I've never heard of a pharma company that says it needs more sick people.
How often do you talk to the pharma companies?
The reality of that industry is that the big players in the US are by far and away at the forefront of finding new cures and new therapies.
Great! Seems that since the US Pharma industry is the best, and provides unparalleled healthcare we need to double down so that we can achieve even greater advances. You have proven that this is what is needed.
So health insurance has been a problem for years, and a positive feedback loop existed, where it was becoming too expensive fopr employers to provide insurance. This must be accelerated until no one can afford it. Then all will be healthy.
Sarcasm off now.
Part one is what happens when a medical industry is run soley for profit.
Yes - the pharmaceutical companies were awash in money, and yes, they did some good with it. But yes, they also picked things to cure that would in turn make them the most money.
This makes perfect sense in a business designed to make as much money from as many people as possible, for as long as possible. That is why we have maintenance medicines for things like strokes and blood pressure and cholesterol that people take every day of their lives. Yet these selfsame people often die of the problems caused by that anyhow - it's the perfect drug, may or may not work, may or may not die of a stroke or heart attack anyhow. But they are a full time income source.
The most awesome illustration of this is the new drugs to treat Alzheimer's. They do not cure you. They are only prescribed after you already exhibit the confusion and dementia of Alzheimer's. What they do perform is a slowing of the disease. You spend some more years demented, shitting in a depends, living in a nursing home. Their claim to fame is they prolong your death. MOre money for the Nursing home and the medicine providers, probably a coinkey-dink I've already told my family that if I ever become demented, if they put me on those meds, they better hope there isn't such a thing as ghosts, because I'll be a fucking angry murderous one.
Now to the financial aspect.
The situation was 100 percent unsustainable.
When the health care industry shifted to the new model back in the 70's, it set in motion a process that was once setting broken bones and normal life medical problems, to one of a huge array of maintenance medicines, and diagonostic machinery that needed people to use to amortize it. So insurance rates begin to climb.
It worked okay for a while. but eventually the rates were getting high enough that some outfits were dropping coverage, and those that weren't were increasing the employees cost at double digit rates and even more per year.
Then one of the most anti-capitalist anti freedom things happened. The pre-existing conditions evil. If you were working somewhere (or even had your own business) and had a problem - they would take care of it, but you were now stuck. If you left for another job, you couldn't get health insurance coverage. Or laid off. And if you had your own business, they'd do their best to get you to drop your coverage. My Wife's boss, who had a blood clotting issue, and his wife, who had some other problem, in 2005 were paying something like 50 K a year for health care.
So while it has become a political football, with a lot of people in a white hot rage about how the magic Negro from Kenya destroyed the country by using a healthcare plan of one of his Republican opponents, the truth is, the system was failing badly.
Allow me to illustrate the problem.
The cost of healthcare was rising quickly. A lot of people were losing their healthcare, or they were going bankrupt when the minimal plans they could afford wouldn't cover much.
But they still got sick. Lack of healthcare doesn't mean you are condemned to good health.
No. I've read articles pointing that the picture is much worse.
Bezos owns Amazon - the reason that he must be punished is clear, and obvious. Trump's word is law, and we must do extreme vetting on the fake news put out by anyone who opposes him.
I was thinking that in order to have America work correctly, we must have approval to avoid this fake news bullshit that socilists like Bezos and the failing New York times. Trump is considering making his one true faithful news medium, Sean Hannity, minister of truth. All stories must be approved by Hannity, and anything that does not meet Hannity's approval must be punished as treason. Only true news will help drain the swamp. MAGA!
Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post, which is doing a lot of investigative reporting on Trump. Therefore, Bezos must be punished. You do as the boss tells you to do, or else he destroy you. This is Trump's America now bitches - all must fall in line or get punished until they swear fealty to teh best president ever. His word is law.
Screenshots would never be admissible as evidence.
If a text email is allowed, but not an image, it would be allowing a lesser secure mode as legit.
I can alter a text message with no problem at all. I'm good at photoshopping too, but would almost certainly leave some evidence that I altered an image.
Well, big egos small skills. Unless they start having actual experts ask the questions in these interviews, they are basically a circus event, nothing else. Gives the appearance of "doing something".
