I want a mouse with a numeric keypad on it, plus ' and " for entering English units. The Belkin Nostromo almost fit the bill, but the drivers were too flaky and the keys were just shy of being laid out right..
It seems to be that only the followers of one religion seem to respond to blasphemy with violence, riots & beheadings. No religion has a moral high ground there, not even the Buddhists. And yes, I am speaking of modern times.
I've seen plenty of multi-million dollar designs at major firms that started in SketchUp (I work as a freelance architectural renderer, and am often handed said SketchUp files as part of my reference material). Yes, at some point you have to make a construction set and/or BIM, which SketchUp is not capable of, and when things start getting really detailed and the major strokes are locked down you probably want to switch to CAD or Revit, but for concept development, and to a lesser extent design development, SketchUp has capabilities that are unmatched for quickly trying out and modifying concepts.
Sure, anyone can do it, but having everything plumb/square, putting the holes for outlets in the right places without big gaps that negate the nice insulation you just installed, making the seams look nice, and not ruining your carpet in the process is more effort and learning curve than many are willing or able to put in.
What would you attach it to? The roof peak of a typical 2-story house is ~24 feet off the ground, and you can't have a center pole since the house is there, so you're talking about installing three or four 30-foot poles with foundations that can handle the wind load of a 5,000 to 10,000 sqft sail. You could do a lot of insulation retrofit for that kind of money, or hire specialists to plop a 50-foot shade tree or two on the south side of your house.
Putting a radiant barrier in your attic (even if you need to add venting too) way cheaper, more neighbor/inspector friendly, and better for you home's value with close enough performance to the overengineered eyesore you're proposing.
Note that this doesn't mean I have anything but respect/admiration for the berm/tent design you're building; it just seems a little nuts as a retrofit for a typical suburban USian house.
That's hardly "throw a tarp over a typical single-family home" from your original post. Of course it's possible to build tensile structures, but the cost for a retrofit like you originally described is completely prohibitive from an ROI standpoint.
I hear you, but the thing is, you don't really want to encourage people who don't know what they're doing to be dinking with their electrical and plumbing (especially both at the same time!) Not only is there the risk of a house fire/flood their insurance won't cover, but running afoul of the building inspector (in jurisdictions where homeowners aren't supposed to touch the machanicals), or needing to call a pro to fix a botched DIY job is expensive.
Also, while any schmo can patch 2" holes with a joint knife and a bucket of compound, rehanging and taping full sheets of drywall requires a lot more competence, upper body strength, and access to a pickup truck or larger.
Don't forget cordwood masonry. Really only an option for self-building, and likely an uphill journey with your local inspector, but really cool.
As for the canvas tarp, have you run any wind load calculations on such a structure? That's why. Large trees on the south/west side of the house achieve much the same effect. Radiant barriers inside the attic in conjunction with good venting also have their advocates.
He might be justifiably terrified of blowing ground-up paper at high speed onto degrading fabric-insulated, ungrounded 120v wiring, no matter how much boric acid is mixed in. Shorted neutrals are fucking scary. Not sure what he means about the plumbing, though, unless he's waiting for his homeowner's insurance to replace his immenently failing pipes.
That depends. If you're even a little bit handy and have an accessible attic, blowing in cellulose ot fiberglass to take it to R38 or better is only a couple hundred dollars and a day of your time, and should pay for itself the first winter. And if you're repainting a room, drilling holes and blowing cellulose into the exterior wall cavities isn't too bad either.
In my supermarket, the Redbox machine disappeared and was replaced by a $1/day Blockbuster machine. I didn't want to get close enough to it to read the fine print and find out if it's the same "$1/day" scam as the B&M ones.
I dunno, while The Diamond Age and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom were interesting places to visit, I (and most of the characters) wouldn't want to live there. Of course both of those societies had haves and have-nots based on resources that continued to be scarce (raw matter/energy in one and human regard in the other).
Authors get paid for the library's purchase of a single copy. I'm not aware of any system where subsequent circulation is tracked to assess additional royalties (although if you have a reference for such, I'd be interested to learn).
Doom is about 1 guy alone going rambo on some aliens.. and trying to get out alive... NOT about a group of people getting saved along tthe way by a heroic soldier.. which is what they tried to turn the movie into.
Trouble is, movies require dialogue to make the audience care. Cacodemons in Doom were scary because they jumped out and killed you a bunch of times before you figured out how to deal with them. The player has a dialog with the monsters, the environment, and ultimately, the game designer, but a movie has to show how scary the villains/monsters/etc. are by a) Showing bad things happening to extras/supporting characters, and b) Having some way for the main characters to find out, usually through dialogue.
The only recent Hollywood film I can think of with 1 character surviving on his own and trying to get out alive is Cast Away, and that required the main character talking to himself (and later, a volleyball) constantly to let the audience inside his head.
Another useful comparison is the original Die Hard, which, while it did feature a lone wolf hero trying to get out alive, gave that hero a walkie-talkie to communicate with a cop outside the building, and a wife among the hostages to provide motivation.
Because salad dressing is perishable, and making it shelf-stable is an engineering, rather than culinary exercise.
My favorite example: Once upon a time there was (or possibly still is) an actual place called Hidden Valley Ranch that was renowned for its buttermilk-based salad dressing. All attempts at bottling it led to a product with a sour acidic note instead of the buttermilk. The breakthrough was when the marketers realized very few people had tasted the real thing, and thus had no point of comparison and wouldn't care about the sour taste. Hence the still-used slogan "the way ranch is supposed to taste." (Googled for a reference, couldn't find one in a few minutes, sorry).
