Wow, as a HVAC engineer in a former life I got a kick out of reading this "exchange". Pun not necessarily intended.
I think what is ultimately being kicked around here is an "outside air machine" which undoubtedly any data center is likely to employ due to fresh air requirements of most building codes. It brings in raw outdoor air and the building dumps "used" air at a lesser rate, and, the building is then pressurized.
Also, you are right in saying that a typical OA machine must cool the air down to, oh, 50 to 55 F to get decent condensation. Then, it either employs hot gas reheat (if it has hot gas there) or an electric heat coil (for chilled water systems etc) to get the air back to 70F or whatever is required. Omitting reheat in hot climates can save energy by taking load off the AHU's the OA machine serves. Yes there is energy savings to the OA machine when temps are favorable, work is work, but some machines are more efficient, and more intelligent. (my old boss used to ask the OA salesmen "What does your machine do when it's 50 degrees and raining?) .
The thing is, in the real world, you might get something like 4 hours on the third Tuesday of October every other year when the ambient conditions would be perfect. By perfect I mean a suitable temperature and humidity where any sane person would allow the air to be blown directly on their server farm. Way too much risk, all OA must be processed. Side note: OA machines are very expensive per CFM.
I was once part of an email mailing list years ago. You could post an email message to the list, but it had to go through a moderator first. If the comment was deemed good and appropriate, it went on through to the entire mailing list. Once you passed some sort of threshold where the mod decided he/she could trust you, you could post directly to the mailing list. Screw up, IE pollute the list, you lost the privilege. Presumably completely or had to go back to being moderated (can't remember which).
I imagine this is par for the course for an email mailing list, but how many of the noobs out there have ever been on a email mailing list? How many noobs know what usenet is let alone remember what it used to be? (sorry, starting to rant, better hit submit)
When I was teaching myself video editing I tried premier first, and found it to be completely incomprehensible. It made absolutely no sense. The interface was like a "videofied" version of photoshop. Which is also incomprehensible to me. My wife is a graphic designer and she went to school "for photoshop" so it's all she knows (can't stand gimp because the buttons are in the wrong place). I bet she could get around in premier just fine.
I installed Vegas 3.0 (this was a long time ago) and found it to be incredibly powerful and intuitive, and very easy to learn on my own.
The customer hires the architect, and pays the architect. The architect FIRM has unlicensed architects do the real drawings. The architect hires the engineers (Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Fire Protection, Structural, Civil, Environment, Landscape, on and on) who have unlicensed engineers in the FIRM do the real drawings. Someone hires the general contractor, probably the architect or recommended by the architect, who, in the GC firm have unlicensed engineers do the project management.
Ultimately the GC will sub out all the real work to the contractors for each trade. They hire the workers who end up putting in the sweat. Gehry may have sketched the design, but a $15 per hour employee did the roof, did the drywall, did the framing, etc.
The architect draws the pretty pictures, and if an engineer says it CAN be done, he'll believe it. If the engineer can prove it, presumably. Most architects are fairly sharp with buildings, believe it or not.
I guarantee you, if the lawyers for Gehry have any common sense they will turn around and sue everyone else with their name on a drawing for that structure. THOSE people will then turn around and sue the subs who did the work, claiming they didn't follow the drawings or used sub-par materials or whatever. This will turn into a grand mess. The engineers and architects (I presume?) have liability insurance, and the only real winners are the lawyers.
I worked for an engineering firm who was named in a lawsuit where a building was designed right but parts were installed terribly. The fingerpointing was massive.
Can't turn off a farady cage, though. If I was a proprietor that wanted to play the game of silencing my establishment, I'd want to make the jammer hard to find and also switched.
The local McDonalds here has a printed out sign behind the counter that says all takeout customers must inspect their orders before leaving the store because they flat out refuse to fix any "mistakes" to orders after people leave the store. Must be having a lot of scammers - "Dude, you like totally gave me an empty bag, like 5 times in a row."
