As a friend related-- his work put a sign "Do not put any chemicals in the sink". Water is a chemical. Lots of things are chemicals. They really meant "petrochemical" or something more specific.
The problem with substitutes is that the companies iterate. The first substitute costs $9.00 per case and tastes 99 percent the same. A year later to lower costs, they go to $5.00 a case flavoring that tastes 90% the same. After a decade, what they are using really doesn't taste the same at all. It's like coke or dr. pepper with sugar vs coke/DP with high fructose corn syrup. Drink them side by side and it's just not the same.
I recently found a source for raw, non-homogenized milk, raw cream and butter. What they sell as "milk" the in the supermarket just doesn't taste the same. I was afraid i wouldn't like the raw stuff but I was amazed how good it was. Some friends tried it and developed cravings for it (which to me- means it has some nutrients they need lacking in pasteurized, homogenized milk.) It does separate and I do have to shake it before pouring it out but man it tastes so good. It smells a bit like babies. I think it is closer to mother's milk because of this.
Food producers modify their products to match what they are graded on. They are currently graded on shelf life and shippability. So you end up with tomatoes with no nutrients and up to 75% fiber which are a long way from real tomatoes that run 20% fiber (but bruise and don't ship well and go bad in a couple weeks-- but who wants a piece of red cardboard that doesn't go bad for 3 months?)
Key quotes A 75watt panel produces 4.4amps per hour (36 amp hours per day) under optimal conditions.
The next logical question is "what does this represent"? a) 36 amps/day can recharge your exhausted RV battery between weekends (in 3 days). b) 36 amps/day can run the Cassette/CD Player for 14 hours or a 9" AC/DC color TV for 10 hours. c) 36 amps/day can run your furnace blower for six straight hours or your bathroom fan for 24 hours. d) 36 amps is equivalent to 45% of an RV batteries usable capacity.
An 85 watt panel costs $647.00 US.
AC Power usage for these are (From here:http://www.evsolar.com/power.html) CD player 35w TV: 12" B&W 20w Laptop 20-50w Frig (20 cf.) 150w
Air Conditioning The Energy Efficiency Rating (EER) of an air conditioner is its BTU rating over its wattage. For example, if a 10,000-BTU air conditioner consumes 1,200 watts, its EER is 8.3 (10,000 BTU/1,200 watts).
Typical "one room" AC units run 1100w.
So.. doing some counting on my fingers and toes.
1100/35 = 32.
You need 32 75w panels or 28 85w panels to run a room AC unit for 14 hours a day. (ignoring the need for surge power at startup which means batteries). Each 85w panel is 8sq feet (http://store.altenergystore.com) so 225 square feet to run one window unit. That's about $18,000 for the panels ignoring installation, inverters, batteries, etc. assuming they will give you a break if you order that many.
For central air, multiplying the tons of cooling by 12,000 converts it to BTU/h. (BTU * EER = watts). It looks like a typical central unit runs about 2400 watts to 3000 watts. So a bit over half your roof goes to support the central air conditioning (I'm beginning to wonder about the "mirror roof" post as an alternative-- I also wonder about a solar roof raised 2' above your real roof?) Anyway- this would be about $35,000 solar system just to support the AC during the day (on the plus side, you could crank the house as cold as you wanted it during the day).
Compared to your AC, everything else is cheap but does add up. The big issue I see is surge. The house may exceed your solar capabilities for short periods of time.
I need to save this.
----
I've wondered about a side system personally. Not grid tied- but you run a window unit and by running it, you lower your central air costs. The solar company gave me a quote of $16,000 for the smaller 700w units so that fits roughly.
---- IF the panels drop by a factor of 10, everything changes. $35,000 to save $1,200 a year becomes $3,500 to save $1,200 a year. However, I assume if solar got that cheap, the big power companies would use more of it and power might stop inflating so fast.
The panels produce DC, not AC and I remember discovering it took several to make AC power at the correct amperage. The details are a bit fuzzy right now and i don't have time to redo the research.
