Sorry, but I gotta say that you're going for imports that just aren't better than a lot of domestic brews. Try beers from Dogfish Head, Lagunitas, He-brew or Left Hand - they're nationally available "microbrews."
Um...nothing wrong with that selection as I've had something from all of them, but I wouldn't characterize them as "nationally available." Las Vegas isn't exactly a small town, but none of the brands you name are available here. (If we're lucky, Dogfish Head might find its way here in another year or two...asked one of their people about it at GABF last year, and was told that they wanted to get some distribution facilities up and running in California first, or something like that.) That said, we probably get some stuff (Stone, Rogue, Deschutes, Wasatch, etc.) that you don't. Outside of the largest brewers (Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, maybe New Belgium), not many have the means to make enough beer to have their products in every market.
That said, checking out whatever craft beer is available in your neck of the woods (which I think was your point) is highly recommended.
Why in the world does anyone who homebrews need to pay for CO2?
Because forced carbonation is faster, more reliable, and more predictable than bottle conditioning? I have a 2-year-old wee heavy in bottles that's still flat, even after adding more yeast. I've never had problems with my force-carbonated beers.
Kegging also beats the snot out of sanitizing, filling, and capping bottles. You could "keg-condition" in the same way you'd bottle-condition, but since you already have carbon dioxide on hand for serving, why not use it for carbonating as well? On the rare occasions that I need my beer in bottles, I can fill as many as I need with the counter-pressure filler.
Magnetic media and especially floppies have a limited lifetime. They are not as bad as tapes where you need to rewrite the whole tape once every 6 months or your lose your data. None the less, they are least likely to have survived for 15+ years.
As long as you used good-quality media and kept them cool and dry, they should still be readable. I have some floppies for the Apple II that are pushing toward 23 years old now, and they're readable without errors.
I wouldn't trust a 3.5" floppy that's been made in the past five years to hold its data for six months, but that's just shoddy quality control by whoever is still making them. 20+ years ago, there weren't eleventy billion factories in China cranking out shoddy goods, so floppy disks (among other things) were usually made to a higher standard.
Now assuming that your not making a joke about cell phones and VoIP not having long distance charges, I should remind people that they pay more then standard POTS service when they employ these other technologies. VoIP, you have to have high speed Internet. That's another $20-$60 a month on top of the normal service.
That $20-$60 per month is money you're already paying, so your choice is between POTS+broadband or VoIP+broadband. For VoIP, I'm currently paying $35 per year plus $0.019 per minute for outbound calls. Comparable POTS service would cost at least $250-$300 per year; I'd need to waste over 1000 minutes on the phone every month for POTS to become more economical.
Currently I do not have commands in the MiniOnBasic language to implement the one wire protocol, though you might be able to bit-bang this if speed is not an issue.
Bit-banging 1-Wire works for me on an Apple II, and the code (a mix of C and 6502 assembly) doesn't take up much space. If bit-banging works on a 1-MHz 6502, it ought to work on nearly anything.
QFP packaging is kind of a drag. In some ways a BGA would be more friendly
How do you figure that's the case? With a sufficiently small soldering iron and some flux, a QFP isn't that difficult to hand-solder. To work with BGAs, you have to either send them (and your boards) out to someone with a reflow oven or try to rig a reflow oven of your own (supposedly you can convert a toaster oven for this purpose, but its performance can be hit-or-miss). To rework a board with QFPs, you can get by with some ChipQuik. With BGAs...?
That's not saying that BGAs don't have their place, but they're not exactly the easiest components to deal with on a hobbyist scale.
(FWIW, it's used for a five-block commute to work.)
Ummm... can't you walk???
He did say it was Iowa...let's see you walk to work in the middle of winter when there's a foot or two (or more) of snow on the ground. Besides, if a block there is anything like a block here, that could still end up being a couple or three miles...walkable, but who wants to waste a half-hour (give or take) each way when you could be there in a few minutes?
