exactly! where is the "Think Locally, act Globally" premise of the Internet? So, Apple has this new thing everyone in the world wants BUT you can't have because you live in a piss-poor country. No, it's not a matter of wether you can afford it or not, it's just that we don't give a flying shit about you. I can understand that from Apple: limited supply, etc. But the sad thing is that it happens with Google too! For example, in latin america all we have is Google search. Nothing else. Oh yes, in Buenos Aires there are the google offices and all that crap: what for? No idea. google.com.ar still only has web search and nothing else. Why can't we have google local? Why can't we have google maps with maps and not just old satellite photos?
I'm still waiting for many other services, like tivo (there is one company here that sells tv guides, I contacted them and they were even going to release MythTV compatible guides. Tivo has everything ready here, they don't have to invest anything, and still, they don't care). It really pisses me of that we can't have that. Those cool services are just meant to first-world countries? Whatever: we can afford it. I know we can, it's amazing the amount of new BMWs in the street, and I live in probably the poorest city in my country. So, if you sell it, people will buy it. Why don't they sell it then? What's the risk?
Another classic: the itunes store, they just sell for a handful of countries (mine not included, of course!). Why? what the hell could be wrong with that? I mean, I can buy a CD from amazon.com and they send it over. What's the difference with downloading a song, then? They complain about piracy, but all we have here are extremely overpriced CDs.
I can only hope that the upcoming recession in the US will make companies try to expand around the world, instead of just declaring some Chapter whatever bankruptcy.
Wrong. I live in a country where most people don't have a legal copy of Windows (Argentina). I happen to have a license only because I was given one for free (!) by Microsoft (along with free licenses for VS 2005, Vista Business, 2003 Server and others, just because I'm a student in the public university). So, appliance stores that sell computers don't want to have you pay 10 to 20% extra just for Windows, so they sell the machine with Linux. Guess what? The next day, people are taking their computers back because they can't find MSN Messenger or load a game. The salesman then proceeds to explain the licensing costs and offers to have a Windows installed for an extra price or... you could ask a techie friend to install Windows for you. People just get a pirated version of Windows and that's it.
I'm tired of reading the argument of "linux doesn't spread because it's not preinstalled". Fuck it. Linux doesn't spread because it's not windows. It doesn't look like Windows, doesn't have MSN messenger, and, especially because there are no games (no, you can't pop your pirated copy of Call of Duty 4 and have it running). Let's face it, people: linux will probably never become mainstream.
This Slashdot comments page will be full with nonsense plain old Apple Fanboiism criticizing every aspect of the computer, ranging from the fact that it's not as thin/pretty/cool/whatever as the Macbook Air, to the fact that it's simply not an Apple product, and thus, not worth anything.
Please remember to just laugh at these comments, and by all means, avoid feeding the trols.
perhaps it isn't normal procedure for you, but it is for me. you obviously don't know how to configure LILO to boot the test kernel in the next boot only, or to configure the kernel for reboot on panic. but I have done it on servers on satellite links, hundreds of kilometers away, and it has worked for me, thanks.
Or just configure the kernel and reboot tomorrow when you get there.
yes, they get warm -- they don't heat up like a microprocessor. if you put a small fan over them, they almost don't warm. if it can work without a fan in an airtight case, it would be better in a more "open" space, such as the inside of a computer. there is a fan somewhere in there.
so, the PS3's doesn't need cooling?. just leave the damn thing in. I absolutely hate power bricks. I still have an old Compaq Armada notebook from 1998. It doesn't work anymore:D but it's nice that it has the power supply inside. No need to carry power bricks around. I look at those huge Sony Vaios with 14 or 15 inch screens, and I wonder... so much space, and they can't put the power supply inside? I guess it's because the power supply is very likely to fail, so it's cheaper to replace a power supply than having to send your computer for repair if something goes wrong.
no, I'm not american. And, of course, you missed my point. A crazy muslim extremist killing civilians, even if UNOFFICIALLY supported by the country, is one thing. A state backed by the world's powerful nations, killing civilians with guns and missiles is very different. They don't try to get along with their neighbors. They say they have the Mossad and one of the most powerful armies, and they need to go and kill innocent people? Why don't they go and kill the Hamas leaders if they're so good? Oh yes, because it's like the americans "we are the best, the baddest, the bad motherfuckers", and one day a crazy arab takes a plane and fucks the US right in the ass, billions and billions of dollars, FBI, CIA, DOD and the most powerful army. And yet a crazy arab with a pocket knife beats them... it's all a lie.
