I didn't say that I played for 18 hours EVERY day.
Lots of people have hobbies that they do for many hours straight occasionally. A person might, for instance, justify buying a proper pair of hiking boots for a weekend of continuious backpacking; a person would buy the correct shoes to run a marathon, even though they do not run 26.2 miles but once per year.
Likewise when I show up for a 2 day gaming event I will be prepared to game for many more hours than I normally do
It is about buying a product that is comfortable to use for 18 hours straight. I mean in hour 1, I have the same skill with a $5 optical mouse on a piece of cardboard as I do with a reasonable mouse on a reasonable surface, but come see me in 18 hours with the crap setup and I will not be as sharp as with the comfortable one.
1) you can test for it, so it is a distinct STATE.
you can set it to that state at will, and since you can set it, test for it, and predict it... it is a usable 3rd state for sure.
I got mine from a company that was replacing theirs... my office was next door, and when the truck showed up to estimate replacing them, I offered to buy their old panels, for pennies on the dollar... total luck shot. Now that solar is a much bigger business, all of the cheap sources for second-hand seem to be luck based or completly dried out.
I replied this to a ranked 0 post so it is buried... for simplicity sake, here is the text (this is the highest ranked request for more info)
unfortunatly I am a software developer, so I tend to resist all forms of documentation. Here is my rundown (the setup of my house means I didn't even run any wires through the house so this was so freaking simple:
Wall unit AC (was what we used before the conversion) is on the back wall of the house) 115v 10,000 BTU unit I think they retail for ~$400-$500 (but we already had it)
My solar panels were second hand, so they were cheap, they were operating at ~81% their original capacity, so the company sold them to me for less than 1$/watt I have about 1300 watts, and the AC when it is on (it switches off and on throughout the day) it uses up to 875 watts. I got very lucky on the price for the panels, and the additional wiring and stuff, so maybe my $1000 number was not very "honest" maybe double or triple that if you are buying with urgency instead of waiting for a killer deal like I did. The capacitors I use are a cluster of those 2000 Farad Car stereo ones (I know I know it is not the right thing to do but it is the cheap thing to do, and they are firewalled). They are before the inverter, to feed it continuous power. And seriously that is about it, I mean wiring solar panels is about like wiring batteries (parallel banks of your desired series of voltage), then do the same with the capacitors, then the inverter, which can be bought for cheap from a Truck Supply store (some bigrigs use them, to run things like 1000 watt Routers, jackhammers, etc) From there, my inverter is mounted on my back porch (near the A/C unit) and the A/C is plugged directly into that (it has A/C outlets in it).
The roof vents are just seperate left over panels, with DC fans that run directly wired to the panels.
So basically I bought cheap ass panels, some consumer electronics, and put it all on my roof/porch. Doesn't sound as glorious when I put it that way, but in all I have almost made my money back in energy savings as compared to the bills from last year... and that is significant for me since I really only did it for fun. I think I will be in the black in August of this year, and the gear is still going strong, so hopefully it will be an actual cost savings.
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unfortunatly I am a software developer, so I tend to resist all forms of documentation. Here is my rundown (the setup of my house means I didn't even run any wires through the house so this was so freaking simple:
Wall unit AC (was what we used before the conversion) is on the back wall of the house) 115v 10,000 BTU unit I think they retail for ~$400-$500 (but we already had it)
My solar panels were second hand, so they were cheap, they were operating at ~81% their original capacity, so the company sold them to me for less than 1$/watt I have about 1300 watts, and the AC when it is on (it switches off and on throughout the day) it uses up to 875 watts. I got very lucky on the price for the panels, and the additional wiring and stuff, so maybe my $1000 number was not very "honest" maybe double or triple that if you are buying with urgency instead of waiting for a killer deal like I did. The capacitors I use are a cluster of those 2000 Farad Car stereo ones (I know I know it is not the right thing to do but it is the cheap thing to do, and they are firewalled). They are before the inverter, to feed it continuous power. And seriously that is about it, I mean wiring solar panels is about like wiring batteries (parallel banks of your desired series of voltage), then do the same with the capacitors, then the inverter, which can be bought for cheap from a Truck Supply store (some bigrigs use them, to run things like 1000 watt Routers, jackhammers, etc) From there, my inverter is mounted on my back porch (near the A/C unit) and the A/C is plugged directly into that (it has A/C outlets in it).
