So, is the point that if you're spending millions on it, then you will be more careful with the software? Do the programmers get to wear a white lab coat?
Usually more like torn-up jeans and ratty t-shirts. The one who dress fancy are the ones who are least to be trusted.
That's because when you've coughed up a million or six for a mainframe that can take up to 10 minutes to re-IPL and paralyzes the entire company while it's down, the last answer to a technical problem you want to hear is "Have you tried turning it off and back on again?"
The whole concept of "fixing" problems via Ctrl-Alt-Del is one of the worst things that ever happened to computing technology.
Hardware used to be expensive, so companies hired expensive employees to provide expensive (but reliable) solutions.
Then hardware got cheap, so companies looked for cheap employees to provide cheap solutions. And got them.
Mainframes are not simply overpriced PCs. They're put together internally in quite a different way.
The original system busses were in the backplane, not in on a "motherboard". That was true even on my very first (S-100) PC, long before IBM got into the personal computer market. The backplane was almost nothing but wiring, with no caps to blow. You'd basically have to set it on fire to render it useless.
If they tasked me with deploying Ubuntu to a mainframe by the end of 2018 I'd quit right now.
Ubuntu... used by windows users who think it's Linux.
that said.... It's nice to see the forward thinking here, sure we've got solutions in place but this can lead to some very interesting projects in the next few years.
Oh come on. I'm mainly a Red Hat person, but, excepting Suse, there's no other Linux distro that's more server-friendly than Ubuntu, whose work in that area goes back a decade.
Right now, the cutting-edge work on clouds and containers is mainly being done on Red Hat and on Ubuntu. And sometimes the more advanced stuff is coming from Ubuntu. If Ubuntu hadn't also corrupted itself with systemd, I'd be seriously considering converting a couple of RHEL boxes.
One of the few bright lights in a financially miserable decade has been low inflation, So I wouldn't worry too much there. Although things did start climbing again a year or 2 back.
But you did point out a double-whammy. When you're living off savings, you're probably not only spending interest/dividends that you'd otherwise re-invest, you're likely bleeding principal, thus reducing future income in an accelerating spiral. Unless you've got enough assets exclusive of home and auto that the income on assets alone is sufficient. Probably about $2Million or so, depending on your expected standard of living. Which is more than you're likely to sock away working for 10 years on the average US job.
And, as you also pointed out, in America your likelihood of having insurance in the event of medical issues arising has been very dependent on having a job. At least until recently.
"Zhonguo" means "The Middle Kingdom". Mediterranea means "Middle Earth". "Dinetah" means "Land of the (Navaho) People".
Pretty much anywhere that you go the the people who were native there called themselves "The People" and their land "The Land in the Middle of Everything".
What the rest of the world calls them tends to vary. Partly because a lot of the time, the rest of the world thought that they were "the" people. Many of the well-known Indian tribal names came from whatever direction whoever made them famous came from. For example, "Souix" reportedly means Snake/Enemy in the language of their neighbors.
I don't think Yellow Fever was an import. Certainly it has been at home in Florida for a very long time. Yellow Fever was rampant in the state - it was a Yellow Fever ward that John Gorrie was trying to cool when he developed air conditioning.
My understanding (which isn't authoritative) was that for the most part, the Spaniards managed to live alongside Florida's tribes fairly peacefully, although there may have been some cannibal tribes around Miami who didn't get along that well with anybody. However, since various tribes had been quite happy to indulge in war with each other before Europeans had even arrived, it wasn't uncommon for one tribe to ally with Spanish, French, or English to attack another tribe, which itself might have made foreign alliances.
However, the entire state probably never housed more than about 10,000 tribal people at most and disease did play a major factor in their extinction. All of the tribes in Florida now are imports, despite the lack of any organized effort to eradicate their predecessors.
I don't recall details about the Incas, but the Aztecs were first and foremost wiped out by direct military action, aided and abetted by neighboring cultures who found them offensive even in a culture where bloody human sacrifice was rampant. As far as I'm aware, there are plenty of people of Aztec descent around today - the Spaniards destroyed the civilization, not the peoples.
I don't think that the average person in the USA is making 100K or more a year.
And I'd advise looking at the neighborhoods those $10K houses are in. You'd probably want to spend another $50K on a security system.
