I universally sprout icicles at 22.7 degrees Celsius, that's 73 degrees Fahrenheit for those who don't use Celsius. Doesn't matter where or if it's gradual or not I simply do. On the other hand, I thrive in high temperatures and am often outside tirelessly hard at work while everyone else is sitting around complaining…

I was planning on a combination of sources. For the house Solar would mostly be for water or for Thermo electric conversion as the panels for energy are not all that efficient but the water heaters and the thermoelectric panels are fairly high efficiency.

I actually have plans to build my own UPS. It's going to be a hydrogen fuel cell, I'm going to make it so that the power circuit both powers the electrolysis end and powers the devices. That way I don't have to worry about replacing the battery, just gas leaks and water. Of course it's just going to be a small…

I personally prefer Mandriva with the KDE interface. KDE is by far the most polished and recognizable interface for Linus and Mandriva has been around for a long LONG time, about as long as I've been using Linux in fact back when Red Hats only GUI was a nearly useless x-windows box with a customizable pointer which…

Hardly, the fibrous outer part of plants is a different structure from the fibrous weavings of clothing. Cleaning clothes is far different than cleaning produce, viral particles and bacteria can survive both however it is easier to remove far more from the surface of a plant than it is from the twisted interwoven…

Lets see on the nutritional front.

A note on the groceries, don't buy Organic. You are paying extra money for something grown not by the little guy but by big companies, and the health benefit claims have all been disproven in each and every scientific study, same with taste testing where people have shown that the only reason people think Organic…

Actually it's a reskinned FireFox, they both use the same core program. You can tell because it's actually customizable and the features easy to get to.

I hate how restricting chrome is from ease of access to it's higher functions to the lack of basic functions, I hate how firefox is such a resource hog, I also dislike how IE is so clunky and out of date. I mostly use FF though because it's the only one that offers a nice enough balance between the pain, utility, and…

Depends on the base brand. For laptops it's fairly difficult to get to many of the components because of the it's sealed up, most laptops that are built are just customized with the manufacturer and replacing the internal components is impossible unless you swap them with the internals of the same model. My Sager has…

Evil is a concept of how ones thoughts and actions are interpreted by others. It's another way of saying "Bad" and the word itself is not a reference to the supernatural or mythological. That said I do not discount that there is something supernatural, mythological, or unexplainable with our current level of…

I have a hard time finding an electric razor that doesn't pull more hair than they cut and trim. Even new ones out of the box supposed high end titanium blade razors are this way even when the blades in the razor are replaced with ones from a replacement package under suspicion that they are deliberately made to not…

I have a hard time finding an electric razor that doesn't pull more hair than they cut and trim. Even new ones out…

The comparison isn't so much in the size as it is in the light produced vs energy consumption. Keep in mind the LEP flashlight is only a single bulb, most of it's bulk is from battery and the equipment necessary to work the system. A single LED bulb will use less energy than a single LEP bulb, but to produce the same…

LEP is not HID. The bulb actually creates plasma inside to generate the light. I already gave some links when replying to coldmagneticsun. But Luxim specializes in their manufacture if you want to look them up.

Actually it's called LEP or Light Emitting Plasma, Here's a link. http://www.luxim.com/technology/how… and even a video so you can see the difference.

And I will keep on preferring the plasma bulb for my lighting. It may use more energy than an LED bulb but it is cheaper to produce, and produces far more light than any other bulb on the market. Then again what do you expect out of something meant to be in a street lamp?

I usually watch what I say as definitives, pick and choose my arguments, and when i know I'm right if someone wants to try and argue me down they will have to face a wall of undeniable truths from multiple sources if I so choose that they are worth the time tearing down, if they just need a fleeting comment they get…

I am well aware of OSX/Unix and Linux/Unix relationship however last I used Unix it did not require root access to install a program, Apple is only Unix because it lost lawsuit after lawsuit for selling Linux in the very first version of OSX or did you not know that? The security of Android also does not rely simply…

While nothing is completely secure Android certainly is more secure than iPhone simply due to it's Linux base and how Linux makes malicious software nearly impossible to install and run unless you simply install it blindly. The best security for any digital device is and always will be you the user, what you know, and…

Oh wow, I didn't correct it to is in ONE place, it's the end of the world!!!! Nice try troll, but lets see how well you do when you type 30+ wpm.