The roof vents are just seperate left over panels, with DC fans that run directly wired to the panels.
So basically I bought cheap ass panels, some consumer electronics, and put it all on my roof/porch. Doesn't sound as glorious when I put it that way, but in all I have almost made my money back in energy savings as compared to the bills from last year... and that is significant for me since I really only did it for fun. I think I will be in the black in August of this year, and the gear is still going strong, so hopefully it will be an actual cost savings.
My main cost for electricity is the Air conditioning system. Conveniently enough, I am in California, so I only need A/C when the sun is out, this makes it a perfect project for a closed solar system.
My house is grid tied, but my wall unit Air conditioner (and roof vents, and 2 of the outlets on my porch) are 100% real time solar (with no batteries capacitors), in their own closed circuit, which is not at all grid tied. So, basically I cool my house for free, and it cost less than $1000 for everything (panels, raw materials to do the wiring myself).
My next step is to get an outlet in the kitchen to run my next worse appliance that only needs to run part time: The washing machine, then The Dishwasher.
Like the OP mentioned, this is a hobby thing just as much as a "green" or "money saving" thing, so I found the approach of taking the low hanging fruit (electricity I NEED to use only during the sunny time) was a favorable approach over using batteries, and expensive grid-tied adaptors/regulators/converters.
In a court of law, yes. to an insurance company, I am not so sure. They basically get to say "no" until you either prove it on their terms or take them to court for breech of contract (which we have no idea what the contract says, it may have provisions for even "suspected" suicide).
It is the affect of standardized testing, nobody reallizes how it is going to effect the kids till it is too late. Their going to go sit on they're hands again and stop teaching the proper use of words because it can't be multi-choiced easily. Your getting frustrated with you're grammer obsession now aren't you?
Correction, Tetris Attack is a religious experience.
For the record the exact same game has been released for various systems under the name "Pokemon Puzzle League" and "Puzzle League". I was stoked when I picked up a copy for my gameboy advance!
IM is the #1 most used data feature on my phone...
My wife and I are in communication all the time, and it is seamless no matter if one or the other of us is at home, work, at the beach, at the mall, whatever. Same protocol, different device means when she is sipping her coffee at the desk checking email, and I am filling my car with gas 20 miles away, she doesn't have to scramble for her cellphone to ask me to go in and buy a pack of gum for her.
It is annoying that more manufacturers don't place a lot of value in pervasive IM, because it is basically how we run our household... because of that we have to choose out phones accordingly.
Apparently, men' faces are more difficult to grade."
Most computer programmers find it trivial to take the short-cut and run a credit score and bank account balance. This is a much more accurate portrayl of men's attractiveness anyway.
Strangely, ingenuity & legacy complexes seem to go hand in hand. I'm saddened to think that there may be others buried in history by ultra competitive researchers.
I think part of being a truely meaningful innovator in history is getting people to notice. Jim Bob may have cold fusion running in his basement but unless he tells people AND gets them to listen, it is merely one man who benefits and not the entire human race. People who seek credit and glory are the ones who do the hard work of bring science into the limelight and they are the ones who deserve the praise imo. 1000 people could have invented the light bulb, movie camera, sound recording, etc but it was edison's patent obsession and money/glory seeking behavior that really pushed his "inventions" into every day appliances for the advancement of mankind.
I have a pollution free, non-horsepower robbing, solid state air conditioner installed in my classic car, but I am not doing shit for our economy/environment/technology because I am too lazy to market, patent, and profit off of my own invention.
Come on, we been in space since the sixties, and exploring it even before then. Calling this the "infancy of space exploration" is simply inaccurate.
