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  1. Re:RTFM on Ask Slashdot: Keeping Your Media Library Safe From Kids? · · Score: 1

    So. What's next mr first post?

    What should we do with the rest of the thread?

  2. Re:Why not servers? on Intel To Debut Limited-Run Ivy Bridge Processor · · Score: 1

    Get a heat exchanger and put it into good use somewhere else.

    (Or lamer and more stupid I guess (if you don't combine it with a heat exchanger) do as Facebook do and build it up north: http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.475671/video-facebook-datacenter-fran-luften)

  3. Re:Cooling is the issue on Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I wanted to add that thing with delay to my post to. But I had thought doing it to someone else.

    That's one huge advantage of using LED in the shitter compared to regular CFLs. They light up "instantly."

    But there's CFLs which light up faster than others to.

    Your temperatures are annoying but it seems 0F is around -7 (C) and -20 was around -18 (C.)

    The Intelligent longlife above work down to -20 C but it have to have a cover and not just sit in a socket (to heat itself obviously.) And it could withstand 500,000 on-off cycles.
    http://www.lysman.com/sv/stavformade-lagenergilampor-OSRAM/dulux-intelligent-longlife.-stav-osram-dulux-intelligent-longlife-11w-e27-cool-white-840.php

    Their Intelligent facility instead can withstand an "unlimited" amount of on-off cycles and will still survive for 20,000 hours.
    http://www.lysman.com/sv/stavformade-lagenergilampor-OSRAM/osram-dulux-intelligent-facility-stav-osram-dulux-intelligent-facility-dint-fcy-14w840-e27.php

    There's also this Megaman Liliput plus Booster Inside which can light up down to -30 C (-22 F) and got a booster which let it light up quicker:
    http://www.lysman.com/sv/twist-liliput-MEGAMAN/stav-liliput-plus-booster-inside-e27.-mu111b-mu115b.-lagenergilampor-mu111b.-stav-liliput-plus-booster-inside-11w-e27.php

    And here's another Megaman Liliput which instead of being made for dimmers got a dimmer in itself, so by switching your switch multiple times you can scale the light output on a four step scale:
    http://www.lysman.com/sv/stavformade-lagenergilampor-MEGAMAN/stav-4-stegs-dimring-stav-dimbar-liliput-4-steg-e27-20w.-lagenergilampa.php

    These aren't 6 for $10 but they got a different functionality.

    Regarding the last thing you mention LIDL here in Sweden sold two IR-enabled LED strips this week which you could run on batteries or with the adapter, they was 99 SEK for two (about $15) and I thought somewhat about having them over my entry door on the inside because I normally leave the light on in the hallway to see the floor once I get inside (I guess if I had a celing lamp I wouldn't have to .. I don't. I've got one on the wall.)

    Earlier I thought about building LED-strips on my own for my mother and her guy so when they woke up at night it would be easier to find the way to the toilet but I guess now there's no need to make things such like that oneself but these IR-strips would be pretty sweet for that. Or as you do under the kitchen sink, wardrobe, storage room or whatever.

    Never thought about the later, down in the cellar there's no light in the rooms, maybe I should put one there?

  4. Re:Get rid of printers on Campaign To Remove Paper From Offices · · Score: 1

    I've always said the only way to go paperless is to not have printers in the office. None. You need to take away the ability to print and only then will people adapt.

    only? always?

    Wouldn't getting rid of the papers also work?

    - Ridiculous!
    * thinks of a girl.. playing starcraft *

  5. Re:The US likes being different on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    Has it ever been?

    1.5 inches = 38.1 millimeters
    3.5 inches = 88.9 millimeters

    Now when you mention it I remember reading that before.

    I don't know whatever these are any standard sizes but I can't find one fitting to that.

    Closest I see are:
    http://www.byggmax.com/se-sv/byggvaror/virke-obeh-tra/reglar-stomme/regel/08145095/regel-45x95mm

    45 x 95 mm, or 1.77 x 3.74 inches.

