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Modern CFLs still take a few minutes to warm up before they reach their full brightness.

here is the article and another...

and some people just leave them on all day because it takes so long for them to warm up. that seems to defeat the purpose a little if you are trying to be "green"

half a second is acceptable...a few minutes is not. i have had a few CFLs that seemed to come on faster than that, but then after a week or 2 of use, seem to fall back to taking a few minutes. That just isn't acceptable, and i don't think it is an unreasonable complaint.

On the other hand, if you search "what is the best web browser" (without the quotes!) like the person you're replying to did, you get slightly different results. I see, in order a comparison from some site I've never heard of with Google Chrome as #1, a LifeHacker page (Chrome again), a random Yahoo! Answers link ("Google Chrome is, for Windows users, the fastest web browser."), a review with 4 equal "best browsers" including Chrome, a PC Mag review (spoiler: Chrome wins!), a really annoying YouTube video where Firefox comes first, "Review: Best Web browser? Google's Chrome outshines pack", a review where Firefox wins, and finally one that doesn't answer the question at all.

$48.94 10940.53 30.21 and 12695.35

While one may complain that the profits from from a small number of areas, the fact remains that MSFT simply shits out money from those two product lines, and is likely to do so for the foreseeable future. MSFT's financial metrics, see this indicate that they are firing on all cyclinders as a money making machine.

Why would you remove him? In the past 10 years he has increased revenue 3x to 73b and net income 3.3x to 25b. A year after he become ceo the xbox was launched, and it now has 49% marketshare.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2001/jul01/07-19Q014ER.aspx

If I only care about the stock price, then ballmer has been terrible. But if I care about the actual health of the company? Then ballmer has been pretty great. I think anyone who seriously thinks he should be replaced really only cares about their own profits from the stock.. we really don't need more companies that only care about this quarter's profits and CEOs who only value their own stock options.

produce the next product that would end up in every home - but Microsoft, under Ballmer's guidance, didn't.

BS. Ballmer took over in 2000.. the XBox was released in 2001.

No 1 console worldwide.. 49% marketshare

If that doesn't count, then what would?

Microsoft's stock price - while fairly high - has remained constant for ten years, while many of its competitors have seen enormous growth

Stock price is a terrible metric. For example, it will value a company that has increased its revenue from 25 billion to 73 billion, and increased its net income from 7.35 billion to 23.34 billion in 10 years exactly the same.

Now to me, 25 billion is less than 73 billion, and 7.35 billion is less than 23.34 billion... so I would think if a company did that, their share price would be higher, right?

Yet, that's exactly the position Microsoft finds itself in. Is this Microsoft's fault, or the investors who don't know basic math?

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2001/jul01/07-19Q014ER.aspx

Problem is that Apple floundered under Sculley and his successors before Jobs returned to the company. And they did try opening up the Power Mac architecture along w/ IBM, and you had companies like Power Computing, Motorola and Umax take a stab at making macs. Only problem is that by this was that by this time, the RISC challenges to Wintel that were supposed to happen had all sputtered - NT on RISC was going nowhere, IBM failed to come up w/ Workplace OS or OS/2 for PPC, Pink - the OS from that Apple subsidiary Taligent - never materialized, Be Box was shortlived and within Apple itself, Copeland and Gershwin went nowhere. In short, all the non-Unix attempts to produce OSs for non-Wintel boxes went nowhere.

By getting NEXTSTEP on the Macs, Jobs got over that problem, and realizing that the Mac Clones were only canibalizing Apple's business, but not winning marketshare from the Wintel segment, he decided to pull the plug on that licensing. A microcosm of this problem was seen earlier - when Apple switched from the 68k to the Power Macs, it didn't help the PPC gain any marketshare over the x86 - all it did was replace one Motorola CPU w/ another, which was an ugly result for Motorola.

Given all that, if Apple did listen to Woz, it would risk going back to the state it was in the 90s, when it was haemorraging cash. No reason to jettison what works right now. What they might do is introduce something really low end to target that section of the computer market that would prefer alternatives to Microsoft.

Long term Apple chart You see that part after the worst CEO the computer industry ever knew was got rid of? What is it? Why it is the 50%+ increase that Sculley's professionalism gave them when Mr "64K is enough" was replaced.

You see what happened after that? Apple was making rubbish machines with a rubbish OS because of its internal backwardness so people went to real machines which really worked in the real world. Apple then tried to replace the rubbish OS with another but that was scrapped when they could not get it to work. They replaced this with another putative OS which they also could not get to work because Apple was rubbish at designing OSes.

And why did Jobs get rid of the clones when he came back? It couldn't be because they were better and cheaper than the ones Apple were making could it?

