Would it be possible to make an open source module for, say, the Apache webserver which could do handle the things done by the Second Life server(s)? (= you getting some land)
Then you could perhaps make some kind of connection between servers running these modules, like connection your piece of land to another piece of land via ehm.. the street/highway?
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Looks good I'd say!:)
Hmm, this would also be a wonderful way to preserve languages which are about to become extinct. Too bad that those languages are often spoken in areas with little to no internet connectivity...
I really hope we are allowed to learn more about this 'fortunate accident' later. Personally I don't like this kind of open-ended stuff much either. The "Coming up next: Why Apple Bounced Back" title however, surely hints at that there will be a follow-up with the answer.
And then there's the "You're at the airport and some people want to inspect what's on your computer" situation. Having a fully (perhaps even partially) encrypted system might generate some unwanted and unneeded suspicion.
One can wonder though if the viral marketing of virus accelerator boards improves by using their own virus accelerator boards in an attempt to accelerate their own viral marketing.:P
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Oh, the time to hesitate is through
There's no time to wallow in the mire
If I was to say to you
That our love becomes a funeral pyre
From your special Slashdot Access Point (SAP). This is a special machine that, contrary to the rest of the company machines, actually *IS* connected to the internet.
Also, now do I finally know why there is such a huge demand for `SAP Implementation Experts'!
(I've noticed earlier that our power consumptions is also relatively low: With a large stand-alone house, 4 adults, 1 full-time server and 4 part-time computers and 2 bathrooms, we're using about 4300KwH _annually_. I've heard stories about people with three times this number per month...)
You are right, I should post the source so I was already searching for it.:)
I could not find the exact quote. I believe it was on the Department of Energy website, but my search skills are letting me a bit down right now. I did however find a number of related quotes which give an indication.
So what can you do? Unplug things or use power bars with "on/off" switches to operate appliances like VCR's and computers. Replace your light bulbs with energy efficient bulbs. You can save 47 watts per bulb and they last for 5 years!! If the $10 or 15 per month that these changes can save you isn't impressive enough, this statistic might be: If Phantoms were not around, we could do without 7 or 8 nuclear power plants on this continent. This would save us a billion watts of power each!
On a more serious, grid-connected note, our nation wastes about 43 billion kilowatt-hours of energy on phantom loads yearly. This is enough electrical energy to totally provide the countries of Greece, Pery, and Vietnam for one year.
(Source)
This is a nice source, with on the last page of the PDF a table with consumption per device. "Instant-on TV: 18317 million KWH/year)
Around one nuclear power station in the UK has to be kept running in order to provide power for appliances not in use and on `standby' mode. Around 24 nuclear plants are kept running throughout the industrialised world for this purpose! Legislation is currently being considered by the EU.
(Source; With the UK population being around 60 million and the USA around 300 million people, I guess it is reasonably safe to assume that if the UK needs already 1 power plant for standby, the USA also needs at least one)
If all TV and VCR in the US were plugged in only when they were used, it would save American nearly $1 billion dollars and about 9 million tonnes CO2.
Well, I guess it's a trade-off then between walking a few meters to your TV when you want to watch, or one nuclear power plant less outputing waste that stays radio-active for a few hundredthousands(?) years. Oh, wait. I forgot about the NIMBY phenomenon.
Personally I'm using a number of strategically placed Power strips with a single master switch. One for the computer, printer, monitor. One for the stereo + TV, etc.
It really is no effort to manually and physically flip a switch once or a few times per day. (I have to get up anyway if I'm not staying in my bed for the entire day). Besides saving money and energy, a good model power strip can also protect your against power surges and filter EMI/RFI. Sounds like killing two birds with one stone to me!
Mind you: it's not always a device with an explicit stand-by mode. I once used such a wattmeter on all devices and learned that my 40W lamp with a seemingly #$%#$% cheap transformer was using 25W while "off"!
Factoid: if all American households would not use the stand-by mode of their TV, an entire _nuclear_ power plant can be saved on a national level.:S
I wonder if you could create a business and file your monthly subscription fee as an expense.
Nice idea!
And as the other post mentions: what about your office space, or your new (:D) computer with a video card to run SecondLife smoothly.
Would it really matter for the IRS/Chamber of Commerce if one is developing virtual goods like software, web pages or virtual goods like virtual shops, clothing, furniture?!?
Without having looked at the exact power requirements (shame on me!), perhaps it would be an idea to add a small solar panel to this device. Most reading is done in environments with at least a reasonable amount of ambient light anyway...
Depending on how fast you can read and how much energy it takes to refresh the entire display once, it might just be able to charge itself almost as afast or even faster than you as a reader will change the pages during normal reading conditions and with decent ambient light levels.
(But as I said, haven't looked at the specs yet..:O )
Would these perhaps be the "China-bots" once mentioned in a sketch by "Arnold Schwarzenegger" on Late Night with Conan O'Brian?:D
Conan: Arnold what do you think about building a fence on the U.S-Mexican border?
