I hate to admit it, but I think I may be getting old, I bought my first Android phone recently and still don't know how to do some seemingly simple stuff, I know it can be done as I have done some of it on accident, but no idea how, like getting icon views of all the application screens at once.
User are leaving Centos left and right, security patches are months behind schedule, Centos 6 is over 6 months behind RH enterprise 6, the devs are a closed group and will not accept help, and do there best to allienate the user base.
I have never served in the military however, I live near an army base, a number of my co-workers are either ex-military or military spouses, my ex-wife and all of her siblings and parents have served in the military, many of my friends growing up choose to join the military. Out of all of these people I don't know of any that had no other option, they may have seen the military as their best option (in retrospect for many it probably was) a way to learn a trade, something to belong to, etc. I am sure your desperate young man poster child does exist, but it is not the face of the army, instead the face of the army includes people with technical degrees, bright young people that graduated high school at the top of their class and choose military service over college scholarships, as well as many young people with no direction in their life that are searching for something.
Siphons have a maximum theoretical height limit relating to the minimum pressure inside at the peak. Simply put when the pressure gets low enough to boil water at ambient temperature then the siphon no longer works.
Net metering only works until home solar becomes popular, electricity is not practical to transmit over long distance and cloudy weather patterns are often regional events, not to mention there is that whole night time thing.
One other problem no one seems to be mentioning, a typical modern U.S. home electrical connection is in the 100-200 amp service size (very large homes may have up to 320 amp (400 amp meters, but common meter bases are limited to 320 amps) service and smaller older, homes may have much less. A 200 amp service has a dedicated output power of 48KW per hour. A typical house at any given time will likely only draw a fraction of that power level even with energy hogs like air conditioners running. So we are not just talking a box and maybe an extra breaker being installed at every house to charge a car or two, but all new service entrance connections, breaker boxes, power lines to the houses, pole top transformers, etc. Then there is the question of upgrading the whole electrical grid and power generation system to provide power for these electric cars, sure time shifting will help some, but do you really want that 30 minute quick charge for your car to be scheduled at 3:30 am every morning, and what happens if you have an emergency and need a fully fuelled car on hand, this time shifting is really no better than the every other day fill up rationing back in the 1970's based on even or odd license plate digits.
No one understands copyright law, for that matter no one understands the law any more. Last weekend I was boxing up some old law books, specifically a copy of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations from about 15 years ago, this process took a couple of hours, resulted in 30+ linear feet of open shelf space. This is just the U.S. federal laws, not cases about interpreting the laws, or implementations of the law.
The real problem is cost of health care, about 6 months ago I fell and broke my back. I have decent if not great insurance, and the treatment for my break (single level split compression fracture if your interested) has been nothing more than a brace and monthly follow up x-rays (and one CT at 4 months)and doctor visits. I was transported to the hospital by ambulance on a back board (cost about $750, $300 out of pocket, kept in the hospital for 3 days base level observation, fall happened on a weekend and I could not be fitted for a $750 custom fitted plastic and foam brace until Monday, hospital bill about $15,000 for 35 hour stay, another $2,000 or so for the 2-3 hours in the ER before being admitted), plus about $515 per month for a couple of x-rays and spinal specialist visits. Total bill upwards of $25,000 so far, out of pocket around $4,000 .
It was the last state, I was 18 at the time and had the right to drink for a few days before the law went into effect. (In theory the law was grandfathered to not do this to people, but in reality the grandfathering date was based upon when it was enacted not when it went into effect).
How about the "Experts" that likely failed freshman Physics, I heard one on TV while I was in a waiting room to get an x-ray taken a couple of days ago expounding on the "fact" that radiation exposure is NOT cumulative, that it is all about the intensity and not the duration. The x-ray tech got a good laugh out of that one while she was standing behind the leaded glass barrier.
Safe is relative, life has risks, your never going to design anything that is completely safe. You could go out and build a nuclear power plant 100 times more resistant to disaster than this one, and a chunk of rock the size of a small house from space could land on it. Of course the earth getting hit by one of these is a once in a million year event, and the chance it hitting a specific spot is much less likely, but hey it could happen so we should not take the chance right????
I admit I had not checked the prices at Sunelec lately which seem to have came down since the last time I checked about 6 months ago (a great company to buy from), I bought a 55 watt Evergreen brand glass front panel from them in 2004 for about $2.25 per watt which is less than similar size panels are selling for now ( try checking their prices for any panel under 100 watts most are in the $2.75 - $3.75, larger panels may be cheaper per watt now). Now if you think bigger is always better, it depends on your application, for roof top installations usually yes, but for sail boats, etc. this is not the case.
Solar panels cost more per watt now than 5 years ago, and their lowest cost per watt was about 6-7 years ago. Even if we are getting more efficient at making them the demand is going up much faster, on top of that sooner or later we are going to run up against the limited availability of raw materials.
No one wants an 80 year old warn out liver, kidney, heart, etc. Instead they one one from the healthy 25 year old that just ran his motorcycle into the side of a bus.
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That is the exact problem with gesture based computing, trying to repeat that accidental slide thump to the upper left that got you the cool feature..
I hate to admit it, but I think I may be getting old, I bought my first Android phone recently and still don't know how to do some seemingly simple stuff, I know it can be done as I have done some of it on accident, but no idea how, like getting icon views of all the application screens at once.
User are leaving Centos left and right, security patches are months behind schedule, Centos 6 is over 6 months behind RH enterprise 6, the devs are a closed group and will not accept help, and do there best to allienate the user base.
