I give 99% yes. Most phones have it for 911 location.
iPhone Cingular biggest flaw.
Apple had to find a network willing to do a couple things against industry standards. One, the provider had to go hands-off and let the manufacturer dictate the phone specs. Two, the provider had to take the unprecedented move of actually changing its network in order to handle the new functions that the manufacturer wanted (asynchronous voice mail). That provider had to be willing to make those investments just to handle one brand-new entry into the phone market. I'm betting Cingular is just the one that was willing to take the plunge.
Screen easily scratched.
Don't be too sure. They apparently went through many, many iterations of screen materials to get one that was just right in several criteria, which likely included scratch resistance (especially after the 1st gen nano complaints).
You could run informational adverts and voluntary schemes until you are blue in the face and the vast majority of people would never bother to separate glass & plastic, or recycle, or choose CFL over filament, unless you make them.
I do all of those, and there is nothing requiring me to do so.
Want another example of government knowing what's best for us? The US government mandated airbags in cars. Then we noticed that petite women and kids were getting killed by them, because now they were in every car. The law of unintended consequences killed many people. Do you volunteer to be the sacrifice? If a mandate or tax for CFL results in one person getting injured or killed, can we send all of the politicians to jail on assault or murder charges? Of course not, they're immune -- and that's why they have no problem playing games with our lives.
The tax simply funds the scheme
Sucking money out of the economy, money that those people could have used to maybe buy, oh, a CFL?
Considering that most governments have made commitments to lower greenhouse gases
There's another problem with government getting involved. There were so many loopholes in Kyoto for favored nations that it's basically ineffective.
He's facing possible disbarment over the Bully incident where the publicly berated the judge in the case. I wonder if he'll still be able to practice law when GTA4 comes out.
Have an electrician look at your house's electrical system, especially those sockets. A house with a bad electrical system can shorten the life of a lot of your electronics, not just the bulbs. I had one kill a computer power supply in about a year. I no longer live there, but just in case I try to run things on UPS and line filters now.
While you should recycle them, even if you don't the net amount of mercury going into the environment is less than if you ran an incandescent bulb using electricity from a coal-fired power plant.
Government is rarely the answer and usually the problem. Plus, a tax almost never dies, so expect that "environmental" tax to be levied on CFL bulbs once incandescents are a thing of the past. The government will start to see it as just another way to take your money, and will be reluctant to let you have it back again.
Plus there's always the law of unintended consequences lurking back there somewhere, and that has gotten people killed by well-meaning government policies.
Incandescant bulbs "waste" a lot of the power put into them.
They waste almost all of the power put into them, about 95%.
So if the 75W of "waste" heat don't come out of my light bulb... then it is going to come out of my heaters
This would be a winning equation in that specific set of circumstances only if you otherwise use electric heating, which is by far the most expensive. Otherwise, you could get that 75W bulb's 71W worth of heating cheaper from natural gas or fuel oil. Add that light bulbs are normally high up, and your heat is going up, so you need the electricity of a ceiling fan to push it back down.
Perhaps the best thing Wal-Mart has done is make American manufacturers more competitive.
The holy grail in manufacturing these days is to get a supply contract with Wal-Mart. It ensures a huge market for the product and major profits. However, Wal-Mart doesn't just deal with anybody. Wal-Mart will force a manufacturer to get more efficient and cut costs before Wal-Mart accepts them. Examples I remember were when Wal-Mart made a company give up a high-rent Manhattan headquarters, and another an expensive corporate jet.
Would have gladly paid $10 for a $3 battery and 30 seconds of their time.
I was always happy to pay it. Not only did he put in a new battery, but he also checked everything to make sure it's working fine, cleaned it and buffed the crystal. Money well spent.
But it is seriously sad. Not one jewelry store in town will dare to take the back off a Movado, even those who advertise that they repair watches.
