I'd say because at the time the attention for the Warcraft franchise was far higher (having Warcraft 3 released nont that much time before) while Diablo was already a cold one.
In my previous post i didn't go i the depth of how i follow the guidelines i support but i will do it here, just as an exercise and to try to persuade people that it _is_ possible to be an average western citizen and weigh on the economic/energy model significantly less than your non-ecosavvy neighbor.
I live in a small urban area near Rome, Italy. I have a 2 rooms apartment and i work and study in Rome. I commute to Rome by train and i don't have a car. My house is well insulated and i hardly need any heating in the winter. I don't have air conditioning at home and i do the totality of my geekyness from a 2002 50watt laptop. I don't have incandescent lighting at home and when the CFLs wear out, i deliver them to a proper disposal center (mandatory here for the heavy metals present in the CFLs). I do every week differential collecting/recycling (plastics,glass,paper,meds,batteries,cans all go in different containers) and all my organic wastes go to a neighbor of mine with a little orticultural garden, he does compost with mine and others' garbage.
I try not to buy packaged foods, preferring to them the ones sold by weight (still not that common here but increasing), i don't use plastic bags when i shop (i usually go with my empty backpack and i buy just as much as it can hold, which is still a lot) and i buy most of the vegetables and fruits by the said neighbor. I proposed to the landlord to install a rain-collecting tank (quite cheap) and to use it for water needs that don't involve drinking (W.C., maybe laundry if the rain doesn't prove very polluted). I wash my laundry with a greasy vegetable soap (i think it's from coconut oil, no addictives) and it has proven quite effective (results differ from person to person, i've heard of people not very happy with it) for me, most of the cloths doesn't need softeners or other addictives either. My washer is rated AA+, it's a low volume one and it uses a hot-water tap instead of an internal heater (the hot-water tap is attached to my heating system, a condensation heater,methane-based. Much more efficient than the electrical internal heater of most washers).
I drink tap-water, i bought a cheap water filter (a little like the Britas i heard of, but maybe more complex than that) 4 years ago and i never spent a single buck after that for bottled water. I don't have a micro-wave and i cook most of my meals on a simple methane kitchen (4 fires), i admit using my small methane oven sometimes (on occasions with friends) but it's nothing like the big ovens for turkey that i've seen somewhere, it's 35 cm wide and not very deep.
I don't have a dish washer (i live alone, washing dishes 3 times a week doesn't really ask for a dishwasher). I've a very old nokia cellphone (i think it's a 3210), it has miracolous autonomy and it works. I have a 40watt(on load) fileserver for archiving (for work) and p2p.
My average energy footprint during the year is no more than 300 watt at any given time (considering the peak usage when i do laundry and not considering methane consumption, which i cannot estimate in equivalent wattage but which is quite low by any standard). To achieve this i just applied what i slowly learned (out of curiosity) on energy savings.
I take it as a social duty (to do my part to preserve the area i live in) and it's a way to re-establish social relations and to save money. There's no need to go this far but this is a little example of what someone can do with minimum effort.
I'm 24, i live by my own since i was 19 and i tried to support this kind of thinking at my parents' home too since at least 7-8 years ago. It was already a very popular subject (the envinronment) but more than a cool thing i see it as a community service. It's a way of preserving a common property.
Yes, i could do more and i will as soon as i will have the economical means of doing that. Most likely i'll buy a solar thermal panel and maybe a photovoltaic one if legislation here improve. I don't think not being gandhi is hypocrisy. Supporting the pr
It's a matter of perspective, i don't think anyone would complain if i told you not to throw your garbage wide on the street in your neighborhood because everyone would recognize it as a useless, degrading act that would damage (in this case just annoy but follow my thinking please..) the whole community. Your neighbors probably wouldn't be that happy about it and i'm hoping you wouldn't tag their complaining as a mean of superimposing their will on you.
Energy is pretty much the same, it's a common property like air, water, ground and every other crucial resource for the sustaining of life (the fact that we pay water, energy and ground doesn't mean they aren't key requirements for life and thus needed by everyone). The problem doesn't lie in the usage itself but more on the fact that several of the said resources don't come back once you used them all. This means that every time you use even a little bit, you're subtracting that bit from the collective and thus it would be smart to use it meaningfully, since it's something quite precious (being unique, one-way).
