CFL's don't have a problem with on/off as long as you're not running a disco or something.
After a lot of searching I found a photoelectric controller rated to work with CFLs. It also had a "feature" that if you turned the power off and on right away it would enter a flashing "911" mode which was supposed to conjure up cops or the marines or something.
I came home one night and a new CFL that I had just put in it was burned out. Turns out that there was a momentary power fluctuation an hour or so earlier (I had to reset some digital clocks, so I checked my UPS log). No sign of any cops or marines showing up though.
I have found that heat will shorten a CFL's life. The ones I have in recessed or fully enclosed fixtures don't last nearly as long as ones in table lamps, for example.
Well, this is a capacitor. It *can* be discharged to 0%, but its voltage drops steadily as it discharges, to 0 as well (batteries have a much flatter discharge curve). In theory, it'll store the power indicated. In practice, your 100kW switching power supply may only be able to accommodate 1000-3500V input voltages, instead of 0-3500V (yes - 3500V according to the patent).
This could be mitigated by using banks of capacitors. When fully charged, the banks would be run in parallel. After discharging to half voltage half of the capacitors would be placed in series with the other half, returning to the original voltage. Repeat until all of the capacitors are in series.
Each new configuration would drop to half-voltage in half of the time as the previous configuration, so you'd hit a point of diminishing returns pretty quickly, but you'd still do better than the 30% capacity loss from your example.
As an aside, because a cap's voltage is proportional to charge a 'fuel gauge' would be a lot more accurate than the battery indicators we are used to on our portable devices.
While it's pretty easy to make a horrid database in Access, bear in mind that if there were no Access those same 'Power Users' would be making their 'databases' in Excel instead. This is at least an order of magnitude worse as far as extracting useful data goes. Been there, done that, got the gray hair to prove it.
One big advantage of using fat (or other adult) stem cells over fetal cells is that the cells could be harvested from the target patient, thus avoiding tissue rejection problems.
Quoting from the NPR story which aired earlier today:
more than 40,000 Web sites -- including popular ones such as Ticketmaster, Facebook and Craigslist -- are using a new kind of security program called reCAPTCHA.
Don't forget that the USOC has special trademark protection granted by Congress in 1978 that goes way beyond the normal protection that any other entity gets.
Here's an interesting Article about how the USOC is harassing an Olympic National Park ranger who wrote a book entitled "Best of the Olympic Peninsula."
You should have paid more attention to your biology teacher. The reason that RGB works in the first place is that the cone cells in your eyes perceive colors in terms of red green and blue, not in a full spectrum.
You may as well argue about sources lacking IR or UV components of light. Unless you happen to be tetrachromatic it's all invisible.
True, but your computer's a pretty expensive heat source, compared to gas or an electric heat pump.
If you have resistive central heat in your house, it would be a wash. And, of course, if you keep it on the floor under your desk it is in a good position for space heating.
The pipe out of the DSLAM is just as shared as the channel in a DOCSIS cable network. At least around here (Denver, CO), Qwest is running fiber to the DSLAM (FTTN). They are currently selling 20 Mbps, which is far faster than anything Comcast is offering. Comcast still persists on showing those stupid turtle commercials, however.
At $100 per month it's a little rich for my blood, so I'm sticking with Comcast until they Really piss me off.
Trouble is, HTML in no way ensures that your formatting doesn't escape unmangled, even if you specifically target a single type (outlook) of client. At work we use a non-outlook client and most HTML emails look like doo-doo. (Of course they may look that way in outlook too, such is the layout skill of your typical HTML sender)
If you're really concerned about retaining formatting tne only practical solution is to use a PDF attachment.
That's my "i'm smart" story since I have to admit I was never very good at Rubik's Cube.:( Oh, I never actually solved the thing, unless you count prying it apart and re-assembling it in the correct order!
Yeah, when they first come out with books containing solutions I decided to fix a cube so that it was unsolvable and leave it out for someone who had memorized the solution to try and solve it. They always figured out the tampering within a minute or so.
Sadly, it was not nearly as amusing as I had hoped.
At least I still had my RPN calculator to lend to the smartass premeds in chem lab. (Furious punching of keys followed by "Where's the Equals?")
Yes and no. I have an aging Omnibook with gorgeous 1400x1040 15" screen. Most desktop apps work fine with the DPI set correctly (No thanks to GDM trying to set 96 DPI regardless of what XF86Config/xorg.conf says (And don't get me started about Gnome deciding that I live in "Colourado" (but I digress)))
Unfortunately, most web pages are so badly designed as to be almost unreadable at high res, and if you increase the font size the formatting goes to hell. Opera does a pretty good job at handling this, and Firefox 3 looks promising. That still leaves the unreadable Flash apps, but most of those are a wast of time anyway.
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CFL's don't have a problem with on/off as long as you're not running a disco or something.
