Actually, I must recant my prior link, as it seems the truly LONG distance transmission lines are indeed often DC current. I contend that the majority of electrical distribution grids are indeed AC. I will also remain by my point that minimizing the advantages of AC current doesn't really make a lot of sense.
The only advantage of AC current is that it can be easily modified by transformers
You say that like it's a small thing. Transformation and induction have a LOT of uses that you're glossing over by a statement like that.
Long-distance power transmission (between grids) is DC because it doesn't require phase synchronization and it's less wasteful, and the difference adds up nicely over longer distances
Long distance power transmission is NOT DC as you claim it is. In fact, AC current transmits much more nicely than DC does.
I think we both agree that barring Obama having an epiphany and suddenly becoming a centrist free market guy the economy ain't getting better
The reality seems to disagree with your argument(s). While well written in terms of their 'readability' and flow, your posts seem almost venomously anti-Obama to the extent that it almost seems that you'd rather argue and condescend rather than discuss anything of real value.
Apart from the clever right-wing zings and allusions to a couple of books you're a fan of, you're not really offering any substance to the argument. In fact, you're doing exactly what you so fervently accuse various other posters of doing...shouting your OPINION.
I respect that you and I can have different opinions, but to attempt to masquerade them as facts is a little bit silly. As an example, in one of your earlier posts, you opine:
Obama, being a fool, is about to learn why those loopholes exist. We put them in to keep some of the multinationals headquartered here in the US in practice by allowing them to headquarter on paper somewhere else and we all agreed to ignore the oddities that followed from that. Forced to actually choose many will opt to close up the skyscraper here and open one up in a more business friendly climate. Then profits from US operations will flow OUT instead of overseas profits flowing IN. I'm failing to see how the US wins.
Would you care to back that ridiculous statement up with some FACT? You won't. You know why? Because you can't. It's a ridiculous, red herring of a statement cleverly disguised to sound as if there were some historical evidence to support it. Here's a small point you may not have considered: how on earth do you propose that those businesses will suddenly come up with the money to pull up all their roots and plant them in a new country?
Large corporations have thousands of offices scattered across the country, it's going to be exponentially more expensive to try to move all of their operations, retool/retrain the local people of insert-new-country-here than it is to suck it up and pay some taxes that should not have been dodged in the first place. It sounds to me like you're one of these dyed-in-the-wool Republicans who merely resists the ideas of ANY taxes being raised ever because....well....that's what Republicans do, apparently. While none of us (including myself) WANTS to pay any/more taxes, we recognize their necessity. Furthermore, if we hadn't made some of the horrific mistakes of the last 8 years, we wouldn't be in the position we're in. A very expensive and unnecessary war in Iraq got us into hock, and now we have to pay up, like it or not. The money's gotta come from somewhere folks.
Pfft! I don't know what the issue is. 160 characters is more than enough to get the point across. Take for instance Hillebrand's previous research which clea
With all due respect, Minneapolis is not NYC. Furthermore, I think it's a lot easier to euphamize the incidents of 9/11 when all you did was watch it on TV. Just because you work in a high rise office building and are used to seeing "low flying planes" doesn't mean that you are somehow better equipped to deal with these things nor does it mean that anyone in NY during this faux pax are wussies.
In other words, it might not be a bad idea to walk a mile in another man's shoes before you go bragging about what a tough guy you are.
Well, I hate that you're in such a predicament, that truly sucks for you, friend. Although, it's nice to be able to have a decent back-and-forth with an obviously intelligent person without things descending into the inevitable flame war. Maybe it's a sad statement on what SlashDot has de-volved to at time, but it's pretty refreshing to have a slightly spirited conversation without it getting ugly.
Cheers to you, bro. Hope you're Friday is going/went well and your weekend is peaceful.
Again, I'm not trying to pick a fight with you, honestly. However, I question your logic. The reason I'm being so insistent is that it is exactly these types of arguments (those based on exaggerations or distortions of the truth) that keep some organizations from ever moving forward on things like utilizing the Power Save mode on PCs.
