I have a 5 kw system on my roof. I put it on last year, when there were fairly good subsidies and tax credits. It will pay for itself in 6-7 years. I think of it as pre-paying my electric bill for 7 years, then reaping a nice upside for a decade or two.
The photovoltaic system I recently put in has a payback of about 6-7 years (yes, there were some rebates/tax breaks involved). Our city power utility is already about 80% green energy.
Well, as I understand it, Psystar did make and distribute a copy of OS X. They distributed restore disks that had a modified version of OS X on it so that it would install on their hardware, at least initially.
As I understand it, what Psystar was doing was taking the Mac OS image, and modifying it so that it would install on their own hardware. The restore disk that they distributed was this modified copy (in addition to the off-the-shelf Mac OS disks.)
First sale doctrine dictates that I own that copy of the software, and can do what I want with it.
So should you be able to put it on multiple machines, even though the license agreement says otherwise? Microsoft has a fairly elaborate serial number verification scheme to stop you, which can be a pain in the ass. Apple doesn't have such a scheme, but if the decision had gone the other way you can bet they would have added some sort of serial number / authorization scheme.
I really wish the media would stop referring to this as "hacking". It's just listening to the voicemail of people who are too stupid to change the default password, isn't it?
I wish people would stop referring to it as "stealing". It's just taking the stuff of people who are too stupid to lock their doors, isn't it?
I basically agree, but the fact that there continue to be jailbreaks for iOS means that there are serious security holes. Luckily, people seem to be more interested in jail breaking than other exploits.
They design their own circuit boards, many of the ICs on those circuit boards, the industrial / mechanical design for all the products, the OS and other software, etc. They are at least as technical as any other manufacturer, and more than most.
junkscience.com is run by an industry shill. Not a credible source, IMO.
Traditional tin/lead rosin-core electronics solder is getting harder and harder to find, and prices are climbing. I agree, it's still pretty widely available through retail outfits like Radio Shack and similar in the US at full retail price, but I buy my electronics parts & supplies through wholesale distribution houses that sell exclusively to commercial businesses like factories, service shops, etc.
I'm also in the cottage electronics manufacturer business (synth modules) and I have a hard time believing that the places you shop don't stock 60/40. I mostly use 63/37, but Kester still makes 60/40 as well. It's still in wide distribution. All-Spec, Digikey, Mouser, Newark, etc. all carry it. If you're repairing tube amps, you could probably buy a lifetime supply for a few hundred dollars, if you're really worried about supplies going away in the future.
Just out of curiosity, what was your position on banning fluorocarbons as aerosol propellants?
The same as it is regarding other related environmental-related bans like DDT and the one that galls me and affects me most, the switch from standard 60/40 tin/lead solder to eutectic solder for electronics. The DDT ban has cost million of lives lost to malaria which was on the verge of being eliminated as a significant cause of death, was unnecessary, and was driven by bad science and politics just as with AGW.
The eutectic solder sucks big wads. It also poses a problem for me in restoring old vacuum-tube guitar amplifiers, as mixing the two doesn't work, and regular tin/lead solder is getting harder to find and becoming ever-more expensive.
I'm not as up on the DDT thing, but the fluorocarbon ban seems like a clear win to me. It was based on sound science, and the result matched the prediction fairly closely.
I'm also not a fan of the European RoHS laws (which I assume is what you're talking about when you say "eutectic solder".) This was based on very sketchy science, and the lead-free stuff is much harder to work with. But, unless you're in Europe, 60/40 is still for sale everywhere, as is 63/37.
My solution is to do what Man has always done, use his technology to mitigate any very slow and gradual effects and adapt, while taking common-sense steps to limit pollution and conserve resources without massive wealth-redistribution or crippling national economies.
One of the problem with this whole thing is that it only plays out over decades. The decisions made today will not reach their endgame for a generation or two. It seems to me that we're the proverbial frog being boiled by starting out in cold water. The temperature is rising slowly enough that we don't take action.
I don't think that we can afford to just be hopeful and have faith that suddenly man's technology starts curing a problem it's been working on creating for a century or so. I agree that there needs to be a technological component to any solution, but without some sort of government intervention, people will continue to use the current cheaper solutions.
Just out of curiosity, what was your position on banning fluorocarbons as aerosol propellants?
