Its interesting that other than thermal issues and eventual phosphor wear out, you really can't make a LED that will work at all, that won't work for a long time. On the other hand, its easy to make a CFL that'll kind of work, for a little while, and then promptly burn out. Pretty clear which technology better fits the China/Walmart/Big Box Store business model...
That'd be nice if it weren't for the "other than thermal issues" part. China/Walmart/Big Box Store business model can and will skimp on cooling, and you get LEDs that'll kind of work, for a little while, and them promptly cook themselves.
I'm not sure why failures are so common. Is it that we're dealing with Chinese made crap and no one can be bothered with some basic quality control? Are they that desperate to bring down the price?
That, and heat. High power leds run friggin' hot, and trying to have enough cooling for them and the drive electronics to survive AND stay light bulb sized while putting out amount of light comparable to CFL or incandescent is challenging to say the least... combine that with as cheap and possible, and you have a good recipe for self-roasting led bulbs.
Even if you ARE using electrical heating, lights tend to be very badly located for heating purposes. They're almost always high up, so there's barely any convection to stir up the air and heat up things evenly, and they only end up warming the roof.
News at 11... eating oily fish gives you oily shits.
FFS, does no one have any common sense anymore, and has to be "informed" of every conceiveable eventuality ?
That's just flat out stupid. Eating most oily fish (or oily anything) WILL NOT give you oily shits (unless you're on Orlistat), because the oil gets absorbed just like any other nutrient.
Escolar does, because the fat in it is indigestible and passes straight through you unlike other oils, so yes, it would be pretty nice to be informed that it's one of the only handful of fish that will cause effects dramatically different from everything else.
Oh, don't be ridiculous, everyone knows the blackhole is so small it's going to take at least a few weeks to devour the Earth. Might even be months, so better take care of those bills too.
Not that I have a Beta to hand to check this, but you're saying that they sign Rawhide packages, but don't sign Beta packages? I find this highly unlikely, to the extent I'd guess you just made this up.
At what point did I say that they sign Rawhide packages? They don't.
I'm not sure what makes you think that would work. Something in the machinery is obviously granting root privs to the relevant process(es) at some point, or it couldn't work without support from rpm, and that being the case, it'll likely to be able to read 600 files just fine.
Note that it doesn't extend to yum either, so locking down the yum binary would be useless, packagekit is different beast entirely.
I don't know if what you describe is possible when you install it from sources, or in some other distros, but I do know that the debian/ubuntu and fedora packages of wireshark do no such thing, in them it does NOT work for regular users no matter who installed it.
Wrong, Seth is not supporting this madness, although if you just pick one of his comments at random without reading the surrounding discussion and getting the context, you could get the wrong idea.
All known arrangements of life either consume oxygen or produce it, either way we will find free oxygen anywhere we find such life.
Uhh. What? Life on Earth was already at least few hundred million years old when cyanobacteria figured out the trick to produce oxygen, and obviously nothing consumed it before that either, because there wasn't any oxygen to consume. And boy was it bad for the critters that weren't used to it when those buggers started releasing the stuff into the atmosphere en masse, they call it the friggin' oxygen catastrophe.
There are STILL things that die when exposed to oxygen, many of them pathogens (not much free oxygen in your body, since it's all bound up in hemoglobin) for example Clostridium bacteria, the nice buggers responsible for botulism (that's why it's so commonly associated with contaminated canned foods - no pesky oxygen there) and tetanus (tends to happen with deep wounds where air won't reach). There are also organisms that can tolerate (and sometimes use oxygen), but don't NEED it - fermentation is a form of anaerobic metabolism, for example, so the next time you have a beer, be thankful not every living thing consumes oxygen.
You are right about water, but considering there's exactly one "known arrangement", you'd be hard pressed to draw any statistics from that.
The problem is that Washington State allows open carry of firearms.
