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Comment Re: and... (Score 1) 299

But a generator will likely run indefinately (provided you have enough fuel), vs a battery that will only power things for a limited time in a longer period blackout. Once your out, your out. Vs being able to keep a generator running and filling up gas every so often.

And! and! and.... The generator costs money to buy use and maintain, and it has to be exercised, because that fuel has to be used - you don't want old fuel in an emergency generator, Stabil or no Stabil. Its just one more thing that the some folks don't take into account when they do their ROI's and other calculations based on something that they just don't like.

And if you want to see some real dollars go away, try replacing your entire house hotel load of power needs with an appropriately sized generator. Running a big freezer, an oil furnace, refrigerator, and all tungsten lights (assuming a person who hates this idea hates cfls or led lights too) is going to get you some serious bucks involved. Don't forget your capacity has to be enough so that you can handle the motor startups on the devices, plus you really need to have enough to handle the draw when a couple start at the same time. Don't forget you need to install a cutout system so you don't electrocute linesmen trying to get you your power back.They frown on that, although the ROI of a couple years in prison isn't too bad with those three hots and a cot

So what's the ROI on a whole house emergency power generator plus installation plus fuel plus maintenance?

Comment Re:and... (Score 1) 299

What I argue is that there's structural differences that makes this a better idea to to centrally than at home, regardless of how good or cheap the batteries get.

Strategically, if I were at war with another country, I would hope that their power generation capacity was in as few locations as possible.

Comment Re:and... (Score 1) 299

Batteries is not the answer to everything, in fact they are merely a distraction. Likewise recycling is not the answer to everything, it is a distraction. Technology is also not the answer, it is a distraction.

Consume less. Waste less. Reuse more.

I'm all about conservation, but in the end, it is every bit as much a distraction as that stuff you don't like.

Because in all conservation efforts, the end is people using so little resources that it is effectively zero.

While I suppose you don't believe that, tell me, what is the amount of conservation of materials that compensates for population increase?

Let's say we all use 10 percent less of something. Let's say water.

Each new person on earth then uses up water to the same level the rest of us are using, which is 90 percent of what we used before.

So for every new person, how many people's savings in water have been used by this new person?

So we have to reduce all that much the next year, then the year after that, and on and on. Eventually no one uses any water.

Comment Re:Flamebait? (Score 1) 299

I take it back, perhaps there is a conspiracy.

Its the new Slashdot, home for the reactionary status quo. These good folk will be clutching their hatred of anything new until they meet the actuarial tables.

Unfortunately, they get mod points, and in their world, anything they disagree with is marked troll or flame bait.

Comment Re: and... (Score 1) 299

SpaceX doesn't qualify for the statement. They are building improved technology to go places in space, but he blindly used a comment that specifically was intended as a comparison against the initial space age where we were clueless and entering blindly to achieve something believed impossible with no fore-knowledge. SpaceX, while awesome doesn't fit his reference.

I think perhaps his point was in reference to my point that Slashdot has been taken over by modern day ultra reactionary Luddites, who don't know a lot, but what they do know is that they absolutely hate almost everything, and that pretty much anything new is simply fucking awful.

The concept of "Spacex doesn't qualify' is really the thing that is sad. You are telling me that channeling forces through the end of these candles, energy that is for all intents and purposes a barely controlled explosion is now so reduced to practice that anyone can do it? You, perhaps are quite wrong.

Kinda sad. Some people can be so clueless. More important isn't the could. Should Tesla flood the planet with their toxic batteries

So tell me of the lack of toxicity in the other methods of power generation. I'm glad to hear there is zero toxic waste in Nuclear, natural gas, oil and hydropower generation.

Comment Stabilize what you have (Score 0) 484

If you need to restart your wife's iPhone several times a week that is not right - you may want to get a replacement iPhone.

The only thing I've had to restart my wife's iPhone 6 for have been software updates - and I skipped a few minor point releases.

I'm an iOS developer, thus harder on the device - and even I only restart once a month or so.

I can't help but thinking you are restarting the phone to avoid doing something that's actually the responsibility of an app. Have you tried looking at all apps that location services and cellular data are authorized for? What about the battery and cellular data usage areas to see if some app is just too frisky with data/GPS?

Comment Re:One filter = no tier (Score 1) 174

How do you KNOW that? How do you know its important until you answer it?

It's called CallerID.

False.

Since you didn't say why, True wins.

Lol. Seeing as they are inextricably tied to itunes and ios,

loolololol since it's not tied to iTunes in any way, invalid.

Android wear at least works with android not-tied-to-google

Without Google Now it's a paperweight.

The apple watch? Not so much.

I could use only third party apps and no Apple services. And since there are more of them, the Apple watch is vastly less reliant on Apple than Android Wear is on Google. Sorry, but that's just the plain truth - there are around 3000+ Apple Watch apps, and growing rapidly...

Comment Re: Do not (Score 5, Insightful) 133

Pay your respects to thousands of years of education, science, inquisitiveness, some of the greatest minds who ever lived, single individuals who knew all of established science for their time, amazing insights, and artisans capable of creating their off-the-wall ideas using some of the most difficult craftsmanships in existence.

THIS!

Ah yes, the" Ancient Aliens" mindset of some folks. It's so damn amazing how some people assume that humans are all too stupid to have ever done anything worthwhile or clever, and needed "aliens" to come teach us.

People have their problems. We like to kill each other for fun, and we can be really nasty to each other at other times. But we're actually pretty damned smart when you think about it. Our ancestors were capable of a lot of amazing things, and there really isn't the need to invoke beings that had to come help us because humans are soooo stoopid. An intelligent person from say Pharonic times, would be able to understand modern technology after some exposure to it. They weren't stupid, not even close.

Having watched that AA show a few times, it is just one long argument from personal incredulity. And the problem with accepting arguments from personal incredulity is that the biggest idiot in the room always wins.

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