Perhaps there are other meetings that we don't know about where more pointed, accurate, and really, really interesting questions are asked. I don't know if there was a classified meeting yet on this issue with the baby oligarch, but I suspect he'll be having a chat with the big boy soon.
If you provide the money for licensing replacement tools and training the staff to use them, we can switch over today!
What 32 bit apps are in use these days. I haven't used anything since maybe 12 or more years.
I've got a few issues with them borking perfectly good 64 bit Programs like Final cut Studio suite. https://www.imore.com/heads-th... .
For this reason, I picked up a nice 27 inch Core2 Duo imac that won't update to High Sierra, and still runs the fully functioning software.
When My main Mac needs replaced in a few years, I'll spend the money on the latest programs then. But again, I cant remember the last time I used a 32 bit app, only that it was over a decade ago.
With data provided by users, Facebook knows a lot about non-users.
There is such a thing as a shadow profile. It is a shame that Zuckerberg denies its existence.
Somewhere back in the bowels of Slashdot, I made a report of my experience when I installed my first script blocker. Facebook had more trackers than Google. Google was easy to find. You just looked at the names of the scripts that were blocked, they had "google righ in them.
But I had to whois a lot of others, and by cracky, there was facebook with multiple trackers on all the pages of popular sites, especially on news sites.
So if the idiot doesn't know that he has people writing tracking scripts, maybe he needs to pay attention. But he knows.
Too bad I am deleting my Facebook account in a couple of weeks.
Happy sarcasm noted. block scripts too to make it more effective. I had to use facebook for some projects I'm working on. But as they finish up, I'll delete my account too.
No, no, you have that backwards. Facebook uses everyone. Everyone does not use Facebook.
The first time I used a script blocker, years ago, on any of the "popular" sites, and especially news sites, there were many facebook tracking scripts. You didn't find out just how many there were until you started tracing them back to see who ran them.
So I am completely certain that Facebook collected the Users names of those who logged into the sites, collected data about everything they read, almost certainly collected their real names, and distributed that data directly to..... who knows?
Oh....... wait......... we do know now exactly who they were selling or giving almost everyone's data to. And no doubt there are plenty of others.
Seriously, if that festering asshole in charge of running the worlds largest weaponized data collection center isn't aware of the fact that they collected and weaponized data against everyone, and people believe him - well I have some some oceanfront property to sell them in Colorado.
Their weight is among their smaller disadvantages though for mobile applications that is a killer problem. Compared to Li-Ion they have fewer charge cycles, worse charging and draw characteristics, more temperature sensitivity, are less efficient, have worse power and energy density, etc.
The first thing we need to do is deal with the application. I'm talking about stationary setups.
Next up is simplicity. Charging Lead-acid batteries is pretty simple. Charging a bank of Lithium Ion batteries requires a balance charger. Now Joe Shmo homesteader can easily homebrew a lead-acid based powering system for his house. Li-Po? That'll be a different story, unless he's already a design engineer. Balance chargers are pretty much maandatory, unless abusing the li-Pos is okay with the owner. Those lithium batteries are a lot more fragile than people think - ask Samsung. Lead-Acid batteries can be coaxed into exploding, but it takes a pretty good effort.
But that's as far as I'm willing to be drawn into this argument, because it isn't my argument. Yeah - Lithium batteries are "better" than Lead Acid for many applications. I can do the chemistry analysis as well as you.
Fact is, there are a lot of functioning Lead-acid storage systems out there, and they work just fine. Are they taking up more space? Yup.Heavier? Yup Are they easier to service? That's a matter of definition, because the PowerWall is almost certainly just a "Yup, it's dead, buy a new one", while Lead Acid involves using a meter and hydrometer.
Then there is availability. Of course, if one of Joe's batteries goes bad, he can drive to the local garage and pick up a new one. I have to go to the corner gas hon - I'll be back in a half hour to restore power. He'll have to stay in the dark for a while with the Li-Po especially since the PowerWall is still in the reserve one now stage.
But I'm not arguing specifications, merely that the Lead-acid systems work, and are simple enough for the owners to service the system. "Best" is a subjective term. At my home, I'd probably use a PowerWall or something akin to that. If I was living 10 miles outside of Roundup, Montana, I'd be using a Lead-acid system.