Or you can do the weather from one

http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/-/watch/29296424/grant-the-nuclear-pharmacist/

Reactor info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPAL

If you have any money invested in a 401K there is a chance you own stock in big oil or other evil corporations. It happens.

Yup, I did some digging in my 401K ETF holdings and discovered that I owned a little bit of Halliburton. Whoops! I did not unwind the ETF position but I was able to redirect new investments to other funds with similar "risk profiles" but with holdings that I was more interested in promoting. Big oil, OTOH, is probably a bit more difficult to avoid. A quick check shows that Exxon and Chevron are in the top 10 for SPY.

If you have any money invested in a 401K there is a chance you own stock in big oil or other evil corporations. It happens.

Yup, I did some digging in my 401K ETF holdings and discovered that I owned a little bit of Halliburton. Whoops! I did not unwind the ETF position but I was able to redirect new investments to other funds with similar "risk profiles" but with holdings that I was more interested in promoting. Big oil, OTOH, is probably a bit more difficult to avoid. A quick check shows that Exxon and Chevron are in the top 10 for SPY.

I used Yahoo Finance, http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=ITV.L

Perhaps Yahoo are a factor of 1,000 out. Unsure what is realistic these days, with tech company bubbles around.

Here's a guy who picked up his degree at age 72. His life work (NBA coach for 30+ years, Hall of Fame) was deemed good enough to satisfy the "student-teaching" requirement.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/don-nelson-iowa-graduate-50-185357704--nba.html

Conservatives are evil. Don't be one.

http://hardincountyconservatives.blogspot.com/2012/05/greg-abbott-wins-appeal-tx-ban-on.html

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110614035520AApWGtA

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-02-13/news/31054067_1_professors-obscenity-first-bill

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-rachel-maddow-show/43388331#43388331

http://www.mediaite.com/online/michelle-bachmann-signs-social-conservative-pro-marriage-pledge-that-also-bans-porn/

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/rick-santorum-wants-ban-hardcore-pornography-222833811.html

http://www.newsinenglish.no/2012/05/07/conservatives-back-ban-on-begging/

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/11/wyomings_self-described_conser.html

http://stfuconservatives.net/post/19427221927

Conservatives are evil. Don't be one.

http://hardincountyconservatives.blogspot.com/2012/05/greg-abbott-wins-appeal-tx-ban-on.html

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110614035520AApWGtA

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-02-13/news/31054067_1_professors-obscenity-first-bill

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-rachel-maddow-show/43388331#43388331

http://www.mediaite.com/online/michelle-bachmann-signs-social-conservative-pro-marriage-pledge-that-also-bans-porn/

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/rick-santorum-wants-ban-hardcore-pornography-222833811.html

http://www.newsinenglish.no/2012/05/07/conservatives-back-ban-on-begging/

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/11/wyomings_self-described_conser.html

http://stfuconservatives.net/post/19427221927

1000 / 3.5 ~= 285. Of course, that assumes you believe the OP's billions vs millions claim.

Sources claim 650M for windows 7:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-7-Approximately-650-Million-Sold-Licenses-by-the-End-of-2011-202026.shtml

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=ADBE+Key+Statistics
If 100% of Adobe's 4.2B revenue comes from $700 Photoshop sales, that's 6M units/year, call that 24M units over the lifespan of windows 7 since release in 2009.

So for every unit of Photshop, you have at least 27 units of windows. Factor in the 3.5X price and you still have about 8 equivalent units of windows for every photshop over which to amortize costs.

According to this source "The longest continuous temperature record is the Hadley Centre's Central England Temperature series. It starts around 1850." considering that is only 160 years it and comparing it to the time man have been on earth that would be equivalent to a person saying "this is the hottest I have been in the last few milliseconds. Perhaps is the time frame was larger I could believe it was an issue.

Citation please. Show me this alleged subsidy (and how big it is) that goes only to oil companies.

OK, Here's wikipedia and Here's a history.

FTFA: "Hart, CEO of International Game Technology, a gaming machine manufacturer, told the Yahoo board that the board asked her to step down from her seat." She is CEO of IGT, and the IGT board of directors are the ones that asked her to resign from Yahoo because it is a huge distraction.

//Full disclosure: I work at IGT

Well you have to prove that education is asset to society. Can show that we are generating more nominal output with less input as result of our society being more educated ( % of population with a degree is a valid measure of that ) then ever?

You have no control so good luck.

How about http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/stats-on-human-rights/statistics-on-gross-domestic-product-correlations/#9
or http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-10-most-educated-countries-in-the-world.html
In today's economies knowledge is the basis for almost any industry that won't be outsourced to China, Mexico or any other rising country within a few years. To keep up you need researchers, engineers and other highly qualified people. If you don't have them, you either have to hire them from abroad (at a price) or fade into oblivion.

