It's hard to even away the intra-day variation. I work for a phone company for corporate customers only, and basically all calls happen between 7am and 6pm. We run batch tasks at night, but they can't compare to the load that customers put on the servers during the day. The addition of cell phone calls have given our servers a bit more to play with at night, at least.
I suppose we could try to sell excess capacity at night, but I doubt we could make enough to make up for the required extra staff and hardware. Everyone else has idle servers at night too, except for other time zones, and latency generally kills any ideas to utilize servers across time zones.
Anyway, idle power is free for us (we pay for peak, whether we use it or not), so from an economic perspective there's no point to optimize for it. Marketing us as energy-conscious is worth a bit though, so we would get Energy Star compliant servers if the extra cost is small. So far we're focusing on reducing peak consumption, and in all modesty I think we're fairly good at it. (Our new 7600-routers ruin the score a bit. They suck too much juice. )
When I compare Firefox across ubuntu and windows it is noticeably slower and uglier in linux - there's no two ways about it.
Your issue with Firefox probably is actually with Pango. IMHO, Pango renders text far more beautifully than any version of Windows does, but it IS a lot slower. You used to be able to disable Pango when building Firefox; I'm not sure whether that is still possible.
I certainly agree, and maybe with time noone will think about it.
Wigs are already made from human hairs, and few make a fuss about that (with the exception of hair extensions, which some people do make a fuss about).
In ANSI.SYS, that reassigns F1 to insert "FORMAT C:" and press return. Similar functionality is available as DECUDK in vt220. Luckily most modern terminal emulators don't implement it.
I believe you're wrong. GPL depends on copyright, but at least originally, the FSF would have been happy to lose the protection of the GPL by copyright on software being abolished. Indeed, I believe that is still the case, but I don't speak for the FSF.
You're saying that Apple would allow spyware on the App Store, but because they have the EULA saying that background applications are forbidden, spyware will never be submitted to the App Store. This is absurd.
Apple can reject spyware with or without the EULA. They control the App Store.
Indeed, I tried to get a SIM in Italy. They asked me for my government health insurance card, so I showed them my Danish one. They didn't accept it. Tried it three times with different providers.
Apple's prohibition on 3rd party software running in background is probably the best line of defense against spyware infecting the average idiot/user's phone.
Yes, spyware writers are known for their unwavering obediance of license agreements.
I don't know where these optimistic folks got the idea that the science relating to Geo-engineering is sound enough to implement. How bad would humanity suffer if we accidentally induced another ice age?
How bad would humanity suffer if we accidentally induced a Venus-like climate?
At least deliberate geo-engineering is done in the belief that it has at least 50% chance of making things better, whereas our current geo-engineering is based on the ~5% chance that it doesn't make things significantly worse.
That said, this particular proposal seems like a really bad idea. If we reduce the amount of light reaching the surface, then we will have to keep producing greenhouse gases to avoid global cooling.
CO2 stays in the atmosphere much longer than the proposed particles. The problem is the other way around: Even if we stopped burning fossil fuels, we would still have to keep adding particles for centuries. If we keep burning fossil fuels the problem gets even worse, since every year we have to add even more particles to compensate.
Next you'll say it's the Chinese's fault that they supported Mao Ze Dong, who then committed atrocities, and the Russians' fault for supporting Stalin and Lenin, and the Germans' fault for letting Hitler get into power...
Of course it was. However, the Germans have certainly admitted as much, and have gone through a very painful process of dealing with it. In the case of China and Russia, the majority of the population probably didn't support their rulers.
In the case of the US (and Denmark), the populations voted the war criminals in, and then reelected them.
They tested precisely one brand/model SSD, as far as I can tell from the paper. It did 351 random writes per second, which is pitiful (but probably typical). Intel claims 3300 random writes per second for the X25-E.
Yes, but MyLongNickName pointed out that the original poster asked for something WITHOUT anchors. And without anchors, you need power just to keep your position.
Ah, then it would be fairly difficult, as it would need power just to keep its position. Also, you need a power cable to the wind turbine, and that by itself could be considered anchoring.
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The text rendering I'm looking at right now is really good. 1680x1050 on an LCD screen with subpixel rendering. Fedora's default fonts.
Well ok, the fixed width font is crap, but that's the case on Windows too.
It's hard to even away the intra-day variation. I work for a phone company for corporate customers only, and basically all calls happen between 7am and 6pm. We run batch tasks at night, but they can't compare to the load that customers put on the servers during the day. The addition of cell phone calls have given our servers a bit more to play with at night, at least.
I suppose we could try to sell excess capacity at night, but I doubt we could make enough to make up for the required extra staff and hardware. Everyone else has idle servers at night too, except for other time zones, and latency generally kills any ideas to utilize servers across time zones.
