We ignore here that this alleged drop hasn't extended to the other major costs, such as installation, mounting system, energy storage, and grid interconnection.
To be fair, we're about to see a glut of used Prius batteries on the market, and those will be able to be used for cheap grid-tied storage given the small number of people with solar installs. On the other hand, labor costs are ever-increasing due to the monetary inflation. I guess if you can figure out a way to lock in a manipulated fixed-rate to finance such an install that could partially offset it.
1. The cost of electricity is not going to stay the same for 15-30 years. It will almost certainly rise quite a bit. That needs to be factored in.
Inflation, sure. But with all the natural gas fracking going on, the coal plants are even closing down because electricity is so damn cheap.
2. Paying for 30 years up front? That's why God made HELOCS.
Taking on 30 year debt on top of a sub-30-year instrument? Ugh. If there's a saving grace it's that the Fed's market manipulation means the banks are paying you to borrow money these days.
Then the costs you're citing aren't the costs that can be counted for wide-scale implementation. If your parents' neighbors are paying $5K of their solar cost, that only works when the solar folks are 1 in 100. If everybody is installing solar and they're all each sharing each others' $5K costs, then they're all paying $7K for the solar and an extra $5K in taxes (for the scenario described by TFS - I know, not terribly likely).
don't choose a cheap piece of shit just because it claims a higher '80 plus' certification level than a quality, name brand unit from a reputable company that might cost twice as much.
yeah, this hits home. I just replaced my second failed Rosewill 80+ today (5-star reviews...). Visible build quality on the first two were great, but obviously the guts aren't so good. I'm gonna open it and look for mushroomed caps.
The third one, my only spare-on-hand is of such poor build quality that the metal conductors in the Molex connectors aren't even locked in place. One went in crooked and pushed the other connector in the other-gender Molex out a bit. That took the whole chain out and took an hour to trace...
so... Slash-hive : does Antec still use good caps? I've got an ASRock in that machine for good Japanese caps; might as well pair a usable power supply.
So again *WHICH* advantage has imeprial over metric (except that you are used to it) ?
For construction purposes, the key advantage is that it's based on base-12, which has many more whole number divisors than base-10. Halves, quarters and thirds are trivial. That's why you can build a staircase without a calculator with dozenal math (you use the edge of the framing square that's marked in twelfths).
It's the most useful number system below base-60 (which is too hard for most humans). The metric system should have been regular and dozenal. Humans will get it right eventually, again (you'll note 'eleven' and 'twelve' are specially-named numbers).
Yes, that's why car insurance is compulsory in this country.
You're mistaken. It may be mandatory in your State, but here in NH it's not. Most people are insured anyway, and the rates are super-low because it's not State-mandated.
Americans use metric where it's useful, imperial where it's useful. It's entirely possible, some will be surprised to be well-versed in SI and still choose to use base-12 when building a staircase (without using a calculator).
It's impressive how Europeans who look down upon people who aren't at least bilingual also praise those who rigidly adhere to a single measurement system.
But, hey, I regularly use four spoken languages, two measurement systems, a couple dozen machine languages and and five base number systems, so maybe I'm just a hater.
Here's a crazy idea: instead of starting to shout "private property" and having the hired guns tackle a woman and break out their weapons - just ignore her. Don't take her money, don't ring up her sale. She'll either give up and go away or try to steal the phones and then it's cut-and-dry. Plus no news stories with bad publicity during the Christmas shopping season.This would also save two Nashua cops from the public humiliation of not being able to handcuff a middle-aged asian woman (I saw the video - there's no fear that she's a kung-fu master).
Assuming for the moment that the real problem comes from IP's logged by servers and handed over to the cops, so that TLS won't solve this - has anybody worked on a distributed HTTP proxy that will scatter and gather HTTP byte range requests?
The person using the proxy system would get the whole file, but each proxy itself would only ever get a part of the file. I'm also assuming that a judge would throw out a charge for downloading 1/100th of a naughty picture.
How does he get to his seat in the Australian Senate?
The mechanics of getting him out of there aren't too bad. I can think of at least four plans that would at least get him to international waters, and people who do this kind of thing professionally can think of better plans than mine.
The real issue is whether Ecuador wants to deal with the fallout from having helped him do that. They may prefer to take a wait-and-see approach. Lieberman is leaving in a few days, Manning's trial is going to be over by March. They might feel that this will simply be dropped if they wait it out.
In the meantime, Assange is doing some long-term-isolation experiments for NASA... so far it's just a lung infection. If he has to seek hospital care at any point, they're going to have to decide to either cut him loose or get him out.
Now why wouldn't the Supreme Court make provision to service a larger case load over time? Is there some magic logic behind this?
It gives them cover to not grant certorati on cases that would set precedent for following the parts of the Constitution that are unpopular in Washington (notably checks on power and economic freedoms).
