How far can I push an 040/25?

[vortexau]

Offhand I'd say until the AC Cable becomes taunt, or until it reaches the edge of your desk surface (whichever comes first). :-)


POWER CORD FOR COMPUTER MONITOR/TOWER

computer placement exam
The computer placement exam differs from challenge exams -- students do not receive grades or academic credit for completing the computer placement exam. The results of the exam indicate how well you position your system.

Computer Comfort & Ergonomics

Computer Positioning Checklist

Positioning - Student & Computer

Office Ergonomics Training

 ° Alternately, you can leave the System case alone and just push your monitor: PC manufacturers pushing the monitor farther away from the computer

[vortexau]

From to the Red Planet

Beagle will be set free to enter the atmosphere at 700 mph. Once it has slowed down, parachutes will open to brake it even more. Finally, large gas bags will inflate to cushion the probe as it bounces to the surface.  Once still, its solar panels will open up and cameras will start to peer around the site. During the first few hours it will send its call sign - a song specially recorded and composed by the pop group Blur - back to Milton Keynes via Nasa's orbiting Odyssey craft. Beagle 2 weighs just 75lb - and carries 24lb of scientific equipment. It is tough enough to survive the shakes of take-off, and a bump on landing likened to pushing a computer off a desk on to concrete and expecting it to work.

[vortexau]

Computer punishment!
Should computers be legally responsible?
"Are There Senses in
which a Computer may Properly by Held Responsible for its Actions?" by J.P.A.
Race from Brunel Univeristy, UK[/i]

 "There are three aspects of punishment:

      Retribution:[/i] the need for society to get its revenge on the wrong-     doer: a basically irrational (but quite understandable) emotional     response.  If this means pushing a computer system over a cliff     after it has driven someone to suicide through sending them wrong     electricity bills, we can understand it. [...]

     Rehabilitation:[/i] In this sense, the aim of punishment is to improve     the individual for his own sake and that of society.  In the case     of a computer, this may involve re-programming or the indication     to the computer that its previous response had been wrong, so that     this reprimand is stored as a new parameter value to adjust its     future behaviour.  The fact that we did not use a cat-o'-nine-tails     or the brig does not mean what we did was not punishment, any more     than it is not punishment - of a severe kind - if a court-martial     reprimands an officer who runs a frigate aground.
   
    Deterrence:[/i]  The fact that [this computer system] is punished should     be communicated to other computer systems working on similar things.     [...]

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