The point stands. If there's a way to save a business thousands a month per location in operating costs on electricity, and it's not been implemented, it's not obvious. With example.
Kind of. The dog is a detection instrument--it happens to be organic. This is thus similar to if a police officer walked down the road holding a metal box that he could point at houses to generate an X-ray image--the metal box can see inside the house. If we blind the officer and just have a red/green display with visual analysis inside the metal box that tries to notate if it sees guns, bombs, marijuana grow options, underage drinking... then you have the same thing.
Similarly, if the officer stops in the street, listening around for giggles, talk about 'lighting up', whatnot. Perhaps with a small dish that concentrates sound so he can point it at various houses to hear inside them better through the walls.
On the other hand, if you're smoking up a storm and an officer walking by can't NOT smell that shit... the arguments become weaker. It starts coming to, "The smell was overwhelming? How'd you know it was precisely MY house?" But unless you had issues, you couldn't be in the area and NOT smell it, so you know something's going on. In this case, no need to haul out equipment--like dogs--to find out if something is happening in the area.
It's a stupid argument because I, with no experience in Web design, can work my way through piles of generated content, SSI, and other bullshit I can't understand why even exists and figure out how to wedge something in at the right place (you know, once I've worked out in my head how the flow of generation of the site works), and then stick it in there and it's just content. Web sites have always been surprisingly well architected--even raw HTML is a flow of containers with containers, where the structure is separate from the content. Flat HTML mixes content and structure in the same delivery mechanism, though. Working out where you want something to be, altering the flow around it to compensate for any strangeness that occurs, and then inserting your content always turns out to be an exercise in simply understanding how the current stuff goes together.
Two hours, tops, for me to figure out Apple's site and make the appropriate change without breaking shit. Half an hour for one of their techs, if it's non-trivial (reorganizing thins isn't easy even when you already know; when you don't know, you start the process while you start working out how things go together, so that part's actually optimized out).
Apple also capitalized on the English court mentioning that the tablet was "cooler," framing it as a court endorsement of Apple's amazing products. The English court should now order Apple to explain that being "cool" is purely a non-technical social concept and does not imply technical superiority in any way, but does often imply increased demand due to social pressures and thus allow the command of a higher price tag.
People thought it was funny when I said the judges would be displeased about Apple publishing their endorsement of Apple's cooler, more superior products and abusing their powers of the court to order Apple to tell everyone just how cool their products are and how cool the judges are for liking Apple products.
Which is the point. All that shit doesn't apply to cell towers, but cutting back their power usage would be worth a lot of money. Therefor since we can imply great demand for an imaginary product--anything you can shove on-site at expensive private-owned major infrastructure and drop your continuous costs by enough to offset the cost of the magical widget is de-facto "in great demand"--we can imply that if that product does not exist, it is not obvious. If you know how to do it but it's extremely expensive/unstable/unreliable/etc, THEN YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO IT.
You're not trying to 'screw' the customer; you're trying to leverage as much controlling advantage over them as possible so that in the event of a disaster it all falls on their lap. The disaster is unplanned, but you're still making sure they get screwed and you don't. You HOPE things go smoothly but you mitigate risk by offloading.
Get a nice fedora and stuff your long hair under it. Then tip your hat as you make your way to the checkout. Or coordinate with a friend who has a backpack too, so when you leave he's coming in and getting stopped, and you tip your hat and drop your hair.
This doesn't invalidate forced arbitration agreements; it invalidates agreements you weren't forced to read before doing business. All they have to do is make you walk past the sign that says "WE WILL FORCE ARBITRATE YOU" instead of saying "Look over here for some stuff" and forced arbitration is fair game.
50% "Phone Idle," 22% "Cell Standby," 15% "Display," 8% "Bluetooth" in 10 hours. 30% radio versus 15% screen and the amount of data transferred is under 5 megs.
The battery isn't controlled by the OS. Each time a process runs, the OS stops another process and schedules the waiting process onto the CPU, setting up all the page mappings and registers and then context switching into userspace at saved EIP. It knows how much CPU is used for what task because it schedules it. As for the battery, it roughly understand how much power various components are supposed to draw and makes an educated guess.
My Galaxy Nexus tells me Phone Idle 50%, Cell Standby 22%, Screen 15%, Bluetooth 8% (I don't even have a bluetooth dongle active..), Android OS 4%, Maps 2%. 10h 26m 13s on battery. Wifi has been off and I haven't had much active use of data coming down (one app syncs a meg or so every 6-8 hours; GMail is very light).
Your electrical utility bill may be cheaper when you take the strain off their infrastructure. Infrastructure companies like the status quo; when they build out, there's a long wait for ROI.
