since children tend to go real fast in circles and since 
W = F*d, children produce no work. ;-)

but that's okay.  most adults don't either.

- erik

On Sun Jun 18 17:59:23 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > One of the interesting things to come out of the excellent
> > presentation at Usenix was that there are people out there
> > who know things like how much power you can get out of a child
> > at various ages, etc.
> >
> > How many 8-year old children == 1 pit pony?
> >
> > We could work out how long and how many children it would
> > take to compile Linux on this maybe by starting with the time
> > and power taken to compile it on some known machine.
> >
> 
> Personally I'd like to know how you get power out of a child at any age. Do
> you hook a turbine up to the Xbox controllers, or what?

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