You're right, 33x33 must be what I thought (9 33x33 tiles, spaced 3mm from each other, on a 3x3 grid, take exactly 1x1m). 30x30 is almost exactly 1x1 foot.
That's not exactly true. Inches are used everywhere, and many things are still measured in inches, even today. In my country (Argentina), you don't ask for a 25mm water pipe, you ask for a 1 inch pipe. Of course, you can ask for a 25mm pipe... Wood thickness is also measured in inches. Drywall comes in 1,20x2,40 (roughly 4x8 ft). Pipes come in 3 and 6 meters long, or roughly 10 and 20ft. Lots of things are "measured" in mm but are really old imperial measures "rounded up" to metric. Floor tiles come in 33x33cm (exactly 1x1 foot). (Or it could be because 33x33cm + 3mm spacing gives you exactly 1 square meter and thus you know exactly how many tiles to buy?). Oh and they are 6mm thick (roughly 1/4")
In circuit boards it's even worse. Most ICs and pin headers are 2,54mm (or more precisely, 0,1") but newer stuff (anything SMD) is metric... and it's hell when you have to align to a grid. Do you align to a metric grid and make the imperial thingies fit (good for mostly-SMD), or do you align to imperial and make the metric thingies fit (good for mostly through-hole).
In short... metric is good, is self defined, very scientific, allows easy conversion between volume and dimensions, and weight (if dealing with water). But inches and feet are more "practical" units when dealing with human-sized things. In spanish, inches are called "pulgadas", derived from pulgar (thumb), as an inch is roughly a thumb's size. Same with feet. You can guesstimate the size of small things (measure with your thumb) or large things (measure with your feeet).
And yeah I have tools for both metric and imperial.
Agreed. I have disassembled lots of drives. 2,5, 8, 30, 80 gigs...sata or IDE, 3.5 or 5.25" (!!!) , ALL of them had metal platters.
Never took apart a 2,5" - yet. But recently I dropped a 250GB Seagate. It fell flat on the floor. Plugged it back in and it worked - I'm not really sure a thin glass platter could whitstand that. And I'm not really a lucky guy.
Life is not that orthogonal, cause-and-effects. Do some research into "corruption", "lobbying", "monopoly", etc.
Why doesn't the government have their own ISP (where they sell internet to people, yes), to compete with Comcast and other companies out there? Space travel, The Bomb, nuclear energy... those projects raised the bar on science. And they weren't backed by companies, it was the government who spend the money in R&D and that's what put America in the map. Now you're just struggling behind the chinese. It's the government's job to lead the economy in one direction, one strategic plan. You're just confusing capitalism with anarchism.
American schools want kids to have iPads, and Peruvian schools give kids laptops and robot building kits. I wonder which one will help their development? The closed platform where they could spend the day playing Angry Birds, or the open platform where they can actually do USEFUL things. With robots!
Anyway, keep in mind... Peruvian kids (or latin american kids in general) are too ugly to use Apple products. They must look just awful in black turtlenecks, right?
I hope someone reads this before I get downmodded by the Hipster Fanboi crowd.
Shrink, yes. But not disappear completely. In order for this to work, google should completely cut all services from France and replace them with a large sign stating their reasons.
Yes, but they're evil businessmen. Every Last One Of Them. Not even google with all his bullcrap speech will go away. Even if France passes a law requiring that every site publishes their whole password list right in the open for everyone to see, google will happily do it, in order to stay in business.
Businesses aren't based on morality, freedom, privacy... none of that. Their rationale is simple: "If I don't do it, then someone else will, so I might as well do it anyway, and keep the money". That's how weapons companies, defense contractors, drug lords, and Nicolas Cage in The Lord of War justify their businesses.
All the bullshit you just said would be right if the world was actually ruled by an imaginary 20/80 rule: If 20% of the population make up for 80% of profits, then why bother reaching the other 80% if profits would be just 20% higher?
The problem is that this is just true in an 80 year old shareholder sitting at the table. Reality might be different... but it would be a risk to try, so its easier to just not do it.
