But yet Apple does it all the time. So does Google if you bought a Nexus directly from them. Why can't the rest?
Apple does it because you are still incentivized to buy a new iPhone every 18 months, and probably lust after it in a shorter period than that.
Google can update the nexus because it's usually a "bring your own device, off contract" thing. I.e. you bought it without a plan by paying for it up front, and in exchange you get updates and the ability to do exactly the thing carriers don't want you to be able to do: switch carriers. So they charge more on the plan, and you pay maybe 30% of the extra amount (say $10 a month instead of $30 a month to get a subsidized over 18 months iPhone thrown into the deal).
The rest can't do it because you aren't willing to pay full cost for their phones up front, because frankly, the phones are crap compared to an iPhone or a Google Nexus. The only way you can sell them at all is on a subsidy plan, which suits the carriers just fine, since that gets you locked into the contract.
They tolerate Apple, because as long as they keep coming out with new shiny, people put on the contract handcuffs voluntarily.
They tolerate Google because they tolerate "bring your own device" as a marketing means of providing the illusion of choice, when they know that only a tiny minority is going to exercise that choice. If everyone started paying cash up front for their phones so they could go month to month, the carriers would come unglued, since they only axis they'd have available to compete on would be service.
Yeah, that's still an issue. Except...you're running your laundry on a timer now.
The models you listed on that link do not have start timers. Electronic controls, yes; but without timers, all that means is you can't mechanically set a setting, and then have a timer power the thing on at a specific time. Nor do they have protocol based external management, so you could trigger them at a particular solar generating level that's sustained over a period of time to avoid using grid power, and program a (much smarter) external system to run them.
These appliances are not as smart as they'd need to be, and even if they are, they're not smart in the right direction, nor are the external control management systems there yet for doing things like coordinating the dishwasher vs. the laundry.
Just have it set to run twice each week on different days instead of twice in one day, back-to-back.
Dude or dudette, I totally promise not to tell your SO that you just put their favorite yellow shorts that they've had since college in with your new blue shirt and turned them green. But you *will* be buying them that expensive dinner by way of apology.
Us laundry ninjas know you can't just throw in anything with anything else. Some things will simply shred if you put them in with some other things, like delicates and thick towels, instead of putting them on a different cycle. What this boils down to is that any given laundry day requires multiple loads.
Put in the next load before you go to work, take the dry clothes out when you get home, no problem.
And forget this, if you have kids: there's no such thing as a small amount of laundry, or two day a week laundry.
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Look, personally, I want local energy storage: I don't want to have to change everything, just because I'm going to be powering everything with the big fusion reactor up in the sky, instead of the little fission reactor down the coast. At some point, it becomes a quality of life issue, and that point hits pretty hard with solar in a different way.
As soon as there's enough solar capacity, and people aren't home to use it, then it redefined "off peak" and "on peak". The "off peak" hours are during the day, when generating capacity exceeds demand, and the "on peak" hours are during the morning and evening, when you're at home and awake, but the sun isn't shining, so there's more demand on the grid, because everyone else keeps the same hours you do.
One of the reasons the PUC in Nevada got rid of net metering was because Nevada was on a trajectory to eventually hit this "solar tipping point", and it was obvious to the utility company that at that point, they'd be paying spot market prices for energy, mostly in the evenings, and they'd end up pretty screwed.
Unless I can have local storage, and it's got to be able to store everything I can generate all day, assuming it starts out dry, the "grid battery" approach looks to be doomed to jacking my utility bills right back to where they used to be, so the power company can maintain revenue under the pretense of "we have to maintain the grid, but all these people have solar, and aren't paying us enough for us to be able to afford to maintain it".
The only viable alternative is to be able to pull the plug completely. And sadly, solar is just not there yet.
Not discounting the other things you said, but why invent a robot to move laundry between a washer and dryer, when you can just get one unit that does both without inter-unit movement?
As the phone company, I fail to see how allowing you to push an update that you've not re-certified to not break our network, over our network is going to lock consumers into a new two year contract every 18 months.
We also fail to see how not incentivizing the purchase of a new contact subsidized phone gets the customer locked into a new two year contract every 18 months.
Taxi's potentially compete with Uber (and Town Cars), but Uber (and Town Cars) does not compete with ad hoc taxi service.
The person called Uber instead of a taxi. You don't call that competing?
Not with taxis.
