Which also reminds me that the best ads are the ones where the website deals with the business direct instead of using some ad middleman. That's how Slashdot used to be able to pay for itself IIRC. We had ThinkGeek and even Microsoft and Oracle ads. Blech. But at least those ads were specific to this target audience.
Copyright protection generally lasts for 70 years after the death of the author. If the work was a "work for hire", then copyright persists for 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever is shorter. For works created before 1978, the copyright duration rules are complicated. However, works created before 1923 have made their way into the public domain.
So Miss Anne Frank was "hired" to write a diary while she was hidden from the Nazis? Who would have known.
I still remember when we were discussing in this very site how the then current copyright length of 80 years was ridiculous. Now its 95? Great.
Your tax dollars at work here. Coz if I remember correctly revenue from so called 'intellectual property' to royalty lords (not necessarily authors) isn't taxed.
The EU what? They would invade Russia with the Eurocorps? Are you aware of how ridiculous that is? The EU has no large standing army just some rapid response forces. If anything ever happened it would have to be through NATO and there is presently no reason for NATO to get involved.
And my laptop can do everything that the PC from the early '90s could do without even turning the fans on. Even a Raspberry Pi 2 outperforms a late-'90s PC handily and doesn't even have a heatsink (let alone a fan) on the SoC and can run happily from a battery.
Apples and oranges. I could also compare a pocket calculator to ENIAC. It doesn't matter. What matters is what people use which is what drives power consumption. You talked about an Alpha workstation when most people only had PCs in their house. Now you compare with a modern Raspberry Pi which is basically an embedded system. I compared high-end desktop PCs with high-end desktop PCs.
Those data points that you're picking are completely irrelevant for office machines. No one needs an Alpha for an office machine either. In fact in the early 1990s a lot of people had electric typewriters or even mechanical ones in their office which used even less power than your laptop or whatever.
The "high-end" GPU is not for replacing a cluster. It's a gaming machine add-on that costs $3000 USD. Hardly a cluster. The Titan Z can't even do DP FP worth a damn. It's not for scientific computing. It's for gaming. Even a $999 USD card can use 320W. Not outside of the realm for a gamer. I paid more for a computer monitor two decades ago when the dollar was actually worth more.
The problem with modern LCD screens is 4K. It gobs power. Same thing happened with smartphones and tablets with high-resolution displays.
Oh and fan noise has nothing to do with power draw. I remember in the 90s people used small diameter high pitch fans. Today we use huge diameter low pitch fans which actually move more air.
Nonsense? I used to be able to put my hand on the CPU of my PC in the early 1990s while the thing was on. Good luck doing that now. Why do you think the power supply wattage keeps going up?
How many people had Alpha workstations back then anyway? Compared to desktop PCs? But sure let's do a little comparison:
Wind is only cheaper if you don't take into account the secondary investments in backup generation capacity, storage, and electrical grid modifications.
If you are using it to power an industrial process than can run as you get power (e.g. milling) I guess its fine. But not for business processes that must work 24/7.
Also as you can imagine Japan does not have that much empty space to waste with windmills. They do have quite a few already.
They restarted deactivated coal power plants and fuel oil burners from the 1970s. As you can imagine not exactly cheap.
They are also burning a lot more natural gas. Some of their new plants are combined cycle but a lot are older less efficient designs. AFAIK Japan imports most of its natural gas by LNG tanker.
The Chinese are presently building a lot of Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors which are passive safety Generation III nuclear reactor designs. The current owner of Westinghouse BTW is Toshiba Group.
Frickin Wikipedia tards. Google muthafuka. Know about it? If you have counter arguments use them. If you don't then get out of my lawn.
The whole Universe is in a state of increasing entropy. You can try to save all you want you will still die in the end.
Solar and wind don't scale easily. They have a high space footprint. They are unreliable and you end up spending three times the money to build extra backup generators and the paraphernalia to load balance the power grid. Unsurprisingly this costs money and resources which could be used elsewhere. What people like you will get is more coal and natural gas as you admire a couple of token wind and solar installations. Just like California that is in fact switching to natural gas. Which mind you traditionally has had wildly swinging prices. It's gonna be great for power price speculation. Natural gas prices are even harder to predict than silver prices.
It's great that natural gas is used to backup wind and solar production shortfalls. Instead of the natural gas power plants running at combined cycle efficiencies of 60% they work at a cycle efficiency of 30% from all that spooling up and down. But do not let that shatter your little green dream.
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Which also reminds me that the best ads are the ones where the website deals with the business direct instead of using some ad middleman. That's how Slashdot used to be able to pay for itself IIRC. We had ThinkGeek and even Microsoft and Oracle ads. Blech. But at least those ads were specific to this target audience.
Altavista tried this approach before Google ate their lunch.
When people are searching for something they want results, not ads. The ads drive revenue but the revenue comes from having users to begin with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Copyright protection generally lasts for 70 years after the death of the author. If the work was a "work for hire", then copyright persists for 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever is shorter. For works created before 1978, the copyright duration rules are complicated. However, works created before 1923 have made their way into the public domain.
So Miss Anne Frank was "hired" to write a diary while she was hidden from the Nazis? Who would have known.
I still remember when we were discussing in this very site how the then current copyright length of 80 years was ridiculous. Now its 95? Great.
Your tax dollars at work here. Coz if I remember correctly revenue from so called 'intellectual property' to royalty lords (not necessarily authors) isn't taxed.