1) Even in international markets, the price won't be "pennies", It will probably be half to 1/3rd. I'd be amazed to see the price drop to 1/4th of the US/EU price. 2) "Most People" won't bother ordering from overseas. Shipping costs are high, and times are a bitch (1 month is not uncommon). 3) In the case of software: I don't see how an american would bother buying a Windows copy from Latin America (where you can keep the price roughly the same for all countries), where it will be available in spanish only. 4) Region locking: Average Joe doesn't know how to region-unlock his DVD/BD player. He will buy 1 DVD from overseas, and get the region lock sign. He probably won't order a dvd again.
And, reality check: if the problem is that big, just tax CD/DVD/BD/Whatever imports SO HIGH that it makes it unaffordable.
I can't speak for countries with people living on less than a dollar a day, walking hours to get water, and where the only electricity they know is the one that powers the headlamps on a government's Land Rover which comes from time to time to drop some food and medications, if any.
In my country (Argentina) we do have utilities, industry, exports. We have a middle class (sort of). We have DVD players, HDTV, and yes, BD players too. We have broadband, laptop computers, we have lots of things. And yes, of course, we have cars. Most of us don't have luxury cars like Ferraris, but we have, say, Volkswagen Gols and Chevrolet Corsas. And driving a Gol or a Corsa is not a luxury, by any means.
So if we have all that, why can't we have a game console? Sony sells its PS3 here for ARS 3200 (USD 800), while it costs $200 in the USA. $200 for a system like that makes it very affordable for a lot of people (Sony, for example, sells the PS2 for about that money - while they used to sell it for $800. Guess what? People buy PS2. They're expensive, but not unaffordable). Same goes with games. Any PS3 game is over USD 100, even more if it's new. Why? What's the point in trying to sell something for a price that people will certainly not be ABLE to pay for? Why display it in the SonyStyle store, behind glass doors as if it was something so exclusive you have to call the store manager to let you take a look a it? I take it you're american: The PS3/XBOX 360 cost $200. Two hundred fucking dollars. I'm certain an american family of 4 spends more than that every week in food alone. Is that a luxury item? No. Why try to sell it as that in other markets?
People do buy if the price is affordable. I have a comic book store. I sell comic books, even though you can download them for free from the internet, without having to wait 6-12 months before the original release date in the US or Japan. Very few people "like" being pirates.
Another example: I download movies. I tried video clubs (this is what we call "video rental shops"), but I'm still waiting for them to carry Blu-Ray discs. What's the point of having an HDTV if I don't have HD material to watch? I hate waiting 2-3 days for a movie to download, and I'd gladly pay, say, 10 pesos (US$ 2,50) if I could go to the video club and rent it. I pirate because I don't have an option, not because I want to. There is a BD rental shop in town, and it's not far away from here... but they don't have a big selection. Most movie posters I see now have this: "Available in DVD now and soon in BLURAY!". Why soon? Why not now?
You're missing the point. A ferrari is a luxury item. A movie, or a video game, is not. There is no point in charging people more than they can afford for something that's not a luxury. In my country, videogames are twice as expensive as in the US. Very few people buy originals. But movie tickets are 1/3 to 1/4th the US price. Cinemas are always full.
Bottom line: price your stuff according to what people can afford.
A lot of online game servers and download sites (like Rapidshare or Megaupload) also accept payments through local resellers. Credit cards are not that common outside US so a lot of people can't pay with them. It's not about security or privacy, it's about accessibility.
First of all: is middle-of-nowhere third world south america. Things are a bit different here, but some still apply to the "first world" as well.
FWIW, I have a similar setup at home. Centralized backup, user management (for me and my brother's computer), and I'm working on a remote backup server, and MAYBE I could use it for local backup at my dad's (actually remote storage). Problem is: we have a 200kbits/s uplink to the internet (no, there are no alternatives. There's 3 ISPs and they all offer that and not more). Not terribly useful for "on-line off-site backups".
And don't worry. I am competent. I've successfully made image installations (good if you have an homogeneous configuration). I've also made custom Windows install disks with slipstreamed service packs, drivers, everything.
About the homogeneous configuration: it is extremely rare in SMBs. Most have computers they bought "as needed", and down here they're usually beige box clones. Dell, for example, only started selling a couple of years ago. They, hear this: do NOT offer custom configurations for Argentina. There 1 or 2 models from each of their product lines. You can't order extra RAM, bigger drive, hell you can't even order a larger monitor.
Also: replacing every computer to a new, shiny model is not viable. It would cost about USD 1000 per seat, in our case that is almost a year's salary for one of our employees.
