"Oh, I see, so you don't know anyone, so therefore that's how most people are."
I don't think I said that. I simply gave my position from what I have seen.
your setup is fine for you, but many people want to do more intesive tasks on their PCs.
I believe I said "Quite a few, maybe, but not a very high %." I agree, many do, but the % of the entire consumer base isn't very large. I would guess 2-3%, but that is only speaking from years of experience in IT, along with running a computer sales/service shop. Digital photography might be another 2-3% (I am not counting the users who use a 6MP camera, set at 1MP, and keep buying memory cards as they fill them). What do I know......I am talking out of my ass.
I do not disagree, however the stats do not backup your statement.
75% of abuse.............on average a kid is more likely to be at risk around relatives and close friends of the family
That means 25% of abuse happens at the hands of strangers. If your wife can eliminate much of this 25%, you have reduced their risk. Unless your wife is more likely to abuse your children than the stranger.
Another example. I would assume kids spend 95%+ of their time with those considered to be "close to them" because this is who we surround ourselves with. Yet abuse is 75%? Kids spend very little time with "strangers" yet they account for 25% of the abuse?
I guess I do have issue with the "better social skills". From my experience, this could be true, depending on how you define "better". Yes, they talk more, and are more vocal. The children with stay-home parents however would be considered by myself to be more honest, polite, less prone to crime, less likely to be involved in drugs, and much better off academically.
I realize however, the above is probably the result of a caring parent rather than the difference between daycare or not.
Disclaimer: This is a generalization, there are exceptions. Any parent who is basing decisions on what they feel is best for their child is correct. It is those who base their decision on what is easiest for them that I have issue with.
I shouldn't reply, but this is insane....
Following your logic, we should send kids to daycare because 75% of abuse happens from relatives? Sorry, but If you truly believe that your kids are better off in the hands of someone "Not their parents", then you shouldn't have had children. Maybe the percent is high because they spend most of their time with close relatives?
Yeah, I heard that most car accidents happen within 10 miles of home, so I am moving.
Quite a few, maybe, but not a very high %. Thunderbird, Firefox, XP-pro sp1, all run quite nicely on a k62-500mhz with 384mb of ram. I have 3 of them running in my family.....and they operate quicker than any of our neighbors new Core 2 Duo machines. They also will play DVDs fine.
Grantid, we use a much newer 1.4ghz Amd Tbird (Year 2001 maybe?) for processing digital photos. The hard drive space and speed is useful for that. Also, it works fine for digital videos from cameras (video clips really), 100MB tops.
For those few users that actually do encode DVD quality/length video, measured in GB, I can see the need for more power....however I don't know any that do.
Great, I already had a phobia of being hit by an electric car (that I didn't hear). Now I will also fear motorcycles.
Seriously though, I think many of us are accustomed to "listen first" for cars when walking, and "look second". Sadly, it looks like I may be naturally selected out of the breeding pool....by a silent killer.
Well, at least they should travel in that direction, adding maybe an hour to their day. Then, at dusk, turn around, reducing the length of the night. They could even then land where they started....after enough days anyway.
I assume the problem is pilots, so this one would have to be automated.
Yes exactly. According to most biological definitions, a virus is not alive. According to others, it is. Then you get into viroids and prions and boogers, and it becomes a bit convoluted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus
"I actually wouldn't mind paying more just for the satisfaction of knowing that not a penny of my money is going to Empty-V and it's vast array of clones"
Exactly. Also, recently I read that our local antenna sales company will come out and give us a free "checkup" to see what free, over-the-air TV we can receive (Much of which is HD). The only problem is, I do enjoy History and Discovery. I suppose I could wait until most of the shows I like are on DVD, then I wouldn't have commercials and probably be $ ahead.
I was considering that the alcohol doesn't kill all of the bacteria, and they are only covered in it momentarily (and probably not fully). I do not die from it with a limited exposure, so it is possible for the bacteria to live through limited exposure. With such a short lifespan, and with regular use (but not total destruction), I fail to believe that the bacteria wouldn't start to become better defended against the chemical which is killing them off. I am not saying they would soon be able to live in pure alcohol, but a tolerance would build up. There is life on this planet that survives on entire chemical processes, in harsher environments that we once thought possible, surely this isn't unbelievable. Man, now I feel bad for giving bacteria an "acid bath"! Ouch!
