Between the disruption of well established television model, the impressive evolution of the capabilities of the internet, and the recent decision on Net Neutrality I'm convinced you're trying to sound smart by being contrarian.
It would also depend on if it's the path of least resistance to reach that goal. With this sort of scheme...? No.
OMG, not the RED uniform.
This is Voyager not TOS, you dumbshit Pakled.
You don't end up with more money than you started with when you get tax breaks.
This guy....everything he touches turns to shit.
Yeah! You can totally tell he ditched the courses in philanthropy and real-estate back in film school.
One part of the problem is NOT going to go away however - they have to pay to maintain the lines. Right now, that cost if covered by your electric bills. As the amount of electricity you draw from their generators goes down, they're going to reach the point of needing to charge you a flat fee just for the connection to the power lines, plus the usual fees for actually using their electricity.
For me, the "connection charge" is already an itemized part of the electric bill, so nothing will change.
Smart inverters will solve all of this nonsense. It wasn't long ago that the local gas company would offer special rates to larger customers if they would set up for gas/oil heat and allow their gas service to be remotely shut off. The problem was that, on really cold days, the demand for as would be so high that the pressure would drop and people's furnaces would kick out... so they came up with a scheme that could reduce demand.
I don't see why something similar could not be done with solar. Grid-tie inverters already turn themselves off if they don't "see" grid power that's within the voltage and frequency tolerances, so there is no barrier to getting the inverters to safely shut off or reduce output. All that's needed is a throttling mechanism that will allow the utility to remotely control what goes out into the grid from the home. The inverter can be set to produce only what the home is using and no more, or cut out entirely if needed. We have smart meters that can detect which way the power is flowing so the only missing piece is the control itself.
Seems like a perfect application of power line communication technology; just wedge a controller box in next to the inverter that also interfaces with the meter and waits for a signal to enable throttling.
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Nothing like releasing your review the day after units start shipping, ie when it's too late to find out the unit's faults.
Goddammit I hate embargos...the only reason they exist is to hide flaws and problems from people who could get a refund. Ray, stop being the industry's bitch. You have a ton of readers, tell gadget makers to pound sand if they tell you that you can't release a review before it ships.
This is a night and day difference with respect to reverse engineering...
No, it isn't. They had to go further out of their way to dance around that issue in order to make a legal clone.
...and the fact that IBM didn't want a compatible BIOS to be produced does not change this.
It changes this part:
Compaq et al were able to create clones because the IBM PC was an open platform.
...the fact is those working on a compatible BIOS had the IBM source code with comments to work from
... they clean-room reverse engineered it.
That is pretty open and greatly facilitated the creation of a compatible BIOS.
The fact remains that IBM published the source code to the embedded firmware, that is by definition open.
You can nitpick individual details all you like, but at the end of the day Compaq created the clone of the BIOS despite IBM, not with support from them.
Clean room design (also known as the Chinese wall technique) is the method of copying a design by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any of the copyrights and trade secrets associated with the original design. Clean room design is useful as a defense against copyright and trade secret infringement because it relies on independent invention.
IBM published the source code to their BIOS. That is pretty open and greatly facilitated the creation of a compatible BIOS.
Heh. No. Compaq reverse-engineered their BIOS. Here's some more reading material.
Perhaps corporations can get cyanogen out of the dorm and mom's basement and get it some serious usage.
Or Google could release an OS that doesn't require vendors' permission to install... like Microsoft does. Hah.
From the same link:
The success of the IBM computer led other companies to develop IBM Compatibles, which in turn led to branding like diskettes being advertised as "IBM format". An IBM PC clone could be built with off-the-shelf parts, but the BIOS required some reverse-engineering. Companies like Compaq, Phoenix Software Associates, American Megatrends, Award, and others achieved fully functional versions of the BIOS, allowing companies like DELL, Gateway and HP to manufacture PCs that worked like IBM's product. The IBM PC became the industry standard.
Using off-the-shelf parts is not the same as being open.
The mission was complete; the cargo was delivered to the intended orbit with no difficulties.
They just didn't get the bonus points for a successful experiment in first stage recovery. Once first stage recovery becomes routine, then you can consider it part of the operation - but never part of the mission. They are contracted and paid to deliver the payload to orbit, not recover the first stage.
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Regarding Andrew âoebunnieâ Huang ridiculous article....
As commercial success and product differentiation starts to depend less on quickly leveraging the latest hardware and moreso on algorithmic improvements, companies will not magically become more inclined to publish source code. When the path to improved performance involves massive man-hours optimizing code, small teams & startups will not somehow gain an advantage.
Click baiting "open source" and an interactive graph might bring a lot of page views, but the entire premise is truly absurd.
Nuclear weapons are not - and don't need to be - anywhere near as accurate with their targeting.
They also aren't intended to land.
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Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.
