The feed in tariff you get on energy generated is generally pretty poor compared to just using the energy yourself. So it may well be cheaper to have the panels on your house, because the energy savings will be greater than the money you would get from feeding the grid.
Looking at the product page they make some clearly untrue claims without qualification. For example, they say the software is "fully open", but also admit that they have non-free hardware (and presumably drivers) such as the modem, i.e. the bit that communicates with the world. They also make some false statements about the competition, such as claiming that Android isn't Linux.
They don't even list the hardware specs.
If you are really concerned about this stuff then a better and cheaper option is to get a phone well supported by Lineage OS. If you are really worried you can even build your own OS from source with ASOP, although of course just like Librem you need some binary blobs.
Yeah, but we aren't in natural conditions. Appealing to the nature of prehistoric mankind as justification for behaviour today isn't a very compelling argument.
The same argument was made about databases. You can collect and organize the same information with a paper filing system. We regulated the use of databases for storing information relating to people anyway, because we could see what powerful tools databases are.
People said the same thing about computers back in the 70s when modern data protection laws were being devised. Yet somehow were we are in 2018 with strong protections like GDPR that effectively regulate their use.
Compare how people's personal data is handled and abused in the US to the state in the EU. There is no question that these laws are effective.
EV conversions for classic sports care are gaining popularity because they often improve the cars for the owners. They go from high maintenance and relatively unimpressive performance (engines in the 60s and 70s just were not that powerful), to low maintenance and more performance than a car without advanced traction control can really handle.
Electric conversions are already quite popular for classic cars because the fossil engines wear out and deteriorate to the point where they need replacing anyway, so only the ones kept in museums are original these days anyway.
How much data is Google slurping from every Chromium based browser install is another problematic issue.
Other than Chrome the answer is none. And for Chrome the minimum is a unique install ID, and by default automatic update checks with some metadata such as screen resolution and number of CPU cores, but the latter can be disabled.
Alternatively you can interpret machines being female because they're precious, valuable, and cherished by those around them.
You can, but that is also a rather outdated gender stereotype. I'd expect you of all people to know that, having complained about women being "just as bad or worse than men" before.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you mean well with that statement, but unfortunately the same argument was used to "protect" women from roles they were thought unsuited to, such as policing. It's also a bit misandrist in that it seems to imply that women are more deserving of or perhaps more inherently precious and valuable and cherished.
The GP is correct, and you can actually see it with the naked eye for yourself. Find an old 50/60Hz CRT and instead of looking directly at the screen look above and past it. You will notice in your peripheral vision that the screen is flickering. That's because the phosphors fade out to near black before the electron beam comes around to refresh them again.
It's what creates the flicker when you point a camera at a CRT screen. One of the benefits of 100 HZ CRTs was reduced flicker, even before they included motion interpolation.
LCDs mimic it with backlight strobing or black frame insertion, because as the GP correctly points out the human eye sees more detail during motion when there is strobing.
This is true, but they can't, because Firefox elected instead to embrace the Chrome add-on model.
They had no choice. Go back and use a pre-change version of Firefox. The performance is terrible. It's single threaded, one thread dying takes down the whole browser, like it's the 1980s again. Can't even be properly sandboxed.
And the add-ons were a security nightmare. Bugs in the add-ons could be exploited by web sites to steal info from the browser or underlying OS.
The add-on API was holding the whole browser back. They could make necessary fixes because it would break add-ons. A clean start was the best of a bunch of bad options, and at least they selected an API that was familiar and allowed porting of many existing add-ons on day one.
Firefox is actually decent again now.
What add-ons are you missing, by the way? Maybe we can suggest some alternatives.
It was misleading. It would give a translation that included gender when the original did not, and someone who didn't understand the original language at all would have no way of knowing if that was the case or not. In fact most people would not even ask the question.
The real fix is to make Google Translate understand context properly. Human translators can usually infer gender from context or other statements in the text, but machine translation doesn't seem to be that clever.
The bigger issue with translating Japanese is that it often rephrases things to be personal. Instead of "a bug was found in app 1.0" it comes out as "I found a bug in app 1.0".
Google Translate has got a lot better at this, but now it tends to err on the side of being impersonal. The only way to fix it is to understand the context of the statement, but they don't seem to have the ability to do that yet.
