Comment Re:104 minutes? (Score 1) 341
strace -p $PID_OF_DBUS_DAEMON
As for your network, it's probably something related to this http://avahi.org/
strace -p $PID_OF_DBUS_DAEMON
As for your network, it's probably something related to this http://avahi.org/
Even on fast SSDs I've never seen 8 cold boot it in 3 seconds. 9-12ish maybe. Add in windows networking and it's much slower. Also Windows delays a lot of tasks so you are to the GUI but your actual services are not running yet. In the server market your boot speed is highly dependent on network resource dependencies with varying delays.
I would venture to say that you cannot make any assumption from hidden information. The NSA holds almost all the information on what they have done and who they have given information to. You, on the other hand, don't know jack shit about what the NSA does, well other then monitoring most of the worlds communications. Therefore you are jerking it just as hard as everyone else in the circle.
90% of the people you know are probably White. If you based world population trends on the area where you live you probably think most people in the world are White, followed by Blacks. Reality is most of the world population is Asian.
This is why so many U.S. science and medical studies fall under the W.E.I.R.D problem
"Pulls in to service station": Can you check the air filter, change the oil, and switch out the cathodic protection?
>They can't haul stuff around because the big empty bed might get scratched.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_bedliner
>I love it when people try to justify pickup trucks. Family, really?
Yes, add up all the family that doesn't have a truck (not just immediate family) and you can end up needed a truck quite often.
Strange strawman argument.
Over my entire lifetime people have always been told to order their packages at least a week before Christmas if not longer. If after 40 years your retailer suddenly says you can order two days before and everything will be just fine, your e-tailer might be full of shit.
>or even a storage array.
And they will (currently) laugh and tell you to get a decent storage array for less then you pay per month now. You're doing them a favor dumping it in to a load resistor (though you are going to have a serious heat problem about 3pm), they don't have to redesign the return power transfer networks.
Um, I'm glad you neglected the other reasons prices went up such as an ongoing drought and a growing southwestern population that has uses far more then the small amount offset by your reduced usage. But hey, go live in the middle of a fucking desert then bitch about water prices and see if I give a damn.
>. I do not believe that EVERYONE should be made to pay for one customer in order to supply power to a very remote location that they decided to move to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act
The thing is, when you extend the network out there you enable more users to move to that area. Over the long term the entire economy grows and the power company earns its money back.
Yes. Grid synchronization with thousands of inputs is not a solved problem, there are many papers on just this subject on Google if you care to search. Your baseline power on the current grid is the clock source, it tells the smaller generating units what time 'hertz/phase' it should be running at. On a conventional grid this is a handful of stations, maybe even up to a few hundred. On a distributed grid you could have tens or even hundreds of thousands of generation units, keep this many units synced and not created perturbations in the network is a huge problem.
>Spain and Germany being exceptions and they're grids haven't collapsed,
There prices have skyrocketed, so much to the point the politicians are worried about riots.
> I doubt there are many national grids in the world where carbon fueled baseload is throttled
Which is a problem for the producers because of the very long payoff times on baseload power plants.
> so solar is helping you with cheaper and more reliable power
No it is not. Everyone without solar will see a more costly bill.
>To "dump" electricity, you simply don't use it. You physically segregate the grid from the supply, usually with a switch.
You have no clue what you are talking about.
In huge generators you have a mass that is being spun at high speeds. You just don't flip the off switch unless you want it to turn to molten metal, the electricity flowing off keeps that from happening. Even in solar DC to AC you have the DC load you have to do something with, though most home installations are small enough it's easy to sink.
TL:DR, you have no idea about the grid. Stop making proclamations about what the utilities are or are not doing.
Go back and study the last big U.S. East Coast outage. This is a huge issue. Instead of twenty or thirty sources to synchronize there will be many thousands. It is not a solved problem and is an area of active research.
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-power-grid-synchronization-enable-smart.html
http://scitechdaily.com/synchronization-in-a-decentralized-power-grid/
And the rest of the customers are going to freak out when they see the cost of this new 2 way power system. The problem with solar is it screws everyone that doesn't have solar big time.
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian
