Compact flash is/was the standard on the high end. SD is making some inroads, but for a long time, fancy cameras had CF slots and that was your choice.
I'm trying to get everybody in trouble, all of the time.
Besides, if anybody got in trouble for that they could just show their boss the page. If the reaction is anything other than "Hey, that's pretty cool" (and the boss doesn't regularly work on the damn things), the getting in trouble for looking at it provided the employee valuable information about the quality of that particular boss.
The relative life-cycle efficiency of the two types of vehicles doesn't have anything to do with the fact that Americans really are abandoning their SUVs, often for hybrids, which happens to be the contradiction that I was talking about in the original comment.
If a system can actually pay for itself in 10 years, I would think that a lot of people would pay for them just for the lowered dependence on the grid. If it is less than 10 years, I would think that it would be a great way to offset growing demand (especially peak summer loads...).
Where, and at what time of year? 50w/square meter (this is what you are quoting) is about 5% efficiency in a sunny spot during the summer, and something you could expect from current commercial cells.
It is pretty likely there will be an inflection point. At the moment, my take is that the subsidized pay off period is still pushing 20 years, so solar is pretty much only any good if you are rich and don't like it when your power goes away, or if you want to live really far from the grid. When the unsubsidized payback hits 10 years, Joe-dumbass is going to be screwing up an installation on his garage, driving the payback time even lower.
Up until the inflection point, nothing will seem to make a difference. Afterwords, it will be like "what took so long and where did all those things come from".
There are plenty of other things that can be done if oil prices go up. Besides, oil prices don't have a whole lot to do with the price of electricity.
(If things get holy shit on a brick terrible, it would not be that big a deal to simply nationalize natural gas fields and convert/build some minimum number of lng vehicles in order to actually have an economy, or start up a bunch of coal liquification systems or whatever. Those are peak oil disaster scenarios, not likely eventualities.)
I got a similar call. I was pretty sure that they were attempting to obtain my credit card information, not to help me consolidate my bills. Ya know, Phishing.
I took that they didn't want to reveal who they were as an indication that it was not a legitimate enterprise.
Oh, I fully believe that AT&T has a premier customer program. I was having fun with the fact that your comment pretty much only served to tell everyone that you were in it.
I'll only get one if I can maintain my discounts as an AT&T Super mega ultra platinum AT&T contract only customer (you have to know someone, if you ask about it, they'll tell you it doesn't exist).
Give it ten years. If I am choosing between $10 for physical media that I own forever and $1 for a rental (this price point doesn't really exists yet, but heavy users of Netflix come close), I, that's me, I don't intend to speak for everyone, am going to choose $1 most of the time, as experience has shown that I simply don't repeatedly view DVDs.
I'm not talking about traditional push-and-drool Comcast, I'm talking about surprisingly-nice on demand Comcast. The incremental fee over the digital cable package is not huge, and there is an ever growing amount of content that has either no ads or very minimal ads.
Also, Netflix has upwards of 50,000 discs available. You are correct that this is not 10,000 times the content, but it is probably more than 1,000 the content that most people have, or have any desire to manage.
I can see a future where it costs $0.50 to pull up a random episode of Seinfeld or the Simpsons (I don't think syndication nets out any better than this). If that future comes to be, no way do I want to have all that crap sitting around my house, or on my own personal server. Maybe it won't come to be, but if it does, people will gladly pay to rent rather than to own.
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So should we call it an ability or a choice?
Or are you one of those people who doesn't think that labor contracts can possibly be valid?
I imagine you could, if you really wanted to.
Compact flash is/was the standard on the high end. SD is making some inroads, but for a long time, fancy cameras had CF slots and that was your choice.
On a slow news day, the oddest stories get posted and people often get interpreted in an excessively literal fashion.
Isn't there some thing about the fool that follows and the fool that leads?
I'm trying to get everybody in trouble, all of the time.