Ask Israel why they're spending billions of dollars building walls around their country, if they don't have problems with their neighbors -- oh wait! But they do! They settled in Muslim holy land "because the bible says so" (but never anyone dared to call Israel religious fanatics), they make friends with the largest powers, do some favors, some dirty jobs, and play the "we are the victims of the holocaust" card ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
Meanwhile, crazy dictators rule the poor middle-east countries (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan...), and Israel just goes and kills their people. Yes, they do, they cross israel borders and DESTROY poor farmers' houses. They don't let even the children through their stupid walls, now these children can't go to school, people can't go to cities. Hamas breaks the walls and people run desperate into Israel because they live under dictators regimes, and they really don't care about Mohamed and the Talibans and all that crap. And Israel just closes their borders and kills everyone who dares cross them.
Israel is the single, most racist country in the face of the earth, and people are afraid of mentioning it. When you see "suicide bomber kills 10 people in some-fucking-place-in-israel" is all over the news, with big bold letters. When Israel attacks their neighbors (AS IT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN THE LAST MONTH IN CASE YOU DON'T NOTICE), news reports are quick flashes -- nothing valuable has been lost.
And it is true that the jews do own the media, and the banks, and the world. But you're too stupid to THINK about anything. You get the news processed and feed down your throath. Open your eyes and look at the atrocities the Israel STATE is commiting again CIVILIANS in neighbor countries. At least Hamas and those religious fanatics are not part of the state. But Israel is openly killing people as a foreign policy. The UN tries to sanction them and they don't give a fuck. Then they go crying into the UN's arms when Iran tries to play with the atom, and they manage to sanction Iran. Fuck israel.
come on, I'm from Argentina, I'm white, tall, 100% European ascendancy (have you noticed that they have so many racial issues, they're the only ones who care about how much percentage of a "blood" they have in their veins?)... but the moment I open my mouth and a word in spanish comes out of my mouth, in their minds, I'm 5ft, I'm wearing a "sombrero" and smoking a cuban cigar while chewing on coca leaves, playing "soccer" on the beaches of Brazil! (or Spain?) and I'm probably too lazy to have a job. Like all arabs are terrorists, and all Frenchmen are chickens, and all the germans are nazis, and all the italians are in the mafia, and all blacks are gangsters.
shit, at least TRY not to sound so obvious, man! yes -- we know you cowboys don't like people like me, who talk foreign languages, especially that scum of a language, Spanish (my language, btw), the language of wetback, siesta-sleeping, lazy ass latins. but well, if you feel that way, why don't you write to your congressman and ask for Puerto Rico to be "freed" from the united states? maybe you could invade some other island with blonde people with blue eyes. maybe they even speak english, have serial murderers and everyone is fat and ugly.
Lucky you. Sadly, here in the rest of the world, the local monopoly is very likely to use that as an example of "but other countries are doing it!". 4 years ago they tried to cap us at 4GB, and they supposedly lost thousands of customers. The bad thing is: there is no real alternative. The other major ISP openly filters P2P programs, and the rest is not available outside a small area of Buenos Aires (and I'm 1000km away from Buenos Aires).
Also, "mysteriously", my BT and eMule downloads totally die (that is 0.00Kbps) at 5:30 AM and they jump back to my full 2.5M at 1:00AM again:(
I thought I read "tech-oriented"? Then why the hell is Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, SalesGenie.com and *gasp* OurBeginnings.com in that list? Everything with ".com" in the name is "tech-oriented" now? Sheesh.
Bah, it's just like my own ISP here. They sold SO MANY ADSL connections lately (640k for $20 a month, that is Argentine Pesos, which is about USD 6,50), they're choking now. Can't watch youtube, gmail takes 30 seconds to load, etc. They're blocking P2P now too... mysteriously at 6:30 AM my BitTorrent download goes from 200KB/s (I have 2,5Mbps service, giving a max of about 250KB/s at my site), and drops to ZERO at that particular time. Zero. Nothing. 0.00KB/s. And youtube still chokes. Oh and it gets worse: they dont peer with local ISPs, instead, all national traffic is routed via Miami (they're a big telco, and they deliberately do that to increase latency and costs for other operators. The rest of the ISPs are small and they sell VoIP too... so Big Telco got mad).
