Ah I see. My tankless is natgas powered, and they locally store more than a days worth, so that did not cross my mind.
I have seen the system design where you a large thermal solar tank storage feeding into a electric tankless, which strikes me as a pretty good design.
The one saving grace is most of the tankless heaters I've seen draw similar power to a air conditioner. So a house with tankless and air conditioning, draws 50 amps at 5am for a couple minutes, then more and more power until running darn near continuous 50 amps around 3pm for the air conditioner, then declining etc.
Also all the houses in my neighborhood simultaneously run full out air conditioning at 3pm on the hottest day of the year, but the phase variance in lifestyles is pretty large, so my entire neighborhood probably only draws one heater at a time.
In a non-air conditioning wired neighborhood, your example Could be an issue.
If, as you say, money is a problem and you're on a budget, you should obviously drop any wild plans. Look for quality instead of tech,
Or, if you assume, as most people do, that your life of freedom and fun is over once you get married and get a house, you'll probably have a lot more spare time, and a hell of a lot more space, so go ghetto and spend enormous amounts of time building it yourself out of cheap junk.
Priced as an "extra luxury item" a large digital picture frame is Very expensive. But an old used PC, and a low end multi-monitor video card, and a cheap desktop monitor with a wallmount, results in a cheap large digital picture frame.
Just like if you want automation, you can stick misterhouse on the existing fileserver for "free" and cable it to your X-10 or insteon bridge which costs damn near free, or you can pay $2500 for basically misterhouse installed in a turnkey appliance box. I'm sure I could buy an automation appliance that costs $3000 but instead I spent $29 on my insteon bridge years ago and plugged it into the existing file server.
Similar to the automation, I eased into mythtv by piggybacking on the fileserver. My first frontend was a plain old $50 desktop living in an adjacent closet. If you want, you can do something like mythtv by spending thousands, but I spent tens instead.
If you live in an apartment, and you do electronics, and you determine you need an oscilloscope, for storage reasons a kilobuck handheld digital scope might be your only reasonable choice. If you have an empty basement, a filing cabinet sized old tektronix that weighs 150 pounds is A-OK and only costs $50 at a ham radio fest.
If you're not planning on putting it in your pocket, and if the guts can be hidden in the basement or a closet, who cares what it looks like or how big it is.
no rapid filling of bathtubs or buckets, or hot water pressure wash.
I call shenanigans on this one as I have seen no such effect and can't even imagine it happening in the marketplace for sound financial reasons.
Your plumber, operating on a sales commission, will try to figure out how much money he can extract from you, and then extract it. He was trying to convince me that I need to output water hot enough for instant 3rd degree burns, at full blast, simultaneously out both showers, the bathroom sink, the kitchen sink, the dishwaster, the clothes washer, and the utility sink, all while the input water is at 33 degrees. There are not enough people in my household to operate all those valves at once. Um, no sorry, you're installing something a little more reasonable. Especially since the whole point of installing the tankless was to be able to turn the temperature down below scalding level while not running out of hot water in the shower. This has NOT been an issue in actual operation.
The scaling rate of price for BTU of heating seems to be somewhat quadratic, certainly not slightly sub-linear like you'd intuitively guess based on construction. So half the BTUs is a hell of a lot less than half the price. At least thats how it was years ago.
You'll also likely be at the mercy of power outages - even short ones.
Same problem for tank w/ direct vent. I suppose it depends where you live. Where I live the only reason the power ever goes out is near-tornado conditions... you're supposed to be cowering in the basement under the stairs then, not enjoying yourself in the shower. The power requirement is ridiculously low to run the electronics and fan, so for 7 years now I've been planning on buying a very large computer UPS, but the darn power never is out long enough to make the upfront expense worth it, not to mention having to replace the UPS batteries every 2 years or whatever. I do have a 50 foot (rather expensive) extension cord coiled up next to it that I can run over to the basement server UPS, but I've never had to try it.
Its kind of like arguing you shouldn't install a furnace or air conditioner because you'll be at the mercy of power outages...
I don't like the idea of tankless water heaters at all.
Can you provide a more detailed engineering assessment? Or is it something like you believe you speak for the flying spaghetti monster in stating its a religious abomination, or...?
You pay money to get the capital equipment such that you dump in water and energy and out squirts hot water. Tankless is just a better deal financially than tank. I'm not really seeing the facebook like button effect at all.