We were a seafaring people for about 6000 years before we discovered some of the islands of the world. Industrialization is in its infancy, we are currently in the pre-history phase of space travel.
If you make a game that can be played by a bot, which you cannot detect... it is your own fault. I play a MUCH more simple MMO called Runescape (5m players, second most popular gaming MMO). A lot of the game is specifically designed to prevent bots from working. They have "random events" that happen periodically and are very hard to macro (something like showing 3 random in-game objects and asking you which one doesn't belong, sword-sword-fish) These "Random" events also give players rewards for success and the punnishment for failure is a random teleport to one of the newbie cities, causing an interruption in "botted" gameplay. There are other pattern detection strategies that they employ that will cause a GM to come chat you up as well.
If Blizard's game is so predictable, so mind numbing that a bot can play it I think that says a bit more about the game than it does the cheaters.
That's why peak oil, for instance, is almost never discussed as an opportunity to make an absolute killing
exactly, because the people that are ALREADY making an absolute killing on it are pretty tight lipped. The truth is regardless of how warm and fuzzy sustainable energy is, we are just going to have to hope that prices on oil and coal will rise faster than our consumption kills us. Alt energy will never happen on a large scale until it is the most profitable solution. Peak oil is the first step to that migration. It will be a dawn, not a sunset.
Those who can't do, Teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym. Those who can't speak English teach engineering. It is common knowledge that in order to succeed in an Engineering degree you must already know 115% of the subject matter. If you go in to it expecting to learn something I feel sorry for you. Your $100,000 buys you a certification for the workplace, it does not buy you an education. You cannot buy an education, and nobody can give it to you, you have to learn and seek knowledge on your own throughout your life. The only thing somebody else can give you is a degree, and if the degree'd engineers that apply to my shop each month are any indication, a degree has no correlation with knowledge.
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I didn't say that I played for 18 hours EVERY day.
Lots of people have hobbies that they do for many hours straight occasionally. A person might, for instance, justify buying a proper pair of hiking boots for a weekend of continuious backpacking; a person would buy the correct shoes to run a marathon, even though they do not run 26.2 miles but once per year.
Likewise when I show up for a 2 day gaming event I will be prepared to game for many more hours than I normally do
It is about buying a product that is comfortable to use for 18 hours straight. I mean in hour 1, I have the same skill with a $5 optical mouse on a piece of cardboard as I do with a reasonable mouse on a reasonable surface, but come see me in 18 hours with the crap setup and I will not be as sharp as with the comfortable one.
NULL isn't a value
1) you can test for it, so it is a distinct STATE.
you can set it to that state at will, and since you can set it, test for it, and predict it... it is a usable 3rd state for sure.
I got mine from a company that was replacing theirs... my office was next door, and when the truck showed up to estimate replacing them, I offered to buy their old panels, for pennies on the dollar... total luck shot. Now that solar is a much bigger business, all of the cheap sources for second-hand seem to be luck based or completly dried out.
I replied this to a ranked 0 post so it is buried... for simplicity sake, here is the text (this is the highest ranked request for more info)
unfortunatly I am a software developer, so I tend to resist all forms of documentation. Here is my rundown (the setup of my house means I didn't even run any wires through the house so this was so freaking simple:
Wall unit AC (was what we used before the conversion) is on the back wall of the house) 115v 10,000 BTU unit I think they retail for ~$400-$500 (but we already had it)
My solar panels were second hand, so they were cheap, they were operating at ~81% their original capacity, so the company sold them to me for less than 1$/watt I have about 1300 watts, and the AC when it is on (it switches off and on throughout the day) it uses up to 875 watts. I got very lucky on the price for the panels, and the additional wiring and stuff, so maybe my $1000 number was not very "honest" maybe double or triple that if you are buying with urgency instead of waiting for a killer deal like I did. The capacitors I use are a cluster of those 2000 Farad Car stereo ones (I know I know it is not the right thing to do but it is the cheap thing to do, and they are firewalled). They are before the inverter, to feed it continuous power. And seriously that is about it, I mean wiring solar panels is about like wiring batteries (parallel banks of your desired series of voltage), then do the same with the capacitors, then the inverter, which can be bought for cheap from a Truck Supply store (some bigrigs use them, to run things like 1000 watt Routers, jackhammers, etc) From there, my inverter is mounted on my back porch (near the A/C unit) and the A/C is plugged directly into that (it has A/C outlets in it).
