[QUOTE=Brt5470;50549402]Father's Day is basically the apocalypse.[/QUOTE]
No wonder it was such a bitch to find a Rocket League match this morning
saw the ram talk, decided to go check up on onedrive which tends to leak ram
only to see that it crashed somewhere in the last couple of days
[editline]19th June 2016[/editline]
imagine actually shutting your computer down though
[img]http://i.imgur.com/IJHrYVy.png[/img]
the most i ever got was a month or so iirc
was fun finding all those windows i never closed
[QUOTE=pentium;50549635]Watch it be those homeowners who are asshole enough to steal random fixtures out of the house.
When I moved into this place in 2001 they took all the lightbulbs with them.[/QUOTE]
Oh god that's a pain in the ass, you would have to find out which light bulb fits in it, the wattage which would be on the socket for each one of them.. oh god.
[QUOTE=garychencool;50551976]Oh god that's a pain in the ass, you would have to find out which light bulb fits in it, the wattage which would be on the socket for each one of them.. oh god.[/QUOTE]
not really?
there's really only like 2 big sockets
I think he meant bulb wattage.
[QUOTE=pentium;50552004]I think he meant bulb wattage.[/QUOTE]
even that's reaching
wattage is more about what feels right for a room
If I were the only one living here, and electricity was free, I'd have 500W light bulbs in every socket.
[QUOTE=paul simon;50552066]If I were the only one living here, and electricity was free, I'd have 500W light bulbs in every socket.[/QUOTE]
Is it your dream to live in an oven?
(Also, wattage has nothing to do with brightness. That is lumens/temperature (for color tone))
[QUOTE=Revenge282;50552086]Is it your dream to live in an oven?
(Also, wattage has nothing to do with brightness. That is lumens/temperature (for color tone))[/QUOTE]
500W isn't enough to heat up any of the rooms in our house.
I usually have a 2000W electric oven running in my room, so it wouldn't really make much of a difference.
House is approximately 200 years old, and the walls are isolated with SAND. Add the fact that I live north of the polar circle, and you've got yourself a big energy drain to keep us inhabitants alive.
Wattage directly relates to brightness within respective bulb types
An 800W halogen will be a lot brighter than a 100W halogen. (And the kind I'm talking about would likely be halogen)
A 60W incandescent bulb is brighter than a 40W incandescent.
A 10W LED is brighter than a 5W LED.
However:
10W LED =/= 10W incandescent =/= 10W Halogen =/= 10W fluorescent
Ideally I'd have big diffusers over the lamps. Like, several meters wide if possible. And heck, have them be dimmable too.
Would be great, especially during winter when the sun doesn't rise for a month.
Whenever I get the chance I replace proper light fixtures with old ceramic and brass wire lamps with antique 60W bulbs.
[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/CRW_8284.jpg[/IMG]
I wish I had to worry about my house/room being too cold. Even in winter, I'd sweat without AC.
We also have an AC, but it's pretty much on heat pump mode 100% of the time.
My bedroom and workspaces are pretty much windowless, so I don't need to worry about AC at all.
[sp]Or people hearing me cry some nights[/sp]
[QUOTE=pentium;50552331]My bedroom and workspaces are pretty much windowless, so I don't need to worry about AC at all.
[sp]Or people hearing me cry some nights[/sp][/QUOTE]
My apartment is literally windowless.
.....you can install profiles on OS X?
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/YUri0ha.png[/IMG]
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[sp]look at the delicious skeuomorphism[/sp]
As the bulbs in my apartment burn out, I replace them with LEDs. I'm to about half now. Lol
Still got a small stock pile of incandescent. Sales were banned some time ago but everyone did a clearance sale on them on the final week before the ban took place. Some were like 80% off.
[QUOTE=Del91;50552644]As the bulbs in my apartment burn out, I replace them with LEDs. I'm to about half now. Lol[/QUOTE]
My parents got some but forgot to get "warm" ones or whatever, so the kitchen is lit with sterile blue like a hospital
My electric company in my old city sent me like 20 some various LED bulbs along with a master port powerstrip and small dark detecting lights. They were pretty cool, I also only paid $0.063/kwh.
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;50552702]My parents got some but forgot to get "warm" ones or whatever, so the kitchen is lit with sterile blue like a hospital[/QUOTE]
Every one I've bought, without even purposefully trying to, has been warm. I haven't even found bright white bulbs
I was really surprised when I saw LED bulbs for $5/piece at the hardware store. When I first started switching I was buying them for $50 and that was only like two years ago.
Hello everyone,
I'm about to go to college for the first time tomorrow starting at 12PM and goes till 4PM. It's the only class I am taking in the summer, and it's Computer Science. The first, basic class.
And I have no idea what to expect. I don't know what kind of people will be in it or how the teaching methods that comp sci teachers generally use. The only experience I have with people in comp sci in the college I am going to is this dead pan guy who works in the library who handed my comp sci textbook and told me that "you better know your algebra or you won't last long" I've been getting solid A's and B's in math classes in general, but the way he said it made me shiver idk.
