My old 3.4GHz prescott system[1] used all of 750+ watts at full tilt and about 500 watts idle. My new systems combined[2] use just shy of 380 watts at idle (have not measured full load yet). so, yeah old computers draw a hell of a lot more power and are not worth the cost of keeping them on (or cooling the air in the summer).
[1]: P4 Prescott 3.4 GHz 2 gig DDR 533 ram 2x250 gig HDD ATI mid level PEG card intel 915 chipset based ASUS board
[2]a: core2quad 9600 4 gig DDR2 1066 9 hdds (750 gig through 2 TB) 1 SSD raid controller intel 945 based board with internal graphics (ASUS)
b: core2quad 9750 16 gig ddr2 1333 2 hdd (15K) 1 SSD nVidia 9400 intel P45 based system (foxconn)
ya know. I give up. I've spent the last 15 min looking at bash.org searches about hell, looking for the one where some guy got the "niceness" bot to kick the bible quoting bot for swearing. Now, while I've reaffirmed my feelings of humanities depravity, I have failed to find the one funny example I was looking for. -nB
It's simple really. If you are trying to convert the pagen masses, then you'd better incorporate their holidays/festivals, lest you find yourself with people who are only token worshipers as evidenced by their continuing to celebrate their old beliefs festivals. The solution is to move your celebratory dates to match theirs, thus they can appear to be following the new religion whilst still quietly celebrating the old, but it's not so obvious any more. Where else did the Christmas tree come from?
Obviously the Catholic church invented the PHB with blinders from Dilbert. (now if only they'd assert prior art).
which is what makes me wonder... We've been able to make methanol from wood for ages. Is there any particular reason we want ethanol for cars when methanol burns just as well?
I worked a dairy on my summers growing up (to keep me out of trouble as it were). Yeah, I'll bet anyone from the city who's never been on a farm a paycheck they won't last a week. -nB
there is a twist in there, however. Not directly related, but a gripe site is protected speech, because the courts can not find against you, as they are a government organization. Now if you commit Libel as part of your speech that's different.
I work in a fortune 100 company and we have several people with sleeve tattoos, never heard of it being an issue. If it's like the OP is suggesting I could see it as a good personality talking point in my line of work to be honest.
Also, I've always liked the idea of a Pascals triangle on my back.
Heck, I use T-Mobile pre-paid and the one time I had a problem (lost phone) and had to go into a branded store to resolve it they were awesome. It took a while to resolve (technical issues relating to moving a pre-paid phone number to a new SIM) but customer service side was beyond expectations.
depends on how you borrowed the million, actually. If you borrowed via no recourse personal loan, that debt is gone, if you borrowed against collateral (home loan, car loan, etc.) the estate either pays the loan or surrenders the collateral. -nB
I hope this doesn't encourage would-be censors to restrict the kinds of content allowed in non-xxx domains. Not all content fits neatly into an XXX designation, and even if it did it is simply not right to restrict XXX content to XXX domains. Having an XXX domain has always struck me as either pointless (insofar as XXX content might continue to be hosted on non-XXX domains) or otherwise a really bad idea (insofar as no XXX content may be allowed outside of XXX domains).
SPI interface, which pretty well every microcontroller made in the last decade has in hardware, and if not, you can bit-bang it half-drunk and blindfolded
Sloooow but I've personally done it: toggle switches and LEDs. I was able to program and read back a flash device (in this particular case it was a 2gBit NOR) manually bit banging it. I programmed in 0xCAFE0FDEADBEEF and read it back. To verify we put it on the maverick tester and yeppers, there it was in 0x1000 and 0x1001. I couldn't imagine doing this for 16 gBytes though.
(Yes I know you meant bit bashing on a uC, but...) -nB
ok you bring your modems and I'll use this. we'll go to Africa, somewhere random, like Congo or Darfur. We'll both use our preferred method to call for help. Survivor is the winner. -nB
correct. They are more closely related to kimono dragons and pit vipers. I hereby move that we strip serpent people of their rights as citizens of the US.
In an aside, if there is a work in the PD and I am using it right now, then congress removes it from the public domain, how does that shake out? Is it like when a GPL project goes closed source, where I can continue with the fork I've made, or is it as I expect (all fscked up) and I immediately am infringing and can be sued? -nB
not true. Independent contractors can provide you with short term sill in an area you need it *now* while you ramp up a full time person for long term need. Independent contractors can provide you short term skills you lack (and don't need long term in house) for a specific project without the overhead of GFT headcount (retirement, benefits plans, etc.). More than once I've taken a gig where my contract was only two or three months and was to train someone to do what I can do so they could be GFT. If you do a good job at that you are almost guaranteed a callback next time they need something. -nB
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did you figure in the cost of air-con in the summer time (and possibly winter depending on where you live)?
My old 3.4GHz prescott system[1] used all of 750+ watts at full tilt and about 500 watts idle.
My new systems combined[2] use just shy of 380 watts at idle (have not measured full load yet).
so, yeah old computers draw a hell of a lot more power and are not worth the cost of keeping them on (or cooling the air in the summer).
[1]: P4 Prescott 3.4 GHz
2 gig DDR 533 ram
2x250 gig HDD
ATI mid level PEG card
intel 915 chipset based ASUS board
[2]a: core2quad 9600
4 gig DDR2 1066
9 hdds (750 gig through 2 TB)
1 SSD
raid controller
intel 945 based board with internal graphics (ASUS)
b: core2quad 9750
16 gig ddr2 1333
2 hdd (15K)
1 SSD
nVidia 9400
intel P45 based system (foxconn)
Yeah I was searching for ass and that didn't go so well...
ya know.
