Also note that your house probably has two phases. With this approach, you probably need to wire them together.
Danger Will Robinson. In a 240 volt 3 wire circuit, all 3 conductors are the same size. That way a 20 A load won't exceed the 12 AWG wire. If you use a 120 volt generator and feed 120 volts in, it is possible for 2 20A legs to share a single common neutral exceeding it's capacity. Don't do this for any 120 volt generator able to deliver over 15 amps. Many older houses have some 14 AWG lighting circuits on 15 Amp breakers. Most generators able to provide over 20A also are able to provide 240 volt. Use a proper transfer switch and the 240 volt outlet on the generator.
I cannot understand why expensive efficient bulbs improve anything. Can anybody clarify?
An incandecent bulb produces heat from resistance. A resistance watt from a bulb or heater is the same except the heat from a bulb is typicaly at above head level leaving the floor cold unlike a heater. A heater cycles off when the room is warm enough. A bulb doesn't stop heating whent the room is warm enough.
If you use a heat pump, the effeciency of the heat pump is lost as it runs less while you heat more with resistive heat.
(Unfortunately, the existence/popularity of 32 bit windows precludes the vendors of software such as Cubase and the likes from actually doing a proper job of putting out 64 bit software).
Keeping a company afloat or with better margins is not always in the interest of the workforce. Employees that were let go 10 years ago don't care if the company would have collapsed in 6 years.
Letting the unions drive the employers overseas is also not good for the workforce. Name a textile industry in the US. Name a US built television, CD player, DVD player, etc. The US autoworkers are next in line unless something changes. The US workforce is primarily a services industry, not a manufacturing workforce. Manufacturing is a shrinking segment largely do to the non-competitive labor costs. Non service industry products are shipped. Service industry such as health care, flipping burgers, changing tires, and sales remain as manufacturing is driven to more competitive markets.
What product does your employer manufacture.. Let me guess. You are in a service industry such as IT.
Lets just say this simply - you don't have a fucking clue what you are talking about.
Could you be more specific? Study history. Look up run on the bank. Watch It's a Wonderful Life. The banks in the US now have FDIC insurance. The stock market doesn't. When the investors are worried their investment will erode, they pull money out in a classic run on the bank. The value of the paper for their deposits rapidly drops in value much like the savings deposit books of depositors in failed banks. The fist ones in line at the start of the run do OK. Those cashing out find the money isn't there to collect.
Bailout money for the automakers.. Where do you think it comes from? Inflated extra money the government prints? What does that do to the value (purchasing power) of my investments?
My investments in stocks are doing even worse. It's like someone took half my life savings and promise to devalue the remainder and tax it. It will no longer purchase the RV and toys. I'll be lucky if it pays the electric, medical, and grocery bill.
How many people are putting off retirement plans because their investment pot shrank in a big way?
As far as that clue.. Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
And nothing is more likely to provoke a political revolution of the likes you've never seen - there's a lot of boomers rounding the corner into retirement and almost all of them are relying on the pension benefits and obligations you want to give companies license to not pay.
The retirement was not invested properly. Retirement should not be based on the future health of the company. Take the requirement to pay to the step where the money comes from. Now you are implying I am required to buy American cars to pay UAW retirement benifits. Oh, if I don't buy American cars, you are simply going to take my retirement to pay their retirement because they have a contract.
How is this done.. My investments are taken in taxes and fees to cover the bailout. My investments become worthless as inverters pull out of the market in a classic run on the bank. Housing, futures, and the stock market all tank. Look familiar? That is my retirement that just took a 50% hit.
Oh and as you are speaking of VW: about 95 percent of the german employees are unionized. In the same union.
The old beetle did quite well. The newer cars by VW are becoming rare and high priced. VW does not own the mini van market anymore like the Camper Van and the minivan. The new Beetle doesn't have the market share the old Beetle enjoyed. They sell far fewer as they also are required to only sell higher margin cars. They haven't yet imploded. My first car was a 1968 Beetle. Now they are priced at a completely different market which is much smaller.
Or how about the fact that the Japanese automakers here in the States can change a production line to make small cars from SUVs in a matter of hours; whereas, Detroit takes months? Yeah, management has to take a hit on that one too, I agree, but much of that delay is union rules.
The problem with Detroit retooling to make smaller lower profit margin cars is the disadvantage they have in that market segment.
Detroit needs a large market to sell high profit cars. Small cars is not high profit, and the maket is saturated limited the price you can charge and the volume you can sell.