With town cars, yes. With the SuperShuttle, yes. With me getting on the phone with my friend Phil, and begging him to come pick me up, and if he does, I'll buy him a six pack of that nasty ale he drinks, "Just please, PLEASE don't make me take a taxi!", yes.
I constantly get there are no Cars available messages when ever I try to use Uber. With a taxi, I can prearrange specific pickup times and the every time I have done this, they show up 10 minutes early. I can't rely on Uber to get me to the airport on time, I can with a Taxi.
Yet by your own admission, you keep trying to use Uber anyway, and only use the taxi after you get the "no Cars available" message from Uber.
There must be something you like better about Uber than taxis, if you keep trying to use it, or you'd just be using taxis all the time.
Since uranium runs out, the subsidies for nuclear never tend to zero the way the do for solar which can produce energy without bound long after subsidies end.
Uranium doesn't "run out" if you use breeder reactors. They effectively have fuel indefinitely.
Solar panels are good for about 20 years. That's what the three major Solar sales companies in the Bay Area said, when they visited my house, and we talked about it. Sadly, on the lease program, Solar City was not willing to install updated panels when better panels became available: I was stuck with them for the "full lifetime of 20 years". Also on the lease programs, all three companies owned the panels on my roof, which means that they, not I, got the tax subsidy for them.
Basically: none of them produced quite enough power for both my house and my cottage tenant, they all wanted me to use PG&E as a battery, but admitted that the Nevada PUC decision to disallow net metering was probably going to happen soon in my area as well, since the electric companies really dislike net metering, and they agreed, that because the Smart Meters(tm) required to have Solar in the first place allowed differential rates of payment at different times of day, that I would likely get paid less during the day when my panels were generating electricity, and have to pay more in the mornings and evenings (when I was actually home from work, duh!).
Their suggestion was to put all my appliances on timers so that they ran while I was at work; I asked for their advice on where to buy a robot to move clothes from my washer to my dryer, so that I didn't have to run the dryer at night, either. They had no answer.
With the nuclear waste problem, subsidies for nuclear likely increase without bound. You've misunderstood the situation.
What nuclear waste situation? Oh. You mean the one Jimmy Carter created on April 7, 1977, when he ordered support cut for the Barnwell reprocessing plant or the construction of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor.
The one we could make "go away" pretty easily by reversing his executive order.
Nuclear energy is the crazy hot girlfriend of energy. She may be nice, kind, and wonderful for days, months, or years - maybe decades. But someday, somehow, she's going to go berserk on you. 100% chance.
She wouldn't have gone off on you, if you hadn't also been porking Coal, Oil, Solar, and now that bitch Wind!
Because they think that the plutonium produced(and mostly consumed if those reactors are allowed to keep working instead of being shut down to harvest it) will spontaneously get up and walk away.
Specifically it's to keep countries like North Korea and Pakistan from getting nuclear weapons.
Oopsie. Looks like that worked out, didn't it...
The U.S. is the only major nuclear power that doesn't reprocess spent fuel; Russia does, Japan does, France does, Great Britain did, and, until Germany recently decided to no longer be a nuclear power, they had France process their for them. Thank Jimmy Carter for the executive order; we have a nice, shiny new reprocessing plant that's been mothballed.
Everyone with a hack medallion gets as much money as they would have gotten, had they actually done their job, and then whatever that costs, tax the ride sharing companies that. Then the taxi drivers won't have to work at all, instead of working only profitable areas, despite being called for an unprofitable pickup, which they just ignore anyway.
Then hack medallions can be like dividend paying stock investments, instead of licenses to work in a government granted monopoly market with enforced artificial scarcity.
Make it one in San Francisco, where the tolls on the bridges (which have been paid for) were supposed to go away once the bridges were paid for.
Instead, the tolls are one way: you pay them, if you are a nasty, low income person coming from Emeryville into San Francisco, but not if you are a wonderful, high income person going from San Francisco to Emeryville to pick up furniture at Ikea (you pay to come back of course, but, being rich, you can afford the barrier to entry).
You're not a taxi service but taxis are potential competitors. Are the like of Uber and Lyft starting to drop the veneer that they don't occupy the same service space as taxi companies?
I imagine they are saying that if a taxi see someone standing there waiting for an Uber, they might try to "vulch" the customer, and steal it from the Uber driver already en route.