Not to mention the inkjet clogging if you don't use it for a month.
Not all printers are created equal. At one extreme, I have a 2+-year-old HP DeskJet 450 that pretty much only gets used once or twice a year at homebrew competitions. It still has the original color cartridge (had to replace the black cartridge once when it ran out), and it still produces good-quality printouts with it. At the other extreme, I have an Epson Stylus Photo R200 that clogs up after 2-3 weeks of disuse and needs to waste a significant fraction of ink on multiple cleaning cycles to get it running again (and even then, there are usually one or two nozzles that never completely open up).
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
i will assume that he meant using apple's software at all, including syncing the data. i agree, unless, you CAN just transfer files to an ipod from any app(i.e. windows explorer).
You can't, but that doesn't imply that iTunes is the only way to load music onto an iPod. There are 3rd-party apps (for Windows and Linux, at least...probably for Mac OS X as well, but iTunes works well enough for me there) that'll manage what's on your iPod.
(Now that I've thought about it a little more, if you use something like the iPod kioslave, you can get drag-and-drop management (somewhat) of your iPod through Konqueror. Last time I checked, though, it didn't support album covers on the newer iPods that support them.)
My last car (a 1996 Eclipse) said right under the speedometer "UNLEADED FUEL ONLY." So did my first car (1988 Accord).
Since unleaded is all you can buy anywhere now, I suspect the manufacturers figured they no longer need that notice. My 2004 Alero doesn't have it anywhere: not on the fuel gauge, not on the fuel filler door, and (IIRC) not on the gas cap. I think there's a mention of using only unleaded in the owner's manual, but that's it.
Well yeah but...commercial space travel to the moon or Mars? We just barely got those commercial rockets into suborbital space...4 more years and they might finally hit orbital travel...
The first time around, it was 7 years from suborbital flight to a flag planted on the moon...and that was a government project, with all of the inefficiencies that those entail.
If you had RTFA, you would've found that making a sealed system apparently isn't enough by itself. The silicone tubing used in most liquid-cooling rigs apparently is somewhat permeable, so water can seep through it and evaporate. Replacing silicone with vinyl fixes that, at the expense of slightly increased rigidity.
The cool thing about Dolby Digital Live encoding is the game doesn't have to support Dolby Digital. The sound card and drivers magically remix positional DirectSound events into a Dolby Digital bitstream.
In other words, I plug my computer into my AV receiver with 1 audio cable and surround sound Just Works in all my games.
Does anyone know if this card works with Linux? I'm thinking one of these would allow me to transcode multichannel audio to something more space-efficient (like AAC) and then have my MythTV box convert it back to AC3 on-the-fly before sending it to the receiver. Multi-channel audio over 1 cable FTW...if it'll work.
The problem with GPS is the battery drain.. if you run it all the time expect your battery to die in a couple of hours.
OTOH, you wouldn't have it on most of the time. I have a Bluetooth GPS receiver that I use with a Treo 650. For the most part, it only gets used when I'm out of town in an unfamiliar area. At home, you're less likely to need it, so you'd switch it off. On the road, you'd just need to remember to charge it daily (or whatever) instead of every few days.
Seems unwise. Don't both of those applications have a problem with accuracy when it comes to floating point operations/storage?
I'd think that financial apps would use fixed-point math, not floating-point, for that reason. (Whether FoxPro supports fixed-point, I can't say one way or the other.)
So the other teams have big tanker trucks chasing their cars? Oh, that's right, there's a gasoline infrastructure in the United States so they'll be able to refuel. Well as it happens, there's an electrical infrastructure too, and vehicles like the Tesla Roadster carry a portable charger to enable plugging into to any ordinary power socket.
Refueling either of my current cars takes maybe 4-6 minutes. Recharging a Tesla Roadster most likely takes something closer to 4-6 hours, not minutes. Its 200-mile range won't even go to the nearest major city from here. Its average speed on a cross-country trip will suck big hairy balls without a range extender of some sort...is such a thing even available for it?
