Hmm.. I have looked for Lumens before but I can't say I found the rating on the box of any bulb.
How many lumens does a 60W and 100W incandescent bulb put out respectively? For example, I have three 60W bulbs in the fixture of this room that I speak of. Because the fixture is a closed glass design I can't go much physically bigger then a regular incandescent. Can you recommend a bulb that I can buy that would meet the output of the incandescent? Like I said I have not been able to find such a thing.
There are bulbs that are much more expensive then I have tried but I do not want to because it's a newer house and the fixtures are pretty cheap.. They seem to blow bulbs constantly, even the CFLs. With incandescents it is no problem; we just replace them. But if we are putting a $20 bulb in there it becomes more of a concern.
Maybe it is because I am in Canada but we have spent at least a couple hundred dollars on various bulbs and have yet to find one that is as bright. I just haven't been impressed.. I would estimate the CFLs I have found are about the same as our other fixtures on three-quarters dim. We keep the CFLs in that room anyway, but every time I walk into it and turn the lights on I have to double-check by looking at the fixture that the lights turned on.
Also, what has come of the concern that CFLs omit more UV then incandescent bulbs? One of my daughters has an autoimmune disease which makes UV very dangerous for her.
...and what guarantee do we have that the robot is not searching for keywords relating to profitable research?? Google is not open on what keywords they search on, nor do they place any limits on what they will use the results for. I am absolutely shocked that a university would risk the students this way.
What a corporation promises people they will do and what their employees actually do are two completely different things. Don't pretend that every single employee in google and on Google's service chain are buying into and complying with the same mission statement.
I work for one of the original mega-corps as a consultant. My rate is top-notch (according to comments on another recent thread, I have "made it"). I work with top enterprise servers, and am trusted to plan things out from time to time. I am given the flexibility to work 40 hours or 60 hours in a week, depending on how much I want to make that week.
It's not all bad.. Sorry but lot of times Slashdot readers come off as a bunch of whiners. Maybe the ones that like to roll up their sleeves and make a living are too busy doing so to write a lot of comments.
Any shop that knows what they are doing would do it this way:
- dev environment for devs to monkey around with; seperate network from prod
- UAT (and possibly INT) environment for dry-runs of deployments also on a separate network, also used to document said deployments
- PROD, accessible only by a handful of staff who follow documentation created above
Not everything needs to be fair. Things only need to be fair if there are more males involved in something then femails. Heaven forbid if they are Caucasian.
P.S. Really, any version control system will do with the added benefit of tracking all versions of all files. I tried this with Subversion as well and it worked ok but I couldn't figure out how to prevent another copy of the files in the local repository. I was overjoyed when I found Bazaar with the lightweight option. I once even set up some hook scripts with WebShare and in about an hour I had a complete replacement for dropbox. I didn't use that part though so I haven't kept it up.
In about 10 minutes you can set up a Bazaar repository on a hub machine and commit your files to it. I've been using mine now for about 8 months and it works great. Just do the following every time you start work:
$ bzr update
And then when you are done:
$ bzr add.
$ bzr commit -m "bulk commit"
..or something like that. You can do it from all your machines. Be sure to use a LIGHTWEIGHT CHECKOUT or the local repository will double your folder size.
I just don't see evidence of this in real life.. I have a couple companies as customers who together are running six SANs from three different vendors. There must be about 100 raid arrays between them. We replace a drive about twice a year between all of them.. There is definitely no flaming ball of fire anywhere. We put in a new drive, it rebuilds over a couple hours and we are good for another six months.
Plus I don't know about the other vendors but IBM is scaling upwards, too.. you get a few SANs under an SVC and you can migrate data from SAN to SAN at will.
To do a true raid-5, cost of the drives is fairly negligible. AFIK, to avoid missing writes in the event of a power outage you need a true raid chassis with a battery backup which runs $4K +. Fake raid 5 and software raid 5 are pretty risky as the writes can get caught in the parity calculation and not get witten out if the power goes down to everything at the same time.