There is no way to build a cheap car with enough quality to compete with Toyota, Subaru, VW, Honda, Kia, etc. to meet their obligation, so they stuck with only high profit margin SUV's until the gas price killed their goose. You can thank the Unions for protecting the workers wages, jobs, health benifits, and retirements. It only lasted while they could expand, but self implodes on any downsize.
Detroit can't donwnsize. It has to remain big of fail.
Ask me again why I don't want a Union.
The short answer is it will kill the golden goose by crippling it. When the food moves, it can't follow. When food is scarce, it can't diet.
Even in companies like IBM who in the early 90's laid off a quarter million people, still, the remaining workers resist unionization.
Good call. Lay off a few workers when the clone makers got away with reverse engineering the BIOS. IBM is still in business and doing reasonably well. With a Union "protecting" the workers, IBM may have failed much like the auto industry without a bailout.
The auto industry has been under strain of a huge retired population and unable to shed the load as the demand for large high profit vehicles has dwindled. They are unable to compete in the Honda, Toyota, VW, etc market at the margins they need to carry the weight. They imploded under the need to downsize, but unable to shed obligations negotiated with the Unions. The golden goose is cooked unless bailed out.
Are you ready to be next? Is your company ready to learn from history, or are they condemmed to repeat it.
Why is this still so hard for them when the commmunity has 99% of all the issues sorted already?
Wrong question. It is more related to the support issues when they try to run Turbo Tax on their new PC and it doesn't run. The correct question is; Why is this still so hard for them when the commmunity has 30% of all the software issues sorted already?
WINE and Codeweavers is only part of the solution. Linux versions of the commercial packages is the other 70% still needed. Customer education is a huge part of the solution. They look for Roxio. CD burning being part of the file manager is alien to them.
Sorta funny, since Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen owns the Trailblazers.
Interesting, I'm not much of a sports fan watching other teams, so I didn't know that. Good thing I didn't mention the software was Open Source on the wiki. I just mentioned the price.
She only knows Microsoft. But if you pointed out the name brands that use and support Linux and asked her to do a simple Google search of the following terms, then she might have backed down:
I was wondering if she was familiar with other well known platforms that don't run MS software such as Apple, Nintendo, Sony, Etc. You don't have to have a PC to play video games and you don't have to have Windows to read email, browse the web, write letters, edit photos, burn CD's etc.
I was going to suggest: hand the school a CD full of free software, along with an invoice for a hundred dollars a seat.
It doesn't work. The invoice doesn't come with a PO. The software is assumed to be as useful as the free AOL software with hooks like most demo software. It will most likely reside in a drawer until tossed and never tried.
In the example given, a method to solve a problem is given including a list of what is needed. When they read the license and attempt to check the price, the light pops on in many science and engineering departments. The is the door that much OSS gets a start with. It is the best solution to many robotics, math, and engineering projects. I haven't tried many Windows audio recording programs simply due to the cost. Cubase and other HD recording software is unknown to me as to what it is able to do. On a try it basis, OSS has a major advantage. When it works, the other is often not even considered. I got The Gimp before I saved enough for Photoshop. Now I have the money to fix the laptop display instead.
Another way I have introduced Ubuntu is with the live CD's. I use it to boot up broken Windows boxes to burn the My Documents folder to a DVD. I then point out the fact the OS is free, the CD/DVD writer is included free, etc. I don't need a lot of Windows apps because they simply are not needed. Then I list a few included items, An Office Suite, Photo Editor, Live Boot CD, CD Writer, etc. Then I explain why it won't play Flash or MP3's out of the box and how to fix it. Often people trying it are not told this and think the software is pretty crippled because it is cheap, instead of respecting software licenses. Flash is owned by Adobe, etc.
I find what works best is to supply examples of fine open source software that runs on Windows and Linux. Once they grasp the concept of free open source software and the missing hurdles to it's use, the next step is to note the OS itself is free software. As an example, this page I wrote concerning an engineering challenge for launching t shirts at a NBA game. The engineering task was to find the optimum length for the launch tube. Note the use of open source software in the solution. When the teacher compared the open source solution to the Microsoft Sound Recorder or other packaged solution, then the seed for the concept is planted. Have the teacher read the license. um End User License Agreement. On a side note, the final and winner announcement will be this Friday. Our team has an excellent chance of winning. The teacher knows that I use The Gimp to size photos for the wiki, etc on a Linux machine. Windows is not needed.
There's nothing to be gained down that path other than possibly to expand the wallets of a few companies
During the heyday of napster, CD sales were up. When the exposure to music was severely limited and incompatible (DRM) formats were introduced, sales fell. DRM does to music sales what hardware dongles do to software sales. It reduces piracy, exposure, and sales while increasing costs.
