It is a good practice anywhere. I live in Vermont, USA. Not particularly known for spiders or scorpions. But we have our share. Rather famous lady known as the black widow and her good friend the brown recluse. Both deadly. Use gloves when getting wood from the pile.
This is good news, and I helped to create it since I wrote AI software and other systems. It means we can focus on enjoying doing a craft, a trade rather than simply being cogs in the machine. I use my brain extensively to manage our family farm, design and build facilities, invent tools we need, etc. It's a whole lot more fun than being Dilbert.
Folks please place your trays in the upright position and fasten your seat belts as we dive into the sun. We'll be transiting to Sirius IV via wormhole gate 12993. Weather at our destination is 1.32 million degrees Kelvin. Have a good flight!
The government really should not be banning one or another light. If the incandescent are so bad because they burn more power then people will figure that out and use better lights that save them money. Educate. But, what the government failed to take into account is the incandescent bulbs heat is good in our northern climate. It is very useful in some situations. Let the people decide. Let the market offer choices. Most of all, stop subsidizing energy and other things so the market can reflect reality.
Now, on to LEDs:
I've been using LED lights in our house for the past four years or so. I've used many different models and brands. I am an engineer - I've worked with LEDs a lot in my projects so I know LEDs. I had looked forward to the day they would be here for home lightning.
I'm very disappointed with commercial units. Very, very, very disappointed. They do not live up to the promise. There is the fact that they just are not very bright, very monochromatic, are off color and flicker. Gads, I thought we were past that horror of flickering lights.
But it gets worse. They're unreliable. The manufacturers make claims of them lasting for tens of thousands of hours but I've had over 60% of the units fail completely in the past four years, sometimes in warrantee, sometimes out of warrantee. Generally it is the power supply and wiring harnesses that are failing.
But it gets worse. On top of the above failures a unit that has 20 LEDs will typically have 1 or 2 LEDs fail in it. Actual failure of the LEDs. Gets worse though because with 100 LEDs we're still getting 5% to 10% failure rates so the count goes up.
And it bets worse... The LEDs are not all created equal. In a instrument panel this doesn't matter much but in a lighting system it looks weird. More expensive units do tend to be better about this one but still aren't right.
The LEDs are also a very focussed light rather than the diffused light of incandescent and florescent bulbs.
The best solution I've found was actually to use LED flashlights. Flashlights! Yes, crazy. They're better quality than the home lighting fixtures. Setup a DC power supply system with battery backup and then run that in your home. Works for us since we have such a small house.
I dearly hope they'll solve these problems but as of today I would recommend not buying LED lighting fixtures unless you're willing to accept the above problems as part of the deal. Maybe in 5 or 10 years it will be better.
Cheers
-Walter Sugar Mountain Farm Pastured Pigs, Sheep & Kids in the mountains of Vermont
We use these in the house I built three years ago. It is a pretty simple technology using glass and aluminum framing. It is called a WhinDouw, or Window or something like that. As an extra bonus there is pretty scenery.
That was backwards. In both lay and science I use statistics many times a day, extensively. I use calculus much more rarely. I know many people who never use calculus in their field (or at home).
All my web sites work great without Flash. All tested out on the iPod Touch so I know they'll also work on the iPad. I look forward to Adobe Flash dying. It is a resource hog and used primarily for glitz & ads. What a waste.
Wouldn't this be wonderful! Most of what I get by snail is bills or junk mail. Now to automate the spam filter for physical mail just like I have for email. Cuts down on 99% of the junk. Less filling too.
In Vermont we have cliffs on the sides of the roads that encourage speeders to stop. The pot holes and frost heaves also serve to enforce speed limits. People foolish enough to drive to fast get caught in the mud when they stop or spin their tires. It is very effective. Fight pavement. Keep dirt roads!
There is no risk to Gaia. The Earth will survive. Humanity may or may not. There have been many mass extinctions. We are not even close to the order of one of those. People think too much of themselves.
The Earth has been warmer and cooler in the past. Species have thrived and died during each cycle. Our species came into existence because of the extinction of our competitors during past extinctions. Given my druthers, I'll take global warming rather than global cooling. Even a little bit of cooling would be disasterous as demonstrated by the past mini-ice ages of the 1800's and other centuries that caused mass starvation and migrations. People are just upset because of there being change and unknown.