It's true you can cook well using inexpensive ingredients, but poor people are rather famous for being malnourished, often while being overweight and diabetic. Just because rice and potatoes are cheap doesn't mean that it's healthy to live on nothing but rice and potatoes.
No, saving money rather than spending it isn't "fortunate", it's prudent.
On the other hand, you can't save income if you don't receive it anymore than you can benefit from a tax cut when you have no income to tax. A lot of people out there don't receive it now and some never will. Sometimes they work 2 or more jobs and still don't receive as much as some of us can do working only one job.
I've always had a savings attitude. I haven't always been rich. I've seen jobs come and go, and often with uncomfortably long gaps between them. I repair when I can, and I forgo the "Always Low Price" cheap junk in favor of more expensive things that will last, when I can. And keep well away from the stuff that's neither low-priced nor durable.
When I do well, I do enviably well. When I don't, I get reminded not to sneer at those who are less fortunate.
My co-workers consider me one of the best in the business, my broker thinks I'm better than average at investing. I don't live in an overly-expensive house or own a luxury car. But I've felt the pain and expect to feel more.
Who needs drones and robots when you can control the humans to do your bidding.
If you can quit and go work elsewhere, then it is not slavery.
It's the "go to work elsewhere" part that can often be the sticking point. Especially if your definition of "elsewhere" doesn't include raising a family as a McDonald's burger flipper.
You have NO IDEA how fortunate you are. Or how bad things can be.
During the Great Recession, some people were unemployed for THREE YEARS or more. The Obama Administration had to extend and re-extend unemployment benefits for people. Quite a few of them finally found jobs, but at substantially less pay. So you'd better hope that you really can live for 10 years without a paycheck. And that that "10 years" isn't coming from your retirement savings.
It's not enough to have a really good skill set or be willing to move about the country like a migrant farm worker. Sometimes you don't know the right people in the right places, have the "perfect" match of skills or cannot manage to live on 120,000 Rupees a year.
And when it arrives, you should scan it, so that you can archive an electronic copy as a backup. That way, if you ever need to replace it, you can just 3D print the whole thing.
I thought this was the only way SAP gets sold. It's not like any rational person would pull it into their organization. But for a $90K payday, sure, it's only the taxpayers' money, right?
Only in Banana Republics. Here in the Good Old USA, Dogbert Consulting (rates $1500/hr and up) tells Senior Management that unless they install SAP that their Fortune Corporation will collapse. Just incidentally, Dogbert Contracting Services has a stable of contractors (billed $350/hr and up) who will assist in installing it.
What it resembles is a classic Airstream trailer but without the benefit of the wheels. And possibly reduced in size somewhat. Then kitted out with energy-generation and rain collection options.
I'm not sure that any reduction in size or mobility is sufficient to give this unit a true advantange over said Airstream, which would probably be at least as capable if one didn't demand climate control or full kitchen facilities. And speaking of which, what ARE you supposed to do for dinner with such limited energy facilities? Bicycle down to McDonalds? (Bicycle not included). Should at least come with a solar cooker.
He hasn't been in the UK since this whole thing blew up. He's been in Peru.
Sure, he's been in a building in the middle of England, but diplomatic conventions are that an accredited embassy is legally speaking the native soil of the country being represented and will remain so until the embassy either voluntarily relinquishes it or the host nation ceases to recognize it as such. To send in US or UK police or military officials to drag him out would be no more acceptable than if they'd sent an unauthorized squad to Lima. Effectively, an act of war.
Assange may be a thorn, but he's not a big enough thorn to warrant that. Even some of history's worst former dictators haven't been considered worth that.
A timezone is nominally 15 degrees of longitude. Boston is Eastern Time at longitude 71 degrees, New York City at 73 degrees. Miami - which is on the part of Florida that sticks out farthest to the East is about 10 degrees west of Boston. Two-thirds of a nominal zone width. But Bangor, Maine at 68 degrees is also Eastern time. as is Tallahassee at 84 degrees. So there's definitely some stretching being done
It happens more than you think. Florida should geographically be in the Central Time Zone. But that was inconvenient for those damyankee New York tourists, so most of the state is in Eastern Time so they wouldn't have to fiddle with their watches.
The western Panhandle is in Central Time, but then they're practically part of Alabama anyway. Actually, Alabama was part of West Florida when Spain first drew boundaries.