About training: no, just no. That is simply not true. You hire someone who KNOWS how to use a computer - windows, word, and yes, they can adapt as easily to Linux or whatever. I did many experiments, and yes, even my lazy cousin can and does use Linux. If you use a specialized, custom app, you have to train them anyway. People can be "forced" to use linux at their workplace. What you can't do is make them use it at home - their computer, their choice. Which is fine by me.
A support contract like the one you just mentioned would cost much more. How much more? I could pay an extra employee each month for that.
So please, save it. There are very few, specialized cases where TCO for Windows would be lower (say, a company that does things like graphic design, photography, CAD, engineering, circuit design, etc). But for most average day to day companies, all they need is a browser and word. And linux can do that perfectly.
BTW, about re-imaging my dad's computer: no. The philips system has this stupid serial number activation thing. The moment it detects something changed, it asks you for a new serial, and sometimes it takes a whole day for the support guy to get you one - they really have to make sure you're not pirating (!!!!) their software - which only works for Philips warranties and it's useful only for Philips repair centers, who get it for free from Philips...
Yeah, no. First of all: FUCK YOU, ARROGANT PRICK. You can stop reading now as I'm not writing this for you, because you're clearly biased and I won't make you change your mind or even think about the bullshit-load you just spewed.
I "manage" windows workstations at my dad's company from time to time. That means I'm his free tech support. I'm tired. seriously, TIRED of it. How can he get viruses just for browsing the web? Tell me WHY can that happen? He has an anti virus, he has the anti spyware things. And suddenly he calls me because "his computer says he got this weird virus". Only solution: Full reinstall. 1 day downtime. Where's your TCO now, jerk?
You say you justify macs for your department, but you claim that your coworkers don't like running CLI apps. Well, I'm sure if they're used to Windows, and don't like CLI, they won't enjoy working with a Mac either. YOU are more productive with a Mac, but not because it's a mac, but because you CAN admin UNIX. And if you can do that, you can do many other things Average Windows User can't. Guess what: I'm more productive on my Windows laptop than I am on the Hackintosh I put together and forced myself to use for a week. Also, you said Unix/Linux admins are expensive and hard to find. How much do Mac admins cost? Oh right - macs never, ever break. Yeah, right. Where did you say your TCO was, again, jerk?
I wonder what mysterious, hard to use tool do your untrained grad students use at your workplace? Oh, the Word! The Excel! and The Powerpoint! Because there are no alternatives for that! Because Word is Word, and not a word processor! Word is something you CAN'T replace with OpenOffice (even though word has a shitload of useful features - like, it can even solve equations - but your coworkers won't use them). Sure, they COULD be more productive, if they took time to learn. But they won't.
The only reason we use Windows at my dad's office is because LG shoved a web app full of activex controls that Just Won't Run on anything other than IE (why?), and Philips forces us to use a "system" that only runs on Windows (even though it could be easily ported to any other OS).
Stay away from IT, buddy. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
Yeah, that's nothing. People from my country have a tendency to only read the email subject and answer "yes" or "no". Don't even bother typing whole paragraph, it's not going to be read.
And if they screw up, they won't admit it. Just don't answer and when you call them on the phone they will say "oh, let me se... no I don't have any messages from you".
Well, sales reps are always talking about TCO, and how paying $200 per-seat for windows is cheaper than $0 per-seat for linux. So... i'm pretty sure they can convince management that they indeed save money by doing that.
Yes, but original poster was talking about a house-level AC-DC converter. That would be quite expensive, and useless. Imagine having two runs of wires to each outlet, one for AC appliances, other for DC (because your air conditioner or space heater will always be AC). You can't expect Joe Sixpack to understand that... or keep him from replacing the power plug on a DC appliance to try to run it from the 120VAC output, because he's out of DC outlets.
All this in the name of "efficiency"? Try harder guys. Fusion power has more future than this bullshit.
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Really? do you ask for a 81,2CM TV in China, Russia, Europe, Japan? No, you ask for a 32" TV.
You're right, 33x33 must be what I thought (9 33x33 tiles, spaced 3mm from each other, on a 3x3 grid, take exactly 1x1m). 30x30 is almost exactly 1x1 foot.
