Why not just setup a Wind turbine and a 2way grid connection? A good (but large) wind turbine can generate up to 1MW of power.
With it, when its windy, you generate and use your own electricity, and sell off excess to the grid. Its quite exciting watching an electrical meter run backwards.
Of course, when its calm, the grid sells off electricity to you.
Either way, its a guaranteed supply of power for your house (AC included), and can really reduce your electrical bills.
Call your local electrical company about setting up a reverse grid hookup. Some will be more than pleased to set one up (likely for a cost), while others may advise otherwise. Be also sure that the hookup is done properly and legally. Elsewise, the electrical company will be extremely pissed off, and may resort to legal action.
First, obviously, was the market scene. You have to find a dress, wig, etc, to dress Could with.
Second part you had to earn. In the parts before you date a certain character, if you treated Barret particularily well, he would date you (i kid you not). Yes, I did manage to do it. Yes, I did laugh when Barret and Cloud kissed. Yes, I did vomit afterwards. It was funny yet disturbing watching two male 3D characters kiss.
I've had my fair share of experiences with Game Skills Real Skills. Here's probably the best 2 (and recent) examples I can provide.
2 Months after joining the Royal Canadian Air Cadets, and a nice safety course later, I was finally cleared to use the rifle range. I had about 2.5 years skill with FPS games, and 0.0 seconds skill shooting a rifle.
My FPS skills did not transfer over. None whatsoever. An FPS teaches you to move a mouse and press buttons on a keyboard. Shooting a rifle requires actual movement. You actually have to squeeze the trigger (not pull it), adjust the sights, reload, and aim. In a FPS, you click the mouse. Big difference.
After 4 months of Practice, I have earned Marksman 1st class qualification. Basically, 20 shots at a range of 10m (32.8ft) were inside a 2.5cm (1 in - about the size of a quarter) diameter grouping. Not an easy task.
As for flying, I had no experience. Zero. No Flight Sim skills, no real life skills, hell, I hadn't even been more than 30m above ground. After months of Ground School and passing the exam (barely, with a 50%), it was time for a flight.
About a week after the flight, my flight instructor burned me a copy of MS Flight Sim 2000. Everything I learned in real life transfered over. Controlling the Eleveators, Ailerons, Flaps, Throttle, Rudder, and other Aircraft controls is a breeze, thanks to the months spent learning how to do it properly.
I suppose to conclude, some skills do, and some skills dont. You have to look at the complexity of the task in real life vs the complexity of the task in the virtual world. Shooting is complex in real life, but overly simple in virtual reality. No transfer. Flying is difficult in real life, and flying is difficult in virtual reality, so there are some transferable skills.
For disinfecting your desk (or hands) in a safe manner nothing really beats vodka...
The problem with that is, is that by the time you make it from the liquor cabinet to your desk, the bottle will be half-emptied, and your face will be planted on the floor.
Would make for some fun at the office though. People would bet on who makes it fartest from the cabinet without a face plant on the floor.
Kerry Conran is not what you would call descript. He has very short, tan-colored hair, usually covered with a clean, logoless baseball cap. He is 37, somewhat baby-faced and often quiet, with a smile in the corner of his pale blue eyes that suggests he is observing you from a far-off world of his own. And while he can be genial and funny, his default setting seems to be self-deprecation to the point of self-erasure. The second thing of any note he ever said to me was ''I am basically an amorphous blob of nothing.'' The first thing was ''I'm shy.''
This was on the set of his movie ''Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.'' You might expect a little more brio from a writer-director who is making a summer blockbuster with almost unlimited creative control. Set in 1939, the movie stars Jude Law as the daring flying ace Sky Captain, who teams up with his former flame, the intrepid reporter Polly Perkins, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, as they track down a mysterious mad scientist named Totenkopf. It is in part a nostalgic homage to the movies of the 30's and 40's: the hammy fisticuffs and golly-inspiring proto-technology of sci-fi cliffhangers like ''Flash Gordon'' alongside the snappy patter (and even snappier clothes) of the era's noir thrillers.
