2) Solar panels stand up to extreme weather just fine, excluding things that destroy your home.
Not quite. I have first hand experience with this and I can tell you with great certainty that solar panels survive just fine when things destroy your home. During a major hailstorm in 2013 (where the panels sustained no damage) I paid a hefty price to repair damage to my roof... except the part covered by panels.
How much does a full roof of solar panels cost? Maintenance? Repair after storms?
I can add some personal experience.
Cost: Very little in comparison to the power it offset. Admittedly there were good incentives at the time which caused the system to pay for itself in well under 2 years but now with those incentives gone I see systems cost less than what I paid for for my 10kW setup.
Maintenance: $0. I mean when it doesn't rain for a long time the power output goes down but a good storm sorts that out. Once I washed them. Waste of time, next time I'll just wait for another good storm. My inverter has only been running for 7 years so I expect it it about half way through it's life but effectively this system has paid for itself over many times.
Repair after storms: Not sure what you mean. I mean the last big storm we had damaged roof tiles, wrote off two cars, and I had to replace 3 windows thanks to first size hail which was about at round as a tetrahedron and just as sharp on the edges. My neighbour was hospitalised because she was out at the time both her cars were written off too, but the panels? Zero damage. I mean they are made of tempered glass mounted against a rigid metal structure. I highly doubt I could break them if I attacked them with a hammer. During the 2013 storms we had the area of my roof with solar panels was the only area which didn't need repairs.
right now I hear nothing buy young people complaining about the cost of housing
Now imagine if they had solar panels to reduce their utility costs. I drew on my mortgage to buy solar panels. Best investment I ever made.
It's about the constant imposition of changes for the sake of change.
People often claim something is change for change's sake are simply saying "I don't like change of any kind and I refuse to try and understand what motivates change".
Microsoft could have added your "modern" method of navigation without axing the legacy Start Menu.
Given the completely seemless movement I do between Windows 7 and 10 I'm genuinely confused about what kind of a major change Windows 10's alphabetically sorted start menu with single folders offers over Windows 7's alphabetically sorted start menu with single folders. Or do you just not like the colour black?
Congrats to you, despite your palpable smugness, for knowing where that setting was.
I didn't. I was genuinely curious at how hard it was to find so I went to the page that contains all WiFi settings to see if it was there and it was. There's a lot of shit you can heap on Windows 10 for it's settings. Note I didn't contest any of what you said about the Network and Sharing Center much of that is incredibly poorly organised. I'm more confused at why didn't consider this specific setting to be in the completely obvious place and needed to Google it.
But really my own pet peeve is Bluetooth. You can add a mobile device currently sharing it's internet settings from the Settings menu, but in order to actually connect to it you need to do it from Devices and Printers. There's a lot of batshit stupid stuff in the settings.
Oh it has to be a CEO and not one of the dozens of students that have been arrested this decade? I guess you win.
Well yes. And since now I know you're taking about the students, it's also interesting you're comparing foreigners against dual nationals who broke Chinese law. Or maybe you were talking about the American student who was arrested after getting into a fight? You're going to have to be specific about precisely which completely different and entirely irrelevant to this current case arrest you are talking about.
Wow. Yeah, Forget the sex trafficking and slavery stuff the "church" arranges. Forget the threats of violence and intimidation. Forget that he is a principle financial backer for these scum bags -as long as he does his own stunts and "seems nice" (in fucking interviews? what a moron) it's all A-OK.
Which of the many religions are you talking about? I genuinely can't tell.
In THIS COUNTRY it is normal for large companies to maintain their own emergency response teams to act as first responders and to coordinate with the authorities. Yes, by rerouting 911 to an internal number. Which makes it impossible to actually call an emergency service if there is a real emergency...
Smart...
Yes, very smart. The best emergency service people are useless if they can't get to you. That's why this happens in your country too.
But it is illegal to reroute 911/112/110 to some where else.