It's history more than language that creates the issues in English. To use your example of God, the primary religions of Europe all have a male god who made the first man in his image. The first woman was made to keep him company and provide him with children, which pretty much set up the model for how people thought about women and feminine things in general - there to serve men.
That's why machines are usually referred to as female, e.g. ships. They were, until comparatively recently, created by, controlled by and served men. Often they protected men too, like a mother protects a child. Those men often developed some affection for their machines, which would have been uncomfortable had the ship been considered male because at the major religions considered homosexuality to be a sin.
It's that projection of masculine/feminine traits on to inanimate objects based on their role relative to traditional gender roles that is the issue.
I guess we should be more politically correct in English for those of us who consider themselves to be "edible fruit and vegetables."
This is a very common misunderstanding of what gender expression is. People who subscribe to that model of gender think that gender is performative, i.e. you can't be edible fruit because you can't live as edible fruit. You can live as a man or a woman or something else on that spectrum though, by altering your appearance and behaviour etc.
If you buy a decent TV then motion interpolation works well and looks good. In fact you wouldn't even know it was turned on.
CRTs just happened to produce really good motion. LCDs had problems with slow transition times (the time it takes a pixel to change colour) and smearing. That was partially solved by turning the backlight on and off to imitate the slight flicker of CRTs and to make the intermediate stages of pixel transition less noticeable.
Motion interpolation helps further resolve detail when there is movement on screen. Without it details become smeared and blurred when moving. When overdone it looks like cheap video tape, but when done well it looks like a CRT.
Try turning it down to the lowest setting. For movies you might want to turn it off to imitate the juddery picture you see at the cinema.
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This assumes you have $10k cash to invest, rather than adding $10k to a long term loan (mortgage).
Obviously if you do have $10k then you can still invest it and still add $10k to your mortgage and still make a profit on both.
The feed in tariff you get on energy generated is generally pretty poor compared to just using the energy yourself. So it may well be cheaper to have the panels on your house, because the energy savings will be greater than the money you would get from feeding the grid.
Can you describe these requirements in detail? Seems like having solar on the roof (PV and hot water) would be the most efficient option.
Try tinyapps.org, I seem to recall there was a little app that can minimize anything to the tray.
I could be wrong though...
Come on Ol, taking it to an absurd extreme and then whataboutism?
Be warned, that phone looks like a scam.
Looking at the product page they make some clearly untrue claims without qualification. For example, they say the software is "fully open", but also admit that they have non-free hardware (and presumably drivers) such as the modem, i.e. the bit that communicates with the world. They also make some false statements about the competition, such as claiming that Android isn't Linux.
They don't even list the hardware specs.
If you are really concerned about this stuff then a better and cheaper option is to get a phone well supported by Lineage OS. If you are really worried you can even build your own OS from source with ASOP, although of course just like Librem you need some binary blobs.
In natural conditions
Yeah, but we aren't in natural conditions. Appealing to the nature of prehistoric mankind as justification for behaviour today isn't a very compelling argument.
Even if you don't use public transport it benefits you by reducing traffic.
The same argument was made about databases. You can collect and organize the same information with a paper filing system. We regulated the use of databases for storing information relating to people anyway, because we could see what powerful tools databases are.
People said the same thing about computers back in the 70s when modern data protection laws were being devised. Yet somehow were we are in 2018 with strong protections like GDPR that effectively regulate their use.
Compare how people's personal data is handled and abused in the US to the state in the EU. There is no question that these laws are effective.
EV conversions for classic sports care are gaining popularity because they often improve the cars for the owners. They go from high maintenance and relatively unimpressive performance (engines in the 60s and 70s just were not that powerful), to low maintenance and more performance than a car without advanced traction control can really handle.
Electric conversions are already quite popular for classic cars because the fossil engines wear out and deteriorate to the point where they need replacing anyway, so only the ones kept in museums are original these days anyway.
How much data is Google slurping from every Chromium based browser install is another problematic issue.
Other than Chrome the answer is none. And for Chrome the minimum is a unique install ID, and by default automatic update checks with some metadata such as screen resolution and number of CPU cores, but the latter can be disabled.
Alternatively you can interpret machines being female because they're precious, valuable, and cherished by those around them.