    No 1 3/4" x 3 3/4" :)

  6. Re:The US likes being different on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    Ever here in Sweden (at least for people my fathers age) the normal way to talk about lumber dimensions in construction are inches.

    http://www.byggmax.com/se-sv/byggvaror/virke-obeh-tra/reglar-stomme/regel/08145045/regel-45x45mm

    http://www.byggmax.com/se-sv/byggvaror/virke-obeh-tra/reglar-stomme/regel/08145120/regel-45x120mm

    Sure the specifications above say mm (I don't know which number is round off, I suspect they really are of the mm size), 45 mm isn't even close to 2 inches. But I know for sure my dad said things like "2 tum 4" as in "2 inches 4" as in "2 by 4."

  7. Re:The US likes being different on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    Except we don't care.

    It's easy to let google convert it but it just seem retarded. But then again it's what you are using so why change it?

  8. Re:it's not like we didn't see this coming on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    Win95 and 98 were both quite ok

    lol

  9. Re:Fiscal cliff on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    So it's not really the avoidable budget crisis which risk the fragile recovery.

    It's the debt and fed stimulated recovery which really wouldn't be there without them both and an economy which isn't allowed to contract and restructure itself.

  10. Re:Fiscal cliff on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    On the other hand your debt level raise very fast to.

    So it may make sense to do anything about it.

    And as we know both parties can't agree on what that is.

    Imho it's rather obvious and I can't understand how so many of the americans are pro what is likely the most beneficial for a very few and likely not for them. But then kind of thinking may be a huge part of your history and culture.

    But back in real life the income gap between the rich and the poor is enormous and ever increasing and hence maybe some kind of rebalancing of the wealth is appropriate. Something more even may have made sense when income to was more even. Now there's some who have so freaking much and many which doesn't.

    Also taxes on say dividens are lower than on income and if you only get a small income and a huge dividend as your total income you won't tax that much which is rather unfair if you are one of the people with the most money.

    Finally imho wealth transfers easily over boarders and taxation systems and as such each trillion you miss in taxation will likely be very hard to get back later and the gap between rich and poor will just increase even more (and the rich will use their money and lobbying to get what's best for them.)

    The system isn't really unfair against the rich ..

    But then again I'm from Sweden (and we do have huge splits here to considering the guy behind IKEA (which you can't buy stocks in) is Swedish and the guy/family behind H&M is pretty rich to. Not that I've got a problem with that. Imho they are still doing good things for the country I live in. Likely they could had done more but it's not like I feel like we would be better without them and their branding and peoples knowledge where they are from.))

  11. Re:What about the backbone? on Intel's Rumored TV Plans Would Compete With Apple, Google · · Score: 1

    TV IP is coming of age in 2013. Disney signed with netflix and dumped starz or whoever they had before

    if you pay for cable the only reason you are doing it is for sports, international channels or you absolutely have to watch some shows like Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad

    So what's streamed really?

    Movies?

  12. Re:Matrix on The Power of a Hot Body · · Score: 2

    Or in this case accordingly to the article lower the temperature from 22-25 degrees celsius to something more comfortable (I don't know what that may be considering people will wear different kind of clothes different times of the year. Like atm people will use jackets and possibly mittens and a hat and hence 20 degrees may be too hot to feel comfortable and say 12-15 degrees more comfortable.

    In the summer people will dress more lightly but on the other hand there will be less demand for the heat.

  13. Re:GNOME Shell on Gnome Extension Offers a Shopping Lens We Can Live With · · Score: 1

    Video?

    (With keystrikes.)

  14. Re:Cooling is the issue on Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs · · Score: 1

    I refuse to call my toilet room the bath room.

    Rather nasty and cold to take a bath in there.

    "Shitting closet"?

    I tried googling it to see if anyone else used the expression and this is what I found:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxB1OtgphbQ ... WTF?

    The Internet shouldn't be open for anyone.

  15. Re:Just hurry up! on Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs · · Score: 1

    It looked awesome in the store with 384 very bright lights but I've got a 40/60/80 or so regular one in my kitchen window at the top edge and to use up some more of the length I made it into a christmas tree in the middle.

    But now when looking from outside I've got a yellowish christmas tree and "line" in the kitchen window and the very white one on the balcony..

    Also since it's an appartment the neightbours of course got their different styles :D

    Sadly Sweden is so filled with immigrants now that it's not much christmas decoration at all in this neighbourhood. I guess it would had been more in one with more (born) Swedes. Maybe not.

  16. Re:Cooling is the issue on Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs · · Score: 5, Informative

    It depend on the quality of the bulb.

