Back in the 90's, I bought these "Lights of America" brand of fluorescents that came on pretty much instantly. You might notice a delay if you stared at it while you flipped the switch, but they were pretty close to instant. There wasn't any noticeable warm up time, it seemed to be full, or nearly full brightness the moment you turned them on. They were around $12 each back then. They still sell them, but they have the longer U-Shaped tubes, not the compact swirls, so they work better in larger covered recessed fixtures or open garage fixtures. The tubes can separate from the ballast so you could replace just the tube later. The newer GE and Sylvania Bulbs with the swirled tubes suck compared to those, but they're much cheaper because of subsidies from the utilities.
The reason your fluorescents die sooner than expected is likely due to power fluctuations on your line. If you live in an older neighborhood, the line transformers have probably not been upgraded to handle all the electricity of a modern home. I kept seeing brownouts and spikes whenever the neighbors' AC units came on. I could even hear it come on when I was outside and see my lights noticeably dim through the windows. (They cut all their trees down, while we have seasonal shading so we don't really need an AC.) It's blown out 2 of my Cheap UPS which I bought to protect my non computer electronics. When our line transformer finally overloaded with a spectacular oil steam explosion, they replaced it with a modern one and I haven't seen any obvious dimming of lights nor have I had to replace my lights in quite some time now. Luckily, those fluorescents were $0.99 and free, so i wasn't quite so miffed about losing them.
They do sell dimmable bulbs, since I have them in my home. I don't remember what brand they are, since I haven't had to replace them, but they did cost double the price of the non-dimmable bulbs. They've also lasted far longer, because their circuits are designed to withstand power fluctuations for dimming. I haven't replaced these in over 7 years even with the power line fluctuations of the first 5 years, while the cheaper non-dimming fluorescents died.
If you frequently have noticeably dimming lights, which I did, you should buy the dimmable bulbs so you don't keep replacing them for no good reason. Complain to your electric company and tell them to upgrade your line transformer too. They're messing up your electronics.
The foreign students don't come here for free. They pay full tuition price and buy food and spend money. It's not like we subsidize them.
In fact, they're subsidizing the local students. They usually pay the higher fees while they're here. Local students, at least in the western states have a lot of it covered, although that's becoming less true. It makes up for the shortages in income that the "public" universities are suffering from the long term privatization efforts started around the time of Gov. Reagan.
The cpus are now stuck at 2007 speeds. The only upgrade is to multicore/multiproc and programmers aren't completely up to speed on parallel programming. A lot of the fun games are not multiproc/multicore, so everyone can still run them, even on most 5 year old single core systems.
You're also just getting older and have more responsibilties. When you have kids, you won't have as much time to waste gaming, assuming of course you want to raise them to your standards.
Unfortunately, you and others like you keep saying that the US is still freer than the USSR or Russia, all while new restrictions keep getting applied. It's almost as if you're saying, not a big deal, we lose a few freedoms, but it's freer than what it could be.
We, who have lived here all this time have seen our freedom slowly erode. I hate the start of slippery slopes. I miss my previous freedoms.
I found early floppy disks to be quite reliable. I'm still reading data from them. They became unreliable when AOL started dumping their cheap floppies. All my early floppies from the 80s still worked. When AOL started dumping, the manufacturers started making them cheap, for one time use and actually selling them to the consumers, because people would see the price and buy the cheaper ones. Every manufacturer followed suit.
Malaria caused a selection for sickle-cell anemia. The ability to survive does not have to mean survival of the fittest.
That technically is the survival of the fittest. People keep mistaking the concept, and have an incomplete picture of survival of the fittest. It means the fittest for the environment. In this case, if you have the sickle cell trait, you will be better equipt to survive the environment with malaria. So you are the fittest if you have the sickle cell trait. If you ended somewhere where malaria is nonexistant, then you won't be the fittest in that new environment.
Similarly, if you didn't have that sickle cell trait, and contract malaria, you may likely die. That makes you less fit for the malarial environment.
I know I'm a very minor voice in this, but I find it annoying to sign in to Apple's tracking just to download a free app. I will still install MPlayerX on all the Macs that I have control over.
Too many people are willing to give up their privacy to apple to get software that was once just freely available. This goes for the android app stores too. I really don't like signing on to web pages that require javascript from a multitude of sites before I am able to download.
Don't sit in front if you've been up late and your prof. speaks in a monotone. I think I fell asleep too many times with one prof. He wasn't too pleased.
When the people who work with a shoestring budget care about what they do, they can do wonders. When you have private companies that mainly chase the almighty cash, they will do all the unnecessary procedures needed to make themselves more money.
It's simplest to watch over them. Also, between 7-12 years of age, I also restricted their computer time, otherwise, they'll be on it every waking moment. I've never left them alone with the computer.
