the 2-3 months each winter when it is too cold for LED bulbs to operate correctly.
Did you confuse LED and CFL lights? CFLs will be very dim when they first start in the cold, and may not start at all in extreme cold (far below -18C / 0F), but that generally isn't a problem with LED lights that aren't cheap pieces of junk.
And why isn't anyone looking into grabbing tidal power from the Bay of Fundy?
They have and do look at it, and most of the test turbines they put in get ripped apart.
If you are just looking to search file names, Swiftsearch makes it real quick.
Do these "heat pumps" also work cool or air condition your home?
How does that work? How WELL does it work?
They work fine as an air conditioner. Just as well as an equivalent sized Air Conditioner only unit. However they do cost more, and are slightly more complicated because they have a reversing valve to let it operate as a heater as well. If you never need heat, then it's probably not worth the extra expense / complexity.
I live in a relatively temperate climate. Winter temperatures are usually no lower than -12C, so heatpumps are still effective. Historically houses in this area haven't needed air conditioning, and weren't built with it, though it's nice on the maybe week of weather that's 30C in the summer. For many people the addition of having Air Conditioning is a bonus.
Mine will be running in heat from October to May. I turned it on cool for 3 days last year.
What difference is there between BC and Alberta bottles and cans? As much as they wouldn't want to put French on, I think they still have to.
I remember when everyone was super excited for the release of Firefox 3.0. Huge numbers of people waiting to download it on release day. Peak Firefox was 3.6. Wheels fell off with V4 as they stepped up the release schedule and copied Chrome more. Though it was always infinitely more extendable with add-ons. Until XUL was dropped, even if for valid technical reasons.
I still use Firefox for two reasons though I do bounce around between browsers:
-Ad-blocker for my phone
-Give some unique competition to the corporate Chrome monopoly. Regardless of views on how well or not Mozilla is run, or the politics.
The last major incident was the ice storm of 1998 which took out power in parts of Quebec and New Brunswick by toppling transmission and distribution lines.
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Consider SCALA systems or PLCs which probably have a similar performance demand.
And sadly, I still pay $10,000 more to go from a 2MB to 16MB RAM model of an AB PLC.
I see this like replacing a big Amazon Echo device with Echo Dots... you may need one for each room you want to reach, but these devices should be cheap enough to get a signal to your iPhone without the risk of broadcasting to your neighbors.
In a residential setting, as it is now people are lazy with the placement of their one Router / access point, and usually hate using wires. So ideally you would have your router wired to small 6Ghz access points like you say... but people hate wires, nor do they have a clue how to setup equipment. It could work well in institutional settings: Eg a library, Starbucks, or airport where people pay to put in real equipment and you have a high user density.
Where we already have a 5Ghz band that isn't shared with microwaves, and doesn't go through walls as well as 2.4Ghz, does this bring a whole lot? As it is at work I struggle with my phone hanging onto a poor 5Ghz signal rather than dropping down to 2.4Ghz.
The first shuttle (that never went into orbit) was named Enterprise after the TV show, and NASA weren't sued. Roddenberry even showed up to see the unveiling. Then the shuttle made a cameo in the intro sequence to ST: Enterprise.
(I had to repost this because it got immediately down modded into oblivion for some reason)
No you didn't. As of right now there's no mod activity on that post. AC always go to a score of 0.
Windows search is a write-off due to Microsoft's hard coded cortana malware dependencies which call home/leak even when completely disabled from UI.
Search in Windows XP wasn't great, but it's only gone downhill since then. I recommend "SwiftSearch". Lightning fast.
They've always included a shit ton of drivers in their OS, for hardware that was current when the OS was released. The "problem" is their OS's have long shelf lives, so Windows 7 comes with drivers from 2009, which won't include hardware released in 2016. I've had ok luck using Windows update to pull remaining drivers, as long as:
-The Disk controller has drivers. This was a particular problem with Windows XP that didn't include SATA drivers, so they either had to run in IDE compatibility, or have drivers "slip-streamed" in the install, or load from a floppy. If you ran in IDE compatibility, then installed the SATA drivers, no guarantee that it would boot if you changed back to AHCI unless the driver was not just installed but loaded. You could do that by changing the optical drive to AHCI while the HDD was IDE, then change the HDD to IDE. Disk controller drivers resulted in a lot of "0x7B" BSODs.
-Keyboard and mouse work, which won't if the USB ports are USB3 and you don't have USB3 drivers (not included in Windows 7). Worse some Mobos don't let you set the ports back to USB2, and have all USB3 ports.
-The network controller has drivers. Without that you can't connect to Windows update.
Anyways with more frequent released, the driver packs included in Windows 10 will be more up to date.
RIM / BlackBerry was a corporate product first. They really took their time to develop a true competitor to iOS/Android (BB10). By then everyone was gone. But they did have a reasonably popular selection of Apps. In the early 2010's it was common to see a lot of apps targeted to iOS, Android, and BlackBerry.
The company I work for is very conservative for technology. When I started only top managers could get a BlackBerry to get mobile email.
I knew RIM was done when our company moved to a BYOD strategy and started pushing out mobile email on iOS and Android for all users (not just top managers). Plus it meant no BES!
The main feature Apple brought to phones was an easy-to-use market for installing generic apps onto the phone directly. Before then, you were stuck with the pre-loaded apps (RIM and early flip phones which could run apps), or had to hook the phone up to a PC to sideload new apps (Palm, WinCE, Symbian).
There was no App store when the iPhone originally released. Originally Steve Jobs intended on third parties to make Web apps. It wasn't till a year later that the App store opened.
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