I get where he is coming from, +$2 on a light bulb that will cost $70 over its life in electricity or +$50 that will cost $15 over its life? right the second is a better choice, assuming that it was also made in a world friendly sort of way, but do you have the cash right now to go out and buy 15+ of these $50 bulbs? if so could you pick me up a few?
I expect to pay a bit more to save down the road, but at some point I no longer have the up front capital to make it work, so I go back to buying what I can afford.
I don't know if you're including the time value of the money in that or not, but in the real world there's also the extremely high probability that the lifetimes of two different types of bulbs will not be equal.
Incandescent bulb life has been dropping at an ever increasing rate over the last quarter-century or so, and the "name brand" bulbs (GE, Sylvania, etc.) are almost as bad in that regard as the "private label" ones.
The CF bulbs seem to last a lot longer than currently available incandescents if you get good ones and much less so if you don't.
Unless Missy Yates actually wrote that copy for the Brooklyn Free Store, that's flat out plagarism, unless the BFS lifted it from somewhere else where she had written it, but I suspect that those words come from a press packet distributed by whoever's behind this guy's movie.
And sure enough...
http://www.noimpactdoc.com/about.php
The following copypasta is taken directly from the above mentioned site.
Colin Beavan decides to completely eliminate his personal impact on the environment for the next year.
It means eating vegetarian, buying only local food, and turning off the refrigerator. It also means no elevators, no television, no cars, busses, or airplanes, no toxic cleaning products, no electricity, no material consumption, and no garbage.
No problem – at least for Colin – but he and his family live in Manhattan. So when his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two-year-old daughter are dragged into the fray, the No Impact Project has an unforeseen impact of its own.
Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein's film provides an intriguing inside look into the experiment that became a national fascination and media sensation, while examining the familial strains and strengthened bonds that result from Colin and Michelle’s struggle with their radical lifestyle change.
So either Yates wrote the above copy and recycled it at LIP, or she's a you-know-what-ist.
A diode can be constructed by trying to pass a small current through a probe in the flame. This diode is caused by the movement of ions through the flame area. However, I wonder what would happen if you tried to pass a larger current through the flame? Might it be able to temporarily neutralize or bind the ions to other molecules? If it did that, would you still have a flame?
I don't know. I'm just speculating.
Do you mean that while the probe is in the flame current will flow through it in one direction but not the other, or that the act of putting it in the flame and running current through it will cause it to have the properties of a diode after it has been removed from the flame? Your use of the word "constructed" has me unsure.
Of what is this probe made? Is it U-shaped? (current can't just go to end of conductor and stop, it has to get back to its point of origin)
If you don't have the social skills to keep yourself from getting fucked, people take advantage of you. If you don't have the social skills to climb the ladder, you toil in agony over frustrated ambition.
Not to dis Feynman, but, radios were a few orders of magnitude simpler, then.
Which actually made them more complex to work on, in a way. Nowadays you don't have to, or have to know how to, or even understand why you need to, align an IF strip, you just replace a chip.
I never said that I didn't understand, I was making the point to the person who answered the AC who didn't understand that a science background alone wouldn't necessarily mean a familiarity with radio jargon.
And I'll have you know that mommy and daddy let me live on the ground floor, in my very own room, with a window and everything.
"deserve payment every time a mobile phone rings" As some of the population is trying to bypass this by using the vibrate function which with some tweaking can copy the rhythm of a son, we'll be suing them soon. This will apply to any vibrating device.
And don't forget the over the air broadcasters who one would think would be glad of the extra viewers cable brings them (and the resulting higher ad rates they can charge), but instead bought enough congresscritters so that they could get a cut of your cable subscription for allowing the cable companies to carry their signal.
At least here in the States the publishers associations (ASCAP, BMI) already screw the radio stations out of money for playing recordings of songs for which they are the representatives of the licensers (the publishers, who supposedly represent the people who actually wrote the songs).
The licensers of the recordings of the songs, the record companies, haven't yet figured out how to get the radio stations to play the records, i.e., give them a free commercial for the record, and to also pay them (the record companies) for the privilege of doing so, but I'm sure they're working on it.
I have no problem with content creators getting paid, but have you noticed that content providers have absolutely no shame whatsoever?
They might know (or be able to mentally calculate) that 10 meters is 28MHz, but that wouldn't necessarily guarantee that they'd know that Citizens Band is 27MHz or know enough ham/CB jargon to know that a "kicker" is a linear that would use the (previously) 10 meter rig as an exciter, and for that matter they might not know enough about radio specifically to know what an exciter is, or how it works.
The more miles you drive, the sooner you have to replace your tires, and the more tax revenue they get, regardless of your means of propulsion.
And as a side benefit, the kind of stupid, potentially unsafe behavior that wears out tires more quickly will financially penalize the idiots doing it even further.
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I get where he is coming from, +$2 on a light bulb that will cost $70 over its life in electricity or +$50 that will cost $15 over its life? right the second is a better choice, assuming that it was also made in a world friendly sort of way, but do you have the cash right now to go out and buy 15+ of these $50 bulbs? if so could you pick me up a few?
I expect to pay a bit more to save down the road, but at some point I no longer have the up front capital to make it work, so I go back to buying what I can afford.
I don't know if you're including the time value of the money in that or not, but in the real world there's also the extremely high probability that the lifetimes of two different types of bulbs will not be equal.
Incandescent bulb life has been dropping at an ever increasing rate over the last quarter-century or so, and the "name brand" bulbs (GE, Sylvania, etc.) are almost as bad in that regard as the "private label" ones.
