reads CFL package: "Do not install in an enclosed or sealed fixture." And for good reason. The temperatures kill the electronics (mainly the caps which swell and leak and die).
>>>there are brands out there that explicitly permit such installations.
Apple also used to boast that users could "Safeguard your data. By doing nothing." And I noticed this: "When the latest version of Mac OS X, codenamed Mountain Lion, becomes available to users in July, the software will include a new "Gatekeeper" feature that restricts which applications users can download onto their phones or computers. Only apps "downloaded from the Mac App Store or those digitally signed by a registered developer" will be accessible with the Gatekeeper upgrade, per Computerworld"
Wow. That means a lot of my programs, which are not "registered" developers, will not be installable on a Mac 10.8. I guess? - Stella (Atari emulator) - NES emulator - N64 emulator - VLC Player - uTorrent - azureus
>>>rather than playing nice until it's too late and it is they who hold the upper hand, because they won't be so nice.
Being afraid that everyone else (or just certain someones like China and Iran) is out to get you seems like some kind of psychological problem. Most human beings are no different from us, and just want to pursue happiness.
Well if you're in a Torrent swarm, doesn't that mean you're uploading (no way to turn it off), and isn't that legally defined as copyright infringement? (shrug). It appears to argue that Doe 1 did not upload to Does 2,3,4,5 and therefore did not collude with them.
I still think the best thing to do when you receive a "Pay $5000 or get sued" letter is throw it in the trash. They send-out thousands of those things and the odds they will actually drag you to court are small. It's just a scare tactic and way to generate cash.
>>>Lion is a huge step in the consume-as-much-as-possible direction, which, for someone who prefers to create, is a bad thing, and Mountain Lion will only make that worse
Are you saying that because the System Requirements say 2 GB of memory? That doesn't seem so outrageous.
That doesn't mean we have to be enemies, with the current administration building bases just a few miles off the Chinese coast. We should sell democracy through EXAMPLE not intimidation or bombing.
And also trade so China becomes dependent upon us and the rest of the world, and would not want to attack their profitable markets. The idea that we have to fight over oil and political/military influence only benefits the War industries. Not us.
Americans have been saying negative things about the U.S. and how it's "best days are behind it" since the Progressive Party was born in the 1880s. After the civil war they claimed it was the gilded age (looks like gold but not really; just gold-plated crap). They also whined about the end of the pre-war agrarianism and replacement by industrialism with bad work conditions.
In the 1920s there was a 1 year Depression, but things looked pretty good overall. But then we got hit by the 1930s Depression and some Americans started saying we should copy nations like Italy and Germany (seriously) who recovered almost overnight. In the 1950s they claimed we should be more like the Russians, after all they launched the first satellite. That must mean our schools suck!
In the 60s people complained we should "make love not war" and in the 70s people went nuts with drugs & disco trying to escape the hell of gas lines & stagflation. Reagan swept-in with a great deal of optimism, but soon people were claiming "Japan will buy all our land and buildings." (See the movie Rising Sun for an example of the 80s mindset.) Reagan responded by demanding we need to copy Japanese HDTV and other inventions to regain dominance.
The 90s was a crapfest with the Iraq War, terrorist attacks on WTC, Oklahoma City, and the USS Cole. The 2000s was more of the same. And NOW people are claiming the Chinese will buy-up all our land and buildings (I thought the Japanese were doing that in the 80s?).
Complain, be afraid, worry our best times our behind us. It's been the American way since the civil war. FUD is the true national passtime.
Only reason it's a big deal is because Apple used to advertise OS X "doesn't get PC viruses." So when a Mac gets one, now everyone jumps on it with a/. article to show apple was wrong.
I'm certainly no fan of Kanye, but you make it sound like he did nothing and deserves zero credit.
He added the rap which takes Daft Punk's "Stronger" from just being a rather repetitive not-that-great song to a memorable song. I like the Kanye/Daft Punk collaboration, and downloaded it off the net. But the DP solo song is nowhere on my hard drive.
