Every package I've read for a CFL tells you NOT to use them in an enclosed light fixture (and most tell you not to use them in cold climates). If people are doing this and expecting they'll work despite the manufacturer telling you *not* to do this, they deserve the results.
It's fine if people wish to invest their own money as they see fit. Last I checked, there was no requirement (state nor federal) that *required* people to purchase these $60 bulbs...
You really couldn't do Municipal Internet with competition because there's no real good way to connect to the Municipal line, then connect through that to an ISP of your choosing.
Why not? All of the individual customer connections have to terminate *somewhere*. Why can't *somewhere* be a nice big closet where each ISP can bring in their own data lines, then connect their customers endpoint to their network? The city can decide to add a small fee to the 3rd party ISP for maintenance of the endpoint-to-customer part of the line to help with costs (like POTS providers do to 3rd parties that wish to offer DSL services over their lines)...
Wait -- what's stopping 'the local IT guy" from building his own network *now*? All he has to do is follow the same rules any other service provider does in order to string his cabling (and have the cash to do so)...
It's been my experience that most people that complain about the color of CFL's didn't pay attention to the color temperature of what bulbs they were purchasing. I, personally, prefer the 3500k bulbs. My mother loves those awful 5000k bulbs. Most people I know that like incandescents but hated CFL's didn't mind the CFL's I got them that were in the 2000k range (I forget the exact number) -- they give off the same 'yellow' light that their favorite bulbs do.
It's funny to go into someones house and see three different color temperature bulbs (sometimes in the same room!) because they didn't pay attention when they were buying them... heh
Also, to "cpu6502" -- few, if any, people have to 'drive to the dump' to dispose (properly) of CFL's. I know every Home Depot takes them for free, and I'd like to bet other stores do also.
Why is that? Of all the drive problems I've ever had, from failures to DOAs to Linux incompatibility issues, the one manufacturer that has stood out as being the most reliable is in fact Western Digital. Why do you distrust WD?
Probably the same reason I distrust WD drives -- they fail far too often. I have a dead WD800 sitting at home, and a pile of various WD's sitting in my office (WD16000AAJS, WD400, multiple 250GB SATA WD Blue labels, etc). That's just what I have in my office, and doesn't count what we were able to send in under the 4 year warranty we have on our Optiplex systems. Most of the blue labeled drives came out of Optiplex 755's. Most of the replacements we received from Dell were Samsungs (all of which are still going strong, to my knowledge). Of all these dead drives, I have three dead Seagates. Two are the ill-fated 1.5TB drives, and one is an 80GB SATA that is more than 5 years old.
This isn't a recent trend, either. I've distrusted WD drives since the days of sub-500MB IDE drives...
I used to watch TLC pretty frequently. Now it's all programming about decorating things (houses, people, etc), pimping out your toddlers, and irresponsible child birth (both in having absurdly large families, and those that *somehow* "don't know" they're pregnant, etc)... Used to watch Planet Green until it started running reruns from other Discovery channels. I do watch a lot of Discovery Science, though I don't hold out much hope that Discovery Networks won't fuck that one up also.:(
Suddenly my nearly $40k seems so small, and I directly support 50-70 faculty/staff in addition to my responsibilities that directly affect a campus of several thousand (I work in an IT department for a college).
I actually enjoyed *both* series you mentioned, an am quite turned off at *how they were ended*. Get me involved in a story line and then just cut it off, without a finish?
Turn off the toolbars you're not using. Under the "Windows" menu, "Dockable Dialogs", you can select/deselect each of the items that are getting in your way.
It'd be rather annoying to have to constantly go in and enable/disable the windows you need just so they're not all in the way, but it's a start.:)
I work at a college with a radio station. It *SUCKS*. I think they play the shi..er.. music they do simply because it's not what you'd hear on a normal station, and for no other reason. At least it gives the students experience for when they eventually end up in a real radio station, I suppose...
All the above comments aside, it sounds to me like linux *did* work in this troll's example. The part they didn't like was that they believed they had to give away all their work "for free", which while probably true, doesn't mean "linux" didn't work, as it clearly did. The troll even mentions (s)he (and/or their company) was pleased with how it worked, and had planned to expand its usage.
