Really. Depends on the brand somewhat. But yeah, when I saccade, a thin line of light from a CFL will split into multiple lines. LEDs, too - I have LED lighting on my fridge, and filling up a glass of water is always fun to watch, because it's like having a high speed strobelight on the water as it splashes around. LEDs on car instrument panels bug me somewhat, but LED taillights on cars REALLY irk me.
>>You spent over TWO MONTHS squatting in public parks without effectively delivering a message to the PUBLIC
The public caught the message of them Squatting over police cars.
I hate hippies. And seeing shit like that, literally, alongside of the drum circles, human microphones, and druggies was enough to turn me off on the movement. Even though I (and most people) completely agree that corporations have too much influence over the government.
>>Just as there's a bunch of people who don't know those more expensive bulbs easily save you more than they cost, and using less efficient bulbs just hastens rising power costs.
I prefer incandescent bulbs because CFLs and LEDs have noticeable flicker.
I have solar on my house that covers all of my electrical needs.
Tell me again why I haven't been able to buy a 100-Watt lightbulb at the supermarket for the last year.
>>you're sensitive to the kind of lamp and you're thinking that something must be different, so obviously there is something different.
For me, it's the opposite.
"Why is that light over there flickering?":walk over to it. "Hmm, it's another CFL."
Do this enough times, and you'll begin to hate CFLs, too. Especially annoying were some lights the apartment complex installed right outside my bedroom's window. The sliver of light shining in between in the blinds would always split apart into multiple lines whenever I'd look at it at night. Very distracting.
>>I've yet to find a CFL or LED that feels as good as the light from an incandescent bulb
Me as well. Flicker from CFLs and LEDs is noticeable to me, so I can't stand to have them around me in any rooms that I spend a lot of time reading, or in front of a computer.
Fortunately we'll always be able to buy our lightbulbs from Canada. I know a guy who works in a grey market lightbulb store there.
Back in the day when the printed word mattered, printers that published copyrighted works without permission were sued and/or shut down. This is what drove copyright laws to begin with. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law)
Newspapers review everything that gets printed within them. This is why you don't see the kinds of things in Letters to the Editor that you see here on Slashdot.
The Newspaper model would force sites like Slashdot to review all user comments, which is essentially impossible, or shut down.
If they shut down Slashdot and Reddit, and all similar sites, this compromises your freedom, unless you think liberty only exists in the physical domain, not the electronic one.
>>Whose liberty would be destroyed by the newspaper model?
The "Newspaper Model" means that newspapers are liable for anything published within them. You can sue a newspaper for an article on its front page containing libel. The "Telephone Model" means that you can't sue the telephone company for any conversations that take place on it. I.e., if two people are speaking slander over the phone, you can sue the people, but not the telephone company. The phone system is a common carrier.
CNN/Anderson Cooper apparently wants to "rethink" the current classification of internet sites to make them "newspapers" instead of "phones". I.e., eliminating common carrier / safe harbor provisions in the CDA and DMCA and making it possible to shut down Slashdot if even a single link to piracy is provided by a user on it, or a libelous statement that someone at CNN doesn't like.
Watching Anderson Cooper (ick, I know) tonight, he seemed to be pushing for eliminating the common carrier classification for internet sites, and moving them to the, quote, "newspaper model".
Given CNN et al's support for SOPA, this didn't come as a surprise, but it was still an unpleasant thing to watch a grey-haired man that people apparently respect talking so blithely about destroying our liberty.
I spent quite a while at the local Best Buy hammering on all the stock tablets in the store.
The lag is minor, but noticeable and annoying. It's not limited to the Transformer - all Android tablets I tested had it. iPads you have to push really to the limit to see any jerking, and that's by, say, flipping your finger up several times at high speed to get up to maximum scroll speed.
It's everywhere - Browsing, PDFs, Word Processing, even scrolling through lists in Android. The iPad handles all of it better, with the exception of ebooks/PDFs, whose lag it hides by implementing a slow animation to turn between pages.
The only time it actually counts as annoying is when typing in a browser, and the text has a very noticeable lag while you're typing things in. Even the iPad lags a little bit here, but Honeycomb tablets have unacceptably high input lags here. It even happens in notepad type application, though not as bad. iPads, by contrast, suffer from having the on-screen keyboard instead of a physical one, so you can ultimately type faster on the Transformer, even with the lag, which was the game-winner for me.
It's not wrong at all. If you want to defuse the "population bomb" in Africa, you need to bring them all up to a middle class standard of living in stable democracies.
This has been repeatedly, around the world, proven to be the only reliable solution to Malthus.
>>He still isn't sorry for what happened, he is "sorry" because someone famous caught him.
Right. He's like a bully who is "sorry" after some kid he was picking on turns out to be a jiu-jitsu black belt, and chokes him unconscious.
Sorry. Replace 'like' with 'is'. He IS a bully shedding alligator tears after being exposed for who he really is.