If the automated scripts are just placing a $1 bid on everything they find, it sounds like a good time to ebay the contents of my penny jar...individually.
I was thinking more along the lines of state quarters, plus S&H and insurance. Maybe the next sale will be a money maker as the script kiddies find their liability for their purchases mount. If they relesed quarters at 1500 items to each sale item, it would kill the profitability of the scripts and the problem would go away.
A new OS will not magically give your PC applications more CPU power
True, but removing the cruft that bogs down a system would be a big improvement. With the new DRM stuff, there are so many processes and driver bloat that Windows is trying to emulate too much encryption, DRM, Winmodem type stuff, that should be in hardware or not included at all that it is quite a bit slower than XP.
Take a couple identical Core 2 Duo systems and boot Ubuntu on one and Vista on the other. Pull up a few web pages. Play a few movies. Notice any performance issues? Try a Mac against them both.
It doesn't take long to find the slow PC.
It's too busy contemplating it's navel to pay attention and be responsive. Ask any gamer what OS works best for games.
Bank security should (IMO) be also based on "something you have", like an ATM card.
I was thinking along the lines more like an IP range. If I could register and lock all transactions to the Comcast domain IP range, then most of these out of country attacks would fail.
The ability to register 2 domain IP ranges would be nice, so those who shop on break at work for faster connections could do it.
Right, now they have an incentive to spend up to $1.5M per year challenging bogus DMCA notices instead of rolling over.
For a couple mil a year, a relocation to a less expensive location seems in order. I wonder how the citizens will like the commute to new schools just outside the state after the current ones close and pop up elsewhere.
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They are expensive. You don't need an automatic one. A manual one works fine where you are not using an autostart genset.
Also note that your house probably has two phases. With this approach, you probably need to wire them together.
Danger Will Robinson. In a 240 volt 3 wire circuit, all 3 conductors are the same size. That way a 20 A load won't exceed the 12 AWG wire. If you use a 120 volt generator and feed 120 volts in, it is possible for 2 20A legs to share a single common neutral exceeding it's capacity. Don't do this for any 120 volt generator able to deliver over 15 amps. Many older houses have some 14 AWG lighting circuits on 15 Amp breakers. Most generators able to provide over 20A also are able to provide 240 volt. Use a proper transfer switch and the 240 volt outlet on the generator.
I cannot understand why expensive efficient bulbs improve anything. Can anybody clarify?
An incandecent bulb produces heat from resistance. A resistance watt from a bulb or heater is the same except the heat from a bulb is typicaly at above head level leaving the floor cold unlike a heater. A heater cycles off when the room is warm enough. A bulb doesn't stop heating whent the room is warm enough.
If you use a heat pump, the effeciency of the heat pump is lost as it runs less while you heat more with resistive heat.
Is that clear?
(Unfortunately, the existence/popularity of 32 bit windows precludes the vendors of software such as Cubase and the likes from actually doing a proper job of putting out 64 bit software).
Have you tried Ubuntu Studio? It works for me.
I guess everybody is having Christmases. It's damn near dead all over the Internet.
ya missed the news from a couple days ago. The usdersea cables are cut again.
Keeping a company afloat or with better margins is not always in the interest of the workforce. Employees that were let go 10 years ago don't care if the company would have collapsed in 6 years.
Letting the unions drive the employers overseas is also not good for the workforce. Name a textile industry in the US. Name a US built television, CD player, DVD player, etc. The US autoworkers are next in line unless something changes. The US workforce is primarily a services industry, not a manufacturing workforce. Manufacturing is a shrinking segment largely do to the non-competitive labor costs. Non service industry products are shipped. Service industry such as health care, flipping burgers, changing tires, and sales remain as manufacturing is driven to more competitive markets.
What product does your employer manufacture.. Let me guess. You are in a service industry such as IT.
Lets just say this simply - you don't have a fucking clue what you are talking about.
Could you be more specific? Study history. Look up run on the bank. Watch It's a Wonderful Life. The banks in the US now have FDIC insurance. The stock market doesn't. When the investors are worried their investment will erode, they pull money out in a classic run on the bank. The value of the paper for their deposits rapidly drops in value much like the savings deposit books of depositors in failed banks. The fist ones in line at the start of the run do OK. Those cashing out find the money isn't there to collect.
Bailout money for the automakers.. Where do you think it comes from? Inflated extra money the government prints? What does that do to the value (purchasing power) of my investments?
My investments in stocks are doing even worse. It's like someone took half my life savings and promise to devalue the remainder and tax it. It will no longer purchase the RV and toys. I'll be lucky if it pays the electric, medical, and grocery bill.