Your logic is retarded. This was a provision that would remove tax loopholes on the wealthy to pay for the funding of the federal Stafford loans program (who was, incidentally, a Republican). These are tax loopholes that even the Republicans opposed! How does this make the Democrats "hate the small guy"?

I don't know if Slashdot loves repeating the "both parties are the same, both parties are stupid" mantra, but really, at least make a coherent argument when doing so. You're just like Mitt Romney, trying to rewrite history.

Yes, there's a huge difference between the GPL and the GPL. Not to mention the much bigger difference to the GPL. :-)

Quite simply it was on a plate (unification) ... but they missed their chance ...

"Once a corral of wooden stakes was placed around two of the rocks. The team then left. (Remember, the rocks won't move when anyone is around.) When they returned, one rock had moved out, while the other stayed in the corral. The rocks seem to slide rather than roll, but to this day, no one knows why. The only certainty is that something is either pushing or pulling them."

TFA is a good theory for Ireland but there must be something else at work in Death Valley. Ice has been ruled out as well.

http://voices.yahoo.com/moving-rocks-death-valley-national-park-13323.html

Except in the UK, where they tend to refer to it as "square". Which is perhaps even more bizarre.

Do you live here? I've only ever heard it called "hash".

(Worst citation ever: A UK Yahoo! answers post: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091206143109AAzb2iQ repeating the "joke" "For drugs, press the hash key.")

Of course, smugly, Obama is yet again just a ditto-head on this sanction issue (this despite his Tony Rezko's inspired Syrian "reset" policy)

http://www.examiner.com/article/clinton-calls-syrian-tyrant-a-reformer-despite-assad-s-bloody-record
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/world/middleeast/04syria.html
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-levies-tech-sanctions-syria-120642375.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/obama-tightens-penalties-on-iran-and-syria-for-trying-to-evade-get-around-us-sanctions/2012/05/01/gIQAz2ZNuT_story.html

(and we'll see how this last one plays out)
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/02/24/exclusive_state_department_quietly_warning_region_on_syrian_wmds

The market seems to agree with the "Slashdot analysts".

Oh, if the stock price history has a hidden meaning that confirms your conspiracy theory, I'm sure the Finnish market regulators would be very interested in it. Quick, email them.

So, as I say, as long as the right people got lubricated, it's business as usual.

Today's exchange rate: 1 Euro = 1.31 US dollars. Pretty much where it has always been. Certainly it's off its all time highs. Certainly it's not at its all time lows. But yes, let's play the popular press's game of "The Euro is Dying!".

How do you look at that graph and conclude that the Euro has "pretty much ... always been" at $1.31? The 12 month hi is $1.48 and the 12 month low is $1.26. 10 years ago it was under $0.90. Over the past 5 years there are a lot of peaks and valleys, but the general trend is downward. The peak in July, 2008 was higher than the peak in Nov, 2009, which was higher than Apr, 2011, which is higher than anything since.

The pound sterling may be doing worse than it ever has, but it's certainly faring better than the euro. View the last year's trend from yahoo!

Today's exchange rate: 1 Euro = 1.31 US dollars. Pretty much where it has always been.

What that tells the rest of us is that the US$ has problems too.

This price increase is a measure against http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_market

Two years ago 1 Pound = 1.5 Euro, now it is 1.3 Euro. http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=GBPEUR%3DX
  MS is increasing the price in GB so that M$ price is around the same in Europe zone.

Today's exchange rate: 1 Euro = 1.31 US dollars. Pretty much where it has always been. Certainly it's off its all time highs. Certainly it's not at its all time lows. But yes, let's play the popular press's game of "The Euro is Dying!".

Finally this is obviously not an attempt to black mail these companies.

Yes it is.

It's also the reason the MS shills are so desperately trying to ridicule anyone who suggests Apple, Microsoft Nokia and Oracle are in bed together.

"Before he died, Steve Jobs said 'I'm going to destroy Android'."
"The fact that both Microsoft and Apple desire to destroy the Android market; and the other facts listed above; lead one believe that Microsoft and Apple truly are partners and, as such, could be looked upon, for purposes of anti-trust challenges, as a single monopolistic entity,"

http://voices.yahoo.com/is-microsoft-trying-kill-android-software-11018092.html for those of us who've been around for a while, this might seem familiar.

In the mid '90s, Bill gates stated:

“Netscape’s strategy is to make Windows and the Apple Macintosh OS all but irrelevant by building the browser into a full-featured OS with information browsing. Over time Netscape will add memory management, file systems, security, scheduling, graphics and everything else in Windows that applications require. Netscape hopes that its browser will become a de facto platform for software development, ultimately replacing Windows as the mainstream set of software standards.”

