True but how much power do all the cell towers use? I am not anti tech but the explosion of tech we have has got to be running up our power bills.
Thats a very amusing question, because a typical setup of 3G equipment draws about 3 KW, yet you're asking how much the tower itself draws, which is of course zero. The equipment draw at a site varies based on auxiliary gear, power level, multiple sites on multiple towers, multiple antennas on multiple gear, etc. Suffice it to say a cell site draws enough power to keep warm in the winter, but its not much compared to a steel mill or a retail establishment. The local power company is generally unimpressed in urban and suburban areas, although in rural areas the towers tend to be in the middle of nowhere resulting in some logistical difficulty, although the power required is no major thing. Local power companies do not install new substations just for a cellsite, for example, on the other hand when colocating in a building they will require a dedicated circuit or two, maybe a tiny subpanel, probably a separately billing power meter.
On the other hand, the FAA requires substantial tower lighting, you're looking at about 1.5 KW of lighting on a big tower. See link to a typical supplier, note that light requires TWO 700 watt bulbs, pretty impressive. Then again a couple hundred watt light bulb is probably what you'd need to light up a couple hundred feet of street, it just makes sense.
So, yes you could reduce the power used by the equipment. From 3KW to 3W to fit the pie in the sky 1:1000 ratio, probably not. Even if you could magically reduce the equipment power draw to zero, by using magic pixie dust and space alien technology, tower lighting requirements alone mean you'll never be able to reduce the total site power draw below about %33 of what is currently used.
I'm absolutely no expert, but weren't many of those stations pumping 50,000 watts (with some short lived experiments with 250-500 kilowatts) through their antennas?
The standard daytime power level for the big ones is 50 KW, medium-ish stations run around 10 KW, and the smallest stations during the night might barely go 100 watts.
Want high power, try old fashioned UHF TV superstations around a megawatt.
Seriously though, I'd like to see what type of lifestyle changes people think contributed to this.
Culture of fear.
I grew up in the cold war and its very politically correct and proper to say we were all scared shitless about nuclear war, but lets me honest here, most of us never cared about it, or only thought about it for about 2 hours per decade, like while watching the movie "the day after" or being indoctrinated about it in school. I suppose children living on a missile base or in D.C. might have had a different outlook, but I'd say I'm pretty much correct on average. Remember you only hear the LOUD ones whom claim they cared, not the majority.
Now all "news" is nothing but terrorism. Be scared of this, be scared of that. All adults are out to molest all children. Everything causes cancer. Anyone you don't know is a criminal, and all family members are merely latent abusers. All "dual use" inanimate objects like guns, knives, etc, are inherently in and of themselves evil like its in their chemical makeup. If you don't understand it (and our education system will make certain of that) you must fear it. The TV says, that all forms of childhood recreation (other than watching TV, suspiciously) are too dangerous for kids. Ask for a slogan and you'll hear the words that we're not supposed to be cowards, look at the actions which are all the opposite.
Add in some strange cultural values about entertainment (violence is great, sex is evil) mix that with most peoples actual lifestyles (vaguely pacifist, sex all the time)...
Overall, an average of five times as many students in 2007 surpassed thresholds in one or more mental health categories, compared with those who did so in 1938.
Did they correct for dietary changes such as massive caffeine intake, and HFCS intake causing huge blood sugar level spikes and troughs, tending to exaggerate and encourage anxiety related incidents?
Also did they correct for illegal drug use? Not so much that illegal drugs "make you crazy", but they make it more difficult for borderline people to pretend that you're not crazy, lack of inhibition, strange new motivational factors, side effects of physical or psychological addiction, etc?
Finally, in the olden days, slightly "off" people were simply locked in the attic, more or less, and would probably not have been tested, but now they'd be mainstreamed into classrooms and tested, I hope they corrected for that.
How do I make sure I'm legally in the clear without hiring an expensive lawyer that my indie developer budget can't afford?
Easy, hire an inexperienced cheap lawyer? Its better than nothing. Its like saying, "I need to hire a C++ developer, but I can't afford Bjarne Stroustrup, so what should I do?"
Also, everyone starts at the bottom somewhere. A young ambitious lawyer whom wants to be the future corporate counsel for Microsoft might very well work for you for free to stuff his/her resume. Hint, they're going to want a spiffy job title.
So, find a fan of your game whom happens to be a young lawyer whom would like to gain a lot of experience quickly...