That's what a friend who lived off-grid used. Shed full of marine batteries. Cheap, durable, and easy to replace. About every 3 months he'd test all the batteries, replace any that were wearing out, close the door, and maintenance was done.
Compared to a power wall, that was far cheaper, stored vastly more energy, and provided higher power draw. The only thing it didn't have was looks.
Exactly. I'm not certain why some think that Marine or deep discharge batteries are not lead-acid batteries, but their main drawback is that they are so darn heavy. But they are inexpensive, and dead easy to recycle. Treat them well, don't let them get too hot, feed them to inverters, any you have a nice electrical system.
Hoping that this gets popular enough to ditch the inverters as in low voltage devices instead of feeding them 120 volts and wasting energy stepping dow to something low.
so the lead acid family of batteries would function very well for home storage
I suppose lead-acid car batteries would suffice if you didn't draw them down much each night... but what's the point if you can't use your full capacity without damaging 'em?? This calls for marine or deep cycle batteries that don't automatically become damaged when drained heavily.
Marine and deep discarge batteries are definitely in the lead-acid family of batteries.
My sister's condo parking lot has to roll power for their block heaters on a rotation basis. I don't know if Alaska has the infrastructure for continuous peak charging, but I've never looked.
It has to add up to a tremendous amount of Kilowatt hours per capita.
If you are looking at a car as an investment, you're doing it wrong.
I think you don't understand the difference between a capital investment and a financial investment. A car as the former is critical in most parts of the world. Even I in a city with excellent public transport and cycling culture could not get to work without a car and as such I would have to give up not only my generous income settling for something quite less, but also a great amount of convenience.
I dunno - to me an investment is something that will bring or is designed to bring me financial profit. Stock Market, banking, Munis.
When we widen investments into things that lose a lot of value the second you drive off in them, well, to me that's no investment, if I have to have a car to get to work, that's a cost of doing business. I find that maintaning a distinction between things that increase my wealth, and those that might be necessary but decrease it, has worked out in my financial favor.
I'm convinced that the whole "everything is an investment" outlook has been fueled by marketeering.
Not to mention that, at the moment, batteries are very specific to a particular car, which happens to be one of the largest capital investments a family can make.
If you are looking at a car as an investment, you're doing it wrong.
Exactly! As I understand it, even the most advanced of the batteries that we have today are limited by the number of power-cycles. Using a car for this on a continual basis would quickly reduce the battery lifetime, range, etc.
The idea is not to discharge the car, because you wouldn't have anything left to drive on.
And modest draws and charges don't count for a power cycle. That just happens every day.
Regardless, I'm not keen on the idea, and since in home use, weight is not a factor, so the lead acid family of batteries would function very well for home storage. Take a bank of them and store them under a false floor in the garage or under the base of a patio if you want them outside. Then they are there all of the time.
I think it's more likely that people will use recycled car batteries in a PowerWall type product. There won't be a shortage of them from cars written off for other issues, and most of those packs will have a huge amount of life left in them.
Exactly. In many uses a relatively lightweight lithium battery is critical. But or home use, weight is seldom an issue.
And despite being pretty ancient, the Lead/acid battery is pretty darn good technology. If they are treated right, they last for a long time. I have 15 year old pulls that are gel cell and they are going strong yet. I use them to power portable transmitters
I thought they made a car specifically for this use pattern. And they took away the car and called what was left the "Powerwall". Sure, you stick it to a wall rather than ambulate it all over town, but I think it works out just fine.
Certainly the technology is there to plug a car in and utilize it's battery to share power. Bu I'd much prefer the Powerwall concept, as almost all the time, I'd be wanting to charge my car, not send power to other people with it.
I never understood the animosity to the Windows 8 start screen.
It was flat, it was ugly, it took up ridiculous amounts of real estate.
What is the use case for the cramped start menu?
If all a person does is use a couple programs, say Edge and Windows mail and Office 365, I suppose having screen hogging tiles might make some sense.
But if you have to scroll through several screens worth of tiles just to get to a program you want - and some of us use hundreds of programs. Tiles quickly become ridiculous.