When an American says he "owns" a house, the house is secondary
Its a part of modern american doublespeak. For another housing related laugh, "I'm building a new house" means he watches "this old house" and some HGTV shows and he signed a contract for some illegals to build it for him. Confuses the shit out of me because my Grandfather actually built his own house... sears and roebuck dropped off a flatbed truck of lumber in a then new suburb and him and his coworkers swung hammers one summer in the 50s. Him and his coworkers all moved into the same subdivision at the same time and helped frame each others houses, then they contracted out for the technical stuff (electrical, plumbing) then my grandmother and friends painted the inside walls. Resulted in my dad growing up in a very tight knit neighborhood. I'm told this was not the norm, but also was not unusual, in that generation for "building a house" to mean physically swinging a hammer.
about to take on the next big adventure: home ownership
Bad time to buy. Run like hell.
1) Multi-generational low interest rates mean they'll inevitably increase. Increasing rates = declining home prices. My parents bought the equivalent of a mcmansion for only $80K (not 8M, not 800K) during the peak of the 70s-80s stagflation when I was a kid, 20% interest rates and all. Needless to say the price exploded as rates dropped to normal. You'll be experiencing the reverse effect as rates increase... home price implodes. If you're planning to live there for the entire mortgage, then you'll merely get a legendarily bad deal, but if you have to move you'll probably be underwater, welcome to foreclosure and bankruptcy.
2) The % of the population employed has been steadily and permanently dropping. The odds of your being able to make a mortgage payment, every month, for 25 years, is about the same as the odds of having the same job at the same company for 25 years. On a "tech board" like this we know all about ageism... after 40 no one is ever going to hire you to do tech, so you either need to contract or greet at walmart or retrain into... something.
3) For at least 40 years the median inflation adjusted income has been dropping. That means the median person's housing budget has been dropping. That means that aside from govt intervention, etc, the price of median real estate must drop. Essentially you're buying an asset whos value is guaranteed to drop over time.
4) Kids are much cheaper than houses, the payments are generally much more flexible and predictable, and the "contract" theoretically ends at 18 instead of 25 or 30 years. You skipped a step on the plan. Ease into a commitment toward debt slavery. Actually you probably skipped two steps... start with a pet, like a housecat, see if she's all bonkers maternal instinct on the cat, then if its all good squirt out some kids, then do the landed estate thing.
5) Everyone who gets married thinks their relationship is "special" and "forever" but half of them end up divorced anyway. The odds are actually better than you'll be divorced than you'll be married forever. A house just complicates things, a "high tech" house complicates further.
Arguments for:
1) A commissioned salesperson thinks today is a great time to buy. For a good laugh ask your barber how often to get a haircut.
2) People used to make lots of money buying and selling real estate. Well, they made a lot of money selling horse carriages, and working on industrial assembly lines, and being travel agents. Would not advise entering real estate in 2012 anymore than I'd advise becoming a travel agent.
So here's the deal. In the long run the price of the house is going to drop. I don't think a fancy thermostat and/or sound system is going to offset that. At some point when you own the house you'll be unemployed and minimizing your expenses (electrical bill, credit card bill, monthly subscriptions) is the key to survival. In the future, even during good times, you'll have less money, either lower bottom line income, inflation, etc. Needless to say, when I bought my house, I was not paying $5/gallon for gas... The majority outcome in the medium term is you'll be trying to figure out what to do with the house at a divorce proceeding.
Theoretical plan based on the above: Only invest in fixed non-removable stuff that save you money every month. Fancy insulation, triple pane windows, high efficiency appliances. Do not put something "unmovable" into the house, because you'll be removing it a heck of a lot sooner than you think, so forget whole house audio etc. Plug in X10/Insteon stuff, OK. Wired in X10/Insteon, not OK. Ethernet patch cable thru hole in floor OK, permanent house wiring that'll just get ripped out by the next owner, not OK. Never install or purchase anything with a monthly subscription or increased monthly cost because you'll probably not be able to afford it in the f
What I've read about them says that tankless water heaters wear out faster than the traditional kind with a tank
LOL. I know its April 1st, but for those who don't get it, try to find a tank guaranteed by mfgr longer than 6 years or a tankless with a guarantee shorter than 20 years. The guy's humor is in stating the exact opposite of reality.
