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Great new TED talk for DIY builders.

I gathered. At one point I was putting a lot of time and effort into knowing red wine, particularly Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. One day I was at my favorite vineyards tasting room, when I confessed to the owner that his cheapest Cab was my favorite. He actually agreed with me, and told me...

I believe the skill in drinking is knowing what things are and what you like.

Ah. It might be because I recently renewed.

I've encountered the same, though I purchased mine a while ago, they seem to have changed it mid-way.

That is why these gimmicks are just that. It's not like you aren't going to pay for it somehow. The only way to play is find a system that works best for your ordering volume/priority.

I like it cold, as it is more refreshing. If you're going to add water you may as well add ice.

Also, my favorite current reactor designs run on the depleted waste from current reactors, dealing with an existing problem at the same time.

I was under the impression that extracting uranium from seawater (PDF warning) was quite doable.

Name a price for overnight and sign me up. If I can wait 2 days (I usually can't), I can wait 3.

Yup, if they were to give a modern phone HDMI out and bluetooth keyboard support, quite a few people could get away with it as their primary machine.

I was thinking it would be a neat display for the living room, just having my two home machines at the bottom of a fish tank. My office machine is already water cooled.

It does look interesting. Not sure exactly how many times I would need the second screen. Perhaps once video phone tech shows up? Even my existing crappy phone does task switching very well. Maybe reviewing a document and writing an e-mail? I hate reviewing PDFs on my phone as it is; it just...

Cute, but something tells me that might conduct electricity, or do something else bad.

I'm all for solar, wind, and geothermal, but none of them can solve the problems of today. In fact, I don't think they will be ready by the time oil runs out. When I say "they won't be ready", what I'm really talking about is the energy storage and transmission required to use intermittent and...

It's a shame they aren't offering just the liquid, or a smaller kit. I suspect I'd get some solid OC'ing in one of those. ;)

For me, that actually says something bad about all SSDs. I don't think Intel is special in this regard.

No need. Just an observation.

You don't really have any choice at this point. A few more years and nearly everyone will have forgotten about the usefulness of a 4:3 screen at all. At least the UI designers are getting a clue and putting the menus on the sides instead of the top.

I had an apartment where we kept the TV in the (unused) fireplace. If you had a CRT, it was a great place to stick it. Edit: Besides, you could always just loop this in it.

Wow Sterodude, you really are a dick from time to time.

I've had stuff sandblasted and powder-coated before. Wasn't too expensive, and left an awesome result. Of course, the case couldn't have any plastic bits.

Just got a pair of Bose QC15s to use with my uFlyMike when I'm flying. They are actually a decent set of headphones as well.

Interestingly, my setup is more complex than that. Video and audio go from the PC into a 4x4 HDMI matrix switch. My headphones connect to my monitor, which decodes the HDMI and has a tiny amp. It can't be the best quality, but it isn't bad. Other sources for the video are the receiver for the...

Hadn't even heard of it, though I must admit, your description isn't convincing me to try it ;)

Assuming you mean DVI in? I don't think any of my monitors have anything but audio and USB out.

Funny, I can't stand beer.

Indeed. Combine your conclusions in that post with your current condition and repent! While you're at it, make it a double ;)

I will indeed be putting a heat pump system in, as soon as I get a kitchen going. We're out of the winter, so no heating will be needed until October at the earliest.

I'm perfectly happy with it being 74 in the summer and 68 in the winter. The ROI is only there if energy costs increase significantly (which I believe they will). Even if it doesn't pan out financially, I feel better running a more efficient system.

Reminds me of when I was in Russia and made myself a vodka tonic. My father-in-law asked, "what's wrong with the vodka?".

I've drive through Vancouver on my way to Alaska before. But that was pre-9/11, so I don't know what has changed since then.

If it will work straight downwind, it will work at any angle. Downwind is the worst-case scenario. The only additional issue is lateral forces working against the mast, but they'll need to deal with that just to overcome the rotor-torque issue anyway.

Very cool. I remember when that first appeared some time ago. The thought in my mind was that the prop operated kind of like a ratchet; locking in the power the wind had already imparted on the craft, allowing it to start with all the power the wind could give from any speed. Eventually, they...

Nope, that is all-in. And gas taxes are pretty high here in CA. $67.25 to fill an Audi A3. Of course, that station only had full-serve, so there is a significant surcharge there as well.

$4.85/gal - the most I've paid for 91-octane in a long time.

I doubt he knew there were bolts in the box at the time. When I was in China, I purchased a 16GB memory stick for ~$8. This was many years ago, and was the first 16GB stick I had ever seen. Connected it to my laptop right there and tried it out. Of course, it had the same issue as the one...

Interesting design. Seems the botched it by making it just too small for 120mm fans in a normal configuration. It wouldn't have taken much. Also, SPCR screwed up by taking a case designed for upward convective flow and not using a GPU or CPU cooler that was conducive to that design.

There are a number of tools out there that re-create the RAM disk and re-populate it with files from a folder on another disk. Someone at one point built a PCI card that held some DIMMs and a battery. IIRC, their second version was even bootable.

I believe in reducing energy consumption through technology, but sacrificing comfort is to be avoided. I have special-order windows more efficient than the local guys had ever seen. I've insulated the house to near Norwegian specs even though I live in central California. The water heater I'm...

Sounds logical to me.

I was doing RAM drives before SSDs came out. Getting some incredible speed; but capacity was stunningly expensive. I took my system to 24GB and made 12 of it a RAM disk for Photoshop (which at the time didn't have a 64-bit version). Unless you are trying to work around limitations in older...

pass?

That is great, particularly once you change the size of the planets and their separation to "actual", then try to find a planet ;)

Wow. Did that happen to be on your subnet? ;)

Meh. The solar with grid backup is where I would go. I just don't have the ~$25k+ to do it at the moment. We need to install a kitchen first ;)

They are using a natural gas fired power plant 10 miles away anyway, so it isn't exceptionally inefficient.

At least. In my experience, they have a very slow charge on bigger UPS. Perhaps trying to be nice to the batteries?

Then don't worry about it. The consumption of the device itself, particularly when the battery is fully charged, is going to be very small.

I don't think you would be that far off. The alternative would be to connect the KW between the UPS and all your devices using power strip(s).