Here in New Mexico, we're getting ready to install solar water heating (for both domestic hot water and radiant floor/baseboard heat).
Have you checked about geothermal radiant floor heating? With the abundant sunlight solar may be more economical but then again geothermal might be better.
Personally I wouldn't want to stay in New Mexico, there may not be water there much longer. As it is now there's too much demand for water from the Colorado River, which supplies water to AZ, NM, NV, Southern Cal, and elsewhere.
Call me when the ROI on home solar breaks the 20 year mark in my area. Right now it's almost 100 years.
You don't get much sun where you're at do you? Here's a spread sheet you can play with to calculate ROI, now I haven't looked at it so I don't know how good it it. This is the webpage that links to it. Of course you'd get a better return by increasing energy efficiency.
Fission very well could be, but half-vast fission we've been saddled with as a result of the Carter administration's (the one president who should've known better, btw, what with his degree in nuclear engineering) machinations.
Except the nuclear power industry had about 20 years to reduce cost before Carter came along. Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, said the "energy too cheap to meter" quote in 1955 not 1975.
Maybe because more shoots don't give better results as often with firearms:D
Because of the expense of shooting film I try to make every exposure count. I'm on disability and don't work so my income is low. I may save some money by developing and printing my own film however I don't have a darkroom. There is a photography association here with darkrooms members can use and I plan to join. It's been a long tyme since I've worked in a darkroom so I'll need to take a refresher course, however the association offers some as it requires a class before members can use the darkrooms.
What you want is good exposure;/
Except for low light photography my exposure is good. Well and probably multiple exposures, my camera has built in multiple exposure. What I need to work on is composition, which can only come with experience. I know the basic rules like the Rule of Thirds, framing, and working with lines and curves. But it's hard to be good without experience. And in my case I need consistent practice.
The only "killer app" I can imagine that'll take bandwidth into the final generation before superfluous bandwidth is streamed high-resolution video (YouTubeHD, etc).
While it won't be used in the home I see a big use for high bandwidth connections, one which could very well save lives, is Telemedicine. Imagine a doctor in her office operating on a patient a 100 or a 1000 miles away via high speed broadband. Another example would be 5 businessmen on 5 different continents having a business meeting in virtual reality, VR. Despite the fact telecommunications was billed as negating the need to travel, it hasn't. Non verbal communications is just as important, more even, as verbal communications. With VR visual communications will be there.
As for other possibilities, they will come along too, probably unexpectedly. Afterall why would anyone ever need more than 64k RAM?
Though I didn't sign up with Comcast my ISP goes through Comcast. I just checked my speed and got 4.46/.9.
Comcast is just another corrupt American business that rips off our citizens and uses our government to legalize and enforce their never ending blood sucking existence.
Yeap. We need the competition a free market would bring.
They won't be for long. The Colorado River is being overdrawn. Lake Powell as well as the other manmade lakes are drying up. Vegas is now looking to the north to take water from farmers. Things are even worse south of the state line. Cities in Arizona are running try and are making deals with farmers in southern California for water. The entire 8 state agreement splitting the Colorado River was stupid.
Patents, and particularly software patents, are a huge drain on tech industry and a net drain on society.
The vast majority of published research on this disagrees with you.
The vast majority? Have any references? Since I've asked you to provide some I'll provides some as well. Research on the MacroEconomic Effects of Patents lists about 40 studies. Some, like the first one, are about software patent specifically and it says "Software patents are serving as cheap alternatives to real innovation". Another says "firms may have plenty of incentive to innovate without patents and patents may constrict complementary innovation."
If you don't bother to patent your own IP, you can rest assured that some patent troll will do it for you.
You can release an invention into the public domain. While patent trolls can still sue, they have to prove they came up with the invention first. On the other hand having a patent portfolio can be used as a weapon against others threat to sue. "You using our patent so unless you license this patent of yours we'll sue." A better solution to all this BS is to get rid of patents. If there are no patents then nobody has to be concerned about infringing on a patent or patent trolls.
The review board keeps people from abusing the system by flooding you with patent applications that are highly unlikely to be accepted.