There is some truth that a decade or so ago when I got a tankless, tanks were for residential and were value engineered to fail rapidly to maximize profit via maximum lifetime cost, and tankless were for industrial apps (think laundromat or health club showers) so they were engineered to meet the business accounting goal of minimum lifetime cost. It may be that 2012 residential-grade tankless heaters are now value engineered and built in China such that they'll only operate for a couple years before requiring replacement... If they aren't, the retailers are missing out on a huge opportunity to screw their customers, and they never miss a chance to do that, at least not for long, so buyer beware. But at least in years past, tank = flood the basement twice per decade, and tankless = buy roughly once per human generation.
Another way I've heard it phrased is if you go tank, then you need to pick a basement floor covering that tolerates flooding multiple times before the floor material is replaced, but if you go tankless, then you will replace the basement floor covering a couple times before the heater is replaced. It has a big impact on decor... Pergo is legendary for being perhaps the least flooding tolerant floor covering, so you can really only go Pergo if you have a tankless, and/or if you have a tank you pretty much need tile to eliminate the water damage issue.
There will almost always be some desire for printed material
It'll be like music CDs. In 2012 music you buy for yourself comes from legal or illegal sources online. I haven't bought a music CD for myself in about a decade. However, on christmas morning, birthday parties, etc, music cds are still being unwrapped...
In the future, you may never own a book that did not arrive in wrapping paper... but you'll still get at least some books. Just like music CDs now.
How do I spread my financial details at a brick and mortar? If I buy a $20 book at a brick and mortar, I do hand over a financial document with a name and picture on it, but the name and picture are of former US president Andrew Jackson. I don't mention that's not really my name, and nobody has ever made an issue of it.
A majority of people don't pay cash. Even 20 years ago when I was working retail while going to school, people hand over their credit card to a minor who more or less can't be seriously prosecuted, and almost all of the time, nothing bad happens. Having worked both sides, I used to laugh at people who were "scared of the internet" in the 90s, as if a "rich computer guy" like myself is more likely to skim their records than a 16 year old waitress.
Yeah but all managers know, or know of, another manager who got in big trouble for bringing in a con artist, so its a heck of a lot safer to hire someone who's done the work before. Hence the intense fixation some places have in hiring people with previous experience in the exact skillset.
I keep reading that the IT field is going to face a shorting of ressources soon, because enlisting rates and numbers keep dwindling in the universities and colleges.
You only hear that garbage from managers trying to outsource or lower salaries, never from un/under/employed IT workers.
I'm sure my boss would agree there is a staggering shortage of veteran IT personnel with 31 years of general experience in computing, LAN/WAN telecom background, 19 years of linux experience since the SLS days, senior level routing and switching skills, electrical engineering microwave RF skills and experience, BS in CS in the hardcore curriculum track (compilers and shit track, not the "web designer" or "IT" track) who is willing to accept $20K/yr. Apparently he found at least one moron willing to do it for what I'm actually getting paid (that moron being me) but there's a real shortage of people willing to do my job for a tiny little fraction of my wage.
There's really no such thing as a waste, there's just good prices and bad prices.
At around a tenth the price, she would be getting a fair deal for what she got. The adjunct prof probably only got $500 or so for teaching the whole semester... Somebody in the educational-industrial complex is skimming a lot of money off in these situations.
I'd trade her an hour of personal hands on computational tutoring for an hour of personal hands on investment and accounting tutoring, but I'm thinking $200 might be a bit inflated for both her and myself (could I get more than $200/hr for some of the craziest stuff I've ever done? Yeah, but the craziest stuff I've ever done is infinitely beyond walking a noob thru signing up for a wordpress blog, and I bet she could say the same thing about giving me tutoring in structuring options purchases...).
Try night classes at your local uni or college. Stuffed full of people learning Japanese for the F of it, learning civil war history for the F of it, and according to this article, at least some are learning basic html (and python?) for the F of it. This works for Vo Tech too, I am very handy with the lathe and mill, but I'm the worlds shittiest welder and I'd love to take some vo tech welding classes, not because I wanna get a new job at about 1/3 my current pay spending 40 hrs/wk welding, but because I like playing with fire and melting metal together and generally Fing around with stuff like that.
Hardly anybody out there walking around
Walk around somewhere else. You're not going to find interesting people at the local sports bar, or at the water cooler talking about the latest survivor episode, or walking around the mall. Sry about that. I once had a kind-of relationship with a chick who's idea of a hobby or interest was sun tanning, drinking, and watching tv, glad I ran like hell from that.
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i think more coders is a GOOD thing. a planet of coders: what we could do!
If I were acting as a rational self-interested economic actor, though, the last thing I'd want is more competition, because that reduces the value of my skillset.