The roof vents are just seperate left over panels, with DC fans that run directly wired to the panels.
So basically I bought cheap ass panels, some consumer electronics, and put it all on my roof/porch. Doesn't sound as glorious when I put it that way, but in all I have almost made my money back in energy savings as compared to the bills from last year... and that is significant for me since I really only did it for fun. I think I will be in the black in August of this year, and the gear is still going strong, so hopefully it will be an actual cost savings.
unfortunatly I am a software developer, so I tend to resist all forms of documentation. Here is my rundown (the setup of my house means I didn't even run any wires through the house so this was so freaking simple:
Wall unit AC (was what we used before the conversion) is on the back wall of the house) 115v 10,000 BTU unit I think they retail for ~$400-$500 (but we already had it)
My solar panels were second hand, so they were cheap, they were operating at ~81% their original capacity, so the company sold them to me for less than 1$/watt I have about 1300 watts, and the AC when it is on (it switches off and on throughout the day) it uses up to 875 watts. I got very lucky on the price for the panels, and the additional wiring and stuff, so maybe my $1000 number was not very "honest" maybe double or triple that if you are buying with urgency instead of waiting for a killer deal like I did. The capacitors I use are a cluster of those 2000 Farad Car stereo ones (I know I know it is not the right thing to do but it is the cheap thing to do, and they are firewalled). They are before the inverter, to feed it continuous power. And seriously that is about it, I mean wiring solar panels is about like wiring batteries (parallel banks of your desired series of voltage), then do the same with the capacitors, then the inverter, which can be bought for cheap from a Truck Supply store (some bigrigs use them, to run things like 1000 watt Routers, jackhammers, etc) From there, my inverter is mounted on my back porch (near the A/C unit) and the A/C is plugged directly into that (it has A/C outlets in it).
The roof vents are just seperate left over panels, with DC fans that run directly wired to the panels.
So basically I bought cheap ass panels, some consumer electronics, and put it all on my roof/porch. Doesn't sound as glorious when I put it that way, but in all I have almost made my money back in energy savings as compared to the bills from last year... and that is significant for me since I really only did it for fun. I think I will be in the black in August of this year, and the gear is still going strong, so hopefully it will be an actual cost savings.
My main cost for electricity is the Air conditioning system. Conveniently enough, I am in California, so I only need A/C when the sun is out, this makes it a perfect project for a closed solar system.
My house is grid tied, but my wall unit Air conditioner (and roof vents, and 2 of the outlets on my porch) are 100% real time solar (with no batteries capacitors), in their own closed circuit, which is not at all grid tied. So, basically I cool my house for free, and it cost less than $1000 for everything (panels, raw materials to do the wiring myself).
My next step is to get an outlet in the kitchen to run my next worse appliance that only needs to run part time: The washing machine, then The Dishwasher.
Like the OP mentioned, this is a hobby thing just as much as a "green" or "money saving" thing, so I found the approach of taking the low hanging fruit (electricity I NEED to use only during the sunny time) was a favorable approach over using batteries, and expensive grid-tied adaptors/regulators/converters.
ohhhh morm0wned
Boolean possible values: null, true, false
can not prove "not suicide"
In a court of law, yes.
to an insurance company, I am not so sure. They basically get to say "no" until you either prove it on their terms or take them to court for breech of contract (which we have no idea what the contract says, it may have provisions for even "suspected" suicide).
It is the affect of standardized testing, nobody reallizes how it is going to effect the kids till it is too late. Their going to go sit on they're hands again and stop teaching the proper use of words because it can't be multi-choiced easily. Your getting frustrated with you're grammer obsession now aren't you?
