Everything I've read says solar can only provide a fraction of the needed power. Most of the businesses that install them like whole foods use them to power the store during peak times when electricity is the most expensive.
Or to simply provide enough power to lessen their total electric bill
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nobody paid for things in the past. the internet was even more free than today. the NY times website was free for years. i remember the sales wars of the late 1990s when dot com stores were "selling" DVD's for a few $$$. not old crap, but new releases that cost $30 at retail stores
the money came from stupid VC's and investors flushing tens of millions of $$$ down the dot com toilet or mega corps willing to lose money on the web until they could monetize it
radio was the first to work out a free business model TV copied it and even added a pay TV model that a lot of people liked for a decade or two and now the internet is trying to work out its own version of the pay TV model
yep, not to long ago entertainment was reading the Bible for the 20th time and singing old songs with your family for the 30 minutes of the day you weren't working. not too long ago taking care of babies meant daily laundry and washing dishes by hand into the late hours of the night
the money that we have created cannot just be destroyed. you can put it in the bank,but the bank will find someone to lend it to who has a plan to make more money with it.
most likely it will be put to use on something to do with leisure. the trend of the last hundred some years is the cost of living dropping and more money being spent on leisure and entertainment. in the 1800's people used to give oranges as gifts. They were expensive, hard to find during the holiday season and good for you. hard to believe that not too long ago housing and food used up almost an entire paycheck
iOS has Waze and 20 other free and paid maps apps. had them for years. iOS even has true offline maps apps and not the hacked up offline that google maps has.
if i'm going to drive somewhere with weak or no signal i'll just install my Navigon again, download the states i need and go.
going to war with france and germany every few decades didn't help the UK at all. losing millions of people in the two world wars along with your money producing colonies and having your homeland bombed isn't good for keeping power either
prior to WW1 and 2 the US was powerful, but not as powerful as Europe. the two world wars is what made the USA the superpower that it is today. the europeans went to war with each other one too many times. seriously, france/england/germany/russia and a few other countries have been at war with each other almost continuously for the last 1000 years. the sides changed every few decades but the frequency of the wars has been fairly regular.
its one thing when all your people do is farm, but once industrialization came around the destruction of modern infrastructure allowed the USA to usurp world power. the USA was the China of the early 20th century where modern europe outsourced manufacturing to us and we were only too happy to poison our environment for a few dollars.
is the USA going to be bombed into the stone age soon? because that's what it took to kick europe off the world stage
chances are that Lookout and others have already patented their methods and google should just use their work for free and then call them patent trolls and how their inventions are totally obvious
lots of people have gone from almost nothing to living very comfortably
you're a moron if you think that just because you're not a CEO you're nothing. my wedding photographer has a million dollar house in one of the best school districts in NJ. he runs a small business and is not a billionaire. is he a failure?
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Everything I've read says solar can only provide a fraction of the needed power. Most of the businesses that install them like whole foods use them to power the store during peak times when electricity is the most expensive.
Or to simply provide enough power to lessen their total electric bill
nobody paid for things in the past. the internet was even more free than today. the NY times website was free for years. i remember the sales wars of the late 1990s when dot com stores were "selling" DVD's for a few $$$. not old crap, but new releases that cost $30 at retail stores
the money came from stupid VC's and investors flushing tens of millions of $$$ down the dot com toilet or mega corps willing to lose money on the web until they could monetize it
radio was the first to work out a free business model
TV copied it and even added a pay TV model that a lot of people liked for a decade or two
and now the internet is trying to work out its own version of the pay TV model
yep, not to long ago entertainment was reading the Bible for the 20th time and singing old songs with your family for the 30 minutes of the day you weren't working. not too long ago taking care of babies meant daily laundry and washing dishes by hand into the late hours of the night
the money that we have created cannot just be destroyed. you can put it in the bank,but the bank will find someone to lend it to who has a plan to make more money with it.
