There have been already a couple of mifrate classic public transport implementations where they discovered the card was abusable! eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OV-chipkaart#Technology
This was known in 2007.
In NL the utilities aren't buying the excess power up until to 5MWh, it just gets deducted from your usage: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salderen
If you are a nett producer (which is not possible for most homes due to a lack of viable sun facing surface area), you get might get less (eg Nuon pays you about 0.07 EUR/kWh http://www.nuon.nl/energie-besparen/zonnepanelen/terugleveren/ ).
But if (and only when) these rules change, storing might be usefull. But I doubt storing electric power is very useful. I'm partial to storing heat instead ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_heat_pump )
"What I'm waiting for is swapping the prices of day and night electricity prices. In the summer "peak" demand has shifted to night time by now."
Until this happens, storing solar generated energy is just dumb. At the moment my panels help me in 2 ways:
-it lowers my electricity demand for a year by about 50%.
-it saves about 10% on the price per kWh since I send energy to the grid at peak rates (0.22 EUR/kWh) and almost exclusively use offpeak (0.20 EUR/kWh)
I have absolutely nothing to gain by storing electricity right now.
"I guess browsers need "pay attention to refresh" to become an opt-in option."
If you have noscript installed it is optional, can't remember if I disabled the noscript html element or that is the default
I'm looking for an intelligent thermostat that speaks an open protocol: Opentherm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTherm / http://www.opentherm.eu/ ). Nest is not an option. Back to the DIY projects....
Because a tomato flood IS messy: http://www.latomatinatours.com/
Those plastic sheets don't effectively protect your home.
How does searching work for this kind of tranport/storage?
If you really have important data on it (import enough to keep the drive), you should have saved the interface card from the dump, also you should have kept a machine that could take the interface card.
My guess is I still have such hardware, if you make it worth my while I can retrieve the data for you.
"Unlike today's version madness, Windows 2000 came in only one edition: Professional
It was never intended to be marketed for home use. That was XP's job."
There were more version:
-professional
-server
-advanced server
maybe more. It had something to do with memory and cpu/sockets. But there was only one non server version.
The day you have a phone that runs the latest version.
"So if Google announced a major new version tomorrow how long would it be before I could exclusively target that version?"
The day they release the SDK.
I have first gen EU box here, no mentions of OtherOS. Pictures or it didn't happen.
You can do that in the NDK, though it is somewhat discouraged
Although the usual userland tools are missing, installing them is fairly easy after you got root access. On all devices since my G1 I have been running Debian in a chroot, X11 support is added by running VNC or and X server app. Sure on a meemo/meego device this was out of the box, but all the 2 N900 users I know have long since switched to Android devices. The N9 was never officially available.
"They are all one app at a time with background services."
Bullshit:
-Apps can multitask without Services, just use Threads.
-Android has multiple window support.
You are confusing the UI thread being stopped (when it is not visible) with threading/multitasking. Evidence of apps multitasking is for example a Samsung Note2 with multi-window support, although for some reason in the Samsung ROM you only can use some blessed apps multiwindowed, custom ROMs unlock this for app installed apps.
Using Services give extra features/hints to the OS. Like auto(re)start. It also gives a simple way to detach the UI from lightweight background tasks.
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