Replacing the LEDs every year is wastefull when the regular bulb will last many years. On top of that, I'm pretty sure enough LEDs to produce an equivilant 100w incandescant lightsource would take many more resources to produce than a traditional bulb.
Well first of all, my numbers were off, turns out it's 99cents per two bulbs, not 99cents a piece. I was going for a net reference that people could verify, it seemed a touch high as I only spend 25cents to 50cents per bulb.
Assuming 50 cents a piece.... you'd see a cost savings after 18 years with LEDS that are about a buck a piece, assuming you need 3 sets of 36 to equal the same light level.
It's not about replacing LEDs every year. I don't know the lifespan of your typical LED.... nor do I know it's lifespan as soon as you start stacking them next to eachother. Resulting in a hell of alot more heat.
As far as resources for a traditional bulb... i'll have to disassemble one and see how much can be reclaimed from one. Ya got your frosted glass, a bit of wire, filiment, base, bit of solder.
Glass... very recyclable! Metal... very recylable! Filiment... not sure what they are using these days Base... not sure Bit o solder... very recylable.
Uneducated guess... i'd say lightbulbs are not so bad for our enviroment, if we actually recycle them. No one I know of does, but glass is a pretty hip thing to recycle.
LEDs... big arse chunk of plastic within gallium nitride on a silicon carbide substrate in some cases, and phosphers. Perhaps gallium arsenide is used as well.. not my field really. Their lifespan i'm sure is superior in everyway to the traditional lightbulb, but a big ass chunk of plastic i'm sure would be a pain in the tookus to recycle. Lifespan... 10/20/30 years? I don't know.
Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. I quoted radioshack as it was a place you get crap localy, well atleast in north america anyway. I guess that is no longer true, as the last time I wished to order a pair of small speakers from them, they didn't carry them in stock anymore, and they didn't know how to place an order.
The last time I bought LEDs was at radioshack, but the price wasn't nearly so high.. you could get a pair at.50 a piece.
The last time I bought a phono cartrage from them, they had a $20 solution, and a $35 solution. They don't carry them anymore, but this needless to say was not overpriced, right on the money in fact. Sad they no longer carry them, as it means a longer drive if I need one.
Their electronics packaging and pricing is structured to provide electronics hobbiests a common part they need at 11pm.
I can't argue with that... if it's 11pm, i'm not going to bitch about the thing I need is overpriced at sub $5.00. For me, it's either Radio Shack, or a longer drive to a real electronics shop. Depends on how lazy I am, and how much i'm buying.
Those LED's would be more like $0.70 in high quantities.
I since on a seperate thread found a site with bigger LEDs at roughly $1.00 a piece... and likely need 108 to come close to the light output of a 100watt bulb.
But again... I was just looking for a price quote for a local shop that carried the shinola. Like 'em or not, Radio Shack is local to most north americans.
Radio Shack gives you the shaft on components. It's really not valid to compare them there.
I used Radio Shack as a reference as it indeed is a place where one can go out and buy something, rather then a mailorder website. It's fair to compare with something you can buy NOW.
But since you objected...
http://www.lc-led.com/View.jsp?idProduct=141 10 mm Big Super White (30 Deg.) 3.3V 30-99 pcs : $1.42 USD 100-199 pcs : $1.04 USD
Assuming you can use a rectifier and a set of 36 of these in series, and assuming you bought in the 100 unit class...
$37.44 per 36 in LEDs alone + rectifier, wire, solder, etc..
vs.99cents for a damn bumb (I pay much less, but hey)
Assuming you burn 24/7. and it burns out after 720 hours or os... about $12 yearly per bulb...
I don't know how many LEDs = 1 damn bulb, but assuming we stick to the 36 per bulb... which is reasonable in america... it would take you 3 years to see benifit on your pocketbook. Assuming that you'd need 3 to = one 100watt bulb (again no facts, but according to http://www.theledlight.com/120-VAC-LEDbulbs.html their 36 diode unit provides equal to 30watt bulb). we're talking $108 for the damb bulb. Not likely to see a benifit on your pocketbook for 9 years. If it lasts 30 years... victory!