Besides, if anybody got in trouble for that they could just show their boss the page. If the reaction is anything other than "Hey, that's pretty cool" (and the boss doesn't regularly work on the damn things), the getting in trouble for looking at it provided the employee valuable information about the quality of that particular boss.
There was more to those brownies than you thought.
The relative life-cycle efficiency of the two types of vehicles doesn't have anything to do with the fact that Americans really are abandoning their SUVs, often for hybrids, which happens to be the contradiction that I was talking about in the original comment.
This is a pretty good write up of what is involved in an underground cable:
http://jwz.livejournal.com/94645.html
Wild stuff.
If a system can actually pay for itself in 10 years, I would think that a lot of people would pay for them just for the lowered dependence on the grid. If it is less than 10 years, I would think that it would be a great way to offset growing demand (especially peak summer loads...).
Imagine if it didn't have an unnecessary (and incorrect!) apostrophe and said "your".
So what the hell were you even doing at that interview?
Who says he is looking to hire sane, well adjusted people?
Where, and at what time of year? 50w/square meter (this is what you are quoting) is about 5% efficiency in a sunny spot during the summer, and something you could expect from current commercial cells.
It is pretty likely there will be an inflection point. At the moment, my take is that the subsidized pay off period is still pushing 20 years, so solar is pretty much only any good if you are rich and don't like it when your power goes away, or if you want to live really far from the grid. When the unsubsidized payback hits 10 years, Joe-dumbass is going to be screwing up an installation on his garage, driving the payback time even lower.
Up until the inflection point, nothing will seem to make a difference. Afterwords, it will be like "what took so long and where did all those things come from".
There are plenty of other things that can be done if oil prices go up. Besides, oil prices don't have a whole lot to do with the price of electricity.
(If things get holy shit on a brick terrible, it would not be that big a deal to simply nationalize natural gas fields and convert/build some minimum number of lng vehicles in order to actually have an economy, or start up a bunch of coal liquification systems or whatever. Those are peak oil disaster scenarios, not likely eventualities.)
I got a similar call. I was pretty sure that they were attempting to obtain my credit card information, not to help me consolidate my bills. Ya know, Phishing.
I took that they didn't want to reveal who they were as an indication that it was not a legitimate enterprise.
While I believe that your comment is accurate, it is funny as hell that it could just as well be completely made up.
Oh, I fully believe that AT&T has a premier customer program. I was having fun with the fact that your comment pretty much only served to tell everyone that you were in it.
How about you tell us. From what I can see, you own a relatively recent Apple mp3 player and went to the store prepared to spend some money...
I'll only get one if I can maintain my discounts as an AT&T Super mega ultra platinum AT&T contract only customer (you have to know someone, if you ask about it, they'll tell you it doesn't exist).
So play find the iPhone. You should be able to get in a good couple of rounds before it gets activated.
To make it interesting, start the game with copious amounts of vodka.
Maaaaaaaatlooooooocckk.
What sequence of events led you to getting hit in the face four times with a fish?
Give it ten years. If I am choosing between $10 for physical media that I own forever and $1 for a rental (this price point doesn't really exists yet, but heavy users of Netflix come close), I, that's me, I don't intend to speak for everyone, am going to choose $1 most of the time, as experience has shown that I simply don't repeatedly view DVDs.
I'm not talking about traditional push-and-drool Comcast, I'm talking about surprisingly-nice on demand Comcast. The incremental fee over the digital cable package is not huge, and there is an ever growing amount of content that has either no ads or very minimal ads.
Also, Netflix has upwards of 50,000 discs available. You are correct that this is not 10,000 times the content, but it is probably more than 1,000 the content that most people have, or have any desire to manage.
I can see a future where it costs $0.50 to pull up a random episode of Seinfeld or the Simpsons (I don't think syndication nets out any better than this). If that future comes to be, no way do I want to have all that crap sitting around my house, or on my own personal server. Maybe it won't come to be, but if it does, people will gladly pay to rent rather than to own.