By the way, I don't trust him as dictator so I'll keep Democracy.
What amazes me is that the time people spend on their fake farms they could raise enough food for their entire family and several neighboring families, easily. Farm for Real.
That's cold comfort to farmers that their land is now useless for growing crops, but if they could just sell their now-worthless land and buy up some new land 200 miles to the north
Precisely my point. I'm in the north end of the growing zone. Just a little cooling is a disaster for us. Warming will open vast areas for farming. Look at a globe. There are tremendous areas that will improve with a few degrees of warming. Not only that but we have a vast number of plant species that are tolerant, even thrive, at various temperatures. I grow those that do well in the cold climate we have. If our climate warms I'll be able to grow more southern plants and produce a lot more food. By the way, I know what I'm talking about - I'm a farmer.
But, fact remains that the Earth has been warmer and the Earth has been cooler. It WILL change. We may not like that but it is a fact. I would MUCH more prefer global warming than global cooling. You want a disaster? Try an ice age! Even a mini-ice age like happened in the 1800's and other centuries causing mass starvation and migration.
"Seriously, as a Canadian this disgusts me. The EU, the US..."
Hey! Don't blame US! We're getting fucked over too by our government, the international corporations and the new world leaders. Just say http://nonais.org/ if you don't get it.
In other news Microsoft announces it will continue its policy of doing evil where ever it can. Bean counters note that security flaws in Microsoft products have cost the galaxy $42 Quadrillion Jazillion in the past year alone.
The Chinese government doesn't seem to understand that it is very easy to circumvent their great wall of censorship. They merely hurt themselves and their own people. Of course, what this does is give a competitive advantage to people smart enough to get around the government - a bit of evolution in action.
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It is a good practice anywhere. I live in Vermont, USA. Not particularly known for spiders or scorpions. But we have our share. Rather famous lady known as the black widow and her good friend the brown recluse. Both deadly. Use gloves when getting wood from the pile.
This is good news, and I helped to create it since I wrote AI software and other systems. It means we can focus on enjoying doing a craft, a trade rather than simply being cogs in the machine. I use my brain extensively to manage our family farm, design and build facilities, invent tools we need, etc. It's a whole lot more fun than being Dilbert.
Folks please place your trays in the upright position and fasten your seat belts as we dive into the sun. We'll be transiting to Sirius IV via wormhole gate 12993. Weather at our destination is 1.32 million degrees Kelvin. Have a good flight!
I thought that Microsoft had abandoned Windows? They missed completely on the last several releases. Upgrade rates were minimal.
The secret word on this article was "adequacy". Microsoft Windows lacks it.
The government really should not be banning one or another light. If the incandescent are so bad because they burn more power then people will figure that out and use better lights that save them money. Educate. But, what the government failed to take into account is the incandescent bulbs heat is good in our northern climate. It is very useful in some situations. Let the people decide. Let the market offer choices. Most of all, stop subsidizing energy and other things so the market can reflect reality.
Now, on to LEDs:
I've been using LED lights in our house for the past four years or so.
I've used many different models and brands.
I am an engineer - I've worked with LEDs a lot in my projects so I know LEDs.
I had looked forward to the day they would be here for home lightning.
I'm very disappointed with commercial units. Very, very, very disappointed.
They do not live up to the promise.
There is the fact that they just are not very bright, very monochromatic, are off color and flicker. Gads, I thought we were past that horror of flickering lights.
But it gets worse. They're unreliable. The manufacturers make claims of them lasting for tens of thousands of hours but I've had over 60% of the units fail completely in the past four years, sometimes in warrantee, sometimes out of warrantee. Generally it is the power supply and wiring harnesses that are failing.
But it gets worse. On top of the above failures a unit that has 20 LEDs will typically have 1 or 2 LEDs fail in it. Actual failure of the LEDs. Gets worse though because with 100 LEDs we're still getting 5% to 10% failure rates so the count goes up.
And it bets worse... The LEDs are not all created equal. In a instrument panel this doesn't matter much but in a lighting system it looks weird. More expensive units do tend to be better about this one but still aren't right.
The LEDs are also a very focussed light rather than the diffused light of incandescent and florescent bulbs.