most likely it will be put to use on something to do with leisure. the trend of the last hundred some years is the cost of living dropping and more money being spent on leisure and entertainment. in the 1800's people used to give oranges as gifts. They were expensive, hard to find during the holiday season and good for you. hard to believe that not too long ago housing and food used up almost an entire paycheck
JOhn Adams
the president who gave us the Sedition Act of 1798, one of the repressive attacks on free speech in US history
nokia already has a free mapping/nav app on iOS. there is also navigon which uses navteq maps and has full offline capability
apple maps, google and waze keep track of your speed and location. along with others using the apps. 10mph on a 60mph highway means traffic
really?
iOS has Waze and 20 other free and paid maps apps. had them for years. iOS even has true offline maps apps and not the hacked up offline that google maps has.
if i'm going to drive somewhere with weak or no signal i'll just install my Navigon again, download the states i need and go.
most of the complaints were from europe and outside the US. in the US it was pretty good mostly for turn by turn voice nav
the POI was worse than google along with the address parsing. you had to type in an address exactly the way it had it stored in its database
Scotus is only supposed to hear a small number of cases that will have major political and constitutional impacts
They are not a trial court. You get 10 minutes to speak your summary most of which you get interrupted by questions from the justices
one of the reasons no one uses Intel in mobile is the cost.
just patch it yourself
all the smart TV's i've seen, the smart part of the TV runs open source software
apple has a clear rule that it won't charge 30% for physical items
no shit
geeks are so dumb sometimes it astounds me. what if i have to buy a new dishwasher? 10% is a nice discount to keep me from going to Lowes
last time i bought appliances i had to show my army discharge papers to get a nice 20% discount. saved hundreds of $$$ that day
either way the differences in speed between the top ISP's aren't anything to get excited about
blu ray quality is around 30mbps. a difference of 2.2 to 2.55 won't be noticed
going to war with france and germany every few decades didn't help the UK at all. losing millions of people in the two world wars along with your money producing colonies and having your homeland bombed isn't good for keeping power either
prior to WW1 and 2 the US was powerful, but not as powerful as Europe. the two world wars is what made the USA the superpower that it is today. the europeans went to war with each other one too many times. seriously, france/england/germany/russia and a few other countries have been at war with each other almost continuously for the last 1000 years. the sides changed every few decades but the frequency of the wars has been fairly regular.
its one thing when all your people do is farm, but once industrialization came around the destruction of modern infrastructure allowed the USA to usurp world power. the USA was the China of the early 20th century where modern europe outsourced manufacturing to us and we were only too happy to poison our environment for a few dollars.
is the USA going to be bombed into the stone age soon? because that's what it took to kick europe off the world stage
like they did in georgia a few years back
chances are that Lookout and others have already patented their methods and google should just use their work for free and then call them patent trolls and how their inventions are totally obvious
When I went to a national park here in the USA a few months back I bought navigon for my iPhone
It has offline maps and worked perfectly with no signal. It was $30 and well worth it
Its 1.5gb if you want to download every us state
Not as flashy as apple or google maps but an awesome program for what it does
The government can encrypt GPS if they want
They have done it before. It just makes the receivers report the wrong location
Military gps can take special keys to decrypt the signal
the $140 for TV is only because of the sweet deal in KC which was a tiny deployment
borrowing money and paying all other other costs of running the service it will be just as expensive as Time Warner or Verizon
the equipment they give the customers is worth $500 or so. figure $30 a month paid out to the content owners for licensing. lots of other costs
the size of congress is spelled out in the constitution moron
every 10 years there is a census and the results determine which states lose representatives and which states gain them
Afghanistan has $4 TRILLION in mineral deposits. lots of rare earths too.
you can run all the fiber you want but its useless since the devices that use it need rare earth minerals to be produced
lots of people have gone from almost nothing to living very comfortably
you're a moron if you think that just because you're not a CEO you're nothing. my wedding photographer has a million dollar house in one of the best school districts in NJ. he runs a small business and is not a billionaire. is he a failure?