Yet a huge number of users simulate "metro" apps by maximizing everything all the time.
At least, a huge number of my co-workers do. The even go so far as to make fun of me for wanting to have two things on the screen at once when I can just alt-tab between them to get the same information....
Can someone please tell me what windows ME did or didn't do that was so different from windows 98 and bad for users? I used Win ME on a laptop in the early 00's and the only differences I remember actually noticing were cosmetic.
You sound like you're really into art, which is at odds with my impression about Pollock's work.
Namely that it's not really for regular people, it's for artists, because it says something to them about the nature of art. Like Cage's 4'33", or that painting that is all black lines and colored boxes.
Which means that I think it is art for artists and as a result probably gets too much press. Blue Poles shouldn't be able to play in the same sandbox as Guernica. They're both big paintings, but as far as I can tell, that's all that the pollock has going for it. Yet the Pollack commanded roughly a million dollars in 1973 (i did have to google that part. I could only remember that some museum organization in australia had once paid an outrageous sum for one of his works...)
More importantly, ST has never been about consistency, or even quality plots. For every socially relevant episode of TOS (spoiler: racism is bad.), there are a dozen episodes of beating up some monster with laser pistols or making up some new weird biological feature for the pointy-ear'd guy to get out of a pickle.
The real problem is that ST is a 900lb Gorilla, sucking the sci-fi dollars of hollywood, resulting in the starvation of all other properties, current or imagined. Star Trek gets a billion dollars, the entire "Sci Fi Channel" has to drop the i's for y's to give us 40 hours a week of low-budget Hell's Kitchen ripoffs.
I'm not so sure.. My recollection is that degradation of practical cells is about 2% per year, but the only article I was able to find in a quick googling was a half percent per year, which is encouraging, but still more than would be necessary to keep it above 98% after 20 years. I'm sure the numbers vary with chemistry and manufacturing process, though.
Woah, hang on there on the daylight calculation. You have to factor in the angle to the sun. At dusk and dawn, your panels will be rotated at glancing incidence to the sun, they won't be presenting very much surface area to be illuminated.
Assuming the produced power scales linearly with received intensity (I'm not willing to bet on this assumption....), if I've done my math correctly, you can only expect the average to be about a factor of 1/pi of the peak. How do your calculations work out if you normalize to a 7 hour 38 minute day of constant illumination?
Also, there is variation month to month, so you need to apply a corrective factor to that as well. Also, clouds and maintenance periods...
Erm.. I believe it was the loan that Romney derided. And he was right to. Tesla didn't need a loan from the government, it already had a guy with deep pockets to kick start it. So, we take all the risk for a paltry return and the guy with the scummy fake bank gets all the benefit.
You realize that aerospace grade could mean that they're chosen for strength to weight ratio, rather than for overall toughness....
The thing about aerospace is that weight matters a lot, so there need to be slimmer safety-factors on the part design. You want consistency and precision more than durability and your material choices reflect that. You make up for it by putting more effort into structural calculations and taking extra care not to get into a situation where you need to stack four cars on your ceiling bolts...
Ceiling fans might put a huge load on your generator, but my experience is that a small room-sized ceiling fan doesn't put a huge load on a battery-backed inverter.
During one 3-week outage, I ran a small inverter off of an 8 amp-hour lead-acid gel cell battery, changing the battery off of my car motor every couple of days because I thought I ought to keep it topped up, not because I needed it that frequently. Ceiling fan + a 3-bulb floor lamp (of 7W fluorescents) and about 30 minutes of a 16" CRT TV every night didn't seem to put too much of a dent.
The fan was really loud, though, which I attribute to the crappy 2-bit approximation to a sine wave (almost literally 2-bit, btw, it had high, mid, zero, -mid, -high voltage points...) interacting with the fan's pretty much entirely inductive load.
I'm surprised about the UPS issue. I'd think that if you're running an "inverter" generator that you should have relatively clean 12V DC somewhere in the generator's stack, and should be able to connect that directly to a 12V input on the UPS...
I don't know how things are in south florida, but in central florida it's pretty possible to go a week or three on cold-showers and no AC after a mid-summer hurricane. The most efficient option is to train yourself to have a wider temperature tolerance.
Country is USA. The attitude seems to be, if it takes even a second more or costs even a dollar more, we don't want it. It's like we've all decided we're too busy to be smart or careful about things.
And I'm talking about the customers, not just the banks. The banks sometimes put in the security features, but they don't stick with any one system for long enough for the infrastructure to roll out anywhere...
I had a credit card with a chip in it in 1999, I think, but the only place that would use the chip was a device I could buy to attach it to my computer so that I could use it for transactions on all zero websites that supported it.
