What kind of sick hypnotist bastard tricks people into thinking they are being burned? The ones I've seen usually make people think something relatively benign, like they can only cluck like a chicken.
Sure. Basic beer brewing equipment is pretty much the same as basic wine equipment.
2 x 5 - 6 gallon containers & little airlocks (either plastic buckets with lids and/or glass carboys with stoppers; stoppers/lids need to be drilled for airlocks)
rigid tube and flexible tubing for siphoning from one container to another, and into bottles.
a hydrometer is helpful, but not strictly necessary
You will also need:
about 50 clean & sanitized 12 oz beer bottles (pop-off, not twist-off, brown glass is best since light harms beer)
~2 gallon cooking pot (preferably stainless steel, aluminum is okay, enamel over steel is okay as long as there are no chips in the enamel - you do not want to expose your beer to regular steel; it will cause flavor problems)
bottle capper (you'll probably need to buy this, a wine bottle corker generally won't do the job)
You can get prepackaged ingredient kits or order a la carte. For $30 - $45US, you should be able to get a kit that contains the following, which should be all you need to brew 5 gallons of beer:
malt extract syrup and/or dried malt extract
hops
dried yeast
muslin bag
priming sugar
bottle caps
perhaps additional misc stuff
instructions
There are homebrew books that are helpful in figuring out what to do and how to do it. In my experience, This is one of the best out there, and I highly recommend it for brewers of all levels. Fortunately, there is a huge amount of excellent info freely available on the internet. (Google, as always, is your friend)
Normally I wouldn't run way off-topic on a brewing tangent (I'll try to make a computing/FOSS analogy at the end to make it a little more relevant, but I'm not promising anything yet*), but I just got back from the LHBS, and am simply way too stoked to let the opportunity pass.
buying them can run you over $150 per batch.
Depends on your ingredients and batch size. I just picked up a 50lb sack of 2-row malt for $40US, and have another on backorder. Also picked up a couple vials of White Labs yeast at half off (no, they aren't expired). I just bought 3lbs of hops (1 x Galena, 1 x Willamette, 1 x Cascade) for $40US including shipping. Propane tank fillup was $15. I'll be brewing 10 gallon batches (sorry, 38 liters for you non-imperial types, or a little over 4 cases for those bad at unit conversion and division) at a cost of ~$40 for ingredients & consumables, or about $0.50 per pint. Compare that to $4/pint at the local pub.
Unless you already own the equipment
Right. I gave up trying to cost-justify that stuff a long time ago. No one ever really owns enough equipment anyway. There's always something else you need. It's part of the fun, actually.
Then you have to count the time-consuming process of sanitizing the equipment
Ugh. The primary reason I don't brew more often.
actually brewing beer
That's the fun part! Well, one of the fun parts, anyway.
bottling it
Corny kegs, baby. Best brewing investment ever.
then drinking it before it expires
Sufficient alcohol content/hopping levels should keep infections away, if you've sanitized properly. Of course, if you're worried about consuming it before it passes peak flavor, invite friends over for a party. I promise you, they will show. However, I tend to find the old maxim true: The homebrew is ready when it's gone.
However, if you do decide to do it, it is a very rewarding experience.
Cheers to that. I take it you brew?
* Apologia pro vita sua: People homebrew for the same reasons that people use or develop FOSS. Some people are just out to save a buck. Others feel that the mass-produced and mass-marketed products are often lacking in quality, or perhaps they feel that the niche products are often pricey and have an artificially snobby following. Some do it because they realize they can produce something equal or superior (for their tastes and purposes, at least) to commercially available alternatives. Some do it just because they love doing it, they love the process of creation. Brewers usually share their creations freely with others and simply ask for a smile and tiny bit of gratitude in return. Many are content to buy basic equipment and a set of ingredients and combine them as instructed, like someone might download and use Ubuntu without ever peeking under the hood. Or, a brewer might create and refine their own recipes then share them with the world, like a developer might write applications or drivers to suit themselves before releasing it to others who might use it or improve it.
They often take pride in personally building or tweaking their hardware, whether it is a 2 x quad core server with 32 GB RAM repurposed into a badass desktop (the fans make it sound like a Cessna taking off, but who the hell cares), or a custom-welded brewstand with 3 x 170,000btu propane burners (sounds like a jet taking off - freakin' glorious).
