lol. Yeah, some of their products have been pretty bad. But I'm typing this on an 800mhz Celeron Acer Travelmate 212 laptop that I got for twenty bucks (display still worked, intended to use it as a picture frame project and instead replaced a couple components on the power board and loaded debian on it); it's been running 24/7 for three years now despite being dropped, rained on, peed on by a cat (with the lid open) and resulting surgical indignities - plus keyboard abuse, I'm a heavy-handed speed typist and typically go thru fifty dollar keyboards at the rate of several per year. But not this one. It's getting a little soft, but still very usable. I have a 23lb tomcat who has figured out how to push the lid down and likes to sleep on it...:)
It's impressed me enough that it's replacement (it's too slow and too small a display for what I do now, multiple lan VMs, minor 3D work, 'net, etc) is going to be an Acer Aspire 5610/5630 - which are relatively inexpensive ($500-600 sealed box on ebay), have good reviews and near-perfect linux compatibility according the experiences I've read about.
Hopefully the bottleneck of production will continue decreasing as the demand continues going up...:)
I'd like to point out that a significant fraction of government-funded solar power systems should go to apartment housing projects, as well as homes, and other places like the more and more common strip malls, which tend to be energy hogs. It would benefit everybody if places like those had to manage their own energy budgets;)
But not a damned dime to any homeowner who can easily afford to install their own (that would prob be debated to death, but there has to be *some* limit). Plus, if federal loans are involved and the installation produces a net profit (supplies energy back to the grid) - a good sized fraction of that goes back to the feds, to repay the loan - but monies obtained in this manner can *only* be used for more solar installations...
Do you still have my email? If so contact me - I'm thinking of going mobile (RV+solar+diy) soon, would love to exchange info and ideas, and hear more of your experiences. If not (email) post a reply to this and we'll figure out something.
"you use a small DC fan as an air PUSHER into the unit with an exhaust someplace safe, you don't PULL the gassy air out."
Why? (push instead of pull or both)
"Figure out what you need, get double, then they are always shallow cycling and they will last a long time,"
That's a good point, hadn't thought of that. Weight restrictions in an RV would be a bitch, tho. Especially as this one will need to be heavily insulated and sealed up. Perhaps one of those new aerogel products to save some weight... it's ~ two year project, so plenty of time to plan:)
"I'd go as far as to say that they're right, and that the void *is* a positive indication that there is a big (mostly and unusually) empty spot out there."
"So, the SZ effect allows them to explain away the fact that some galaxies are not casting shadows against the CMB. If there isn't a shadow for some of them, then perhaps that's because the photons are being energized by the obstruction."
You people are loonier than the creationists. Sorry, but it's true...
Hmm. Visible doesn't tell you much about the IR making it thru the atmosphere to the satellite; wouldn't that be a more useful piece of information than eyeballed infrastructure estimates (I'm assuming that's what they are doing in visible; enlighten me:) )
Now IANAC, but I would think that any good station list would include stations that had been urbanized according to the percentage of area of urban sprawl vs. the percentage of "rural" land. (there is no clear line between those two, btw). After all, there is a percentage of the earth's land surface that is dominated by cities and towns. It's small, but it's there. So it's hardly surprising to find some stations in that category - and I'm pretty sure they've corrected as well as they can for any inaccuracies in those station's data, as well. Those stations would understandably get scrutinized pretty closely. I know I would, and IANAC;)
Now if there's a disproportionate number of urban/suburban stations vs. rural stations, that'd support your argument. I haven't seen anybody claiming that.
Just a side thought, Wickenburg looks "suburban" to me I've lived in both big metros and tiny towns - which would mean it'd fall under the grey area I mentioned above. Hardly urban, tho. Lots of empty scrubland in and around town. Reminds me a bit of where I live right now, actually:)
Yeah, that was more or less what I was thinking of.