In answer to your question, I'm picturing that you park your car at work and it charges there. You might have panels in the car or have some kind of solar unit built into the roof. It would be a trickle charge but over 8 hours the power generated would be substantial. Perhaps enough to get a few miles gas- free.
Every time I look at the economics of solar in detail, it doesn't work yet. When you look at the cost of inverters, the solar cells (ignoring batteries), you are better off putting the money in the bank and using the interest to pay for your electric bill ($2500 a year roughly-- $1800 after taxes). Then when solar gets cheap in another five years, you go that way.
The one appealing thing about installing solar now is that electric power has tripled since the 1980's. So, once you buy a system at a fixed price you lock in your monthly power bill while it goes up for everyone else. It is like buying a house- my mortgage & tax payment is still $700 while my daughter's rent for a much smaller apartment is $1100. $4800 a year covers a lot of home repairs. Likewise, a solar system at costing $200 a month that produces $200 a month of power today will produce $600 a month of power in 20 years. All this depends on no lightning strikes, theft, etc. of course.
I am really interested in the nano tech's. They have the promise of reducing solar costs by 90%. When they do that, everything changes. Even oil doesn't make economic sense vs electric cars if power is that cheap.
I also have had hotmail forever (it was my primary account until it got poisoned after I used priceline.com (Huge increase in spam- from 10 a day to hundreds a day).
I've never lost an attachment. I have occasionally (not consistent) lost jpg's from incoming Yahoo mails.
These days i use my hotmail for anything likely to generate spam or who I do not trust. And I have whitelisted it.
The spam coming in is lower these days- I usually have 50 pieces a day vs the ridiculous peak back in 2003'ish.
Wow- so you are saying they can freeze my assets, secretly, without court review, for the rest of my life, as long as they maintain the ruse that I might get them back someday.
Sharepoint is good for businesses. I use it at work (suffer so far- but I taught myself project so I can teach myself Sharepoint).
No home user needs it.
I agree with you that Microsoft's product is pretty solid and they are willing to discount it significantly to try to hold on to market share. However, its days as a cash cow may be ending. Microsoft has been bleeding a lot of cash lately and its products are not selling as quickly as they used to.
I use OO and Word equally now at home. Once I leave "Everquest" behind, I will be leaving windows behind.
The main reasons are their current DRM ("your computer is not your own any more") and "software as cable subscription" plans.
This case, given an ex-microsoft CIO kinda stinks. Microsoft can be a significant drain on a company's profits. Some (many? most?) companies do not need Sharepoint, Project, Outlook, etc. Given a viable free software stack, they can do business (and stay in business) a lot easier than if they were using microsoft.
It's no knock on microsoft-- most businesses do not need an AS/400 either.
1 is not entirely true.
1a I use OpenOffice to open and rewrite Word documents that Word crashes reading.
1b I use OpenOffice to open older Word Documents and resave them as modern Word documents (better than Word opens them directly).
The rest is mostly true. Sharepoint is a bloody pain that I'm still trying to integrate into my workflow. I see the value- but mixed with security policies, the results are messy.
No need to sniff. Right up front it says Microsoft gave them 500 free home licenses.
If Microsoft word is $50 per seat (as it is for a lot of big corporations), then it is a superior product.
I use OpenOffice and it is just not there yet.
However, when you compare OpenOffice for free to Word at the full retail price of $300+ (I think I've seen it up to $550) then Openoffice is compelling.
It is different and there are some training issues. It is not very buggy any more however. I use Openoffice to open and fix word files that Word can't read ( bad section headers most likely ).
I don't agree your post is a troll but we all know Slashdot modding sucks on the downmods (up-mods are usually accurate so far).
You are conflating the original joke: (http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/5aa 9/) There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
With the mathematician joke: There are three kinds of mathematicians: those who can count and those who can't.
