If Google data centers use so much electricity that they are beneficially located near power generation facilities, they must have a hell of a cooling load. Someone should think of the obvious and sell that heat in one form or another to nearby commercial or domestic customers. Not entirely straightforward perhaps, but it would be the responsible thing to do in this day and age.
The bigger picture is that in Daniel 2:44 it says God (not humans) will forcibly replace human rulership with His own. Most people don't want this but that won't stop him from executing them. He will keep those few alive who do want to do things his way though. Those are the ones who "inherit the Kingdom". Ironic as it may seem, the first thing to go will be religion because of it's long record of bloodshed and blasphemy. I can't wait.
1 Cor 6:9,10 "What! Do you not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God's kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men, 10 nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God's kingdom."
The Ten Commandments only ever applied to Israelites, never to Christians.
Psalms 147:19& 20 says "19 He is telling his word to Jacob, His regulations and his judicial decisions to Israel.
20 He has not done that way to any other nation; And as for [his] judicial decisions, they have not known them."
I don't have to comply with the laws of Russia for example because I don't live there and I am not a citizen of that country. At the time of Jesus' death that Law of which the Ten commandments was a part, was abolished, to be replaced by the 'Love God / Love Your Neighbour' law that Jesus expounded.
Colossians 2:14 "and blotted out the handwritten document against us, which consisted of decrees and which was in opposition to us; and He has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the torture stake."
My first hand experience occurred just a couple of weeks ago. I bought from a Chinese company one thousand 600 volt 70 amp IGBTs ostensibly made by International Rectifier, a well established and reputable company, for some stuff I am making at my little electronics manufacturing business at home for a customer of mine. I picked these parts up for what seemed like a good price but when I tried them out they just wouldn't behave properly. Eventually I cracked one open and the silicon die was only about 40% of the size of a known good one. Except for having numerous scratches indicative of poor handling, they look just like the real thing. I haven't got an ice-cube's hope in hell of getting my money back and there's really nothing I can do except chuck them in the bin and put it down to experience. Oh, wait on, the bin is already full of the 400 Chinese sourced eproms I already put there, the ones that say ST on the outside but identify as TI and yet look like neither and have an access time of something worse than one =microsecond=... You read about how China has absolutely massive pollution problems from all the industry there. You know what? I really don't care at all. Not one bit.
A single strand of DNA contains the equivalent of about 3GB, so I read. Given the right circumstances it can uncompress into an entire human being, including a brain that is said to be the most complex thing in the known universe. That's gotta be the most over-the-top blowout of a data compression feat ever! You could probably fit the entire internet onto a single floppy disk with technology that advanced:-)
"The vast majority of things that get done here get done right,.... Things just make sense. Our policies are made listening to scientists," --> I heard recently that successive governments have been talking about what to do about the Murray-Darling basin soil and salinity problems since ==1917==...
The "Ten Commandments" as they are commonly known was part of a law covenant given =only= to Israel while they were gathered at the foot of Mt Sinai. That law is not binding on Christians or anyone else for that matter, the same way a law banning cell phones in Nth Korea doesn't apply to me where I live. 1500 years later, real Christians were given the guiding principle of "You must love your neighbour as yourself" which encompasses a much wider range of situations.
Solar panels on the roof have another benefit in that they shade the roof from the direct sun, lowering the heat load on the air conditioning. For houses that have a tiled roof, the radiation from the underside of the tiles through the roof cavity onto the ceiling is a significant path for heat to find it's way in. Hey, even if the solar panels were not even connected they would still save electricity this way:-)
With a nominal 12v supply that is on-board regulated down to the necesary rails it would be almost trivial to add a battery backup. You only have to support one rail, not two or three. Of course, with a desktop pc that still wouldn't stop the screen going blank during a power outage but for unattended operation no-one's going to be there looking at the screen anyway.
"How would a human mind cope with the increased memory requirements? - It would distort the psychology somewhat to have centuries or millennia of experience."
The last World War was long enough ago that many of the people that experienced it first-hand are now dead, in particular those that were old enough to have had positions of power and authority. A new generation of leaders has grown up and probably there is some among them that thinks a world war could be won, not having seen a real one. If people actually lived a thousand years perhaps it would reduce the frequency of world wars to a comparable figure. Pffft. Nah...
What if Neil Armstrong bumped off Buzz Aldrin when they were (presumably) on the moon. Could he be held guilty under United States or any other country's law seeing they were not in that country or even the earth at the time? Same goes for the game I expect. Real laws only hold for the real world unless specifically specified?
