Hilter was an ok sort of guy other than his whole insane meglomanic issues. Maybe if he had sent smokers to the death camps, he could use their own recycled 2nd hand smoke to snuff them out, instead of the Jews he might have not gotten such a bad rap.
As long as it goes hand in hand with a lift on the ban of punching people in the face for smoking near you, I see no reason why smoking bans couldn't be lifted.
There are places where we do use alot of wind that are ahead of the curve, like out here in Tehachapi CA (don't get me wrong California is the land of big government and idiots galore), but they do have alot of windmills. I watch semi-flat bed trucks roll by carrying single blades (these things are huge) on my way to work almost everyday.
They are constantly in a state of construction out there upgrading to ever larger towers all the time.
On the smaller scale you do see many of the homes outside of town with a micro tower or three.
What I don't get out here they haven't made it mandatory to use solar hotwater heating yet. I'd have to say about 1 in ten houses has it. We definitely get plenty of sun. The only place where I've seen nearly 100% adoption of solar (water heating) is in Maui, HI. Almost all the homes out there have solar and quite a few businesses have PV solar panels on their buildings as well.
Sure they can, but you are talking about a drop in the bucket in the scheme of things. If you covered the whole car you might get 1000watts worth of cells x6 hours of useable sun, brings you up to 6000watt hours. The problem you run into on your car is the motor is something along the lines of 5-30 thousand watts. So one whole day of charging buys you 30 minutes or less of run time.
Of course you don'tt need to worry about sitting in trafic so much, since hybrids don't burn fuel(very much) when you are just sitting there On the environment side of the issue if all vehicles could off set even 5-10 minutes of fuel burning per day and replace it with solar power the affects substantial but not world altering. You still are going to need to use alot more cells than could fit on a passenger car to be able to drive around alot at the current level of comfort and power, but then that's what all those acres of empty roof space is for.
Sometimes it works great, and sometimes it sucks (gaming and scans running together). I picked up the X2 3800 a few weekes back, and I'll say it's impressive, but not earth shatteringly so. The effect of two cores is more sublime in application. You usually don't even notice it doing its thing until you realize you have 5-6 apps running at the same time and can't find your desktop.
Yes you can jump into a pretty heafty game and run virus scan and MS anti-spy at the same time and don't see much in the way of hickups, except maype with a slow down in disk access. That is only if you start the scans yourself.
The problem comes in when a scheduled scan starts up in the middle of a game. It doesn't freeze up like my XP 3200 used to while things slowly sorted themselves out, but it still likes to dump you out of your game, just in case you want watch it scan. You just have to maximize your game real quick and hope noone gunned you down during your 4 sec absence.
Just to use and abuse it I've tried running a large number of apps at the same time and found the breaking point is somewhere just past Norton and MS antispam running at the same time, ripping a DVD to the harddrive, 3-4 windows open surfing, watching a movie, and pushing 20-30gb of data around on the drives and the network simultaneously. Much past that and things start slowing down a bit, but the nice thing is it never really ever freezes it just runs slower.
I think though some of that also has to do with the 2gb of ram I stuck in there. Even windows finds itself more than sedated and leaves a big chunk of it open for other apps to play with.
My specs
AMD X2 3800
2gb crucial
ASRock APG/PCIX-16x MB pretty cool it'll take an APG or a PCI-x16 card or both (spanning not SLI), maybe I'll get one later and run 4 monitors
ATI 9800 PRO 128mb (I was too broke after buying everything else to get a new card)
2x WD raptor 10k RAID 0 this is what makes the computer feel "fast"
WD 250gb Sata2
Creative X-Fi (music)
Zalman Reserator water cooling(this thing is slick, only thing I hear now is the harddrives making happy noises no fans! That and when I get around to it a little overclocking.)
Nope they don't broadcast when off, that's just the voices in their heads talking. An easy test is turn on the phone next to some cheap computer speakers. You should hear alot of garabage being picked up by them. It'll sound different and be different lengths of time for powerup, incoming calls, voicemail/text message alerts, or standby. Turn it off and leave it there and you wont hear a peep out of the speakers, no noise=no signal.
Yeah kind of forgot about ol' spaceship one, that's a 10 minute drive down the road. It was pretty cool I was out flying on the day of the second launch over Edwards. (I'm a civilian pilot, military mechanic)
Ok without the help of probably the coolest geek on the planet, who would ever know where we are here in Cal City.
