CFLs actually look far, far better than incandescents in my apartment.
See, I'm cursed with very old lights. The main area I spend my time in - the kitchen and computer nook - is lit by a total of twelve 40w sockets. Eww. You have any idea what kind of light you get out of twelve 40w incandescent bulbs? It's terrible. Yellow, dim light. Awful awful stuff.
With CFLs, however, that "40w socket" is suddenly enough to plug the equivalent of a 150 watt bulb in. Nine 150 watt bulbs gives quite nice light, and my LCD monitors no longer give me headaches.
So, there you have it. Sometimes your options are dictated by your environment.
Amusingly, I've noticed - and other people have noticed this too - that when I get really pissed off I actually stop swearing and start coming up with increasingly elaborate carefully worded dry insults. I'm not quite sure what this means about what parts of my language should be censored.
Who cares if someone sends junk faxes, the phone network is an open system and it's designed to indiscriminately deliver messages - making junk faxes illegal is a terrible idea. If you don't want wasted toner, just don't accept phone calls from every bozo on the phone system.
And yet, oddly, junk faxes are illegal, because they cause a significant amount of cost for the receiver. Just like junk email does.
The law won't [i]fix[/i] things, of course. Junk faxing still occurs. But it might help, if it's designed properly.
No problem here, I've made some pretty horrifically bad comments myself:) My comment was really just to point out why it hadn't been modded up, rather than to call you out for a crummy comment.
Honestly, ElizabethGreene's comment just isn't very interesting. It's part "lol micro$oft" and part tinfoil hat. It's also horribly ungrammatical ("This is the most interesting and !new! ideas"? Come on. Try.)
There's no reason Elizabeth's comment should be modded up just for her being a girl. Psycho's is a lot more interesting, and, you know, readable.
Reducing hops by 400%, eh? That's a nice trick. Can we reduce bandwidth usage by the same amount? I wouldn't mind some free bandwidth.
I honestly can't figure out where "reduce by 400%" came from. They say the average hops were reduced from 5.5 hops to 0.89 hops, which is either 84% if you're not an idiot or 616% if you are. So I'm really quite confused here. Go figure.
Open-source, in my experience, is not particularly good at innovating. It is, however, quite good at commoditizing existing products, and in some notable cases (Firefox) it's good at improving existing systems to be far better than the original version.
Basically, if you make something new and exciting, and it's popular, and it provides a very useful service, but does so extremely badly, it's a prime candidate for being dominated by open-source.
Honestly, I've done that and still managed to miss it before. I don't really expect to make mistakes with markup that simple (and, due to spending most of my posting time on a VB board, I expect to be able to edit my posts also - something I truly wish Slashdot had.)
An unfortunate set of cross-site reflexes. So it goes.
Speaking of Greasemonkey, I really need to come up with a Greasemonkey script to convert VBcode into HTML on Slashdot. I swear I make that mistake in every third comment.
I mean, you can use it. You've been able to use it for years. It's on the web, it's easily accessible, it wouldn't surprise me if it's used by millions of people.
Google's calling it "beta" because they don't think it's worthy of a non-beta release. That's [i]all it means[/i]. Google has higher standards for "non-beta" than other companies do, apparently - they're still adding major features and I suspect that's at least partially related to its beta status.
Why does it mean so much to have it not be called beta anymore? Because, I mean, if that one word really causes you so much mental anguish, I bet I could provide a Greasemonkey script to get rid of it.
Google's decided it's not finished. I'm willing to defer to their judgement. Honestly, it's a nice change from "feature-complete 1.0 software" that crashes every five minutes.
I seem to remember that shortly after the US army introduced new metal helmets for soldiers, the number of head injuries requiring hospitalization jumped dramatically.
The reason, of course, being that there were lots of people being hospitalized for injuries that previously would have been instantly fatal.
No - it de-emphasizes the difficult and less useful bug reports. As long as they have useful bug reports coming in, i.e. reports without ndiswrapper, they'll focus on those and they'll keep fixing bugs.
