A Core 2 Duo in the Mac Mini would , or something like the Mac Mini Merom Mod we recently saw, would surely combine a nice, compact design with quite some computing power.:)
A 'Mac Midi' would be wonderful; It'd certainly be my next machine.
Mini: so-so video card + laptop HD
Pro: too expensive Xeons
iMac: I don't want an all-in-one solution
Midi: pretty much same specs as the iMac, just without the screen. Case: smaller version of the Mac Pro?!?
The fun really starts when the requires temperature levels are high enough to trigger the release of methane which is stored near the ocean floor.
- It's 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide
- It also expands when it reaches the surface because of a difference in pressure.
I don't even want to think about something triggering a massive release of methane from the World's oceans and what it could do to the global climate. (including the rate)
Slightly OT, because it is not about saving energy by changing light bulbs, but just as important when it comes to saving energy: the so-called "Phantom Load", or the energy which is still being used by devices which are apparently switched off or those that are in stand-by mode.
It is estimated that between 6 and 16% of all electricity used in the USA on an annual bases is wasted because of this. (Source)
It is also estimated that:
"... all TV and VCR that are turned off cost Americans nearly a billion dollars a year in electricity."
"There is no question that rolling blackouts could have been avoided if Californians cut their dryer use in half. Heck, it would only take something like a 10% reduction in electrical use across the country to shut down half of the nuclear power plants."
Personally, I'm more than happy to take the small effort of actually walking to the TV (and other devices) to turn it on/off instead of leaving it on standby. And you're not just saving the enviroment either, being aware and watching devices which "leak electricity" in your house can easily save you $$$ (yes, 3 digit number) on a yearly basis!
To add a personal bit of evidence discovered while inspecting all electrical devices in the house with something similar to the Kill-A-Watt meter: it is shocking to discover that a lamp is using 40 Watt while in use, and still 25 Watt when switched turned ""off""! Bad, bad design with perhaps some cheapo, heat generating transformer.
Oh, and strategicly placed power strips with a single master switch to operate for example your TV/Stereo installation make all of this very simple.
August has indeed been rather cold this year in that area. In a country close next to Germany (Holland), there are rain fall records in August and two consecutive heat waves in July (first consecutive heat wave in 60 years). The latter with temperatures shattering all earlier heat records since measurements began in 1706(!)
It might indeed be a freak occurence, but (without discussing possible causes) I do have the impression that the weather patterns are changing the last 10 years. Admittely anecdotal evidence, but what I see happening in the garden and in the heavens above is different than, say, 15 years ago. I can't exactly put my finger on what it is though.
But perhaps that is one of the things that ESR implied by by "[making] 'compromises'", "reaching out", and "go to the rights holders for these proprietary codecs". Who knows what ESR might be thinking about, perhaps hiding behind the terminology?;-P
Indeed. Even though the Apple hardware costs more, it is basically the other side of 'Time is Money'.
General (no-name) PC hardware is cheaper, but if you're unlucky it will cost you a lot of time (and sleep!) to get things working You can buy this time off (inc. many of the possible frustrations), by paying that extra price beforehand. (Perhaps it can also be defined as a variant on the famous 'Pick two out from: cheap, fast, good' ?)
Personally I'm using Linux at the moment, but I am getting more and more frustated over the years with how much time I have to invest to get particular things working. Not particularly specific things, but the whole cumulation.
First it was fun to fiddle around and learn things about your system at a lower level than just watching your daily happy icon set (tm) and hot girl desktop . Now that I'm older, a very important criterion starts playing a role: being productive!
Although I don't own one now, I will seriously consider selecting an Apple to be my next desktop computer precisely because of this.
Just a pity that they don't follow the subjects for a longer period of time. Although one can certainly learn a lot by tracking people for 4 years, I wonder if it is long enough for certain diseases which are, sadly enough, far too common.
As a comparison:
The University Medical Center Groningen has initiated a large scientific study called LifeLines, which, will follow the developments in the health of as many as 165,000 people in the northern Netherlands during a period of at least 30 years. The LifeLines study will extend the knowledge of and insight into the origins of frequently occurring diseases, which will result in earlier and better intervention and prevention. LifeLines aims to assess how and why specific risk factors lead to different diseases in individuals. The UMCG is the first organization in the Netherlands to set up a medical biobank on this scale. The creation of LifeLines has been made possible partly thanks to a Kompass subsidy of 4.5 million from the three Northern Provinces.
I would rather opt for 'on schedule' than 'so long as it's fast'. The other two options combined seem to form a synergy called 'crashing fast', which is usually a more painful experience than 'on schedule'. *
True, we don't have the tropical hurricanes; looking at the definitions the Beaufort scale defines a hurricane as anything above 11 Beaufort, so based on that I can tell you there have been hurricanes in The Netherlands, just not the tropical ones. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale )
Just let me state that one should most definitely not underestimate the power of the North Sea in combination with a a heavy storm during spring surge, as we have found out the hard way over the centuries. It might not be a hurricane, but it can be a huge monster just pounding on your entire countries' coastline.
