CFLs really suck. I've tried quite a few different brands, and have tried to like them, but they just seem to have some flaws that can't be fixed. First, and most annoyingly, none of them come on immediately - they start out extremely dim when the switch is flicked, and take 30 seconds to a minute to completely warm up. Secondly, no CFLs made in the past five years come anywhere close to meeting their life expectancy - most of them burn out faster than incandescent bulbs. (I have a couple of old CFLs in a tableside lamp that are still going strong after nearly 10 years, but once the production lines switched to China, quality went to complete crap.)
They had CFLs from Lights of America that came on instantly back in the 90s. I've been using CFLs since the early 90s. The "modern" ones seem to take longer to turn on, but for me that's actually a slight plus in the morning. I don't want them blinding me right when I wake up in the dark.
I also found that most of them burn out too soon because the electrical supply coming to the home is rather poor in quality. The line transformers in most areas were designed for homes from the 1950s when people didn't install or run Air Conditioners. When my line transformer blew up with a tremendously loud bang and outgassed all the oil, they replaced it with a more modern transformer that could handle the much higher loads. Ever since then, I stopped getting deep brownouts whenever the neighbor's AC turned on. I also stopped having to change out my fluorescent lights so frequently. I think the electric companies have a scam going with the light bulb manufacturers, because all the cheap bulbs they sponsor are such utter crap. The ones I got from those programs really suck, and burn out well before the expected life because of the poor electrical infrastructure. They work fine if the electricity is stable, but that won't happen until they upgrade the line transformers to handle modern household loads.
My home doesn't have AC, because we have natural tree shading that keeps our home cool enough except for up to a week each year. It also helps keep it warmer in the winter, since our heating costs are lower than our neigbors. A lot of new homes constructions don't include natural shading any more. That's part of the reason for the heavier use of furnaces and ACs in many modern homes now. Our concrete slab foundation also help keep the floor decently cool during the summer. The neighbor needs AC because the original owner cut down all their trees to get a "view" and took out most of the shade and insulation vegetation near their home.
It's only a quarter sink for those that didn't figure out the patterns, especially for the food reward. Some people could play for 6 hours on a single quarter. The had to eventually reduce the food and health to get them down to 6 hours. Once you know the patter, you could play for quite some time. The elf was the easiest to play, followed by the valkyrie.
The US territory of Guam has hurricane proof and earthquake proof homes. They are built of concrete and come with built in storm shutters that can be opened and closed from the inside. There's no need for a dome to survive a typhoon (hurricane to mainlanders). Regular home shapes work well enough. They mainly ride out the storms within their own homes with very little loss of life and property. Contrast this with the US mainland with annual problems. Stop being cheap. Stop using wood in hurricane and tornado zones. They should just be replaced with concrete as they blow away. It saves both homeowenres and insurance companies a lot of money very long term.
The homes on Guam were replaced with concrete after the 1976 super typhoon (~150mph+) blew many of them away. They stopped building out of wood since that time. Before the 1980s, everyone sheltered in the reinforced concrete schools and waited out the typhoons, hoping their home hadn't blow away. The main problems after a typhoon now is repainting and cleaning up the yard. It's mostly cosmetic fixes. The only time they have major problems on Guam now is when a super typhoon (~150mph+) comes along about every 20-25 years and blows out the power lines and the concrete power poles. They could probably start putting some lines underground now to reduce the power outages, but they have quakes too and some areas are too low and easily flood during a typhoon. They had their 8.0 quake just over a decade ago too.
Then, this new law just reinforces the original contract law and spells out what minors can actually do. If the contract can already by rescinded by a minor, they could already tell the companies to delete all their data. That's already legally allowed. I don't see why everyone's up in arms about "nanny state California". It seems that California is spelling out the rights a little better. It would be better if everyone has a right to rescind a one sided click through contract.
Enable the 2nd button. Macs have always supported multi-button mice. All the new mice that come with a mac have several buttons and more features. It's just not enabled by default in your profile.
Single button mice are easier for the non-technical people to use. It's also much easier to support. All the non-technical people should get a mac. Sure it costs more, but the the simpler interface gives far fewer headaches to them and those that have to support them.
You're working in the wrong places. I agree that a large number of them are like that, but there are many nice friendly sysadmins everywhere too. I've seen the gamut. I've always tried to be helpful and never intentionally put anyone down. The sysadmin that reduces people to tears should be fired. It's just workplace bullying and shouldn't ever be tolerated in any workplace.
