$7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media
and have only started to realize some improvement on related sites. With ad revenue declining and not expected to pick up (read: everyone who uses Slashdot uses adblocking softwarwe), it appears that the Slashdot stewardship experiment by Dice Holdings has been a financial failure.
Since the site has been redesigned in a user-hostile fashion with a very generic styling, this reader surmises Dice Holdings is looking to transform or transfer the brand into a generic Web 3.0 technology property. The name may be more valuable than the user community (since we drive no revenue nor particularly use Dice.com's services).
Slashdot has taken the obvious next step and adopted Flash as the new interface for beta.slashdot.org! Adobe, the Industry leader of web technologies, hailed Dice Holdings, Inc. on their commitment to innovation and is in works with Dice to create a premium Dice Toolbar [TM] to further enhance the two companies' browsing authority.
My numbers were based off quotes from my own house solar system. From the installer that I ended up going with, I was quoted $6,073 for a 5.035 kW system or $9,136 for a 7.685 kW system. Some other installer quotes that I got where significantly cheaper, but I went with a local company with known 500+ installed customer base. I also used Enphase micro-inverters that are a bit more expensive than a standard inverter setup.
I have been using the 7 kW system since August.
In my 1000 square foot house I spend $1000 a year on electricity. How exactly would I pay for $15K - $20K worth of solar cells in 5 years?
At that price, you would be looking at a 15-20 kW system. You would also have a hard time fitting that many solar panels on a 1000 square foot house, unless you redesigned the roof specifically for solar. A more realistic estimate for your house would be $5-6k for a 5 kW system.
I guess I could go all electric, which would cost me another $5 in appliances.
A new 40 gallon electric water heater goes for $240 and a new freestanding electric range goes for $350 at Lowes. A new electric heat pump (Air Conditioner/Heater) would be a bit more, but still well under $5k (I'm assuming you meant five thousand with your $5 number)
I might break even in 15 years, about the time I would need to replace the solar cells.
Modern panels decrease their output by less than one half of one percent per year, often with a warranty backing up their claims. For example, the SunPower X-Series solar panel warranty guaranties a less than 0.4% decline per year for 25 years. So at 15 years, you are looking at panels that are still producing at least 94% of their original capacity - hardly needing replacement.
By then they should be cheeper and more efficient. So yea by about 2030 solar would probably take care of my needs.
Solar panels will continue to get cheaper (a few cents per watt) as production scales up. They will also get a bit more efficient (a few percent) as manufacturing processes improve. However, don't plan on any disruptive technology advancements to occur in the next 15 years that fundamentally change how home solar installations work.
In August, I put a 7.685 kW solar system on my small townhouse. The solar cells produce 10-40 kWh per day, depending on weather. In November, I purchased a 2013 Nissan Leaf. The Leaf can go 3-4 miles per kWh of electricity.
Combining both my house and car's electrical usage together only amounts to around 20-30 kWh per day, leaving my electric bill decisively negative for the last 5 months. I'd expect an even greater difference during the summer months.
Maemo / Moblin -> MeeGo -> Harmattan -> Mer -> Tizen | Smeegol | Sailfish
Or, in other words, lets rename and start a new project every other week!
I got my N900 because it was based on the same GTK and Debian that I was familiar with on my desktop. But I never touched app development on it because of the promise of the "new" project completely obsoleting anything that I would create on the old. Why bother creating a GTK interface when the new UI gets rewritten in QT next month? Why bother creating Debian packages when the new system uses RPM? Meanwhile, the Osborne effect ensures that no mainstream apps get written for the current code base.
I've also been on a jury where the judge flat out tells the jury to disregard the sane result and that we must uphold the strict letter of the law. The fact that the defendant deliberately lied and stole $20k (with malice) didn't matter in the eyes of the state. I was the foreman and was seriously considering nullification until the judge made it very clear that coming to the "wrong" conclusion would have us all dismissed and the trial would just start over again with a new jury until she got the result that she wanted.
They should just contribute their articles to Linux Weekly News so we don't need to setup another subscription.
Most of Tesla's problems in Texas are from eliminating the dealership. For example, I had no problems when I recently bought my all electric Nissan Leaf from Gunn Nissan in San Antonio, TX.
About 50% of the human race is middlemen and they don’t take kindly to being eliminated. This [state]...we play nice. Got enemies enough as it is.
The far more important battle, switching from gas to electric vehicles, has less to do with Texas.
In the second plot of the book, Peter and Valentine both take on anonymous political roles. After Ender defeats the bugs, Valentine eventually gets on a ship headed toward the dead alien planet to begin a new human colony. During the journey, Valentine (on the ship) ages just a few years while Peter (on Earth) ages a full lifetime.
I saw one in San Antonio last week!
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.