More than night time storage needs to be dealt with, where I live you need 7 days of storage, honestly having 14 days of storage is safer as in the winter the possibility of nothing but dark cloudy skies for 2 weeks straight are possible. So I need 14 days of storage that can be charged up at a very high charge rate, so when the sun does come out I can get the battery bank to 100% charge in a single 8 hour day.
yes they do. Around here you can not legally live in your home if you do not have electrical service at your home. it specifically says, electrical utility with an active account.
Also they fight like hell to make it illegal for solar installations to have grid interties.
They dont want you to be off grid, as you dont make them money.
All of the ISP's have NOT upgraded their backbone for years, they are now overselling it by never before seen levels making even 500Gb Cable Internet feel like DSL.
The problem is people are not screaming about it to their congress critter forcing ISP's to deliver what they sell. They need to pay a $1000 per user per month fine for not delivering what they promise or advertise.
That would get the lazy executives at Comcast moving.
Or astrology, or scientology, or anything that has OOGY BOOGY aspects.
Basically Stay away from anything with oogy boogy aspects with one exception, Quantum Entanglement feels very much oogy boogy. but it has been demonstrated as real with real scientific process. It's simply something we do not understand but HAVE PROVEN does exist.
So if it has oogy boogy and no proof of it's existance, run away.
The owner of the company is just a whiny baby that is angry he was stupid but does not want to take responsibility for his poor leadership and even worse business abilities.
They could not deliver it, they made promises to apple they had no right making. They had NEVER MADE sapphire before. and then hoped that apple would set them up for the process.
Read the article and get the facts instead of just spewing incorrect information.
White steel roofs last 20 years without problems. Dont use this junk paint, get a standard white powdercoated steel roof and call it done. Plus you end up with a roof that will last over 2 decades and eliminate leaks, Ice buildup, etc....
and you nailed it. This "paint" is raging BS. simple latex white paint is exactly as effective as this paint is. so buy a $6.95 gallon of bright white latex and ignore this snake oil.
Then the answer is having a couple of military in full battle dress holding guns to the heads of the CEO.
Yes I said heads. One gun pressed into the forehead, the other a shotgun jammed into his junk. The marines must YELL at full volume all the time at him.
I still have SDLT tapes that are still readable after 15 years. Hell I have Bernoulli disks that are still readable. The one working like new drive was packed with it along with an assortment of SCSI cables and a current working SCSI to USB adapter and a linux driver on a CD. hopefully if anyone needs to read that data in the future they will figure it out.
I actually did the same thing 3 years ago for a friend. he arrived with a stack of 9 track tapes and a desktop tape drive. Luckily I was able to find an older PC with an ISA slot and installed the card linux had drivers for it and even had the tools to convert the data to standard ASCII. Read all 20 tapes and handed him a DVD disk with the contents of all the tapes. Made a cool $2000 for sitting and watching tape spin. it was cool.
Dude, Windows admins are 1/5th the price of a good Unix admin. It is a lot cheaper. you can just hire anyone with a MSFT cert and be done with it at a bargain basement price.
No they will not be competent, not even have a clue about stability and security, but that does not matter.
The problem is NOT funding, The problem is that we have people in charge of the schools that are complete MORONS in regard to technology.
Want to really do some good? design a plan. for the technology backbone in every school and force the schools to adhere to it. Part of the plan is REQUIRED spending on maintenance and replacements. Schools try to use crap forever, I know of TWO schools that still has 10 base T switches in place and Freaking HP routers.
Schools need to be forced to upgrade the gear. All networking gear replaced every 5 years no matter what. Until we get competent people in charge at public schools the technology will continue to be a joke.
Even rich school are running with 10+ year old crap. Honestly VGA for the classroom video to a freaking projector that needed a bulb 2 years ago is shameful.
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More than night time storage needs to be dealt with, where I live you need 7 days of storage, honestly having 14 days of storage is safer as in the winter the possibility of nothing but dark cloudy skies for 2 weeks straight are possible. So I need 14 days of storage that can be charged up at a very high charge rate, so when the sun does come out I can get the battery bank to 100% charge in a single 8 hour day.
yes they do. Around here you can not legally live in your home if you do not have electrical service at your home. it specifically says, electrical utility with an active account.
Also they fight like hell to make it illegal for solar installations to have grid interties.
They dont want you to be off grid, as you dont make them money.
honestly it is completely dumb for most of the internet. Slashdot does not need to be encrypted, blogs, etc...
the problem is that sysadmins and web developers are to underskilled to figure out how to do it properly.
The fact that slashdot on it's own requires 10.5mb in freaking Javascript is the other part of the problem.