Also: There are two groups of people in the world; those who believe that the world can be divided into two groups of people, and those who don't.
There are two groups of people in the world: Those who can be categorized into one of two groups of people, and those who can't.
Top ten reasons why e is inferior to pi
10) e is less challenging to spell than pi. 9) e ~=2.718281828459045, which can be easily memorized to its billionth place, whereas pi needs "skills" to be memorized. 8) The character for e is so cheap that it can be found on a keyboard. But is special (it's under "special symbols" in word processor programs.) 7) Pi is the bigger piece of pie. 6) e has an easy limit definition and infinite series. The limit definition of pi and the infinite series are much harder. 5) e you understand what it is even though you start learning it late when you're in pre-calculus. But pi, even after five or six years it's still hard to know what it really is. 4) People mistakenly confuse Euler's Number (e) with Euler's Constant (gamma). There is no confusion with the one and only pi. 3) e is named after a person, but pi stands for itself. 2) Pi is much shorter and easier to say than "Euler's Number". 1) To read pi, you don't have to know that Euler's name is really pronounced Oiler.
Standards do not include statements like "Render the text like an arcane program you do not have the source code to does." Many OOXML standards are impossible to create.
The fact that it was certified as ISO says more about corruption of the process than quality of the standard.
You bring up an interesting point. However, even linux will someday be public domain.
At that point it should not matter what GPL terms they put on it originally. Anyone (including evil corporate types) will be able to use it for anything they want (including private use and selling the resulting products for a profit).
We are talking about the long tail of copyright- not the first 14 year period.
The "left" and "right" are both really owned by corporations.
Exception might be Ron Paul who is unelectable.
The DOJ case was in part the people with government power (call it the Giaa) telling microsoft "You want to do bidness, you gotta pay us protection money in campaign donations." Microsoft heard them and now make substantial "donations" to both parties.
Well think about what's probably happening. 1920x1080 is probably just ignoring 120 pixels and has a 1:1 ratio. 1280x720 is probably converting 2 pixels to 3 pixels in both directions.
So for 1280x720 output on a 1920x1080 screen, four pixels x1,y1 x2,y2
becomes (roughly) nine pixels x1,(x1+y1)/2, y1 (x1+x2)/2,(x1+y1)/2+(x2+y2)/2, y1+y2/2 x2,(x2+y2)/2, y2
with all the fractional pixels just looking kinda crappy.
If you were on a 1280x720 screen, it would look super sharp and the 1920x1080 would likely look kinda crappy.
1080 vertical pixels on a 24" screen from 3' is pretty close if not beyond the resolving power of the human eye.
So do you have one of those nice gateway monitors? I'm still on a 22" (and love it) at 1680x1050 since they were only $199 (vs $650ish).
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As a project manager, I know for a fact our h1b's have 2/3 the burn rate of us employees.
Possibly they get they same salary but less benefits.
As a friend related-- his work put a sign "Do not put any chemicals in the sink". Water is a chemical. Lots of things are chemicals. They really meant "petrochemical" or something more specific.
The problem with substitutes is that the companies iterate. The first substitute costs $9.00 per case and tastes 99 percent the same. A year later to lower costs, they go to $5.00 a case flavoring that tastes 90% the same. After a decade, what they are using really doesn't taste the same at all. It's like coke or dr. pepper with sugar vs coke/DP with high fructose corn syrup. Drink them side by side and it's just not the same.
I recently found a source for raw, non-homogenized milk, raw cream and butter. What they sell as "milk" the in the supermarket just doesn't taste the same. I was afraid i wouldn't like the raw stuff but I was amazed how good it was. Some friends tried it and developed cravings for it (which to me- means it has some nutrients they need lacking in pasteurized, homogenized milk.) It does separate and I do have to shake it before pouring it out but man it tastes so good. It smells a bit like babies. I think it is closer to mother's milk because of this.