There's the rub. Government and Economists use different metrics than the voters do. Just because corporations are doing well doesn't automatically mean that the people are also doing well. When you're fearful for your continued income - that it may be interrupted or reduced, then you don't feel that the "real" economy is in such great shape. And while trickle-down wealth has pretty well lost all credibility, there's plenty of evidence to show that bubble-up poverty is real. If I don't know if I'll have a paycheck next month, I'm likely to put off purchasing things and even more likely to avoid investing in things where I could actually lose money. For economists, a recession is a sequence of numbers. For Main Street, it's a state of mind.
If that goes on long enough and is widespread enough, however, eventually it's going to bubble up all the way to the "official" metrics. Possibly even another Great Recession, but with less optimism about getting out of it next time, since last time things never really got that good for the consumers who drive it all.
The "get over it" comment wasn't very diplomatic, but on the other side you already had Republican leaders explicitly stating that their primary goal was to prevent a second Obama presidency. When politics trumps good government, that's not good for the nation.
Truth is, the Republican Party has pretty well committed to ensuring that nothing Obama proposes should get done and everything that he does do should be undone to the point that it seems that they want his historical legacy to be as if he'd never been. And when it comes to "uncompromising", most of the people who brag about being "uncompromising" seem to be on the Conservative side. Uncompromising isn't the virtue they pretend it is. We're trying to run a country, not fight Satan himself. Although listening to some you'd be hard-pressed to tell.
The partisan spiral seems to have started with Newt Gingrich and the (uncompromising) Moral Majority. Both sides have taken their turns as their respective stars rise and set, but it really needs to stop.
Neither the president nor congress controls the economy.
That's not entirely true. Congress spent about 20 years whittling away the regulations that had been put in place to forestall another Great Depression. Although the "less government is better" mantra belongs to the Republicans, both Republicans and Democrats were complicit in this erosion.
The President cannot pass laws, but as a single focal point, he can act as a "cheerleader" for the nation and Congress is likely to consider his veto powers when drafting legislation, shaping it accordingly. GW Bush was constantly trumpeting the "Ownership Economy", which encouraged a lot of people into buying homes that they shouldn't have and a lot of lenders to approve loans that they shouldn't have, backed by financial instruments that would not have been permitted to construct under the old post-1928 regulations. And the anti-anti-Monopoly attitude of Congress helped form the "Too Big to Fail" institutions that made the entire economy more vulnerable.
Nobody gets all the blame. There's enough to go around and then some. But the President, Congress, and even the Judiciary all contributed in meaningful ways.
Oh, I don't know. I'm sure that Tata or Wipro or somebody can come in and claim that they have 100,000 people ready to go to work with full certs in PostgreSQL and MySQL and 20 years experience each at Indian labor rates plus baksheesh. Then what they don't pay in bribes, they'd be paying in taxes.
Nah, never mind. Unlike US corporations, the Indian government probably isn't that gullible.
Yeah, the Fellowship worked up until they left Lorien, then sort of went Chapter 11.
On the other hand, you can see that no one individual would have gotten them even that far. Although one of the primary uses of the Men were as snowplows. But Gandalf served as Balrog-baiter, planner and general dispenser of pryotechnics, Gimli was at home in Moria, Legolas served as scout and mediator with the Lorien-folk. Then there was Bill, but he was kind of an ass. And after all that planning, it fell apart.
I don't think that people actually in the industry believe that Jobs or Musk invented anything. What they did was to bring things together, provide the organization and the motivation and the vision to bring a product to market. It's an entirely different skill set than that of an "inventor".
That's the problem. One skill set gets all the glory, but you need the entire suite to actually produce a successful product.
Companies are more than just a way to assemble workers on the line. They're a way to create an aggregate of skills that can do more than any number of individuals who all possessed the same skill did.
That's why you need a Wizard, a Dwarf, an Elf, a couple of Men and some Hobbits.
I can tell you are not from the Pacific NorthWest. One or two days in winter won't keep the battery charged. Seattle has an average of 152 non rainy days per year. They claim 58 sunny days a year. Pacific Northwest is not a great place for solar.
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So, is the point that if you're spending millions on it, then you will be more careful with the software?
Do the programmers get to wear a white lab coat?
Usually more like torn-up jeans and ratty t-shirts. The one who dress fancy are the ones who are least to be trusted.
