Yeah, I agree, Flourescents are getting better. I do have a flourescent fixture above my fish tank for the plants, and that doesn't flicker. The plants are gorgeous too.
Engineer at work has 2 fixtures in his office that have a HORRIBLE flicker. I am not sure if he just doesn't notice, or leaves them like that so people don't linger too long in his office.
My 300Watt Halogen Torchier just burned out the other day. I have it at the back of my desk, projecting onto the ceiling. With a dimmer installed, it makes the PERFECT light for using the computer.
When it burnt out, I had to resort to white Flourescent, or a 100Watt Incandescent bulb.
I gotta tell you, it SUCKED.
There is something to be said for having a soft, warm light that doesn't flicker like Flourescent. I couldn't wait to get back my "energy offender" bulb!!!
Screw efficiency, Halogen torchiers still produce the most comfortable light that I have ever seen.
If they could mimick the colour of Halogen using LED's, THEN maybe the masses and I will move away from the "traditional light bulb".
Oh, and LED Christmas lights SUCK. I hope my whole block switches to them so that my house will have the best looking lights without me doing any work.
How did this get modded insightful? Cars right now are being taxed on their environmental impact. The more gasoline you burn, the more you pay.
The reason that there isn't widespread acceptance of this technology is because there isn't a widespread availability of this technology.
Once this technology becomes available, and is mass produced to the point that the price is reasonable, THEN large numbers of people will move towards it.
I hate Autocomplete. Not only does it encourage laziness, but it drives me crazy trying to guess what I am trying to type. Auto-correct is the same. I don't mind if it underlines my misspelled word, but if I don't have to go back and fix it, how is my spelling ever supposed to improve?
This shbazjinkens is brilliant, he comes from out of nowhere, with no record of any education, and publishes AMAZING papers in various fields. He is a true genius. The only thing I don't understand, is why all of his research papers are sub-titled "First post! 1 R teh 3133 h4x0r5!!11!1eleven!!one!".
I don't think it would be considered a privacy concern at all.
Thermal cameras detecting heat in a house are not violating privacy at all. They do not "look through" walls like Hollywood would like you to believe, but rather just detect a different wavelength of light radiating from the outside of your house. It is no different then looking at a house without the thermal camera, you are just looking at a different wavelength of light. Heck, one thing thermal camera's can NOT see through is a window.
The electronic nose is detecting something that is radiating off your person. If you are giving off a smell, detecting it shouldn't be a privacy concern.
But then again, I think that for the most part, surveilance in public places is not a bad think.
What I find funny is that for so many years, there was one price for a CD. Crappy CD, old CD, new CD, most popular CD, least popular CD... all one price.
Suddenly they have a problem with a fixed price for a song?
The USA is rich enough that financial aid isn't necessary. My province, British Columbia, has just sent our team of rescue/disaster specialists to help out.
Not sure if I would resort to taking a drug to keep me awake, but when doing an install that requires going to a timezone 9 hours in the future, it sure would be nice to be alert. As it is right now, when I have traveled, I go an extra day so that I can sleep when I get there. Sure I do the usual and drink a bunch on the plane to try get some sleep (free booze on Air Canada w00t!) but it still messes a guy up for a few days. That and going back to work when I get home. (they let me come in late for a few days so it isn't too bad)
I remember a salesman trying to talk me into a Nissan Murano by telling me that there is a seperate computer controling the torque and brakeing for each tire. Greeeeaaaaattt, just what I want, instead of a blue screen of death I get a firey scream of death?
I had a '94 Metro with 3 cylinders and 1000CC carbeurated engine. I am an aggressive driver and tend to push my cars a little harder then most, but it was pretty zippy. That car weighed very little, and it did pretty good on the highway.
I think the main thing is that it was a standard, so I could run it at a high RPM. Granted this doesn't give you great mileage, but I could sure go fast!
