of my first 2 CFLs (23W Philips, incidentally) one still works after ~ 6 years; I've moved 4 times since I bought those (yeah, I actually took my light bulbs with me, they were worth about 10 beers each); one of them died due to being used in the bathroom (went through a lot of power cycles)
Right now, I have the remaining one in a rather low usage area (kitchen, rarely used at night), and for the room I spend most of the time in I have some no-name Chinese thing I bought 2 years ago from Mega Image; it eats 13 W, was 1/4 of the price of my older Philips bulbs and takes about 10 minutes to reach full brightness, but it emits about the same amount of light when it does. It was ~2.2 USD.
When LED lights can beat that price, I'll be interested. Right now, both commercial offerings and DIY are too damn expensive for my taste.
now seriously, the parent is right: somehow, some (a lot of?) people have lost something that is a very useful evolutionary trait: skepticism; for most of our fellow mammals, the lack of it usually means an early death (think mouse who eats poisoned food or walks into a trap without sniffing around, think the La Brea pits, think predator trying to bite more than it can chew)
Unfortunately for our species, these things most of the time only cost some discomfort (money lost), and are not life endangering; methinks we would have a much saner world if the latter were the case.
this is (slowly) changing, as more and more people can afford high quality cameras and lenses; while most of them will be just as crappy a photographer as before, some are bound to out-talent (and eventually outnumber) the so-called "pros"
and some of those who are really good are bound to do it as a means of expressing themselves (giving the results away for fame - getting laid being the ultimate purpose:P) rather than as a means to make a$$loads of money (which only happens to a handful of high end photographers, anyway, the rest are left simmering in their own mediocrity and decrying the state of the industry being ruined by those pesky amateurs)
I'm rather sure that if religious types would keep their religion for themselves and contain their own wackos nobody would have a problem with them.
But when:
my kids - if I'll ever manage to have any - will have to study christian orthodox religion in school and learn that if they don't say their prayers they'll get hit by a car - this being in a country that's supposedly secular, mind you
the education minister says "we don't want to raise godless robots"
a senator says the atheists are dangerous
the prime minister is consulting with the head of the church whether to uncriminalise prostitution or not (I'll leave you to guess the result), and about the definition of marriage (ended up with "union between man and woman")
some other MPs gather a crowd to protest against a (non-public) lesbians' meeting (I dislike the attention whores' parades, but a private, no-media, event? wtf?) - and they're from the governing party
a nation-wide HPV vaccination attempt has failed due to religious wackos spreading FUD
religious fundamentalists have monopolised the discution about RFID passports and turned it into "omg they'll brand us with the number 666" crap, so people who have reasonable complaints about this can't get their voice heard any more
this year's budget gives money for 806 new churches, 242 schools, 36 hospitals, 37 cultural centres
this reminds me of Michael Crichton's "State of Fear"; while being rather lousy piece as literature goes, it is still an interesting read as a rant on media hyped bad science:)
OK, the source & destination IP will be known by the "bad guys", but everything else is encrypted. The old excuse of "it takes too much CPU" was valid...back in the 1990s, but no longer.
C'mon people! HTTPS *everywhere*!
not very likely, taking into account that browsers have been waging war against self-signed/free certificates for a while and the "warnings" are getting worse with every release (I, a geek, had a hard time finding the tiny "add an exception" in Firesloth^H^H^H^H^Hfox 3, and found it impossible to explain over the phone how to do it to someone not so computer literate)
it's not like automatic virus removal hasn't been done before (remember the W32.Welchia family?);)
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Communism is the polar opposite of capitalism. ... unless, like a lot of Americans, one equates capitalism with corporatism (a.k.a. oligarchy), which is not that far away from communism: both mean the economical and political power are concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, which dispose of it as they please and can't be held accountable for their actions; in other words, communism is man exploiting man, corporatism (American implementation of capitalism) is the other way around.
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On this vein, there is nothing communist about China anymore, it's a National Socialist system. Just like with the NSDAP (Nazi party), the "socialism" is there only in name. actually, some people think that they are not that different
chances are anything that plugs into an outlet that isn't solar or wind powered is going to piss them off anyway. actually, those will piss them off too: wind turbines kill birds, solar panels shadow the ground and steal light from the grass, and then nuclear, we don't really know what it's about but it's dangerous and plainly bad, and hydro means flooding valleys and killing all the, um you know, little fluffy animals and that's bad too, could we please go back to teh caves?
