You know in all seriousness, I was considering moving my family out of Canada and go to NZ for a fresh start and to live in some place completely different, that is untill I looked up the local ISP competition and found there really werent any! Altho the lack of proper broadband isn't really a showstopper, we will defer for a year or two. If I did live there tho, I think I would take their "Go large" plan for $49.95 with unlimited data. Their speeds tho are rated at "Max/128". WTF does that mean? They say it goes as fast as your phone line will allow, but on what DSLAM equipment? Dmt1,dmt2, adsl2??? no idea. Plus with 128 up how fast can you really get in terms of downstream? The modem may sync up at 8mbit, but on a fully saturated downstream the CRC check on the upstream will just really kill it. I dunno, the whole thing just looks really suspect.
We all knew this was the way it was going to be. This isnt a newsflash for anyone. I have a dx10 compat gfx card, but I'll stick to XP for gaming way after SP1 for Vista comes out. Drivers for Vista just plain and simply not up to snuff yet.
An overclocked processor generates a massive amount of heat, so much that specialized cooling systems need to be installed. Here's my question: is the amount of energy in heat generated greater than the amount of energy required to power the processor?
If this was somehow true, then you have found a new form of enery generation. You cannot defeat the laws of thermodynamics. If your cpu is pulling 100w from the socket, then it it putting out exactly 100w of heat. You will need a cooling solution to dissipate that amount. The heat generated regardless from the amount of work its doing will never be more than what its pulling from the socket.
As I live and work in a major city (L.A.) and rarely leave my 10-mile radius I would love an electric car. Unfortunately, I live in an apartment and park on the street. No, I do not think an extension cord would work.
That seems to be a paradox I haven't seen addressed. Electric cars seem to be designed for urban drivers with short commutes. Many of those who live in urban areas do not have a garage and charging would be difficult, if not impossible. Will there be a way to "fill" the battery as quickly and easily as you can at a gas station?
Because as you live in a major city, you already have an option that is more effective that a car can ever be; public transit. Presumably with electrically powered subways and even fossil powered buses and whatnot, with the economies of scale, will be more efficient than your electric car. If you're less than 10 miles where you have to be a bike would be a good option. The best part is that it can run on a form of bio-fuel, a breakfast burrito! But to answer your questions, I don't believe that there is a quick way to "fill" a battery without a cable. Perhaps quickly swapable batteries would be the answer but I dont think youd want to lug around large amounts of batteries 1st thing in the morning.
They are very lightweight, and therefore will have little inertia. Turbochargers spin between 60,000rpm and 100,000RPM and have a strong, long, proven track record (102 years) and the only time they become unreliable is when there is a lack of lubrication, usually from piss-poor maintenance (e.g., an owner gets an oil change once every 100,000 miles whether it's needed or not), or from running the car at FULL boost, then immediately shutting down (e.g., your average teenager pulling into a mall parking lot), without letting it idle down and cool off.
Not to nitpick, but the idle down procedure has long since been a thing of the past. Upto the early-mid 90's, auto based turbochargers were chiefly oil cooled. After having a blazing run, then immediately stopping the engine, the turbo will continue to spin down, but also has 0 oil pressure. Dont care what anyone says, but if you still have something spinning at X thousand RPM with no oil pressure, bearings will eventually give way. But more importantly, with a really hot turboshaft bathed in oil, it will eventually start to cook right onto it. This is called "coking". A thin layer of rock hard sludge that messes with tightly defined bearing specs will cause it to prematurly wear.
That being said, modern day turbocharged cars are oil and water cooled. The turbocharges don't get as hot as they used to plus with modern day oil tech, the oil doesnt coke onto the turboshaft. But I suppose with a burger flipping "average teenager" in this example, they most likely are driving around an old turbo sweedish car which does make the parent indeed correct.
This is why you clean em out after a hot shower or have been swimming for a while. The wax gets all nice and gooey and gets absorbed into the cotton easily. Nothing gets pushed in and your hearing stays great!
As 1/3 of our frontline staff is based in the Philippines, it has all been rerouted to our canadian contact center. With an expected outage of 3 weeks im sure most of our guys are gonna burn out from the call driven overload.
I wonder how many overseas outsourced operations will be affected by this. Probably not a good time to be calling your major branded PC manufacterer for support.
I would absolutely KILL to be able to telecommute to work.
As a network support specialist for a major canadian isp, there is NO reason why I can't work from home. The reason is more political than anything else. Management loves to keep their team close at hand, have their little 1:1 chats about TPS reports and whatnot and yes, I did get the memo. I would take a 10% pay cut if given the opportunity to telecommute. Even at that cut, the tangible and intangible benifits far outweigh the difference.
A) Save on gas
B) Save on time commuting
C) Sleep
D) Most importantly, have a higher quality of life.
I suppose you would have to manage your time, which would require some self discipline not all people may have. You would have to block out any potential distractions that would reduce your quality of work.
The problem is that even as a tech company who purports to change with the times, proposed fundamental changes to operations almost immediately get passed over.
How can you walk up to a corporation and ask for a paradigm shift in how work gets done?
As a frontline agent answering calls in those days, it was rather hard to explain what the hell was going on with that, especially to other TELUS employees. The rationale for blocking access to the site was because TELUS said they had to protect their own employess. They tried to take the lesser of two evils: Either risk getting sued by a TELUS employee who got physically harmed because they were identified as a scab from the TWU website, or open the floodgates as losing the common carrier status. Either way, I wish they blocked the site using DNS versus null route. There were about 150 other domains being virtually hosted on the same ip all complaining TELUS was blocking them out.
