Heck, I wouldn't mind paying an extra 50% if it meant that the quality control was good on the product. The problem with cheap CFLs is the total lack of quality control, where every bulb is a gamble. Will it take forever to get to full brightness? Will it flicker? Will the color be off? Will it burn out in two weeks? Usually you get a good one and that's not an issue, but maybe 1 in 10 will have some problem that renders the bulb worthless.
While it wouldn't make economic sense to buy the more expensive bulb in that case (still only 10% more instead of 33%), it would reduce the annoyance factor of having to go out to the special fluorescent recycling center (all the way on the other side of the county 45 minutes away) just because the bulb is a dud and the "lifetime warranty" is a lie.
Of course I'd also pay more for a bulb that didn't contain any regulated heavy metals so I could just throw it in the trash like an incandescent.
If I can automate in the US and ship to China, cost-wise it can still be competitive. But I worry America has too many lawyers.
He's basically worried that if he tried to pull the same shit he gets away with in China, he would be shut down. This is undoubtedly a valid concern, but it does cast a depressing light on outsourcing. Basically the US is losing manufacturing jobs because we don't let business completely stomp all over the rights of the workers anymore.
I can't believe iTunes is still a Carbon app to this day. Everybody else has updated to Cocoa, what's taking you so long Apple? Are you too busy figuring out ways to break your own Human Interface Guidelines?
We could stack chips today except for the fact that it's impossible to cool the middle layers and the thing would almost instantly melt itself down. I wouldn't be surprised if this new technology ran into exactly the same problem.
Any time I'm trying to figure out why something is crashing on Windows, I curse the fact that error messages rarely tell you anything useful at all. In Unix you'll often get a message on stderr like: Unable to write/foo/bar: Permission Denied. Ah, easy fix, no problem. On Windows you'll at best get "Unable to continue" message, and no clue as to what the problem is (Maybe an ACL is set wrong somewhere? Who knows?).
Occasionally I'll check the system log, but to date I have never gotten any useful information out of the Windows system log for any problem.
It's yet another case of Windows taking a "don't tell the user anything, it might scare them" approach. I would be totally ok if a dialog popped up saying "Application so and so aborted the shutdown.", instead of me having to repeatedly hit shutdown until whatever it is stops doing that.
Or the process where you get halfway through the shutdown, and then it stops for no apparent reason and you have to go and order the shutdown again to get it to finish shutting down.
Tied an artists hands a little bit can be good, but the code was a straitjacket--especially in the original incarnation. And attempting to publish without the CCA logo was suicide. Many distributes wouldn't even carry your product, and towns enacted ordinances making non CCA tagged comics "adult material" and illegal for distribution inside of the town boundaries. It took decades for the industry to recover, and even now comics retain the stigma of "kids stuff about moralistic superheroes and fluffy animals", despite the eventual backlash and proliferation of adult targeted (and non CCA approved) comics during the 80s and beyond.
This is still a DARPA project. DARPA funds all sorts of wacky far-future development work in the off chance that some of it actually becomes feasible, and at the very least they try to learn a bit more about how to make a successful flying car, or why it won't work without unobtanium.
$40 million bucks is not a lot for a military project. That's more "do some research and build a proof of concept and maybe we'll consider funding you to build them for real" money.
Also, that was one of the most obnoxious webpages I've seen in awhile for having popups appear all over the article.
This is also why monitors come in nice and easily memorable names like WSXGA+ and WQXGA (not to be confused with QWXGA) instead of something scary or potentially useful like 1680x1050.
Is it a bad idea to create a trap door in a carpeted room and just stuff the cash under the floorboards? You could even set up a magnetic lock so people couldn't accidentally open it. That way it's easy for you to get to, but near impossible for anybody else unless they're willing to literally tear your house apart to get it. And that's just what I thought up in a couple of minutes while reading your post. There have to be hundreds of good places to stash stuff you don't want found.
Heck, whatever happened to burying stuff out in the woods? It's a bit of a pain to retrieve, but as long as you aren't dumb or seriously unlucky it should be pretty secure.
A shortwave antenna would be a challenge to fit in a cell phone form factor, that's for sure. You are probably one of maybe a dozen people in the US that would buy such a device.
If you would love having a tuner in your phone, go and buy a phone with a tuner in it. They're not hard to find. Personally, I would never use the thing, and designing an FM antenna that works well in a cell phone form factor is an exercise in compromise.
Curbside breathalizers can also malfunction and give erroneously high readings. It can be a case of "had a beer at dinner, blew a.32", but typically they can test you again back at the station if you think this is the case and get exonerated.
Shocking as this may seem, treatment of accidental disclosure (reading it in the morning paper) and intentional circumvention (going to wikileaks to scour a load of documents marked SECRET) are handled differently.
What happens when a semi crosses the lane on a bridge and knocks you off into the deep water?
There are so many varied and creative ways that people have found to kill themselves in their cars that "zero-fatalities" sounds like "The Titanic is UNSINKABLE!" to me.
The thing is, although you were genuinely interested in the subject, chances are at least some of your classmates weren't and if the class went at your speed they would have been completely lost by the third week. That's exactly my experience with High School programming (Math teacher, Pascal, floppies on 286 equipped Epsons). I managed to keep sane by just doing way more than every project asked for. Draw a map on the screen? Well mine is in 3D (kinda) and you can rotate it around. Need to do some math on numbers? Well mine has a full blown interface.
The worst part: Those kids the teacher tried extra hard on? They mostly failed the class because they just didn't give a damn.
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Probably mercury poisoning.