Yet another example of confusing training and education. I took a civil war history class at college (mumble) decades ago and it was an education because it gave me a lot to think about, practice at thinking, practice at reasoning... No-one, not myself or anyone else, is under the illusion that it gave me the training necessary to be a trained history professor, or that I'm impacting the technical achievement levels of the history prof job market.
As training, a middle aged investment manager taking intro web classes is probably completely useless. As education, its priceless.
Often training and education seem overlapping, but the older I get, the further apart I see them. I'm not entirely certain we even have a "education" system, it just seems to accidentally happen sometimes, to some people.
A lot of the limits on community building come out of a desire to keep the signal to noise ratio good. I was very active on reddit for a while but a few months ago I deleted my account and visit rarely now. Too much crap to filter to get to the good stuff.
"we" make fun of about 1/4 to 1/3 of/. articles but about 9 in 10 of reddit stories read exactly like "weekly world news" headlines. Maybe if I bothered to create an account I could filter the crud so I don't have to see it?
If you're doing BGP, you already have experience advertising your blocks... so just advertise someone elses blocks remember to forget to permit those blocks thru your border prefix lists... Rather than feeding a whole pop with that block you'll probably be feeding a vlan with one linux box with 256 virtual interfaces or whatever, and lots of logging to report anyone actually trying to use it for DNS. Your own level of BOFH decides if you put bind on it with a normal resolver, or redirect *.com to an internal informational page, or you look up their ip and suspend their kerberos password automatically (which leads to hilarious results during initial testing, and if an old statically configured laser printer is using that for DNS etc).
One place I'm aware of has a perl script that eats all their RANCID downloaded router configs and then outputs a "mistake file". Since its normally a pretty big mistake to advertise some space internally and forget to unfilter it at the border, this is one area where you have to be careful. Also if you have noobs on staff and they're all like "duh, senior wizard vlm is slippin', he's advertising 216.34.181.0/24 but he's filtered it at all the borders, let me help him out by unfiltering for him" well that's not going to end well...
It would be trivial to NAT tcp53/udp53 requests to the addresses of the malicious DNS servers to safe in house one.
That doesn't scale very well on a "real network" although that works pretty well if you have one provider and one firewall (basically what you probably have at home but probably bigger). The "right" way to do it is have your BGP speaking routers advertise those specific routes, and one linux box with a bunch of virtual interfaces running bind, etc. Obviously you do not BGP advertise those routes to the general public unless you want the guys on the NANOG mailing list to laugh at you and your upstreams/peers to go all medieval on filtering your incoming routes (like next time you want to advertise a new route, demanding a signed LOA for the space before letting you advertise it... I've had to do the "demand a signed LOA for the space from known company officer" in certain... situations)
Probably the most interesting side of "just another windows virus" story for non-windows users, is that 4-letter-acronym domains are available. I heard all the TLAs have been domain squatted since the mid 90s... I was honestly surprised its possible to obtain a FLA domain (four letter acronym), or at least it was possible for these guys for this one domain...
and I'll have to check it out when I'm not at work.
The specs on this are going to be interesting. Not at work, not on a phone with poor data coverage, not in a meeting, not in a teleconference, not while "watching" tv... this is what, like 1% of my/. time?
They Could follow the advice of the comments and use modern container files, modern html to display it, high res (like HD res, not 360 px instead of 240 px like youtube), make torrent available, working RSS feeds of the video files ready to feed into mythnettv and the other TV appliances...
Seriously, short videos. TLDW = too long didn't watch. Please no "I recorded this rant because I can't be bothered to transcribe it"
Even more seriously you're not going to displace youtube as the home of precious kitty videos. Or even pony videos. On the other hand, as far as I know, the "screencast" market is unserved. Yes there is "A" site for ruby screencasts, and "A" site for vim screencasts. But there is no "the tech screencast" site... that I know of.
I think you're missing the point that it takes two radios to work. They were, for all intents and purposes, merely a.uk POP, not independent in any way.
Now if they had also run a cable to france, a cable to spain, a cable to canada, now we're talking.
There are plenty of browser extensions that block ads and 'graphics art explosion fest' crap.
Yeah I assumed that is how I managed to block getting the torrent. Probably have to have certain javascript working to get it, so they can foist their ads on me.
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Ah I see. My tankless is natgas powered, and they locally store more than a days worth, so that did not cross my mind.
