Unless you live in southern california, "water bans" are typically implemented because they're cheaper than upgrading infrastructure capacity. It's rained where I am for 4 weeks straight averaging almost half an inch per day for the last 30 days. Yet we still have a water ban in effect, because the pump for the public water supply can only pump so much water....
If you're averaging out the spectrum, sure.. It's close.
But sunlight contains almost perfectly equal amounts of light in every wavelength of the visible spectrum. Expensive full-spectrum flourescents (which typically require a new fixture) emit much brighter light as some wavelengths than they do at others. Typical, affordable, efficient compact fluorescents are worse in that regard. They simply pick between 3-7 wavelengths that average out to the desired color temperature and are done with it..
Getting quality light is all about buying the right color spectrum. Cheap bulb, cheap light. The SAME is true of incandescent, accepting that a cheap incandescent is a fraction of the price (up front cost), but can actually cost significantly more over an equivalent life (multiple replacements, plus energy costs).
This is just plain wrong. Even "full spectrum" CFs with whatever color temperature you want to pick have much stronger light emitted in relatively few quanta than over the rest of the spectrum, where as an incandescent will produce a smooth output curve of light over its spectrum. You've simply convinced yourself that it doesn't make any difference.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't use CFs. I personally use them in 9/10 fixtures in my house. However there are perfectly valid reasons still to choose an incandescent.
Warmup time is still an issue for outdoor bulbs too. On a cold night, even the best CFs I can find won't reach 50% brightness by the time the motion-sensing lamp on the side of my house times out and turns the light back off.... And those are the days where it's most important to have bright lights, since the driveway is probably icy...
Each degree Fahrenheit describes a smaller range of temperature than a degree in Celsius. Thus, when expressed as an integer, Fahrenheit is more precise. (Not more accurate).
We got our first snow last winter in early November. The last of the snow melted from my yard in April this year. At the peak of winter, the depth was 54".
It's not hard to know that below 32 things get icy instead of below 0.
As for when I change my tires, I use the calendar for that. The likelihood of freezing temperatures is more important than the actual current temperature.
It's easy to pull up a keyboard and get on your high horse.
It's even easier when you're wrong.
SI units were established as an international standard in 1960. That's 139 years after Napoleon died, in case you don't feel like doing the math. Before that, they were just yet another system of units like all the other random systems.
The "fucking excuse" for building the shuttle using any other system is that they sourced parts from thousands of small machine shops throughout the country. Those shops were not tooled with metric equipment.
The Space Shuttle was a new machine, but it was built by old machines. (Plus, it wasn't really a completely new machine. It contained plenty of stock parts from previous aerospace projects)
1. Already done for the most part 2. Already done for the most part. 3. Already done completely. 4. Already done completely.
None of those things are the problem. The problem is with physical tooling, machines, and devices produced by those tools and machines that have decades of service left in them, and use imperial measurements. It is compounded by the fact that the tools and parts for servicing those devices can be used to build new versions of those devices for far less than it would cost to own two sets of tools/machines in order to both service the old stuff and build the new stuff.
Which is the difference between scientists and engineers.... Sometimes the right decision is to listen to the engineers and not the scientists.
The scientists have it easy. They work in theories and numbers. The engineers have to produce usable physical objects. They have to do so in an environment that had significantly established manufacturing infrastructure before the SI standard existed. The countries that have converted to SI are the countries that were late to the industrial revolution party. It is expensive and difficult to overcome a massive established base of equipment. And it's a self perpetuating problem, because you can't just replace individual tools and machines as they wear out. An individual replacement has to be compatible with the rest of your infrastructure.
Sigh all you like. Short of a massive cash investment (Many Trillions of Dollars), or all manufacturing leaving the US and UK for good, Imperial units will stay and be indifferent to the sighs of the "rest" of the world.
(Incidentally, this would have been a *great* thing to spend stimulus money on instead of government employee salaries and other stupid programs.)
He's not getting his kid out of it. They will still be required by law to obtain a SSN indirectly when they start filing their income taxes (you *must* supply your SSN on the 1040).
