I pretty much just picked a comment here at semi-random to talk about.
Keep in mind a few things when people are talking about 'solar paneling a roof'..
- Here where I live, we have a ton of pine trees.. they dump a ton of pine needles on my roof. I'd say at peak, almost.25-.3 of my roof can be obscured. That == instant cut of service.. obviouslly, i'd have to clean my roof more often.. are solar cells safe to walk on and do they stand up to abrasive brooms without degrading the surface quality? Obviously the same would apply to Snow until it melts off (which takes how many hours during the day, of which you're getting far from peak efficiency from your panels with? When it hits the rainy season, you have similar issues since your typical week is overcast?
- Reflecting the suns heat is desirable in the warm months, but not in the cold months. Currently I count on the sun during the day to help heat my house in the winter. If I panel my house with the same goal of attempting to collect/reflect all that sunlight during the summar to save/run my AC, I also have to run my heater more often because my house doesn't warm up?
- what the TOC on solar panels anyhow? I fully realize that the cost of replacement will go down as demand and technology increase. I can get 10+ years from my current roof.. how often do solar panels need replacing? keep in mind they will be getting hit by (branchs | snow | heavy rain | leaves/pine needles | occasional base balls | people walking on them to clean them | cleaning chemicals | other forms of harsh weather such as hail and/or debris in hurricanes, etc..). Someone throw me some real-world numbers here?
I'm not trying to be a neigh-sayer, just trying to keep people aware of the every-day issues associated with such things.. i'm far from an expert on solar paneling, but these are some things that 'average joe' will want to know. And lets face it.. if you want it to get wide-spread adaptation, you gotta get the 'average-joe' vote.
PopTop is probably busy with Shattered Union.... besides.. I much favored Tropico then RRT2.. RRT3 is pretty nifty, but the only thing interesting about Tropico 2 was the pirate theme.. the actual gameplay was kinda blah (it was developed by a different company....)
TBH, I don't play enough of the micro-games or whatever they are to be called.. (ok.. i do end up on Newgrounds on occasion.. but that's about it.. ).. when I first read this title, I thought it was about PopTop..:(
Yeah, I was a little saddened to see only big name FPSes in there.. mostly add-ons and sequels.. Tripwire Interactive is a smaller company, but they are putting out a solid product, with solid distribution.
I do encourage anyone interested in the genre (WW2) to check it out.
(of course I got to disclaim here that I am on the staff for Red Orchestra)
Well if you choose Java, then you can use free Eclipse IDE which is excellent. Otherwise if you choose c#, the ony decent ide is visual studio which will cost you a fortune.
Oh.. the wonderful thing about something like Eclipse (an expandable IDE), is that there plenty of plug-ins for all sorts of non-java languages:
I've used the PHP plugin a bit, but can't say I've used a C# plugin much.
Google is your friend
One place I used recently has been Magnatune.com.. they are teh good.. (price per album $3 -> ?? (you decided)...5 to the artist,.5 to Magnatune)..
thier downside if they don't have the huge selection you'd expect of alot of places.. but IMO if you check out thier licensing scheme and the formats you can D/L (VBR MP3, VorbisOgg, FLAC, raw WAV, and AAC) it outweighs that.
There's a local company here in our town (gatorfood.com) that does exactly that..
We probably have a better market for this since we are uni. town and the food service space is vast and popular.
AFAIK: The problem is the delivery drivers get the screws since they are technically contractors, and work for only tips.. which alot of customers do not do becuase the delivery company slaps on a $3.95 delivery fee..:/
(I tell every person I meet that complains about not making money working for them to just go work for Dominos or PizzaHut as they will be garenteed money, and thier taxes will probably be easier too..)
I recommend Eagle Games.. they published some pretty nifty board games, most of which are quite excellent. Age of Imperialism (converted to a PC game) is pretty solid.
"History of the World" is another good, and mildly innovative (in play style) game. I beleive it's put out by Avalon Games..
Aside from that, honestly check out some of the german companies..