Habitats built on demand that can be shipped up with minimal mass costs. Seems more efficient to me, if there's a way to ship them. Like a workhorse payload launcher.
I'd think it's likely there is at least some population exchange with other solar systems, however. The timescales are certainly large enough.
I'll also bet that especially in large star forming regions that interstellar space contains a fairly large population of comets, with population densities tending towards zero in areas with few suns. It makes sense - all that mass goes *somewhere*. Of course there's no way to know, not yet anyway. But it's interesting to think about.:)
Well, according to Wiki the best guesses for the size of the Tunguska asteroid (if it was one) range from 60m to 1200m in diameter. I remember from some other reading that a 400m diameter, average composition asteroid has a mass of roughly 50 million tons. So a three ton piece of debris doesn't seem all that unreasonable, even if we consider a an order of magnitude smaller diameter.
I'm sure we could find out if the object was really from the Tunguska event, however. I remember the first expeditions describing how many trees had small pellet fragments in them - we just need to compare the 3 ton object's composition to them. If anyone ever gets it back;)
Slashdot Mirror
"Despite the controls, nudity, profanity, illegal gambling and pirated music, books and film have proliferated on Chinese Internet servers."
Books and film have proliferated on Chinese Internet servers despite "the controls, nudity, profanity, illegal gambling and pirated music" ?
Well, Good! I say. Wait a minute...
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lol. Yeah, some of their products have been pretty bad. But I'm typing this on an 800mhz Celeron Acer Travelmate 212 laptop that I got for twenty bucks (display still worked, intended to use it as a picture frame project and instead replaced a couple components on the power board and loaded debian on it); it's been running 24/7 for three years now despite being dropped, rained on, peed on by a cat (with the lid open) and resulting surgical indignities - plus keyboard abuse, I'm a heavy-handed speed typist and typically go thru fifty dollar keyboards at the rate of several per year. But not this one. It's getting a little soft, but still very usable. I have a 23lb tomcat who has figured out how to push the lid down and likes to sleep on it... :)
:)
It's impressed me enough that it's replacement (it's too slow and too small a display for what I do now, multiple lan VMs, minor 3D work, 'net, etc) is going to be an Acer Aspire 5610/5630 - which are relatively inexpensive ($500-600 sealed box on ebay), have good reviews and near-perfect linux compatibility according the experiences I've read about.
So Acer must be doing *something* right
Cheers,
SB
Will the last person leaving the TorrentSpy building please turn out the lights?
SB
Hopefully the bottleneck of production will continue decreasing as the demand continues going up... :)
;)
:)
I'd like to point out that a significant fraction of government-funded solar power systems should go to apartment housing projects, as well as homes, and other places like the more and more common strip malls, which tend to be energy hogs. It would benefit everybody if places like those had to manage their own energy budgets
But not a damned dime to any homeowner who can easily afford to install their own (that would prob be debated to death, but there has to be *some* limit). Plus, if federal loans are involved and the installation produces a net profit (supplies energy back to the grid) - a good sized fraction of that goes back to the feds, to repay the loan - but monies obtained in this manner can *only* be used for more solar installations...
We can dream,can't we?
Cheers,
SB
Hey Zogger, nice post :)
:)
Do you still have my email? If so contact me - I'm thinking of going mobile (RV+solar+diy) soon, would love to exchange info and ideas, and hear more of your experiences. If not (email) post a reply to this and we'll figure out something.
"you use a small DC fan as an air PUSHER into the unit with an exhaust someplace safe, you don't PULL the gassy air out."
Why? (push instead of pull or both)
"Figure out what you need, get double, then they are always shallow cycling and they will last a long time,"
That's a good point, hadn't thought of that. Weight restrictions in an RV would be a bitch, tho. Especially as this one will need to be heavily insulated and sealed up. Perhaps one of those new aerogel products to save some weight... it's ~ two year project, so plenty of time to plan
Cheers,
Shadowbearer
"Only Solutions..." - Journey
"I'd go as far as to say that they're right, and that the void *is* a positive indication that there is a big (mostly and unusually) empty spot out there."
