I was always taught to use olive oil as a flavoring on pastas, salads, bread, etc. but never for actual hot-oil-cooking.
Then you weren't taught very well as olive oil is routinely used for for sauteing. A mixture of olive oil and butter (both low temperature oils) is commonly used in classical French cuisine.
With certain exceptions if you cook with olive oil, you don't want EVOO, which smokes at a lower temperature.
French cooking is often done with clarified butter, which has the most burnable parts removed as part of the clarification process (likewise with Indian ghee). Another option is "browned butter", where the burnables (milk solids) are raised to a high enough temperature to toast them while not actually turning them into charcoal.
Technically, of course even clarified butter is "burnable". But it can stand higher temperatures.
Quite likely, at 9 gs, you could deep-fry even at straight butter temperatures. What I was concerned about (based on the sensationalist headlines) was whether or not the methane would give the potatoes an "off" taste.
But perhaps it would pair well with that Old Janx Spirit.
But lo, in the late 1980s, UNIX succumbed to the sins of venality, demanding too much money from the faithful and so, in 1991 Linus Torvalds nailed his famous source code release to the cathedral door and kicked off the Reformation.
It was Andrew Tanenbaum who showed the initiative to create a UNIX compatible royalty free OS for the purpose of teaching, Torvalds Linux is surely a derivative of that initiative if not a direct derivative of the Minix book which inspired him. Torvalds deserves a lot of credit for Linux but i think Tanenbaum deserves to have the credit for enabling so many people to learn about UNIX like systems without paying absurd amounts to AT&T.
Allowing for some confusion here, Unix was "free" to universities, but that obviously meant that it was less accessible to those without a suitable academic connection.
Minix likewise wasn't totally free, as Torvalds specifically indicated that the restrictions on Minix were the reason that he developed Linux. Had Minix been more open to him, he would have gone with it.
Just post a sign that says "No Trespassing" and be done with it.
Trespass is not genrally a criminal offense in the UK. I believe that there is an offense of "mass trespass" and there are bylaws that may make trespass a criminal offense in specific places (for example, military bases and railway lines).
Or perhaps I just heard a "whooshing" sound?
Just be careful around the 100-Acre Wood. Old "Trespassers Will" is sensitive about such things. He may set Tigger on you.
It's true, however, that the UK precepts that permit people to tramp across other people's property are completely alien to the hyper-possessive US concepts on such matters.
I suspect this is needed to allow the military to detain suspected offenders. Often there's a jurisdictional issue here. You don't want to give the civilian police unrestricted access to a secure military facility, and a soldier is quite capable of restraining and bringing in a trespasser.
"restraining and bringing in" is the literal definition of "arrest".
Actually, most soldiers are trained with intent to kill and destroy, or at best herd using threat of deadly force. You need MPs if you want to simply and safely arrest un-cooperative people. They have not only the training, but the necessary equipment to do so.
Santa is not modeled after Saint Nicholas. Pretty much the only thing that he inherited is the name - but the figure itself, and the associated mythos, are straight from the pre-Christian European pagan traditions (Wild Hunt, Yule Goat etc).
No self-respecting Christian saint would ride around the sky in a sleigh drawn by reindeer. The traditional means of transport in the circumstances calling such things are angels.
Have you read Ezekial's account of "wheels within wheels" or some of the other descriptions of angels?
A sled pulled by flying reindeer is pretty pedestrian compared to some of them.
And a lot less likely to confuse or frighten little children.
Anyway, the other "old man delivering presents" was Odin.
Textbooks that are beat up still are usuable, what about an iPad?
Doesn't matter. The fad amongst e-textbooks is that they evaporate at the end of the term.
I'm glad I'm not in college these days. I still have most of my dead tree textbooks. Not just the job-related ones either. I find it entertaining to peruse them occasionally.
As far as I can tell, the quality of goods and services across the board has gone down.
Not across the board, no.