IIRC, you can download it to your console via LAN, what you can't do is "burn a DVD" with your game.
Oh, and in my case, I noticed that they don't get lost... they look everywhere, pushing any buttons, keyboard, mouse, start menu, whatever... trying to find the little "e". Damn, when they want something they learn quickly.
In my opinion, Java is definitely THE language, well, at least for business applications. There are some nice things in.NET (such as the accessors, instead of the tedious instanceOfSomething.setXxx(Object yyy), just instanceOfSomething.xxx=yyy without resorting to a public property), but they're nothing really.
What I didn't like about.NET is that it promises more that it can handle. Sure, you can throw an SqlDataSource and a GridView and get a quick-and-dirty Table view -- but I can do that easier with Oracle Application Express... I was more than disappointed when I was asked to make an ASP.NET page and found that it was harder to even throw my own PHP from scratch.
For example, GridView is just that: a view, it doesn't have code to "add" new records, and it's so complicated to make it: you have to add a footer and use it as the empty row, but the footer doesn't appear if the dataset is empty...(AND WHO SAID THAT XML IS SUPPOSED TO BE HUMAN-READABLE?) that one is tempted to inline everything like it's 1997.
And do I need to mention the fact that J2EE is so scalable and does most things for you that it leaves.NET completely out of the game?
But in the Windows side of thing,.NET looks more interesting: you get the actual native look and all (except when Microsoft releases a new Office version with a new, nicer skin that you can't use for your own app). And free XNA development is a plus.
About the web as an application platform... I'll let it cook for a few years... Yes, I'm too lazy and I grew to love "big" languages so much that I'm not really too tempted to hack javascript on the client side to make my app "AJAX-enabled" just to be more responsive... especially if I have to deal with MSIE on the client. Been there and I didn't like it... and the customers like that little blue "e" it's hard to convince them to click on the Firefox icon. (Yes: I'd rather roll a desktop app to tens or hundreds of desktops than spending weeks to find out why the hell XMLHttpRequest is not behaving).
I beg to differ. It isn't about the language (they're mostly do, while, for, print, echo... no Brainfuck jokes please;), it's about the environment. A Java programmer can certainly master C# in minutes, but he problem is the framework, from small potato-vs-potatoe, such as Java's StringBuffer and.NET's StringBuilder, to architectural differences, like ASP.NET and JSF/JSP...
My home server's longest uptime is 3 months or so, considering, so the system works very well. It's just now, in the hottest days of summer (when temperature reaches 38 or 39C) that we have problems, for the first time in 15 years.
Oh, and by the way, I looked up spinning reserve on google, and it just proves my point:
For fossil plants to be used as spinning reserve, they must be already warmed up, and that means they must burn some fuel just to keep them ready
Also:
Spinning reserve is any back-up energy production capacity which is can be made available to a transmission system with ten minutes' notice and can operate continuously for at least two hours once it is brought online.
Non-spinning reserve is generating capacity which is capable of being brought online within 10 minutes if it is offline, or interrupted within 10 minutes if it is online, and which is capable of either being operated or interrupted for at least two hours.
Spinning is derived from hydroelectric and combustion turbine terminology. Reserve generator turbines can literally be kept spinning without producing any energy as a way to reduce the length of time required to bring them online when needed.
A power plant isn't a car where you press the gas pedal and it increases the fuel. They usually run off of steam created from coal fired furnaces.
YES IT IS, THAT IS EXACTLY HOW IT WORKS! When demand increases, the "gas pedal" is pushed and they create "more steam", that's who it works!
If the demand increased because 50% of the city turned their lights on, creating more steam fast enough to keep it seamless would be impossible
Yes, and who said it's seamless? Do you think you get the same voltage all day long? In my country, I usually get 230V and in some peak hours, it drops to 220. If 50% of the city turned their lights on, protections will trip and a good part of the city WILL be left in the dark, for a few minutes. You haven't seen it because it never happens. Emergency cut-offs like that work on a frequency basis. When the line frequency is altered, some protections trip. Assume a line frequency like my country's, 50Hz. Some transformer stations will trip at 48.9Hz, others at 48.8, others at 48.7 and so on. They trip for, a few moments, guess what? Yes, to allow the power plant to catch up! Here's a link (in spanish) for you.