What Jehovah's Witnesses proclaim may not be that funny though. I hear that in mid October they are about to embark on a campaign advertising the final end of religion at the hands of secular powers. Given the apparent involvement of religiously aligned peoples in various political events lately, and the ongoing cases of child abuse coming to light this doesn't seem quite as outlandish as once thought. Most people I know don't give a rat's about this but we should never make the mistake that what we aren't interested in won't affect us. As for Steve Irwin, well yeah, here in Oz he is a household name. Funny how he single-handedly revived the expression "Crikey!" which was popular in my father's (pre-tv) generation and had all but disappeared till he came along. Here in this country he is as indelibly associated with that word as Homer Simpson is with "d'oh!". Perhaps that will be his unintended means of immortality.
...why when the whole world is in such a mess ecologically, politically, socially, you name it, and these dudes waste their time squabbling over the definition of some far-flung object. It makes about as much sense as the war in Gulliver's Travels where they were fighting over whether to crack an egg on it's side or it's end. Actually, at least *that* had some practical use. I give up.
I have an 18 watt Philips CFL in the kitchen that has been used daily since 18th August 1995. It cost me AUD$25 IIRC. I always write the date on the base with a felt tipped pen. Anyway, the important thing is the reason this lamp has lasted so long is that the filaments in the tube are preheated before the tube strikes. There is about a 0.5 second delay from switch-on to appearance of light. I have bought a number of cheap $2 lamps and without exception they come on instantly and in the process gradually rip the cathode coating off the still-cold filaments and deposit it on the inside walls of the tube, leading to the characteristic blackening of the tube at each end. Finally, as less and less of the emissive material remains, a current crowding effect occurs leading to localised overheating and failing of the filament. This occurs in about 18 months. A place I worked at a while back was developing a 12 volt dc fluorescent tube ballast and we found that if we preheated the filaments we could get >300,000 starts (we gave up the test after 6 weeks) but if we started from virtually cold filament it would only go several thousand starts and then fail. If designers of cheapo CFLs would only make them start properly their typical 18 month liftetime would be so much longer.
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If Google data centers use so much electricity that they are beneficially located near power generation facilities, they must have a hell of a cooling load. Someone should think of the obvious and sell that heat in one form or another to nearby commercial or domestic customers. Not entirely straightforward perhaps, but it would be the responsible thing to do in this day and age.
It reminded me of drops of water that float around on a thin cushion of vapour when they are dropped onto a hot metal surface.
I for one welcome our new ball-lightning overlords.
And I suppose it's going to be a Purpl-Ray disc ;-)
The bigger picture is that in Daniel 2:44 it says God (not humans) will forcibly replace human rulership with His own. Most people don't want this but that won't stop him from executing them. He will keep those few alive who do want to do things his way though. Those are the ones who "inherit the Kingdom". Ironic as it may seem, the first thing to go will be religion because of it's long record of bloodshed and blasphemy. I can't wait.
1 Cor 6:9,10
"What! Do you not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God's kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men, 10 nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God's kingdom."
Sounds pretty clear to me.
The Ten Commandments only ever applied to Israelites, never to Christians.
Psalms 147:19& 20 says
"19 He is telling his word to Jacob,
His regulations and his judicial decisions to Israel.
20 He has not done that way to any other nation;
And as for [his] judicial decisions, they have not known them."
I don't have to comply with the laws of Russia for example because I don't live there and I am not a citizen of that country. At the time of Jesus' death that Law of which the Ten commandments was a part, was abolished, to be replaced by the 'Love God / Love Your Neighbour' law that Jesus expounded.
Colossians 2:14 "and blotted out the handwritten document against us, which consisted of decrees and which was in opposition to us; and He has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the torture stake."
That was =precisely= what I though of when I read the article :-) Glad I had the patience to search all the way here to page five before posting.
My first hand experience occurred just a couple of weeks ago. I bought from a Chinese company one thousand 600 volt 70 amp IGBTs ostensibly made by International Rectifier, a well established and reputable company, for some stuff I am making at my little electronics manufacturing business at home for a customer of mine. I picked these parts up for what seemed like a good price but when I tried them out they just wouldn't behave properly. Eventually I cracked one open and the silicon die was only about 40% of the size of a known good one. Except for having numerous scratches indicative of poor handling, they look just like the real thing. I haven't got an ice-cube's hope in hell of getting my money back and there's really nothing I can do except chuck them in the bin and put it down to experience. Oh, wait on, the bin is already full of the 400 Chinese sourced eproms I already put there, the ones that say ST on the outside but identify as TI and yet look like neither and have an access time of something worse than one =microsecond=... You read about how China has absolutely massive pollution problems from all the industry there. You know what? I really don't care at all. Not one bit.