While it is currently illegal for Uber drivers to do the same to taxis, since they would then have to be fully compliant with taxi regulations.
For example, it's also illegal for Town Car operators to pick up people at the San Francisco Airport who are waiting for transport, unless they specifically called the Town Car company, even though both the people and the Town Car are there, the Town Car's fare's flight got delayed or cancelled, and there are not Taxis in sight.
So yes: Taxi's potentially compete with Uber (and Town Cars), but Uber (and Town Cars) does not compete with ad hoc taxi service.
Welcome to New England, the land of that has about 10 different words for ice and snow. You're going to be resurfacing those roads, because water expands when it freezes.
Damage to constructs from temperature transitions is technically called "spalling".
It's not a typo, it's a dialectic/idiomatic difference in spelling.
I was not criticizing Barbra's spelling, I was commenting on her likely regional bias on the nature of "unions", since my original comment specifically called out U.S. road paving done by state employee union workers in U.S. states.
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They actually want to kick appliances off. When the load is high, your blender quits working, basically.
They actually mean "the equivalent of adding a gas-fired power plant by subtracting users who can damn well wait for their smoothies.
Hopefully no one is stupid enough to buy a Nest dialysis machine...
But yet Apple does it all the time. So does Google if you bought a Nexus directly from them. Why can't the rest?
Apple does it because you are still incentivized to buy a new iPhone every 18 months, and probably lust after it in a shorter period than that.
Google can update the nexus because it's usually a "bring your own device, off contract" thing. I.e. you bought it without a plan by paying for it up front, and in exchange you get updates and the ability to do exactly the thing carriers don't want you to be able to do: switch carriers. So they charge more on the plan, and you pay maybe 30% of the extra amount (say $10 a month instead of $30 a month to get a subsidized over 18 months iPhone thrown into the deal).
The rest can't do it because you aren't willing to pay full cost for their phones up front, because frankly, the phones are crap compared to an iPhone or a Google Nexus. The only way you can sell them at all is on a subsidy plan, which suits the carriers just fine, since that gets you locked into the contract.
They tolerate Apple, because as long as they keep coming out with new shiny, people put on the contract handcuffs voluntarily.
They tolerate Google because they tolerate "bring your own device" as a marketing means of providing the illusion of choice, when they know that only a tiny minority is going to exercise that choice. If everyone started paying cash up front for their phones so they could go month to month, the carriers would come unglued, since they only axis they'd have available to compete on would be service.
Yeah, that's still an issue. Except...you're running your laundry on a timer now.
The models you listed on that link do not have start timers. Electronic controls, yes; but without timers, all that means is you can't mechanically set a setting, and then have a timer power the thing on at a specific time. Nor do they have protocol based external management, so you could trigger them at a particular solar generating level that's sustained over a period of time to avoid using grid power, and program a (much smarter) external system to run them.
These appliances are not as smart as they'd need to be, and even if they are, they're not smart in the right direction, nor are the external control management systems there yet for doing things like coordinating the dishwasher vs. the laundry.
Just have it set to run twice each week on different days instead of twice in one day, back-to-back.
Dude or dudette, I totally promise not to tell your SO that you just put their favorite yellow shorts that they've had since college in with your new blue shirt and turned them green. But you *will* be buying them that expensive dinner by way of apology.
Us laundry ninjas know you can't just throw in anything with anything else. Some things will simply shred if you put them in with some other things, like delicates and thick towels, instead of putting them on a different cycle. What this boils down to is that any given laundry day requires multiple loads.
Put in the next load before you go to work, take the dry clothes out when you get home, no problem.
And forget this, if you have kids: there's no such thing as a small amount of laundry, or two day a week laundry.
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Look, personally, I want local energy storage: I don't want to have to change everything, just because I'm going to be powering everything with the big fusion reactor up in the sky, instead of the little fission reactor down the coast. At some point, it becomes a quality of life issue, and that point hits pretty hard with solar in a different way.
As soon as there's enough solar capacity, and people aren't home to use it, then it redefined "off peak" and "on peak". The "off peak" hours are during the day, when generating capacity exceeds demand, and the "on peak" hours are during the morning and evening, when you're at home and awake, but the sun isn't shining, so there's more demand on the grid, because everyone else keeps the same hours you do.
One of the reasons the PUC in Nevada got rid of net metering was because Nevada was on a trajectory to eventually hit this "solar tipping point", and it was obvious to the utility company that at that point, they'd be paying spot market prices for energy, mostly in the evenings, and they'd end up pretty screwed.