All he's doing is costing himself more than $20,000 extra in federal taxes over the next 18 years.
Let me guess. He's still a newborn... Less than a year old?
You'll be thrilled come next April and you find out that you don't get the $3650 tax deduction for having a dependent unless the dependent has a SSN.
No, they're not required, but you're going to pay tens of thousands of dollars over the next 18+ years to keep him from having one. And for what? So he can sign up for one himself as soon as he realizes it's required to be a full member of our society?
Yeah. Sprint. In the years that I was a Sprint customer (I'm not anymore), one lesson was driven home.... NEVER, never never never, go to a Sprint Store. They send their managers to asshole school. They give their employees lobotomies.
Go to an authorized reseller. They'll actually appreciate your business. Or use Amazon. Or call their phone sales/support line. Anything. Just not the Sprint Store.
Nobody receives more health care than people in the US either. That goes a long way to explaining why we pay so much more. (There is also a good deal of inefficiency)
Now... Not everybody has health coverage, so of course if you want to extend the best-in-the-world-by-far coverage to everybody, you're going to increase the cost. Or more likely, we're going to degrade the quality of care for the people who already have it in exchange for covering the people who don't.
By the way, there isn't a single fact in your entire comment. It terrifies me if that is the kind of stuff people are using as the basis for their opinions on the subject.
We're never going to have a rational debate or an un-biased study at this rate.
Geo-engineering may make people think that we can carry on as now with no sacrifices.
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Sacrifices are needed but sophistry will not persuade anyone.
If your motive is to get people to make sacrifices and alter their lifestyle, you're going to find solutions that require such alterations, and spend time shooting down proposals that don't require such things. That's the problem with almost all mainstream environmentalists. They care more about altering people's lifestyles than solving problems.
If we could harness an equivalent amount of energy to what we're using now without emitting greenhouse gasses in the process, we wouldn't need any "sacrifices" beyond the investment in the technology. This is sufficiently obvious to everybody outside of the mainstream environmental movement that we have hundreds of millions of people who dis-trust and completely dis-believe said environmentalists. If they're obviously lying about what we need to do to solve the problem, why wouldn't people think that they're lying about the problem itself too?
Bullshit arguments like yours cause the existence global-warming deniers.
Why would they care if you take your phone to another provider before the contract expires? You're still on the hook for the balance of your contract, or for the termination fee...
This situation is also a lot of fun if you do it with someone you can work and communicate well with. You basically have a conversation about everything you are trying to do and watch the code morph into a simple, elegant and powerful solution in a time frame that even the most amazing code guru could not achieve. That is an absolute hoot if you appreciate good code more than ego maintenance.
I won't disagree with this. Having fun and writing code in a social manner does not necessarily translate into greater productivity though.
Which brings me to my point. Perhaps the fact that you think that pair programming is only good for bad programmers is that you are a one of those developers that likes to be right, will argue a position where this is no right answer as if everything is absolute and tends to choose obscure solutions just to appear smart and perhaps ensure job security. The industry is full of those.
Actually, that's exactly the type of programmer that I think benefits the most from pair programming. They'd benefit more from being fired though.
You get a subsidized phone in exchange for signing a binding contract for service. The company is getting the money for that service contract regardless of what you do with the phone, so why lock it?
Sprint allowed tethering over Bluetooth with the Treo (not at first, but patched in later on the 650). I don't know why they would suddenly change their mind with the Pre. Maybe because of the 802.11?
The dirty little secret of this generation is that the cost per unit revenue of the average game went down. Not up. And not by a little bit either.
The big studios want us all to think the cost to make games goes up with each generation. That justifies cost increases, and big-name licenses.
In reality, hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue has been generated by low to medium budget downloadable titles that have been the bread and butter of this generation of consoles.
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Unless you live in southern california, "water bans" are typically implemented because they're cheaper than upgrading infrastructure capacity. It's rained where I am for 4 weeks straight averaging almost half an inch per day for the last 30 days. Yet we still have a water ban in effect, because the pump for the public water supply can only pump so much water....
