A better way is self expanding foam, it will even insulate homes that have the crappy 1st gen fiberglass batting. it just requires COMPETENT installers so they dont put in too much and burst the walls.
I did an entire 2100 sq ft home for less than $2200.00 that included adding an extra 18 inches of fiberglass batting to the attic. My heating bills dropped from $210 to $80 a month in the winter with a 25 year old 55% efficient furnace. this summer that get's replaced with a 90% efficient furnace.
People in those climates would do well to force the builder to actually build the home right. Heat chimneys and long overhangs coupled with highly insulated homes and thermal masses would do a LOT to cool the home with very little cost.
Problem is most homes are built wrong. the same damn cookie cutter McMansions that are designed by idiot architects.
get a 20 SEER rating AC unit and you will have the most efficient you can get today... it's only a couple grand more than a standard AC unit.
Oh and insulate your home, replace your windows with triple pane and low-e glass, and get rid of all air leaks.
Only if you use overpaid actors, overpaid staff and go insane-nuts on sets and production gear.
THAT is the only thing that drives costs up.
Cameras that shoot beautiful video cost less than $3900 each. $6900 of you want fully manual lenses.
Actors don't need more than $30.00 an hour. if an actor asks for more than that, throw them out on their asses. the DP should get paid more than the idiot actors. and stop with the catering to the narcissistic creative types.
$6000 an episode for a TV show like Glee is certainly possible. Glee's problem is that everyone involved with it are money vampires sucking as much cash out of it as possible.
Hell, many of them likely don't have a Cable/Satellite feed.
only because they are lazy. FTA sattelite TV is cheap ($380.00 for a premium HD setup, $100.00 for a cheapie SD setup) and opens your horizons to what else is out there, I had better world cup coverage than anyone else in the states because I was watching it on a Brazillian TV channel, they had english commentary on a second audio channel.
I disagree. the problem was that the creators were stupid and pitched it to the wrong network and were greedy.
if http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_(TV_series) made it for 5 years then Firefly certainly would have. The problem was that Firefly's creator wantedt o be rich as hell from day one instead of making his vision a reality. the production costs for firefly were so high that it needed to make lots of money out of the gate. Yet things like Andromeda and Farscape got to make nearly nothing and continue because they were both on 2 bit networks and had a yearly operation budget that was less than a single episode budget that most primetime big network shows have.
So firefly failed. Yet the other two had nice long runs.... Farscape ran so long the actors were wanting to bail out of it, creating the really bizzare last season that most fans pan.
Firefly was Great, it could have done very well. If Andromeda was able to run that long you know damn well that Firefly could have made a profit and lasted 5+ years. If it had realistic salaries and realistic production budgets.
The ones that are dropping are because of two reasons...
1 - china made junk flooding the market. There is a metric crapload of really low grade Solar panels on the market from china. These low grade panels are also of the worst designs that are easiest to make that flat out suck in real world use.
for example is complete garbage. It's all marketing hype and they fail to tell you that any shadow, even a line from a cable across the panel reduces output drastically.
They do admit to being Amorphous.. I.E. the cheapest to make solar panel. They are about 6% efficient. However, there’s a reason why thin film solar panels haven’t replaced older types yet. They’re just not as efficient. With about a six percent conversion rate for energy drawn from the sun, they can only draw about half the wattage from sunlight that mono and polycrystalline panels do, making them take up twice as much installation space for the same amount of power.
Plus most of these are also built poorly. so the 6% is assuming they were built perfectly. The most I have seen from any of the cheap china panels out there has been around 4%...
I had better luck with really old burned industrial used ones from the solar farms out west. I have a pair of 6 foot panels I bought for $340.00 that are a dark brown from being in the sun for years that put out more power than 4 of the kits' linked above do.
Casinos want to record full 30fps all the time. In fact some of the new card table cameras are 120fps to allow them to capture cheating in slow motion. but then those are not your el-cheap $350.00 each security cameras.... those suckers cost upwards of $6000.00 each and are near broadcast quality in HD.
They wont. all the HD security cameras are Ip based so a analog recording car is not needed.
Their card is to support legacy analog security cameras. when mans higher video quality right now. All the Ip cameras are utter garbage. Until I can buy a high quality security camera in a IP format (no Axis cameras are not high quality, just expensive) that uses real lesnes (c mount not the crap mini lenses) then analog security cameras will stay the top of the line.
As for HD security, those are IP simply because it's easier to transport HD content as data because the cameras record it as data to begin with. Plus places that can afford them are security freaks and want the video encrypted.
even the multi thousand dollar Security recorders look like horribly junk compared to zonealarm.
