It's not only the ground water, but even the ground soil below the frost line remains at almost the exact same temp year round.
I'd post my dad's(who is a Geothermal tech., installs them for a living) website but I don't want to make him burn through his monthly GB limit in an hour.
He has installed a Geothermal heatpump in a house that was previously using electric radiators for heating and only heating half the house to barely comfortable temps. for the winter. The person is now paying less than half the cost of electricity, all the while heating his entire house to 75F.
Yep. I have a Geothermal heat pump in my house and my dad installs them for a living. We have done closed ground loops as well as pond loops and well loops.
A pond is actually just as good as the open well loop even though it would be slightly less efficient transfering heat between fluid in a pipe and the pond.
But the thing is, as long as you have a sufficient temperature in the water, you can get 10-14 degrees worth of heat out of the water with a Geothermal heatpump.
We've had earth loops coming in at 50F and that's still enough, even though to the human hand it's quite cold.
Most people here don't have a clue at how much energy is stored in the earth just waiting to be used.
Yes it does save a lot of money, and actually a lot of water as well. A lot of big buildings use chillers which evaporate a lot of water all the time, even in the winter. The chillers are the things you see on the rooftops giving off a lot of steam.
Without these chillers, there will be a lot of energy saved. Not to mention that they break down and corrode a lot.
You really think that you know more than the Engineers that built the system?
They are already taking water out of the lake for drinking. The only difference is instead of pushing very cold water through the ground pipes where it's warmed up by the ground heat, they are using it to cool buildings first instead.
Who says that speeding would have any fault in the accident? The accident could very well happen no matter what speed you were going.
You can't say that just because you were speeding that it was partially your fault. What if someone was speeding up behind you really fast and you punched the gas to lessen the impact? Your speed would probably be over the limit but you actually saved yourself some possible injury.
Again, what if you are on a 4 lane(2 either way) highway and you were passing someone and they chaned lanes and side swiped you? How is that any of your fault because you were going 5 or 10 or more over the limit? They should be able to judge your speed and know when it's safe to change lanes.
This box is nothing but another way for insurance companies to get out of paying you. They would no doubt have a clause in their agreement stating that if you were speeding according to their box that they wouldn't have to pay you squat which is BS.
"* Computers would not interoperate. There would probably be one big vendor -- still IBM -- who charges lots of money for each machine. Extremely lucrative for IBM, yes. Good for society, no."
There's open standards for communication, so NO, that doesn't make sense.
"* Cars would not be repairable by anyone but the original manufacturer."
No, cars don't require special patented software to work. You can put in your own chip on most cars. Fixing a mechanical device doesn't require cracking encryption.
"* You'd be forced to use Sears nails with a Sears hammer."
Again, a nail is a piece of metal, not terribly difficult to produce, and not reverse engineered from other nails. Most importantly, not owned by anyone.
It's not the hardware that's being violated. Who cares what you do with the iPod hardware after you bought it. Real is violating the Fairplay encryption.
The statement was no doubt written by some PR person who doesn't really know the meaning of "hacker".
Yeah, lots of people have said this in the other related articles, but what Real really seems to have done is *crack* the DRM. Since most common folk who know nothing of computers and programming use the word hacker it has become what is really *cracking*.
The DMCA may have a loophole that makes this legal, but maybe not if it's based on cracking encryption(don't know for sure).
I was wondering about that as well. When I first heard about this it seemed like all they could be doing is converting it to a none-DRM format such as MP3 or AAC which would play on the iPod without any problems.
But, after comments from Real, it seems that when the music file is transfered to the iPod, the protection on the file is somehow preserved.
While similar, I wouldn't say that the 2 cases are the same.
Lexmark put in a chip to STOP other cartridges from working in their printers while Apple has not included Real or WMA decoder support on the iPod, not put in stuff to stop it from working.
What Apple seems to be mad about is them cracking their DRM.
