The competitive advantage Amazon had over other online retailers will disappear if this passes. Their business model would need to change. It would place local merchants on a "level playing field", and nothing would offset the shipping charges.
If this happens, Amazon will seriously need to re-think how they go about business!
Most states I am registered in only consider it a protected term if you are using it in respect to a protected field. To the GP's point, Systems Engineer could be at risk, although there is no field similar to "software" to cause conflict for software engineer. (Same goes for a stationary engineer.)
Fortunately, though, if you are not licensed by the state board, the board has no power over you unless you represent yourself as a regulated professional in the practice of engineering.
You still have USB Drive viruses that get into the local network and create a path through the firewall, as well as laptops that go home with people. Proper Anti-virus helps but isn't foolproof.
I've only looked into it for Los Angeles (as I stated), where I could get a OC192 for a fair bargain as well as cross connects at a major data center a few miles away. Assuming a 20:1 contention, it looked viable to provide a 100Mbs customer link for under $50 per end-user with good return on investment.
You would be surprised where you can get a OC-192 for local interconnect. You need a good source to find the deals, and you need to be close to the loop. After that, it is just a matter of cross-connecting at a point where you can get the bandwidth you need.
See Closed Circuit Cooling Tower. DX is "closed circuit", but nobody refers to it that way, as obviously the refrigerant must stay in a closed circuit.
If you are trying to sell high-speed access, you need to assume that people are going to be downloading about half a terabyte worth of HD video content a month. If the system cannot support that for every customer (10MBit average sustained four hours a day), then you are in the wrong business.
The more I read about these companies' stupidity, the more I want to start a co-op ISP. In LA it isn't that hard to lease a wavelength off of DWP (assuming you have them passing nearby) to connect to one of the hubs in El Segundo, Downtown, or wherever. Negotiate with a community for the right to run local links, and you can have a system installed for under $500 per node, and all your costs are paid after 12 months, with just bandwidth remaining.
It is also used for swamp coolers (direct or indirect) in some climates, but that is a bit of a pain.
Not using water evaporation means that you need about 30% more electricity during the summer. It is more expensive to have two different systems to allow for using water evaporation just for peak shaving electrical demand.
You are using evaporation for cooling. Unless your relative humidity is already very high, the water isn't going to be precipitated out in the local region. If the relative humidity is that high, then you are better using air-cooled chillers rather than water-cooled chillers from an efficiency perspective.
The other issue is that almost all water in the US is treated as drinking water. This requires significant energy and additives to sterilize and remove suspended substances. Water prices don't always reflect the true cost of supply due to its nature.
Ultimately, it's entropy. If you have waste heat, it has to go somewhere.
Significantly less efficient, especially if the relative humidity is low. (Incidentally, what is generally termed closed circuit just separates the condenser water from the cooling tower water, and still has equal evaporation.)
Hopefully we will see more controls that optimize for water and electricity efficiency, but it is great to see people using grey water for cooling tower make-up... as long as they are not upwind from me!
But, if you could distill the water with waste heat and solar, it might get interesting.
10 Years ago, many libraries were scanning their books for preservation. 30 Years back, I'm sure many were making microfilm/microfiche. However, back then they didn't have the server space to store everything. They were burning things to CD, and re-burning at regular intervals.
I'm happy for Google's efforts, and I look forward to others following in their footsteps.
As others said, the real assett is microwave line-of-site to almost all of metro la. A certain group forces cropping or airbrushing of the arrays in commercial photos and movies, with one notable exception.
Well, no easy citation, and obviously when the hydrogen bomb came about it was worthless. Some tv or movie mogul bought it later, and his pool is still up there (covered and used as a resivour for the firefighting helicopters.
If you can find a good sat photo, the air intake is just north of the main antenna, and I think the stairs down are by two north-east most structures.
Nothing really important is in the bunker anymore, but there is always one person down there. Most boring job imagineable!
Actually, they go after people on the Hollywood sign for a slightly different reason. You won't find many pictures taken from the south-west that show anything above the "D" without airbrushing out the background.
Among other things, there is a cold-war era relic for the governor's fallout bunker, but this isn't the issue.
Unfortunately, you pay "full" price, but the phone is still locked to AT&T. Dumb move in my mind, but maybe that is what we will end up seeing in another month.
...Especially those from Autodesk, Adobe, and Microsoft!