I was fixing a Axis system for a customer and he asked what I use... I told him zonealarm and logged into the interface for him to see. the fact that you can look at a graph of the day and see threshold levels instead of wading through useless video made him freak out.
Zonealarm kicks the utter crap out of ANY security DVR made. If used with real hardware. Most people try to use the crappy BTTV based cards. Those simply suck horribly in every single way.
Spend money on designing a Very simple.. I.E. single moving part. and efficient design that can be replicated in a garage with trash for nearly nothing.
Some of the vertical turbine types that do not follow the wind are interesting but need work.
make wind power super cheap to build out of trash or common materials, easy to build yourself....
That will be the BIGGEST wind idea to ever exist. make it so anyone can build a couple of 500watt generators in a weekend and you suddenly will have every farm and suburbia home with them.
Lots of smaller ones providing power for local sources are far more efficient than a single HUGE one trying to produce enough for a community.
Railgun, fire crap at the earth like a weapon. if you aim right it'll impact right where you want it.
Side effect... makes a great weapon to lord over the other countries.
"nukes? HAHAHAHAHA!" WE'll simply fire rocks at your puny country until it's a part of the ocean, and THEN comeand mine the rocks we used to make you go away."
Because the BBC guy that talked about it was a complete idiot.
ALL sporting events covered by competent broadcasters have seperate microphones for crowd and everyone else. filtering the crowd mics will reduce 80% of it.
The BBC guy they interviewed must have been the toilet cleaner or the CEO... either one is completely clueless on the subject.
What you are saying is that traditions have to be respected, no matter how stupid or disruptive they are.
welcome to political correctness... The hobby of the over educated over paid bored person who has nothing else better to do.
From what I can tell almost all Sporting event traditions are really stupid... You're not a rocket scientist when you paint all over yourself or blow a horn into someone else's ears non stop simply because you are most likely trashed.
cars don't get turned over and set on fire, I'm cool with it.
You never went to Michigan State... WE used to overturn a cop car every game we won. a buddy of mine threw a couch off the top of the tallest dorm building and we went and sat on the couch wreckage drinking beer the rest of the night...
It must not bother the players at all. Or they would simply stop playing and sit on the field until all the fans would stop being jerks and blowing the things non stop.
The players are in 100% control of the crowd. They choose to allow it.
Or use the EQ on your TV if it has one or the EQ on your Surround sound.
He "discovered" something that most people have known for decades... using a notch filter takes out unwanted frequencies.
Wow! Just think what they could do with that when we discover radio!
P.S.: they were already doing this at the stadium on the crowd mics, they just wanted to leave it in for the "effect" but they already were notching it a little bit to reduce the impact.
Nope. little tiny 32" round one. Point it east towards. Telstar 12 and get a lot, I can get a crapload of FTA stuff all over the sky from a tiny little 18" dish, but I find the low end small dishes suck compared to a nice 32" one with a decent quality feedhorn.
I've even got HD MPEG4 stuff in the open. sonicView8000HD reciever works incredibly well. and it will scan the sky for me finding all the channels.. nothing but the initial dish alignment required... the dish positioner even will self align.
Yup comcast took advantage of this to screw all the DVR and analog TV owners out there.
They advertised that "we wont abandon you" and then turned around and ran all the customers over with a big truck.
The claim was for "more and better" programming. yet the more or better has not surfaced and will never surface. Now users are stuck with a super crappy free box or pay $5.00 a month for a less crappy box.
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A better way is self expanding foam, it will even insulate homes that have the crappy 1st gen fiberglass batting. it just requires COMPETENT installers so they dont put in too much and burst the walls.
I did an entire 2100 sq ft home for less than $2200.00 that included adding an extra 18 inches of fiberglass batting to the attic. My heating bills dropped from $210 to $80 a month in the winter with a 25 year old 55% efficient furnace. this summer that get's replaced with a 90% efficient furnace.
People in those climates would do well to force the builder to actually build the home right. Heat chimneys and long overhangs coupled with highly insulated homes and thermal masses would do a LOT to cool the home with very little cost.
Problem is most homes are built wrong. the same damn cookie cutter McMansions that are designed by idiot architects.
get a 20 SEER rating AC unit and you will have the most efficient you can get today... it's only a couple grand more than a standard AC unit.
Oh and insulate your home, replace your windows with triple pane and low-e glass, and get rid of all air leaks.
