Does anyone know of a site that has plans (or like-minded individuals scheming plans) for efficient, ecologically friendly housing design?

PS: Guys, please..... Unless Darwin himself shuffles out of his grave or God pops down to Earth to tell us the answer the debate that you guys are having within another debate (about a totally unrelated matter) is not really helping. I cant say that I have ever quoted myself before, but please guys...

I don't have an undergrad degree and at this very second I'm sitting 10 feet from a PhD who's making exactly the same $ I am.

money isn't everything. I'd much rather be doing something I love than making a lot of money. Of course, if the two can happen together, that's great, but....

I think for the most part we're pretty much on the same page. We're just arguing details. However, I do think you're reading more into my words than is actually there. Funny, I felt the same way about your first post :P This is simply untrue. Newtonian physics are not considered "correct". They are...

Take, for example, the subject of evolution. There is absolutely zero legitimate scientific debate that is questioning whether or not evolution exists. Zero. <snip> The scientific community as a whole thinks of evolutionary nay-sayers so poorly that few credible scientists would even remotely consi...

...and there's also already this page on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_ ... ng_Swindle

I would go as far as to say that the writer of that "Guardian" article got most of his information off of a pissed friend he met in a pub and jotted it down on the back of a fag packet - he obviously never watched the programme. The debunking has been debunked and is now classified as bunk. I'd say...

In the last thread I was accused of not thinking for myself and I was simply "a victim of the obfuscation campaign (by the white house and others) that caused 53% of journalists to write in the last few years that there's much scientific confusion about global warming, its causes and its effects." ...

I was thinking of trying to make some money on the side by building systems for people. Advertising in the paper ect. But can I get in trouble if I dont have any type of certification or license, or is it perfectly legal? I don't think you can get in trouble with the law. That being said, building ...

I remember there used to be an app under Win32 and X Windows (xwininfo) that'll allow you to click a window and it'll tell you which application it belongs to - anyone know of anything like that that'll work under Vista? TIA. DonP. You can use Process Explorer for this: http://www.microsoft.com/tec...

The environmentalists that shove this down our throats hate people and what they do to the environment. Can't you see the hatred in their eyes? No, actually I can't. This is called hyperbole. Hard core environmentalists see themselves as being superior to normal 1st world people. I'm not talking ab...

We can't even predict the weather accurately a few days out and you want me to believe that the environmentalists know for a fact that the the evil humans are changing the earth's climate with a little bit of carbon dioxide emissions? ...evil humans?! :lol: I don't think that's what the environment...

Because I work from home and travel a lot, my "main rig" is currently a laptop. It's a Pentium-M 2.0 GHz with 2GB of ram, running XP Pro. Since I exclusively develop software with this computer, it works pretty well. It has integrated graphics, so gaming is out of the question, but the 2 gigs of RAM...

Pretty interesting, I was wondering how much (or little seems more accurate) power the Wii uses. It's unfortunate the Wii doesn't support DVD playback. It'd definitely be much more efficient (and probably quieter) than using the 360 or PS3 for this task. I guess a standalone DVD player would work a...

Culprit is right here : http://www.informit.com/content/images/art_fogie_insidewii/elementLinks/wiifig11.jpg http://www.informit.com/content/images/art_fogie_insidewii/elementLinks/wiifig12.jpg ...if those are USB ports, then that's a pretty small fan. It also looks like the unit has some pretty agg...

By SPCR standards the Wii is not quiet, especially since its fan(s?) are all over the tiny leafblower variety, but compared to the 360, it's whisper-quiet. ...that's....weird. Given the ridiculously modest power consumption of the Wii (I was truly amazed: less than 20W is impressive), one would thi...

Does anyone know the answer to this question in regards to Linux? How much Ram is recommended for, say, Ubuntu? And is there an advantage to having more? If there was an advantage, how much could you have? Linux is not as small and light as people like to insinuate. Ubuntu really needs 256 MB of RA...

BillyBuerger wrote:Although using the fancy clock gadget uses about 12% of the CPU (P4-2.0GHz) when the second hand is enabled.

Yeah, someone might want to check that out when they get a moment. It takes 200 million clock cycles to move the second hand?!

3.5%, 4.1% that only tells you about performance under load - it doesn't take into account how the computer is used. That's why I said, percentages are useless for without the proper context. Actually, it does. I think you're misinterpreting the link. It has a wide set of different benchmarks. 3.5%...

spookmineer wrote:That's odd. It made mine a lot better.

I was being sarcastic.

It ruined me in the sense that now I'm obsessed with noise; the more you try and get rid of it, the more it seems to crop up.

Actually scanner drivers may be an exceptional issue in Vista. The reports I read: "Epson 1240U scanner no longer supported by native drivers or Epson... I find it inexcusable that Vista doesn't even contain some Generic driver for scanners like it does for printers. Maybe scanners are more complex...

Gotta love percentages, the numbers are meaningless in and of itself. We need to put it in context. It is in context. Over an average of a number of different benchmarks, the extra cache is going to give a performance boost of about 3.5%. Removing games from the benchmarks bumps that up to 4.1%. Th...

eh the analysis used lots of games that never use cache as examples. THey never needed cache, and ruin the "average". Amd showed that cache has little bearing on games and so many went for 512KB a64 754's and 939 if you were more into gaming. anything that is single threaded and constantly changing...

Bories36 wrote:Hes sensitive to the quitest things know

This site ruined my computing experience. 4 lyfe.

there is no reason to not get a 4 meg cache intel. remember, we are dealing with lamo fsb types of intel again. no on die mem controllers mean that performance is great when you have more cache. Actually, there really isn't a big performance difference between the 2 and 4 meg chips . 3 to 4%, on av...

incredible driver/device support... I read that many older scanner drivers won't work and you may have to install a VMware Server and put a Windows XP virtual machine on it if there is no Vista driver. Is this true? I doubt it. Most of the things people say about Vista at this point in time aren't ...

I am also curious about the AData memory. According to at least one OC database , the memory of choice for OC is Corsair, G.Skill, or OCZ. There is exactly one system in their db with AData memory. Is that just a matter of everybody following the herd or is there really something to that? Or maybe ...

First, the components that are pretty set: Power Supply: Nexus 400W NX4090 Hard Drive: WD SE16 WD3200KS 320GB 3.0Gb/s SATA Memory: (Corsair|G.Skil|OCZ) PC2-6400 Video Card: XFX nVidia 7600GS 256M 2 DVI Misc: Firewire 800 card, hardware voice modem The NX4090 appears to be the undisputed quietest an...

You definitely don't need a Seasonic S12-430; I doubt this system could break 150W at load. I'd go with the S12-330 myself. That'll save $40. Hmm, might be worth considering. It would save me about EUR 23,-. I like to be able to upgrade with additional drives, tv-cards or what have you. Likely a 33...

Parts list [/u] Case: Antec P180B, Black PSU: Seasonic S12-430 MOBO: Asus P5W DH Deluxe CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo (Conroe), E6600, Socket 775 CPU-Cooler: Scythe SCNJ-1100P Ninja Rev.B + 120MM fan RAM: Kingston KHX6400D2LLK2/2G, 2048 MB, DDR2, PC6400, 800 MHz, 2 x (CAS4) (2 times for a total of 4GB) GPU...