I would love insurance companies to stop paying out when the driver was speeding. My insurance cost would lower, safety would improve and I'd only have to modify my behaviour a bit. If someone willingly and on purpose increases his risk of a crash this is his own choice, and he should be liable for it. Many life insurances don't pay out on suicide, why do car insurance companies pay out on speeding? (hyperbole for explanatory purposes only, not to be taken litterally).
LED doesn't have a constant backlight. Real LED per definition, but those 3m (9 foot) displays are not what's meant here. LED backlit LCD (wich is faultily shortened to LED) has adifferent techniques. One of the techniques is called "Dynamic 'Local Dimming' LEDs". These use less power on a field of x by x pixels (for example 8 by 8) by lowering the power of the led behind that field if the lightest pixel of that field is darker.
That's incorrect, although I suspect what you mean is correct. A flourescent light always gives off the same spectrum, dimmed or not. The spectrum of a fluorescent light is determined by the emission wavelengths of the phosphors (and the mercury). These don't change with power.
An incandescent light changes spectrum if you dimm it, because the temperature drops (see Black body radiation). Since his example uses a fillament it has an incandescent light, and thus it would change.
Space swallows. Their carrying load is higher, although they still need a little piece of string to be able to carry a planet with 2 swallows. Thei air speed velocity is irrelevant (due to the nature of space).
Maybe a flying car can be made feasible with a new kind of drive, like ejecting orbitons from the bottom.This research is in order to understand stuff. Forget about flying cars, maybe FTL drive is possible.
Think about the laser. When is was first conceived of by Einstein he had no way of doing it and no application for it. When Lamb and Retherford made it work there still was no use for it. But think about the world now: Internet, CD/DVD/Blu ray players and even the next gen IC fabs are based on the laser. Many metal parts are cut with lasers, welding is sometimes done with lasers (high presision work) and many measurements are done with lasers. If there had been no theoretical physics last century we wouldn't have lasers. Who knows what we could do with another century of theoretical research?
Knowing Philips: Yes there is going to be a serial number on it. Combined with the part's 12nc it will be tracable to the production date. But you probably need a receit to get warranty. The thermal printed things fade over time so go only to retailers that'll take a copy and make that copy (I read a mile up that thermal printed paper will last ages in a fridge. Haven't tested that though.)
I am creating a strip to conceal them behind. Up on the ceiling, 5 cm (2 inch) from the walls. The LED strips (remote controllable) will go behind them, facing the wall. I installed this setup at my parents' half a year back and it looks just great. We call it "Koofverlichting" (I am dutch, dunno what it would be called in English). It looks like this. A smooth "glow" over the wall. Imagine Minas Morgul with a controllable light color (yes, sickly green is possible, although ill advised). It cost me about E80/5m strip. 3 strips is enough for "mood lighting" in my living room, although I have 3 dimmable 15W CFL's for normal lighting. I can't read with just these 3 strips. I bought them in a discount store. They are equipped with a double sided tape, you only have to pull the film off to stick them to a flat surface. Easy to install if you don't feel like hiding them or already have a place to hide them.
The sun seems yellow because the atmosfere messes more with the blue light. That's why the rest of the sky looks blue: this is the blue part of the sunlight. As a result the overall light is equivalent to 5000-6000K, the yellow light is just more focussed in one spot. My personal preference varies with the function I am performing. Relaxing goes best with yellow light, focussing better with blueish.
- Comes in 5 or so varieties of "white" just for fun (don't mix brands)
I like to pick the correct colour for each application. I have some high powered white CFLS (15 watt each) for cleaning and reading and some low powered more yellow ones for chilling.
- Flickers
Depends on the quality of bulb and electricity. Philips has good bulbs. The quality of electricity depends on your country and the wiring of your house.
- Buzzes
Depends on the quality of the bulb.
- Has to warm up
That's true. cheap ones will take insanely long to do so. Expensive ones just long. I use LED bulbs where this is a problem, as in toilets and in my fridge. In my living room I like the warm up time. Most I come from outside where my eyes have adjsuted to the dark and I do not like an overly bright room at that moment.
- Cannot be enclosed (where are most lights?)
Dunno, the lights in my house have been enclosed for years. Most last about a decade. Some are over 15 years old. The problem should lessen with more efficient lights (more efficient means less heat means les degradation, assuming all other things equal).
- Doesn't like being upside down (where are most lights???)
I have almost no datapoints for this. It could be true but my fixtures have the bulbs horizontal (low ceiling and I don't want to bump my head to them each day).
- Has far less dimmable range.
Sadly true. I have some self-dimming bulbs but the lowest light level is quite bright. LED's could theoretically be able to dim to zero.
- Requires a haz-mat team to cleanup if it breaks
Not true. Modern CFLs (exept for extremely cheap ones and specials like low temperature ones) have less than 1 mg of mercury in them. Breathe the air near an unfiltered coal plant and have that a couple of times a year, direct in your lungs (guestimate. Not verified).
- Cost more
True and untrue. Costs more initially, but the lower electricity cost makes up for this.