But like the old serials it emulates, ''Sky Captain'' is mainly preoccupied with the strange promises of the future. The astonishing things you will see in the world of tomorrow include: an immense, silvery zeppelin docking at the Empire State Building; an elephant that fits in the palm of your hand; a troop of giant robots marching down Sixth Avenue and the carpet at Radio City Music Hall. None of these things actually exist, though. Conran has not constructed a single set or miniature. Rather, they are computer images, built and animated in a virtual 3-D environment, or stitched together from photographs, which are then draped around the flesh-and-blood actors, who have been shot separately on an empty set in front of a blank ''blue-screen'' background, along with those few minimal props with which they actually interact (a ray gun, a robot blueprint, a bottle of milk of magnesia). The film, in other words, is one long special effect with Jude-Law-size holes in it.
''The goal was to make a live-action film, but to use conventions of traditional animation,'' Conran said. The reason? ''First and foremost, to do it cheaper.'' It's a model that would appeal to anyone who, like Conran, does not seem entirely comfortable spending other people's money; to anyone who might dream of shooting in Nepal or Paris (or in the 1930's) but doesn't have the means to get there; to anyone who is shy.
For Conran, the question, as he put it, was ''Could you be ambitious and make a film of some scope without ever leaving your room?'' And so 10 years ago, Kerry Conran went into a room in his apartment to make a movie. In some ways, he is just now beginning to come out of it.
At first, he was a mystery. Word of ''Sky Captain'' began to spread around the Internet only after Conran finished primary shooting in London last spring -- extraordinarily late for the Internet, which often seems invented specifically to track movies with giant robots in them. Even then, no one knew who Kerry Conran was. Google couldn't touch him. He was so undocumented in the world of Hollywood that I briefly wondered, when I began pursuing him, if perhaps he was just a front for his producer and partner and mentor Jon Avnet, who is well known for producing ''Risky Business'' and directing ''Fried Green Tomatoes'' but who is not so well known for retro-science-fiction summertime blockbusters, and who unlike Conran seems to have been photographed at least once in his life. I don't think Conran would mind that I doubted his existence. In fact, for a long time, that was the plan.
Conran grew up in Flint, Mich., in a pre-cable, pre-VCR period when the Sunday afternoon television crackled with old movies. Kerry and his older brother, Kevin, made capes out of towels and pretended to be superhe
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Yet it failed for Fururama...
Bite my shiny metal ass.
I have had 4 cats over the course of my life. 3 male, 1 female. Now, I only have 1 male, 1 female (One of the males passed away in January, the other passed away in 1996).
A few recommendations for toys and other novelties for your cat.
Pipecleaners. (Some) Cats will mistake a pipecleaner for a rodent, and will run over, pounce, jump on, hunt, or just play with a pipecleaner.
Small plush toys. Some cats just love chasing after things. If I throw a certain plush toy down a hallway, one of my cats will run after it, pick it up, and bring it back. Experiment with this one.
Spray on (Liquid) Cat-Nip. Be careful with this stuff. If you spray it on a toy, don't spray too much on. Don't spray it into the air either.
Pure (Solid) Cat-Nip. Give your cat a little cat-nip every now and again. They will love you to bits.
Kitty Treats. These are a bit of a grey area for me. Some of my cats went nuts over these things, while some just didn't really care. Flavor is also an issue with these. One of my cats likes beef, while the other likes chicken.
Love and Affection. Proven. Two examples:
One of my cats is an 8 or 9 year old female cat. When we adopted her (she was a 1 or 2 year old stray - to this day we still do not known her age), she would not go near anyone (including family members and other cats), and was quite hostile. Years later, after much love and affection, she has mellowed out, but is still kind of anti-social.