Yes, it runs Linux.
yeah but I doubt it can play Ogg files.
I for one welcome our shoebox dwelling data overlords.
Tetris Attack is awesome.
Correction, Tetris Attack is a religious experience.
For the record the exact same game has been released for various systems under the name "Pokemon Puzzle League" and "Puzzle League". I was stoked when I picked up a copy for my gameboy advance!
IM is the #1 most used data feature on my phone...
My wife and I are in communication all the time, and it is seamless no matter if one or the other of us is at home, work, at the beach, at the mall, whatever. Same protocol, different device means when she is sipping her coffee at the desk checking email, and I am filling my car with gas 20 miles away, she doesn't have to scramble for her cellphone to ask me to go in and buy a pack of gum for her. It is annoying that more manufacturers don't place a lot of value in pervasive IM, because it is basically how we run our household... because of that we have to choose out phones accordingly.
Most computer programmers find it trivial to take the short-cut and run a credit score and bank account balance. This is a much more accurate portrayl of men's attractiveness anyway.
and Saturn is just his bastard cousin... obviously they are in league with each other.
Whether they find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet
I know you are being smartass, but no... most methods of making ice require refrigerant, my system does not.
I think part of being a truely meaningful innovator in history is getting people to notice. Jim Bob may have cold fusion running in his basement but unless he tells people AND gets them to listen, it is merely one man who benefits and not the entire human race. People who seek credit and glory are the ones who do the hard work of bring science into the limelight and they are the ones who deserve the praise imo. 1000 people could have invented the light bulb, movie camera, sound recording, etc but it was edison's patent obsession and money/glory seeking behavior that really pushed his "inventions" into every day appliances for the advancement of mankind.
I have a pollution free, non-horsepower robbing, solid state air conditioner installed in my classic car, but I am not doing shit for our economy/environment/technology because I am too lazy to market, patent, and profit off of my own invention.
Come on, we been in space since the sixties, and exploring it even before then. Calling this the "infancy of space exploration" is simply inaccurate.
We were a seafaring people for about 6000 years before we discovered some of the islands of the world. Industrialization is in its infancy, we are currently in the pre-history phase of space travel.
If you make a game that can be played by a bot, which you cannot detect... it is your own fault. I play a MUCH more simple MMO called Runescape (5m players, second most popular gaming MMO). A lot of the game is specifically designed to prevent bots from working. They have "random events" that happen periodically and are very hard to macro (something like showing 3 random in-game objects and asking you which one doesn't belong, sword-sword-fish) These "Random" events also give players rewards for success and the punnishment for failure is a random teleport to one of the newbie cities, causing an interruption in "botted" gameplay. There are other pattern detection strategies that they employ that will cause a GM to come chat you up as well.
If Blizard's game is so predictable, so mind numbing that a bot can play it I think that says a bit more about the game than it does the cheaters.
That's why peak oil, for instance, is almost never discussed as an opportunity to make an absolute killing
exactly, because the people that are ALREADY making an absolute killing on it are pretty tight lipped. The truth is regardless of how warm and fuzzy sustainable energy is, we are just going to have to hope that prices on oil and coal will rise faster than our consumption kills us. Alt energy will never happen on a large scale until it is the most profitable solution. Peak oil is the first step to that migration. It will be a dawn, not a sunset.
Those who can't do, Teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym. Those who can't speak English teach engineering. It is common knowledge that in order to succeed in an Engineering degree you must already know 115% of the subject matter. If you go in to it expecting to learn something I feel sorry for you. Your $100,000 buys you a certification for the workplace, it does not buy you an education. You cannot buy an education, and nobody can give it to you, you have to learn and seek knowledge on your own throughout your life. The only thing somebody else can give you is a degree, and if the degree'd engineers that apply to my shop each month are any indication, a degree has no correlation with knowledge.
it works 95% of the time, every time.
Here is one free open source solution