"Let's talk about getting things arranged so that I can push one button labelled DVD, and have the DVD player, sound system and monitor turn on (if they weren't already) and all other components turn off; all components set the the correct inputs and ready to go.
They do. There is a remote control product from Logitech called "Harmony". It's programmed first by your pc conneting to their database of devices, then you can program "activities" into the remote itself.
It remembers the last state a device was in and turn things on and off as necessary for your activities to work, like watching a DVD for instance.
I forget the exact name of the protocol, but for years now, radio stations in my area have encoded a short message in the audiostream. It shows up on the receiver as a short message of a sort either advertising the station name and/or the current song that is playing. Quite handy at times.
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You know in all seriousness, I was considering moving my family out of Canada and go to NZ for a fresh start and to live in some place completely different, that is untill I looked up the local ISP competition and found there really werent any! Altho the lack of proper broadband isn't really a showstopper, we will defer for a year or two. If I did live there tho, I think I would take their "Go large" plan for $49.95 with unlimited data. Their speeds tho are rated at "Max/128". WTF does that mean? They say it goes as fast as your phone line will allow, but on what DSLAM equipment? Dmt1,dmt2, adsl2??? no idea. Plus with 128 up how fast can you really get in terms of downstream? The modem may sync up at 8mbit, but on a fully saturated downstream the CRC check on the upstream will just really kill it. I dunno, the whole thing just looks really suspect.
We all knew this was the way it was going to be. This isnt a newsflash for anyone. I have a dx10 compat gfx card, but I'll stick to XP for gaming way after SP1 for Vista comes out. Drivers for Vista just plain and simply not up to snuff yet.
If this was somehow true, then you have found a new form of enery generation. You cannot defeat the laws of thermodynamics. If your cpu is pulling 100w from the socket, then it it putting out exactly 100w of heat. You will need a cooling solution to dissipate that amount. The heat generated regardless from the amount of work its doing will never be more than what its pulling from the socket.
Because as you live in a major city, you already have an option that is more effective that a car can ever be; public transit. Presumably with electrically powered subways and even fossil powered buses and whatnot, with the economies of scale, will be more efficient than your electric car. If you're less than 10 miles where you have to be a bike would be a good option. The best part is that it can run on a form of bio-fuel, a breakfast burrito! But to answer your questions, I don't believe that there is a quick way to "fill" a battery without a cable. Perhaps quickly swapable batteries would be the answer but I dont think youd want to lug around large amounts of batteries 1st thing in the morning.
Not to nitpick, but the idle down procedure has long since been a thing of the past. Upto the early-mid 90's, auto based turbochargers were chiefly oil cooled. After having a blazing run, then immediately stopping the engine, the turbo will continue to spin down, but also has 0 oil pressure. Dont care what anyone says, but if you still have something spinning at X thousand RPM with no oil pressure, bearings will eventually give way. But more importantly, with a really hot turboshaft bathed in oil, it will eventually start to cook right onto it. This is called "coking". A thin layer of rock hard sludge that messes with tightly defined bearing specs will cause it to prematurly wear. That being said, modern day turbocharged cars are oil and water cooled. The turbocharges don't get as hot as they used to plus with modern day oil tech, the oil doesnt coke onto the turboshaft. But I suppose with a burger flipping "average teenager" in this example, they most likely are driving around an old turbo sweedish car which does make the parent indeed correct.
Whats that? I think I hear something ringing..
Yeah was about to say your missing a 2x multiplier if your in the UK. None of the equipment complains about running on 50hz instead?
I wonder how many overseas outsourced operations will be affected by this. Probably not a good time to be calling your major branded PC manufacterer for support.
But I keep putting it off. JJ
A) Save on gas
B) Save on time commuting
C) Sleep
D) Most importantly, have a higher quality of life.
I suppose you would have to manage your time, which would require some self discipline not all people may have. You would have to block out any potential distractions that would reduce your quality of work. The problem is that even as a tech company who purports to change with the times, proposed fundamental changes to operations almost immediately get passed over. How can you walk up to a corporation and ask for a paradigm shift in how work gets done?
As a frontline agent answering calls in those days, it was rather hard to explain what the hell was going on with that, especially to other TELUS employees. The rationale for blocking access to the site was because TELUS said they had to protect their own employess. They tried to take the lesser of two evils: Either risk getting sued by a TELUS employee who got physically harmed because they were identified as a scab from the TWU website, or open the floodgates as losing the common carrier status.
Either way, I wish they blocked the site using DNS versus null route. There were about 150 other domains being virtually hosted on the same ip all complaining TELUS was blocking them out.
"Let's talk about getting things arranged so that I can push one button labelled DVD, and have the DVD player, sound system and monitor turn on (if they weren't already) and all other components turn off; all components set the the correct inputs and ready to go. They do. There is a remote control product from Logitech called "Harmony". It's programmed first by your pc conneting to their database of devices, then you can program "activities" into the remote itself. It remembers the last state a device was in and turn things on and off as necessary for your activities to work, like watching a DVD for instance.
I forget the exact name of the protocol, but for years now, radio stations in my area have encoded a short message in the audiostream. It shows up on the receiver as a short message of a sort either advertising the station name and/or the current song that is playing. Quite handy at times.