Only if you use overpaid actors, overpaid staff and go insane-nuts on sets and production gear.
THAT is the only thing that drives costs up.
Cameras that shoot beautiful video cost less than $3900 each. $6900 of you want fully manual lenses.
Actors don't need more than $30.00 an hour. if an actor asks for more than that, throw them out on their asses. the DP should get paid more than the idiot actors. and stop with the catering to the narcissistic creative types.
$6000 an episode for a TV show like Glee is certainly possible. Glee's problem is that everyone involved with it are money vampires sucking as much cash out of it as possible.
Hell, many of them likely don't have a Cable/Satellite feed.
only because they are lazy. FTA sattelite TV is cheap ($380.00 for a premium HD setup, $100.00 for a cheapie SD setup) and opens your horizons to what else is out there, I had better world cup coverage than anyone else in the states because I was watching it on a Brazillian TV channel, they had english commentary on a second audio channel.
I disagree. the problem was that the creators were stupid and pitched it to the wrong network and were greedy.
if http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_(TV_series) made it for 5 years then Firefly certainly would have. The problem was that Firefly's creator wantedt o be rich as hell from day one instead of making his vision a reality. the production costs for firefly were so high that it needed to make lots of money out of the gate. Yet things like Andromeda and Farscape got to make nearly nothing and continue because they were both on 2 bit networks and had a yearly operation budget that was less than a single episode budget that most primetime big network shows have.
So firefly failed. Yet the other two had nice long runs.... Farscape ran so long the actors were wanting to bail out of it, creating the really bizzare last season that most fans pan.
Firefly was Great, it could have done very well. If Andromeda was able to run that long you know damn well that Firefly could have made a profit and lasted 5+ years. If it had realistic salaries and realistic production budgets.
The ones that are dropping are because of two reasons...
1 - china made junk flooding the market. There is a metric crapload of really low grade Solar panels on the market from china. These low grade panels are also of the worst designs that are easiest to make that flat out suck in real world use.
http://www.amazon.com/Sunforce-50044-60-Watt-Solar-Charging/dp/B000CIADLG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1276875660&sr=8-1
for example is complete garbage. It's all marketing hype and they fail to tell you that any shadow, even a line from a cable across the panel reduces output drastically.
They do admit to being Amorphous.. I.E. the cheapest to make solar panel. They are about 6% efficient. However, there’s a reason why thin film solar panels haven’t replaced older types yet. They’re just not as efficient. With about a six percent conversion rate for energy drawn from the sun, they can only draw about half the wattage from sunlight that mono and polycrystalline panels do, making them take up twice as much installation space for the same amount of power.
Plus most of these are also built poorly. so the 6% is assuming they were built perfectly. The most I have seen from any of the cheap china panels out there has been around 4%...
I had better luck with really old burned industrial used ones from the solar farms out west. I have a pair of 6 foot panels I bought for $340.00 that are a dark brown from being in the sun for years that put out more power than 4 of the kits' linked above do.
Phone company sympathizers that will claim it hurts business...
wont someone think of the rich CEO's!
good enough for home or store security.
Casinos want to record full 30fps all the time.
In fact some of the new card table cameras are 120fps to allow them to capture cheating in slow motion. but then those are not your el-cheap $350.00 each security cameras.... those suckers cost upwards of $6000.00 each and are near broadcast quality in HD.
They wont. all the HD security cameras are Ip based so a analog recording car is not needed.
Their card is to support legacy analog security cameras. when mans higher video quality right now. All the Ip cameras are utter garbage. Until I can buy a high quality security camera in a IP format (no Axis cameras are not high quality, just expensive) that uses real lesnes (c mount not the crap mini lenses) then analog security cameras will stay the top of the line.
As for HD security, those are IP simply because it's easier to transport HD content as data because the cameras record it as data to begin with. Plus places that can afford them are security freaks and want the video encrypted.
even the multi thousand dollar Security recorders look like horribly junk compared to zonealarm.
I was fixing a Axis system for a customer and he asked what I use... I told him zonealarm and logged into the interface for him to see. the fact that you can look at a graph of the day and see threshold levels instead of wading through useless video made him freak out.
Zonealarm kicks the utter crap out of ANY security DVR made. If used with real hardware. Most people try to use the crappy BTTV based cards. Those simply suck horribly in every single way.
http://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_wind.shtml
They prove you very wrong.
Spend money on designing a Very simple.. I.E. single moving part. and efficient design that can be replicated in a garage with trash for nearly nothing.