(The article, by the way, sounds like a PR piece for someone expecting to patent a technology that, by the same arguments we use against software patents, probably shouldn't be patentable, because it's an obvious rearrangement of existing technology. I shall elucidate.)
There's a scam going on where people sell these big capacitor banks as "Power Savers" to reduce your electricity bill. They work on solid principles. Such things are used in steel mills where big driver loads run by heavy motors have a low power factor. Correcting the power factor greatly improves actual operating efficiency. Some of these mills shut down operations when the power saver fails because it's more expensive to operate without power factor correction than it is to idle the plant. In a residential setting, however, the general whole-house power factor corrector isn't helpful: most loads aren't the type that need tuning, and the box isn't tuned to match the specific load; plus things like refrigerators and computer PSUs now use power factor correction circuitry in them, and of course the boxes they sell for your house are engineered poorly and are generally not great products anyway.
Consider, though, that power factor correction saves so much money that idling a steel mill is less financially damaging than running it without power factor correction.
Hint: If these people bring in shit that drops cell phone tower electricity usage by a significant factor and it actually works, it's not obvious.
Commercial operations eat a ton of power. They pay a premium for being high-load customers. Anything that significantly reduces that load is going to get everyone who understands finances jizzing in their pants.
If you leave your Galaxy Nexus unattended and plugged into USB to charge with the Facebook app running in the background, I'd be surprised if it lasted a whole day. The first time I installed the FB app, I didn't even use it and my phone started struggling for power (slowly losing charge WHILE CHARGING). Looked in data usage, found that in 5 minutes the FB app had pulled 4 times my total data consumption for the past MONTH from all other apps. Deleted that shitfest.
In 1 hour I lost more than 5% battery charge mostly idling with the screen off.
My Galaxy Nexus with AMOLED screen starts at 100% charge while plugged into USB charging and in 10 minutes is at 99%... in an hour it's below 95%... if I'm running the Facebook app. That's with the screen off most of that time, too. The Facebook app chews a TON of data, and pushing the H+ 4G that hard drains battery faster than it can charge.
I removed the Facebook app and put in the Facebook Messenger app instead. Much more benign, almost no data usage.
Yes, and the cop could just shoot the kid, or push his car off a cliff, or plant drugs on him, blah blah. We get it. You think cops are evil, corrupt guys who just want other people to suffer.
Is there a reason we have to assume either all cops are well and good and 100% pure all the time or they're all evil dicks out to get you 100% of the time? Why do we have testing standards at all, and why do we have testing standards that aim to detect if the handler is signaling the dog if the handler is never going to have an agenda?
Also where I live cops have been frequently caught planting drugs in cars during searches. Hell, I've had my car illegally searched--an officer pulled me over without reason, without issuing a reason, sneered at me, and issued one instruction: "Get out of the car." He didn't give his badge number or his name, he proceeded to search my car meticulously. I watched him closely, which... annoyed him. He then declared (annoyed) that the car was clean and ordered me to "get out of here." His partner looked VERY uncomfortable, didn't seem much of a conversationalist but looked empathetic... I don't think he liked working with the guy. So, literal good cop/bad cop, not an act. I've run into the good cops out by themselves, too.
In the end I was left with nothing to report. No badge number, no name, it was dark and I didn't get a squad car number.
That doesn't matter. That your number's up and you're the 1 guy in the neighborhood that's going to ever experience a home invasion (okay, to be fair, because of how actual entropy works, you're going to be the 1 guy that has this happen to you every few months for the rest of your life...) is irrelevant. What IS relevant is somebody kicked the shit out of your front door; now what? The police do not care that this never happens; they care that you shot a motherfucker in the face, what the hell were you thinking? The bullet going into your head similarly does not give a shit how often this happens.
It's not a matter of when, but a matter of if; but still, if the time comes, what are you going to do about it? Stand around and wonder if you're in danger, or open fire and sort that shit out later? How are you going to handle the more likely situation that it's just your kid/spouse coming home from a rowdy night with friends making a bunch of noise? If you fire too quick you might kill someone benign; if you take too long to figure out wtf is happening, you could get shot in the head.
When we talk of handling of scenarios, we don't need to worry about how likely those scenarios are to occur. The President carries with him instructions on how to respond to a nuclear attack on the United States.
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The point stands. If there's a way to save a business thousands a month per location in operating costs on electricity, and it's not been implemented, it's not obvious. With example.
Kind of. The dog is a detection instrument--it happens to be organic. This is thus similar to if a police officer walked down the road holding a metal box that he could point at houses to generate an X-ray image--the metal box can see inside the house. If we blind the officer and just have a red/green display with visual analysis inside the metal box that tries to notate if it sees guns, bombs, marijuana grow options, underage drinking... then you have the same thing.