That solution doesn't call for entire populations to be locked into their current 3rd-world levels of development without the ability to raise their standards of living
Have you really stopped to think about what happens as China/India/Africa become car cultures with today's technology? (particularly car cultures without strict pollution standards) What happens as they continue to build coal power plants?
To single out China, as of 2008 they had 37 cars per thousand people. wiki reference The US has 808 cars per thousand. If China got to the same point it would add more than a billion cars to the planet.
I don't think that there's ever been such a huge population that has been modernizing quite as fast a China. It's really quite remarkable. If it was happening on another planet, I would be watching in fascination. As it is, I'm watching with trepidation.
Are you ready to let yourself and your loved ones starve and freeze to death first if you're so sure?
Are you ready to let yourself and your loved ones drown, or be impacted by more extreme weather if you're so sure?
Much of the problem stems from a lack of 100% certain data which, given the lead time involved in the process (and any attempted solution), leads to having to address some extrapolated future scenario. I don't think anyone is seriously arguing that the planet is not getting warmer anymore, most of the argument is about whether humans are causing it. Even if it's not a totally man made problem, if actions man can take can slow it down a little, should't they be attempted? Is your solution to do nothing and let the future sort itself out?
Perhaps we're approaching the carrying capacity for humans on the planet, and it is just a natural correction.
AGW evangelists are asking the entire planet to pay dearly in terms of human suffering in order to play Russian roulette with a pistol that has an unknown number of rounds in the cylinder, with only politically-motivated assurances that statistically there shouldn't be a "bang" when they'd have us pull the trigger.
As are AGW deniers. In this case, I'd rather place my bet with the lot that are trying to do something to slow down warming than the lot who say it's not our fault, and there's nothing that can be done about it.
The Newton gets a lot of grief, but the last couple versions (2000, 2100) were pretty nice devices. The HW recognition had gotten pretty good, and the OS was really quite interesting.
I thought that at first, but then realized that the new name was "iPad" and that "the new" was just a qualifier. All they've done is to remove the number.
This isn't any different from things like iMac, MacBook Pro, etc.
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I have a 5 kw system on my roof. I put it on last year, when there were fairly good subsidies and tax credits. It will pay for itself in 6-7 years. I think of it as pre-paying my electric bill for 7 years, then reaping a nice upside for a decade or two.
Pentalobe screwdrivers aren't really that proprietary.
To quote a respected researcher is such things, "God made man, but he used the monkey to do it."
I'm more interested in its exact Trumer Pils, myself.
The photovoltaic system I recently put in has a payback of about 6-7 years (yes, there were some rebates/tax breaks involved). Our city power utility is already about 80% green energy.
And what is that point?
Well, as I understand it, Psystar did make and distribute a copy of OS X. They distributed restore disks that had a modified version of OS X on it so that it would install on their hardware, at least initially.
As I understand it, what Psystar was doing was taking the Mac OS image, and modifying it so that it would install on their own hardware. The restore disk that they distributed was this modified copy (in addition to the off-the-shelf Mac OS disks.)
First sale doctrine dictates that I own that copy of the software, and can do what I want with it.
So should you be able to put it on multiple machines, even though the license agreement says otherwise? Microsoft has a fairly elaborate serial number verification scheme to stop you, which can be a pain in the ass. Apple doesn't have such a scheme, but if the decision had gone the other way you can bet they would have added some sort of serial number / authorization scheme.
I wish I had mod points. This is an interesting argument.
I really wish the media would stop referring to this as "hacking". It's just listening to the voicemail of people who are too stupid to change the default password, isn't it?
I wish people would stop referring to it as "stealing". It's just taking the stuff of people who are too stupid to lock their doors, isn't it?
If by "long gone" you mean "not currently available," then OK. Un-thethered exploits reportedly still exist, though:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/03/iphone-4-receives-untethered-ios-5-1-jailbreak/
http://www.jailbreaknation.com/pod2gs-untethered-5.1-jailbreak-to-support-all-devices-including-iphone-4s-ipad-23-atv3-a5a5x
I basically agree, but the fact that there continue to be jailbreaks for iOS means that there are serious security holes. Luckily, people seem to be more interested in jail breaking than other exploits.
