I should have made more clear that my eventual goal was to get at actual wall power consumption, multiplying it by my local kWh price, and being able to tell my wife, "This k00l home server farm costs xy pennies a day to run".
Of course, I'm nuts for thinking that having those sorts of details would enable me to sway my wife's opinion about anything.
...and started playing almost nightly on PokerStars, which is the only online poker site that I can play on Linux I'm running Wine 20050524 on Sarge, and it supports it right out of the box.
but i am saddend that Lucas gave up 20 years of creativity to make the starwars movies instead of making movies that he really liked. THX was his best movie he's ever made... at least to me.. because you can see the creativity put into making it.
I think Lucas did like making Star Wars, at least with the first trilogy. He seems to have his heart in the right place about fan homage/satire efforts, and check out what he considered the contest winner:
Just out of curiosity -- where/how did you get your power consumption figures? I've been curious about this for a while, and haven't found any useful info. I was on the point of buying one of those in-line multimeters just to measure... TIA.
Fruit for fruit, I will rate most apples higher than most oranges.
The default American apple, like the default American OS, is a mealy, unsweet sphere of crap called the Red Delicious. Somehow the apple-for-teacher crowd convinced people that apples should be judged by size, hue, and uniformity of color -- not by taste. The runner-up in the popularity contest, McIntosh, isn't much better.
Try these to find out what apples can taste like :
Granny Smith ( the green ones, a unique taste!)
Fuji
Gala
Braeburn
Pink Lady
Compare this to Orange availability. Usually, you can only get Navel oranges, which at least in the northeast, are practically tasteless, or Valencias, which even the sellers recommend only for juicing. (I leave out tangerines, clementines, tangerines, and blood and mandarin oranges, all of which are much better).
Stop judging apples by the red delicious (which, not coincidentally, are grown near... Redmond!).
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Thanks for the useful info!
I should have made more clear that my eventual goal was to get at actual wall power consumption, multiplying it by my local kWh price, and being able to tell my wife, "This k00l home server farm costs xy pennies a day to run".
Of course, I'm nuts for thinking that having those sorts of details would enable me to sway my wife's opinion about anything.
I think Lucas did like making Star Wars, at least with the first trilogy. He seems to have his heart in the right place about fan homage/satire efforts, and check out what he considered the contest winner:
http://www.atomfilms.com/af/spotlight/collections
If that's his 'selection', it must be because it struck a chord with him about the power of creation and his feelings in making the film.
Just out of curiosity -- where/how did you get your power consumption figures? I've been curious about this for a while, and haven't found any useful info. I was on the point of buying one of those in-line multimeters just to measure... TIA.
Fruit for fruit, I will rate most apples higher than most oranges.
... Redmond!).
The default American apple, like the default American OS, is a mealy, unsweet sphere of crap called the Red Delicious. Somehow the apple-for-teacher crowd convinced people that apples should be judged by size, hue, and uniformity of color -- not by taste. The runner-up in the popularity contest, McIntosh, isn't much better.
Try these to find out what apples can taste like :
Granny Smith ( the green ones, a unique taste!)
Fuji
Gala
Braeburn
Pink Lady
Compare this to Orange availability. Usually, you can only get Navel oranges, which at least in the northeast, are practically tasteless, or Valencias, which even the sellers recommend only for juicing. (I leave out tangerines, clementines, tangerines, and blood and mandarin oranges, all of which are much better).
Stop judging apples by the red delicious (which, not coincidentally, are grown near