As I stated that could be the case as well. I simply choose to believe it was not. As someone who has known more than my fair share of nagging nancy's who's sole purpose in conversing with you is to see how hot under the collar they can get you and the open animosity the network has shown toward Clarkson's past faux pas' I choose to believe they were looking for an opportunity to trip him up and he obliged. You're free to choose what you want to believe as well.
Are you familiar with the term "The straw that broke the camels back"? It is tied to the notion that one seemingly insignificant event caused a catastrophic result. The BBC and the producers had been riding him for a very long time about being "proper" so as not to offend certain groups. This ran counter to what made him so entertaining. He spoke his mind and said what a lot of us would say if we weren't forced to be proper in mixed company. I didn't agree with half the things he said but I usually found what he said to be humorous. None of us know what transpired in the exchange between Clarkson and the producer but I suspect the producer had been goading him prior to this encounter and Clarkson simply snapped. Clarkson's no saint but he's also not petty and I choose to believe there was something deeper going on that led up to this.
Yeah Crestron has had a stranglehold on the corporate market for a long time and their control systems are a nightmare. Black box controllers with many in many out pay no attention to the circuit behind the curtain subterfuge. I won't even hire a Crestron programmer for our office unless I get it in writing I get the source code once he's done. "Oh! you need the font changed on the shutdown button?" "No problem. Our programmer can whip that out in a couple of minutes and it'll only be $1000.00" and that is NOT an exaggeration. I only call in the programmer when I have an overhaul or hardware replacement and budget for a minimum of $5k just for programming.
To grammar Nazis everywhere my sincerest apologies. I shall go fetch the wet noodle immediately!
As to your other assertion. Pffft
Most of those other places are run from offices in Houston. Nice find on the Chronicle article. Fun fact, I'm looking out the window at their offices as I type this.
Houston is the mecca for the entire North American ENERGY industry.
FTFY
Houston learned it's lesson after the oil bust of the 80's. The city has diversified to encompass all aspects of energy and technology. Most of the big energy companies have large plays in every possible renewable out there trying to be the first to make that breakthrough that'll bring cost parity to fossils.
As to the OP I suspect Houstonians use significantly more electricity than Costa Ricans as over 90% of the homes have some form of A/C while I suspect that average for Costa Rico to be somewhat lower.
Grid storage technology is currently cost prohibitive. What does that mean? Glad you asked. If it costs ~$0.06 kW to burn natural gas/coal to generate electricity that then can be sold for ~$0.13 kW any storage medium needs to have an amortized/maintenance cost less than the difference between the generation/sell price ($0.07 kW in this example) to be cost effective. Otherwise the power company is just wasting money. Wind farms frequently generate electricity they just pump into the ground rather than store it because the grid cannot accommodate the capacity and the storage costs are too high. There are several promising technologies that may change this soon but until then fossil fuels still rule. I work for the number one owner of wind in N.A. and I assure you they would love to store that electricity instead of dumping it.
Compare the number of miles driven and/or the number of distinct trips to the number of REPORTED accidents.
FTFY
On my daily commute I cannot begin to count the number of near missis due to incompetent driving. I am continually amazed at the ways people can find to avoid paying attention to the road. That said they'll have to pry my steering wheel away from my cold dead hands before I cede control to the computer. That is why self-driving cars will take a while not technology.
If you are looking for a good mechanical and don't want to pay a premium for a brand name the Monoprice 9181 is an excellent choice. It has Cherry MX Red switches, is backlit, and extends your USB and audio ports to the keyboard. I have been using the 9180 for a couple of years and I'm pretty rough on keyboards (think bad golfer but with a keyboard instead of a club) and it has taken all the punishment I've thrown at it. The 9180 has MX blacks instead of Reds and isn't backlit but it is also out of stock until June according to their web site.
Of course, from the customer point of view, if it prevents a security breach to an important account, it's well worth the extra trouble.
