Not really. This is a step closer to having a more useful grid. Right now, the grid isn't much of a grid, it's more like a loose net with lots of big holes in.
What would get more houses completely off the grid would be batteries that last forever and are relatively inexpensive. They don't need to be space-efficient, they just need to last effectively eternally, a human lifetime at least.
C'Mon people, Microsoft does enough shit wrong, we don't need to make crap up.
Ever enabling autorun was something they did wrong. And disabling it should have been a simple checkbox in the drive properties where it would make sense.
I wonder if they'll last any better as a fixed battery vs a car mounted battery,
Probably, since the job they will be doing is easier. More sustained charge and discharge cycles, less start-and-stop.
If the pack only lasts 10 years then I highly doubt this will be economical
There's no reason to believe it will last only 10 years. The 10 years number has to do with suitability for automotive use.
Are you really this stupid?
This isn't stupidity, exactly, it's obstinacy. And actually, it's cognitive dissonance. Typically, when you see someone passionately arguing against their own best interests, that is what at fault. In this case, one of the people ranting against solar and storage is arguing that if this were a good idea, it would have been done already, because they want to believe that they are more intelligent than Elon Musk, every PG&E employee, and the majority of slashdotters who have woken up and recognized that batteries have gotten immensely better within our lifetimes — and will likely improve just as much in the next thirty or forty years.
People want to believe that they are smart and moral, and therefore they justify their poor decisions and the FUD they've spread by continuing to attack ideas long after they have been proven viable.
In the states where it is legal, did usage increase? Of course it did... because there is no longer a legal deterrent.
You can't separate the social and legal deterrents.
I haven't smoked pot. Not that I was never curious... rather, doing so may get me arrested, thrown in jail, or fined.
Yeah, right. You're just afraid because you believed the propaganda about sperm count and tiny nuts, and yours are already minuscule. Anyone who wants to smoke pot can do so and get away with it, if they care even a little. There's lots of states where it's legal now.
Ideally, creators get to say what happens. That's bound to encourage people to create. They can release their songs into the wild if they want, or not. But it's not up to 'us' to decide.
We don't really care if people create unless they are driven, because we want them to do their best. And yes, they can release their songs into the wild if they want, or not. If they don't share them with anyone, then nobody can copy them. And their ideas can die in obscurity with them.
I think a book is fundamentally different from a film in the technical sense that any available copy can be reproduced without loss of quality. That's why it doesn't matter that we lack the original manuscripts of the Bible or Shakespeare.
Are you ignorant, or trolling? It's hugely important that we lack the original manuscripts of the bible.
Well, it is for sorting purposes. (They've got massive machines running Linux doing OCR which replaced manual sorting, and that requires... taking pictures of the mail.)
Right, but then the USPS was claiming that they simply threw away all of the resulting data when they were done with it. That's a ridiculous claim in every way.
Whether all the pictures are also retained is a completely different story. 10 years ago, I'd have said, "No; too expensive." But storage costs have plummeted, so nowadays, maybe so.
So what? They don't have to OCR anything that has a properly printed label; they just can it for bar codes. Those pieces of mail, which are the bulk of what passes through the postal system, never has to be photographed at all because they already know where it's coming from, where it's going, what it weighs and whether the package weight was reported accurately. The scans of the remaining minority of mail could quite reasonably be saved ten years ago, especially if you were not picky about resolution. Today, it's trivial.
But the real "so what" is that they are OCRing the mail, so even if they were throwing away all of those scans, they would still reasonably be storing the metadata. Why would you ever throw that away, unless forced? It's small, and it's valuable. But moreover, one of the Snowden revelations was that they are in fact storing all of that OCR data, it all gets handed straight to the feds. Before Snowden, it was generally believed (heh heh) that this data was simply flushed, and only the fringe believed that it was handed to the feds as a matter of course. Now we know that to be the case.
I thought you framed the picture and hung it above your bed
Yes, that was my fear, I didn't want slashdotters picturing me fapping to such a poster. I love freedom, but not in precisely that way
Yeah. Must be the buyers who are braindead, not people like yourself (and CmdrTaco) who can't see what Apple actually does bring to the table.
No, people like himself (and CmdrTaco) can see that what Apple actually does bring to the table is mostly marketing.
That comment would have been a lot cooler if I'd written it correctly. I bought a T-Shirt with his face on. I'd look a right moron walking around with a printed, loose picture of Snowden saying LOOK AT THIS
Yes, slashdot, I know it's only been a minute since I posted a comment, but could you just let me post this and move on with my life?
I bought a picture of his face with the words AMERICAN HERO right under it as soon as I read this headline. Guess it's time to get out and do some proselytization.
Yes, but how often does that happen?
my 1992 F250 7.3 needs a new block (cavitation) and my 1997 A8 quattro is on its second transmission and has had a shitload of leaks addressed and is still leaking and our 2000 Astro has had both engine and transmission rebuilt, so actually, very frequently AFAICT.
The powertrain warranty on modern vehicles is quite long, my GMC has a 5 year, 100,000 mile powertrain warranty. Since I'm not likely to keep it beyond 5 years, it is not material to me.
People like you are why GM makes shit.
Increased natgas production is tied to fracking at this time, and it's not an inexhaustible resource either even if that weren't horrible.
To write good code is a worthy challenge, and a source of civilized delight. -- stolen and paraphrased from William Safire