Anyway, idle power is free for us (we pay for peak, whether we use it or not), so from an economic perspective there's no point to optimize for it. Marketing us as energy-conscious is worth a bit though, so we would get Energy Star compliant servers if the extra cost is small. So far we're focusing on reducing peak consumption, and in all modesty I think we're fairly good at it. (Our new 7600-routers ruin the score a bit. They suck too much juice. )
When I compare Firefox across ubuntu and windows it is noticeably slower and uglier in linux - there's no two ways about it.
Your issue with Firefox probably is actually with Pango. IMHO, Pango renders text far more beautifully than any version of Windows does, but it IS a lot slower. You used to be able to disable Pango when building Firefox; I'm not sure whether that is still possible.
Saving your word document as RTF will destroy most of its formatting in the first place.
This is usually an improvement.
I honestly had never heard of SCTP before, and I'm surprised that it is not used more widely since it has been around since 2000.
Firewalls don't support it. Consumer routers can't do NAT on it. New protocols on the Internet are fairly unlikely to have a chance.
I certainly agree, and maybe with time noone will think about it.
Wigs are already made from human hairs, and few make a fuss about that (with the exception of hair extensions, which some people do make a fuss about).
Go see Auschwitz, then tell me you aren't the least bit squeamish about products made from human hair.
I'm not saying that I wouldn't buy this, but I can understand the worry.
Argh, it's much worse than I thought. I thought we had weeded this crap out yonks ago.
Hopefully Lynx can't be convinced to output arbitrary escape sequences.
You jest, but...
CSI 1 ; 6 8 ; "FORMAT C:" ; 13 p
In ANSI.SYS, that reassigns F1 to insert "FORMAT C:" and press return. Similar functionality is available as DECUDK in vt220. Luckily most modern terminal emulators don't implement it.
I would recommend that you don't give out root access to script kiddies on systems where you don't want them to install root kits.
I believe you're wrong. GPL depends on copyright, but at least originally, the FSF would have been happy to lose the protection of the GPL by copyright on software being abolished. Indeed, I believe that is still the case, but I don't speak for the FSF.
You're saying that Apple would allow spyware on the App Store, but because they have the EULA saying that background applications are forbidden, spyware will never be submitted to the App Store. This is absurd.
Apple can reject spyware with or without the EULA. They control the App Store.
Indeed, I tried to get a SIM in Italy. They asked me for my government health insurance card, so I showed them my Danish one. They didn't accept it. Tried it three times with different providers.
So much for free trade within the EU...
Apple's prohibition on 3rd party software running in background is probably the best line of defense against spyware infecting the average idiot/user's phone.
Yes, spyware writers are known for their unwavering obediance of license agreements.
I don't know where these optimistic folks got the idea that the science relating to Geo-engineering is sound enough to implement. How bad would humanity suffer if we accidentally induced another ice age?
How bad would humanity suffer if we accidentally induced a Venus-like climate?
At least deliberate geo-engineering is done in the belief that it has at least 50% chance of making things better, whereas our current geo-engineering is based on the ~5% chance that it doesn't make things significantly worse.
That said, this particular proposal seems like a really bad idea. If we reduce the amount of light reaching the surface, then we will have to keep producing greenhouse gases to avoid global cooling.
CO2 stays in the atmosphere much longer than the proposed particles. The problem is the other way around: Even if we stopped burning fossil fuels, we would still have to keep adding particles for centuries. If we keep burning fossil fuels the problem gets even worse, since every year we have to add even more particles to compensate.
I support doing nothing too! Unfortunately I'm being outvoted by lots of people who put coal into the power plants.
Next you'll say it's the Chinese's fault that they supported Mao Ze Dong, who then committed atrocities, and the Russians' fault for supporting Stalin and Lenin, and the Germans' fault for letting Hitler get into power...
Of course it was. However, the Germans have certainly admitted as much, and have gone through a very painful process of dealing with it. In the case of China and Russia, the majority of the population probably didn't support their rulers.
In the case of the US (and Denmark), the populations voted the war criminals in, and then reelected them.
They tested precisely one brand/model SSD, as far as I can tell from the paper. It did 351 random writes per second, which is pitiful (but probably typical). Intel claims 3300 random writes per second for the X25-E.
The v6 support in XP really sucks though. E.g. no DHCPv6.
With new booting software and Linux, your computer will now turn on faster than your cell phone.
It already does. Boot iPhone or Nokia e70: ~30 seconds. Boot Fedora 10 on HP 6730b with Intel SSD: ~20 seconds.
Yes, but MyLongNickName pointed out that the original poster asked for something WITHOUT anchors. And without anchors, you need power just to keep your position.
The real question is whether its Posix compliant.
Windows NT was POSIX compliant, and I believe Windows 2000 was certified too.
Most of the rest probably used Windows. A typical UNIX admin will be lost at sea, trying to run a Windows machine like his Solaris or HP UX machines.
Ah, then it would be fairly difficult, as it would need power just to keep its position. Also, you need a power cable to the wind turbine, and that by itself could be considered anchoring.