You are doing one thing, you are looking to launch an application. Why constrain that function to a corner of the screen? One thing, full screen, maximum real estate given to do that one thing.
Are you having trouble seeing your screen? I keep a Windows 7 computer around for functionality sake, and those program names are quite readable. Its hella quicker to move around in than windows 10 as well.
I Cant resize it? Again, what is the use case. You can tile them on the screen. Dock them to the sides. Arrange them to see multiple apps at once. I don;t see the issue.
I agree, you don't. The tile system is simply not all that good of a way to access programs. If it was, people would be clamoring for it. Even MacOS has a tiles analog. Not live icons, but Launchpad shows everything in big-ass icons and you can swipe or scroll horizontal pages of them. Close enough for camparison though. And almost no one uses it. But even then, you have an option built right into the OS Launchpad, or the way we've done it for years. Which given the choice, users choose that.
Unity uses over a quarter of the screen for the launcher, is someone bitching about that? Not as much, because it's "Linux" and we are used to it being schizophrenic in UI design.
What in the unholy stinking taint of Beelzabub are you talking about? There was more bitching and moaning about Unity than was ever heard about Metro. That's why we have Mint and Mate and others now.
If you like Metro apps and tiles and the Windows interface, then good for you. But it was a big part of the utter failure of Windows 8, and that's not deniable.
Yeah, it would obviously run more efficiently on a phone, but then the Windows phones are not relevant to the world of smartphones, and it won't be too long before they join the Zune and other Microsoft failures.
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I've never heard of a pharma company that says it needs more sick people.
How often do you talk to the pharma companies?
The reality of that industry is that the big players in the US are by far and away at the forefront of finding new cures and new therapies.
Great! Seems that since the US Pharma industry is the best, and provides unparalleled healthcare we need to double down so that we can achieve even greater advances. You have proven that this is what is needed.
So health insurance has been a problem for years, and a positive feedback loop existed, where it was becoming too expensive fopr employers to provide insurance. This must be accelerated until no one can afford it. Then all will be healthy.
Sarcasm off now.
Part one is what happens when a medical industry is run soley for profit.
Yes - the pharmaceutical companies were awash in money, and yes, they did some good with it. But yes, they also picked things to cure that would in turn make them the most money.
This makes perfect sense in a business designed to make as much money from as many people as possible, for as long as possible. That is why we have maintenance medicines for things like strokes and blood pressure and cholesterol that people take every day of their lives. Yet these selfsame people often die of the problems caused by that anyhow - it's the perfect drug, may or may not work, may or may not die of a stroke or heart attack anyhow. But they are a full time income source.
The most awesome illustration of this is the new drugs to treat Alzheimer's. They do not cure you. They are only prescribed after you already exhibit the confusion and dementia of Alzheimer's. What they do perform is a slowing of the disease. You spend some more years demented, shitting in a depends, living in a nursing home. Their claim to fame is they prolong your death. MOre money for the Nursing home and the medicine providers, probably a coinkey-dink I've already told my family that if I ever become demented, if they put me on those meds, they better hope there isn't such a thing as ghosts, because I'll be a fucking angry murderous one.
Now to the financial aspect.
The situation was 100 percent unsustainable.
When the health care industry shifted to the new model back in the 70's, it set in motion a process that was once setting broken bones and normal life medical problems, to one of a huge array of maintenance medicines, and diagonostic machinery that needed people to use to amortize it. So insurance rates begin to climb.
It worked okay for a while. but eventually the rates were getting high enough that some outfits were dropping coverage, and those that weren't were increasing the employees cost at double digit rates and even more per year.
Then one of the most anti-capitalist anti freedom things happened. The pre-existing conditions evil. If you were working somewhere (or even had your own business) and had a problem - they would take care of it, but you were now stuck. If you left for another job, you couldn't get health insurance coverage. Or laid off. And if you had your own business, they'd do their best to get you to drop your coverage. My Wife's boss, who had a blood clotting issue, and his wife, who had some other problem, in 2005 were paying something like 50 K a year for health care.
