Over my entire lifetime people have always been told to order their packages at least a week before Christmas if not longer. If after 40 years your retailer suddenly says you can order two days before and everything will be just fine, your e-tailer might be full of shit.
And they will (currently) laugh and tell you to get a decent storage array for less then you pay per month now. You're doing them a favor dumping it in to a load resistor (though you are going to have a serious heat problem about 3pm), they don't have to redesign the return power transfer networks.
Um, I'm glad you neglected the other reasons prices went up such as an ongoing drought and a growing southwestern population that has uses far more then the small amount offset by your reduced usage. But hey, go live in the middle of a fucking desert then bitch about water prices and see if I give a damn.
>. I do not believe that EVERYONE should be made to pay for one customer in order to supply power to a very remote location that they decided to move to.
The thing is, when you extend the network out there you enable more users to move to that area. Over the long term the entire economy grows and the power company earns its money back.
Yes. Grid synchronization with thousands of inputs is not a solved problem, there are many papers on just this subject on Google if you care to search. Your baseline power on the current grid is the clock source, it tells the smaller generating units what time 'hertz/phase' it should be running at. On a conventional grid this is a handful of stations, maybe even up to a few hundred. On a distributed grid you could have tens or even hundreds of thousands of generation units, keep this many units synced and not created perturbations in the network is a huge problem.
>To "dump" electricity, you simply don't use it. You physically segregate the grid from the supply, usually with a switch.
You have no clue what you are talking about.
In huge generators you have a mass that is being spun at high speeds. You just don't flip the off switch unless you want it to turn to molten metal, the electricity flowing off keeps that from happening. Even in solar DC to AC you have the DC load you have to do something with, though most home installations are small enough it's easy to sink.
TL:DR, you have no idea about the grid. Stop making proclamations about what the utilities are or are not doing.
Go back and study the last big U.S. East Coast outage. This is a huge issue. Instead of twenty or thirty sources to synchronize there will be many thousands. It is not a solved problem and is an area of active research.
And the rest of the customers are going to freak out when they see the cost of this new 2 way power system. The problem with solar is it screws everyone that doesn't have solar big time.
Yes, it has to be fresh. Sea water is at sea level, which does not do any good for generating power. This is a good thing. Sea water kills plants and animals when it displaces fresh water Sea water is also much harder on equipment due to corrosion. Trying to build a contained sea water storage unit would cost a stupid amount of money due to lack of land, depth of water off the coast, and soil/rock types.
Flordia, moderate amounts of sun, lots of water, no mountains. West Texas, Nevada, Arizona, mountains in places, maybe water in other places, maybe not.
I think his point still stands, the key is having all of them close together.
> they just want to run XP forever because it works fine as a program launcher for Outlook 2003 and IE6, and screw the world if their machines get pwned for a botnet.
Yes, these are the people that are going to create security problems for everyone else. Oh, you want to disable old SSL/TLS versions because they are now somewhat hackable, sorry, the dinosaurs can't get their email any longer.
> So how old do you think the drivers are going to be for a dentist's X-ray machine? That depends on who made it. I recently was able to get a firmware update for a digital x-ray scanner that only ran on XP, it now runs fine on 7. At the time the machine was seven years old.
Chances are you could hire someone to write a new serial driver interface for the device pretty affordably, I guess it depends on how badly the driver was originally written.
The only problem I have with people like you (and not you specifically) is you think your measures are very smart, until you have a targeted attack occur and all your measures fall apart quickly.
All 3 need dealt with. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.
I'd say you're partially incorrect. Commercial vehicles fall under different DOT regulations then cars. DPS isn't going to pull over your car and pull out weights and measures.
I'd say your correct. A hacker only has to find a crack. Microsoft, on the other hand, has to make a working commercially successful operating system with a large amount of backwards compatibility.
I could go on, the problem is, from what you've wrote, you are incompetent admin. I run hundreds of linux and windows VMs on Xenserver and the only time I reboot them is for security updates. If your Windows VMs need rebooted more often that sounds like a problem with the admin, not the operating system.
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"Pulls in to service station": Can you check the air filter, change the oil, and switch out the cathodic protection?
>They can't haul stuff around because the big empty bed might get scratched.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_bedliner
>I love it when people try to justify pickup trucks. Family, really?
Yes, add up all the family that doesn't have a truck (not just immediate family) and you can end up needed a truck quite often.
Strange strawman argument.
Over my entire lifetime people have always been told to order their packages at least a week before Christmas if not longer. If after 40 years your retailer suddenly says you can order two days before and everything will be just fine, your e-tailer might be full of shit.
>or even a storage array.
And they will (currently) laugh and tell you to get a decent storage array for less then you pay per month now. You're doing them a favor dumping it in to a load resistor (though you are going to have a serious heat problem about 3pm), they don't have to redesign the return power transfer networks.
Um, I'm glad you neglected the other reasons prices went up such as an ongoing drought and a growing southwestern population that has uses far more then the small amount offset by your reduced usage. But hey, go live in the middle of a fucking desert then bitch about water prices and see if I give a damn.
>. I do not believe that EVERYONE should be made to pay for one customer in order to supply power to a very remote location that they decided to move to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act
The thing is, when you extend the network out there you enable more users to move to that area. Over the long term the entire economy grows and the power company earns its money back.