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Sure, if you're talking about arcing. Microwaves do fine, though.
I want a mouse with a numeric keypad on it, plus ' and " for entering English units. The Belkin Nostromo almost fit the bill, but the drivers were too flaky and the keys were just shy of being laid out right..
It seems to be that only the followers of one religion seem to respond to blasphemy with violence, riots & beheadings.
No religion has a moral high ground there, not even the Buddhists. And yes, I am speaking of modern times.
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." -Gandhi
Looks like a pretty clear case of step 3 to me.
An even easier experiment to refute the glass flowing hypothesis:
Is Roman glassware predating the cathedrals by as much as 1000 years deformed?
...Because clearly, the only people who might ever need a replacement lung are smokers.
So... piercing one's uvula isn't extreme?!
Q: Why is American Beer like making love in a canoe?
A: It's fucking close to water!
I've seen plenty of multi-million dollar designs at major firms that started in SketchUp (I work as a freelance architectural renderer, and am often handed said SketchUp files as part of my reference material). Yes, at some point you have to make a construction set and/or BIM, which SketchUp is not capable of, and when things start getting really detailed and the major strokes are locked down you probably want to switch to CAD or Revit, but for concept development, and to a lesser extent design development, SketchUp has capabilities that are unmatched for quickly trying out and modifying concepts.
Sure, anyone can do it, but having everything plumb/square, putting the holes for outlets in the right places without big gaps that negate the nice insulation you just installed, making the seams look nice, and not ruining your carpet in the process is more effort and learning curve than many are willing or able to put in.
Putting a radiant barrier in your attic (even if you need to add venting too) way cheaper, more neighbor/inspector friendly, and better for you home's value with close enough performance to the overengineered eyesore you're proposing.
Note that this doesn't mean I have anything but respect/admiration for the berm/tent design you're building; it just seems a little nuts as a retrofit for a typical suburban USian house.
That's hardly "throw a tarp over a typical single-family home" from your original post. Of course it's possible to build tensile structures, but the cost for a retrofit like you originally described is completely prohibitive from an ROI standpoint.
Also, while any schmo can patch 2" holes with a joint knife and a bucket of compound, rehanging and taping full sheets of drywall requires a lot more competence, upper body strength, and access to a pickup truck or larger.
As for the canvas tarp, have you run any wind load calculations on such a structure? That's why. Large trees on the south/west side of the house achieve much the same effect. Radiant barriers inside the attic in conjunction with good venting also have their advocates.
He might be justifiably terrified of blowing ground-up paper at high speed onto degrading fabric-insulated, ungrounded 120v wiring, no matter how much boric acid is mixed in. Shorted neutrals are fucking scary. Not sure what he means about the plumbing, though, unless he's waiting for his homeowner's insurance to replace his immenently failing pipes.
That depends. If you're even a little bit handy and have an accessible attic, blowing in cellulose ot fiberglass to take it to R38 or better is only a couple hundred dollars and a day of your time, and should pay for itself the first winter. And if you're repainting a room, drilling holes and blowing cellulose into the exterior wall cavities isn't too bad either.
In my supermarket, the Redbox machine disappeared and was replaced by a $1/day Blockbuster machine. I didn't want to get close enough to it to read the fine print and find out if it's the same "$1/day" scam as the B&M ones.
I dunno, while The Diamond Age and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom were interesting places to visit, I (and most of the characters) wouldn't want to live there. Of course both of those societies had haves and have-nots based on resources that continued to be scarce (raw matter/energy in one and human regard in the other).
1920x1200 flat panels are everywhere, and for well under $500. If you want more pixels, buy 2. Or 4.
Authors get paid for the library's purchase of a single copy. I'm not aware of any system where subsequent circulation is tracked to assess additional royalties (although if you have a reference for such, I'd be interested to learn).
Trouble is, movies require dialogue to make the audience care. Cacodemons in Doom were scary because they jumped out and killed you a bunch of times before you figured out how to deal with them. The player has a dialog with the monsters, the environment, and ultimately, the game designer, but a movie has to show how scary the villains/monsters/etc. are by a) Showing bad things happening to extras/supporting characters, and b) Having some way for the main characters to find out, usually through dialogue.
The only recent Hollywood film I can think of with 1 character surviving on his own and trying to get out alive is Cast Away, and that required the main character talking to himself (and later, a volleyball) constantly to let the audience inside his head.
Another useful comparison is the original Die Hard, which, while it did feature a lone wolf hero trying to get out alive, gave that hero a walkie-talkie to communicate with a cop outside the building, and a wife among the hostages to provide motivation.
Because salad dressing is perishable, and making it shelf-stable is an engineering, rather than culinary exercise. My favorite example: Once upon a time there was (or possibly still is) an actual place called Hidden Valley Ranch that was renowned for its buttermilk-based salad dressing. All attempts at bottling it led to a product with a sour acidic note instead of the buttermilk. The breakthrough was when the marketers realized very few people had tasted the real thing, and thus had no point of comparison and wouldn't care about the sour taste. Hence the still-used slogan "the way ranch is supposed to taste." (Googled for a reference, couldn't find one in a few minutes, sorry).
Of course it doesn't mean "unbiased." It means "not an organ of the state."
I would think the whole 94K surface temperature business would stop any terrestrial microbe in its tracks.
Each minute? or each frame? 0.4 fps is freaking amazing for offline rendering. Second the other comment wanting to know more about the pipeline.