The topic of proposals of eliminating leap seconds was secretly covered in an NPR broadcast. Emphasis on the P of NPR and the word "broadcast".:-)
I went looking for it but at first all I found was the story from July 7th covering the addition of a leap second to the end of 2005. It is Link .
But what I was remembering came as a listener's response,
Link . The story covers a few different subjects. The responses to the leap second story start at about one minute in. In particular:
Joe Palca's story about the leap second that is coming at the end of the year brought this comment:
"I'm writing to congratulate you on a very clear presentation of the principals of atomic time and the need for leap seconds. This is a difficult topic and your report handled it very well."
That's from Judah Levine. He's with the Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado. He continues:
"It's also very appropriate that you reported on this particular leap second because a number of groups have proposed making significant changes to the leap second system or perhaps abolishing leap seconds altogether.
Because of this it is quite possible that this coming leap second will be the last one for a long, long time."
I wonder if the UN meeting was really secret or just ignored.
Dale
PS: BTW, the T&F Div. of NIST is commendably responsive when you email them to say that time-a.nist.gov is unreachable from the public Internet.
Yes but dig a little deeper and you will find that the power requirements of X2 are relatively modest, in line with some of the single core x64 chips. This is a good thing in that the power/heat requirements will not be a substantial expansion of the current envelope.
I myself will be wating a while for things to settle down, then going to a AMD x64 board that has a good rep for X2 applications but I will start with an non-X2 processor. Then after the next round of product introductions and the first reduction in price of the current product......and the x64 single core will become a server on a more modest mobo.
Agreed. Assuming you are in the heating season and your heat is provided by electrical energy anyway.
There was a story on/. within the last couple of days that got into whether this type of heating was "100% efficient" or not. Some of the posts were quite amusing.
I agree completely. However in commenting on the poster's evident pride in his print server, I saw no reason to be that harsh. I am evidently more subtle than you in other ways as well. Perhaps I am older. I believe you have a better chance communicating effectively with someone and getting them to re-evaluate their position if you do not entirely nay-say their stance. Especially if it is a position they seem to be happy about and suffieciently proud of to mention publicly.
I suspect that you and I would probably find plenty of common ground in other examples. I also never cared for the "Free utilities" come on of some rental situations. Other than a year in a frat house, I have never had communal/collectively paid utilities. I had never lived in an apartment until I was in my 30's. Didn't care for it. Bought my own house ASAP.
I now live in a 'nice' suburb of Kansas City. Recently I was walking my dog at night. It was a cool night after a day when the temperatures set up the situation that if you had your house closed up all day, it could get a little warm inside. But we were out at 11:00 pm or later. It pissed me off how many air conditioners were making racket. And they are A/C units -- very few homes around here have heat pumps.
At the time we were out, the air temp was about 52 degress F.
Absolutely right. Get more functions and justify the consumption but I was just using a P166 at the printer because there were and are no systems nearby. It served no other function. I knew it sucked when I threw it together. It was only expedient. I already had/have two 24x7 Linux servers in the basement.
I am looking forward to hacking two Linux based wireless routers that have USB ports to do the same type of thing. At the time I purchased them the USB port was only useful for mass storage not print serving. A perverted limitation. I will hack them unless the manufacturer releases firmware to do the same thing.
I moved to a Athlon XP board for one my servers mainly because I can hang higher capacity drives on it than my old crap. I also dispatch some heavy CPU tasks to it in an attempt to stay sufficiently happy with an AMD XP desktop and save the money/energy consumption/setup effort of moving on to a faster box.
I don't know if you have a Microcenter store near you or an alternative source but what I have is a different plastic/same function version of this:
Decent low-end kWh power meter.
It is pretty neat for things that do not have a constant draw, like refrigerators, etc. in that it accumulates kWh from the time it is plugged in.
However, it is probably just a typo but if you really were running only 1.8 - 2.1 kWh _per month_ than you would be beating the hell out of 99.99% percent of the "developed" world. Might those units supposed to have been just kW instead of kWh?
So did I, once. Then I put a power meter on that little bastard, did the math and said "Twenty dollars a year?" WTF. I now use Netgear. Thirty dollars after rebate. One twelveth the power draw.
On my todo list is to tap into the 5V of my old laser printer and put the print server on the printer's power supply. I also use X-10 equipment, the power stuff bought long before their annoying Internet campaigns for those damn cameras. In that fashion I can further reduce the standby power consumption. The printer's duty cycle is very, very low on an annual basis.
So, unless you live in some sort of a situation that provides power as part of your rent or such and don't really care about overall societal power consumption, you might want to carefully consider your printer server configuration.
Seeing you are pricing in £ and speaking of amazon.co.uk, might I assume you are in the UK? If so, would you humor me on something and do me the favor of a reply?
I speak the dialect of English in use in the U.S. In my vocabulary "quandary" is almost identical to the concept of predicament or dilemma. Quick consultation with Google points up no association between "quandary" and the concept of 'fourth'.
The word "quintessential" does invoke the concept of fifth, specifically the fifth essence (but not the fifth distillation nonsense).
The word that I know of that starts with the letter Q and denotes the fourth in a series is quaternary.
I am interested in your opinion, especially if you are a native UK English speaker.
I am no tree-hugging environmentalist. I haven't seen any studies that convince me that wind farms are a significant danger. I am in favor of them.
Still with the blade length that is being used now, even at low RPMs the tips are moving pretty damn fast. They are also so widely spaced that they won't have a 'presence'. It would just be this massive thing that comes slicing through at over 100 MPH. But admittedly they are far enough apart that most birds would pass through the circumferece unharmed.
I think you have to weigh the total picture. Is slapping the occasional feathered friend bad for the environment? Is it still bad when considering the downside of fossil fuel consumption?
