I looked into solar hot water and a double tank system with drainback (the first needed for safety for drinking water, the second for areas with hard freezes) just didn't make economic sense against electric, let alone cheap natural gas. My calculated payback period without electricity for the drainback pumps or installation was in excessive of 20 years. Now if you don't have natural gas then solar hot water for floor heating might make sense (no need for a double tank, though I'd think you'd still need drainback to avoid night time cooling).
What kind of shitty research have you been doing? Basically all commercial panels today come with a 25 year warranty with a minimum efficiency guarantee of 75-80%. Payback for the panels themselves is 5-7 years but 10 years might be about right if you don't install them yourself. Also I believe you can enter into an assumable power purchase agreement if you don't have the capital or don't want to risk it in the case of your moving scenario. I would have done it a few years ago if I didn't a) live in a part of the country with nearly the lowest average insolation and b) lack an significant southern facing roof area (roof is oriented east-west).
Sorry, that was 6-7 years ago and a quick Google search doesn't bring up the actual settings (probably Intuit removed the forum where I posted my results).
Dynamics is fine as long as you don't involve the POS CRM module (at least that was the case six years ago when I last had to deal with that evil, evil pile of junk).
Sage Peachtree is the main competitor in the self hosted small business accounting realm. To be honest if my dad wasn't so opposed to a hosted solution I would have had him go that way as even with 5 users the cost difference once you add up the server and licenses wasn't that great over five years.
As far as QB goes, it seems to finally be ok. Up until 2007 it still couldn't run as a limited rights user and required short printer names both of which caused me serious pain as I was the IT department for a midsized accounting firm and getting QB running in Citrix was NOT fun. We had premier enterprise support and their answer to the LRU issue was to grant Everyone full rights to HK_Classes_Root (NOT a good idea). I eventually figured out what keys the user needed access to and published the solution online to help others but their spaghetti code was so bad even then that nobody could actually tell what it was doing to give me the right answer.
The idea that education should dismiss votec work is what gets me. The world needs plumbers, mechanics, CNC operators, etc. The fact that less than 5% of US jobs today include any kind of on the job training/apprenticeship is just bizarre to me and would be to most other western countries. In Germany almost 70% of secondary students end up doing a paid apprenticeship that is comprised of about 2/3rds on the job training and 1/3rd academic study when they complete their secondary education. Consequently the German youth unemployment rate is 7.8% right now, somewhere between a third and a quarter what it is in the US and probably less than one sixth what the US rate is if you consider underemployment.
Yep, I own every HoMM game except VI due to the retarded DRM. I wish Steam had a filter button to remove anything with third party DRM so I wouldn't have to get my hopes up just to end up not buying a title due to publisher stupidity.
I wanted an ammo safe since I only own shotguns and large gun safes are crazy expensive to buy and install, I did a ton of research and ended up picking up this one from perma-vault. It's pushbutton activated so it can easily be opened in the dark by muscle memory and there's no batteries to die. It's big enough for a couple handguns if that's your thing. It's made of nice thick steel (empty it's 14lbs) and the lock mechanism is fairly substantial for a safe that size (MUCH beefier than the mechanical unit they show in the article).
Max turbo on the E5-2680 is 3.5Ghz and with a higher IPC than any previous processor it's going to get more done per core per wall time than anything but the E5-2687W (150W TDP) or the E5-2690 which is significantly more expensive (almost 20% more).
This is a SB Xeon, the ten core models are Westmere based and so get significantly fewer MIPS/Watt (though they have larger cache and more QPI links so they're great for DB work).
Pure BS. A good consultant will wear appropriate clothing to all engagements, but the first engagement with a new client will always be in a suit and tie unless he's informed otherwise beforehand. Heck one of the best consultants I know prefers to wear a suit because he likes looking sharp. He's got master level certification from all the major IT vendors (IBM, Dell, Citrix, VMWare, Microsoft, Cisco are the ones I know about) and he's not just good at taking tests, he's actually really good at designing and then implementing large scale solutions.