The local guy wwwtcnuts.com is doing pretty good. He has some pretty simple goals as far as total customers. If you could see how they build homes out here, scattered everywhere, you'd know he'll never be short of customers as the phone service is all spread out. Plus since most of the locals work at the Base or on of the other nearby industry zones nearly everyone has a Nextel but not a land line, so they tend to shy away from the phone co phone/DSL package.
I wish, I live in California City CA, the third largest city in CA (by landmass) which is WAY the hell out in the middle of nowhere. Bonus points if you can find it on a map. I'm jazed to have DSL considering they only started offering in 2 years ago beyon the first 1000ft of the local node.
The power company is already on the move. At my last base, in sunny South Dakota, the best you could get your hands on was 28.8/56K connections. The phone and the cable guys were in no hurry to offer anything better. The regional power company ran an end game on them and ran fiber strait to every house.
$100 a month got you cable a phone and broadband. The clincher was everything on their network was considered a local phone call. That really pissed off ma Bell. No more local long distance or long distance fees or line connect fees from Minasota, N & S Dakota, Nebraska, and Montana.
Ma Bell and the Cable co first reaction was to sue. Got thrown out since the power company was niether a telco nor a cable co and didn't have to play by their regulations.
Second step was to suddenly have no more broadband available to try to choke them off. They did a run around and expanded into the next state where the local bell was more than happy to sell them a backbone.
Low and behold suddenly both the Cable and Ma Bell were highly interested in rolling out broadband services, else they get shut out completely, at competative prices too.
I'm not to worried about lack of service, people just how flexible com systems are these days and how quickly they can be set up and surplant the established services.
Currently as we speak a local guy is carving out his little wireless empire in an area that had been deemed unworthy to Ma Bell (Mojave, California City, Boron CA) bonus points if you actually know where these places are, DSL service went from being canceled to being expanded. They still can't compete since he can provide service to those beyond the very center of town.
No way, my favorite "ISP" is the US Postal Service. Every year you see large gains in bandwidth with only a nominal increase in cost.
A few years ago it was a 30gb harddrive going back and
forth. 4days in each direction.
30gb/4day*24h*60m*60s = 86kps upload
Then it moved up to a 120gb harddrive going back and forth 120gb/4days*24*60*60 = 347kps upload a 4x jump in bandwidth in only 1 year.
Now we get up to the present a 300gb hardrdrive going priority mail, (Priority even provide the box and it's cheaper/faster!)
300gb/3days*24*60*60 = 1.157mbps upload
Those $7 priority mailboxes can hold as much as you can stuff in them. Sending 5 or so harddrives safely is no big thing.
My current ISP verizon costs me $40 a month with a 45kps upload. In one year if used for nothing else I can send
1419gb of data. For a grand total of $480 dollars and one year of transfer time. You could add another $100 for electricity as well.
To send the data by USPS
$100 for 300gb harddrive
$30 for a nice HD enclosure
times 5 trips for below.
$14 priority mail (there and back)
$1 in gas
$5 for McDonalds on the way home.
For a grand total of $230 and as a bonus I get 1419gb of data coming back the opposite direction as well and it takes only 30 days to send the data verses 1 year. Obviously money can be saved forgoing the enclosure and spending it on a second harddrive along with the savings from no longer need extra postage to double your bandwidth.
Can you tell I'm bored I've put way to much time in this email.
Actually what you "win" is licenseable technology that costs you $10 million less to develope and open the door to the posibility of getting the real "prize" which happens to be much larger (Also know as venture capital).
Active adds suck...I NEVER buy things from any type of advertisement that I didn't go looking for in the first place. It's one form of freedom of speach that I wouldn't shed a tear over if it were ever declared illegal.
Advertisers and marketers are right down there with lawyers, politicians, and child molesters.
Citizen 4982245673 I see you have repeatedly kept your movies past their due date and have been late to work 3 times in the past year. Please report to room 203 for re-education.
Ok would you put either a hot or scalding cup of coffee between you legs to hold it while someone else is driving the car you are riding in? That's what that clever woman did.
When it comes to temperature, nearly all resturants and for that fact coffee makers serve it "scalding", especially if it's a fresh pot. It doesn't move into "hot" until it's been sitting on the hot plate for 15-20minutes or so.