They should be slightly better than the average person in spotting stuff in real life. You have to practice to get better, both in real life and in video games, and the "simulations" done in video games will help you improve your real life performance.
No, the teacher did not know about the experiment. The girl mixed the chemicals on the advice of "a friend." The administration overreacted, but she probably did deserve some form of punishment. Mixing chemicals in closed containers without knowing exactly what they do (she said she thought it would just produce some smoke), and without supervision, on school property? Extremely bad idea.
The only punishment she deserved was a stern talking to. She was punished plenty by the big bang that ensued and probably scared her out of her wits. Now, she gets a reward to go to space camp. That's not quite an appropriate message either.
There's an EFF project on identifying the tracking codes. It's mainly done with color laser printouts using yellow dots. If you know what your printer is printing, you could theoretically introduce yellow dot patterns to randomize your serial number and mess up the identification.
The Peter Principle is "Employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence." They start out competent and reach the top of their rung, based on merit, so they get promoted. Eventually they get promoted to a job that they have no ability to do and they become incompetent through the promotion process.
The Dilbert principle states that in many cases the least competent, least smart people are promoted, simply because they’re the ones you don't want doing actual work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_Principle
They both result in the same thing, but the process is completely different. Peter Principle employees can always choose to move to a job they're capable of doing. They can be demoted and you'll have a productive employee again. There's not much you can do with Dilbert Principle PHBs, because they were incompetent through every level.
It's the entire US system. We're taught from an early age that those evil Communist Russians and Chinese are eviiiiil. We are not taught that Socialism and Communism are not the same. We are also not taught the difference between a true democracy and a republic....
I'm not sure what school you went to, but I did get taught that. Maybe you just weren't paying attention or weren't really thinking it through, like the majority of kids in school. You also can't learn just from the schools' propaganda books. Even at a very young age, I realized I was reading propaganda. You need to go to the library and look up the grown up books and cross reference them with the various encyclopedias and journals.
There is at least one thing that's identical to both cases. The same Assistant District Attorney made the decision to prosecute one case but not the other.
One of the basic tenets of gun ownership, including with BB guns, has always been that you are never to point a gun at anyone unless you actually intend to shoot them. The other important basic rule has always been that you must always assume that a gun is loaded. Most BB guns sold for kids come with that information in the instruction manuals. The parents of the boy are either very negligent for not teaching that or very ignorant for letting their children point a loaded weapon at each other.
In the world of guns, the act of pointing a gun at another person is intent. Most BB guns include manuals that basically have the information stated here. BB guns are not toys and require adult supervision. There are now BB and pellet guns that are powerful enough to be used to hunt small game. These aren't sold to children, and most places that sell them state that they are not toys and are dangerous weapons meant for hunting. You'd have to be a very good shot, but even the low powered Daisy Red Ryder BB gun, which are sold for teaching children how to respect and use guns, can kill a small rodent.
With the above information in mind, why wasn't the boy charged for murdering his brother? Why weren't the mom and boyfriend charged for negligence or child endangerment? Someone actually died in one case, but not the other.
Pointing any gun, including a BB gun at someone's head is intent. The parents are negligent in that case because BB guns are considered weapons and either didn't provide proper supervision and had no real understanding of gun ownership. You can kill bugs with them and you can kill small rodents. In this case it even killed a 10 year old.
One of the very basic rules of gun ownership and use is that you must always assume that a gun is loaded. You are never supposed to point a gun at anything you weren't planning to shoot. BB guns are not toys. There are manuals that come with BB guns that state those very facts. We now have plenty of high powered BB and pellet guns that can be used to hunt small game, but even the low powered Daisy Red Ryder BB guns can kill.
These parents did not provide the proper supervision necessary for the the children to understand and respect guns. It's no wonder there's such anti-gun sentiment in the country. Many adults don't understand how to handle guns properly. They shouldn't have bought these children BB guns, if they were going to allow such stupid and ignorant behavior. I wouldn't let my children play with a BB gun without proper adult supervision. No gun, including a BB gun should ever be pointed at another person unless you intend to shoot them.
Etsy is geared towards arts and crafts. It's not really tech oriented. If you're not into arts&crafts or don't really know any artists, you won't likely know much about Etsy early on.