For some definition of close...
If you're averaging out the spectrum, sure.. It's close.
But sunlight contains almost perfectly equal amounts of light in every wavelength of the visible spectrum. Expensive full-spectrum flourescents (which typically require a new fixture) emit much brighter light as some wavelengths than they do at others. Typical, affordable, efficient compact fluorescents are worse in that regard. They simply pick between 3-7 wavelengths that average out to the desired color temperature and are done with it..
Getting quality light is all about buying the right color spectrum. Cheap bulb, cheap light. The SAME is true of incandescent, accepting that a cheap incandescent is a fraction of the price (up front cost), but can actually cost significantly more over an equivalent life (multiple replacements, plus energy costs).
This is just plain wrong. Even "full spectrum" CFs with whatever color temperature you want to pick have much stronger light emitted in relatively few quanta than over the rest of the spectrum, where as an incandescent will produce a smooth output curve of light over its spectrum. You've simply convinced yourself that it doesn't make any difference.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't use CFs. I personally use them in 9/10 fixtures in my house. However there are perfectly valid reasons still to choose an incandescent.
Warmup time is still an issue for outdoor bulbs too. On a cold night, even the best CFs I can find won't reach 50% brightness by the time the motion-sensing lamp on the side of my house times out and turns the light back off.... And those are the days where it's most important to have bright lights, since the driveway is probably icy...
As I said, when expressed as an integer.
Each degree Fahrenheit describes a smaller range of temperature than a degree in Celsius. Thus, when expressed as an integer, Fahrenheit is more precise. (Not more accurate).
Didn't you learn the difference between precision and accuracy in high school science class?
The man at the door will collect your Geek credentials on your way out.
We got our first snow last winter in early November. The last of the snow melted from my yard in April this year. At the peak of winter, the depth was 54".
It's not hard to know that below 32 things get icy instead of below 0.
As for when I change my tires, I use the calendar for that. The likelihood of freezing temperatures is more important than the actual current temperature.
It's easy to pull up a keyboard and get on your high horse.
It's even easier when you're wrong.
SI units were established as an international standard in 1960. That's 139 years after Napoleon died, in case you don't feel like doing the math. Before that, they were just yet another system of units like all the other random systems.
The "fucking excuse" for building the shuttle using any other system is that they sourced parts from thousands of small machine shops throughout the country. Those shops were not tooled with metric equipment.
The Space Shuttle was a new machine, but it was built by old machines. (Plus, it wasn't really a completely new machine. It contained plenty of stock parts from previous aerospace projects)
1. Already done for the most part
2. Already done for the most part.
3. Already done completely.
4. Already done completely.
None of those things are the problem. The problem is with physical tooling, machines, and devices produced by those tools and machines that have decades of service left in them, and use imperial measurements. It is compounded by the fact that the tools and parts for servicing those devices can be used to build new versions of those devices for far less than it would cost to own two sets of tools/machines in order to both service the old stuff and build the new stuff.
Sure, mod me down as overrated. But if you ask me, engineers are the real geeks. Not the scientists. (discuss) :)
And don't be such a wuss! Pick a meta-moderation eligible mod next time you want to mod-down a perfectly reasonable comment!
Fahrenheit is one of the few units I prefer over the metric counterpart. At least when talking about weather or indoor climate.
When expressed as an integer (temperature frequently is when talking about weather), Fahrenheit is a more precise unit.
Which is the difference between scientists and engineers.... Sometimes the right decision is to listen to the engineers and not the scientists.
The scientists have it easy. They work in theories and numbers. The engineers have to produce usable physical objects. They have to do so in an environment that had significantly established manufacturing infrastructure before the SI standard existed. The countries that have converted to SI are the countries that were late to the industrial revolution party. It is expensive and difficult to overcome a massive established base of equipment. And it's a self perpetuating problem, because you can't just replace individual tools and machines as they wear out. An individual replacement has to be compatible with the rest of your infrastructure.