If anyone could give me their experiences with Computer Science at a college or any classes in general, it would be awesome if you guys helped out. Thanks.
[QUOTE=Otterman;50553181]Hello everyone,
I'm about to go to college for the first time tomorrow starting at 12PM and goes till 4PM. It's the only class I am taking in the summer, and it's Computer Science. The first, basic class.
And I have no idea what to expect. I don't know what kind of people will be in it or how the teaching methods that comp sci teachers generally use. The only experience I have with people in comp sci in the college I am going to is this dead pan guy who works in the library who handed my comp sci textbook and told me that "you better know your algebra or you won't last long" I've been getting solid A's and B's in math classes in general, but the way he said it made me shiver idk.
If anyone could give me their experiences with Computer Science at a college or any classes in general, it would be awesome if you guys helped out. Thanks.[/QUOTE]
Consider selling a kidney now so you can collect some interest on it before having to use that money on textbooks.
[QUOTE=helifreak;50553272]Consider selling a kidney now so you can collect some interest on it before having to use that money on textbooks.[/QUOTE]
Luckily I was able to get help from the lead financial aid administrator at the college and he was able to set me up with free textbooks for 3 semesters, or one full year. After that I need to apply for scholarships.
Although, my kidney's are in pretty good shape so I think I might take that offer.
[QUOTE=Otterman;50553181]Hello everyone,
I'm about to go to college for the first time tomorrow starting at 12PM and goes till 4PM. It's the only class I am taking in the summer, and it's Computer Science. The first, basic class.
And I have no idea what to expect. I don't know what kind of people will be in it or how the teaching methods that comp sci teachers generally use. The only experience I have with people in comp sci in the college I am going to is this dead pan guy who works in the library who handed my comp sci textbook and told me that "you better know your algebra or you won't last long" I've been getting solid A's and B's in math classes in general, but the way he said it made me shiver idk.
If anyone could give me their experiences with Computer Science at a college or any classes in general, it would be awesome if you guys helped out. Thanks.[/QUOTE]
I'm going to be a senior after the summer, but I'll weigh in. There isn't really that much hard math in undergrad CS, but you are forced to take a lot of it. If you want to do graphics programming, linear algebra is useful. If you have the brain for it, CS isn't hard usually, but can be very time consuming, start projects the day you get them. Write code in small pieces and debug before expanding. Learn and use tools to make programming easier(editors, IDEs, diff tools, etc). Some lecturers are good, others aren't great. Going to lecture isn't always necessary, but keeping up with the material is important or you end up trying to cram 30 powerpoints of material right before tests. Avoid dynamic memory allocation, until you know what your doing, fixed size buffers can be replaced later. Regular Expressions save time.
I lot of what I said is common sense, but certainly not always in practice. Other CS majors that don't know/or apply tools really piss me off, as they'll ask me for help and then I see they attempted to write 50% of a c program in one go in an unconfigured gedit or mousepad , and they only use print statements to debug. Then, I can either have them add more print statements or fumble around in gdb, when there are plenty of IDEs such as QtCreator. I'm not saying everyone has to use an IDE, but everyone should be using a debugger and an editor with line numbers, autoindent, and syntax highlighting.
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[QUOTE=Otterman;50553284]Luckily I was able to get help from the lead financial aid administrator at the college and he was able to set me up with free textbooks for 3 semesters, or one full year. After that I need to apply for scholarships.
Although, my kidney's are in pretty good shape so I think I might take that offer.[/QUOTE]
I'd skip buying textbooks, unless your course is literally ripped from the book. There are pdfs everywhere, edition almost never matters, a lot of professors don't use the books much, Many school libraries have copies you can use in there or make photocopies of. Online resources seem to be as good, but know when you need to RTFM.
[QUOTE=Otterman;50553284]Luckily I was able to get help from the lead financial aid administrator at the college and he was able to set me up with free textbooks for 3 semesters, or one full year. After that I need to apply for scholarships.
Although, my kidney's are in pretty good shape so I think I might take that offer.[/QUOTE]
Apply for scholarships and bursaries now.
There was an entrance bursary that my college had and I didn't know about it. Just look at all of them, read the criteria and mark them into your calendar on when the due date is for submission. Who knows, you might get a scholarship or bursary now.
Have fun with classes that require you to pay $150 to get access to all the homework and assignments.
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And then you still have to buy the textbook.
On the topic of universities, I've just finished the second to last year of school, and I'm thinking about studying in a foreign country, what universities that offer Computer Science would you recoomend (preferably in Europe, but I'm open to other continents as well). And any general tips regarding studies would be appreciated.
[QUOTE=garychencool;50552677]Still got a small stock pile of incandescent. Sales were banned some time ago but everyone did a clearance sale on them on the final week before the ban took place. Some were like 80% off.[/QUOTE]
Dollarama and Dollar tree still stocks them. Only once did I see them selling LED bulbs but they were hilariously dim. I need to get more of those squirrel cage bulbs both in tungsten and LED format.
Anyone have some recommendations for a budget desk chair? Finally getting rid of the dining room table chair I've been using for years.
Budget is about $100 or so.
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