With certain exceptions: (1) It is unlawful for any person to manufacture, own, buy, sell, loan, furnish, transport, or have in possession or under control, any machine gun, short-barreled shotgun, or short-barreled rifle;
Where machine gun is defined as: (7) "Machine gun" means any firearm known as a machine gun, mechanical rifle, submachine gun, or any other mechanism or instrument not requiring that the trigger be pressed for each shot and having a reservoir clip, disc, drum, belt, or other separable mechanical device for storing, carrying, or supplying ammunition which can be loaded into the firearm, mechanism, or instrument, and fired therefrom at the rate of five or more shots per second.
The type of weapon reported - an "ak47" is legal in the state. They had no probable cause to act.
Uh, no, it isn't. AK47 is fully automatic, has a magazine, and is capable of firing more than five rounds a second, under the Washington law it's a "machine gun" and as such specifically NOT legal in the state.
Apple didn't have anything to lose, they were dying, and all those customers would've gone away very soon anyway. So they took a gamble, and tried to entice some new ones, and it worked.
Microsoft, on the other hand, has everything to lose and very little to gain by that kind of desperate move. Sure, everyone loves to hate them, but they still continue to hand out their money to use the crap, so it doesn't matter one bit.
CFLs have to address the same problem. Mercury vapor by itself glows in the UV range. The rest is done with phosphors, as in "white" LEDs.
Kind of, but not really. Sure, UV leds and fluorescents are both be in "UV range", but they still output different wavelengths, and require different phosphors. Fluorescent lights have been around for a long time, and people have already come up with very good phosphor mixtures for them, but those won't work for leds, and the ones for them are nowhere near as good yet.
It's interesting to see that Yahoo News says it's quoting AFP on this one. What would be more interesting to hear if this is actually a AFP "news" or not. - And if so, it would be very interesting to hear who on AFP was drunk enough to come up with this... =)
Have you been living in a barrel for the last week? AFP did not make up this. It was in the Finnish media a few days before it became an international hit.
And BTW. It's December here in Finland (like I guess it's in most parts of the world), and the mosquitoes died by September...
Of course, since all of this happened in summer, that's hardly relevant. Someone just happened to dig out a juicy tidbit out of the police archives only now.
Even most of the traditional working breeds are being bred as a pets. Sure, there are still strains or sub-breeds that are bred to work, but I rather doubt they make up even one percent of the total, and we were talking about dogs on the whole. If anything, the existence of such working lines makes the variability so much more pronounced, as they would stand out from the masses - even the masses of "same" breed.
As for golden retrievers, they just might prove that conjecture - some of them are bred as working dogs too, perhaps your dumb ones were from a pet line, and the smart ones referred here had a significant guide dog heritage.
Perhaps the variation in dogs that we are seeing (besides the obvious variation, the same as in people), is the emergence of a higher level of intelligence in the species as a whole?
I wish you were right, but unfortunately I'd bet it's the other way around - it's not the emergence of intelligence that is causing the variability, but the opposite.
Wolves are very smart, and dogs of the past had to work for living, with many of their jobs requiring a degree of intelligence, but nowadays they're being bred for variety of reasons, most of which no longer have anything to do with intelligence, but all sort of cute and useless traits people deem as desirable. That means intelligence is no longer being selected for, and on the whole dogs are becoming dumber by the minute - but occasionally you'll get a throwback and much more intelligent dog such as the ones described here.
If you're coming up with dumb things like these, PLEASE for the sake of $DEITY at least bother to check if they're true. Lying is pretty despicable. Basing your rant on five years old version isn't much better. Same goes for the people who modded this drivel insightful.
1. Half-implemented 'web view' pane. It's useless. If I want to view something as a web page, I'll use Firefox or the browser of my choice (please not Epiphany).
Doesn't exist any more. Hasn't for years.
