I already addressed your second point in my original post. That it runs on different machines doesn't mean it's less efficient, the load is distributed.
And thanks for the pedantry, of course it's not actual 0 grammes (but would that be even 0.5 g?), everybody gets the damn point.
Wow, 10% is coal, it changes everything! Probably 10% of the energy required by Stephen Fry's abroad twitterings came from burning coal, the shock! The whole point is, it's stupid and pointless to say "hey doing this and that emitted globally this much CO2", cause no one should care, what people should care about is that everywhere governments turn to such things as nuclear power and others.
What?? You just make sure that you are capable of producing enough energy for the peaks, which are well known anyways. It's not like we have to start coal plants every once in a while to handle the demand. Just look at how France does it.
Cool, so tell me how much megawatt for megawatt each power source emits. And how is nuclear waste worse than CO2? CO2 destroys our climate. What does nuclear waste do besides be bothering to deal with until we drill a hole to the mantle of Earth and dump it there?
Better yet, let's do what we're the best at doing and let's create an antagonism! Tea drinkers have been ruining our atmosphere for too long. Should we let them keep on participating to the destruction of our planet for the sake of preserving their sick habit? Or should we force them to stop drinking tea by all means and kill those who don't (and bury them in airtight bags, to avoid, you know, the gas emissions).
You're either with Earth or against Earth! Letting people drink tea would be like letting the tea drinkers win! Think of our children! This world will be a better place if we send tea drinkers to an even better place!
"Google refuses to divulge the locations of its data centres"
So basically he doesn't know whether their datacentres are plugged into coal power plants or nuclear plants, he's just making wild assumptions?
"When you type in a Google search for, say, âoeenergy saving tipsâ, your request doesnâ(TM)t go to just one server. It goes to several competing against each other."
Wow, that was a pretty fucking lame way to make it sound energy-inefficient. As if it consumed more energy because a single search goes through many different computers.. Plus it's making it sound like Google gets the job done redundantly and you get the result from whichever does the job the fastest, which is obviously balls. And by balls I mean misleading.
"Simply running a PC generates between 40g and 80g per hour"
That's funny because mine generates 0g per hour. It's called nuclear power.
"Last week Stephen Fry, the TV presenter, was posting "tweets" from New Zealand, imparting such vital information as..."
OMG Stephen Fry you bastard how dare you emit gasses to inform us of your adventures around the globe! Let's overlook the fact that most of electricity in New Zealand is produced by hydropower stations.
Is it me or is the point of this article "feel guilty for doing anything with your computer 'cause it ruins the planet thank you very much you bastard"? while acting like using power is inherently polluting whereas it really depends on the source?
In the context of damage control as the Chinese government is trying to do, the problem is not creating airtight censorship, because the news they try to silence come from mainland China itself, they just try to make sure as few as possible gain access to the news in question.
Because for some reason, when you're pissed at your government because you emigrated from your village to not find a job and still be in a crappy situation, when you learn that people all across the country are protesting and on strikes, it makes you want to do the same thing. Revolutions are like Mexican waves, you can only help them happen if you know what your peers are up to.
If I understand correctly the situation in China, the main reason why the Chinese people let the Communists in power is their double digit yearly economic growth. Since the recent economic downturn, it seems very unlikely that China will manage to maintain a satisfactory growth, which would trigger unrest.
A quick googling brought up this recent article which seems to confirm that what's been predicted since the global economy crashed through the floor is bound to happen in the near future.
So the blocking of Wikinews in China fits in the picture in the damage control part of it, that is pretty much "let's make sure as little of our people learn what's currently happening in our country right now". Failing to control the information about protests across the country means empowering these movements, and the stakes are the future of Communism in China as a whole, although it won't go without a fight either.
You would "feel" that extra energy as extra stiffness in the controls. You might not want that, especially to extract just a few microwatts every once in a while.
It could be done using a pump, a computer-controlled hose and a hole in the wall, but you'd rather make sure that you don't go through the "beam" when it's "transferring".
In other words the elevator on the moon would have to be about 120,000 km long? Sounds about right. I really don't see what would be the interest of an elevator on the moon though.
"VNCing" games through the Internet and possibly a wireless network, and getting a decent enough latency and enough throughoutput to get a good image quality/FPS? Good luck with that, not saying it won't work, but if it does work satisfyingly and reliably it'll be an impressive feat.
Well I know StreamMyGame does it, but it's meant to be used locally, not over the internet + WiFi, right?
Funny, I watched TSCC and I found it got old at the beginning of the second season, so I stopped watching. But regardless of which gets old the fastest, you have to admit that the writing and acting is substantially better in House;).
lol, oh, since he convinced the people of something false using deliberate lies to fit his pre-defined agenda it's not his fault, he was an instrument of the people and the people are the sole bearers of responsibility? Actually when you think about it for a minute it makes total sense.
a man who may well have been less of a git and more important to my world than I had realized before.
Now now, it's just the Roland Effect speaking;-). By the way, I always thought Piquepaille was a made up name. How do we know it's not some semi-fictious pundit entity like "Robert X. Cringely"?
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That's 0.82 Libraries of Congress seen from the top of the Capitol. Or 0.0073 Libraries of Congress held at arm's length if you prefer.
I already addressed your second point in my original post. That it runs on different machines doesn't mean it's less efficient, the load is distributed.
And thanks for the pedantry, of course it's not actual 0 grammes (but would that be even 0.5 g?), everybody gets the damn point.
Wow, 10% is coal, it changes everything! Probably 10% of the energy required by Stephen Fry's abroad twitterings came from burning coal, the shock! The whole point is, it's stupid and pointless to say "hey doing this and that emitted globally this much CO2", cause no one should care, what people should care about is that everywhere governments turn to such things as nuclear power and others.