"Zombies!!!" is a fun tile-based games based on zombie survival.
ok.. so I have some old (486->300k6 cpus, ISA expansion cards, 32-pin SIMMs, old minitower cases, etc..), but not enough to assemble into full computers.. The problem also arises that the 'common' charity cases (Schools, etc..) are pretty decent on the tech scale, and wouldn't want my old hardware.. this is a unversity town, so most the population already has more-modern computers..
It's all in various states of operational ability, and I don't want to try and find working PCs of that era to test out 1x SB16 or something..
Someone please let me know what I cna do with all this old junk?.. and NO, I don't want to make them *nix systems (I have older PCs doing that now already) It's been an annoyance and I'm starting to get sick of it and looking into the garbage as a more viable option every day.
The problem is of the 1000 solutions for a given problem-space, you gotta pick one.. hopefully one of the 3-4 that stay on solid ground after all the dust settles..
Unfortunately I've run into the case of a manager that knows alittle java and would issue devine mandate down that we will use 'tech X to solve everything!'.. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't..
I agree.. Wikipedia is a dam nifty source.. but it's not authoriatian.. more higher level articles in WP, I would imagine, would tend to be created/edit by persons that have a better grasp on the subject..
but the problem is, you should still x-ref anything you get out of it.. I coudl easily go in and change a X for a Y.. or a Na to a Fe, and if you took it at face value without validating it, you'd end up in some pretty signifigant problems.
The author's views are correct, and IMO, the point he is trying to make is that there are to many dam n people out there that THINK they know the answer.. when they really don't.. and now they can make THIER answer the correct one..
["Operating systems such as Windows and Linux have no facility for stopping data being written to the hard drive."]
In fact.. such operating systems are DESIGNED to write to the hard disk..
(like someone said above.. someone just discovered the swap/page file)
I think the author needed to be alittle more articulate with the wording.
I'd just like to point out that there are many hardware differences between the EOS Dig-Rebel and the 10D.. for one the body construction... and a couple others..
but anyhow.. the list of what you are willing to pay extra for just got shorter:]
Agreed... Linux was made GPL so anyone can use it as it sees fit..
But now that someone doesn't approve the use for it, it's a problem?
define:hypocrite.
You've stumbled across what I consider the line between good and sucky anime. Good anime (to me) doesnt peddle to the LCD (lowest common demominator), like IMO anime like DBZ does.
Unfortunately, this channel will prob air more crap then good stuff.. if no other reason then the good stuff is generally in short supply.
While anime like Legend of the Overfiend is 'intersting' it does hold the same level of appeal to me that Bebop does. Its like the difference between watching the Drew Carey show, and a Sharon Stone movie.
You gotta remember that the person asking the question has the power to implement a policy, but not the power to change the policy.
If the business is big enough to be head-strong, the suggestion of 'dont do it' is not productive to the questioner, since the business will not listen and change it's practices.
Yes, it is a good option, but in context may not help the questioner.
FYI: Every star wars film has been released on the 3rd Thursday of May.
In general the studio can dictate the release date worldwide whenever it wants. This is similar to really anything: many games (computer and board/mini/collectable) have scheduled release dates, same with CDs, etc.. stores are not permitted to sell items prior to thier offical release date..
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I pretty much just picked a comment here at semi-random to talk about.
.25-.3 of my roof can be obscured. That == instant cut of service.. obviouslly, i'd have to clean my roof more often.. are solar cells safe to walk on and do they stand up to abrasive brooms without degrading the surface quality?
Keep in mind a few things when people are talking about 'solar paneling a roof'..
- Here where I live, we have a ton of pine trees.. they dump a ton of pine needles on my roof. I'd say at peak, almost
Obviously the same would apply to Snow until it melts off (which takes how many hours during the day, of which you're getting far from peak efficiency from your panels with?
When it hits the rainy season, you have similar issues since your typical week is overcast?
- Reflecting the suns heat is desirable in the warm months, but not in the cold months. Currently I count on the sun during the day to help heat my house in the winter. If I panel my house with the same goal of attempting to collect/reflect all that sunlight during the summar to save/run my AC, I also have to run my heater more often because my house doesn't warm up?
