"It's also worth noting that LEDs last for at least 50k hours."
You obviously didn't spend christmas re-soldering led christmas lights. And my strands are only a few years old, used for a month or so per year. (360h per year)
CFL's are supposed to last 10 years. If you have any in your house, you know that's a completely ridiculous, borderline fraud, made up number. Leds are no different. Built by the lowest bidder with the cheapest parts.
PS, have you seen how fancy bars and clubs are starting to get fancy incandescent bulbs to decorate with? Isn't that always the way. Make something rare and the rich eat it up.
"1) Commercial buildings, like that school, must have minimally 20 Amp minimally circuits- never 15."
Well I work in a building built in the 1980s, (not that old) and its mostly 15 amps dude (zoned commercial). As you may know, 20 amp circuts always have a T shape on one of the prongs. Easy to recognize. Perhaps new buildings are all 20amp, however when we recently installed an addition to the building, it is all wired 15amp as well.
Why people want to watch mangled sound audio and the worst rips on the net is beyond me. I think its mostly people with shitty 2 speaker systems that like YIFY rips, but that guy is everywhere!
Every time I go to download a movie, I am cursing YIFY because his releases dominate! I think YIFY really works for the film industry and is releasing low quality rips on purpose.
I agree that the model number apparently does convey ALOT of information. The guy still did spend 8 paragraphs explaining it, and lost me somewhat along the way (how can something be said to be universally 60fps on "max settings" when there are so many games out there??). The model numbers can be well constructed and yet completely arcane to a once-every-few-years purchaser. And that's to someone who has been gaming since the voodoo2 (many video card generations of knowledge). I can only imagine what the layman would do.
Personally, as someone who buys a new video card every 3 years or so (have 6850 now, performs great), I find the following website invaluable: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html . You can see an entire history of all cards. It may not have the subtle nuances of a professional industry explanation, but it will tell me what card to buy when I am comparing whatever random letters and numbers the company has chosen to assemble in this years fashionable order.
There is no other way. Unless you have the time to trawl forums and do literally days worth of research. Which of course will be completely obsolete when you make your next purchase 3 years down the line.
Just took a look at my wifes phone, and the only android setting which said it would phone home was settings -> location access -> wifi and mobile network location
Which I have now turned off. The other services which are GPS location and access my location do not say anything about sending anything to google. The first option, wifi and mobile network detection, does.
Probably this person article submitter does not realize that there is a setting. That its set by default is worrying however. But im sure most people like it.
" In today's competitive market, it is necessary to lose empathy in order to function successfully in the workplace. This is the age of universal warfare, and if you aren't willing to throw the competition under the bus, you deserve the failure and suffering that will mark your entire existence."
Uhoh, sounds like someone wasn't the biggest loser this week!
"It's all black magic to the Luddites, and thus must be banned."
Are you saying that a gang of "market makers" aka high priests aka railroad barons aka oligarchs, should run the economy because only they know the esoteric and unseen illusions in the system which they themselves engineered?
"magic" indeed. sounds more and more like gaming the system every time i hear about it.
As an outside of the country observer, it was obviously the party that said they would try and obstruct obama at every turn. Using history against you is not "begging the question".
your opinion is intentionally dense, just admit it.
and here is your little chart if we keep trusting mere mortals with the power to create a country sized wasteland:
Deaths..Injuries/Illness..Location/Cause 999999999999999999999999..Fukushima Daiichi NPP (Radiation exposure) 999999999999999999999999.Fukushima Daiichi NPP (Earthquake / tsunami) 999999999999999999999999..Rest of Japan
That is one hell of a 10,000year - 100,000 year long mistake. Which could very well happen at those timescales, even if its rare, even if its got 8 safeties. We are all fallible human beings running this shit after all. No amount of clean, "safe", cheap power should be worth the risk of generating pollution lasting tens of thousands of years.
The NSA most likely has more than enough information to secretly try and convict this person. Notice to arm chair vigilantes, the government is already more than likely to have all these peoples internet search histories, all their acquaintances and all their phone calls. And that presumes that normal everyday monitoring hadn't already flagged them for extra scrutinity!