There are a couple of issues that I take with your situation:
First off, if you really walked into the meeting a half an hour early, why was everyone else also there half and hour early, and why would it be expected that you would immediately produce answers to questions about emails sent yesterday with absolutely no time to take your laptop out of the bag, flip it open and press the power button?
Second, if you have a laptop, and the emails you were supposedly being asked about the second you walked into the room were sent yesterday, why hadn't you checked your email prior to that moment? What's the point of a laptop if it's not going to be used for work away from the site? To go a step further, if you're in a role where you're expected to have immediate answers to questions, and constant communication, why do you not have a BlackBerry or some similar device?
Third, while I will not argue that your laptop starts more quickly while returning from Sleep mode than it does from a full Power Down, there is still a delay in the time from when you press the Power button to when your system is up and fully running (a few applications still have to re-initialize, network connectivity has to be restored, etc). Thus, your argument that you are expected to be "fully operational" from the second you walk in the door can't even be met by the methods you're describing.
Look dude, I'm not trying to be a jerk here, I'm just saying that it sounds like you (like a lot of people) are exaggerating the facts. I don't believe for a second that from the very instant you walk in the door that you are inundated with "4 alarm fire" type questions/problems every day. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, we all have those days. But to try to make the argument that you are such an essential cog that you cannot afford an extra 3 minutes or so at the beginning of the day so that your computer can start up is just not believable at all. I can believe that you're spread thin, and are probably doing several people's jobs (this economy seems to have that effect lately), but there is no reason that you couldn't adjust your schedule by basically seconds to allow your computer to start up from 'OFF' rather than 'SLEEP', especially if you (and others in your organization) did that and thus the company was able to save money....and then possibly hire you some more help with the funds saved.
Hmmm, so then by that logic, you must wear a diaper right? Otherwise you're telling me that you're wasting time that you absolutely DO NOT HAVE TO SPARE by going to the restroom. Not trying to flame ya here, dude, just trying to illustrate that you're being a little grandiose.
I understand a 'call center' type environment where one's billable time is based on login time, but that just means that employees should adjust their schedules to allow themselves to be logged/clocked in by the required start time.
I couldn't agree more. Even when we got resistance on setting the screensaver/power saver mode, we mentioned the idea of setting a really long delay time (like 2 hours of inactivity) so that the only time they would hibernate/sleep would be at night. We still got blasted back into oblivion.
The lesson? People will never let you correct their mistakes for them if it's going to expose the fact that they have no idea what they're doing in their position.
With all due respect, that's a load of crap. Your reasoning implies that each employee is wide open, balls-to-the-wall working every second he/she is sitting in front of his/her computer. EVERYONE can afford a couple of minutes for the computer to boot up in the morning and run a few scripts, period. My current workplace has this configuration, and they seem to get by just fine with this setup. For me, I plug my laptop into the docking station, start it up, and then head to the break room to get some coffee/water/whatever. By the time I get back, I'm at my desktop, and ready to go.
Oh how I wish there were something missing from my reason, but alas, there is nothing missing. I assure you, the facts were presented in an unbiased, and straightforward, "dollars and sense" way completed with the immediate ROI (given that there was virtually no cost since the ability to push the screensaver/sleep/hibernate settings was already available on the Windows environment that was deployed).
and in all honesty as head of a department you should have presented common sense facts to the person in marketing or their boss.
Hate to break it to ya, brother, but it is definitely not that simple in Corporate Real Estate. First of all, I was a member of a contractor for the company (large corporations rarely ever run their own real estate/facility divisions, it's almost always a contractor) so I had very limited influence since I was speaking to the individuals who were effectively my employer. Secondly, you underestimate the political fiefdoms that exist in corporate america. Even if one were to be able to speak to the "right ear" at the right time, you must realize that exposing what is nothing short of a colossal failure of planning of several, key decision makers is going to get killed before it gets up to anyone in the food chain with teeth. It's frustrating, but it's true. Every once in a while, you can figure a way to finesse one of these ivory tower types into thinking that an improvement like this is their idea, and then it will happen. However, unless the timing/climate is just right, it'll never see the light of day, and you just have to eat it.
Needless to say, I gladly left that position in the rear view mirror, and have moved to much greener pasture.
