I'd imagine watts/m^2 very quickly turns into watts/$ when it comes to maintaining ever larger fields of panels.
When exactly one is more valuable to research than the other is up so some particularly smart person to work out (not me), but both aspects are valuable to improve over the long term.
Not to mention this has a direct impact on raw materials required to produce said panels.
They also offer a variety of services which I greatly appreciate in this day an age.
I don't have to lug around all my cds/dvds/Floppies every time I move and honestly I've gotten rid of all my physical media (external hard-drives excluded) about 2 international moves ago.
It automatically keeps all my games up to date, no more Battlefield 1942 patch hell.
As a store front it allows me to keep up to date on game releases and even pre-load certain titles.
Steam sales.
A robust offline mode which automatically works as long as you've downloaded the game and run it a single time while being connected online.
I use it as a unified launcher.
I use it as a communication tool dedicated to getting in touch with other people I know who are playing games and can easily organize matches of any game on our collective steam lists.
Also not all games come with the steamworks DRM and can be run freely without steam even being installed on the system. Granted you have to download it through Steam first, but that would apply to any digital store front. Not to mention I've never noticed the DRM in action, making it the most non-intrusive form so far and if it doesn't even bother me, I don't see much reason to rage about it if it means that Steam is more likely to stay in business.
I no longer have to input CD-keys or even worry about where I've physically kept the myriads of manuals containing them and installing software is as quick as simply wanting to play something and double clicking the title and download/installation is automatic. I don't have as much time to waste on gaming as I used to so streamlining it is in my best interest.
Having to live with the "fear" that one day my games will be gone is like worrying that a Jumbo jet will land on my house. Honestly, I'd just pirate the games I'd lost.
Because people are stupid and forget about important things all the time.
It's a campaign revolved around awareness. If you notice all the lights going out around you and you take a moment to think "Ooh, that's neat" and then figure out it's earth day then maybe sometime next week you'll turn off a light you would normally have left on or turned down (up?) the AC a couple of degrees. But more often than not you will forget it, because people are stupid and forget about important things all the time.
Watching back your life will literally take a lifetime worth of time to do. Not to mention how long it would take to edit it into something comprehensible.
Here's a suggestion: Live your life and look forward instead of focusing on how you can dwell harder. Spend more time doing things you love instead of remembering the things you used to love.
Exactly this. When I get asked if my bios is the latest version I usually just lie and say yes and then they end up providing me with the information/service I originally requested instead of badgering me about my bios being the potential culprit.
That is actually really interesting. In addition imagine the potential of having similar software on the google glasses or any other head mounted display giving you visual feedback on objects you may not be able to clearly see in real time.
They kept updating it and changing things around in very small ways which seemed to break my add-ons and browsing methods on a regular basis. Like adding the awesomebar, taking it out, breaking the addon I had to replace it and probably putting it back in again by now...
I know updates are generally considered a good thing, but Mozilla chased me away with theirs. I just wanted my browser and daily routine to work every time I started it up without having to worry about whether or not they updated it.
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I'd imagine watts/m^2 very quickly turns into watts/$ when it comes to maintaining ever larger fields of panels.
When exactly one is more valuable to research than the other is up so some particularly smart person to work out (not me), but both aspects are valuable to improve over the long term.
Not to mention this has a direct impact on raw materials required to produce said panels.
You answered your own question.
Why is it popular? Because everyone uses it.
Just like every other method of communication in the world.
Ask Slashdot: How Could You Statistically Identify The Best Flavor?
Sure, you'll get a result if you're successful... That doesn't mean you're going to like it.
I think you're being overly paranoid... This one is 'armless by design!
Or, you know, Velcro.
Or even just slip on shoes.
If someone can't toe their shoelaces due to disability then having to change batteries isn't going to be a walk in the park either.
I imagine the next version will go 5-0 as these kind of things tend to be iterative in nature.
Concise metrics such as "a while" in combination with "probably" and "presumably" do not make a very informative article.
They also offer a variety of services which I greatly appreciate in this day an age.
