You, my friend, are absolutely correct. You actually have to pass a smirk-test to get an upgrade, just to make sure you're sufficiently prepared for the upcoming experience.
Seriously, I fly business-class semi-regularly (A couple dozen flights last year, flew business around 60%) and I don't usually give the cattle class a second thought.
DFW is great for this, you even skip the security lineup and walk directly through to screening.
That being said, at least for myself, once I get to the gate, I'd rather get on the plane and seated (and yes, smirk at the cattle class) simply because the seats are far more comfortable then what the airport offers, and I'll take sitting listening to music over standing in a queue any day.
In fact, one of the perks of sitting up front is that you can selectively enable and disable coach seat reclining features (or make the seat recline constantly, just to smack around the guy sitting behind you) and watch the result in the video camera. You can also selectively make the flight attendants in coach bitchier, make the seats harder, and if you're in an isle seat, we can make the guy at the window have to pee.
Not my problem. I didn't pay the baggage handlers to get my bag to the destination, I paid the airline. Their inability to do so is their own responsibility.
I like the idea of the GP drives, but it's a shame they can't just be honest about their speed and performance -- Not every application needs a fast/powerful drive.
That being said, I'd be very nervous about my drives exceeding 60C on a regular basis, mine are currently reporting under 40C (37C and 39C) via SMART, CPU clocking in around 24C, "motherboard" at around 40C (ambient room temperature is 18C) on a quad-core (Q6600) system with two 7200.11 drives running full blast (about half way through moving 300GB or so from one to the other) in a system that is almost silent.
Using ultra-high density drives with larger cache sizes helps substantially.
Seagate's 7200.11 750GB are a great example, in my informal testing (called "actual use") they do far better then the 36.7GB 10,000 rpm Raptors drives I was using previously, and at a fraction of the $/GB cost.
Vista is actually much better in this area then previous Windows OSes, if you have a DX10 capable card and an EVR capable media player. The reason is that you can actually have the H.264 video decoding/rendering happening within your video card, rather then having the CPU do the work and output a constantly moving 2D image.
Say what you will about all the eye candy, if you have a decent video card Vista performs far better with the Aero enabled then disabled for the simple reason that Aero is actually using your video card's resources when feasible, rather then doing it all in CPU.
(Also note you can turn off glass, which is transparency, and still leave Aero enabled)
A big part of the problem is that the iPhone is polling for mail every 'x' minutes, rather then using the over-10-year-old IMAP IDLE command to receive updated from the server via a push.
This method requires one packet every 29 minutes while idle (to update the server that the client is still IDLEing and to avoid timing out), but otherwise, data is only transmitted when something has actually changed.
On my Treo 680, this nearly doubles your standby-with-mail-client-online (but no calls, no TXTs, no email sent or received) time, vs regular polling (which, in the iPhone's case, is a fairly substantial IMAP query)
My Sony W810i lasts over a week of standby while camping, my Razr V9 does 5-7 days. While I am only going on second-hand trusted-friend accounts of the iPhone, 3 days appears to be the real world battery life on standby.
While some sort of latches/doors are required, they don't have to be visible -- The Razr2 V9, for example, has no external indications of how the battery attaches.
Sure, something could break, but compare that against the odds of the battery dying (100%, the only variable being time)
How would you suggest is a secure way to have a XP or Vista based machine boot and login automatically at time 6 minutes prior to an undetermined event?
Now make that method simple enough to scale across an entire company without any IT skill on the part of each user.
So because I have a different workflow, I've got problems?
Consider a call center, there is certain information you *must* have before you pick up the phone, outages, promotions, policy changes, etc. It's helpful to know about such information before bumping into the boss and looking like a jackass.
I'm not suggesting that I don't socialize, but rather, that when I was doing the daily grind, I don't go out of my way to work on work outside office hours (reading office email before I arrive is devoting more of *my* time to the office then I am being paid for), I'd rather unwind, warm up, relax a bit before interacting with the other folks 'round the office.
I already covered that too... At some arbitrary point a couple years ago (whenever this discussion happened to come up in my own life), electricity was cheaper under a fixed set of circumstances.