Heck, I wouldn't mind paying an extra 50% if it meant that the quality control was good on the product. The problem with cheap CFLs is the total lack of quality control, where every bulb is a gamble. Will it take forever to get to full brightness? Will it flicker? Will the color be off? Will it burn out in two weeks? Usually you get a good one and that's not an issue, but maybe 1 in 10 will have some problem that renders the bulb worthless.
While it wouldn't make economic sense to buy the more expensive bulb in that case (still only 10% more instead of 33%), it would reduce the annoyance factor of having to go out to the special fluorescent recycling center (all the way on the other side of the county 45 minutes away) just because the bulb is a dud and the "lifetime warranty" is a lie.
Of course I'd also pay more for a bulb that didn't contain any regulated heavy metals so I could just throw it in the trash like an incandescent.
He's basically worried that if he tried to pull the same shit he gets away with in China, he would be shut down. This is undoubtedly a valid concern, but it does cast a depressing light on outsourcing. Basically the US is losing manufacturing jobs because we don't let business completely stomp all over the rights of the workers anymore.
They are GF104 based according to some other sources on the web. It's really the only thing that makes sense, short of a whole new chip (unlikely).
And release the game on 4/1/2011
I can't believe iTunes is still a Carbon app to this day. Everybody else has updated to Cocoa, what's taking you so long Apple? Are you too busy figuring out ways to break your own Human Interface Guidelines?
We could stack chips today except for the fact that it's impossible to cool the middle layers and the thing would almost instantly melt itself down. I wouldn't be surprised if this new technology ran into exactly the same problem.
Any time I'm trying to figure out why something is crashing on Windows, I curse the fact that error messages rarely tell you anything useful at all. In Unix you'll often get a message on stderr like: Unable to write /foo/bar: Permission Denied. Ah, easy fix, no problem. On Windows you'll at best get "Unable to continue" message, and no clue as to what the problem is (Maybe an ACL is set wrong somewhere? Who knows?).
Occasionally I'll check the system log, but to date I have never gotten any useful information out of the Windows system log for any problem.
It's yet another case of Windows taking a "don't tell the user anything, it might scare them" approach. I would be totally ok if a dialog popped up saying "Application so and so aborted the shutdown.", instead of me having to repeatedly hit shutdown until whatever it is stops doing that.
Or the process where you get halfway through the shutdown, and then it stops for no apparent reason and you have to go and order the shutdown again to get it to finish shutting down.
A lot of the other overdoses are simply hospital errors.
Tied an artists hands a little bit can be good, but the code was a straitjacket--especially in the original incarnation. And attempting to publish without the CCA logo was suicide. Many distributes wouldn't even carry your product, and towns enacted ordinances making non CCA tagged comics "adult material" and illegal for distribution inside of the town boundaries. It took decades for the industry to recover, and even now comics retain the stigma of "kids stuff about moralistic superheroes and fluffy animals", despite the eventual backlash and proliferation of adult targeted (and non CCA approved) comics during the 80s and beyond.
This is still a DARPA project. DARPA funds all sorts of wacky far-future development work in the off chance that some of it actually becomes feasible, and at the very least they try to learn a bit more about how to make a successful flying car, or why it won't work without unobtanium.
$40 million bucks is not a lot for a military project. That's more "do some research and build a proof of concept and maybe we'll consider funding you to build them for real" money.
Also, that was one of the most obnoxious webpages I've seen in awhile for having popups appear all over the article.
This is also why monitors come in nice and easily memorable names like WSXGA+ and WQXGA (not to be confused with QWXGA) instead of something scary or potentially useful like 1680x1050.
Because the marketing people say that numbers are scary.
Is it a bad idea to create a trap door in a carpeted room and just stuff the cash under the floorboards? You could even set up a magnetic lock so people couldn't accidentally open it. That way it's easy for you to get to, but near impossible for anybody else unless they're willing to literally tear your house apart to get it. And that's just what I thought up in a couple of minutes while reading your post. There have to be hundreds of good places to stash stuff you don't want found.
Heck, whatever happened to burying stuff out in the woods? It's a bit of a pain to retrieve, but as long as you aren't dumb or seriously unlucky it should be pretty secure.
Yeah, it's pretty much impossible to get a consumer ISP to route IPv6 still. That is by far the biggest roadblock to implementation at this point.
Astroturfing on the internet? Well I never!
Iran's government sure loves blaming the US doesn't it.
A shortwave antenna would be a challenge to fit in a cell phone form factor, that's for sure. You are probably one of maybe a dozen people in the US that would buy such a device.
If you would love having a tuner in your phone, go and buy a phone with a tuner in it. They're not hard to find. Personally, I would never use the thing, and designing an FM antenna that works well in a cell phone form factor is an exercise in compromise.
Curbside breathalizers can also malfunction and give erroneously high readings. It can be a case of "had a beer at dinner, blew a .32", but typically they can test you again back at the station if you think this is the case and get exonerated.
Shocking as this may seem, treatment of accidental disclosure (reading it in the morning paper) and intentional circumvention (going to wikileaks to scour a load of documents marked SECRET) are handled differently.
What happens when a semi crosses the lane on a bridge and knocks you off into the deep water?
There are so many varied and creative ways that people have found to kill themselves in their cars that "zero-fatalities" sounds like "The Titanic is UNSINKABLE!" to me.
The thing is, although you were genuinely interested in the subject, chances are at least some of your classmates weren't and if the class went at your speed they would have been completely lost by the third week. That's exactly my experience with High School programming (Math teacher, Pascal, floppies on 286 equipped Epsons). I managed to keep sane by just doing way more than every project asked for. Draw a map on the screen? Well mine is in 3D (kinda) and you can rotate it around. Need to do some math on numbers? Well mine has a full blown interface.
The worst part: Those kids the teacher tried extra hard on? They mostly failed the class because they just didn't give a damn.