Yes, humanity absolutely should modify its own behavior. The perils and pitfalls of our way of life have been known for a long time. Anyone who wants to claim ignorance can cry me a river. I made the decision to change my ways over 20 years ago and, yes, it did absolutely fucking suck - for about 3 months. After that, it just becomes part of day to day living - no big fucking deal.
Oh, well, if you say so, it must be true. What other possible explanation could there be?
Personally, I worked for IBM a few years ago and while I wouldn't say I'd never go back, it would have to be a pretty sweet offer.
Did you clue in that Gosling worked there over 25 years ago? IBM was very much a stuffed-shirt organisation back then. A lot of computer companies that formed back then wanted to be, to outside appearances, the opposite of the IBM culture - an early example was DEC, which was long considered an engineer's dream company to work for, and of course, Microsoft, SUN and Apple came later.
Also, the wording of the settlements between companies can be sufficiently vague that a casual glance, if the document is public, which typically isn't the case, won't understand clearly the implications. But, in this case, there really wasn't anything truly hidden - what Gosling was talking about was all part of the $2 billion payment from M$ to Sun including the broad cross-licensing agreement of 2004. That said, every thing you wrote was simply your fucking opinion - you didn't back it up with so much as a shred of evidence. And while your musings may make sense superficially, the events of the last couple of decades in the business world should have made it clear that corporations play by their own rules, public scrutiny be damned. As to why? Because it's really a win-win for both sides - Sun, who was already seriously on the downslope, got a big cash infusion, and some access to M$ tech / APIs. M$, since they were paying out over 10 years, wouldn't feel the sting too badly as the interest on their huge cash pile would cover those payouts. What M$ got out of it was unfettered rights to embrace, extend and possibly extinguish Java by offering a comparable platform to entice Java developers to a Windows-centric environment.
Publicly traded and un-kosher doesn't mean fuck-all when there's big money at stake and lawyers and accountants involved. Look at what has happened over the last 10 years. Weren't Enron, WorldCom, Bear Stearns, et al. publicly traded companies?
Oh, it's still quite possible to get an answer from a real bigwig. But the response may not be what you were looking for. Just ask Chelsea Kate Isaacs.
The original brand I bought was called GreenLite - of the 4 purchased in Spring 2003, only 1 is still working. I also bought an 8-pack of Luminus 13W mini-spirals in early 2006 - 2 of those have since died. All the CFLs are 2700K color temperature.
I paid $4 each for the GreenLites and the Luminus 8-pack was $17 at Costco. I've seen some complaints online about these bulbs, but I'm satisfied overall.
With CFLs I rarely do the quick on-off; if I turn the light on, especially if it's the 1st time for the day or after an interval of more than a few hours, I'll leave it going for at least 15 minutes. Even so, my electricity usage is down considerably from 7 years ago.
If they're saying they are willing to do it, bet your bottom dollar they have already done it or are already doing it. And, if they're being public about it, then they want those with the big chequebooks to open their wallets.
Where do you live? I think a lot of places would be better off if they followed Canadian building standards. I did once live in a house in central Canada that was poorly maintained and the insulation wasn't up to snuff and it still didn't take much to get it to 8C; once we covered all the windows with plastic sheeting, we could affordably keep it at 14C.
Mind telling me the make and model? I'll make sure to avoid them. Did you try returning them? I would consider that a defect. I frequently don't need to turn on lights for brief periods but my night vision does seem to be unusually good - despite me approaching the half-century mark, I have yet to meet anyone who can match me in low light conditions. Bright, sunny days, on the other hand are excruciating for me and have been all my life.
And, for the record, there are plenty of cheap-ass incandescent that put out harsh lighting. I've been buying CFLs for about 6 years now. The first batch of 4 that I tried cost about 4 bucks each and lasted between 3 and 5 years. Then I bought a 10-pack for $25 that were much better quality, brighter, softer and all are still going. I'm quite sure that I'm ahead for what the incandescents would have cost me in electricity. Also, the original 4 had a delay of under a second when turned on for the 1st time in a day. If they were turned off and then back on within 4-6 hours, there was no noticeable delay. The newer batch doesn't have a significant delay at all.