The way to help prevent abuse is to only give incentives for patents that are granted. A cash incentive can be given as soon as the application is approved, then stocks or stock options can be issues periodically. Say if it's 100 stocks after a year 25 stocks are given, after 2 years another 25 stocks are given, and so on. That way if a patent is contested after approval while the person will get something, the employer doesn't have to pay it all out.
Oh, okay. I haven't used any iLife app yet, though I did mistakenly launch one or two. For instance iDisk. I don't what it is but there's a hot key combo that launches iDisk, I sometimes type fast and will hit the wrongs keys. A few tymes I've done that iDisk has launched.
Well, my digital camera is from 2004 but still one 4 mpx image takes 2.5 MB and since additional photos are virtually free I often take 3-20 images of the same thing just to see which one looks better.
Even with film I'm trigger happy. I can burn, er expose, a 36 exposure roll in minutes. I'm sure with a DSLR I'd shoot even more exposures. And the DSLRs I'd want to get have considerably more resolution than 4mpx. The minimum camera I want is the Canon EOS 5D which has a 12.8mpx sensor. The one I'd really love to get is the EOS-1Ds Mark III which has a 21.1mpx sensor. And that's just to start with, eventually I want to get a medium format camera, perhaps a 645 and a film back for it but also a digital back. And those have sensors with 40mpx or more.
The ironic thing, is that though I'm trigger happy with a camera, I'm careful when shooting a firearm. Then I make every shot count.
No, you don't understand. Most billionaires didn't gain their wealth by copyright. Russian Billionaires certainly didn't, they made their billions off oil. Carlos Slim made his off of the telephone. The Chinese made theirs off of various industry segments, some but not all of which rely on copyright. Same with Indian Billionaires.
if you watch the value of the richest people through time lapse right around 1970 all of a sudden there are gains of stratospheric proportions in wealth that can't draw parallels with other watershed events like mechanization or the steam engine or the internal combustion engine..
Correlation doesn't equal causation.
in 1960 would a below poverty line family spend $100 on cell phones, or the equivalent? or $50 on cable? would they own a typewriter? but now they own a computer... even the color of clothes has drastically changed.
Would even people in the First World have had a cellphone back in 1960? They may of existed then, but those from the late '70s were the size of bricks. And weighed about as much.
without that 1970's law, buffet would be what? without that redistribution of wealth there would have been no stock market booms every 5 years for buffet to ride... so you see, one law changed the lay of the land.
Doing the same thing, he made his billions off of trading. Copyright isn't needed for that. The same with Soros, actually Soros made $1Billion betting on the British Pound on Black Wednesday, 16 September 1992, when the Pound crashed and had to be removed from the currency market. In both cases software may of helped but not copyright.
At least since 10.4 it asks if you want to setup.mac after installation I believe.
10.4 came with mine but I never was asked about setting up.mac.
Yeah, but the applications is retarded and don't just use plain ftp and store the data in some directories or such, so you can't just choose "upload my calendar to web server."
What applications? When I uploaded files to my web space I used an FTP client from IPSwitch. And though I haven't installed it yet I have Cyberduck for my Mac.
How many videos can you upload on 20 GB anyway? Even the average persons digital camera photo album can't be uploaded in full.
I don't have a video or a digital camera yet, I still use my 35mm SLR. I'd like to get a DSLR but can't afford it right now. Hopefully in a year or so I'll be working as a photographer and can afford one.
Why is it Microsoft's responsibility to make it easier for other companies to compete with them?
It's Microsoft's responsibility because it's part of the settlement. A party not fulfilling all parts of a settlement should be punished. If that party does not like any part of a settlement then they should have protested it before signing the settlement. I know if I sign a contract but I don't fulfill my part I can be sued.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but their documentation is ironclad compared to the law. Witness this case, it is only after the fact that it becomes vaguely clear that having poor documentation is wrong (even for a monopoly).
Except Microsoft had several years to produce to documentation. The settlement in 2000 required MS to produce documentation for interoperability, if that documentation can't be understood it's not good for interoperability.