The argument about avoiding to post on slashdot to save energy (even if it was preposterous) has its meaning but before questioning ourselves about something we _do_ with our energy-wasting computers, better is to start not let them waste energy when it's not needed, even just for a matter of money saving. And that applies to pretty much every piece of technology that does use energy. Saving *any* kind of energy is just a proper community behaviour and a pretty good way to save money.
My way in all this is to try as much as i can to not waste energy (in any way or form) and to give meaning to what i do when i use it. The habits are something very hard to change but often it's just a matter of will.. the average power of US owned cars is quite higher than European-owned ones and right now there isn't a practical reason for it. Changing the habits to buy less power-hungry cars would be just a matter of will since that much power usually isn't a requirement (if you're a ranger with mountain-patrolling duties you're excused).
Most of IT-related electricty-produced pollution comes from datacenters, they have way more density than before and very,very efficient systems still aren't mainstream in that market frame. Home and Office computers nonetheless counts in the millions (at least) and promoting low power ones when you don't need more and adopting good behaviour when you own one (the famed standby issue but even activating cpu throttling) are all good measures that don't take much effort and _will_ find their place in the ever-evolving world in due time, not to mention in your pocket at the end of the year.
I don't think this kind of thoughts are hippie's, i wear proper cloths, i don't do anything more psychoactive than coffee, i'm not familiar with molotov bottles, i don't like jimi hendrix that much and i am a very boring person... i'm pretty sure i can't qualify as a hippie.
Sorry for the length but i wanted to be sure not to be considered a flamebait.
No absolutely:) I just assumed (and i was wrong, seemingly) that Mokas were common only here and i'm not familiar with u.s. retailers. If by any chance you're able to put your hand on something like that overseas go for it no matter what.
Espresso *is* bitter, it's just like complaining honey is sweet:P A lot of people drink it without sugar btw. It comes with sugar portions for those that want it.
o_O my parents have a 1971 3 cups bialetti moka that still does the morning coffee for the whole family (and before the coffee nazis highlight that, YES we change the filter when needed.). I don't know how you make your coffee but just as a hunch i'd advise you to put a lil more water, you probably let the heater overheat a little every time you use it and over time it wears the valve out. The valve shouldn't activate during normal operation, it's not like the whistler of boilers for tea, it's not supposed to activate when there isn't a security issue. (If that's not the case i wouldn't know what's the problem.)
Indeed very true:D But i don't know, i get the feeling that using such a big machine at home would be misusing it:/ Probably just rationalizing my overwhelming lack of funds for such a machine and it's total lack of WAF:P (which are pretty crucial to me.)
You sir, imho, know your mojo:P
I'd never roast beans at home, it takes way too much time and energy (i'm a energy-cautious coffee junkie) but i plan to steal my mom's grinder since the day i moved out of their house:P
I've a "torrefazione" near my house and i buy all my coffee there. (I don't know the english word, it's a shop that import raw coffee beans, it roasts them and sell them to you either grinded or bare, usually at a deal price.) I don't know the quality but the big bags i see every time the truck arrives are from Colombia.
I'm italian, Coffee for us is either Moka or Espresso.
At home, the best of the best is always moka. Even buying bar-grade espresso machines (the 3000$+ ones) isn't the same because with those machines (that makes an OUTSTANDING coffee) you had to make several hundreds coffee/day to remove the taste of brandnewness from them. A Moka can get to working order with few tens of runs. Every household in italy has a Moka. It's cheap and it makes a great coffee. (I wouldn't call Espresso tho, Espresso is even less water/even more coffee. Moka is something in between Espresso and $EVERYOTHERPARTOFTHEWORLD-coffee but more on the Espresso side (it's still a lot lot lot less water than any other coffee.). If you happen to stop by italy buy a Bialetti one, you won't regret it (we're talking 20$ here, nothing anyone could go bankrupt with.). Even more useful if you got a coffee grinder or a shop that sells moka-grinded coffee, since the grains are a little different from american-coffee ones (not sure which one is bigger. Moka ones are definitely bigger than espresso, which are the smallest.)
