I would have just mailed them to that nice Nigerian fellow who needs help raising funds. I would love for the police to follow the trail to recover them.
Run conduit if you can, otherwise use flexible tubes. I agree with the string idea, it works great. Just make sure to label the strings and run your design by a contractor before cutting holes in 2x4s. A conduit hole sometimes will reduce the structural integrity of the wood and you will not pass inspection. Most holes also have to be fire proofed by packing the outside with caulk.
10' ceilings in the basement. It gives you room to finish with drop ceilings or drywall with room for vents. It is normally only about another $3000 - $5000 and adds more value than that upon resale.
Don't run a single water heater, use two tankless ones on each side of your house for fast, efficient hot water.
Ask your heating/cooling contractor about zoning your house if it is over 2700 sq. Depending on your climate it is worth the extra payment to have properly heated/cooled rooms.
A central vacuum system with the unit in the garage. Easy to empty as your trash cans are right there. Also doubles as your car vacuum.
4' wide stairways. Especially into the basement (if you do not already have a walk out basement with a patio door). It is much easier to bring up stuff from your shop or move furniture.
I put in-wall speakers for my surround sound. I wish I had used wall mount. Only use ceiling mounted in-wall speakers. Of course you will have to know EXACTLY where your furniture will be: it makes a big difference.
I ran a lot of CAT 5e and I use only two of them. Everything else uses wireless. Even my security system is wireless with an internal cellular modem. You can run it, but I doubt you will use all the wires. I can get an "excellent" signal in my whole 1.25 acre property with my single draft-N router.
Go to a lighting specialist with your plans and make sure you look REALLY hard at where you want your lights. It make a huge difference.
Do the same with your electrical. Place your furniture and look at placing floor outlets, outlets above your fireplace mantle, above your cabinets, inside tiered crown moulding (rope lights for accent), etc.
Just remember. Pimping out the electronics may makes you and your geek friends happy. Designing lighting, electrical, and convienence items (closet systems, central vac, etc.) makes the other 90% of the world love it.
Oh, and don't forget to budget for landscaping. That was another $55K for me.:(
Sounds like we outsourced our presidency and vice-presidency to Haliburton from your description.
As a member of our military I am all for outsourcing of duties. It is just like corporate America, if you can completely define a subtask, lighten your load by outsourcing it. I would rather pay a little more now for someone to happily complete my task ontime than to give it to a government/military employee that will get bored, take forever, and eventually retire with an expensive pension.
However, I feel our problem is when you outsource the decision makers. At that point you enter into a issues of fraud and ethical misbehavior. It is really hard for our military to keep highly skilled intelligence officers as they are highly recruited by corporate America. So, that means our "intelligence" officers are the middle of the road guys. Those good enough to get promoted but not good enough to get recruited. Wouldn't you want to outsource too?
HR in the military is a completely different beast and unless you have been in the military or worked as a contractor it is hard to believe how screwed up it really is.
I agree with many of the people before me. I do not accept keys to client locations unless I am onsite more than a month. I do not accept domain administrator passwords, I ask for a unique admin account with delegated rights. And I do not snoop into files.
Just recently I went to my boss and told him that our ex-HR person's home directory was wide open. I pointed out to him his hire letter and more from my other collegues. I almost did not approach him about it for fear of repricussions. However, I did not have any more than domain user rights and found it using Vista's new desktop search.
Have you ever purchased stocks? They charge by trasactions and therefore they want to know their cost per trasaction so they know their their profit. If you had a factory and you made widgets, wouldn't you want to know your cost per widget?
And yes, you are right, there are many factors that can skew your cost per transaction. But in the end all they want is to know if they are making a profit and where to cut costs to make a bigger profit.
If the RIAA wins this right to get paid for subsequent sales, will Ford/Chevy/Chrysler do the same? Will the used care dealer have to pay the manufacturer for every used car sale?
Or better yet, how about every art gallery having to pay the artist everytime the painting is sold.
about an impressive star explosion that took place some tens of millions of years ago
But my priest told me God made the universe 10,000 years ago. How can that be? Maybe it exploded in the universe we had previous to ours, you know, the one with the dinosaurs.
At my current client I have to show a screen print of what the change will look like on the production server, without making the change. So I have to alter the images from my test system to look like the production system to pass SOX review.
Relieve some student loans? Now that is a good idea. The states should enact a program to repay student loan payments each month the teacher is in service with contracts for the entire academic year. The school districts with the greatest need pay the highest monthly stipend. If the teacher leaves (on their own) before the end of the academic year, then they must repay the state.