While the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been doing some good things, I see one criticism missing from wiki. The foundation is a big investor in Eni, an Italian petroleum giant. Eni has been accused of having bad environmental and health records.
billionaires are ALL making their money off off the 1970's copyright act
No, Carlos Slim, a Mexican who edged out Bill Gates to be the world's second richest person didn't make his wealth from copyrights. His fortune is based on telephones, both landline and cellphones. Warren Buffet, the world's richest person, didn't make his wealth in copyright either. Only a few of the World's richest people got there by copyright.
I have no problem teacher religion in school, in a philosophy, humanities, or religion class but the only tyme in belongs in a science class is when explaining how religion repressed science. And if you're going to teach "God" in philosophy class be sure to also teach Buddhism, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Hinduism, Jainism, and all the other religions. Fair play is fair play. If you're going to teach Genesis, also teach The Navajo Creation Story, Apache Creation Story, and other creation stories.
I believe that the biologists who worked on the human genome project are probably among the most qualified of all. Funny thing, though... by the time they finally finished mapping the human genome, every last one of them believed in Intelligent Design
Evolution is happening, and if a person doesn't believe that,
Oh but at least some IDers admit evolution does happen, microevolution. But mcaroevolution doesn't. Still other IDers say evolution is directed by a superior intelligence. Or something like that.
You're wrong here, it was Catholic Croats collaborating with NAZIs who persecuted Orthodox Serbians. More recently the Albanians, especially the KLA, Kosovo Liberation Army, were persecuting Serbians and others. And the KLA deals in opium with an idea of a Greater Albania.
It's not just Serbians who are instigating violence.
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Now, of course, you aren't going to be using the most power at the times when these are generating
Actually that depends on the location. In some places air conditioning is the largest power demand, and it's needed mostly when it's sunny.
Falcon
Here in New Mexico, we're getting ready to install solar water heating (for both domestic hot water and radiant floor/baseboard heat).
Have you checked about geothermal radiant floor heating? With the abundant sunlight solar may be more economical but then again geothermal might be better.
Personally I wouldn't want to stay in New Mexico, there may not be water there much longer. As it is now there's too much demand for water from the Colorado River, which supplies water to AZ, NM, NV, Southern Cal, and elsewhere.
Falcon
Call me when the ROI on home solar breaks the 20 year mark in my area. Right now it's almost 100 years.
You don't get much sun where you're at do you? Here's a spread sheet you can play with to calculate ROI, now I haven't looked at it so I don't know how good it it. This is the webpage that links to it. Of course you'd get a better return by increasing energy efficiency.
Falcon
Fission very well could be, but half-vast fission we've been saddled with as a result of the Carter administration's (the one president who should've known better, btw, what with his degree in nuclear engineering) machinations.
Except the nuclear power industry had about 20 years to reduce cost before Carter came along. Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, said the "energy too cheap to meter" quote in 1955 not 1975.
Falcon
Maybe because more shoots don't give better results as often with firearms :D
Because of the expense of shooting film I try to make every exposure count. I'm on disability and don't work so my income is low. I may save some money by developing and printing my own film however I don't have a darkroom. There is a photography association here with darkrooms members can use and I plan to join. It's been a long tyme since I've worked in a darkroom so I'll need to take a refresher course, however the association offers some as it requires a class before members can use the darkrooms.
What you want is good exposure ;/
Except for low light photography my exposure is good. Well and probably multiple exposures, my camera has built in multiple exposure. What I need to work on is composition, which can only come with experience. I know the basic rules like the Rule of Thirds, framing, and working with lines and curves. But it's hard to be good without experience. And in my case I need consistent practice.
Falcon
The only "killer app" I can imagine that'll take bandwidth into the final generation before superfluous bandwidth is streamed high-resolution video (YouTubeHD, etc).
While it won't be used in the home I see a big use for high bandwidth connections, one which could very well save lives, is Telemedicine. Imagine a doctor in her office operating on a patient a 100 or a 1000 miles away via high speed broadband. Another example would be 5 businessmen on 5 different continents having a business meeting in virtual reality, VR. Despite the fact telecommunications was billed as negating the need to travel, it hasn't. Non verbal communications is just as important, more even, as verbal communications. With VR visual communications will be there.