Similarly, if the officer stops in the street, listening around for giggles, talk about 'lighting up', whatnot. Perhaps with a small dish that concentrates sound so he can point it at various houses to hear inside them better through the walls.
On the other hand, if you're smoking up a storm and an officer walking by can't NOT smell that shit ... the arguments become weaker. It starts coming to, "The smell was overwhelming? How'd you know it was precisely MY house?" But unless you had issues, you couldn't be in the area and NOT smell it, so you know something's going on. In this case, no need to haul out equipment--like dogs--to find out if something is happening in the area.
Oh it was funny, but so's telling the judge he should suck your balls. With a megaphone.
It's a stupid argument because I, with no experience in Web design, can work my way through piles of generated content, SSI, and other bullshit I can't understand why even exists and figure out how to wedge something in at the right place (you know, once I've worked out in my head how the flow of generation of the site works), and then stick it in there and it's just content. Web sites have always been surprisingly well architected--even raw HTML is a flow of containers with containers, where the structure is separate from the content. Flat HTML mixes content and structure in the same delivery mechanism, though. Working out where you want something to be, altering the flow around it to compensate for any strangeness that occurs, and then inserting your content always turns out to be an exercise in simply understanding how the current stuff goes together.
Two hours, tops, for me to figure out Apple's site and make the appropriate change without breaking shit. Half an hour for one of their techs, if it's non-trivial (reorganizing thins isn't easy even when you already know; when you don't know, you start the process while you start working out how things go together, so that part's actually optimized out).
I'm sorry you're a bitch.
Apple also capitalized on the English court mentioning that the tablet was "cooler," framing it as a court endorsement of Apple's amazing products. The English court should now order Apple to explain that being "cool" is purely a non-technical social concept and does not imply technical superiority in any way, but does often imply increased demand due to social pressures and thus allow the command of a higher price tag.
People thought it was funny when I said the judges would be displeased about Apple publishing their endorsement of Apple's cooler, more superior products and abusing their powers of the court to order Apple to tell everyone just how cool their products are and how cool the judges are for liking Apple products.
The judges didn't seem to think so.
that doesn't really apply to cell sites
Which is the point. All that shit doesn't apply to cell towers, but cutting back their power usage would be worth a lot of money. Therefor since we can imply great demand for an imaginary product--anything you can shove on-site at expensive private-owned major infrastructure and drop your continuous costs by enough to offset the cost of the magical widget is de-facto "in great demand"--we can imply that if that product does not exist, it is not obvious. If you know how to do it but it's extremely expensive/unstable/unreliable/etc, THEN YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO IT.
I just made an 11m 37s call and Voice Calls went from 0% to 13%. I can believe it.
You're not trying to 'screw' the customer; you're trying to leverage as much controlling advantage over them as possible so that in the event of a disaster it all falls on their lap. The disaster is unplanned, but you're still making sure they get screwed and you don't. You HOPE things go smoothly but you mitigate risk by offloading.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV-05TLiiLU
Get a nice fedora and stuff your long hair under it. Then tip your hat as you make your way to the checkout. Or coordinate with a friend who has a backpack too, so when you leave he's coming in and getting stopped, and you tip your hat and drop your hair.
Uh, no. I kill my energy suppliers. Chickens and deer don't need contracts, they need Shake 'n Bake.
This doesn't invalidate forced arbitration agreements; it invalidates agreements you weren't forced to read before doing business. All they have to do is make you walk past the sign that says "WE WILL FORCE ARBITRATE YOU" instead of saying "Look over here for some stuff" and forced arbitration is fair game.
50% "Phone Idle," 22% "Cell Standby," 15% "Display," 8% "Bluetooth" in 10 hours. 30% radio versus 15% screen and the amount of data transferred is under 5 megs.
The battery isn't controlled by the OS. Each time a process runs, the OS stops another process and schedules the waiting process onto the CPU, setting up all the page mappings and registers and then context switching into userspace at saved EIP. It knows how much CPU is used for what task because it schedules it. As for the battery, it roughly understand how much power various components are supposed to draw and makes an educated guess.
My Galaxy Nexus tells me Phone Idle 50%, Cell Standby 22%, Screen 15%, Bluetooth 8% (I don't even have a bluetooth dongle active..), Android OS 4%, Maps 2%. 10h 26m 13s on battery. Wifi has been off and I haven't had much active use of data coming down (one app syncs a meg or so every 6-8 hours; GMail is very light).
30% just for two of the radios to idle.
