My generic CFLs purchased at Costco 6 years ago (and installed then) have not yet had a single burnout. They're in enclosed ceiling fixtures, and my apartment building has wiring from the 1960s.
Isn't it better to attempt to radically change something, even if it upsets the system, instead of hoping that more of the same will be an improvement?
I also have yet to replace a single CFL bulb from the set I installed 6 years ago. I just used generic Costco CFLs that were something like $2-4 apiece.
Pandora's Legions is another similar story: lower-tech aliens with an earlier discovery of gravity manipulation invade earth, are defeated, and Humans expand. It's free to read from Baen.
One good thing that I've seem coming from the targeting of aging consoles is that developers have apparently begun to take far better advantage of shaders, careful texture effects, etc. A lot of big-title cross-platform games, by neccessity, don't need to use all of the power in modern PCs, yet often look much better than older PC-only games which have higher system requirements. They do a lot of this by excellent texture and shader work, even though their polygon count (traditionally the measure of quality in PC games) is quite low.
Now if only they can combine this technique with the full power of modern PCs for some PC-only big title games.
I thought this was common knowledge: fast readers don't recognize words by phonemes, but whole, and don't process them verbally. The one time I mentioned it to another fast reader, he agreed.
One downside of this is that I often don't know the correct pronunciation, or possibly even the correct spelling, of words which I've only encountered while reading - I only recognize the word entire when I read it. Most common with names in fiction: I'll have no idea what a name is, but merely recognize it as a consistent label.
I used a similar product, the Logitech io for a number of years. It worked pretty well, but I never really utilized the digital copies of my notes - it's often much faster to just flip through the notebooks. I did sometimes use the digital copies for review, since they're a bit more consolidated than several notebooks of paper, but I ended up abandoning it after 3-4 years of use simply because I ran out of ink and didn't have a refill on hand. It's annoying to recopy notes that are taken with a different pen.
If you're considering a livescribe, note that they do require special paper like the Logitech io. The notebooks I had to buy were significantly more expensive than standard paper, although not that much of a total cost. However, it also limits your organization: if you want a seperate section for every class, you're going to have to carry around several notepads.
They've started doing that at the dorm parking lots in my University town. They've also been replacing street lights with LED light that have small PV panels on top.
I recently set up a Courier+Postfix+MySQL email server for myself on a cheap VPS. It wasn't too painful to get working - there are some decent tutorials on it. The most helpful was this one, pretty straightforward. Be aware that, as others have mentioned in passing, you need a reverse DNS entry. Setting that up varies from host to host, but with the cheap VPS host I use (note: you get what you pay for, it's a shared-CPU VPS, not guaranteed resources, but works fine for my small webserver and private email), it just took a support ticket with the requested PTR entries and an hour's wait.
That's only twice the cost of my internet. Or a bit more than I pay for food, and I don't particularly go for the cheapest foods. Or the cost of a higher-end cable plan. Or 18% of my monthly rent for a studio apartment in a college town.
Yes; this is follow-up work to the paper in that earlier article.
Also important to note, neither paper is specific to Skype; their work is on encrypted VoIP in general. But apparently/. prefers things having to do with Skype for some reason.
We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?
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SMAC had some really great quotes on possible future technologies.
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My generic CFLs purchased at Costco 6 years ago (and installed then) have not yet had a single burnout. They're in enclosed ceiling fixtures, and my apartment building has wiring from the 1960s.
No, superconductors are not thermally superconductive, just electrically. Niven made a mistake there.
Isn't it better to attempt to radically change something, even if it upsets the system, instead of hoping that more of the same will be an improvement?
Don't forget Alien: Resurrection, where Serenity's crew boards a space station to help mutant-Ripley kill the Aliens!
I also have yet to replace a single CFL bulb from the set I installed 6 years ago. I just used generic Costco CFLs that were something like $2-4 apiece.
No, it's more of 10-11AM to 3AM, as he mentions just below the first plot. The last plots are more useful for drawing that sort of conclusion, though.