The Web Developer plugin will give you information on every error encountered when rendering the page. I don't know if it has an option to do so loudly, but it certainly wouldn't be hard to modify.
They moved to the XBox 360 shortly after it came out, but yes, the first season or two was on original XBox. At this point I think there's more XB360 than XB.
IANAL but I think at that point you have a pretty credible claim in court. "I made this deal. I agreed to this deal. They changed the deal. I dare them to show me paperwork showing otherwise." "Uh, um, err" "Case dismissed."
This is the point where you either take a closer look at whatever you signed (you did read it before signing, right?) or you take them to small claims court over it.
He does explicitly mention the ink, however, as well as the signatures. I agree that he didn't explicitly say "oh yeah please don't erase the case art" in the letter but, depending on what the phone conversation was like, the letter shouldn't technically have been necessary at all.
No. I expect them to look at the piece of paper saying "do not under any circumstances damage the artwork on this case" and call him up to ask him what he wants to do. Unless it's easier to just move the case, in which case, yeah, they probably should do that. (It's quite possible it would have just been easier to replace the case.)
And yeah, I agree, they should have just said "we can't guarantee anything". That at least would have been honest. But they didn't.
Honestly? It's still the company's fault. If the company says "yes we can do this" then it means they should do it, I don't care if it was person #1 or person #20.
If you ask me to sign a contract, and I say no, and you ask another 20 times and I finally sign it, am I exempt from it because you asked me a lot? Not in the least. Same deal here. If the company said they'd do X, and they didn't do X, I don't see any excuses.
(I don't actually know if they did say so. But I'm assuming that they did.)
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CFLs actually look far, far better than incandescents in my apartment.
See, I'm cursed with very old lights. The main area I spend my time in - the kitchen and computer nook - is lit by a total of twelve 40w sockets. Eww. You have any idea what kind of light you get out of twelve 40w incandescent bulbs? It's terrible. Yellow, dim light. Awful awful stuff.
With CFLs, however, that "40w socket" is suddenly enough to plug the equivalent of a 150 watt bulb in. Nine 150 watt bulbs gives quite nice light, and my LCD monitors no longer give me headaches.
So, there you have it. Sometimes your options are dictated by your environment.
A lot of people, sadly, consider TV an absolute necessity :) I get weird looks whenever I say that I don't watch TV.
"But then . . . what do you do?"
(The fact that I have a 60" HDTV makes them look at me even more strangely. What can I say, I like video games and movies.)
Amusingly, I've noticed - and other people have noticed this too - that when I get really pissed off I actually stop swearing and start coming up with increasingly elaborate carefully worded dry insults. I'm not quite sure what this means about what parts of my language should be censored.
Or the fact that TV isn't mandatory. I don't think I've watched live TV for four years now - DVDs, sure, but live? Why bother?
Oh man, I never saw this coming! Did you? Such a surprise. And here I thought they'd stop at the public cameras! Ha ha ha, boy is my face red.
Oh well. I'm sure this time they'll be satisfied with their new powers.
Who cares if someone sends junk faxes, the phone network is an open system and it's designed to indiscriminately deliver messages - making junk faxes illegal is a terrible idea. If you don't want wasted toner, just don't accept phone calls from every bozo on the phone system.
And yet, oddly, junk faxes are illegal, because they cause a significant amount of cost for the receiver. Just like junk email does.
The law won't [i]fix[/i] things, of course. Junk faxing still occurs. But it might help, if it's designed properly.
No problem here, I've made some pretty horrifically bad comments myself :) My comment was really just to point out why it hadn't been modded up, rather than to call you out for a crummy comment.
Honestly, ElizabethGreene's comment just isn't very interesting. It's part "lol micro$oft" and part tinfoil hat. It's also horribly ungrammatical ("This is the most interesting and !new! ideas"? Come on. Try.)
There's no reason Elizabeth's comment should be modded up just for her being a girl. Psycho's is a lot more interesting, and, you know, readable.
Reducing hops by 400%, eh? That's a nice trick. Can we reduce bandwidth usage by the same amount? I wouldn't mind some free bandwidth.