I didn't read the case, but if the summary is correct, they're making the wrong argument. SCOUTS will say that Congress established the law and that if the law is being followed then Due Process is served.
They should be making a case that the statutory damages constitute 'unusual punishment' and are far outside all other punitive damage amounts ever considered by copyright law in precedent (because Congress has been bought off).
Not even close; apparently he's worth something more in the lines of 4 mil, if that.
Somebody else said his retirement buyout was along the lines of $80M. But, I can see him having spent $76M on coke and whores - just hadn't seen that documented anywhere.
You can find them, but they're expensive and harder and harder to find.
16:9 displays tend to be little low-budget HDTV's. 16:10 displays often have IPS panels and are purchased by people who have a ROI on a good display. You can have one here tomorrow from Amazon, Dell, etc.
No, I could care less about the government... it's all the corporations!
You should look more closely into where corporations get their charters, the limitations on liability, and their market power.
e.g. FDA actions preventing Polaner (fruit spread) and Spectrum (oils) from using "Non-GMO" on their labelling. In the first case, they argued that strawberries were produce, not organisms. In the second case they told Spectrum that the use would cause people to think GMO's were bad.
That there's a revolving door between the FDA and Monsanto is completely unrelated, I'm sure. Eliminate the FDA from the equation and Monsanto can't prevent these companies from advertising that their products aren't GMO.
Ever heard of L4? Possibly not, but you probably have a lot more devices that run it than run Linux. Oh, and some of the ones that run Linux are likely to also run L4.
Hrm, you seem to know about more L4 deployments than the Wikipedia article does. Perhaps you could enhance it?
Slashdot Mirror
If it's on the internet, it must be true! :D
We ignore here that this alleged drop hasn't extended to the other major costs, such as installation, mounting system, energy storage, and grid interconnection.
To be fair, we're about to see a glut of used Prius batteries on the market, and those will be able to be used for cheap grid-tied storage given the small number of people with solar installs. On the other hand, labor costs are ever-increasing due to the monetary inflation. I guess if you can figure out a way to lock in a manipulated fixed-rate to finance such an install that could partially offset it.
1. The cost of electricity is not going to stay the same for 15-30 years. It will almost certainly rise quite a bit. That needs to be factored in.
Inflation, sure. But with all the natural gas fracking going on, the coal plants are even closing down because electricity is so damn cheap.
2. Paying for 30 years up front? That's why God made HELOCS.
Taking on 30 year debt on top of a sub-30-year instrument? Ugh. If there's a saving grace it's that the Fed's market manipulation means the banks are paying you to borrow money these days.
$12K raw cost, $7K post-tax incentive cost.
Then the costs you're citing aren't the costs that can be counted for wide-scale implementation. If your parents' neighbors are paying $5K of their solar cost, that only works when the solar folks are 1 in 100. If everybody is installing solar and they're all each sharing each others' $5K costs, then they're all paying $7K for the solar and an extra $5K in taxes (for the scenario described by TFS - I know, not terribly likely).
Bullshit, you are using the decade old numbers. Payback is well under a decade now that cells are under $1/watt, without govt subsidy.
So, his argument is valid, except, "people don't like to pay a decade of electric bills up front"?
And batteries have nothing to do with grid tie solar.
Perhaps you missed the entire premise of TFS. Are we back up to 15 years then?
don't choose a cheap piece of shit just because it claims a higher '80 plus' certification level than a quality, name brand unit from a reputable company that might cost twice as much.
yeah, this hits home. I just replaced my second failed Rosewill 80+ today (5-star reviews...). Visible build quality on the first two were great, but obviously the guts aren't so good. I'm gonna open it and look for mushroomed caps.
The third one, my only spare-on-hand is of such poor build quality that the metal conductors in the Molex connectors aren't even locked in place. One went in crooked and pushed the other connector in the other-gender Molex out a bit. That took the whole chain out and took an hour to trace...
so... Slash-hive : does Antec still use good caps? I've got an ASRock in that machine for good Japanese caps; might as well pair a usable power supply.
I'm not going to shop in a store that allows a crazy lady to film me for no apparent reason.
The store is filming you anyway.
So again *WHICH* advantage has imeprial over metric (except that you are used to it) ?
For construction purposes, the key advantage is that it's based on base-12, which has many more whole number divisors than base-10. Halves, quarters and thirds are trivial. That's why you can build a staircase without a calculator with dozenal math (you use the edge of the framing square that's marked in twelfths).
It's the most useful number system below base-60 (which is too hard for most humans). The metric system should have been regular and dozenal. Humans will get it right eventually, again (you'll note 'eleven' and 'twelve' are specially-named numbers).
Imagine you're a customer in this store. Would you want to stay there with someone ranting? What if she's blocking the register?
I'd applaud the store for not escalating annoyance to violence.
Yes, that's why car insurance is compulsory in this country.