Carrying weapons is illegal in the UK. Having any of those things with me (let alone using them) would be an arrestable offence, and the gun would land me in jail.
How's that gun control, knife control, etc. working out for you? In civilized countries, free men aren't barred from the means to defend themselves against Bad People.
While recently at a wine store, I witnessed a farmer talking about converting over to hops, because hop crops are being converted to corn for the ethanol subsidies.
Hops have gone through the roof in recent months...check any homebrew-supply website or shop, and you'll find limited availability and prices 2-3x higher than a year ago. For a long time, there was a glut of hops due to too much acreage planted. That (and increased demand for grain for biofuel production) caused most hop farms to switch to other crops. Reduced acreage translates to production that would've been closer to actual demand...if European hop crops hadn't failed like they did in 2007. Now you have craftbrewers and homebrewers alike scrambling to get whatever hops they can.
I wouldn't be surprised if the hop shortage has some farmers reconsidering the wisdom of having gotten out of growing hops, especially since it'd take two seasons to get them producing again.
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Um...nothing wrong with that selection as I've had something from all of them, but I wouldn't characterize them as "nationally available." Las Vegas isn't exactly a small town, but none of the brands you name are available here. (If we're lucky, Dogfish Head might find its way here in another year or two...asked one of their people about it at GABF last year, and was told that they wanted to get some distribution facilities up and running in California first, or something like that.) That said, we probably get some stuff (Stone, Rogue, Deschutes, Wasatch, etc.) that you don't. Outside of the largest brewers (Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, maybe New Belgium), not many have the means to make enough beer to have their products in every market.
That said, checking out whatever craft beer is available in your neck of the woods (which I think was your point) is highly recommended.
Because forced carbonation is faster, more reliable, and more predictable than bottle conditioning? I have a 2-year-old wee heavy in bottles that's still flat, even after adding more yeast. I've never had problems with my force-carbonated beers.
Kegging also beats the snot out of sanitizing, filling, and capping bottles. You could "keg-condition" in the same way you'd bottle-condition, but since you already have carbon dioxide on hand for serving, why not use it for carbonating as well? On the rare occasions that I need my beer in bottles, I can fill as many as I need with the counter-pressure filler.
Get off my lawn!
You misspelled "prophet." :-)
As long as you used good-quality media and kept them cool and dry, they should still be readable. I have some floppies for the Apple II that are pushing toward 23 years old now, and they're readable without errors.
I wouldn't trust a 3.5" floppy that's been made in the past five years to hold its data for six months, but that's just shoddy quality control by whoever is still making them. 20+ years ago, there weren't eleventy billion factories in China cranking out shoddy goods, so floppy disks (among other things) were usually made to a higher standard.
That $20-$60 per month is money you're already paying, so your choice is between POTS+broadband or VoIP+broadband. For VoIP, I'm currently paying $35 per year plus $0.019 per minute for outbound calls. Comparable POTS service would cost at least $250-$300 per year; I'd need to waste over 1000 minutes on the phone every month for POTS to become more economical.
Bit-banging 1-Wire works for me on an Apple II, and the code (a mix of C and 6502 assembly) doesn't take up much space. If bit-banging works on a 1-MHz 6502, it ought to work on nearly anything.
How do you figure that's the case? With a sufficiently small soldering iron and some flux, a QFP isn't that difficult to hand-solder. To work with BGAs, you have to either send them (and your boards) out to someone with a reflow oven or try to rig a reflow oven of your own (supposedly you can convert a toaster oven for this purpose, but its performance can be hit-or-miss). To rework a board with QFPs, you can get by with some ChipQuik. With BGAs...?
That's not saying that BGAs don't have their place, but they're not exactly the easiest components to deal with on a hobbyist scale.
Die in a fire, you communist cocksucker...and may whoever modded your bilge insightful do the same.