(Note that I'm not addressing outdoor CFLs - I've never used them) If you're bitching about a 1-sec delay once a day, you're just whining - what the hell is so urgent in your life that 1 second is a deal breaker? Not liking the light quality is more understandable but pretty much every light in every house or apartment I've seen in the last decades are shaded and my CFLs put out light that looks a lot like that from vestibule high-intensity lamps.
It's funny that the right-wing nutcons in the US are quick to dismiss the French as a bunch of wine-tippling sissies while at the same time crowing about how US Citizens need guns in order to defend society from the government. Yet, when push comes to shove, it's the sissy Frogs who don't hesitate to rise up in force while the redoubtable American defenders sit their fat asses in cheap armchairs in parks waving signs depicting their mixed-race President as the political descendant of a white supremacist mass murderer.
I doubt AMD can accomplish this alone - they just don't have the fabrication prowess and it's big money to build chip factories. I think the Global Foundries spinoff was a good move but they still too far behind Intel. However, Chipzilla is getting hit on several fronts and I never thought that the ARM would be the architecture to knock them back a step. And now that Marvell has announced a triple-core ARM(-like?) chip that'll run very-low power when not stressed, this might be another nail in Intel's coffin. But, on the PC desktop, they are the current champs, except for the price-performance category. If they swallowed Nvidia like AMD did with ATI, I think they would outright own the desktop again.
I love AMD ( and buy them ) as they are good enough for what I do and have really been the ones driving x86 innovation for the last 10 years. They've made Intel a better Intel by forcing them to keep up and cutting cost. Things would be even better for the consumer if AMD were closer to Intel in fabrication prowess - Andy Grove's company isn't called Chipzilla for nothing
The transparency of the fuselage requires electricity so it probably wouldn't last long after the plane crashed but your point is taken. I suppose rescuers could risk electrifying the wreckage to have a better view of the inside if the current isn't great enough to pose a threat.
As far as giving passengers a view of the outside, it would probably be more practical to use external cameras that can be projected on the floor and ceiling that to build a whole new (fleet of) plane(s).
Toronto's CN Tower has a glass floor, about a 1/4 mile above street level and there are many, many people who can't muster the nerve to walk out on it.
I can only imagine how relaxing it'll be for Joe Sixpack to have an unrestricted view of a flock of geese flying into the engine before all goes hurtling to that most welcoming of places we call Terra Firma.
Not to mention just how much more gruesome plane crashes will be since anyone within visual range will have a lovely view of the innards, both the planes and the dead or dying passengers.
A self-promoting douche who is telling the truth about military cover-ups get much higher marks than any amount of seeminly, nice, personable people who are hiding atrocities. It's past tiime that we looked past charm, respectability and authority as indicators of truthfulness - that has almost never been the case in gov'ts and organisations, especially when the stakes are as high as these.
Trouble is, "family-of-four-equals-1-coffee-cup-lifetime" is pretty much bullshit. Like the US, France, despite all their vaunted reprocessing, half of which is apparently done by Russia, still has so much nuclear waste that they need a safe burial site. So, they've chose a place called Bure, back in 1999, which *might* be ready for use by 2020. I hope we have workable, scalable thorium designs before then, if not fusion
I've already explained the why in previous posts; feel free to re-read them. Sure, naming things can be difficult but millions of people and companies manage it, even if it takes several tries. Firefox is a case in point. If they need help with a name or logo, I'm sure the community would be delighted to offer suggestions. This has worked for many projects in the past - I believe the one or more of the BSDs have used this in the last couple of years. And, considering that so many of the former Mandrake people are French-speaking, I'm surprised they didn't choose Mystique - a word that evokes both magic and intrigue.
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Yes, humanity absolutely should modify its own behavior. The perils and pitfalls of our way of life have been known for a long time. Anyone who wants to claim ignorance can cry me a river. I made the decision to change my ways over 20 years ago and, yes, it did absolutely fucking suck - for about 3 months.
After that, it just becomes part of day to day living - no big fucking deal.
Oh, well, if you say so, it must be true. What other possible explanation could there be?
Personally, I worked for IBM a few years ago and while I wouldn't say I'd never go back, it would have to be a pretty sweet offer.