- what the TOC on solar panels anyhow? I fully realize that the cost of replacement will go down as demand and technology increase.
I can get 10+ years from my current roof.. how often do solar panels need replacing? keep in mind they will be getting hit by (branchs | snow | heavy rain | leaves/pine needles | occasional base balls | people walking on them to clean them | cleaning chemicals | other forms of harsh weather such as hail and/or debris in hurricanes, etc..). Someone throw me some real-world numbers here?
I'm not trying to be a neigh-sayer, just trying to keep people aware of the every-day issues associated with such things.. i'm far from an expert on solar paneling, but these are some things that 'average joe' will want to know. And lets face it.. if you want it to get wide-spread adaptation, you gotta get the 'average-joe' vote.
PopTop is probably busy with Shattered Union.. .. besides.. I much favored Tropico then RRT2.. RRT3 is pretty nifty, but the only thing interesting about Tropico 2 was the pirate theme.. the actual gameplay was kinda blah (it was developed by a different company....)
:(
TBH, I don't play enough of the micro-games or whatever they are to be called.. (ok.. i do end up on Newgrounds on occasion.. but that's about it.. ).. when I first read this title, I thought it was about PopTop..
Yeah, I was a little saddened to see only big name FPSes in there.. mostly add-ons and sequels.. Tripwire Interactive is a smaller company, but they are putting out a solid product, with solid distribution.
I do encourage anyone interested in the genre (WW2) to check it out.
(of course I got to disclaim here that I am on the staff for Red Orchestra)
Actually I think the Super Power franchise did the whole geo-political arena thing pretty decently..
:]
I am looking forward to Introversion's version
Well if you choose Java, then you can use free Eclipse IDE which is excellent. Otherwise if you choose c#, the ony decent ide is visual studio which will cost you a fortune.
Oh.. the wonderful thing about something like Eclipse (an expandable IDE), is that there plenty of plug-ins for all sorts of non-java languages:
I've used the PHP plugin a bit, but can't say I've used a C# plugin much.
Google is your friend
One place I used recently has been Magnatune.com.. they are teh good.. .5 to the artist, .5 to Magnatune)..
(price per album $3 -> ?? (you decided)..
thier downside if they don't have the huge selection you'd expect of alot of places.. but IMO if you check out thier licensing scheme and the formats you can D/L (VBR MP3, VorbisOgg, FLAC, raw WAV, and AAC) it outweighs that.
There's a local company here in our town (gatorfood.com) that does exactly that..
:/
We probably have a better market for this since we are uni. town and the food service space is vast and popular.
AFAIK: The problem is the delivery drivers get the screws since they are technically contractors, and work for only tips.. which alot of customers do not do becuase the delivery company slaps on a $3.95 delivery fee..
(I tell every person I meet that complains about not making money working for them to just go work for Dominos or PizzaHut as they will be garenteed money, and thier taxes will probably be easier too..)
Nope.. it was the total weight of the mecha.. (you allocated tonnage towards power, cockpit, internal structure, gryos, etc..)
As far as '100 tons being to light', don't forget that it's the future.. and, in theory, stronger materials will weigh less.
Isn't this a infringement on SOE IP rights?
I mean.. really...
So I see a future where people that buy gifts for their side relationships.. and the wife checking the email.. lol
I have to put my $0.02 onto your view..
Most Blogs are just collected thoughts/opinions..
Journalism, regardless how you feel about certain agencies, should be goaled at reporting events, not conveying interpretations.
Blog!=News
I recommend Eagle Games.. they published some pretty nifty board games, most of which are quite excellent.
Age of Imperialism (converted to a PC game) is pretty solid.
"History of the World" is another good, and mildly innovative (in play style) game. I beleive it's put out by Avalon Games..
Aside from that, honestly check out some of the german companies..