Since there isn't any explaination of exactly what they do we can't say for sure that they cracked the iPod to get their songs to play, but, Apple makes the product and who is Real to say that they must support Real files as well?
If they have reverse engineered the Fairplay DRM, or used the PlayFair code to somehow encode their files as legit FairPlay DRM'd files then there's probably(most definately) something wrong(legally) with what they have done.
But the current release can still use 64 bit features and suffers no performance penalty running in 32 bit mode on a 64 bit CPU.
So as of right now you can use 64 bit data structures and more than 4GB of RAM, which is the main point of 64 bits.
I would think that because most files shared with Bittorrent are huge, where, most things on Kazaa aren't that big, or if they are big, it takes way too long to download so people give up.
Still, with all the multi-GB files on Bittorrent, of course it's going to generate more traffic.
How do you know that the counter is really "live"?
They don't say what the delay is in the counter. It could be an hour for all you know, and then tonnes of people buy at the last second. To their dismay, the 100,000,000th song has already been sold an hour ago;)
That'd be a good thing for him to do. Just delete the IE shortcut out of the quicklaunch(or whatever that's called) thing by the Start menu, and delete the desktop icons and start menu icons. The users will probably complain that the internet is gone, but then you can tell them there is a new internet:)
They will probably not be able to find the IE exe.
No, it does use WebCore for iTunes on OS X, and Konquerer on Windows(which is what WebCore is based on in OS X). There is a lot of Quicktime stuff embedded in the HTML pages that iTunes Music Store uses, but it's still mostly HTML rendered with WebCore.
There's really not a lot of traffic caused by this. There'd certainly be a lot more traffic caused by whatever you will be doing between the computers which you used Rendezvous to discover.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not only the ground water, but even the ground soil below the frost line remains at almost the exact same temp year round.
I'd post my dad's(who is a Geothermal tech., installs them for a living) website but I don't want to make him burn through his monthly GB limit in an hour.
He has installed a Geothermal heatpump in a house that was previously using electric radiators for heating and only heating half the house to barely comfortable temps. for the winter. The person is now paying less than half the cost of electricity, all the while heating his entire house to 75F.
I believe that lake Michegan is even deeper than lake Ontario, so it'd probably work just as well.
Yep. I have a Geothermal heat pump in my house and my dad installs them for a living. We have done closed ground loops as well as pond loops and well loops.
A pond is actually just as good as the open well loop even though it would be slightly less efficient transfering heat between fluid in a pipe and the pond.
But the thing is, as long as you have a sufficient temperature in the water, you can get 10-14 degrees worth of heat out of the water with a Geothermal heatpump.
We've had earth loops coming in at 50F and that's still enough, even though to the human hand it's quite cold.
Most people here don't have a clue at how much energy is stored in the earth just waiting to be used.
True, but CO2 has a bad affect compared to O2.
Yes it does save a lot of money, and actually a lot of water as well. A lot of big buildings use chillers which evaporate a lot of water all the time, even in the winter. The chillers are the things you see on the rooftops giving off a lot of steam.
Without these chillers, there will be a lot of energy saved. Not to mention that they break down and corrode a lot.
You really think that you know more than the Engineers that built the system?
They are already taking water out of the lake for drinking. The only difference is instead of pushing very cold water through the ground pipes where it's warmed up by the ground heat, they are using it to cool buildings first instead.
I'm glad someone gets it. This isn't going to have any effect on the lake whatsoever.
Same thing as using the earth to heat your home, AKA Geothermal isn't going to cool down the earth.
Blame the music labels for that. Plus, no one is forcing you to buy from the iTMS.
Who says that speeding would have any fault in the accident? The accident could very well happen no matter what speed you were going.
You can't say that just because you were speeding that it was partially your fault. What if someone was speeding up behind you really fast and you punched the gas to lessen the impact? Your speed would probably be over the limit but you actually saved yourself some possible injury.
Again, what if you are on a 4 lane(2 either way) highway and you were passing someone and they chaned lanes and side swiped you? How is that any of your fault because you were going 5 or 10 or more over the limit? They should be able to judge your speed and know when it's safe to change lanes.