Really. Hmmm... $1.92 million verdict against Jammie Thomas-Rasset
Exactly. You now understand the post perfectly. Set up a dirt poor shell corp, let them sue the corp for 100000 billion for all you care, let them take possession of the corporations coffee maker and its promotional tee shirt collection, and start over at a new shell company.
Make sure to at least talk to a "cheap" lawyer about becoming judgment proof and the phrase "piercing the corporate veil".
The overall gameplan is to make setting up a shell corp cheaper than suing the shell corp into non-existence all while somehow making a profit despite the profound lack of corporate capital.
Obviously, don't do something stupid like loan your personal money to the shell corporation, unless you want to lose that money (or can afford to lose it).
Do people really do that? In a civilized area, like the semi-rural midwest, we can and do go 75 on the highways, so thats TWO FREAKING HOURS of your valuable weekend time spent behind the wheel. In less civilized coastie areas, I hear coasties and big city types proudly "brag" about how their highways are so congested they never get much above 15, implying TEN FREAKING HOURS behind the wheel. I mean, come on, Saturday is only 24 hours long, not counting eating, sleeping, getting called from work, etc. Learn to use amazon.com and spend some of that TEN FREAKING HOURS having fun instead of going "vroom vroom".
The other part I never figured out, is all the retail activity tends to be concentrated on certain areas/roads. I do everything on that list, except visit granny, in one little two mile long, six lane wide road thats packed with retail, thats about four miles from my house. Even if I intentionally drove back and forth for each trip, I still couldn't drive more than 30 miles or so.
Young people are the most likely to suffer from our current economic problems, unemployment is rampant amongst the under 25 crowd. People have less opportunity, less privacy, less control over their lives, fewer real life friends and more online acquaintances. So how, exactly, is life better?
"so-called lipids" is a strange phrase. What does that mean? It is a lipid or it is not a lipid. It's not osama bin laden's secret alias, a value judgment, a marketing campaign, or a trademark.
You know, I'm thinking Ringo's stuff isn't going to make it to the big screen. At least, not unless they do a reverse Starship Troopers on it.
True for most of his stuff, but "Legacy of the Aldenata" is so freaking huge you could just "skip over" any questionable stuff.
Off the top of my head, what was "really bad" in the Aldenata series? The bit with the hottie and the miscalibrated radiation detector in Hells Faire, although questionable behavior, was hilarious in a national lampoon / porkys fashion, with proper application of soap suds I can't see that worse than PG-13, could be tamer than a "Go Daddy.com" TV-commercial. The posleen dining habits were pretty gruesome, its all up to the director how much detail they'd like to show, I'm sure they could achieve "MA" if they try hard enough, or they could keep it pretty tame all the way down to "PG". Cally got into some pretty interesting situations with men later on, which if left out, would leave at least 99.999% of the story, so I'm really not seeing a problem here.
Its not nearly as futile as trying to make a G rated "fight club". I would imagine a free-public-TV edit of fight club would be about one commercial break long. The entire "PG-13" Aldenata series would only be about 15 minutes shorter than a reasonably low-gore "R" Aldenata series. Now if they go for max gore Halloween horror movie, that could be bad.
presidents who aren't douchebags
Yeah, just to make sure we realize its "a fictional story" he has been putting stuff like that in.
1632 series aka 'ring of fire' series. Only vaguely scifi but could make a nice drama / action / adventure / steampunkish / special effects showcase type of movie.
We're not going near eBooks after the Amazon "1984" debacle (apology not accepted - it shows what they can and are willing to do with their DRM).
You can totally do non-DRM ebooks. I do. Your statement is like saying you won't buy an xtatix mp3 player because of something bad that apple did with iTunes.
As an aside, it's amusing to watch the reactions when people learn that we neither own nor watch TV. Incredulity and blank stares greet us.
Try telling people you're not interested in movies, sports, or top 40 music. The nearly universal reaction I get is that I'm lying.
Ahh I was somehow under the false impression that they were able to make cheaper cars due to lower wages, less environmental regulations, and the lack of labor unions.
Actually it only takes about $2K of labor to build all cars and trucks. Some robot factories cost less, some cost more.
Most of the revenue goes to executive bonuses.
I'll buy American made, Japanese managed, cars. But I won't buy Mexico made, American managed, cars.
I don't think that it's a big deal that people with diverse backgrounds get into IT. Either they are competent or they are not, and there's no reason someone in finance can't become competent in IT and switch careers.
No problem, but put them at the end of the very long line of folks whom already know what they're doing.