If you actually read my comment, you'll note that I included the term "overwhelmingly" . If the votes are 70/30, you could vote for a 3rd party without affecting the distribution much. People have got to stop voting along party lines, when the 2 party system isn't working. If you're in a swing state, or when the race is close, then you're right, it would mess things up. But if you're not, it's time to vote for that 3rd party and send a message that you're willing to mess with the status quo. Until the voting system changes, this is really only the first thing you can do. The 2nd is to write to your representatives, whether you voted for them or not. People that will take the time to write in are more likely to vote, so they're more likely to listen. If enough people write in, with a single issue directed message, maybe something could be done to overcome the current lobbying that's buying their votes.
Direct Democracy/Mob rule is what brought California the 3 strikes law that's now overwhelming prison populations. It's what brought prop 13 that's caused the state's debt problems, which they've been "mitigating" over the years by raising sales tax and state income tax as well as a host of other "creative" taxes everywhere else. It's what brought Prop 8, which would not pass if it was introduced on the ballot a few years from now. Mob rule makes a mess of things as laws get passed on whims and need to be quickly fixed years later, but with broken fixes, instead of repeals.
Don't vote for the 2 major parties. Vote for a 3rd party, write in a name or just put none of the above. If you live in a state that's already overwhelmingly Democrat or overwhelmingly Republican, you might as well vote for a 3rd party candidate. They're less likely in the pockets of the major donors. It's time to send a message to the career politicians and switch out the incumbents.
Your school must be in the wrong neighborhood. You have to move into a good neighborhood where parents actually care about the school and the children enough to make it a good school. You may actually have to move to find a place like that and get out of the hellhole of a neighborhood where your school is treated as a prison precursor.
Slashdot Mirror
Human beings are monsters in these situations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_Street
CFLs really suck. I've tried quite a few different brands, and have tried to like them, but they just seem to have some flaws that can't be fixed. First, and most annoyingly, none of them come on immediately - they start out extremely dim when the switch is flicked, and take 30 seconds to a minute to completely warm up. Secondly, no CFLs made in the past five years come anywhere close to meeting their life expectancy - most of them burn out faster than incandescent bulbs. (I have a couple of old CFLs in a tableside lamp that are still going strong after nearly 10 years, but once the production lines switched to China, quality went to complete crap.)
They had CFLs from Lights of America that came on instantly back in the 90s. I've been using CFLs since the early 90s. The "modern" ones seem to take longer to turn on, but for me that's actually a slight plus in the morning. I don't want them blinding me right when I wake up in the dark.
I also found that most of them burn out too soon because the electrical supply coming to the home is rather poor in quality. The line transformers in most areas were designed for homes from the 1950s when people didn't install or run Air Conditioners. When my line transformer blew up with a tremendously loud bang and outgassed all the oil, they replaced it with a more modern transformer that could handle the much higher loads. Ever since then, I stopped getting deep brownouts whenever the neighbor's AC turned on. I also stopped having to change out my fluorescent lights so frequently. I think the electric companies have a scam going with the light bulb manufacturers, because all the cheap bulbs they sponsor are such utter crap. The ones I got from those programs really suck, and burn out well before the expected life because of the poor electrical infrastructure. They work fine if the electricity is stable, but that won't happen until they upgrade the line transformers to handle modern household loads.
My home doesn't have AC, because we have natural tree shading that keeps our home cool enough except for up to a week each year. It also helps keep it warmer in the winter, since our heating costs are lower than our neigbors. A lot of new homes constructions don't include natural shading any more. That's part of the reason for the heavier use of furnaces and ACs in many modern homes now. Our concrete slab foundation also help keep the floor decently cool during the summer. The neighbor needs AC because the original owner cut down all their trees to get a "view" and took out most of the shade and insulation vegetation near their home.
Don't use adobe reader to open the pdf. There's plenty of other readers that don't execute the code.
Foxit, sumatrapdf, etc...
$1500 was a "cheap" low-end computer back then. The high end home PC systems were $3000-$5000. The mini-fridge sized systems were upwards of $10,000
It's only a quarter sink for those that didn't figure out the patterns, especially for the food reward. Some people could play for 6 hours on a single quarter. The had to eventually reduce the food and health to get them down to 6 hours. Once you know the patter, you could play for quite some time. The elf was the easiest to play, followed by the valkyrie.
