You don't have to fill the entire ceiling, but you can win some space there. People have done this before, but seem to limit this to the garage, attic and (rarely) basement.
We don't have earthquakes, The worst thing you get to see here is a "flood" after too much rain. Well, "flood" as in: you need to wear boots and get to pump the water out of your basement.
Here is something I've been thinking about for some time: We always have too little room, but just consider how much space is unused when you're looking up. If there was an easy to use system to store stuff against the ceiling, we'd have a lot more space. How about mounting some sort of box to the ceiling and store little used stuff there? Or mount the PC there? IMO we're very inefficient with space in our houses.
IMO the solution is simply: Women stay home to look after the children and milk the cows, men go to work on the field. Worked perfectly for millenia.
Now to implement this in an urban enviroment is a bit harder, but not impossible.
First we can replace the field with flowerpots. The advantage is that these can utilise the height of the appartement as well (a definitive advantage over the flat fields). The farmer simply has to move the pots from the darker spots to the lighter spots so every pot get a good dose of sunlight.
Cows may be a bit hard to keep on a appartement, but with a few tools the live of the animal isn't going to be any differend from those who live on the land. First grass can be planted in large flowerpots and served to the animal. Threathmills can provide sufficent movement to keep it healthy and TV'll keep it entertained.
As you can see, with a little effort we can all experience the bliss of the idyllic life on the farm right in your own appartement in the big city. Join today! Your children will love it!
A Logic Analyser: This is a device that looks a bit like an overly fat ballpoint pen with a wire attached. The idea is that you attache the wire to the ground of a circuit and with the tip of the pen you touch a part of the circuit and the leds (and with some: a buzzer) indicates if it is logicaly "high", "low" or oscillating. These can be switched between CMOS and TTL logic levels. Pretty handy to test low speed digital circuits, but pretty much useless for anything else.
A loose power supply. One that you can actually switch on without a mainboard attached. Very conveniant to get that forgotten CD/DVD out the drive, or to test drives.
So? My HP Vectra doesn't have any normal size expansion bays. Didn't stop me from installing a 5.25inch DVD drive. A good drill and a file to make a hole large enough to stuff the wires through. Some strips of Velcro to attach the drive to computer frame. Works like a charme. Only downside is that I can't put the monitor on top of it anymore.
Great way to make easy to upgrade hardware. Had a CD-rom drive on it first. Replacing it with the DVD drive took half a minute. No need for a screwdriver.
There is an alternative. It's called the Hydrogen economy.
The problem with replacing oil is that it is both an energy source and an energy storage. Hydrogen can replace oil as an energy storage, but you'll need other methodes to replace oil as an energy source.
a possible scenario is to use solar, wind, nuclear energy to produce hydrogen and use the hydrogen to fuel vehicles and generators.
PS: My prayers still go out to all victims of natural disasters - I can't imagine being in that situation. May God bless you all!
So God destroyed a whole city and then you want the same guy to bless those people? That's like asking a murderer to send his condolences to his victim's family. IMO that's a case of the Stockholm syndrome.
psst. There are only 500 real people in the world. All those other people you see are human looking robots. The "planet" Earth is nothing more than some weird social experiment. All those things like fashion, arts, TV, radio internet, it's all randomly generated. I don't know what they're after. But as soon someone of the real people figures this out, they'll start hunting him down. Yes him. Females don't exist, well, at least not here. You should have suspected this by now.
Every big event is a test for one of the real people. If you're one of the real people expect something like that to happen to you. But don't worry, they always make sure you survive (they need the data).
They're on to me, but I've passed this knowledge on to you. Make the best of it. Watch out when all the "people" around you suddenly disappear, it means they're coming to get you.
Must make my escape now. Don't let them get you....
Zonk works for Nintendo. By the time the Xbox launches, everyone on/. will be so tired of it, they wouldn't dream of buying an Xbox but wait for the Revolution instead. It's all part of the Grand Plan.
Spell check? right. Now why would they do that? There are plenty of people who happily spell check anything posted on/. and post about it. The editors then collect all these corrections and try again (Or did you think dubes were placed unintentionaly?).
Innovation? Plenty of things to innovated in game design.
First AI: This is hardly developed very extensive in a game. Games with fantastic AI are few and far between. AI has enormous potential and deserves the same attention graphics got.
Sound: Currently we can play near CD quality sound effects in a game. But sounds are mostly used in a linear way: trigger->play sample. There must be millions of ways to use sounds in games and modern PC's have the power to generate sound effect on the fly. Plenty of possibilities there.
2D: These days every thing is 3D. Sure it's handy to use 3D as you can use the hardware to do a lot you'd otherwise needed to do in software, but why don't we see some modern day 2D platform games or adventures?
Contest games: Instead of Yet another soccer game, how about we get something new? zero gravity ping pong in a cube for example. or some sport played in some far away country?
Bottom line is: The game industry needs to take risks again. With other words: we need more independend game developers.
I think most SF-writers extend past advances of science and engineering to the future. Take television, at the end of the 19th century it was possible to record and transmit sound. It doesn't take much imagination to extend that to images. Subs aren't that big a leap either. A diving bell exists since the middle ages.
I really doubt SF writers can predict the future, some simply know their science and can make an informed guess how things are going to evolve.
Don't get your hopes up. Medical break throughs tend to take a quite long time before they reach a hospital near you. (think Duke4Ever timescales) Thing is that medical research requires so many experiments to prove it is really save for use on humans, before it is allowed to be used in hospitals.
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Wow, I actually was able to correct someones spelling. My knowledge of the English language just went up from "terrible" to "poor".
You don't have to fill the entire ceiling, but you can win some space there. People have done this before, but seem to limit this to the garage, attic and (rarely) basement.
