First, the posters device environment sounds like it has a fixed power source based on that it mediates data between an FPGA and data processing equipment. With that said, a few hundred milliamps of current isn't going to matter to anyone.
Also, I don't think anyone mentioned anything about putting a full Linux system on an embedded system. It's likely nothing more than what is minimally required, i.e. kernel, ramdisk with some basic utilities and libraries(TFTP, dhcpcd, glibc) and the client apps.
The scheduler and mmap improvements are enough to encourage 2.6 usage over 2.4. Unless there is a compelling compatibility reason to stay with 2.4, I'd say pick the newest 2.6 kernel you verified works and stick with that until you have another compelling reason to upgrade.
One of the biggest challenges to getting technically illiterate people using Linux is installation. Sure, most newbies could manage a Ubuntu install, but can auntie?
Even if she could, how/why would you try to convince her to change from whats installed to Linux so she can continue using the same webmail/whatever websites?
My OOo spellchecker was enabled by default. It works quite handy.
My only spellchecker gripe is in Firefox actually - right clicking a misspelled word shows the correct spelling but using my windows-document-thingy-key doesn't show the same context menu.
Not always. In many cities, it is illegal to carry firearms into certain places by city ordinance even if you would otherwise be allowed to carry a concealed weapon. Typically these are places such as hospitals, schools and bars.
On a more on-topic note, I think AirTran deserves a hefty lawsuit. This was very clear cut racism. There was no indication any one of the 9 persons were a threat to anyone. Just a refund doesn't seem to fully compensate them for the harm done.
First, let me tell you my qualification to discuss Oregon taxes. I lived there for 12 years, and worked there as an out of stater from Washington for 8.
Currently, something like 45 states have a sales tax. Oregonians have rejected a sales tax for a variety of reasons, one of which being that they think the income tax won't go away entirely and they will just get double taxed.
Also, rich people certainly pay more in absolute dollars per capita under an income tax but it's not linear. Higher bracket households have disproportionately more tax deductions than lower income households and don't pay the same percentages.
Sales tax doesn't entirely fix this disparity since higher income households are the most likely to make major purchases from out of state due to availability of the types of goods they often buy.
One serious annoyance for me was that I worked about 3 miles into Oregon while living in Washington and had to pay OR state income tax while receiving no tangible benefits for this tax. I used about 6 miles of road per day, that's it. And to top it off, my state income tax didn't even give me the right to vote on HOW they spend my money.
So, back to your question. Sales tax is generally favorable to income tax in my opinion. I don't think it will ever work for Oregon though. They depend on workers from southern Washington to prop up their income tax and that would disappear if they switch to a sales tax. Also, literally billions of dollars annually are pumped into the Portland metro area by shoppers from WA state looking to avoid their own sales tax.
I think this is a large flaw in all sex offender laws. If you urinate in public it's a a small fine, but if a child sees you do it it is then exposing yourself to a minor and is a sex offense. There is no overarching federal law defining sex offenses or protecting any modicum of freedom for them. Sex offender laws are typically created in a "think of the children" reflexive atmosphere without considering the long term effects. IMO, sex offender registration should be determined by a panel of psychiatrists based on the offenders probability to commit another sex crime - NOT based solely on what they did.
The criminals for which lifetime sex offender registration is actually appropriate are really the type of people that shouldn't be let out at all! Its a shame they are often sent to prisons instead of hospitals. They need treatment - prison time won't cure them of anything.
Also, since most sex offender statutes are state or county level, I don't think you will see any change at all in them just based on a change in president. The only way that could happen is if a federal law is passed defining what types of offenses require sex offender registration and protecting certain freedoms they deserve to actually continue with a normal healthy life after rehabilitation.
They are interesting indeed. They have no sales tax but do have an income tax. Voters have rejected a sales tax like 12 bazillion times.
The state is broke and needs more money desperately. Watching legislators looking for new ways to increase tax revenue isn't new for Oregonians - it's normal.
Won't matter. They chose NCSoft because they will be insolvent in February. The suit was filed now in hopes that they will end up winning by default judgement, which will give them leverage in future negotations with other victims.
There is no upside for NCSoft to fight it since any money spent is just less that can be disbursed internally. I hope other MMO publishers will pony up for NCSoft to see this suit through.
Great. More reason to massively increase the budget for the DEA.
Your idea wouldn't gain any traction unless most states would follow suit. There are a myriad of ways in which each state in the union relies on the federal government for financial assistance(uni subsidies, food subsidies, etc.) and it would be political suicide for any state to risk losing federal financial aid.