[note i'm not taking power consumption into account]
Excuse me please, i'm going out to buy a traditional lamp and a damn 99cent bulb. I'm lazy!
Any ideas on why led lights for the home are not more widely available? The technology is not new.
I believe an LED the size and lummen output of a 100watt bulb for example would be a fair bit costly in contrast to a typical 100watt bulb.
I have no site to back this up, don't know where to buy a big ass LED, but let's look at radioshack
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5F na me=CTLG&category%5Fname=CTLG%5F011%5F006%5F002%5F0 00&product%5Fid=276%2D320 5mm White LED $4.99 3.6V 20ma
Now, I don't know how many 5mm white LEDs = the lumen output of one 100watt bulb... but at $5.00 a pop, in the short term the traditional 100W bulb costs less.
So you can either replace your bulbs at 99cents a pop, or construct a led solution that would likely cost $5.00 per unit, multi units to equal the light level of that one bulb.
I'm sure the LED would save you money, but people are lazy.
It's a place where Banks take the fall for stolen credit card numbers.
Really? What's the rule on that anyhow? Like many people... i've been the victum of bogus charges... like movie tickets in winipeg when I live a good 1500 miles from that city. Not big charges mind you, but annoying ones. Easy enough to dispute... never been to Winnipeg, pain in the tookus to get gas 1500 miles away and in an hour buy tickets to a movie in Winipeg.
Do banks take the fall if the store swipes a stolen / bogus credit card, or does the store take the fall? Do banks take the fall if the store types in the wrong numbers and it goes through, or does the store?
I've been told that mail order outlets take the fall if the CC in question was stolen, but I honestly don't know the rules for physical swiping.
Virtual gumball machine! Where children can access a rendered image of a traditional gumball machine, place in the virtual coin which will deduct a micro payment from the folks CC, and in just under a week, they get a real gumball delivered by UPS/FedEX.
Gumball.... 25 cents transaction charge... 35cents shipping / handling... $5.50 for express delivery per unit
Seeing the horror on the parent's faces when little timmy maxed out their credit cards on gumballs... priceless!
I realize that AMD has a slightly different jumper setting between the XP and MP, but I don't really consider that sufficient to make them "different" products. Back in the days when we needed to set the IRQ on sound cards, would you have complained about getting a different sound card if instead of the default IRQ5, yours came with the jumper at IRQ3, or would you have just changed it?
Actually I think the actual legit complaint was the simple fact that all non-stock hardware, whether it be sound card, lpt2:, scsi adapter, all of it was set at IRQ5.
Now, if it was a MODEM... during the time period that folk were still using a serial mouse, it was moderatly common for the internal modem to be set on a non-standard irq... Which usually wasn't a problem, except with AOL software released between 1999/2000.
Under this scenero, that PC you just bought, just wouldn't work with the new AOL software, dispite the fact that the kind folk who assembled the PC were most thoughtful and made sure there was no conflict between the stock serial ports and the modem. And you better believe that the nice folk who bought the PC returned it as being defective, dispite the fact it worked fine before... but because AOL changed the software... it didn't anymore.
i'm not so sure that IBM would move away from windows internally anyway. sure, there might be a move to replace a lot of workstations with linux, but at the very least they need to keep some around
Why? It's not like they kept any PS/2's around dispite the fact that all the documentation included lifetime free techsupport.
I was just watching the Redskins vs. Colts game and I saw a commercial IBM put out advertizing Linux! It showed this boy and they said how amazing he was because he got along everywhere, and at the end they say "This boy is Linux" Looks to me like they're hiding nothing.
That's an old comercial... if I wasn't so lazy i'd find an old slashdot story on the subject.
Dispite the fact that I don't watch alot of the hip new shows... I've seen this comercial before.
Until one person says something, nobody will. If enough people agree, some commercial spaces will change policies.
It isn't stupid to voice your opinion in commercial space at all.
