Small scale solar also doesn't make sense
But it only needs to make enough power to pay for itself, not to beat some hypothetical efficiency. I just need the panels on my roof to make enough electricity to pay for themselves over their lifetime. All the additional benefits (carbon emissions avoided, extra power beyond what pays for the panels, reduction in hot afternoon brownout risk) are just icing on the cake at that point.
If you haven't read it, Marshall Brain's Manna is essential reading. The prophetic aspects of his dystopian view seem truer every day.
Slashdotters with good memories may remember Marshall Brain as the entrepreneur behind the "How Stuff Works" web site, which he sold for a fortune during the dot-com boom.
Not once does this article discuss occupancy rate. If apartments are built, and the are rented by people who want to live there, then it's wrong to say that "almost no one can afford" (them).
If the apartments are filled, then developers are building to the demand, full stop.
The article also wonders why companies like HPE don't just "dump some ISO files" onto an FTP server, along with patch depots and documentation. "This stuff has no commercial value, they're not losing any sales, and it will barely affect their bottom line.
Of course it costs them sales. If you keep old devices on life support, you're not buying new HP Z workstations or Elitebooks or whatever that run Windows or Linux.
The situation you describe is a failure to design a solution to the required problem domain, not a failure of OOP. If brake sensors have certification requirements that fuel sensors do not, then clearly those requirements need to be reflected in the design of the code and the way the basic "pressure sensor" object is extended to specific certification-required tasks.
If the problem is that nobody knew there was a requirement, then it doesn't really matter what programming paradigm you use, the risk is still present. The risk is that the requirement wasn't captured, and that will impact any code.
Citizens Against Government Waste outlines seven criteria by which spending can be classified as "pork":
Nothing he said makes sense in the context of physics. GPS satellites are 1-ton, 1000-watt devices (solar panels produce 1136 watts when first deployed) with a 500W transmitter, that are launched to an orbit of 11000 nautical miles. That's the high end of "Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)", so they can receive from a larger portion of the planet and spend more time outside the Earth's shadow.
If he thinks he can replace GPS with 12-kilogram satellites launched to LEO, he's on hepped up on spaceballs or something.
a Beverly Hills patron who wants to be a co-investor in the Minecraft servers
My immediate thought was: could it be Notch?
if your servers go down, YOU can fix them immediately
Spoken like someone who has never had to fix a server immediately
One of the strong points of cloud computing is the infrastructure to shift load to accommodate failing hardware. To reproduce that capability with your own hardware & infrastructure requires a tremendous amount of planning and capital investment: in power, servers, and network. It's almost never a simple matter of "fix the server immediately".
Clearly only uncompensated amateurs with no interest in Facebook should provide advice to Facebook.
In the future, you're going to get computers as prizes in breakfast cereals. You'll throw them out because your house will be littered with them.