LOL, I take it you've never actually tried to troubleshoot an OBDII code before? Yeah, it's not as simple as code nn replace part a. The code will generally get you to the system involved in the problem, or perhaps one down stream from the source of the problem. Heck, not long ago I had a code that said the problem was with the mass air sensor so I cleaned it, then replaced it, then cleaned the throttle body, and on down the line, the real cause was a cracked vacuum line which I finally figured out with a bottle of starter fluid (basically spray around until the engine revved up then sprayed more and more on a smaller and smaller area until I found the problem).
Unity at least makes sense, Avaya's system on the other hand is basically impossible to figure out as there's no rhyme or reason to the thing. Programming Unity on the other hand is a dark art.
There are ultrasound based stud finders that work without ferrous fasteners. You have to have a smooth surface for them to work but I've found them to be MUCH more reliable on sheetrock than the little magnet type.
Agreed 1000%. I proposed some time ago that all laws should have a mandatory sunset provision and that all laws must be read aloud. This would naturally limit the scope of the law to that which can be comprehended by a person willing to listen to the law. I've always found the idea of "ignorance is no excuse" combined with a volume of law so large that no person could ever read every law under which they are subject (let alone comprehend it!) to be so discongruent as to be absurd, however I'm apparently in the minority.
The overlapping plates in Dragon Skin already largely solve this problem by forming to the wearer. The fact that it's better armor than Kevlar + trauma plates is a nice bonus =)
Look up drive in theaters. There are a few near me and the tickets are reasonably priced and I can bring in my own beverages (including beer since the wife is the DD). $20 gets the car in with a pass to allow us to bring our own food and drink in, in fact that's for a double feature =)
Speaking of X-Men, why did we get a stupid reboot instead of going into The Dark Phoenix Saga? I mean if you want to go all dark and ominous with big battles it's hard to beat that story arc.
DeWalt perhaps, but Milwaukee tools are still made in the USA (Greenwood and Jackson Mississippi). I've always bought Milwaukee in the past and now that they're about the only made in the USA label in power tools I'm doubly sure to buy them.
If you have that problem with an Android phone there's a free app called volume locker that will reset the sound profile if you don't respond to a prompt. I use it to make sure I don't miss on-call pages.
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I looked into solar hot water and a double tank system with drainback (the first needed for safety for drinking water, the second for areas with hard freezes) just didn't make economic sense against electric, let alone cheap natural gas. My calculated payback period without electricity for the drainback pumps or installation was in excessive of 20 years. Now if you don't have natural gas then solar hot water for floor heating might make sense (no need for a double tank, though I'd think you'd still need drainback to avoid night time cooling).
What kind of shitty research have you been doing? Basically all commercial panels today come with a 25 year warranty with a minimum efficiency guarantee of 75-80%. Payback for the panels themselves is 5-7 years but 10 years might be about right if you don't install them yourself. Also I believe you can enter into an assumable power purchase agreement if you don't have the capital or don't want to risk it in the case of your moving scenario. I would have done it a few years ago if I didn't a) live in a part of the country with nearly the lowest average insolation and b) lack an significant southern facing roof area (roof is oriented east-west).
GP, I forgot they had other ERP offerings.
Sorry, that was 6-7 years ago and a quick Google search doesn't bring up the actual settings (probably Intuit removed the forum where I posted my results).
Dynamics is fine as long as you don't involve the POS CRM module (at least that was the case six years ago when I last had to deal with that evil, evil pile of junk).
Sage Peachtree is the main competitor in the self hosted small business accounting realm. To be honest if my dad wasn't so opposed to a hosted solution I would have had him go that way as even with 5 users the cost difference once you add up the server and licenses wasn't that great over five years.
As far as QB goes, it seems to finally be ok. Up until 2007 it still couldn't run as a limited rights user and required short printer names both of which caused me serious pain as I was the IT department for a midsized accounting firm and getting QB running in Citrix was NOT fun. We had premier enterprise support and their answer to the LRU issue was to grant Everyone full rights to HK_Classes_Root (NOT a good idea). I eventually figured out what keys the user needed access to and published the solution online to help others but their spaghetti code was so bad even then that nobody could actually tell what it was doing to give me the right answer.
The idea that education should dismiss votec work is what gets me. The world needs plumbers, mechanics, CNC operators, etc. The fact that less than 5% of US jobs today include any kind of on the job training/apprenticeship is just bizarre to me and would be to most other western countries. In Germany almost 70% of secondary students end up doing a paid apprenticeship that is comprised of about 2/3rds on the job training and 1/3rd academic study when they complete their secondary education. Consequently the German youth unemployment rate is 7.8% right now, somewhere between a third and a quarter what it is in the US and probably less than one sixth what the US rate is if you consider underemployment.