I worked as head of Critical Factilities Engineering for a major financial services provider with a 1 MM sq ft campus. There were just over 4000 employees on the campus, each one with at least 1 computer at his/her office/cube. After having a very expensive energy audit performed, a potential savings was (big surprise) shutting down PCs.
Despite calculating that the organization could save $75K annually (this was a conservative estimate), their marketing department put a stop to the idea. Why marketing? Because the company had just gone through a "rebranding" and the marketing department had designed a new screensaver for all workstations with the new logo/slogan. None of these computers were in client facing positions, so effectively, they were insistent on wasting energy to advertise....to themselves!
If by chance you actually need some piece of information that's going to be sent to you (i.e. a tracking #), try Explode Mail. It's all I use for crap like this....either that or my dummy Yahoo! email account that I use exclusively for spam prone registrations.
(Incidentally, what is generally termed closed circuit just separates the condenser water from the cooling tower water, and still has equal evaporation.)
Actually, this is not correct. In a closed loop system, the chilled/condenser water is sent to a heat exchanger which is incorporated with a Direct Expansion (DX) chiller. At no time is the water exposed to the atmosphere and thus subjected to evaporation. This method uses more electricity, and lacks some of the energy efficiency of an Open Loop (particularly due to the inability to use a 'water side economizer' cycle), but is still an effective method of cooling a data center. See here for an example.
[boomhauer]Yeah, man. Dang ol' tell y' wut, man ain't no way that thar wii go'n drive m' John Deere, man. Shoot, dang ol' robot mower go'n invade, man go'n get caught up in that dang ol' Conficker, man go'n mowed m' rose bushes. I tell you what, man, ain't no internet GPS satellite alien technologicalized controller runnin' my mower, boy I tell you what.[/boomhauer]
Right, because his predecessor was sooooo much better at this sort of thing, huh?
Spare me your sour grapes, and suck it up. Apparently your candidate lost, and now all you can do is complain about very unimportant and petty things, that's sad.
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Actually, I must recant my prior link, as it seems the truly LONG distance transmission lines are indeed often DC current. I contend that the majority of electrical distribution grids are indeed AC. I will also remain by my point that minimizing the advantages of AC current doesn't really make a lot of sense.
The only advantage of AC current is that it can be easily modified by transformers
You say that like it's a small thing. Transformation and induction have a LOT of uses that you're glossing over by a statement like that.
Long-distance power transmission (between grids) is DC because it doesn't require phase synchronization and it's less wasteful, and the difference adds up nicely over longer distances
Long distance power transmission is NOT DC as you claim it is. In fact, AC current transmits much more nicely than DC does.
Nice to see I'm not the only one who thinks she's an awful lot like Marla Singer.
I think we both agree that barring Obama having an epiphany and suddenly becoming a centrist free market guy the economy ain't getting better
The reality seems to disagree with your argument(s). While well written in terms of their 'readability' and flow, your posts seem almost venomously anti-Obama to the extent that it almost seems that you'd rather argue and condescend rather than discuss anything of real value.
Apart from the clever right-wing zings and allusions to a couple of books you're a fan of, you're not really offering any substance to the argument. In fact, you're doing exactly what you so fervently accuse various other posters of doing...shouting your OPINION.
I respect that you and I can have different opinions, but to attempt to masquerade them as facts is a little bit silly. As an example, in one of your earlier posts, you opine:
Would you care to back that ridiculous statement up with some FACT? You won't. You know why? Because you can't. It's a ridiculous, red herring of a statement cleverly disguised to sound as if there were some historical evidence to support it. Here's a small point you may not have considered: how on earth do you propose that those businesses will suddenly come up with the money to pull up all their roots and plant them in a new country?
Large corporations have thousands of offices scattered across the country, it's going to be exponentially more expensive to try to move all of their operations, retool/retrain the local people of insert-new-country-here than it is to suck it up and pay some taxes that should not have been dodged in the first place. It sounds to me like you're one of these dyed-in-the-wool Republicans who merely resists the ideas of ANY taxes being raised ever because....well....that's what Republicans do, apparently. While none of us (including myself) WANTS to pay any/more taxes, we recognize their necessity. Furthermore, if we hadn't made some of the horrific mistakes of the last 8 years, we wouldn't be in the position we're in. A very expensive and unnecessary war in Iraq got us into hock, and now we have to pay up, like it or not. The money's gotta come from somewhere folks.
the current crop of cheap CFLs are not green by any stretch of the imagination.