That's because when you've coughed up a million or six for a mainframe that can take up to 10 minutes to re-IPL and paralyzes the entire company while it's down, the last answer to a technical problem you want to hear is "Have you tried turning it off and back on again?"
The whole concept of "fixing" problems via Ctrl-Alt-Del is one of the worst things that ever happened to computing technology.
Hardware used to be expensive, so companies hired expensive employees to provide expensive (but reliable) solutions.
Then hardware got cheap, so companies looked for cheap employees to provide cheap solutions. And got them.
Mainframes are not simply overpriced PCs. They're put together internally in quite a different way.
The original system busses were in the backplane, not in on a "motherboard". That was true even on my very first (S-100) PC, long before IBM got into the personal computer market. The backplane was almost nothing but wiring, with no caps to blow. You'd basically have to set it on fire to render it useless.
If they tasked me with deploying Ubuntu to a mainframe by the end of 2018 I'd quit right now.
Ubuntu... used by windows users who think it's Linux.
that said.... It's nice to see the forward thinking here, sure we've got solutions in place but this can lead to some very interesting projects in the next few years.
Oh come on. I'm mainly a Red Hat person, but, excepting Suse, there's no other Linux distro that's more server-friendly than Ubuntu, whose work in that area goes back a decade.
Right now, the cutting-edge work on clouds and containers is mainly being done on Red Hat and on Ubuntu. And sometimes the more advanced stuff is coming from Ubuntu. If Ubuntu hadn't also corrupted itself with systemd, I'd be seriously considering converting a couple of RHEL boxes.
One of the few bright lights in a financially miserable decade has been low inflation, So I wouldn't worry too much there. Although things did start climbing again a year or 2 back.
But you did point out a double-whammy. When you're living off savings, you're probably not only spending interest/dividends that you'd otherwise re-invest, you're likely bleeding principal, thus reducing future income in an accelerating spiral. Unless you've got enough assets exclusive of home and auto that the income on assets alone is sufficient. Probably about $2Million or so, depending on your expected standard of living. Which is more than you're likely to sock away working for 10 years on the average US job.
And, as you also pointed out, in America your likelihood of having insurance in the event of medical issues arising has been very dependent on having a job. At least until recently.
"Zhonguo" means "The Middle Kingdom". Mediterranea means "Middle Earth". "Dinetah" means "Land of the (Navaho) People".
Pretty much anywhere that you go the the people who were native there called themselves "The People" and their land "The Land in the Middle of Everything".
What the rest of the world calls them tends to vary. Partly because a lot of the time, the rest of the world thought that they were "the" people. Many of the well-known Indian tribal names came from whatever direction whoever made them famous came from. For example, "Souix" reportedly means Snake/Enemy in the language of their neighbors.
I don't think Yellow Fever was an import. Certainly it has been at home in Florida for a very long time. Yellow Fever was rampant in the state - it was a Yellow Fever ward that John Gorrie was trying to cool when he developed air conditioning.
My understanding (which isn't authoritative) was that for the most part, the Spaniards managed to live alongside Florida's tribes fairly peacefully, although there may have been some cannibal tribes around Miami who didn't get along that well with anybody. However, since various tribes had been quite happy to indulge in war with each other before Europeans had even arrived, it wasn't uncommon for one tribe to ally with Spanish, French, or English to attack another tribe, which itself might have made foreign alliances.
However, the entire state probably never housed more than about 10,000 tribal people at most and disease did play a major factor in their extinction. All of the tribes in Florida now are imports, despite the lack of any organized effort to eradicate their predecessors.
I don't recall details about the Incas, but the Aztecs were first and foremost wiped out by direct military action, aided and abetted by neighboring cultures who found them offensive even in a culture where bloody human sacrifice was rampant. As far as I'm aware, there are plenty of people of Aztec descent around today - the Spaniards destroyed the civilization, not the peoples.
Many people would like to see Donald Trump go to Mars.
But the Martians would probably consider him to be an illegal alien and might expect us to pay to put up a wall to keep him out.
I want some of what you're smoking.
I don't think that the average person in the USA is making 100K or more a year.
And I'd advise looking at the neighborhoods those $10K houses are in. You'd probably want to spend another $50K on a security system.
It's true you can cook well using inexpensive ingredients, but poor people are rather famous for being malnourished, often while being overweight and diabetic. Just because rice and potatoes are cheap doesn't mean that it's healthy to live on nothing but rice and potatoes.