Yep, your post pretty much sums up my feeling when it comes to Steam.
Well now you have a trojan to remove to go with a crappy game then =(
Yep, I own every HoMM game except VI due to the retarded DRM. I wish Steam had a filter button to remove anything with third party DRM so I wouldn't have to get my hopes up just to end up not buying a title due to publisher stupidity.
I wanted an ammo safe since I only own shotguns and large gun safes are crazy expensive to buy and install, I did a ton of research and ended up picking up this one from perma-vault. It's pushbutton activated so it can easily be opened in the dark by muscle memory and there's no batteries to die. It's big enough for a couple handguns if that's your thing. It's made of nice thick steel (empty it's 14lbs) and the lock mechanism is fairly substantial for a safe that size (MUCH beefier than the mechanical unit they show in the article).
Max turbo on the E5-2680 is 3.5Ghz and with a higher IPC than any previous processor it's going to get more done per core per wall time than anything but the E5-2687W (150W TDP) or the E5-2690 which is significantly more expensive (almost 20% more).
x86 hasn't been limited to 4GB of ram since the Pentium Pro!
This is a SB Xeon, the ten core models are Westmere based and so get significantly fewer MIPS/Watt (though they have larger cache and more QPI links so they're great for DB work).
Pure BS. A good consultant will wear appropriate clothing to all engagements, but the first engagement with a new client will always be in a suit and tie unless he's informed otherwise beforehand. Heck one of the best consultants I know prefers to wear a suit because he likes looking sharp. He's got master level certification from all the major IT vendors (IBM, Dell, Citrix, VMWare, Microsoft, Cisco are the ones I know about) and he's not just good at taking tests, he's actually really good at designing and then implementing large scale solutions.
LOL, I take it you've never actually tried to troubleshoot an OBDII code before? Yeah, it's not as simple as code nn replace part a. The code will generally get you to the system involved in the problem, or perhaps one down stream from the source of the problem. Heck, not long ago I had a code that said the problem was with the mass air sensor so I cleaned it, then replaced it, then cleaned the throttle body, and on down the line, the real cause was a cracked vacuum line which I finally figured out with a bottle of starter fluid (basically spray around until the engine revved up then sprayed more and more on a smaller and smaller area until I found the problem).
Unity at least makes sense, Avaya's system on the other hand is basically impossible to figure out as there's no rhyme or reason to the thing. Programming Unity on the other hand is a dark art.
There are ultrasound based stud finders that work without ferrous fasteners. You have to have a smooth surface for them to work but I've found them to be MUCH more reliable on sheetrock than the little magnet type.
Agreed 1000%. I proposed some time ago that all laws should have a mandatory sunset provision and that all laws must be read aloud. This would naturally limit the scope of the law to that which can be comprehended by a person willing to listen to the law. I've always found the idea of "ignorance is no excuse" combined with a volume of law so large that no person could ever read every law under which they are subject (let alone comprehend it!) to be so discongruent as to be absurd, however I'm apparently in the minority.
Haha,I was talking about this =)
The overlapping plates in Dragon Skin already largely solve this problem by forming to the wearer. The fact that it's better armor than Kevlar + trauma plates is a nice bonus =)
Look up drive in theaters. There are a few near me and the tickets are reasonably priced and I can bring in my own beverages (including beer since the wife is the DD). $20 gets the car in with a pass to allow us to bring our own food and drink in, in fact that's for a double feature =)
Speaking of X-Men, why did we get a stupid reboot instead of going into The Dark Phoenix Saga? I mean if you want to go all dark and ominous with big battles it's hard to beat that story arc.
DeWalt perhaps, but Milwaukee tools are still made in the USA (Greenwood and Jackson Mississippi). I've always bought Milwaukee in the past and now that they're about the only made in the USA label in power tools I'm doubly sure to buy them.
If you have that problem with an Android phone there's a free app called volume locker that will reset the sound profile if you don't respond to a prompt. I use it to make sure I don't miss on-call pages.