The one thing I don't understand about all of these IPv6 stories is who are we waiting on? Do I need to make some change to my router? My computer? Should I be calling my ISP demanding that they make the change?
There has been this ridiculous notion floating around recently that swap space and paging files are relics and need to be eliminated. You can only safely eliminate them only so long as you're 100% confident you'll never use more RAM than you actually have. But there are lots and lots of memory hogging applications - video editors, image editors, scientific applications, etc. And when you consider that a web browser can eat up to 300MB of RAM, it shouldn't be hard to imagine a multitasking user running out by using too many little programs.
As I understand it, the Saturn V was never really considered safe. It just had a small enough number of launches that nothing bad ever happened. According to Wikipedia, it only launched a total of 13 times. I think because it is so impressive (in terms of size and lifting capability) of a rocket and because it was lucky enough to never have a failure, it has become viewed as a safe, reliable workhorse.
Consider a data set of two numbers, each.5 petabyte big. It should only take a few minutes to sort them and there's even a 50% chance the data is already sorted.
Could this be the first step to locking down OS X? Put a piece of silicon in each computer and the installation disk won't spin unless the chip responds correctly to a series of challenges. (Something similar to what Lexmark did between their printers and ink cartridges?) It would mean the end of Pystar.
I would argue that it is important. Looking far into the future, when does a machine get rights? When it shows that it does have a "soul"? Or when it thinks enough like a human? Or does a machine never qualify?
Physics is all about linearizing those DEs. Even at the PhD level, you'll almost never find anyone dealing with anything non-linear. Go talk to your engineering friends. They will be only doing numerical analysis, but they will at least be using those equations.
I have a problem with the premise of your question - how would this data help you? Obviously, it could tell you how much you're saving, but whether or not you're being efficient is simply a factor of how many things you have plugged in at a time.
This method also won't tell you which devices/appliances are the ones sucking the most juice. This is where a Kill-A-Watt can come in handy.
I recently trimmed my energy usage by:
-dialing up (or down) the thermostats - a/c, water heater, fridge -switched to CF light bulbs -used Kill-A-Watt on my computer equipment* -started regularly changing my air filter in my furnace -started using cold water for the clothes washer, and a low-temp setting for the dryer
*The Kill-A-Watt showed me that turning off my laser printer when I wasn't using it was worth $20/yr. Turning off my subwoofer when I wasn't watching a movie was another $20/yr. Turning off my cable modem and router at night is a few bucks/yr.
The article says that Firefox was the browser's second name, but during development Firebird was known as Phoenix. I forget what the reason for the first change was, but they're definitely on their third name.
Get a Linux live CD and an external USB drive. Use rsync on the virgin installation and then you can use rsync to only archive the changes from that point on. If you are really stuck on having DVDs at the end of this, you can then merge the two rsyncs (the original with the changes) and burn that to disk.
I can say, living in Eastern Illinois (Chicago), that when Daylight savings rolls around, we do engage our coffee maker to make the transition a little easier. If enough households do this, I wouldn't be surprised if the "coffeemaker" effect is significant enough to cause serious change in energy usage. For example, our coffee maker draws 1200 watts(!) while brewing.
I'm pretty sure that these MMOs would ban anyone from using a bot to play, right? It will be interesting to see if their AI can not raise flag with the cheater/fraud departments.
"Hopefully these players will gain traction among OS X users, which will finally force Apple to either step up in terms of features or open up iTunes for extensions."
OSS should not merely serve to encourage closed-source applications to become better. There's no reason why Songbird or Amarok couldn't eventually replace iTunes as the music application of choice. And that should be the goal. Otherwise, it's just a lot of wasted effort if all you want to have happen is get Apple to write a better app.
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I don't think so. It's just a nice way to guarantee that the government will have to buy and maintain some MS servers.
A restaurant should never hand you any liquid hot enough to cause disfiguring burns when you're sitting a car.
The one thing I don't understand about all of these IPv6 stories is who are we waiting on? Do I need to make some change to my router? My computer? Should I be calling my ISP demanding that they make the change?
There has been this ridiculous notion floating around recently that swap space and paging files are relics and need to be eliminated. You can only safely eliminate them only so long as you're 100% confident you'll never use more RAM than you actually have. But there are lots and lots of memory hogging applications - video editors, image editors, scientific applications, etc. And when you consider that a web browser can eat up to 300MB of RAM, it shouldn't be hard to imagine a multitasking user running out by using too many little programs.