You're mistaken. It may be mandatory in your State, but here in NH it's not. Most people are insured anyway, and the rates are super-low because it's not State-mandated.
If this is right, the satellite is losing altitude
It's wrong. The altitude is the same today as yesterday but the javascript widget only counts down, and quickly.
So is metric, look how well America uses that :-\
Americans use metric where it's useful, imperial where it's useful. It's entirely possible, some will be surprised to be well-versed in SI and still choose to use base-12 when building a staircase (without using a calculator).
It's impressive how Europeans who look down upon people who aren't at least bilingual also praise those who rigidly adhere to a single measurement system.
But, hey, I regularly use four spoken languages, two measurement systems, a couple dozen machine languages and and five base number systems, so maybe I'm just a hater.
Here's a crazy idea: instead of starting to shout "private property" and having the hired guns tackle a woman and break out their weapons - just ignore her. Don't take her money, don't ring up her sale. She'll either give up and go away or try to steal the phones and then it's cut-and-dry. Plus no news stories with bad publicity during the Christmas shopping season.This would also save two Nashua cops from the public humiliation of not being able to handcuff a middle-aged asian woman (I saw the video - there's no fear that she's a kung-fu master).
the caught-in-the-middle victim
Assuming for the moment that the real problem comes from IP's logged by servers and handed over to the cops, so that TLS won't solve this - has anybody worked on a distributed HTTP proxy that will scatter and gather HTTP byte range requests?
The person using the proxy system would get the whole file, but each proxy itself would only ever get a part of the file. I'm also assuming that a judge would throw out a charge for downloading 1/100th of a naughty picture.
How does he get to his seat in the Australian Senate?
The mechanics of getting him out of there aren't too bad. I can think of at least four plans that would at least get him to international waters, and people who do this kind of thing professionally can think of better plans than mine.
The real issue is whether Ecuador wants to deal with the fallout from having helped him do that. They may prefer to take a wait-and-see approach. Lieberman is leaving in a few days, Manning's trial is going to be over by March. They might feel that this will simply be dropped if they wait it out.
In the meantime, Assange is doing some long-term-isolation experiments for NASA ... so far it's just a lung infection. If he has to seek hospital care at any point, they're going to have to decide to either cut him loose or get him out.
Now why wouldn't the Supreme Court make provision to service a larger case load over time? Is there some magic logic behind this?
It gives them cover to not grant certorati on cases that would set precedent for following the parts of the Constitution that are unpopular in Washington (notably checks on power and economic freedoms).
I didn't read the case, but if the summary is correct, they're making the wrong argument. SCOUTS will say that Congress established the law and that if the law is being followed then Due Process is served.
They should be making a case that the statutory damages constitute 'unusual punishment' and are far outside all other punitive damage amounts ever considered by copyright law in precedent (because Congress has been bought off).
Not even close; apparently he's worth something more in the lines of 4 mil, if that.
Somebody else said his retirement buyout was along the lines of $80M. But, I can see him having spent $76M on coke and whores - just hadn't seen that documented anywhere.
the satellite-tracker here
If this is right, the satellite is losing altitude at about a mile per minute and will begin reentry about 7:45 GMT.
You can find them, but they're expensive and harder and harder to find.
16:9 displays tend to be little low-budget HDTV's. 16:10 displays often have IPS panels and are purchased by people who have a ROI on a good display. You can have one here tomorrow from Amazon, Dell, etc.
There are still plenty of web sites that won't accept an email address with a plus sign in the email address
Substitute a - for a +.
e.g., with postfix:
main.cf:
virtual-regexp:
No, I could care less about the government... it's all the corporations!
You should look more closely into where corporations get their charters, the limitations on liability, and their market power.
e.g. FDA actions preventing Polaner (fruit spread) and Spectrum (oils) from using "Non-GMO" on their labelling. In the first case, they argued that strawberries were produce, not organisms. In the second case they told Spectrum that the use would cause people to think GMO's were bad.
That there's a revolving door between the FDA and Monsanto is completely unrelated, I'm sure. Eliminate the FDA from the equation and Monsanto can't prevent these companies from advertising that their products aren't GMO.
Ever heard of L4? Possibly not, but you probably have a lot more devices that run it than run Linux. Oh, and some of the ones that run Linux are likely to also run L4.
Hrm, you seem to know about more L4 deployments than the Wikipedia article does. Perhaps you could enhance it?
Oh, the GP's comment. Got it.
Quite so. They must be profiting from HFT or they'd implement rules to stop it, though.
Except that its untrue: they charge for TRADEs.
Which is untrue? Wouldn't 15 minute open order requirements cause more trades to happen?
Why would it not be in their best interest? The whole issue of AGW is that we are spewing massive amounts of CO2, and this would help solve it.
Because they want to tax carbon and regulate industries. They'll take money and power over solutions *every time*.