Another one of my cats was adopted as a kitten. Since I was home more often than other family members, I was responsible for this little kitten's well being. I often spent hours just petting this little fluff-ball - only for him to claw my face off in overexcitement - but to this day (3 years later) he still prefers my lap to others.
Get another cat. Very grey area. I've seen this work, and I've seen this fail. Tow examples:
When I adopted the female cat, I thought she would bond with my existing male cat. I thought wrong. They were constantly at a distance.
Then again, when I adopted the little kitten, the older male cat took a parental role. He often cleaned the little kitten, and the kitten often returned the cleaning. Over the years they became good friends. Often they would clean eachother, play together, and even eat together. When the older cat fell ill, he would just sit by his side. No cleaning, no playing, no visiting me in bed. When the older cat finally passed away, his friend was very upset (He cried out during the night, he would attack me, etc).
I suppose to conclude, my best advice would be to experiment. Start small and work your way up. Don't do anything too drastic (like get another cat) until you feel you are ready and are confident its the right solution.
Slashdot: Now the Canadians are talking about a probe for Mars in 2011.
Website Link: ...the CSA is interested in receiving include an orbiter, a single lander, or a network of small landers.
Imagine that. A Beowolf cluster of Mars Landers. I wonder if they would run on linux?
Having used 4 different TV broadcast methods, I've gathered a good amount of experience and knowledge of the pros and cons of each.
Satellite: Pros Good Image and Sound Quality Easy Timeshifting PVR capability Easy to use Can be self-installed Good packages that often include installation Availible wherever there is a view of the southern sky
Cons Signal can be lost in very poor weather (usually takes a heavy snow/lightning storm) Crappy broadband PPV is over Dial-up (except for newer 2-way systems) 18" dish sticking out of some part of your house Routing to another TV requires another reciever unit
Analog Cable: Pros Uses Tuner built into TV Easily routable to another TV without expensive equipment Half-Decent broadband Availible in most neighborhoods
Cons PVR requires external hardware (or you can use a VCR) No on-screen guide Expensive for # of channels you get Mandatory installation, usually expensive ($60+) Fewer channels
Digital Cable: Pros On screen guide in PIP Creme-de-la-creme tech support Uses existing cable wire (nice if upgrading from analog) Older Analog channels + Newer Digital channels Very good picture and sound quality
Cons Very expensive
Bunny-Ears reciever unit Pros Cheap No monthly costs Local channels
Cons Local channels only Shaky image quality Shaky sound quality Few channels
Step 1: Connect the headphone/speaker jack from the scanner to the sound card's Microphone port using a standard patch cable. Step 2: Plug a set of speakers into the sound card's speaker port Step 3: Open Volume Control, and set the Microphone volume (under Playback) to FULL. Step 4: Open Sound Recorder, and press record.
A rather inexpensive (and portable) solution
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Use a Pringles can antenna (http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448)
1. Accumulate and Twist-Tie excessive cable to eliminate congestion. 2. If #1 doesn't make your wi(fe / ves) happy, paint a shoebox to the room color (or use wallpaper if your room has wallpaper) and stuff all the Tied excess cable into it. 3. Kill your wi(fe / ves). 4. Problem(s) solved!
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Why not just setup a Wind turbine and a 2way grid connection? A good (but large) wind turbine can generate up to 1MW of power.
With it, when its windy, you generate and use your own electricity, and sell off excess to the grid. Its quite exciting watching an electrical meter run backwards.
Of course, when its calm, the grid sells off electricity to you.
Either way, its a guaranteed supply of power for your house (AC included), and can really reduce your electrical bills.
Call your local electrical company about setting up a reverse grid hookup. Some will be more than pleased to set one up (likely for a cost), while others may advise otherwise. Be also sure that the hookup is done properly and legally. Elsewise, the electrical company will be extremely pissed off, and may resort to legal action.
I can remember 2 different scenes in FFVII.
First, obviously, was the market scene. You have to find a dress, wig, etc, to dress Could with.