-Lack of apparent front side video, bad thing. 1U servers are frequently cabled up without any KVM or anything. Unless their BMC implements remote video
Now you have me really interested. I'm not sure about video, but I do know the XServe uses EFI instead of BIOS, so when you get to it through IPMI you're sitting in a full command shell where you can load and unload drivers, etc. It doesn't make sense that Apple didn't put video on the front, since they use the tiny mini-DVI plug, and they already put a FireWire port on the front (which you can run TCP/IP over).
Strangely, what I appreciate most is the build of the hardware. Simple things like thumbscrews to release the mobo so it can be pulled straight out (nothing in the way) and just the general ability to pluck and chuck anything quickly and easily. And no more cage nuts!
Now I'm pondering some 'integration' again - pick a watch with some other handy functionalities. Any suggestions?
You don't have to go electronic to get extra features. In mechanical watches, these are called "complications." Just look for a watch with multiple complications, such as stop watch, day, date, week, month, year, moon phases, perpetual calendar, etc.
But be warned, when you get a quality watch with more than a few complications, you will be paying major money. The Patek Philippe Calibre 89 has 33 complications, over 1,700 parts, took nine years to design and make, and is worth about $6 million. The thing even calculates the date of Easter every year -- mechanically.
I have some very nice mechanical and quartz Swiss watches. I used to be able to go by a local master watchmaker to have them serviced or fixed. Then he retired and there was literally nobody else around to do it. Now I'm supposed to ship everything back to the manufacturer. Nobody in town will even replace the batteries on the quartz ones.
Apple's marketing for a server isn't the best for anything larger than small business.
Very true. They don't do much at all to market their server hardware in a way that will get enterprise buyers interested. I showed an admin guy where I work (who didn't even know Apple made servers) the specs on the new 1U, including the hardware ease of use stuff, and he was pretty impressed.
(and in fact makes crappy server products hardware wise relative to the competition including Sun)
The XServe specs look good, and all of the reviews from an admin's perspective are extremely positive. What's crappy about them that I haven't read? I'm not looking for an argument, I'm genuinely interested.
, but there should be some encouragement to adjust the cost of the regular ones to take into account the long term damage
The problem is, who gets to decide what's damaging and what's not, and are they right? Remember the big cholesterol scare, causing everybody to switch to margarine? Now imagine that had been a government mandated switch for our own good, as the increased heart disease "hurts us all." But now we find that the trans-fats in margarine are even worse for you. Oops, the government just killed a bunch of people and made matters worse.
Our health, the economy, and society in general are such complex things that screwing with them is always done at a very high risk of invoking the law of unintended consequences.
In addition, there will alway be non-practical (read: political) criteria for invoking these laws.
Remember the Alar scare (pesticide on apples) over it being cancerous to mice? It was banned in places and the government eventually pressured the manufacturer to stop selling it. Yet you'd need to eat a boxcar full of apples a day to get the dosage that gave the mice cancer.
Want another? Governments banned DDT for decades, during which millions of people died of malaria because they didn't have the cheap, effective DDT to control the mosquito population. Maybe we should call that the "DDT genocide," despite that the intentions were good. The intentions of the Chinese were good too when they starved tens of millions of their people.
Concrete example of greed-based laws: The United States requires 5mph bumpers on cars. This is not done for safety, since the bumpers are there only to prevent expensive damage to the car in very low-speed collisions. The law is only there to keep the insurance companies happy, since they don't have to pay out much for all those collisions. But those bumpers add significant weight. I wonder how many millions of gallons of gasoline have been wasted due to millions of cars lugging that extra weight around for years?
Basically, when someone in the government says "we know what's best for you" it turns on a blazing red light that tells me to take my liberties and run like hell, because I may not only lose my liberties, but my life.
I'll have to check. You may be right and they're only 60. But I'm using them in a ceiling fan, so there are four of them, plenty of light.
I actually think of the far larger number of adults who are now alive not retarded because of it.