The Dutch dikes all have a minimum height of 7.65 meters designed for a 1:4000 to a 1:10.000 year superstorm compared to the "the levees were designed to hold back (up to 15 feet of tidal surge)".
(http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/9/1 2/210912.shtml )
In case things go wrong, there are also plans and designated areas which will be allowed to flood in case things go wrong, trying to save important areas.
IMHO, The key issue why all of this happened is long-term thinking (or better, lack thereof) and doing ones best to be a step ahead. The state of the New Orleans levees combined with the fact that hurricanes do frequently appear in that area and not being adequately prepared is playing Russian roulette every hurricane season!
"[..] New Orleans levee system should fail with an annual probability of 0.5%"
Source:
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:gfgpu5QskQgJ: www.livejournal.com/users/jdthood/1178.html+new+or leans+height+of+dikes&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1
(sorry for the long url; page has been deleted so I have to use the Google cache)
And if you've become a gazillionare, you can sit on an island just sipping on a cocktail and being glad that you don't have to spend the rest of your life doing custom kitchen deliveriiiess.
This reminds me of the old designer's adage of: "good, fast, or cheap, pick two".
But perhaps it's really not a bad idea to get some Russian hardware relatively cheaply as extra study/comparisson material/source of inspiration. If ones own source of information and material have deteriorated, why not look at similar things while taking into account the special risks involved. I mean, I'm sure NASA will not adapt the literally 'fly by wire' cockpit of the Russian would-be-Lunar-lander? (hmm, maybe they would..:O)
Actually this is the fastest human-powered Kayak AFAIK.
On the British TV-show Top Gear, probably one of the most famous television shows about cars on Earth, a jetski-style powered Kayak was shown last year (Season 8, Episode 2 - 2006.05.14 to be precise). That thing was _really_ fast!
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A Core 2 Duo in the Mac Mini would , or something like the Mac Mini Merom Mod we recently saw, would surely combine a nice, compact design with quite some computing power. :)
A 'Mac Midi' would be wonderful; It'd certainly be my next machine.
Mini: so-so video card + laptop HD Pro: too expensive Xeons iMac: I don't want an all-in-one solution
Midi: pretty much same specs as the iMac, just without the screen. Case: smaller version of the Mac Pro?!?
Walking into a store, through a detector with 200 meters of CAT5 in your backpack also is pretty much a guarantee that the thing will go off. :)
That's indeed also an option; a 'controlled release' so to speak.
The fun really starts when the requires temperature levels are high enough to trigger the release of methane which is stored near the ocean floor.
- It's 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide
- It also expands when it reaches the surface because of a difference in pressure.
I don't even want to think about something triggering a massive release of methane from the World's oceans and what it could do to the global climate. (including the rate)
Doh, doh.. initially I read: "We are not human without ODF"
to see 40 machines in my office boot up in the morning and start chanting "Developers, developers, developers" together :D
It is estimated that between 6 and 16% of all electricity used in the USA on an annual bases is wasted because of this. (Source)
It is also estimated that:
(Source)
And that:
(Source) Also interesting: (Source)
Personally, I'm more than happy to take the small effort of actually walking to the TV (and other devices) to turn it on/off instead of leaving it on standby. And you're not just saving the enviroment either, being aware and watching devices which "leak electricity" in your house can easily save you $$$ (yes, 3 digit number) on a yearly basis!
To add a personal bit of evidence discovered while inspecting all electrical devices in the house with something similar to the Kill-A-Watt meter: it is shocking to discover that a lamp is using 40 Watt while in use, and still 25 Watt when switched turned ""off""! Bad, bad design with perhaps some cheapo, heat generating transformer.
Oh, and strategicly placed power strips with a single master switch to operate for example your TV/Stereo installation make all of this very simple.
One letter? Q Who?
Oh well, perhaps I'm just being Q-pid..
Logically I should perhaps Hide and Q, suddenly dissapearing with a spectacular flash like a True Q!
To make matters worse, I've got a Deja Q while typing this post! :S
August has indeed been rather cold this year in that area. In a country close next to Germany (Holland), there are rain fall records in August and two consecutive heat waves in July (first consecutive heat wave in 60 years). The latter with temperatures shattering all earlier heat records since measurements began in 1706(!)
It might indeed be a freak occurence, but (without discussing possible causes) I do have the impression that the weather patterns are changing the last 10 years. Admittely anecdotal evidence, but what I see happening in the garden and in the heavens above is different than, say, 15 years ago. I can't exactly put my finger on what it is though.