Arnold: Conan, what we really need to do is build a fence around the "future"? Yes, the future Conan. You see in the future the U.S is overrun by robot forms of Chinese and Mexicans called "China-bots" and "Mexi-borgs". See Conan, so the future is what we need to worry about. What you need to do is build a time machine and send me to the future. I'll make myself look like Mexi-borg. Then I'll stand by the timemachine in the future and when a China-bot tells a Mexiborg"hey lets go to the past", I'll say don't you mean the "present". Then they'll know I'm from the past and then I'll put out my shot gun from under my future pancho and blast the Mexi-borgs and China-bots and then say "NOW THATS A BLAST FROM THE PAST!"
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"You will lower your chairs and surrender your servers. You will escort us to sector 001^H^H^H MSFT. From this time forward, you will service us" :D
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." ;)
- Steve Wozniak
Hmm, that is true.
Would it be possible to make an open source module for, say, the Apache webserver which could do handle the things done by the Second Life server(s)? (= you getting some land)
Then you could perhaps make some kind of connection between servers running these modules, like connection your piece of land to another piece of land via ehm.. the street/highway?
Just brainstorming here! ^_^
Just answer "As a true internet techie, I don't even have 10 friends living on my continent". :D
I liked your idea and it made me wonder if something like that doesn't already exit. Quick search led me to this website:
:)
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Looks good I'd say!
Hmm, this would also be a wonderful way to preserve languages which are about to become extinct. Too bad that those languages are often spoken in areas with little to no internet connectivity...
I really hope we are allowed to learn more about this 'fortunate accident' later. Personally I don't like this kind of open-ended stuff much either. The "Coming up next: Why Apple Bounced Back" title however, surely hints at that there will be a follow-up with the answer.
And then there's the "You're at the airport and some people want to inspect what's on your computer" situation. Having a fully (perhaps even partially) encrypted system might generate some unwanted and unneeded suspicion.
Besides taking the effort to install invisible vote-stealing software, one can just open the MS Access database and edit the values: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0307/S00065.htm#v otes
Touché, a nicely found pun! :)
:P
:D
One can wonder though if the viral marketing of virus accelerator boards improves by using their own virus accelerator boards in an attempt to accelerate their own viral marketing.
Hmm.. can the Singularity still be avoided?
Graphical Processing Unit, Physics Processing Unit,... Virus Processing Unit? :)
:P
It should be noted though, that a "Virus Accelerator Board" is not a very good name from a marketing perspective!
Are you considering to add this trojan to your viral signature? ;)
Forever? Like in 'Duke Nukem Forever'? Wow, that _is_ a very, very long time! :O
<g>
Perhaps we will one day see the beta version of 'gSolar'. :)
From your special Slashdot Access Point (SAP). This is a special machine that, contrary to the rest of the company machines, actually *IS* connected to the internet. Also, now do I finally know why there is such a huge demand for `SAP Implementation Experts'!
(I've noticed earlier that our power consumptions is also relatively low: With a large stand-alone house, 4 adults, 1 full-time server and 4 part-time computers and 2 bathrooms, we're using about 4300KwH _annually_. I've heard stories about people with three times this number per month...)
I could not find the exact quote. I believe it was on the Department of Energy website, but my search skills are letting me a bit down right now. I did however find a number of related quotes which give an indication.
(Source)
(Source) This is a nice source, with on the last page of the PDF a table with consumption per device. "Instant-on TV: 18317 million KWH/year)(Source; With the UK population being around 60 million and the USA around 300 million people, I guess it is reasonably safe to assume that if the UK needs already 1 power plant for standby, the USA also needs at least one)
(Source)
Personally I'm using a number of strategically placed Power strips with a single master switch. One for the computer, printer, monitor. One for the stereo + TV, etc.
It really is no effort to manually and physically flip a switch once or a few times per day. (I have to get up anyway if I'm not staying in my bed for the entire day). Besides saving money and energy, a good model power strip can also protect your against power surges and filter EMI/RFI. Sounds like killing two birds with one stone to me!
Mind you: it's not always a device with an explicit stand-by mode. I once used such a wattmeter on all devices and learned that my 40W lamp with a seemingly #$%#$% cheap transformer was using 25W while "off"!
:S
Factoid: if all American households would not use the stand-by mode of their TV, an entire _nuclear_ power plant can be saved on a national level.
And what about international users?!?
Nice idea!
And as the other post mentions: what about your office space, or your new (:D) computer with a video card to run SecondLife smoothly.
Would it really matter for the IRS/Chamber of Commerce if one is developing virtual goods like software, web pages or virtual goods like virtual shops, clothing, furniture?!?
Thanks :)
:)
It's a pity I could not find this video fragment somewhere online, like on YouTube. It would have been so much better.
Depending on how fast you can read and how much energy it takes to refresh the entire display once, it might just be able to charge itself almost as afast or even faster than you as a reader will change the pages during normal reading conditions and with decent ambient light levels.
(But as I said, haven't looked at the specs yet..
looking petrified.
*runs*