Open up a socket and see if it has a ground wire. Many homes built in the 70s and such HAD 3 wire, but used two wire sockets with center screw ground. Cost to replace each socket: $.49 each at Home Depot.
And code doesn't support more than 20amps on a circuit anyway, not unless you are running dedicated circuits. If you have no crawl space in the attic, you might have crawl space under the house and you use floor mounted outlets.
And for the record, there is no real "engineering" to wiring a new home. Its pretty simple: no more than 6 end points for a circuit, put at least one socket on 3 walls, no closer than 6', no greater than 12', etc. A little planning, but far from rocket science.
He was saying you pay $10k for the tie, which is absurd. I am currently rewiring a 2700sqft house, but it had only paneling and I tore it all down. Doing the work myself, so not paying but a few hundred for wire.
Doing it to an old house wouldn't require tearing out much sheetwork or plaster if you have a clean run from the attic to the socket. Even if you did, you would just be ripping the section between two 16" studs. Not a $10k job in the worst of situations. The main point is that it is CHEAPER to tie in mains for the power company than for solar power.
Who paid $10k for an electrian to wire you to the grid?!?
The power company runs the power to your house for free in every state I have lived in. They will even upgrade the service from 100 amps to 200 amps for free. The only "tie in to the grid" is the connection from the meter to the mains, which are less than a meter away from each other, as required by code.
This is a $200 job, not a $10,000 job. Everything else you are paying for, from the mains to the socket, has to be done regardless of where the power comes from. AND you can wire a brand new 2400 sq ft house for less than half of what you are claiming, sockets and switches included.
Now, to hook your DC powered solar panels up to use in your home, you will need to either wire new DC circuits to everything or use an inverter system. To connect YOUR power to the grid to sell back/use off time, and sync the phasing, etc. you are going to spend several thousand for autoswithing, inversion, etc. It's worthwhile, but it isn't cheap to connect your OWN power source to the grid.
Your numbers are simply out of whack and (with all due respect) not based on real world scenarios.
My lake house is setup with Hot and Cold taps outside, so it can be completely drained by opening faucets on the upper level and using an air compressor to get the last bits out. Also drain the hot water heater (lower valve, use a garden hose, should be done yearly anyway for sediments). Then you can hire a 'house sitter' or real estate agent to look into the house once a month, order oil or propane (if applicable) and change from AC (80 degrees) to Heat (55 degrees). You CAN leave all heat/ac off, but that is asking for trouble with mold, humidity, etc. Winterizing is NOT the best option, however, since you pay electricity and it gets minimal protection, and you aren't trying to use the house seasonally.
All said and done, if you think you will be gone for a short while (2 years, then hiring a real estate management company (for 8%-12% for normal houses) with permanant renting is the best option. The worth thing you can do to a house (almost) is not use it.
It would be easy to do without all this paperwork tho.
Anyone who isn't bitching about the crappy service, smaller seats, long lines, lack of flights and high prices are obviously up to no good. Any red blooded 'merican who flys at least once a year can easily see that the quality has gone to shit over the last few years.
True story: Wife and I had a stort flight into DFW before flying back to GSO. (I used to fly ~3x per year) They were only serving WATER (ok, fine....). Then they ran out after serving half the plane because they only brought ONE bottle of water. (not the funny part yet.)
When he apologized to me and asked if there was something else I would like (I thought he said they only had water???), I politely said no, as I didn't want to be a financial burden on the airline.
He said "well, we normally have two bottles of water, they just forgot to stock another between flights". I paid over $1100 for two tickets, 60 days in advance for this. American Airlines, Nov 25 of this year. It wasn't that I was thirsty, this was just the icing on the cake.
Next year, we will just drive the two days, stay in a really nice hotel, maybe take a day off in another town, see a bit of America, eat at nice places and spend LESS without having to deal with the asshat airlines.
No matter where you "draw the line" in reference to what is obvious and what is not, SOMEONE will always get hurt. Absolute rules, while sometimes necessary, tend to do that.
I believe the goal is to set a rule that hurts as few as possible, and with the same number of people on both sides of the issue. The goal of any judicial system isn't perfection, just fairness.
In this world, you have only predators and prey. I would always choose to be the predator.
If he could do for the US what he did for operating systems, then the US would own the whole world, but it would be a crappy place to live and wouldn't work very well.
I don't think you get it. If they sold or spun off Steam, they wouldn't get preferential treatment because they no longer would own it. Steam/Valve is already going the extra mile to attract new biz, as it seems they are more interested in becoming a gaming platform that just selling their own games. (PopCap games for instance)
Second, yes they would pay the same costs as others to be on Steam, which is still much less than printing up boxes and disks. It allows them to create lower volume games, and take more risks. Your first and second reasons also contridict each other.