One thing is to burn fuel for 100% capacity, another thing is to burn fuel for RESERVE capacity, which is not even nearly 100%.
You obviously have absolutely no idea of what you're talking about, really. But hey, don't believe me! Just go to your local power plant and ask them DO YOU PROVIDE 100% POWER OUTPUT 24/7?
not exactly, the flywheel is there to provide starting crank to the gasoline/diesel generator. by itself, the flywheel's weight uses a negligible amount of energy, but when the power goes out, the start time is instantaneous.
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exactly! where is the "Think Locally, act Globally" premise of the Internet? So, Apple has this new thing everyone in the world wants BUT you can't have because you live in a piss-poor country. No, it's not a matter of wether you can afford it or not, it's just that we don't give a flying shit about you. I can understand that from Apple: limited supply, etc. But the sad thing is that it happens with Google too! For example, in latin america all we have is Google search. Nothing else. Oh yes, in Buenos Aires there are the google offices and all that crap: what for? No idea. google.com.ar still only has web search and nothing else. Why can't we have google local? Why can't we have google maps with maps and not just old satellite photos?
I'm still waiting for many other services, like tivo (there is one company here that sells tv guides, I contacted them and they were even going to release MythTV compatible guides. Tivo has everything ready here, they don't have to invest anything, and still, they don't care). It really pisses me of that we can't have that. Those cool services are just meant to first-world countries? Whatever: we can afford it. I know we can, it's amazing the amount of new BMWs in the street, and I live in probably the poorest city in my country. So, if you sell it, people will buy it. Why don't they sell it then? What's the risk?
Another classic: the itunes store, they just sell for a handful of countries (mine not included, of course!). Why? what the hell could be wrong with that? I mean, I can buy a CD from amazon.com and they send it over. What's the difference with downloading a song, then? They complain about piracy, but all we have here are extremely overpriced CDs.
I can only hope that the upcoming recession in the US will make companies try to expand around the world, instead of just declaring some Chapter whatever bankruptcy.
-1 flamebait? Sure. If you cover your ears, your eyes, and scream you will change reality.
Wrong. I live in a country where most people don't have a legal copy of Windows (Argentina). I happen to have a license only because I was given one for free (!) by Microsoft (along with free licenses for VS 2005, Vista Business, 2003 Server and others, just because I'm a student in the public university). So, appliance stores that sell computers don't want to have you pay 10 to 20% extra just for Windows, so they sell the machine with Linux. Guess what? The next day, people are taking their computers back because they can't find MSN Messenger or load a game. The salesman then proceeds to explain the licensing costs and offers to have a Windows installed for an extra price or... you could ask a techie friend to install Windows for you. People just get a pirated version of Windows and that's it.
I'm tired of reading the argument of "linux doesn't spread because it's not preinstalled". Fuck it. Linux doesn't spread because it's not windows. It doesn't look like Windows, doesn't have MSN messenger, and, especially because there are no games (no, you can't pop your pirated copy of Call of Duty 4 and have it running). Let's face it, people: linux will probably never become mainstream.
the typo was corrected here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=453880&cid=22419064 stfu cunt :)
avoid feeding the trolls! (Disclaimer: I'm using an Apple Wireless Keyboard).
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Please remember to just laugh at these comments, and by all means, avoid feeding the trols.
Thank you.
perhaps it isn't normal procedure for you, but it is for me. you obviously don't know how to configure LILO to boot the test kernel in the next boot only, or to configure the kernel for reboot on panic. but I have done it on servers on satellite links, hundreds of kilometers away, and it has worked for me, thanks.
Or just configure the kernel and reboot tomorrow when you get there.