.. for a new Linux packaging format? why yes, of course it does... it seems that this is part (or a consequence) of an entertaining soap operainvolving Ciaran McCreesh and Daniel Robbins, among others (this sounds a lot like TFA, for instance)
Hello! I am tired today. I am nice girl that would like to chat with you. Email me at Linnea@BestGolova.com only, because I am using my friend's email to write this. Hope you will like my pictures.
not really... our gypsies (the ones that are not dirt poor) are rarely "high tech", they make their money by sending their children to beg and pick pockets, stealing cars abroad and selling them here, robbing and stealing from our Italian ans Spanish friends; some of them may be at the top of the scamming groups, organizing the business, or at the bottom, acting as decoys that receive the money (the decoys are the ones that usually get to serve time in jail).
Most of the ones collecting the stupidity tax from the US are actually Romanian kids, 13 to 20-22 years old; after the age of 18 many quit, because it's more risky (while they are minors the police can't do much to them, they aren't even allowed to beat the crap out of suspects nowadays), or get in the back, taking care of creating fake escrow sites, handling relations, etc...
The locals call them "hackers" because they use computers and do something bad, but they aren't really that computer literate (my brother had a classmate that needed someone else to start the computer and browser for him, and yet was highly successful in the scamming business), all they need is a web browser and a WYSIWYG html editor like Dreamweaver for creating their escrow sites.
Nothing has really changed over the years in Romania.
Wrong, the problem is slowly solving itself, as things evolve: the first item a kid that made an assload of money buys is a fast car, and a lot have died in car accidents, some more went to jail for 1-2 years (and our prisons aren't pretty); also, money laundering is a lot harder due to our EU membership.
Until you'll need to use something other than MySQL (you'll find that Propel won't use the Postgresql serial type, for instance).
Or need to, say, get some authors with their books/posts/whatever in a decent way (single query?) and find after some googling that Propel didn't implement it on purpose, because of dubious philosophical reasons, so you'll need to implement it yourself and copy & paste the code in the rest of the peer classes where you need it because there's no decent way of extending BasePeer and have changes propagate in your peer classes.
Or want to add logging or some other processing to a bunch of models' save method (done so ellegantly using decorators in Python) and find yourself doing the same copy and paste stunt, because, of course, you can't extend BaseObject and have your models inherit it.
Or have been happily developing on a "stable, enterprise-ready" version for 2 months and then one day find that it has been discontinued after about 3 months of life, documentation has vanished from the website, tag has vanished from SVN (not directly retrievable, that is), and the only information you can find is "upgrade, 1.0 is the stable one now, 0.6.3 never existed"; and, of course, they are not compatible and you spend a few hours hunting conversion bugs.
I'm getting too old for this, so I moved the app to Django.
However, for a new app that needs to also scale in human resources, PHP may still the best choice; if finding competent PHP people is hard, try finding web-savy Python or Perl hackers;). Apart from CakePHP (which seems to make you work even more than Symfony, and uses ActiveRecord, which isn't exactly powerful), you could also try the Zend Framework. I'm currently investigating it for a freelance project and I like what I see:)
Slashdot Mirror
this also happens with Slashdot, BTW, there are days when I have to restart orbot a bunch of times to get through...
of my first 2 CFLs (23W Philips, incidentally) one still works after ~ 6 years; I've moved 4 times since I bought those (yeah, I actually took my light bulbs with me, they were worth about 10 beers each); one of them died due to being used in the bathroom (went through a lot of power cycles)
Right now, I have the remaining one in a rather low usage area (kitchen, rarely used at night), and for the room I spend most of the time in I have some no-name Chinese thing I bought 2 years ago from Mega Image; it eats 13 W, was 1/4 of the price of my older Philips bulbs and takes about 10 minutes to reach full brightness, but it emits about the same amount of light when it does. It was ~2.2 USD.
When LED lights can beat that price, I'll be interested. Right now, both commercial offerings and DIY are too damn expensive for my taste.
Stupidity tax: we collects it!
now seriously, the parent is right: somehow, some (a lot of?) people have lost something that is a very useful evolutionary trait: skepticism; for most of our fellow mammals, the lack of it usually means an early death (think mouse who eats poisoned food or walks into a trap without sniffing around, think the La Brea pits, think predator trying to bite more than it can chew)
Unfortunately for our species, these things most of the time only cost some discomfort (money lost), and are not life endangering; methinks we would have a much saner world if the latter were the case.
except it's a bit reversed: businesses are the ones suing :D
Mr Crichton's points in that book are still pretty much valid, though.
this is (slowly) changing, as more and more people can afford high quality cameras and lenses; while most of them will be just as crappy a photographer as before, some are bound to out-talent (and eventually outnumber) the so-called "pros"
and some of those who are really good are bound to do it as a means of expressing themselves (giving the results away for fame - getting laid being the ultimate purpose :P) rather than as a means to make a$$loads of money (which only happens to a handful of high end photographers, anyway, the rest are left simmering in their own mediocrity and decrying the state of the industry being ruined by those pesky amateurs)
I expect to see this meta tags on most sites in the near future.
yep, just like you can't find anything on bugmenot any more, everyone "opted out"
kinda defeats the purpose of ad blocking.