According to the DOE, LPS caps out at about 150 lpw. This is a hair more efficient than HPS, but at a reduced bulb lifetime and dramatically poorer color rendition.
I would certainly like to see street lamps move from LPS to HPS for longer service life and improved color spectrum.
The initial lpw on HPS is usually about 140 but this goes down as you near the end of the bulbs lifetime. LEDs have fairly consistent output until they die.
These aren't headlights, they're street lamps. Do you really care if it takes them 3 minutes to warm up?
And even assuming they have ballasts featuring accelerated warm-up, the starting current will still be as much as double the normal operating current requirements. Really though, the starting current is negligible in the grand scheme of efficiency comparisons.
I'm not an expert on line voltage LED units designed to replace incandescents, but I would imagine including a bridge rectifier and capacitor would increase the cost and pose significant design constraints due to the components size.
The lighting product manufacturers quote efficiency in lumens-per-watt(lpw). What they don't shove in your face in marketing is that the devil is in the details.
CFLs, LEDs, incandescents, HPS and metal halides all have drastically different spectrum outputs. Incandescents have a very broad spectrum but their lpw is astonishingly low.
CFLs have as much as 80 lpw, whereas MH and LEDs are currently at about 100 and HPS can be even higher(around 140 lpw initial, which declines over time). LEDs have the potential to be higher than HPS but across the lifetime of the HPS bulb the LED may end up with a higher average lpw and definitely much longer service life.
There are CFL's with a broader spectrum but they're less efficient. While not completely monochromatic, there is a big spectrum spike in reds and yellows for HPS bulbs. Most people find this light to be soothing. Metal halides have a broader spectrum than HPS but are less efficient than even fluorescents. There are new white LEDs in research that produce as much as 145 lpw, but these are not commercially produced yet. Philips produces a 115 lpw white LED which is available in large quantities. You're right about the blue light hazard though - phosphor based white LEDs have a large spike around 465nm.
Interested in reading more about Lighting? Read the book the pot growers read. They have the best lighting money can buy. The Best of the Growing Edge
Assuming the line voltage is run through a full wave bridge rectifier, there would be a 120 Hz flicker, imperceptible to most people. Toss a large capacitor across that DC output and you've got dramatically less ripple.
Your directionality comment is apropos. It's also worth noting that some people don't like the light spectrum output on white LED's. Personally, I prefer the pink tint from high pressure sodium lamps.
We have no motivaiton to mess with Iran *in that way* right now.
[Citation Needed]
At current oil prices the current Iranian government is certain to collapse.
[Citation Needed]
The best thing we can possibly do right now to mess with Iran is to make it as hard as possible for the current Iranian goverment to distract it people from internal problems by giving them an external enemy.
Iran's demographics favor a serious culture shift soon. The ruling theocracy has dealt with this repeatedly in the past by going to war, often wars so nasty that they killed off the majority of males in their 20s, directly changing the demographics.
[Citation Needed]
Iran can't attack Iraq right now
[Citation Needed]
, and is dependent on the governemnt handing out money like crazy. That's great when oil's $100/bbl, but totally unsustainable when oil's $50/bbl (I think Iran needs $85 to break enev on internal spending).
I routinely get spam addressed to Mike, which is my name.
It's kind of creepy really since they ONLY place online I use my real name is my bank website. I guess there is no reason hiding it anymore, since obviously the spammers have it anyway.
The law was technology agnostic. My basic understanding is that if you have prior agreement in the US to do business with another person electronically, then something like this could work in the US too. There are specific legal requirements though for serving court summons and notices, so it might not. Who knows... IANAL.
You could require all men to carry guns. How far do you think the gunmen in Bombay would have made it if they knew every man they came upon would shoot back?
Certainly this plan has a lot of side effects, but it is not completely without merit.
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First, the posters device environment sounds like it has a fixed power source based on that it mediates data between an FPGA and data processing equipment. With that said, a few hundred milliamps of current isn't going to matter to anyone.
Also, I don't think anyone mentioned anything about putting a full Linux system on an embedded system. It's likely nothing more than what is minimally required, i.e. kernel, ramdisk with some basic utilities and libraries(TFTP, dhcpcd, glibc) and the client apps.
The scheduler and mmap improvements are enough to encourage 2.6 usage over 2.4. Unless there is a compelling compatibility reason to stay with 2.4, I'd say pick the newest 2.6 kernel you verified works and stick with that until you have another compelling reason to upgrade.