Food producers modify their products to match what they are graded on. They are currently graded on shelf life and shippability. So you end up with tomatoes with no nutrients and up to 75% fiber which are a long way from real tomatoes that run 20% fiber (but bruise and don't ship well and go bad in a couple weeks-- but who wants a piece of red cardboard that doesn't go bad for 3 months?)
Google spent oodles of boodle hiring the entire kit and caboodle while the managers went feudal.
If they think congress will buy both stories, they lost their noodles!
Okay... found some useful information here:o lar.asp
http://www.rearviewcamera.net/cartersolar/carters
Key quotes
A 75watt panel produces 4.4amps per hour (36 amp hours per day) under optimal conditions.
The next logical question is "what does this represent"?
a) 36 amps/day can recharge your exhausted RV battery between weekends (in 3 days).
b) 36 amps/day can run the Cassette/CD Player for 14 hours or a 9" AC/DC color TV for 10 hours.
c) 36 amps/day can run your furnace blower for six straight hours or your bathroom fan for 24 hours.
d) 36 amps is equivalent to 45% of an RV batteries usable capacity.
An 85 watt panel costs $647.00 US.
AC Power usage for these are (From here:http://www.evsolar.com/power.html)
CD player 35w
TV: 12" B&W 20w
Laptop 20-50w
Frig (20 cf.) 150w
Air Conditioning
The Energy Efficiency Rating (EER) of an air conditioner is its BTU rating over its wattage. For example, if a 10,000-BTU air conditioner consumes 1,200 watts, its EER is 8.3 (10,000 BTU/1,200 watts).
Typical "one room" AC units run 1100w.
So.. doing some counting on my fingers and toes.
1100/35 = 32.
You need 32 75w panels or 28 85w panels to run a room AC unit for 14 hours a day. (ignoring the need for surge power at startup which means batteries). Each 85w panel is 8sq feet (http://store.altenergystore.com) so 225 square feet to run one window unit. That's about $18,000 for the panels ignoring installation, inverters, batteries, etc. assuming they will give you a break if you order that many.
For central air, multiplying the tons of cooling by 12,000 converts it to BTU/h. (BTU * EER = watts). It looks like a typical central unit runs about 2400 watts to 3000 watts. So a bit over half your roof goes to support the central air conditioning (I'm beginning to wonder about the "mirror roof" post as an alternative-- I also wonder about a solar roof raised 2' above your real roof?) Anyway- this would be about $35,000 solar system just to support the AC during the day (on the plus side, you could crank the house as cold as you wanted it during the day).
Compared to your AC, everything else is cheap but does add up. The big issue I see is surge. The house may exceed your solar capabilities for short periods of time.
I need to save this.
----
I've wondered about a side system personally. Not grid tied- but you run a window unit and by running it, you lower your central air costs. The solar company gave me a quote of $16,000 for the smaller 700w units so that fits roughly.
----
IF the panels drop by a factor of 10, everything changes. $35,000 to save $1,200 a year becomes $3,500 to save $1,200 a year. However, I assume if solar got that cheap, the big power companies would use more of it and power might stop inflating so fast.
The panels produce DC, not AC and I remember discovering it took several to make AC power at the correct amperage. The details are a bit fuzzy right now and i don't have time to redo the research.
In answer to your question, I'm picturing that you park your car at work and it charges there. You might have panels in the car or have some kind of solar unit built into the roof. It would be a trickle charge but over 8 hours the power generated would be substantial. Perhaps enough to get a few miles gas- free.
Every time I look at the economics of solar in detail, it doesn't work yet. When you look at the cost of inverters, the solar cells (ignoring batteries), you are better off putting the money in the bank and using the interest to pay for your electric bill ($2500 a year roughly-- $1800 after taxes). Then when solar gets cheap in another five years, you go that way.