*GASP* Trashing Linux? I'm surprised you haven't been modded down as a troll!
Seriously though, you raise good points about linux. I'm a UNIX admin by trade and I'm fairly familiar with all flavours of unix/linux but I still use 75% windows at my house for those reasons. The thing with Linux is, even if you do know what you are doing, the fact of the matter is that there is often still a long process to go through to get something to work.
Sadly, most linux developers take the attitude of 'Fine we don't need you' instead of really hearing and trying to understand the problem.
I agree with you, and I think you deserve mod points for that comment.. I look at cloud computing as similar to the invention of smoking tobacco. At first everyone did it because it was cool, and it was your warm comfy blanket, and smokes were.05 cents a pack. One day something will happen (or a whole lot of things will happen) and someone will say 'gee, maybe that wasn't such a good idea'. I can only hope that the masses will not have bought into it too much to go back by then.
Sorry, but Chrome OS might be OK for a netbook. Maybe. It has no place on a desktop computer.
Will it be good for a netbook? If it is going to be as reliant on a network connection as they say it is, I have to say I'm confused why anyone would buy it on a netbook. Netbooks are about portability, and I know where I am from you have to pay at least $80 a month for a 3G connection, and wireless hot spots are really hard to find. I have to say I'm confused about the whole usefulness of netbooks thing.
Looks to me like the devices you mention are pretty standalone. There is a lot of power in each device being able to recognize one another. Also, I'm not quite sure what OS any of these run; the websites don't mention it. That makes me nervous.
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Hmm.. I have looked for Lumens before but I can't say I found the rating on the box of any bulb.
How many lumens does a 60W and 100W incandescent bulb put out respectively? For example, I have three 60W bulbs in the fixture of this room that I speak of. Because the fixture is a closed glass design I can't go much physically bigger then a regular incandescent. Can you recommend a bulb that I can buy that would meet the output of the incandescent? Like I said I have not been able to find such a thing.
There are bulbs that are much more expensive then I have tried but I do not want to because it's a newer house and the fixtures are pretty cheap.. They seem to blow bulbs constantly, even the CFLs. With incandescents it is no problem; we just replace them. But if we are putting a $20 bulb in there it becomes more of a concern.
Maybe it is because I am in Canada but we have spent at least a couple hundred dollars on various bulbs and have yet to find one that is as bright. I just haven't been impressed.. I would estimate the CFLs I have found are about the same as our other fixtures on three-quarters dim. We keep the CFLs in that room anyway, but every time I walk into it and turn the lights on I have to double-check by looking at the fixture that the lights turned on. Also, what has come of the concern that CFLs omit more UV then incandescent bulbs? One of my daughters has an autoimmune disease which makes UV very dangerous for her.
...and what guarantee do we have that the robot is not searching for keywords relating to profitable research?? Google is not open on what keywords they search on, nor do they place any limits on what they will use the results for. I am absolutely shocked that a university would risk the students this way.
What a corporation promises people they will do and what their employees actually do are two completely different things. Don't pretend that every single employee in google and on Google's service chain are buying into and complying with the same mission statement.
I work for one of the original mega-corps as a consultant. My rate is top-notch (according to comments on another recent thread, I have "made it"). I work with top enterprise servers, and am trusted to plan things out from time to time. I am given the flexibility to work 40 hours or 60 hours in a week, depending on how much I want to make that week.
It's not all bad.. Sorry but lot of times Slashdot readers come off as a bunch of whiners. Maybe the ones that like to roll up their sleeves and make a living are too busy doing so to write a lot of comments.
Sounds great.. Who wants to work in a tiny shop with 20 linux boxes with SATA drives anyway.
I"m pretty sure, in the history of human communication, profit came very long after creation of stories.
