Too expensive. The meters are held in a bonded warehouse, so nobody at Sparkfun can actually get at them. Even if you can find someone bonded to do the work for you, the labour costs would be prohibitive - on the order of $150/hour/person.
Also, daily storage costs are eating up the value of the shipment - it's possible that by the time replacement cases arrived, even the storage costs make this a loser.
Don't be intentionally dense. Nobody is saying women *can't* do these things, only that they may prefer to do *other* things, and that preference may be inate. WWII speaks only to capabilities, which were never in any doubt.
I hate public speaking, but I'll do it if I have to.
Predicted 20 years ago!
http://dilbert.com/strips/comi...
Actually, it's likely not executed that many times - the CPU goes into HALT when idle, and wakes up when there's work to do. Gone are the days of endlessly spinning....
The Idle Process may be more book-keeping artifact than actual code.
The modern kernel idle loop should be halting the CPU until there's work to do. It probably doesn;t spin that much, really.
You jest, but... Doesn't every system idle process in existence essentially halt the CPU until there's something to do?
It's even possible that the so-called system idle process is just a book-keeping artifact for the OS to assign idle time to (in the depths of the scheduler), with no actual process running...
Don't forget outside! At the very *least*, run conduit to the end of the driveway if it's any length - at least two, so you can run power and low voltage stuff (code usually forbids running both in the same conduit). Access for the deck etc also useful.
It doesn't hurt to run some other access points out the house as well, to help with future dev. I put in a carport, and the *one* available conduit coming out of the house made power and a camera possible. We have concrete sidewalk al around the house, so getting wires from the outside to the inside is very difficult now.
For music / audio about the house, you usually want access to the ceiling of each room, so you might want to think about conduit for that as well. Our house had wire installed, but not the right type - we had to live with it since I didn't want to rip out ceilings and walls everywhere.
If only the parent had *specifically* addressed this, and pointed out the major shortfalls with this method...
Here, let me explain the GP's post....
http://i.imgur.com/axJmn.gif
Some computer generated maps...
http://rangevoting.org/GerryExamples.html
http://www.maproomblog.com/2006/11/computer-generated_electoral_districts.php
http://igpa.uillinois.edu/content/igpa-releases-computer-generated-legislative-district-map
Not computer generated, but lots of options:
http://web.law.columbia.edu/redistricting
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
