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Comment on Macbook Pro vs. HP 8510W: DVD encode energy by jshrall

jshrall — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:08:24 +0000

And as reported here, it also costs $0.04 to watch a movie… coincidence?? I think it may be some sort of law of conservation at work.

Comment on Macbook Pro vs. HP 8510W: DVD encode energy by Todd

Todd — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:40:59 +0000

“Looking at the cost of the encoding kind of diminishes the point of the comparison.” Really? I was kind of shocked that a real-world event like encoding a DVD has an appreciable ($0.01+) cost. Usually, energy seems to be free, moment-to-moment. I mean, sure, over time it obviously adds up to dozens of dollars. But still, to think that encoding a DVD costs 4 cents. I don’t know, I was surprised.

Comment on Pure Energy by Todd

Todd — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:47:41 +0000

Oh, you know I think this is all fascinating, though I’m happy to let you work it all out first. I still do think it’s funny (at some level) that you’ll have to have several extra devices consuming power in order to measure your power (and thus lower your power consumption). But yeah, a Watts Up is not a dryer.

Anyhow, Task Manager itself reports that it uses 1% of my CPU when it’s running. It’s not going to bog down my computer, but it’s not nothing.

Comment on Pure Energy by jshrall

jshrall — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:23:36 +0000

If you look at the actual Y-axis on my energy vs. temperature plot, you will see that we have a lot of room to save energy!

Just for you, I’ll have to conduct a study of energy consumption with and without task manager and report out here. My bet is that the data is mostly already being logged and the additional microseconds of activity are not large energy consumers. Much, much larger is looking at a web site with flash content or running iTunes in the background.

Comment on Not all HDMI cables are created equal by jshrall

jshrall — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:20:40 +0000

Yes, I agree that it is good advice. And apparently most everybody agrees as Realistic as a brand is no more. However, I have to admit that my favorite headphones from about 1987 until 2000 were realistic folding headphones, so at least one product was worth buying.

Now, I must admit that I have no clue as to what the Spoon song lyrics are about, certainly there is no mention of ham radios or Tandy computers. Perhaps Mr. Daniel was just into titling his songs with good advice.

Comment on Not all HDMI cables are created equal by Todd

Todd — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:00:18 +0000

Does “Realistic” in the Spoon song refer to the RadioShack brand? Because that’s good advice. But I assume you hadn’t purchased your HDMI cables at RadioShack.

Comment on Pure Energy by Todd

Todd — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:57:52 +0000

You know, at some point you’re going to be saving so much energy that you’re going to have to question the amount of energy wasted on energy-measuring devices. (Sort of like how using Windows Task Manager uses CPU cycles to determine how many CPU cycles are being used.) Just saying.

Comment on My Digital Slide Copier by Todd

Todd — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:13:18 +0000

I’m with Beeman, bizarre grammar notwithstanding.

Comment on My Digital Slide Copier by Beeman

Beeman — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:41:21 +0000

You will never that top picture isn’t Katie kneeling next to Paloma.

Comment on Old Songs for a New Year by Beeman

Beeman — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:11:58 +0000

Funny, I just listened to Wild Beasts on lala and had thought you would like them. Guess I should read your blog more carefully…