fluorescents don't emit visible light on their own, only UV light.
what emits the with light is the product that lines the interior of the bulb. remove that and leave the glass clean and you get a black light. basically, that stuff is a reactive material that glows when exposed to UV light.
thing is, it keeps glowing for some time after the UV light is cut. some of my CFLs keep an eerie green glow for almost a minute after I turn them off. this alone would prevent the stobo effect. since the interval when it's not emiting UV light is far too short, you don't get strobing.
I've did some work on lathes on colege workshop some years ago, and all the lights there were regular fluorescent tubes. had no problem with strobing.
The problem was that the IR the CFLs would produce would cause so much noise that remote controls frequently didn't work, and even worse, sometimes the bulbs would issue commands on their own. The first time that I was sitting at home alone with the curtains closed, and the TV started changing channels on it's own, I got a bit freaked out. After searching the house for whoever was screwing with me, I eventually figured out it was the CFLs changing the channels and volume.
that's plain bullshit you just made up, OR your remote is busted. buy another one.
hindus use milk (you know, from cows). maybe cow dung is holy to them too. not sure, but let's assume it is.
that'd be fun. send zombie darl to bangalore, where he'd be received by a bunch of EDS helpdesk operators armed with super soakers loaded with milk and cow dung throwing slingshots.
is not the "man made" factor that makes them unstable.
plutonium is man made and is a helluva lot stabler than heavier atoms. thing is, at those high atomic numbers, it takes a whole lot of neutrons on the nucleus to make the atom stable, more neutrons than the colision of two lighter atoms provide. the result is a heavy element that lacks the neccessary neutrons to be stable. putting extra neutrons there is the tricky part.
the politicians just have to wait. anonymous does it "for the lulz". as soon as they get their fix, the kids will get bored and go back to the chans and fap to pictures of dead women or diseased breasts.
amarok 2.x is simply godamn awfull. makes even iTunes look good.
the interface is confusing, can't get rid of that ridiculous area in the middle, the playlist area is overcrowded, several functionalities were lost...
I ended up pinning apt-get on my debian box to grab 1.4.x from debian stable then locked the stuff to prevent upgrades to 2.x. I'll keep that way untill someone shows me an alternative media player for linux that's not an iTunes ripoff, is not amarok 2.x and have all the great functionalities of amarok 1.4 (like the flexibility in managing the copy/move songs to the library, flexible configuration of portable media players, etc.) with a nice interface.
I'm also getting pissed at dolphin either. the old konqueror browser|file manager was pretty decent. dolphin OTOH plain sucks, from the way it displays stuff in detailed view, the impossibility of reordering the columns, how the tree view pane keeps moving the directory tree left and right by itself. again, any sugestions of a replacement that looks/feels more like the old konqueror will welcome.
just one description of my desktop environment: it's a windowmaker (remember that ?) GUI with KDE4 apps thrown in, since the openstep stuff is even more awfull than gnome's ones.
i still want (and for FSMs sake, WILL!!!) keep windowmaker. but i'm willing to give a try to other stuff to replace the kde things i use most (music player/jukebox, file manager, instant messaging, etc). even gnome stuff if they fix that horrible GTK file chooser.
by your definition of "free", cotton farmers in the south of US would still be allowed to keep slaves too.
"freedom" is a relative term, it depends on your point of view.
in microsoft's POV, "free market" probably means "free to continue anti-competitive behavior". in opera and mozilla's POV, it certainly means "free to make deals with OEMs without we or the OEMs suffering sanctions from MS".
in the latter, regulation and enforcement is necessary for their freedom, just like regulation and enforcement was necessary to give the slaves their freedom.
The US is not a large importer of sugar because we grow enough to export
check yor facts. the US is _not_ an exporter of proccessed sugar. not of the sugarcane variety, not of the beet variety
There is no tariff on sugar from Costa Rica for the first 19,225 metric tons
which means theres still a tariff. where's the fabled "free market", then ?