I would rather the manufacturers post a MTBF rate limited in scope to a 3 or 5 year max as that is when most servers are recycled in the corporate world. By running the good drives for 10+ years the MTBF is drastically skewed to a much smaller MTBF rate.
Anyways, we will only be arguing this for another five years. By then we will all be running solid state flash hard drives with a drastically better MTBF rate. So much so that we will be seeing way less RAID 10 and much more RAID 5 or 6.
OK, miniturize this to the size of a mace spray and every celebrity will buy one to combat the paparrazi. Get out of my back yard you slug! Zzzaaappp...sizzle.
unless maybe the actor is also a member of Mensa; for example: Geena Davis, James Woods, etc. Then I will read the quote. I guess getting my news from the Internet for over a decade has really made me question "any" single source of information. Headlines and celebrity quotes are just attention getters: assumed false until verified.
Have you read the federal guidelines that IT must follow for the financial industry? I have worked as a email contractor at a mutual fund company that had traders and a research department. We had to track every email and IM for seven years and had to produce them whenever requested to be in compliance. All it takes is one tech-savvy and crafty employee to put the entire company at risk.
Just because you can, does not mean you should. Most companies will give you whatever access you need, if you need it. Making access because you want it is juvenile and will get your fired.
has another review that says reaffirms the same findings. Performance is not beating Intel yet and the AMD/ASUS solution is very expensive. I feel the only market here is those that cannot wait and have money to burn.
I have played AA for over 1500 hours and have above average skills in the game. Even after memorizing all the maps, what still amazes me is that their recruiting tool shows me daily how quickly I would be killed in actual combat.
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I would have just mailed them to that nice Nigerian fellow who needs help raising funds. I would love for the police to follow the trail to recover them.
- 10K in stone
- 15K in concrete (huge driveway, wide sidewalks, and large two-tier patio)
- 10K for final grading, adding 4" of topsoil (trucked in and spread), and hydroseeding
- 10K in trees, plantings, and planting beds (including the cool edging)
- 5K in lighting
- 5K in labor
roughly...Having just built, here was my list
- Do not use wooden I beams, uses floor trusses.
- Run conduit if you can, otherwise use flexible tubes. I agree with the string idea, it works great. Just make sure to label the strings and run your design by a contractor before cutting holes in 2x4s. A conduit hole sometimes will reduce the structural integrity of the wood and you will not pass inspection. Most holes also have to be fire proofed by packing the outside with caulk.
- 10' ceilings in the basement. It gives you room to finish with drop ceilings or drywall with room for vents. It is normally only about another $3000 - $5000 and adds more value than that upon resale.
- Don't run a single water heater, use two tankless ones on each side of your house for fast, efficient hot water.
- Ask your heating/cooling contractor about zoning your house if it is over 2700 sq. Depending on your climate it is worth the extra payment to have properly heated/cooled rooms.
- A central vacuum system with the unit in the garage. Easy to empty as your trash cans are right there. Also doubles as your car vacuum.
- 4' wide stairways. Especially into the basement (if you do not already have a walk out basement with a patio door). It is much easier to bring up stuff from your shop or move furniture.
- I put in-wall speakers for my surround sound. I wish I had used wall mount. Only use ceiling mounted in-wall speakers. Of course you will have to know EXACTLY where your furniture will be: it makes a big difference.
- I ran a lot of CAT 5e and I use only two of them. Everything else uses wireless. Even my security system is wireless with an internal cellular modem. You can run it, but I doubt you will use all the wires. I can get an "excellent" signal in my whole 1.25 acre property with my single draft-N router.
- Go to a lighting specialist with your plans and make sure you look REALLY hard at where you want your lights. It make a huge difference.
- Do the same with your electrical. Place your furniture and look at placing floor outlets, outlets above your fireplace mantle, above your cabinets, inside tiered crown moulding (rope lights for accent), etc.
Just remember. Pimping out the electronics may makes you and your geek friends happy. Designing lighting, electrical, and convienence items (closet systems, central vac, etc.) makes the other 90% of the world love it. Oh, and don't forget to budget for landscaping. That was another $55K for me.Sounds like we outsourced our presidency and vice-presidency to Haliburton from your description.
As a member of our military I am all for outsourcing of duties. It is just like corporate America, if you can completely define a subtask, lighten your load by outsourcing it. I would rather pay a little more now for someone to happily complete my task ontime than to give it to a government/military employee that will get bored, take forever, and eventually retire with an expensive pension.