From my experience when on ice the ABS effectively turns off the brakes. Which might actually be a good thing, because if you're going straight and hit the brakes on ice, there are two options -
without ABS you will lock up the tires and lose control, likely entering a spin and/or sliding off the road, into a ditch, tree or light pole.
With ABS, they will be pulsed so much the brakes will basically not engage at all or very little, and you will continue on straight. If you were going straight, that is. The ice is probably just a patch and if control is maintained past the patch once traction returns the brakes will operate normally and the car can come to a safe stop.
Which is better? Well, with ABS you get the satisfaction and comfort of mashing the brake with all you got yet not spinning out of control. Without ABS you get the satisfaction of mashing the brake with all you got and then sliding all over the place. There is of course some argument that locking up the tires on very slick surfaces will "gouge" into the ice or snow and possibly "dig down" to something grippy or create a pile of debris in front of the tires which may facilitate stopping. Either way, a panic stop on ice is going to be tricky regardless of the type or level of technology on-board the vehicle. On my truck the ABS is currently inop (for 2.5 years!) and I'm not in a hurry to get it fixed, and I live in an area where it does snow and does get ice.
Anyone else think it seemed like he was always sucking in his gut in TOS? Or maybe it was a girdle. Something never looked quite natural, what with the tight uniforms and all. Just me? Ok, never mind.
I think there would be a great advantage to having an 8 or 16 GB flash drive as c: for the OS and main apps. A price to benefit compromise. Have a HDD for all the rest to suit the intent of the system. For a net-pliance, have none.
I put a 10k RPM drive in my box back when they were the 36 GB only, as c: for the OS and apps. Some may say it doesn't make a difference for normal use, but for ME, I like it.
Has anyone done a real benchmark, recently, comparing boot time or MSoffice load time on a typical HDD vs a flash drive? I remember seeing something once and the consensus was that you'd be insane to pay the difference in price for the modest gain, but that was a while ago.
after win XP decided to format the wrong drive (apparently it's known to do that - wish someone had told _me
Yeah, I lost a whole load of stuff on my 2nd HD when the XP install disk decided to destroy that one instead of the intended drive. The thing is, it wiped out the table before I even told it to format anything.
I was going to reinstall XP, so I put in the cd. I couldn't see the intended HD, just my media drive. I fiddled around with the partitioning / formatting app for a minute trying to "find" the right drive then got nervous and rebooted. The OS hard drive (a raptor) was there, but my 120 gig drive was unreadable.
Now, whenever I go to do a format reinstall of anything, be it linux or windoze, I unplug any drive I'm not willing to "lose". Multiple partitions on the same drive - well, can't unplug those so you'd better know the sizes and have backups!
Given the somewhat limited choices in my area I was, during a very frustrating 2 weeks where both my home and work ISP's were struggling, considering what it would take to start "my own" ISP.
Get a T1 or T3, use a wireless mesh to spread it, everyone's happy.
Unfortunately, although I don't know it to be fact, I think both my work ISP (DSL) and my home (cable) ultimately use shoddy ATT copper which was the root cause of both ISP's to be intermittent for that 2 week period. So, if I were to get a T3 it would probably be on ATT copper, no?
A month ago I had to explain to my boss what an MP3 was, how they are used, what you would use it on, the whole deal.
The thing is, he's an electrical engineer from Purdue so he fully understands A-D conversion, bitrate, compression algorithms, how CD's work, etc.
It's a cultural thing at this point.
Last week I sent him an email about something and put LOL at the end, so he would know the last line was a joke. Another thing I had to explain... Seriously, he's a genius, intelligence has nothing to do with today's gadgets and the gadget culture.
I'm interested in a firmware hackable DVD player that can be made so you can bypass the crap portions of the DVD's. It is very annoying when you CAN'T fast forward or skip the crap parts because it is explicitly disabled in the DVD menu code. My present player even gives you the little "forbidden" symbol in the upper right corner of the screen.
I've heard of some hacks that eliminate this feature so you can skip those clips....
