The very best (read expensive) LED lights that are 75W equivalent are no more efficient than a CFL and due to the heat of the ballast aren't expected to last appreciably longer. Eventually they will might get there, but it will take a hell of a lot of R&D which might be better spent elsewhere.
Actually I believe she was black, it was mostly her false rape claim and the fact that the prosecutor wanted to save face after losing a conviction where he had illegal acts caught on tape (the sex and underage drinking).
CFL's are significantly higher than your assumption, inexpensive GE's have a lifetime average of between 50-55 lumens/W. Unless they can somehow get LED's production costs down a ton they aren't going to be used for anything but specialty applications where CFL's won't fit, the spot nature of LED's is desirable, or where there is some possible savings by the longer achievable lifetime (though at worse lumens/W).
It wasn't even penetration, he got a BJ from a girl a few weeks on the wrong side of a magical line and for that and being black he had his life messed up. He spent 2 YEARS in jail before the Georgia Supreme Court tuled that a 10 year sentence was cruel and unusual ("grossly disproportionate") linky. Luckily that particular law got changed to a misdemeanor with no registration requirement due to the public outcry over his case, but there are still literally thousands of bad laws on the books which can land you on lists and with crazy out of whack sentences all due "But think of the children" pandering from politicians and suburban housewives.
A standard GE 75W bulb is between 830 and 1200 lumens depending on model, their T3 bulbs for that same lumen range are either 15W or 20W. I personally am extremely light sensitive (to the point where my optometrist doesn't even attempt to use the drops on me and instead uses the puff machine and camera) so I prefer 60W equivalent's anyways =)
I use dimmable floods in my basement, they go from about 8W-100W equivalent, not as good as their incandescent neighbors but I'm not watching movies down there and when they are all replaced they will save about 1KW when the basement's fully lit!
GE Energy Smart CFL's are a pretty good approximation of the spectra of incandescent (2700K 82CRI). They are available at Sam's Club (and I believe Walmart). I've been using them for about 3 years now and just replaced my first bulb. Since I live in the Cleveland area and grew up going to their holiday lighting show I'm thinking about returning the failed unit myself and seeing if I can find out why it failed =) Btw GE rates their bulbs to fall off ~20% from initial peak so using a 14W (75W equivalent) for reading lamps is probably a minimum.
Car charger, that big 800-1800A 12V battery will power your cellphone almost indefinitely and it comes with it's own generator. Hybrid cars could be even better but we need some intelligence in future plugin models and you will have to get a service disconnect switch if you want to use your inhouse wiring =)
LOL, I haven't had a BSOD from nvidia drivers since the early days of XP and at least their driver's don't require the freaking bloated.NET CRL to even install!
In fact I can't remember a time in the last 4 NVidia cards I've owned (going back to a Ti-4200) that I had an issue related to the driver.
My wife turns up the home theater MUCH louder than I do, in fact I think she somehow blew out one of the midrange speakers in the center channel (shouldn't have been possible the amp was neither too large to overload the speaker nor too small to cause clipping at the high end).
I'm a coder/sysadmin and I tested at 130WPM, faster than my typing teacher who had been a professional secretary for years before going into teaching. Of course she could do much better with steno, but other than court reporting that's a dying art.
My holy grail for a media center keyboard is a bluetooth Space Saver with media controls. I along with many others have asked IBM for just such a product but so far no luck =(
Let's see, you can either have everyone keep up their calendar, or you can waste 3-5 minutes * n people in an average meeting * number of meetings in a year. There's a reason companies will pay the bucks they do for groupware licenses. Add in the workflow stuff they enable (though much of that is moving to web based apps) and they just make sense for many organizations.
This wasn't towers, it was a power failure combined with incompetence running a switching center. Every piece of equipment should have had full redundant power sources with sufficient battery power on each to fix the generator if there was a problem.
The thing that pissed me off was even though their towers were providing NO service they were still locking my phone into the AT&T network. I tried to refresh my host routing table but it just came back with Cingular towers, it was frustrating that the towers were alive enough to fark up my tables but not enough to complete a call.
U-Verse is NOT FIOS, it is more like digital cable but instead of using fast coax for the last mile it uses copper with a slightly supped-up ADSL offering. AT&T should be shot for thinking up that abomination, they are just putting off the inevitable upgrades to fiber to the home for a few years when they can again dip into the public coffers to support the second round of upgrades.