Really, troll -- if you're going to spit this crap unto the comment system, at least come up with something that makes sense.
"That entirely depends on how fast trash is flowing into the collection. The patch is constantly being fed with new crap thanks to our amazing lack of ability to throw it in the trash."
Throwing the plastic "in the trash" is a part of the reason it's making its way into the ocean. We should be recycling it *on land*, before it even has the chance to make its way into our rivers/oceans. Considering how much oil it needs to be created from "scratch", we should be striving to recycle as much of the already existing plastic as we can anyway...
It actually depends on the printers being considered. In general, it's not good for inkjets, especially when you factor in that ink cartridges will just "dry up" while they're sitting in the printer and that most cartridges have "expiration dates" and won't work in the printer, enforced by the print driver itself (though some have "workarounds"). You simply don't have all these issues with laser printers.
As I said -- I have the slides, I just need to plug in the numbers once I find out what printer they're looking at purchasing and can then compare it to the printer supported by ITS that most closely matches the cheap POS the department has selected.
The answer would be "yes", to both questions. I even have a fancy-schmancy.ppt (it's all these people respond to) that shows the cost of ink vs. toner (all I have to do is fill in the make/model of the inkjet and laser printers), with yields for both. I put it in front of some "mountain" pictures (to help re-enforce the mountain of cash they'll be spending on the inkjet). Hard to put into words. Maybe there was too much info in the slides, but all they could focus on was "But, this one is cheaper right now!".
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Just like the Philips AmbiLED and Endura bulbs, this "L-Prize" bulb are 2700k -- a color temperature I despise (I'm a 3000-3500k man myself).
Every package I've read for a CFL tells you NOT to use them in an enclosed light fixture (and most tell you not to use them in cold climates). If people are doing this and expecting they'll work despite the manufacturer telling you *not* to do this, they deserve the results.
It's fine if people wish to invest their own money as they see fit. Last I checked, there was no requirement (state nor federal) that *required* people to purchase these $60 bulbs...
Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt!
When will people start to care about paying for low quality products when hight quality ones are free?
'People', like me, will start to care when the software we run (for me it's games) run *natively* under the freely available operating systems.
THAT is one of the biggest issues preventing 'people' from migrating to Linux.
You must be new he... Oh.. Sorry. Carry on.. ;P
You really couldn't do Municipal Internet with competition because there's no real good way to connect to the Municipal line, then connect through that to an ISP of your choosing.
Why not? All of the individual customer connections have to terminate *somewhere*. Why can't *somewhere* be a nice big closet where each ISP can bring in their own data lines, then connect their customers endpoint to their network? The city can decide to add a small fee to the 3rd party ISP for maintenance of the endpoint-to-customer part of the line to help with costs (like POTS providers do to 3rd parties that wish to offer DSL services over their lines)...
Wait -- what's stopping 'the local IT guy" from building his own network *now*? All he has to do is follow the same rules any other service provider does in order to string his cabling (and have the cash to do so)...
It's been my experience that most people that complain about the color of CFL's didn't pay attention to the color temperature of what bulbs they were purchasing. I, personally, prefer the 3500k bulbs. My mother loves those awful 5000k bulbs. Most people I know that like incandescents but hated CFL's didn't mind the CFL's I got them that were in the 2000k range (I forget the exact number) -- they give off the same 'yellow' light that their favorite bulbs do.
It's funny to go into someones house and see three different color temperature bulbs (sometimes in the same room!) because they didn't pay attention when they were buying them... heh
Also, to "cpu6502" -- few, if any, people have to 'drive to the dump' to dispose (properly) of CFL's. I know every Home Depot takes them for free, and I'd like to bet other stores do also.
Why is that? Of all the drive problems I've ever had, from failures to DOAs to Linux incompatibility issues, the one manufacturer that has stood out as being the most reliable is in fact Western Digital. Why do you distrust WD?