That's a great point that I've never really seen anyone mention before. If someone is using the knife style connectors for the wire termination to the back of the speakers, or just a dead simple 1/8" or 1/4" plug (which is probably even LESS contact area) then what in the WORLD could any of that foo foo stuff do to increase sound quality? Maybe if it was "real good" quality copper and you soldered it right to the speaker and amp terminals, it might do something. But only if you used good solder.
New business idea: For only $499.99 I will sell you a roll of special aged and equalized "Ultra-Low R" silver solder that is "guaranteed" to increase the "warmth and presence" of your high end speaker system.
Side note: I picked up some "monster" speaker cable fairly cheap at a hamfest once. It was nice quality speaker cable, still have it. I would go so far as to say it would work better than something like phone cable, it was pretty thick, and a nice rugged jacket. Eh, whatever.
It may be a pig in a dress or a body kit on a camry, but don't forget, there's still people that go for that kind of stuff.
For example, I know a guy who has a new HP laptop with vista, and he's alright with it, doesn't wish he had XP or anything, and likes some stuff about vista.
I also know he turned off the AERO. Does that mean he took the body kit off the camry, or took the dress off the pig?
Believe it or not I've never been called to be on a jury. But my boss was on a jury once, and he's not sure how he got on, other than both sides thought he'd be a decent foreman.
Both sides interview potential jurors and both can decide a potential juror isn't acceptable (IOW, would be biased towards the OTHER SIDE). I think there is a limited pool so they can't just keep throwing people out until they get the real "winners".
So, yeah, all people that get on a jury are (supposedly) hand picked to not hurt the case of either side. Who does that likely leave in a case like this? People completely clueless about the entire issue being debated.
Of course, what point would there be to have a juror on this case that is a 133t h4xx0r d00d that makes teh free callz all day long? He would be informed but clearly not impartial.
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Wow, as a HVAC engineer in a former life I got a kick out of reading this "exchange". Pun not necessarily intended.
I think what is ultimately being kicked around here is an "outside air machine" which undoubtedly any data center is likely to employ due to fresh air requirements of most building codes. It brings in raw outdoor air and the building dumps "used" air at a lesser rate, and, the building is then pressurized.
Also, you are right in saying that a typical OA machine must cool the air down to, oh, 50 to 55 F to get decent condensation. Then, it either employs hot gas reheat (if it has hot gas there) or an electric heat coil (for chilled water systems etc) to get the air back to 70F or whatever is required. Omitting reheat in hot climates can save energy by taking load off the AHU's the OA machine serves. Yes there is energy savings to the OA machine when temps are favorable, work is work, but some machines are more efficient, and more intelligent. (my old boss used to ask the OA salesmen "What does your machine do when it's 50 degrees and raining?) .
The thing is, in the real world, you might get something like 4 hours on the third Tuesday of October every other year when the ambient conditions would be perfect. By perfect I mean a suitable temperature and humidity where any sane person would allow the air to be blown directly on their server farm. Way too much risk, all OA must be processed. Side note: OA machines are very expensive per CFM.
I was once part of an email mailing list years ago. You could post an email message to the list, but it had to go through a moderator first. If the comment was deemed good and appropriate, it went on through to the entire mailing list. Once you passed some sort of threshold where the mod decided he/she could trust you, you could post directly to the mailing list. Screw up, IE pollute the list, you lost the privilege. Presumably completely or had to go back to being moderated (can't remember which).
I imagine this is par for the course for an email mailing list, but how many of the noobs out there have ever been on a email mailing list? How many noobs know what usenet is let alone remember what it used to be? (sorry, starting to rant, better hit submit)
When I was teaching myself video editing I tried premier first, and found it to be completely incomprehensible. It made absolutely no sense. The interface was like a "videofied" version of photoshop. Which is also incomprehensible to me. My wife is a graphic designer and she went to school "for photoshop" so it's all she knows (can't stand gimp because the buttons are in the wrong place). I bet she could get around in premier just fine.
I installed Vegas 3.0 (this was a long time ago) and found it to be incredibly powerful and intuitive, and very easy to learn on my own.