However, I feel our problem is when you outsource the decision makers. At that point you enter into a issues of fraud and ethical misbehavior. It is really hard for our military to keep highly skilled intelligence officers as they are highly recruited by corporate America. So, that means our "intelligence" officers are the middle of the road guys. Those good enough to get promoted but not good enough to get recruited. Wouldn't you want to outsource too?
HR in the military is a completely different beast and unless you have been in the military or worked as a contractor it is hard to believe how screwed up it really is.
I agree with many of the people before me. I do not accept keys to client locations unless I am onsite more than a month. I do not accept domain administrator passwords, I ask for a unique admin account with delegated rights. And I do not snoop into files.
Just recently I went to my boss and told him that our ex-HR person's home directory was wide open. I pointed out to him his hire letter and more from my other collegues. I almost did not approach him about it for fear of repricussions. However, I did not have any more than domain user rights and found it using Vista's new desktop search.
a keyboard that will let me have an ANY key.
Have you ever purchased stocks? They charge by trasactions and therefore they want to know their cost per trasaction so they know their their profit. If you had a factory and you made widgets, wouldn't you want to know your cost per widget? And yes, you are right, there are many factors that can skew your cost per transaction. But in the end all they want is to know if they are making a profit and where to cut costs to make a bigger profit.
Old news, where did you think Willy Wonka already got all his Oompa Loompas.
If the RIAA wins this right to get paid for subsequent sales, will Ford/Chevy/Chrysler do the same? Will the used care dealer have to pay the manufacturer for every used car sale?
Or better yet, how about every art gallery having to pay the artist everytime the painting is sold.
This is rediculous.
I heard there are outstanding campaign contributions to be had on the other side of the black^H^H^H^H^H wormhole. They like lawyers there too.
But my priest told me God made the universe 10,000 years ago. How can that be? Maybe it exploded in the universe we had previous to ours, you know, the one with the dinosaurs.
At my current client I have to show a screen print of what the change will look like on the production server, without making the change. So I have to alter the images from my test system to look like the production system to pass SOX review.
Come back with a 60 GB solid state version for under $500 and we'll talk.
Relieve some student loans? Now that is a good idea. The states should enact a program to repay student loan payments each month the teacher is in service with contracts for the entire academic year. The school districts with the greatest need pay the highest monthly stipend. If the teacher leaves (on their own) before the end of the academic year, then they must repay the state.
I would rather the manufacturers post a MTBF rate limited in scope to a 3 or 5 year max as that is when most servers are recycled in the corporate world. By running the good drives for 10+ years the MTBF is drastically skewed to a much smaller MTBF rate. Anyways, we will only be arguing this for another five years. By then we will all be running solid state flash hard drives with a drastically better MTBF rate. So much so that we will be seeing way less RAID 10 and much more RAID 5 or 6.
dOne dUde!
OK, miniturize this to the size of a mace spray and every celebrity will buy one to combat the paparrazi. Get out of my back yard you slug! Zzzaaappp...sizzle.
unless maybe the actor is also a member of Mensa; for example: Geena Davis, James Woods, etc. Then I will read the quote. I guess getting my news from the Internet for over a decade has really made me question "any" single source of information. Headlines and celebrity quotes are just attention getters: assumed false until verified.
Have you read the federal guidelines that IT must follow for the financial industry? I have worked as a email contractor at a mutual fund company that had traders and a research department. We had to track every email and IM for seven years and had to produce them whenever requested to be in compliance. All it takes is one tech-savvy and crafty employee to put the entire company at risk.
Just because you can, does not mean you should. Most companies will give you whatever access you need, if you need it. Making access because you want it is juvenile and will get your fired.
This is a new spin to upgrade to their new Office 2007 product line.
No, just Internet2 SP1.
...grandparents buy great gifts.
...dementia has clouded their idea of an Apple-a-day.
...the Apple store guys sympathize with the elderly and are good at adding the larger display, iPod docking station to the sale.
has another review that says reaffirms the same findings. Performance is not beating Intel yet and the AMD/ASUS solution is very expensive. I feel the only market here is those that cannot wait and have money to burn.
Disparity? No, that is not it. They just picked out the easiest person to pull over.
[Cop] Have you ever been fishing?
[Me] Yes. ?
[Cop] Did you ever catch all the fish?
[Me] No.
I have played AA for over 1500 hours and have above average skills in the game. Even after memorizing all the maps, what still amazes me is that their recruiting tool shows me daily how quickly I would be killed in actual combat.