The one appealing thing about installing solar now is that electric power has tripled since the 1980's. So, once you buy a system at a fixed price you lock in your monthly power bill while it goes up for everyone else. It is like buying a house- my mortgage & tax payment is still $700 while my daughter's rent for a much smaller apartment is $1100. $4800 a year covers a lot of home repairs. Likewise, a solar system at costing $200 a month that produces $200 a month of power today will produce $600 a month of power in 20 years. All this depends on no lightning strikes, theft, etc. of course.
I am really interested in the nano tech's. They have the promise of reducing solar costs by 90%. When they do that, everything changes. Even oil doesn't make economic sense vs electric cars if power is that cheap.
I also have had hotmail forever (it was my primary account until it got poisoned after I used priceline.com (Huge increase in spam- from 10 a day to hundreds a day).
I've never lost an attachment. I have occasionally (not consistent) lost jpg's from incoming Yahoo mails.
These days i use my hotmail for anything likely to generate spam or who I do not trust. And I have whitelisted it.
The spam coming in is lower these days- I usually have 50 pieces a day vs the ridiculous peak back in 2003'ish.
And you figure... 4 hours of parking til lunch, 4 more hours of parking until you leave work.
That's a fair amount of time to generate power to store.
The main issues might be
* theft
* hail & storm damage
We have pluggable hybrid conversions now. It seems like you could charge those with solar as well as you can charge them with solar.
A 100 watt (dc) panel takes about 2'x4'. I think it takes several of those to make 100 watts at 20amps tho.
You can do a pretty good job with a 15'x30' (450 sq') area of solar cells.
An average house has about 2000 sq' (perhaps 1k sq' facing south).
So they would need to be at least about 50% as efficient as the current cells.
The big factor is cost. If we can get them down to 5k instead of 50k for enough cells for a typical house, it changes everything.
Wow- so you are saying they can freeze my assets, secretly, without court review, for the rest of my life, as long as they maintain the ruse that I might get them back someday.
Well, you can consider other words where S sounds like Z.
For "hose" which is frequently mispronounced "Ho's" but is apparently pronounced "Who's".
Hmmm. Or not.
Hose
Nose - When at the landfill, no nose is good news.
Lose
English makes no sense.
I'm oppoosed to loose myself but I recall that Mark Twain "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
My preference iz that wee wud fix speling to match sound and reemoove al ov the excepshions.
The start of civil liberties.
Sharepoint is good for businesses. I use it at work (suffer so far- but I taught myself project so I can teach myself Sharepoint).
No home user needs it.
I agree with you that Microsoft's product is pretty solid and they are willing to discount it significantly to try to hold on to market share. However, its days as a cash cow may be ending. Microsoft has been bleeding a lot of cash lately and its products are not selling as quickly as they used to.
I use OO and Word equally now at home. Once I leave "Everquest" behind, I will be leaving windows behind.
The main reasons are their current DRM ("your computer is not your own any more") and "software as cable subscription" plans.
This case, given an ex-microsoft CIO kinda stinks. Microsoft can be a significant drain on a company's profits. Some (many? most?) companies do not need Sharepoint, Project, Outlook, etc. Given a viable free software stack, they can do business (and stay in business) a lot easier than if they were using microsoft.
It's no knock on microsoft-- most businesses do not need an AS/400 either.
1 is not entirely true.
1a I use OpenOffice to open and rewrite Word documents that Word crashes reading.
1b I use OpenOffice to open older Word Documents and resave them as modern Word documents (better than Word opens them directly).
The rest is mostly true. Sharepoint is a bloody pain that I'm still trying to integrate into my workflow. I see the value- but mixed with security policies, the results are messy.
No need to sniff. Right up front it says Microsoft gave them 500 free home licenses.
If Microsoft word is $50 per seat (as it is for a lot of big corporations), then it is a superior product.
I use OpenOffice and it is just not there yet.
However, when you compare OpenOffice for free to Word at the full retail price of $300+ (I think I've seen it up to $550) then Openoffice is compelling.
It is different and there are some training issues. It is not very buggy any more however. I use Openoffice to open and fix word files that Word can't read ( bad section headers most likely ).
