It's the same revenue model as gym memberships, pay every month but 75% never use it
Posts by RSW
52 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Sep 2009
Openreach tests 50 Gbps broadband – don’t expect it anytime soon
They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file
Stranded in space: Starliner crew to remain in orbit even longer as SpaceX faces delays
Mega supermarket spots stock discrepancy of tens of millions amid ERP system migration
Dublin debauchery derails Portal to NYC in six days flat
Oracle Fusion rollout costs 15 times council's estimates in SAP rip-'n-replace
London's famous BT Tower will become a hotel after £275M sale
City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment
After fears that Europe's space scope was toast, its first images look mighty fine
Owner of 'magic spreadsheet' tried to stay in the Lotus position until forced to Excel
Results are in for biggest 4-day work week trial ever: 92% sticking with it
Cost of Offices
Is this now also influenced by the cost of the work space?
If everyone has the same day off then the company saves 1/5th on the heating and electricity in the office space for the day
This of course does not matter if everyone is working from home, perhaps more relevant in factory spaces where people still have to turn up to do the work
Now you can't even scale Mount Everest without a drone buzzing overhead
Demand for software experts pushes tech salaries higher in UK
The many derivatives of the CP/M operating system
Microsoft extends life of cloud servers from four to six years
Supercomputer pinpoints exact origin of 'Black Beauty' meteorite from Mars
Microsoft says staff layoffs not linked to recession fears
Your data centre UPS could feed power to the smart grid, suggests research
We are on a medium sized ind est in the South West and are looking to add plant so contacted Western power about upping the fuses to our unit. The answer came back no available spare capacity in the area to be had, not even how much do you want to spend.
It's a bit worrying as there are at least 3 big housing builds going on around us, where will they get supply from?
I could see where the backup gensets could be used for helping during a brown out in the grid but I can't see how this would work for UPS as they only have short run times to give the genset time to start. This also has the issue that the UPS and gensets are sized for the load and if a brown out happens or worse a total power loss then the data center will want all the available power.
This does have the feel of a report done by people who don't live in the real world