Ahh, I suppose the length of time is critical to the evolutionary process. Just like above, that defines our views. I was considering a moment in time, where you were considering longer. So, how long does bacteria have to exists in an autoclave to die? I mean, at what time do you still run the chance of a few little buggers surviving? I assume, with shorter time frames, you could have a problem where some survive (presumably the most resistant?).
Ouch, so i assume even thermal vents are less than 140. Ouch.
One key difference between the WAP and the water tap or the bike. You can still judge what is right/wrong.
-Bike-
Thief: "Hey Bike, can I use you?"
Bike: no reply
Thief: takes the bike
-WaterTap-
Thief: "Hey water, can I use you?"
Watertap: no reply
Thief: takes the water
-WAP-
User: "Hey world, I am looking for a connection. Anyone there?"
WAP1: no reply
WAP2: I am here, but I am secured. You will need a password.
WAP3: I am here, and unsecured. I accept connections from anyone without a password.
User: connects to Wap3
I don't know for sure, I have just recently been trying to read up on roofs. I was told by a fairly expereinced home builder, that the shape of your house, size of your eve, slope of your roof, and window direction/quantity, far outweigh the difference between metal roofs vs asphalt.
One nice thing I have discovered about metal roofs (aluminum), is that you can spray the foam insulation directly onto the underside of your roof in your attic. You have 0 attic vents in this case. The air in your attic stays +-10F from the outside air (6 inches of closed cell foam). Your AC bills plummet, your heating bills plummet. There also shouldn't be any moisture problems, if you have enough (6 inches), and you do not have holes/leaks (generating cold spots). Also, you don't want a vapor barrior between the attic and the living space (you want a small amount of airflow).
No ineffiecient attic vents, no room for leaking (mold), just perfect efficiency. Let you get your air exchange where YOU want it, not with the attic (the least efficient and least healthy place to exchange air).
"circular use of space is highly inefficent. ever tried to stack a pile of balls? there's a lot of wasted space there."
Completely incorrect, circular use of space is the most efficient use possible. Nobody is talking about living in a pile of homes here.......this is about a single ball.
"This is all besides the point that you build a house to fit around YOU, not the other way around."
Ahhh, so the problem is that logic is being replaced by ignorance. Why is it the moment someone proposes a way to adapt to a new lifestyle (to improve quality of life, or health, or environmental impact), people jump all over them because they shouldn't try to live outside the "norm". Why are they not a pioneer? We all benifit from the adventurous folks who adopt technologies early, and improve them.
There is nothing wrong with changing the way you live in order to try to "improve" some facet of it. Not too many generations ago, homes were still being built without insulation, and people like you were harping on insulators as being crackpots wasting their money. Well, those homes are still being used, and many had insulation added a decade later. Consider the cost of the wasted fuel, and the extra cost of adding it post-construction....well, the crackpots were right and we all have benefited from it.
I know one shouldn't criticize outdated thinkers for not having the obvious hindsight of the future, but stupid comments like this make it very difficult. Our home designs are always changing....so please try not to hold back progress.
Some other options to research...which might be right for you instead of a full blown dome home.
ICF
Stick built, with closed cell foam insulation (possibly even staggered-studs)
Geothermal heating/cooling
Metal roofing, or Foam roofing
Thermal storage heating bricks
Roof slope, and eve size (optimize solar heating/cooling for your latitude)
Tree selection for your yard (the right plants make a huge energy difference)
Wait, I see the light now! Spongebob is square and lives in a round pineapple under the sea, yet we are round and we should live in squares? I see your logic.
"in order to make an album, you have to pay employees to run the recording studio, you have to pay for the studio itself, you have to hire artists to make the cover art, etc.............yet people consider paying $30 for a videogame to be a bargain"
Okay, so you have now racked up a few thousand dollars to publish an album. Yippee skippee. Video games take several dozen staff members, several years to complete a quality game.
The big expense you are forgetting, is the court battles, the DRM nonsense, and the cost of paying all the over-the-air big boys to promote your music.
I still call it robbery. $1 might be fair, if i was allowed to use the same song on multiple devices............even so I think 25 cents is more reasonable.
