yep, i mine full time at college as well, and get some other residents to mine for me on a pps basis.

looks like they'll be pretty pathetic for hashing purposes.
here's to hoping the 78XX has some better offerings.

i hope he takes all the time he needs to reply, after seeing all the bullshit and abuse directed toward him since he did the initial testing.

the solar panels come with a 25 year warranty and power guarantee. no, that doesn't cover baseballs or tree branches, but insurance will. so i can say with confidence that they'll still be going strong in at least 25 years.

how is it surprising? there's over 200k people trying to get invites on the playdota forums and only 180 invites going out each day. take a peek at the beta key forums, people are selling/trading invites like hotcakes.

that's pretty awesome!

the fact that TF2 and worms were on there was a bonus, the guy just didn't want the account any more obviously. I expect anyone looking to grab this will be after DOTA2 only anyway.

i like to think of them as a long term investment, like shares/securities. but there's pretty much no way they can lose value, (the sun ain't going to stop shining in Australia any time soon, and energy prices sure ain't going down), and they're good on the environment. works for me.

i also really enjoy looking at the data it provides, and the constant battle to minimise power consumption during the day to improve benefits. i love my wattsclever (kill-a-watt)!

bit the bullet and bought an account of some romanian kid 2 weeks back, have been so keen to get into Dota 2. Just won a beta key from team dignitas, my new favourite people in the world. now that i've got it on my own account, i'm looking to sell this one and recoup costs.

account also has TF2 and worms reloaded on it.

pm me if interested!

1 BTC to the first person to produce a FPGA farm running in a freezer.

nah mate this doesnt work, need to get that aaaaaay sound in there.

raise up late does a pretty good job.

makes me wish i hadn't given away 200k before i stopped playing! btc would have been a great way to get rid of it.

oh well. looking forward to starting my account back up for pandatime and seeing how much gold i can make! (cata was about 300k in first 2 months)

edit: eleuthria, is your that your wow name as well? sounds like it could have come from the wow name generator haha

bump

bit too expensive, no thanks.

unicorns.

pm me!

EDIT: i have a HoN legacy account (didnt even realise this was a thing, haven't played for a while) but apparently they're valuable.
i'd be willing to trade it for a dota 2 key.

would you take 5BTC for Dota 2?

2 from me.

b!

ha! now you're dreaming. the total cost (panels, inverter, installation) cost approximately $70k AUD, then there was a $10k government rebate. The solar scheme we're on allows us to draw at 0.2069/kWh, and feed in at 0.44/kWh. my initial calculations give it about a 28 year payback period, although there's really not enough data yet, i expect it's a bit less than that. if we add another 10 panels (bringing it up to a 7kW system) that'll drop the total payback period down to around 24 years (any panels added on top now have a payback period of roughly 11 years). unfortunately, 40 panels is the max that the inverter can handle before another one has to be installed (expensive).


Sunny QLD.

did someone say correct battery horse staple?

+1 for lastpass, the generate secure password feature is great. all of my passwords are random 10 digit strings containing at least one upper, lower, numeric and symbol character.