Corn syrup is cheaper than cane sugar for us to produce.
because of high levels of subsidy from the federal government. take those away and imported sugar from brasil, thailand, etc. becomes cheaper, even factoring transport costs.
USA is the hypocritical of all countries when the subject is international trade. when in benefits the US, lets all "free trade", but when it steps on a few lobbists toes, it's heavy tariffs here, restrictions there, sanctions somewhere else.
no wonder developing nations are more and more trading between themselves than with US.
[citation needed] ? here it is (in portuguese). to sum it up, china is now brasils larget comercial partner. all asian nations togheter now respond for 30% of our exports. in my 35 years of life i saw the importance of the US as a trade partner drop from more than 40% of our comerce to less than 12%. some of this change can be attributed to the growth of asian nations, but some of them you can put on american atitude too.
oh, and sorry for the harshness of this post. mod me as a troll, but sometimes things have to be said.
hint: its the most used browser version not the most used browser family.
go back to TFA. below the graphic, there are 2 drop down boxes where you can chose diferent stats. browser family, browser version, OS, etc. and break it down by region down to country level.
good news is, IE family is in a downward trend, while firefox and chrome are going up. it wont be long (a year, maybe ?) for the sum of all IE version to fall below 50%.
seriously, all those "scientific tests prove that our product will do XYZ better" adverts in my view are extremely damaging to the perception public have of science.
yes, so by your reasoning, the egyptian hieroglyphs were just an elabore prank on future generations right ? and it remained like that untill the roseta stone was found.
there was a single bi-lingual stone tablet left in the world with the key to understand those symbols, and it remained lost for centuries.
unfortunately, a "rosetta" document for the voynich manuscript, if it was ever written, may never be found.
there are known cases of cyphers being broken by someone who does not speak the language in with the original message was written. some classical cypers can be decoded using frequency tables for the language. this requires the breaker to know (or guess) the original language, but it can be done.
now, do you really think _ALL_ workers of bletchley park were fluent in german ?
because here in brasil we don't have voting districts, so in state and federal elections, a candidate from santos (a sea-side city in sao paulo state, some 80 km east of the state capital) can receive votes from people in ribeirão preto (a city 400 km west of the capital). this makes the candidate lists for federal and state deputies something in the thousands.
our voting system uses numbers. each party is assigned a number (ex. PP=11, PDT=12, PT=13, etc.) and every candidate have a number prefixed with the party number (we don't have "independant" candidates. to run for anything you need to join a party). so when you go to the voting booth, you just type the candidate numbers, one candidate per screen. usually the screen order is:
- president - governor - senator (one screen when only one seat is in dispute, 2 screens otherwise) - federal deputy - state deputy
federal and state elections are held every four years and always coincide. municipal elections are held separatelly in between federal/state elections. the screen order is usually:
- mayor - municipal legislator (vereador in portuguese).
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they're not exactly stobe lights.
fluorescents don't emit visible light on their own, only UV light.
what emits the with light is the product that lines the interior of the bulb. remove that and leave the glass clean and you get a black light. basically, that stuff is a reactive material that glows when exposed to UV light.
thing is, it keeps glowing for some time after the UV light is cut. some of my CFLs keep an eerie green glow for almost a minute after I turn them off. this alone would prevent the stobo effect. since the interval when it's not emiting UV light is far too short, you don't get strobing.
I've did some work on lathes on colege workshop some years ago, and all the lights there were regular fluorescent tubes. had no problem with strobing.
