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This is the ability of a computer to do one quadrillion floating point operations in a second. See also teraflop, gigaflop, and megaflop.
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Petaflop - In article , DevilsPGD wrote: In message Danny Burstein wrote: At a typical charge of $0.20 (20 cents) per kw-hr, that's a bit over $4/month in electricity. Add another buck or two if you're using air conditining and have to dump out that heat. Usually worth it, but worth a thought or two. OTOH, since the majority of the energy used gets converted into heat, it comes straight off your heating bill if you're in an area which gets cold.But during the summer it increases your electric bill for airconditioning, so over the long run they probably cancel out. (And the "off" switch, if it has one, is only for show). Weird. My Bell ExpressVu PVR does shut off the hard drive when not in use (Although not immediately, it will update the guide and whatever other housekeeping needs to be done first)ReplayTV used to do this, although there was an undocumented way todisable it. Starting with the 4000 series, they keep the diskspinning all the time. The problem was that when you turned thedevice on, it took 5-10 seconds for the disk to spin up. Also, it hasto spin up every hour to check the guide to see if something needs tobe recorded; in quiet rooms (like bedrooms), this periodic startupnoise was annoying.Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.eduArlington, MA*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Whoever it was said earlier in thisthread on Friday that this new DVR device would change my televisionviewing habits was sort of correct. Most of Sunday afternoon I spentin my living room fiddling with the remote learning how to set upand remove 'favorite' channels, and watching a couple of interestingmovies in the meantime. I think I am going to like it. PAT]
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