The software activation complexity and compatibility issues make those three companies products worthless as shipped. I view the pirated product as having added value for our company when compared to the activation challenges the others pose.
We're generally compliant with the number of software licenses in the office, but there might be a few things off here or there. I'll even go so far as to say that we deliberately "kite" licenses periodically to match purchases of major software to payment rather than workload. Honestly, that is the best we can do and still run a business.
Now, when it comes to blatant "piracy", that is another matter, but software makers need to keep things easy enough to be compliant that you avoid the slippery slope.
And, as for the implied taunt to the BSA, this all may reflect actual or imaginary companies, software, and policies. Nothing written here is an admission of guilt or implied condoning of such actions.
Your typical CRAC unit-- just a fan-- is 0.2 iS/ton, while a chiller at half load is about 0.45 kW/ton. Chilled water pumps are about 0.1 kW/ton, and condenser water pumps and cooling towers are about 0.2 kW/ton. In total, the chiller is about half the totalcooling load.
The times when you can run in bypass the efficiency is higher.
The R&D money is the issue, not the development (per se) of the renewable power plants. Renewable energy is largely an R&D endeavour, but the oil companies prefer to consider it a project cost with poor payback.
Umm... where to start. Increased delta T reduces air or water flow, thus reducing fan/pump energy. Minimum energy consumption is based on minimizing the delta T of the refrigerant cycle; if your inlet air temperature is based on either outside air dry or wet bulb temperature (air-side or water-side economizer), then your goal is to maximize the outlet air temperature to within server tolerances, and prevent mixing if inlet and outlet air.
As for component failure, it's the line we all keep preaching, but there really isn't good information when you are still talking about die temperatures under 70C or so for the CPU.
Having multiple thermal zones for a server can improve the issues with power consumption or failures for certain systems. Heat pipes are an easy way to make this work.
Those power savings are for the chiller only, not for the overall system. All of these developments are cool (heh), but I'm still waiting for heat recovery options to run an absorption chiller...
Rackable has a very efficient solution. I only have a couple better ideas than what they are doing...
Two problems: You don't use enough water and it isn't used consistently. You can use thermal storage and get some benefit, but it isn't nearly enough unless you are a major water consumer.
Power plants are only slightly more efficient than your average car, and a little less when you add in transmission (excluding combined heat-power plants). There are a lot of things that need to be done.
A lot of this technology is about implementing control logic for system optimization, which used to be too expensive. Differential and integral control algorithms are hard to impliment in pneumatics. Multi-variable real-time optimization requires much more processing and feedback than what your typical DDC controller can do. This is more than simple equipment replacement, it is re-working how a process is architected and controlled.
In many cases, it is just information overload. I don't dispute that there is a significant indifference with many of these things, but it isn't necessarily that the education system isn't doing their job.
I remember many useless facts from some of my favorite classes 20+ years ago, including pop quiz questions I got wrong. I have also forgotten a great deal of things I once knew to "make space" for things that interest me now. Just because much of my interest is in engineering, and technology doesn't mean that I can remember at any point in time who the last emporer of the Roman Empire before the capital moved to Constantanople, or even when Napoleon's reign ended.
Hell, today without spell check I would look like a functional illiterate. None of these make me less capable at my job.
Not everybody has a photographic memory, and those who do train it to remember things that are important to them-- be it baseball stats, cars, science, literature, or whatever. Teach kids to learn and to think, don't be surprised when they can't remember facts that aren't useful to them ten years later.
What percentage of Americans daily lives give them a sense of how big the ocean really is?
I'll tell candidates things that they can fix to improve a resume, but you can't just change yourself... only the appearance of yourself.
But to the jackass that does keep sending his resume to us, track where you send your resumes, follow up afterwards, and get rid of that gawdawful picture of yourself in the corner!
Are you kidding?! It is the same as the fluff answer you would get if you called and asked for a debrief.
Many employers interview 20 people for one job. Do you really want me to tell you that "we're just hoping to find someone better than you." Or, "you smelled really bad and the stench lingered for a day." Or, "you just seemed to be full of shit."
We did actually make sure one candidate was told by his friend that he needs to shower and use deoderant (and not just a healthy dose of cologne!) before an interview...
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The competitive advantage Amazon had over other online retailers will disappear if this passes. Their business model would need to change. It would place local merchants on a "level playing field", and nothing would offset the shipping charges.