Rest assured citizen, you are in good hands! Just don't band together informally, remember, that's what the terrerists do!
"How is it that any company seems to report on leaked documents for profit rather than turn over documents [which could potentially carry information detrimental to the safety of millions of people] to the proper authorities?"
Because their country taught them to.
Either to fight against the tyranny of governments with secret reports, or because capitalism is the religion of america and therefor leads to a greater good (for someone). Either opinion is equally likely to be true. The only difference being the political leanings of the observer.
While the grammar and spelling are correct, this is not much of a comment. It is old-school UID but not that impressive. While it is sad that you are lame, learning this bit of information does not warrant a slashdot post. I am sorry to say this, but ho hum.
Pfsense and a computer with two network cards is all you need. Pick up a used cisco access point and add a 3rd nic for wireless.
Rock soild, Guaranteed no back doors. Installs in less than 15 minutes from cd. Dependability based BSD and the parts you put in it. Get a cheap core2duo era xeon 1u server for 100 bucks, and make it look even slicker
a battle like this would lose thousands of billions of isk. It was, and is a very fun game, if you get in with the right sort of corp. Solo, not so much. You need some kind of group to maintain even a small space station. But when you get up to owning systems, with a few corps and an alliance: Well sir, no pvp you've ever done, beats the pvp in this game.
The dreamcast owned well and long after it "failed". It failed because its best virtue was also its achilles heel; you could easily pirate all the games. That's why the dreamcast will live on forever. Calling the dreamcast a "shit" means you don't know what you are talking about.
You seem to have an opinion on every single slashdot story, so its not surprising that your knowledge might be spread a bit thin.
" many of them don't realize the long term ramifications of what they are making readily available online. They think that simply because they limit access to a few friends or don't tag the pictures with their names they are keeping things private. Coupled with a belief "people won't or don't care" makes them somewhat oblivious to the privacy issues. "
You are also sadly describing the majority of adults these days. I have heard the exact same words come out of the mouths of countless social network users. I would say a good 85% of adults seem to be part of non-anonymous online social communities in some fashion.
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You obviously didn't spend christmas re-soldering led christmas lights. And my strands are only a few years old, used for a month or so per year. (360h per year)
CFL's are supposed to last 10 years. If you have any in your house, you know that's a completely ridiculous, borderline fraud, made up number. Leds are no different. Built by the lowest bidder with the cheapest parts.
PS, have you seen how fancy bars and clubs are starting to get fancy incandescent bulbs to decorate with? Isn't that always the way. Make something rare and the rich eat it up.
I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there doctor.
Well I work in a building built in the 1980s, (not that old) and its mostly 15 amps dude (zoned commercial). As you may know, 20 amp circuts always have a T shape on one of the prongs. Easy to recognize. Perhaps new buildings are all 20amp, however when we recently installed an addition to the building, it is all wired 15amp as well.
Well if you don't consider horrible economic policies that don't feed every citizen and don't provide state sponsored healthcare as a tool I guess.
Why people want to watch mangled sound audio and the worst rips on the net is beyond me. I think its mostly people with shitty 2 speaker systems that like YIFY rips, but that guy is everywhere!
Every time I go to download a movie, I am cursing YIFY because his releases dominate! I think YIFY really works for the film industry and is releasing low quality rips on purpose.
At least AMD didnt have several years where solder reflowing cards and laptops was standard troubleshooting practice.
I agree that the model number apparently does convey ALOT of information. The guy still did spend 8 paragraphs explaining it, and lost me somewhat along the way (how can something be said to be universally 60fps on "max settings" when there are so many games out there??). The model numbers can be well constructed and yet completely arcane to a once-every-few-years purchaser. And that's to someone who has been gaming since the voodoo2 (many video card generations of knowledge). I can only imagine what the layman would do.
Personally, as someone who buys a new video card every 3 years or so (have 6850 now, performs great), I find the following website invaluable: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html . You can see an entire history of all cards. It may not have the subtle nuances of a professional industry explanation, but it will tell me what card to buy when I am comparing whatever random letters and numbers the company has chosen to assemble in this years fashionable order.
