If you are going to go through the time and money to store electricity in a battery, why not stick it into a car?
Because that's a lot of extra weight to lug around with you all day.
Too much locally-generated energy is bad for the grid.
For a grid-tied domestic solar installation, for example, to push power back onto the grid, it must generate a voltage higher than the existing grid to push the power backwards. So what happens is that all the local solar installations are competing against each other to power the grid.
We need to re-think and re-design how power is delivered if our ultimate goal is to have every house generate its own electricity and use the grid as fallback
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"The device is categorized as 'sports glasses' to 'take phone calls and listen to music during workouts.' "
Uhhh.. won't a $2 pair of ear buds do the same?
The Wankel rotary engine also had significantly fewer moving parts than a standard internal combustion engine, but a Mazda RX-7 was just as costly to maintain as any other car. Why? Because, it's not the moving parts in the engine that cause most of the maintenance costs, it's all the rest of them, like suspension, steering, brakes, air compressors, and the like.
I owned an RX7 (FD) for a number of years and beg to differ. All the maintenance costs were on the engine or ancillary systems.
I owned the car from 90k kms till about 150k kms. In that time I had an engine rebuild, replaced water pump, replaced all vacuum hoses (causing boost issues), multiple fuel filters (a pain in the ass to change because it sits above the rear axle).
Nothing else went wrong with the car. Ran like clockwork otherwise.
I'm guessing Canberra. It's a small/medium city (~370k residents), 45 minutes from great fresh-water fishing in the mountains. 2 hours from world-class fishing on the coast (Batemen's Bay, Bermagui - some of the best fishing in the world). International airport is exactly 3 hours away (Sydney Intl).
Great schools (being a government town). Low crime rate, etc, etc.
Oh, it's also a few hours away from the ski fields, too. He forgot to mention that.
The Australian Patent Office - IP Australia (disclosure: I work there) back in 2001 introduced another form of IP called an "Innovation Patent" to address this need. An Innovation Patent differs from a normal patent in the following ways:
Sounds pretty much what you're after?
* You're "in the know", as you seem to be, and don't need this article to tell you anything new. Result: The article is useless
* You're not "in the the know". You run a website where a single (or clustered) firewall *can* easily handle the load on your small pipe. Result: The article is useless.
Summary: The article is useless.
Funnily enough, the rest of the world are NOT out of jobs.
I've traveled extensively through europe, asia AND the US. I live in Australia. For all the "tipping" that happens in the US, it does not have better customer service than anywhere else in the world.
the artificial restrictions on root (hey - it's MY computer, not yours)
What the hell are you talking about. This isn't windows, you don't have to and shouldn't be using the root account for day to day activities, but when you need it "sudo -s" gets you a nice little root shell and off you go. And if you really really want to login as root, it takes seconds to turn that on. Not having root enabled by default encourages people to use standard accounts and that's a good thing. If you don't like it, stop whining and change it to work the way you want to.
Unlike you, I'm totally at ease working with root privileges. I'm not worried about accidentally removing a partition, etc. Sometimes, it's just darned convenient to have a root session going in a terminal, so I can tail the last few entries in a log file, ifconfig to see my external ip, and chown a few files from my own account to www|nobody (all of which I've done in the last 24 hours).
Congratulations, you've just discovered a piece of software that isn't designed for you. Yet you seem to have given a very emotional response for a piece of software that you don't even use. Why is that?
Let's see. AutoCad isn't designed for me. But you'd think I was an idiot if I went on about its stupid name choice (you know what a Cad is, don't you?), and its fugly (engineering) colour scheme.
People should both be aware of the existence of root, and be able to use it when needed on their machines. Knowledge is not a bad thing.
Umm... you've just described the use of sudo.
I did argue against your main point. You were saying that off shoring saves costs and that is obvious.
You say main point as if I made more than one. So... you're saying that my point (that of the cost savings) is obvious, yet you argued against it? Your paragraph is nonsensical at best, and obstinate at worst.
What is not obvious is that it actually increased performance.
Uhhh.. I think both the Slashdot summary and the linked-to article made the performance increase rather obvious. So much so, that all the posts prior to mine were discussing the performance aspect of the switch to Linux/Solaris.
That was the news. That may not be just due to off shoring and at least in this case seems to be due to architectural differences and the ability to modify Linux kernel and user space (and lack of a
No, the news was primarily about the cost savings. I know this because it was mentioned first in the summary. Eg:
"The switch is a pretty savage indictment of the costs of a complex
I never commented on the performance increase because that was already well covered by numerous other posts. However the cost savings, and indeed the fact that it was offshored, seemed to be ignored, hence my post.
I suggest, rather than criticizing my spelling (in my earlier post), you might be better served spending your time focusing on your logical argument.
Huh? How is this a troll? Can somebody please explain it to me?
I love the fact that they moved to a Linux/Solaris platform. But the fact is, however, that for less money than employing expensive consultants, they can employ 300-400 developers in Sri Lanka to make a better product.
Linux (and open source in general) has nothing to do with this (one) aspect of the cost savings.
Oh, I agree completely. I never mentioned any of the other advantages, because they're being well covered by other posts (performance, etc). I *like* the fact that they moved to a Linux/Solaris solution. It tickles me pink.
It's just that the Slashdot community seems to be giving themselves collective pats on the back and high-fives aplenty, and having open source take credit for *everything* in this story.
The fact is, however, that for less money than employing expensive consultants, they can employ 300-400 developers in Sri Lanka to make a better product.
Linux (and open source in general) has nothing to do with this aspect of the cost savings.
Ah you got me. That's what I get for juggling family and trying to get out the door for work in the morning.
Interesting that you didn't actually argue against my point, though
Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
