We use $600/month excluding heating (gas). I believe the main offenders are:
Air conditioning - although it's not on much, it's around 15KW. I don't know how people can afford to have the AC pumping all day in places like California.
Corner fridge (350 US gal).
Lighting: those 25W halogen bulbs are *everywhere* - the kitchen has 20 (500W!)
I sometimes have auditory hallucinations at night after an excessively busy or stressful day, if I've been up for 18 hours or so. I'll hear an underground train, or people talking (no specific words) - but when I concentrate I realise it's not there.
I put this down to being in a state of consciousness that's closer to sleep than normal. Of course, on a day like that, I consume more coffee than usual. Correlation is not causation.
Wrong. It's just that your old Stax really are that bad. I've tried most of them, and the only Stax headphones worth having are the SR-007 Omega 2s. I have the Alessandro version of the SR-60... somewhere. In fact, their sound is so memorable I'd I forgot I had them until I saw your post.
People who buy quad core processors nowadays either want extremely performance for multithreaded tasks and are willing to pay (a lot!) or they're total dumbasses, in either case they'll buy an i7.
Actually the lower-end quad core chips aren't expensive and quad core is now mainstream - for their average desktops, Dell seem to be choosing low-end C2Q chips in preference to higher-clocked C2Ds. I think this is because the typical consumer and computer store salesman have switched from clock speed to cores as the performance differentiator - "this one's faster - it's a quad".
Personally, for my heaviest uses, Handbrake and Folding@Home, I'll take more CPU grunt in whatever form happens to be most cost effective: more cores or faster cores. The Q6600 is popular because you get both: four cores, easily clocked to 3.4GHz+ - that's a lot of grunt for under $200.
The standard UK iPhone tariff includes 500 texts - after that they're about 20 cents (12p). But since it also includes pseudo-unlimited data, I can send as many emails as I like, complete with pictures. Most of my friends have iPhones too - so we send emails with pictures to each other all the time.
Daybot:: You must be Yet Another Opinionated and Ignorant Yankee
Chris - did you have a bad day? I hope not, especially if you celebrate Christmas. My post was light-hearted - it's funny when someone mis-spells 'taught', because 'taught' implies learning, but they haven't learnt how to spell that very word. It was a light-hearted little joke on my part and certainly not intended to offend anyone for whom English is their second language. I'm actually English - as in, from England, and therefore painfully aware of the sacrilegious perversions of my country's beautiful language;)
Now, I still have my PowerBook so I can spark it up to deauthorize the computer if I want too, but that's still annoying. In 12 - 15 years, I have a real problem on my hands...to add to this, I can't seem to find a way to deauthorize a computer remotely.
You can't, but once you hit five computers you have the option to deauthorize them all and reset the count to zero. You can only do this once per year.
So the question is, have non-British people paid for iPlayer through advertising or not? If not, then why not give them iPlayer but with ads?
I'll bet many Americans reading these stories on the iPlayer have no idea how much video content on the internet is US-only. I wish I had a US-registered IP and credit card! Anyway, It's all to do with how TV content is licensed and funded.
1: Bought-in content.
The BBC pays a fee to NBC, for example, to show Heroes in the UK via TV/iPlayer. The BBC then has an obligation to ensure that they only make the show available in the licensed territories.
2: In-house content.
In the same way, some BBC-produced shows are licensed internationally. Top Gear, for example, has a comparatively high budget for a UK show largely because of its high revenue from foreign TV networks who have bought 'exclusive rights' in their respective territories.
In both cases, the amount of revenue achieved by providing the content ad-supported to foreign visitors would be peanuts compared to the lucrative cross-network licensing agreements it would be undermining.
Turn on the beta 'labs' features here, then get the installer. You might be able to get the installer from this link, but if not, choose "Download" from this page.
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Who the hell uses that much electric power?
We use $600/month excluding heating (gas). I believe the main offenders are:
I sometimes have auditory hallucinations at night after an excessively busy or stressful day, if I've been up for 18 hours or so. I'll hear an underground train, or people talking (no specific words) - but when I concentrate I realise it's not there.
I put this down to being in a state of consciousness that's closer to sleep than normal. Of course, on a day like that, I consume more coffee than usual. Correlation is not causation.
That was fun. Any more?
Wow - that was beautiful.
We've done blind tests with orchestra and studio musicians, and the detection rate of MP3 vs. CD
What bitrate?
Wrong. It's just that your old Stax really are that bad. I've tried most of them, and the only Stax headphones worth having are the SR-007 Omega 2s. I have the Alessandro version of the SR-60... somewhere. In fact, their sound is so memorable I'd I forgot I had them until I saw your post.
Tell me why the geek who fears his own shadow downloads an executable from a source like Pirate Bay.
Not just an executable, but an entire operating system! Imagine the potential to inject trojans, backdoors, keyloggers...
People who buy quad core processors nowadays either want extremely performance for multithreaded tasks and are willing to pay (a lot!) or they're total dumbasses, in either case they'll buy an i7.
Actually the lower-end quad core chips aren't expensive and quad core is now mainstream - for their average desktops, Dell seem to be choosing low-end C2Q chips in preference to higher-clocked C2Ds. I think this is because the typical consumer and computer store salesman have switched from clock speed to cores as the performance differentiator - "this one's faster - it's a quad".
Personally, for my heaviest uses, Handbrake and Folding@Home, I'll take more CPU grunt in whatever form happens to be most cost effective: more cores or faster cores. The Q6600 is popular because you get both: four cores, easily clocked to 3.4GHz+ - that's a lot of grunt for under $200.
Unless someone can tell me that I am not missing much using 32 bit windows.
You're not missing much using 32-bit Windows.
I measured my DirecTV HR20 DVR with a KillAWatt. On: 41W Off: 40W
...and your KillAWatt lived up to its name :)
a brand new Ferrari for $100, and I bought it and drove it for 20 years, then one day it just vanished into thin air
Could be pretty serious if you were doing 180mph at the time...
The standard UK iPhone tariff includes 500 texts - after that they're about 20 cents (12p). But since it also includes pseudo-unlimited data, I can send as many emails as I like, complete with pictures. Most of my friends have iPhones too - so we send emails with pictures to each other all the time.
Daybot:: You must be Yet Another Opinionated and Ignorant Yankee
Chris - did you have a bad day? I hope not, especially if you celebrate Christmas. My post was light-hearted - it's funny when someone mis-spells 'taught', because 'taught' implies learning, but they haven't learnt how to spell that very word. It was a light-hearted little joke on my part and certainly not intended to offend anyone for whom English is their second language. I'm actually English - as in, from England, and therefore painfully aware of the sacrilegious perversions of my country's beautiful language ;)
Great story - thanks for sharing.
They actually tought me a thing or two about Linux and Windows. :P
But not how to use the spell-checker :)
Now, I still have my PowerBook so I can spark it up to deauthorize the computer if I want too, but that's still annoying. In 12 - 15 years, I have a real problem on my hands...to add to this, I can't seem to find a way to deauthorize a computer remotely.
You can't, but once you hit five computers you have the option to deauthorize them all and reset the count to zero. You can only do this once per year.
So the question is, have non-British people paid for iPlayer through advertising or not? If not, then why not give them iPlayer but with ads?
I'll bet many Americans reading these stories on the iPlayer have no idea how much video content on the internet is US-only. I wish I had a US-registered IP and credit card! Anyway, It's all to do with how TV content is licensed and funded.
1: Bought-in content.
The BBC pays a fee to NBC, for example, to show Heroes in the UK via TV/iPlayer. The BBC then has an obligation to ensure that they only make the show available in the licensed territories.
2: In-house content.
In the same way, some BBC-produced shows are licensed internationally. Top Gear, for example, has a comparatively high budget for a UK show largely because of its high revenue from foreign TV networks who have bought 'exclusive rights' in their respective territories.
In both cases, the amount of revenue achieved by providing the content ad-supported to foreign visitors would be peanuts compared to the lucrative cross-network licensing agreements it would be undermining.
I was beginning to go a bit nuts wondering how I was supposed to get it working
Yeah it was a frustrating 10-minute road for me, so I thought it would be worth posting some instructions that actually work :)
Here's what you have to do:
Turn on the beta 'labs' features here, then get the installer. You might be able to get the installer from this link, but if not, choose "Download" from this page.
Here's some further info for installing on the Mac, and installing on Linux - but the above should suffice.
Of course, you're better off using iplayer-dl to download the flash streams DRM-free ;)
If this catches on for research institutions it may increase Sony's sales, but they might not be seeing the corresponding sale of games spike
Come on - that's the whole point. This is what you'll need to run the PS3 version of Crysis!
My password is obvious.
I find Safari's password manager perfectly sec^H^HONLINE MEDS, CHEAP V1AGRA, NO PRESCRIPT1ON REQUIRED
Wouldn't the pants be kinda smelly by now if you haven't worn any other pants for years?
He bought the optional Washing Station that washes the Tactical Pants in 90 seconds.
I understand what you're saying, and I agree with you, but it is amusing that you're using a blu-ray based games console to avoid DRM!
...and if I had mod points I'd give you +1 Informative!