How many people are putting off retirement plans because their investment pot shrank in a big way?
As far as that clue.. Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
And nothing is more likely to provoke a political revolution of the likes you've never seen - there's a lot of boomers rounding the corner into retirement and almost all of them are relying on the pension benefits and obligations you want to give companies license to not pay.
The retirement was not invested properly. Retirement should not be based on the future health of the company. Take the requirement to pay to the step where the money comes from. Now you are implying I am required to buy American cars to pay UAW retirement benifits. Oh, if I don't buy American cars, you are simply going to take my retirement to pay their retirement because they have a contract.
How is this done.. My investments are taken in taxes and fees to cover the bailout. My investments become worthless as inverters pull out of the market in a classic run on the bank. Housing, futures, and the stock market all tank. Look familiar? That is my retirement that just took a 50% hit.
Oh and as you are speaking of VW: about 95 percent of the german employees are unionized. In the same union.
The old beetle did quite well. The newer cars by VW are becoming rare and high priced. VW does not own the mini van market anymore like the Camper Van and the minivan. The new Beetle doesn't have the market share the old Beetle enjoyed. They sell far fewer as they also are required to only sell higher margin cars. They haven't yet imploded. My first car was a 1968 Beetle. Now they are priced at a completely different market which is much smaller.
Are you kidding? Fine, we can have the auto workers go the way of the television manufactures.
Quick, name 2 manufactured in America television brands.
Or how about the fact that the Japanese automakers here in the States can change a production line to make small cars from SUVs in a matter of hours; whereas, Detroit takes months? Yeah, management has to take a hit on that one too, I agree, but much of that delay is union rules.
The problem with Detroit retooling to make smaller lower profit margin cars is the disadvantage they have in that market segment.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/politics/594283/gm_and_uaw_support_pensions_bill/index.html
Detroit needs a large market to sell high profit cars. Small cars is not high profit, and the maket is saturated limited the price you can charge and the volume you can sell.
There is no way to build a cheap car with enough quality to compete with Toyota, Subaru, VW, Honda, Kia, etc. to meet their obligation, so they stuck with only high profit margin SUV's until the gas price killed their goose. You can thank the Unions for protecting the workers wages, jobs, health benifits, and retirements. It only lasted while they could expand, but self implodes on any downsize.
Detroit can't donwnsize. It has to remain big of fail.
Ask me again why I don't want a Union.
The short answer is it will kill the golden goose by crippling it. When the food moves, it can't follow. When food is scarce, it can't diet.
Even in companies like IBM who in the early 90's laid off a quarter million people, still, the remaining workers resist unionization.
Good call. Lay off a few workers when the clone makers got away with reverse engineering the BIOS. IBM is still in business and doing reasonably well. With a Union "protecting" the workers, IBM may have failed much like the auto industry without a bailout.
The auto industry has been under strain of a huge retired population and unable to shed the load as the demand for large high profit vehicles has dwindled. They are unable to compete in the Honda, Toyota, VW, etc market at the margins they need to carry the weight. They imploded under the need to downsize, but unable to shed obligations negotiated with the Unions. The golden goose is cooked unless bailed out.
Are you ready to be next? Is your company ready to learn from history, or are they condemmed to repeat it.
Why is this still so hard for them when the commmunity has 99% of all the issues sorted already?
Wrong question. It is more related to the support issues when they try to run Turbo Tax on their new PC and it doesn't run. The correct question is;
Why is this still so hard for them when the commmunity has 30% of all the software issues sorted already?
WINE and Codeweavers is only part of the solution. Linux versions of the commercial packages is the other 70% still needed. Customer education is a huge part of the solution. They look for Roxio. CD burning being part of the file manager is alien to them.
Sorta funny, since Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen owns the Trailblazers.
Interesting, I'm not much of a sports fan watching other teams, so I didn't know that. Good thing I didn't mention the software was Open Source on the wiki. I just mentioned the price.
She only knows Microsoft. But if you pointed out the name brands that use and support Linux and asked her to do a simple Google search of the following terms, then she might have backed down:
I was wondering if she was familiar with other well known platforms that don't run MS software such as Apple, Nintendo, Sony, Etc. You don't have to have a PC to play video games and you don't have to have Windows to read email, browse the web, write letters, edit photos, burn CD's etc.
I was going to suggest: hand the school a CD full of free software, along with an invoice for a hundred dollars a seat.
It doesn't work. The invoice doesn't come with a PO. The software is assumed to be as useful as the free AOL software with hooks like most demo software. It will most likely reside in a drawer until tossed and never tried.
