The only reason to do this- despite the wastefulness- is to buy time. Given a single window a/c unit, the op says there's a backup unit- which is likely not running all the time. When (not if) the first unit fails, the temp will climb very rapidly- once the room crosses the 85F mark, you're counting minutes before thermal shutdown starts to happen.
In my room (15Kw ave consumption, north central US), keeping the room at 63F gives us exactly 15 minutes to get our backup cooling online- reasonable if we get the notice early enough, and are on-site. Raising it to 73F would give us 7 minutes or so- that's a dangerously short amount of time.
This was my first Heinlein- followed immediately by Space Cadet. Both are considered 'youth novels'- and I've started my 8 year old on Space Cadet as a result. It's a slow read for him- but he's enjoying every minute of it.
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Way back when, these skills would have been taught- as part of public education. The emphasis was on making successful citizens, capable of writing business documents, enjoying literature, and communicating with their fellow citizens (note- citizens- these skills were taught in conjunction with civics, a concept long since gone from the American educational system) on a regular basis. Why do we need colleges to cover these fundamentals now? Is the general student that much dumber than 25 years ago, that they need to spend $100K or more on a private institution to attain these skill levels? If the goal is to produce mindless worker automatons, schools have failed- they did better 25 years ago, where most high school graduates had more than enough skills to be a good administrative assistant- these days, you have to graduate from at least a 2 year post-high school institution to attain these same skills.
I've owned a Prismiq for a couple of months now- and this will do just about anything you need it to in this area- put the VOB files out there, run their MediaManager software (or the GPL'd Linux version from prismiq.org), and you're all set- S-Video and AC3 out, box costs around $200 (it's a little flash Linux Busybox machine itself).
Good luck.
*troll on*
Ok, so it's obvious tbat this poster doesn't have any clue about just what, exactly, goes on in the real world when a virus comes in. To a home user (or student), if they notice an infection at all, at worst its a call to the local computer geek- who blows a few hours fixing their computer. To a corporation, depending on size, anything from 2 to 20 people (or more) get assigned to clean up management computers, deal with people who ignore requests to apply patches, etc. These folks aren't cheap- $60 an hour to the corporation, or more.. times 2 to 20.. times thousands of corporations worldwide...
of COURSE the math is bogus- because this loser doesn't have to pay it PERSONALLY, since all his friends are computer geeks he can call when he gets infected.....
'It's not PERSONAL!'
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The only reason to do this- despite the wastefulness- is to buy time. Given a single window a/c unit, the op says there's a backup unit- which is likely not running all the time. When (not if) the first unit fails, the temp will climb very rapidly- once the room crosses the 85F mark, you're counting minutes before thermal shutdown starts to happen. In my room (15Kw ave consumption, north central US), keeping the room at 63F gives us exactly 15 minutes to get our backup cooling online- reasonable if we get the notice early enough, and are on-site. Raising it to 73F would give us 7 minutes or so- that's a dangerously short amount of time.
This was my first Heinlein- followed immediately by Space Cadet. Both are considered 'youth novels'- and I've started my 8 year old on Space Cadet as a result. It's a slow read for him- but he's enjoying every minute of it.
Way back when, these skills would have been taught- as part of public education. The emphasis was on making successful citizens, capable of writing business documents, enjoying literature, and communicating with their fellow citizens (note- citizens- these skills were taught in conjunction with civics, a concept long since gone from the American educational system) on a regular basis. Why do we need colleges to cover these fundamentals now? Is the general student that much dumber than 25 years ago, that they need to spend $100K or more on a private institution to attain these skill levels? If the goal is to produce mindless worker automatons, schools have failed- they did better 25 years ago, where most high school graduates had more than enough skills to be a good administrative assistant- these days, you have to graduate from at least a 2 year post-high school institution to attain these same skills.
What happened?
I've owned a Prismiq for a couple of months now- and this will do just about anything you need it to in this area- put the VOB files out there, run their MediaManager software (or the GPL'd Linux version from prismiq.org), and you're all set- S-Video and AC3 out, box costs around $200 (it's a little flash Linux Busybox machine itself). Good luck.
*troll on* Ok, so it's obvious tbat this poster doesn't have any clue about just what, exactly, goes on in the real world when a virus comes in. To a home user (or student), if they notice an infection at all, at worst its a call to the local computer geek- who blows a few hours fixing their computer. To a corporation, depending on size, anything from 2 to 20 people (or more) get assigned to clean up management computers, deal with people who ignore requests to apply patches, etc. These folks aren't cheap- $60 an hour to the corporation, or more.. times 2 to 20.. times thousands of corporations worldwide... of COURSE the math is bogus- because this loser doesn't have to pay it PERSONALLY, since all his friends are computer geeks he can call when he gets infected..... 'It's not PERSONAL!'