Probably the same reason I distrust WD drives -- they fail far too often. I have a dead WD800 sitting at home, and a pile of various WD's sitting in my office (WD16000AAJS, WD400, multiple 250GB SATA WD Blue labels, etc). That's just what I have in my office, and doesn't count what we were able to send in under the 4 year warranty we have on our Optiplex systems. Most of the blue labeled drives came out of Optiplex 755's. Most of the replacements we received from Dell were Samsungs (all of which are still going strong, to my knowledge). Of all these dead drives, I have three dead Seagates. Two are the ill-fated 1.5TB drives, and one is an 80GB SATA that is more than 5 years old.
This isn't a recent trend, either. I've distrusted WD drives since the days of sub-500MB IDE drives...
I used to watch TLC pretty frequently. Now it's all programming about decorating things (houses, people, etc), pimping out your toddlers, and irresponsible child birth (both in having absurdly large families, and those that *somehow* "don't know" they're pregnant, etc)... Used to watch Planet Green until it started running reruns from other Discovery channels. I do watch a lot of Discovery Science, though I don't hold out much hope that Discovery Networks won't fuck that one up also. :(
$100k?!
Suddenly my nearly $40k seems so small, and I directly support 50-70 faculty/staff in addition to my responsibilities that directly affect a campus of several thousand (I work in an IT department for a college).
If you have Netflix, all of Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis are available for streaming. No need to actually leave the house! ;)
I actually enjoyed *both* series you mentioned, an am quite turned off at *how they were ended*. Get me involved in a story line and then just cut it off, without a finish?
WSUS / etc won't do much good for a Linux server...
Turn off the toolbars you're not using. Under the "Windows" menu, "Dockable Dialogs", you can select/deselect each of the items that are getting in your way.
It'd be rather annoying to have to constantly go in and enable/disable the windows you need just so they're not all in the way, but it's a start. :)
I work at a college with a radio station. It *SUCKS*. I think they play the shi..er.. music they do simply because it's not what you'd hear on a normal station, and for no other reason. At least it gives the students experience for when they eventually end up in a real radio station, I suppose...
My GPS works perfectly after the 2.2.1 update (Sprint Epic "4G"). The updates El Goog made to Maps has made things even better while traveling. :D
Why *wouldn't* you consider the mainboard as part of the cost?! The chip can't operate with all your components just by being in contact with them!
The choice itself is the better choice. I'd MUCH rather have the choice.
But -- Why use a spoon?
All the above comments aside, it sounds to me like linux *did* work in this troll's example. The part they didn't like was that they believed they had to give away all their work "for free", which while probably true, doesn't mean "linux" didn't work, as it clearly did. The troll even mentions (s)he (and/or their company) was pleased with how it worked, and had planned to expand its usage.
Really, troll -- if you're going to spit this crap unto the comment system, at least come up with something that makes sense.
"That entirely depends on how fast trash is flowing into the collection. The patch is constantly being fed with new crap thanks to our amazing lack of ability to throw it in the trash."
Throwing the plastic "in the trash" is a part of the reason it's making its way into the ocean. We should be recycling it *on land*, before it even has the chance to make its way into our rivers/oceans. Considering how much oil it needs to be created from "scratch", we should be striving to recycle as much of the already existing plastic as we can anyway...
It actually depends on the printers being considered. In general, it's not good for inkjets, especially when you factor in that ink cartridges will just "dry up" while they're sitting in the printer and that most cartridges have "expiration dates" and won't work in the printer, enforced by the print driver itself (though some have "workarounds"). You simply don't have all these issues with laser printers.
As I said -- I have the slides, I just need to plug in the numbers once I find out what printer they're looking at purchasing and can then compare it to the printer supported by ITS that most closely matches the cheap POS the department has selected.
The answer would be "yes", to both questions. I even have a fancy-schmancy .ppt (it's all these people respond to) that shows the cost of ink vs. toner (all I have to do is fill in the make/model of the inkjet and laser printers), with yields for both. I put it in front of some "mountain" pictures (to help re-enforce the mountain of cash they'll be spending on the inkjet). Hard to put into words. Maybe there was too much info in the slides, but all they could focus on was "But, this one is cheaper right now!".