Gauntlet Legends was 1998 and wasn't really 3D. It was top down isometric. It got ported to the different consoles in 99/00.
The US territory of Guam has hurricane proof and earthquake proof homes. They are built of concrete and come with built in storm shutters that can be opened and closed from the inside. There's no need for a dome to survive a typhoon (hurricane to mainlanders). Regular home shapes work well enough. They mainly ride out the storms within their own homes with very little loss of life and property. Contrast this with the US mainland with annual problems. Stop being cheap. Stop using wood in hurricane and tornado zones. They should just be replaced with concrete as they blow away. It saves both homeowenres and insurance companies a lot of money very long term.
The homes on Guam were replaced with concrete after the 1976 super typhoon (~150mph+) blew many of them away. They stopped building out of wood since that time. Before the 1980s, everyone sheltered in the reinforced concrete schools and waited out the typhoons, hoping their home hadn't blow away. The main problems after a typhoon now is repainting and cleaning up the yard. It's mostly cosmetic fixes. The only time they have major problems on Guam now is when a super typhoon (~150mph+) comes along about every 20-25 years and blows out the power lines and the concrete power poles. They could probably start putting some lines underground now to reduce the power outages, but they have quakes too and some areas are too low and easily flood during a typhoon. They had their 8.0 quake just over a decade ago too.
Then, this new law just reinforces the original contract law and spells out what minors can actually do. If the contract can already by rescinded by a minor, they could already tell the companies to delete all their data. That's already legally allowed. I don't see why everyone's up in arms about "nanny state California". It seems that California is spelling out the rights a little better. It would be better if everyone has a right to rescind a one sided click through contract.
Enable the 2nd button. Macs have always supported multi-button mice. All the new mice that come with a mac have several buttons and more features. It's just not enabled by default in your profile.
Single button mice are easier for the non-technical people to use. It's also much easier to support. All the non-technical people should get a mac. Sure it costs more, but the the simpler interface gives far fewer headaches to them and those that have to support them.
I'm teaching my kids some basic python while I learn it.
You're working in the wrong places. I agree that a large number of them are like that, but there are many nice friendly sysadmins everywhere too. I've seen the gamut. I've always tried to be helpful and never intentionally put anyone down. The sysadmin that reduces people to tears should be fired. It's just workplace bullying and shouldn't ever be tolerated in any workplace.
Unlike Puerto Rico, people born in Saipan are not conferred US citizenship.
They should be slightly better than the average person in spotting stuff in real life. You have to practice to get better, both in real life and in video games, and the "simulations" done in video games will help you improve your real life performance.
No, the teacher did not know about the experiment. The girl mixed the chemicals on the advice of "a friend." The administration overreacted, but she probably did deserve some form of punishment. Mixing chemicals in closed containers without knowing exactly what they do (she said she thought it would just produce some smoke), and without supervision, on school property? Extremely bad idea.
The only punishment she deserved was a stern talking to. She was punished plenty by the big bang that ensued and probably scared her out of her wits. Now, she gets a reward to go to space camp. That's not quite an appropriate message either.
There's an EFF project on identifying the tracking codes. It's mainly done with color laser printouts using yellow dots. If you know what your printer is printing, you could theoretically introduce yellow dot patterns to randomize your serial number and mess up the identification.
http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
No.
The Peter Principle is "Employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence." They start out competent and reach the top of their rung, based on merit, so they get promoted. Eventually they get promoted to a job that they have no ability to do and they become incompetent through the promotion process.
The Dilbert principle states that in many cases the least competent, least smart people are promoted, simply because they’re the ones you don't want doing actual work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_Principle
They both result in the same thing, but the process is completely different. Peter Principle employees can always choose to move to a job they're capable of doing. They can be demoted and you'll have a productive employee again. There's not much you can do with Dilbert Principle PHBs, because they were incompetent through every level.
To many in the USA, everyone else is socialist. The propaganda was very entrenched and they only live in a black & white world.
It's the entire US system. We're taught from an early age that those evil Communist Russians and Chinese are eviiiiil. We are not taught that Socialism and Communism are not the same. We are also not taught the difference between a true democracy and a republic. ...