As for other possibilities, they will come along too, probably unexpectedly. Afterall why would anyone ever need more than 64k RAM?
Falcon
Though I didn't sign up with Comcast my ISP goes through Comcast. I just checked my speed and got 4.46/.9.
Comcast is just another corrupt American business that rips off our citizens and uses our government to legalize and enforce their never ending blood sucking existence.
Yeap. We need the competition a free market would bring.
Falcon
They won't be for long. The Colorado River is being overdrawn. Lake Powell as well as the other manmade lakes are drying up. Vegas is now looking to the north to take water from farmers. Things are even worse south of the state line. Cities in Arizona are running try and are making deals with farmers in southern California for water. The entire 8 state agreement splitting the Colorado River was stupid.
Falcon
Patents, and particularly software patents, are a huge drain on tech industry and a net drain on society.
The vast majority of published research on this disagrees with you.
The vast majority? Have any references? Since I've asked you to provide some I'll provides some as well. Research on the MacroEconomic Effects of Patents lists about 40 studies. Some, like the first one, are about software patent specifically and it says "Software patents are serving as cheap alternatives to real innovation". Another says "firms may have plenty of incentive to innovate without patents and patents may constrict complementary innovation."
Falcon
If you don't bother to patent your own IP, you can rest assured that some patent troll will do it for you.
You can release an invention into the public domain. While patent trolls can still sue, they have to prove they came up with the invention first. On the other hand having a patent portfolio can be used as a weapon against others threat to sue. "You using our patent so unless you license this patent of yours we'll sue." A better solution to all this BS is to get rid of patents. If there are no patents then nobody has to be concerned about infringing on a patent or patent trolls.
Falcon
The review board keeps people from abusing the system by flooding you with patent applications that are highly unlikely to be accepted.
The way to help prevent abuse is to only give incentives for patents that are granted. A cash incentive can be given as soon as the application is approved, then stocks or stock options can be issues periodically. Say if it's 100 stocks after a year 25 stocks are given, after 2 years another 25 stocks are given, and so on. That way if a patent is contested after approval while the person will get something, the employer doesn't have to pay it all out.
Falcon
the iLife applications.
Oh, okay. I haven't used any iLife app yet, though I did mistakenly launch one or two. For instance iDisk. I don't what it is but there's a hot key combo that launches iDisk, I sometimes type fast and will hit the wrongs keys. A few tymes I've done that iDisk has launched.
Well, my digital camera is from 2004 but still one 4 mpx image takes 2.5 MB and since additional photos are virtually free I often take 3-20 images of the same thing just to see which one looks better.
Even with film I'm trigger happy. I can burn, er expose, a 36 exposure roll in minutes. I'm sure with a DSLR I'd shoot even more exposures. And the DSLRs I'd want to get have considerably more resolution than 4mpx. The minimum camera I want is the Canon EOS 5D which has a 12.8mpx sensor. The one I'd really love to get is the EOS-1Ds Mark III which has a 21.1mpx sensor. And that's just to start with, eventually I want to get a medium format camera, perhaps a 645 and a film back for it but also a digital back. And those have sensors with 40mpx or more.
The ironic thing, is that though I'm trigger happy with a camera, I'm careful when shooting a firearm. Then I make every shot count.
Falcon
you don't understand.
No, you don't understand. Most billionaires didn't gain their wealth by copyright. Russian Billionaires certainly didn't, they made their billions off oil. Carlos Slim made his off of the telephone. The Chinese made theirs off of various industry segments, some but not all of which rely on copyright. Same with Indian Billionaires.
if you watch the value of the richest people through time lapse right around 1970 all of a sudden there are gains of stratospheric proportions in wealth that can't draw parallels with other watershed events like mechanization or the steam engine or the internal combustion engine..
Correlation doesn't equal causation.
in 1960 would a below poverty line family spend $100 on cell phones, or the equivalent? or $50 on cable? would they own a typewriter? but now they own a computer... even the color of clothes has drastically changed.
