Actually, the newest GE "instant on" bulbs incorporate a small halogen bulb that comes on to supplement the light output and heat the fluorescent tube faster. A great step sideways.
I take issue with the simpledollar analysis, as it seems the author went out of his way to find a non-competitive LED bulb.
I have several Philips '60-watt equivalent' bulbs. I paid $14 for them at the Big Orange Box store, and they consume 11W. They are rated at 25,000 hours lifetime.
In keeping with the math above, I would have to buy 1.2 of these bulbs to attain 30K hours, so the bulb 'cost' would be ~$16.80.
The electricity cost would be $33.00, for a total of $49.80, or ~1/4 the cost of operating the incandescent bulb(s).
My utility also offers subsidized purchases of these and similar bulbs; I bought a bunch of Philips BR30 LED floods for $5 each. And unlike the CFLs they replaced, these are dimmable. With the subsidy, these would have a total cost to me of $39.00, or 1/5 the cost of the incandescent.
The throttle in my car is "drive by wire". So why is it safe to assume that the overloaded ECU won't output "full throttle" instead of some supposed 'safe' state?
What I said is what you do for your employer, in the context of this discussion around Terry Childs. Configuring routers and assigning administrative access controls to them is definitely not a personal project, even though Terry acted like it was. He even attempted to copyright his configurations.
Agreed. This is "work product". It belongs to the employer. Scribbles on a post-it that are relevant to what the employer is paying you to do is work product. It's not yours.
Clicking on the "Do Not Enter" icon for the Java plugin pops up a "Firefox has prevented the unsafe plugin "Java(TM).. from running.." There's a link provided called "What's the risk" (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/p463) that 404's.
So they won't even let you know why it's unsafe, you just have to take their word for it.
Thermoelectric coolers are typically controlled with PWM, to adjust their temperature. The polarity determines which direction the heat is pumped, the duty cycle of the PWM determines how much.
This is, of course, a completely bullshit stance by Verizon. As any FiOS user knows, Verizon just passes any local taxes back on to the user, via the "Verizon Surcharges and Other Charges" section (actual charges from my last bill):
In bio class, we pithed frogs before dissection. If you blew out the cockroaches' neural ganglia and replaced them with a bluetooth controller, would that be torture?
No, it didn't because in the novel, the government was the corporation, and spent enormous effort monitoring and driving consumption. Remember Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy?
This appears to be the 21st century makeover of Chris Whittle's 1992 Edison Project, an attempt to buy student eyeballs with free satellite dishes, with the promise of classroom content supported by ad revenue.
Beware technologists bearing gifts for schools out of the goodness of their hearts.
An investor in a bank, or a purchaser of A-rated securities offered by that bank, may not be aware that there are unregulated, undocumented liabilities held by that bank, which, were they to go sour (see "Credit Default Swap"), could cause the bank to collapse.
If you knew that your bank was involved in large, unregulated transactions worth more than the bank's holdings, would you continue to do business with them?
..the amount of money it will take to put the keys in my hand.
By the time I arrive at (or even call) the dealership, I have researched the car, know the invoice price for the model I want, and have picked out the color.
The only opinions I want about the car are from the mechanics who work on them.
It freaked out the last salesman I bought from when I said I didn't need to test drive the car.
I have several CD-ROMs and floppies where the software's installation key is either printed on the media label, or on another label affixed to the jewel case.
I could have a pristine digital copy of the contents, and still not be able to access it...
If the backlight uses 'white' LEDs, these are actually phosphor-coated blue or near-UV LEDs, and have persistence. That said, just like a an old fluorescent tube, a driven phosphor light source has very perceivable flicker at 60Hz. 85 Hz is higher than most of the population can detect, although there are a few people who can perceive 100 Hz flicker.
..can't make their login work, or remember user login credentials, we can rest assured that no one will ever be able to read what gets put in the strongbox either.
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Actually, the newest GE "instant on" bulbs incorporate a small halogen bulb that comes on to supplement the light output and heat the fluorescent tube faster. A great step sideways.
I take issue with the simpledollar analysis, as it seems the author went out of his way to find a non-competitive LED bulb.
I have several Philips '60-watt equivalent' bulbs. I paid $14 for them at the Big Orange Box store, and they consume 11W. They are rated at 25,000 hours lifetime.
In keeping with the math above, I would have to buy 1.2 of these bulbs to attain 30K hours, so the bulb 'cost' would be ~$16.80.
The electricity cost would be $33.00, for a total of $49.80, or ~1/4 the cost of operating the incandescent bulb(s).
My utility also offers subsidized purchases of these and similar bulbs; I bought a bunch of Philips BR30 LED floods for $5 each. And unlike the CFLs they replaced, these are dimmable. With the subsidy, these would have a total cost to me of $39.00, or 1/5 the cost of the incandescent.
The throttle in my car is "drive by wire". So why is it safe to assume that the overloaded ECU won't output "full throttle" instead of some supposed 'safe' state?
Agreed. This is "work product". It belongs to the employer. Scribbles on a post-it that are relevant to what the employer is paying you to do is work product.
It's not yours.
Clicking on the "Do Not Enter" icon for the Java plugin pops up a "Firefox has prevented the unsafe plugin "Java(TM) .. from running.." There's a link provided called "What's the risk" (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/p463) that 404's.
So they won't even let you know why it's unsafe, you just have to take their word for it.
Thermoelectric coolers are typically controlled with PWM, to adjust their temperature. The polarity determines which direction the heat is pumped, the duty cycle of the PWM determines how much.
In bio class, we pithed frogs before dissection. If you blew out the cockroaches' neural ganglia and replaced them with a bluetooth controller, would that be torture?
Erp. You are correct. BNW was mentioned earlier in the thread, I lost track of the dystopia under discussion...
No, it didn't because in the novel, the government was the corporation, and spent enormous effort monitoring and driving consumption. Remember Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy?
Beware technologists bearing gifts for schools out of the goodness of their hearts.
An investor in a bank, or a purchaser of A-rated securities offered by that bank, may not be aware that there are unregulated, undocumented liabilities held by that bank, which, were they to go sour (see "Credit Default Swap"), could cause the bank to collapse.
If you knew that your bank was involved in large, unregulated transactions worth more than the bank's holdings, would you continue to do business with them?
..the amount of money it will take to put the keys in my hand.
By the time I arrive at (or even call) the dealership, I have researched the car, know the invoice price for the model I want, and have picked out the color.
The only opinions I want about the car are from the mechanics who work on them.
It freaked out the last salesman I bought from when I said I didn't need to test drive the car.
I have several CD-ROMs and floppies where the software's installation key is either printed on the media label, or on another label affixed to the jewel case.
I could have a pristine digital copy of the contents, and still not be able to access it...
If the backlight uses 'white' LEDs, these are actually phosphor-coated blue or near-UV LEDs, and have persistence. That said, just like a an old fluorescent tube, a driven phosphor light source has very perceivable flicker at 60Hz. 85 Hz is higher than most of the population can detect, although there are a few people who can perceive 100 Hz flicker.
..is, by definition, no longer 'solid'.
Not as good as 'THX 1138'...
..can't make their login work, or remember user login credentials, we can rest assured that no one will ever be able to read what gets put in the strongbox either.
That is all.
The more interesting experiment would be to see what happens to their companies, ideas, and ventures should they not return...
..but becomes an expensive habit.
Nothing to worry about, then. Now if it were the Columbia River, I would be a little nervous...
It's more likely that the cops would ruin your life first, and ask questions later. And don't expect an apology when they finally release you.
With thunderous applause."
--Princess/Senator Amidala
"..and a halftime show!"
--Me