It's hard to find even a cheap stereo that's as crappy-sounding as mid-line stuff from pre-IC times. Electronics quality is at an all-time high, with only minor exceptions like cheap capacitors. Don't even bother thinking about anything computer-related compared to pre-PC days in terms of price/performance/quality.
A lot of stuff that's put together by automated processes is sturdier, less expensive (and often lighter) than older junk.
And automobiles are pretty durable. No more points-and-plugs every couple thousand miles, First "tune up" is at 100K miles. If what I've heard is correct, even tires are longer-lasting.
But these are all technology-related blips. Some of which are dependent on Moore's Law continuing to scale.
Applying factory methods to farming means that a single sloppy producer can poison half a continent at a time. "Self-service" is rampant. And while sometimes serve-yourself is more convenient, it's also a way of making you an unpaid part-time employee of whoever's selling to you instead being one of the elites who gets waited on.
While paid flunkies are often inconvenient, when not actually downright annoying, they are expected to be at least a little more competent at whatever they do than someone who only does it briefly and occasionally to save a buck.
Which brings us back around to the problem with "self-serve" news reporting.
Think about it...forcing children to pledge allegiance to a government...
Actually, first and foremost, we force them to pledge allegiance to a piece of cloth. A form of political idolatry that even our British counterparts never demanded. In fact, if some in Congress ever got their way, any desecration of this Holy symbol would earn the same kind of response you'd get if you urinated on a Quran in Afghanistan.
Then, if the original pledge wasn't enough, the McCarthy-era politicians added that verbal speed-bump "Under God" to the litany in defiance of the Godless Commies of the Soviet Union - and never mind also of the concept that the USA would not support a State Religion.
Today's myths and legends and fairy tales and other cultural keystones were someone's creative "property," once, and it would be bizarre if one were, say, prevented from reinterpreting King Arthur, Robin Hood, Beowulf, Shakespeare, the Bible, the Iliad, etc. etc.
Android would make for a decent lightweight platform, but one of the big advantages of the desktop are workflows. Pop a screenshot of one program, switch to Word to paste it, grab some results from Excel, fetch a picture from DropBox, crop it in Photoshop, then make a PDF and attach it, as well as another picture to an E-mail. This is doable on iOS and Android, but the workflow switching is a lot harder than on a multitasking, multi-window OS like Windows, OS X, Linux, AIX, *BSD, etc.
What would be interesting is a computer that can function similar to the Motorola Atrix -- have different CPUs and operating systems that function at the same time. This way, I could use the Android side for Web browsing (since it is a lot harder to compromise a Web browser running under ARM in its own space and running with few to no extensions), then flip to the Windows side for gaming or some attempts at actual work.
Posting AC -- I fear SuperKendall's replies.
Android has actually been available for Windows before there were commercial Android devices - in the form of the developer kit emulator. So Android within Windows isn't such a stretch.
As for OLE-style tricks, one of the advantages of Android over the earlier Java mobile platforms for me was, in fact the way stuff could hand off. I hated losing the "search everywhere" abilities of PalmOS when I went to Windows Mobile. However, it's true that there's nothing actually like full OLE in Android - it's geared towards handing over simple messages or data services, not entities that are semi-freestanding. It has been enough of a strain just getting a decent set of cut-and-paste gestures for Android.
For browser isolation, the long-recommended solution for that has been to simply run a browser in a VM. Extra CPUs and OS's are more than is required. Preferably using a snapshot image so that changes don't extend past the current VM session.
We are demonstrably not protected, as they have demonstrated that they can and do spy on American Citizens without probable cause.
It would be more correct to say they must not be permitted to do so.
If we are not secure in our papers (correspondence, communications) we lose our right to anonymously assemble freely. And once that's gone, the Second Amendment is going to be cold comfort.