The problem is cablecard doesn't work with SDV and the industry 'standard' to support cablecard like functionality with SDV also requires you to run the cable co's software on your box (can you say UCK and why bother with third party hardware if you have to run their crappy software). I swear if my operator switches from good old analog and clear-QAM for locals to SDV I'm dropping my subscription and paying for the few series I watch online. My wife would be a bit unhappy at first but since she loves my Mediaportal based DVR all it would take is explaining that the DVR won't work with the new cableco install and she would be right back to supporting me =)
Huh? It must be a problem with your BES server or your carriers connection to the BB network because the absolute longest delay I have ever had with an email on my BB is about 15 minutes and that could have been our relay being overloaded with spam. In fact I generally get messages on my BB before the Notes new mail notifier goes off in office profile.
My dad has a family share plan with 6 lines for ~$200/month. For that they pool something like 3500 minutes per month, get 6 new phone every 2 years (or about $200 in credit if you want a high end phone) and mobile to mobile calls in the same network are free. If you call outside of the network a significant amount (my dad does for his business) it's significantly better than your plan, about the same otherwise.
Well, I started a rant about ffmpeg not supporting purevideo, but then I did a Google search and found this article which says that as of a month ago that has finally been resolved. Unfortunately it requires the closed drivers so it won't work on Atom but you should be good to go with Nano.
You might get a better price on an individual component but newegg generally has very competitive prices for a whole PC build and they have an excellent customer service department and pretty fast shipping (generally next business day, second at the latest in my experience). They also tend to not jerk you around unlike many of bottom barrel priced competitors. Towards the end of my system builder days it was worth the extra couple dollars per order to know I would get what I ordered, when I ordered and would be able to get an RMA quickly and without complaint if I ran into a problem with a component.
Performance per dollar, duh. POWER6 might be great chip but they go into IBM servers that cost an absolute fortune, we had IBM come in and price out a scalable box for our ERP system and they came in at 3x what the HP/Windows and Sun/Solaris offerings were priced at!
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The very best (read expensive) LED lights that are 75W equivalent are no more efficient than a CFL and due to the heat of the ballast aren't expected to last appreciably longer. Eventually they will might get there, but it will take a hell of a lot of R&D which might be better spent elsewhere.
Actually I believe she was black, it was mostly her false rape claim and the fact that the prosecutor wanted to save face after losing a conviction where he had illegal acts caught on tape (the sex and underage drinking).
There are already LED backlit LCD's, it gives a more uniform light fade across the display.
CFL's are significantly higher than your assumption, inexpensive GE's have a lifetime average of between 50-55 lumens/W. Unless they can somehow get LED's production costs down a ton they aren't going to be used for anything but specialty applications where CFL's won't fit, the spot nature of LED's is desirable, or where there is some possible savings by the longer achievable lifetime (though at worse lumens/W).
It wasn't even penetration, he got a BJ from a girl a few weeks on the wrong side of a magical line and for that and being black he had his life messed up. He spent 2 YEARS in jail before the Georgia Supreme Court tuled that a 10 year sentence was cruel and unusual ("grossly disproportionate") linky. Luckily that particular law got changed to a misdemeanor with no registration requirement due to the public outcry over his case, but there are still literally thousands of bad laws on the books which can land you on lists and with crazy out of whack sentences all due "But think of the children" pandering from politicians and suburban housewives.
A standard GE 75W bulb is between 830 and 1200 lumens depending on model, their T3 bulbs for that same lumen range are either 15W or 20W. I personally am extremely light sensitive (to the point where my optometrist doesn't even attempt to use the drops on me and instead uses the puff machine and camera) so I prefer 60W equivalent's anyways =)
I use dimmable floods in my basement, they go from about 8W-100W equivalent, not as good as their incandescent neighbors but I'm not watching movies down there and when they are all replaced they will save about 1KW when the basement's fully lit!
Flor is generally not dimable. Even those that claim to be really are barely and cost a fortune.
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My dimmable floods don't get quite as dim but they go from about 8W-100W equivalent. They cost a couple bucks a piece.
Flor saves NO MONEY when dimmed, even if you can find expensive dimable ones.
Huh? The switching power supply in good ones are perfectly capable of using the rated wattage which is way less than the equivalent incandescent.
Flor bulbs do not fit in all fixtures, especially decorative ones and small ones.
True enough, LED's will rule here.
Flor bulbs are UGLY in many types of fixtures, period.
How many fixtures do you have with exposed bulbs anyways?
Flor FIXTURES are UGLY in many types of applications.
Flor light is not pleasing to many people- it is too white/blue or harsh.
You can get them in just about any colour you want and better manufacturers have CRI's from 82-95, though you will pay a premium for anything &RT90.
Flor fixtures often emit lots of RFI.
Buy non-crappy ones.
Flor fixtures often emit noise.
Buy something not sold in China town.
Flor lamps are not instantly on.
My GE bulbs are on in about a second.
Flor lamps are also not instantly 100% bright, many taking MINUTES to reach full brightness.