So while it has become a political football, with a lot of people in a white hot rage about how the magic Negro from Kenya destroyed the country by using a healthcare plan of one of his Republican opponents, the truth is, the system was failing badly.
Allow me to illustrate the problem.
The cost of healthcare was rising quickly. A lot of people were losing their healthcare, or they were going bankrupt when the minimal plans they could afford wouldn't cover much.
But they still got sick. Lack of healthcare doesn't mean you are condemned to good health.
So where did they
No. I've read articles pointing that the picture is much worse.
Bezos owns Amazon - the reason that he must be punished is clear, and obvious. Trump's word is law, and we must do extreme vetting on the fake news put out by anyone who opposes him.
I was thinking that in order to have America work correctly, we must have approval to avoid this fake news bullshit that socilists like Bezos and the failing New York times. Trump is considering making his one true faithful news medium, Sean Hannity, minister of truth. All stories must be approved by Hannity, and anything that does not meet Hannity's approval must be punished as treason. Only true news will help drain the swamp. MAGA!
Yours in Christ Jesus,
Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post, which is doing a lot of investigative reporting on Trump. Therefore, Bezos must be punished. You do as the boss tells you to do, or else he destroy you. This is Trump's America now bitches - all must fall in line or get punished until they swear fealty to teh best president ever. His word is law.
Screenshots would never be admissible as evidence.
If a text email is allowed, but not an image, it would be allowing a lesser secure mode as legit.
I can alter a text message with no problem at all. I'm good at photoshopping too, but would almost certainly leave some evidence that I altered an image.
"...and the circle is not perfect."
No such thing as a perfect circle anywhere, except maybe in just the math itself - and pi goes on & on...
I've been called a perfect asshole from time to tie. Does that count?
Zuck totally owned most of the Senators.
In the big picture, that hardly matters. What will matter is what comes next.
Well, big egos small skills. Unless they start having actual experts ask the questions in these interviews, they are basically a circus event, nothing else. Gives the appearance of "doing something".
Perhaps there are other meetings that we don't know about where more pointed, accurate, and really, really interesting questions are asked. I don't know if there was a classified meeting yet on this issue with the baby oligarch, but I suspect he'll be having a chat with the big boy soon.
It's Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.
Nobody's listening to you. You aren't that interesting. Don't flatter yourself.
That's not how this works. Give it some thought. People are not interesting until they are interesting.
"What exactly are ALL the things that Facebook records.....
Yes.
What 32 bit apps are in use these days. I haven't used anything since maybe 12 or more years.
IIRC, the Mac Steam client for one, as shoddy as it is.
Good lord, and it was 2010 when it came out.
If you provide the money for licensing replacement tools and training the staff to use them, we can switch over today!
What 32 bit apps are in use these days. I haven't used anything since maybe 12 or more years.
I've got a few issues with them borking perfectly good 64 bit Programs like Final cut Studio suite. https://www.imore.com/heads-th... .
For this reason, I picked up a nice 27 inch Core2 Duo imac that won't update to High Sierra, and still runs the fully functioning software.
When My main Mac needs replaced in a few years, I'll spend the money on the latest programs then. But again, I cant remember the last time I used a 32 bit app, only that it was over a decade ago.
With data provided by users, Facebook knows a lot about non-users.
There is such a thing as a shadow profile. It is a shame that Zuckerberg denies its existence.
Somewhere back in the bowels of Slashdot, I made a report of my experience when I installed my first script blocker. Facebook had more trackers than Google. Google was easy to find. You just looked at the names of the scripts that were blocked, they had "google righ in them.
But I had to whois a lot of others, and by cracky, there was facebook with multiple trackers on all the pages of popular sites, especially on news sites.
So if the idiot doesn't know that he has people writing tracking scripts, maybe he needs to pay attention. But he knows.
Too bad I am deleting my Facebook account in a couple of weeks.
Happy sarcasm noted. block scripts too to make it more effective. I had to use facebook for some projects I'm working on. But as they finish up, I'll delete my account too.
No, no, you have that backwards. Facebook uses everyone. Everyone does not use Facebook.
The first time I used a script blocker, years ago, on any of the "popular" sites, and especially news sites, there were many facebook tracking scripts. You didn't find out just how many there were until you started tracing them back to see who ran them.