That's the problem. You can't prove it prevented a security breach so most users just see it as a PITA extra step and definitely NOT worth the extra trouble. My experience has been the harder it is to access something the less people use it. It's so hard to do some simple tasks on my current corporate network that at least half the office brings in their own laptops to get their work done. They just expense a WiFi hotspot and use it in the office.
the distribution and storage are extremely lacking.
THIS! West Texas is a wind power gold mine. It is not, however, a large population center. Almost all the power generated from the wind farms in West Texas go to Dallas. The problem was while everybody was building wind farms nobody was increasing the grid capacity to Dallas. These wind farms were actually shunting excess electricity into the ground because electric storage was cost prohibitive. The Texas Public Utility Commission (PUCT) launched an initiative in 2008 to expand transmission capacity. That was completed in 2013. Last year another project was approved to connect Texas' grid with the rest of the nation's. And storage technology has improved significantly in the last five years as well. If storage tech can become even more cost effective I suspect an explosion of solar/wind.
The point is that Google used patented code and left all Android vendors exposed.
Whoa there Tex...It has NEVER been proven/disproven so all that we know for sure is Microsoft alleges Android is infringing some nebulous patents that they refuse to reveal.
Aint nobody got time for another Apple/Microsoft 15 year court case so most vendors are choosing to pay.
Which is another reason to continue to support Mozilla. Their code is open and there are other browsers based on that code tweaked and compiled for different needs. I switched to WaterFox because I wanted a fast 64 bit based version of FireFox and Mozilla hadn't released a 64 bit version at the time. I still use it. There are other versions targeted squarely at the fast/light crowd.
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As I stated that could be the case as well. I simply choose to believe it was not. As someone who has known more than my fair share of nagging nancy's who's sole purpose in conversing with you is to see how hot under the collar they can get you and the open animosity the network has shown toward Clarkson's past faux pas' I choose to believe they were looking for an opportunity to trip him up and he obliged. You're free to choose what you want to believe as well.
Are you familiar with the term "The straw that broke the camels back"? It is tied to the notion that one seemingly insignificant event caused a catastrophic result. The BBC and the producers had been riding him for a very long time about being "proper" so as not to offend certain groups. This ran counter to what made him so entertaining. He spoke his mind and said what a lot of us would say if we weren't forced to be proper in mixed company. I didn't agree with half the things he said but I usually found what he said to be humorous. None of us know what transpired in the exchange between Clarkson and the producer but I suspect the producer had been goading him prior to this encounter and Clarkson simply snapped. Clarkson's no saint but he's also not petty and I choose to believe there was something deeper going on that led up to this.
Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquaio disagree.
If this is /. then shouldn't we at least be mentioning OSS solutions like OpenHAB in a discussion like this? Which is both open and agnostic.
Yeah Crestron has had a stranglehold on the corporate market for a long time and their control systems are a nightmare. Black box controllers with many in many out pay no attention to the circuit behind the curtain subterfuge. I won't even hire a Crestron programmer for our office unless I get it in writing I get the source code once he's done. "Oh! you need the font changed on the shutdown button?" "No problem. Our programmer can whip that out in a couple of minutes and it'll only be $1000.00" and that is NOT an exaggeration. I only call in the programmer when I have an overhaul or hardware replacement and budget for a minimum of $5k just for programming.
I saw the report Brian Williams did on that.
Funny how you changed the conversation to "offshore" renewable energy companies. I don't recall it being in any of the previous posts...
But that's...none of my business.
To grammar Nazis everywhere my sincerest apologies. I shall go fetch the wet noodle immediately!
As to your other assertion. Pffft Most of those other places are run from offices in Houston. Nice find on the Chronicle article. Fun fact, I'm looking out the window at their offices as I type this.
Houston is the mecca for the entire North American ENERGY industry.
FTFY
Houston learned it's lesson after the oil bust of the 80's. The city has diversified to encompass all aspects of energy and technology. Most of the big energy companies have large plays in every possible renewable out there trying to be the first to make that breakthrough that'll bring cost parity to fossils.
As to the OP I suspect Houstonians use significantly more electricity than Costa Ricans as over 90% of the homes have some form of A/C while I suspect that average for Costa Rico to be somewhat lower.