    Many are listed at 10,000 (or 8,000?) on-off cycles.

    Osram Dulux intelligent longlife for instance is rated at 500,000 on-off cycles.

    Sure it will cost more than the very cheapest CFLs but it's 5 or so times more, not 50 times more. And that's more than my LED lights are rated at (the ones I bought it's even highly rated.)

    Regarding the rating and heat I think it make total sense to at least be able to put a similar power rated light-bulb in the same fixture considering the higher efficiency. I'm not 100% sure it work like that but I can't understand why it shouldn't. Using LEDs those cooling fins get hot but then again a regular lightbulb get very hot to.

    You can get CFLs usable with dimmers to. I think what people should take home with them is that you should buy the CFL which fit your needs, not just any CFL. If it's going to be on for long sure buying any may be ok. If it's going to go on and off often buy one for that, if it need to be dimmable buy one for that and if it will be sitting outside like here and may have a -20 degree C around it buy one designed for that.

  17. Re:I am sick and tired... on Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs · · Score: 1

    But they will be less efficient than heat-pumps even if you use electricity for heating and in my case I live in an appartment in Sweden and as such I've got long-distance heating which is very efficient and like in VÃsterÃ¥s they are builing one huge one which will run on garbage (of which half(?) will even have to be imported.)

    Though. Came to think about it one can produce electricity like that to. And they do. That's kinda what they actually do. They produce electricity and the steam is cold down using "a series of tubes" running to peoples homes :)

  18. Re:Just hurry up! on Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs · · Score: 2

    Obvious issues are quality of the light.

    (Nothing of the following is about quality though:)

    I have a very bright and 300+ lights christmas uhm.. "thread of lights" but I also use one of those older with small regular bulbs and those burn at a much much much yellower color so they look very miss-matching (the LED one is more "snow-white."

    Also at the beginning the 3000k led spotlights I bought was rather disturbing because I wasn't very comfortable with the light color then but now I've got adjusted to it and don't think about it on day to day basis.

  19. Re:Cooling is the issue on Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs · · Score: 2

    I don't know how it helps or interest someone else but I paid the equivalent of less than $10 for my 650 lumen ones but that was only because they was half price and when I bought it the half price was already in the register but the person selling them also pushed in 50% off so hence I only paid 25% of the original price. And I had actually looked at them at full price earlier because CFLs die so quickly at the toilet and bathroom.

    I also bought 12v spotlights with LED. I wonder if I got the same price there but I kinda think I did. Possibly only half price. I have four of them in the ceiling in the living room and while expensive running that lamp normally used 4*25 watt + whatever losses the transformer have and that should be 4*6.7 or something such now. Also the halogen spotlights are rated at 1,000h life-time I think and die pretty quickly while these are 20,000h or 25,000h + spotlights are more expensive than regular lightbulbs to begin with. So even if they are expensive at 20 times longer life time they doesn't cost 20 times more. Just a higher up-front cost.

    But then again prices will go down in the future. But I figured if no-one buy them now progress will take a longer time.

  20. Re:The real issue on Bloomberg: Steve Jobs Behind NYC Crime Wave · · Score: 1

    Which is what others said... black market resale value.

  21. Re:Porteus on Running a Linux Live KDE Desktop In 210MB · · Score: 1

    Sadly for the people forced to use 32bit Porteus use the trinity desktop instead.

  22. "Running"? on Running a Linux Live KDE Desktop In 210MB · · Score: 2

    Running to me would mean "load into RAM" rather than "stored on a plastic disc."

    I wanted to see what this was about if it was running in 210 MB of RAM because that would be a bitch to use from my experience but it wasn't running it all.

    A live image with KDE4. Whoop-di-fucking-do.

  23. Re:God i hope so. on Has 3D Film-Making Had Its Day? · · Score: 2

    For rendered movies are they really conversions and not re-renders?

  24. Re:So copyright is not just who can copy? on Defending the First Sale Doctrine · · Score: 1

    The same goes for movies and eventually it will be so cheap to produce a movie that the anal rape that movie producers have to go through to get their movie made will be a thing of the past.

    What about if it's a porn flick staring yourself?

  25. Re:So copyright is not just who can copy? on Defending the First Sale Doctrine · · Score: 1

    nobody is going to make The Lord of the Rings or Star Wars in their basement.

    Can we really be sure?