The CF bulbs seem to last a lot longer than currently available incandescents if you get good ones and much less so if you don't.
Actually they want less government services. Nice try though.
Whereas if they had been properly educated they would know to advocate for "fewer" government services.
Yep. Things take time to develop. The news here is that they presented their prototype to ARPA last week.
If it had gotten old enough, they could have presented it to AARP. : - )
I think all you need to do is generate a static warp bubble, and hit it with a reverse tachyon pulse.
Idiot! You forgot to reverse the polarity of the warp coils!
OMG! If I had a Beowulf cluster of .... Ponies!!!
Then you'd need a Beowulf cluster of shovels.
Unless Missy Yates actually wrote that copy for the Brooklyn Free Store, that's flat out plagarism, unless the BFS lifted it from somewhere else where she had written it, but I suspect that those words come from a press packet distributed by whoever's behind this guy's movie.
And sure enough...
http://www.noimpactdoc.com/about.php
The following copypasta is taken directly from the above mentioned site.
Colin Beavan decides to completely eliminate his personal impact on the environment for the next year.
It means eating vegetarian, buying only local food, and turning off the refrigerator. It also means no elevators, no television, no cars, busses, or airplanes, no toxic cleaning products, no electricity, no material consumption, and no garbage.
No problem – at least for Colin – but he and his family live in Manhattan. So when his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two-year-old daughter are dragged into the fray, the No Impact Project has an unforeseen impact of its own.
Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein's film provides an intriguing inside look into the experiment that became a national fascination and media sensation, while examining the familial strains and strengthened bonds that result from Colin and Michelle’s struggle with their radical lifestyle change.
So either Yates wrote the above copy and recycled it at LIP, or she's a you-know-what-ist.
A diode can be constructed by trying to pass a small current through a probe in the flame. This diode is caused by the movement of ions through the flame area. However, I wonder what would happen if you tried to pass a larger current through the flame? Might it be able to temporarily neutralize or bind the ions to other molecules? If it did that, would you still have a flame?
I don't know. I'm just speculating.
Do you mean that while the probe is in the flame current will flow through it in one direction but not the other, or that the act of putting it in the flame and running current through it will cause it to have the properties of a diode after it has been removed from the flame? Your use of the word "constructed" has me unsure.
Of what is this probe made? Is it U-shaped? (current can't just go to end of conductor and stop, it has to get back to its point of origin)
Oh, so it's like it is for the rest of us?
...You do know he's gay, right?...
From the original article:
"He plays basketball with friends, has a girlfriend and recently attended his first dance."
"Jake has turned the sleepless nights to his advantage - debunking the big bang theory."
I can't think of a better way to battle insomnia than a big bang, can you?
Which IQ determination method was used on Mozart?
He never signed with an RIAA label or an ASCAP or BMI publisher, so he actually got the money.
He's heading into puberty and he's got a girlfriend*, he's not going to have time for Pokemon.
* (which is probably the real reason he's getting so much /. hate)
Not to dis Feynman, but, radios were a few orders of magnitude simpler, then.
Which actually made them more complex to work on, in a way. Nowadays you don't have to, or have to know how to, or even understand why you need to, align an IF strip, you just replace a chip.
What, you wanted a perfect solution?
You're right, no one will see this, but then it was an old thread when I posted so no one saw mine either.
I never said that I didn't understand, I was making the point to the person who answered the AC who didn't understand that a science background alone wouldn't necessarily mean a familiarity with radio jargon.
And I'll have you know that mommy and daddy let me live on the ground floor, in my very own room, with a window and everything.
"deserve payment every time a mobile phone rings"
As some of the population is trying to bypass this by using the vibrate function which with some tweaking can copy the rhythm of a son, we'll be suing them soon. This will apply to any vibrating device.
Any vibrating device?
Nah, too easy.
I'm sure whoever publishes Mozart sheet music disagrees.
His compositions are out of copyright, but not the printed version of them. I'm not kidding.
And don't forget the over the air broadcasters who one would think would be glad of the extra viewers cable brings them (and the resulting higher ad rates they can charge), but instead bought enough congresscritters so that they could get a cut of your cable subscription for allowing the cable companies to carry their signal.
...but he'd gendered me female...
Is that like sexing an egg?
At least here in the States the publishers associations (ASCAP, BMI) already screw the radio stations out of money for playing recordings of songs for which they are the representatives of the licensers (the publishers, who supposedly represent the people who actually wrote the songs).
The licensers of the recordings of the songs, the record companies, haven't yet figured out how to get the radio stations to play the records, i.e., give them a free commercial for the record, and to also pay them (the record companies) for the privilege of doing so, but I'm sure they're working on it.
I have no problem with content creators getting paid, but have you noticed that content providers have absolutely no shame whatsoever?
I'm not sure that will do it. Just to be safe, we should use silver bullets and drive a stake through its chest.
Insert obligatory 'nuke from orbit' quote here.
They might know (or be able to mentally calculate) that 10 meters is 28MHz, but that wouldn't necessarily guarantee that they'd know that Citizens Band is 27MHz or know enough ham/CB jargon to know that a "kicker" is a linear that would use the (previously) 10 meter rig as an exciter, and for that matter they might not know enough about radio specifically to know what an exciter is, or how it works.
Or he only wants C, F, and G, and no E, Em, Am, or Dm, thank you very much.
Just tell them that they're truffles.
...Just tax tires.
The more miles you drive, the sooner you have to replace your tires, and the more tax revenue they get, regardless of your means of propulsion.
And as a side benefit, the kind of stupid, potentially unsafe behavior that wears out tires more quickly will financially penalize the idiots doing it even further.