"The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie. -- Lenny Bruce"
The truth is that DRM sucks.
What should be is that the developers and producers should be adding additional value for legitimate consumers.
As I understand it, the Saturn V was never really considered safe. It just had a small enough number of launches that nothing bad ever happened. According to Wikipedia, it only launched a total of 13 times. I think because it is so impressive (in terms of size and lifting capability) of a rocket and because it was lucky enough to never have a failure, it has become viewed as a safe, reliable workhorse.
Interesting. I just checked.. Firefox 3 has 58 CA's installed. Didn't know that.
Consider a data set of two numbers, each .5 petabyte big. It should only take a few minutes to sort them and there's even a 50% chance the data is already sorted.
Nevermind. I actually RTFA and I see that its nothing more than HDCP all over again.
Could this be the first step to locking down OS X? Put a piece of silicon in each computer and the installation disk won't spin unless the chip responds correctly to a series of challenges. (Something similar to what Lexmark did between their printers and ink cartridges?) It would mean the end of Pystar.
I would argue that it is important. Looking far into the future, when does a machine get rights? When it shows that it does have a "soul"? Or when it thinks enough like a human? Or does a machine never qualify?
Touche. The point remains though that Robo-Cop didn't sit well with me. I guess we'll find out in May.
With the rare exception (Data, the holographic Doctor), Star Trek usually stayed away from robots. What was with the Robo-Cop in the trailer?
Physics is all about linearizing those DEs. Even at the PhD level, you'll almost never find anyone dealing with anything non-linear. Go talk to your engineering friends. They will be only doing numerical analysis, but they will at least be using those equations.
I have a problem with the premise of your question - how would this data help you? Obviously, it could tell you how much you're saving, but whether or not you're being efficient is simply a factor of how many things you have plugged in at a time.
This method also won't tell you which devices/appliances are the ones sucking the most juice. This is where a Kill-A-Watt can come in handy.
I recently trimmed my energy usage by:
-dialing up (or down) the thermostats - a/c, water heater, fridge
-switched to CF light bulbs
-used Kill-A-Watt on my computer equipment*
-started regularly changing my air filter in my furnace
-started using cold water for the clothes washer, and a low-temp setting for the dryer
*The Kill-A-Watt showed me that turning off my laser printer when I wasn't using it was worth $20/yr. Turning off my subwoofer when I wasn't watching a movie was another $20/yr. Turning off my cable modem and router at night is a few bucks/yr.
The article says that Firefox was the browser's second name, but during development Firebird was known as Phoenix. I forget what the reason for the first change was, but they're definitely on their third name.
Get a Linux live CD and an external USB drive. Use rsync on the virgin installation and then you can use rsync to only archive the changes from that point on. If you are really stuck on having DVDs at the end of this, you can then merge the two rsyncs (the original with the changes) and burn that to disk.
Yes, Vista and 7 run just as fast, but in the footnote at the bottom of the page, they mention that XP was 22% faster.
I can say, living in Eastern Illinois (Chicago), that when Daylight savings rolls around, we do engage our coffee maker to make the transition a little easier. If enough households do this, I wouldn't be surprised if the "coffeemaker" effect is significant enough to cause serious change in energy usage. For example, our coffee maker draws 1200 watts(!) while brewing.
I'm pretty sure that these MMOs would ban anyone from using a bot to play, right? It will be interesting to see if their AI can not raise flag with the cheater/fraud departments.
A friend of mine who worked out often ended up breaking his arm during an arm wrestling contest. His muscles were simply stronger than his bone.
"Hopefully these players will gain traction among OS X users, which will finally force Apple to either step up in terms of features or open up iTunes for extensions."
OSS should not merely serve to encourage closed-source applications to become better. There's no reason why Songbird or Amarok couldn't eventually replace iTunes as the music application of choice. And that should be the goal. Otherwise, it's just a lot of wasted effort if all you want to have happen is get Apple to write a better app.
Since "emitting" usually has an implied "per second" in it, we should be talking about the power it emits, not the energy.
This is first time I've seen the dupe post actually link to the original.
1GB RAM paired with Vista is just disgusting. It's ridiculous that Intel limited the installed RAM to 1GB.