It's an optimization problem. If recruiting elderly women and children was as easy as recruiting in their usual demographics, you'd be perfectly right. But it's not or they would already do it. So the terrorists will have to balance the cost of recruiting outside of their usual demographics with the increased probability of success. Besides, inciting terrorists to recruit outside of their target demographics would give us more opportunities to plant spies and double agents among them.
They do it and they have done it. Female suicide bombers are not unknown in Iraq.
And the more disaffected people there are, the bigger the recruiting pool becomes. By spying on US Citizens, the NSA is potentially - if not already - expanding that pool to include a vast number of people who don't meet the tradtional stereotype.
A simple phase-locked loop circuit is generally adequate to discriminate between tone/no-tone and you can buy them for pennies.
Once you have that done, tie your input data line to the PLL output and measure the widths of the tone pulses. A dash is going to average about 3 times as long as a dot, the inter-tone spaces are going to be about 1 dot-width with inter-character spacing being 1 dash-length. Actual dot and dash timing can be expected to vary from about 5WPM to 100WPM (IIRC), and anything faster than that is likely a machine.
CWG is correct in the main. Even before the Internet, typical Morse exchanges tended to consist of call sign, location, antenna type and local weather.
CW is mostly about just being able to contact other people briefly just to say you did it. And for beacons, such as the recent space experiments. For more interesting content, there's voice, RTTY and TV.
The Linux OS has a large suite of amateur radio programs, including decoders, loggers and equipment controllers. I think there are even special ham distros.
It's really unreasonable criteria to focus on initial cost. What truly matters is full life-cycle cost.
It's the American Way to focus only on the initial cost (after rebate, even though you pay your tax on the before-rebate price and have to fight to get the rebate).
Just like we value companies on their quarterly profits.
Incandescent technology is far superior to LEDs for electrothermal conversion efficiency. LEDs waste too much energy as visible light.
You laugh, but that excess heat was the basis for the EZ-Bake oven from my childhood. Those ovens actually baked things. Think of the children! How are tomorrows children going to learn how to bake?
Only terrorists bake things. Real Americans eat Twinkies and McDonald's Apple Pies[TM].
Terrorists want EZ-Bake ovens so that they can convert them into weapons of mass destruction so they can take away our Freedoms. Just like anything that involves chemicals or anything sharper than a rubber ball.
At home the light switches have a dim blue light to be visible in the dark. It seems to be rigged in series with the circuit, so it lights up only when a lightbulb is in the socket. If fluorescent bulbs are installed, they (the bulbs!) will flicker all night long. Also the fluorescent bulbs installed in the bathroom die out very early from the moist. LEDs may be a good solution, but I've yet to find ones that give out enough red tones.
A lot of LEDs are blueish, but I have some that are about as pure a while as you can ask for. They're actually better than the yellowish hue of incandescents. Closer to sun light than candle light.
The nightlight thing is a bigger problem. Many circuits are designed assuming specific resistance and/or reactance from their loads. You'd really need a replacement switch that was tuned for the higher "off" resistance on a CFL and the lower power draw on CFLs or LEDs, just as the current fixtures are tuned for the characteristics of incandescents.
its safe to dim a led just get one that's made for a dimmer.
I have a set. They're great, although it was weird not seeing them go yellow as the light got dimmer like I'm used to.
They use 1/4 the power of the bulbs they replaced, can be expected to last much longer, and the only real complaint I have is that the extrnal dimmer circuitry wasn't designed to smooth out power fluctuations (since filaments have thermal inertia that LEDs don't). So they flicker more often.
Rich idiots in privileged settings come up with this crap and force it down the throats of the rest of us,
Nothing like a bit of ad hominem in the morning. Yeah, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the 1:4 efficiency difference and is a conspiracy by rich people to cram "crap" down the throats of us "common", good, hard-workin' innocent folk.
The whole reason this has been legislated is that people refuse to buy compact fluorescent bulbs because they're stubborn and hate change. So they say "they give me headaches" and "they're not as bright" and so on. Even "they cost too much", after you've gone blue in the face showing them the VERY basic math that a 3rd grader could do, showing they pay themselves back within a year or two, AND practically give them away with rebates.