Sigh all you like. Short of a massive cash investment (Many Trillions of Dollars), or all manufacturing leaving the US and UK for good, Imperial units will stay and be indifferent to the sighs of the "rest" of the world.
(Incidentally, this would have been a *great* thing to spend stimulus money on instead of government employee salaries and other stupid programs.)
He's not getting his kid out of it. They will still be required by law to obtain a SSN indirectly when they start filing their income taxes (you *must* supply your SSN on the 1040).
All he's doing is costing himself more than $20,000 extra in federal taxes over the next 18 years.
Let me guess. He's still a newborn... Less than a year old?
You'll be thrilled come next April and you find out that you don't get the $3650 tax deduction for having a dependent unless the dependent has a SSN.
No, they're not required, but you're going to pay tens of thousands of dollars over the next 18+ years to keep him from having one. And for what? So he can sign up for one himself as soon as he realizes it's required to be a full member of our society?
Yeah. Sprint.
In the years that I was a Sprint customer (I'm not anymore), one lesson was driven home.... NEVER, never never never, go to a Sprint Store. They send their managers to asshole school. They give their employees lobotomies.
Go to an authorized reseller. They'll actually appreciate your business. Or use Amazon. Or call their phone sales/support line. Anything. Just not the Sprint Store.
Nobody receives more health care than people in the US either. That goes a long way to explaining why we pay so much more. (There is also a good deal of inefficiency)
Now... Not everybody has health coverage, so of course if you want to extend the best-in-the-world-by-far coverage to everybody, you're going to increase the cost. Or more likely, we're going to degrade the quality of care for the people who already have it in exchange for covering the people who don't.
By the way, there isn't a single fact in your entire comment. It terrifies me if that is the kind of stuff people are using as the basis for their opinions on the subject.
We're never going to have a rational debate or an un-biased study at this rate.
If your motive is to get people to make sacrifices and alter their lifestyle, you're going to find solutions that require such alterations, and spend time shooting down proposals that don't require such things. That's the problem with almost all mainstream environmentalists. They care more about altering people's lifestyles than solving problems.
If we could harness an equivalent amount of energy to what we're using now without emitting greenhouse gasses in the process, we wouldn't need any "sacrifices" beyond the investment in the technology. This is sufficiently obvious to everybody outside of the mainstream environmental movement that we have hundreds of millions of people who dis-trust and completely dis-believe said environmentalists. If they're obviously lying about what we need to do to solve the problem, why wouldn't people think that they're lying about the problem itself too?
Bullshit arguments like yours cause the existence global-warming deniers.
It's actually both. There is (was) a swab and a spray version.
I've used Zicam, and I can say that in my experience it's a massive scam. (Yes, I can still smell things.)
Zicam doesn't work as well as a simple oral Zinc supplement that costs 1/10th the price. It is merely a triumph of marketing.
Why would they care if you take your phone to another provider before the contract expires? You're still on the hook for the balance of your contract, or for the termination fee...
I won't disagree with this. Having fun and writing code in a social manner does not necessarily translate into greater productivity though.
Actually, that's exactly the type of programmer that I think benefits the most from pair programming. They'd benefit more from being fired though.
I never understood locking phones.
You get a subsidized phone in exchange for signing a binding contract for service. The company is getting the money for that service contract regardless of what you do with the phone, so why lock it?
Sprint allowed tethering over Bluetooth with the Treo (not at first, but patched in later on the 650). I don't know why they would suddenly change their mind with the Pre. Maybe because of the 802.11?
This comment is just continuing the bullshit that is in the article...
People didn't take fever reducers to fool the scanner. They took an aspirin 'cause they felt like crap.
Reminds me of a cover I saw on one of my great-grandmother's Weekly World News tabloids when I was much younger...
Scientists Plan To Blow Up Moon.
Turns out they were right!
The dirty little secret of this generation is that the cost per unit revenue of the average game went down. Not up. And not by a little bit either.
The big studios want us all to think the cost to make games goes up with each generation. That justifies cost increases, and big-name licenses.
In reality, hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue has been generated by low to medium budget downloadable titles that have been the bread and butter of this generation of consoles.