Now that they're older, they understand that I can remotely monitor their activities if I choose to, but I rely on trust. They do know how to clear their browser caches, but they also know that I have access to router logs.
If you teach them to be responsible, they generally will be. I really don't care if they see a little bit of porn by accident. Before they reach puberty, they don't even see it as sexual.
Most teachers aren't specifically trained to teach any particular subject either. In some cases, they're just plain incompetent. On the other hand, you also have the crazy parents who insist on bailing their children out of every bad grade and lawyering the teacher until they relent. I've seen both and I can understand why some people want to pull their kids out to be home schooled.
Schools are failing the smarter children, which is why, even if you do send them to school, you have to supplement their education anyway.
The typical malware on Windows generally exist on User workstations, not on the back end servers. A well managed Windows server gets very few viruses or security problems.
CFLs don't dim as much as an incandescent. I left a single incandescent along with 3 fluorescents in a chandelier and the fluorescents stay quite bright at the lowest dimmable setting.
It's good to have early adopters. When prices come down on the LEDs, everyone will be using them and CFLs and incandescents will no longer be relevant. I can imagine LEDs surpassing the current lumens/watt in the future, but can't see incandescents or fluorescents catching up. Fluorescents have had the same basic lumens/watt for decades, but LEDs have already caught up.
You should blame the local utility for the brownouts. The local brownouts are likely due to the inadequate line transformers that were rated for homes that didn't use quite so much electricity decades ago. Americans are quite spoiled with all the electronic gadgets and AC units in the home these days.
When the electric company replaced the inadequate line transformer, that failed catastrophically, on my block, I stopped getting brownouts whenever the neighbors' AC units turned on. It was down for 18 hours. Since that time, I haven't lost many fluorescents. I don't see any visible dimming of the lights either. Before then, I was losing 2-3 a year. If they weren't subsidized to $1 each, I would never have gotten them.
LEDs, in general, are also much sturdier than CFLs ore incandescents. They should last for 5 years without a hitch. The 20 years claim is likely valid.
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Back in the 90's, I bought these "Lights of America" brand of fluorescents that came on pretty much instantly. You might notice a delay if you stared at it while you flipped the switch, but they were pretty close to instant. There wasn't any noticeable warm up time, it seemed to be full, or nearly full brightness the moment you turned them on. They were around $12 each back then. They still sell them, but they have the longer U-Shaped tubes, not the compact swirls, so they work better in larger covered recessed fixtures or open garage fixtures. The tubes can separate from the ballast so you could replace just the tube later. The newer GE and Sylvania Bulbs with the swirled tubes suck compared to those, but they're much cheaper because of subsidies from the utilities.
The reason your fluorescents die sooner than expected is likely due to power fluctuations on your line. If you live in an older neighborhood, the line transformers have probably not been upgraded to handle all the electricity of a modern home. I kept seeing brownouts and spikes whenever the neighbors' AC units came on. I could even hear it come on when I was outside and see my lights noticeably dim through the windows. (They cut all their trees down, while we have seasonal shading so we don't really need an AC.) It's blown out 2 of my Cheap UPS which I bought to protect my non computer electronics. When our line transformer finally overloaded with a spectacular oil steam explosion, they replaced it with a modern one and I haven't seen any obvious dimming of lights nor have I had to replace my lights in quite some time now. Luckily, those fluorescents were $0.99 and free, so i wasn't quite so miffed about losing them.
They do sell dimmable bulbs, since I have them in my home. I don't remember what brand they are, since I haven't had to replace them, but they did cost double the price of the non-dimmable bulbs. They've also lasted far longer, because their circuits are designed to withstand power fluctuations for dimming. I haven't replaced these in over 7 years even with the power line fluctuations of the first 5 years, while the cheaper non-dimming fluorescents died.
If you frequently have noticeably dimming lights, which I did, you should buy the dimmable bulbs so you don't keep replacing them for no good reason. Complain to your electric company and tell them to upgrade your line transformer too. They're messing up your electronics.
You've forgotten that subsidies are what makes corn cheap in the USA.
The foreign students don't come here for free. They pay full tuition price and buy food and spend money. It's not like we subsidize them.
In fact, they're subsidizing the local students. They usually pay the higher fees while they're here. Local students, at least in the western states have a lot of it covered, although that's becoming less true. It makes up for the shortages in income that the "public" universities are suffering from the long term privatization efforts started around the time of Gov. Reagan.
The cpus are now stuck at 2007 speeds. The only upgrade is to multicore/multiproc and programmers aren't completely up to speed on parallel programming. A lot of the fun games are not multiproc/multicore, so everyone can still run them, even on most 5 year old single core systems.
You're also just getting older and have more responsibilties. When you have kids, you won't have as much time to waste gaming, assuming of course you want to raise them to your standards.