If you expect people to care... that is somewhat silly. I'm not saying you shouldn't, but typicaly speaking employees just don't care. If they cared, then they would either go insane or quit their jobs.
It's rather like recent tails I hear about people buying printers at Walmart, you know the type, the cheepo sub $50.00 that don't even include a black cartrage... and they refuse to take it as a return. "You could have done anything to it" is basicly what I hear.... without even looking at it to see if it's faulty or just crap. Chances are it's just crap.
You can object till you are blue in the face, which I fully support. Doesn't help... the only thing that does help is going in there with a little video camera... based on my observation they are either a hell of alot nicer and actually take it as a return... or get more mean and tell you to get out.
Dial-up will, at least in the forseeable future, remain significantly less expensive than broadband
[local quote for me... www.netventure.net 1MB Family Plan ($29.95) Up to 1024k download and 128k upload,
EarthLink Basic High Speed For a limited time, get your first three months of EarthLink Basic High Speed for just $19.95 per month*!
Comcast... tele-ads say $30 monthly for 6 months
Based on my experence... Comcast and Earthlink were perfectly willing to pricematch each other, and someone else they never even heard of. My local cable isp's upstreem sucks at 128k, comcast and earthlink both offer faster downstreems and 384k upstreem I believe. When I left both of them, they both offered between $20-$30 monthly for their service for a 6month or 12 month commitment.
I don't know of anyone who's paying more then $30 monthly for broadband... I know a few people paying $22.50 or so for dialup.
Yea, cable / dsl cost more, but 7.50 more monthly at present due to either specials, promos, or in one case an always low price.
Sending a homeless man to jail can be punishment in a way... but in another way, they get free room and board for a select period of time. In other words, you the american tax payer pays for it. Knowing the logic of our legal system, he'll probally get shoved in the prison work program, get shoved in front of a PC, and be given access to random people's personal details... as well as being given criminal training by other criminals and when released he'll be a superior criminal, one less likely to get caught the next time around.
Prison... learn what you did wrong so you don't go back.
CALM DOWN! Relax. I didn't say you were forced to do anything. In fact, you can listen to SACD and HDCD on any CD player, so don't get all upset when I want to listen to the same disc in my car in stereo and in 5.1 in my house.
I have the ability to play 5.1 media... However, if I want to play *their* media... I am required to buy an SACD or HDCD, or DVD-A or whatever what not, until such time that one of the SDDA (super duper disk audio) standards are cracked and I can decode from my pc... and re-encode to the approperate format.
Besides... even on my old 2.2 set.... I can do 96/24bit so long as I have the file.
Much easier if these standards continue to be supported in your DVD player of choice.
For me to accept a new standard.... I must have some assurance I can convert it... without going through that annoying DA/AD conversion.
Besides... why the hell should I have to BUY a new player, i'm happy with my current one. Damn happy in fact. Why the hell should I have to shell out more bucks to stick something else in my stack, esp since I got a PC that can actually deal with a wide varity of formats.
Perhaps I'm far too jaded on this issue... however for a second I actually believed this parent for the second... for the following reasons.
3. It wouldn't shock me if Darl McBride had multiable identies. I've known people in the business world who change their name slightly in order to dodge debts.
2. It wouldn't shock me at all if anyone involved with SCO was a fan of Buckaroo Bonzi, or if someone decided to name their company Yoyodyne Propulsion systems.
and the #1 reason why this didn't shock me
1. Hi, my name is Darl... this is my brother Darl, this is my other brother Darl.
1. Wait till *SDDA [Super Duper Disk Audio] gets hacked 2. Buy disks, decode to PCM / WAV... Stream to device 3. Profit? Or rather, enjoy the damn disk you payed money for.
*SDDA is a generic term that applies to all disc media that supplies audio content above and beyond the specificications of normal CD.
>> Most DSL connections are charged per GB of transfer.
>Source, please - where do you get your information? I cannot speak for "most", but neither my DSL nor that of the three other people I know personally who have DSL have any cap on their transfers save the cap set by the number of B channels assigned to their connection.