You can, but that is also a rather outdated gender stereotype. I'd expect you of all people to know that, having complained about women being "just as bad or worse than men" before.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you mean well with that statement, but unfortunately the same argument was used to "protect" women from roles they were thought unsuited to, such as policing. It's also a bit misandrist in that it seems to imply that women are more deserving of or perhaps more inherently precious and valuable and cherished.
The GP is correct, and you can actually see it with the naked eye for yourself. Find an old 50/60Hz CRT and instead of looking directly at the screen look above and past it. You will notice in your peripheral vision that the screen is flickering. That's because the phosphors fade out to near black before the electron beam comes around to refresh them again.
It's what creates the flicker when you point a camera at a CRT screen. One of the benefits of 100 HZ CRTs was reduced flicker, even before they included motion interpolation.
LCDs mimic it with backlight strobing or black frame insertion, because as the GP correctly points out the human eye sees more detail during motion when there is strobing.
This is true, but they can't, because Firefox elected instead to embrace the Chrome add-on model.
They had no choice. Go back and use a pre-change version of Firefox. The performance is terrible. It's single threaded, one thread dying takes down the whole browser, like it's the 1980s again. Can't even be properly sandboxed.
And the add-ons were a security nightmare. Bugs in the add-ons could be exploited by web sites to steal info from the browser or underlying OS.
The add-on API was holding the whole browser back. They could make necessary fixes because it would break add-ons. A clean start was the best of a bunch of bad options, and at least they selected an API that was familiar and allowed porting of many existing add-ons on day one.
Firefox is actually decent again now.
What add-ons are you missing, by the way? Maybe we can suggest some alternatives.
Can't compete with Huawei 5G.
Sadly it's not just the US using "national security" as a tool to try to make their own tech companies more competitive by banning the competition.
It was misleading. It would give a translation that included gender when the original did not, and someone who didn't understand the original language at all would have no way of knowing if that was the case or not. In fact most people would not even ask the question.
The real fix is to make Google Translate understand context properly. Human translators can usually infer gender from context or other statements in the text, but machine translation doesn't seem to be that clever.
The bigger issue with translating Japanese is that it often rephrases things to be personal. Instead of "a bug was found in app 1.0" it comes out as "I found a bug in app 1.0".
Google Translate has got a lot better at this, but now it tends to err on the side of being impersonal. The only way to fix it is to understand the context of the statement, but they don't seem to have the ability to do that yet.
It's history more than language that creates the issues in English. To use your example of God, the primary religions of Europe all have a male god who made the first man in his image. The first woman was made to keep him company and provide him with children, which pretty much set up the model for how people thought about women and feminine things in general - there to serve men.
That's why machines are usually referred to as female, e.g. ships. They were, until comparatively recently, created by, controlled by and served men. Often they protected men too, like a mother protects a child. Those men often developed some affection for their machines, which would have been uncomfortable had the ship been considered male because at the major religions considered homosexuality to be a sin.
It's that projection of masculine/feminine traits on to inanimate objects based on their role relative to traditional gender roles that is the issue.
I guess we should be more politically correct in English for those of us who consider themselves to be "edible fruit and vegetables."
This is a very common misunderstanding of what gender expression is. People who subscribe to that model of gender think that gender is performative, i.e. you can't be edible fruit because you can't live as edible fruit. You can live as a man or a woman or something else on that spectrum though, by altering your appearance and behaviour etc.
Your obsession with other people's bodies is pretty creepy.
If you buy a decent TV then motion interpolation works well and looks good. In fact you wouldn't even know it was turned on.
CRTs just happened to produce really good motion. LCDs had problems with slow transition times (the time it takes a pixel to change colour) and smearing. That was partially solved by turning the backlight on and off to imitate the slight flicker of CRTs and to make the intermediate stages of pixel transition less noticeable.
Motion interpolation helps further resolve detail when there is movement on screen. Without it details become smeared and blurred when moving. When overdone it looks like cheap video tape, but when done well it looks like a CRT.
Try turning it down to the lowest setting. For movies you might want to turn it off to imitate the juddery picture you see at the cinema.
Averages 500W, but in the evenings with the cooker and the kettle and the shower going it's about 15-20x that much.
Who gets the licence, the exporter or the receiver? And which was Huwawei?