To me, the hilariously painful bit of the story was the bully's poor command of the English language. TFA has a typo, his company is not "Ocean Marketing". It's "Ocean Marketting".;) Two t's - at least that's how he he codified it on Twitter.
Yes, of course I read it. Open carry, also known as "bearing arms" is now illegal in California unless you're on your way to go hunting, to a shooting competition, or a gun range.
For $70,000, you can only get a house in Detroit or through a time machine. Should we congratulate you on the foresight to have been born before the housing bubble? I saved my cash for 10 years to afford the down payment on my house, renting tiny apartments in the meantime. I have friends in the Bay Area that make very nice wages (x2 earners) and still have to rent tiny apartments.
>>Which is of course why the right-wing is endlessly pushing for privatization. Eventually everything will be a private forum - so sorry about those first and second amendment rights.
Yes! Damn those anti-gun wingnut Tea Partiers!
Oh, er...
(You do realize that the majority of public buildings have bans on open and concealed carry, right? Privatizing jails won't change the fact you can't bring a gun into it.)
>>A hodgepodge of internet crap is not equivalent to a library.
I really wish more people would realize that.
Only a tiny fraction of humanity's knowledge is available or accessible on the internet. I'm tired of people who can't find some reference on Wikipedia and then resoundingly claim that said fact can't be true.
>>Fascinating. The youtube video is now marked 'private'.
That's a strange coincidence... it's been up for at least two or three weeks, and it gets taken down now? Hmm.
>>OWS's fundamental and unstated goal, of which all stated goals are outgrowths, is "We want more financial equality in our society."
Which sounds good, except when you look at ways of reducing inequality, the best is simply to destroy the economy. Inequality in our country has decreased ever since the recession, without any structural changes to how our society is ordered.
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>>Flicker from CFLs? Really?
Really. Depends on the brand somewhat. But yeah, when I saccade, a thin line of light from a CFL will split into multiple lines. LEDs, too - I have LED lighting on my fridge, and filling up a glass of water is always fun to watch, because it's like having a high speed strobelight on the water as it splashes around. LEDs on car instrument panels bug me somewhat, but LED taillights on cars REALLY irk me.
Cadillacs are the worst.
Do you live in California?
Our ban went into effect a year early.
>>You spent over TWO MONTHS squatting in public parks without effectively delivering a message to the PUBLIC
The public caught the message of them Squatting over police cars.
I hate hippies. And seeing shit like that, literally, alongside of the drum circles, human microphones, and druggies was enough to turn me off on the movement. Even though I (and most people) completely agree that corporations have too much influence over the government.
In other words, I agree with you.
>>I heared
Uh, it's spelled HURD, buddy.
>>Just as there's a bunch of people who don't know those more expensive bulbs easily save you more than they cost, and using less efficient bulbs just hastens rising power costs.
I prefer incandescent bulbs because CFLs and LEDs have noticeable flicker.
I have solar on my house that covers all of my electrical needs.
Tell me again why I haven't been able to buy a 100-Watt lightbulb at the supermarket for the last year.
>>you're sensitive to the kind of lamp and you're thinking that something must be different, so obviously there is something different.
For me, it's the opposite.
"Why is that light over there flickering?" :walk over to it.
"Hmm, it's another CFL."
Do this enough times, and you'll begin to hate CFLs, too. Especially annoying were some lights the apartment complex installed right outside my bedroom's window. The sliver of light shining in between in the blinds would always split apart into multiple lines whenever I'd look at it at night. Very distracting.
>>I've yet to find a CFL or LED that feels as good as the light from an incandescent bulb
Me as well. Flicker from CFLs and LEDs is noticeable to me, so I can't stand to have them around me in any rooms that I spend a lot of time reading, or in front of a computer.
Fortunately we'll always be able to buy our lightbulbs from Canada. I know a guy who works in a grey market lightbulb store there.
>>There is no incandescent ban in the US, only an efficiency requirement.
As much as people say this, I can't find a 100-Watt lightbulb at my local supermarket, and haven't been able to for a year now here in California.
A wink's as good as a nod to a blind bat.
Newspaper sites don't run under the Newspaper model. Have you not been paying attention?
All websites currently have safe harbour provisions, which are being attacked by things like SOPA and PROTECT-IP.
Back in the day when the printed word mattered, printers that published copyrighted works without permission were sued and/or shut down. This is what drove copyright laws to begin with. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law)
Newspapers review everything that gets printed within them. This is why you don't see the kinds of things in Letters to the Editor that you see here on Slashdot.
The Newspaper model would force sites like Slashdot to review all user comments, which is essentially impossible, or shut down.
If they shut down Slashdot and Reddit, and all similar sites, this compromises your freedom, unless you think liberty only exists in the physical domain, not the electronic one.
>>Whose liberty would be destroyed by the newspaper model?
The "Newspaper Model" means that newspapers are liable for anything published within them. You can sue a newspaper for an article on its front page containing libel.