I have seen the system design where you a large thermal solar tank storage feeding into a electric tankless, which strikes me as a pretty good design.
The one saving grace is most of the tankless heaters I've seen draw similar power to a air conditioner. So a house with tankless and air conditioning, draws 50 amps at 5am for a couple minutes, then more and more power until running darn near continuous 50 amps around 3pm for the air conditioner, then declining etc.
Also all the houses in my neighborhood simultaneously run full out air conditioning at 3pm on the hottest day of the year, but the phase variance in lifestyles is pretty large, so my entire neighborhood probably only draws one heater at a time.
In a non-air conditioning wired neighborhood, your example Could be an issue.
If, as you say, money is a problem and you're on a budget, you should obviously drop any wild plans. Look for quality instead of tech,
Or, if you assume, as most people do, that your life of freedom and fun is over once you get married and get a house, you'll probably have a lot more spare time, and a hell of a lot more space, so go ghetto and spend enormous amounts of time building it yourself out of cheap junk.
Priced as an "extra luxury item" a large digital picture frame is Very expensive. But an old used PC, and a low end multi-monitor video card, and a cheap desktop monitor with a wallmount, results in a cheap large digital picture frame.
Just like if you want automation, you can stick misterhouse on the existing fileserver for "free" and cable it to your X-10 or insteon bridge which costs damn near free, or you can pay $2500 for basically misterhouse installed in a turnkey appliance box. I'm sure I could buy an automation appliance that costs $3000 but instead I spent $29 on my insteon bridge years ago and plugged it into the existing file server.
Similar to the automation, I eased into mythtv by piggybacking on the fileserver. My first frontend was a plain old $50 desktop living in an adjacent closet. If you want, you can do something like mythtv by spending thousands, but I spent tens instead.
If you live in an apartment, and you do electronics, and you determine you need an oscilloscope, for storage reasons a kilobuck handheld digital scope might be your only reasonable choice. If you have an empty basement, a filing cabinet sized old tektronix that weighs 150 pounds is A-OK and only costs $50 at a ham radio fest.
If you're not planning on putting it in your pocket, and if the guts can be hidden in the basement or a closet, who cares what it looks like or how big it is.
no rapid filling of bathtubs or buckets, or hot water pressure wash.
I call shenanigans on this one as I have seen no such effect and can't even imagine it happening in the marketplace for sound financial reasons.
Your plumber, operating on a sales commission, will try to figure out how much money he can extract from you, and then extract it. He was trying to convince me that I need to output water hot enough for instant 3rd degree burns, at full blast, simultaneously out both showers, the bathroom sink, the kitchen sink, the dishwaster, the clothes washer, and the utility sink, all while the input water is at 33 degrees. There are not enough people in my household to operate all those valves at once. Um, no sorry, you're installing something a little more reasonable. Especially since the whole point of installing the tankless was to be able to turn the temperature down below scalding level while not running out of hot water in the shower. This has NOT been an issue in actual operation.
The scaling rate of price for BTU of heating seems to be somewhat quadratic, certainly not slightly sub-linear like you'd intuitively guess based on construction. So half the BTUs is a hell of a lot less than half the price. At least thats how it was years ago.
You'll also likely be at the mercy of power outages - even short ones.
Same problem for tank w/ direct vent. I suppose it depends where you live. Where I live the only reason the power ever goes out is near-tornado conditions... you're supposed to be cowering in the basement under the stairs then, not enjoying yourself in the shower. The power requirement is ridiculously low to run the electronics and fan, so for 7 years now I've been planning on buying a very large computer UPS, but the darn power never is out long enough to make the upfront expense worth it, not to mention having to replace the UPS batteries every 2 years or whatever. I do have a 50 foot (rather expensive) extension cord coiled up next to it that I can run over to the basement server UPS, but I've never had to try it.
Its kind of like arguing you shouldn't install a furnace or air conditioner because you'll be at the mercy of power outages...
I don't like the idea of tankless water heaters at all.
Can you provide a more detailed engineering assessment? Or is it something like you believe you speak for the flying spaghetti monster in stating its a religious abomination, or ...?
You pay money to get the capital equipment such that you dump in water and energy and out squirts hot water. Tankless is just a better deal financially than tank. I'm not really seeing the facebook like button effect at all.