Lol, I read 'Laptop as martial art' the first time.
Anyone interested in some Tai Dell Chuan, IBM-kido, or Wing Chun MacBook?
True and a good point.
But perhaps that is one of the things that ESR implied by by "[making] 'compromises'", "reaching out", and "go to the rights holders for these proprietary codecs". Who knows what ESR might be thinking about, perhaps hiding behind the terminology?
Why? Perhaps he sees a potential market for Klingon language courses delivered to the masses via iTunes running on Linux?
And let us not forget the brave stories of Kahless the Unforgettable! ^_^
Indeed. Even though the Apple hardware costs more, it is basically the other side of 'Time is Money'.
General (no-name) PC hardware is cheaper, but if you're unlucky it will cost you a lot of time (and sleep!) to get things working You can buy this time off (inc. many of the possible frustrations), by paying that extra price beforehand.
(Perhaps it can also be defined as a variant on the famous 'Pick two out from: cheap, fast, good' ?)
Personally I'm using Linux at the moment, but I am getting more and more frustated over the years with how much time I have to invest to get particular things working. Not particularly specific things, but the whole cumulation.
First it was fun to fiddle around and learn things about your system at a lower level than just watching your daily happy icon set (tm) and hot girl desktop . Now that I'm older, a very important criterion starts playing a role: being productive!
Although I don't own one now, I will seriously consider selecting an Apple to be my next desktop computer precisely because of this.
Just imagine the fireworks one would get if one could ignite the entire gas giant with a lighter ;D
Mini me?
Just a pity that they don't follow the subjects for a longer period of time. Although one can certainly learn a lot by tracking people for 4 years, I wonder if it is long enough for certain diseases which are, sadly enough, far too common.
As a comparison:
Full Story
Interesting projects in general though, precisely because of their scope.
a future poker session going like this:
Dave_Human: I'm alll in!
BoRg_Queen: Brave words. I've heard them before, from thousands of species across thousands of worlds, since long before you were created.
hal_2k1: you can't do that Dave
Eliza_AI: Oh, i cant do that dave.
CmdrData_aka_ultimate_poker_face: wow, you can use verbal contractions and I cannot, interesting
That is just weird.
You might want to consider an upgrade; 8.4 GB is quickly used with the high-quality video and surround sound signals that are coming in ;)
I would rather opt for 'on schedule' than 'so long as it's fast'. The other two options combined seem to form a synergy called 'crashing fast', which is usually a more painful experience than 'on schedule'. *
:o
* Depening on the product itself of course
True, we don't have the tropical hurricanes; looking at the definitions the Beaufort scale defines a hurricane as anything above 11 Beaufort, so based on that I can tell you there have been hurricanes in The Netherlands, just not the tropical ones. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale )
1 2/210912.shtml )
In case things go wrong, there are also plans and designated areas which will be allowed to flood in case things go wrong, trying to save important areas.
: www.livejournal.com/users/jdthood/1178.html+new+or leans+height+of+dikes&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1
(sorry for the long url; page has been deleted so I have to use the Google cache)
Just let me state that one should most definitely not underestimate the power of the North Sea in combination with a a heavy storm during spring surge, as we have found out the hard way over the centuries. It might not be a hurricane, but it can be a huge monster just pounding on your entire countries' coastline.
The Dutch dikes all have a minimum height of 7.65 meters designed for a 1:4000 to a 1:10.000 year superstorm compared to the "the levees were designed to hold back (up to 15 feet of tidal surge)". (http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/9/
IMHO, The key issue why all of this happened is long-term thinking (or better, lack thereof) and doing ones best to be a step ahead. The state of the New Orleans levees combined with the fact that hurricanes do frequently appear in that area and not being adequately prepared is playing Russian roulette every hurricane season! "[..] New Orleans levee system should fail with an annual probability of 0.5%" Source: http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:gfgpu5QskQgJ
And if you've become a gazillionare, you can sit on an island just sipping on a cocktail and being glad that you don't have to spend the rest of your life doing custom kitchen deliveriiiess.
This reminds me of the old designer's adage of: "good, fast, or cheap, pick two".
:O)
But perhaps it's really not a bad idea to get some Russian hardware relatively cheaply as extra study/comparisson material/source of inspiration. If ones own source of information and material have deteriorated, why not look at similar things while taking into account the special risks involved. I mean, I'm sure NASA will not adapt the literally 'fly by wire' cockpit of the Russian would-be-Lunar-lander? (hmm, maybe they would..
On the British TV-show Top Gear, probably one of the most famous television shows about cars on Earth, a jetski-style powered Kayak was shown last year (Season 8, Episode 2 - 2006.05.14 to be precise). That thing was _really_ fast!
Video fragment can be found at YouTube.
Attack of the Clones =/