Yes, but that's not how it typically works. Usually it goes the other way. It's more like double the efficiency at four times the cost. The poster is saying that it's not really the specific efficiency of the panels that ultimately matters, but the monetary efficiency.
If you have to cover a half acre with panels just to get enough energy to run a 2000 ft^2 house, that might sound like a bad idea. But suppose it cost less than the lawnmower to do the whole thing?
Hey Slashdot readers, what's the best brand of oil to use in my car?
Brand? doesn't really matter. Synthetic will last longer than natural, and use the lowest weight oil your manufacturer recommends. XXwNN means roughly "starting temperature viscosity equivalent to XX weight oil, running temp viscosity equivalent to NN weight oil." Higher numbers are more viscous, but less likely to leak. Lower numbers will give you slightly better fuel economy.
Dear Slashdot, I keep buying ballpoint pens that don't write well. I have to keep scribbling on scratch paper to make them work. What kind of pen should I get so I don't have this problem?
Fisher Space pen. It's pressurized so you can write upside-down if you have some crazy fetish.
Dear Slashdot, my kid wants a dog. I don't want a dog that barks alot. What do you recommend?
stuffed. Or a fish tank. If you can't handle its barking, you'll never cope with housetraining it.
Yo Slashdot, I got a beef wit dis guy in my 'hood. What kinda piece do you recommend I use on his a$$? Peace.
A lawyer would be far more effective, and get fewer complaints from the neighbors. A sackfull of lawyers will not leave any bruises or other marks to cause you trouble with teh authorities, and they're more plentiful than oranges.
Dear Slashdot, I'm so fat I keep breaking every chair I sit on. Anyone know of an industrial strength chair I can get that won't get crushed by my lazy butt?
You've probably got a medical condition known as "too fat to walk" anyway. so don't even bother with chairs. Just head straight to http://www.thescooterstore.com/ No worries on price, your friends will pay for it aparantly.
Hey all you smart Slashdot readers, I'm going to be on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Anyone want to be one of my lifelines? You need to be really smart and stuff. Lemme know if you are.
How much of your winnings are you willing to share? What minimum fee do you guarantee when you lose?
The e-voting machines were predominantly placed in heavily democrat-leaning districts, by DEMOCRAT elections supervisors. It's an elected position. By starting at >90%-D, odds were good that they'd close toward the mean a bit before the election.
It's pretty obvious when you start looking at who was complaining about the machines in the lead-up, and who was buying the machines that they were purchased for the express purpose of claiming vote-rigging. Obviously, a properly secure machine with a paper record would distract somewhat from the claims.
The only problem is that insecure machines are insecure and that's bad for everyone regardless of affiliation.
Why bother with the expense of the machine then? What's so hard about having a booth with an indelible marker and having people fill out the forms that way?
Slashdotters read, "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" and think it sounds like a pretty nice place to live.
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future robots, aliens, non-human entities, call them whatever you will, but that does not mean they aren't demons.
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What they "tacked on" to the end there was far more depressing. He spends the rest of time reliving almost, but not quite the life he so longed for, knowing that he's used up his one day reunion. How is that not a depiction of hell? Why do the future-robots torment him so?
What's with early voting anyway? How is that constitutional? or even a good idea? Surely spreading the vote (and elections volunteers) out over a month prior to an election invites fraud and accidents.
An aircraft? well I guess for a class, since they're usually pretty small, it's a good idea, especially if you actually build one. But it'd probably be better to build a sloop in the real situation. Small enough to build in a sand-pit drydock, large enough to hold substantial supplies, and forgiving enough that your lack of computer analysis won't doom the trip to certain failure halfway to the middle of the ocean parallel to the coast you were trying to aim for.
Plus you don't have to figure out how to cast or mill a lightweight engine using ore of unknown quality and coarse sand.
corn syrup is cheaper for a variety of reasons, one of which is the shortsightedness of the sugar lobby, and congress' desire to annex hawaii. But all sugars are not equal. (ba dum.. no sugars are "equal(TM)" which is aspartame, i believe) Seriously though, different sugars have varying amounts of "sweetness," and corn syrup isn't really all that sweet: you need more calories of the stuff to achieve the desired effect.
As far as I know, allofmp3 does not have license to distribute its songs in the US. Therefore, selling songs in the US is an act of copyright infringement in the US.
Riddle me this, If what allofmp3 is doing is so legal in the US, why isn't there a US company trying to compete with them for US sales?
Just because part of the crime is committed in another country, where US police cannot go, and which may or may not respect US law, does not mean that it is legal, or that US citizens are not committing US crimes.
But if you don't have to rewrite anything, you could presumeably build the data into the chip at fab time somehow. Which I assume would greatly reduce the complexity of the memory. Any ideas? cost?