No, saving money rather than spending it isn't "fortunate", it's prudent.
On the other hand, you can't save income if you don't receive it anymore than you can benefit from a tax cut when you have no income to tax. A lot of people out there don't receive it now and some never will. Sometimes they work 2 or more jobs and still don't receive as much as some of us can do working only one job.
I've always had a savings attitude. I haven't always been rich. I've seen jobs come and go, and often with uncomfortably long gaps between them. I repair when I can, and I forgo the "Always Low Price" cheap junk in favor of more expensive things that will last, when I can. And keep well away from the stuff that's neither low-priced nor durable.
When I do well, I do enviably well. When I don't, I get reminded not to sneer at those who are less fortunate.
My co-workers consider me one of the best in the business, my broker thinks I'm better than average at investing. I don't live in an overly-expensive house or own a luxury car. But I've felt the pain and expect to feel more.
Who needs drones and robots when you can control the humans to do your bidding.
If you can quit and go work elsewhere, then it is not slavery.
It's the "go to work elsewhere" part that can often be the sticking point. Especially if your definition of "elsewhere" doesn't include raising a family as a McDonald's burger flipper.
You have NO IDEA how fortunate you are. Or how bad things can be.
During the Great Recession, some people were unemployed for THREE YEARS or more. The Obama Administration had to extend and re-extend unemployment benefits for people. Quite a few of them finally found jobs, but at substantially less pay. So you'd better hope that you really can live for 10 years without a paycheck. And that that "10 years" isn't coming from your retirement savings.
It's not enough to have a really good skill set or be willing to move about the country like a migrant farm worker. Sometimes you don't know the right people in the right places, have the "perfect" match of skills or cannot manage to live on 120,000 Rupees a year.
Or worse. you could be over 40.
And when it arrives, you should scan it, so that you can archive an electronic copy as a backup. That way, if you ever need to replace it, you can just 3D print the whole thing.
I always fax it to myself on blue paper.
I thought this was the only way SAP gets sold. It's not like any rational person would pull it into their organization. But for a $90K payday, sure, it's only the taxpayers' money, right?
Only in Banana Republics. Here in the Good Old USA, Dogbert Consulting (rates $1500/hr and up) tells Senior Management that unless they install SAP that their Fortune Corporation will collapse. Just incidentally, Dogbert Contracting Services has a stable of contractors (billed $350/hr and up) who will assist in installing it.
What it resembles is a classic Airstream trailer but without the benefit of the wheels. And possibly reduced in size somewhat. Then kitted out with energy-generation and rain collection options.
I'm not sure that any reduction in size or mobility is sufficient to give this unit a true advantange over said Airstream, which would probably be at least as capable if one didn't demand climate control or full kitchen facilities. And speaking of which, what ARE you supposed to do for dinner with such limited energy facilities? Bicycle down to McDonalds? (Bicycle not included). Should at least come with a solar cooker.
He hasn't been in the UK since this whole thing blew up. He's been in Peru.
Sure, he's been in a building in the middle of England, but diplomatic conventions are that an accredited embassy is legally speaking the native soil of the country being represented and will remain so until the embassy either voluntarily relinquishes it or the host nation ceases to recognize it as such. To send in US or UK police or military officials to drag him out would be no more acceptable than if they'd sent an unauthorized squad to Lima. Effectively, an act of war.
Assange may be a thorn, but he's not a big enough thorn to warrant that. Even some of history's worst former dictators haven't been considered worth that.
Actually, Florida once was entirely in the Central Time Zone. Here's the map from the Wikipedia article on timezones:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A timezone is nominally 15 degrees of longitude. Boston is Eastern Time at longitude 71 degrees, New York City at 73 degrees. Miami - which is on the part of Florida that sticks out farthest to the East is about 10 degrees west of Boston. Two-thirds of a nominal zone width. But Bangor, Maine at 68 degrees is also Eastern time. as is Tallahassee at 84 degrees. So there's definitely some stretching being done
It happens more than you think. Florida should geographically be in the Central Time Zone. But that was inconvenient for those damyankee New York tourists, so most of the state is in Eastern Time so they wouldn't have to fiddle with their watches.
The western Panhandle is in Central Time, but then they're practically part of Alabama anyway. Actually, Alabama was part of West Florida when Spain first drew boundaries.