I believe understaffed means no one (in the US) is replying to the following ad:
Want to hire data center cat5 cable install tech, mandatory 60 hr week overtime, weekend 2nd 3rd shift and holidays required, require CCIE, MBA, at least masters level degree (prefer phd), minimum ten years experience with "windows server 2008R2" yearly salary $25K/yr no benefits.
Golly, we got us a shortage, best open the H1B floodgates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Therefore there is geoCities address in my CV next to the solid list of known technologies - in fact, it proved to be more persistent, than one of current ISP.
is also the type of person who already has a phone that plays MP3s, and an MP3 player if they want one.
MP3 player is the digital clock of the new millennium. Not even a decade ago, every single freaking kitchen appliance manufactured contained a digital clock. microwave, dishwasher, outdoor thermometer, cooking thermometer, stove, coffee maker, toaster oven, popcorn maker, waffle iron, fridge, stand mixer, all must contain cheap digital clocks. I don't remember the exact breakdown, but I do remember over one dozen clocks in my kitchen. All set to different times. I taped over most of them with electrical tape so I wouldn't be bothered by reading the "wrong" time.
I dread the day when all my appliances will contain MP3 players, just from a noise standpoint.
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Isn't Lucifer also known as the "bringer of light" which would imply lord of
screensavers? e-ink displays?
True but how much power do all the cell towers use? I am not anti tech but the explosion of tech we have has got to be running up our power bills.
Thats a very amusing question, because a typical setup of 3G equipment draws about 3 KW, yet you're asking how much the tower itself draws, which is of course zero. The equipment draw at a site varies based on auxiliary gear, power level, multiple sites on multiple towers, multiple antennas on multiple gear, etc. Suffice it to say a cell site draws enough power to keep warm in the winter, but its not much compared to a steel mill or a retail establishment. The local power company is generally unimpressed in urban and suburban areas, although in rural areas the towers tend to be in the middle of nowhere resulting in some logistical difficulty, although the power required is no major thing. Local power companies do not install new substations just for a cellsite, for example, on the other hand when colocating in a building they will require a dedicated circuit or two, maybe a tiny subpanel, probably a separately billing power meter.
On the other hand, the FAA requires substantial tower lighting, you're looking at about 1.5 KW of lighting on a big tower. See link to a typical supplier, note that light requires TWO 700 watt bulbs, pretty impressive. Then again a couple hundred watt light bulb is probably what you'd need to light up a couple hundred feet of street, it just makes sense.
So, yes you could reduce the power used by the equipment. From 3KW to 3W to fit the pie in the sky 1:1000 ratio, probably not. Even if you could magically reduce the equipment power draw to zero, by using magic pixie dust and space alien technology, tower lighting requirements alone mean you'll never be able to reduce the total site power draw below about %33 of what is currently used.
http://www.gordtelecom.com/Tower%20Lighting.htm
and thats before you get into discussions about aluminum towers, what with aluminum being "liquid electricity".
I'm absolutely no expert, but weren't many of those stations pumping 50,000 watts (with some short lived experiments with 250-500 kilowatts) through their antennas?
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/amq.html
The standard daytime power level for the big ones is 50 KW, medium-ish stations run around 10 KW, and the smallest stations during the night might barely go 100 watts.
Want high power, try old fashioned UHF TV superstations around a megawatt.
Seriously though, I'd like to see what type of lifestyle changes people think contributed to this.
Culture of fear.
I grew up in the cold war and its very politically correct and proper to say we were all scared shitless about nuclear war, but lets me honest here, most of us never cared about it, or only thought about it for about 2 hours per decade, like while watching the movie "the day after" or being indoctrinated about it in school. I suppose children living on a missile base or in D.C. might have had a different outlook, but I'd say I'm pretty much correct on average. Remember you only hear the LOUD ones whom claim they cared, not the majority.
Now all "news" is nothing but terrorism. Be scared of this, be scared of that. All adults are out to molest all children. Everything causes cancer. Anyone you don't know is a criminal, and all family members are merely latent abusers. All "dual use" inanimate objects like guns, knives, etc, are inherently in and of themselves evil like its in their chemical makeup. If you don't understand it (and our education system will make certain of that) you must fear it. The TV says, that all forms of childhood recreation (other than watching TV, suspiciously) are too dangerous for kids. Ask for a slogan and you'll hear the words that we're not supposed to be cowards, look at the actions which are all the opposite.