Why not side step the CFL problem all together by using these?
Pfft! I don't know what the issue is. 160 characters is more than enough to get the point across. Take for instance Hillebrand's previous research which clea
With all due respect, Minneapolis is not NYC. Furthermore, I think it's a lot easier to euphamize the incidents of 9/11 when all you did was watch it on TV. Just because you work in a high rise office building and are used to seeing "low flying planes" doesn't mean that you are somehow better equipped to deal with these things nor does it mean that anyone in NY during this faux pax are wussies.
In other words, it might not be a bad idea to walk a mile in another man's shoes before you go bragging about what a tough guy you are.
Well, I hate that you're in such a predicament, that truly sucks for you, friend. Although, it's nice to be able to have a decent back-and-forth with an obviously intelligent person without things descending into the inevitable flame war. Maybe it's a sad statement on what SlashDot has de-volved to at time, but it's pretty refreshing to have a slightly spirited conversation without it getting ugly.
Cheers to you, bro. Hope you're Friday is going/went well and your weekend is peaceful.
Again, I'm not trying to pick a fight with you, honestly. However, I question your logic. The reason I'm being so insistent is that it is exactly these types of arguments (those based on exaggerations or distortions of the truth) that keep some organizations from ever moving forward on things like utilizing the Power Save mode on PCs.
There are a couple of issues that I take with your situation:
First off, if you really walked into the meeting a half an hour early, why was everyone else also there half and hour early, and why would it be expected that you would immediately produce answers to questions about emails sent yesterday with absolutely no time to take your laptop out of the bag, flip it open and press the power button?
Second, if you have a laptop, and the emails you were supposedly being asked about the second you walked into the room were sent yesterday, why hadn't you checked your email prior to that moment? What's the point of a laptop if it's not going to be used for work away from the site? To go a step further, if you're in a role where you're expected to have immediate answers to questions, and constant communication, why do you not have a BlackBerry or some similar device?
Third, while I will not argue that your laptop starts more quickly while returning from Sleep mode than it does from a full Power Down, there is still a delay in the time from when you press the Power button to when your system is up and fully running (a few applications still have to re-initialize, network connectivity has to be restored, etc). Thus, your argument that you are expected to be "fully operational" from the second you walk in the door can't even be met by the methods you're describing.
Look dude, I'm not trying to be a jerk here, I'm just saying that it sounds like you (like a lot of people) are exaggerating the facts. I don't believe for a second that from the very instant you walk in the door that you are inundated with "4 alarm fire" type questions/problems every day. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, we all have those days. But to try to make the argument that you are such an essential cog that you cannot afford an extra 3 minutes or so at the beginning of the day so that your computer can start up is just not believable at all. I can believe that you're spread thin, and are probably doing several people's jobs (this economy seems to have that effect lately), but there is no reason that you couldn't adjust your schedule by basically seconds to allow your computer to start up from 'OFF' rather than 'SLEEP', especially if you (and others in your organization) did that and thus the company was able to save money....and then possibly hire you some more help with the funds saved.
Just food for thought.
Is it me or does that picture look like a melted 'pleasure device' on fire?
Or as the amazing FZ would say, a "lonely person device".
Hmmm, so then by that logic, you must wear a diaper right? Otherwise you're telling me that you're wasting time that you absolutely DO NOT HAVE TO SPARE by going to the restroom. Not trying to flame ya here, dude, just trying to illustrate that you're being a little grandiose.
I understand a 'call center' type environment where one's billable time is based on login time, but that just means that employees should adjust their schedules to allow themselves to be logged/clocked in by the required start time.
Problem solved.
Nope.
I couldn't agree more. Even when we got resistance on setting the screensaver/power saver mode, we mentioned the idea of setting a really long delay time (like 2 hours of inactivity) so that the only time they would hibernate/sleep would be at night. We still got blasted back into oblivion.
