Yeah, it was going to be more off-topic, but I forgot what I was originally going to ask, and then I forgot that I forgot.
But what I was asking wasn't just to make the plastic wad bigger. I was wondering why no one has consolidated like 10 of the emitting bits into one of those plastic bubbles (or at least hasn't put them into tiny flashlights available on Think Geek) instead of using multiple discrete plastic chunks. I don't know if the individual light emitters would have to have seperate leads, but even if you had to expand the plastic chunk to get more leads on it, you'd still save space. But I wasn't sure how important the focusing would be if you had more of them and I didn't know if having a bunch too close together would somehow screw something up.
Basically I just want somebody to glue a bunch of LEDs together and sell them that way. Preferably using the same plastic that they make the bulbs out of as glue.
I don't know much about the tech side of LEDs. I know they're pretty. So this might be a stupid question.
Why haven't I ever seen two of the little light junctiony dealies inside one little plastic bubble? Whenever they make products like those LED flashlights that they want to be brighter, they add more individual LEDs, but is there a technical reason why you can't just make the little plastic bubble bigger and put 50 of the light sources inside it to save space? Or is it a manufacturing cost issue?
To all you Australians blaming Americans for this: we're not going to invade you. You're actually allowed to not do what our head jerks say. If you let it happen, you're now officially as bad as us.
You're right about the number of corners. I have no idea how big cities are.
Even if they have 100,000 corners, the cost at his 20 bucks a pop is still only 2 million. As far as public projects go, it's chump change. Covering 5,000 corners at $1000 each, it's still only 5 million, and much more likely.
The installation is going to be substantially higher, but it would be distributed over several years and covered by the increased fines the things would generate. A city the size of Dallas could easily fund it.
But that would be dumb. Every fourth corner would cut the cost to 1/16 and give you damn good coverage.
$20 a reader times how many street corners in Dallas?
Even if there were 1000 corners in Dallas, it's a trivial amount of money. Installing them with infrastructure would cost significantly less than a few weeks of road construction.
I'm not on either side of the issue, but the cost factor is insignificant.
I, personally, wouldn't want to go up against the flamethrower-bot, but I don't think it could "beat" a Matchbox car. If you're going to add fire, at least do it in the form of a cutting torch. Of course, I haven't read the rules.
Real land doesn't cost 20 bucks for 2 years, real land owners pay property taxes, real land isn't unique, and if you put up a building with a sign that says "Hillary Clinton Inside", no one is going to believe you, and if they did believe you and Hillary Clinton found out about it, she'd sue you, and she'd win.
I doubt it's about money. I think he's just a guy who likes to play with new super-high-tech 3D modeling toys and hasn't had a good idea for a story in a while. And since he drops a few tens of millions into R&D for making the special effects better for every one of these things, which brings about technological advancement, I'm fine with it. I like to think of these as steps along the way to me finally getting a date, albeit with a projection of a girl who puns way, way, way too often.
I watched a Discovery Channel show about homeopathy, and that's where I got my information, so if that's wrong, I'm wrong, but they always showed the guys diluting the stuff by sticking their finger into the current solution and dripping it into pure water, then working off of that new one to keep diluting it. Once it's so diluted that it probably doesn't have the original stuff in it, they feed it to the patient, and the patient feels better.
My thought, based on the process they showed, is that a homeopath's finger sweat can cure pretty much anything.
No, are you?... One of us is clearly not smart enough to be having this conversation. For the sake of not inflicting this on any more of Slashdot's poor li'l hard drive's bits, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt, assume I'm the one who's just not yet bright enough to follow this, and walk away.
I don't have any idea what point you're trying to make. You're want to call a guy being sodomized with a broomstick a flaw in a law somewhere? If you want to argue broomstick-control laws, you're on the wrong site. We're talking about the system. The system can't shrug off abuse in the way (or so it is argued) that the patriot act does.
Which the government does all the time via their power to arrest people. They get away with abuses in that regard every day.
And that's fine? Let's copy that everywhere we can? Screw the warrant system, 'cause some guy might sodomize you with a broom anyway? I seriously don't know what your point is.
I know you understand that he meant "can and can get away with it." No one is dumb enough to not. Stop pretending to be.
Closing gaping security holes in a law does not mean you hate government. The power to arrest criminal suspects is good. The power to arrest whoever you feel like is bad.
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Yeah, it was going to be more off-topic, but I forgot what I was originally going to ask, and then I forgot that I forgot.
But what I was asking wasn't just to make the plastic wad bigger. I was wondering why no one has consolidated like 10 of the emitting bits into one of those plastic bubbles (or at least hasn't put them into tiny flashlights available on Think Geek) instead of using multiple discrete plastic chunks. I don't know if the individual light emitters would have to have seperate leads, but even if you had to expand the plastic chunk to get more leads on it, you'd still save space. But I wasn't sure how important the focusing would be if you had more of them and I didn't know if having a bunch too close together would somehow screw something up.