I have never served in the military however, I live near an army base, a number of my co-workers are either ex-military or military spouses, my ex-wife and all of her siblings and parents have served in the military, many of my friends growing up choose to join the military. Out of all of these people I don't know of any that had no other option, they may have seen the military as their best option (in retrospect for many it probably was) a way to learn a trade, something to belong to, etc. I am sure your desperate young man poster child does exist, but it is not the face of the army, instead the face of the army includes people with technical degrees, bright young people that graduated high school at the top of their class and choose military service over college scholarships, as well as many young people with no direction in their life that are searching for something.
How did you just guess the password to my credit card accounts?
Siphons have a maximum theoretical height limit relating to the minimum pressure inside at the peak. Simply put when the pressure gets low enough to boil water at ambient temperature then the siphon no longer works.
Net metering only works until home solar becomes popular, electricity is not practical to transmit over long distance and cloudy weather patterns are often regional events, not to mention there is that whole night time thing.
One other problem no one seems to be mentioning, a typical modern U.S. home electrical connection is in the 100-200 amp service size (very large homes may have up to 320 amp (400 amp meters, but common meter bases are limited to 320 amps) service and smaller older, homes may have much less. A 200 amp service has a dedicated output power of 48KW per hour. A typical house at any given time will likely only draw a fraction of that power level even with energy hogs like air conditioners running. So we are not just talking a box and maybe an extra breaker being installed at every house to charge a car or two, but all new service entrance connections, breaker boxes, power lines to the houses, pole top transformers, etc. Then there is the question of upgrading the whole electrical grid and power generation system to provide power for these electric cars, sure time shifting will help some, but do you really want that 30 minute quick charge for your car to be scheduled at 3:30 am every morning, and what happens if you have an emergency and need a fully fuelled car on hand, this time shifting is really no better than the every other day fill up rationing back in the 1970's based on even or odd license plate digits.
This may not come off as politically correct, but since when has there been a rat skin shortage, and how much does this stuff cost to make?
This is sad news, I was just watching her Sarah Jane Adventures skit for Comic Relief last year on youtube a couple of hours ago.
No one understands copyright law, for that matter no one understands the law any more. Last weekend I was boxing up some old law books, specifically a copy of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations from about 15 years ago, this process took a couple of hours, resulted in 30+ linear feet of open shelf space. This is just the U.S. federal laws, not cases about interpreting the laws, or implementations of the law.
Big deal, the original idea and proposal to FDR was from a former patent clerk.
The real problem is cost of health care, about 6 months ago I fell and broke my back. I have decent if not great insurance, and the treatment for my break (single level split compression fracture if your interested) has been nothing more than a brace and monthly follow up x-rays (and one CT at 4 months)and doctor visits. I was transported to the hospital by ambulance on a back board (cost about $750, $300 out of pocket, kept in the hospital for 3 days base level observation, fall happened on a weekend and I could not be fitted for a $750 custom fitted plastic and foam brace until Monday, hospital bill about $15,000 for 35 hour stay, another $2,000 or so for the 2-3 hours in the ER before being admitted), plus about $515 per month for a couple of x-rays and spinal specialist visits. Total bill upwards of $25,000 so far, out of pocket around $4,000 .
It was the last state, I was 18 at the time and had the right to drink for a few days before the law went into effect. (In theory the law was grandfathered to not do this to people, but in reality the grandfathering date was based upon when it was enacted not when it went into effect).
The problem is people feel safer if they can see the source of the light rather than just the effects.
How about the "Experts" that likely failed freshman Physics, I heard one on TV while I was in a waiting room to get an x-ray taken a couple of days ago expounding on the "fact" that radiation exposure is NOT cumulative, that it is all about the intensity and not the duration. The x-ray tech got a good laugh out of that one while she was standing behind the leaded glass barrier.
Safe is relative, life has risks, your never going to design anything that is completely safe. You could go out and build a nuclear power plant 100 times more resistant to disaster than this one, and a chunk of rock the size of a small house from space could land on it. Of course the earth getting hit by one of these is a once in a million year event, and the chance it hitting a specific spot is much less likely, but hey it could happen so we should not take the chance right????
Exactly, 3G and 4G are nothing more than marketing speak trying to dumb down the issue to the point the common consumer can understand.
I admit I had not checked the prices at Sunelec lately which seem to have came down since the last time I checked about 6 months ago (a great company to buy from), I bought a 55 watt Evergreen brand glass front panel from them in 2004 for about $2.25 per watt which is less than similar size panels are selling for now ( try checking their prices for any panel under 100 watts most are in the $2.75 - $3.75, larger panels may be cheaper per watt now). Now if you think bigger is always better, it depends on your application, for roof top installations usually yes, but for sail boats, etc. this is not the case.
Ok, processed material may be a better choice of words here, in the case of silicon the problem is often lack of purity.
Solar panels cost more per watt now than 5 years ago, and their lowest cost per watt was about 6-7 years ago. Even if we are getting more efficient at making them the demand is going up much faster, on top of that sooner or later we are going to run up against the limited availability of raw materials.
It is all relative, their backup generators are likely well into the megawatt class and much bigger than a firetruck.
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Yes, but at the cost of surgery and on going care is it worth it for a worn out organ that may at best have a few more years of limited use left?
No one wants an 80 year old warn out liver, kidney, heart, etc. Instead they one one from the healthy 25 year old that just ran his motorcycle into the side of a bus.