I never underestimate stubborn, but I think the real problem isn't stubborn, it's myopia.
People tend to think the "cost" of something is what they pay at the cash register.
Not a light bulb. It's easy to see when it's not working, and usually super easy to replace.
You have obviously never had to try and remove a broken bulb by futzing around in the socket with pliers to extract the pieces of bulb and socket and hoping that the circuit breakers really DID remove power from that circuit.
This may come as a shock, but sometimes I don't want to kill people. Just beat some sense into them.
First, you do not have the right to "beat some sense into me". (legally, ethically, or morally)
Second, if you hit me, you can do some real damage, even with just one punch.
So yea, if you walk up to me and punch me in the face, I'm going to assume my life is in danger. And yes, that means that if I'm still breathing, I'm going to shoot you. (and I have the legal right to do that, in self-defense)
I don't just walk up to people and casually decide to punch them.
On the other hand if they are behaving like aggressive idiots...
A tablet is capable of rendering a desktop version of a page reasnoably. As for a phone, not many people are going to be surfing the web on a phone. Those that are are usually looking to do one or two things (ie a google search, buy movie tickets, pay a bill, get directions, etc). Most sites where users want to do a specific feature on a phone already have mobile version or a phone app available.
Most people are not going to be reading a church website, a city or state website, trying to run Galaxy Zoo, or likewise on their cell phones, so why go through all the trouble to rewrite a site?
Now, there are a handful of people I know whom a cell phone is their only data-connection at home. Many of those will either go to a friend's house, library or work or the couple of times that they need a desktop for something (such as filling for unemployment or job searching or doing their taxes). It could be argued that maybe the unemployment office and welfare pages might benefit from mobile versions of their sites, but as those are government agencies, I don't expect to see that any time soon.
Truthfully, the reason that most places don't have a mobile site is that they don't need it. It is as simple as that.
You'd be surprised at what people end up needing to read at a mobile location. And city/state government services are actually pretty high on that list. So, in fact, is just about anything that has a "place of business" that people need to get to, such as restaurants, stores, and so forth. You get hours, locations, specials and other information without having to go home or to the library and check in on a desktop computer. And, while hopefully, you can find your home without a mobile, finding a nearby library - and its internet capabilities and hours - is also something a mobile site is good for.
Because mobile websites are designed to have a reduced set of features. Why would a company spend thousands or millions to produce a mobile website that functioned EXACTLY like the full featured version? They wouldn't; they would just show you the full featured version on the mobile phone (as many sites already do). The problem here is that companys build a shitty ass mobile site and then force you to use it when they detect you're surfing from a mobile device.
If you want a full featured web experience on a mobile platform, get the Dolphin browser and set it to "desktop" mode.
Mobile devices
A) Have smaller screen sizes. A lot of "mobile" apps were developed for the full-sized iPad. I have one device that's 320x240.
B) Inflict unwanted multi-media fripperies that not only suck heavier on the less-powerful computing resources of the mobile, but also demand more bandwidth that can be regularly expected, especially in fringe areas.
C) Can get really twerked off by stuff that's merely a screaming nuisance on desktops, such as the vertical bouncing as banners pop in and out, the repeated bounce back to the top on too-frequent refreshes and the pages that refuse to scroll at all. Or be resizeable to fit optimal viewing on the device.
People (and the companies they run) make choices in the interest of self preservation and self-interest.
Self-interest, yes. Self preservation? Only if disaster is staring them right straight in the face. A short-term quick buck will win out every time.
When you're dealing with massive objects, you don't try and stop them by waiting until they're 3 feet away and coming at full speed. Or by hoping that they're imaginary because admitting you were wrong would be too embarrassing. An avalanche doesn't care who's right or wrong or what political party they vote for.
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Then you weren't taught very well as olive oil is routinely used for for sauteing. A mixture of olive oil and butter (both low temperature oils) is commonly used in classical French cuisine.