Your third point contradicts your first point and misses the point. If they spun off Steam, then Valve itself could focus on nothing but the games, would be 1/3rd the size, and would still be profitable. Of course you are cutting the profits in half, you are dividing the company in half. But the end result could be more profit for Steam because it would no longer be limited to just Valve games.
The main point you are missing is that Steam would become the defacto standard for distribution, something they would have earned. (hell, I would buy stock if they went public) Most of the games I have purchased over the last two years have been on Steam because I like the platform, the ease of install and maintenance, the PRICE, and their version of "DRM" is not draconian. Yes, you can pirate it, but not multiplayer, and I have no issue with them making money. Making money means more good games and Steam makes it easier (and cheaper) to do so.
I can play on multiple computers, just not at the same time (similar to a "book license".) I no longer have to go to GamePlanet to get updates (holy shit, I always hated that). Cheating is minimized, I can play demos, download trailers, etc. all from a single interface. The only ads are for other Steam products, which I am actually interested in.
Steam works because it isn't a monthly fee and you get a lot for your money. It isn't perfect, but it is reasonable, works 99% of the time, is easy to use and has good games. Now, if they fuck it up and start making the rules hard to get along with, or their service gets bad or the games suck, then someone else will come up with something different. Until then, I am pretty happy as a customer and don't mind the small compromises.
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I hate to say "me, too", but "me, too". I started losing faith when RH9 came out so fast after 8, especially considering how happy I was was the whole 7.x line. (and even 6.1) I still have FC1 on a couple of boxes, and unfortunately FC4 on a couple as well. What has kept RH on those boxes is the fact that I simply know RH's quirks/methods better than anything else.
What is ironic is that everyone is bitching about how it took 6 years to go from xp to Vista (which I won't migrate to) but I felt the opposite. I am tired of learning new operating systems just for the sake of learning new operating systems. I don't buy computers to run operating systems, I use operating systems to run PROGRAMS.
Eventually I will have to make the switch to Debian (which seems to be the best for NOT changing the version every freaking 6 to 12 months), but have just been too busy running the actual programs to learn a different Linux version.
I am familiar with Hawking Radiation (hense my comment "Discounting for quantum hair") although the jury is out if there is real information since we are talking about virtual particles (and info may or may not be transfered depending on entanglement, if both fall inside, etc) and I am refering to Classical Information, which is why I excluded them via the hair comment.
I also understand that centrifugal force being "an illusion" that is linear acceleration (the key here being acceleration that approaches the speed of light). As for frame dragging, the frame of reference I was speaking about was from just outside the event horizon. And yes, shrinkage would require the hole to speed up, hense approaching 99.99% of the speed of light and accelerating., not static. Even here, theory already says it can keep accelerating as it gains mass as long as it doesn't exceed the speed of light.
Maybe I didn't make myself clear, but I am wondering if it is possible for just ONE, real, unentangled photons to escape under the right circumstances, even if only in theory. With what we think we know (which is very little) the answer is no. But then, 30 minutes ago we/.ers didn't know how fast a blackhole can spin either. It's new information. I am not so sure we armchair physicists can say Yes or No so quickly, since even Hawking can't say with certainty.
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...and since FF2 came out before IE7, how did they miss updating for it?
Being an armchair physicist, I was wondering what *if* the hole was spinning almost the speed of light (>99.999%) at the horizon, then wouldn't the centrifugal force almost equal the gravitational force at the horizon? Enough that the horizon would shrink ever so slighly (or via Uncertainly Principle), making something that was once inside, now outside? Discounting for "quantum hair", even a couple of photons escaping would disagree with the theory "Whatever falls in a blackhole can't escape". At the very least, this would be an acceleration of the "evaporating black hole" theory.
Now we take this a step farther, and what if you CAN shrink the blackhole just a fraction, then INFORMATION about the blackhole is gained from photons that were once inside and now outside, without them being virtual particles. Yes, this rather violates what we think we know about the physics of blackholes, which is very little.
It is entirely possible that I am just too ignorant to fully understand these concepts and missing something. Interesting though.
Dude, you are underestimating the competence and worth ethic of Doozers when you trash Muppets like that. They working harder than illegals and their work tastes like candy.
Reminds me of Leela complaining how her 3d glasses didn't work when they were all at the theater on the "Robot Planet". Gotta love the rubbery human monsters in the movie. If anyone doesn't know what show I am referring to, you shouldn't be reading Slashdot.