She was a rather stupid woman and after getting her to talk up the case on a talk show. She ended up losing the appeal once they found out the lawyer's take of the damages (over 75%)>
So tell me where are we going to find their "peers" to try them in our civilized society? If we had, considering the mood in this country at the time, most would been put in prison forever and the rest off to the excution chamber. So how can their current situation be considered to terrible?
The Geneva convention does not apply to criminals only members fighting under the flag of a nation or other institution. Since they were captured outside of the US they do not fall under US criminal or civil laws either. Until Afganastan has a stable government, they cannot be turned over to anyone with any real authority in the matter. They will be held until such time they are no longer usefull or considered a threat.
Now as far as you being ashamed of America, don't be, we're not.
The problem seems to come from the belief by some that they have a morale obligation to impose their views or beliefs on everyone else.
They should be so happy that the still have the 1st and some hope one day of having the second and the third. This is why we are fighting them. Don't think for one second if they had their way it would be one world under the control of Islam and anyone like yourself who dare speak out against the powers that be would be silenced.
Enjoy your freedoms, just don't forget how and where they came from. The situation in Cuba is unfortunate, but necessary until we can come up with something better.
13 is a legal adult in about any country on the planet, even the Catholic Church recognizes 13 as the age of responsibility for one's own self. There has been a big push in this country to include ever older people as minors, mostly in the interest of the anti-gun croud. While they are definitely immature, they are old enough to know right from wrong and obviously old enough to pick up a weapon and kill. They are certainly not children.
The cash for terrorist program I don't doubt has netted quite a few innocents. I'm sure it does suck to be spirited away and then held prisoner, of course though most other countries just deal with suspected terrorists and insurgents by putting a bullet in their head on the spot, so for some odd reason I can't get to worked up about the way we treat those people.
Guantanamo Bay is a poor example. That is more like guilty, but not prosecuted, that way they never fall under any of the legal protections of either military or civilian law affords to criminals/prisoners. Since they are in limbo they can be held indefinitely for as long as they prove to be usefull sources of information. The ones that are "innocent" in other words just regular Taliban fighters have already been released. The bigger fish will be most likely kept on a stringer someplace till they are old and grey.
Personally I say they should be jailed according to the customs of the societies they were plucked from, have to respect their culture sright? Let's see how many would choose to stay in Guantanamo.
Yep that was brough up many times. They have many advantages, but you are correct efficiency isn't one of them.
The boys concept of what is an acceptable A/C unit in Utah wouldn't work in say California or Arizona. It would simply be too low powered. Most people forget that the auto manufacturers put A/C units in cars that can survive out here in the Mojave even if they are selling them in Alaska. Of course by the very nature of a Peltier cooler you could just simply add more modules for more cooling and gain efficiencies by simply only installing and using what you need, vs a standard A/C unit which is pretty much all or nothing.
Cost scaleable
Size easily integrateable
No chemicals
No plumbing
Runs on electricity
can be made to generate electricity as well as cool/heat
long life
relatively inexpensive
very low tech, easy to work with
There are a few companies that are selling thin film solar cells, they're printed on plastic or steel. Several are finally maturing enough to the point that they don't have to be the clasic red, blue, or black solar cell colors.
They aren't cheap, but the price is dropping quickly. The weight is more reasonable.
Make it so the "paint" of the car is the solar cell and throw in a hybrid that can take advantage of the extra juice. It'll give you a little more range and let you run things while you are parked or stopped without the engine kicking on. I can see something like that taking off once it hits the $1000 option mark for at least 1000watts.
Using them to run the A/C while your car is parked on the hot asphalt probably wont result in the bottle of soda you left behind being frozen, but maybe it'll stay cool enough that it wont explode and you wont get 3rd degree burns on your legs when you jump in to take off.
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Hilter was an ok sort of guy other than his whole insane meglomanic issues. Maybe if he had sent smokers to the death camps, he could use their own recycled 2nd hand smoke to snuff them out, instead of the Jews he might have not gotten such a bad rap.
Pizza Hut, get it straight, what noself-respecting geek would work at McDonalds?
As long as it goes hand in hand with a lift on the ban of punching people in the face for smoking near you, I see no reason why smoking bans couldn't be lifted.
On the smaller scale you do see many of the homes outside of town with a micro tower or three.
What I don't get out here they haven't made it mandatory to use solar hotwater heating yet. I'd have to say about 1 in ten houses has it. We definitely get plenty of sun. The only place where I've seen nearly 100% adoption of solar (water heating) is in Maui, HI. Almost all the homes out there have solar and quite a few businesses have PV solar panels on their buildings as well.
