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i would only bother with sports involving human powered aviation. i dont think any such sporting events currently exist. it takes a special kind of athlete to keep an aircraft in the sky.

i have never needed to rely on an operating system's search facilities. years of using dos have honed my file management skills to a fine point, and i like an os that mostly stays out of my way in this regard.

consistency is more important than speed. ive been launching programs by going to the start menu since around 1994. xp was actually the first os to start screwing with this. but fortunately classic start menu was still an option. after xp i could no longer rely on muscle memory to navigate my os, i had to stop and think how to do something, and that likely cost me more time than the os saved by being slightly more efficient. if we get to the point where we are carving up the ui and replacing it with something else every other version then we are probibly hurting users more than the os is saving them by working with the latest in hardware tech. i eventually got over the vista/7 start menu. the thing that i never got over with vista/7 was that it changed the names of all the icons in the control panel. when it comes right down to it i wouldn't mind using windows 8.1's guts with windows 2k's ui. thats why i kinda wish that windows would take a page from linux and make the ui completely modular.

bratwurst is great. was going to get some but store was out. sadface.gif

modern flat panels dont use much power compared to old crt screens.

one does not simply nuke meat.

my grill's regulator likes to freeze up sometimes. when this happens the valve never completely closes, and gas trickles out. for storage i usually have to unscrew the regulator from the tank and put a cap on the tank to prevent loosing all my gas and filling the shed up with a cloud of explosive death. once in a blue moon it freezes in the fully open position and will not shut down. one day i got the bright idea to dump hot water on the regulator to clear the block. somehow it made things worse, the gas started flowing at an alarming rate and the grill became a fireball (incidentally this is a good way to cook a frozen steak, assuming you want it rare in the middle). i presume i expanded the casing while the moving parts inside were still being cooled allowing more gas to flow than usual. anyway after about 30 seconds of inferno the valve snapped shut. ever since then i make damn sure that no gas is flowing before i walk away from the grill. you probibly had a stuck valve much like mine. if your fire extinguisher was a co2, the explosion might have been cause by rapid cooling of hot metal. you may have ruptured the gas lines in the control panel. releasing more gas into the inferno. regulator freezing usually indicates overfilled tanks, because the gas doesn't have room in which to vaporize prior to reaching the regulator.

convection ovens are pretty cool. i was house sitting/installing drywall for a guy while he was off in china. the kitchen was a mess and the range wasnt hooked up yet. but he had a convection oven. about the size of a microwave without all the horrible food coming out of it. i wouldn't mind having one of those if i had room for another kitchen gadget.

windows versions are a lot like star trek movies. only every other one is any good.

this is where im at with my game engine. the idea was to do a newtonian combat simulator and i work on it on and off. this whole thing is written in stand alone lua using nothing more than the libraries that come with lua for windows. iup provides the opengl context, then theres luagl (which is stuck at version 1.3). joystick support provided by using alien to interface with a dll for garys mod (i just googled joystick dll) and is worthy of some kind of hacking award. i would have used sdl but luasdl didnt want to cooperate. the engine also has freetrack support but it doesn't use it yet. i wrote all the 3d maths libraries from scratch. im old school so i did a quake style console (which can be used to issue in game commands and also write code while the game is running). physics is still a stub right now. its mostly just a basic newtonian model with the ability to apply arbitrary impulses to an object, which can be used in collision response (though there is no collision detection yet) or for thruster simulation. its not quite a game yet, it would need about a dozen major subsystems before i would even consider it such. i also have another engine that runs in c++, and compiles on my raspberry pi, though it uses a software rasterizer that doesnt work very well. the original idea was to prototype in lua and do a more robust implementation based on what works, though the lua engine still runs circles around it. i like to code with the bare minimum of libraries and frameworks like unity just get in the way. i also rather enjoy solving the more complex issues like physics simulation and collision detection where things like unity would solve them for you and you dont learn anything.

so were skipping the good version of windows this time around?

this case design is pretty cool, the intakes for practically everything face large grills in the case. so the video card, and power supply have their own isolated airflows, while the mobo and psu gets a massive flow from a 140mm fan. i only want to overclock to the bare minimum to make use of the memory. i want this to be a 3 year build. im going to be monitoring the heat while i do some serious benchmarks. im not to thrilled with intel's stock sinks, they always seem like they are about to fall off. they are not like the beasts that used to be fitted to the early p4 chips, that thing looked solid. or perhaps the large spring steel strap on some older amd rigs. you knew the thing was secure. they also seem to clog up with dust bunnies more rapidly than i would like. im going to have to shop around for one, and like i said, im not too sure about how much clearance i have for a sink.

listen to the power supply while its under load, if you hear any hissing at all, its probibly dying caps. im not beyond replacing dead capacitors in a psu. ive done it several times. be sure to cross every large cap and inductor with a large resistor. dont use your fingers, you might die. granddaddy used to just use a screw driver. because i am old and dont play many games. mostly old games and indie titles. its still probibly better than the gtx 560 im currently using which ran everything fine and dandy. there always next year. one of the benefits of being alaskan is that you get free money every fall. this year netted me a new comp, a big screen tv, and a full pantry.

thats where i science. i have a couple hundred left over in case something goes wrong or there is insufficient cooling or whatever. i looked at what newegg had and the only after market offerings looked worse than intel's stock cooler or two big to fit. also i didnt find any numbers on cpu cooler to psu clearence so im going to have to measure that before selecting a cooler. il probibly have to go through another vendor. if i like my thermal numbers i dont see any point putting more money into it.

looks like a last minute change up. if i get the 4790k and this mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157531 i can use oc ram. ddr3 2400 seems to be in the range of affordability and this ram appears to be on the qvl: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231666 and power supply is still 50w over a peak loaded full cpu usage aged 450w power supply. final build cost is 975.11 with 39.19 shipping. a little over budget but who cares i7 yay.

pretty awesome stuff.

maybe, some issues came up in which the computer was more expensive than expected, which kind of limits any additional changes. ive already ordered the case from elsewhere because newegg conveniently ran out of stock. that added another 10 bucks to my order. the rest of my cash should be deposited tomorrow. the sale on my video card ended, and im kinda contemplating getting a slightly better one. though the next bracket up seems to be at the $200 mark, while i might swing the extra $30 for an even better i7, $50+ for a better video card seems less likely. case also limits me to cards < 210mm in length, so that also kills my options. i could do something different and go with an amd video card. on the other hand the 750ti is a low tdp card and fits my original plan better.

i do tend to be a little nuts. but the voices in my head would probibly disagree.

also it has an extra 2mb of cache, i love me some sram. dont ruin it for me, this is the one part of the year i get to splurge on computer stuff. i want this build to go a good 3 years.

i was under the impression that natural uranium could be used in a reactor. however if thorium turns out to be easier to process in situ i have no problem with one being used over the other. it also provides a solution for the reactor launch problem. if we can minimize irradiation risks by doing our nuclear fuel mining processing off planet then its probibly a good idea to do so. its one of the reasons im more of a proponent of moon base rather than mars landing. mars might be a stunt but moon unlocks the universe.

so the critters in that movie metabolize radioactive isotopes. explain that one.

and thats 4% less time thumb twiddling between builds.

agc simulators exist. its a weird beast to operate.

coal mine collapses and kills miners: cost of doing buisness nuclear incident leads to a 1% increase in cancer risk: disaster

then isru can move into the realm of uranium processing.