Basically I just want somebody to glue a bunch of LEDs together and sell them that way. Preferably using the same plastic that they make the bulbs out of as glue.
I don't know much about the tech side of LEDs. I know they're pretty. So this might be a stupid question.
Why haven't I ever seen two of the little light junctiony dealies inside one little plastic bubble? Whenever they make products like those LED flashlights that they want to be brighter, they add more individual LEDs, but is there a technical reason why you can't just make the little plastic bubble bigger and put 50 of the light sources inside it to save space? Or is it a manufacturing cost issue?
To all you Australians blaming Americans for this: we're not going to invade you. You're actually allowed to not do what our head jerks say. If you let it happen, you're now officially as bad as us.
Completely useless with the pseudo-walking, but still, if I had money, I'd buy 12. Deeeeyamn, that's cool.
You're right about the number of corners. I have no idea how big cities are.
Even if they have 100,000 corners, the cost at his 20 bucks a pop is still only 2 million. As far as public projects go, it's chump change. Covering 5,000 corners at $1000 each, it's still only 5 million, and much more likely.
The installation is going to be substantially higher, but it would be distributed over several years and covered by the increased fines the things would generate. A city the size of Dallas could easily fund it.
But that would be dumb. Every fourth corner would cut the cost to 1/16 and give you damn good coverage.
$20 a reader times how many street corners in Dallas?
Even if there were 1000 corners in Dallas, it's a trivial amount of money. Installing them with infrastructure would cost significantly less than a few weeks of road construction.
I'm not on either side of the issue, but the cost factor is insignificant.
It's actually kinda useful.
It really wasn't.
That's so obviously an April Fools joke. The DVD remote had more than one button.
Nobody said it was.
And you're still missing the joke.
That's the joke, genius.
Unlike a bunch of people here, I enjoy the April 1st stuff, but to the Slashdot editors: April Fools Day jokes are only funny if they're funny.
95 per cent of information technology groups are not delivering some number of projects on time.
Zero's a number.
I, personally, wouldn't want to go up against the flamethrower-bot, but I don't think it could "beat" a Matchbox car. If you're going to add fire, at least do it in the form of a cutting torch. Of course, I haven't read the rules.
The circuitry for
a good FM radio
is not quite that cheap.
Slashdot has changed its buffering system, by the way.
They've increased the sentence-per-paragraph allowance to 2.
Just FYI.
So, is there somewhere I can download the list of Officially Approved Website Uses?
Right here:
Any use of a website for non-douchebag purposes is okay.
Real land doesn't cost 20 bucks for 2 years, real land owners pay property taxes, real land isn't unique, and if you put up a building with a sign that says "Hillary Clinton Inside", no one is going to believe you, and if they did believe you and Hillary Clinton found out about it, she'd sue you, and she'd win.
I doubt it's about money. I think he's just a guy who likes to play with new super-high-tech 3D modeling toys and hasn't had a good idea for a story in a while. And since he drops a few tens of millions into R&D for making the special effects better for every one of these things, which brings about technological advancement, I'm fine with it. I like to think of these as steps along the way to me finally getting a date, albeit with a projection of a girl who puns way, way, way too often.
I watched a Discovery Channel show about homeopathy, and that's where I got my information, so if that's wrong, I'm wrong, but they always showed the guys diluting the stuff by sticking their finger into the current solution and dripping it into pure water, then working off of that new one to keep diluting it. Once it's so diluted that it probably doesn't have the original stuff in it, they feed it to the patient, and the patient feels better.
My thought, based on the process they showed, is that a homeopath's finger sweat can cure pretty much anything.
No, are you? ... One of us is clearly not smart enough to be having this conversation. For the sake of not inflicting this on any more of Slashdot's poor li'l hard drive's bits, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt, assume I'm the one who's just not yet bright enough to follow this, and walk away.
I don't have any idea what point you're trying to make. You're want to call a guy being sodomized with a broomstick a flaw in a law somewhere? If you want to argue broomstick-control laws, you're on the wrong site. We're talking about the system. The system can't shrug off abuse in the way (or so it is argued) that the patriot act does.
Which the government does all the time via their power to arrest people. They get away with abuses in that regard every day.
And that's fine? Let's copy that everywhere we can? Screw the warrant system, 'cause some guy might sodomize you with a broom anyway? I seriously don't know what your point is.
I know you understand that he meant "can and can get away with it." No one is dumb enough to not. Stop pretending to be.
Closing gaping security holes in a law does not mean you hate government. The power to arrest criminal suspects is good. The power to arrest whoever you feel like is bad.
I was kidding.
a million reality TV shows, only without the pain and humiliation.
It's sad when you have to start explaining reality (and pictures thereof) to people as "kind of like reality TV."