Add in some strange cultural values about entertainment (violence is great, sex is evil) mix that with most peoples actual lifestyles (vaguely pacifist, sex all the time)...
Overall, an average of five times as many students in 2007 surpassed thresholds in one or more mental health categories, compared with those who did so in 1938.
Did they correct for dietary changes such as massive caffeine intake, and HFCS intake causing huge blood sugar level spikes and troughs, tending to exaggerate and encourage anxiety related incidents?
Also did they correct for illegal drug use? Not so much that illegal drugs "make you crazy", but they make it more difficult for borderline people to pretend that you're not crazy, lack of inhibition, strange new motivational factors, side effects of physical or psychological addiction, etc?
Finally, in the olden days, slightly "off" people were simply locked in the attic, more or less, and would probably not have been tested, but now they'd be mainstreamed into classrooms and tested, I hope they corrected for that.
atheistic fanaticism
What is that? A "deafening silence" when teaching your kids about "creation science" or is it some other combination of oxymorons?
How do I make sure I'm legally in the clear without hiring an expensive lawyer that my indie developer budget can't afford?
Easy, hire an inexperienced cheap lawyer? Its better than nothing. Its like saying, "I need to hire a C++ developer, but I can't afford Bjarne Stroustrup, so what should I do?"
Also, everyone starts at the bottom somewhere. A young ambitious lawyer whom wants to be the future corporate counsel for Microsoft might very well work for you for free to stuff his/her resume. Hint, they're going to want a spiffy job title.
So, find a fan of your game whom happens to be a young lawyer whom would like to gain a lot of experience quickly...
They can only sue you for money that you have
Really. Hmmm... $1.92 million verdict against Jammie Thomas-Rasset
Exactly. You now understand the post perfectly. Set up a dirt poor shell corp, let them sue the corp for 100000 billion for all you care, let them take possession of the corporations coffee maker and its promotional tee shirt collection, and start over at a new shell company.
Make sure to at least talk to a "cheap" lawyer about becoming judgment proof and the phrase "piercing the corporate veil".
The overall gameplan is to make setting up a shell corp cheaper than suing the shell corp into non-existence all while somehow making a profit despite the profound lack of corporate capital.
Obviously, don't do something stupid like loan your personal money to the shell corporation, unless you want to lose that money (or can afford to lose it).
and you drive 150 miles running errands use case
Do people really do that? In a civilized area, like the semi-rural midwest, we can and do go 75 on the highways, so thats TWO FREAKING HOURS of your valuable weekend time spent behind the wheel. In less civilized coastie areas, I hear coasties and big city types proudly "brag" about how their highways are so congested they never get much above 15, implying TEN FREAKING HOURS behind the wheel. I mean, come on, Saturday is only 24 hours long, not counting eating, sleeping, getting called from work, etc. Learn to use amazon.com and spend some of that TEN FREAKING HOURS having fun instead of going "vroom vroom".
The other part I never figured out, is all the retail activity tends to be concentrated on certain areas/roads. I do everything on that list, except visit granny, in one little two mile long, six lane wide road thats packed with retail, thats about four miles from my house. Even if I intentionally drove back and forth for each trip, I still couldn't drive more than 30 miles or so.
Facebook will undoubtedly point to some weasel words in their TOS to claim that they still own my personal data
Luckily they allow me to change my personal data.
Cool, they'll own a completely fabricated and falsified set of my personal data.
Young people are the most likely to suffer from our current economic problems, unemployment is rampant amongst the under 25 crowd. People have less opportunity, less privacy, less control over their lives, fewer real life friends and more online acquaintances. So how, exactly, is life better?
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"so-called lipids" is a strange phrase. What does that mean? It is a lipid or it is not a lipid.
It's not osama bin laden's secret alias, a value judgment, a marketing campaign, or a trademark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid
I realize it was probably written by a journalist, so standards are pretty low, but still...
I will now hit my "so-called submit button" to post this.
How about a "Red Mars" "Green Mars" "Blue Mars" trilogy?
You know, I'm thinking Ringo's stuff isn't going to make it to the big screen. At least, not unless they do a reverse Starship Troopers on it.
True for most of his stuff, but "Legacy of the Aldenata" is so freaking huge you could just "skip over" any questionable stuff.