And speaking of Daft Bodies, I'm looking forward to the nude version.;-)
Since the LG Prada was announced December 2006, and the iPhone was shown by Steve just three weeks later, it seems unlikely they copied. It was parallel development like how both Elisha Grey and Bell developed the phone in parallel.
Steve Jobs and his team made a damn fine piece of technology: A screen large enough for web-surfing & an easy-to-use touch interface. Plus people were already thrilled with the best-selling iPod, so stepping up to an iPhone was a natural next step.
In other news: I was just reading this morning that phone sales are down for everyone (except Apple apparently). Overall retail sales in the EU have dropped 7%. Sounds like we're headed for great recession part 2.:-|
Spraypaint the cathode on the back of the screen, and the anode on a second piece of ceramic, put them together, and done. That's the battery. Awesome!
I have upside fixtures that trap the heat and kill the CFL electronics. The blurb on the package says not to use them in enclosed fixtures because the heat will kill the bulb. Apparently the same is true for open fixtures that are placed upside down (ceiling lights). Until CFLs can fix this flaw they will never be able to replace normal bulbs (which are already outlawed in the EU and soon to be outlawed in the US).
As for the 1 penny thing, I was being sarcastic because I was angry. I HATE compact flourescents as much as I hate Microsoft. Regular tube-length fluorescents are fine, but the compact bulbs are shit.
I wasted a LOT of money trying all kinds of different brands, and none have lived their advertised 5-10 year lifespan. They die almost as frequently as the the regular bulbs, but cost almost ten times more. CFLs are just as shitty as Microsoft Vista was on my brother's brand-new 1/2 gigabyte machine.
No what I have is upside fixtures that trap the heat and kill the CFL electronics. The blurb on the package says not to use them in enclosed fixtures because the heat will kill the bulb. Apparently the same is true for open fixtures that are placed upside down (ceiling lights). Until CFL can fix this flaw they will never be able to replace normal bulbs.
>>>Replacing one 60-watt incandescent bulb with a CFL will save you a penny in less than three hours of use @ $0.10/kWH.
I was being sarcastic. It's pretty clear that I HATE the compact flourescents as much as I hate Microsoft. I have tried all kinds of different brands, and NONE of them have lived their advertised 5-10 year lifespan. They die almost as frequently as the the regular bulbs, but cost almost ten times more. CFLs are just as shitty as Microsoft Vista was on my brother's 1/2 gigabyte machine.
>>>You'll let your vehicle get to the point where it can catastrophically fail on a public road
Don't be ridiculous. A bad shock or strut doesn't make a wheel fall off. My state doesn't have car inspections, and yet our road death statistics are not any higher than any other state.
And yes you're right preventative health is free, but the 6-month doctor visits are not. Obamacare will be covering them for free, which will drive costs UP, not down.
Watch the youtube video of a little girl whose jaw was blown-off my U.S. bomb shrapnel, and tell me how that is a "good thing". I'm not seeing it. All I'm seeing it a little girl who will not have a mouth for the rest of her life. (Plus a boy with no arm, and stacks of corpses that were dug-out of the rubble.)
As for Obamacare: They could have made the insurance companies "less free" by mandating they carry people with preexisting conditions, but not forced individual citizens to buy insurance against their wishes (forced instrastate commerce). They also did not need to outlaw my catastrophic insurance.
>>>A lot of parents have the belief that it's 100% the schools responsibility to teach the kids
Um. Yeah. So? I'm paying my school over $200,000 in direct school taxes over my lifetime. So yeah I expect them to TEACH my kids, just as I expect Comcast to give me working television and internet, or my college to give me an education. The customer has every right to demand results from the money being handed over.
Well whatever. Just keep repeating those DNC.NBC & union talking points about how "evil" it is to test kids and find-out if they learned anything. Heck why have grades at all? When 12 years is up, just hand them a diploma.;-) LOL
>>>I'd still have a major advantage because audio books are not cheap.