I'm not sure what school you went to, but I did get taught that. Maybe you just weren't paying attention or weren't really thinking it through, like the majority of kids in school. You also can't learn just from the schools' propaganda books. Even at a very young age, I realized I was reading propaganda. You need to go to the library and look up the grown up books and cross reference them with the various encyclopedias and journals.
There is at least one thing that's identical to both cases. The same Assistant District Attorney made the decision to prosecute one case but not the other.
One of the basic tenets of gun ownership, including with BB guns, has always been that you are never to point a gun at anyone unless you actually intend to shoot them. The other important basic rule has always been that you must always assume that a gun is loaded. Most BB guns sold for kids come with that information in the instruction manuals. The parents of the boy are either very negligent for not teaching that or very ignorant for letting their children point a loaded weapon at each other.
In the world of guns, the act of pointing a gun at another person is intent. Most BB guns include manuals that basically have the information stated here. BB guns are not toys and require adult supervision. There are now BB and pellet guns that are powerful enough to be used to hunt small game. These aren't sold to children, and most places that sell them state that they are not toys and are dangerous weapons meant for hunting. You'd have to be a very good shot, but even the low powered Daisy Red Ryder BB gun, which are sold for teaching children how to respect and use guns, can kill a small rodent.
With the above information in mind, why wasn't the boy charged for murdering his brother? Why weren't the mom and boyfriend charged for negligence or child endangerment? Someone actually died in one case, but not the other.
Pointing any gun, including a BB gun at someone's head is intent. The parents are negligent in that case because BB guns are considered weapons and either didn't provide proper supervision and had no real understanding of gun ownership. You can kill bugs with them and you can kill small rodents. In this case it even killed a 10 year old.
One of the very basic rules of gun ownership and use is that you must always assume that a gun is loaded. You are never supposed to point a gun at anything you weren't planning to shoot. BB guns are not toys. There are manuals that come with BB guns that state those very facts. We now have plenty of high powered BB and pellet guns that can be used to hunt small game, but even the low powered Daisy Red Ryder BB guns can kill.
These parents did not provide the proper supervision necessary for the the children to understand and respect guns. It's no wonder there's such anti-gun sentiment in the country. Many adults don't understand how to handle guns properly. They shouldn't have bought these children BB guns, if they were going to allow such stupid and ignorant behavior. I wouldn't let my children play with a BB gun without proper adult supervision. No gun, including a BB gun should ever be pointed at another person unless you intend to shoot them.
Reddit was just a larger version of Maple Street.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/the-monsters-are-due-on-maple-street-12606/
Etsy is geared towards arts and crafts. It's not really tech oriented. If you're not into arts&crafts or don't really know any artists, you won't likely know much about Etsy early on.
If you actually read my comment, you'll note that I included the term "overwhelmingly" . If the votes are 70/30, you could vote for a 3rd party without affecting the distribution much. People have got to stop voting along party lines, when the 2 party system isn't working. If you're in a swing state, or when the race is close, then you're right, it would mess things up. But if you're not, it's time to vote for that 3rd party and send a message that you're willing to mess with the status quo. Until the voting system changes, this is really only the first thing you can do. The 2nd is to write to your representatives, whether you voted for them or not. People that will take the time to write in are more likely to vote, so they're more likely to listen. If enough people write in, with a single issue directed message, maybe something could be done to overcome the current lobbying that's buying their votes.
Direct Democracy/Mob rule is what brought California the 3 strikes law that's now overwhelming prison populations. It's what brought prop 13 that's caused the state's debt problems, which they've been "mitigating" over the years by raising sales tax and state income tax as well as a host of other "creative" taxes everywhere else. It's what brought Prop 8, which would not pass if it was introduced on the ballot a few years from now. Mob rule makes a mess of things as laws get passed on whims and need to be quickly fixed years later, but with broken fixes, instead of repeals.
Don't vote for the 2 major parties. Vote for a 3rd party, write in a name or just put none of the above. If you live in a state that's already overwhelmingly Democrat or overwhelmingly Republican, you might as well vote for a 3rd party candidate. They're less likely in the pockets of the major donors. It's time to send a message to the career politicians and switch out the incumbents.
Your school must be in the wrong neighborhood. You have to move into a good neighborhood where parents actually care about the school and the children enough to make it a good school. You may actually have to move to find a place like that and get out of the hellhole of a neighborhood where your school is treated as a prison precursor.