semester, while they were trying to bang out the bugs (they gave us a partial refund for the extra we'd paid to be in that dorm) but come the Spring semester, it rocked.
I used it mostly as a terminal to access the VAX. It was a faster terminal than anything that was in the computer labs, where everyone connected at 9600 or 19.2k. That was kind of nifty to have a terminal that would, as far as the eye could tell, update all at once.
Agreed completely on mobile. Disagreed by an equal amount on Skype unless your connection sucks. Of course, if your connection sucks, then that's a more general problem and falls under the same category as improperly set up VOIP.
Yes, Skype, like a cell phone, uses a lossy codec. Unlike a cell phone, however, Skype actually assigns it enough bandwidth, and the frequency response of the audio is far better than the 300-3000 Hz response you will get out of a standard wired telephone system. You won't miss what's missing because of what you get in return for it.
Of course, if your experience differs, then I would suggest going back to the start and figuring out why your network sucks.
No. It is past time. We should have done this a decade or two ago. While we were not at it, we should also have gotten rid of the penny, and arguably the nickel*. Adopting the metric system would have been nice, too.
(*If we took this step, we would also want to change the quarter for a fifth, i.e. a 20 cent coin in place of a 25 cent one)