If this happens, Amazon will seriously need to re-think how they go about business!
Most states I am registered in only consider it a protected term if you are using it in respect to a protected field. To the GP's point, Systems Engineer could be at risk, although there is no field similar to "software" to cause conflict for software engineer. (Same goes for a stationary engineer.)
Fortunately, though, if you are not licensed by the state board, the board has no power over you unless you represent yourself as a regulated professional in the practice of engineering.
You still have USB Drive viruses that get into the local network and create a path through the firewall, as well as laptops that go home with people. Proper Anti-virus helps but isn't foolproof.
I've only looked into it for Los Angeles (as I stated), where I could get a OC192 for a fair bargain as well as cross connects at a major data center a few miles away. Assuming a 20:1 contention, it looked viable to provide a 100Mbs customer link for under $50 per end-user with good return on investment.
You would be surprised where you can get a OC-192 for local interconnect. You need a good source to find the deals, and you need to be close to the loop. After that, it is just a matter of cross-connecting at a point where you can get the bandwidth you need.
See Closed Circuit Cooling Tower. DX is "closed circuit", but nobody refers to it that way, as obviously the refrigerant must stay in a closed circuit.
If you are trying to sell high-speed access, you need to assume that people are going to be downloading about half a terabyte worth of HD video content a month. If the system cannot support that for every customer (10MBit average sustained four hours a day), then you are in the wrong business.
The more I read about these companies' stupidity, the more I want to start a co-op ISP. In LA it isn't that hard to lease a wavelength off of DWP (assuming you have them passing nearby) to connect to one of the hubs in El Segundo, Downtown, or wherever. Negotiate with a community for the right to run local links, and you can have a system installed for under $500 per node, and all your costs are paid after 12 months, with just bandwidth remaining.
This isn't rocket science...
It evaporates outside in the cooling tower.
Data CenterCRAC UnitsChillerCooling Towers
It is also used for swamp coolers (direct or indirect) in some climates, but that is a bit of a pain.
Not using water evaporation means that you need about 30% more electricity during the summer. It is more expensive to have two different systems to allow for using water evaporation just for peak shaving electrical demand.
You are using evaporation for cooling. Unless your relative humidity is already very high, the water isn't going to be precipitated out in the local region. If the relative humidity is that high, then you are better using air-cooled chillers rather than water-cooled chillers from an efficiency perspective.
The other issue is that almost all water in the US is treated as drinking water. This requires significant energy and additives to sterilize and remove suspended substances. Water prices don't always reflect the true cost of supply due to its nature.
Ultimately, it's entropy. If you have waste heat, it has to go somewhere.
Significantly less efficient, especially if the relative humidity is low. (Incidentally, what is generally termed closed circuit just separates the condenser water from the cooling tower water, and still has equal evaporation.)
Hopefully we will see more controls that optimize for water and electricity efficiency, but it is great to see people using grey water for cooling tower make-up... as long as they are not upwind from me!
But, if you could distill the water with waste heat and solar, it might get interesting.
10 Years ago, many libraries were scanning their books for preservation. 30 Years back, I'm sure many were making microfilm/microfiche. However, back then they didn't have the server space to store everything. They were burning things to CD, and re-burning at regular intervals.
I'm happy for Google's efforts, and I look forward to others following in their footsteps.
As others said, the real assett is microwave line-of-site to almost all of metro la. A certain group forces cropping or airbrushing of the arrays in commercial photos and movies, with one notable exception.
The bunker is just odd trivia.
Well, no easy citation, and obviously when the hydrogen bomb came about it was worthless. Some tv or movie mogul bought it later, and his pool is still up there (covered and used as a resivour for the firefighting helicopters.
If you can find a good sat photo, the air intake is just north of the main antenna, and I think the stairs down are by two north-east most structures.
Nothing really important is in the bunker anymore, but there is always one person down there. Most boring job imagineable!
Actually, they go after people on the Hollywood sign for a slightly different reason. You won't find many pictures taken from the south-west that show anything above the "D" without airbrushing out the background.
Among other things, there is a cold-war era relic for the governor's fallout bunker, but this isn't the issue.
Unfortunately, you pay "full" price, but the phone is still locked to AT&T. Dumb move in my mind, but maybe that is what we will end up seeing in another month.