Really? Could you elaborate on the aspect of last flight of NASA's B-52B? I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere. If so, I need to inform my father. He and his cronies did some work for the mods to that bird.
I had the opportunity to meta-moderate the marking of your comment as insightful. I was surprised to see that it must have been so marked more than once. I take your comment to be one of sarcasm...and quite funny at that, pointing out a basic hypocrisy.
So how should one mark the rating of an obvious sarcasm as "insightful"? The choices are only fair vs. unfair. There is no meta-moderation as clueless -- unless the vote was intended to intensify the humor. But then we must guess at the intent of the voter -- just like the hanging chads of four years ago.
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However, I assume you probably do as you reference the stilted grammar attributed to Churchill.
I went looking for it but at first all I found was the story from July 7th covering the addition of a leap second to the end of 2005. It is Link .
But what I was remembering came as a listener's response, Link . The story covers a few different subjects. The responses to the leap second story start at about one minute in. In particular:
I wonder if the UN meeting was really secret or just ignored.
Dale
PS: BTW, the T&F Div. of NIST is commendably responsive when you email them to say that time-a.nist.gov is unreachable from the public Internet.
TFA says it consumed only 3 watts.
Big difference.
I myself will be wating a while for things to settle down, then going to a AMD x64 board that has a good rep for X2 applications but I will start with an non-X2 processor. Then after the next round of product introductions and the first reduction in price of the current product......and the x64 single core will become a server on a more modest mobo.
Lure is more synonymous with "bait". Crappy email messages are the bait. The use of keyloggers as a tool is more the trap than a lure.
There was a story on /. within the last couple of days that got into whether this type of heating was "100% efficient" or not. Some of the posts were quite amusing.
I suspect that you and I would probably find plenty of common ground in other examples. I also never cared for the "Free utilities" come on of some rental situations. Other than a year in a frat house, I have never had communal/collectively paid utilities. I had never lived in an apartment until I was in my 30's. Didn't care for it. Bought my own house ASAP.
I now live in a 'nice' suburb of Kansas City. Recently I was walking my dog at night. It was a cool night after a day when the temperatures set up the situation that if you had your house closed up all day, it could get a little warm inside. But we were out at 11:00 pm or later. It pissed me off how many air conditioners were making racket. And they are A/C units -- very few homes around here have heat pumps.
At the time we were out, the air temp was about 52 degress F.
I am looking forward to hacking two Linux based wireless routers that have USB ports to do the same type of thing. At the time I purchased them the USB port was only useful for mass storage not print serving. A perverted limitation. I will hack them unless the manufacturer releases firmware to do the same thing.
I moved to a Athlon XP board for one my servers mainly because I can hang higher capacity drives on it than my old crap. I also dispatch some heavy CPU tasks to it in an attempt to stay sufficiently happy with an AMD XP desktop and save the money/energy consumption/setup effort of moving on to a faster box.
It is pretty neat for things that do not have a constant draw, like refrigerators, etc. in that it accumulates kWh from the time it is plugged in.
However, it is probably just a typo but if you really were running only 1.8 - 2.1 kWh _per month_ than you would be beating the hell out of 99.99% percent of the "developed" world. Might those units supposed to have been just kW instead of kWh?
On my todo list is to tap into the 5V of my old laser printer and put the print server on the printer's power supply. I also use X-10 equipment, the power stuff bought long before their annoying Internet campaigns for those damn cameras. In that fashion I can further reduce the standby power consumption. The printer's duty cycle is very, very low on an annual basis.
So, unless you live in some sort of a situation that provides power as part of your rent or such and don't really care about overall societal power consumption, you might want to carefully consider your printer server configuration.
OK. You made me look. Nice play.
Damn. I thought you were the bearer of good news.....
I speak the dialect of English in use in the U.S. In my vocabulary "quandary" is almost identical to the concept of predicament or dilemma. Quick consultation with Google points up no association between "quandary" and the concept of 'fourth'.
The word "quintessential" does invoke the concept of fifth, specifically the fifth essence (but not the fifth distillation nonsense).
The word that I know of that starts with the letter Q and denotes the fourth in a series is quaternary.
I am interested in your opinion, especially if you are a native UK English speaker.
You mean that if all the gamers would simply unplay their games after they get fragged it would solve the energy crisis?
The two key words here are "un-refueled" and "solo". Please see other links sprinkled throughout other comments.....
GPS != Grammar Protection System
Don't you think one of those Boss Mustangs would be better targeted at bossting?
I am no tree-hugging environmentalist. I haven't seen any studies that convince me that wind farms are a significant danger. I am in favor of them.
Still with the blade length that is being used now, even at low RPMs the tips are moving pretty damn fast. They are also so widely spaced that they won't have a 'presence'. It would just be this massive thing that comes slicing through at over 100 MPH. But admittedly they are far enough apart that most birds would pass through the circumferece unharmed.
I think you have to weigh the total picture. Is slapping the occasional feathered friend bad for the environment? Is it still bad when considering the downside of fossil fuel consumption?
Bring on more wind energy.
Really? Could you elaborate on the aspect of last flight of NASA's B-52B? I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere. If so, I need to inform my father. He and his cronies did some work for the mods to that bird.
More seriously, the /. story reads:
It should be understood that these little babies are disposable.I would love to get dual use out of one of these toys. I meta-modded the off-topic as unfair.
Two i's due to poor eyes and small font with little i's. Sorry. At least I got all the words in there, even the small ones.
They were /.'ed before I got to see the pretty swans.
So how should one mark the rating of an obvious sarcasm as "insightful"? The choices are only fair vs. unfair. There is no meta-moderation as clueless -- unless the vote was intended to intensify the humor. But then we must guess at the intent of the voter -- just like the hanging chads of four years ago.