The best solution I've found was actually to use LED flashlights. Flashlights! Yes, crazy. They're better quality than the home lighting fixtures. Setup a DC power supply system with battery backup and then run that in your home. Works for us since we have such a small house.
I dearly hope they'll solve these problems but as of today I would recommend not buying LED lighting fixtures unless you're willing to accept the above problems as part of the deal. Maybe in 5 or 10 years it will be better.
Cheers
-Walter
Sugar Mountain Farm
Pastured Pigs, Sheep & Kids
in the mountains of Vermont
And George Melies was a pirate as well because he stole the movie from H. G. Wells.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Men_in_the_Moon
What came around went around. Shame on George. No pity.
HTML5 is a standard.
Flash is a proprietary play box and not a standard.
Apple's reasoning makes a lot of sense and I am glad they are doing this. Right Real Code.
We use these in the house I built three years ago. It is a pretty simple technology using glass and aluminum framing. It is called a WhinDouw, or Window or something like that. As an extra bonus there is pretty scenery.
Non-issue. The iPad is a tool to get my work done. Quite useful.
That was backwards. In both lay and science I use statistics many times a day, extensively. I use calculus much more rarely. I know many people who never use calculus in their field (or at home).
All my web sites work great without Flash. All tested out on the iPod Touch so I know they'll also work on the iPad. I look forward to Adobe Flash dying. It is a resource hog and used primarily for glitz & ads. What a waste.
Wouldn't this be wonderful! Most of what I get by snail is bills or junk mail. Now to automate the spam filter for physical mail just like I have for email. Cuts down on 99% of the junk. Less filling too.
In Vermont we have cliffs on the sides of the roads that encourage speeders to stop. The pot holes and frost heaves also serve to enforce speed limits. People foolish enough to drive to fast get caught in the mud when they stop or spin their tires. It is very effective. Fight pavement. Keep dirt roads!
There is no risk to Gaia. The Earth will survive. Humanity may or may not. There have been many mass extinctions. We are not even close to the order of one of those. People think too much of themselves.
The Earth has been warmer and cooler in the past. Species have thrived and died during each cycle. Our species came into existence because of the extinction of our competitors during past extinctions. Given my druthers, I'll take global warming rather than global cooling. Even a little bit of cooling would be disasterous as demonstrated by the past mini-ice ages of the 1800's and other centuries that caused mass starvation and migrations. People are just upset because of there being change and unknown.
By the way, I don't trust him as dictator so I'll keep Democracy.
What amazes me is that the time people spend on their fake farms they could raise enough food for their entire family and several neighboring families, easily. Farm for Real.
That's cold comfort to farmers that their land is now useless for growing crops, but if they could just sell their now-worthless land and buy up some new land 200 miles to the north
Precisely my point. I'm in the north end of the growing zone. Just a little cooling is a disaster for us. Warming will open vast areas for farming. Look at a globe. There are tremendous areas that will improve with a few degrees of warming. Not only that but we have a vast number of plant species that are tolerant, even thrive, at various temperatures. I grow those that do well in the cold climate we have. If our climate warms I'll be able to grow more southern plants and produce a lot more food. By the way, I know what I'm talking about - I'm a farmer.
No, the rational response is to focus on the real problem: pollution.
But, fact remains that the Earth has been warmer and the Earth has been cooler. It WILL change. We may not like that but it is a fact. I would MUCH more prefer global warming than global cooling. You want a disaster? Try an ice age! Even a mini-ice age like happened in the 1800's and other centuries causing mass starvation and migration.
"Seriously, as a Canadian this disgusts me. The EU, the US..."
Hey! Don't blame US! We're getting fucked over too by our government, the international corporations and the new world leaders. Just say http://nonais.org/ if you don't get it.
Just say no to printing email. This saves 100%. Gee whiz kid!
In other news Microsoft announces it will continue its policy of doing evil where ever it can. Bean counters note that security flaws in Microsoft products have cost the galaxy $42 Quadrillion Jazillion in the past year alone.
This I do not need. It's worse than Flash.
The Chinese government doesn't seem to understand that it is very easy to circumvent their great wall of censorship. They merely hurt themselves and their own people. Of course, what this does is give a competitive advantage to people smart enough to get around the government - a bit of evolution in action.
Apparently they don't get the point. They want us to buy. We don't want to. They need to wet our appetites with demos. No demo, no sale.