- May or may not last longer
True, this depends on brand and power quality. Philips makes good ones, and with a decent power supply they should be able to last.
How big is the ripple on your power supply? Are you living in the USA or Europe? CFLs have trouble with varying voltage. They should be turned on or off not dropped to 90% and raised to 110% of the rated voltage from time to time. My CFLs are ancient (some are switched on daily since mid 90's) , but here in the Netherlands the powerline quality is unmatched anywhere in the world. If your power company messes this up you should be able to complain (or even sue).
Whether the applicant is flaming or not is easily seen in an in person interview. Are there scorchmarks on the ceiling? It would make one perfect for a stunt job though, especially if he can control it.
Why then is there evidence that the world is older than the Bible claims it is? I can only come up with two explanations: 1. The world is as old as it seems. 2. The world is as old as the Bible claims it is, but God made it look older. Answer 2 means God is fucking with us (for whatever fine reason He may have, be that testing us for selection for heavon or something else entirely). The argument that 99.9% of the people that have ever lived believed in God is simply refuted: Most didn't have the evidence that the world is older than it can be according to the bible (whether that evidence is planted by God or not) so they did not have a reason to question their beliefs. Besides that: never forget there is no proof by popular vote. If we could get 99.9 % of the people to believe 2 + 2 = 30 it wouldn't magically become true.
allot/lt/ Show Spelled[uh-lot]
verb (used with object), -lotted, -lotting.
1. to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion: to allot the available farmland among the settlers.
2. to appropriate for a special purpose: to allot money for a park.
3. to assign as a portion; set apart; dedicate.
I'd guess you meant "a lot", as in much.
It depends on the age of the kid. Above an undetermined age the kid should start learning to question everything. However, this is after the kid had learned to be carefull with a lot of stuff, and weigh cost-benefit ratios. Con-pro violence experiments have a long lead time to test IRL and the pro-violence test has a high risk of permanent damage. This could be used as an example why some things should be worked out in thought and by studying history. This critical thinking will help the kid in the long run.
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They are planning it.
I would love insurance companies to stop paying out when the driver was speeding. My insurance cost would lower, safety would improve and I'd only have to modify my behaviour a bit.
If someone willingly and on purpose increases his risk of a crash this is his own choice, and he should be liable for it. Many life insurances don't pay out on suicide, why do car insurance companies pay out on speeding? (hyperbole for explanatory purposes only, not to be taken litterally).
LED doesn't have a constant backlight. Real LED per definition, but those 3m (9 foot) displays are not what's meant here. LED backlit LCD (wich is faultily shortened to LED) has adifferent techniques. One of the techniques is called "Dynamic 'Local Dimming' LEDs". These use less power on a field of x by x pixels (for example 8 by 8) by lowering the power of the led behind that field if the lightest pixel of that field is darker.
That's incorrect, although I suspect what you mean is correct. A flourescent light always gives off the same spectrum, dimmed or not. The spectrum of a fluorescent light is determined by the emission wavelengths of the phosphors (and the mercury). These don't change with power.
An incandescent light changes spectrum if you dimm it, because the temperature drops (see Black body radiation).
Since his example uses a fillament it has an incandescent light, and thus it would change.
Space swallows. Their carrying load is higher, although they still need a little piece of string to be able to carry a planet with 2 swallows. Thei air speed velocity is irrelevant (due to the nature of space).
True, but causation without a correlation backing it up seems a bit dodgy to me.
A thousands hands on normal length arms connected to a single monkey would resemble a ball.
Maybe a flying car can be made feasible with a new kind of drive, like ejecting orbitons from the bottom.This research is in order to understand stuff. Forget about flying cars, maybe FTL drive is possible.
Think about the laser. When is was first conceived of by Einstein he had no way of doing it and no application for it. When Lamb and Retherford made it work there still was no use for it. But think about the world now: Internet, CD/DVD/Blu ray players and even the next gen IC fabs are based on the laser. Many metal parts are cut with lasers, welding is sometimes done with lasers (high presision work) and many measurements are done with lasers. If there had been no theoretical physics last century we wouldn't have lasers. Who knows what we could do with another century of theoretical research?
Fahrenheid != Celsius
100C is approx. the boiling point of water under atmosferic pressure. Your 190F is approx. 88C.
Or as a cleaning agent: isopropylalcohol (not to be mixed with your definition).
Knowing Philips: Yes there is going to be a serial number on it. Combined with the part's 12nc it will be tracable to the production date. But you probably need a receit to get warranty. The thermal printed things fade over time so go only to retailers that'll take a copy and make that copy (I read a mile up that thermal printed paper will last ages in a fridge. Haven't tested that though.)
I am creating a strip to conceal them behind. Up on the ceiling, 5 cm (2 inch) from the walls. The LED strips (remote controllable) will go behind them, facing the wall. I installed this setup at my parents' half a year back and it looks just great.
We call it "Koofverlichting" (I am dutch, dunno what it would be called in English). It looks like this. A smooth "glow" over the wall. Imagine Minas Morgul with a controllable light color (yes, sickly green is possible, although ill advised).