Well, how do you want to measure economic health?
There's the rub. Government and Economists use different metrics than the voters do. Just because corporations are doing well doesn't automatically mean that the people are also doing well. When you're fearful for your continued income - that it may be interrupted or reduced, then you don't feel that the "real" economy is in such great shape. And while trickle-down wealth has pretty well lost all credibility, there's plenty of evidence to show that bubble-up poverty is real. If I don't know if I'll have a paycheck next month, I'm likely to put off purchasing things and even more likely to avoid investing in things where I could actually lose money. For economists, a recession is a sequence of numbers. For Main Street, it's a state of mind.
If that goes on long enough and is widespread enough, however, eventually it's going to bubble up all the way to the "official" metrics. Possibly even another Great Recession, but with less optimism about getting out of it next time, since last time things never really got that good for the consumers who drive it all.
The "get over it" comment wasn't very diplomatic, but on the other side you already had Republican leaders explicitly stating that their primary goal was to prevent a second Obama presidency. When politics trumps good government, that's not good for the nation.
Truth is, the Republican Party has pretty well committed to ensuring that nothing Obama proposes should get done and everything that he does do should be undone to the point that it seems that they want his historical legacy to be as if he'd never been. And when it comes to "uncompromising", most of the people who brag about being "uncompromising" seem to be on the Conservative side. Uncompromising isn't the virtue they pretend it is. We're trying to run a country, not fight Satan himself. Although listening to some you'd be hard-pressed to tell.
The partisan spiral seems to have started with Newt Gingrich and the (uncompromising) Moral Majority. Both sides have taken their turns as their respective stars rise and set, but it really needs to stop.
Neither the president nor congress controls the economy.
That's not entirely true. Congress spent about 20 years whittling away the regulations that had been put in place to forestall another Great Depression. Although the "less government is better" mantra belongs to the Republicans, both Republicans and Democrats were complicit in this erosion.
The President cannot pass laws, but as a single focal point, he can act as a "cheerleader" for the nation and Congress is likely to consider his veto powers when drafting legislation, shaping it accordingly. GW Bush was constantly trumpeting the "Ownership Economy", which encouraged a lot of people into buying homes that they shouldn't have and a lot of lenders to approve loans that they shouldn't have, backed by financial instruments that would not have been permitted to construct under the old post-1928 regulations. And the anti-anti-Monopoly attitude of Congress helped form the "Too Big to Fail" institutions that made the entire economy more vulnerable.
Nobody gets all the blame. There's enough to go around and then some. But the President, Congress, and even the Judiciary all contributed in meaningful ways.
Oh, I don't know. I'm sure that Tata or Wipro or somebody can come in and claim that they have 100,000 people ready to go to work with full certs in PostgreSQL and MySQL and 20 years experience each at Indian labor rates plus baksheesh. Then what they don't pay in bribes, they'd be paying in taxes.
Nah, never mind. Unlike US corporations, the Indian government probably isn't that gullible.
And a Faramir.
Yeah, the Fellowship worked up until they left Lorien, then sort of went Chapter 11.
On the other hand, you can see that no one individual would have gotten them even that far. Although one of the primary uses of the Men were as snowplows. But Gandalf served as Balrog-baiter, planner and general dispenser of pryotechnics, Gimli was at home in Moria, Legolas served as scout and mediator with the Lorien-folk. Then there was Bill, but he was kind of an ass. And after all that planning, it fell apart.
Sounds like more than one company I've worked at.
I don't think that people actually in the industry believe that Jobs or Musk invented anything. What they did was to bring things together, provide the organization and the motivation and the vision to bring a product to market. It's an entirely different skill set than that of an "inventor".
That's the problem. One skill set gets all the glory, but you need the entire suite to actually produce a successful product.
Companies are more than just a way to assemble workers on the line. They're a way to create an aggregate of skills that can do more than any number of individuals who all possessed the same skill did.
That's why you need a Wizard, a Dwarf, an Elf, a couple of Men and some Hobbits.
I can tell you are not from the Pacific NorthWest. One or two days in winter won't keep the battery charged.
Seattle has an average of 152 non rainy days per year. They claim 58 sunny days a year. Pacific Northwest is not a great place for solar.
And Florida is not a great place for hydro-power.
One Size Doesn't Fit All.