Or use a decent server with lights-out management
ZFS ftw http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=729
yes, they get warm -- they don't heat up like a microprocessor. if you put a small fan over them, they almost don't warm. if it can work without a fan in an airtight case, it would be better in a more "open" space, such as the inside of a computer. there is a fan somewhere in there.
so, the PS3's doesn't need cooling?. just leave the damn thing in. I absolutely hate power bricks. I still have an old Compaq Armada notebook from 1998. It doesn't work anymore :D but it's nice that it has the power supply inside. No need to carry power bricks around. I look at those huge Sony Vaios with 14 or 15 inch screens, and I wonder... so much space, and they can't put the power supply inside? I guess it's because the power supply is very likely to fail, so it's cheaper to replace a power supply than having to send your computer for repair if something goes wrong.
no, I'm not american. And, of course, you missed my point. A crazy muslim extremist killing civilians, even if UNOFFICIALLY supported by the country, is one thing. A state backed by the world's powerful nations, killing civilians with guns and missiles is very different. They don't try to get along with their neighbors. They say they have the Mossad and one of the most powerful armies, and they need to go and kill innocent people? Why don't they go and kill the Hamas leaders if they're so good? Oh yes, because it's like the americans "we are the best, the baddest, the bad motherfuckers", and one day a crazy arab takes a plane and fucks the US right in the ass, billions and billions of dollars, FBI, CIA, DOD and the most powerful army. And yet a crazy arab with a pocket knife beats them... it's all a lie.
Ask Israel why they're spending billions of dollars building walls around their country, if they don't have problems with their neighbors -- oh wait! But they do! They settled in Muslim holy land "because the bible says so" (but never anyone dared to call Israel religious fanatics), they make friends with the largest powers, do some favors, some dirty jobs, and play the "we are the victims of the holocaust" card ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
...), and Israel just goes and kills their people. Yes, they do, they cross israel borders and DESTROY poor farmers' houses. They don't let even the children through their stupid walls, now these children can't go to school, people can't go to cities. Hamas breaks the walls and people run desperate into Israel because they live under dictators regimes, and they really don't care about Mohamed and the Talibans and all that crap. And Israel just closes their borders and kills everyone who dares cross them.
Meanwhile, crazy dictators rule the poor middle-east countries (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan
Israel is the single, most racist country in the face of the earth, and people are afraid of mentioning it. When you see "suicide bomber kills 10 people in some-fucking-place-in-israel" is all over the news, with big bold letters. When Israel attacks their neighbors (AS IT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN THE LAST MONTH IN CASE YOU DON'T NOTICE), news reports are quick flashes -- nothing valuable has been lost.
And it is true that the jews do own the media, and the banks, and the world. But you're too stupid to THINK about anything. You get the news processed and feed down your throath. Open your eyes and look at the atrocities the Israel STATE is commiting again CIVILIANS in neighbor countries. At least Hamas and those religious fanatics are not part of the state. But Israel is openly killing people as a foreign policy. The UN tries to sanction them and they don't give a fuck. Then they go crying into the UN's arms when Iran tries to play with the atom, and they manage to sanction Iran. Fuck israel.
come on, I'm from Argentina, I'm white, tall, 100% European ascendancy (have you noticed that they have so many racial issues, they're the only ones who care about how much percentage of a "blood" they have in their veins?)... but the moment I open my mouth and a word in spanish comes out of my mouth, in their minds, I'm 5ft, I'm wearing a "sombrero" and smoking a cuban cigar while chewing on coca leaves, playing "soccer" on the beaches of Brazil! (or Spain?) and I'm probably too lazy to have a job. Like all arabs are terrorists, and all Frenchmen are chickens, and all the germans are nazis, and all the italians are in the mafia, and all blacks are gangsters.
shit, at least TRY not to sound so obvious, man! yes -- we know you cowboys don't like people like me, who talk foreign languages, especially that scum of a language, Spanish (my language, btw), the language of wetback, siesta-sleeping, lazy ass latins. but well, if you feel that way, why don't you write to your congressman and ask for Puerto Rico to be "freed" from the united states? maybe you could invade some other island with blonde people with blue eyes. maybe they even speak english, have serial murderers and everyone is fat and ugly.
fucking racist cunt.
Lucky you. Sadly, here in the rest of the world, the local monopoly is very likely to use that as an example of "but other countries are doing it!". 4 years ago they tried to cap us at 4GB, and they supposedly lost thousands of customers. The bad thing is: there is no real alternative. The other major ISP openly filters P2P programs, and the rest is not available outside a small area of Buenos Aires (and I'm 1000km away from Buenos Aires).