I don't agree your post is a troll but we all know Slashdot modding sucks on the downmods (up-mods are usually accurate so far).
Too easy to jam or take out the satellites.
Also I suspect a human piloted fighter force would make short work of these craft.
LoL
Do you think I care if you are interested?
I have no clue who you are. I only remember two userids on this site besides mine.
You are conflating the original joke: (http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/5aa 9/)
There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
With the mathematician joke:
There are three kinds of mathematicians: those who can count and those who can't.
Also:
There are two groups of people in the world;
those who believe that the world can be
divided into two groups of people,
and those who don't.
There are two groups of people in the world:
Those who can be categorized into one of two
groups of people, and those who can't.
Top ten reasons why e is inferior to pi
10) e is less challenging to spell than pi.
9) e ~=2.718281828459045, which can be easily memorized to its billionth place, whereas pi needs "skills" to be memorized.
8) The character for e is so cheap that it can be found on a keyboard. But is special (it's under "special symbols" in word processor programs.)
7) Pi is the bigger piece of pie.
6) e has an easy limit definition and infinite series. The limit definition of pi and the infinite series are much harder.
5) e you understand what it is even though you start learning it late when you're in pre-calculus. But pi, even after five or six years it's still hard to know what it really is.
4) People mistakenly confuse Euler's Number (e) with Euler's Constant (gamma). There is no confusion with the one and only pi.
3) e is named after a person, but pi stands for itself.
2) Pi is much shorter and easier to say than "Euler's Number".
1) To read pi, you don't have to know that Euler's name is really pronounced Oiler.
OOXML is not a standard.
Standards do not include statements like "Render the text like an arcane program you do not have the source code to does." Many OOXML standards are impossible to create.
The fact that it was certified as ISO says more about corruption of the process than quality of the standard.
You bring up an interesting point. However, even linux will someday be public domain.
At that point it should not matter what GPL terms they put on it originally. Anyone (including evil corporate types) will be able to use it for anything they want (including private use and selling the resulting products for a profit).
We are talking about the long tail of copyright- not the first 14 year period.
Just use the NASCAR method.
They pay 5% of whatever they claim the value is.
However, anyone can purchase the property for that claimed value amount.
(in nascar races, if it is a $45k race, then the race can buy any car that competes in it for $45k.)
My bet is that english is not his native language.
When I can write russian, french, or japanese as well as these folks write english, I'll start correcting them.
On the obsolete form tho... I wonder if "I was imbibed" equates to "I was saturated".
In the spirit of loose,
I propose:
Wii Fiit may be a HUGE hiit.
One of the most bizarre instances of up-modding I've seen recently.
... that it was up-modded so much.
I find it very.. hmm... interesting
The "left" and "right" are both really owned by corporations.
Exception might be Ron Paul who is unelectable.
The DOJ case was in part the people with government power (call it the Giaa) telling microsoft "You want to do bidness, you gotta pay us protection money in campaign donations." Microsoft heard them and now make substantial "donations" to both parties.
Well think about what's probably happening.
1920x1080 is probably just ignoring 120 pixels and has a 1:1 ratio.
1280x720 is probably converting 2 pixels to 3 pixels in both directions.
So for 1280x720 output on a 1920x1080 screen, four pixels
x1,y1
x2,y2
becomes (roughly) nine pixels
x1,(x1+y1)/2, y1
(x1+x2)/2,(x1+y1)/2+(x2+y2)/2, y1+y2/2
x2,(x2+y2)/2, y2
with all the fractional pixels just looking kinda crappy.
If you were on a 1280x720 screen, it would look super sharp and the 1920x1080 would likely look kinda crappy.
1080 vertical pixels on a 24" screen from 3' is pretty close if not beyond the resolving power of the human eye.
So do you have one of those nice gateway monitors? I'm still on a 22" (and love it) at 1680x1050 since they were only $199 (vs $650ish).