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My Home Town Made National News!.. unfortunately.

Solar Panel Roads

This is quite possibly one of the best outlandish ideas that has come around in a long time. Just as the title describes, it's implementing solar panels as a replacement for asphalt roads.

BENEFITS:
•Provides enough Electricity to power the nation three times over if used to replace all asphalt roads. (approx 10 billion 12' x 12' panels at $6,900 each but if heavily invested in, roads would pay for itself)
•Ability to generate heat to melt ice and snow off the roads.
•Uses LED lights and pressure systems to alert drivers of obstructions further down the road such as deer, people in dark clothing, etc. Also used to make easily visible lines.
• Envisioned to use trash from land fills as a means of making the solar panels air-tight and well structured.

OBVIOUS PROBLEMS:
•Designing a glass cover that has the traction of asphalt, durability to hold a fully loaded 18 wheeler, able to let sunlight in without causing a glare on the drivers.
•Major cost
•Daunting task of removing the asphalt and replace them with solar panels.


This is in no way going to be implemented soon, but I think this idea is absolutely brilliant and well on it's way to having the nation behind this idea. Thoughts, comments?

Links:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-20030231-48.html
http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/powering-america/Content?oid=1482871

I'm Building A Computer!

So, I think I have officially looked over all of the parts and I believe it will all work with each other. So if any of you more advanced tech savvy people could possibly check to see if I didn't miss anything vital that will keep my build from working? The reason I ask is because this is way more pricey than what I normally go for, so I would like a double checking.

Also to GRS: I looked for an i7 processor at your advice that was $200 and better than the AMD Phenom, but I did not find such a thing. Even the i5's were more expensive.

Also also, a topic for discussing your own towers!

Antec Nine Hundred Two Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
MSI NF980-G65 AM3 NVIDIA nForce 980a SLI HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ965FBGMBOX
EVGA 01G-P3-N988-TR GeForce 9800 GT HDMI 1GB 256-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Western Digital Caviar Green WD15EARS 1.5TB 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL
Thermaltake Toughpower XT TPX-775M 775W ATX 12V v2.3 / EPS 12V v2.91 SLI Certified
Asus DVD Burner
Windows 7

The motherboard seems iffy to me, but unfortunately AMD and NVIDIA are apparently no longer friends. And with the RAM, would it be recommended for just going with the 1333 for the $100 less?

I wanna be the guy!

Possibly the hardest game I've ever played in my entire life. A platformer that will shatter your hopes, and even when you get past that one little part that was annoying the crap out of you, you will more than likely die right afterwards. It's so frustrating, but it's so addicting as well. It's always full of things you won't expect to kill you.

Note: Not for the easily frustrated!

http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/downloads.php

Bots

Seriously, this is gettin' kinda crazy. All the sudden it's like we have bots flippin' everywhere. Is it possible that a bot is creating multiple users to write random crap? Possibly block the IP of the bot? How would this problem be fixed other than Karsuman using his trigger happy locking function?

Best DS Games

Well, I got a crapload of money for Christmas and I plan on spending a tad of it towards 1 or 2 DS games. Obviously plenty of people here like the DS (disregarding the few of you die-hard psp modding fans :P) and I'd like to hear recommendations of which games I should purchase. I'll also make a list of which games you guys prefer in this post...aaaaand GO!

RPG
Etrian Odyssey II
Final Fantasy III*
Final Fantasy IV
Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen
Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer
Chrono Trigger DS
Magical Starsign*
The World Ends With You
Pokemon: Diamond*/Pearl
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

Action/Adventure
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime
Dragon Ball: Origins
Lego Star Wars Saga*(owned on the Wii though)

Shoot 'Em Up
Bangai-O Spirits
Contra IV
Metal Slug DS

Strategy
Disgaea DS
Final Fantasy Tactics A2
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
Lock's Quest

Horror
Theresia: Dear Emile

Puzzle
Picross
Meteos*
Tetris DS
Professor Layton and the Curious Village
Ace Attorney Series
Mah-Jongg DS

Platformer
New! Super Mario Bros.*
Kirby Superstar Ultra
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow*
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Yoshi Island DS
Megaman ZX/Advent

Racing
Mario Kart DS*

Sports
FIFA '09

Fighting
Bleach: Blade of Fate

Simulation
Harvest Moon DS
Rune Factory*
Rune Factory 2

Miscellaneous
Elite Beat Agents
Guitar Hero Series(hehe Blitzen)
42 All-Time Classics

Unreleased
Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride - Feb 17, '09
Suikoden: Tierkreis - Mar 17, '09
Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume - Mar 17, '09
Legacy of Ys: Books I-II - Feb 10, '09
The Dark Spire - Mar 10, '09
Avalon Code - Feb '09
GTA: Chinatown Stories - Mar 17, '09
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon - Feb 16, '09

http://www.rpgamer.com/games/upcoming.html
^ This is a list of RPGs (only) that will be coming out for DS this/next year.
Awesome list provided by Liberty

*means that I own the game already, after thinking about it I should probably put this in here

Monsters with Charasets?

Anybody have any monster graphics WITH a charset? Also, this is for RPG2k3.

Things YOU buy the most?

Well, I saw pantsman's topic about things people buy in general, but I want to know what you guys yourselves buy the most.

Mine would include
1) Gas
2) Mountain Dew
3) Videogames

My list would be a lot longer, but I live with my parents since I'm still 16, so I don't have to provide much for myself. :D

Anyways.. GO!
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