So I am completely certain that Facebook collected the Users names of those who logged into the sites, collected data about everything they read, almost certainly collected their real names, and distributed that data directly to..... who knows?
Oh....... wait......... we do know now exactly who they were selling or giving almost everyone's data to. And no doubt there are plenty of others.
Seriously, if that festering asshole in charge of running the worlds largest weaponized data collection center isn't aware of the fact that they collected and weaponized data against everyone, and people believe him - well I have some some oceanfront property to sell them in Colorado.
Their weight is among their smaller disadvantages though for mobile applications that is a killer problem. Compared to Li-Ion they have fewer charge cycles, worse charging and draw characteristics, more temperature sensitivity, are less efficient, have worse power and energy density, etc.
The first thing we need to do is deal with the application. I'm talking about stationary setups.
Next up is simplicity. Charging Lead-acid batteries is pretty simple. Charging a bank of Lithium Ion batteries requires a balance charger. Now Joe Shmo homesteader can easily homebrew a lead-acid based powering system for his house. Li-Po? That'll be a different story, unless he's already a design engineer. Balance chargers are pretty much maandatory, unless abusing the li-Pos is okay with the owner. Those lithium batteries are a lot more fragile than people think - ask Samsung. Lead-Acid batteries can be coaxed into exploding, but it takes a pretty good effort.
But that's as far as I'm willing to be drawn into this argument, because it isn't my argument. Yeah - Lithium batteries are "better" than Lead Acid for many applications. I can do the chemistry analysis as well as you.
Fact is, there are a lot of functioning Lead-acid storage systems out there, and they work just fine. Are they taking up more space? Yup.Heavier? Yup Are they easier to service? That's a matter of definition, because the PowerWall is almost certainly just a "Yup, it's dead, buy a new one", while Lead Acid involves using a meter and hydrometer.
Then there is availability. Of course, if one of Joe's batteries goes bad, he can drive to the local garage and pick up a new one. I have to go to the corner gas hon - I'll be back in a half hour to restore power. He'll have to stay in the dark for a while with the Li-Po especially since the PowerWall is still in the reserve one now stage.
But I'm not arguing specifications, merely that the Lead-acid systems work, and are simple enough for the owners to service the system. "Best" is a subjective term. At my home, I'd probably use a PowerWall or something akin to that. If I was living 10 miles outside of Roundup, Montana, I'd be using a Lead-acid system.
That's what a friend who lived off-grid used. Shed full of marine batteries. Cheap, durable, and easy to replace. About every 3 months he'd test all the batteries, replace any that were wearing out, close the door, and maintenance was done.
Compared to a power wall, that was far cheaper, stored vastly more energy, and provided higher power draw. The only thing it didn't have was looks.
Exactly. I'm not certain why some think that Marine or deep discharge batteries are not lead-acid batteries, but their main drawback is that they are so darn heavy. But they are inexpensive, and dead easy to recycle. Treat them well, don't let them get too hot, feed them to inverters, any you have a nice electrical system.
Hoping that this gets popular enough to ditch the inverters as in low voltage devices instead of feeding them 120 volts and wasting energy stepping dow to something low.
so the lead acid family of batteries would function very well for home storage
I suppose lead-acid car batteries would suffice if you didn't draw them down much each night... but what's the point if you can't use your full capacity without damaging 'em?? This calls for marine or deep cycle batteries that don't automatically become damaged when drained heavily.
Marine and deep discarge batteries are definitely in the lead-acid family of batteries.
If you are looking at a car as an investment, you're doing it wrong.
Not all investments are about cash. The return from "investing" in a car is typically the utility of reliable transportation.
that's a cost of doing business, not an investment. Incredibly different.
My sister's condo parking lot has to roll power for their block heaters on a rotation basis. I don't know if Alaska has the infrastructure for continuous peak charging, but I've never looked.
It has to add up to a tremendous amount of Kilowatt hours per capita.
If you are looking at a car as an investment, you're doing it wrong.
I think you don't understand the difference between a capital investment and a financial investment. A car as the former is critical in most parts of the world. Even I in a city with excellent public transport and cycling culture could not get to work without a car and as such I would have to give up not only my generous income settling for something quite less, but also a great amount of convenience.