We don't have earthquakes, The worst thing you get to see here is a "flood" after too much rain. Well, "flood" as in: you need to wear boots and get to pump the water out of your basement.
Here is something I've been thinking about for some time: We always have too little room, but just consider how much space is unused when you're looking up. If there was an easy to use system to store stuff against the ceiling, we'd have a lot more space. How about mounting some sort of box to the ceiling and store little used stuff there? Or mount the PC there? IMO we're very inefficient with space in our houses.
IMO the solution is simply: Women stay home to look after the children and milk the cows, men go to work on the field. Worked perfectly for millenia.
Now to implement this in an urban enviroment is a bit harder, but not impossible.
First we can replace the field with flowerpots. The advantage is that these can utilise the height of the appartement as well (a definitive advantage over the flat fields). The farmer simply has to move the pots from the darker spots to the lighter spots so every pot get a good dose of sunlight.
Cows may be a bit hard to keep on a appartement, but with a few tools the live of the animal isn't going to be any differend from those who live on the land. First grass can be planted in large flowerpots and served to the animal. Threathmills can provide sufficent movement to keep it healthy and TV'll keep it entertained.
As you can see, with a little effort we can all experience the bliss of the idyllic life on the farm right in your own appartement in the big city. Join today! Your children will love it!
(Brought to you by Flowerpots Inc.)
1) Take model of human.
2) Paint it green.
3) Call it a zombie.
4) Legal!!!!!
yeah, but to be fair they should pay half of the expenses too.
A Logic Analyser: This is a device that looks a bit like an overly fat ballpoint pen with a wire attached. The idea is that you attache the wire to the ground of a circuit and with the tip of the pen you touch a part of the circuit and the leds (and with some: a buzzer) indicates if it is logicaly "high", "low" or oscillating. These can be switched between CMOS and TTL logic levels. Pretty handy to test low speed digital circuits, but pretty much useless for anything else.
A loose power supply. One that you can actually switch on without a mainboard attached. Very conveniant to get that forgotten CD/DVD out the drive, or to test drives.
So? My HP Vectra doesn't have any normal size expansion bays. Didn't stop me from installing a 5.25inch DVD drive. A good drill and a file to make a hole large enough to stuff the wires through. Some strips of Velcro to attach the drive to computer frame. Works like a charme. Only downside is that I can't put the monitor on top of it anymore.
Great way to make easy to upgrade hardware. Had a CD-rom drive on it first. Replacing it with the DVD drive took half a minute. No need for a screwdriver.
There is an alternative. It's called the Hydrogen economy.
The problem with replacing oil is that it is both an energy source and an energy storage. Hydrogen can replace oil as an energy storage, but you'll need other methodes to replace oil as an energy source. a possible scenario is to use solar, wind, nuclear energy to produce hydrogen and use the hydrogen to fuel vehicles and generators.
A AAA (or LR03) cel weights about 11gr. http://audiovisual.kelkoo.co.uk/b/a/sbs/126301/122 87356.html
Because movies already went through this. Eventualy the Knights of Moral get bored and look for a new target.
So emacs sandwiches with vim in between could solve the energy problem? I knew thermodynamics had to be wrong!
psst. There are only 500 real people in the world. All those other people you see are human looking robots. The "planet" Earth is nothing more than some weird social experiment. All those things like fashion, arts, TV, radio internet, it's all randomly generated. I don't know what they're after. But as soon someone of the real people figures this out, they'll start hunting him down. Yes him. Females don't exist, well, at least not here. You should have suspected this by now.
Every big event is a test for one of the real people. If you're one of the real people expect something like that to happen to you. But don't worry, they always make sure you survive (they need the data).
They're on to me, but I've passed this knowledge on to you. Make the best of it. Watch out when all the "people" around you suddenly disappear, it means they're coming to get you.
Must make my escape now. Don't let them get you....
Zonk works for Nintendo. By the time the Xbox launches, everyone on /. will be so tired of it, they wouldn't dream of buying an Xbox but wait for the Revolution instead. It's all part of the Grand Plan.
Spell check? right. Now why would they do that? There are plenty of people who happily spell check anything posted on /. and post about it. The editors then collect all these corrections and try again (Or did you think dubes were placed unintentionaly?).
Well, /. looks more and more like TV each day. Ads, reruns. One of these days they'll start doing news items and weather forcasts.
Innovation? Plenty of things to innovated in game design.
First AI: This is hardly developed very extensive in a game. Games with fantastic AI are few and far between. AI has enormous potential and deserves the same attention graphics got.
Sound: Currently we can play near CD quality sound effects in a game. But sounds are mostly used in a linear way: trigger->play sample. There must be millions of ways to use sounds in games and modern PC's have the power to generate sound effect on the fly. Plenty of possibilities there.
2D: These days every thing is 3D. Sure it's handy to use 3D as you can use the hardware to do a lot you'd otherwise needed to do in software, but why don't we see some modern day 2D platform games or adventures?
Contest games: Instead of Yet another soccer game, how about we get something new? zero gravity ping pong in a cube for example. or some sport played in some far away country?
Bottom line is: The game industry needs to take risks again. With other words: we need more independend game developers.
I think most SF-writers extend past advances of science and engineering to the future. Take television, at the end of the 19th century it was possible to record and transmit sound. It doesn't take much imagination to extend that to images. Subs aren't that big a leap either. A diving bell exists since the middle ages.
I really doubt SF writers can predict the future, some simply know their science and can make an informed guess how things are going to evolve.
To who? I don't know if many cannibals have internet and if they like kidney. Better try selling ribs.
Don't get your hopes up. Medical break throughs tend to take a quite long time before they reach a hospital near you. (think Duke4Ever timescales) Thing is that medical research requires so many experiments to prove it is really save for use on humans, before it is allowed to be used in hospitals.