I await the Mule
3 Months of summer vacation didn't seem to hinder kids 30-80 years ago. Why is this the excuse for this generation?
What Poll? I see no poll. Turn of javascript if you don't want to be bothered by ads.
Unfortunately, you and others like you keep saying that the US is still freer than the USSR or Russia, all while new restrictions keep getting applied. It's almost as if you're saying, not a big deal, we lose a few freedoms, but it's freer than what it could be.
We, who have lived here all this time have seen our freedom slowly erode. I hate the start of slippery slopes. I miss my previous freedoms.
I found early floppy disks to be quite reliable. I'm still reading data from them. They became unreliable when AOL started dumping their cheap floppies. All my early floppies from the 80s still worked. When AOL started dumping, the manufacturers started making them cheap, for one time use and actually selling them to the consumers, because people would see the price and buy the cheaper ones. Every manufacturer followed suit.
That technically is the survival of the fittest. People keep mistaking the concept, and have an incomplete picture of survival of the fittest. It means the fittest for the environment. In this case, if you have the sickle cell trait, you will be better equipt to survive the environment with malaria. So you are the fittest if you have the sickle cell trait. If you ended somewhere where malaria is nonexistant, then you won't be the fittest in that new environment.
Similarly, if you didn't have that sickle cell trait, and contract malaria, you may likely die. That makes you less fit for the malarial environment.
He can always start Teamviewer one time and use that to set up VNC and ssh and firewalls.
I know I'm a very minor voice in this, but I find it annoying to sign in to Apple's tracking just to download a free app. I will still install MPlayerX on all the Macs that I have control over.
Too many people are willing to give up their privacy to apple to get software that was once just freely available. This goes for the android app stores too. I really don't like signing on to web pages that require javascript from a multitude of sites before I am able to download.
Engineers have short memories and we are loosing important artifacts all the time...
If they were setting them loose, then we wouldn't be losing them.
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Don't sit in front if you've been up late and your prof. speaks in a monotone. I think I fell asleep too many times with one prof. He wasn't too pleased.
I was able to rescue data from an older 120 GB drive using Roadkil's Unstopable Copier http://www.roadkil.net/
It really all depends on the type of failure you have.
When the people who work with a shoestring budget care about what they do, they can do wonders. When you have private companies that mainly chase the almighty cash, they will do all the unnecessary procedures needed to make themselves more money.
It's simplest to watch over them. Also, between 7-12 years of age, I also restricted their computer time, otherwise, they'll be on it every waking moment. I've never left them alone with the computer.
Now that they're older, they understand that I can remotely monitor their activities if I choose to, but I rely on trust. They do know how to clear their browser caches, but they also know that I have access to router logs.
If you teach them to be responsible, they generally will be. I really don't care if they see a little bit of porn by accident. Before they reach puberty, they don't even see it as sexual.
Most teachers aren't specifically trained to teach any particular subject either. In some cases, they're just plain incompetent. On the other hand, you also have the crazy parents who insist on bailing their children out of every bad grade and lawyering the teacher until they relent. I've seen both and I can understand why some people want to pull their kids out to be home schooled.
Schools are failing the smarter children, which is why, even if you do send them to school, you have to supplement their education anyway.
The typical malware on Windows generally exist on User workstations, not on the back end servers. A well managed Windows server gets very few viruses or security problems.
And the command and control IRC servers are typically running on linux.
You don't lose your mail, they only block the Google+ portion of it.
There's also the Educational level of the parents, specifically the mother.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ786885&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ786885
CFLs don't dim as much as an incandescent. I left a single incandescent along with 3 fluorescents in a chandelier and the fluorescents stay quite bright at the lowest dimmable setting.
It's good to have early adopters. When prices come down on the LEDs, everyone will be using them and CFLs and incandescents will no longer be relevant. I can imagine LEDs surpassing the current lumens/watt in the future, but can't see incandescents or fluorescents catching up. Fluorescents have had the same basic lumens/watt for decades, but LEDs have already caught up.
You should blame the local utility for the brownouts. The local brownouts are likely due to the inadequate line transformers that were rated for homes that didn't use quite so much electricity decades ago. Americans are quite spoiled with all the electronic gadgets and AC units in the home these days.
When the electric company replaced the inadequate line transformer, that failed catastrophically, on my block, I stopped getting brownouts whenever the neighbors' AC units turned on. It was down for 18 hours. Since that time, I haven't lost many fluorescents. I don't see any visible dimming of the lights either. Before then, I was losing 2-3 a year. If they weren't subsidized to $1 each, I would never have gotten them.
LEDs, in general, are also much sturdier than CFLs ore incandescents. They should last for 5 years without a hitch. The 20 years claim is likely valid.