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.

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.

Probably, since the job they will be doing is easier. More sustained charge and discharge cycles, less start-and-stop.

There's no reason to believe it will last only 10 years. The 10 years number has to do with suitability for automotive use.

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.

You can't separate the social and legal deterrents.

If you can't Google, I can't help you - but far worse, you cannot help yourself. You will not eat fish in your lifetime I fear, much less a day.

Sorry to call you out on this, but your attitude will destroy you in the end and I cannot help but warn you. Living a life with hate as a focus consumes you. Other people can sense it and will push away from you.

I'm not interested in Android Wear, but I wish it (and it's users) no ill. Same for Android. It's not for me but I am happy to admit, it is for someone.

It's why I ordered a Pebble Time too, because I like competition and different ideas and think the world is better for it. If you hate someone so much you wish their demise, all of that ill will just reflects back on your own character.

$350 for a Tamagotchi game. $650 for an iPhone to play mobile games.

Look , I SAID I didn't think games were very useful on the watch. At best they are a tiny side use, and there has been only one game I've read about that makes sense (where you direct a time-critical spy mission).

But the $650 for a mobile game platform? THAT makes a ton of sense. You simply have no idea of the vast range of games for mobile devices now. It's easily 10x more valuable than a gameboy for mobile use, because it's so much more portable, and you truth is you are going to have a phone with you anyway - so it's incredible useful as a gaming device for either long or short periods of time.

It's too bad you can't see this yourself, and can only live with a 100" plasma display. I enjoy that too but also mobile device gaming, which simply put means I am having a LOT more fun than you are since you are so limited in where and how you can experience enjoyment... my condolences..

And that Lot! Gets it on with his daughters, has some kids with them, and his wife was conveniently nuked beforehand to enable him to bump uglies wit 'em. What a character!

I've used Lubuntu on some repurposed netbooks it has LXDE desktop. Pretty clean. http://lubuntu.net/ Otherwise Mint with Xfce is nice : http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2...

Suck to be you man - you are definitely doing something wrong, and blaming it on Ubuntu.

I've never ever had a Linux machine fail to reboot after an update. And I've been running systemd since it came out because I needed pulse audio, which despite some early problems, is now rather nice for my needs.

Sort of, but better tiering of notifications really should just be part of the phone OS.

it is. Inherently though you can only get a simple sense of a notification happening in your pocket. Allowing more trusted notifications only on the watch means some that you may way to look at later but don't care about now, can be ignored. With just the phone they otherwise all get mixed up (unless you have sound on all the time which I find too annoying to those around me to do).

Meh, when my phone rings in my pocket and I know I don't want to answer it without even looking

How do you KNOW that? There are plenty of times when I may want to take a call if it's important.

I can easily click the side button to ignore it, through my pocket

I do that too but it's not AS EASY. Again it's the layering you are missing here.

Android is a single platform but not a single manufacturer ...That relies heavily on services from a single manufacturer, and it fairly useless without. Android Wear is every bit as pigeon-holed, in fact moreso since there are already far more Apple Watch apps to gain non-Apple functionality.

It's also a great dessert topping.