It is not. It is common practice to do so, and going into any large company they will make you specifically aware of the fact. Hell my own security pass from a German company right now says on the back:
Notruf intern: 112 Notruf extern: (xxxx) xxx 112
In my country the emergency service KNOWS how to get there, that is their job.
No they do not. If I call your emergency services externally and tell them I'm having a heart attack and I'm in office A2.538 they would have no clue at all.
And to make that possible big institutions file building plans to them...
No. Big institutions route emergency calls via security and have someone escort emergency services to the victim, assuming that the person isn't treated by an onsite emergency doctor.
If you think you need management of emergencies inside of your institution you provide a house intern emergency number, in your case probably 922 or 988 but you don't reroute 911.
Nope, you reroute the emergency number. This is common emergency response practice across the entire world precisely because it saves lives.
In my country it is under punishment if you do not call an ambulance when it is needed.
I'm in your country right now. I would be punshed for calling an ambulance directly where I work and if I pick up any work phone and dial 112 I end up getting the local first responders who can provide help in terms of medical assistance, fire services, and security orders of magnitude faster than Germany's public emergency services could.
You're right someone would be punished, the company would be punished for not calling an ambulance if needed. It is not up to a worker, they only need to get some form of help, and getting the slowest and worst form of help (calling the public rather than your own internal first responders) is an incredibly dumb thing to do, especially in a factory, warehouse, or large plant where someone from company would need to direct ambulances where to go.
My 7-year-old intel 2600k is only 30% slower than current quad-core offerings.
Aside from that number being 40% what else can your 7 year old 2600K do? Does it have 24x PCI3.0 Express lanes? Or are you runnin PCIe 2.0 at half the speed and 1/3rd of the available lanes, barely enough to power a graphics card and a modern SSD? What else do you think sucks about modern CPUs? Double the memory bandwidth? Native NVMe interfaces to SSDs for orders of magnitude faster bandwidth compared to SATA? 2nd generation processors, you must also be a fan of USB 2.0 and it's 1/20th the bandwidth of USB 3.1 Gen II which would be standard on your modern computer with a modern CPU. Maybe you also like half the RAM limit.
And that's before you question why you would buy a 4 core processor in 2018 for anything other than a laptop in the first place.
The CPU is the core of your system. It's raw speed is not a good metric for deciding if it's time to upgrade or not.
Now I resort to the search functionality constantly.
So you finally embraced a modern and efficient way of using a computer. Congrats. And since I'm voicing unpopular opinions already, screw the drill down menu concept. What a waste of time that was.
I was recently trying to get rid of a remembered WiFi network in Windows 10 and I had to Google how do it!
To be clear you wanted to change something on WiFi and you had to "Google" that this setting was under: "Settings > Network and Internet > WiFi"? Maybe computers aren't for you.
You'd think with all this focus on fluent design that there would be some easy template to write software for it. I mean actual software, not UWP "apps" which are about the only thing described in the guides.
The hornsdale power reserver is warrantied for 15 years or 5000 cycles. It will last for significantly longer than that given the battery has not seen massive swings in charge frequently.
which in this use case would probably mean 5000 days
No. Which in this use case would mean 4-5 times that. The hornsdale power reserve does not see their batteries cycled daily, and even if they did only a small portion of it is used for storage. Rapid charging and discharging occurs for only short bursts (seconds) at a time and the battery spends most of its time sitting quite steadily.
say, five years, by which time all the cells will have had to be replaced at least once.
Based on what? Ignorance of load cycles on these batteries or ignorance of the performance of them?
FYI they are warrantied for 15 years and expected to last 20-25 before needing replacement. They've been in place a year and barely scratch the surface of their cycle capacity.
will just motivate China to roll their own version of 5G
Huh? What do you mean own "version"? If you're talking about America actually being the technological leader here you've already lost. Huawei is already a large developer of 5G modems, and ZTE already a developer of 5G infrastructure.