[America Centric]
I'm aware of only ONE or two ISPs in my region who meter consumer DSL access based on per byte use in anyway what so ever. The local telco doesn't offer metering...nor do any ISPs that I know of that are connected via the local telco, with perhaps one exception. Earthlink doesn't ofer metering the last time I talked with them for their DSL service. I can only think of ONE company that was listed in www.dslreports.com who was noted as having use limits at all. I knew of one other personaly, but they were not listed on any published list that I was aware of. I actually tried to talk them out of their per byte limit, and dispite the fact that I used them as an FTP dump without limits @15.00 a month, they were not hip to the idea of me paying $60 a month for unlimited. So hey... great!
I can't speak for the rest of the world... but I have a choice to either choose the odd ISP that offers limits... or many others that just just meter.
To be kind... I typicaly do my big arse transfers at night when everyone else is sleeping, but I'm not required to do so.
If a bill is rare enough for a collector to scan in, chances are it won't be in the Photoshop currency database. Problem solved!
While i'm not a currency collector in the slightest... I would *think* that the first production run of new currency would have some sorta value. This really isn't my field, by the time I get wind of something being valuable the time to get the valuable thing has long since come and gone. I have a couple of bills that someone paid me more then face value for... and a few coins that actually are worth a few bucks, remarkable for a coin. Typicaly speaking, not my field, not my bag, i'm too lazy.
Even if we are not talking about the current batch... collectable american currency often times is still legal tender. While I would think it's dumb to counterfit unusual collectable currency (kids don't try this at home)... it still being legal tender and all would be a legit concern, worthy enough to add to the photoshop database. So long as they find a balance... like "this is a copy" being permited... that would be just spiffy.
but I cannot see a single real scenario where this truly makes a problem for anyone
When I wanted to copy currency was when I was contructing a three dollar bill, and I was going to use other currency as a template.
One legit application I can think of for scanning currency would be for collectors who wish to archive their collection. At one point I had a 1986 Canadian $2.00 bill... near as I can tell they switched to a two and one dollar coin a long time ago. While you might consider this nutty... imagine stamp collectors. Legit enough hobby.
I wanted to show it to someone, who was a canadian, and did a scan, making sure I put on it in bold friendly letters "copy copy copy copy".
That reminds me, I do have some out of print currency I should take the time to scan. Unique images should be saved.
So you can buy a car without a radio, you just have to wait till special deals, or buy special expensive cars.
Thats not really a normal buy now is it. (-:
First of all, I only said you can buy cars without radios, strippers typicaly have no radio.
I just talked to the local Toyota dealer... And the local Mini dealer. Both said they they have a new car without a Radio, Cassette Deck, or CD player. When you are ordering from the factory, you do have to pay extra for a radio in the two cases I looked into, it wasn't a *standard* feature.
Is it normal for a car to have at least a radio? Yea, as in most of the time, anything on the lot will have one with the exceptions of the strippers. Is it possible to get one without a radio? Oh yea... Generally speaking if it's on the lot, they won't bother removing it, they'll just knock off a few dollars and not bother extracting it. I thought all cars had atleast radios till I started researching the issue.
Near as I'm aware, there is no federal regulation where I live (America) to require cars to have radios. There should be IMHO as radio is used to relay road information.
I, being a manual transmision person, am not bloody likely to get a radio with my new econo car purchace. But don't take my own word for it.. go out and research the issue your self.
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So the question is when will prices really come down? Isn't the big problem making blue LEDs [cheaply]? When will the masses wake up and upgrade?
If the lifespan is 30 years, and the cost is 10 cents per traditional watt lumens.
Dispite my love for the traditional bulb, I have a few florecents that where $20 and I've not replaced them for 5 years.
Replacing the LEDs every year is wastefull when the regular bulb will last many years. On top of that, I'm pretty sure enough LEDs to produce an equivilant 100w incandescant lightsource would take many more resources to produce than a traditional bulb.