A single strand of DNA contains the equivalent of about 3GB, so I read. Given the right circumstances it can uncompress into an entire human being, including a brain that is said to be the most complex thing in the known universe. That's gotta be the most over-the-top blowout of a data compression feat ever! You could probably fit the entire internet onto a single floppy disk with technology that advanced :-)
We're celebrating 30 years of electricity here, you know.
"The vast majority of things that get done here get done right, .... Things just make sense. Our policies are made listening to scientists," --> I heard recently that successive governments have been talking about what to do about the Murray-Darling basin soil and salinity problems since ==1917==...
The "Ten Commandments" as they are commonly known was part of a law covenant given =only= to Israel while they were gathered at the foot of Mt Sinai. That law is not binding on Christians or anyone else for that matter, the same way a law banning cell phones in Nth Korea doesn't apply to me where I live. 1500 years later, real Christians were given the guiding principle of "You must love your neighbour as yourself" which encompasses a much wider range of situations.
I for one, welcome our new laser tv overlords.
Solar panels on the roof have another benefit in that they shade the roof from the direct sun, lowering the heat load on the air conditioning. For houses that have a tiled roof, the radiation from the underside of the tiles through the roof cavity onto the ceiling is a significant path for heat to find it's way in. Hey, even if the solar panels were not even connected they would still save electricity this way :-)
With a nominal 12v supply that is on-board regulated down to the necesary rails it would be almost trivial to add a battery backup. You only have to support one rail, not two or three. Of course, with a desktop pc that still wouldn't stop the screen going blank during a power outage but for unattended operation no-one's going to be there looking at the screen anyway.
What if Neil Armstrong bumped off Buzz Aldrin when they were (presumably) on the moon. Could he be held guilty under United States or any other country's law seeing they were not in that country or even the earth at the time? Same goes for the game I expect. Real laws only hold for the real world unless specifically specified?
What Jehovah's Witnesses proclaim may not be that funny though. I hear that in mid October they are about to embark on a campaign advertising the final end of religion at the hands of secular powers. Given the apparent involvement of religiously aligned peoples in various political events lately, and the ongoing cases of child abuse coming to light this doesn't seem quite as outlandish as once thought. Most people I know don't give a rat's about this but we should never make the mistake that what we aren't interested in won't affect us. As for Steve Irwin, well yeah, here in Oz he is a household name. Funny how he single-handedly revived the expression "Crikey!" which was popular in my father's (pre-tv) generation and had all but disappeared till he came along. Here in this country he is as indelibly associated with that word as Homer Simpson is with "d'oh!". Perhaps that will be his unintended means of immortality.
...why when the whole world is in such a mess ecologically, politically, socially, you name it, and these dudes waste their time squabbling over the definition of some far-flung object. It makes about as much sense as the war in Gulliver's Travels where they were fighting over whether to crack an egg on it's side or it's end. Actually, at least *that* had some practical use. I give up.
I have an 18 watt Philips CFL in the kitchen that has been used daily since 18th August 1995. It cost me AUD$25 IIRC. I always write the date on the base with a felt tipped pen. Anyway, the important thing is the reason this lamp has lasted so long is that the filaments in the tube are preheated before the tube strikes. There is about a 0.5 second delay from switch-on to appearance of light. I have bought a number of cheap $2 lamps and without exception they come on instantly and in the process gradually rip the cathode coating off the still-cold filaments and deposit it on the inside walls of the tube, leading to the characteristic blackening of the tube at each end. Finally, as less and less of the emissive material remains, a current crowding effect occurs leading to localised overheating and failing of the filament. This occurs in about 18 months. A place I worked at a while back was developing a 12 volt dc fluorescent tube ballast and we found that if we preheated the filaments we could get >300,000 starts (we gave up the test after 6 weeks) but if we started from virtually cold filament it would only go several thousand starts and then fail. If designers of cheapo CFLs would only make them start properly their typical 18 month liftetime would be so much longer.
My violin produces free energy. I had it fitted with superstrings.
It's obvious. The energy comes from Dark Matter. The stuff that was impossible once.
There's your solution! Tell the cops that the stolen computer was a vital part of the only donut-making machine in town.
"even when a person has an abundance his life does not result from the things he possesses" - Jesus, in Luke 12:15.