This box is nothing but another way for insurance companies to get out of paying you. They would no doubt have a clause in their agreement stating that if you were speeding according to their box that they wouldn't have to pay you squat which is BS.
"* Computers would not interoperate. There would probably be one big vendor -- still IBM -- who charges lots of money for each machine. Extremely lucrative for IBM, yes. Good for society, no."
There's open standards for communication, so NO, that doesn't make sense.
"* Cars would not be repairable by anyone but the original manufacturer."
No, cars don't require special patented software to work. You can put in your own chip on most cars. Fixing a mechanical device doesn't require cracking encryption.
"* You'd be forced to use Sears nails with a Sears hammer."
Again, a nail is a piece of metal, not terribly difficult to produce, and not reverse engineered from other nails. Most importantly, not owned by anyone.
It's not the hardware that's being violated. Who cares what you do with the iPod hardware after you bought it. Real is violating the Fairplay encryption.
The statement was no doubt written by some PR person who doesn't really know the meaning of "hacker".
Yeah, lots of people have said this in the other related articles, but what Real really seems to have done is *crack* the DRM. Since most common folk who know nothing of computers and programming use the word hacker it has become what is really *cracking*.
The DMCA may have a loophole that makes this legal, but maybe not if it's based on cracking encryption(don't know for sure).
I was wondering about that as well. When I first heard about this it seemed like all they could be doing is converting it to a none-DRM format such as MP3 or AAC which would play on the iPod without any problems. But, after comments from Real, it seems that when the music file is transfered to the iPod, the protection on the file is somehow preserved.
While similar, I wouldn't say that the 2 cases are the same.
Lexmark put in a chip to STOP other cartridges from working in their printers while Apple has not included Real or WMA decoder support on the iPod, not put in stuff to stop it from working.
What Apple seems to be mad about is them cracking their DRM.
Since there isn't any explaination of exactly what they do we can't say for sure that they cracked the iPod to get their songs to play, but, Apple makes the product and who is Real to say that they must support Real files as well?
If they have reverse engineered the Fairplay DRM, or used the PlayFair code to somehow encode their files as legit FairPlay DRM'd files then there's probably(most definately) something wrong(legally) with what they have done.
But the current release can still use 64 bit features and suffers no performance penalty running in 32 bit mode on a 64 bit CPU. So as of right now you can use 64 bit data structures and more than 4GB of RAM, which is the main point of 64 bits.
No you don't. Programs like Photoshop can already use some of the 64 bit functions of the G5. Maybe not all of them but it still is something.
I would think that because most files shared with Bittorrent are huge, where, most things on Kazaa aren't that big, or if they are big, it takes way too long to download so people give up. Still, with all the multi-GB files on Bittorrent, of course it's going to generate more traffic.
How do you know that the counter is really "live"? They don't say what the delay is in the counter. It could be an hour for all you know, and then tonnes of people buy at the last second. To their dismay, the 100,000,000th song has already been sold an hour ago ;)
I bet it's delayed quite a while, maybe even a few hours to keep people from doing that.
That'd be a good thing for him to do. Just delete the IE shortcut out of the quicklaunch(or whatever that's called) thing by the Start menu, and delete the desktop icons and start menu icons. :)
They will probably not be able to find the IE exe.
The users will probably complain that the internet is gone, but then you can tell them there is a new internet
No, it does use WebCore for iTunes on OS X, and Konquerer on Windows(which is what WebCore is based on in OS X). There is a lot of Quicktime stuff embedded in the HTML pages that iTunes Music Store uses, but it's still mostly HTML rendered with WebCore.
There's really not a lot of traffic caused by this. There'd certainly be a lot more traffic caused by whatever you will be doing between the computers which you used Rendezvous to discover.
So your're going to ping 0.0.0.0 and 255.255.255.255? ;)
So, you take all the time to make something in this environment, then you can't even use it.