His response (amongst others Microsoft was prosecuted for) was to collude with Apple to ensure Internet Explorer was the default browser on Macs.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080513091408AA2S4NP

The Aussie dollar has already taken some hits as China's infrastructure investment growth rates and therefore iron ore growth rates are tailing off.

If you'd like to call yearly variations of 9% as hits and rebounds back to the average level as tailing off... then I guess you are right. After all, it's just a matter of terminology, like in "you say potato, I say potahto" so, to be fair... let's call the whole thing off, shall we?

To be fair to TFS (and we might as well do, for a change of pace) it doesn't say that they do manufacture Apple products.

They do, though. To be more specific, they make iPhones (4, not 4S, for some reason) and are scheduled to start making iPads soon. Here are two links (in portuguese - feel free to use Google translate), and another one saying that's the same plant that's threatening to strike. Which is not surprising, considering it's the only plant they have in Brazil. I'm wondering if the GGP is misinformed or just providing an information disservice.

To be fair to TFS (and we might as well do, for a change of pace) it doesn't say that they do manufacture Apple products.

They do, though. To be more specific, they make iPhones (4, not 4S, for some reason) and are scheduled to start making iPads soon. Here are two links (in portuguese - feel free to use Google translate), and another one saying that's the same plant that's threatening to strike. Which is not surprising, considering it's the only plant they have in Brazil. I'm wondering if the GGP is misinformed or just providing an information disservice.

No, it isn't such a big deal.

Not only did they never do anything with this payload data, there is no record of them ever planning to do anything with it, and it's actually pretty hard to even think of anything they realistically could have done with it (without devolving into paranoid conspiracy theories). Which all supports the theory that collecting the data was not part of the master-plan.

But there is something wrong with Google only paying $50K penalty for non-cooperation.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-pay-25-000-fcc-113025671.html

The penalty should have been calibrated to the size of the company so that it hurt. If you don't like the gov' snooping into the private business of corporations then vote for Ron Paul, but in the mean-time companies must comply with investigations, or face penalties that aren't a joke.

If ten pounds of anything can get onto a plane by the simple expedient of bribery, please explain again why adult travelers, but not children, must remove their shoes as they stand massed in an unsecured part of a typical U.S. aiport.

you're misinformed:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/tsa-under-fire-mistreatment-7-old-girl-cerebral-164507761.html

and this from earlier today on /.

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/04/26/0352242/tsa-defends-pat-down-of-4-year-old-girl

I'd imagine that varies from state to state.

In georgia, SACS accredits high schools.

Is this your first visit to /. ?
Page re-aligns Google
"When he took over as CEO, Page quickly made his top priority clear by moving Google's executive offices into the same building as the team working on Google Plus. Page also tied a portion of employee bonuses to the success of Google Plus and eliminated what he considered to be unnecessary distractions by closing more than 20 of the company's less popular services.
"Larry is driven by his paranoia about Facebook. Clearly, these are two companies at war with each other," said Ken Auletta, who got to know Page while writing his book about the company.

The most I can see them doing is build a mockup that looks like it, showing it flying, and then the entire world concluding, "OMG, they copied the US drone!!!111" — except that it won't contain any of the systems and technology aboard the RQ-170.

Would be a great propaganda victory for Iran, though. Which is exactly the sort of thing they're looking for. Iran's playing up the drone story again, this week saying that Russia and China are aggressively seeking information about it, and then two days later making this "announcement"? With Iran claiming it used a force field and "advanced space technology" to down the drone (and no, this isn't simply a failure of the translation), nothing is too surprising.

Of course, US drones have been flying over Iran for years, and drones are still flying over Iran after the RQ-170 incident.

Interestingly, as the Western press and pundits hyperventilated over the loss of the drone, Iran's state-controlled media and spokesmen repeatedly changed and finessed their story to fit with the most panicked narratives of "what might have happened".

Logic would dictate that the drone simply malfunctioned and crashed, or at absolute MOST had its control link jammed — a known vulnerability of UAS — and was not brought down in a controlled fashion, nor has been "reverse-engineered".

In fairness, they only pay for themselves in Germany because of huge subsidies

Yup. Over here in the US, there are absolutely no subsidies on energy production.

"The image this title brings to mind is of a mighty military commander, one who can at a mere word summon rank upon rank of protective power" from -> What is or does the Lord of Hosts means? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081010142651AAPvMox

* There's "THE LEADER HIMSELF" of the entire cosmos/universe (whatever) being described, and in reference to the term hosts!

APK

P.S.=> Does that "suit you" well enough, troll? apk

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