Or if employees leave the fridge door open while looking for milk or that well hidden chocalate doughnut could be a legitimate financial conern also. People leaving corporate propoganda screensavers running during their lunch break to show their patrotism to their company has contributed more the to climate change we are experiencing in Austrlia than Seti@home. Ban those corporate propoganda screensavers!
I think that is just putting too much attention to detail.. Using my espresso machine, toaster and kettle for one morning probably chews up more power than a computer running at 50-90 watts.. It just seems a little pedantic to worry about an extra dollar or two on an electricity bill - and I live in Australia where climate control requirements are fairly minimal compared to the USA which is the most energy hungry nation on Earth. If you guys are that worried about energy - hang your washing on the line instead of using a dryer - it works for me (more so than spending a night running calculations on a few extra watts - the extra monitor time of which probably just used more energy than a month of distributed processing).
That is a very arrogant assumption - it's that mentaility 'build it and they will come' - there is a good reason why people who regard themselves as having a 'superior intellect' do not hold office. Can you imagine a politician with an attitude like that? I think you are all dumb - but please vote for me.. And why on Earth did your electricity bill go down? I leave my machines running 24x7 - so I don't see how extra CPU cycles will make a huge difference to my power bill
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Or if employees leave the fridge door open while looking for milk or that well hidden chocalate doughnut could be a legitimate financial conern also. People leaving corporate propoganda screensavers running during their lunch break to show their patrotism to their company has contributed more the to climate change we are experiencing in Austrlia than Seti@home. Ban those corporate propoganda screensavers!
I think that is just putting too much attention to detail.. Using my espresso machine, toaster and kettle for one morning probably chews up more power than a computer running at 50-90 watts.. It just seems a little pedantic to worry about an extra dollar or two on an electricity bill - and I live in Australia where climate control requirements are fairly minimal compared to the USA which is the most energy hungry nation on Earth. If you guys are that worried about energy - hang your washing on the line instead of using a dryer - it works for me (more so than spending a night running calculations on a few extra watts - the extra monitor time of which probably just used more energy than a month of distributed processing).
leaving the monitor running to display pretty graphics maybe..
http://www.d2ol.com/SARS.html - I use this as a USEFUL use of CPU time... I've already clocked up over a hundred drug candidates 'tested'.
That is a very arrogant assumption - it's that mentaility 'build it and they will come' - there is a good reason why people who regard themselves as having a 'superior intellect' do not hold office. Can you imagine a politician with an attitude like that? I think you are all dumb - but please vote for me.. And why on Earth did your electricity bill go down? I leave my machines running 24x7 - so I don't see how extra CPU cycles will make a huge difference to my power bill