For a concrete example, imagine you have two computers that use 100W idling and 200W at full load.
Travelers are being stranded and flights are delayed, sometimes with a full load of passengers sitting on the runway for hours.
Officials and environmentalists have expressed concern that the ship's fuel, at full load at the start of the cruise, could spill into the sea.
He urged people to turn off taps while cleaning their teeth, take shorter showers, fix leaks and only wash laundry with a full load.
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That's the concern Tata engineers had as well and have worked quite hard to ensure that it's fairly stable with a full load at maximum speed.
As a result, a system using wind and solar has to be built with sufficient system capacity from conventional sources to be handle the system full load without the wind and solar systems.
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He said small changes like showering instead of taking a bath, turning the tap off while brushing teeth or using a full load instead of a half load in washing machines could make a difference.
It's not hard to imagine why people would want a motherboard as small as VIA's PX10000: its low power requirements (the guys at Mini-ITX.com couldn't get it to draw more than 16 Watts under full load) and miniscule size (less than 4 inches long) make it perfect for really small enclosures.
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Ernestine Fu may be the first Stanford sophomore to work as a venture capitalist while carrying a full course load.
The extra weight could also rob the car of its full fuel load, forcing it to make extra pits stops during a race.
Fu juggles the intense responsibility of working at a VC firm with a more than full course load in the civil and environmental engineering department.
He made up ground quickly in the opening laps after choosing to start from the pit lane with a full fuel load, but came to a halt in 16th place on lap three when he came up behind Jenson Button's Honda.
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Concorde was an engineer's delight: it took the jet-bomber technologies that had evolved at the end of the second world war and pushed them to the frontiers of the possible, or indeed beyond the frontiers, given that the aircraft's initial prototype could not have crossed the Atlantic with a full passenger load.
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Bowe's burst sliced open the Blues defence and his delicate off-load to full-back-turned-wing Byrne was perfectly timed as the Welsh international dived over for his third Ospreys try of the season.
So, when you choose a police area or type in your full post code, it should load the crashes for that area.
Is the idea of American Hercules transports landing in the middle of Syria, while special forces bring trucks full of nerve gas shells to load on board credible?
Rather, they are prepared to juggle full-time work with an often heavy study load.
In the full version the device will adjust based on CPU load, so when nothing is going on it slows down, but when you're playing a game it goes fast.
The budget airlines allow only 25 minutes between flights to offload one set of passengers and load another, less than half the time of its scheduled full-fare rivals.
Because of the severely clogged WiFi network at the venue, the Chrome browser (now a standard app) took just about 15-plus seconds to load a simple Google search and even more to render the full Engadget desktop site.
Watching his two children come home every night with overstuffed backpacks full of books, he decided his next venture would be to lighten their load.
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By contrast, consumers who would damage their bottom line by curtailing load are still allowed to participate via self-generation, ensuring the programs achieve their full potential.
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Coventry City Council and Warwickshire County Council websites had full lists of closed schools, but due to heavy demand, they were slower than usual to load at times.
It was surprising quick to load pages on the 2G connection, and the benefits of that compression were apparent when pointing to full desktop sites.
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