Oh shut up already. If you don't pay for it, you don't have a lot of room to bitch when the services don't meet your expectations.
Agreed. In a recession, the only companies likely to move from 2003 to 2007 are those who really need to or who already paid for it.
Unless its part of a strategic business initiative, most companies won't change a thing on the desktops.
One of the biggest challenges to getting technically illiterate people using Linux is installation. Sure, most newbies could manage a Ubuntu install, but can auntie?
Even if she could, how/why would you try to convince her to change from whats installed to Linux so she can continue using the same webmail/whatever websites?
Eh?
My OOo spellchecker was enabled by default. It works quite handy.
My only spellchecker gripe is in Firefox actually - right clicking a misspelled word shows the correct spelling but using my windows-document-thingy-key doesn't show the same context menu.
Oh wait, nevermind. It's fixed in 3.0.5.
Carry on.
Not always. In many cities, it is illegal to carry firearms into certain places by city ordinance even if you would otherwise be allowed to carry a concealed weapon. Typically these are places such as hospitals, schools and bars.
On a more on-topic note, I think AirTran deserves a hefty lawsuit. This was very clear cut racism. There was no indication any one of the 9 persons were a threat to anyone. Just a refund doesn't seem to fully compensate them for the harm done.
First, let me tell you my qualification to discuss Oregon taxes. I lived there for 12 years, and worked there as an out of stater from Washington for 8.
Currently, something like 45 states have a sales tax. Oregonians have rejected a sales tax for a variety of reasons, one of which being that they think the income tax won't go away entirely and they will just get double taxed.
Also, rich people certainly pay more in absolute dollars per capita under an income tax but it's not linear. Higher bracket households have disproportionately more tax deductions than lower income households and don't pay the same percentages.
Sales tax doesn't entirely fix this disparity since higher income households are the most likely to make major purchases from out of state due to availability of the types of goods they often buy.
One serious annoyance for me was that I worked about 3 miles into Oregon while living in Washington and had to pay OR state income tax while receiving no tangible benefits for this tax. I used about 6 miles of road per day, that's it. And to top it off, my state income tax didn't even give me the right to vote on HOW they spend my money.
So, back to your question. Sales tax is generally favorable to income tax in my opinion. I don't think it will ever work for Oregon though. They depend on workers from southern Washington to prop up their income tax and that would disappear if they switch to a sales tax. Also, literally billions of dollars annually are pumped into the Portland metro area by shoppers from WA state looking to avoid their own sales tax.
Yes, its illegal but it happens every day.
I think this is a large flaw in all sex offender laws. If you urinate in public it's a a small fine, but if a child sees you do it it is then exposing yourself to a minor and is a sex offense. There is no overarching federal law defining sex offenses or protecting any modicum of freedom for them. Sex offender laws are typically created in a "think of the children" reflexive atmosphere without considering the long term effects. IMO, sex offender registration should be determined by a panel of psychiatrists based on the offenders probability to commit another sex crime - NOT based solely on what they did.
The criminals for which lifetime sex offender registration is actually appropriate are really the type of people that shouldn't be let out at all! Its a shame they are often sent to prisons instead of hospitals. They need treatment - prison time won't cure them of anything.
Also, since most sex offender statutes are state or county level, I don't think you will see any change at all in them just based on a change in president. The only way that could happen is if a federal law is passed defining what types of offenses require sex offender registration and protecting certain freedoms they deserve to actually continue with a normal healthy life after rehabilitation.
Did you just bring a car analogy to a lighting thread?
You're hereby banned from analogies.
Leave it to Oregon...
They are interesting indeed. They have no sales tax but do have an income tax. Voters have rejected a sales tax like 12 bazillion times.
The state is broke and needs more money desperately. Watching legislators looking for new ways to increase tax revenue isn't new for Oregonians - it's normal.
Won't matter. They chose NCSoft because they will be insolvent in February. The suit was filed now in hopes that they will end up winning by default judgement, which will give them leverage in future negotations with other victims.
There is no upside for NCSoft to fight it since any money spent is just less that can be disbursed internally. I hope other MMO publishers will pony up for NCSoft to see this suit through.
Awesome book.
http://www.amazon.com/Switching-Power-Supply-Design-3rd/dp/0071482725/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230057542&sr=8-2
Great. More reason to massively increase the budget for the DEA.
Your idea wouldn't gain any traction unless most states would follow suit. There are a myriad of ways in which each state in the union relies on the federal government for financial assistance(uni subsidies, food subsidies, etc.) and it would be political suicide for any state to risk losing federal financial aid.