When an American says he "owns" a house, the house is secondary
Its a part of modern american doublespeak. For another housing related laugh, "I'm building a new house" means he watches "this old house" and some HGTV shows and he signed a contract for some illegals to build it for him. Confuses the shit out of me because my Grandfather actually built his own house... sears and roebuck dropped off a flatbed truck of lumber in a then new suburb and him and his coworkers swung hammers one summer in the 50s. Him and his coworkers all moved into the same subdivision at the same time and helped frame each others houses, then they contracted out for the technical stuff (electrical, plumbing) then my grandmother and friends painted the inside walls. Resulted in my dad growing up in a very tight knit neighborhood. I'm told this was not the norm, but also was not unusual, in that generation for "building a house" to mean physically swinging a hammer.
about to take on the next big adventure: home ownership
Bad time to buy. Run like hell.
1) Multi-generational low interest rates mean they'll inevitably increase. Increasing rates = declining home prices. My parents bought the equivalent of a mcmansion for only $80K (not 8M, not 800K) during the peak of the 70s-80s stagflation when I was a kid, 20% interest rates and all. Needless to say the price exploded as rates dropped to normal. You'll be experiencing the reverse effect as rates increase... home price implodes. If you're planning to live there for the entire mortgage, then you'll merely get a legendarily bad deal, but if you have to move you'll probably be underwater, welcome to foreclosure and bankruptcy.
2) The % of the population employed has been steadily and permanently dropping. The odds of your being able to make a mortgage payment, every month, for 25 years, is about the same as the odds of having the same job at the same company for 25 years. On a "tech board" like this we know all about ageism... after 40 no one is ever going to hire you to do tech, so you either need to contract or greet at walmart or retrain into ... something.
3) For at least 40 years the median inflation adjusted income has been dropping. That means the median person's housing budget has been dropping. That means that aside from govt intervention, etc, the price of median real estate must drop. Essentially you're buying an asset whos value is guaranteed to drop over time.
4) Kids are much cheaper than houses, the payments are generally much more flexible and predictable, and the "contract" theoretically ends at 18 instead of 25 or 30 years. You skipped a step on the plan. Ease into a commitment toward debt slavery. Actually you probably skipped two steps... start with a pet, like a housecat, see if she's all bonkers maternal instinct on the cat, then if its all good squirt out some kids, then do the landed estate thing.
5) Everyone who gets married thinks their relationship is "special" and "forever" but half of them end up divorced anyway. The odds are actually better than you'll be divorced than you'll be married forever. A house just complicates things, a "high tech" house complicates further.
Arguments for:
1) A commissioned salesperson thinks today is a great time to buy. For a good laugh ask your barber how often to get a haircut.
2) People used to make lots of money buying and selling real estate. Well, they made a lot of money selling horse carriages, and working on industrial assembly lines, and being travel agents. Would not advise entering real estate in 2012 anymore than I'd advise becoming a travel agent.
So here's the deal. In the long run the price of the house is going to drop. I don't think a fancy thermostat and/or sound system is going to offset that. At some point when you own the house you'll be unemployed and minimizing your expenses (electrical bill, credit card bill, monthly subscriptions) is the key to survival. In the future, even during good times, you'll have less money, either lower bottom line income, inflation, etc. Needless to say, when I bought my house, I was not paying $5/gallon for gas... The majority outcome in the medium term is you'll be trying to figure out what to do with the house at a divorce proceeding.
Theoretical plan based on the above: Only invest in fixed non-removable stuff that save you money every month. Fancy insulation, triple pane windows, high efficiency appliances. Do not put something "unmovable" into the house, because you'll be removing it a heck of a lot sooner than you think, so forget whole house audio etc. Plug in X10/Insteon stuff, OK. Wired in X10/Insteon, not OK. Ethernet patch cable thru hole in floor OK, permanent house wiring that'll just get ripped out by the next owner, not OK. Never install or purchase anything with a monthly subscription or increased monthly cost because you'll probably not be able to afford it in the f
What I've read about them says that tankless water heaters wear out faster than the traditional kind with a tank
LOL. I know its April 1st, but for those who don't get it, try to find a tank guaranteed by mfgr longer than 6 years or a tankless with a guarantee shorter than 20 years. The guy's humor is in stating the exact opposite of reality.
There is some truth that a decade or so ago when I got a tankless, tanks were for residential and were value engineered to fail rapidly to maximize profit via maximum lifetime cost, and tankless were for industrial apps (think laundromat or health club showers) so they were engineered to meet the business accounting goal of minimum lifetime cost. It may be that 2012 residential-grade tankless heaters are now value engineered and built in China such that they'll only operate for a couple years before requiring replacement... If they aren't, the retailers are missing out on a huge opportunity to screw their customers, and they never miss a chance to do that, at least not for long, so buyer beware. But at least in years past, tank = flood the basement twice per decade, and tankless = buy roughly once per human generation.