What?? You just make sure that you are capable of producing enough energy for the peaks, which are well known anyways. It's not like we have to start coal plants every once in a while to handle the demand. Just look at how France does it.
*facepalm*. Renewable energy and "green" energy are two different things. You're a moron for excluding nuclear energy.
Cool, so tell me how much megawatt for megawatt each power source emits. And how is nuclear waste worse than CO2? CO2 destroys our climate. What does nuclear waste do besides be bothering to deal with until we drill a hole to the mantle of Earth and dump it there?
Better yet, let's do what we're the best at doing and let's create an antagonism! Tea drinkers have been ruining our atmosphere for too long. Should we let them keep on participating to the destruction of our planet for the sake of preserving their sick habit? Or should we force them to stop drinking tea by all means and kill those who don't (and bury them in airtight bags, to avoid, you know, the gas emissions).
You're either with Earth or against Earth! Letting people drink tea would be like letting the tea drinkers win! Think of our children! This world will be a better place if we send tea drinkers to an even better place!
Tell the guy who made that research :
"Google refuses to divulge the locations of its data centres"
So basically he doesn't know whether their datacentres are plugged into coal power plants or nuclear plants, he's just making wild assumptions?
"When you type in a Google search for, say, âoeenergy saving tipsâ, your request doesnâ(TM)t go to just one server. It goes to several competing against each other."
Wow, that was a pretty fucking lame way to make it sound energy-inefficient. As if it consumed more energy because a single search goes through many different computers.. Plus it's making it sound like Google gets the job done redundantly and you get the result from whichever does the job the fastest, which is obviously balls. And by balls I mean misleading.
"Simply running a PC generates between 40g and 80g per hour"
That's funny because mine generates 0g per hour. It's called nuclear power.
"Last week Stephen Fry, the TV presenter, was posting "tweets" from New Zealand, imparting such vital information as..."
OMG Stephen Fry you bastard how dare you emit gasses to inform us of your adventures around the globe! Let's overlook the fact that most of electricity in New Zealand is produced by hydropower stations.
Is it me or is the point of this article "feel guilty for doing anything with your computer 'cause it ruins the planet thank you very much you bastard"? while acting like using power is inherently polluting whereas it really depends on the source?
Thanks a lot for clearing my misconceptions, I thought that the civil unrest was a recent movement. Have this honorary +1 Insightful point ;)
In the context of damage control as the Chinese government is trying to do, the problem is not creating airtight censorship, because the news they try to silence come from mainland China itself, they just try to make sure as few as possible gain access to the news in question.
Because for some reason, when you're pissed at your government because you emigrated from your village to not find a job and still be in a crappy situation, when you learn that people all across the country are protesting and on strikes, it makes you want to do the same thing. Revolutions are like Mexican waves, you can only help them happen if you know what your peers are up to.
If I understand correctly the situation in China, the main reason why the Chinese people let the Communists in power is their double digit yearly economic growth. Since the recent economic downturn, it seems very unlikely that China will manage to maintain a satisfactory growth, which would trigger unrest.
A quick googling brought up this recent article which seems to confirm that what's been predicted since the global economy crashed through the floor is bound to happen in the near future.
So the blocking of Wikinews in China fits in the picture in the damage control part of it, that is pretty much "let's make sure as little of our people learn what's currently happening in our country right now". Failing to control the information about protests across the country means empowering these movements, and the stakes are the future of Communism in China as a whole, although it won't go without a fight either.
Yes, doing it with lasers, even IR lasers, would be dangerous. Radio-transmission is much safer there.
You would "feel" that extra energy as extra stiffness in the controls. You might not want that, especially to extract just a few microwatts every once in a while.
It could be done using a pump, a computer-controlled hose and a hole in the wall, but you'd rather make sure that you don't go through the "beam" when it's "transferring".
Really? I thought that was because some device drivers that haven't been updated to 64-bits won't run in a 64-bit OS.
In other words the elevator on the moon would have to be about 120,000 km long? Sounds about right. I really don't see what would be the interest of an elevator on the moon though.
"VNCing" games through the Internet and possibly a wireless network, and getting a decent enough latency and enough throughoutput to get a good image quality/FPS? Good luck with that, not saying it won't work, but if it does work satisfyingly and reliably it'll be an impressive feat.
Well I know StreamMyGame does it, but it's meant to be used locally, not over the internet + WiFi, right?
Funny, I watched TSCC and I found it got old at the beginning of the second season, so I stopped watching. But regardless of which gets old the fastest, you have to admit that the writing and acting is substantially better in House ;).
More like "you'll miss what you lose even if you didn't like it when you had it"
lol, oh, since he convinced the people of something false using deliberate lies to fit his pre-defined agenda it's not his fault, he was an instrument of the people and the people are the sole bearers of responsibility? Actually when you think about it for a minute it makes total sense.
I think that the reason for modding me troll is somehow part of the same phenomenon.
OK, no, seriously, can you fucking stop whining and just answer the fucking question, I just want to know the answer to it, okay?
And for the last time, answer the damn question, what is it you want?? The status quo? Well you have it, what else?
They won't stay here longer than 3-4 years and eventualy will continue moving east.
Until they'll be so far east that they'll be back in California.
a man who may well have been less of a git and more important to my world than I had realized before.
Now now, it's just the Roland Effect speaking ;-). By the way, I always thought Piquepaille was a made up name. How do we know it's not some semi-fictious pundit entity like "Robert X. Cringely"?
The Sarah Connor Chronicles > House?? What are you gonna tell me next, that Knight Rider 2008 is the smartest show on TV?