Peak brightness is about 10-20 seconds depending on ambient temps.
GE Energy Smart CFL's are a pretty good approximation of the spectra of incandescent (2700K 82CRI). They are available at Sam's Club (and I believe Walmart). I've been using them for about 3 years now and just replaced my first bulb. Since I live in the Cleveland area and grew up going to their holiday lighting show I'm thinking about returning the failed unit myself and seeing if I can find out why it failed =) Btw GE rates their bulbs to fall off ~20% from initial peak so using a 14W (75W equivalent) for reading lamps is probably a minimum.
Car charger, that big 800-1800A 12V battery will power your cellphone almost indefinitely and it comes with it's own generator. Hybrid cars could be even better but we need some intelligence in future plugin models and you will have to get a service disconnect switch if you want to use your inhouse wiring =)
LOL, I haven't had a BSOD from nvidia drivers since the early days of XP and at least their driver's don't require the freaking bloated .NET CRL to even install!
In fact I can't remember a time in the last 4 NVidia cards I've owned (going back to a Ti-4200) that I had an issue related to the driver.
My wife turns up the home theater MUCH louder than I do, in fact I think she somehow blew out one of the midrange speakers in the center channel (shouldn't have been possible the amp was neither too large to overload the speaker nor too small to cause clipping at the high end).
I'm a coder/sysadmin and I tested at 130WPM, faster than my typing teacher who had been a professional secretary for years before going into teaching. Of course she could do much better with steno, but other than court reporting that's a dying art.
I'm hoping for an open source Windows driver, the thing holding me back from using ATI has been the absolute crap drivers they supply.
My holy grail for a media center keyboard is a bluetooth Space Saver with media controls. I along with many others have asked IBM for just such a product but so far no luck =(
Let's see, you can either have everyone keep up their calendar, or you can waste 3-5 minutes * n people in an average meeting * number of meetings in a year. There's a reason companies will pay the bucks they do for groupware licenses. Add in the workflow stuff they enable (though much of that is moving to web based apps) and they just make sense for many organizations.
This wasn't towers, it was a power failure combined with incompetence running a switching center. Every piece of equipment should have had full redundant power sources with sufficient battery power on each to fix the generator if there was a problem.
The thing that pissed me off was even though their towers were providing NO service they were still locking my phone into the AT&T network. I tried to refresh my host routing table but it just came back with Cingular towers, it was frustrating that the towers were alive enough to fark up my tables but not enough to complete a call.
U-Verse is NOT FIOS, it is more like digital cable but instead of using fast coax for the last mile it uses copper with a slightly supped-up ADSL offering. AT&T should be shot for thinking up that abomination, they are just putting off the inevitable upgrades to fiber to the home for a few years when they can again dip into the public coffers to support the second round of upgrades.
The problem is cablecard doesn't work with SDV and the industry 'standard' to support cablecard like functionality with SDV also requires you to run the cable co's software on your box (can you say UCK and why bother with third party hardware if you have to run their crappy software). I swear if my operator switches from good old analog and clear-QAM for locals to SDV I'm dropping my subscription and paying for the few series I watch online. My wife would be a bit unhappy at first but since she loves my Mediaportal based DVR all it would take is explaining that the DVR won't work with the new cableco install and she would be right back to supporting me =)
Huh? It must be a problem with your BES server or your carriers connection to the BB network because the absolute longest delay I have ever had with an email on my BB is about 15 minutes and that could have been our relay being overloaded with spam. In fact I generally get messages on my BB before the Notes new mail notifier goes off in office profile.
My dad has a family share plan with 6 lines for ~$200/month. For that they pool something like 3500 minutes per month, get 6 new phone every 2 years (or about $200 in credit if you want a high end phone) and mobile to mobile calls in the same network are free. If you call outside of the network a significant amount (my dad does for his business) it's significantly better than your plan, about the same otherwise.
Well, I started a rant about ffmpeg not supporting purevideo, but then I did a Google search and found this article which says that as of a month ago that has finally been resolved. Unfortunately it requires the closed drivers so it won't work on Atom but you should be good to go with Nano.
You might get a better price on an individual component but newegg generally has very competitive prices for a whole PC build and they have an excellent customer service department and pretty fast shipping (generally next business day, second at the latest in my experience). They also tend to not jerk you around unlike many of bottom barrel priced competitors. Towards the end of my system builder days it was worth the extra couple dollars per order to know I would get what I ordered, when I ordered and would be able to get an RMA quickly and without complaint if I ran into a problem with a component.
Performance per dollar, duh. POWER6 might be great chip but they go into IBM servers that cost an absolute fortune, we had IBM come in and price out a scalable box for our ERP system and they came in at 3x what the HP/Windows and Sun/Solaris offerings were priced at!