:(
Also, "mysteriously", my BT and eMule downloads totally die (that is 0.00Kbps) at 5:30 AM and they jump back to my full 2.5M at 1:00AM again
I thought I read "tech-oriented"? Then why the hell is Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, SalesGenie.com and *gasp* OurBeginnings.com in that list? Everything with ".com" in the name is "tech-oriented" now? Sheesh.
Bah, it's just like my own ISP here. They sold SO MANY ADSL connections lately (640k for $20 a month, that is Argentine Pesos, which is about USD 6,50), they're choking now. Can't watch youtube, gmail takes 30 seconds to load, etc. They're blocking P2P now too... mysteriously at 6:30 AM my BitTorrent download goes from 200KB/s (I have 2,5Mbps service, giving a max of about 250KB/s at my site), and drops to ZERO at that particular time. Zero. Nothing. 0.00KB/s. And youtube still chokes. Oh and it gets worse: they dont peer with local ISPs, instead, all national traffic is routed via Miami (they're a big telco, and they deliberately do that to increase latency and costs for other operators. The rest of the ISPs are small and they sell VoIP too... so Big Telco got mad).
IIRC, you can download it to your console via LAN, what you can't do is "burn a DVD" with your game.
Oh, and in my case, I noticed that they don't get lost... they look everywhere, pushing any buttons, keyboard, mouse, start menu, whatever... trying to find the little "e". Damn, when they want something they learn quickly.
In my opinion, Java is definitely THE language, well, at least for business applications. There are some nice things in .NET (such as the accessors, instead of the tedious instanceOfSomething.setXxx(Object yyy), just instanceOfSomething.xxx=yyy without resorting to a public property), but they're nothing really.
.NET is that it promises more that it can handle. Sure, you can throw an SqlDataSource and a GridView and get a quick-and-dirty Table view -- but I can do that easier with Oracle Application Express... I was more than disappointed when I was asked to make an ASP.NET page and found that it was harder to even throw my own PHP from scratch.
.NET completely out of the game?
.NET looks more interesting: you get the actual native look and all (except when Microsoft releases a new Office version with a new, nicer skin that you can't use for your own app). And free XNA development is a plus.
What I didn't like about
For example, GridView is just that: a view, it doesn't have code to "add" new records, and it's so complicated to make it: you have to add a footer and use it as the empty row, but the footer doesn't appear if the dataset is empty...(AND WHO SAID THAT XML IS SUPPOSED TO BE HUMAN-READABLE?) that one is tempted to inline everything like it's 1997.
And do I need to mention the fact that J2EE is so scalable and does most things for you that it leaves
But in the Windows side of thing,
About the web as an application platform... I'll let it cook for a few years... Yes, I'm too lazy and I grew to love "big" languages so much that I'm not really too tempted to hack javascript on the client side to make my app "AJAX-enabled" just to be more responsive... especially if I have to deal with MSIE on the client. Been there and I didn't like it... and the customers like that little blue "e" it's hard to convince them to click on the Firefox icon. (Yes: I'd rather roll a desktop app to tens or hundreds of desktops than spending weeks to find out why the hell XMLHttpRequest is not behaving).
I beg to differ. It isn't about the language (they're mostly do, while, for, print, echo... no Brainfuck jokes please ;), it's about the environment. A Java programmer can certainly master C# in minutes, but he problem is the framework, from small potato-vs-potatoe, such as Java's StringBuffer and .NET's StringBuilder, to architectural differences, like ASP.NET and JSF/JSP...
Oh, and by the way, I looked up spinning reserve on google, and it just proves my point: Also: Do yourself a favor, and shut up.
You obviously have absolutely no idea of what you're talking about, really. But hey, don't believe me! Just go to your local power plant and ask them DO YOU PROVIDE 100% POWER OUTPUT 24/7?
bah, System was AWFULLY DISGUSTING until it became OS X. So, I don't get your point.
not exactly, the flywheel is there to provide starting crank to the gasoline/diesel generator. by itself, the flywheel's weight uses a negligible amount of energy, but when the power goes out, the start time is instantaneous.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply#Rotary