After a lot of searching I found a photoelectric controller rated to work with CFLs. It also had a "feature" that if you turned the power off and on right away it would enter a flashing "911" mode which was supposed to conjure up cops or the marines or something.
I came home one night and a new CFL that I had just put in it was burned out. Turns out that there was a momentary power fluctuation an hour or so earlier (I had to reset some digital clocks, so I checked my UPS log). No sign of any cops or marines showing up though.
I have found that heat will shorten a CFL's life. The ones I have in recessed or fully enclosed fixtures don't last nearly as long as ones in table lamps, for example.
Well, this is a capacitor. It *can* be discharged to 0%, but its voltage drops steadily as it discharges, to 0 as well (batteries have a much flatter discharge curve). In theory, it'll store the power indicated. In practice, your 100kW switching power supply may only be able to accommodate 1000-3500V input voltages, instead of 0-3500V (yes - 3500V according to the patent).
This could be mitigated by using banks of capacitors. When fully charged, the banks would be run in parallel. After discharging to half voltage half of the capacitors would be placed in series with the other half, returning to the original voltage. Repeat until all of the capacitors are in series.
Each new configuration would drop to half-voltage in half of the time as the previous configuration, so you'd hit a point of diminishing returns pretty quickly, but you'd still do better than the 30% capacity loss from your example.
As an aside, because a cap's voltage is proportional to charge a 'fuel gauge' would be a lot more accurate than the battery indicators we are used to on our portable devices.
For a simple example, NASA came up with the first prototype of creating Velcro.
According to Wikipedia:
While it's pretty easy to make a horrid database in Access, bear in mind that if there were no Access those same 'Power Users' would be making their 'databases' in Excel instead. This is at least an order of magnitude worse as far as extracting useful data goes. Been there, done that, got the gray hair to prove it.
One big advantage of using fat (or other adult) stem cells over fetal cells is that the cells could be harvested from the target patient, thus avoiding tissue rejection problems.
Perhaps the target market is those folks whom still run their finger along underneath the words?
Do you mean speed readers following the Evelyn Wood system?
The worst part is when you get it home and discover that it's actually crab porn
Quoting from the NPR story which aired earlier today:
"A sammich without bread isn't a sammich -- it's meat with mustard on your hands!" -- P. Potomus Esq.
Don't forget that the USOC has special trademark protection granted by Congress in 1978 that goes way beyond the normal protection that any other entity gets.
Here's an interesting Article about how the USOC is harassing an Olympic National Park ranger who wrote a book entitled "Best of the Olympic Peninsula."
3. Is it something that I might find a use for later? THROW IT OUT!
You've convinced me; I'm tossing those snow shovels out today!
GPL version is in the main repositories here
Hedley Lamarr: Qualifications?
Applicant: Rape, murder, arson, and rape.
Hedley Lamarr: You said rape twice.
Applicant: I like rape.
Courtesy IMDB
You should have paid more attention to your biology teacher. The reason that RGB works in the first place is that the cone cells in your eyes perceive colors in terms of red green and blue, not in a full spectrum.
You may as well argue about sources lacking IR or UV components of light. Unless you happen to be tetrachromatic it's all invisible.
Plus you can use them with a dimmer, and you c
...andle Jack?
Eww, that comment just sticks in my Craw!
The weird part is, it's always the left sock that goes missing, never the right!
True, but your computer's a pretty expensive heat source, compared to gas or an electric heat pump.
If you have resistive central heat in your house, it would be a wash. And, of course, if you keep it on the floor under your desk it is in a good position for space heating.
At $100 per month it's a little rich for my blood, so I'm sticking with Comcast until they Really piss me off.
Trouble is, HTML in no way ensures that your formatting doesn't escape unmangled, even if you specifically target a single type (outlook) of client. At work we use a non-outlook client and most HTML emails look like doo-doo. (Of course they may look that way in outlook too, such is the layout skill of your typical HTML sender)
If you're really concerned about retaining formatting tne only practical solution is to use a PDF attachment.
I prefer this solution!
Yeah, when they first come out with books containing solutions I decided to fix a cube so that it was unsolvable and leave it out for someone who had memorized the solution to try and solve it. They always figured out the tampering within a minute or so.
Sadly, it was not nearly as amusing as I had hoped.
At least I still had my RPN calculator to lend to the smartass premeds in chem lab. (Furious punching of keys followed by "Where's the Equals?")
Yes and no. I have an aging Omnibook with gorgeous 1400x1040 15" screen. Most desktop apps work fine with the DPI set correctly (No thanks to GDM trying to set 96 DPI regardless of what XF86Config/xorg.conf says (And don't get me started about Gnome deciding that I live in "Colourado" (but I digress)))
Unfortunately, most web pages are so badly designed as to be almost unreadable at high res, and if you increase the font size the formatting goes to hell. Opera does a pretty good job at handling this, and Firefox 3 looks promising. That still leaves the unreadable Flash apps, but most of those are a wast of time anyway.