Trains lose money? Are you crazy? They move an incredible amount of freight for a fraction of what it costs to haul by truck. Some railroads like Union Pacific are wildly profitable. The trains that lose money are passenger trains. Amtrak is famous for losing money.
This from Forbes....
In 2014, Union Pacific logged $5.18 billion in net profits on sales of $24 billion, for a return-on-revenues ratio of 21.6%.
Yeah, I was thinking running a propane powered generator for back up power. Been pricing Industrial batteries too. Yep....it's a load of cash. Still, it looks like they're determined to kill coal and if that happens I look for electrical prices to climb drastically. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
I've been researching the thing for over a year now. I'm aware the costs for a full up off grid system are pretty hefty, around the price you'd pay for a nice new car. I plan to start a little smaller than that and build on it. Batteries are definitely the biggest investment. I so wish that Musk or someone else would come up with a way to cut that by at least 50 percent. I see all this money being spent on solar panel research when to me it should be spent on battery research.
It looks nice. I notice that the $45 price was for early kickstarter pledges and later it went up to $65. I also notice shipment is delayed until middle February now. I don't see it as a competitor for the Pi though, more like a different niche. The Pi is a throwaway computer. I've purchased a dozen now and have them doing different things. Some A+ models hanging outside with camera mods attached for surveillance, a Pi2 running a media center and one for a file server. They run off a cell phone charger with no problems. The community support makes it almost trivial to set up anything as every time I look there are more projects posted. It's a hobby board, not a peecee competitor. I will say I might pick up a jaguarboard later on to play with if they actually start delivering them. It looks cool.
I see your point but I think solar off the grid power is going to be a force down the road. It's inevitable. The only reason it's not now is that batteries are so expensive. Even so it will happen. I see more and more panels going up. I intend to start on my own system later this year. I think energy independence is a beautiful thing.
The solution is for all the systemd haters to band together into one distro and move on. I'm not a particular fan of the idea of systemd either but it's time to get over it.. To continue to fight something with that kind of momentum is ridiculous. It's as bad as expecting microsoft to go away and die.
A friend of mine's dad retired with a good pension. He didn't really need any money but he got bored and wanted to maybe have a little more play money so he took a job doing equipment maintenance at a local potato chip (Frito Lay) plant. He liked it okay and he was actually making more money than he had before he retired. Being good at his job they started putting more and more on him and he was working almost every weekend overtime. His daughter was getting married so he told them he needed Saturday off for the wedding and they said no problem but then the day before the wedding they asked him if he could come in to work and then leave 2 hours before the wedding. He told them he didn't really need the job and he was working way more than he wanted anyway, so he quit.
When my two children left home I suddenly had almost an extra thousand dollars left at the end of the month. I had no idea they were draining me like that. Both were working full time and bought their own gas and insurance and clothes and such but still I was subsidizing them. My electric bill went down almost by 100 dollars.
I think if I was a citizen of Michigan I'd be pretty pissed. It appears to me someone or several someones should be going to jail. It appears that the people of Flint were knowingly poisoned. If true that is so horrible that to fail to imprison those responsible would be a travesty.
Funny how the elected representatives of the city's citizens have no real power. I've never been a fan of city managers unless the mayor has the power to fire them.
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Trains lose money? Are you crazy? They move an incredible amount of freight for a fraction of what it costs to haul by truck. Some railroads like Union Pacific are wildly profitable. The trains that lose money are passenger trains. Amtrak is famous for losing money.
This from Forbes....
In 2014, Union Pacific logged $5.18 billion in net profits on sales of $24 billion, for a return-on-revenues ratio of 21.6%.
I wish I could lose that kind of money!
Yeah, I was thinking running a propane powered generator for back up power. Been pricing Industrial batteries too. Yep....it's a load of cash. Still, it looks like they're determined to kill coal and if that happens I look for electrical prices to climb drastically. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
I've been researching the thing for over a year now. I'm aware the costs for a full up off grid system are pretty hefty, around the price you'd pay for a nice new car. I plan to start a little smaller than that and build on it. Batteries are definitely the biggest investment. I so wish that Musk or someone else would come up with a way to cut that by at least 50 percent. I see all this money being spent on solar panel research when to me it should be spent on battery research.
The 68000 was used as a "manager" but most of the work was done by two custom 32bit RISC processors.
It looks nice. I notice that the $45 price was for early kickstarter pledges and later it went up to $65. I also notice shipment is delayed until middle February now. I don't see it as a competitor for the Pi though, more like a different niche. The Pi is a throwaway computer. I've purchased a dozen now and have them doing different things. Some A+ models hanging outside with camera mods attached for surveillance, a Pi2 running a media center and one for a file server. They run off a cell phone charger with no problems. The community support makes it almost trivial to set up anything as every time I look there are more projects posted. It's a hobby board, not a peecee competitor. I will say I might pick up a jaguarboard later on to play with if they actually start delivering them. It looks cool.
And isn't that how it's supposed to work? The survival of the fittest?
It'll probably come in as an update after the release.
What I love best about open source is that it's free and you can take it or leave it. There are choices available that don't use systemd. Pick one.
The National Socialist Party? The Nazi party? Are you fucking serious? That's your idea of an analogy?
So happy to see the Raspberry Pi 3D support. Thanks for the goodies!
I see your point but I think solar off the grid power is going to be a force down the road. It's inevitable. The only reason it's not now is that batteries are so expensive. Even so it will happen. I see more and more panels going up. I intend to start on my own system later this year. I think energy independence is a beautiful thing.
Such an intelligent, reasoned response. Thank you for making my point for me.
The right wing isn't that fond of them either. It's the moderates I think that like Uber.
Nah...my wife came to the rescue. Thanks anyway.
The solution is for all the systemd haters to band together into one distro and move on. I'm not a particular fan of the idea of systemd either but it's time to get over it.. To continue to fight something with that kind of momentum is ridiculous. It's as bad as expecting microsoft to go away and die.
This will make batteries more important. Now it's no longer profitable to use the grid for storage.
Now they'll be selling at the same rate everyone else sells and paying at the same rate everyone else pays.
I wonder if you really believe that or just decided to troll?
A friend of mine's dad retired with a good pension. He didn't really need any money but he got bored and wanted to maybe have a little more play money so he took a job doing equipment maintenance at a local potato chip (Frito Lay) plant. He liked it okay and he was actually making more money than he had before he retired. Being good at his job they started putting more and more on him and he was working almost every weekend overtime. His daughter was getting married so he told them he needed Saturday off for the wedding and they said no problem but then the day before the wedding they asked him if he could come in to work and then leave 2 hours before the wedding. He told them he didn't really need the job and he was working way more than he wanted anyway, so he quit.
I thought that was what Obamacare was intended to do?
It's not about what he wants. It's what they think he should have.
When my two children left home I suddenly had almost an extra thousand dollars left at the end of the month. I had no idea they were draining me like that. Both were working full time and bought their own gas and insurance and clothes and such but still I was subsidizing them. My electric bill went down almost by 100 dollars.
How about calling it the Volvo Titanic?
I think if I was a citizen of Michigan I'd be pretty pissed. It appears to me someone or several someones should be going to jail. It appears that the people of Flint were knowingly poisoned. If true that is so horrible that to fail to imprison those responsible would be a travesty.
Funny how the elected representatives of the city's citizens have no real power. I've never been a fan of city managers unless the mayor has the power to fire them.