I am not sure you know what inflation is. Look at purchasing power from the 80's until now. Many prices have dropped despite increased wages....look around your house. What would that item cost in 1988? How about your computer, or your microwave for example? Maybe if the Music industry spent less time trying to find a consumer-screwing scheme that didn't screw consumers, they would be able to charge less.
Oh come on. We all know that these modders are terrorists! I will finally sleep better at night knowing that Homeland Security is keeping me safe.
Since you mentioned it, yes drugs also fund evil.........but only because they are illegal. Legalize drugs, and the funding now goes elsewhere (could go towards education, drug prevention, things that fight evil). Either way, at least the modders are gone.......our priorities are in order.
Makes sense, but I think we were referring to on-grid homes...........maybe not.
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I think you missed the point. It takes little effort to get past most locks.....but it does take some effort. An honest person sees the lock, and backs down (realizing it was intended to be locked). The dishonest person plays with the lock (and since most are easily opened) and then gains access.
A simple example is your front door. Locked or not, one kick and someone has access (assuming you have a normal wood-framed door).
Another example, with 5 minutes of research, and a $20 device, you can open most locked car doors. Ever call triple-A? It takes them less than 5 seconds to open most car-doors. 3-seconds with mine.
The GP was correct, locks keep honest people honest. They do nothing for stopping dishonest people. The same goes for DRM.
I might be off track here, please correct me if I am......
What about after the water is already warmed though? I mean, once the sun has warmed your water directly, your gains are nil. Right? The solar panel->heat pump solution would then use the solar energy gained to supplement other things. So, there is a max benefit from the solar/water heat, but no max to the solar/elect system.
Yes, plus then the old batteries do not end up in piles out in the country..........maybe lower capacity batteries could have a lower lease price (for those of us who don't drive much).
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"Oh, I see, so you don't know anyone, so therefore that's how most people are."
I don't think I said that. I simply gave my position from what I have seen.
your setup is fine for you, but many people want to do more intesive tasks on their PCs.
I believe I said "Quite a few, maybe, but not a very high %." I agree, many do, but the % of the entire consumer base isn't very large. I would guess 2-3%, but that is only speaking from years of experience in IT, along with running a computer sales/service shop. Digital photography might be another 2-3% (I am not counting the users who use a 6MP camera, set at 1MP, and keep buying memory cards as they fill them). What do I know......I am talking out of my ass.
I do not disagree, however the stats do not backup your statement.
75% of abuse.............on average a kid is more likely to be at risk around relatives and close friends of the family
That means 25% of abuse happens at the hands of strangers. If your wife can eliminate much of this 25%, you have reduced their risk. Unless your wife is more likely to abuse your children than the stranger.
Another example. I would assume kids spend 95%+ of their time with those considered to be "close to them" because this is who we surround ourselves with. Yet abuse is 75%? Kids spend very little time with "strangers" yet they account for 25% of the abuse?
I guess I do have issue with the "better social skills". From my experience, this could be true, depending on how you define "better". Yes, they talk more, and are more vocal. The children with stay-home parents however would be considered by myself to be more honest, polite, less prone to crime, less likely to be involved in drugs, and much better off academically.
I realize however, the above is probably the result of a caring parent rather than the difference between daycare or not.
Disclaimer: This is a generalization, there are exceptions. Any parent who is basing decisions on what they feel is best for their child is correct. It is those who base their decision on what is easiest for them that I have issue with.
I shouldn't reply, but this is insane....
Following your logic, we should send kids to daycare because 75% of abuse happens from relatives? Sorry, but If you truly believe that your kids are better off in the hands of someone "Not their parents", then you shouldn't have had children. Maybe the percent is high because they spend most of their time with close relatives?
Yeah, I heard that most car accidents happen within 10 miles of home, so I am moving.
Quite a few, maybe, but not a very high %. Thunderbird, Firefox, XP-pro sp1, all run quite nicely on a k62-500mhz with 384mb of ram. I have 3 of them running in my family.....and they operate quicker than any of our neighbors new Core 2 Duo machines. They also will play DVDs fine.
Grantid, we use a much newer 1.4ghz Amd Tbird (Year 2001 maybe?) for processing digital photos. The hard drive space and speed is useful for that. Also, it works fine for digital videos from cameras (video clips really), 100MB tops.