Well first of all, my numbers were off, turns out it's 99cents per two bulbs, not 99cents a piece. I was going for a net reference that people could verify, it seemed a touch high as I only spend 25cents to 50cents per bulb.
Assuming 50 cents a piece.... you'd see a cost savings after 18 years with LEDS that are about a buck a piece, assuming you need 3 sets of 36 to equal the same light level.
It's not about replacing LEDs every year. I don't know the lifespan of your typical LED.... nor do I know it's lifespan as soon as you start stacking them next to eachother. Resulting in a hell of alot more heat.
As far as resources for a traditional bulb... i'll have to disassemble one and see how much can be reclaimed from one. Ya got your frosted glass, a bit of wire, filiment, base, bit of solder.
Glass... very recyclable!
Metal... very recylable!
Filiment... not sure what they are using these days
Base... not sure
Bit o solder... very recylable.
Uneducated guess... i'd say lightbulbs are not so bad for our enviroment, if we actually recycle them. No one I know of does, but glass is a pretty hip thing to recycle.
LEDs... big arse chunk of plastic within gallium nitride on a silicon carbide substrate in some cases, and phosphers. Perhaps gallium arsenide is used as well.. not my field really. Their lifespan i'm sure is superior in everyway to the traditional lightbulb, but a big ass chunk of plastic i'm sure would be a pain in the tookus to recycle. Lifespan... 10/20/30 years? I don't know.
Radio Shack's pricing is outrageously high
.50 a piece.
Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. I quoted radioshack as it was a place you get crap localy, well atleast in north america anyway. I guess that is no longer true, as the last time I wished to order a pair of small speakers from them, they didn't carry them in stock anymore, and they didn't know how to place an order.
The last time I bought LEDs was at radioshack, but the price wasn't nearly so high.. you could get a pair at
The last time I bought a phono cartrage from them, they had a $20 solution, and a $35 solution. They don't carry them anymore, but this needless to say was not overpriced, right on the money in fact. Sad they no longer carry them, as it means a longer drive if I need one.
Their electronics packaging and pricing is structured to provide electronics hobbiests a common part they need at 11pm.
I can't argue with that... if it's 11pm, i'm not going to bitch about the thing I need is overpriced at sub $5.00. For me, it's either Radio Shack, or a longer drive to a real electronics shop. Depends on how lazy I am, and how much i'm buying.
Those LED's would be more like $0.70 in high quantities.
I since on a seperate thread found a site with bigger LEDs at roughly $1.00 a piece... and likely need 108 to come close to the light output of a 100watt bulb.
But again... I was just looking for a price quote for a local shop that carried the shinola. Like 'em or not, Radio Shack is local to most north americans.
Radio Shack gives you the shaft on components. It's really not valid to compare them there.
0 mm Big Super White (30 Deg.) 3.3V
.99cents for a damn bumb (I pay much less, but hey)
I used Radio Shack as a reference as it indeed is a place where one can go out and buy something, rather then a mailorder website. It's fair to compare with something you can buy NOW.
But since you objected...
http://www.lc-led.com/View.jsp?idProduct=141
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30-99 pcs : $1.42 USD
100-199 pcs : $1.04 USD
Assuming you can use a rectifier and a set of 36 of these in series, and assuming you bought in the 100 unit class...
$37.44 per 36 in LEDs alone
+ rectifier, wire, solder, etc..
vs
Assuming you burn 24/7. and it burns out after 720 hours or os... about $12 yearly per bulb...
I don't know how many LEDs = 1 damn bulb, but assuming we stick to the 36 per bulb... which is reasonable in america... it would take you 3 years to see benifit on your pocketbook. Assuming that you'd need 3 to = one 100watt bulb (again no facts, but according to http://www.theledlight.com/120-VAC-LEDbulbs.html their 36 diode unit provides equal to 30watt bulb). we're talking $108 for the damb bulb. Not likely to see a benifit on your pocketbook for 9 years. If it lasts 30 years... victory!
[note i'm not taking power consumption into account]
Excuse me please, i'm going out to buy a traditional lamp and a damn 99cent bulb. I'm lazy!
