Mileage may vary due to location. Where I live, I did the sums a few years back (PV + deep-cycle Pb acid batteries, vs. getting connected to the grid - breakeven point in years between the two). At the time, the grid connection was cheaper, but not by that much.
In the mean time, I wish I had gone with the other option for a number of reasons, including:
Grid power prices climbed steeply;
The grid being unreliable and not delivering 24/7.
Every day, I long to be not dependent on the grid. Even storage, which is charged from the grid as opposed from PV (i.e. a huge UPS for the household), would be preferable.
No one buys an Apple watch so they can tell the time. They're buying it so they can show off something interesting and fashionable on their wrist.
I suspect you are right. I will now google the said device, so that I can be bored from the moment the first hipster shows up to show off, and not only from the second one.
Oh, Hugh Pickens. 'Nuf said. As if being the #1 pirated show doesn't bring it enough publicity, they have to advertise it here.
I pride myself in the fact that I have never watched even a single episode of the show. Judging by the hype and how popular it is with the general populace, it seems my decision is the correct one.
I recently saw the movie The Internship (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234155/ for any who are in the dark about a 2-year old flick that is good for a giggle or two). I actually made the mental note not to ever interview at Google, even in an alternate universe where I was younger and actually wanted to live in the US, etc. I was actually thinking: WTF where Google thinking to let themselves be portrayed like that? Then I recognized a few (or quite a few) traits in common with previous workplaces that I worked for because I needed a job, but didn't really find all as great as their recruiting hype made out to be. I guess some corporates believe in all honesty that all that BS that they want to take their worker drones' workday and private life over with is in fact so much better than the alternative.
Notice that remote workers in India and Russia earn way more than local workers - as compared to the USA, where the pay is much more equal. Which probably skews the statistics. After all, remote workers in India and Russia may earn dollars, euros or pounds, not necessarily rupees or roubles. While USA-based remote workers also earn mostly dollars (and maybe some euros or pounds), but probably negligible rupees or roubles.
If this actually pans out, then it'll make electric vehicles very economical
It will also help mightily if night-time storage of daytime-generated (PV) electricity can be made much more economical (especially for regions where "grid-as-storage" is not viable, or won't be viable once the financial incentives for doing so been done away with).
In, the U.S. Postal Service issued colorful dinosaur stamps
That would be in 1989, according to 2 minutes of googlating. Good job, "editors"!
I thought that perhaps the date was so far in the past that the slashcode had some sort of overflow or wraparound error. Something like "Dates before -6000 are invalid". I guess 1989 predates the creation of slashdot?
Reminds me of Pascal's quote of not having the time to write a shorter letter.
As a some-time presenter myself, and having the typical introverted personality (including slow speech due to all the thought processes going on to calculate the right way to say something), I have found that it takes quite a while to prepare a good presentation (non-boring and engaging, let alone one that the audience can learn something from). I would say at least 8 hours for a 40-minute presentation, but that is after some experience already. Longer gives me more time to prepare better.
I have seen quite a few tutorials and presentations where it seems the presenter hasn't spent much time planning the presentation through. First run through gets recorded and uploaded without too much editing either. To the point that I only watch a video to learn something as a last resort.
Other problem is of course in areas with buggy network connectivity, or very basic connectivity like much of the third world, video is all but impossible to use.
Researchers sifted through 1,800 research papers on homeopathy and found no reliable report that showed homeopathic remedies had any better results than placebos.
To which the knee-jerk response is: absence of proof is not the same as proof of absence.
Oh wait, wrong topic to trot that argument out on. Please ignore the above ramblings of my mind.
By the way the SA society has been groomed to be accepting of public disobedience, from the struggle against apartheit to the disregard for the Gauteng freeway tolling, that may just happen. Especially on the internet.
Lets assume for the moment that all instances of [insert favourite bandwagon here]phobic yaks and other {GASP} contraventions of political correctness constitute just a small part of the total use of the app. If we concentrate on the major part of its use, what does that leave us with?
Yet Another Knickknack to cause even more attention deficit amongst Young Inexperienced Kids.