Commercial brewers jealously guard their recipes and processes. Homebrewers love to share insights and techniques. As a matter of fact, once you get one talking you can barely shut them up (case and point). Homebrewers believe that knowledge is power, and should be shared freely. In fact, they not only personify the free as in beer / free as in speech metaphor, they improve on it, since they are generally happy to freely provide the recipe for the beer just poured you, making a hybrid case of free as in speech and beer.
the UI is something you either love, or absolutely despise, with very little in between.
Yeah, but that's hardly the exclusive domain of open source software; plenty of commercial apps over the years have had poor interfaces, and/or workflow, and/or functionality.
There's nothing wrong with simply learning a clunky UI, warts and all. The warts are a lot less obtrusive once you get used to them. I'm not saying there is an excuse for crappy design, I'm saying that familiarity can often make up for it.
Well, I'm no expert, but at least since 2007 or so.
Although if you were right, I'd have to admit that it's hard to detect a USB key without a USB port.
Because iPhones are cool, and kids want to be cool and have cool stuff. It really is that simple. Different example, from a few decades ago: Levis 501 jeans with the red tag were the only cool, acceptable jeans in my school. Wearing something like Toughskins from Sears would get you laughed at, and possibly beaten just for the fun of it because there was a reasonable certainty that the kid in them was a lot less tough than the jeans themselves.
Being anti-competitive and predatory are signs of douchebaggery, but they are perfectly legal (at least where I am). The "monopoly" bit is important, because MS didn't get convicted of being douchebags, they got convicted of illegally leveraging their monopoly power. Without Apple controlling a monopoly, the same logic doesn't work against them. Of course, that doesn't mean they aren't douchebags as well.
I wouldn't be surprised if that is true, but that's a heck of a claim to make without backup. Have any sources you can cite? If not, how certain are you of your claim?
Actually, I think that Iceland remains free of sea ice thanks to ocean currents, so unless you planned on routing the cable via Greenland, you'd be fine.
In my humble experience, roundabouts (rotaries as we Massholes call 'em) are good for light to medium volume traffic, and work better than lights for complicated intersections*. They really suck if one or more particular road carries heavy traffic, because that traffic flow will dominate the intersection and make it difficult for others to the right around the rotary to enter.
*For example, several meandering streets coming together in roughly the same spot, because New England roads were built by following the wanderings of cows and horses instead of nice rational city planning.
Just make the icons nudey pictures and most guys won't have a problem shelling out cash to "see more".
That's it! Forget the mainstream Hollywood movies. The only problem with their business model is that they preloaded the wrong content!
What happens to most hard drives anyway? Sooner or later they get jam packed with porn. So...
1) Preload HDD with pornos
2) There is no ???
3) Profit!!!
1) Endless cheap green power (geothermal & hydropower).
2) Optimal climate for datacenter cooling.
3) Well educated and motivated workforce Very friendly.
4) With their economy right now, it's a buyer's market.
5) Their submarine cable infrastructure has been growing steadily. Currently served by cables to Europe and North America.
Ohh, I'm sorry Em Emalb, but you have to state your answer in the form of a question. The judges were looking for "Who is Lucas123." "What is Lucas123" would also have been acceptable.
Speaking of Marketing, I've got to register some serious objections to this gem in TFA:
The dirty part? Techies often play a little fast and loose with the truth. But it's the marketing hag who catches hell for it.
TFA goes on to berate techies for claiming something is ready when it isn't, etc. I don't buy it. Most techies I know are too truthful for their own good, partly because of the b/w nature of our world, and partly as an allergic reaction from cleaning up too many overpromise/underdeliver SNAFUs we inherit from Sales and Marketing types. I've been on the techie end of that equation too many times, and although you can take my unconfirmed anecdotal data as you wish, my guess is that most here have had similar experiences.
Hypothetical conversation between techie and marketing hag:
MH: So, I'm like, trying to put together a press release and a flyer about OurLatestCoolthing1.0, and I was hoping you could like, help me with the technical parts.
T: Yeah, sure. Happy to help.
MH: Oh cool. So, like I talked to your manager, and he said that OLC v1.0 is fully Web 2.0 and cloud compliant, and is guaranteed to save companies 50% of their IT budget. Then he...
T: What? No. That's just wrong. Are you sure he said that?
MH: [puzzled look] Yeah. I like just got done talking with him, and he said to talk to you, because you could like explain it better.
