Solar's impact is greater than just the percentage may lead you to believe. In many places like CA, TX and the Southwest, it's quite predictable, almost a given in AZ, and the solar daily ramp-up is a good match to the consumption curve. Also, if you have a lot of rooftop solar that's feeding self-consumption, there's far less stress on the electricity distribution & transmission infrastructure.
TX may have a significant amount of wind turbines but they would have been better off ramping up solar installations once the price started falling back in 2008, even if they didn't install a single additional wind turbine - not that I'm much opposed to wind power.
"Things happen when they happen, and no one is in a hurry to get anything done or to go anywhere" I think that's symptomatic of many tropical places with good cheap food. There's little danger of starving or freezing to death so few are eager to join the rat race.
About 25 years ago, a few of my uncles got quite the dose of culture shock when they were trying to run a midscale restaurant and B&B in Barbados. Getting fresh seafood delivered 3 days in a row would drive a hostage negotiator to suicide.
Forgot to mention, with a price range of $70 - 120k (P85D, fully loaded), there are a lot of folks on the lower end of the upper-middle class who can & do buy the Model S.
Oh, for f*cks sake, his stated goal, as published on the Tesla Motors website in Aug 2006 is
"Almost any new technology initially has high unit cost before it can be optimized and this is no less true for electric cars. The strategy of Tesla is to enter at the high end of the market, where customers are prepared to pay a premium, and then drive down market as fast as possible to higher unit volume and lower prices with each successive model."
He's taking longer than he thought and it'll take one or 2 more models to get to mass market affordable cars but he's making a lot of moves to make sure that happens, eg battery Gigafactory.
Sit tight. It takes a while to change the world. The Apple Newton dates back to the late 80s, Philippe Kahn rigged the 1st camera phone in '97 and it still took until 2007 for the iPhone to debut. And that's for a $500 device.
Heh, no. It would be ADD if his companies never delivered on anything and, of course, there are a lot of smart, hardworking people behind him - one can hardly disregard the talent of JB Straubel.
But he is the front man and the one'll get the arrows in the back if his ventures fail. In just the past 5 years, his resume is damned impressive with what has been accomplished at SpaceX, Tesla, Solar City, Silevo so for now, he's earned the badge of a highly successful multi-tasker, the only blemish is that his companies are not yet profitable.
I realize I forgot to mention Virgin Galactic which Branson founded 2 yrs after Musk started SpaceX. They've been promising a maiden flight since 2009 but it seems that was more marketing than reality and they're not quite ready. With the midair explosion of SpaceShipTwo last October, it remains to be seen what they do next.
Bitch, please, that's not even a contest. Branson started off with a magazine & record stores before launching an airline; Elon sold a space shooter video game as a 12yr old and was studying physics & material science at Stanford, is invested in SOLAR energy, considers running SpaceX to be his primary job & still found time to put his thoughts on the Hyperloop on paper while showcasing the launch of the most kickass electric sedan ever made.
I've lived long enough in places that get lots of snow, ice & freezing rain to know that people grossly overestimate what their driving capabilities are. You can get away with a lot of stupid stuff on dry pavement but wet, slippery or icy roads make organ donors out of both wannabe Cannonball Runners & otherwise prudent folk just trying to get home.
"Speed limits have been proven......" - to decrease stopping distance and damage on impact.
"and the speeding tickets are even worse" - if the cops are getting the cash from tickets for their budgets, then they have a strong incentive to game the system. But let's put the money into infrastructure instead, fixing roads, bridges, sidewalks, streetlights.
The point of a fine is supposed to be a deterrent. A below-average Joe may have trouble paying a fine of several hundred dollars while a rich guy has options. The fine may be trivial, impounding his car may not work as he may have more than one or renting one long term isn't financially onerous - or he can just buy another new out of pocket. Or he can hire a chauffeur or even risk driving without a license.
It's not about taking from "the makers", it's about not allowing rich assholes to flout the law just because they have more money.
I've wondered for a long time why unregistered ECC hasn't become the default on desktops while reserving buffered DIMMs for servers.Mass production would likely erase any price advantage of non-ECC memory.
Perhaps. But depending on the system or product, that difference may not be large. One vendor allowed us to run fully supported on a particular product version for 5+ yrs but now requires us to upgrade again, after only 2 years, by the end of 2015.
Upgrading this system affects about 5000 users & 35 external partners and required almost 4 months of preparation & co-ordination.
And that's how my team ended up supporting 10 - 25 yr old fossilized gear running all kinds of old, insecure shit that almost noone can remember what's the login or sometimes what's it for.
Left over from the death of the previous Universe and those heavier elements came from absorbing & digesting the young, tender clusters of our nascent cosmos and will one day swallow us ALL!!!
"Who was an asshole here? We'll never know. But I do assure, someone was"
In that case, let's mete out due punishment to all the likely assholes. The kid's suspension should stand, the other kid should also be suspended - and the school officials should be fired.
"You can't say you have a 2012 or 2013 car since they make changes every few months, often adding new features."
I have mixed feelings about that on the hardware level. Without some kind of breakpoint, it's impossible to know what you're getting. I've seen videos from Tesla owners where the location & length of the steering column levers have changed from the car they bought to the loaner they received.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes and the kernel & NTFS driver. :-)
And then install Linux. Permanent solution to the IE problem.
Except for those people still stuck on IE6-dependent apps.
10 years ago, maybe. But Slashdot has changed somewhat and, reputedly, so has M$
Solar's impact is greater than just the percentage may lead you to believe.
In many places like CA, TX and the Southwest, it's quite predictable, almost a given in AZ, and the solar daily ramp-up is a good match to the consumption curve.