For those few users that actually do encode DVD quality/length video, measured in GB, I can see the need for more power....however I don't know any that do.
But, isn't your time valuable? I mean, why not save time and buy a DRM-free song to begin with?
And here are some interesting pictures from it..........I presume.
http://images.google.com/images?q=creation+museum
Great, I already had a phobia of being hit by an electric car (that I didn't hear). Now I will also fear motorcycles.
Seriously though, I think many of us are accustomed to "listen first" for cars when walking, and "look second". Sadly, it looks like I may be naturally selected out of the breeding pool....by a silent killer.
Well, at least they should travel in that direction, adding maybe an hour to their day. Then, at dusk, turn around, reducing the length of the night. They could even then land where they started....after enough days anyway.
I assume the problem is pilots, so this one would have to be automated.
Yes exactly. According to most biological definitions, a virus is not alive. According to others, it is. Then you get into viroids and prions and boogers, and it becomes a bit convoluted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus
"I actually wouldn't mind paying more just for the satisfaction of knowing that not a penny of my money is going to Empty-V and it's vast array of clones"
Exactly. Also, recently I read that our local antenna sales company will come out and give us a free "checkup" to see what free, over-the-air TV we can receive (Much of which is HD). The only problem is, I do enjoy History and Discovery. I suppose I could wait until most of the shows I like are on DVD, then I wouldn't have commercials and probably be $ ahead.
I was considering that the alcohol doesn't kill all of the bacteria, and they are only covered in it momentarily (and probably not fully). I do not die from it with a limited exposure, so it is possible for the bacteria to live through limited exposure. With such a short lifespan, and with regular use (but not total destruction), I fail to believe that the bacteria wouldn't start to become better defended against the chemical which is killing them off. I am not saying they would soon be able to live in pure alcohol, but a tolerance would build up. There is life on this planet that survives on entire chemical processes, in harsher environments that we once thought possible, surely this isn't unbelievable. Man, now I feel bad for giving bacteria an "acid bath"! Ouch!
Ahh, I suppose the length of time is critical to the evolutionary process. Just like above, that defines our views. I was considering a moment in time, where you were considering longer. So, how long does bacteria have to exists in an autoclave to die? I mean, at what time do you still run the chance of a few little buggers surviving? I assume, with shorter time frames, you could have a problem where some survive (presumably the most resistant?).
Ouch, so i assume even thermal vents are less than 140. Ouch.
"Alcohol works primarily because of organic chemistry, not something specific to certain strains of bacteria."
I don't follow this. Please explain how this stops evolution.
So, you are suggesting that the current 120C microbes didn't evolve this ability?
What is the difference between this, and thistles evolving better abilities to cling to clothes?
One key difference between the WAP and the water tap or the bike. You can still judge what is right/wrong.
-Bike-
Thief: "Hey Bike, can I use you?"
Bike: no reply
Thief: takes the bike
-WaterTap-
Thief: "Hey water, can I use you?"
Watertap: no reply
Thief: takes the water
-WAP-
User: "Hey world, I am looking for a connection. Anyone there?"
WAP1: no reply
WAP2: I am here, but I am secured. You will need a password.
WAP3: I am here, and unsecured. I accept connections from anyone without a password.
User: connects to Wap3
Yes, but by the same theory of evolution shouldn't the bacteria that are more resistant to dessication be passing on more genes?
Whenever I hear about human products and chemicals killing 99.99% of something, I wonder if we are truely doing ourselves a favor?
I don't know for sure, I have just recently been trying to read up on roofs. I was told by a fairly expereinced home builder, that the shape of your house, size of your eve, slope of your roof, and window direction/quantity, far outweigh the difference between metal roofs vs asphalt.
One nice thing I have discovered about metal roofs (aluminum), is that you can spray the foam insulation directly onto the underside of your roof in your attic. You have 0 attic vents in this case. The air in your attic stays +-10F from the outside air (6 inches of closed cell foam). Your AC bills plummet, your heating bills plummet. There also shouldn't be any moisture problems, if you have enough (6 inches), and you do not have holes/leaks (generating cold spots). Also, you don't want a vapor barrior between the attic and the living space (you want a small amount of airflow).