Of course you don'tt need to worry about sitting in trafic so much, since hybrids don't burn fuel(very much) when you are just sitting there On the environment side of the issue if all vehicles could off set even 5-10 minutes of fuel burning per day and replace it with solar power the affects substantial but not world altering. You still are going to need to use alot more cells than could fit on a passenger car to be able to drive around alot at the current level of comfort and power, but then that's what all those acres of empty roof space is for.
Here let's try that again
When I was growing up I always felt like I was surrounded by idiots.
That has less to do with being extra-smart and more with the fact that most people are idiots.
That has to do with being extra-smart and more with the fact that most people are idiots.
Yes you can jump into a pretty heafty game and run virus scan and MS anti-spy at the same time and don't see much in the way of hickups, except maype with a slow down in disk access. That is only if you start the scans yourself.
The problem comes in when a scheduled scan starts up in the middle of a game. It doesn't freeze up like my XP 3200 used to while things slowly sorted themselves out, but it still likes to dump you out of your game, just in case you want watch it scan. You just have to maximize your game real quick and hope noone gunned you down during your 4 sec absence.
Just to use and abuse it I've tried running a large number of apps at the same time and found the breaking point is somewhere just past Norton and MS antispam running at the same time, ripping a DVD to the harddrive, 3-4 windows open surfing, watching a movie, and pushing 20-30gb of data around on the drives and the network simultaneously. Much past that and things start slowing down a bit, but the nice thing is it never really ever freezes it just runs slower.
I think though some of that also has to do with the 2gb of ram I stuck in there. Even windows finds itself more than sedated and leaves a big chunk of it open for other apps to play with.
My specs
AMD X2 3800
2gb crucial
ASRock APG/PCIX-16x MB pretty cool it'll take an APG or a PCI-x16 card or both
(spanning not SLI), maybe I'll get one later and run 4 monitors
ATI 9800 PRO 128mb (I was too broke after buying everything else to get a new card)
2x WD raptor 10k RAID 0 this is what makes the computer feel "fast"
WD 250gb Sata2
Creative X-Fi (music)
Zalman Reserator water cooling(this thing is slick, only thing I hear now is the harddrives making happy noises no fans! That and when I get around to it a little overclocking.)
Nope they don't broadcast when off, that's just the voices in their heads talking. An easy test is turn on the phone next to some cheap computer speakers. You should hear alot of garabage being picked up by them. It'll sound different and be different lengths of time for powerup, incoming calls, voicemail/text message alerts, or standby. Turn it off and leave it there and you wont hear a peep out of the speakers, no noise=no signal.
Ok without the help of probably the coolest geek on the planet, who would ever know where we are here in Cal City.
The local guy wwwtcnuts.com is doing pretty good. He has some pretty simple goals as far as total customers. If you could see how they build homes out here, scattered everywhere, you'd know he'll never be short of customers as the phone service is all spread out. Plus since most of the locals work at the Base or on of the other nearby industry zones nearly everyone has a Nextel but not a land line, so they tend to shy away from the phone co phone/DSL package.
Personally I'd like everything to be in bits, but hell who looks at anything but the transfer rate which is in bytes.
I wish, I live in California City CA, the third largest city in CA (by landmass) which is WAY the hell out in the middle of nowhere. Bonus points if you can find it on a map. I'm jazed to have DSL considering they only started offering in 2 years ago beyon the first 1000ft of the local node.
$100 a month got you cable a phone and broadband. The clincher was everything on their network was considered a local phone call. That really pissed off ma Bell. No more local long distance or long distance fees or line connect fees from Minasota, N & S Dakota, Nebraska, and Montana.
Ma Bell and the Cable co first reaction was to sue. Got thrown out since the power company was niether a telco nor a cable co and didn't have to play by their regulations.
Second step was to suddenly have no more broadband available to try to choke them off. They did a run around and expanded into the next state where the local bell was more than happy to sell them a backbone.
Low and behold suddenly both the Cable and Ma Bell were highly interested in rolling out broadband services, else they get shut out completely, at competative prices too.
I'm not to worried about lack of service, people just how flexible com systems are these days and how quickly they can be set up and surplant the established services.