The other factor is the cost of energy -- We use natural gas for heating, and on a Joule by Joule basis it's cheaper. However, we have an older furnace, so on a good day it might be 50% efficient (rental, so upgrading it isn't a smart move). Last time I did the math, if natural gas is 50% efficient, then electrical needs to be around 85% efficient (give or take, since I don't feel like working it out again. We're on a fixed rate plan, but I've tweaked the plan a little, we're now wind powered, so the math might be off now) for the dollars to work out better to run electrical heating.
Now it is entirely possible that I completely screwed up the math, it was at least a couple years back so I don't have it handy anymore. If I remember, I'll look up the numbers and run a comparison once again.
Ignoring the summer issue (we run heat 9-10 out of 12 months, and don't even own an A/C), how is it less efficient?
The computer uses energy three ways, heat generated/released from non-moving components, which is effectively close to 100% efficient as heat release, moving parts, which slow due to friction (either natural, or because the system intentionally spins down), and friction releases energy as heat, and light.
(Yes, we have fans too, but that's just moving air around, which also generates heat from friction, does it not?)
So the only potential loss is light, and that's extremely minimal (less then half a dozen LEDs) once the monitors power off.
Sure, it's more costly to replace computers which fail due to the increased load, so running $2000 computers solely for heat with $50 heaters kicking around is a really dumb idea...
The only problem is that the heat may not be released in ideal locations or ideal times, but around here, about 7-8 months of the year the furnace kicks in at least once overnight, so the electrical energy lost to heat still cuts back on the heating bill (although not with 100% efficiency, since increasing the average heat of the house/office at night increases the rate of loss to the environment ever so slightly)
The other factor is the cost of energy -- We use natural gas for heating, and on a Joule by Joule basis it's cheaper. However, we have an older furnace, so on a good day it might be 50% efficient (rental, so upgrading it isn't a smart move). Last time I did the math, if natural gas is 50% efficient, then electrical needs to be around 85% efficient (give or take, since I don't feel like working it out again. We're on a fixed rate plan, but I've tweaked the plan a little, we're now wind powered, so the math might be off now) for the dollars to work out better to run electrical heating.
Now I may be way off, it's been a *long* time since I took any conservation of energy crap in physics, I would very much encourage an explanation of why I am wrong, or any assumptions I've made which are not correct, should that be the case.
What component, exactly, do you think tells your Mac when it's time to wake up? It's the Mac equivalent of a BIOS. (or rather, it's some element of the system clock, which on a PC is controlled by the BIOS, and/or by APM calls)
That being said, Intel systems have had the ability to wake-up on a OS controlled clock for many moons, assuming your motherboard is capable (And virtually all business grade computers are, at least in my experience) it's as simple as setting a scheduled task in Windows' task scheduler with the "Wake up computer to perform this task" option.
Windows Update does it automatically, group policy permitting.
Also consider that it's not just patch time, it's the few minutes needed to power up the system and restart applications on a daily basis, rather then a once-a-month-patch. For me, that's probably about 6 minutes a day.
I tend to go straight to my PC, check email and a a few other things before starting any coffee-machine banter, just to make sure I'm as informed as possible about any possible topics that might come up... So I would end up sitting there waiting for the machine, rather then logging in and starting on email immediately.
You also have to consider that if you're in an area that heats your offices, the energy released by computers isn't lost, it's just money transferred from your heating bill (whether that's natural gas, electricity, or a "heat" bill (billed by the building management who runs a central heating system of some sort) directly to your electrical bill.
Windows has decent power management (XP and Vista, anyway) -- If your machines are hibernate-capable, they can be set to sleep and/or hibernate based on inactivity.
This allows the user to wake up the machine whenever needed, as well most machines can wake themselves up when needed (For patches, a few minutes before scheduled shift starts, etc), automatically when updates are scheduled, manually using scheduled tasks installed and maintained by scripts, or by the user's use of the power button.
Vista is the first Microsoft OS to automatically sleep when not in use. Forget individual companies doing it, even having 10% of the home Windows PCs that run at full power 24/7 going into sleep should make a measureable difference.
Nothing malformed about the signals. Rather, the signals are exactly what the device was designed to receive, and the device correctly received and processed them.
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Does it make the police actually show up in a reasonable amount of time?