Another way I've heard it phrased is if you go tank, then you need to pick a basement floor covering that tolerates flooding multiple times before the floor material is replaced, but if you go tankless, then you will replace the basement floor covering a couple times before the heater is replaced. It has a big impact on decor... Pergo is legendary for being perhaps the least flooding tolerant floor covering, so you can really only go Pergo if you have a tankless, and/or if you have a tank you pretty much need tile to eliminate the water damage issue.
There will almost always be some desire for printed material
It'll be like music CDs. In 2012 music you buy for yourself comes from legal or illegal sources online. I haven't bought a music CD for myself in about a decade. However, on christmas morning, birthday parties, etc, music cds are still being unwrapped...
In the future, you may never own a book that did not arrive in wrapping paper... but you'll still get at least some books. Just like music CDs now.
How do I spread my financial details at a brick and mortar? If I buy a $20 book at a brick and mortar, I do hand over a financial document with a name and picture on it, but the name and picture are of former US president Andrew Jackson. I don't mention that's not really my name, and nobody has ever made an issue of it.
A majority of people don't pay cash. Even 20 years ago when I was working retail while going to school, people hand over their credit card to a minor who more or less can't be seriously prosecuted, and almost all of the time, nothing bad happens. Having worked both sides, I used to laugh at people who were "scared of the internet" in the 90s, as if a "rich computer guy" like myself is more likely to skim their records than a 16 year old waitress.
Yeah but all managers know, or know of, another manager who got in big trouble for bringing in a con artist, so its a heck of a lot safer to hire someone who's done the work before. Hence the intense fixation some places have in hiring people with previous experience in the exact skillset.
I keep reading that the IT field is going to face a shorting of ressources soon, because enlisting rates and numbers keep dwindling in the universities and colleges.
You only hear that garbage from managers trying to outsource or lower salaries, never from un/under/employed IT workers.
I'm sure my boss would agree there is a staggering shortage of veteran IT personnel with 31 years of general experience in computing, LAN/WAN telecom background, 19 years of linux experience since the SLS days, senior level routing and switching skills, electrical engineering microwave RF skills and experience, BS in CS in the hardcore curriculum track (compilers and shit track, not the "web designer" or "IT" track) who is willing to accept $20K/yr. Apparently he found at least one moron willing to do it for what I'm actually getting paid (that moron being me) but there's a real shortage of people willing to do my job for a tiny little fraction of my wage.
a waste of money
There's really no such thing as a waste, there's just good prices and bad prices.
At around a tenth the price, she would be getting a fair deal for what she got. The adjunct prof probably only got $500 or so for teaching the whole semester... Somebody in the educational-industrial complex is skimming a lot of money off in these situations.
I'd trade her an hour of personal hands on computational tutoring for an hour of personal hands on investment and accounting tutoring, but I'm thinking $200 might be a bit inflated for both her and myself (could I get more than $200/hr for some of the craziest stuff I've ever done? Yeah, but the craziest stuff I've ever done is infinitely beyond walking a noob thru signing up for a wordpress blog, and I bet she could say the same thing about giving me tutoring in structuring options purchases...).
I've never met these people.
Try night classes at your local uni or college. Stuffed full of people learning Japanese for the F of it, learning civil war history for the F of it, and according to this article, at least some are learning basic html (and python?) for the F of it. This works for Vo Tech too, I am very handy with the lathe and mill, but I'm the worlds shittiest welder and I'd love to take some vo tech welding classes, not because I wanna get a new job at about 1/3 my current pay spending 40 hrs/wk welding, but because I like playing with fire and melting metal together and generally Fing around with stuff like that.
Hardly anybody out there walking around
Walk around somewhere else. You're not going to find interesting people at the local sports bar, or at the water cooler talking about the latest survivor episode, or walking around the mall. Sry about that. I once had a kind-of relationship with a chick who's idea of a hobby or interest was sun tanning, drinking, and watching tv, glad I ran like hell from that.
i think more coders is a GOOD thing. a planet of coders: what we could do!
If I were acting as a rational self-interested economic actor, though, the last thing I'd want is more competition, because that reduces the value of my skillset.