Any ideas on why led lights for the home are not more widely available? The technology is not new.
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I believe an LED the size and lummen output of a 100watt bulb for example would be a fair bit costly in contrast to a typical 100watt bulb.
I have no site to back this up, don't know where to buy a big ass LED, but let's look at radioshack
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5
5mm White LED $4.99
3.6V 20ma
http://handyman.everything-warehouse.com/PID-3E
GE Mazda 100W Edison Screw LightBulb 9004100198514
1000hours $0.99
120v
Now, I don't know how many 5mm white LEDs = the lumen output of one 100watt bulb... but at $5.00 a pop, in the short term the traditional 100W bulb costs less.
So you can either replace your bulbs at 99cents a pop, or construct a led solution that would likely cost $5.00 per unit, multi units to equal the light level of that one bulb.
I'm sure the LED would save you money, but people are lazy.
It's a place where Banks take the fall for stolen credit card numbers.
Really? What's the rule on that anyhow? Like many people... i've been the victum of bogus charges... like movie tickets in winipeg when I live a good 1500 miles from that city. Not big charges mind you, but annoying ones. Easy enough to dispute... never been to Winnipeg, pain in the tookus to get gas 1500 miles away and in an hour buy tickets to a movie in Winipeg.
Do banks take the fall if the store swipes a stolen / bogus credit card, or does the store take the fall?
Do banks take the fall if the store types in the wrong numbers and it goes through, or does the store?
I've been told that mail order outlets take the fall if the CC in question was stolen, but I honestly don't know the rules for physical swiping.
Virtual gumball machine! Where children can access a rendered image of a traditional gumball machine, place in the virtual coin which will deduct a micro payment from the folks CC, and in just under a week, they get a real gumball delivered by UPS/FedEX.
Gumball.... 25 cents
transaction charge... 35cents
shipping / handling... $5.50 for express delivery per unit
Seeing the horror on the parent's faces when little timmy maxed out their credit cards on gumballs... priceless!
I realize that AMD has a slightly different jumper setting between the XP and MP, but I don't really consider that sufficient to make them "different" products. Back in the days when we needed to set the IRQ on sound cards, would you have complained about getting a different sound card if instead of the default IRQ5, yours came with the jumper at IRQ3, or would you have just changed it?
Actually I think the actual legit complaint was the simple fact that all non-stock hardware, whether it be sound card, lpt2:, scsi adapter, all of it was set at IRQ5.
Now, if it was a MODEM... during the time period that folk were still using a serial mouse, it was moderatly common for the internal modem to be set on a non-standard irq... Which usually wasn't a problem, except with AOL software released between 1999/2000.
Under this scenero, that PC you just bought, just wouldn't work with the new AOL software, dispite the fact that the kind folk who assembled the PC were most thoughtful and made sure there was no conflict between the stock serial ports and the modem. And you better believe that the nice folk who bought the PC returned it as being defective, dispite the fact it worked fine before... but because AOL changed the software... it didn't anymore.
i'm not so sure that IBM would move away from windows internally anyway. sure, there might be a move to replace a lot of workstations with linux, but at the very least they need to keep some around
Why? It's not like they kept any PS/2's around dispite the fact that all the documentation included lifetime free techsupport.
I was just watching the Redskins vs. Colts game and I saw a commercial IBM put out advertizing Linux! It showed this boy and they said how amazing he was because he got along everywhere, and at the end they say "This boy is Linux" Looks to me like they're hiding nothing.
That's an old comercial... if I wasn't so lazy i'd find an old slashdot story on the subject.
Dispite the fact that I don't watch alot of the hip new shows... I've seen this comercial before.
Until one person says something, nobody will. If enough people agree, some commercial spaces will change policies.
It isn't stupid to voice your opinion in commercial space at all.
If you expect people to care... that is somewhat silly. I'm not saying you shouldn't, but typicaly speaking employees just don't care. If they cared, then they would either go insane or quit their jobs.