The lesson? People will never let you correct their mistakes for them if it's going to expose the fact that they have no idea what they're doing in their position.
With all due respect, that's a load of crap. Your reasoning implies that each employee is wide open, balls-to-the-wall working every second he/she is sitting in front of his/her computer. EVERYONE can afford a couple of minutes for the computer to boot up in the morning and run a few scripts, period. My current workplace has this configuration, and they seem to get by just fine with this setup. For me, I plug my laptop into the docking station, start it up, and then head to the break room to get some coffee/water/whatever. By the time I get back, I'm at my desktop, and ready to go.
No big deal.
and in all honesty as head of a department you should have presented common sense facts to the person in marketing or their boss.
Hate to break it to ya, brother, but it is definitely not that simple in Corporate Real Estate. First of all, I was a member of a contractor for the company (large corporations rarely ever run their own real estate/facility divisions, it's almost always a contractor) so I had very limited influence since I was speaking to the individuals who were effectively my employer. Secondly, you underestimate the political fiefdoms that exist in corporate america. Even if one were to be able to speak to the "right ear" at the right time, you must realize that exposing what is nothing short of a colossal failure of planning of several, key decision makers is going to get killed before it gets up to anyone in the food chain with teeth. It's frustrating, but it's true. Every once in a while, you can figure a way to finesse one of these ivory tower types into thinking that an improvement like this is their idea, and then it will happen. However, unless the timing/climate is just right, it'll never see the light of day, and you just have to eat it.
Needless to say, I gladly left that position in the rear view mirror, and have moved to much greener pasture.
I worked as head of Critical Factilities Engineering for a major financial services provider with a 1 MM sq ft campus. There were just over 4000 employees on the campus, each one with at least 1 computer at his/her office/cube. After having a very expensive energy audit performed, a potential savings was (big surprise) shutting down PCs.
Despite calculating that the organization could save $75K annually (this was a conservative estimate), their marketing department put a stop to the idea. Why marketing? Because the company had just gone through a "rebranding" and the marketing department had designed a new screensaver for all workstations with the new logo/slogan. None of these computers were in client facing positions, so effectively, they were insistent on wasting energy to advertise....to themselves!
No, I'm not kidding.
Chewbacca does not make sense!!
If by chance you actually need some piece of information that's going to be sent to you (i.e. a tracking #), try Explode Mail. It's all I use for crap like this....either that or my dummy Yahoo! email account that I use exclusively for spam prone registrations.
(Incidentally, what is generally termed closed circuit just separates the condenser water from the cooling tower water, and still has equal evaporation.)
Actually, this is not correct. In a closed loop system, the chilled/condenser water is sent to a heat exchanger which is incorporated with a Direct Expansion (DX) chiller. At no time is the water exposed to the atmosphere and thus subjected to evaporation. This method uses more electricity, and lacks some of the energy efficiency of an Open Loop (particularly due to the inability to use a 'water side economizer' cycle), but is still an effective method of cooling a data center. See here for an example.
[boomhauer]Yeah, man. Dang ol' tell y' wut, man ain't no way that thar wii go'n drive m' John Deere, man. Shoot, dang ol' robot mower go'n invade, man go'n get caught up in that dang ol' Conficker, man go'n mowed m' rose bushes. I tell you what, man, ain't no internet GPS satellite alien technologicalized controller runnin' my mower, boy I tell you what.[/boomhauer]
Hmmm, yeah, apparently you're right!!
Although, maybe I can convince you that I was allowing for the unmentioned 'bathroom breaks'?? No??
Ok, you're right, I can't count.....multiply, yes.....count, no.
I spend just under 20% of my billable time each day on each activity..
According to this study, that makes you about 63% more productive than other office workers, NICE JOB!!
Right, because his predecessor was sooooo much better at this sort of thing, huh?
Spare me your sour grapes, and suck it up. Apparently your candidate lost, and now all you can do is complain about very unimportant and petty things, that's sad.
Metallica's yodelling compilation is a little known and highly sought-after box-set
You're not kidding! I've been trying to locate that infamous B-side, "Zither of Puppets" for years.
I am curious what percentage of journalists are left vs right leaning,
See for yourself.