Even some former Greenpeace members are coming around on nuclear power. You don't have to be a genius to know it will take nuclear power, biofuel blends (ethanol and biodiesel blended with petrofuels) plus energy efficiency to solve the issue. Right now, research is coming along pretty good and it looks like switching to alternative energy will produce a net benefit to the economy if we continue along a steady path. SEER ratings are going up, CAFE standards need to go up, the Feds are giving nice tax subsidies for biofuel generation while we migrate (although most states are NOT...) Wind and solar power generation is becoming more efficient every year. Jobs are being created. My house is still comfy year round.
And for the record, I am not an environmentalist, whom I detest. Less pollution makes air nicer to breath (a plus), but I am not sold on the whole 'global warming' scenario. I'm just an ex military guy who is fed up with feeding Iran and others with my dollars. I prefer our energy dollars stay at home, preferably in my own wallet.
Now if Ford and Chevy would just build an efficient car worth buying, instead of hybrid vehicles that do nothing except get them tax credits.
I've used mutt plenty, but pine remains my favorite console MUA. It's a vi/emacs thing, I guess, what's intuitive and pleasant to some is alien and intrusive to others.
Same here. I keep seeing all these replies above about SWITCHING, but what about those of us that don't want to switch? I wish UofW would just release Pine under the GPL, or BSD license, but that isn't likely to happen. I don't like Muff but I don't think anyone can distribute a modified Pine under it's current license, which is not Free, "as in speech".
?Not completely harmlessly, it would have the effect of a small dirty bomb when the materials in the fission trigger were powdered and spread.
If you bothered to WTFV (yes, it is an hour and a half...) then you would know they are talking about using Boron-11, which the waste products break down into all helium-4. Last time I checked, you can't make a dirty bomb out of helium, although you could make everyone talk funny. Sounds more like a Hank Scorpio plot...
This is one of the few kinds of technologies that you could share with any and everyone, AND would actually take away any reason for other countries to build breeder reactors. If Iran could choose between this and a fission breeder reactor that produces plutonium as a waste product, then their intentions would be clear by their choice. Either they wanted electrical power or bomb matierials.
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Open up a socket and see if it has a ground wire. Many homes built in the 70s and such HAD 3 wire, but used two wire sockets with center screw ground. Cost to replace each socket: $.49 each at Home Depot.
And code doesn't support more than 20amps on a circuit anyway, not unless you are running dedicated circuits. If you have no crawl space in the attic, you might have crawl space under the house and you use floor mounted outlets.
And for the record, there is no real "engineering" to wiring a new home. Its pretty simple: no more than 6 end points for a circuit, put at least one socket on 3 walls, no closer than 6', no greater than 12', etc. A little planning, but far from rocket science.
He was saying you pay $10k for the tie, which is absurd. I am currently rewiring a 2700sqft house, but it had only paneling and I tore it all down. Doing the work myself, so not paying but a few hundred for wire.
Doing it to an old house wouldn't require tearing out much sheetwork or plaster if you have a clean run from the attic to the socket. Even if you did, you would just be ripping the section between two 16" studs. Not a $10k job in the worst of situations. The main point is that it is CHEAPER to tie in mains for the power company than for solar power.
Wow, very relevant link, and I just use my last mod point for the week. Someone mod up parent!
Who paid $10k for an electrian to wire you to the grid?!?
The power company runs the power to your house for free in every state I have lived in. They will even upgrade the service from 100 amps to 200 amps for free. The only "tie in to the grid" is the connection from the meter to the mains, which are less than a meter away from each other, as required by code.
This is a $200 job, not a $10,000 job. Everything else you are paying for, from the mains to the socket, has to be done regardless of where the power comes from. AND you can wire a brand new 2400 sq ft house for less than half of what you are claiming, sockets and switches included.
Now, to hook your DC powered solar panels up to use in your home, you will need to either wire new DC circuits to everything or use an inverter system. To connect YOUR power to the grid to sell back/use off time, and sync the phasing, etc. you are going to spend several thousand for autoswithing, inversion, etc. It's worthwhile, but it isn't cheap to connect your OWN power source to the grid.
Your numbers are simply out of whack and (with all due respect) not based on real world scenarios.
My lake house is setup with Hot and Cold taps outside, so it can be completely drained by opening faucets on the upper level and using an air compressor to get the last bits out. Also drain the hot water heater (lower valve, use a garden hose, should be done yearly anyway for sediments). Then you can hire a 'house sitter' or real estate agent to look into the house once a month, order oil or propane (if applicable) and change from AC (80 degrees) to Heat (55 degrees). You CAN leave all heat/ac off, but that is asking for trouble with mold, humidity, etc. Winterizing is NOT the best option, however, since you pay electricity and it gets minimal protection, and you aren't trying to use the house seasonally.