That's not exactly true. Inches are used everywhere, and many things are still measured in inches, even today. In my country (Argentina), you don't ask for a 25mm water pipe, you ask for a 1 inch pipe. Of course, you can ask for a 25mm pipe... Wood thickness is also measured in inches. Drywall comes in 1,20x2,40 (roughly 4x8 ft). Pipes come in 3 and 6 meters long, or roughly 10 and 20ft. Lots of things are "measured" in mm but are really old imperial measures "rounded up" to metric. Floor tiles come in 33x33cm (exactly 1x1 foot). (Or it could be because 33x33cm + 3mm spacing gives you exactly 1 square meter and thus you know exactly how many tiles to buy?). Oh and they are 6mm thick (roughly 1/4")
In circuit boards it's even worse. Most ICs and pin headers are 2,54mm (or more precisely, 0,1") but newer stuff (anything SMD) is metric... and it's hell when you have to align to a grid. Do you align to a metric grid and make the imperial thingies fit (good for mostly-SMD), or do you align to imperial and make the metric thingies fit (good for mostly through-hole).
In short... metric is good, is self defined, very scientific, allows easy conversion between volume and dimensions, and weight (if dealing with water). But inches and feet are more "practical" units when dealing with human-sized things. In spanish, inches are called "pulgadas", derived from pulgar (thumb), as an inch is roughly a thumb's size. Same with feet. You can guesstimate the size of small things (measure with your thumb) or large things (measure with your feeet).
And yeah I have tools for both metric and imperial.
Agreed. I have disassembled lots of drives. 2,5, 8, 30, 80 gigs...sata or IDE, 3.5 or 5.25" (!!!) , ALL of them had metal platters.
Never took apart a 2,5" - yet. But recently I dropped a 250GB Seagate. It fell flat on the floor. Plugged it back in and it worked - I'm not really sure a thin glass platter could whitstand that. And I'm not really a lucky guy.
Are you autistic? Have Asperger's syndrome maybe?
Life is not that orthogonal, cause-and-effects. Do some research into "corruption", "lobbying", "monopoly", etc.
Why doesn't the government have their own ISP (where they sell internet to people, yes), to compete with Comcast and other companies out there? Space travel, The Bomb, nuclear energy... those projects raised the bar on science. And they weren't backed by companies, it was the government who spend the money in R&D and that's what put America in the map. Now you're just struggling behind the chinese. It's the government's job to lead the economy in one direction, one strategic plan. You're just confusing capitalism with anarchism.
I am a latin american. I can laugh at myself ;)
American schools want kids to have iPads, and Peruvian schools give kids laptops and robot building kits. I wonder which one will help their development? The closed platform where they could spend the day playing Angry Birds, or the open platform where they can actually do USEFUL things. With robots!
Anyway, keep in mind... Peruvian kids (or latin american kids in general) are too ugly to use Apple products. They must look just awful in black turtlenecks, right?
I hope someone reads this before I get downmodded by the Hipster Fanboi crowd.
Shrink, yes. But not disappear completely. In order for this to work, google should completely cut all services from France and replace them with a large sign stating their reasons.
But that ain't gonna happen.
Have any of those reasons stopped Google from offering their services in China?
Yes, but they're evil businessmen. Every Last One Of Them. Not even google with all his bullcrap speech will go away. Even if France passes a law requiring that every site publishes their whole password list right in the open for everyone to see, google will happily do it, in order to stay in business.
Businesses aren't based on morality, freedom, privacy... none of that. Their rationale is simple: "If I don't do it, then someone else will, so I might as well do it anyway, and keep the money". That's how weapons companies, defense contractors, drug lords, and Nicolas Cage in The Lord of War justify their businesses.
Too bad this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_Keyboard never took off. It's a nice idea - all-in-one with wireless HDMI.
And you can't tax a company like that out of busines, because?
It's not like things don't go through customs, where they have to be checked.
All the bullshit you just said would be right if the world was actually ruled by an imaginary 20/80 rule: If 20% of the population make up for 80% of profits, then why bother reaching the other 80% if profits would be just 20% higher?
The problem is that this is just true in an 80 year old shareholder sitting at the table. Reality might be different... but it would be a risk to try, so its easier to just not do it.
That's the oldest excuse in the book, BUT:
1) Even in international markets, the price won't be "pennies", It will probably be half to 1/3rd. I'd be amazed to see the price drop to 1/4th of the US/EU price.