Also, if you have a lot of rooftop solar that's feeding self-consumption, there's far less stress on the electricity distribution & transmission infrastructure.
TX may have a significant amount of wind turbines but they would have been better off ramping up solar installations once the price started falling back in 2008, even if they didn't install a single additional wind turbine - not that I'm much opposed to wind power.
There are lots of people who can do that and all you need is decent credit & the ability to sign your name
http://www.zdnet.com/article/9...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/la...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/uc...
"Things happen when they happen, and no one is in a hurry to get anything done or to go anywhere"
I think that's symptomatic of many tropical places with good cheap food. There's little danger of starving or freezing to death so few are eager to join the rat race.
About 25 years ago, a few of my uncles got quite the dose of culture shock when they were trying to run a midscale restaurant and B&B in Barbados.
Getting fresh seafood delivered 3 days in a row would drive a hostage negotiator to suicide.
Forgot to mention, with a price range of $70 - 120k (P85D, fully loaded), there are a lot of folks on the lower end of the upper-middle class who can & do buy the Model S.
"He makes cars for the upper class"
Oh, for f*cks sake, his stated goal, as published on the Tesla Motors website in Aug 2006 is
"Almost any new technology initially has high unit cost before it can be optimized and this is no less true for electric cars. The strategy of Tesla is to enter at the high end of the market, where customers are prepared to pay a premium, and then drive down market as fast as possible to higher unit volume and lower prices with each successive model."
He's taking longer than he thought and it'll take one or 2 more models to get to mass market affordable cars but he's making a lot of moves to make sure that happens, eg battery Gigafactory.
Sit tight. It takes a while to change the world.
The Apple Newton dates back to the late 80s, Philippe Kahn rigged the 1st camera phone in '97 and it still took until 2007 for the iPhone to debut. And that's for a $500 device.
Heh, no. It would be ADD if his companies never delivered on anything and, of course, there are a lot of smart, hardworking people behind him - one can hardly disregard the talent of JB Straubel.
But he is the front man and the one'll get the arrows in the back if his ventures fail.
In just the past 5 years, his resume is damned impressive with what has been accomplished at SpaceX, Tesla, Solar City, Silevo so for now, he's earned the badge of a highly successful multi-tasker, the only blemish is that his companies are not yet profitable.
I realize I forgot to mention Virgin Galactic which Branson founded 2 yrs after Musk started SpaceX.
They've been promising a maiden flight since 2009 but it seems that was more marketing than reality and they're not quite ready.
With the midair explosion of SpaceShipTwo last October, it remains to be seen what they do next.
Perhaps Elon will deign to present you with today's Godwin's Law prize.
Bitch, please, that's not even a contest.
Branson started off with a magazine & record stores before launching an airline; Elon sold a space shooter video game as a 12yr old and was studying physics & material science at Stanford, is invested in SOLAR energy, considers running SpaceX to be his primary job & still found time to put his thoughts on the Hyperloop on paper while showcasing the launch of the most kickass electric sedan ever made.
http://www.theatlantic.com/tec...
It may be that there's someone more deserving of the title than Musk but it ain't Branson, not now, not ever.
I've lived long enough in places that get lots of snow, ice & freezing rain to know that people grossly overestimate what their driving capabilities are.
You can get away with a lot of stupid stuff on dry pavement but wet, slippery or icy roads make organ donors out of both wannabe Cannonball Runners & otherwise prudent folk just trying to get home.
"Speed limits have been proven......" - to decrease stopping distance and damage on impact.
"and the speeding tickets are even worse" - if the cops are getting the cash from tickets for their budgets, then they have a strong incentive to game the system.
But let's put the money into infrastructure instead, fixing roads, bridges, sidewalks, streetlights.
The point of a fine is supposed to be a deterrent. A below-average Joe may have trouble paying a fine of several hundred dollars while a rich guy has options.
The fine may be trivial, impounding his car may not work as he may have more than one or renting one long term isn't financially onerous - or he can just buy another new out of pocket. Or he can hire a chauffeur or even risk driving without a license.
It's not about taking from "the makers", it's about not allowing rich assholes to flout the law just because they have more money.
When will we learn not to confuse trolls with facts?
I've wondered for a long time why unregistered ECC hasn't become the default on desktops while reserving buffered DIMMs for servers.Mass production would likely erase any price advantage of non-ECC memory.
If intel hadn't fucked over USB 3.0 by delaying chipset support for it for almost 4 years, hardly anyone would care about Thunderbolt.
Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
because there are too many of those already and look how they behave when in Europe.
Perhaps.
But depending on the system or product, that difference may not be large.
One vendor allowed us to run fully supported on a particular product version for 5+ yrs but now requires us to upgrade again, after only 2 years, by the end of 2015.
Upgrading this system affects about 5000 users & 35 external partners and required almost 4 months of preparation & co-ordination.
And that's how my team ended up supporting 10 - 25 yr old fossilized gear running all kinds of old, insecure shit that almost noone can remember what's the login or sometimes what's it for.
Left over from the death of the previous Universe and those heavier elements came from absorbing & digesting the young, tender clusters of our nascent cosmos and will one day swallow us ALL!!!
EXCELSIOR!
"Who was an asshole here? We'll never know. But I do assure, someone was"
In that case, let's mete out due punishment to all the likely assholes. The kid's suspension should stand, the other kid should also be suspended - and the school officials should be fired.
"You can't say you have a 2012 or 2013 car since they make changes every few months, often adding new features."
I have mixed feelings about that on the hardware level. Without some kind of breakpoint, it's impossible to know what you're getting. I've seen videos from Tesla owners where the location & length of the steering column levers have changed from the car they bought to the loaner they received.