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Yes, but that's not how it typically works. Usually it goes the other way. It's more like double the efficiency at four times the cost. The poster is saying that it's not really the specific efficiency of the panels that ultimately matters, but the monetary efficiency.
If you have to cover a half acre with panels just to get enough energy to run a 2000 ft^2 house, that might sound like a bad idea. But suppose it cost less than the lawnmower to do the whole thing?
Brand? doesn't really matter. Synthetic will last longer than natural, and use the lowest weight oil your manufacturer recommends. XXwNN means roughly "starting temperature viscosity equivalent to XX weight oil, running temp viscosity equivalent to NN weight oil." Higher numbers are more viscous, but less likely to leak. Lower numbers will give you slightly better fuel economy.
Fisher Space pen. It's pressurized so you can write upside-down if you have some crazy fetish.
stuffed. Or a fish tank. If you can't handle its barking, you'll never cope with housetraining it.
A lawyer would be far more effective, and get fewer complaints from the neighbors. A sackfull of lawyers will not leave any bruises or other marks to cause you trouble with teh authorities, and they're more plentiful than oranges.
You've probably got a medical condition known as "too fat to walk" anyway. so don't even bother with chairs. Just head straight to http://www.thescooterstore.com/ No worries on price, your friends will pay for it aparantly.
How much of your winnings are you willing to share? What minimum fee do you guarantee when you lose?
Health and Hygiene? That's no nerd news.
everyone else is missing the issue.
The e-voting machines were predominantly placed in heavily democrat-leaning districts, by DEMOCRAT elections supervisors. It's an elected position. By starting at >90%-D, odds were good that they'd close toward the mean a bit before the election.
It's pretty obvious when you start looking at who was complaining about the machines in the lead-up, and who was buying the machines that they were purchased for the express purpose of claiming vote-rigging. Obviously, a properly secure machine with a paper record would distract somewhat from the claims.
The only problem is that insecure machines are insecure and that's bad for everyone regardless of affiliation.
Blast. trapped!
Not only is it not a US company, but until recently it was barred from doing business in the US.
I dunno about crap, but they do lay on the trendiness pretty thick.
Why bother with the expense of the machine then? What's so hard about having a booth with an indelible marker and having people fill out the forms that way?
That depends on where you live. Why not brew it yourself though. Coffee isn't exactly hard to make.
"Using Bittorrent is a little redundant."
Congrats on your double pun!
So.. if it turns out differently, will you say that the analysts are wrong or the votes?
Slashdotters read, "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" and think it sounds like a pretty nice place to live.
future robots, aliens, non-human entities, call them whatever you will, but that does not mean they aren't demons.
What they "tacked on" to the end there was far more depressing. He spends the rest of time reliving almost, but not quite the life he so longed for, knowing that he's used up his one day reunion. How is that not a depiction of hell? Why do the future-robots torment him so?
bullet-proof vests? high performance racing sailboats? ultra-light parachutes for 747 sized aircraft?
What's with early voting anyway? How is that constitutional? or even a good idea? Surely spreading the vote (and elections volunteers) out over a month prior to an election invites fraud and accidents.
And how exactly would this patch be applied? It's not like the machines are turned on and connected to the internet when not in use on election day.
An aircraft? well I guess for a class, since they're usually pretty small, it's a good idea, especially if you actually build one. But it'd probably be better to build a sloop in the real situation. Small enough to build in a sand-pit drydock, large enough to hold substantial supplies, and forgiving enough that your lack of computer analysis won't doom the trip to certain failure halfway to the middle of the ocean parallel to the coast you were trying to aim for.
Plus you don't have to figure out how to cast or mill a lightweight engine using ore of unknown quality and coarse sand.
What universidy btw?
You can run powerpoint presentations off a five year old low-end palm-a-like. Why would you need CADD capabilities in a conference room?
fluids follow the path of least resistance. Light follows the path of least time.
corn syrup is cheaper for a variety of reasons, one of which is the shortsightedness of the sugar lobby, and congress' desire to annex hawaii. But all sugars are not equal. (ba dum.. no sugars are "equal(TM)" which is aspartame, i believe) Seriously though, different sugars have varying amounts of "sweetness," and corn syrup isn't really all that sweet: you need more calories of the stuff to achieve the desired effect.
As far as I know, allofmp3 does not have license to distribute its songs in the US. Therefore, selling songs in the US is an act of copyright infringement in the US.
Riddle me this, If what allofmp3 is doing is so legal in the US, why isn't there a US company trying to compete with them for US sales?
Just because part of the crime is committed in another country, where US police cannot go, and which may or may not respect US law, does not mean that it is legal, or that US citizens are not committing US crimes.
That's for a rewritable flash drive.
But if you don't have to rewrite anything, you could presumeably build the data into the chip at fab time somehow. Which I assume would greatly reduce the complexity of the memory. Any ideas? cost?
Neither did the Wendy's one. That was a third party add-on.