True, but that's not the perspective I'm thinking. A person isn't a statistic, and real people die when the government makes stupid rules, no matter how many others are saved. Your thinking would probably be different if one of those dead kids had been yours.
I do a lot of damaging things that people should probably stop me from doing.
As a friend telling you that you should stop, I agree. As the state mandating that you should stop -- well, if you want to give up your freedom and be a slave of the state...
IIRC this is something specific to the US. Because there is no legal requirement to wear a seatbelt
Wearing a seatbelt is required in all 50 states. And contrary to the claims those who tried to soothe our civil-liberties nerves with "It'll never be a primary offense," it is now in most states.
The government is my nanny. I bow to it. I worship it. It keeps me safe from all things, even from myself.
At that rate, it will take me 2 and half years to pay for the added cost I paid for the bulbs.
And the next 2 1/2 years until the CF bulb burns out will be profit, not even counting how many incandescent bulbs you'd have had to replace during those five years. Patience will be rewarded with money.
The lack of dimming (and appearance for visible lights) is an an noyance on CF's.
Dimmable CF bulbs are out now.
I wouldn't have touched CFs just three years ago, but the technology is going insanely great, so much that almost everything I've heard against them here has been solved -- color, size (they make them look like regular bulbs now), dimming, price, etc. I only don't use CFs in places where I need instant-on, short-duration light.
When the economic incentive is their for the tech it will come. It is the governments job to create that incentive so that the market will figure it out.
Usually that results in the government royally screwing things up and making the matters worse. Think of all the kids and small women killed in cars equipped with government-mandated airbags before people knew they were that dangerous. The economic incentive is already there, so much that a non-tree hugger like me invested a bunch of money to re-do his house with CF.
BTW, I don't suppose you have a top-loader clothes washer, do you? Or a side-by-side refrigerator? A fireplace?
Your use of high-wattage ineficient bulbs hurts me tangibly (brownouts, increased energy costs), and intagibly (global warming).
I would suggest never going near that argument, because next time it's going to be something that you like that is taken away in the name of the greater good.
They also use a lot of energy during the start up process and only settle down to low power consumption after many seconds
Mythbusters just did a thing on this. Compact fluorescents only have a tiny, short power spike in the beginning. You're thinking of full tube fluorescents. But even then it was calculated that you'd have to leave the room for less than twenty-something seconds to make it not worth turning off a fluorescent tube while you're gone, and a fraction of a second for compact fluorescent.
LEDs were of course the best, and were the only lights to survive the 10,000 on-off cycle torture test they did for all types of bulbs. But before LEDs can become popular, they need to be able to get down in size, and that cylindrical disco ball of an LED lamp certainly didn't fit the bill.
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I give 99% yes. Most phones have it for 911 location.
Apple had to find a network willing to do a couple things against industry standards. One, the provider had to go hands-off and let the manufacturer dictate the phone specs. Two, the provider had to take the unprecedented move of actually changing its network in order to handle the new functions that the manufacturer wanted (asynchronous voice mail). That provider had to be willing to make those investments just to handle one brand-new entry into the phone market. I'm betting Cingular is just the one that was willing to take the plunge.
Don't be too sure. They apparently went through many, many iterations of screen materials to get one that was just right in several criteria, which likely included scratch resistance (especially after the 1st gen nano complaints).
Which is why I almost expected any other decision. Some of their recent decisions have not been at all logical.
I do all of those, and there is nothing requiring me to do so.
Want another example of government knowing what's best for us? The US government mandated airbags in cars. Then we noticed that petite women and kids were getting killed by them, because now they were in every car. The law of unintended consequences killed many people. Do you volunteer to be the sacrifice? If a mandate or tax for CFL results in one person getting injured or killed, can we send all of the politicians to jail on assault or murder charges? Of course not, they're immune -- and that's why they have no problem playing games with our lives.
Sucking money out of the economy, money that those people could have used to maybe buy, oh, a CFL?