Finland has the Euro. More of a liability than an advantage. Denmark, Norway, and Sweden still have their own currencies.
The EU what? They would invade Russia with the Eurocorps? Are you aware of how ridiculous that is? The EU has no large standing army just some rapid response forces. If anything ever happened it would have to be through NATO and there is presently no reason for NATO to get involved.
That was when they thought that they had shot down an Antonov military transport.
Actually it's a Helicopter Carrier or an Amphibious Assault Ship. Take your pick.
Probably the same as KAL007. Not a lot.
I guess you never did Linux C++ server side code development.
That would be Project PACER.
GE is the best that could happen to them. But what might actually could happen is what happened to ITT.
And my laptop can do everything that the PC from the early '90s could do without even turning the fans on. Even a Raspberry Pi 2 outperforms a late-'90s PC handily and doesn't even have a heatsink (let alone a fan) on the SoC and can run happily from a battery.
Apples and oranges. I could also compare a pocket calculator to ENIAC. It doesn't matter. What matters is what people use which is what drives power consumption.
You talked about an Alpha workstation when most people only had PCs in their house. Now you compare with a modern Raspberry Pi which is basically an embedded system. I compared high-end desktop PCs with high-end desktop PCs.
Those data points that you're picking are completely irrelevant for office machines.
No one needs an Alpha for an office machine either. In fact in the early 1990s a lot of people had electric typewriters or even mechanical ones in their office which used even less power than your laptop or whatever.
The "high-end" GPU is not for replacing a cluster. It's a gaming machine add-on that costs $3000 USD. Hardly a cluster. The Titan Z can't even do DP FP worth a damn. It's not for scientific computing. It's for gaming. Even a $999 USD card can use 320W. Not outside of the realm for a gamer. I paid more for a computer monitor two decades ago when the dollar was actually worth more.
The problem with modern LCD screens is 4K. It gobs power. Same thing happened with smartphones and tablets with high-resolution displays.
I use uBlock and Disconect. uBlock is a lot faster than ABP.
Oh and fan noise has nothing to do with power draw. I remember in the 90s people used small diameter high pitch fans. Today we use huge diameter low pitch fans which actually move more air.
Nonsense? I used to be able to put my hand on the CPU of my PC in the early 1990s while the thing was on. Good luck doing that now. Why do you think the power supply wattage keeps going up?
How many people had Alpha workstations back then anyway? Compared to desktop PCs? But sure let's do a little comparison:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Alpha 21264: 90W TDP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Back people probably had Pentium processors: 16W TDP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Recent AMD FX-9590: 220W TDP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Recent Haswell-E: 140W BogoTDP (TM).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Oh and let's not forget the GeForce GTX Titan Z GPU. Did not have that in the 1990s: 375W.
Fact is a computer is today a major power hog in a regular house.
I don't know. Maybe you use one of those integrated systems with a low-voltage processor. Even if you do I bet it draws more power than the Alpha did.
http://www.samsung.com/us/vide...
How about large screen LCDs? 245W for a 55".
http://icecat.us/en_us/p/sony/...
Back when we used CRTs we also used smaller screens. 160W for a 36".
They already spend some a lot on wind and solar. Of course they have a little problem with latitude so solar is not exactly perfect for Japan.
Off-shore wind is susceptible to tsunami damage. They have some on-shore wind.
Geothermal makes sense but it is not exactly simple to build.
The difference is, with other things, you don't have to evacuate towns (or entire CITIES) for hundreds of years when they fuck up.
If the city was built in the water line that floods in case of tsunami perhaps people shouldn't be living there to begin with.
Just remember to take into consideration the cost to rebuild all the off-shore wind power plants once the next Tsunami hits.
Wind is only cheaper if you don't take into account the secondary investments in backup generation capacity, storage, and electrical grid modifications.
If you are using it to power an industrial process than can run as you get power (e.g. milling) I guess its fine. But not for business processes that must work 24/7.
Also as you can imagine Japan does not have that much empty space to waste with windmills. They do have quite a few already.
Should do wonders for the industry of Japan I am sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They restarted deactivated coal power plants and fuel oil burners from the 1970s. As you can imagine not exactly cheap.
They are also burning a lot more natural gas. Some of their new plants are combined cycle but a lot are older less efficient designs. AFAIK Japan imports most of its natural gas by LNG tanker.
The Chinese are presently building a lot of Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors which are passive safety Generation III nuclear reactor designs. The current owner of Westinghouse BTW is Toshiba Group.
In fact the first one should be started up next year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Frickin Wikipedia tards. Google muthafuka. Know about it? If you have counter arguments use them. If you don't then get out of my lawn.
The whole Universe is in a state of increasing entropy. You can try to save all you want you will still die in the end.
Solar and wind don't scale easily. They have a high space footprint. They are unreliable and you end up spending three times the money to build extra backup generators and the paraphernalia to load balance the power grid. Unsurprisingly this costs money and resources which could be used elsewhere. What people like you will get is more coal and natural gas as you admire a couple of token wind and solar installations. Just like California that is in fact switching to natural gas. Which mind you traditionally has had wildly swinging prices. It's gonna be great for power price speculation. Natural gas prices are even harder to predict than silver prices.
It's great that natural gas is used to backup wind and solar production shortfalls. Instead of the natural gas power plants running at combined cycle efficiencies of 60% they work at a cycle efficiency of 30% from all that spooling up and down. But do not let that shatter your little green dream.
Thank you for reading this message. Brought to you by the letter F.