That's interesting. Where I work we're making progress on human transplants of a web-scale ficas using nothing but red staplers crowd funded via a new meta-material crypto currency based on a Bitcoin NoSQL kernel which solves the pressing problem of laser mounted sharks doxing bio-hackers via Twitter's NSA paper trail.
What has/. come to? Where are the Natalie Portman/Soviet Russia/Beowulf memes???
It's called kinetically challenged ocular organ, you insensitive clod.
And just to preempt the humor and irony challenged, yes I know the medical term is Amblyopia. There's even a link in the summary to the Wikipedia article.
Because most people are idiots with no taste or refinement. Remember, we live in a world where most people would rather listen to Bieber rather than Mozart.
And remember, this was done on the Apple ecosystem.
It seems to me the problem here is the nightly build process, which seems to have even reached the graphics artists. Rather than checking in nothing, which would break the build, he/she/it/they checked in hastily concocted outline stuff. Heck, that music note on the article screenshot is HARDLY recognizable as one. After all, when one does read sheet music, notes are akin to typeset letters, not merely baubles hanging off a washing line by their tails.
Well, this is what I HOPE to be the case, and that something more polished goes into that software, both what one can see on-screen and the stuff behind the scenes....
This must be the first summary I've read on/. in over a dozen years that wasn't just a copy-pasted paragraph from the article. Kudos for that.
On the other hand, I didn't much like the slant (which must be popular in the post-modern, green, politically-correct, think-of-everything-little, brave new world) of the first sentence.
Hell yeah, I'm gonna prune that sucker of a peach tree in my back yard (or as you may prefer to put it: rob it of of it's precious, verdant, aspiring fire wood) despite the fact that peach trees grow just fine without pruning. Why? So that it can bear more precious, fragrant, soft, juicy fruit, of which I will rob it too. That's the whole point of planting a tree in my back yard (instead of burning fossil fuels to travel to some place thousands of miles away that has wild trees, just to collect a few.)
Oh, and please get off my precious green lawn while you're at it.
Slashdot Mirror
Interesting that in all the armchair analyses above, I haven't seen anyone mention the NSA snooping.
In the mean time, I wish I had gone with the other option for a number of reasons, including:
Every day, I long to be not dependent on the grid. Even storage, which is charged from the grid as opposed from PV (i.e. a huge UPS for the household), would be preferable.
The problem is definining "beneficial".
To whom should the AI be beneficial toward?
The shareholders, of course!
No one buys an Apple watch so they can tell the time. They're buying it so they can show off something interesting and fashionable on their wrist.
I suspect you are right. I will now google the said device, so that I can be bored from the moment the first hipster shows up to show off, and not only from the second one.
I pride myself in the fact that I have never watched even a single episode of the show. Judging by the hype and how popular it is with the general populace, it seems my decision is the correct one.
White consistently wins 56% and Black only 44%
Que the SJW's in 3, 2, .... oh dang, someone's already done it.
I recently saw the movie The Internship (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234155/ for any who are in the dark about a 2-year old flick that is good for a giggle or two). I actually made the mental note not to ever interview at Google, even in an alternate universe where I was younger and actually wanted to live in the US, etc. I was actually thinking: WTF where Google thinking to let themselves be portrayed like that? Then I recognized a few (or quite a few) traits in common with previous workplaces that I worked for because I needed a job, but didn't really find all as great as their recruiting hype made out to be. I guess some corporates believe in all honesty that all that BS that they want to take their worker drones' workday and private life over with is in fact so much better than the alternative.
Notice that remote workers in India and Russia earn way more than local workers - as compared to the USA, where the pay is much more equal. Which probably skews the statistics. After all, remote workers in India and Russia may earn dollars, euros or pounds, not necessarily rupees or roubles. While USA-based remote workers also earn mostly dollars (and maybe some euros or pounds), but probably negligible rupees or roubles.
If this actually pans out, then it'll make electric vehicles very economical
It will also help mightily if night-time storage of daytime-generated (PV) electricity can be made much more economical (especially for regions where "grid-as-storage" is not viable, or won't be viable once the financial incentives for doing so been done away with).