T: Oh. [mental note to speak to the boss man] Yeah, well you probably don't want to say "Web 2.0 and cloud compliant", because that doesn't make sense. There is no "Web 2.0" or "cloud" standard per se, and so there's really nothing to be compliant with...
MH: [scribbling furiously] Wait, what? Standard? What do you mean?
T: There is no "cloud computing" standard. It's just a buzzword. You can't be compliant with it because... [notices the MH's eyes glazed over] Okay, say something like this - "OLC 1.0 leverages Web 2.0 technology to bring the power of cloud computing to your fingertips."
MH: [eyes light up] Oh! Good! I could use that! [scribbles] Okay, "OLC 1.0 leverages Web 2.0 technology to bring the power of cloud computing to your fingertips.
T: You probably don't want to guarantee any specific level of savings, either. Have you talked to Sales about that?
MH: Okay. Great, thanks! [leaves cubicle, then sticks head back in for one more question] Oh, by the way, how many engineers do we have certified on this?
T: Right now? No one. We just finished building the platform, and we haven't finished writing the training material yet. Why?
MH: Oh. How many will you have trained by like the end of next week?
T: Uhh, none. Not until the training material is finished. Talk to the technical writers and trainers.
MH: [worried] But like, how many will you eventually have trained?
T: [shrugs] Well, all the inbound tech support guys, for starters, and then...
MH: Oh! Right! Good! So like, how many of them are there?
T: Eight guys at the moment, but...
MH: Great... thanks! Bye!
Half an hour later, the phone rings. A sales guys calls up to ask about the OLC v1.0. He just saw the latest marketing press release, and is really glad to see that it is "Web 2.0 and Cloud compliant".
but people who are business moguls are pretty good at doing math and finding the cheapest solutions.
They are pretty good at math and spreadsheets, but they fail at predicting the future. I doubt wholesale recoding was in the original plan. The original plan looked like "Hire twice the number of Indian programmers at 1/4 the cost, get done in half the time! Beat the competition and pocket the savings! Yay!"
"Fix the code in a hurry" is added as an addendum after the truth bites them in the ass.
Technically yes, there was a third, of the same implosion design as the Nagasaki bomb. Because of the relatively advanced design of Fat Man, testing was necessary. The Hiroshima bomb was a much simpler gun barrel design, and therefore its designers felt comfortable deploying it without prior testing. GP is correct, that after making the test weapon and the two that were eventually used, there wasn't enough material available for additional weapons, and it would have taken considerable time to make more given the state of the art in uranium and plutonium production at the time.
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What kind of sick hypnotist bastard tricks people into thinking they are being burned? The ones I've seen usually make people think something relatively benign, like they can only cluck like a chicken.
You will also need:
You can get prepackaged ingredient kits or order a la carte. For $30 - $45US, you should be able to get a kit that contains the following, which should be all you need to brew 5 gallons of beer:
There are homebrew books that are helpful in figuring out what to do and how to do it. In my experience, This is one of the best out there, and I highly recommend it for brewers of all levels. Fortunately, there is a huge amount of excellent info freely available on the internet. (Google, as always, is your friend)
The outdated look of hbd.org is misleading - you'd never know that it holds an excellent beer recipe development tool (click on "Spreadsheet") and recipe database.
Forums worth checking out:
http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com/
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/
Good luck to you, and enjoy!
buying them can run you over $150 per batch.
Depends on your ingredients and batch size. I just picked up a 50lb sack of 2-row malt for $40US, and have another on backorder. Also picked up a couple vials of White Labs yeast at half off (no, they aren't expired). I just bought 3lbs of hops (1 x Galena, 1 x Willamette, 1 x Cascade) for $40US including shipping. Propane tank fillup was $15. I'll be brewing 10 gallon batches (sorry, 38 liters for you non-imperial types, or a little over 4 cases for those bad at unit conversion and division) at a cost of ~$40 for ingredients & consumables, or about $0.50 per pint. Compare that to $4/pint at the local pub.
Unless you already own the equipment
Right. I gave up trying to cost-justify that stuff a long time ago. No one ever really owns enough equipment anyway. There's always something else you need. It's part of the fun, actually.
Then you have to count the time-consuming process of sanitizing the equipment
Ugh. The primary reason I don't brew more often.
actually brewing beer
That's the fun part! Well, one of the fun parts, anyway.
bottling it
Corny kegs, baby. Best brewing investment ever.
then drinking it before it expires
Sufficient alcohol content/hopping levels should keep infections away, if you've sanitized properly. Of course, if you're worried about consuming it before it passes peak flavor, invite friends over for a party. I promise you, they will show. However, I tend to find the old maxim true: The homebrew is ready when it's gone.