We have the same problem with harddrives on ships. Historically our controller runs Win2k off a horribly expensive solid state 2gig harddrive. We recently however found a large demand for a different sort of product which requires a significant re-design. I was able to convince those that needed convincing, that we could do the whole thing with a tiny SBC running Linux off a Compact Flash drive. The computer will be MUCH cheaper, the software licensing will be gone, and hopefully we can make one controller work with all our different systems.
Problem is that I am a Linux Newby so we're gonna have to rent a Uber Geek to get us off the ground.
Sure, there is plenty of reason to presume there will be. The Google prime directive (do no evil) clearly implies that they will eventually port it to Linux. Come on, how evil is that for a company like Google (pro-linux? At the least, Linux neutral?) to release a product that is anti-linux?
I want a Linux friendly Google Earth too, and I hope they are putting a decent amount of effort into it.
That may be the one I bought at boxingday. I have seen it rebranded several times, but it is the same one.
Thing that angers me the most about it is there is no way to set it to display the time as a default, it always goes back to displaying track and position.
I wonder if the sensor would be sensitive to IR light? Get a xenon strobe, build a filter out of parts from your camera shop and you have an invisible strobe that may or may not work. Hook that up to a 555 timer and a bunch of pots and you can vary the frequency and pulse width to find one that works... hm... gonna go turn on my soldering iron now...
I stayed at a Rainbow Hotel in Oslo last month, and the internet was a nuissance. The largest time card I could buy was 24hours, and cost the same as a whole month of internet at home. The access cards were scratch off name and password with ~ 8 random characters for each.
Rome was more reasonably priced (and only a one time purchase for my entire stay) but they had a nasty habit of shutting down my connection when I was Idle. That meant that at the end of every long Gmail I typed, I would have to reset my connection before I could complete the send. My solution to that was to just get the biggest Linux ISO I could find, and start downloading. Them trying to be frugal on bandwidth ticked me off so much that I used 50 times the bandwidth I would have if they had just left me connected.
A hotel I stayed at in Connecticut advertised internet for the length of my stay, just 3 dollars. It was great, they gave me a password, but I didn't even need it. When checkout time came, I had to tell them that I used the internet or they wouldn't have billed me.
I was just playing with this last night. It is frikken SWEET. I have installed some Marine Navigation camera's around the world, and was able to even find some of the ships that I worked on. I was blown away how cool it is. For $20 you can buy the plus version that allows you to Sync with your GPS. This is TOTALLY the way to go. The only drawback is that the entire earth isn't imaged to the same Resolution. Some of the places I have been are only clear from about 20,000 feet up, where as others are clear to 300 feet up. Some co-workers could identify their cars parked in their driveways.
Google Earth is very worth checking out. Plus Google is just cool.
My buddy's dad did this. He even got a permit for re-directing the stream from fish and game that also allowed him to put pet trout in the pond. (the local birds loved that idea)
Anyhow, he is an electrician for the local school district, and did this in his spare time. To keep it easier, he didn't bother with regulating the power. Instead, he just connects the unknown voltage and frequency to a heating coil embedded in his tile floor via a thermostat. It would be supercool to power his whole house off the dam, but that would be more expensive to implement. He may well do that eventualy, but for now he is happy with just having free heat.
They live in the interior of British Columbia (Canada) so it gets quite cold in the winter. The stream runs almost all winter, but he occasionally has to revert to wood heat when it gets really cold.
Because Microsoft put a lousey dvd drive in my xbox, it didn't perform very well as a game console. After I hacked it and installed Linux on it, it makes an EXCELLENT myth front end.
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What would be real justice is if WoW packaged a utility in their next update that completely neuters the Sony DRM. I would have to re-install WoW.
Yeah, I agree, Flourescents are getting better. I do have a flourescent fixture above my fish tank for the plants, and that doesn't flicker. The plants are gorgeous too.