Unless I can have local storage, and it's got to be able to store everything I can generate all day, assuming it starts out dry, the "grid battery" approach looks to be doomed to jacking my utility bills right back to where they used to be, so the power company can maintain revenue under the pretense of "we have to maintain the grid, but all these people have solar, and aren't paying us enough for us to be able to afford to maintain it".
The only viable alternative is to be able to pull the plug completely. And sadly, solar is just not there yet.
Not discounting the other things you said, but why invent a robot to move laundry between a washer and dryer, when you can just get one unit that does both without inter-unit movement?
Now have it put the next load in...
On point, the explosion in question was waste from nuclear weapons production.
Actually, the explosion was from cat poop. They bought the wrong kind of kitty litter to put in their barrels.
You are letting your little far right extremism brain.
Sorry, I think you have "nuclear" confused with "big oil". If you want far right extremism, that's the next door down.
Carter stopped it, rightly, and raygun restarted it.
And then it was stopped again.
In addition reprocessing is not the right solution.
What is the solution, then? It's not the sun shining day and night, and it's not the wind blowing all the time.
As the phone company, I fail to see how allowing you to push an update that you've not re-certified to not break our network, over our network is going to lock consumers into a new two year contract every 18 months.
We also fail to see how not incentivizing the purchase of a new contact subsidized phone gets the customer locked into a new two year contract every 18 months.
Taxi's potentially compete with Uber (and Town Cars), but Uber (and Town Cars) does not compete with ad hoc taxi service.
The person called Uber instead of a taxi. You don't call that competing?
Not with taxis.
With town cars, yes. With the SuperShuttle, yes. With me getting on the phone with my friend Phil, and begging him to come pick me up, and if he does, I'll buy him a six pack of that nasty ale he drinks, "Just please, PLEASE don't make me take a taxi!", yes.
But with taxis? No.
I constantly get there are no Cars available messages when ever I try to use Uber. With a taxi, I can prearrange specific pickup times and the every time I have done this, they show up 10 minutes early. I can't rely on Uber to get me to the airport on time, I can with a Taxi.
Yet by your own admission, you keep trying to use Uber anyway, and only use the taxi after you get the "no Cars available" message from Uber.
There must be something you like better about Uber than taxis, if you keep trying to use it, or you'd just be using taxis all the time.
Right?
Before there were medallions there was so much vehicle congestion it was causing accidents.
Thank god for medallions, then: just think... without them, car accidents wouldn't now be a thing of the past!
Since uranium runs out, the subsidies for nuclear never tend to zero the way the do for solar which can produce energy without bound long after subsidies end.
Uranium doesn't "run out" if you use breeder reactors. They effectively have fuel indefinitely.
Solar panels are good for about 20 years. That's what the three major Solar sales companies in the Bay Area said, when they visited my house, and we talked about it. Sadly, on the lease program, Solar City was not willing to install updated panels when better panels became available: I was stuck with them for the "full lifetime of 20 years". Also on the lease programs, all three companies owned the panels on my roof, which means that they, not I, got the tax subsidy for them.
Basically: none of them produced quite enough power for both my house and my cottage tenant, they all wanted me to use PG&E as a battery, but admitted that the Nevada PUC decision to disallow net metering was probably going to happen soon in my area as well, since the electric companies really dislike net metering, and they agreed, that because the Smart Meters(tm) required to have Solar in the first place allowed differential rates of payment at different times of day, that I would likely get paid less during the day when my panels were generating electricity, and have to pay more in the mornings and evenings (when I was actually home from work, duh!).
Their suggestion was to put all my appliances on timers so that they ran while I was at work; I asked for their advice on where to buy a robot to move clothes from my washer to my dryer, so that I didn't have to run the dryer at night, either. They had no answer.
With the nuclear waste problem, subsidies for nuclear likely increase without bound. You've misunderstood the situation.
What nuclear waste situation? Oh. You mean the one Jimmy Carter created on April 7, 1977, when he ordered support cut for the Barnwell reprocessing plant or the construction of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor.
The one we could make "go away" pretty easily by reversing his executive order.
That nuclear waste problem, right?
Masataka Shimizu, president and CEO of TEPCO, is now an executive director at Fuji Oil.
Coincidence?