With certain exceptions if you cook with olive oil, you don't want EVOO, which smokes at a lower temperature.
French cooking is often done with clarified butter, which has the most burnable parts removed as part of the clarification process (likewise with Indian ghee). Another option is "browned butter", where the burnables (milk solids) are raised to a high enough temperature to toast them while not actually turning them into charcoal.
Technically, of course even clarified butter is "burnable". But it can stand higher temperatures.
Quite likely, at 9 gs, you could deep-fry even at straight butter temperatures. What I was concerned about (based on the sensationalist headlines) was whether or not the methane would give the potatoes an "off" taste.
But perhaps it would pair well with that Old Janx Spirit.
Emacs?
vi. We all know that "vi" is just short for "vile".
But lo, in the late 1980s, UNIX succumbed to the sins of venality, demanding too much money from the faithful and so, in 1991 Linus Torvalds nailed his famous source code release to the cathedral door and kicked off the Reformation.
It was Andrew Tanenbaum who showed the initiative to create a UNIX compatible royalty free OS for the purpose of teaching, Torvalds Linux is surely a derivative of that initiative if not a direct derivative of the Minix book which inspired him. Torvalds deserves a lot of credit for Linux but i think Tanenbaum deserves to have the credit for enabling so many people to learn about UNIX like systems without paying absurd amounts to AT&T.
Allowing for some confusion here, Unix was "free" to universities, but that obviously meant that it was less accessible to those without a suitable academic connection.
Minix likewise wasn't totally free, as Torvalds specifically indicated that the restrictions on Minix were the reason that he developed Linux. Had Minix been more open to him, he would have gone with it.
Trespass is not genrally a criminal offense in the UK. I believe that there is an offense of "mass trespass" and there are bylaws that may make trespass a criminal offense in specific places (for example, military bases and railway lines).
Or perhaps I just heard a "whooshing" sound?
Just be careful around the 100-Acre Wood. Old "Trespassers Will" is sensitive about such things. He may set Tigger on you.
It's true, however, that the UK precepts that permit people to tramp across other people's property are completely alien to the hyper-possessive US concepts on such matters.
People who have actually been to Ukraine don't call it the Ukraine...
Well, it's kind of hard to when your language doesn't include a definite article.
I suspect this is needed to allow the military to detain suspected offenders. Often there's a jurisdictional issue here. You don't want to give the civilian police unrestricted access to a secure military facility, and a soldier is quite capable of restraining and bringing in a trespasser.
"restraining and bringing in" is the literal definition of "arrest".
Actually, most soldiers are trained with intent to kill and destroy, or at best herd using threat of deadly force. You need MPs if you want to simply and safely arrest un-cooperative people. They have not only the training, but the necessary equipment to do so.
Santa is not modeled after Saint Nicholas. Pretty much the only thing that he inherited is the name - but the figure itself, and the associated mythos, are straight from the pre-Christian European pagan traditions (Wild Hunt, Yule Goat etc).
No self-respecting Christian saint would ride around the sky in a sleigh drawn by reindeer. The traditional means of transport in the circumstances calling such things are angels.
Have you read Ezekial's account of "wheels within wheels" or some of the other descriptions of angels?
A sled pulled by flying reindeer is pretty pedestrian compared to some of them.
And a lot less likely to confuse or frighten little children.
Anyway, the other "old man delivering presents" was Odin.
Textbooks that are beat up still are usuable, what about an iPad?
Doesn't matter. The fad amongst e-textbooks is that they evaporate at the end of the term.
I'm glad I'm not in college these days. I still have most of my dead tree textbooks. Not just the job-related ones either. I find it entertaining to peruse them occasionally.
As far as I can tell, the quality of goods and services across the board has gone down.
Not across the board, no.