Not quite. Marijuana is a class 1 controlled substance and any state decriminalization law would be overridden by federal law.
The only way to decriminalize it is to get a new law passed, which will require either 50% or a supermajority to pass a president's veto.
In short, until we have a president that supports legalization, it isn't going to happen.
According to the DOE, LPS caps out at about 150 lpw. This is a hair more efficient than HPS, but at a reduced bulb lifetime and dramatically poorer color rendition.
I would certainly like to see street lamps move from LPS to HPS for longer service life and improved color spectrum.
The initial lpw on HPS is usually about 140 but this goes down as you near the end of the bulbs lifetime. LEDs have fairly consistent output until they die.
These aren't headlights, they're street lamps. Do you really care if it takes them 3 minutes to warm up?
And even assuming they have ballasts featuring accelerated warm-up, the starting current will still be as much as double the normal operating current requirements. Really though, the starting current is negligible in the grand scheme of efficiency comparisons.
I'm not an expert on line voltage LED units designed to replace incandescents, but I would imagine including a bridge rectifier and capacitor would increase the cost and pose significant design constraints due to the components size.
The lighting product manufacturers quote efficiency in lumens-per-watt(lpw). What they don't shove in your face in marketing is that the devil is in the details.
CFLs, LEDs, incandescents, HPS and metal halides all have drastically different spectrum outputs. Incandescents have a very broad spectrum but their lpw is astonishingly low.
CFLs have as much as 80 lpw, whereas MH and LEDs are currently at about 100 and HPS can be even higher(around 140 lpw initial, which declines over time). LEDs have the potential to be higher than HPS but across the lifetime of the HPS bulb the LED may end up with a higher average lpw and definitely much longer service life.
There are CFL's with a broader spectrum but they're less efficient. While not completely monochromatic, there is a big spectrum spike in reds and yellows for HPS bulbs. Most people find this light to be soothing. Metal halides have a broader spectrum than HPS but are less efficient than even fluorescents. There are new white LEDs in research that produce as much as 145 lpw, but these are not commercially produced yet. Philips produces a 115 lpw white LED which is available in large quantities. You're right about the blue light hazard though - phosphor based white LEDs have a large spike around 465nm.
Interested in reading more about Lighting? Read the book the pot growers read. They have the best lighting money can buy. The Best of the Growing Edge
Assuming the line voltage is run through a full wave bridge rectifier, there would be a 120 Hz flicker, imperceptible to most people. Toss a large capacitor across that DC output and you've got dramatically less ripple.
Your directionality comment is apropos. It's also worth noting that some people don't like the light spectrum output on white LED's. Personally, I prefer the pink tint from high pressure sodium lamps.
If this was done by a large ship, no reasonable amount of cable armor will protect it against anchor dragging.
We have no motivaiton to mess with Iran *in that way* right now.
[Citation Needed]
At current oil prices the current Iranian government is certain to collapse.
[Citation Needed]
The best thing we can possibly do right now to mess with Iran is to make it as hard as possible for the current Iranian goverment to distract it people from internal problems by giving them an external enemy.
Iran's demographics favor a serious culture shift soon. The ruling theocracy has dealt with this repeatedly in the past by going to war, often wars so nasty that they killed off the majority of males in their 20s, directly changing the demographics.
[Citation Needed]
Iran can't attack Iraq right now
[Citation Needed]
, and is dependent on the governemnt handing out money like crazy. That's great when oil's $100/bbl, but totally unsustainable when oil's $50/bbl (I think Iran needs $85 to break enev on internal spending).
[Citation Needed]
I routinely get spam addressed to Mike, which is my name.
It's kind of creepy really since they ONLY place online I use my real name is my bank website. I guess there is no reason hiding it anymore, since obviously the spammers have it anyway.
~Mike
If you're in the United States, you should read up on the E-SIGN act, signed into law in 2000 by Clinton. See here for some info.
http://www.ftc.gov/os/2001/06/esign7.htm
The law was technology agnostic. My basic understanding is that if you have prior agreement in the US to do business with another person electronically, then something like this could work in the US too. There are specific legal requirements though for serving court summons and notices, so it might not. Who knows... IANAL.
You could require all men to carry guns. How far do you think the gunmen in Bombay would have made it if they knew every man they came upon would shoot back?
Certainly this plan has a lot of side effects, but it is not completely without merit.
I'm mad the city uses buses for revenue, but the school buses do not. The school needs money a lot more than the city does...