3. No simple TEXT BOX view of the current location - or if it's available, it's hidden. OSX and Vista have both abandoned this but that's no reason for Linux to. The location needs to be a text box so you can Copy/Paste. That's important for advanced users, because locations are not opaque things that you can 'discover' through a conversation process, but are things you need to *communicate* to other programs and to humans. Text is the only reliable way of communicating, icons don't cut it (you can't cut and paste an icon into an email or IM or config file).
It's available and not hidden. There's a button in the friggin' location bar itself to toggle between text and UI. Beyond that, you CAN cut and paste "an icon" to email, IM or config file. Copying in nautilus and pasting into a text field gets you the filename of the copied file, the very same thing you seem to want.
4. 'Emblems'. Sort of cute idea, but implementing anything like this at the gui file-browser level is the Wrong Place to do it. Again, because you can't communicate the presence of emblems - it's metadata that only exists in an interactive browsing session. So you can't share emblems, you can't copy/paste them, then don't exist for anyone but you and only when you're using Nautilus. So useless.
So they could be somewhat more useful, but they're entirely invisible if you don't use them, why the mere fact that something you don't find useful exists should annoy you, I won't even try to understand
6. 'Spatial mode'. Nuff said. No, it wasn't innovative, nor was it pleasant. Win95's Explorer had this - as one of two modes that you could select, and advanced users quickly found 'open in same window' much more usable.
Thank goodness Ubuntu hacked it off and made Nautilus nearly usable, but the Gnome folks' response still leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.
So it's exactly the same thing as in Win95, as one of two modes that you can select, but in one it's the epitome of usability and in other it's the devil incarnated. Man is that logical or what. Oh, and Ubuntu didn't "hack it off", as I'm sure you know, they changed a default setting. Gnome folks' response was to quickly make the setting more easily accessible once there was user demand for it. Oh the horror.
It's little things like not being to turn off the status bar unless you're in spatial mode, not being able to adjust the size of the side pane, not being able to dismiss the side pane without hitting the menu (because usually you bring up the pane to navigate, then once you're there you need more screen real estate in a hurry) - these little, pointless restrictions just chafe.
You can: * Turn off the status bar in browser windows * Adjust the size of the side pane * And dismiss the side pane without hitting the menu (it has both keyboard shortcut and a small close button similar to firefox's close tab ones)
Next?
It's a design philosophy which needs to be changed.
Maybe griping about non-existent faults is what needs to be changed? Perhaps at least some those things did not work once, they do now, which makes it pretty obvious there is no "design philosophy" involved against such features, nobody just had gotten around to doing them yet.
Bluetooth support isn't dependable, and even networking support isn't 100% dependable at the GUI level.
Are you kidding? Bluetooth support in Windows is an absolute nightmare with anything that does not work with the bundled drivers (that's quite a few devices), and networking support isn't anything to write home about either.
I don't doubt you've had bad experiences, but you obviously fail to understand they don't happen to everyone, and that some people have exactly same troubles with windows.
Since anecdotes prove everything, I just got a new HSDPA modem few weeks ago, it comes complete with two pages worth of arcane instructions for getting the damn thing working in XP's "100% dependable GUI networking", and I hear it's nigh impossible in Vista. Linux? You plug it in, and it asks for PIN code. You're in the interwebs.
Okay, if they can do it for bones, can they do it for dental repair?
This one, not for teeth themselves, but it can probably be used to grow jaw bone into which an artificial root (dental implant) will later be planted to, in cases where there is not enough of the original left to work with.
There are also stem cell treatments in the works that will grow entire new teeth, but they're bit farther away.
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Its interesting that other than thermal issues and eventual phosphor wear out, you really can't make a LED that will work at all, that won't work for a long time. On the other hand, its easy to make a CFL that'll kind of work, for a little while, and then promptly burn out. Pretty clear which technology better fits the China/Walmart/Big Box Store business model...
That'd be nice if it weren't for the "other than thermal issues" part. China/Walmart/Big Box Store business model can and will skimp on cooling, and you get LEDs that'll kind of work, for a little while, and them promptly cook themselves.