It's hard to find even a cheap stereo that's as crappy-sounding as mid-line stuff from pre-IC times. Electronics quality is at an all-time high, with only minor exceptions like cheap capacitors. Don't even bother thinking about anything computer-related compared to pre-PC days in terms of price/performance/quality.
A lot of stuff that's put together by automated processes is sturdier, less expensive (and often lighter) than older junk.
And automobiles are pretty durable. No more points-and-plugs every couple thousand miles, First "tune up" is at 100K miles. If what I've heard is correct, even tires are longer-lasting.
But these are all technology-related blips. Some of which are dependent on Moore's Law continuing to scale.
Applying factory methods to farming means that a single sloppy producer can poison half a continent at a time. "Self-service" is rampant. And while sometimes serve-yourself is more convenient, it's also a way of making you an unpaid part-time employee of whoever's selling to you instead being one of the elites who gets waited on.
While paid flunkies are often inconvenient, when not actually downright annoying, they are expected to be at least a little more competent at whatever they do than someone who only does it briefly and occasionally to save a buck.
Which brings us back around to the problem with "self-serve" news reporting.
Think about it...forcing children to pledge allegiance to a government...
Actually, first and foremost, we force them to pledge allegiance to a piece of cloth. A form of political idolatry that even our British counterparts never demanded. In fact, if some in Congress ever got their way, any desecration of this Holy symbol would earn the same kind of response you'd get if you urinated on a Quran in Afghanistan.
Then, if the original pledge wasn't enough, the McCarthy-era politicians added that verbal speed-bump "Under God" to the litany in defiance of the Godless Commies of the Soviet Union - and never mind also of the concept that the USA would not support a State Religion.
Today's myths and legends and fairy tales and other cultural keystones were someone's creative "property," once, and it would be bizarre if one were, say, prevented from reinterpreting King Arthur, Robin Hood, Beowulf, Shakespeare, the Bible, the Iliad, etc. etc.
Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs? Sleeping Beauty?
Android would make for a decent lightweight platform, but one of the big advantages of the desktop are workflows. Pop a screenshot of one program, switch to Word to paste it, grab some results from Excel, fetch a picture from DropBox, crop it in Photoshop, then make a PDF and attach it, as well as another picture to an E-mail. This is doable on iOS and Android, but the workflow switching is a lot harder than on a multitasking, multi-window OS like Windows, OS X, Linux, AIX, *BSD, etc.
What would be interesting is a computer that can function similar to the Motorola Atrix -- have different CPUs and operating systems that function at the same time. This way, I could use the Android side for Web browsing (since it is a lot harder to compromise a Web browser running under ARM in its own space and running with few to no extensions), then flip to the Windows side for gaming or some attempts at actual work.
Posting AC -- I fear SuperKendall's replies.
Android has actually been available for Windows before there were commercial Android devices - in the form of the developer kit emulator. So Android within Windows isn't such a stretch.
As for OLE-style tricks, one of the advantages of Android over the earlier Java mobile platforms for me was, in fact the way stuff could hand off. I hated losing the "search everywhere" abilities of PalmOS when I went to Windows Mobile. However, it's true that there's nothing actually like full OLE in Android - it's geared towards handing over simple messages or data services, not entities that are semi-freestanding. It has been enough of a strain just getting a decent set of cut-and-paste gestures for Android.
For browser isolation, the long-recommended solution for that has been to simply run a browser in a VM. Extra CPUs and OS's are more than is required. Preferably using a snapshot image so that changes don't extend past the current VM session.
We are demonstrably not protected, as they have demonstrated that they can and do spy on American Citizens without probable cause.
It would be more correct to say they must not be permitted to do so.
If we are not secure in our papers (correspondence, communications) we lose our right to anonymously assemble freely. And once that's gone, the Second Amendment is going to be cold comfort.
It's an optimization problem. If recruiting elderly women and children was as easy as recruiting in their usual demographics, you'd be perfectly right. But it's not or they would already do it. So the terrorists will have to balance the cost of recruiting outside of their usual demographics with the increased probability of success. Besides, inciting terrorists to recruit outside of their target demographics would give us more opportunities to plant spies and double agents among them.