Yes. Grid synchronization with thousands of inputs is not a solved problem, there are many papers on just this subject on Google if you care to search. Your baseline power on the current grid is the clock source, it tells the smaller generating units what time 'hertz/phase' it should be running at. On a conventional grid this is a handful of stations, maybe even up to a few hundred. On a distributed grid you could have tens or even hundreds of thousands of generation units, keep this many units synced and not created perturbations in the network is a huge problem.
>Spain and Germany being exceptions and they're grids haven't collapsed,
There prices have skyrocketed, so much to the point the politicians are worried about riots.
> I doubt there are many national grids in the world where carbon fueled baseload is throttled
Which is a problem for the producers because of the very long payoff times on baseload power plants.
> so solar is helping you with cheaper and more reliable power
No it is not. Everyone without solar will see a more costly bill.
>To "dump" electricity, you simply don't use it. You physically segregate the grid from the supply, usually with a switch.
You have no clue what you are talking about.
In huge generators you have a mass that is being spun at high speeds. You just don't flip the off switch unless you want it to turn to molten metal, the electricity flowing off keeps that from happening. Even in solar DC to AC you have the DC load you have to do something with, though most home installations are small enough it's easy to sink.
TL:DR, you have no idea about the grid. Stop making proclamations about what the utilities are or are not doing.
Go back and study the last big U.S. East Coast outage. This is a huge issue. Instead of twenty or thirty sources to synchronize there will be many thousands. It is not a solved problem and is an area of active research.
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-power-grid-synchronization-enable-smart.html
http://scitechdaily.com/synchronization-in-a-decentralized-power-grid/
And the rest of the customers are going to freak out when they see the cost of this new 2 way power system. The problem with solar is it screws everyone that doesn't have solar big time.
Yes, it has to be fresh. Sea water is at sea level, which does not do any good for generating power. This is a good thing. Sea water kills plants and animals when it displaces fresh water Sea water is also much harder on equipment due to corrosion. Trying to build a contained sea water storage unit would cost a stupid amount of money due to lack of land, depth of water off the coast, and soil/rock types.
Flordia, moderate amounts of sun, lots of water, no mountains.
West Texas, Nevada, Arizona, mountains in places, maybe water in other places, maybe not.
I think his point still stands, the key is having all of them close together.
In crypto you don't have prove back doors exist, you show the algo is not fit for purpose. The NIST standards were not fit for purpose.
http://safecurves.cr.yp.to/
The division that accepted the $10m was only grossing around $30m at the time.
> they just want to run XP forever because it works fine as a program launcher for Outlook 2003 and IE6, and screw the world if their machines get pwned for a botnet.
Yes, these are the people that are going to create security problems for everyone else. Oh, you want to disable old SSL/TLS versions because they are now somewhat hackable, sorry, the dinosaurs can't get their email any longer.
> So how old do you think the drivers are going to be for a dentist's X-ray machine?
That depends on who made it. I recently was able to get a firmware update for a digital x-ray scanner that only ran on XP, it now runs fine on 7. At the time the machine was seven years old.
Chances are you could hire someone to write a new serial driver interface for the device pretty affordably, I guess it depends on how badly the driver was originally written.
The only problem I have with people like you (and not you specifically) is you think your measures are very smart, until you have a targeted attack occur and all your measures fall apart quickly.
All 3 need dealt with. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.
I'd say you're partially incorrect. Commercial vehicles fall under different DOT regulations then cars. DPS isn't going to pull over your car and pull out weights and measures.
I'd say your correct. A hacker only has to find a crack. Microsoft, on the other hand, has to make a working commercially successful operating system with a large amount of backwards compatibility.
Depends on the size of the network.
ROUTE ADD 192.168.0.0/16 MASK 255.255.0.0 GW 192.168.0.1
on that machine would give you access to your local subnets via your router (of course you have to put in the proper subnets).
>We upgraded our DSL router to the new whizzybang UVerse DSL router
That thing is a steaming peace of shit.
>at least the networking was rational.
Christ, you have no idea what you are talking about.
>2. It's a lot slower and a massive memory hog
Slower, no. Massive memory hog, Yes if you use the 64 bit edition, which is true for EVERY 64 bit OS, not just Windows.
3. Interfaces. Could be very easily turned off, what are you bitching about?
4. UAC. That could be very easily turned off, what are you bitching about?
TRIM/SSD support
ASLR
TLS1.1/1.2
Memory support over 3GB (64-bit versions)
Pretty much any security at all.
I could go on, the problem is, from what you've wrote, you are incompetent admin. I run hundreds of linux and windows VMs on Xenserver and the only time I reboot them is for security updates. If your Windows VMs need rebooted more often that sounds like a problem with the admin, not the operating system.
>- Faster: I think they are exactly the same "speed", however you wish to measure.
What you think and what benchmarks and usability shows, especially with a few apps using a lot of memory show are completely different things.
>I do have a license for SolidWorks 2011 32 bit, which just won't run under Windows 7 64 bit.
And you didn't call their support? Because that should surely work.
>- Easier to use: WinXP is easier to use than Windows 7.
"Citation needed". As a support tech Windows 7 is much easier to manage these days.