Neither are the actual books you have to buy to read on the train. BESIDES we both know you don't actually need to pay for anything. Did you see the websites I listed? They are all free. (Also there's tons of radio podcasts and college lectures I listen to while driving... all free.)
>>>But for a vacation I win hands down.
I don't "vacate" often, but when I do I usually stay home and just enjoy the time off. My last major vacation was a drive across the states..... the drive was the whole point, and riding a train would have not been the same (looking at tall weeds growing alongside the track gets boring).
As for the claim of train travel across 850 miles in 5 hours... not true. You have to add another 2 hours for various stops along the way (dropping-off and picking-up passengers). Plus an hour to leave your home and drive to the station/check your baggage. Plus another 2 hours to find a rental car at the opposite end, go through their annoying checkout/payment process, and drive to your hotel for the night.
About 10 hours total. Same amount of time it took my coworkers who flew by plane across the same distance. In contrast my drive time was 11.
And no Montana doesn't need high speed rail..... almost-all the population is concentrated in one spot (Billings). Where else would they need to go? The tiny 1000-person village of Glendive??? Doubtful. You'd have a superspeed billion-dollar trainline from Billings to Glendive, and just 1 passenger. That's called: Waste.
Look: I don't want to ride an inconvenient train to work (or have to pay for it through gas/road taxes being diverted to train maintenance). I had the option when I was working near D.C. and could have rode the train like my coworkers, but it took them 1.5 hours! My car did the same job in only 45 minutes.
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Is this really an OS? I thought it was just the Firefox browser being used directly to run apps.
reads CFL package: "Do not install in an enclosed or sealed fixture." And for good reason. The temperatures kill the electronics (mainly the caps which swell and leak and die).
>>>there are brands out there that explicitly permit such installations.
Show me some.
I've never seen them.
Apple also used to boast that users could "Safeguard your data. By doing nothing." And I noticed this: "When the latest version of Mac OS X, codenamed Mountain Lion, becomes available to users in July, the software will include a new "Gatekeeper" feature that restricts which applications users can download onto their phones or computers. Only apps "downloaded from the Mac App Store or those digitally signed by a registered developer" will be accessible with the Gatekeeper upgrade, per Computerworld"
Wow. That means a lot of my programs, which are not "registered" developers, will not be installable on a Mac 10.8. I guess?
- Stella (Atari emulator)
- NES emulator
- N64 emulator
- VLC Player
- uTorrent
- azureus
>>>rather than playing nice until it's too late and it is they who hold the upper hand, because they won't be so nice.
Being afraid that everyone else (or just certain someones like China and Iran) is out to get you seems like some kind of psychological problem. Most human beings are no different from us, and just want to pursue happiness.
>>>incorrect, there are ways to not upload data. I do it all the time
Please share.
Wait wrong term.
Please tell us how you do it.
Well if you're in a Torrent swarm, doesn't that mean you're uploading (no way to turn it off), and isn't that legally defined as copyright infringement? (shrug). It appears to argue that Doe 1 did not upload to Does 2,3,4,5 and therefore did not collude with them.
I still think the best thing to do when you receive a "Pay $5000 or get sued" letter is throw it in the trash. They send-out thousands of those things and the odds they will actually drag you to court are small. It's just a scare tactic and way to generate cash.
>>>Lion is a huge step in the consume-as-much-as-possible direction, which, for someone who prefers to create, is a bad thing, and Mountain Lion will only make that worse
Are you saying that because the System Requirements say 2 GB of memory?
That doesn't seem so outrageous.
That doesn't mean we have to be enemies, with the current administration building bases just a few miles off the Chinese coast. We should sell democracy through EXAMPLE not intimidation or bombing.
And also trade so China becomes dependent upon us and the rest of the world, and would not want to attack their profitable markets. The idea that we have to fight over oil and political/military influence only benefits the War industries. Not us.