Did you clue in that Gosling worked there over 25 years ago? IBM was very much a stuffed-shirt organisation back then. A lot of computer companies that formed back then wanted to be, to outside appearances, the opposite of the IBM culture - an early example was DEC, which was long considered an engineer's dream company to work for, and of course, Microsoft, SUN and Apple came later.
Go apply your vaunted reading comprehension on what Jonathan Schwartz wrote at http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/
Also, the wording of the settlements between companies can be sufficiently vague that a casual glance, if the document is public, which typically isn't the case, won't understand clearly the implications.
But, in this case, there really wasn't anything truly hidden - what Gosling was talking about was all part of the $2 billion payment from M$ to Sun including the broad cross-licensing agreement of 2004.
That said, every thing you wrote was simply your fucking opinion - you didn't back it up with so much as a shred of evidence.
And while your musings may make sense superficially, the events of the last couple of decades in the business world should have made it clear that corporations play by their own rules, public scrutiny be damned.
As to why? Because it's really a win-win for both sides - Sun, who was already seriously on the downslope, got a big cash infusion, and some access to M$ tech / APIs.
M$, since they were paying out over 10 years, wouldn't feel the sting too badly as the interest on their huge cash pile would cover those payouts. What M$ got out of it was unfettered rights to embrace, extend and possibly extinguish Java by offering a comparable platform to entice Java developers to a Windows-centric environment.
Publicly traded and un-kosher doesn't mean fuck-all when there's big money at stake and lawyers and accountants involved. Look at what has happened over the last 10 years. Weren't Enron, WorldCom, Bear Stearns, et al. publicly traded companies?
Oh, it's still quite possible to get an answer from a real bigwig. But the response may not be what you were looking for. Just ask Chelsea Kate Isaacs.
The original brand I bought was called GreenLite - of the 4 purchased in Spring 2003, only 1 is still working.
I also bought an 8-pack of Luminus 13W mini-spirals in early 2006 - 2 of those have since died.
All the CFLs are 2700K color temperature.
I paid $4 each for the GreenLites and the Luminus 8-pack was $17 at Costco. I've seen some complaints online about these bulbs, but I'm satisfied overall.
With CFLs I rarely do the quick on-off; if I turn the light on, especially if it's the 1st time for the day or after an interval of more than a few hours, I'll leave it going for at least 15 minutes.
Even so, my electricity usage is down considerably from 7 years ago.
If they're saying they are willing to do it, bet your bottom dollar they have already done it or are already doing it. And, if they're being public about it, then they want those with the big chequebooks to open their wallets.
Where do you live? I think a lot of places would be better off if they followed Canadian building standards. I did once live in a house in central Canada that was poorly maintained and the insulation wasn't up to snuff and it still didn't take much to get it to 8C; once we covered all the windows with plastic sheeting, we could affordably keep it at 14C.
Here's a YouTube link of Paula's masterpiece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMRHGW_K-M8
You can browse her and reader recipes and subscribe to her newsletter at http://www.pauladeen.com/
You've got to treat this stuff like hardcore porn - fun to watch but risky to try.
If you put yourself full-time on Paula's diet, well, it's been nice knowing you.
Can't speak for Rachel but since Paula has been known to substitute donuts for burger buns, I'm guessing she's not ripping off Weight Watchers.
Mind telling me the make and model? I'll make sure to avoid them.
Did you try returning them? I would consider that a defect.
I frequently don't need to turn on lights for brief periods but my night vision does seem to be unusually good - despite me approaching the half-century mark, I have yet to meet anyone who can match me in low light conditions.
Bright, sunny days, on the other hand are excruciating for me and have been all my life.
And, for the record, there are plenty of cheap-ass incandescent that put out harsh lighting. I've been buying CFLs for about 6 years now. The first batch of 4 that I tried cost about 4 bucks each and lasted between 3 and 5 years. Then I bought a 10-pack for $25 that were much better quality, brighter, softer and all are still going. I'm quite sure that I'm ahead for what the incandescents would have cost me in electricity.
Also, the original 4 had a delay of under a second when turned on for the 1st time in a day. If they were turned off and then back on within 4-6 hours, there was no noticeable delay.
