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Except then you do the math and realize that it isn't as good a deal as it first appears.
The incandescent bulb runs 890 lumens * 2500 hours = 2,225,000 lumen hours. It probably settles to 90% of its brightness by the end so an average of 95% or so... figure on 2,113,750 lumen hours.
The CFL bulb outputs 800 lumens for the first few hours, then drops rapidly to about 80% of that level and remains there for most of the life of the bulb. Count on 640 lumens typical * 8,000 hours = 5,120,000 lumen hours.
So it costs four times as much but provides barely twice as much output over the lifetime of the bulb. Granted it does come out ahead when you factor in the power savings (though much less so once you realize that you need 1.5 times as many of them to get the same light output). However, it is nowhere near as good a deal as it first appears.:-)
A minor nit, you're mixing the lifetime @ 120V and the output for 130V.
Damn! They must use cookies or something to run the comparison page. Here's the two examples which I picked because they just happened to be next to each other on the first incandescent bulb page:
Incandescent @ 9.98 for 24. Rated at 1,000 hour life at 130 volts/2,500 hour life at 120 volts, 890 lumens light output at 130 volts/660 lumens light output at 120 volts
This gets them great press with people calling them "not evil"on Slashdot and everything, and it cost them practically NOTHING.
Actually, they stand to make quite a bit of money as the bulbs cost between 700% and 1400% more than regular bulbs and don't last anywhere near 700% as long. Like most environmentally friendly ideas, they don't make sense economically.
You should re-check your numbers. Wall-mart doesn't have light bulbs on line, but at Lowes the differential is 400%.
There's been a standard for this in place since '92, CEBus. The CE manufacturers haven't exactly fallen over each other rushing to adopt CEBus, preferring their own proprietary interfaces. That way you're locked into buying all of your components by the same brand. God forbid that your Sorny DVD would work with your Panaphonic TV and Magnetbox receiver for any thing more complicated than passing AV signals back and forth.
Ideally, this is true; in practice a lot of applications and web pages break if you run at > 100 dpi. If you increase font size on many (if not most) web pages you end up with a bunch of unreadable, overlapping, and truncated items. Flash based web pages are worse as they have no zoom, you might as well break out a microscope to read them.
Application software fares somewhat better, most apps under linux handle high DPI reasonablly well, but there are still a lot of windows apps which were designed using pixels rather than length units.
FWIW, my laptop (debian) runs at 1400x1050 on a 15" screen, and I keep my work machine (XP) at 1600x1200 on a 19" CRT (about 115 DPI, discourages shoulder surfing). I like having tiny icons, menus, and tool bars; it leaves more room for for actual work (or/. as the case may be)
eeing its almost impossible for online libraries to legally lend ebooks, I don't see brick & mortar libraries going anywhere anytime soon. Glad you qualified that with "almost". I regularly check out ebooks from my local library.
IMO this one case where the use of DRM is justified, as it is a lot more convenient to let an ebook expire than it is to take a physical book back to the library. Some DRMs are better than others, though. Mobipocket's DRM is fairly transparent, but the Adobe and WMA DRM are a major PITA.
THANK YOU for pointing out these errors. Big difference between APM, MPR, NPR. I listen to Wisconsin Public Radio and they get as much as 30% of their funding directly from pledge drives.
I thought most public radio stations would get more than that from their semi-annual pledge drives. Are you including business contributions? I listen to Texas Public Radio, and IIRC, they get more than 70% of their funding from individual and business contributions. I'll bet that pledge drives mainly drive individual contributions. The stations do year around fundraising, I get mailers outside of pledge weeks fairly regularly. Throw in stuff like vehicle donations and endowments, and the proportion directly due to pledge drives could be relatively small.
I'm sorry, but you'd have to be a pretty pathetic mugger if you can't spot a foreign tourist without using a bunch of fancy electronic equipment. Why back in my day...
The biggest question behind these damages is being missed by most people here - Q: How the hell did HP's damages get spun into an anti-piracy effort? And more importantly, who was doing the spinning?
From the NYTimes article: vast bulk of H.P.'s statuatory damages are to "... finance the investigation of consumer privacy violations and of intellectual-property theft, *** including the copying of movies and music***..."
So, why is this money not being spent to, say, combat consumer identity theft? Or to dissuade other companies from invading the privacy rights of individuals? Or to further compensate the actual victims in this particular case?
The Direct Mail Association has an opt-out list at https://www.dmaconsumers.org/cgi/offmailing/. It'll cost you a buck and only goes out to DMA members, so I don't know how effective it is.
It was SNL, but I'm pretty much he same way. I'm never going to go 3 blade because of that commercial.
When I first heard of the mach-3 I had the same reaction due to that SNL skit. Then those bastards at Gilette sent me a free sample in the mail and got me hooked! At least those expensive blades significantly outlast the cheapie blades I had been using (by a factor of about 3x) so it's not too bad.