I second Laumer. You can get most of them in themed anthologies from Baen's free library:
Pandora's Legions is another similar story: lower-tech aliens with an earlier discovery of gravity manipulation invade earth, are defeated, and Humans expand. It's free to read from Baen.
Yeah, flowers have interesting UV patterns.
It's already been tested in the lab, or did everyone forget the story from earlier this year? Well, not quite ATP, but a fuel cell utilizing glucose and oxygen at blood concentrations. It worked quite well in a rat in 2010.
You would think that the time is right for a social-liberal/fiscal-conservative party to rise up and take the middle ground.
My understanding is that the Libertarians fit this description.
One good thing that I've seem coming from the targeting of aging consoles is that developers have apparently begun to take far better advantage of shaders, careful texture effects, etc. A lot of big-title cross-platform games, by neccessity, don't need to use all of the power in modern PCs, yet often look much better than older PC-only games which have higher system requirements. They do a lot of this by excellent texture and shader work, even though their polygon count (traditionally the measure of quality in PC games) is quite low.
Now if only they can combine this technique with the full power of modern PCs for some PC-only big title games.
Judging from the moderation I consistently see on posts claiming this, Slashdot's groupmind apparently thinks it has a problem with groupthink.
I thought this was common knowledge: fast readers don't recognize words by phonemes, but whole, and don't process them verbally. The one time I mentioned it to another fast reader, he agreed.
One downside of this is that I often don't know the correct pronunciation, or possibly even the correct spelling, of words which I've only encountered while reading - I only recognize the word entire when I read it. Most common with names in fiction: I'll have no idea what a name is, but merely recognize it as a consistent label.
I used a similar product, the Logitech io for a number of years. It worked pretty well, but I never really utilized the digital copies of my notes - it's often much faster to just flip through the notebooks. I did sometimes use the digital copies for review, since they're a bit more consolidated than several notebooks of paper, but I ended up abandoning it after 3-4 years of use simply because I ran out of ink and didn't have a refill on hand. It's annoying to recopy notes that are taken with a different pen.
If you're considering a livescribe, note that they do require special paper like the Logitech io. The notebooks I had to buy were significantly more expensive than standard paper, although not that much of a total cost. However, it also limits your organization: if you want a seperate section for every class, you're going to have to carry around several notepads.
Obviously you need to memorize at least enough that you're off by less than a Planck length.
Flowers are often more varied in the UV than in the standard visible light range.
They've started doing that at the dorm parking lots in my University town. They've also been replacing street lights with LED light that have small PV panels on top.
Recent advances in artificial vision are almost enough to make me wish to have an ocular accident, so I can get an artificial retina.
Yeah. I've had LHC@Home on my specific BOINC project manager since 2004. It hasn't had much available work, though. Mostly I work on Einstein@Home (processes LIGO and other gravitational wave observatory data).
I recently set up a Courier+Postfix+MySQL email server for myself on a cheap VPS. It wasn't too painful to get working - there are some decent tutorials on it. The most helpful was this one, pretty straightforward. Be aware that, as others have mentioned in passing, you need a reverse DNS entry. Setting that up varies from host to host, but with the cheap VPS host I use (note: you get what you pay for, it's a shared-CPU VPS, not guaranteed resources, but works fine for my small webserver and private email), it just took a support ticket with the requested PTR entries and an hour's wait.
That's a completely reasonable sequestering scheme if all the area is replanted to the same density.
That's only twice the cost of my internet. Or a bit more than I pay for food, and I don't particularly go for the cheapest foods. Or the cost of a higher-end cable plan. Or 18% of my monthly rent for a studio apartment in a college town.
Yes; this is follow-up work to the paper in that earlier article.
Also important to note, neither paper is specific to Skype; their work is on encrypted VoIP in general. But apparently /. prefers things having to do with Skype for some reason.
We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?
Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7
Activity Recorded M.Y. 2302.22467
TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED
SMAC had some really great quotes on possible future technologies.