Comment Magrathea? (Score 1) 30
Maybe this didn't happen by accident?
Maybe this didn't happen by accident?
all of those hardware platforms are compiled from a single source tree.
there is a lot of hardware abstraction to get all platform specifics under one hood.
which is a big difference from many (*cough* well) other open source systems,
which come with source tree A for platform X, source tree B for platform Y, patchiest C for
you get it. That's not the case for NetBSD.
The benefit of this is, if there's a new feature that affects all/many platforms,
there is no need for further propagation to other source trees.
I'm afraid this doesn't only go for Open Source developers.
- Hubert
so systemd re-invent what now - Kerberos? LDAP? Active Directory? NIS?
What became of the Unix philosophy of "one tool to do one job right"?
Nope. Note in TFS the key phrase: 'In its default configuration'. The university that I used to work for bought Office 365. This was even before the GDPR, but the university deals with a lot of confidential commercial data from industrial partners and with health records in life sciences departments. Google's stock T&Cs were completely incompatible with this and they refused to negotiate. Microsoft's stock T&Cs were also incompatible (which is why this ruling is completely unsurprising), but Microsoft was happy to negotiate a contract that gave much stricter controls over data.
For Germany in particular, the German Azure data centres are actually owned by a joint venture between Deutsche Telekom and Microsoft and so out of US jurisdiction. Companies in Germany (and the rest of the EU) can buy an Office 365 subscription that guarantees that their data doesn't ever leave Germany.
It gets more complicated when you factor in partial charges. LiIon batteries are most efficient if you never fully charge or discharge them. If you use around 40% of their total charge cycle each time then they last a lot longer, but then you have to increase your up-front costs in exchange for the lower TCO.
Solar cells are now very cheap. They are a negligible part of the cost for a small-scale installation. The cost of deploying rooftop solar is dominated by the installation cost (putting up scaffolding and having competent people climbing safely around on the roof is not cheap). The second largest cost is the storage and the alternator system to drive AC mains. Both of these costs are amortised significantly in larger installations. Most large installations are at ground level, so require a fraction of the manpower to install each panel. They use much larger alternator installations, which also come with higher efficiency.
TL;DR: Solar power is not immune to economies of scale.
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