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
Our next contestant is...
"So, the SZ effect allows them to explain away the fact that some galaxies are not casting shadows against the CMB. If there isn't a shadow for some of them, then perhaps that's because the photons are being energized by the obstruction."
You people are loonier than the creationists. Sorry, but it's true...
SB
That depends. Are the techs local, or out of this dimensional code?
SB
more like horror-snuff films
The Really, Really Big Set! Roll'em! Ok, bring in the next set of extras! Next... next...
Sometimes the bible seems like a really, really good Jordan novel
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Empty?
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"the broader issue of a serious lack of oversight will become quite common." /Rove "Lack of oversight of what?"
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Hmm. Visible doesn't tell you much about the IR making it thru the atmosphere to the satellite; wouldn't that be a more useful piece of information than eyeballed infrastructure estimates (I'm assuming that's what they are doing in visible; enlighten me
SB
Interesting. Visible or infrared?
SB
Now IANAC, but I would think that any good station list would include stations that had been urbanized according to the percentage of area of urban sprawl vs. the percentage of "rural" land. (there is no clear line between those two, btw). After all, there is a percentage of the earth's land surface that is dominated by cities and towns. It's small, but it's there. So it's hardly surprising to find some stations in that category - and I'm pretty sure they've corrected as well as they can for any inaccuracies in those station's data, as well. Those stations would understandably get scrutinized pretty closely. I know I would, and IANAC ;)
:)
;)
Now if there's a disproportionate number of urban/suburban stations vs. rural stations, that'd support your argument. I haven't seen anybody claiming that.
Just a side thought, Wickenburg looks "suburban" to me I've lived in both big metros and tiny towns - which would mean it'd fall under the grey area I mentioned above. Hardly urban, tho. Lots of empty scrubland in and around town. Reminds me a bit of where I live right now, actually
just my two coppers clinkin'
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Yeah, that was more or less what I was thinking of.
Habitats built on demand that can be shipped up with minimal mass costs. Seems more efficient to me, if there's a way to ship them. Like a workhorse payload launcher.
SB
Pretty much.
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Not to mention the decades and money we spent on making vertical stacks work. Then we mothballed them.
Most definitely NOT intelligent design
SB
What, did you expect it to be entertaining? You don't expand on your principal bit of evidence, much.
SB
"Bigelow may well have his habitat ready sooner."
That'd be a significant First. The habitat ready to go before the launch capability is there...
SB
I'd think it's likely there is at least some population exchange with other solar systems, however. The timescales are certainly large enough.
:)
I'll also bet that especially in large star forming regions that interstellar space contains a fairly large population of comets, with population densities tending towards zero in areas with few suns. It makes sense - all that mass goes *somewhere*. Of course there's no way to know, not yet anyway. But it's interesting to think about.
SB
Just chiming in with a sincere thank you, as well. That was absolutely fascinating
Nice ammo to use in the debates I get into with people scared of biotech, as well. Thanks again.
SB
Also, he's obviously a Cylon.
SB
Well, according to Wiki the best guesses for the size of the Tunguska asteroid (if it was one) range from 60m to 1200m in diameter. I remember from some other reading that a 400m diameter, average composition asteroid has a mass of roughly 50 million tons. So a three ton piece of debris doesn't seem all that unreasonable, even if we consider a an order of magnitude smaller diameter.
;)
I'm sure we could find out if the object was really from the Tunguska event, however. I remember the first expeditions describing how many trees had small pellet fragments in them - we just need to compare the 3 ton object's composition to them. If anyone ever gets it back
SB
I'm worried that if I tell someone that I read about this on slashdot, the universe might implode.
It did, and now we're in an alternate time thread where it didn't.
Carry on.
SB
Wouldn't many of those activities be more regulated by adults, tho?
More variables
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