I'm not sure why failures are so common. Is it that we're dealing with Chinese made crap and no one can be bothered with some basic quality control? Are they that desperate to bring down the price?
That, and heat. High power leds run friggin' hot, and trying to have enough cooling for them and the drive electronics to survive AND stay light bulb sized while putting out amount of light comparable to CFL or incandescent is challenging to say the least... combine that with as cheap and possible, and you have a good recipe for self-roasting led bulbs.
Even if you ARE using electrical heating, lights tend to be very badly located for heating purposes. They're almost always high up, so there's barely any convection to stir up the air and heat up things evenly, and they only end up warming the roof.
My cellphone not only detects WiFi but can use it for surfing pr0n. Try THAT with your watch!
News at 11 ... eating oily fish gives you oily shits.
FFS, does no one have any common sense anymore, and has to be "informed" of every conceiveable eventuality ?
That's just flat out stupid. Eating most oily fish (or oily anything) WILL NOT give you oily shits (unless you're on Orlistat), because the oil gets absorbed just like any other nutrient.
Escolar does, because the fat in it is indigestible and passes straight through you unlike other oils, so yes, it would be pretty nice to be informed that it's one of the only handful of fish that will cause effects dramatically different from everything else.
But maybe mine. I plan on living to be at least 500, hopefully more. So far, so good.
Across the galaxy takes 200000 years round-trip so you better hope for quite a few more.
Oh, don't be ridiculous, everyone knows the blackhole is so small it's going to take at least a few weeks to devour the Earth. Might even be months, so better take care of those bills too.
Not that I have a Beta to hand to check this, but you're saying that they sign Rawhide packages, but don't sign Beta packages? I find this highly unlikely, to the extent I'd guess you just made this up.
At what point did I say that they sign Rawhide packages? They don't.
Seriously, it's not like the final release was a surprise. Non of the beta testers noticed it and thought it might be an issue?
How would they? Beta packages are unsigned, and this thing only works on signed packages.
I'm not sure what makes you think that would work. Something in the machinery is obviously granting root privs to the relevant process(es) at some point, or it couldn't work without support from rpm, and that being the case, it'll likely to be able to read 600 files just fine.
Note that it doesn't extend to yum either, so locking down the yum binary would be useless, packagekit is different beast entirely.
I don't know if what you describe is possible when you install it from sources, or in some other distros, but I do know that the debian/ubuntu and fedora packages of wireshark do no such thing, in them it does NOT work for regular users no matter who installed it.
And nobody raised a big stink about it before the official release.
That's not really surprising, since it only works on signed packages and the beta rpms's are unsigned.
Nobody noticed because it didn't happen during testing.
Wrong, Seth is not supporting this madness, although if you just pick one of his comments at random without reading the surrounding discussion and getting the context, you could get the wrong idea.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-November/msg01086.html
All known arrangements of life either consume oxygen or produce it, either way we will find free oxygen anywhere we find such life.
Uhh. What? Life on Earth was already at least few hundred million years old when cyanobacteria figured out the trick to produce oxygen, and obviously nothing consumed it before that either, because there wasn't any oxygen to consume. And boy was it bad for the critters that weren't used to it when those buggers started releasing the stuff into the atmosphere en masse, they call it the friggin' oxygen catastrophe.
There are STILL things that die when exposed to oxygen, many of them pathogens (not much free oxygen in your body, since it's all bound up in hemoglobin) for example Clostridium bacteria, the nice buggers responsible for botulism (that's why it's so commonly associated with contaminated canned foods - no pesky oxygen there) and tetanus (tends to happen with deep wounds where air won't reach). There are also organisms that can tolerate (and sometimes use oxygen), but don't NEED it - fermentation is a form of anaerobic metabolism, for example, so the next time you have a beer, be thankful not every living thing consumes oxygen.
You are right about water, but considering there's exactly one "known arrangement", you'd be hard pressed to draw any statistics from that.