We all wish to age gracefully, die in our sleep peacefully, and while I agree arbitrarily committing suicide on your 60th birthday is nuts... committing suicide when the circumstances of your final days are rapidly becoming apparent is pretty rational in my books.
No we don't, that's a compromise wish. Many of us wish to age just enough to reach our prime, and die never, with no health problems, along with everyone we ever love or meet.
I think far fewer in the age gracefully column than claim it. Just look at the extraordinary measures people will go through just for a chance for a few more minutes, even after a lifetime of declaring against the idea.
Maybe they wanted to associate the practice with pre-existing uses of the phrase, "market manipulation," some of which are crimes to manipulate perceptions....
Surely the concept of banking is something that people will always need or want, even if the vast majority of banks provide that service corruptly... The alternative is what.. keep a hoard of fungible assets on hand and guard it yourself?
Are there figures on passenger rail energy cost available?
I know freight does a lot better than aircraft, but buses and commuter rail tend to have a lot of starts and stops, can't get away with keeping the speed below 50mph or mile-long trains, and often are far from full, and there's not much you can do about the over-capacity - you must run at low-volume times or people won't have confidence they'll be able to make the return trip (or won't be able to make the original trip...) using the mass transit service.
Similarly, high speed rail, even on express trains, must have a lot of acceleration due to sharing the track with other, possibly slower, trains and also due to the design of some sections of track.
I'd like to see some numbers before declaring the aircraft hopelessly inefficient.
Government says, "everyone gets $500 free to spend on college tuition." to encourage more people to go to collage (increase demand) Colleges respond by building more classrooms (but this takes time...) and by raising the price to market clearing levels for the spots they do have.
Since the price keeps going up faster than inflation and the government's response to the rising price is to try to make more money available (whether through direct subsidies, co-signing, or passing laws that prevent default to try and get banks charge lower interest rates), the price is going to continue to rise faster than inflation.
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Yet a huge number of users simulate "metro" apps by maximizing everything all the time.
At least, a huge number of my co-workers do. The even go so far as to make fun of me for wanting to have two things on the screen at once when I can just alt-tab between them to get the same information....
Can someone please tell me what windows ME did or didn't do that was so different from windows 98 and bad for users? I used Win ME on a laptop in the early 00's and the only differences I remember actually noticing were cosmetic.
You sound like you're really into art, which is at odds with my impression about Pollock's work.
Namely that it's not really for regular people, it's for artists, because it says something to them about the nature of art. Like Cage's 4'33", or that painting that is all black lines and colored boxes.
Which means that I think it is art for artists and as a result probably gets too much press. Blue Poles shouldn't be able to play in the same sandbox as Guernica. They're both big paintings, but as far as I can tell, that's all that the pollock has going for it. Yet the Pollack commanded roughly a million dollars in 1973 (i did have to google that part. I could only remember that some museum organization in australia had once paid an outrageous sum for one of his works...)
Who cares, indeed.
More importantly, ST has never been about consistency, or even quality plots. For every socially relevant episode of TOS (spoiler: racism is bad.), there are a dozen episodes of beating up some monster with laser pistols or making up some new weird biological feature for the pointy-ear'd guy to get out of a pickle.
The real problem is that ST is a 900lb Gorilla, sucking the sci-fi dollars of hollywood, resulting in the starvation of all other properties, current or imagined. Star Trek gets a billion dollars, the entire "Sci Fi Channel" has to drop the i's for y's to give us 40 hours a week of low-budget Hell's Kitchen ripoffs.
I'm not so sure.. My recollection is that degradation of practical cells is about 2% per year, but the only article I was able to find in a quick googling was a half percent per year, which is encouraging, but still more than would be necessary to keep it above 98% after 20 years. I'm sure the numbers vary with chemistry and manufacturing process, though.
Hmm. Maybe this will be next...
Also assuming that the atmosphere itself has constant transparency regardless of the path length.....
Woah, hang on there on the daylight calculation. You have to factor in the angle to the sun. At dusk and dawn, your panels will be rotated at glancing incidence to the sun, they won't be presenting very much surface area to be illuminated.
Assuming the produced power scales linearly with received intensity (I'm not willing to bet on this assumption....), if I've done my math correctly, you can only expect the average to be about a factor of 1/pi of the peak. How do your calculations work out if you normalize to a 7 hour 38 minute day of constant illumination?
Also, there is variation month to month, so you need to apply a corrective factor to that as well. Also, clouds and maintenance periods...
When do the patents expire on your project?
Guaranteed full power, or guaranteed to be better than 50% of the starting power?
Does the car have to be a viable transportation option, or can I just submit a block of steel foam?