It cost me about E80/5m strip. 3 strips is enough for "mood lighting" in my living room, although I have 3 dimmable 15W CFL's for normal lighting. I can't read with just these 3 strips.
I bought them in a discount store. They are equipped with a double sided tape, you only have to pull the film off to stick them to a flat surface. Easy to install if you don't feel like hiding them or already have a place to hide them.
The sun seems yellow because the atmosfere messes more with the blue light. That's why the rest of the sky looks blue: this is the blue part of the sunlight. As a result the overall light is equivalent to 5000-6000K, the yellow light is just more focussed in one spot.
My personal preference varies with the function I am performing. Relaxing goes best with yellow light, focussing better with blueish.
240W to 15W.
Given that these bulbs are on no less than 10 hours a day: 2.4KWh daily replaced with 150Wh daily or at $0.12/KWh $8.64/month
FTFY. Please get the units right.
- Comes in 5 or so varieties of "white" just for fun (don't mix brands)
I like to pick the correct colour for each application. I have some high powered white CFLS (15 watt each) for cleaning and reading and some low powered more yellow ones for chilling.
- Flickers
Depends on the quality of bulb and electricity. Philips has good bulbs. The quality of electricity depends on your country and the wiring of your house.
- Buzzes
Depends on the quality of the bulb.
- Has to warm up
That's true. cheap ones will take insanely long to do so. Expensive ones just long.
I use LED bulbs where this is a problem, as in toilets and in my fridge. In my living room I like the warm up time. Most I come from outside where my eyes have adjsuted to the dark and I do not like an overly bright room at that moment.
- Cannot be enclosed (where are most lights?)
Dunno, the lights in my house have been enclosed for years. Most last about a decade. Some are over 15 years old. The problem should lessen with more efficient lights (more efficient means less heat means les degradation, assuming all other things equal).
- Doesn't like being upside down (where are most lights???)
I have almost no datapoints for this. It could be true but my fixtures have the bulbs horizontal (low ceiling and I don't want to bump my head to them each day).
- Has far less dimmable range.
Sadly true. I have some self-dimming bulbs but the lowest light level is quite bright. LED's could theoretically be able to dim to zero.
- Requires a haz-mat team to cleanup if it breaks
Not true. Modern CFLs (exept for extremely cheap ones and specials like low temperature ones) have less than 1 mg of mercury in them. Breathe the air near an unfiltered coal plant and have that a couple of times a year, direct in your lungs (guestimate. Not verified).
- Cost more
True and untrue. Costs more initially, but the lower electricity cost makes up for this.
- May or may not last longer
True, this depends on brand and power quality. Philips makes good ones, and with a decent power supply they should be able to last.
How big is the ripple on your power supply? Are you living in the USA or Europe?
CFLs have trouble with varying voltage. They should be turned on or off not dropped to 90% and raised to 110% of the rated voltage from time to time. My CFLs are ancient (some are switched on daily since mid 90's) , but here in the Netherlands the powerline quality is unmatched anywhere in the world. If your power company messes this up you should be able to complain (or even sue).
BTW, a typical incandescent bulb is 50 percent efficient.
No it isn't. High efficiency ones max out at 5.1%
The power would be expensive if the power companies were not allowed to pollute (CO2 included).
That's more usefull than the message we get. Our message says "The system is up and running" while it isn't even booted completely yet.
Whether the applicant is flaming or not is easily seen in an in person interview. Are there scorchmarks on the ceiling?
It would make one perfect for a stunt job though, especially if he can control it.
Why then is there evidence that the world is older than the Bible claims it is? I can only come up with two explanations:
1. The world is as old as it seems.
2. The world is as old as the Bible claims it is, but God made it look older.
Answer 2 means God is fucking with us (for whatever fine reason He may have, be that testing us for selection for heavon or something else entirely).
The argument that 99.9% of the people that have ever lived believed in God is simply refuted: Most didn't have the evidence that the world is older than it can be according to the bible (whether that evidence is planted by God or not) so they did not have a reason to question their beliefs.
Besides that: never forget there is no proof by popular vote. If we could get 99.9 % of the people to believe 2 + 2 = 30 it wouldn't magically become true.
Your advise seems to result in "Abuse the land as much as you can untill you can't abuse it anymore. Then move". Not my favorite method.
Speak for yourselves on the toxic waste subject: Europeans are not allowed to export toxic waste out of Europe.
allot /lt/ Show Spelled[uh-lot]
verb (used with object), -lotted, -lotting.
1. to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion: to allot the available farmland among the settlers.
2. to appropriate for a special purpose: to allot money for a park.
3. to assign as a portion; set apart; dedicate.
I'd guess you meant "a lot", as in much.
It depends on the age of the kid. Above an undetermined age the kid should start learning to question everything. However, this is after the kid had learned to be carefull with a lot of stuff, and weigh cost-benefit ratios. Con-pro violence experiments have a long lead time to test IRL and the pro-violence test has a high risk of permanent damage. This could be used as an example why some things should be worked out in thought and by studying history.
This critical thinking will help the kid in the long run.