In, the U.S. Postal Service issued colorful dinosaur stamps
That would be in 1989, according to 2 minutes of googlating. Good job, "editors"!
I thought that perhaps the date was so far in the past that the slashcode had some sort of overflow or wraparound error. Something like "Dates before -6000 are invalid". I guess 1989 predates the creation of slashdot?
All I have to add to the subject line is: "Why?"
Reminds me of Pascal's quote of not having the time to write a shorter letter.
As a some-time presenter myself, and having the typical introverted personality (including slow speech due to all the thought processes going on to calculate the right way to say something), I have found that it takes quite a while to prepare a good presentation (non-boring and engaging, let alone one that the audience can learn something from). I would say at least 8 hours for a 40-minute presentation, but that is after some experience already. Longer gives me more time to prepare better.
I have seen quite a few tutorials and presentations where it seems the presenter hasn't spent much time planning the presentation through. First run through gets recorded and uploaded without too much editing either. To the point that I only watch a video to learn something as a last resort.
Other problem is of course in areas with buggy network connectivity, or very basic connectivity like much of the third world, video is all but impossible to use.
Researchers sifted through 1,800 research papers on homeopathy and found no reliable report that showed homeopathic remedies had any better results than placebos.
To which the knee-jerk response is: absence of proof is not the same as proof of absence.
Oh wait, wrong topic to trot that argument out on. Please ignore the above ramblings of my mind.
By the way the SA society has been groomed to be accepting of public disobedience, from the struggle against apartheit to the disregard for the Gauteng freeway tolling, that may just happen. Especially on the internet.
I believe the term you are looking for is one-party dominant system. But yes, I agree with the gist of your post.
Yet Another Knickknack to cause even more attention deficit amongst Young Inexperienced Kids.
South Africa had similar ones for AGES. List of South African English regionalisms, Image search.
They still can't be bribed, though. New version needed, perhaps the government will issue a tender for that.
progress towards CNC-milling a pancreas.
That's interesting. Where I work we're making progress on human transplants of a web-scale ficas using nothing but red staplers crowd funded via a new meta-material crypto currency based on a Bitcoin NoSQL kernel which solves the pressing problem of laser mounted sharks doxing bio-hackers via Twitter's NSA paper trail.
What has /. come to? Where are the Natalie Portman/Soviet Russia/Beowulf memes???
lazy eye
It's called kinetically challenged ocular organ, you insensitive clod.
And just to preempt the humor and irony challenged, yes I know the medical term is Amblyopia. There's even a link in the summary to the Wikipedia article.
lazy eye
It's called kinetically challenged ocular organ, you insensitive clod.
I'm holding my breath for the next round of calls to ban video games.
Because most people are idiots with no taste or refinement. Remember, we live in a world where most people would rather listen to Bieber rather than Mozart.
And remember, this was done on the Apple ecosystem.
It seems to me the problem here is the nightly build process, which seems to have even reached the graphics artists. Rather than checking in nothing, which would break the build, he/she/it/they checked in hastily concocted outline stuff. Heck, that music note on the article screenshot is HARDLY recognizable as one. After all, when one does read sheet music, notes are akin to typeset letters, not merely baubles hanging off a washing line by their tails.
Well, this is what I HOPE to be the case, and that something more polished goes into that software, both what one can see on-screen and the stuff behind the scenes....
why did you vote for Obama? Twice??
Well, he got us into this mess, he must get us out again.
This must be the first summary I've read on /. in over a dozen years that wasn't just a copy-pasted paragraph from the article. Kudos for that.
On the other hand, I didn't much like the slant (which must be popular in the post-modern, green, politically-correct, think-of-everything-little, brave new world) of the first sentence.
Hell yeah, I'm gonna prune that sucker of a peach tree in my back yard (or as you may prefer to put it: rob it of of it's precious, verdant, aspiring fire wood) despite the fact that peach trees grow just fine without pruning. Why? So that it can bear more precious, fragrant, soft, juicy fruit, of which I will rob it too. That's the whole point of planting a tree in my back yard (instead of burning fossil fuels to travel to some place thousands of miles away that has wild trees, just to collect a few.)
Oh, and please get off my precious green lawn while you're at it.