Depends on what you mean by "internet". Since you used a lower case "i" the correct answer is that the first successful host-to-host connection on the ARPANET was made between Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park CA. and UCLA at 10:30 pm PST on 29 October 1969 (6:30 UTC on 30 October 1969).

The term "internet", which refers not to a network but to the technology, wasn't used I believe until ~1974. The capitalized form "Internet" is usually used to refer to the actual network (i.e physical implementation) but whether that is correct usage and, if so, when the Internet came into existence, is a topic best left to drunk engineers to argue over.

That’s really cool

Uncle Jun is in the muff again

I think it was first 1 hour free then $3 flat. It’s big place. What can you do for 30mins?!

To further drive your point home, Linux is technically just the kernel which is pretty useless by itself, because there's no built-in way to interact with it.

The standard set of tools for interacting with the Linux kernel are the GNU utilities.

GNU stands for "GNU is Not Unix."

Here is the thing. What do you plan on doing with the house 5 years, 10, years, etc from now.

Is 1k a year in POTENTIAL savings, worth you having a nightmare selling the house, and either having to just eat the cost out of pocket to pay it off and remove it, or drop the price to the point where a buyer will look the other way.

Like i said, it didn't deter us from putting an offer in on a house we otherwise liked, but i wasn't about to assume someone else's decision without some backing, and the fact that they weren't happily going, "Hey here is a check we get from PSE&G every month!" was enough for us.

And this isn't to shit on solar, like i said, we have looked into it. But the way to go isn't through these companies, and requires you to get out your checkbook.

Total cost out of pocket hired out: $7k (we have 2 attics). We got $2k cash rebate from NJ Clean Energy Program, so $5k all in. We save about $815/year on energy costs so break even is around 6 years. They removed all the old fiberglass, vacuumed everything out and hauled away the debris. Air sealing took a full day, insulation about half a day. Two separate blower door tests (before and after) to show the 20% improved tightness data.

I miss snow badly

most of what you're talking about here is covered in their analysis (assuming they know what the hell they're doing). There is no mention of the TREC's/SREC's which are more valuable than the power itself.

There's a DMV office in Airport Plaza in Hazlet. I just dropped off my dads plates the other day and was in and out in less than 5 minutes, mostly because the lady in front of me made the person behind the counter explain things 3x.

yeah these are the issues to which I'm referring. I looked into it with one solar group and they wanted to do a 20 year loan on it collateralized by the array. In this scenario it would have negated our electric bill but the debt service was only maybe 20 or $30 less so that's not much of a savings. The sale of the TREC's was something but it was still probably less than $100 a month in savings/TREC revenue and a big headache.

Then when I want to sell the house I'd be stuck trying to get the buyer to take over the debt and if they didn't I'd have to remove the array and eat whatever was left on the loan.

Jersey is the second best solar market in the country after DC I don't know why these guys are making it so difficult. On some of my bigger commercial properties I have solar groups renting the roof and giving me the power in exchange for them keeping the TREC's. Not sure why this isn't more common on houses.

A piece of history!

The one part of the OS saga you left out is the role played by Dave Cutler. Cutler was a key guy at DEC responsible for RSX-11M and then VMS. He left DEC and joined Microsoft where he led the NT team. The whole NT architecture has his fingerprints all over it and in some ways was a VMS clone.

Never met the guy but I hear he had a real low opinion of UNIX.

When we bought about 10 years ago, we looked at a house that had solar. The system was maybe 5 years old at the time, and the owner wouldn't disclose the utility numbers to let us decide if it was something that was worth having (which means it wasn't).

We put an offer in contingent on them removing the system and a roof inspection, OR giving a concession for 10k, and another 10k in escrow for 5 years in case we needed to replace the roof.

Surprisingly they told us no. That house sat on the market for about 6 months, when everything was flying off the shelves at the time.

you can always print the pdf

I was assumed the rate is not escalating but yes it is a PPA

It is a PPA.

A couple of things:

1. You have no guarantee the solar company will be around to honor their claims down the road.

2. Those panels are tied to a lien on your house. If you plan on selling, you either need a buyer who is cool and will assume your payments (you won't find one), or you need to pay out the solar company. You will also have people who outright won't want solar roofs, because they are concerned about leaks, maintaining the roof moving forward, etc.

3. What they are telling you they will generate assumes peak conditions. I'm going to assume you use electricity on cloudy days, at night, etc. Are YOU selling the power back to the grid, and in such an amount that your nighttime costs are covered?

I've looked into it a few times, and ONLY if you have the right type of land and roof, and ONLY if you outright buy the system, and not finance it through some rando solar company, have the numbers really made sense. Otherwise the ROI is so far out on it that by the time you get half way there, a better technology would have stepped in.

There is an attendant on duty from 5am to 8pm. I would ask them to make sure.

Majority of my family is here. I'd say that and the landscape. You could go from urban/suburban sprawl to complete wilderness in a matter of 15 to 30 minutes depending on where you live. There's also the character of towns, with their small shops and eateries that aren't franchise cookie cutter fair. I could eat at a Turkish cafe in Botany Village, hop in for a bagel in Passaic Park, or pick up hot Polish food and imported goods in Garfield.

Taylor Ham, this is the way !

Very cool, good old Rahway NJ !! 07065 !!!! Get some Munce's hot dogs by the park on St.George Ave back in the day !

would you be owning the array and $90 covers the debt? If so the house is difficult to sell for 20 years

Yeah, sounds like a PPA with the 20 year term. After that they’ve got a less-than-efficient system in their roof and Trinity has sucked all the incentives out of. Add on top that PPA panels do nothing for your property value and make it another logistic to handle if you want to sell your home.

Do yourself a solid OP, work with someone that will sell you a system and get all of the benefits.

I did something similar and don't regret it for a second. We went ahead and got powerwalls as well after, so now any excess is stored first, then sold back to PSEG.

My only regret is that we got the panels shortly after moving in, so we didn't have enough data to support more panels and now we don't have enough panels.