If you want local solar to play any part in this future, it might help to restructure the power grid (at least in the USA).
The way things are currently setup, residential solar can only get pushed around the local grid.
This can be changed, but it's expensive. So obviously it's not popular.
What a Muslim American Said to Defend His Patriotism
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/what-a-muslim-american-said-to-defend-his-patriotism/374137/
-"You should be active in your community. And I have done that. The fact that I was surveilled in spite of doing all thatâ"it just goes to show you the hysteria that everybody feels."
-"I've never given a speech where I've said any ill feelings toward the United States."
-"I was a very conservative, Reagan-loving Republican."
-"I watch sports. I watch football. My kids are all raised here. My kids at that time went to Catholic school. It isn't as if I was raising them in a different way
Gill correctly perceives that we'll all know what he means when he invokes the characteristics he possesses that would seem to make him less suspicious. The fact that most people internalize these judgments to some degree illustrates how chilling effects work: Americans, especially those who belong to minority groups, formulate a sense of what speech and actions will cast suspicion on or away from them.
Chilling Effects.
You'd think that's some kind of manifest destiny, but where I live the telco (VZ) has already stated that the fiber rollout is over with. They population density doesn't warrant the investment of the equipment needed to extend the fiber.
The rest of us still do local caching proxies and QoS hackery to make the most of our 2-3 Mbps.
that nothing can be kept secret anymore?
It's hard to say, because in general we don't know about the things that have remained secret. We know the numerator, but not the denominator.
This whole article is misleading and pointless, as it has been discovered (and confirmed by UbiSoft themselves) that UbiSoft INTENTIONALLY crippled the graphics of PC versions (only) of WatchDogs.
http://www.maximumpc.com/ubiso...
Assuming the asshat game developer didn't intentionally cripple it, top end PC graphics will always be capable of more/better performance than consoles. Its just common sense, not least because a top-end GPU card alone costs significantly more than an entire console.
Usually memedot editors simply post the first paragraph of the original article as the summary, at least time they call out that it's a quote.
The 3:2 version was better. As is the 4:3 iPad. I currently have a 16:9 windows tablet and iPhone, and they'd be much more useful as either of those two ratios. I rarely use my iPad anymore because it's so hobbled by the OS as to be utterly inefficient at anything productive, but it kicks the windows tablet's ass when it comes to reading/browsing anything. Jobs had it right, but the son of a bitch died and left a bunch of 12 year old girls running the company.
I think you were on to something with #1. What if it were hollow and came with a small funnel. It'd be a sight more useful in some meetings I've been to if filled with liquor rather than silicon and battery.
I'm amazed at how much people seem to need to watch fullscreen video on their phones. Don't get me wrong; there are times I'm stuck somewhere with just my phone, but unless you're commuting on a train - where do you find yourself for long periods of time where you have nothing better to do than watch tv/movies and only have your phone with you?
(yes, I know: work. ha ha.)
I don't think that's a distinction worth making in most circles. It's only after a few years of study that one starts to see the distinction between the knowledge needed for software development vs. the mathematical aspects of computing theory. And then they keep on re-intersecting anyway, with things like programming language type systems, concurrency, and proving certain qualities of a piece of software. Good software developers need some theory, and most good theoreticians end up programming sometimes.
Medical "insurance" is generally not insurance, though. Well, it is, but it's a bastardization - a maintenance plan + insurance, kind of like like whole life (savings account + insurance).
Reassessing your risk, is not cheating you out of past premiums. Premiums (in the theoretical perfectly efficient market) are in the now and based on current risk for the term of the policy. It's that probability thing that people just don't get. Changing risk pools *should* be associated with your actual risk. You begin every year as a new assessment, and you end every year with a sunk cost. It's a die roll, and if it comes up snake eyes, you "win" restitution; if it doesn't you "win" by not having some tragedy befall you. Either way, you place your chips and roll the dice; but at the end of the round you can get up and leave.
The ACA changes the rules because healthcare, 51% of us have determined, should be different. So the range of premiums is compressed, and the healthcare cos must always keep the table open for you if you have chips to play. But for everything else, it's just another table game with the house favored by a few percent and a bankroll large enough to weather a bad run of dice.
1.25-1.5:1 How hard is that? We've got centuries of experience in making page sizes for reading and viewing, and most of them fall into that range. Unless you're Hasselblad, ditch the square. If you're not a television, please don't use 16:9.
#getoffmylawn
or "Space Fox"
And piloted by a young rebel, with a cranky old sidekick as a navigator. They should make this into a TV show.
Work continues in this area. -- DEC's SPR-Answering-Automaton