Americans have been saying negative things about the U.S. and how it's "best days are behind it" since the Progressive Party was born in the 1880s. After the civil war they claimed it was the gilded age (looks like gold but not really; just gold-plated crap). They also whined about the end of the pre-war agrarianism and replacement by industrialism with bad work conditions.
In the 1920s there was a 1 year Depression, but things looked pretty good overall. But then we got hit by the 1930s Depression and some Americans started saying we should copy nations like Italy and Germany (seriously) who recovered almost overnight. In the 1950s they claimed we should be more like the Russians, after all they launched the first satellite. That must mean our schools suck!
In the 60s people complained we should "make love not war" and in the 70s people went nuts with drugs & disco trying to escape the hell of gas lines & stagflation. Reagan swept-in with a great deal of optimism, but soon people were claiming "Japan will buy all our land and buildings." (See the movie Rising Sun for an example of the 80s mindset.) Reagan responded by demanding we need to copy Japanese HDTV and other inventions to regain dominance.
The 90s was a crapfest with the Iraq War, terrorist attacks on WTC, Oklahoma City, and the USS Cole. The 2000s was more of the same. And NOW people are claiming the Chinese will buy-up all our land and buildings (I thought the Japanese were doing that in the 80s?).
Complain, be afraid, worry our best times our behind us. It's been the American way since the civil war. FUD is the true national passtime.
Install AVG on your mac.
End of problems.
Only reason it's a big deal is because Apple used to advertise OS X "doesn't get PC viruses." So when a Mac gets one, now everyone jumps on it with a /. article to show apple was wrong.
BTW Apple just removed their claim: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/25/mac-virus-apple_n_1625110.html
This would be a trojan horse.
I'm certainly no fan of Kanye, but you make it sound like he did nothing and deserves zero credit.
He added the rap which takes Daft Punk's "Stronger" from just being a rather repetitive not-that-great song to a memorable song. I like the Kanye/Daft Punk collaboration, and downloaded it off the net. But the DP solo song is nowhere on my hard drive.
And speaking of Daft Bodies, I'm looking forward to the nude version. ;-)
Here's what works for me. I get over 40 channels:
SETUP 1 :
- Antenna attached to the TV + DVR/VCR
+ Hulu.com
+ DVD or uTorrent
+ supplemented by youtube, podcasts, etc
SETUP 2 (if antennas not allowed or desired)
- $25/mo Dish
+ hulu, DVD, etc
Since the LG Prada was announced December 2006, and the iPhone was shown by Steve just three weeks later, it seems unlikely they copied. It was parallel development like how both Elisha Grey and Bell developed the phone in parallel.
Steve Jobs and his team made a damn fine piece of technology: A screen large enough for web-surfing & an easy-to-use touch interface. Plus people were already thrilled with the best-selling iPod, so stepping up to an iPhone was a natural next step.
In other news: I was just reading this morning that phone sales are down for everyone (except Apple apparently). Overall retail sales in the EU have dropped 7%. Sounds like we're headed for great recession part 2. :-|
Spraypaint the cathode on the back of the screen, and the anode on a second piece of ceramic, put them together, and done. That's the battery. Awesome!
I have upside fixtures that trap the heat and kill the CFL electronics. The blurb on the package says not to use them in enclosed fixtures because the heat will kill the bulb. Apparently the same is true for open fixtures that are placed upside down (ceiling lights). Until CFLs can fix this flaw they will never be able to replace normal bulbs (which are already outlawed in the EU and soon to be outlawed in the US).
As for the 1 penny thing, I was being sarcastic because I was angry. I HATE compact flourescents as much as I hate Microsoft. Regular tube-length fluorescents are fine, but the compact bulbs are shit.
I wasted a LOT of money trying all kinds of different brands, and none have lived their advertised 5-10 year lifespan. They die almost as frequently as the the regular bulbs, but cost almost ten times more. CFLs are just as shitty as Microsoft Vista was on my brother's brand-new 1/2 gigabyte machine.