There is zero incentive for them to do something incompatible with the rest of the world just because they are having a spat with the USA. The only country really that has something incompatible IS the USA and is rightfully seen all over the world as an incredibly dumb situation to be in.
Oh? Which CEO from America's largest companies was arrested by a 3rd party government on the request of China? You want to talk about turnabout, then prove it.
A fan of the car itself would want it to drive as much as possible like it did the first day out of the factory.
In that case a fan of the car would probably want to do some conversion, modification / modernisation. People who drive their cars are often the ones who swap engines or do something in order to retain or beat the original performance of the car. People who keep it stock own show ponies and are often okay with the fact that after 40 years regardless of maintenance these things don't actually drive like they used to, and when they do they realise how poor their drive actually was.
great way to ruin your investment by making the car near worthless.
Depends on your investment. There are those people who buy these show ponies to keep them all original. Then there are those that buy them for various conversion / changes. They retain their invested value for different reasons, and Aston Martin wouldn't be the first to have a classic go electric (though they may be the first to offer this service from the original vendor).
What if everyone benefits from it? I catch public transport to work. That means one less car on the road in a given day. Everyone on the road should pay for that.
It's the fundamental reason why toll roads are a regressive and inefficient way to create infrastructure.
I hope you don't think encryption of any kind is secure.
Of course it is. Its security is a mathematically verifiable fact. Now do you want to rephrase your thought as something more meaningful, mentioning maybe bugs, trust of third party code, trust of certificate generation, strength of algorithms, etc. Or are you again applying sweeping statements throwing the baby out with the bathwater (you’ll rapidly running out of offspring if you bath them like that).
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2) Solar panels stand up to extreme weather just fine, excluding things that destroy your home.
Not quite. I have first hand experience with this and I can tell you with great certainty that solar panels survive just fine when things destroy your home. During a major hailstorm in 2013 (where the panels sustained no damage) I paid a hefty price to repair damage to my roof... except the part covered by panels.
How much does a full roof of solar panels cost? Maintenance? Repair after storms?
I can add some personal experience.
Cost: Very little in comparison to the power it offset. Admittedly there were good incentives at the time which caused the system to pay for itself in well under 2 years but now with those incentives gone I see systems cost less than what I paid for for my 10kW setup.
Maintenance: $0. I mean when it doesn't rain for a long time the power output goes down but a good storm sorts that out. Once I washed them. Waste of time, next time I'll just wait for another good storm. My inverter has only been running for 7 years so I expect it it about half way through it's life but effectively this system has paid for itself over many times.
Repair after storms: Not sure what you mean. I mean the last big storm we had damaged roof tiles, wrote off two cars, and I had to replace 3 windows thanks to first size hail which was about at round as a tetrahedron and just as sharp on the edges. My neighbour was hospitalised because she was out at the time both her cars were written off too, but the panels? Zero damage. I mean they are made of tempered glass mounted against a rigid metal structure. I highly doubt I could break them if I attacked them with a hammer. During the 2013 storms we had the area of my roof with solar panels was the only area which didn't need repairs.
right now I hear nothing buy young people complaining about the cost of housing
Now imagine if they had solar panels to reduce their utility costs. I drew on my mortgage to buy solar panels. Best investment I ever made.
It's about the constant imposition of changes for the sake of change.
People often claim something is change for change's sake are simply saying "I don't like change of any kind and I refuse to try and understand what motivates change".
Microsoft could have added your "modern" method of navigation without axing the legacy Start Menu.
Given the completely seemless movement I do between Windows 7 and 10 I'm genuinely confused about what kind of a major change Windows 10's alphabetically sorted start menu with single folders offers over Windows 7's alphabetically sorted start menu with single folders. Or do you just not like the colour black?
Congrats to you, despite your palpable smugness, for knowing where that setting was.