There is no other way. Unless you have the time to trawl forums and do literally days worth of research. Which of course will be completely obsolete when you make your next purchase 3 years down the line.
Just took a look at my wifes phone, and the only android setting which said it would phone home was settings -> location access -> wifi and mobile network location
Which I have now turned off. The other services which are GPS location and access my location do not say anything about sending anything to google. The first option, wifi and mobile network detection, does.
Probably this person article submitter does not realize that there is a setting. That its set by default is worrying however. But im sure most people like it.
Uhoh, sounds like someone wasn't the biggest loser this week!
Are you saying that a gang of "market makers" aka high priests aka railroad barons aka oligarchs, should run the economy because only they know the esoteric and unseen illusions in the system which they themselves engineered?
"magic" indeed. sounds more and more like gaming the system every time i hear about it.
As an outside of the country observer, it was obviously the party that said they would try and obstruct obama at every turn. Using history against you is not "begging the question".
your opinion is intentionally dense, just admit it.
But their overvoltage ram was so garbage, and their tech support process was so awful, that i have personally steered 10s of customers away from them.
Never again would i buy ocz and looks like i was right.
Before EA realized it could make money with it. Desert Combat, jeepathon_2k, good times...
and here is your little chart if we keep trusting mere mortals with the power to create a country sized wasteland:
That is one hell of a 10,000year - 100,000 year long mistake. Which could very well happen at those timescales, even if its rare, even if its got 8 safeties. We are all fallible human beings running this shit after all. No amount of clean, "safe", cheap power should be worth the risk of generating pollution lasting tens of thousands of years.
The NSA most likely has more than enough information to secretly try and convict this person. Notice to arm chair vigilantes, the government is already more than likely to have all these peoples internet search histories, all their acquaintances and all their phone calls. And that presumes that normal everyday monitoring hadn't already flagged them for extra scrutinity!
Rest assured citizen, you are in good hands! Just don't band together informally, remember, that's what the terrerists do!
Because their country taught them to.
Either to fight against the tyranny of governments with secret reports, or because capitalism is the religion of america and therefor leads to a greater good (for someone). Either opinion is equally likely to be true. The only difference being the political leanings of the observer.
While the grammar and spelling are correct, this is not much of a comment.
It is old-school UID but not that impressive. While it is sad that you are lame, learning this bit of information does not warrant a slashdot post. I am sorry to say this, but ho hum.
I love how people can speak with authority on a subject they clearly know nothing about.
Pfsense and a computer with two network cards is all you need. Pick up a used cisco access point and add a 3rd nic for wireless.
Rock soild, Guaranteed no back doors. Installs in less than 15 minutes from cd. Dependability based BSD and the parts you put in it. Get a cheap core2duo era xeon 1u server for 100 bucks, and make it look even slicker
You mis understand, there is most certainly real money involved with this.
https://secure.eveonline.com/PLEX/
Plex = GameTimeCard = ISK currency
when I played, it was worth 300M ISK = $14 USD
a battle like this would lose thousands of billions of isk. It was, and is a very fun game, if you get in with the right sort of corp. Solo, not so much. You need some kind of group to maintain even a small space station. But when you get up to owning systems, with a few corps and an alliance: Well sir, no pvp you've ever done, beats the pvp in this game.
After all, you got money to lose.
May the strong soar like an unburdened eagle and the weak wilt like the pansies they are.. -- Linus Torvalds
Diagnostics is the hardest part!
The dreamcast owned well and long after it "failed". It failed because its best virtue was also its achilles heel; you could easily pirate all the games. That's why the dreamcast will live on forever. Calling the dreamcast a "shit" means you don't know what you are talking about.
You seem to have an opinion on every single slashdot story, so its not surprising that your knowledge might be spread a bit thin.
Obviously for different reasons.
It creates zombies.
You are also sadly describing the majority of adults these days. I have heard the exact same words come out of the mouths of countless social network users. I would say a good 85% of adults seem to be part of non-anonymous online social communities in some fashion.