Are there some universally likable genes, and what do they code?
Why, yes there are. They code for Slashdot use.
The problem is that Washington State allows open carry of firearms.
With certain exceptions:
(1) It is unlawful for any person to manufacture, own, buy, sell, loan, furnish, transport, or have in possession or under control, any machine gun, short-barreled shotgun, or short-barreled rifle;
Where machine gun is defined as:
(7) "Machine gun" means any firearm known as a machine gun, mechanical rifle, submachine gun, or any other mechanism or instrument not requiring that the trigger be pressed for each shot and having a reservoir clip, disc, drum, belt, or other separable mechanical device for storing, carrying, or supplying ammunition which can be loaded into the firearm, mechanism, or instrument, and fired therefrom at the rate of five or more shots per second.
The type of weapon reported - an "ak47" is legal in the state. They had no probable cause to act.
Uh, no, it isn't. AK47 is fully automatic, has a magazine, and is capable of firing more than five rounds a second, under the Washington law it's a "machine gun" and as such specifically NOT legal in the state.
So, our future AI overlords begin their research with the Lysine Contingency? Should we be worried?
Of course we should. Next thing you know, they'll be cloning dinosaur shock troops.
Apple didn't have anything to lose, they were dying, and all those customers would've gone away very soon anyway. So they took a gamble, and tried to entice some new ones, and it worked.
Microsoft, on the other hand, has everything to lose and very little to gain by that kind of desperate move. Sure, everyone loves to hate them, but they still continue to hand out their money to use the crap, so it doesn't matter one bit.
CFLs have to address the same problem. Mercury vapor by itself glows in the UV range. The rest is done with phosphors, as in "white" LEDs.
Kind of, but not really. Sure, UV leds and fluorescents are both be in "UV range", but they still output different wavelengths, and require different phosphors. Fluorescent lights have been around for a long time, and people have already come up with very good phosphor mixtures for them, but those won't work for leds, and the ones for them are nowhere near as good yet.
It's interesting to see that Yahoo News says it's quoting AFP on this one. What would be more interesting to hear if this is actually a AFP "news" or not. - And if so, it would be very interesting to hear who on AFP was drunk enough to come up with this... =)
Have you been living in a barrel for the last week? AFP did not make up this. It was in the Finnish media a few days before it became an international hit.
And BTW. It's December here in Finland (like I guess it's in most parts of the world), and the mosquitoes died by September...
Of course, since all of this happened in summer, that's hardly relevant. Someone just happened to dig out a juicy tidbit out of the police archives only now.
Even most of the traditional working breeds are being bred as a pets. Sure, there are still strains or sub-breeds that are bred to work, but I rather doubt they make up even one percent of the total, and we were talking about dogs on the whole. If anything, the existence of such working lines makes the variability so much more pronounced, as they would stand out from the masses - even the masses of "same" breed.
As for golden retrievers, they just might prove that conjecture - some of them are bred as working dogs too, perhaps your dumb ones were from a pet line, and the smart ones referred here had a significant guide dog heritage.
Perhaps the variation in dogs that we are seeing (besides the obvious variation, the same as in people), is the emergence of a higher level of intelligence in the species as a whole?
I wish you were right, but unfortunately I'd bet it's the other way around - it's not the emergence of intelligence that is causing the variability, but the opposite.
Wolves are very smart, and dogs of the past had to work for living, with many of their jobs requiring a degree of intelligence, but nowadays they're being bred for variety of reasons, most of which no longer have anything to do with intelligence, but all sort of cute and useless traits people deem as desirable. That means intelligence is no longer being selected for, and on the whole dogs are becoming dumber by the minute - but occasionally you'll get a throwback and much more intelligent dog such as the ones described here.
If you're coming up with dumb things like these, PLEASE for the sake of $DEITY at least bother to check if they're true. Lying is pretty despicable. Basing your rant on five years old version isn't much better. Same goes for the people who modded this drivel insightful.