I give up.
I've spent the last 15 min looking at bash.org searches about hell, looking for the one where some guy got the "niceness" bot to kick the bible quoting bot for swearing. Now, while I've reaffirmed my feelings of humanities depravity, I have failed to find the one funny example I was looking for.
-nB
It's simple really.
If you are trying to convert the pagen masses, then you'd better incorporate their holidays/festivals, lest you find yourself with people who are only token worshipers as evidenced by their continuing to celebrate their old beliefs festivals. The solution is to move your celebratory dates to match theirs, thus they can appear to be following the new religion whilst still quietly celebrating the old, but it's not so obvious any more. Where else did the Christmas tree come from?
Obviously the Catholic church invented the PHB with blinders from Dilbert. (now if only they'd assert prior art).
which is what makes me wonder...
We've been able to make methanol from wood for ages. Is there any particular reason we want ethanol for cars when methanol burns just as well?
No, but I will convert your straw man into a burning man.
See ya in NV.
I worked a dairy on my summers growing up (to keep me out of trouble as it were). Yeah, I'll bet anyone from the city who's never been on a farm a paycheck they won't last a week.
-nB
there is a twist in there, however.
Not directly related, but a gripe site is protected speech, because the courts can not find against you, as they are a government organization. Now if you commit Libel as part of your speech that's different.
I work in a fortune 100 company and we have several people with sleeve tattoos, never heard of it being an issue. If it's like the OP is suggesting I could see it as a good personality talking point in my line of work to be honest.
Also, I've always liked the idea of a Pascals triangle on my back.
As long as their "App store" has the same cost per download as the Ubuntu Download Center I don't really see a problem with it.
Heck,
I use T-Mobile pre-paid and the one time I had a problem (lost phone) and had to go into a branded store to resolve it they were awesome. It took a while to resolve (technical issues relating to moving a pre-paid phone number to a new SIM) but customer service side was beyond expectations.
depends on how you borrowed the million, actually.
If you borrowed via no recourse personal loan, that debt is gone, if you borrowed against collateral (home loan, car loan, etc.) the estate either pays the loan or surrenders the collateral.
-nB
+1, funny;
-1, tasteless.
Of course VZW is a bunch of cocks, so:
+1, believable (sadly)
you are a failure of a troll.
You have neglected to insult those from the European mainland: Mic, Guido, WOP, and Frog.
Shame on you troll.
and
you spelled 'Sorry' wrong.
I hope this doesn't encourage would-be censors to restrict the kinds of content allowed in non-xxx domains. Not all content fits neatly into an XXX designation, and even if it did it is simply not right to restrict XXX content to XXX domains. Having an XXX domain has always struck me as either pointless (insofar as XXX content might continue to be hosted on non-XXX domains) or otherwise a really bad idea (insofar as no XXX content may be allowed outside of XXX domains).
doesn't matter. /win
That's still a total
SPI interface, which pretty well every microcontroller made in the last decade has in hardware, and if not, you can bit-bang it half-drunk and blindfolded
Sloooow but I've personally done it:
toggle switches and LEDs.
I was able to program and read back a flash device (in this particular case it was a 2gBit NOR) manually bit banging it.
I programmed in 0xCAFE0FDEADBEEF and read it back. To verify we put it on the maverick tester and yeppers, there it was in 0x1000 and 0x1001.
I couldn't imagine doing this for 16 gBytes though.
(Yes I know you meant bit bashing on a uC, but...)
-nB
ok
you bring your modems and I'll use this.
we'll go to Africa, somewhere random, like Congo or Darfur. We'll both use our preferred method to call for help. Survivor is the winner.
-nB
can.
It almost* never happens.
-nB
* almost qualifier: never say never (though in this case I've never seen it).
I take great pride in hating Zurich Financial ala Farmers Insurance (farmersreallysucks.com) because they're assholes.
Now if you mean strictly hating something incapable of harming you if you watch it (like football,football, or rugby), then yeah I agree with you.
ha ha ha, Blocked by my workplaces internet filter for "proxy avoidance"
Anyone using that to avoid a proxy is insane.
As others have nicely pointed out, spell check can be dangerous when you don't really know the spelling you are looking for...
correct.
They are more closely related to kimono dragons and pit vipers. I hereby move that we strip serpent people of their rights as citizens of the US.
In an aside, if there is a work in the PD and I am using it right now, then congress removes it from the public domain, how does that shake out?
Is it like when a GPL project goes closed source, where I can continue with the fork I've made, or is it as I expect (all fscked up) and I immediately am infringing and can be sued?
-nB
sorry bout that. I inverted your meaning, in that case, unless he's building a contract co-op or some such, yeah, not so useful...
not true.
Independent contractors can provide you with short term sill in an area you need it *now* while you ramp up a full time person for long term need.
Independent contractors can provide you short term skills you lack (and don't need long term in house) for a specific project without the overhead of GFT headcount (retirement, benefits plans, etc.).
More than once I've taken a gig where my contract was only two or three months and was to train someone to do what I can do so they could be GFT. If you do a good job at that you are almost guaranteed a callback next time they need something.
-nB