Your electrical utility bill may be cheaper when you take the strain off their infrastructure. Infrastructure companies like the status quo; when they build out, there's a long wait for ROI.
(The article, by the way, sounds like a PR piece for someone expecting to patent a technology that, by the same arguments we use against software patents, probably shouldn't be patentable, because it's an obvious rearrangement of existing technology. I shall elucidate.)
There's a scam going on where people sell these big capacitor banks as "Power Savers" to reduce your electricity bill. They work on solid principles. Such things are used in steel mills where big driver loads run by heavy motors have a low power factor. Correcting the power factor greatly improves actual operating efficiency. Some of these mills shut down operations when the power saver fails because it's more expensive to operate without power factor correction than it is to idle the plant. In a residential setting, however, the general whole-house power factor corrector isn't helpful: most loads aren't the type that need tuning, and the box isn't tuned to match the specific load; plus things like refrigerators and computer PSUs now use power factor correction circuitry in them, and of course the boxes they sell for your house are engineered poorly and are generally not great products anyway.
Consider, though, that power factor correction saves so much money that idling a steel mill is less financially damaging than running it without power factor correction.
Hint: If these people bring in shit that drops cell phone tower electricity usage by a significant factor and it actually works, it's not obvious.
Commercial operations eat a ton of power. They pay a premium for being high-load customers. Anything that significantly reduces that load is going to get everyone who understands finances jizzing in their pants.
If you leave your Galaxy Nexus unattended and plugged into USB to charge with the Facebook app running in the background, I'd be surprised if it lasted a whole day. The first time I installed the FB app, I didn't even use it and my phone started struggling for power (slowly losing charge WHILE CHARGING). Looked in data usage, found that in 5 minutes the FB app had pulled 4 times my total data consumption for the past MONTH from all other apps. Deleted that shitfest.
In 1 hour I lost more than 5% battery charge mostly idling with the screen off.
Cell phones have fast CPUs so they can be interactive, not so you can run Folding@Phone on them.
No, they're all just morons.
My Galaxy Nexus with AMOLED screen starts at 100% charge while plugged into USB charging and in 10 minutes is at 99% ... in an hour it's below 95%... if I'm running the Facebook app. That's with the screen off most of that time, too. The Facebook app chews a TON of data, and pushing the H+ 4G that hard drains battery faster than it can charge.
I removed the Facebook app and put in the Facebook Messenger app instead. Much more benign, almost no data usage.
They shouldn't unless there's probable cause for a search, as this is a search.
Then they need new hobbies, like dogging instead of IRing.
Yes, and the cop could just shoot the kid, or push his car off a cliff, or plant drugs on him, blah blah. We get it. You think cops are evil, corrupt guys who just want other people to suffer.
Is there a reason we have to assume either all cops are well and good and 100% pure all the time or they're all evil dicks out to get you 100% of the time? Why do we have testing standards at all, and why do we have testing standards that aim to detect if the handler is signaling the dog if the handler is never going to have an agenda?
Also where I live cops have been frequently caught planting drugs in cars during searches. Hell, I've had my car illegally searched--an officer pulled me over without reason, without issuing a reason, sneered at me, and issued one instruction: "Get out of the car." He didn't give his badge number or his name, he proceeded to search my car meticulously. I watched him closely, which ... annoyed him. He then declared (annoyed) that the car was clean and ordered me to "get out of here." His partner looked VERY uncomfortable, didn't seem much of a conversationalist but looked empathetic... I don't think he liked working with the guy. So, literal good cop/bad cop, not an act. I've run into the good cops out by themselves, too.
In the end I was left with nothing to report. No badge number, no name, it was dark and I didn't get a squad car number.
That doesn't matter. That your number's up and you're the 1 guy in the neighborhood that's going to ever experience a home invasion (okay, to be fair, because of how actual entropy works, you're going to be the 1 guy that has this happen to you every few months for the rest of your life...) is irrelevant. What IS relevant is somebody kicked the shit out of your front door; now what? The police do not care that this never happens; they care that you shot a motherfucker in the face, what the hell were you thinking? The bullet going into your head similarly does not give a shit how often this happens.
It's not a matter of when, but a matter of if; but still, if the time comes, what are you going to do about it? Stand around and wonder if you're in danger, or open fire and sort that shit out later? How are you going to handle the more likely situation that it's just your kid/spouse coming home from a rowdy night with friends making a bunch of noise? If you fire too quick you might kill someone benign; if you take too long to figure out wtf is happening, you could get shot in the head.
When we talk of handling of scenarios, we don't need to worry about how likely those scenarios are to occur. The President carries with him instructions on how to respond to a nuclear attack on the United States.