There's another problem with government getting involved. There were so many loopholes in Kyoto for favored nations that it's basically ineffective.He's facing possible disbarment over the Bully incident where the publicly berated the judge in the case. I wonder if he'll still be able to practice law when GTA4 comes out.
Have an electrician look at your house's electrical system, especially those sockets. A house with a bad electrical system can shorten the life of a lot of your electronics, not just the bulbs. I had one kill a computer power supply in about a year. I no longer live there, but just in case I try to run things on UPS and line filters now.
That's how much heat they can handle. Exact numbers will vary according to lots of factors, but let's do the math.
Standard bulb about 5% efficient, 60W putting out 57W in heat.
CFL about 70% efficient, 15W equivalent light putting out 10.5W of heat.
This means you could theoretically put a 325W equivalent CFL bulb in that socket without overheating it.
Plus there's always the law of unintended consequences lurking back there somewhere, and that has gotten people killed by well-meaning government policies.
This would be a winning equation in that specific set of circumstances only if you otherwise use electric heating, which is by far the most expensive. Otherwise, you could get that 75W bulb's 71W worth of heating cheaper from natural gas or fuel oil. Add that light bulbs are normally high up, and your heat is going up, so you need the electricity of a ceiling fan to push it back down.
Perhaps the best thing Wal-Mart has done is make American manufacturers more competitive.
The holy grail in manufacturing these days is to get a supply contract with Wal-Mart. It ensures a huge market for the product and major profits. However, Wal-Mart doesn't just deal with anybody. Wal-Mart will force a manufacturer to get more efficient and cut costs before Wal-Mart accepts them. Examples I remember were when Wal-Mart made a company give up a high-rent Manhattan headquarters, and another an expensive corporate jet.
I had an outdoor CFL and it took FOREVER to get to full brightness when it was cold outside.
Less money spent on electric bills, more money available to spend at Wal-Mart.
I was always happy to pay it. Not only did he put in a new battery, but he also checked everything to make sure it's working fine, cleaned it and buffed the crystal. Money well spent.
But it is seriously sad. Not one jewelry store in town will dare to take the back off a Movado, even those who advertise that they repair watches.
Now you have me really interested. I'm not sure about video, but I do know the XServe uses EFI instead of BIOS, so when you get to it through IPMI you're sitting in a full command shell where you can load and unload drivers, etc. It doesn't make sense that Apple didn't put video on the front, since they use the tiny mini-DVI plug, and they already put a FireWire port on the front (which you can run TCP/IP over).
Strangely, what I appreciate most is the build of the hardware. Simple things like thumbscrews to release the mobo so it can be pulled straight out (nothing in the way) and just the general ability to pluck and chuck anything quickly and easily. And no more cage nuts!
You don't have to go electronic to get extra features. In mechanical watches, these are called "complications." Just look for a watch with multiple complications, such as stop watch, day, date, week, month, year, moon phases, perpetual calendar, etc.
But be warned, when you get a quality watch with more than a few complications, you will be paying major money. The Patek Philippe Calibre 89 has 33 complications, over 1,700 parts, took nine years to design and make, and is worth about $6 million. The thing even calculates the date of Easter every year -- mechanically.
I have some very nice mechanical and quartz Swiss watches. I used to be able to go by a local master watchmaker to have them serviced or fixed. Then he retired and there was literally nobody else around to do it. Now I'm supposed to ship everything back to the manufacturer. Nobody in town will even replace the batteries on the quartz ones.
Very true. They don't do much at all to market their server hardware in a way that will get enterprise buyers interested. I showed an admin guy where I work (who didn't even know Apple made servers) the specs on the new 1U, including the hardware ease of use stuff, and he was pretty impressed.
The XServe specs look good, and all of the reviews from an admin's perspective are extremely positive. What's crappy about them that I haven't read? I'm not looking for an argument, I'm genuinely interested.