I don't have to lug around all my cds/dvds/Floppies every time I move and honestly I've gotten rid of all my physical media (external hard-drives excluded) about 2 international moves ago.
It automatically keeps all my games up to date, no more Battlefield 1942 patch hell.
As a store front it allows me to keep up to date on game releases and even pre-load certain titles.
Steam sales.
A robust offline mode which automatically works as long as you've downloaded the game and run it a single time while being connected online.
I use it as a unified launcher.
I use it as a communication tool dedicated to getting in touch with other people I know who are playing games and can easily organize matches of any game on our collective steam lists.
Also not all games come with the steamworks DRM and can be run freely without steam even being installed on the system. Granted you have to download it through Steam first, but that would apply to any digital store front. Not to mention I've never noticed the DRM in action, making it the most non-intrusive form so far and if it doesn't even bother me, I don't see much reason to rage about it if it means that Steam is more likely to stay in business.
I no longer have to input CD-keys or even worry about where I've physically kept the myriads of manuals containing them and installing software is as quick as simply wanting to play something and double clicking the title and download/installation is automatic. I don't have as much time to waste on gaming as I used to so streamlining it is in my best interest.
Having to live with the "fear" that one day my games will be gone is like worrying that a Jumbo jet will land on my house. Honestly, I'd just pirate the games I'd lost.
I don't think they know what the word, "resurrect", means.
Nah, just kidding. Fuck the beta.
I want to be able to meet someone and get to know him/her by actually talking to him/her.
And no, I don't give a fuck about sex offender list crazyness.
I do not want *anybody* to tell me who i should be afraid of or not.
What's stopping you?
Maybe they only pirated one album from an artist and they want the rest of their discography.
Or maybe just they *gasp* actually want to support the artist so more music will be made.
Because people are stupid and forget about important things all the time.
It's a campaign revolved around awareness. If you notice all the lights going out around you and you take a moment to think "Ooh, that's neat" and then figure out it's earth day then maybe sometime next week you'll turn off a light you would normally have left on or turned down (up?) the AC a couple of degrees. But more often than not you will forget it, because people are stupid and forget about important things all the time.
Sure it's futile, but at least it's something.
Watching back your life will literally take a lifetime worth of time to do. Not to mention how long it would take to edit it into something comprehensible.
Here's a suggestion: Live your life and look forward instead of focusing on how you can dwell harder. Spend more time doing things you love instead of remembering the things you used to love.
I should totally steal their idea and start a tech company in the UK called Orange.
Oh, wait...
Exactly this. When I get asked if my bios is the latest version I usually just lie and say yes and then they end up providing me with the information/service I originally requested instead of badgering me about my bios being the potential culprit.
That is actually really interesting. In addition imagine the potential of having similar software on the google glasses or any other head mounted display giving you visual feedback on objects you may not be able to clearly see in real time.
Another laser, duh.
You think you feel silly? Imagine how the Mayans felt!
They kept updating it and changing things around in very small ways which seemed to break my add-ons and browsing methods on a regular basis. Like adding the awesomebar, taking it out, breaking the addon I had to replace it and probably putting it back in again by now...
I know updates are generally considered a good thing, but Mozilla chased me away with theirs. I just wanted my browser and daily routine to work every time I started it up without having to worry about whether or not they updated it.
I've spent all my mod points, please down-vote parent to -1 to prove a pun.
Think of the children's [times 1500] children's children's children's children!
And yes, I tried to copy paste 1500 "children's", but apparently slashdot has some sort of "spam" protection... Who knew!
Serious question: Fair enough that they disrupted a lot of traffic, but did it get redirected anywhere positive?
Did sales go up? This is a pretty important question that they don't seem to be answering.
In fact surely by definition an infinite world will repeat itself due to it being infinite and therefore an infinite amount of repetition?
Isn't it like saying the second full rendition of Shakespeare that was just created is a bug and the infinite monkeys will be adjusted accordingly?
And I'll be impressed when medical projections get 3d models and not a 2d representation of a "4d" model.
See where I'm going with this? Just because the data exists doesn't make it unique.
Man, I can't wait until video games get the technology to not just be viewable static 3d models.