I often daydream about this too:) Only i think more on being stranded back in time and having to introduce our technology back there, i often wonder if i'd be able to properly produce electricity or discover penicilin (or print, if i go THAT back in time) or steril medical procedure. Also, i daydream about speaking of our technology to ancestors too:)
Rotflmao. The atomchip.com is a fake. this is the lens unit of a cdrom:D I'm pretty sure the equipment used for space projects is far more low power than high performance. That site hasn't the right look and the numbers that it spits out are just bullshit, at least imho. Those are just a bunch of random pics of random hardware with nifty custom stickers on it:D
Besides, the WHOIS data looks suspect to me:
Administrative Contact:
WIPOI
Shimon Gendlin
21 Reed Lane
Westbury, NY 11590
US
Phone: 516-368-4800
Email: shimon_gendlin@msn.com
Msn? come on..
To be fair, the Apollo Project obtained much more in terms of discoveries and reached-distance-from-earth then the Shuttle one (just because the Shuttle wasn't MEANT to go further than the earth orbit, while the Apollo did) and if my memory doesn't fail, the Apollo Project also had far less fatal accidents (and casualties)than the Shuttle:D.
Apart from this tech-space-history bit, i'm all for LCDs (i just got a Samsung 20" LCD that does 720p [but not 1080p] and it was el cheapo and i'm absolutely satisfied with colors and so on):P.
Besides the grammar problems.. i use reiser 3.6 as my home partition's filesystem and although i'm not a power user (i didn't nor i have investigated how to tweak the filesystem to squeeze the most out of it) i haven't any problem with it.
I don't think MS would be a good buyer for this technology (and as stated in some other comments, MS tend to prefer *stealing* the technology instead of buying it) both because they already have a fairly decent one (ntfs is _closed source_ but not _bad_) and because its PR like to let people think that they own the technology they sell, they always have and always will (i may be the average ignorant guy but i never heard of the companies that originally developed hyper terminal or MS anti-spyware before MS bought those).
You can quite easily solve that logging in (or signing in if you haven't an account) and setting the visualization of the comments in your profile. I did that and now i can see all the comments sorted by date oldest -> newest. Very handy and it takes just 30 seconds. The default visualization (the one you see when you're not logged) is quite messy and i really think the best and fastest way to solve that is to log in and personalize ^^.
I don't mean to flame.. it's just that i had the same problem and signing in and configuring the way it displays comments solved it ^^
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I'd say because at the time the attention for the Warcraft franchise was far higher (having Warcraft 3 released nont that much time before) while Diablo was already a cold one.
I live in a small urban area near Rome, Italy. I have a 2 rooms apartment and i work and study in Rome. I commute to Rome by train and i don't have a car. My house is well insulated and i hardly need any heating in the winter. I don't have air conditioning at home and i do the totality of my geekyness from a 2002 50watt laptop. I don't have incandescent lighting at home and when the CFLs wear out, i deliver them to a proper disposal center (mandatory here for the heavy metals present in the CFLs). I do every week differential collecting/recycling (plastics,glass,paper,meds,batteries,cans all go in different containers) and all my organic wastes go to a neighbor of mine with a little orticultural garden, he does compost with mine and others' garbage.
I try not to buy packaged foods, preferring to them the ones sold by weight (still not that common here but increasing), i don't use plastic bags when i shop (i usually go with my empty backpack and i buy just as much as it can hold, which is still a lot) and i buy most of the vegetables and fruits by the said neighbor. I proposed to the landlord to install a rain-collecting tank (quite cheap) and to use it for water needs that don't involve drinking (W.C., maybe laundry if the rain doesn't prove very polluted). I wash my laundry with a greasy vegetable soap (i think it's from coconut oil, no addictives) and it has proven quite effective (results differ from person to person, i've heard of people not very happy with it) for me, most of the cloths doesn't need softeners or other addictives either. My washer is rated AA+, it's a low volume one and it uses a hot-water tap instead of an internal heater (the hot-water tap is attached to my heating system, a condensation heater,methane-based. Much more efficient than the electrical internal heater of most washers).
I drink tap-water, i bought a cheap water filter (a little like the Britas i heard of, but maybe more complex than that) 4 years ago and i never spent a single buck after that for bottled water. I don't have a micro-wave and i cook most of my meals on a simple methane kitchen (4 fires), i admit using my small methane oven sometimes (on occasions with friends) but it's nothing like the big ovens for turkey that i've seen somewhere, it's 35 cm wide and not very deep.