Off the top of my head, what was "really bad" in the Aldenata series? The bit with the hottie and the miscalibrated radiation detector in Hells Faire, although questionable behavior, was hilarious in a national lampoon / porkys fashion, with proper application of soap suds I can't see that worse than PG-13, could be tamer than a "Go Daddy.com" TV-commercial. The posleen dining habits were pretty gruesome, its all up to the director how much detail they'd like to show, I'm sure they could achieve "MA" if they try hard enough, or they could keep it pretty tame all the way down to "PG". Cally got into some pretty interesting situations with men later on, which if left out, would leave at least 99.999% of the story, so I'm really not seeing a problem here.
Its not nearly as futile as trying to make a G rated "fight club". I would imagine a free-public-TV edit of fight club would be about one commercial break long. The entire "PG-13" Aldenata series would only be about 15 minutes shorter than a reasonably low-gore "R" Aldenata series. Now if they go for max gore Halloween horror movie, that could be bad.
presidents who aren't douchebags
Yeah, just to make sure we realize its "a fictional story" he has been putting stuff like that in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1632_series
1632 series aka 'ring of fire' series. Only vaguely scifi but could make a nice drama / action / adventure / steampunkish / special effects showcase type of movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_the_Aldenata
Plenty of shoot em up with the Posleen ...
We're not going near eBooks after the Amazon "1984" debacle (apology not accepted - it shows what they can and are willing to do with their DRM).
You can totally do non-DRM ebooks. I do. Your statement is like saying you won't buy an xtatix mp3 player because of something bad that apple did with iTunes.
As an aside, it's amusing to watch the reactions when people learn that we neither own nor watch TV. Incredulity and blank stares greet us.
Try telling people you're not interested in movies, sports, or top 40 music. The nearly universal reaction I get is that I'm lying.
I had to read this at least three times to figure out they meant "wares" not "warez".
I was thinking, video game modchips and rom images, or torrented movies playing in the hospitality suite?
You mean like this transparent aluminum (oxide)?
Ah that's the cheap aluminum oxide stuff stuff. You want this "AlON" oxynitride stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride
A mere $15 per sq inch. Probably affordable for typical 1 sq inch cell phone screens.
"It is currently the crucial outer layer of experimental transparent armor being considered by the US Air Force for the windows of armored vehicles."
Ahh I was somehow under the false impression that they were able to make cheaper cars due to lower wages, less environmental regulations, and the lack of labor unions.
Actually it only takes about $2K of labor to build all cars and trucks. Some robot factories cost less, some cost more.
Most of the revenue goes to executive bonuses.
I'll buy American made, Japanese managed, cars. But I won't buy Mexico made, American managed, cars.
I don't think that it's a big deal that people with diverse backgrounds get into IT. Either they are competent or they are not, and there's no reason someone in finance can't become competent in IT and switch careers.
No problem, but put them at the end of the very long line of folks whom already know what they're doing.
I believe understaffed means no one (in the US) is replying to the following ad:
Want to hire data center cat5 cable install tech, mandatory 60 hr week overtime, weekend 2nd 3rd shift and holidays required, require CCIE, MBA, at least masters level degree (prefer phd), minimum ten years experience with "windows server 2008R2" yearly salary $25K/yr no benefits.
Golly, we got us a shortage, best open the H1B floodgates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Therefore there is geoCities address in my CV next to the solid list of known technologies - in fact, it proved to be
more persistent, than one of current ISP.
Isn't geocities down since October last year?
Individual people still use email? In this era of social networking, etc, I no longer use email for "personal" activities.
Folks whom don't "do social networks" generally also don't do email.
Some companies email me bills and statements. I get email receipts.
I still read some mailing list daily digests by email.
Other than that, email is just for spam, and is treated as such.
Its out of date, and would be like listing my favorite usenet groups or my favorite CB channel (uh, meet me on 35 upper sideband, 10-4?) on my resume.
Every job I've gotten in the last decade or so has been thru people I already know... the resume is just for HR to file...
is also the type of person who already has a phone that plays MP3s, and an MP3 player if they want one.
MP3 player is the digital clock of the new millennium. Not even a decade ago, every single freaking kitchen appliance manufactured contained a digital clock. microwave, dishwasher, outdoor thermometer, cooking thermometer, stove, coffee maker, toaster oven, popcorn maker, waffle iron, fridge, stand mixer, all must contain cheap digital clocks. I don't remember the exact breakdown, but I do remember over one dozen clocks in my kitchen. All set to different times. I taped over most of them with electrical tape so I wouldn't be bothered by reading the "wrong" time.
I dread the day when all my appliances will contain MP3 players, just from a noise standpoint.