All said and done, if you think you will be gone for a short while (2 years, then hiring a real estate management company (for 8%-12% for normal houses) with permanant renting is the best option. The worth thing you can do to a house (almost) is not use it.
It would be easy to do without all this paperwork tho.
Anyone who isn't bitching about the crappy service, smaller seats, long lines, lack of flights and high prices are obviously up to no good. Any red blooded 'merican who flys at least once a year can easily see that the quality has gone to shit over the last few years.
True story: Wife and I had a stort flight into DFW before flying back to GSO. (I used to fly ~3x per year) They were only serving WATER (ok, fine....). Then they ran out after serving half the plane because they only brought ONE bottle of water. (not the funny part yet.)
When he apologized to me and asked if there was something else I would like (I thought he said they only had water???), I politely said no, as I didn't want to be a financial burden on the airline.
He said "well, we normally have two bottles of water, they just forgot to stock another between flights". I paid over $1100 for two tickets, 60 days in advance for this. American Airlines, Nov 25 of this year. It wasn't that I was thirsty, this was just the icing on the cake.
Next year, we will just drive the two days, stay in a really nice hotel, maybe take a day off in another town, see a bit of America, eat at nice places and spend LESS without having to deal with the asshat airlines.
"...as calculated on a Pentium 75"
No matter where you "draw the line" in reference to what is obvious and what is not, SOMEONE will always get hurt. Absolute rules, while sometimes necessary, tend to do that.
I believe the goal is to set a rule that hurts as few as possible, and with the same number of people on both sides of the issue. The goal of any judicial system isn't perfection, just fairness.
In this world, you have only predators and prey. I would always choose to be the predator.
If he could do for the US what he did for operating systems, then the US would own the whole world, but it would be a crappy place to live and wouldn't work very well.
Gotta love the analogy with the raccoons. Sounds like a judge finally gets it.
I don't think you get it. If they sold or spun off Steam, they wouldn't get preferential treatment because they no longer would own it. Steam/Valve is already going the extra mile to attract new biz, as it seems they are more interested in becoming a gaming platform that just selling their own games. (PopCap games for instance)
Second, yes they would pay the same costs as others to be on Steam, which is still much less than printing up boxes and disks. It allows them to create lower volume games, and take more risks. Your first and second reasons also contridict each other.
Your third point contradicts your first point and misses the point. If they spun off Steam, then Valve itself could focus on nothing but the games, would be 1/3rd the size, and would still be profitable. Of course you are cutting the profits in half, you are dividing the company in half. But the end result could be more profit for Steam because it would no longer be limited to just Valve games.
The main point you are missing is that Steam would become the defacto standard for distribution, something they would have earned. (hell, I would buy stock if they went public) Most of the games I have purchased over the last two years have been on Steam because I like the platform, the ease of install and maintenance, the PRICE, and their version of "DRM" is not draconian. Yes, you can pirate it, but not multiplayer, and I have no issue with them making money. Making money means more good games and Steam makes it easier (and cheaper) to do so.
I can play on multiple computers, just not at the same time (similar to a "book license".) I no longer have to go to GamePlanet to get updates (holy shit, I always hated that). Cheating is minimized, I can play demos, download trailers, etc. all from a single interface. The only ads are for other Steam products, which I am actually interested in.
Steam works because it isn't a monthly fee and you get a lot for your money. It isn't perfect, but it is reasonable, works 99% of the time, is easy to use and has good games. Now, if they fuck it up and start making the rules hard to get along with, or their service gets bad or the games suck, then someone else will come up with something different. Until then, I am pretty happy as a customer and don't mind the small compromises.
I hate to say "me, too", but "me, too". I started losing faith when RH9 came out so fast after 8, especially considering how happy I was was the whole 7.x line. (and even 6.1) I still have FC1 on a couple of boxes, and unfortunately FC4 on a couple as well. What has kept RH on those boxes is the fact that I simply know RH's quirks/methods better than anything else.
What is ironic is that everyone is bitching about how it took 6 years to go from xp to Vista (which I won't migrate to) but I felt the opposite. I am tired of learning new operating systems just for the sake of learning new operating systems. I don't buy computers to run operating systems, I use operating systems to run PROGRAMS.
Eventually I will have to make the switch to Debian (which seems to be the best for NOT changing the version every freaking 6 to 12 months), but have just been too busy running the actual programs to learn a different Linux version.
I am familiar with Hawking Radiation (hense my comment "Discounting for quantum hair") although the jury is out if there is real information since we are talking about virtual particles (and info may or may not be transfered depending on entanglement, if both fall inside, etc) and I am refering to Classical Information, which is why I excluded them via the hair comment.
