Lots and I mean lots of tractor trailers are using LED tail lights now. Admittedly, the wattages are a lot lower and red is cheaper than white, but take a look at the next several trucks you get behind - at least some of them will have the tell-tale "pixel pattern" that comes from replacing a bulb with a grid of jumbo LEDs.
1. It represents a huge amount of wasted power and money.
2. It adversely affects plants and wildlife. One of the more obvious (but unnoticed) points is that they mess up night flying insects so much that their populations have crashed throughout much of the United States. Big moths, for example, have pretty much disappeared.
Oh, yeah. I still remember my PPC membership number, and how excessively cool it was that the HP41 game I wrote actually got published in their newsletter...
What's really funny is that the window for launching the probes was mentioned every freaking time one of them went up, but apparently international news isn't as reputable a source as "elitegeek".
One of the basic tenets of modern physics is that time is a dimension like all other dimensions. If this guy is right, that you cannot determine your position in time, then that's a fundamental difference between time and other dimensions!
Or is this simply some sort of extension of the Heisenberg principle?
My 2001 iBook recently took a bang on the side, and I was told it would be an estimated $500-600 to replace the DVD drive. I'm definitely planning to get AppleCare on the next one - although that may force me to get another iBook instead of a AlBook.
Pfft. Kids today. Why when I was young, the Amiganauts would strap explosives to their bodies and blow themselves up in front of Bill Gates! Now *that* was a flame war!
"unaware that it wasn't funny"?
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ROTFL. I have never seen a more egotistical statement. Thousands of people read those words, grinned and moved on. You and one other person failed to see the humor - but they are wrong and you are right.
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And how many 300mw LEDs would it take to replace a 100 watt bulb?
by running an exterior light all night in the first place?
Light polluting scum.
All inventors should be punished?
Edison himself used patent law to his advantage.
Prithee, cans't thou explain where people get off changing the language?
I've tried over and over to use flourescents, but:
Lots and I mean lots of tractor trailers are using LED tail lights now. Admittedly, the wattages are a lot lower and red is cheaper than white, but take a look at the next several trucks you get behind - at least some of them will have the tell-tale "pixel pattern" that comes from replacing a bulb with a grid of jumbo LEDs.
Back before the 2000 election, I was getting spammed by the Democratic National Committee, and I couldn't get anyone to care. Why is this different?
How do they avoid cliffs, then?
The problem is that lit windows appear like openings, they don't even generate reflections like they do in the day time.
There are two problems with that:
1. It represents a huge amount of wasted power and money.
2. It adversely affects plants and wildlife. One of the more obvious (but unnoticed) points is that they mess up night flying insects so much that their populations have crashed throughout much of the United States. Big moths, for example, have pretty much disappeared.
Oh, yeah. I still remember my PPC membership number, and how excessively cool it was that the HP41 game I wrote actually got published in their newsletter...
And my 41's name was Marvin.
The very first thing I ever programmed was the Wang 720B.
In the late 70's, I found one buried in a room in our HS library; fished it out and started to learn octal...
It's the brightest thing in the skies these days.
What's really funny is that the window for launching the probes was mentioned every freaking time one of them went up, but apparently international news isn't as reputable a source as "elitegeek".
That's an interesting implication - yeah, I think that's right; if time is non-deterministic, then the universe cannot be a turing machine.
That doesn't mean the universe isn't some sort of non-deterministic simulation...
Thank you for summing up a 2000 year old theory of physics for us.
One of the basic tenets of modern physics is that time is a dimension like all other dimensions. If this guy is right, that you cannot determine your position in time, then that's a fundamental difference between time and other dimensions!
Or is this simply some sort of extension of the Heisenberg principle?
No, he's saying that nothing occurs "at" an instant of time, rather it occurs "within" an interval of time.
Nothing occurs instantaneously; some time must elapse during the occurance.
In other words, Zeno failed to explain time because he didn't use time in his explanation? Me thinks you need a course on logic.
The flaw in Zeno's paradox is in his understanding of infinites and infinitisimals, not time.
My 2001 iBook recently took a bang on the side, and I was told it would be an estimated $500-600 to replace the DVD drive. I'm definitely planning to get AppleCare on the next one - although that may force me to get another iBook instead of a AlBook.
I hear Oberon Nanotubes are great for making Ariels.
"Finally, one day some one said to me, 'You want to go kill some orcs?' Well.... Yeah! If only people asked me questions like that in real life!"
You think they're passionate now?
Pfft. Kids today. Why when I was young, the Amiganauts would strap explosives to their bodies and blow themselves up in front of Bill Gates! Now *that* was a flame war!
ROTFL. I have never seen a more egotistical statement. Thousands of people read those words, grinned and moved on. You and one other person failed to see the humor - but they are wrong and you are right.
Damn. You must be in Congress.
My "payment" for my hint (scripts for automatic command line aliases of .app files) was a free copy of the book - which is more than I expected.
I'm happy to see Rob get a little compensation for all the work he does.
I did not know that... I checked the site and it doesn't seem to mention it.