I don't have a dish washer (i live alone, washing dishes 3 times a week doesn't really ask for a dishwasher). I've a very old nokia cellphone (i think it's a 3210), it has miracolous autonomy and it works. I have a 40watt(on load) fileserver for archiving (for work) and p2p. My average energy footprint during the year is no more than 300 watt at any given time (considering the peak usage when i do laundry and not considering methane consumption, which i cannot estimate in equivalent wattage but which is quite low by any standard). To achieve this i just applied what i slowly learned (out of curiosity) on energy savings.
I take it as a social duty (to do my part to preserve the area i live in) and it's a way to re-establish social relations and to save money. There's no need to go this far but this is a little example of what someone can do with minimum effort.
I'm 24, i live by my own since i was 19 and i tried to support this kind of thinking at my parents' home too since at least 7-8 years ago. It was already a very popular subject (the envinronment) but more than a cool thing i see it as a community service. It's a way of preserving a common property.
Yes, i could do more and i will as soon as i will have the economical means of doing that. Most likely i'll buy a solar thermal panel and maybe a photovoltaic one if legislation here improve. I don't think not being gandhi is hypocrisy. Supporting the pr
It's a matter of perspective, i don't think anyone would complain if i told you not to throw your garbage wide on the street in your neighborhood because everyone would recognize it as a useless, degrading act that would damage (in this case just annoy but follow my thinking please..) the whole community. Your neighbors probably wouldn't be that happy about it and i'm hoping you wouldn't tag their complaining as a mean of superimposing their will on you.
Energy is pretty much the same, it's a common property like air, water, ground and every other crucial resource for the sustaining of life (the fact that we pay water, energy and ground doesn't mean they aren't key requirements for life and thus needed by everyone). The problem doesn't lie in the usage itself but more on the fact that several of the said resources don't come back once you used them all. This means that every time you use even a little bit, you're subtracting that bit from the collective and thus it would be smart to use it meaningfully, since it's something quite precious (being unique, one-way).
The argument about avoiding to post on slashdot to save energy (even if it was preposterous) has its meaning but before questioning ourselves about something we _do_ with our energy-wasting computers, better is to start not let them waste energy when it's not needed, even just for a matter of money saving. And that applies to pretty much every piece of technology that does use energy. Saving *any* kind of energy is just a proper community behaviour and a pretty good way to save money.
My way in all this is to try as much as i can to not waste energy (in any way or form) and to give meaning to what i do when i use it. The habits are something very hard to change but often it's just a matter of will.. the average power of US owned cars is quite higher than European-owned ones and right now there isn't a practical reason for it. Changing the habits to buy less power-hungry cars would be just a matter of will since that much power usually isn't a requirement (if you're a ranger with mountain-patrolling duties you're excused).
Most of IT-related electricty-produced pollution comes from datacenters, they have way more density than before and very,very efficient systems still aren't mainstream in that market frame. Home and Office computers nonetheless counts in the millions (at least) and promoting low power ones when you don't need more and adopting good behaviour when you own one (the famed standby issue but even activating cpu throttling) are all good measures that don't take much effort and _will_ find their place in the ever-evolving world in due time, not to mention in your pocket at the end of the year.
I don't think this kind of thoughts are hippie's, i wear proper cloths, i don't do anything more psychoactive than coffee, i'm not familiar with molotov bottles, i don't like jimi hendrix that much and i am a very boring person... i'm pretty sure i can't qualify as a hippie. Sorry for the length but i wanted to be sure not to be considered a flamebait.
RegardsNo absolutely :) I just assumed (and i was wrong, seemingly) that Mokas were common only here and i'm not familiar with u.s. retailers. If by any chance you're able to put your hand on something like that overseas go for it no matter what.
Espresso *is* bitter, it's just like complaining honey is sweet :P A lot of people drink it without sugar btw. It comes with sugar portions for those that want it.