No ineffiecient attic vents, no room for leaking (mold), just perfect efficiency. Let you get your air exchange where YOU want it, not with the attic (the least efficient and least healthy place to exchange air).
"circular use of space is highly inefficent. ever tried to stack a pile of balls? there's a lot of wasted space there."
Completely incorrect, circular use of space is the most efficient use possible. Nobody is talking about living in a pile of homes here.......this is about a single ball.
"This is all besides the point that you build a house to fit around YOU, not the other way around."
Ahhh, so the problem is that logic is being replaced by ignorance. Why is it the moment someone proposes a way to adapt to a new lifestyle (to improve quality of life, or health, or environmental impact), people jump all over them because they shouldn't try to live outside the "norm". Why are they not a pioneer? We all benifit from the adventurous folks who adopt technologies early, and improve them.
There is nothing wrong with changing the way you live in order to try to "improve" some facet of it. Not too many generations ago, homes were still being built without insulation, and people like you were harping on insulators as being crackpots wasting their money. Well, those homes are still being used, and many had insulation added a decade later. Consider the cost of the wasted fuel, and the extra cost of adding it post-construction....well, the crackpots were right and we all have benefited from it.
I know one shouldn't criticize outdated thinkers for not having the obvious hindsight of the future, but stupid comments like this make it very difficult. Our home designs are always changing....so please try not to hold back progress.
Some other options to research...which might be right for you instead of a full blown dome home.
ICF
Stick built, with closed cell foam insulation (possibly even staggered-studs)
Geothermal heating/cooling
Metal roofing, or Foam roofing
Thermal storage heating bricks
Roof slope, and eve size (optimize solar heating/cooling for your latitude)
Tree selection for your yard (the right plants make a huge energy difference)
Wait, I see the light now! Spongebob is square and lives in a round pineapple under the sea, yet we are round and we should live in squares? I see your logic.
"in order to make an album, you have to pay employees to run the recording studio, you have to pay for the studio itself, you have to hire artists to make the cover art, etc.............yet people consider paying $30 for a videogame to be a bargain"
Okay, so you have now racked up a few thousand dollars to publish an album. Yippee skippee. Video games take several dozen staff members, several years to complete a quality game.
The big expense you are forgetting, is the court battles, the DRM nonsense, and the cost of paying all the over-the-air big boys to promote your music.
I still call it robbery. $1 might be fair, if i was allowed to use the same song on multiple devices............even so I think 25 cents is more reasonable.
I am not sure you know what inflation is. Look at purchasing power from the 80's until now. Many prices have dropped despite increased wages....look around your house. What would that item cost in 1988? How about your computer, or your microwave for example? Maybe if the Music industry spent less time trying to find a consumer-screwing scheme that didn't screw consumers, they would be able to charge less.
Oh come on. We all know that these modders are terrorists! I will finally sleep better at night knowing that Homeland Security is keeping me safe.
Since you mentioned it, yes drugs also fund evil.........but only because they are illegal. Legalize drugs, and the funding now goes elsewhere (could go towards education, drug prevention, things that fight evil). Either way, at least the modders are gone.......our priorities are in order.
Makes sense, but I think we were referring to on-grid homes...........maybe not.
I think you missed the point. It takes little effort to get past most locks.....but it does take some effort. An honest person sees the lock, and backs down (realizing it was intended to be locked). The dishonest person plays with the lock (and since most are easily opened) and then gains access.
A simple example is your front door. Locked or not, one kick and someone has access (assuming you have a normal wood-framed door).
Another example, with 5 minutes of research, and a $20 device, you can open most locked car doors. Ever call triple-A? It takes them less than 5 seconds to open most car-doors. 3-seconds with mine.
The GP was correct, locks keep honest people honest. They do nothing for stopping dishonest people. The same goes for DRM.
I might be off track here, please correct me if I am......
What about after the water is already warmed though? I mean, once the sun has warmed your water directly, your gains are nil. Right? The solar panel->heat pump solution would then use the solar energy gained to supplement other things. So, there is a max benefit from the solar/water heat, but no max to the solar/elect system.
Yes, plus then the old batteries do not end up in piles out in the country..........maybe lower capacity batteries could have a lower lease price (for those of us who don't drive much).
"Why do you think that's tolerable?"
Because people keep buying them.
Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if we start to see advertising in between DVD tracks soon.