The problem was that the IR the CFLs would produce would cause so much noise that remote controls frequently didn't work, and even worse, sometimes the bulbs would issue commands on their own. The first time that I was sitting at home alone with the curtains closed, and the TV started changing channels on it's own, I got a bit freaked out. After searching the house for whoever was screwing with me, I eventually figured out it was the CFLs changing the channels and volume.
that's plain bullshit you just made up, OR your remote is busted. buy another one.
the only question we should be asking is: "where does the line start ???"
seriously, i'll cut my left ball out fi i don't get this game on day ONE!
hindus use milk (you know, from cows). maybe cow dung is holy to them too. not sure, but let's assume it is.
that'd be fun. send zombie darl to bangalore, where he'd be received by a bunch of EDS helpdesk operators armed with super soakers loaded with milk and cow dung throwing slingshots.
i'd pay a pretty penny to watch on pay-per-view.
is not the "man made" factor that makes them unstable.
plutonium is man made and is a helluva lot stabler than heavier atoms. thing is, at those high atomic numbers, it takes a whole lot of neutrons on the nucleus to make the atom stable, more neutrons than the colision of two lighter atoms provide. the result is a heavy element that lacks the neccessary neutrons to be stable. putting extra neutrons there is the tricky part.
works great. +1 internets for you sir.
mods, do your job. thanks.
IANAL and IANAAC (american citizen), so i'm asking this to whoever is any...
can't shareholder sue microsoft's chief officers/board of directors for lost profits ?
I mean, 2 bil a year is money they could be paying as dividends, right ?
can someone clarify this to me ? thanks;
the politicians just have to wait. anonymous does it "for the lulz". as soon as they get their fix, the kids will get bored and go back to the chans and fap to pictures of dead women or diseased breasts.
I agree with what you said about amarok.
amarok 2.x is simply godamn awfull. makes even iTunes look good.
the interface is confusing, can't get rid of that ridiculous area in the middle, the playlist area is overcrowded, several functionalities were lost...
I ended up pinning apt-get on my debian box to grab 1.4.x from debian stable then locked the stuff to prevent upgrades to 2.x. I'll keep that way untill someone shows me an alternative media player for linux that's not an iTunes ripoff, is not amarok 2.x and have all the great functionalities of amarok 1.4 (like the flexibility in managing the copy/move songs to the library, flexible configuration of portable media players, etc.) with a nice interface.
I'm also getting pissed at dolphin either. the old konqueror browser|file manager was pretty decent. dolphin OTOH plain sucks, from the way it displays stuff in detailed view, the impossibility of reordering the columns, how the tree view pane keeps moving the directory tree left and right by itself. again, any sugestions of a replacement that looks/feels more like the old konqueror will welcome.
just one description of my desktop environment: it's a windowmaker (remember that ?) GUI with KDE4 apps thrown in, since the openstep stuff is even more awfull than gnome's ones.
i still want (and for FSMs sake, WILL!!!) keep windowmaker. but i'm willing to give a try to other stuff to replace the kde things i use most (music player/jukebox, file manager, instant messaging, etc). even gnome stuff if they fix that horrible GTK file chooser.
so, any sugestions ? please ? guys ?
and recently, youtube is giving users of chrome and safari the option to stream h.264 directly to the browser if you sig nfor their HTML5 beta.
varies with the line.
base cost is the the coderss hourly wage. if a coder earning $50/hour codes 10 lines in an hour, cost is $5/line.
now, for difficult lines, if he takes half an hour to finish the line, the cost for that one is $25.
of course, theres more people involved in the process than just one coder.
but the basics are the same.
cost per line = (sum of all employees wages * time spent to code X lines ) / number of lines writen
this will give you an average for the whole project.
by your definition of "free", cotton farmers in the south of US would still be allowed to keep slaves too.
"freedom" is a relative term, it depends on your point of view.
in microsoft's POV, "free market" probably means "free to continue anti-competitive behavior". in opera and mozilla's POV, it certainly means "free to make deals with OEMs without we or the OEMs suffering sanctions from MS".
in the latter, regulation and enforcement is necessary for their freedom, just like regulation and enforcement was necessary to give the slaves their freedom.
The US is not a large importer of sugar because we grow enough to export
check yor facts. the US is _not_ an exporter of proccessed sugar. not of the sugarcane variety, not of the beet variety
There is no tariff on sugar from Costa Rica for the first 19,225 metric tons
which means theres still a tariff. where's the fabled "free market", then ?