It's rather like recent tails I hear about people buying printers at Walmart, you know the type, the cheepo sub $50.00 that don't even include a black cartrage... and they refuse to take it as a return. "You could have done anything to it" is basicly what I hear.... without even looking at it to see if it's faulty or just crap. Chances are it's just crap.
You can object till you are blue in the face, which I fully support. Doesn't help... the only thing that does help is going in there with a little video camera... based on my observation they are either a hell of alot nicer and actually take it as a return... or get more mean and tell you to get out.
Dial-up will, at least in the forseeable future, remain significantly less expensive than broadband
[local quote for me... www.netventure.net
1MB Family Plan ($29.95)
Up to 1024k download and 128k upload,
EarthLink Basic High Speed
For a limited time, get your first three months of EarthLink Basic High Speed for just $19.95 per month*!
Comcast... tele-ads say $30 monthly for 6 months
Based on my experence... Comcast and Earthlink were perfectly willing to pricematch each other, and someone else they never even heard of. My local cable isp's upstreem sucks at 128k, comcast and earthlink both offer faster downstreems and 384k upstreem I believe. When I left both of them, they both offered between $20-$30 monthly for their service for a 6month or 12 month commitment.
I don't know of anyone who's paying more then $30 monthly for broadband... I know a few people paying $22.50 or so for dialup.
Yea, cable / dsl cost more, but 7.50 more monthly at present due to either specials, promos, or in one case an always low price.
He's homeless.
He committed a crime.
He got incarcerated.
QED...
Sending a homeless man to jail can be punishment in a way... but in another way, they get free room and board for a select period of time. In other words, you the american tax payer pays for it. Knowing the logic of our legal system, he'll probally get shoved in the prison work program, get shoved in front of a PC, and be given access to random people's personal details... as well as being given criminal training by other criminals and when released he'll be a superior criminal, one less likely to get caught the next time around.
Prison... learn what you did wrong so you don't go back.
CALM DOWN! Relax. I didn't say you were forced to do anything. In fact, you can listen to SACD and HDCD on any CD player, so don't get all upset when I want to listen to the same disc in my car in stereo and in 5.1 in my house.
I have the ability to play 5.1 media... However, if I want to play *their* media... I am required to buy an SACD or HDCD, or DVD-A or whatever what not, until such time that one of the SDDA (super duper disk audio) standards are cracked and I can decode from my pc... and re-encode to the approperate format.
Besides... even on my old 2.2 set.... I can do 96/24bit so long as I have the file.
Much easier if these standards continue to be supported in your DVD player of choice.
For me to accept a new standard.... I must have some assurance I can convert it... without going through that annoying DA/AD conversion.
Besides... why the hell should I have to BUY a new player, i'm happy with my current one. Damn happy in fact. Why the hell should I have to shell out more bucks to stick something else in my stack, esp since I got a PC that can actually deal with a wide varity of formats.
Perhaps I'm far too jaded on this issue... however for a second I actually believed this parent for the second... for the following reasons.
3. It wouldn't shock me if Darl McBride had multiable identies. I've known people in the business world who change their name slightly in order to dodge debts.
2. It wouldn't shock me at all if anyone involved with SCO was a fan of Buckaroo Bonzi, or if someone decided to name their company Yoyodyne Propulsion systems.
and the #1 reason why this didn't shock me
1. Hi, my name is Darl... this is my brother Darl, this is my other brother Darl.
No HDCD playing, and no SACD playing. Blarg!
1. Wait till *SDDA [Super Duper Disk Audio] gets hacked
2. Buy disks, decode to PCM / WAV... Stream to device
3. Profit? Or rather, enjoy the damn disk you payed money for.
*SDDA is a generic term that applies to all disc media that supplies audio content above and beyond the specificications of normal CD.
>> Most DSL connections are charged per GB of transfer.
>Source, please - where do you get your information? I cannot speak for "most", but neither my DSL nor that of the three other people I know personally who have DSL have any cap on their transfers save the cap set by the number of B channels assigned to their connection.