2) "Most People" won't bother ordering from overseas. Shipping costs are high, and times are a bitch (1 month is not uncommon).
3) In the case of software: I don't see how an american would bother buying a Windows copy from Latin America (where you can keep the price roughly the same for all countries), where it will be available in spanish only.
4) Region locking: Average Joe doesn't know how to region-unlock his DVD/BD player. He will buy 1 DVD from overseas, and get the region lock sign. He probably won't order a dvd again.
And, reality check: if the problem is that big, just tax CD/DVD/BD/Whatever imports SO HIGH that it makes it unaffordable.
You're missing my point.
I can't speak for countries with people living on less than a dollar a day, walking hours to get water, and where the only electricity they know is the one that powers the headlamps on a government's Land Rover which comes from time to time to drop some food and medications, if any.
In my country (Argentina) we do have utilities, industry, exports. We have a middle class (sort of). We have DVD players, HDTV, and yes, BD players too. We have broadband, laptop computers, we have lots of things. And yes, of course, we have cars. Most of us don't have luxury cars like Ferraris, but we have, say, Volkswagen Gols and Chevrolet Corsas. And driving a Gol or a Corsa is not a luxury, by any means.
So if we have all that, why can't we have a game console? Sony sells its PS3 here for ARS 3200 (USD 800), while it costs $200 in the USA. $200 for a system like that makes it very affordable for a lot of people (Sony, for example, sells the PS2 for about that money - while they used to sell it for $800. Guess what? People buy PS2. They're expensive, but not unaffordable). Same goes with games. Any PS3 game is over USD 100, even more if it's new. Why? What's the point in trying to sell something for a price that people will certainly not be ABLE to pay for? Why display it in the SonyStyle store, behind glass doors as if it was something so exclusive you have to call the store manager to let you take a look a it? I take it you're american: The PS3/XBOX 360 cost $200. Two hundred fucking dollars. I'm certain an american family of 4 spends more than that every week in food alone. Is that a luxury item? No. Why try to sell it as that in other markets?
People do buy if the price is affordable. I have a comic book store. I sell comic books, even though you can download them for free from the internet, without having to wait 6-12 months before the original release date in the US or Japan. Very few people "like" being pirates.
Another example: I download movies. I tried video clubs (this is what we call "video rental shops"), but I'm still waiting for them to carry Blu-Ray discs. What's the point of having an HDTV if I don't have HD material to watch? I hate waiting 2-3 days for a movie to download, and I'd gladly pay, say, 10 pesos (US$ 2,50) if I could go to the video club and rent it. I pirate because I don't have an option, not because I want to. There is a BD rental shop in town, and it's not far away from here... but they don't have a big selection. Most movie posters I see now have this: "Available in DVD now and soon in BLURAY!". Why soon? Why not now?
You're missing the point. A ferrari is a luxury item. A movie, or a video game, is not. There is no point in charging people more than they can afford for something that's not a luxury. In my country, videogames are twice as expensive as in the US. Very few people buy originals. But movie tickets are 1/3 to 1/4th the US price. Cinemas are always full.
Bottom line: price your stuff according to what people can afford.
A lot of online game servers and download sites (like Rapidshare or Megaupload) also accept payments through local resellers. Credit cards are not that common outside US so a lot of people can't pay with them. It's not about security or privacy, it's about accessibility.
First of all: is middle-of-nowhere third world south america. Things are a bit different here, but some still apply to the "first world" as well.
FWIW, I have a similar setup at home. Centralized backup, user management (for me and my brother's computer), and I'm working on a remote backup server, and MAYBE I could use it for local backup at my dad's (actually remote storage). Problem is: we have a 200kbits/s uplink to the internet (no, there are no alternatives. There's 3 ISPs and they all offer that and not more). Not terribly useful for "on-line off-site backups".
And don't worry. I am competent. I've successfully made image installations (good if you have an homogeneous configuration). I've also made custom Windows install disks with slipstreamed service packs, drivers, everything.
About the homogeneous configuration: it is extremely rare in SMBs. Most have computers they bought "as needed", and down here they're usually beige box clones. Dell, for example, only started selling a couple of years ago. They, hear this: do NOT offer custom configurations for Argentina. There 1 or 2 models from each of their product lines. You can't order extra RAM, bigger drive, hell you can't even order a larger monitor.