I honestly can't figure out where "reduce by 400%" came from. They say the average hops were reduced from 5.5 hops to 0.89 hops, which is either 84% if you're not an idiot or 616% if you are. So I'm really quite confused here. Go figure.
Open-source, in my experience, is not particularly good at innovating. It is, however, quite good at commoditizing existing products, and in some notable cases (Firefox) it's good at improving existing systems to be far better than the original version.
Basically, if you make something new and exciting, and it's popular, and it provides a very useful service, but does so extremely badly, it's a prime candidate for being dominated by open-source.
Honestly, I've done that and still managed to miss it before. I don't really expect to make mistakes with markup that simple (and, due to spending most of my posting time on a VB board, I expect to be able to edit my posts also - something I truly wish Slashdot had.)
An unfortunate set of cross-site reflexes. So it goes.
Speaking of Greasemonkey, I really need to come up with a Greasemonkey script to convert VBcode into HTML on Slashdot. I swear I make that mistake in every third comment.
Sheesh.
Why do people say GMail is vaporware?
I mean, you can use it. You've been able to use it for years. It's on the web, it's easily accessible, it wouldn't surprise me if it's used by millions of people.
Google's calling it "beta" because they don't think it's worthy of a non-beta release. That's [i]all it means[/i]. Google has higher standards for "non-beta" than other companies do, apparently - they're still adding major features and I suspect that's at least partially related to its beta status.
Why does it mean so much to have it not be called beta anymore? Because, I mean, if that one word really causes you so much mental anguish, I bet I could provide a Greasemonkey script to get rid of it.
Google's decided it's not finished. I'm willing to defer to their judgement. Honestly, it's a nice change from "feature-complete 1.0 software" that crashes every five minutes.
I seem to remember that shortly after the US army introduced new metal helmets for soldiers, the number of head injuries requiring hospitalization jumped dramatically.
The reason, of course, being that there were lots of people being hospitalized for injuries that previously would have been instantly fatal.
No - it de-emphasizes the difficult and less useful bug reports. As long as they have useful bug reports coming in, i.e. reports without ndiswrapper, they'll focus on those and they'll keep fixing bugs.
The Web Developer plugin will give you information on every error encountered when rendering the page. I don't know if it has an option to do so loudly, but it certainly wouldn't be hard to modify.
That sounds like there's a whole fuckton of "fear for your own life" in there. It's not a disproof at all.
They moved to the XBox 360 shortly after it came out, but yes, the first season or two was on original XBox. At this point I think there's more XB360 than XB.
IANAL but I think at that point you have a pretty credible claim in court. "I made this deal. I agreed to this deal. They changed the deal. I dare them to show me paperwork showing otherwise." "Uh, um, err" "Case dismissed."
This is the point where you either take a closer look at whatever you signed (you did read it before signing, right?) or you take them to small claims court over it.
He does explicitly mention the ink, however, as well as the signatures. I agree that he didn't explicitly say "oh yeah please don't erase the case art" in the letter but, depending on what the phone conversation was like, the letter shouldn't technically have been necessary at all.
At best, that's a loophole.
Admittedly, that's true. However, I suspect the customer service agent wasn't subjected to that. :)
No. I expect them to look at the piece of paper saying "do not under any circumstances damage the artwork on this case" and call him up to ask him what he wants to do. Unless it's easier to just move the case, in which case, yeah, they probably should do that. (It's quite possible it would have just been easier to replace the case.)
And yeah, I agree, they should have just said "we can't guarantee anything". That at least would have been honest. But they didn't.
Honestly? It's still the company's fault. If the company says "yes we can do this" then it means they should do it, I don't care if it was person #1 or person #20.
If you ask me to sign a contract, and I say no, and you ask another 20 times and I finally sign it, am I exempt from it because you asked me a lot? Not in the least. Same deal here. If the company said they'd do X, and they didn't do X, I don't see any excuses.
(I don't actually know if they did say so. But I'm assuming that they did.)