We're pretty fortunate here in the States that the Government freely distributes their cartographic data. A lot of countries treat it as some sort of state secret, or at least as a revenue stream.
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I don't think Comet is any better.
Except then you do the math and realize that it isn't as good a deal as it first appears.
So it costs four times as much but provides barely twice as much output over the lifetime of the bulb. Granted it does come out ahead when you factor in the power savings (though much less so once you realize that you need 1.5 times as many of them to get the same light output). However, it is nowhere near as good a deal as it first appears. :-)
A minor nit, you're mixing the lifetime @ 120V and the output for 130V.For 120V: 660 lm * 2500 hr * 95% = 1,567,500 lm-hr
For 130V: 890 lm * 1000 hr * 95% = 845,500 lm-hr
This brings it a bit closer, and don't forget the labor costs of having to change all those bulbs
Actually, they stand to make quite a bit of money as the bulbs cost between 700% and 1400% more than regular bulbs and don't last anywhere near 700% as long.
You should re-check your numbers. Wall-mart doesn't have light bulbs on line, but at Lowes the differential is 400%.Like most environmentally friendly ideas, they don't make sense economically.
There's been a standard for this in place since '92, CEBus. The CE manufacturers haven't exactly fallen over each other rushing to adopt CEBus, preferring their own proprietary interfaces. That way you're locked into buying all of your components by the same brand. God forbid that your Sorny DVD would work with your Panaphonic TV and Magnetbox receiver for any thing more complicated than passing AV signals back and forth.
Depends upon the algae. Diatoms are 40% oil.
I'll have to give Opera another look. The laptop is fairly old and a lighter weight browser might be easier on it anyway.
Ideally, this is true; in practice a lot of applications and web pages break if you run at > 100 dpi. If you increase font size on many (if not most) web pages you end up with a bunch of unreadable, overlapping, and truncated items. Flash based web pages are worse as they have no zoom, you might as well break out a microscope to read them.
/. as the case may be)
Application software fares somewhat better, most apps under linux handle high DPI reasonablly well, but there are still a lot of windows apps which were designed using pixels rather than length units.
FWIW, my laptop (debian) runs at 1400x1050 on a 15" screen, and I keep my work machine (XP) at 1600x1200 on a 19" CRT (about 115 DPI, discourages shoulder surfing). I like having tiny icons, menus, and tool bars; it leaves more room for for actual work (or
IMO this one case where the use of DRM is justified, as it is a lot more convenient to let an ebook expire than it is to take a physical book back to the library. Some DRMs are better than others, though. Mobipocket's DRM is fairly transparent, but the Adobe and WMA DRM are a major PITA.
I thought most public radio stations would get more than that from their semi-annual pledge drives. Are you including business contributions? I listen to Texas Public Radio, and IIRC, they get more than 70% of their funding from individual and business contributions. I'll bet that pledge drives mainly drive individual contributions. The stations do year around fundraising, I get mailers outside of pledge weeks fairly regularly. Throw in stuff like vehicle donations and endowments, and the proportion directly due to pledge drives could be relatively small.
I'm sorry, but you'd have to be a pretty pathetic mugger if you can't spot a foreign tourist without using a bunch of fancy electronic equipment. Why back in my day...
A friend helps you move, a Real friend helps you move the body.
I dunno, all this talk of customization makes me think it might look more like this.
At first I couldn't figure why the parent post was rated +5 funny...
Then I imagined it being read in a Comic Book Guy voice.
Now I've got to clean the coffee out of my keyboard.
Somebody needs to mod the AC parent up!
The Direct Mail Association has an opt-out list at https://www.dmaconsumers.org/cgi/offmailing/. It'll cost you a buck and only goes out to DMA members, so I don't know how effective it is.
NPR did a report on this today as well.
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Here ya go!
FWIW, our schoolyard version was(it was a more innocent time)
Geez, don't get your Lightspeeds in a bunch!
When I first heard of the mach-3 I had the same reaction due to that SNL skit. Then those bastards at Gilette sent me a free sample in the mail and got me hooked! At least those expensive blades significantly outlast the cheapie blades I had been using (by a factor of about 3x) so it's not too bad.
Yeah, they put a pink noise generator on our PA for a while, it mysteriously kept getting unplugged.
To me, these things are like people using a lot of perfume to cover up B.O. instad of bathing.
Actually, MSFT sold out the Terraserver name to another company, but they still run the original site at http://www.terraserver-usa.com/. There's a lot more USGS stuff at http://nationalmap.gov/.
We're pretty fortunate here in the States that the Government freely distributes their cartographic data. A lot of countries treat it as some sort of state secret, or at least as a revenue stream.
Closer to $2,275
Read a book!
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