Second part you had to earn. In the parts before you date a certain character, if you treated Barret particularily well, he would date you (i kid you not). Yes, I did manage to do it. Yes, I did laugh when Barret and Cloud kissed. Yes, I did vomit afterwards. It was funny yet disturbing watching two male 3D characters kiss.
In an email I read from John Carmack (paraphrased):
Quake IV will be a Doom3 Engine game with a storyline like that in Quake II.
Aside from that, I've heard little else of Q4.
How many of the people at the LAN party just sit there and browse /. ?
I've had my fair share of experiences with Game Skills Real Skills. Here's probably the best 2 (and recent) examples I can provide.
2 Months after joining the Royal Canadian Air Cadets, and a nice safety course later, I was finally cleared to use the rifle range. I had about 2.5 years skill with FPS games, and 0.0 seconds skill shooting a rifle.
My FPS skills did not transfer over. None whatsoever. An FPS teaches you to move a mouse and press buttons on a keyboard. Shooting a rifle requires actual movement. You actually have to squeeze the trigger (not pull it), adjust the sights, reload, and aim. In a FPS, you click the mouse. Big difference.
After 4 months of Practice, I have earned Marksman 1st class qualification. Basically, 20 shots at a range of 10m (32.8ft) were inside a 2.5cm (1 in - about the size of a quarter) diameter grouping. Not an easy task.
As for flying, I had no experience. Zero. No Flight Sim skills, no real life skills, hell, I hadn't even been more than 30m above ground. After months of Ground School and passing the exam (barely, with a 50%), it was time for a flight.
About a week after the flight, my flight instructor burned me a copy of MS Flight Sim 2000. Everything I learned in real life transfered over. Controlling the Eleveators, Ailerons, Flaps, Throttle, Rudder, and other Aircraft controls is a breeze, thanks to the months spent learning how to do it properly.
I suppose to conclude, some skills do, and some skills dont. You have to look at the complexity of the task in real life vs the complexity of the task in the virtual world. Shooting is complex in real life, but overly simple in virtual reality. No transfer. Flying is difficult in real life, and flying is difficult in virtual reality, so there are some transferable skills.
For disinfecting your desk (or hands) in a safe manner nothing really beats vodka...
The problem with that is, is that by the time you make it from the liquor cabinet to your desk, the bottle will be half-emptied, and your face will be planted on the floor.
Would make for some fun at the office though. People would bet on who makes it fartest from the cabinet without a face plant on the floor.
Kerry Conran is not what you would call descript. He has very short, tan-colored hair, usually covered with a clean, logoless baseball cap. He is 37, somewhat baby-faced and often quiet, with a smile in the corner of his pale blue eyes that suggests he is observing you from a far-off world of his own. And while he can be genial and funny, his default setting seems to be self-deprecation to the point of self-erasure. The second thing of any note he ever said to me was ''I am basically an amorphous blob of nothing.'' The first thing was ''I'm shy.''
This was on the set of his movie ''Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.'' You might expect a little more brio from a writer-director who is making a summer blockbuster with almost unlimited creative control. Set in 1939, the movie stars Jude Law as the daring flying ace Sky Captain, who teams up with his former flame, the intrepid reporter Polly Perkins, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, as they track down a mysterious mad scientist named Totenkopf. It is in part a nostalgic homage to the movies of the 30's and 40's: the hammy fisticuffs and golly-inspiring proto-technology of sci-fi cliffhangers like ''Flash Gordon'' alongside the snappy patter (and even snappier clothes) of the era's noir thrillers.