However, if you do decide to do it, it is a very rewarding experience.
Cheers to that. I take it you brew?
* Apologia pro vita sua: People homebrew for the same reasons that people use or develop FOSS. Some people are just out to save a buck. Others feel that the mass-produced and mass-marketed products are often lacking in quality, or perhaps they feel that the niche products are often pricey and have an artificially snobby following. Some do it because they realize they can produce something equal or superior (for their tastes and purposes, at least) to commercially available alternatives. Some do it just because they love doing it, they love the process of creation. Brewers usually share their creations freely with others and simply ask for a smile and tiny bit of gratitude in return. Many are content to buy basic equipment and a set of ingredients and combine them as instructed, like someone might download and use Ubuntu without ever peeking under the hood. Or, a brewer might create and refine their own recipes then share them with the world, like a developer might write applications or drivers to suit themselves before releasing it to others who might use it or improve it.
They often take pride in personally building or tweaking their hardware, whether it is a 2 x quad core server with 32 GB RAM repurposed into a badass desktop (the fans make it sound like a Cessna taking off, but who the hell cares), or a custom-welded brewstand with 3 x 170,000btu propane burners (sounds like a jet taking off - freakin' glorious).
Commercial brewers jealously guard their recipes and processes. Homebrewers love to share insights and techniques. As a matter of fact, once you get one talking you can barely shut them up (case and point). Homebrewers believe that knowledge is power, and should be shared freely. In fact, they not only personify the free as in beer / free as in speech metaphor, they improve on it, since they are generally happy to freely provide the recipe for the beer just poured you, making a hybrid case of free as in speech and beer.
the UI is something you either love, or absolutely despise, with very little in between.
Yeah, but that's hardly the exclusive domain of open source software; plenty of commercial apps over the years have had poor interfaces, and/or workflow, and/or functionality.
There's nothing wrong with simply learning a clunky UI, warts and all. The warts are a lot less obtrusive once you get used to them. I'm not saying there is an excuse for crappy design, I'm saying that familiarity can often make up for it.
Mucho gracias.
Well, I'm no expert, but at least since 2007 or so. Although if you were right, I'd have to admit that it's hard to detect a USB key without a USB port.
So why would a teen get an iPhone
Because iPhones are cool, and kids want to be cool and have cool stuff. It really is that simple. Different example, from a few decades ago: Levis 501 jeans with the red tag were the only cool, acceptable jeans in my school. Wearing something like Toughskins from Sears would get you laughed at, and possibly beaten just for the fun of it because there was a reasonable certainty that the kid in them was a lot less tough than the jeans themselves.
...
I shudder at the memories
Being anti-competitive and predatory are signs of douchebaggery, but they are perfectly legal (at least where I am). The "monopoly" bit is important, because MS didn't get convicted of being douchebags, they got convicted of illegally leveraging their monopoly power. Without Apple controlling a monopoly, the same logic doesn't work against them. Of course, that doesn't mean they aren't douchebags as well.
I wouldn't be surprised if that is true, but that's a heck of a claim to make without backup. Have any sources you can cite? If not, how certain are you of your claim?
Actually, I think that Iceland remains free of sea ice thanks to ocean currents, so unless you planned on routing the cable via Greenland, you'd be fine.
In my humble experience, roundabouts (rotaries as we Massholes call 'em) are good for light to medium volume traffic, and work better than lights for complicated intersections*. They really suck if one or more particular road carries heavy traffic, because that traffic flow will dominate the intersection and make it difficult for others to the right around the rotary to enter.
*For example, several meandering streets coming together in roughly the same spot, because New England roads were built by following the wanderings of cows and horses instead of nice rational city planning.
Boot to linux CD. /dev/sda
wipe -qf
Format with your favorite file system & enjoy the 500GB HDD you paid double for.
Just make the icons nudey pictures and most guys won't have a problem shelling out cash to "see more".
That's it! Forget the mainstream Hollywood movies. The only problem with their business model is that they preloaded the wrong content! What happens to most hard drives anyway? Sooner or later they get jam packed with porn. So ...
1) Preload HDD with pornos
2) There is no ???
3) Profit!!!
You want a great datacenter location? Iceland.
1) Endless cheap green power (geothermal & hydropower).