Nuclear energy is the crazy hot girlfriend of energy. She may be nice, kind, and wonderful for days, months, or years - maybe decades. But someday, somehow, she's going to go berserk on you. 100% chance.
She wouldn't have gone off on you, if you hadn't also been porking Coal, Oil, Solar, and now that bitch Wind!
Why is why those cleaning products have labels on them that say "do not mix with any other cleaning product".
I believe the thinking (such as it is) goes something like:
"They're just trying to get you to not buy a competing product, once you've bought theirs... they are both cleaners, right?"
Because they think that the plutonium produced(and mostly consumed if those reactors are allowed to keep working instead of being shut down to harvest it) will spontaneously get up and walk away.
Specifically it's to keep countries like North Korea and Pakistan from getting nuclear weapons.
Oopsie. Looks like that worked out, didn't it...
The U.S. is the only major nuclear power that doesn't reprocess spent fuel; Russia does, Japan does, France does, Great Britain did, and, until Germany recently decided to no longer be a nuclear power, they had France process their for them. Thank Jimmy Carter for the executive order; we have a nice, shiny new reprocessing plant that's been mothballed.
They should really just UBI it for taxis.
Everyone with a hack medallion gets as much money as they would have gotten, had they actually done their job, and then whatever that costs, tax the ride sharing companies that. Then the taxi drivers won't have to work at all, instead of working only profitable areas, despite being called for an unprofitable pickup, which they just ignore anyway.
Then hack medallions can be like dividend paying stock investments, instead of licenses to work in a government granted monopoly market with enforced artificial scarcity.
> The whole fee will go away at the end of 2026.
If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.
Make it one in San Francisco, where the tolls on the bridges (which have been paid for) were supposed to go away once the bridges were paid for.
Instead, the tolls are one way: you pay them, if you are a nasty, low income person coming from Emeryville into San Francisco, but not if you are a wonderful, high income person going from San Francisco to Emeryville to pick up furniture at Ikea (you pay to come back of course, but, being rich, you can afford the barrier to entry).
You're not a taxi service but taxis are potential competitors. Are the like of Uber and Lyft starting to drop the veneer that they don't occupy the same service space as taxi companies?
I imagine they are saying that if a taxi see someone standing there waiting for an Uber, they might try to "vulch" the customer, and steal it from the Uber driver already en route.
While it is currently illegal for Uber drivers to do the same to taxis, since they would then have to be fully compliant with taxi regulations.
For example, it's also illegal for Town Car operators to pick up people at the San Francisco Airport who are waiting for transport, unless they specifically called the Town Car company, even though both the people and the Town Car are there, the Town Car's fare's flight got delayed or cancelled, and there are not Taxis in sight.
So yes: Taxi's potentially compete with Uber (and Town Cars), but Uber (and Town Cars) does not compete with ad hoc taxi service.
You answered the first question out of my mouth, when you noted that it was not accredited.
As a proud owner of Photoshop, I now have a "Certificate of Completion" from them.
When do they open, exactly, so I know when to put it on my resume?
So you claim that all those mathematic and logic proofs are bullshit. I laugh at you.
No, now I'm claiming you apparently do not know the difference between a "theory" and a "theorem".
Prove the theory is valid, then we'll talk.
As a scientist, you are aware that it is impossible to prove a theory is valid.
You can only falsify a theory.
No theory in the history of mankind has ever been "proven".
Wish I could upvote this...
Welcome to New England, the land of that has about 10 different words for ice and snow. You're going to be resurfacing those roads, because water expands when it freezes.
Damage to constructs from temperature transitions is technically called "spalling".
And there are technical solutions; here's one:
Reuse of Tyre Fibres for Fire-Spalling-Proof Concrete (IGNIS)
https://cee.sheffield.ac.uk/pr...
Perhaps you should hire better people to build your roads for you.
It's not a typo, it's a dialectic/idiomatic difference in spelling.
I was not criticizing Barbra's spelling, I was commenting on her likely regional bias on the nature of "unions", since my original comment specifically called out U.S. road paving done by state employee union workers in U.S. states.
For more spelling differences, the Oxford English dictionary notes general rules here: http://www.oxforddictionaries....
You'll note that labour/labor is one of their example words.
The fact that you're bragging on Slashdot says you do.
It's not bragging, it's memetic engineering. If you don't fix peoples preconceptions, they will contine to be an impediment to social progress.
You're welcome.