Also: replacing every computer to a new, shiny model is not viable. It would cost about USD 1000 per seat, in our case that is almost a year's salary for one of our employees.
About training: no, just no. That is simply not true. You hire someone who KNOWS how to use a computer - windows, word, and yes, they can adapt as easily to Linux or whatever. I did many experiments, and yes, even my lazy cousin can and does use Linux. If you use a specialized, custom app, you have to train them anyway. People can be "forced" to use linux at their workplace. What you can't do is make them use it at home - their computer, their choice. Which is fine by me.
A support contract like the one you just mentioned would cost much more. How much more? I could pay an extra employee each month for that.
So please, save it. There are very few, specialized cases where TCO for Windows would be lower (say, a company that does things like graphic design, photography, CAD, engineering, circuit design, etc). But for most average day to day companies, all they need is a browser and word. And linux can do that perfectly.
BTW, about re-imaging my dad's computer: no. The philips system has this stupid serial number activation thing. The moment it detects something changed, it asks you for a new serial, and sometimes it takes a whole day for the support guy to get you one - they really have to make sure you're not pirating (!!!!) their software - which only works for Philips warranties and it's useful only for Philips repair centers, who get it for free from Philips...
Yeah, no. First of all: FUCK YOU, ARROGANT PRICK. You can stop reading now as I'm not writing this for you, because you're clearly biased and I won't make you change your mind or even think about the bullshit-load you just spewed.
I "manage" windows workstations at my dad's company from time to time. That means I'm his free tech support. I'm tired. seriously, TIRED of it. How can he get viruses just for browsing the web? Tell me WHY can that happen? He has an anti virus, he has the anti spyware things. And suddenly he calls me because "his computer says he got this weird virus". Only solution: Full reinstall. 1 day downtime. Where's your TCO now, jerk?
You say you justify macs for your department, but you claim that your coworkers don't like running CLI apps. Well, I'm sure if they're used to Windows, and don't like CLI, they won't enjoy working with a Mac either. YOU are more productive with a Mac, but not because it's a mac, but because you CAN admin UNIX. And if you can do that, you can do many other things Average Windows User can't. Guess what: I'm more productive on my Windows laptop than I am on the Hackintosh I put together and forced myself to use for a week. Also, you said Unix/Linux admins are expensive and hard to find. How much do Mac admins cost? Oh right - macs never, ever break. Yeah, right. Where did you say your TCO was, again, jerk?
I wonder what mysterious, hard to use tool do your untrained grad students use at your workplace? Oh, the Word! The Excel! and The Powerpoint! Because there are no alternatives for that! Because Word is Word, and not a word processor! Word is something you CAN'T replace with OpenOffice (even though word has a shitload of useful features - like, it can even solve equations - but your coworkers won't use them). Sure, they COULD be more productive, if they took time to learn. But they won't.
The only reason we use Windows at my dad's office is because LG shoved a web app full of activex controls that Just Won't Run on anything other than IE (why?), and Philips forces us to use a "system" that only runs on Windows (even though it could be easily ported to any other OS).
Stay away from IT, buddy. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
LOL, I'm self employed!
Yeah, that's nothing. People from my country have a tendency to only read the email subject and answer "yes" or "no". Don't even bother typing whole paragraph, it's not going to be read.
And if they screw up, they won't admit it. Just don't answer and when you call them on the phone they will say "oh, let me se... no I don't have any messages from you".
Well, sales reps are always talking about TCO, and how paying $200 per-seat for windows is cheaper than $0 per-seat for linux. So... i'm pretty sure they can convince management that they indeed save money by doing that.
Then you're not "kind of a douche", you're a douche with a capital bag.
Fucking hipsters.
Disclaimer: I don't have any MS certifications.
You know, arguments on the internet are like special olympics. Even if you win, you're still a retard.
I'm off this discusion. You can tell yourself you won it if it makes you happy.
Fuck you.
Yes, but original poster was talking about a house-level AC-DC converter. That would be quite expensive, and useless. Imagine having two runs of wires to each outlet, one for AC appliances, other for DC (because your air conditioner or space heater will always be AC). You can't expect Joe Sixpack to understand that... or keep him from replacing the power plug on a DC appliance to try to run it from the 120VAC output, because he's out of DC outlets.
All this in the name of "efficiency"? Try harder guys. Fusion power has more future than this bullshit.