[America Centric]
I'm aware of only ONE or two ISPs in my region who meter consumer DSL access based on per byte use in anyway what so ever. The local telco doesn't offer metering...nor do any ISPs that I know of that are connected via the local telco, with perhaps one exception. Earthlink doesn't ofer metering the last time I talked with them for their DSL service. I can only think of ONE company that was listed in www.dslreports.com who was noted as having use limits at all. I knew of one other personaly, but they were not listed on any published list that I was aware of. I actually tried to talk them out of their per byte limit, and dispite the fact that I used them as an FTP dump without limits @15.00 a month, they were not hip to the idea of me paying $60 a month for unlimited. So hey... great!
I can't speak for the rest of the world... but I have a choice to either choose the odd ISP that offers limits... or many others that just just meter.
To be kind... I typicaly do my big arse transfers at night when everyone else is sleeping, but I'm not required to do so.
No, but you might get tagged as a terrorist for buying an unusual amount of household cleaner, for instance.
But I like to terrorise small children by offering them black licorice.
If a bill is rare enough for a collector to scan in, chances are it won't be in the Photoshop currency database. Problem solved!
While i'm not a currency collector in the slightest... I would *think* that the first production run of new currency would have some sorta value. This really isn't my field, by the time I get wind of something being valuable the time to get the valuable thing has long since come and gone. I have a couple of bills that someone paid me more then face value for... and a few coins that actually are worth a few bucks, remarkable for a coin. Typicaly speaking, not my field, not my bag, i'm too lazy.
Even if we are not talking about the current batch... collectable american currency often times is still legal tender. While I would think it's dumb to counterfit unusual collectable currency (kids don't try this at home)... it still being legal tender and all would be a legit concern, worthy enough to add to the photoshop database. So long as they find a balance... like "this is a copy" being permited... that would be just spiffy.
Credit card records are included.
I wonder what the goverment will think of me buying import Australian and Finnish licorice.
International terror by black tounge?
but I cannot see a single real scenario where this truly makes a problem for anyone
When I wanted to copy currency was when I was contructing a three dollar bill, and I was going to use other currency as a template.
One legit application I can think of for scanning currency would be for collectors who wish to archive their collection. At one point I had a 1986 Canadian $2.00 bill... near as I can tell they switched to a two and one dollar coin a long time ago. While you might consider this nutty... imagine stamp collectors. Legit enough hobby.
I wanted to show it to someone, who was a canadian, and did a scan, making sure I put on it in bold friendly letters "copy copy copy copy".
That reminds me, I do have some out of print currency I should take the time to scan. Unique images should be saved.
Ummm, that was stock footage of the Tacoma-Narrows, with the exception of some guy tward the end. AKA "galloping girty" circa Nov 1940
m le n/t acomabrug/tacomabrug.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/meetsusp.ht
http://www.scheldemond.nl/vakken/exact/na/less
Links to the Tacoma Narrows bridge stock footage.
Not sure of a good solid link to the Pioneer commercial.
But how do you change your fingerprint?
Lee press-on fingerprints?
So you can buy a car without a radio, you just have to wait till special deals, or buy special expensive cars.
Thats not really a normal buy now is it. (-:
First of all, I only said you can buy cars without radios, strippers typicaly have no radio.
I just talked to the local Toyota dealer... And the local Mini dealer. Both said they they have a new car without a Radio, Cassette Deck, or CD player. When you are ordering from the factory, you do have to pay extra for a radio in the two cases I looked into, it wasn't a *standard* feature.
Is it normal for a car to have at least a radio? Yea, as in most of the time, anything on the lot will have one with the exceptions of the strippers. Is it possible to get one without a radio? Oh yea... Generally speaking if it's on the lot, they won't bother removing it, they'll just knock off a few dollars and not bother extracting it. I thought all cars had atleast radios till I started researching the issue.
Near as I'm aware, there is no federal regulation where I live (America) to require cars to have radios. There should be IMHO as radio is used to relay road information.
I, being a manual transmision person, am not bloody likely to get a radio with my new econo car purchace. But don't take my own word for it.. go out and research the issue your self.