Grid storage technology is currently cost prohibitive. What does that mean? Glad you asked. If it costs ~$0.06 kW to burn natural gas/coal to generate electricity that then can be sold for ~$0.13 kW any storage medium needs to have an amortized/maintenance cost less than the difference between the generation/sell price ($0.07 kW in this example) to be cost effective. Otherwise the power company is just wasting money. Wind farms frequently generate electricity they just pump into the ground rather than store it because the grid cannot accommodate the capacity and the storage costs are too high. There are several promising technologies that may change this soon but until then fossil fuels still rule. I work for the number one owner of wind in N.A. and I assure you they would love to store that electricity instead of dumping it.
Compare the number of miles driven and/or the number of distinct trips to the number of REPORTED accidents.
FTFY
On my daily commute I cannot begin to count the number of near missis due to incompetent driving. I am continually amazed at the ways people can find to avoid paying attention to the road. That said they'll have to pry my steering wheel away from my cold dead hands before I cede control to the computer. That is why self-driving cars will take a while not technology.
Which ledger? The one they show shareholders or the one they show the government?
If you are looking for a good mechanical and don't want to pay a premium for a brand name the Monoprice 9181 is an excellent choice. It has Cherry MX Red switches, is backlit, and extends your USB and audio ports to the keyboard. I have been using the 9180 for a couple of years and I'm pretty rough on keyboards (think bad golfer but with a keyboard instead of a club) and it has taken all the punishment I've thrown at it. The 9180 has MX blacks instead of Reds and isn't backlit but it is also out of stock until June according to their web site.
Of course, from the customer point of view, if it prevents a security breach to an important account, it's well worth the extra trouble.
That's the problem. You can't prove it prevented a security breach so most users just see it as a PITA extra step and definitely NOT worth the extra trouble. My experience has been the harder it is to access something the less people use it. It's so hard to do some simple tasks on my current corporate network that at least half the office brings in their own laptops to get their work done. They just expense a WiFi hotspot and use it in the office.
Almost everything you mention is already baked into BES so you really have no idea what you are talking about.
Which is exactly why OPEC has refused to decrease production. They are trying to kill off drilling in the US.
the distribution and storage are extremely lacking.
THIS! West Texas is a wind power gold mine. It is not, however, a large population center. Almost all the power generated from the wind farms in West Texas go to Dallas. The problem was while everybody was building wind farms nobody was increasing the grid capacity to Dallas. These wind farms were actually shunting excess electricity into the ground because electric storage was cost prohibitive. The Texas Public Utility Commission (PUCT) launched an initiative in 2008 to expand transmission capacity. That was completed in 2013. Last year another project was approved to connect Texas' grid with the rest of the nation's. And storage technology has improved significantly in the last five years as well. If storage tech can become even more cost effective I suspect an explosion of solar/wind.
But Cinnamon isn't free...at least she wasn't the last time I talked to her.
Also Jeremy Clarkson for Prime Minister!
My first thought when I saw the headline was that the BBC is throwing this out there to distract from the Jeremy Clarkson fracas.
Do you blame them? The US corporate tax rate is 39.1% Third only to UAE (55%) and Chad (40%).
And Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will be there to save you!
Alleged holiday plans...We told you we were going to grandmas house but we went to Antigua instead!
For anyone who might have had a doubt...The new MacBook (MSRP $1300.00) requires an $80 dongle to connect to anything.
The point is that Google used patented code and left all Android vendors exposed.
Whoa there Tex...It has NEVER been proven/disproven so all that we know for sure is Microsoft alleges Android is infringing some nebulous patents that they refuse to reveal.
Aint nobody got time for another Apple/Microsoft 15 year court case so most vendors are choosing to pay.
Which is another reason to continue to support Mozilla. Their code is open and there are other browsers based on that code tweaked and compiled for different needs. I switched to WaterFox because I wanted a fast 64 bit based version of FireFox and Mozilla hadn't released a 64 bit version at the time. I still use it. There are other versions targeted squarely at the fast/light crowd.