Or, you can ship the 40' containers in just under two weeks!
...Especially those from Autodesk, Adobe, and Microsoft!
The software activation complexity and compatibility issues make those three companies products worthless as shipped. I view the pirated product as having added value for our company when compared to the activation challenges the others pose.
We're generally compliant with the number of software licenses in the office, but there might be a few things off here or there. I'll even go so far as to say that we deliberately "kite" licenses periodically to match purchases of major software to payment rather than workload. Honestly, that is the best we can do and still run a business.
Now, when it comes to blatant "piracy", that is another matter, but software makers need to keep things easy enough to be compliant that you avoid the slippery slope.
And, as for the implied taunt to the BSA, this all may reflect actual or imaginary companies, software, and policies. Nothing written here is an admission of guilt or implied condoning of such actions.
Your typical CRAC unit-- just a fan-- is 0.2 iS/ton, while a chiller at half load is about 0.45 kW/ton. Chilled water pumps are about 0.1 kW/ton, and condenser water pumps and cooling towers are about 0.2 kW/ton. In total, the chiller is about half the totalcooling load.
The times when you can run in bypass the efficiency is higher.
The R&D money is the issue, not the development (per se) of the renewable power plants. Renewable energy is largely an R&D endeavour, but the oil companies prefer to consider it a project cost with poor payback.
Umm... where to start. Increased delta T reduces air or water flow, thus reducing fan/pump energy. Minimum energy consumption is based on minimizing the delta T of the refrigerant cycle; if your inlet air temperature is based on either outside air dry or wet bulb temperature (air-side or water-side economizer), then your goal is to maximize the outlet air temperature to within server tolerances, and prevent mixing if inlet and outlet air.
As for component failure, it's the line we all keep preaching, but there really isn't good information when you are still talking about die temperatures under 70C or so for the CPU.
Having multiple thermal zones for a server can improve the issues with power consumption or failures for certain systems. Heat pipes are an easy way to make this work.
Those power savings are for the chiller only, not for the overall system. All of these developments are cool (heh), but I'm still waiting for heat recovery options to run an absorption chiller...
Rackable has a very efficient solution. I only have a couple better ideas than what they are doing...
Two problems: You don't use enough water and it isn't used consistently. You can use thermal storage and get some benefit, but it isn't nearly enough unless you are a major water consumer.
Power plants are only slightly more efficient than your average car, and a little less when you add in transmission (excluding combined heat-power plants). There are a lot of things that need to be done.
A lot of this technology is about implementing control logic for system optimization, which used to be too expensive. Differential and integral control algorithms are hard to impliment in pneumatics. Multi-variable real-time optimization requires much more processing and feedback than what your typical DDC controller can do. This is more than simple equipment replacement, it is re-working how a process is architected and controlled.
In many cases, it is just information overload. I don't dispute that there is a significant indifference with many of these things, but it isn't necessarily that the education system isn't doing their job.
I remember many useless facts from some of my favorite classes 20+ years ago, including pop quiz questions I got wrong. I have also forgotten a great deal of things I once knew to "make space" for things that interest me now. Just because much of my interest is in engineering, and technology doesn't mean that I can remember at any point in time who the last emporer of the Roman Empire before the capital moved to Constantanople, or even when Napoleon's reign ended.
Hell, today without spell check I would look like a functional illiterate. None of these make me less capable at my job.
Not everybody has a photographic memory, and those who do train it to remember things that are important to them-- be it baseball stats, cars, science, literature, or whatever. Teach kids to learn and to think, don't be surprised when they can't remember facts that aren't useful to them ten years later.
What percentage of Americans daily lives give them a sense of how big the ocean really is?
I'll tell candidates things that they can fix to improve a resume, but you can't just change yourself... only the appearance of yourself.
But to the jackass that does keep sending his resume to us, track where you send your resumes, follow up afterwards, and get rid of that gawdawful picture of yourself in the corner!
Are you kidding?! It is the same as the fluff answer you would get if you called and asked for a debrief.
Many employers interview 20 people for one job. Do you really want me to tell you that "we're just hoping to find someone better than you." Or, "you smelled really bad and the stench lingered for a day." Or, "you just seemed to be full of shit."
We did actually make sure one candidate was told by his friend that he needs to shower and use deoderant (and not just a healthy dose of cologne!) before an interview...