Interesting. Hadn't really considered the fact they're usually on the ceiling which is kind of obvious. Still, one plus is that they heat (near) where you need it, like a space heater, versus burning gas/oil for a whole house (or worse, electric furnace). As you probably know, 4 75W bulbs plus a human body will heat a small room (10x10) in no time and since you want the heat, it's not a negative. I absolutely agree that one or two 60W in a large open floorplan is not very efficient vs central heating.
That gives me a crazy idea for a transparent laminate floor, heated with a zillion incandescent bulbs underneath. If I knew Blender, I might do a 3D scene of that just for fun.
I live in Austin, TX, and am just speculating about cold climates. Take it with a road full of salt. -l
If engineers worked like doctors worked, you'd need a licensed professional engineer with a PhD to install a wireless router in your home.
Yeah, and don't get me started on the butt-chewing I got over changing the yellow fluorescent bulbs at work with daylight spectrum ones. Physical plant genuinely suggested you needed to be a licensed electrician to do it.
Well, you can also add in cold climate vs warm climate costs. In Texas, CFL or LED wins because your A/C runs less. I imagine if you live in North Dakota, the incandescents would win.
It may be following the conventions of an old Unix desktop environment that I'm not remembering
What, like TWM with Athena widgets or something? Heck, even today, you can launch xsane and other X programs and see the many-window model. The Unix model was more about multiple desktops with windows arranged however you felt like than one desktop with single-window applications you could pop up or minimize. You just switched the desktop and voila, new program[s], new windows, arranged however it was you arranged them.
The web browser specifically made this an untenable model after awhile. Having 16 Netscape windows open got annoying quick and you didn't necessarily keep 16 virtual desktops around unless you used Enlightenment... but I digress. Application switchers were useful for management. But I would argue that tabbed windows really made things saner.
I keep 5 virtual desktops. 3 are fullscreen application specific, 2 are general. I remap my shortcuts to Alt+F1 - Alt+F5 for switching because it's nicer than arrowing or whathaveyou.
CEOs can quantify their value in real dollars and that's how they get paid.
The problem with CEO pay is that this is precisely what is NOT happening. Only recently have large shareholders started to get a clue on this vast waste of their capital.
All you have to do is throw those involved into prison. Keep the bank running and let others take over the jobs. I'm sure the bank can figure out who was involved in the 300 billion. If the bank can't then the people responsible for keeping track should go to prison, just for criminal negligence.
At the corporate level, just threaten the banks with Iran-level banking sanctions. Offer a decent award for disclosure/whistleblowing. They'll all squeal like pigs.
Yeah, but you know as well as I do how many clients never get updates. I bet there are over 15% unpatched clients still sitting out there in the wild, just waiting to be mdash zombies.
These guys used an experiment called NuMI (NeUtrino beam at the Main Injector) to generate an intense beam of neutrinos. The beam consisted of about 25 pulses each separated by 2 seconds or so, with each pulse containing some 10^13 neutrinos.
The beam is pointed at a detector called MINERvA weighing about 170 tonnes and sitting in an underground cavern about a kilometre away. To reach MINERvA, the beam has to travel through 240 metres of solid rock.
MINERvA is one of world's most sensitive neutrino detectors and yet, out of 10^13 neutrinos in each pulse, it detects only about 0.8 of them on average.
Nevertheless, that's enough to send a message. The FermiLab team used a simple on-off protocol to represent the 0s and 1s of digital code and transmitted the word "neutrino".
The entire message took about 140 minutes to send at a data rate that these guys later worked out to be about 0.1 bits per second with an error rate of less than 1 per cent.
Bah, I think it has more to do with the threatened researchers not wanting to step on any toes as their funding is already in jeopardy. I don't blame them for not wanting to call anyone out. In their situation, I wouldn't either.
Special relativity predicts that an observer in an inertial reference frame doesn't see objects they'd describe as moving faster than the speed of light. However, in the non-inertial reference frame of Earth, treating a spot on the Earth as a fixed point, the stars are observed to move in the sky, circling once about the Earth per day. Since the stars are light years away, this observation means that, in the non-inertial reference frame of the Earth, anybody who looks at the stars is seeing objects which appear, to them, to be moving faster than the speed of light.
Since non-inertial reference frames do not abide by the special principle of relativity, such situations are not self-contradictory.
My take is that it's better to pick the "most inertial" frame you have available. It is a heuristic like Occam's Razor but the upshot is the math is easier.
Another commentator mentioned the economic aspect. I won't repeat what s/he said but I did want to add that the Roman economy was largely predicated on conquering territories to generate tax revenue. Why? Because the Senate had voted to exempt themselves from all taxation. As they gained more and more land, it generated less money for the treasury necessitating conquering more people.
in a cinema, but since Dogma and the Bourne movies popularised hand-held, all the best practice cinematography rules have been thrown out the window, in spite of how shitty the result looks.
I blame SavingPrivate Ryan for that. In combination with the shutter timing, it is a very jarring experience (jarheads, notwithstanding).
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Interesting. Hadn't really considered the fact they're usually on the ceiling which is kind of obvious. Still, one plus is that they heat (near) where you need it, like a space heater, versus burning gas/oil for a whole house (or worse, electric furnace). As you probably know, 4 75W bulbs plus a human body will heat a small room (10x10) in no time and since you want the heat, it's not a negative. I absolutely agree that one or two 60W in a large open floorplan is not very efficient vs central heating.
That gives me a crazy idea for a transparent laminate floor, heated with a zillion incandescent bulbs underneath. If I knew Blender, I might do a 3D scene of that just for fun.
I live in Austin, TX, and am just speculating about cold climates. Take it with a road full of salt.