Any shop that knows what they are doing would do it this way: - dev environment for devs to monkey around with; seperate network from prod - UAT (and possibly INT) environment for dry-runs of deployments also on a separate network, also used to document said deployments - PROD, accessible only by a handful of staff who follow documentation created above
Not everything needs to be fair. Things only need to be fair if there are more males involved in something then femails. Heaven forbid if they are Caucasian.
P.S. Really, any version control system will do with the added benefit of tracking all versions of all files. I tried this with Subversion as well and it worked ok but I couldn't figure out how to prevent another copy of the files in the local repository. I was overjoyed when I found Bazaar with the lightweight option. I once even set up some hook scripts with WebShare and in about an hour I had a complete replacement for dropbox. I didn't use that part though so I haven't kept it up.
In about 10 minutes you can set up a Bazaar repository on a hub machine and commit your files to it. I've been using mine now for about 8 months and it works great. Just do the following every time you start work:
.
..or something like that. You can do it from all your machines. Be sure to use a LIGHTWEIGHT CHECKOUT or the local repository will double your folder size.
$ bzr update
And then when you are done:
$ bzr add
$ bzr commit -m "bulk commit"
You already had your email on a server you do not control.. Didja think no one else would read it??
There's a plug for cloud computing in here somewhere, I know it!
If I ever wind up working in your workplace, kindly remind me to shoot myself; it will be much easier.
I just don't see evidence of this in real life.. I have a couple companies as customers who together are running six SANs from three different vendors. There must be about 100 raid arrays between them. We replace a drive about twice a year between all of them.. There is definitely no flaming ball of fire anywhere. We put in a new drive, it rebuilds over a couple hours and we are good for another six months. Plus I don't know about the other vendors but IBM is scaling upwards, too.. you get a few SANs under an SVC and you can migrate data from SAN to SAN at will.
To do a true raid-5, cost of the drives is fairly negligible. AFIK, to avoid missing writes in the event of a power outage you need a true raid chassis with a battery backup which runs $4K +. Fake raid 5 and software raid 5 are pretty risky as the writes can get caught in the parity calculation and not get witten out if the power goes down to everything at the same time.
Apparently there IS no Who in Whoville.
I wouldn't work for a company that I was so suspicious of.
If you were highly mobile, working from multiple locations (or on the fly), the cloud would make sense.
I thought that was what laptops were for??
I think a more accurate term for what BS is would be 'performer'.
It's about the entire show, not just the singing. No one cares that she didn't create anything.
No I do not like her.
*GASP* Trashing Linux? I'm surprised you haven't been modded down as a troll!
Seriously though, you raise good points about linux. I'm a UNIX admin by trade and I'm fairly familiar with all flavours of unix/linux but I still use 75% windows at my house for those reasons. The thing with Linux is, even if you do know what you are doing, the fact of the matter is that there is often still a long process to go through to get something to work.
Sadly, most linux developers take the attitude of 'Fine we don't need you' instead of really hearing and trying to understand the problem.
I agree with you, and I think you deserve mod points for that comment.. I look at cloud computing as similar to the invention of smoking tobacco. At first everyone did it because it was cool, and it was your warm comfy blanket, and smokes were .05 cents a pack. One day something will happen (or a whole lot of things will happen) and someone will say 'gee, maybe that wasn't such a good idea'. I can only hope that the masses will not have bought into it too much to go back by then.
Sorry, but Chrome OS might be OK for a netbook. Maybe. It has no place on a desktop computer.
Will it be good for a netbook? If it is going to be as reliant on a network connection as they say it is, I have to say I'm confused why anyone would buy it on a netbook. Netbooks are about portability, and I know where I am from you have to pay at least $80 a month for a 3G connection, and wireless hot spots are really hard to find. I have to say I'm confused about the whole usefulness of netbooks thing.
Looks to me like the devices you mention are pretty standalone. There is a lot of power in each device being able to recognize one another. Also, I'm not quite sure what OS any of these run; the websites don't mention it. That makes me nervous.
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