They do it and they have done it. Female suicide bombers are not unknown in Iraq.
And the more disaffected people there are, the bigger the recruiting pool becomes. By spying on US Citizens, the NSA is potentially - if not already - expanding that pool to include a vast number of people who don't meet the tradtional stereotype.
It's really kind of overkill to do all that.
A simple phase-locked loop circuit is generally adequate to discriminate between tone/no-tone and you can buy them for pennies.
Once you have that done, tie your input data line to the PLL output and measure the widths of the tone pulses. A dash is going to average about 3 times as long as a dot, the inter-tone spaces are going to be about 1 dot-width with inter-character spacing being 1 dash-length. Actual dot and dash timing can be expected to vary from about 5WPM to 100WPM (IIRC), and anything faster than that is likely a machine.
CWG is correct in the main. Even before the Internet, typical Morse exchanges tended to consist of call sign, location, antenna type and local weather.
CW is mostly about just being able to contact other people briefly just to say you did it. And for beacons, such as the recent space experiments. For more interesting content, there's voice, RTTY and TV.
The Linux OS has a large suite of amateur radio programs, including decoders, loggers and equipment controllers. I think there are even special ham distros.
It's really unreasonable criteria to focus on initial cost. What truly matters is full life-cycle cost.
It's the American Way to focus only on the initial cost (after rebate, even though you pay your tax on the before-rebate price and have to fight to get the rebate).
Just like we value companies on their quarterly profits.
Incandescent technology is far superior to LEDs for electrothermal conversion efficiency. LEDs waste too much energy as visible light.
You laugh, but that excess heat was the basis for the EZ-Bake oven from my childhood. Those ovens actually baked things. Think of the children! How are tomorrows children going to learn how to bake?
Only terrorists bake things. Real Americans eat Twinkies and McDonald's Apple Pies[TM].
Terrorists want EZ-Bake ovens so that they can convert them into weapons of mass destruction so they can take away our Freedoms. Just like anything that involves chemicals or anything sharper than a rubber ball.
At home the light switches have a dim blue light to be visible in the dark. It seems to be rigged in series with the circuit, so it lights up only when a lightbulb is in the socket. If fluorescent bulbs are installed, they (the bulbs!) will flicker all night long. Also the fluorescent bulbs installed in the bathroom die out very early from the moist. LEDs may be a good solution, but I've yet to find ones that give out enough red tones.
A lot of LEDs are blueish, but I have some that are about as pure a while as you can ask for. They're actually better than the yellowish hue of incandescents. Closer to sun light than candle light.
The nightlight thing is a bigger problem. Many circuits are designed assuming specific resistance and/or reactance from their loads. You'd really need a replacement switch that was tuned for the higher "off" resistance on a CFL and the lower power draw on CFLs or LEDs, just as the current fixtures are tuned for the characteristics of incandescents.
its safe to dim a led just get one that's made for a dimmer.
I have a set. They're great, although it was weird not seeing them go yellow as the light got dimmer like I'm used to.
They use 1/4 the power of the bulbs they replaced, can be expected to last much longer, and the only real complaint I have is that the extrnal dimmer circuitry wasn't designed to smooth out power fluctuations (since filaments have thermal inertia that LEDs don't). So they flicker more often.
Rich idiots in privileged settings come up with this crap and force it down the throats of the rest of us,
Nothing like a bit of ad hominem in the morning. Yeah, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the 1:4 efficiency difference and is a conspiracy by rich people to cram "crap" down the throats of us "common", good, hard-workin' innocent folk.
The whole reason this has been legislated is that people refuse to buy compact fluorescent bulbs because they're stubborn and hate change. So they say "they give me headaches" and "they're not as bright" and so on. Even "they cost too much", after you've gone blue in the face showing them the VERY basic math that a 3rd grader could do, showing they pay themselves back within a year or two, AND practically give them away with rebates.