-l
If engineers worked like doctors worked, you'd need a licensed professional engineer with a PhD to install a wireless router in your home.
Yeah, and don't get me started on the butt-chewing I got over changing the yellow fluorescent bulbs at work with daylight spectrum ones. Physical plant genuinely suggested you needed to be a licensed electrician to do it.
Fer cryin' out loud.
-l
Well, you can also add in cold climate vs warm climate costs. In Texas, CFL or LED wins because your A/C runs less. I imagine if you live in North Dakota, the incandescents would win.
-l
It may be following the conventions of an old Unix desktop environment that I'm not remembering
What, like TWM with Athena widgets or something? Heck, even today, you can launch xsane and other X programs and see the many-window model. The Unix model was more about multiple desktops with windows arranged however you felt like than one desktop with single-window applications you could pop up or minimize. You just switched the desktop and voila, new program[s], new windows, arranged however it was you arranged them.
The web browser specifically made this an untenable model after awhile. Having 16 Netscape windows open got annoying quick and you didn't necessarily keep 16 virtual desktops around unless you used Enlightenment... but I digress. Application switchers were useful for management. But I would argue that tabbed windows really made things saner.
I keep 5 virtual desktops. 3 are fullscreen application specific, 2 are general. I remap my shortcuts to Alt+F1 - Alt+F5 for switching because it's nicer than arrowing or whathaveyou.
Whew that was longer than intended.
-l
CEOs can quantify their value in real dollars and that's how they get paid.
The problem with CEO pay is that this is precisely what is NOT happening. Only recently have large shareholders started to get a clue on this vast waste of their capital.
-l
Yeah - I'd find the prospect of hiring a 10 yr old a bit of a leap as well.
You'd make a poor robber baron.
-l
All you have to do is throw those involved into prison. Keep the bank running and let others take over the jobs. I'm sure the bank can figure out who was involved in the 300 billion. If the bank can't then the people responsible for keeping track should go to prison, just for criminal negligence.
At the corporate level, just threaten the banks with Iran-level banking sanctions. Offer a decent award for disclosure/whistleblowing. They'll all squeal like pigs.
-l
Yeah, but you know as well as I do how many clients never get updates. I bet there are over 15% unpatched clients still sitting out there in the wild, just waiting to be mdash zombies.
-l
I guess we won't discuss the state-of-the-art in neutrino communication, then...
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27648/
These guys used an experiment called NuMI (NeUtrino beam at the Main Injector) to generate an intense beam of neutrinos. The beam consisted of about 25 pulses each separated by 2 seconds or so, with each pulse containing some 10^13 neutrinos.
The beam is pointed at a detector called MINERvA weighing about 170 tonnes and sitting in an underground cavern about a kilometre away. To reach MINERvA, the beam has to travel through 240 metres of solid rock.
MINERvA is one of world's most sensitive neutrino detectors and yet, out of 10^13 neutrinos in each pulse, it detects only about 0.8 of them on average.
Nevertheless, that's enough to send a message. The FermiLab team used a simple on-off protocol to represent the 0s and 1s of digital code and transmitted the word "neutrino".
The entire message took about 140 minutes to send at a data rate that these guys later worked out to be about 0.1 bits per second with an error rate of less than 1 per cent.
-l
I so thought you were linking to this one, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvqjJzuaNSE , which my kids love.
-l
Somalia, land of anarcho-capitalism?
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I could've easily had a sub-1000 UID. I just didn't think they'd catch on. :)
-l
Bah, I think it has more to do with the threatened researchers not wanting to step on any toes as their funding is already in jeopardy. I don't blame them for not wanting to call anyone out. In their situation, I wouldn't either.
-l
Maybe it's a reference to his handle, Tharsman?
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Surely this is a Ferengi episode!
(OK, I know it's not.)
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And coupons!
-l
I thought it was always a superposition of: yes, no, maybe, and my favorite yesnomaybe.
-l
/glad those tags went away.
tho that changes big time this year now that hte earned income tax credit has been removed
Citation needed. Or do you mean the payroll tax rollback that expires in March?
-l
Came here to say this as I heard that on NPR this morning. Has the transparent society begun?
-l
General principle of relativity
Special relativity predicts that an observer in an inertial reference frame doesn't see objects they'd describe as moving faster than the speed of light. However, in the non-inertial reference frame of Earth, treating a spot on the Earth as a fixed point, the stars are observed to move in the sky, circling once about the Earth per day. Since the stars are light years away, this observation means that, in the non-inertial reference frame of the Earth, anybody who looks at the stars is seeing objects which appear, to them, to be moving faster than the speed of light.
Since non-inertial reference frames do not abide by the special principle of relativity, such situations are not self-contradictory.
My take is that it's better to pick the "most inertial" frame you have available. It is a heuristic like Occam's Razor but the upshot is the math is easier.
-l
Haha awesome -- and they only provide a 2 year warranty. You would think that for 6 figures they could eke out a lifetime warranty...
-l
It's the Greek equivalent of "goy".
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Another commentator mentioned the economic aspect. I won't repeat what s/he said but I did want to add that the Roman economy was largely predicated on conquering territories to generate tax revenue. Why? Because the Senate had voted to exempt themselves from all taxation. As they gained more and more land, it generated less money for the treasury necessitating conquering more people.
-l
P.s., I don't have a citation right now.
in a cinema, but since Dogma and the Bourne movies popularised hand-held, all the best practice cinematography rules have been thrown out the window, in spite of how shitty the result looks.
I blame Saving Private Ryan for that. In combination with the shutter timing, it is a very jarring experience (jarheads, notwithstanding).
-l
Hey, that was really cool. Thanks for posting that!
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