The customer hires the architect, and pays the architect. The architect FIRM has unlicensed architects do the real drawings. The architect hires the engineers (Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Fire Protection, Structural, Civil, Environment, Landscape, on and on) who have unlicensed engineers in the FIRM do the real drawings. Someone hires the general contractor, probably the architect or recommended by the architect, who, in the GC firm have unlicensed engineers do the project management.
Ultimately the GC will sub out all the real work to the contractors for each trade. They hire the workers who end up putting in the sweat. Gehry may have sketched the design, but a $15 per hour employee did the roof, did the drywall, did the framing, etc.
The architect draws the pretty pictures, and if an engineer says it CAN be done, he'll believe it. If the engineer can prove it, presumably. Most architects are fairly sharp with buildings, believe it or not.
I guarantee you, if the lawyers for Gehry have any common sense they will turn around and sue everyone else with their name on a drawing for that structure. THOSE people will then turn around and sue the subs who did the work, claiming they didn't follow the drawings or used sub-par materials or whatever. This will turn into a grand mess. The engineers and architects (I presume?) have liability insurance, and the only real winners are the lawyers.
I worked for an engineering firm who was named in a lawsuit where a building was designed right but parts were installed terribly. The fingerpointing was massive.
Can't turn off a farady cage, though. If I was a proprietor that wanted to play the game of silencing my establishment, I'd want to make the jammer hard to find and also switched.
And all the cables are super duper oxygen free copper on individual plinths! YES!
The local McDonalds here has a printed out sign behind the counter that says all takeout customers must inspect their orders before leaving the store because they flat out refuse to fix any "mistakes" to orders after people leave the store. Must be having a lot of scammers - "Dude, you like totally gave me an empty bag, like 5 times in a row."
So, Home Depot is a NASA subcontractor now.... That explains things.
So, wait a minute. If I have an AT+T phone already and I get an iPhone, I can't just pop in the sim from my AT+T razr? I still have to "unlock" it?
If I unlock the iPhone to use the razr sim card I can use it in either phone as I see fit?
This is my workstation. There are many like it but this one is mine...
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/marine.html
From my experience when on ice the ABS effectively turns off the brakes. Which might actually be a good thing, because if you're going straight and hit the brakes on ice, there are two options -
without ABS you will lock up the tires and lose control, likely entering a spin and/or sliding off the road, into a ditch, tree or light pole.
With ABS, they will be pulsed so much the brakes will basically not engage at all or very little, and you will continue on straight. If you were going straight, that is. The ice is probably just a patch and if control is maintained past the patch once traction returns the brakes will operate normally and the car can come to a safe stop.
Which is better? Well, with ABS you get the satisfaction and comfort of mashing the brake with all you got yet not spinning out of control. Without ABS you get the satisfaction of mashing the brake with all you got and then sliding all over the place. There is of course some argument that locking up the tires on very slick surfaces will "gouge" into the ice or snow and possibly "dig down" to something grippy or create a pile of debris in front of the tires which may facilitate stopping. Either way, a panic stop on ice is going to be tricky regardless of the type or level of technology on-board the vehicle. On my truck the ABS is currently inop (for 2.5 years!) and I'm not in a hurry to get it fixed, and I live in an area where it does snow and does get ice.
Anyone else think it seemed like he was always sucking in his gut in TOS? Or maybe it was a girdle. Something never looked quite natural, what with the tight uniforms and all. Just me? Ok, never mind.
I think there would be a great advantage to having an 8 or 16 GB flash drive as c: for the OS and main apps. A price to benefit compromise. Have a HDD for all the rest to suit the intent of the system. For a net-pliance, have none.
I put a 10k RPM drive in my box back when they were the 36 GB only, as c: for the OS and apps. Some may say it doesn't make a difference for normal use, but for ME, I like it.
Has anyone done a real benchmark, recently, comparing boot time or MSoffice load time on a typical HDD vs a flash drive? I remember seeing something once and the consensus was that you'd be insane to pay the difference in price for the modest gain, but that was a while ago.