Corn syrup is cheaper than cane sugar for us to produce.
because of high levels of subsidy from the federal government. take those away and imported sugar from brasil, thailand, etc. becomes cheaper, even factoring transport costs.
USA is the hypocritical of all countries when the subject is international trade. when in benefits the US, lets all "free trade", but when it steps on a few lobbists toes, it's heavy tariffs here, restrictions there, sanctions somewhere else.
no wonder developing nations are more and more trading between themselves than with US.
[citation needed] ? here it is (in portuguese). to sum it up, china is now brasils larget comercial partner. all asian nations togheter now respond for 30% of our exports. in my 35 years of life i saw the importance of the US as a trade partner drop from more than 40% of our comerce to less than 12%. some of this change can be attributed to the growth of asian nations, but some of them you can put on american atitude too.
oh, and sorry for the harshness of this post. mod me as a troll, but sometimes things have to be said.
no, but MS paint does.
grab a screenshot, paste it on Paint, crop the image then select+copy it again.
you don't need a multi-gigabyte suite to do that.
just do like HP did with the notebook i use at work
Fn key + scroll lock = num lock
Fn key + pause = break
Fn key + insert = prt scr
Fn key + delete = sys rq
or are you gonna tell me lenovos dont have the "fn" key ?
heck, even 5 yr old iBooks have Fn keys...
I think this technology was developed to scan rare books. the kind you cant destroy you know ?
hint: its the most used browser version not the most used browser family.
go back to TFA. below the graphic, there are 2 drop down boxes where you can chose diferent stats. browser family, browser version, OS, etc. and break it down by region down to country level.
good news is, IE family is in a downward trend, while firefox and chrome are going up. it wont be long (a year, maybe ?) for the sum of all IE version to fall below 50%.
I blame marketing/publicity.
seriously, all those "scientific tests prove that our product will do XYZ better" adverts in my view are extremely damaging to the perception public have of science.
could be worse. she could have ziped the doc that contains the jpg...
yes, so by your reasoning, the egyptian hieroglyphs were just an elabore prank on future generations right ? and it remained like that untill the roseta stone was found.
there was a single bi-lingual stone tablet left in the world with the key to understand those symbols, and it remained lost for centuries.
unfortunately, a "rosetta" document for the voynich manuscript, if it was ever written, may never be found.
there are known cases of cyphers being broken by someone who does not speak the language in with the original message was written. some classical cypers can be decoded using frequency tables for the language. this requires the breaker to know (or guess) the original language, but it can be done.
now, do you really think _ALL_ workers of bletchley park were fluent in german ?
then i want to be around when you find out about the abuses practiced by opus dei (a chatolic sect wholly approved by pope ratzinger)
that flight crew managed to restart the engines and made a powered landing in jakarta.
for a gliding landing all the way through, check air canada flight 143, AKA, gimli glider
because here in brasil we don't have voting districts, so in state and federal elections, a candidate from santos (a sea-side city in sao paulo state, some 80 km east of the state capital) can receive votes from people in ribeirão preto (a city 400 km west of the capital). this makes the candidate lists for federal and state deputies something in the thousands.
our voting system uses numbers. each party is assigned a number (ex. PP=11, PDT=12, PT=13, etc.) and every candidate have a number prefixed with the party number (we don't have "independant" candidates. to run for anything you need to join a party). so when you go to the voting booth, you just type the candidate numbers, one candidate per screen. usually the screen order is:
- president
- governor
- senator (one screen when only one seat is in dispute, 2 screens otherwise)
- federal deputy
- state deputy
federal and state elections are held every four years and always coincide. municipal elections are held separatelly in between federal/state elections. the screen order is usually:
- mayor
- municipal legislator (vereador in portuguese).
no, they don't.
except that if you read the arcticles, you'll see that it was more an auditing proccess done by several diferent professionals than an actual contest.