Currently as we speak a local guy is carving out his little wireless empire in an area that had been deemed unworthy to Ma Bell (Mojave, California City, Boron CA) bonus points if you actually know where these places are, DSL service went from being canceled to being expanded. They still can't compete since he can provide service to those beyond the very center of town.
A few years ago it was a 30gb harddrive going back and
forth. 4days in each direction.
30gb/4day*24h*60m*60s = 86kps upload
Then it moved up to a 120gb harddrive going back and forth 120gb/4days*24*60*60 = 347kps upload a 4x jump in bandwidth in only 1 year.
Now we get up to the present a 300gb hardrdrive going priority mail, (Priority even provide the box and it's cheaper/faster!) 300gb/3days*24*60*60 = 1.157mbps upload
Those $7 priority mailboxes can hold as much as you can stuff in them. Sending 5 or so harddrives safely is no big thing.
My current ISP verizon costs me $40 a month with a 45kps upload. In one year if used for nothing else I can send 1419gb of data. For a grand total of $480 dollars and one year of transfer time. You could add another $100 for electricity as well.
To send the data by USPS
$100 for 300gb harddrive
$30 for a nice HD enclosure
times 5 trips for below.
$14 priority mail (there and back)
$1 in gas
$5 for McDonalds on the way home.
For a grand total of $230 and as a bonus I get 1419gb of data coming back the opposite direction as well and it takes only 30 days to send the data verses 1 year. Obviously money can be saved forgoing the enclosure and spending it on a second harddrive along with the savings from no longer need extra postage to double your bandwidth.
Can you tell I'm bored I've put way to much time in this email.
Actually what you "win" is licenseable technology that costs you $10 million less to develope and open the door to the posibility of getting the real "prize" which happens to be much larger (Also know as venture capital).
Advertisers and marketers are right down there with lawyers, politicians, and child molesters.
Citizen 4982245673 I see you have repeatedly kept your movies past their due date and have been late to work 3 times in the past year. Please report to room 203 for re-education.
Yawn....
When it comes to temperature, nearly all resturants and for that fact coffee makers serve it "scalding", especially if it's a fresh pot. It doesn't move into "hot" until it's been sitting on the hot plate for 15-20minutes or so.
She was a rather stupid woman and after getting her to talk up the case on a talk show. She ended up losing the appeal once they found out the lawyer's take of the damages (over 75%)>
The Geneva convention does not apply to criminals only members fighting under the flag of a nation or other institution. Since they were captured outside of the US they do not fall under US criminal or civil laws either. Until Afganastan has a stable government, they cannot be turned over to anyone with any real authority in the matter. They will be held until such time they are no longer usefull or considered a threat.
Now as far as you being ashamed of America, don't be, we're not.
Enjoy your freedoms, just don't forget how and where they came from. The situation in Cuba is unfortunate, but necessary until we can come up with something better.
The cash for terrorist program I don't doubt has netted quite a few innocents. I'm sure it does suck to be spirited away and then held prisoner, of course though most other countries just deal with suspected terrorists and insurgents by putting a bullet in their head on the spot, so for some odd reason I can't get to worked up about the way we treat those people.
Personally I say they should be jailed according to the customs of the societies they were plucked from, have to respect their culture sright? Let's see how many would choose to stay in Guantanamo.
The boys concept of what is an acceptable A/C unit in Utah wouldn't work in say California or Arizona. It would simply be too low powered. Most people forget that the auto manufacturers put A/C units in cars that can survive out here in the Mojave even if they are selling them in Alaska. Of course by the very nature of a Peltier cooler you could just simply add more modules for more cooling and gain efficiencies by simply only installing and using what you need, vs a standard A/C unit which is pretty much all or nothing.
Cost scaleable
Size easily integrateable
No chemicals
No plumbing
Runs on electricity
can be made to generate electricity as well as cool/heat
long life
relatively inexpensive
very low tech, easy to work with
http://solarworld.com/PowerFilm.htm/
They aren't cheap, but the price is dropping quickly. The weight is more reasonable.
Make it so the "paint" of the car is the solar cell and throw in a hybrid that can take advantage of the extra juice. It'll give you a little more range and let you run things while you are parked or stopped without the engine kicking on. I can see something like that taking off once it hits the $1000 option mark for at least 1000watts.
Using them to run the A/C while your car is parked on the hot asphalt probably wont result in the bottle of soda you left behind being frozen, but maybe it'll stay cool enough that it wont explode and you wont get 3rd degree burns on your legs when you jump in to take off.