In the example given, a method to solve a problem is given including a list of what is needed. When they read the license and attempt to check the price, the light pops on in many science and engineering departments. The is the door that much OSS gets a start with. It is the best solution to many robotics, math, and engineering projects. I haven't tried many Windows audio recording programs simply due to the cost. Cubase and other HD recording software is unknown to me as to what it is able to do. On a try it basis, OSS has a major advantage. When it works, the other is often not even considered. I got The Gimp before I saved enough for Photoshop. Now I have the money to fix the laptop display instead.
Another way I have introduced Ubuntu is with the live CD's. I use it to boot up broken Windows boxes to burn the My Documents folder to a DVD. I then point out the fact the OS is free, the CD/DVD writer is included free, etc. I don't need a lot of Windows apps because they simply are not needed. Then I list a few included items, An Office Suite, Photo Editor, Live Boot CD, CD Writer, etc. Then I explain why it won't play Flash or MP3's out of the box and how to fix it. Often people trying it are not told this and think the software is pretty crippled because it is cheap, instead of respecting software licenses. Flash is owned by Adobe, etc.
I find what works best is to supply examples of fine open source software that runs on Windows and Linux. Once they grasp the concept of free open source software and the missing hurdles to it's use, the next step is to note the OS itself is free software. As an example, this page I wrote concerning an engineering challenge for launching t shirts at a NBA game. The engineering task was to find the optimum length for the launch tube. Note the use of open source software in the solution. When the teacher compared the open source solution to the Microsoft Sound Recorder or other packaged solution, then the seed for the concept is planted. Have the teacher read the license. um End User License Agreement. On a side note, the final and winner announcement will be this Friday. Our team has an excellent chance of winning. The teacher knows that I use The Gimp to size photos for the wiki, etc on a Linux machine. Windows is not needed.
https://inteltrailblazerschallenge.wikispaces.com/Barrel+length+trim+method
When Open Source is the best solution, it gets noticed. It is no longer just hobbiest software.
That is almost correct;
For those who have had problems with their purchases, the correct phrase is;
DRM is very good at what it does: preventing us from purchasing items.
I stick to open formats. Sell in a closed locked propritory format = no sale.
The biggest misscomception is this one;
There's nothing to be gained down that path other than possibly to expand the wallets of a few companies
During the heyday of napster, CD sales were up. When the exposure to music was severely limited and incompatible (DRM) formats were introduced, sales fell. DRM does to music sales what hardware dongles do to software sales. It reduces piracy, exposure, and sales while increasing costs.
I don't do dongles or DRM.
If the automated scripts are just placing a $1 bid on everything they find, it sounds like a good time to ebay the contents of my penny jar...individually.
I was thinking more along the lines of state quarters, plus S&H and insurance. Maybe the next sale will be a money maker as the script kiddies find their liability for their purchases mount. If they relesed quarters at 1500 items to each sale item, it would kill the profitability of the scripts and the problem would go away.
A new OS will not magically give your PC applications more CPU power
True, but removing the cruft that bogs down a system would be a big improvement. With the new DRM stuff, there are so many processes and driver bloat that Windows is trying to emulate too much encryption, DRM, Winmodem type stuff, that should be in hardware or not included at all that it is quite a bit slower than XP.
Take a couple identical Core 2 Duo systems and boot Ubuntu on one and Vista on the other. Pull up a few web pages. Play a few movies. Notice any performance issues? Try a Mac against them both.
It doesn't take long to find the slow PC.
It's too busy contemplating it's navel to pay attention and be responsive. Ask any gamer what OS works best for games.
Bank security should (IMO) be also based on "something you have", like an ATM card.
I was thinking along the lines more like an IP range. If I could register and lock all transactions to the Comcast domain IP range, then most of these out of country attacks would fail.
The ability to register 2 domain IP ranges would be nice, so those who shop on break at work for faster connections could do it.
With Windows 7 looking around the corner, I think companies will skip the monster called Vista and just hop on the train again when 7 is released.
Think there is really a chance of that once that more reports come out that Windows 7 is mostly Vista with a new paint job?
The reports I've seen doesn't show much difference between Windows 7 and Vista.
Does it run on Linux?
More importantly, does it make Windows as secure out of the box as Linux?
Right, now they have an incentive to spend up to $1.5M per year challenging bogus DMCA notices instead of rolling over.
For a couple mil a year, a relocation to a less expensive location seems in order. I wonder how the citizens will like the commute to new schools just outside the state after the current ones close and pop up elsewhere.