Erm.. I believe it was the loan that Romney derided. And he was right to. Tesla didn't need a loan from the government, it already had a guy with deep pockets to kick start it. So, we take all the risk for a paltry return and the guy with the scummy fake bank gets all the benefit.
You realize that aerospace grade could mean that they're chosen for strength to weight ratio, rather than for overall toughness....
The thing about aerospace is that weight matters a lot, so there need to be slimmer safety-factors on the part design. You want consistency and precision more than durability and your material choices reflect that. You make up for it by putting more effort into structural calculations and taking extra care not to get into a situation where you need to stack four cars on your ceiling bolts...
I like that they don't show the average next car price. Most people aren't buying new cars....
It doesn't look like it. Unless the accord was gold plated and jewel encrusted?
Wait.. someone intentionally created GM weeds?!?
Ceiling fans might put a huge load on your generator, but my experience is that a small room-sized ceiling fan doesn't put a huge load on a battery-backed inverter.
During one 3-week outage, I ran a small inverter off of an 8 amp-hour lead-acid gel cell battery, changing the battery off of my car motor every couple of days because I thought I ought to keep it topped up, not because I needed it that frequently. Ceiling fan + a 3-bulb floor lamp (of 7W fluorescents) and about 30 minutes of a 16" CRT TV every night didn't seem to put too much of a dent.
The fan was really loud, though, which I attribute to the crappy 2-bit approximation to a sine wave (almost literally 2-bit, btw, it had high, mid, zero, -mid, -high voltage points...) interacting with the fan's pretty much entirely inductive load.
I'm surprised about the UPS issue. I'd think that if you're running an "inverter" generator that you should have relatively clean 12V DC somewhere in the generator's stack, and should be able to connect that directly to a 12V input on the UPS...
I don't know how things are in south florida, but in central florida it's pretty possible to go a week or three on cold-showers and no AC after a mid-summer hurricane. The most efficient option is to train yourself to have a wider temperature tolerance.
No coffee, on the other hand....
Country is USA. The attitude seems to be, if it takes even a second more or costs even a dollar more, we don't want it. It's like we've all decided we're too busy to be smart or careful about things.
And I'm talking about the customers, not just the banks. The banks sometimes put in the security features, but they don't stick with any one system for long enough for the infrastructure to roll out anywhere...
I had a credit card with a chip in it in 1999, I think, but the only place that would use the chip was a device I could buy to attach it to my computer so that I could use it for transactions on all zero websites that supported it.
They have a right to say nothing. They can even state the truth in a self-serving way. But if they lie, they are committing perjury.
We all wish to age gracefully, die in our sleep peacefully, and while I agree arbitrarily committing suicide on your 60th birthday is nuts... committing suicide when the circumstances of your final days are rapidly becoming apparent is pretty rational in my books.
No we don't, that's a compromise wish. Many of us wish to age just enough to reach our prime, and die never, with no health problems, along with everyone we ever love or meet.
Others have decided that since that's pretty unlikely to be attainable, they'll pretend there's virtue in "aging gracefully" or "dying with dignity" or some other malarkey about some number of years being enough for anybody. That just because you can't have something, it's somehow virtuous not to want it.
I think far fewer in the age gracefully column than claim it. Just look at the extraordinary measures people will go through just for a chance for a few more minutes, even after a lifetime of declaring against the idea.
Maybe they wanted to associate the practice with pre-existing uses of the phrase, "market manipulation," some of which are crimes to manipulate perceptions....
All banks?
Surely the concept of banking is something that people will always need or want, even if the vast majority of banks provide that service corruptly... The alternative is what.. keep a hoard of fungible assets on hand and guard it yourself?
Are there figures on passenger rail energy cost available?
I know freight does a lot better than aircraft, but buses and commuter rail tend to have a lot of starts and stops, can't get away with keeping the speed below 50mph or mile-long trains, and often are far from full, and there's not much you can do about the over-capacity - you must run at low-volume times or people won't have confidence they'll be able to make the return trip (or won't be able to make the original trip...) using the mass transit service.
Similarly, high speed rail, even on express trains, must have a lot of acceleration due to sharing the track with other, possibly slower, trains and also due to the design of some sections of track.
I'd like to see some numbers before declaring the aircraft hopelessly inefficient.
There's feedback between 1 and 2.
Government says, "everyone gets $500 free to spend on college tuition." to encourage more people to go to collage (increase demand) Colleges respond by building more classrooms (but this takes time...) and by raising the price to market clearing levels for the spots they do have.
Since the price keeps going up faster than inflation and the government's response to the rising price is to try to make more money available (whether through direct subsidies, co-signing, or passing laws that prevent default to try and get banks charge lower interest rates), the price is going to continue to rise faster than inflation.
Right, just like when we shut down the FBI over the same thing....