I never underestimate stubborn, but I think the real problem isn't stubborn, it's myopia.
People tend to think the "cost" of something is what they pay at the cash register.
Everything breaks. Everything is hard to fix.
Not a light bulb. It's easy to see when it's not working, and usually super easy to replace.
You have obviously never had to try and remove a broken bulb by futzing around in the socket with pliers to extract the pieces of bulb and socket and hoping that the circuit breakers really DID remove power from that circuit.
This may come as a shock, but sometimes I don't want to kill people. Just beat some sense into them.
First, you do not have the right to "beat some sense into me". (legally, ethically, or morally)
Second, if you hit me, you can do some real damage, even with just one punch.
So yea, if you walk up to me and punch me in the face, I'm going to assume my life is in danger. And yes, that means that if I'm still breathing, I'm going to shoot you. (and I have the legal right to do that, in self-defense)
I don't just walk up to people and casually decide to punch them.
On the other hand if they are behaving like aggressive idiots...
Thank you very much, Mr. Zimmerman!
A tablet is capable of rendering a desktop version of a page reasnoably. As for a phone, not many people are going to be surfing the web on a phone. Those that are are usually looking to do one or two things (ie a google search, buy movie tickets, pay a bill, get directions, etc). Most sites where users want to do a specific feature on a phone already have mobile version or a phone app available.
Most people are not going to be reading a church website, a city or state website, trying to run Galaxy Zoo, or likewise on their cell phones, so why go through all the trouble to rewrite a site?
Now, there are a handful of people I know whom a cell phone is their only data-connection at home. Many of those will either go to a friend's house, library or work or the couple of times that they need a desktop for something (such as filling for unemployment or job searching or doing their taxes). It could be argued that maybe the unemployment office and welfare pages might benefit from mobile versions of their sites, but as those are government agencies, I don't expect to see that any time soon.
Truthfully, the reason that most places don't have a mobile site is that they don't need it. It is as simple as that.
You'd be surprised at what people end up needing to read at a mobile location. And city/state government services are actually pretty high on that list. So, in fact, is just about anything that has a "place of business" that people need to get to, such as restaurants, stores, and so forth. You get hours, locations, specials and other information without having to go home or to the library and check in on a desktop computer. And, while hopefully, you can find your home without a mobile, finding a nearby library - and its internet capabilities and hours - is also something a mobile site is good for.
Because mobile websites are designed to have a reduced set of features. Why would a company spend thousands or millions to produce a mobile website that functioned EXACTLY like the full featured version? They wouldn't; they would just show you the full featured version on the mobile phone (as many sites already do). The problem here is that companys build a shitty ass mobile site and then force you to use it when they detect you're surfing from a mobile device.
If you want a full featured web experience on a mobile platform, get the Dolphin browser and set it to "desktop" mode.
Mobile devices
A) Have smaller screen sizes. A lot of "mobile" apps were developed for the full-sized iPad. I have one device that's 320x240.
B) Inflict unwanted multi-media fripperies that not only suck heavier on the less-powerful computing resources of the mobile, but also demand more bandwidth that can be regularly expected, especially in fringe areas.
C) Can get really twerked off by stuff that's merely a screaming nuisance on desktops, such as the vertical bouncing as banners pop in and out, the repeated bounce back to the top on too-frequent refreshes and the pages that refuse to scroll at all. Or be resizeable to fit optimal viewing on the device.
People (and the companies they run) make choices in the interest of self preservation and self-interest.
Self-interest, yes. Self preservation? Only if disaster is staring them right straight in the face. A short-term quick buck will win out every time.
When you're dealing with massive objects, you don't try and stop them by waiting until they're 3 feet away and coming at full speed. Or by hoping that they're imaginary because admitting you were wrong would be too embarrassing. An avalanche doesn't care who's right or wrong or what political party they vote for.