Engineer at work has 2 fixtures in his office that have a HORRIBLE flicker. I am not sure if he just doesn't notice, or leaves them like that so people don't linger too long in his office.
My 300Watt Halogen Torchier just burned out the other day. I have it at the back of my desk, projecting onto the ceiling. With a dimmer installed, it makes the PERFECT light for using the computer.
When it burnt out, I had to resort to white Flourescent, or a 100Watt Incandescent bulb.
I gotta tell you, it SUCKED.
There is something to be said for having a soft, warm light that doesn't flicker like Flourescent. I couldn't wait to get back my "energy offender" bulb!!!
Screw efficiency, Halogen torchiers still produce the most comfortable light that I have ever seen.
If they could mimick the colour of Halogen using LED's, THEN maybe the masses and I will move away from the "traditional light bulb".
Oh, and LED Christmas lights SUCK. I hope my whole block switches to them so that my house will have the best looking lights without me doing any work.
How did this get modded insightful? Cars right now are being taxed on their environmental impact. The more gasoline you burn, the more you pay. The reason that there isn't widespread acceptance of this technology is because there isn't a widespread availability of this technology. Once this technology becomes available, and is mass produced to the point that the price is reasonable, THEN large numbers of people will move towards it.
I hate Autocomplete. Not only does it encourage laziness, but it drives me crazy trying to guess what I am trying to type. Auto-correct is the same. I don't mind if it underlines my misspelled word, but if I don't have to go back and fix it, how is my spelling ever supposed to improve?
This shbazjinkens is brilliant, he comes from out of nowhere, with no record of any education, and publishes AMAZING papers in various fields. He is a true genius. The only thing I don't understand, is why all of his research papers are sub-titled "First post! 1 R teh 3133 h4x0r5!!11!1eleven!!one!".
I don't think it would be considered a privacy concern at all.
Thermal cameras detecting heat in a house are not violating privacy at all. They do not "look through" walls like Hollywood would like you to believe, but rather just detect a different wavelength of light radiating from the outside of your house. It is no different then looking at a house without the thermal camera, you are just looking at a different wavelength of light. Heck, one thing thermal camera's can NOT see through is a window.
The electronic nose is detecting something that is radiating off your person. If you are giving off a smell, detecting it shouldn't be a privacy concern.
But then again, I think that for the most part, surveilance in public places is not a bad think.
Yup. Working a new invention, a Smelloscope.
Gonna win Inventor Of The Year with it.
What I find funny is that for so many years, there was one price for a CD. Crappy CD, old CD, new CD, most popular CD, least popular CD... all one price.
Suddenly they have a problem with a fixed price for a song?
Somebody needs to give this guy a "friend" pass.
The USA is rich enough that financial aid isn't necessary. My province, British Columbia, has just sent our team of rescue/disaster specialists to help out.
Chinee Ip Space should TOTALLY be blocked. Those Chinee, they are always up to no good.
Who are the Chinee anyhow?
Not sure if I would resort to taking a drug to keep me awake, but when doing an install that requires going to a timezone 9 hours in the future, it sure would be nice to be alert. As it is right now, when I have traveled, I go an extra day so that I can sleep when I get there. Sure I do the usual and drink a bunch on the plane to try get some sleep (free booze on Air Canada w00t!) but it still messes a guy up for a few days. That and going back to work when I get home. (they let me come in late for a few days so it isn't too bad)
Ha ha ha, typical technician response.
I remember a salesman trying to talk me into a Nissan Murano by telling me that there is a seperate computer controling the torque and brakeing for each tire. Greeeeaaaaattt, just what I want, instead of a blue screen of death I get a firey scream of death?
You obviously never had one.
I had a '94 Metro with 3 cylinders and 1000CC carbeurated engine. I am an aggressive driver and tend to push my cars a little harder then most, but it was pretty zippy. That car weighed very little, and it did pretty good on the highway.
I think the main thing is that it was a standard, so I could run it at a high RPM. Granted this doesn't give you great mileage, but I could sure go fast!