/.ers didn't know how fast a blackhole can spin either. It's new information. I am not so sure we armchair physicists can say Yes or No so quickly, since even Hawking can't say with certainty.
I also understand that centrifugal force being "an illusion" that is linear acceleration (the key here being acceleration that approaches the speed of light). As for frame dragging, the frame of reference I was speaking about was from just outside the event horizon. And yes, shrinkage would require the hole to speed up, hense approaching 99.99% of the speed of light and accelerating., not static. Even here, theory already says it can keep accelerating as it gains mass as long as it doesn't exceed the speed of light.
Maybe I didn't make myself clear, but I am wondering if it is possible for just ONE, real, unentangled photons to escape under the right circumstances, even if only in theory. With what we think we know (which is very little) the answer is no. But then, 30 minutes ago we
...and since FF2 came out before IE7, how did they miss updating for it?
Let's take a leap...
Being an armchair physicist, I was wondering what *if* the hole was spinning almost the speed of light (>99.999%) at the horizon, then wouldn't the centrifugal force almost equal the gravitational force at the horizon? Enough that the horizon would shrink ever so slighly (or via Uncertainly Principle), making something that was once inside, now outside? Discounting for "quantum hair", even a couple of photons escaping would disagree with the theory "Whatever falls in a blackhole can't escape". At the very least, this would be an acceleration of the "evaporating black hole" theory.
Now we take this a step farther, and what if you CAN shrink the blackhole just a fraction, then INFORMATION about the blackhole is gained from photons that were once inside and now outside, without them being virtual particles. Yes, this rather violates what we think we know about the physics of blackholes, which is very little.
It is entirely possible that I am just too ignorant to fully understand these concepts and missing something. Interesting though.
Dude, you are underestimating the competence and worth ethic of Doozers when you trash Muppets like that. They working harder than illegals and their work tastes like candy.
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I have to ask, what possessed you to wait in line 7 hrs (in the bitter cold no less) for this or any product?
My guess is that #3 is "sell on eBay" and #4 is "Profit!". I think you can figure out 1 and 2 by yourself.
Reminds me of Leela complaining how her 3d glasses didn't work when they were all at the theater on the "Robot Planet". Gotta love the rubbery human monsters in the movie. If anyone doesn't know what show I am referring to, you shouldn't be reading Slashdot.
Even some former Greenpeace members are coming around on nuclear power. You don't have to be a genius to know it will take nuclear power, biofuel blends (ethanol and biodiesel blended with petrofuels) plus energy efficiency to solve the issue. Right now, research is coming along pretty good and it looks like switching to alternative energy will produce a net benefit to the economy if we continue along a steady path. SEER ratings are going up, CAFE standards need to go up, the Feds are giving nice tax subsidies for biofuel generation while we migrate (although most states are NOT...) Wind and solar power generation is becoming more efficient every year. Jobs are being created. My house is still comfy year round.
And for the record, I am not an environmentalist, whom I detest. Less pollution makes air nicer to breath (a plus), but I am not sold on the whole 'global warming' scenario. I'm just an ex military guy who is fed up with feeding Iran and others with my dollars. I prefer our energy dollars stay at home, preferably in my own wallet.
Now if Ford and Chevy would just build an efficient car worth buying, instead of hybrid vehicles that do nothing except get them tax credits.
easily? might? possibilities?
I think you have just clearly, if not accidently, described why this is a bad idea.
I've used mutt plenty, but pine remains my favorite console MUA. It's a vi/emacs thing, I guess, what's intuitive and pleasant to some is alien and intrusive to others.
Same here. I keep seeing all these replies above about SWITCHING, but what about those of us that don't want to switch? I wish UofW would just release Pine under the GPL, or BSD license, but that isn't likely to happen. I don't like Muff but I don't think anyone can distribute a modified Pine under it's current license, which is not Free, "as in speech".
?Not completely harmlessly, it would have the effect of a small dirty bomb when the materials in the fission trigger were powdered and spread.
If you bothered to WTFV (yes, it is an hour and a half...) then you would know they are talking about using Boron-11, which the waste products break down into all helium-4. Last time I checked, you can't make a dirty bomb out of helium, although you could make everyone talk funny. Sounds more like a Hank Scorpio plot...
This is one of the few kinds of technologies that you could share with any and everyone, AND would actually take away any reason for other countries to build breeder reactors. If Iran could choose between this and a fission breeder reactor that produces plutonium as a waste product, then their intentions would be clear by their choice. Either they wanted electrical power or bomb matierials.