Some of the vertical turbine types that do not follow the wind are interesting but need work.
make wind power super cheap to build out of trash or common materials, easy to build yourself....
That will be the BIGGEST wind idea to ever exist. make it so anyone can build a couple of 500watt generators in a weekend and you suddenly will have every farm and suburbia home with them.
Lots of smaller ones providing power for local sources are far more efficient than a single HUGE one trying to produce enough for a community.
Railgun, fire crap at the earth like a weapon. if you aim right it'll impact right where you want it.
Side effect... makes a great weapon to lord over the other countries.
"nukes? HAHAHAHAHA!" WE'll simply fire rocks at your puny country until it's a part of the ocean, and THEN comeand mine the rocks we used to make you go away."
That only happened if we lost.
WE went through a lot of coaches that year...
Plus everyone though it was really bad form to sit on the body drinking the rest of the night....
Because the BBC guy that talked about it was a complete idiot.
ALL sporting events covered by competent broadcasters have seperate microphones for crowd and everyone else. filtering the crowd mics will reduce 80% of it.
The BBC guy they interviewed must have been the toilet cleaner or the CEO... either one is completely clueless on the subject.
What you are saying is that traditions have to be respected, no matter how stupid or disruptive they are.
welcome to political correctness... The hobby of the over educated over paid bored person who has nothing else better to do.
From what I can tell almost all Sporting event traditions are really stupid... You're not a rocket scientist when you paint all over yourself or blow a horn into someone else's ears non stop simply because you are most likely trashed.
cars don't get turned over and set on fire, I'm cool with it.
You never went to Michigan State... WE used to overturn a cop car every game we won. a buddy of mine threw a couch off the top of the tallest dorm building and we went and sat on the couch wreckage drinking beer the rest of the night...
Overturn cop cars? fun!
Set on fire? only duchebags go that far.
It must not bother the players at all. Or they would simply stop playing and sit on the field until all the fans would stop being jerks and blowing the things non stop.
The players are in 100% control of the crowd. They choose to allow it.
Or use the EQ on your TV if it has one or the EQ on your Surround sound.
He "discovered" something that most people have known for decades... using a notch filter takes out unwanted frequencies.
Wow! Just think what they could do with that when we discover radio!
P.S.: they were already doing this at the stadium on the crowd mics, they just wanted to leave it in for the "effect" but they already were notching it a little bit to reduce the impact.
then move to the top floor. Mast no longer needed.
Nope. little tiny 32" round one. Point it east towards. Telstar 12 and get a lot, I can get a crapload of FTA stuff all over the sky from a tiny little 18" dish, but I find the low end small dishes suck compared to a nice 32" one with a decent quality feedhorn.
I've even got HD MPEG4 stuff in the open.
sonicView8000HD reciever works incredibly well. and it will scan the sky for me finding all the channels.. nothing but the initial dish alignment required... the dish positioner even will self align.
Which is your problem...
you MUST buy a outdoor antenna unless you live in a metropolis with all the TV stations within 25 miles of you.
Get the Antenna 40 feet in the air outside, out a preamp after it and a distribution amp in the house.
Oh add a rotor if you cant figure out how to stack antennas.
The places that sell that crap that sits on the TV need to be shot. those NEVER work unless you live in a big city or near the transmitter.
Yup comcast took advantage of this to screw all the DVR and analog TV owners out there.
They advertised that "we wont abandon you" and then turned around and ran all the customers over with a big truck.
The claim was for "more and better" programming. yet the more or better has not surfaced and will never surface. Now users are stuck with a super crappy free box or pay $5.00 a month for a less crappy box.
Yes....
Fujistu Tablet. It's older, only has a core 2 duo that runs at 1.33ghz. but it's got a dock, does turn by turn and GPS and fits in a BIG pocket.
but then I dont consider a iphone to fit in the pocket, too bulky. so it's a moot point to me.
I can annotate PDF files, print, edit CAD files, do video conferencing with a client that is using a Tandberg or Polycom video conference system.
Plus run standard PC apps.
It does not make phone calls, well except for skype. it can do that via the bluetooth headset.
I guess it does everything your phone does plus a whole helluva lot more, plus it's out of date by most geek standards....
That said.... Any android based phones out there not made by an ASSHAT company that hates it's customers?
You know, Let's me install whatever OS I want without a signed, encrypted and bow-tied bootloader
If I want to install android 2.6 Release 3 on it or maybe another linux?
For some reason both HTC and Motorola hate the customer by making it impossible to install a non-blessed OS.