Why not just take the knife with you? They don't stop bombs or guns, so why would a knife be a problem?
You, my friend, are absolutely correct. You actually have to pass a smirk-test to get an upgrade, just to make sure you're sufficiently prepared for the upcoming experience.
Seriously, I fly business-class semi-regularly (A couple dozen flights last year, flew business around 60%) and I don't usually give the cattle class a second thought.
DFW is great for this, you even skip the security lineup and walk directly through to screening.
That being said, at least for myself, once I get to the gate, I'd rather get on the plane and seated (and yes, smirk at the cattle class) simply because the seats are far more comfortable then what the airport offers, and I'll take sitting listening to music over standing in a queue any day.
It's not random my friend, not at all.
In fact, one of the perks of sitting up front is that you can selectively enable and disable coach seat reclining features (or make the seat recline constantly, just to smack around the guy sitting behind you) and watch the result in the video camera. You can also selectively make the flight attendants in coach bitchier, make the seats harder, and if you're in an isle seat, we can make the guy at the window have to pee.
Well worth the few extra dollars to sit up front.
I'm not sure that's a good idea, TSA's security Muppets don't like people playing dress-up.
Be proud for them though, this is the closest thing they've got to any real success so far.
Not my problem. I didn't pay the baggage handlers to get my bag to the destination, I paid the airline. Their inability to do so is their own responsibility.
I like the idea of the GP drives, but it's a shame they can't just be honest about their speed and performance -- Not every application needs a fast/powerful drive.
That being said, I'd be very nervous about my drives exceeding 60C on a regular basis, mine are currently reporting under 40C (37C and 39C) via SMART, CPU clocking in around 24C, "motherboard" at around 40C (ambient room temperature is 18C) on a quad-core (Q6600) system with two 7200.11 drives running full blast (about half way through moving 300GB or so from one to the other) in a system that is almost silent.
Using ultra-high density drives with larger cache sizes helps substantially.
Seagate's 7200.11 750GB are a great example, in my informal testing (called "actual use") they do far better then the 36.7GB 10,000 rpm Raptors drives I was using previously, and at a fraction of the $/GB cost.
Vista is actually much better in this area then previous Windows OSes, if you have a DX10 capable card and an EVR capable media player. The reason is that you can actually have the H.264 video decoding/rendering happening within your video card, rather then having the CPU do the work and output a constantly moving 2D image.
Say what you will about all the eye candy, if you have a decent video card Vista performs far better with the Aero enabled then disabled for the simple reason that Aero is actually using your video card's resources when feasible, rather then doing it all in CPU.
(Also note you can turn off glass, which is transparency, and still leave Aero enabled)
A big part of the problem is that the iPhone is polling for mail every 'x' minutes, rather then using the over-10-year-old IMAP IDLE command to receive updated from the server via a push.
This method requires one packet every 29 minutes while idle (to update the server that the client is still IDLEing and to avoid timing out), but otherwise, data is only transmitted when something has actually changed.
On my Treo 680, this nearly doubles your standby-with-mail-client-online (but no calls, no TXTs, no email sent or received) time, vs regular polling (which, in the iPhone's case, is a fairly substantial IMAP query)
My Sony W810i lasts over a week of standby while camping, my Razr V9 does 5-7 days. While I am only going on second-hand trusted-friend accounts of the iPhone, 3 days appears to be the real world battery life on standby.
While some sort of latches/doors are required, they don't have to be visible -- The Razr2 V9, for example, has no external indications of how the battery attaches.
Sure, something could break, but compare that against the odds of the battery dying (100%, the only variable being time)
Vista is the first Microsoft OS to automatically sleep when not in use.
You can configure OSes back to 9x-something to sleep when not in use. Vista does it automatically (by default)
How would you suggest is a secure way to have a XP or Vista based machine boot and login automatically at time 6 minutes prior to an undetermined event?
Now make that method simple enough to scale across an entire company without any IT skill on the part of each user.
So because I have a different workflow, I've got problems?
Consider a call center, there is certain information you *must* have before you pick up the phone, outages, promotions, policy changes, etc. It's helpful to know about such information before bumping into the boss and looking like a jackass.