The newer batch doesn't have a significant delay at all.
(Note that I'm not addressing outdoor CFLs - I've never used them)
If you're bitching about a 1-sec delay once a day, you're just whining - what the hell is so urgent in your life that 1 second is a deal breaker?
Not liking the light quality is more understandable but pretty much every light in every house or apartment I've seen in the last decades are shaded and my CFLs put out light that looks
a lot like that from vestibule high-intensity lamps.
Won't someone think of the children!
Boy, that excuse / reason works for EVERYTHING.
It's funny that the right-wing nutcons in the US are quick to dismiss the French as a bunch of wine-tippling sissies while at the same time crowing about how US Citizens need guns in order to defend society from the government.
Yet, when push comes to shove, it's the sissy Frogs who don't hesitate to rise up in force while the redoubtable American defenders sit their fat asses in cheap armchairs in parks waving signs depicting their mixed-race President as the political descendant of a white supremacist mass murderer.
I doubt AMD can accomplish this alone - they just don't have the fabrication prowess and it's big money to build chip factories. I think the Global Foundries spinoff was a good move but they still too far behind Intel.
However, Chipzilla is getting hit on several fronts and I never thought that the ARM would be the architecture to knock them back a step. And now that Marvell has announced a triple-core ARM(-like?) chip that'll run very-low power when not stressed, this might be another nail in Intel's coffin.
But, on the PC desktop, they are the current champs, except for the price-performance category.
If they swallowed Nvidia like AMD did with ATI, I think they would outright own the desktop again.
That's not the whole story - there was a deliberate attempt to not use optimized instructions.
See a long discussion at http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49
I love AMD ( and buy them ) as they are good enough for what I do and have really been the ones driving x86 innovation for the last 10 years. They've made Intel a better Intel by forcing them to keep up and cutting cost. Things would be even better for the consumer if AMD were closer to Intel in fabrication prowess - Andy Grove's company isn't called
Chipzilla for nothing
That's right - it's LHC's all the way down
The transparency of the fuselage requires electricity so it probably wouldn't last long after the plane crashed but your point is taken.
I suppose rescuers could risk electrifying the wreckage to have a better view of the inside if the current isn't great enough to pose a threat.
As far as giving passengers a view of the outside, it would probably be more practical to use external cameras that can be projected on the floor and ceiling that to build a whole new (fleet of) plane(s).
That would be HILARIOUS - you should e-mail that suggestion to the CN Tower Management
Toronto's CN Tower has a glass floor, about a 1/4 mile above street level and there are many, many people who can't muster the nerve to walk out on it.
I can only imagine how relaxing it'll be for Joe Sixpack to have an unrestricted view of a flock of geese flying into the engine before all goes hurtling to that most
welcoming of places we call Terra Firma.
Not to mention just how much more gruesome plane crashes will be since anyone within visual range will have a lovely view of the innards, both the planes and the
dead or dying passengers.
Good plan, Mr Airbus Man.
A self-promoting douche who is telling the truth about military cover-ups get much higher marks than any amount of seeminly, nice, personable people who are hiding atrocities.
It's past tiime that we looked past charm, respectability and authority as indicators of truthfulness - that has almost never been the case in gov'ts and organisations, especially when the stakes are as high as these.
Good point. I wonder if he edited any of the Linux for Dummies editions.
Trouble is, "family-of-four-equals-1-coffee-cup-lifetime" is pretty much bullshit. Like the US, France, despite all their vaunted reprocessing, half of which is apparently done by Russia, still has so much nuclear waste that they need a safe burial site.
So, they've chose a place called Bure, back in 1999, which *might* be ready for use by 2020.
I hope we have workable, scalable thorium designs before then, if not fusion
I've already explained the why in previous posts; feel free to re-read them. Sure, naming things can be difficult but millions of people and companies manage it, even if it takes several tries.
Firefox is a case in point.
If they need help with a name or logo, I'm sure the community would be delighted to offer suggestions. This has worked for many projects in the past - I believe the one or more of the BSDs have used this in the last couple of years. And, considering that so many of the former Mandrake people are French-speaking, I'm surprised they didn't choose Mystique - a word that evokes both magic and intrigue.