I didn't. I was genuinely curious at how hard it was to find so I went to the page that contains all WiFi settings to see if it was there and it was. There's a lot of shit you can heap on Windows 10 for it's settings. Note I didn't contest any of what you said about the Network and Sharing Center much of that is incredibly poorly organised. I'm more confused at why didn't consider this specific setting to be in the completely obvious place and needed to Google it.
But really my own pet peeve is Bluetooth. You can add a mobile device currently sharing it's internet settings from the Settings menu, but in order to actually connect to it you need to do it from Devices and Printers. There's a lot of batshit stupid stuff in the settings.
Oh it has to be a CEO and not one of the dozens of students that have been arrested this decade? I guess you win.
Well yes. And since now I know you're taking about the students, it's also interesting you're comparing foreigners against dual nationals who broke Chinese law. Or maybe you were talking about the American student who was arrested after getting into a fight? You're going to have to be specific about precisely which completely different and entirely irrelevant to this current case arrest you are talking about.
Wow. Yeah, Forget the sex trafficking and slavery stuff the "church" arranges. Forget the threats of violence and intimidation. Forget that he is a principle financial backer for these scum bags -as long as he does his own stunts and "seems nice" (in fucking interviews? what a moron) it's all A-OK.
Which of the many religions are you talking about? I genuinely can't tell.
Ignore the GP. It's normal and common in the world including in Germany. He just has no clue.
In THIS COUNTRY it is normal for large companies to maintain their own emergency response teams to act as first responders and to coordinate with the authorities. ...
Yes, by rerouting 911 to an internal number. Which makes it impossible to actually call an emergency service if there is a real emergency
Smart ...
Yes, very smart. The best emergency service people are useless if they can't get to you. That's why this happens in your country too.
But it is illegal to reroute 911/112/110 to some where else.
It is not. It is common practice to do so, and going into any large company they will make you specifically aware of the fact. Hell my own security pass from a German company right now says on the back:
Notruf intern: 112
Notruf extern: (xxxx) xxx 112
In my country the emergency service KNOWS how to get there, that is their job.
No they do not. If I call your emergency services externally and tell them I'm having a heart attack and I'm in office A2.538 they would have no clue at all.
And to make that possible big institutions file building plans to them ...
No. Big institutions route emergency calls via security and have someone escort emergency services to the victim, assuming that the person isn't treated by an onsite emergency doctor.
If you think you need management of emergencies inside of your institution you provide a house intern emergency number, in your case probably 922 or 988 but you don't reroute 911.
Nope, you reroute the emergency number. This is common emergency response practice across the entire world precisely because it saves lives.
That would be completely illegal in my country.
It is not. It is common in Germany to do it just like the GP wrote.
In my country it is under punishment if you do not call an ambulance when it is needed.
I'm in your country right now. I would be punshed for calling an ambulance directly where I work and if I pick up any work phone and dial 112 I end up getting the local first responders who can provide help in terms of medical assistance, fire services, and security orders of magnitude faster than Germany's public emergency services could.
You're right someone would be punished, the company would be punished for not calling an ambulance if needed. It is not up to a worker, they only need to get some form of help, and getting the slowest and worst form of help (calling the public rather than your own internal first responders) is an incredibly dumb thing to do, especially in a factory, warehouse, or large plant where someone from company would need to direct ambulances where to go.
My 7-year-old intel 2600k is only 30% slower than current quad-core offerings.
Aside from that number being 40% what else can your 7 year old 2600K do?
Does it have 24x PCI3.0 Express lanes? Or are you runnin PCIe 2.0 at half the speed and 1/3rd of the available lanes, barely enough to power a graphics card and a modern SSD? What else do you think sucks about modern CPUs? Double the memory bandwidth? Native NVMe interfaces to SSDs for orders of magnitude faster bandwidth compared to SATA? 2nd generation processors, you must also be a fan of USB 2.0 and it's 1/20th the bandwidth of USB 3.1 Gen II which would be standard on your modern computer with a modern CPU. Maybe you also like half the RAM limit.