Yet another example of confusing training and education. I took a civil war history class at college (mumble) decades ago and it was an education because it gave me a lot to think about, practice at thinking, practice at reasoning... No-one, not myself or anyone else, is under the illusion that it gave me the training necessary to be a trained history professor, or that I'm impacting the technical achievement levels of the history prof job market.
As training, a middle aged investment manager taking intro web classes is probably completely useless. As education, its priceless.
Often training and education seem overlapping, but the older I get, the further apart I see them. I'm not entirely certain we even have a "education" system, it just seems to accidentally happen sometimes, to some people.
A lot of the limits on community building come out of a desire to keep the signal to noise ratio good. I was very active on reddit for a while but a few months ago I deleted my account and visit rarely now. Too much crap to filter to get to the good stuff.
"we" make fun of about 1/4 to 1/3 of /. articles but about 9 in 10 of reddit stories read exactly like "weekly world news" headlines. Maybe if I bothered to create an account I could filter the crud so I don't have to see it?
What is this HN site you like?
My gut level guess would be Paul Grahams thing at http://news.ycombinator.com/
If you're doing BGP, you already have experience advertising your blocks... so just advertise someone elses blocks remember to forget to permit those blocks thru your border prefix lists... Rather than feeding a whole pop with that block you'll probably be feeding a vlan with one linux box with 256 virtual interfaces or whatever, and lots of logging to report anyone actually trying to use it for DNS. Your own level of BOFH decides if you put bind on it with a normal resolver, or redirect *.com to an internal informational page, or you look up their ip and suspend their kerberos password automatically (which leads to hilarious results during initial testing, and if an old statically configured laser printer is using that for DNS etc).
One place I'm aware of has a perl script that eats all their RANCID downloaded router configs and then outputs a "mistake file". Since its normally a pretty big mistake to advertise some space internally and forget to unfilter it at the border, this is one area where you have to be careful. Also if you have noobs on staff and they're all like "duh, senior wizard vlm is slippin', he's advertising 216.34.181.0/24 but he's filtered it at all the borders, let me help him out by unfiltering for him" well that's not going to end well...
It would be trivial to NAT tcp53/udp53 requests to the addresses of the malicious DNS servers to safe in house one.
That doesn't scale very well on a "real network" although that works pretty well if you have one provider and one firewall (basically what you probably have at home but probably bigger). The "right" way to do it is have your BGP speaking routers advertise those specific routes, and one linux box with a bunch of virtual interfaces running bind, etc. Obviously you do not BGP advertise those routes to the general public unless you want the guys on the NANOG mailing list to laugh at you and your upstreams/peers to go all medieval on filtering your incoming routes (like next time you want to advertise a new route, demanding a signed LOA for the space before letting you advertise it ... I've had to do the "demand a signed LOA for the space from known company officer" in certain ... situations)
Probably the most interesting side of "just another windows virus" story for non-windows users, is that 4-letter-acronym domains are available.
I heard all the TLAs have been domain squatted since the mid 90s... I was honestly surprised its possible to obtain a FLA domain (four letter acronym), or at least it was possible for these guys for this one domain...
Just like "we" were the first with UTF-8
and I'll have to check it out when I'm not at work.
The specs on this are going to be interesting. Not at work, not on a phone with poor data coverage, not in a meeting, not in a teleconference, not while "watching" tv... this is what, like 1% of my /. time?
They Could follow the advice of the comments and use modern container files, modern html to display it, high res (like HD res, not 360 px instead of 240 px like youtube), make torrent available, working RSS feeds of the video files ready to feed into mythnettv and the other TV appliances...
what kind of videos you'd like to see
Rickrolls and pr0n? Mostly the latter?
Seriously, short videos. TLDW = too long didn't watch. Please no "I recorded this rant because I can't be bothered to transcribe it"
Even more seriously you're not going to displace youtube as the home of precious kitty videos. Or even pony videos. On the other hand, as far as I know, the "screencast" market is unserved. Yes there is "A" site for ruby screencasts, and "A" site for vim screencasts. But there is no "the tech screencast" site... that I know of.
I think you're missing the point that it takes two radios to work. They were, for all intents and purposes, merely a .uk POP, not independent in any way.
Now if they had also run a cable to france, a cable to spain, a cable to canada, now we're talking.
There are plenty of browser extensions that block ads and 'graphics art explosion fest' crap.
Yeah I assumed that is how I managed to block getting the torrent. Probably have to have certain javascript working to get it, so they can foist their ads on me.