Would even people in the First World have had a cellphone back in 1960? They may of existed then, but those from the late '70s were the size of bricks. And weighed about as much.
without that 1970's law, buffet would be what? without that redistribution of wealth there would have been no stock market booms every 5 years for buffet to ride... so you see, one law changed the lay of the land.
Doing the same thing, he made his billions off of trading. Copyright isn't needed for that. The same with Soros, actually Soros made $1Billion betting on the British Pound on Black Wednesday, 16 September 1992, when the Pound crashed and had to be removed from the currency market. In both cases software may of helped but not copyright.
Falcon
Not amazing, but the irony is still lost on me that a lawyer decided somebody else's documentation was bad.
It wasn't a lawyer, it was a court-appointed technical committee.
Falcon
At least since 10.4 it asks if you want to setup .mac after installation I believe.
10.4 came with mine but I never was asked about setting up .mac.
Yeah, but the applications is retarded and don't just use plain ftp and store the data in some directories or such, so you can't just choose "upload my calendar to web server."
What applications? When I uploaded files to my web space I used an FTP client from IPSwitch. And though I haven't installed it yet I have Cyberduck for my Mac.
How many videos can you upload on 20 GB anyway? Even the average persons digital camera photo album can't be uploaded in full.
I don't have a video or a digital camera yet, I still use my 35mm SLR. I'd like to get a DSLR but can't afford it right now. Hopefully in a year or so I'll be working as a photographer and can afford one.
Falcon
Why is it Microsoft's responsibility to make it easier for other companies to compete with them?
It's Microsoft's responsibility because it's part of the settlement. A party not fulfilling all parts of a settlement should be punished. If that party does not like any part of a settlement then they should have protested it before signing the settlement. I know if I sign a contract but I don't fulfill my part I can be sued.
Falcon
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but their documentation is ironclad compared to the law. Witness this case, it is only after the fact that it becomes vaguely clear that having poor documentation is wrong (even for a monopoly).
Except Microsoft had several years to produce to documentation. The settlement in 2000 required MS to produce documentation for interoperability, if that documentation can't be understood it's not good for interoperability.
Falcon
While the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been doing some good things, I see one criticism missing from wiki. The foundation is a big investor in Eni, an Italian petroleum giant. Eni has been accused of having bad environmental and health records.
Falcon
billionaires are ALL making their money off off the 1970's copyright act
No, Carlos Slim, a Mexican who edged out Bill Gates to be the world's second richest person didn't make his wealth from copyrights. His fortune is based on telephones, both landline and cellphones. Warren Buffet, the world's richest person, didn't make his wealth in copyright either. Only a few of the World's richest people got there by copyright.
Falcon
I have no problem teacher religion in school, in a philosophy, humanities, or religion class but the only tyme in belongs in a science class is when explaining how religion repressed science. And if you're going to teach "God" in philosophy class be sure to also teach Buddhism, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Hinduism, Jainism, and all the other religions. Fair play is fair play. If you're going to teach Genesis, also teach The Navajo Creation Story, Apache Creation Story, and other creation stories.
I believe that the biologists who worked on the human genome project are probably among the most qualified of all. Funny thing, though... by the time they finally finished mapping the human genome, every last one of them believed in Intelligent Design
Citation needed.
Falcon
Evolution is happening, and if a person doesn't believe that,
Oh but at least some IDers admit evolution does happen, microevolution. But mcaroevolution doesn't. Still other IDers say evolution is directed by a superior intelligence. Or something like that.
Falcon
My real question is why the subject is even being considered being added to the US school curriculum.
Because fundies want their beliefs taught in school as fact.
Falcon
Let the wingnuts in Kansas and other red states teach creationism or any other loony idea
Think of the children. You really want to be sadistic don't you? ;-)
Falcon
Serbs with their hateful xtian idealogy
You're wrong here, it was Catholic Croats collaborating with NAZIs who persecuted Orthodox Serbians. More recently the Albanians, especially the KLA, Kosovo Liberation Army, were persecuting Serbians and others. And the KLA deals in opium with an idea of a Greater Albania.
It's not just Serbians who are instigating violence.
Falcon