I'm rather sure that if religious types would keep their religion for themselves and contain their own wackos nobody would have a problem with them.
But when:
it starts to become annoying. really annoying.
this reminds me of Michael Crichton's "State of Fear"; while being rather lousy piece as literature goes, it is still an interesting read as a rant on media hyped bad science :)
OK, the source & destination IP will be known by the "bad guys", but everything else is encrypted. The old excuse of "it takes too much CPU" was valid...back in the 1990s, but no longer. C'mon people! HTTPS *everywhere*!
not very likely, taking into account that browsers have been waging war against self-signed/free certificates for a while and the "warnings" are getting worse with every release (I, a geek, had a hard time finding the tiny "add an exception" in Firesloth^H^H^H^H^Hfox 3, and found it impossible to explain over the phone how to do it to someone not so computer literate)
In that case check out Air Semi
yeah, according to that page, they are winners of the "Red herring Europe" award ;)
if someone steals my IP I'll just use another one... or keep it and also use their MAC address for interesting results ;-)
it's not like automatic virus removal hasn't been done before (remember the W32.Welchia family?) ;)
.. for a new Linux packaging format? why yes, of course it does... it seems that this is part (or a consequence) of an entertaining soap opera involving Ciaran McCreesh and Daniel Robbins, among others (this sounds a lot like TFA, for instance)Hello! I am tired today. I am nice girl that would like to chat with you. Email me at Linnea@BestGolova.com only, because I am using my friend's email to write this. Hope you will like my pictures.
not really... our gypsies (the ones that are not dirt poor) are rarely "high tech", they make their money by sending their children to beg and pick pockets, stealing cars abroad and selling them here, robbing and stealing from our Italian ans Spanish friends; some of them may be at the top of the scamming groups, organizing the business, or at the bottom, acting as decoys that receive the money (the decoys are the ones that usually get to serve time in jail).
Most of the ones collecting the stupidity tax from the US are actually Romanian kids, 13 to 20-22 years old; after the age of 18 many quit, because it's more risky (while they are minors the police can't do much to them, they aren't even allowed to beat the crap out of suspects nowadays), or get in the back, taking care of creating fake escrow sites, handling relations, etc...
The locals call them "hackers" because they use computers and do something bad, but they aren't really that computer literate (my brother had a classmate that needed someone else to start the computer and browser for him, and yet was highly successful in the scamming business), all they need is a web browser and a WYSIWYG html editor like Dreamweaver for creating their escrow sites.
Wrong, the problem is slowly solving itself, as things evolve: the first item a kid that made an assload of money buys is a fast car, and a lot have died in car accidents, some more went to jail for 1-2 years (and our prisons aren't pretty); also, money laundering is a lot harder due to our EU membership.
...which means one has to eat a lot of it ;)
actually women engineers are males, only with the wrong sex...
Symfony is cool.
;). Apart from CakePHP (which seems to make you work even more than Symfony, and uses ActiveRecord, which isn't exactly powerful), you could also try the Zend Framework. I'm currently investigating it for a freelance project and I like what I see :)
Until you'll need to use something other than MySQL (you'll find that Propel won't use the Postgresql serial type, for instance).
Or need to, say, get some authors with their books/posts/whatever in a decent way (single query?) and find after some googling that Propel didn't implement it on purpose, because of dubious philosophical reasons, so you'll need to implement it yourself and copy & paste the code in the rest of the peer classes where you need it because there's no decent way of extending BasePeer and have changes propagate in your peer classes.
Or want to add logging or some other processing to a bunch of models' save method (done so ellegantly using decorators in Python) and find yourself doing the same copy and paste stunt, because, of course, you can't extend BaseObject and have your models inherit it.
Or have been happily developing on a "stable, enterprise-ready" version for 2 months and then one day find that it has been discontinued after about 3 months of life, documentation has vanished from the website, tag has vanished from SVN (not directly retrievable, that is), and the only information you can find is "upgrade, 1.0 is the stable one now, 0.6.3 never existed"; and, of course, they are not compatible and you spend a few hours hunting conversion bugs.
I'm getting too old for this, so I moved the app to Django.
However, for a new app that needs to also scale in human resources, PHP may still the best choice; if finding competent PHP people is hard, try finding web-savy Python or Perl hackers