But like the old serials it emulates, ''Sky Captain'' is mainly preoccupied with the strange promises of the future. The astonishing things you will see in the world of tomorrow include: an immense, silvery zeppelin docking at the Empire State Building; an elephant that fits in the palm of your hand; a troop of giant robots marching down Sixth Avenue and the carpet at Radio City Music Hall. None of these things actually exist, though. Conran has not constructed a single set or miniature. Rather, they are computer images, built and animated in a virtual 3-D environment, or stitched together from photographs, which are then draped around the flesh-and-blood actors, who have been shot separately on an empty set in front of a blank ''blue-screen'' background, along with those few minimal props with which they actually interact (a ray gun, a robot blueprint, a bottle of milk of magnesia). The film, in other words, is one long special effect with Jude-Law-size holes in it.
''The goal was to make a live-action film, but to use conventions of traditional animation,'' Conran said. The reason? ''First and foremost, to do it cheaper.'' It's a model that would appeal to anyone who, like Conran, does not seem entirely comfortable spending other people's money; to anyone who might dream of shooting in Nepal or Paris (or in the 1930's) but doesn't have the means to get there; to anyone who is shy.
For Conran, the question, as he put it, was ''Could you be ambitious and make a film of some scope without ever leaving your room?'' And so 10 years ago, Kerry Conran went into a room in his apartment to make a movie. In some ways, he is just now beginning to come out of it.
At first, he was a mystery. Word of ''Sky Captain'' began to spread around the Internet only after Conran finished primary shooting in London last spring -- extraordinarily late for the Internet, which often seems invented specifically to track movies with giant robots in them. Even then, no one knew who Kerry Conran was. Google couldn't touch him. He was so undocumented in the world of Hollywood that I briefly wondered, when I began pursuing him, if perhaps he was just a front for his producer and partner and mentor Jon Avnet, who is well known for producing ''Risky Business'' and directing ''Fried Green Tomatoes'' but who is not so well known for retro-science-fiction summertime blockbusters, and who unlike Conran seems to have been photographed at least once in his life. I don't think Conran would mind that I doubted his existence. In fact, for a long time, that was the plan.
Conran grew up in Flint, Mich., in a pre-cable, pre-VCR period when the Sunday afternoon television crackled with old movies. Kerry and his older brother, Kevin, made capes out of towels and pretended to be superhe
Yet it failed for Fururama...
Bite my shiny metal ass.
Maybe now that he's got more spare time, he'll post on /. more often!
Format c: | Insert Linux CD
I have had 4 cats over the course of my life. 3 male, 1 female. Now, I only have 1 male, 1 female (One of the males passed away in January, the other passed away in 1996).
A few recommendations for toys and other novelties for your cat.
Pipecleaners. (Some) Cats will mistake a pipecleaner for a rodent, and will run over, pounce, jump on, hunt, or just play with a pipecleaner.
Small plush toys. Some cats just love chasing after things. If I throw a certain plush toy down a hallway, one of my cats will run after it, pick it up, and bring it back. Experiment with this one.
Spray on (Liquid) Cat-Nip. Be careful with this stuff. If you spray it on a toy, don't spray too much on. Don't spray it into the air either.
Pure (Solid) Cat-Nip. Give your cat a little cat-nip every now and again. They will love you to bits.
Kitty Treats. These are a bit of a grey area for me. Some of my cats went nuts over these things, while some just didn't really care. Flavor is also an issue with these. One of my cats likes beef, while the other likes chicken.
Love and Affection. Proven. Two examples:
One of my cats is an 8 or 9 year old female cat. When we adopted her (she was a 1 or 2 year old stray - to this day we still do not known her age), she would not go near anyone (including family members and other cats), and was quite hostile. Years later, after much love and affection, she has mellowed out, but is still kind of anti-social.
Another one of my cats was adopted as a kitten. Since I was home more often than other family members, I was responsible for this little kitten's well being. I often spent hours just petting this little fluff-ball - only for him to claw my face off in overexcitement - but to this day (3 years later) he still prefers my lap to others.
Get another cat. Very grey area. I've seen this work, and I've seen this fail. Tow examples:
When I adopted the female cat, I thought she would bond with my existing male cat. I thought wrong. They were constantly at a distance.