I dunno - to me an investment is something that will bring or is designed to bring me financial profit. Stock Market, banking, Munis.
When we widen investments into things that lose a lot of value the second you drive off in them, well, to me that's no investment, if I have to have a car to get to work, that's a cost of doing business. I find that maintaning a distinction between things that increase my wealth, and those that might be necessary but decrease it, has worked out in my financial favor.
I'm convinced that the whole "everything is an investment" outlook has been fueled by marketeering.
Not to mention that, at the moment, batteries are very specific to a particular car, which happens to be one of the largest capital investments a family can make.
If you are looking at a car as an investment, you're doing it wrong.
Exactly! As I understand it, even the most advanced of the batteries that we have today are limited by the number of power-cycles. Using a car for this on a continual basis would quickly reduce the battery lifetime, range, etc.
The idea is not to discharge the car, because you wouldn't have anything left to drive on.
And modest draws and charges don't count for a power cycle. That just happens every day.
Regardless, I'm not keen on the idea, and since in home use, weight is not a factor, so the lead acid family of batteries would function very well for home storage. Take a bank of them and store them under a false floor in the garage or under the base of a patio if you want them outside. Then they are there all of the time.
Employers' parking lots with plugs are going to be a big deal in the future.
Alaska is there already. For a different purpose, but there.
I think it's more likely that people will use recycled car batteries in a PowerWall type product. There won't be a shortage of them from cars written off for other issues, and most of those packs will have a huge amount of life left in them.
Exactly. In many uses a relatively lightweight lithium battery is critical. But or home use, weight is seldom an issue.
And despite being pretty ancient, the Lead/acid battery is pretty darn good technology. If they are treated right, they last for a long time. I have 15 year old pulls that are gel cell and they are going strong yet. I use them to power portable transmitters
I thought they made a car specifically for this use pattern. And they took away the car and called what was left the "Powerwall". Sure, you stick it to a wall rather than ambulate it all over town, but I think it works out just fine.
Certainly the technology is there to plug a car in and utilize it's battery to share power. Bu I'd much prefer the Powerwall concept, as almost all the time, I'd be wanting to charge my car, not send power to other people with it.
I never understood the animosity to the Windows 8 start screen.
It was flat, it was ugly, it took up ridiculous amounts of real estate.
What is the use case for the cramped start menu?
If all a person does is use a couple programs, say Edge and Windows mail and Office 365, I suppose having screen hogging tiles might make some sense.
But if you have to scroll through several screens worth of tiles just to get to a program you want - and some of us use hundreds of programs. Tiles quickly become ridiculous.
You are doing one thing, you are looking to launch an application. Why constrain that function to a corner of the screen? One thing, full screen, maximum real estate given to do that one thing.
Are you having trouble seeing your screen? I keep a Windows 7 computer around for functionality sake, and those program names are quite readable. Its hella quicker to move around in than windows 10 as well.
I Cant resize it? Again, what is the use case. You can tile them on the screen. Dock them to the sides. Arrange them to see multiple apps at once. I don;t see the issue.
I agree, you don't. The tile system is simply not all that good of a way to access programs. If it was, people would be clamoring for it. Even MacOS has a tiles analog. Not live icons, but Launchpad shows everything in big-ass icons and you can swipe or scroll horizontal pages of them. Close enough for camparison though. And almost no one uses it. But even then, you have an option built right into the OS Launchpad, or the way we've done it for years. Which given the choice, users choose that.
Unity uses over a quarter of the screen for the launcher, is someone bitching about that? Not as much, because it's "Linux" and we are used to it being schizophrenic in UI design.
What in the unholy stinking taint of Beelzabub are you talking about? There was more bitching and moaning about Unity than was ever heard about Metro. That's why we have Mint and Mate and others now.
If you like Metro apps and tiles and the Windows interface, then good for you. But it was a big part of the utter failure of Windows 8, and that's not deniable.
Yeah, it would obviously run more efficiently on a phone, but then the Windows phones are not relevant to the world of smartphones, and it won't be too long before they join the Zune and other Microsoft failures.