Umm... total BS.
They design their own circuit boards, many of the ICs on those circuit boards, the industrial / mechanical design for all the products, the OS and other software, etc. They are at least as technical as any other manufacturer, and more than most.
junkscience.com is run by an industry shill. Not a credible source, IMO.
I'm also in the cottage electronics manufacturer business (synth modules) and I have a hard time believing that the places you shop don't stock 60/40. I mostly use 63/37, but Kester still makes 60/40 as well. It's still in wide distribution. All-Spec, Digikey, Mouser, Newark, etc. all carry it. If you're repairing tube amps, you could probably buy a lifetime supply for a few hundred dollars, if you're really worried about supplies going away in the future.
I'm not as up on the DDT thing, but the fluorocarbon ban seems like a clear win to me. It was based on sound science, and the result matched the prediction fairly closely.
I'm also not a fan of the European RoHS laws (which I assume is what you're talking about when you say "eutectic solder".) This was based on very sketchy science, and the lead-free stuff is much harder to work with. But, unless you're in Europe, 60/40 is still for sale everywhere, as is 63/37.
My solution is to do what Man has always done, use his technology to mitigate any very slow and gradual effects and adapt, while taking common-sense steps to limit pollution and conserve resources without massive wealth-redistribution or crippling national economies.
One of the problem with this whole thing is that it only plays out over decades. The decisions made today will not reach their endgame for a generation or two. It seems to me that we're the proverbial frog being boiled by starting out in cold water. The temperature is rising slowly enough that we don't take action.
I don't think that we can afford to just be hopeful and have faith that suddenly man's technology starts curing a problem it's been working on creating for a century or so. I agree that there needs to be a technological component to any solution, but without some sort of government intervention, people will continue to use the current cheaper solutions.
Just out of curiosity, what was your position on banning fluorocarbons as aerosol propellants?
That solution doesn't call for entire populations to be locked into their current 3rd-world levels of development without the ability to raise their standards of living
Have you really stopped to think about what happens as China/India/Africa become car cultures with today's technology? (particularly car cultures without strict pollution standards) What happens as they continue to build coal power plants?
To single out China, as of 2008 they had 37 cars per thousand people. wiki reference The US has 808 cars per thousand. If China got to the same point it would add more than a billion cars to the planet.
I don't think that there's ever been such a huge population that has been modernizing quite as fast a China. It's really quite remarkable. If it was happening on another planet, I would be watching in fascination. As it is, I'm watching with trepidation.
Are you ready to let yourself and your loved ones starve and freeze to death first if you're so sure?
Are you ready to let yourself and your loved ones drown, or be impacted by more extreme weather if you're so sure?
Much of the problem stems from a lack of 100% certain data which, given the lead time involved in the process (and any attempted solution), leads to having to address some extrapolated future scenario. I don't think anyone is seriously arguing that the planet is not getting warmer anymore, most of the argument is about whether humans are causing it. Even if it's not a totally man made problem, if actions man can take can slow it down a little, should't they be attempted? Is your solution to do nothing and let the future sort itself out?
Perhaps we're approaching the carrying capacity for humans on the planet, and it is just a natural correction.
AGW evangelists are asking the entire planet to pay dearly in terms of human suffering in order to play Russian roulette with a pistol that has an unknown number of rounds in the cylinder, with only politically-motivated assurances that statistically there shouldn't be a "bang" when they'd have us pull the trigger.
As are AGW deniers. In this case, I'd rather place my bet with the lot that are trying to do something to slow down warming than the lot who say it's not our fault, and there's nothing that can be done about it.
The Newton gets a lot of grief, but the last couple versions (2000, 2100) were pretty nice devices. The HW recognition had gotten pretty good, and the OS was really quite interesting.
should we go dicking with things we don't have complete knowledge and control over.
If not, we should not bother doing anything. We have no complete knowledge and control over anything.
Have you seen all the pictures of Jesus as a blond haired, blue eyed, pale skinned sort of fellow?
Well, neither has anyone else. Just about everybody uses contract manufacturing.
I thought that at first, but then realized that the new name was "iPad" and that "the new" was just a qualifier. All they've done is to remove the number. This isn't any different from things like iMac, MacBook Pro, etc.
What kind of laptop can you get for $250?