We have the same problem with harddrives on ships. Historically our controller runs Win2k off a horribly expensive solid state 2gig harddrive. We recently however found a large demand for a different sort of product which requires a significant re-design. I was able to convince those that needed convincing, that we could do the whole thing with a tiny SBC running Linux off a Compact Flash drive. The computer will be MUCH cheaper, the software licensing will be gone, and hopefully we can make one controller work with all our different systems. Problem is that I am a Linux Newby so we're gonna have to rent a Uber Geek to get us off the ground.
Sure, there is plenty of reason to presume there will be. The Google prime directive (do no evil) clearly implies that they will eventually port it to Linux. Come on, how evil is that for a company like Google (pro-linux? At the least, Linux neutral?) to release a product that is anti-linux?
;-)
I want a Linux friendly Google Earth too, and I hope they are putting a decent amount of effort into it.
I also want more resolution over my house
That may be the one I bought at boxingday. I have seen it rebranded several times, but it is the same one.
Thing that angers me the most about it is there is no way to set it to display the time as a default, it always goes back to displaying track and position.
But it was $25CDN so I got what I paid for.
I wonder if the sensor would be sensitive to IR light? Get a xenon strobe, build a filter out of parts from your camera shop and you have an invisible strobe that may or may not work. Hook that up to a 555 timer and a bunch of pots and you can vary the frequency and pulse width to find one that works... hm... gonna go turn on my soldering iron now...
I stayed at a Rainbow Hotel in Oslo last month, and the internet was a nuissance. The largest time card I could buy was 24hours, and cost the same as a whole month of internet at home. The access cards were scratch off name and password with ~ 8 random characters for each.
Rome was more reasonably priced (and only a one time purchase for my entire stay) but they had a nasty habit of shutting down my connection when I was Idle. That meant that at the end of every long Gmail I typed, I would have to reset my connection before I could complete the send. My solution to that was to just get the biggest Linux ISO I could find, and start downloading. Them trying to be frugal on bandwidth ticked me off so much that I used 50 times the bandwidth I would have if they had just left me connected.
A hotel I stayed at in Connecticut advertised internet for the length of my stay, just 3 dollars. It was great, they gave me a password, but I didn't even need it. When checkout time came, I had to tell them that I used the internet or they wouldn't have billed me.
"WOOOOOSSHHHH"
That was quote close to hitting you as it flew over your head!
Oh yeah, Google earth.
I was just playing with this last night. It is frikken SWEET. I have installed some Marine Navigation camera's around the world, and was able to even find some of the ships that I worked on. I was blown away how cool it is. For $20 you can buy the plus version that allows you to Sync with your GPS. This is TOTALLY the way to go. The only drawback is that the entire earth isn't imaged to the same Resolution. Some of the places I have been are only clear from about 20,000 feet up, where as others are clear to 300 feet up. Some co-workers could identify their cars parked in their driveways.
Google Earth is very worth checking out. Plus Google is just cool.
My buddy's dad did this. He even got a permit for re-directing the stream from fish and game that also allowed him to put pet trout in the pond. (the local birds loved that idea) Anyhow, he is an electrician for the local school district, and did this in his spare time. To keep it easier, he didn't bother with regulating the power. Instead, he just connects the unknown voltage and frequency to a heating coil embedded in his tile floor via a thermostat. It would be supercool to power his whole house off the dam, but that would be more expensive to implement. He may well do that eventualy, but for now he is happy with just having free heat. They live in the interior of British Columbia (Canada) so it gets quite cold in the winter. The stream runs almost all winter, but he occasionally has to revert to wood heat when it gets really cold.
So between slashdot stories I can get my "hit" from TV?
Because Microsoft put a lousey dvd drive in my xbox, it didn't perform very well as a game console. After I hacked it and installed Linux on it, it makes an EXCELLENT myth front end.