They pretty much outlawed the standard 60 watt and higher incandescent light bulb in the US, people can't as easily buy them. LED and CFL bulbs are being introduced to households through attrition as old bulbs die, not because people are excited for them. Some LEDs are damn close to 'the look' now though.
To counter your poor experience, I have roughly 30 LED bulbs of various ages up to 4 years, and several brands. Not a single one has failed yet. My experience with early CFLs was very short life and horrible startup effects, never liked them.
Fully enclosed fixtures will be hard on the internal electronics due to heat build up. Seems most complaints in forums for short LED life are for those recessed ceiling light fixtures.
Stick to the name brands, most of mine are the cheap non-dimmable philips. I liked the early CREEs with the frosted glass and visible heat sink, which is the oldest of the collection and still going 6 hours every day, but never tried their newer plastic versions.
That's like the phone company charging you rent if you rent a phone, and charging you rent if you plug your own phone in.
Maybe you are new here, but Verizon is the phone company.
The rental fee is for a verizon supplied router, usually 10/month. Unless you are lucky and still have the deal where they provide it free of charge, which they used to do years ago.
Automatic here, I use the parking brake every time I park. It's the way I was taught to park a car, plus I know it works in the unfortunate event it has to be used as an emergency brake. Car is 40 years old btw.
I'm not saying US sold tvs are safe, but this is 90 percent of european DVB-T/C based sets. So not really 90 percent of the 'smart tv' market. The summary also adds the advertisers' delightful 'potential' qualifier. So basically it's like the 'save up to 90 percent' type lie^^^^^h logic.
How so ? Do you mean accounting for power factor ?
very difficult to calibrate,
Isn't this done only once at the factory ?
and the mechanics wear out over time.
Original meters (had off-peak service, so extra meter) lasted 40+ years on this house, and were only replaced when the utility went to the first generation wireless meter that could be read by the utility truck as it drove by the house. Those of course were then replaced less than ten years later by a smart meter. I honestly do not see modern equipment lasting as long as those mechanical meters. Even if they don't fail, they will probably become obsolete in a far shorter time, and have to be treated as electronic toxic waste. Such is progress.
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They pretty much outlawed the standard 60 watt and higher incandescent light bulb in the US, people can't as easily buy them. LED and CFL bulbs are being introduced to households through attrition as old bulbs die, not because people are excited for them. Some LEDs are damn close to 'the look' now though.
To counter your poor experience, I have roughly 30 LED bulbs of various ages up to 4 years, and several brands. Not a single one has failed yet. My experience with early CFLs was very short life and horrible startup effects, never liked them.
Fully enclosed fixtures will be hard on the internal electronics due to heat build up. Seems most complaints in forums for short LED life are for those recessed ceiling light fixtures.
Stick to the name brands, most of mine are the cheap non-dimmable philips. I liked the early CREEs with the frosted glass and visible heat sink, which is the oldest of the collection and still going 6 hours every day, but never tried their newer plastic versions.
We can't have both ? Make it very efficient, all while allowing more headroom for power. That's how you use technology.
An older doctor is also more experienced. Patients with serious problems that result in higher mortality, will choose the experienced older doctor.
What am I missing? There must be something, or this wouldn't be news.
That something you are missing is their new found grant money. Redefine light as non-particles, profit! This is how quantum theory works.
Sorry, I stopped reading there. I guess lawyers got tired of chasing ambulances.
It's good enough for the bottom line. Bad for everyone else.
In other words, our profits from gambling are in jeopardy! Let's 'embrace and extend this'.
That's like the phone company charging you rent if you rent a phone, and charging you rent if you plug your own phone in.
Maybe you are new here, but Verizon is the phone company.
The rental fee is for a verizon supplied router, usually 10/month. Unless you are lucky and still have the deal where they provide it free of charge, which they used to do years ago.
Where are you paying 17.50 ?
Those charts on the wikipedia page are mpg per seat.
Pack 4+ people into almost any modern car and you will equal or surpass those per seat numbers.
Wait, there are only five safe drinks in this world. Water, milk, orange juice, wine and beer.
And of those only two still resemble what they once were.
80 percent you say..
Automatic here, I use the parking brake every time I park. It's the way I was taught to park a car, plus I know it works in the unfortunate event it has to be used as an emergency brake. Car is 40 years old btw.
Did it first.
Might as well call it applying for a rubber stamp.
And this pretty much sums up the value of the modern college degree.
Calling it a 'US hacker' is completely wrong at this point since they have not identified the hacker. News titles should stick to facts.
The summary takes on a more realistic meaning if you read it in a sarcastic tone.
I'm not saying US sold tvs are safe, but this is 90 percent of european DVB-T/C based sets. So not really 90 percent of the 'smart tv' market. The summary also adds the advertisers' delightful 'potential' qualifier. So basically it's like the 'save up to 90 percent' type lie^^^^^h logic.
You can replace your HDD but that won't help because UEFI bootloaders are stored on your motherboard in flash memory.
Secure boot signatures maybe, but the bootloaders are in the EFI disk partition, at least for me:
If the bios does not allow initializing a new blank disk, then that is between you and your vendor.
"It was an ambush."
The same problem exists for fixing caller id.
Old style meters were broken,
How so ? Do you mean accounting for power factor ?
very difficult to calibrate,
Isn't this done only once at the factory ?
and the mechanics wear out over time.
Original meters (had off-peak service, so extra meter) lasted 40+ years on this house, and were only replaced when the utility went to the first generation wireless meter that could be read by the utility truck as it drove by the house. Those of course were then replaced less than ten years later by a smart meter. I honestly do not see modern equipment lasting as long as those mechanical meters. Even if they don't fail, they will probably become obsolete in a far shorter time, and have to be treated as electronic toxic waste. Such is progress.
Yes things like that happen all the time, even as we type. However when it doesn't work out you are not absolved of the consequences.