Re: The longest Emacs uptime

[Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>]

pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:

> magicus <magicus23@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:07:48 -0700, "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> > My Emacs uptime has reached 30 days, 3 hours, 27 minutes, 44 seconds.
>>>> >  This is the longest since I started using Emacs in 2005.
>>>> 
>>>> Elapsed time since the last power-cut: 2 years, 4 months, 21 hours, 34
>>>> min.
>>> 
>>> Elapsed time since the last
>>> `my-elapsed-time-is-bigger-than-your-elapsed-time' contest: 13 minutes
>>> 42 seconds.
>>
>> Thank you. My machine(s) go on when I am using them and are shut off when 
>> I am not. I do not see any reason to keep them up 24/7 if I am not using 
>> them. WTF is the point of doing so (unless one is donating idle time to 
>> SETI or making BitTorrents available)?
>
> What's the point of paying for a computer if you don't have a usage
> for it 24/24 365/365?  Better keep the money to pay yourself a
> cocacola on the beach otherwise...

To use it only some of the time? Like a car or an iron or a ... maybe?