I'm not suggesting that I don't socialize, but rather, that when I was doing the daily grind, I don't go out of my way to work on work outside office hours (reading office email before I arrive is devoting more of *my* time to the office then I am being paid for), I'd rather unwind, warm up, relax a bit before interacting with the other folks 'round the office.
Now it is entirely possible that I completely screwed up the math, it was at least a couple years back so I don't have it handy anymore. If I remember, I'll look up the numbers and run a comparison once again.
Ignoring the summer issue (we run heat 9-10 out of 12 months, and don't even own an A/C), how is it less efficient?
The computer uses energy three ways, heat generated/released from non-moving components, which is effectively close to 100% efficient as heat release, moving parts, which slow due to friction (either natural, or because the system intentionally spins down), and friction releases energy as heat, and light.
(Yes, we have fans too, but that's just moving air around, which also generates heat from friction, does it not?)
So the only potential loss is light, and that's extremely minimal (less then half a dozen LEDs) once the monitors power off.
Sure, it's more costly to replace computers which fail due to the increased load, so running $2000 computers solely for heat with $50 heaters kicking around is a really dumb idea...
The only problem is that the heat may not be released in ideal locations or ideal times, but around here, about 7-8 months of the year the furnace kicks in at least once overnight, so the electrical energy lost to heat still cuts back on the heating bill (although not with 100% efficiency, since increasing the average heat of the house/office at night increases the rate of loss to the environment ever so slightly)
The other factor is the cost of energy -- We use natural gas for heating, and on a Joule by Joule basis it's cheaper. However, we have an older furnace, so on a good day it might be 50% efficient (rental, so upgrading it isn't a smart move). Last time I did the math, if natural gas is 50% efficient, then electrical needs to be around 85% efficient (give or take, since I don't feel like working it out again. We're on a fixed rate plan, but I've tweaked the plan a little, we're now wind powered, so the math might be off now) for the dollars to work out better to run electrical heating.
Now I may be way off, it's been a *long* time since I took any conservation of energy crap in physics, I would very much encourage an explanation of why I am wrong, or any assumptions I've made which are not correct, should that be the case.
What component, exactly, do you think tells your Mac when it's time to wake up? It's the Mac equivalent of a BIOS. (or rather, it's some element of the system clock, which on a PC is controlled by the BIOS, and/or by APM calls)
That being said, Intel systems have had the ability to wake-up on a OS controlled clock for many moons, assuming your motherboard is capable (And virtually all business grade computers are, at least in my experience) it's as simple as setting a scheduled task in Windows' task scheduler with the "Wake up computer to perform this task" option.
Windows Update does it automatically, group policy permitting.
Also consider that it's not just patch time, it's the few minutes needed to power up the system and restart applications on a daily basis, rather then a once-a-month-patch. For me, that's probably about 6 minutes a day.
I tend to go straight to my PC, check email and a a few other things before starting any coffee-machine banter, just to make sure I'm as informed as possible about any possible topics that might come up... So I would end up sitting there waiting for the machine, rather then logging in and starting on email immediately.
You also have to consider that if you're in an area that heats your offices, the energy released by computers isn't lost, it's just money transferred from your heating bill (whether that's natural gas, electricity, or a "heat" bill (billed by the building management who runs a central heating system of some sort) directly to your electrical bill.
Windows has decent power management (XP and Vista, anyway) -- If your machines are hibernate-capable, they can be set to sleep and/or hibernate based on inactivity.
This allows the user to wake up the machine whenever needed, as well most machines can wake themselves up when needed (For patches, a few minutes before scheduled shift starts, etc), automatically when updates are scheduled, manually using scheduled tasks installed and maintained by scripts, or by the user's use of the power button.
Vista is the first Microsoft OS to automatically sleep when not in use. Forget individual companies doing it, even having 10% of the home Windows PCs that run at full power 24/7 going into sleep should make a measureable difference.
She volunteers for part of the treasurer role, including generating the receipts for all donations. Yes, that is confidential.
Nothing malformed about the signals. Rather, the signals are exactly what the device was designed to receive, and the device correctly received and processed them.
No, but nor can she set up her email. Whoever sets up her email could set up her S/MIME certificate too.
Either of my parents could set up email, both could set up S/MIME as well, without difficulty.