I was going to reinstall XP, so I put in the cd. I couldn't see the intended HD, just my media drive. I fiddled around with the partitioning / formatting app for a minute trying to "find" the right drive then got nervous and rebooted. The OS hard drive (a raptor) was there, but my 120 gig drive was unreadable.
Now, whenever I go to do a format reinstall of anything, be it linux or windoze, I unplug any drive I'm not willing to "lose". Multiple partitions on the same drive - well, can't unplug those so you'd better know the sizes and have backups!
Given the somewhat limited choices in my area I was, during a very frustrating 2 weeks where both my home and work ISP's were struggling, considering what it would take to start "my own" ISP.
Get a T1 or T3, use a wireless mesh to spread it, everyone's happy.
Unfortunately, although I don't know it to be fact, I think both my work ISP (DSL) and my home (cable) ultimately use shoddy ATT copper which was the root cause of both ISP's to be intermittent for that 2 week period. So, if I were to get a T3 it would probably be on ATT copper, no?
A month ago I had to explain to my boss what an MP3 was, how they are used, what you would use it on, the whole deal.
The thing is, he's an electrical engineer from Purdue so he fully understands A-D conversion, bitrate, compression algorithms, how CD's work, etc.
It's a cultural thing at this point.
Last week I sent him an email about something and put LOL at the end, so he would know the last line was a joke. Another thing I had to explain... Seriously, he's a genius, intelligence has nothing to do with today's gadgets and the gadget culture.
I'm interested in a firmware hackable DVD player that can be made so you can bypass the crap portions of the DVD's. It is very annoying when you CAN'T fast forward or skip the crap parts because it is explicitly disabled in the DVD menu code. My present player even gives you the little "forbidden" symbol in the upper right corner of the screen.
I've heard of some hacks that eliminate this feature so you can skip those clips....
Both usually don't have to do any advertising either, word-of-mouth is usually sufficient. They also both tend to be well compensated.
That's a great point that I've never really seen anyone mention before. If someone is using the knife style connectors for the wire termination to the back of the speakers, or just a dead simple 1/8" or 1/4" plug (which is probably even LESS contact area) then what in the WORLD could any of that foo foo stuff do to increase sound quality? Maybe if it was "real good" quality copper and you soldered it right to the speaker and amp terminals, it might do something. But only if you used good solder.
New business idea: For only $499.99 I will sell you a roll of special aged and equalized "Ultra-Low R" silver solder that is "guaranteed" to increase the "warmth and presence" of your high end speaker system.
Side note: I picked up some "monster" speaker cable fairly cheap at a hamfest once. It was nice quality speaker cable, still have it. I would go so far as to say it would work better than something like phone cable, it was pretty thick, and a nice rugged jacket. Eh, whatever.
Death Star. Luke Skywalker. You know, the movie. Long long ago in a galaxy far far away? 3 billion light years sounds about right!
It may be a pig in a dress or a body kit on a camry, but don't forget, there's still people that go for that kind of stuff.
For example, I know a guy who has a new HP laptop with vista, and he's alright with it, doesn't wish he had XP or anything, and likes some stuff about vista.
I also know he turned off the AERO. Does that mean he took the body kit off the camry, or took the dress off the pig?
Well, there is the copy that you bought in the first place... Perhaps there are certain rights you do or don't have regarding THAT copy as well.
Believe it or not I've never been called to be on a jury. But my boss was on a jury once, and he's not sure how he got on, other than both sides thought he'd be a decent foreman.
Both sides interview potential jurors and both can decide a potential juror isn't acceptable (IOW, would be biased towards the OTHER SIDE). I think there is a limited pool so they can't just keep throwing people out until they get the real "winners".
So, yeah, all people that get on a jury are (supposedly) hand picked to not hurt the case of either side. Who does that likely leave in a case like this? People completely clueless about the entire issue being debated.
Of course, what point would there be to have a juror on this case that is a 133t h4xx0r d00d that makes teh free callz all day long? He would be informed but clearly not impartial.
The transporter references the original pattern and removes anything anomalous. Pretty standard stuff, we all know this.