I don't O_o, i have a 40 watt 2002 Laptop and i use it for pretty much everything..
o_O my parents have a 1971 3 cups bialetti moka that still does the morning coffee for the whole family (and before the coffee nazis highlight that, YES we change the filter when needed.). I don't know how you make your coffee but just as a hunch i'd advise you to put a lil more water, you probably let the heater overheat a little every time you use it and over time it wears the valve out. The valve shouldn't activate during normal operation, it's not like the whistler of boilers for tea, it's not supposed to activate when there isn't a security issue. (If that's not the case i wouldn't know what's the problem.)
Indeed very true :D But i don't know, i get the feeling that using such a big machine at home would be misusing it :/ Probably just rationalizing my overwhelming lack of funds for such a machine and it's total lack of WAF :P (which are pretty crucial to me.)
You sir, imho, know your mojo :P
I'd never roast beans at home, it takes way too much time and energy (i'm a energy-cautious coffee junkie) but i plan to steal my mom's grinder since the day i moved out of their house :P
I've a "torrefazione" near my house and i buy all my coffee there. (I don't know the english word, it's a shop that import raw coffee beans, it roasts them and sell them to you either grinded or bare, usually at a deal price.) I don't know the quality but the big bags i see every time the truck arrives are from Colombia.
I'm italian, Coffee for us is either Moka or Espresso. At home, the best of the best is always moka. Even buying bar-grade espresso machines (the 3000$+ ones) isn't the same because with those machines (that makes an OUTSTANDING coffee) you had to make several hundreds coffee/day to remove the taste of brandnewness from them. A Moka can get to working order with few tens of runs. Every household in italy has a Moka. It's cheap and it makes a great coffee. (I wouldn't call Espresso tho, Espresso is even less water/even more coffee. Moka is something in between Espresso and $EVERYOTHERPARTOFTHEWORLD-coffee but more on the Espresso side (it's still a lot lot lot less water than any other coffee.). If you happen to stop by italy buy a Bialetti one, you won't regret it (we're talking 20$ here, nothing anyone could go bankrupt with.). Even more useful if you got a coffee grinder or a shop that sells moka-grinded coffee, since the grains are a little different from american-coffee ones (not sure which one is bigger. Moka ones are definitely bigger than espresso, which are the smallest.)
Kingston DataTraveler are IMMORTAL. i'm not sure about speed but they're really well built.
I often daydream about this too :) Only i think more on being stranded back in time and having to introduce our technology back there, i often wonder if i'd be able to properly produce electricity or discover penicilin (or print, if i go THAT back in time) or steril medical procedure. Also, i daydream about speaking of our technology to ancestors too :)
They're 2-filtered. Violet 450-nanometer filter and an infrared, 750-nanometer filter. (As stated here.)
[Envy speaking] lucky ass :P
[/Envy]
You get SUNLIGHT from your cubicle? Geez you're so upperclass.
Administrative Contact:
WIPOI
Shimon Gendlin
21 Reed Lane
Westbury, NY 11590
US
Phone: 516-368-4800
Email: shimon_gendlin@msn.com
Msn? come on..
Apart from this tech-space-history bit, i'm all for LCDs (i just got a Samsung 20" LCD that does 720p [but not 1080p] and it was el cheapo and i'm absolutely satisfied with colors and so on) :P.
Besides the grammar problems.. i use reiser 3.6 as my home partition's filesystem and although i'm not a power user
(i didn't nor i have investigated how to tweak the filesystem to squeeze the most out of it) i haven't any problem with it.
I don't think MS would be a good buyer for this technology (and as stated in some other comments, MS tend to prefer *stealing* the technology instead of buying it) both because they already have a fairly decent one (ntfs is _closed source_ but not _bad_) and because its PR like to let people think that they own the technology they sell, they always have and always will (i may be the average ignorant guy but i never heard of the companies that originally developed hyper terminal or MS anti-spyware before MS bought those).
My 0.2$
You can quite easily solve that logging in (or signing in if you haven't an account) and setting the visualization of the comments in your profile. I did that and now i can see all the comments sorted by date oldest -> newest. Very handy and it takes just 30 seconds. The default visualization (the one you see when you're not logged) is quite messy and i really think the best and fastest way to solve that is to log in and personalize ^^. I don't mean to flame.. it's just that i had the same problem and signing in and configuring the way it displays comments solved it ^^