2) Optimal climate for datacenter cooling.
3) Well educated and motivated workforce Very friendly.
4) With their economy right now, it's a buyer's market.
5) Their submarine cable infrastructure has been growing steadily. Currently served by cables to Europe and North America.
Ohh, I'm sorry Em Emalb, but you have to state your answer in the form of a question. The judges were looking for "Who is Lucas123." "What is Lucas123" would also have been acceptable.
The dirty part? Techies often play a little fast and loose with the truth. But it's the marketing hag who catches hell for it.
TFA goes on to berate techies for claiming something is ready when it isn't, etc. I don't buy it. Most techies I know are too truthful for their own good, partly because of the b/w nature of our world, and partly as an allergic reaction from cleaning up too many overpromise/underdeliver SNAFUs we inherit from Sales and Marketing types. I've been on the techie end of that equation too many times, and although you can take my unconfirmed anecdotal data as you wish, my guess is that most here have had similar experiences.
...
...
... [notices the MH's eyes glazed over] Okay, say something like this - "OLC 1.0 leverages Web 2.0 technology to bring the power of cloud computing to your fingertips."
...
...
... thanks! Bye!
Hypothetical conversation between techie and marketing hag:
MH: So, I'm like, trying to put together a press release and a flyer about OurLatestCoolthing1.0, and I was hoping you could like, help me with the technical parts.
T: Yeah, sure. Happy to help.
MH: Oh cool. So, like I talked to your manager, and he said that OLC v1.0 is fully Web 2.0 and cloud compliant, and is guaranteed to save companies 50% of their IT budget. Then he
T: What? No. That's just wrong. Are you sure he said that?
MH: [puzzled look] Yeah. I like just got done talking with him, and he said to talk to you, because you could like explain it better.
T: Oh. [mental note to speak to the boss man] Yeah, well you probably don't want to say "Web 2.0 and cloud compliant", because that doesn't make sense. There is no "Web 2.0" or "cloud" standard per se, and so there's really nothing to be compliant with
MH: [scribbling furiously] Wait, what? Standard? What do you mean?
T: There is no "cloud computing" standard. It's just a buzzword. You can't be compliant with it because
MH: [eyes light up] Oh! Good! I could use that! [scribbles] Okay, "OLC 1.0 leverages Web 2.0 technology to bring the power of cloud computing to your fingertips.
T: You probably don't want to guarantee any specific level of savings, either. Have you talked to Sales about that?
MH: Okay. Great, thanks! [leaves cubicle, then sticks head back in for one more question] Oh, by the way, how many engineers do we have certified on this?
T: Right now? No one. We just finished building the platform, and we haven't finished writing the training material yet. Why?
MH: Oh. How many will you have trained by like the end of next week?
T: Uhh, none. Not until the training material is finished. Talk to the technical writers and trainers.
MH: [worried] But like, how many will you eventually have trained?
T: [shrugs] Well, all the inbound tech support guys, for starters, and then
MH: Oh! Right! Good! So like, how many of them are there?
T: Eight guys at the moment, but
MH: Great
Half an hour later, the phone rings. A sales guys calls up to ask about the OLC v1.0. He just saw the latest marketing press release, and is really glad to see that it is "Web 2.0 and Cloud compliant".
but people who are business moguls are pretty good at doing math and finding the cheapest solutions.
They are pretty good at math and spreadsheets, but they fail at predicting the future. I doubt wholesale recoding was in the original plan. The original plan looked like "Hire twice the number of Indian programmers at 1/4 the cost, get done in half the time! Beat the competition and pocket the savings! Yay!"
"Fix the code in a hurry" is added as an addendum after the truth bites them in the ass.
No.
No.
Technically yes, there was a third, of the same implosion design as the Nagasaki bomb. Because of the relatively advanced design of Fat Man, testing was necessary. The Hiroshima bomb was a much simpler gun barrel design, and therefore its designers felt comfortable deploying it without prior testing. GP is correct, that after making the test weapon and the two that were eventually used, there wasn't enough material available for additional weapons, and it would have taken considerable time to make more given the state of the art in uranium and plutonium production at the time.
Uh, no, other way around. Russia is in a position to harm our space program, and is extor^h^h^h^h^h repricing accordingly.
That's a nice space program you've got there. It would be a shame if anything should happen to it.
Did you ever see that movie North?
Oh, for crying out loud ...
Odd that Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, isn't it?