The "Telephone Model" means that you can't sue the telephone company for any conversations that take place on it. I.e., if two people are speaking slander over the phone, you can sue the people, but not the telephone company. The phone system is a common carrier.
CNN/Anderson Cooper apparently wants to "rethink" the current classification of internet sites to make them "newspapers" instead of "phones". I.e., eliminating common carrier / safe harbor provisions in the CDA and DMCA and making it possible to shut down Slashdot if even a single link to piracy is provided by a user on it, or a libelous statement that someone at CNN doesn't like.
>>The "common carrier" thing
Watching Anderson Cooper (ick, I know) tonight, he seemed to be pushing for eliminating the common carrier classification for internet sites, and moving them to the, quote, "newspaper model".
Given CNN et al's support for SOPA, this didn't come as a surprise, but it was still an unpleasant thing to watch a grey-haired man that people apparently respect talking so blithely about destroying our liberty.
I spent quite a while at the local Best Buy hammering on all the stock tablets in the store.
The lag is minor, but noticeable and annoying. It's not limited to the Transformer - all Android tablets I tested had it. iPads you have to push really to the limit to see any jerking, and that's by, say, flipping your finger up several times at high speed to get up to maximum scroll speed.
It's everywhere - Browsing, PDFs, Word Processing, even scrolling through lists in Android. The iPad handles all of it better, with the exception of ebooks/PDFs, whose lag it hides by implementing a slow animation to turn between pages.
The only time it actually counts as annoying is when typing in a browser, and the text has a very noticeable lag while you're typing things in. Even the iPad lags a little bit here, but Honeycomb tablets have unacceptably high input lags here. It even happens in notepad type application, though not as bad. iPads, by contrast, suffer from having the on-screen keyboard instead of a physical one, so you can ultimately type faster on the Transformer, even with the lag, which was the game-winner for me.
I have a Transformer with the keyboard, and I can recommend it.
Not as smooth a user interface as an iPad (it jerks while scrolling), but like the OP, I wanted an Android tablet.
It's not wrong at all. If you want to defuse the "population bomb" in Africa, you need to bring them all up to a middle class standard of living in stable democracies.
This has been repeatedly, around the world, proven to be the only reliable solution to Malthus.
>>Only a raving lunatic would say "they dont sue farmers"
Three articles on the same story. The farmers signed a contract with Monsanto, which they allegedly violated.
What is your objection to this?
>>The douchebag loves attention and "connections".
Hey, don't mock his connections, okay?
Turns out he knows the guy at the door of the convention center.
>>He still isn't sorry for what happened, he is "sorry" because someone famous caught him.
Right. He's like a bully who is "sorry" after some kid he was picking on turns out to be a jiu-jitsu black belt, and chokes him unconscious.
Sorry. Replace 'like' with 'is'. He IS a bully shedding alligator tears after being exposed for who he really is.
To me, the hilariously painful bit of the story was the bully's poor command of the English language. TFA has a typo, his company is not "Ocean Marketing". It's "Ocean Marketting". ;) Two t's - at least that's how he he codified it on Twitter.
I honestly love it when the Internet does this kind of stuff. I remember the great exposés back in the day over how hard it was to cancel AOL and so forth.
Yes, of course I read it. Open carry, also known as "bearing arms" is now illegal in California unless you're on your way to go hunting, to a shooting competition, or a gun range.
Clear violation of the 2nd Amendment, IMO.
For $70,000, you can only get a house in Detroit or through a time machine. Should we congratulate you on the foresight to have been born before the housing bubble? I saved my cash for 10 years to afford the down payment on my house, renting tiny apartments in the meantime. I have friends in the Bay Area that make very nice wages (x2 earners) and still have to rent tiny apartments.
A lot of life is timing, not anything else.
>>Which is of course why the right-wing is endlessly pushing for privatization. Eventually everything will be a private forum - so sorry about those first and second amendment rights.
Yes! Damn those anti-gun wingnut Tea Partiers!
Oh, er...
(You do realize that the majority of public buildings have bans on open and concealed carry, right? Privatizing jails won't change the fact you can't bring a gun into it.)
>>There are many real world places that won't allow you to enter with a gun.
Yes, it's called "California."
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/10/local/la-me-brown-guns-20111011
>>They are not in violation of the 2nd amendment
Yes, it is.
I ANAL though.
>>A hodgepodge of internet crap is not equivalent to a library.
I really wish more people would realize that.
Only a tiny fraction of humanity's knowledge is available or accessible on the internet. I'm tired of people who can't find some reference on Wikipedia and then resoundingly claim that said fact can't be true.
>>Fascinating. The youtube video is now marked 'private'.
That's a strange coincidence... it's been up for at least two or three weeks, and it gets taken down now? Hmm.
>>OWS's fundamental and unstated goal, of which all stated goals are outgrowths, is "We want more financial equality in our society."
Which sounds good, except when you look at ways of reducing inequality, the best is simply to destroy the economy. Inequality in our country has decreased ever since the recession, without any structural changes to how our society is ordered.