He did say it was Iowa...let's see you walk to work in the middle of winter when there's a foot or two (or more) of snow on the ground. Besides, if a block there is anything like a block here, that could still end up being a couple or three miles...walkable, but who wants to waste a half-hour (give or take) each way when you could be there in a few minutes?
Not all printers are created equal. At one extreme, I have a 2+-year-old HP DeskJet 450 that pretty much only gets used once or twice a year at homebrew competitions. It still has the original color cartridge (had to replace the black cartridge once when it ran out), and it still produces good-quality printouts with it. At the other extreme, I have an Epson Stylus Photo R200 that clogs up after 2-3 weeks of disuse and needs to waste a significant fraction of ink on multiple cleaning cycles to get it running again (and even then, there are usually one or two nozzles that never completely open up).
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
You can't, but that doesn't imply that iTunes is the only way to load music onto an iPod. There are 3rd-party apps (for Windows and Linux, at least...probably for Mac OS X as well, but iTunes works well enough for me there) that'll manage what's on your iPod.
(Now that I've thought about it a little more, if you use something like the iPod kioslave, you can get drag-and-drop management (somewhat) of your iPod through Konqueror. Last time I checked, though, it didn't support album covers on the newer iPods that support them.)
Since unleaded is all you can buy anywhere now, I suspect the manufacturers figured they no longer need that notice. My 2004 Alero doesn't have it anywhere: not on the fuel gauge, not on the fuel filler door, and (IIRC) not on the gas cap. I think there's a mention of using only unleaded in the owner's manual, but that's it.
The first time around, it was 7 years from suborbital flight to a flag planted on the moon...and that was a government project, with all of the inefficiencies that those entail.
If you had RTFA, you would've found that making a sealed system apparently isn't enough by itself. The silicone tubing used in most liquid-cooling rigs apparently is somewhat permeable, so water can seep through it and evaporate. Replacing silicone with vinyl fixes that, at the expense of slightly increased rigidity.
Does anyone know if this card works with Linux? I'm thinking one of these would allow me to transcode multichannel audio to something more space-efficient (like AAC) and then have my MythTV box convert it back to AC3 on-the-fly before sending it to the receiver. Multi-channel audio over 1 cable FTW...if it'll work.
OTOH, you wouldn't have it on most of the time. I have a Bluetooth GPS receiver that I use with a Treo 650. For the most part, it only gets used when I'm out of town in an unfamiliar area. At home, you're less likely to need it, so you'd switch it off. On the road, you'd just need to remember to charge it daily (or whatever) instead of every few days.
Isn't that what Computer Shopper was all about back in the day, back when it was printed at tabloid size (or something close) and 1"+ thick?
I'd think that financial apps would use fixed-point math, not floating-point, for that reason. (Whether FoxPro supports fixed-point, I can't say one way or the other.)
Refueling either of my current cars takes maybe 4-6 minutes. Recharging a Tesla Roadster most likely takes something closer to 4-6 hours, not minutes. Its 200-mile range won't even go to the nearest major city from here. Its average speed on a cross-country trip will suck big hairy balls without a range extender of some sort...is such a thing even available for it?
How's that gun control, knife control, etc. working out for you? In civilized countries, free men aren't barred from the means to defend themselves against Bad People.
Hops have gone through the roof in recent months...check any homebrew-supply website or shop, and you'll find limited availability and prices 2-3x higher than a year ago. For a long time, there was a glut of hops due to too much acreage planted. That (and increased demand for grain for biofuel production) caused most hop farms to switch to other crops. Reduced acreage translates to production that would've been closer to actual demand...if European hop crops hadn't failed like they did in 2007. Now you have craftbrewers and homebrewers alike scrambling to get whatever hops they can.
I wouldn't be surprised if the hop shortage has some farmers reconsidering the wisdom of having gotten out of growing hops, especially since it'd take two seasons to get them producing again.