>>>then you have a wiring problem in your house
No what I have is upside fixtures that trap the heat and kill the CFL electronics. The blurb on the package says not to use them in enclosed fixtures because the heat will kill the bulb. Apparently the same is true for open fixtures that are placed upside down (ceiling lights). Until CFL can fix this flaw they will never be able to replace normal bulbs.
>>>Replacing one 60-watt incandescent bulb with a CFL will save you a penny in less than three hours of use @ $0.10/kWH.
I was being sarcastic. It's pretty clear that I HATE the compact flourescents as much as I hate Microsoft. I have tried all kinds of different brands, and NONE of them have lived their advertised 5-10 year lifespan. They die almost as frequently as the the regular bulbs, but cost almost ten times more. CFLs are just as shitty as Microsoft Vista was on my brother's 1/2 gigabyte machine.
>>>You'll let your vehicle get to the point where it can catastrophically fail on a public road
Don't be ridiculous. A bad shock or strut doesn't make a wheel fall off. My state doesn't have car inspections, and yet our road death statistics are not any higher than any other state.
And yes you're right preventative health is free, but the 6-month doctor visits are not. Obamacare will be covering them for free, which will drive costs UP, not down.
Watch the youtube video of a little girl whose jaw was blown-off my U.S. bomb shrapnel, and tell me how that is a "good thing". I'm not seeing it. All I'm seeing it a little girl who will not have a mouth for the rest of her life. (Plus a boy with no arm, and stacks of corpses that were dug-out of the rubble.)
As for Obamacare: They could have made the insurance companies "less free" by mandating they carry people with preexisting conditions, but not forced individual citizens to buy insurance against their wishes (forced instrastate commerce). They also did not need to outlaw my catastrophic insurance.
>>>A lot of parents have the belief that it's 100% the schools responsibility to teach the kids
Um. Yeah. So? I'm paying my school over $200,000 in direct school taxes over my lifetime. So yeah I expect them to TEACH my kids, just as I expect Comcast to give me working television and internet, or my college to give me an education. The customer has every right to demand results from the money being handed over.
Well whatever. ;-) LOL
Just keep repeating those DNC.NBC & union talking points about how "evil" it is to test kids and find-out if they learned anything. Heck why have grades at all? When 12 years is up, just hand them a diploma.
No because if I wanted the 12-movie channel bundle I could get it. (Of course I wouldn't... I'd just buy TCM for $2 and save some cash.)
>>>I'd still have a major advantage because audio books are not cheap.
Neither are the actual books you have to buy to read on the train. BESIDES we both know you don't actually need to pay for anything. Did you see the websites I listed? They are all free. (Also there's tons of radio podcasts and college lectures I listen to while driving... all free.)
>>>But for a vacation I win hands down.
I don't "vacate" often, but when I do I usually stay home and just enjoy the time off. My last major vacation was a drive across the states..... the drive was the whole point, and riding a train would have not been the same (looking at tall weeds growing alongside the track gets boring).
As for the claim of train travel across 850 miles in 5 hours... not true. You have to add another 2 hours for various stops along the way (dropping-off and picking-up passengers). Plus an hour to leave your home and drive to the station/check your baggage. Plus another 2 hours to find a rental car at the opposite end, go through their annoying checkout/payment process, and drive to your hotel for the night.
About 10 hours total. Same amount of time it took my coworkers who flew by plane across the same distance. In contrast my drive time was 11.
And no Montana doesn't need high speed rail..... almost-all the population is concentrated in one spot (Billings). Where else would they need to go? The tiny 1000-person village of Glendive??? Doubtful. You'd have a superspeed billion-dollar trainline from Billings to Glendive, and just 1 passenger. That's called: Waste.
Look: I don't want to ride an inconvenient train to work (or have to pay for it through gas/road taxes being diverted to train maintenance). I had the option when I was working near D.C. and could have rode the train like my coworkers, but it took them 1.5 hours! My car did the same job in only 45 minutes.