Then again, when I adopted the little kitten, the older male cat took a parental role. He often cleaned the little kitten, and the kitten often returned the cleaning. Over the years they became good friends. Often they would clean eachother, play together, and even eat together. When the older cat fell ill, he would just sit by his side. No cleaning, no playing, no visiting me in bed. When the older cat finally passed away, his friend was very upset (He cried out during the night, he would attack me, etc).
I suppose to conclude, my best advice would be to experiment. Start small and work your way up. Don't do anything too drastic (like get another cat) until you feel you are ready and are confident its the right solution.
So you mean they'll change or abandon POP3 and SMTP?
POP3 and SMTP will change when Oceania takes over Asia Minor.
Oh wait...
...but I doubt it'll have any serious repercussions much beyond this quarter.
Sure, and Asia Minor will take over Oceania.
</1984>
If it takes 80 some years to discover what caused a flu pandemic, how long will it take to discover what caused the SARS outbreak?
Slashdot:
...the CSA is interested in receiving include an orbiter, a single lander, or a network of small landers.
Now the Canadians are talking about a probe for Mars in 2011.
Website Link:
Imagine that. A Beowolf cluster of Mars Landers. I wonder if they would run on linux?
Why not go to the ThinkGeek Caffeine Shop? They've got everything you can name, caffeinated! </advertising>
Having used 4 different TV broadcast methods, I've gathered a good amount of experience and knowledge of the pros and cons of each.
Satellite:
Pros
Good Image and Sound Quality
Easy Timeshifting
PVR capability
Easy to use
Can be self-installed
Good packages that often include installation
Availible wherever there is a view of the southern sky
Cons
Signal can be lost in very poor weather (usually takes a heavy snow/lightning storm)
Crappy broadband
PPV is over Dial-up (except for newer 2-way systems)
18" dish sticking out of some part of your house
Routing to another TV requires another reciever unit
Analog Cable:
Pros
Uses Tuner built into TV
Easily routable to another TV without expensive equipment
Half-Decent broadband
Availible in most neighborhoods
Cons
PVR requires external hardware (or you can use a VCR)
No on-screen guide
Expensive for # of channels you get
Mandatory installation, usually expensive ($60+)
Fewer channels
Digital Cable:
Pros
On screen guide in PIP
Creme-de-la-creme tech support
Uses existing cable wire (nice if upgrading from analog)
Older Analog channels + Newer Digital channels
Very good picture and sound quality
Cons
Very expensive
Bunny-Ears reciever unit
Pros
Cheap
No monthly costs
Local channels
Cons
Local channels only
Shaky image quality
Shaky sound quality
Few channels
I'm going to name my kids Control, Alt, and Delete.
If they ever get to be a problem I'll just hit them all twice.
Problem solved.
I don't get some of the ones from Zoom. Who would want to have sex with a floppy? (The Love is for Grown-Ups one)
Step 1: Connect the headphone/speaker jack from the scanner to the sound card's Microphone port using a standard patch cable.
Step 2: Plug a set of speakers into the sound card's speaker port
Step 3: Open Volume Control, and set the Microphone volume (under Playback) to FULL.
Step 4: Open Sound Recorder, and press record.
Use a Pringles can antenna (http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448)
Cheap, Portable, and a definite chick magnet!
That would be interesting...
"Is that a Slackware in your pocket? Or are you just happy to see me?"
1. Accumulate and Twist-Tie excessive cable to eliminate congestion.
2. If #1 doesn't make your wi(fe / ves) happy, paint a shoebox to the room color (or use wallpaper if your room has wallpaper) and stuff all the Tied excess cable into it.
3. Kill your wi(fe / ves).
4. Problem(s) solved!
I see no reason why a 9 year old cannot learn ANSI compliant C or C++.
we need more money
* Boss sets mode +b IT_Guy012*!*@*.*
* IT_Guy012 has been kicked by Boss (YOU'RE FIRED)