And that's before you question why you would buy a 4 core processor in 2018 for anything other than a laptop in the first place.
The CPU is the core of your system. It's raw speed is not a good metric for deciding if it's time to upgrade or not.
Now I resort to the search functionality constantly.
So you finally embraced a modern and efficient way of using a computer. Congrats. And since I'm voicing unpopular opinions already, screw the drill down menu concept. What a waste of time that was.
I was recently trying to get rid of a remembered WiFi network in Windows 10 and I had to Google how do it!
To be clear you wanted to change something on WiFi and you had to "Google" that this setting was under: "Settings > Network and Internet > WiFi"?
Maybe computers aren't for you.
You'd think with all this focus on fluent design that there would be some easy template to write software for it. I mean actual software, not UWP "apps" which are about the only thing described in the guides.
OP is conflating cycle life with deep cycle life.
The hornsdale power reserver is warrantied for 15 years or 5000 cycles. It will last for significantly longer than that given the battery has not seen massive swings in charge frequently.
which in this use case would probably mean 5000 days
No. Which in this use case would mean 4-5 times that. The hornsdale power reserve does not see their batteries cycled daily, and even if they did only a small portion of it is used for storage. Rapid charging and discharging occurs for only short bursts (seconds) at a time and the battery spends most of its time sitting quite steadily.
It's warrantied for 15. https://hornsdalepowerreserve.... and expected to last much longer.
say, five years, by which time all the cells will have had to be replaced at least once.
Based on what? Ignorance of load cycles on these batteries or ignorance of the performance of them?
FYI they are warrantied for 15 years and expected to last 20-25 before needing replacement. They've been in place a year and barely scratch the surface of their cycle capacity.
Did you copy and paste that from a 1970s discussion on peak oil and just change some of the resources?
will just motivate China to roll their own version of 5G
Huh? What do you mean own "version"? If you're talking about America actually being the technological leader here you've already lost. Huawei is already a large developer of 5G modems, and ZTE already a developer of 5G infrastructure.
There is zero incentive for them to do something incompatible with the rest of the world just because they are having a spat with the USA. The only country really that has something incompatible IS the USA and is rightfully seen all over the world as an incredibly dumb situation to be in.
Oh? Which CEO from America's largest companies was arrested by a 3rd party government on the request of China? You want to talk about turnabout, then prove it.
A fan of the car itself would want it to drive as much as possible like it did the first day out of the factory.
In that case a fan of the car would probably want to do some conversion, modification / modernisation. People who drive their cars are often the ones who swap engines or do something in order to retain or beat the original performance of the car. People who keep it stock own show ponies and are often okay with the fact that after 40 years regardless of maintenance these things don't actually drive like they used to, and when they do they realise how poor their drive actually was.
This is nothing new either: https://www.digitaltrends.com/...
great way to ruin your investment by making the car near worthless.
Depends on your investment. There are those people who buy these show ponies to keep them all original. Then there are those that buy them for various conversion / changes. They retain their invested value for different reasons, and Aston Martin wouldn't be the first to have a classic go electric (though they may be the first to offer this service from the original vendor).
Even here in Germany, classic cars are exempt from most air qualityrules
For now.
If someone benefits from it, he/she should pay.
What if everyone benefits from it? I catch public transport to work. That means one less car on the road in a given day. Everyone on the road should pay for that.
It's the fundamental reason why toll roads are a regressive and inefficient way to create infrastructure.
I hope you don't think encryption of any kind is secure.
Of course it is. Its security is a mathematically verifiable fact. Now do you want to rephrase your thought as something more meaningful, mentioning maybe bugs, trust of third party code, trust of certificate generation, strength of algorithms, etc. Or are you again applying sweeping statements throwing the baby out with the bathwater (you’ll rapidly running out of offspring if you bath them like that).