Low quality web designers that cant figure out how to do something without 600 pounds of "libraries"
Glad to see shoppers in the UK are as brain dead as American shoppers.
No we havent. ISP's still heavily oversell.
at 8pm on a friday, I can not get more than 13mbps. I pay for 25mbps. Friends pay for 50mpbs and they cant get more than 13.
ISP's are still dramatically oversold.
All of the ISP's have NOT upgraded their backbone for years, they are now overselling it by never before seen levels making even 500Gb Cable Internet feel like DSL.
The problem is people are not screaming about it to their congress critter forcing ISP's to deliver what they sell. They need to pay a $1000 per user per month fine for not delivering what they promise or advertise.
That would get the lazy executives at Comcast moving.
Only if it's white. Problem is American homes are not built strong enough and will crush instantly under the weight of a Slate roof.
We build complete crap here in the USA.
If you bothered to read the article, you would see they talk about using Titanium Dioxide. the WHITE COMPONENT IN WHITE PAINT.
Or astrology, or scientology, or anything that has OOGY BOOGY aspects.
Basically Stay away from anything with oogy boogy aspects with one exception, Quantum Entanglement feels very much oogy boogy. but it has been demonstrated as real with real scientific process. It's simply something we do not understand but HAVE PROVEN does exist.
So if it has oogy boogy and no proof of it's existance, run away.
EA did the exact same mess with Battlefield 4 and simply told customers " STFU you were stupid to buy an EA title!"
I guarantee the GT executives all got dirty filthy rich off of the failure.
And there you go.
The owner of the company is just a whiny baby that is angry he was stupid but does not want to take responsibility for his poor leadership and even worse business abilities.
No.
They could not deliver it, they made promises to apple they had no right making. They had NEVER MADE sapphire before. and then hoped that apple would set them up for the process.
Read the article and get the facts instead of just spewing incorrect information.
White steel roofs last 20 years without problems. Dont use this junk paint, get a standard white powdercoated steel roof and call it done. Plus you end up with a roof that will last over 2 decades and eliminate leaks, Ice buildup, etc....
and you nailed it. This "paint" is raging BS. simple latex white paint is exactly as effective as this paint is. so buy a $6.95 gallon of bright white latex and ignore this snake oil.
Yes I do, when he is making money off of my work, I get paid. Let me guess you are one of those complete scumbags that expect friends are your slaves?
Short lived for lead acid? last time I had a solar setup my lead acid batteries lasted 10 years.
And this was 15 years ago, today the newer lead acid tech is even better.
Grid intertie systems are available that failover to local battery storage.
Then the answer is having a couple of military in full battle dress holding guns to the heads of the CEO.
Yes I said heads. One gun pressed into the forehead, the other a shotgun jammed into his junk. The marines must YELL at full volume all the time at him.
Why is the power grid so crummy?
Simple. Pure unadulterated greed. The power company does not want to spend the money making it not crappy.
I still have SDLT tapes that are still readable after 15 years. Hell I have Bernoulli disks that are still readable. The one working like new drive was packed with it along with an assortment of SCSI cables and a current working SCSI to USB adapter and a linux driver on a CD. hopefully if anyone needs to read that data in the future they will figure it out.
I actually did the same thing 3 years ago for a friend. he arrived with a stack of 9 track tapes and a desktop tape drive. Luckily I was able to find an older PC with an ISA slot and installed the card linux had drivers for it and even had the tools to convert the data to standard ASCII. Read all 20 tapes and handed him a DVD disk with the contents of all the tapes. Made a cool $2000 for sitting and watching tape spin. it was cool.
Dude, Windows admins are 1/5th the price of a good Unix admin. It is a lot cheaper. you can just hire anyone with a MSFT cert and be done with it at a bargain basement price.
No they will not be competent, not even have a clue about stability and security, but that does not matter.
2560X1440 is an upgrade. 1920X1080 is only good for laptops and casual use.
The problem is NOT funding, The problem is that we have people in charge of the schools that are complete MORONS in regard to technology.
Want to really do some good? design a plan. for the technology backbone in every school and force the schools to adhere to it. Part of the plan is REQUIRED spending on maintenance and replacements. Schools try to use crap forever, I know of TWO schools that still has 10 base T switches in place and Freaking HP routers.
Schools need to be forced to upgrade the gear. All networking gear replaced every 5 years no matter what. Until we get competent people in charge at public schools the technology will continue to be a joke.
Even rich school are running with 10+ year old crap. Honestly VGA for the classroom video to a freaking projector that needed a bulb 2 years ago is shameful.