1. Half-implemented 'web view' pane. It's useless. If I want to view something as a web page, I'll use Firefox or the browser of my choice (please not Epiphany).
Doesn't exist any more. Hasn't for years.
3. No simple TEXT BOX view of the current location - or if it's available, it's hidden. OSX and Vista have both abandoned this but that's no reason for Linux to. The location needs to be a text box so you can Copy/Paste. That's important for advanced users, because locations are not opaque things that you can 'discover' through a conversation process, but are things you need to *communicate* to other programs and to humans. Text is the only reliable way of communicating, icons don't cut it (you can't cut and paste an icon into an email or IM or config file).
It's available and not hidden. There's a button in the friggin' location bar itself to toggle between text and UI.
Beyond that, you CAN cut and paste "an icon" to email, IM or config file. Copying in nautilus and pasting into a text field gets you the filename of the copied file, the very same thing you seem to want.
4. 'Emblems'. Sort of cute idea, but implementing anything like this at the gui file-browser level is the Wrong Place to do it. Again, because you can't communicate the presence of emblems - it's metadata that only exists in an interactive browsing session. So you can't share emblems, you can't copy/paste them, then don't exist for anyone but you and only when you're using Nautilus. So useless.
So they could be somewhat more useful, but they're entirely invisible if you don't use them, why the mere fact that something you don't find useful exists should annoy you, I won't even try to understand
6. 'Spatial mode'. Nuff said. No, it wasn't innovative, nor was it pleasant. Win95's Explorer had this - as one of two modes that you could select, and advanced users quickly found 'open in same window' much more usable.
Thank goodness Ubuntu hacked it off and made Nautilus nearly usable, but the Gnome folks' response still leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.
So it's exactly the same thing as in Win95, as one of two modes that you can select, but in one it's the epitome of usability and in other it's the devil incarnated. Man is that logical or what. Oh, and Ubuntu didn't "hack it off", as I'm sure you know, they changed a default setting. Gnome folks' response was to quickly make the setting more easily accessible once there was user demand for it. Oh the horror.
It's little things like not being to turn off the status bar unless you're in spatial mode, not being able to adjust the size of the side pane, not being able to dismiss the side pane without hitting the menu (because usually you bring up the pane to navigate, then once you're there you need more screen real estate in a hurry) - these little, pointless restrictions just chafe.
You can:
* Turn off the status bar in browser windows
* Adjust the size of the side pane
* And dismiss the side pane without hitting the menu (it has both keyboard shortcut and a small close button similar to firefox's close tab ones)
Next?
It's a design philosophy which needs to be changed.
Maybe griping about non-existent faults is what needs to be changed? Perhaps at least some those things did not work once, they do now, which makes it pretty obvious there is no "design philosophy" involved against such features, nobody just had gotten around to doing them yet.
People like you leave a nasty taste in my mouth.
Bluetooth support isn't dependable, and even networking support isn't 100% dependable at the GUI level.
Are you kidding? Bluetooth support in Windows is an absolute nightmare with anything that does not work with the bundled drivers (that's quite a few devices), and networking support isn't anything to write home about either.
I don't doubt you've had bad experiences, but you obviously fail to understand they don't happen to everyone, and that some people have exactly same troubles with windows.
Since anecdotes prove everything, I just got a new HSDPA modem few weeks ago, it comes complete with two pages worth of arcane instructions for getting the damn thing working in XP's "100% dependable GUI networking", and I hear it's nigh impossible in Vista. Linux? You plug it in, and it asks for PIN code. You're in the interwebs.
Okay, if they can do it for bones, can they do it for dental repair?
This one, not for teeth themselves, but it can probably be used to grow jaw bone into which an artificial root (dental implant) will later be planted to, in cases where there is not enough of the original left to work with.
There are also stem cell treatments in the works that will grow entire new teeth, but they're bit farther away.