"Zombies!!!" is a fun tile-based games based on zombie survival.
ok.. so I have some old (486->300k6 cpus, ISA expansion cards, 32-pin SIMMs, old minitower cases, etc..), but not enough to assemble into full computers..
The problem also arises that the 'common' charity cases (Schools, etc..) are pretty decent on the tech scale, and wouldn't want my old hardware.. this is a unversity town, so most the population already has more-modern computers..
It's all in various states of operational ability, and I don't want to try and find working PCs of that era to test out 1x SB16 or something..
Someone please let me know what I cna do with all this old junk?.. and NO, I don't want to make them *nix systems (I have older PCs doing that now already)
It's been an annoyance and I'm starting to get sick of it and looking into the garbage as a more viable option every day.
Suggestions?
Yeap.. I can concurr with that..
The problem is of the 1000 solutions for a given problem-space, you gotta pick one.. hopefully one of the 3-4 that stay on solid ground after all the dust settles..
Unfortunately I've run into the case of a manager that knows alittle java and would issue devine mandate down that we will use 'tech X to solve everything!'.. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't..
*shrug*
"Or at least, that's what I hear on slashdot."
/. is on the internet, and everything we read (on the internet) must be true.. :]
and of course we all know that
I agree.. Wikipedia is a dam nifty source.. but it's not authoriatian.. more higher level articles in WP, I would imagine, would tend to be created/edit by persons that have a better grasp on the subject..
but the problem is, you should still x-ref anything you get out of it.. I coudl easily go in and change a X for a Y.. or a Na to a Fe, and if you took it at face value without validating it, you'd end up in some pretty signifigant problems.
The author's views are correct, and IMO, the point he is trying to make is that there are to many dam n people out there that THINK they know the answer.. when they really don't.. and now they can make THIER answer the correct one..
The problem is more with people then the system..
["Operating systems such as Windows and Linux have no facility for stopping data being written to the hard drive."]
In fact.. such operating systems are DESIGNED to write to the hard disk..
(like someone said above.. someone just discovered the swap/page file)
I think the author needed to be alittle more articulate with the wording.
I'd just like to point out that there are many hardware differences between the EOS Dig-Rebel and the 10D.. for one the body construction... and a couple others..
:]
but anyhow.. the list of what you are willing to pay extra for just got shorter
Agreed... Linux was made GPL so anyone can use it as it sees fit..
But now that someone doesn't approve the use for it, it's a problem?
define:hypocrite.
You've stumbled across what I consider the line between good and sucky anime.
Good anime (to me) doesnt peddle to the LCD (lowest common demominator), like IMO anime like DBZ does.
Unfortunately, this channel will prob air more crap then good stuff.. if no other reason then the good stuff is generally in short supply.
While anime like Legend of the Overfiend is 'intersting' it does hold the same level of appeal to me that Bebop does. Its like the difference between watching the Drew Carey show, and a Sharon Stone movie.
The funny part is the other day I actually did see a blind woman leading another blind person down the street..
I had to snicker..
Geez.. if so.. then Vatican city would have a whopping 2.27... UFOs per Sq Km.. certainly an unbeatable density by any other nation!
.44 sq. KM
[
Numbers based on MapQuest atlas.. Vatican City ==
On a side note.. MapQuest also lists Vatican City has having a 100% Lit. rate..
We use PVCS here and it works very nicely.. esp since the latest version.
It has a Java Based GUI, but also command line tools (so you could Perl script an entire interface if you REALLY wanted to).
The problem however, it that is it a tad on the expensive side.
You gotta remember that the person asking the question has the power to implement a policy, but not the power to change the policy.
If the business is big enough to be head-strong, the suggestion of 'dont do it' is not productive to the questioner, since the business will not listen and change it's practices.
Yes, it is a good option, but in context may not help the questioner.
FYI: Every star wars film has been released on the 3rd Thursday of May.
In general the studio can dictate the release date worldwide whenever it wants. This is similar to really anything: many games (computer and board/mini/collectable) have scheduled release dates, same with CDs, etc.. stores are not permitted to sell items prior to thier offical release date..