The problem is, who gets to decide what's damaging and what's not, and are they right? Remember the big cholesterol scare, causing everybody to switch to margarine? Now imagine that had been a government mandated switch for our own good, as the increased heart disease "hurts us all." But now we find that the trans-fats in margarine are even worse for you. Oops, the government just killed a bunch of people and made matters worse.
Our health, the economy, and society in general are such complex things that screwing with them is always done at a very high risk of invoking the law of unintended consequences.
In addition, there will alway be non-practical (read: political) criteria for invoking these laws.
Remember the Alar scare (pesticide on apples) over it being cancerous to mice? It was banned in places and the government eventually pressured the manufacturer to stop selling it. Yet you'd need to eat a boxcar full of apples a day to get the dosage that gave the mice cancer.
Want another? Governments banned DDT for decades, during which millions of people died of malaria because they didn't have the cheap, effective DDT to control the mosquito population. Maybe we should call that the "DDT genocide," despite that the intentions were good. The intentions of the Chinese were good too when they starved tens of millions of their people.
Concrete example of greed-based laws: The United States requires 5mph bumpers on cars. This is not done for safety, since the bumpers are there only to prevent expensive damage to the car in very low-speed collisions. The law is only there to keep the insurance companies happy, since they don't have to pay out much for all those collisions. But those bumpers add significant weight. I wonder how many millions of gallons of gasoline have been wasted due to millions of cars lugging that extra weight around for years?
Basically, when someone in the government says "we know what's best for you" it turns on a blazing red light that tells me to take my liberties and run like hell, because I may not only lose my liberties, but my life.
I'll have to check. You may be right and they're only 60. But I'm using them in a ceiling fan, so there are four of them, plenty of light.
True, but that's not the perspective I'm thinking. A person isn't a statistic, and real people die when the government makes stupid rules, no matter how many others are saved. Your thinking would probably be different if one of those dead kids had been yours.
As a friend telling you that you should stop, I agree. As the state mandating that you should stop -- well, if you want to give up your freedom and be a slave of the state...
Wearing a seatbelt is required in all 50 states. And contrary to the claims those who tried to soothe our civil-liberties nerves with "It'll never be a primary offense," it is now in most states.
The government is my nanny. I bow to it. I worship it. It keeps me safe from all things, even from myself.
And the next 2 1/2 years until the CF bulb burns out will be profit, not even counting how many incandescent bulbs you'd have had to replace during those five years. Patience will be rewarded with money.
Calling Paul Erlich, white courtesy phone please...
Oh yeah, he lost that bet, didn't he?
Dimmable CF bulbs are out now.
I wouldn't have touched CFs just three years ago, but the technology is going insanely great, so much that almost everything I've heard against them here has been solved -- color, size (they make them look like regular bulbs now), dimming, price, etc. I only don't use CFs in places where I need instant-on, short-duration light.
Usually that results in the government royally screwing things up and making the matters worse. Think of all the kids and small women killed in cars equipped with government-mandated airbags before people knew they were that dangerous. The economic incentive is already there, so much that a non-tree hugger like me invested a bunch of money to re-do his house with CF.
BTW, I don't suppose you have a top-loader clothes washer, do you? Or a side-by-side refrigerator? A fireplace?
I would suggest never going near that argument, because next time it's going to be something that you like that is taken away in the name of the greater good.
Mythbusters just did a thing on this. Compact fluorescents only have a tiny, short power spike in the beginning. You're thinking of full tube fluorescents. But even then it was calculated that you'd have to leave the room for less than twenty-something seconds to make it not worth turning off a fluorescent tube while you're gone, and a fraction of a second for compact fluorescent.
LEDs were of course the best, and were the only lights to survive the 10,000 on-off cycle torture test they did for all types of bulbs. But before LEDs can become popular, they need to be able to get down in size, and that cylindrical disco ball of an LED lamp certainly didn't fit the bill.