Pride
As you no doubt noticed, I did not deliver a post about the embarrassing evidence of myself left in nooks and crannies all over our internet, as promised on April Fools' Day. I won't keep the eager few waiting much longer, but tonight's post is on a tangential subject.
Sometimes I'm actually proud of what I write, even the silly bits like those that make up my post on October 9th. Sure, it's a little rough, a little too self-deprecating, a little too indirect, but there's some phrases in there I'd gladly steal and re-purpose: babykoala picked up on one.
With Earth Day looming, my pride in my contribution to Folding@Home is once again tempered by concerns about my energy use. Turning off the graphics-card Folding client saves about 80 Watts, turning off the single-core CPU client saves another 40, and turning off my computer and monitor entirely saves 150 Watts on top of that. Now, I haven't checked the accuracy of these figures with all of the tools in my arsenal, just the software that talks to some electronics in my uninterruptible power supply, but they look like they're in the ballpark.
Six more papers based on Folding@Home's results and about their methods have been published since October.
I don't even know how to begin to measure the costs and the benefits involved. In the absence of anything concrete, how does one decide what's worth it?
Sometimes I'm actually proud of what I write, even the silly bits like those that make up my post on October 9th. Sure, it's a little rough, a little too self-deprecating, a little too indirect, but there's some phrases in there I'd gladly steal and re-purpose: babykoala picked up on one.
With Earth Day looming, my pride in my contribution to Folding@Home is once again tempered by concerns about my energy use. Turning off the graphics-card Folding client saves about 80 Watts, turning off the single-core CPU client saves another 40, and turning off my computer and monitor entirely saves 150 Watts on top of that. Now, I haven't checked the accuracy of these figures with all of the tools in my arsenal, just the software that talks to some electronics in my uninterruptible power supply, but they look like they're in the ballpark.
Six more papers based on Folding@Home's results and about their methods have been published since October.
I don't even know how to begin to measure the costs and the benefits involved. In the absence of anything concrete, how does one decide what's worth it?