except maybe some atheists who'll say that the Germanic fertility goddess folks ripped that off from nature, which provided the bunnies and eggs, or from the chemical industry who brought us marshmallow peeps.
Actually, nature ripped off the chemical industry and was in turn ripped off by the pagans. The chemical industry then sued the pagans, forcing them to settle for a ruinous amount of money. Paganism folded (back then chapter 11 wasn't yet written; they were only at chapter 4 at the time), which is why there aren't any pagan churches around anymore.
Nature never was sued. There are rumors of a secret licensig deal; on the other hand polution wasn't really an issue before the whole mess started...
The mercury in CFLs is not the end of the world, but being able to avoid it is desirable. We already generate enough toxic waste. The trick is finding an alternative that is about as efficient for home use scenarios and doesn't generate toxic waste...
Depends on your definition of "twice as efficient". It can either mean "having an efficiency that is twice as high" (so twice 50% would be 100%) or "being half as far away from 100%" (so twice 50% would be 75%).
The latter definition certainly isn't unheard of and makes sense: When I'm talking about energy efficiency I want to know how much energy goes to waste. So "twice as efficient" meaning "wastes half as much energy" is what I'm thinking of.
This bulb is not yet ready for use in projectors. First they have to make it easy to inadvertantly break, hideously expensive and extremely hot while at the same time not very heat resistant. Industry standards, you know.
CFLs aren't incendescent lights and they work completely differently than incendescents. Try touching a halogen spot that has been running for a while. That's an incandescent light and it does get quite hot.
Neither your monitor nor a light bulb with colored plastic wrap are blackbody emitters. Your monitor relies on causing small elements to emit very specific wavelengths of light; having these elements close together allows for mixing. The light bulb emits light from a quite hot filament and then you selectively remove certain wavelengths with the plastic wrap.
Because what I really need is five LEDs per square meter just to get somewhat acceptable lighting indoors.
Currently, I use either halogen spots (hot, not very efficient, not good at lighting a whole room) or halogen uplights (very hot, inefficient but at least good at lighting a room). Traditional incandescents suck even more power than halogens and CFLs give off a rather terrible light and contain mercury. LEDs are not an option because they're much more expensive than halogen spots while being much less bright.
This plasma bulb might turn into a decent alternative to regular halogen bulbs. Unfortunately TFvideo didn't compare this thing to regular halogens, but perhaps it or a weaker version of it could be used as a replacement for the fly roasting machine that calls itself my uplight. An additional question would be whether this bulb is dimmable.
I tried to, but Slashdot infomed me that I can't downmod a post already at -1. So that post will remain Redundant unless someone mods it up. Which I don't really recommend.
And as someone else has pointed out, tampering with voting machines should be treated as treason or even high treason. Add more draconian laws. If any voting machine is found to misbehave, a full-scale investigation of eversone involved is started, including the manufacturer. The voting machine manufacturers would be very eager to produce tamper-proof machines if any tampering by anyone automatically equaled an FBI raid on the manufacturer.
Of course it could also mean that nobody wants to make voing machines anymore, which might not be that bad. Paper voting is quite safe when implemented properly.
Not Linux. I'd go with an application-specific OS/firmware, of course open-sourced. The reason? I'd make it a requirement for the entire voting machine/local network to meet at least EAL 6, EAL 7 very much preferred. Have them prove that every single component is free of error.
Ideally, there should be mathematical proof that the voting machine/network work either absolutely correct or not at all under any circumstances. Once that is met we can start worrying about making the machines tamper-proof and suppyling a nondigital fallback mechanism in case of failure.
This is hardware that can determine the future policy of what's arguably the nation with the highest destructive potential on earth. "Good enough" doesn't cut it. Vendor-approved doesn't cut it. Mil-spec doesn't cut it. The only acceptable standard is technical perfection.
I didn't contest that Apple's platform-specific APIs are platform-specific. What I pointed out was that Apple offers these APIs in addition to standard APIs as opposed to Microsoft, who offer them instead of them. And no, I'm not talking about X11, I'm talking about things like perror.
On the other hand, Apple similarly offers a full-featured API with development tools while at the same time maintaining compatibility to the *nix world, including even X11. Of course the old stuff is a bit of a second-class citizen, but it does work.
Never gonna give you up / never gonna let -- We interrupt this video with a short ad relevant to your interests. "Ooooh, naughty girls with backup tapes. Only on DatacenterOfLove.com!" -- you down~
The followers of Rick Astley probably won't be the only ones displeased.
Of course things would be more interesting if they extracted meaning from the videos (or at least tried doing that) and used that to determine which ads to show. I wonder who'd then advertise in the 2G1C response videos... Charmin?
Google Analytics script is now on almost every site on internet.
Which means that every so often a site takes more than a minute to load because Google Analytics takes that long to respond. Also, it's an additional DNS lookup, which have been pretty slow for me the last few weeks.
I'm going to put GA into my hosts file under 0.0.0.0; the scary tracking ability is part of the decision but the tipping stone is the fact that GA makes the web slow. Well, even slower.
No, but when you haven't done any development on Windows so far you come in expecting C to work like it does pretty much everywhere else. The fact that it doesn't can really eat your productivity as you end up having weird errors that can only be resolved by digging through the MSDN until you have learned Microsoft's way of doing something.
Of course Windows is not "supposed" to implement POSIX. Microsoft can do whatever they want to. But them doing their own thing means that you can't easily apply C(++) skills from another platform on Windows and vice versa. In my opinion, that makes Windows a worse development platform than Linux.
By the way, Windows NT actually used to be POSIX conformant, but that was dropped pretty soon.
Actually, Linux is also a superior programming environment for languages like C. A friend of mine is pulling his hair out because he's writing an app on Windows and lots of standard functions are implemented differently than everywhere else (eg. errno being replaced by WSAGetLastError) and MinGW apparently suffers from ages-old bugs like vsnprintf returning -1 if the supplied buffer is too small - which was fixed after glibc-2.0.
Under Linux you can be reasonably sure that everything works as intended by the C/C++/POSIX standard. That's a huge asset.
Ah, the joys of non-looping GIFs. One more technology that breaks when used in conjunction with tabbed browsing.
I can't see the dancing logo when using Google through a 4-to-6 tunnel, though. The reason for that, however, is simple: Google auto-forwards me to the localized version of the page.
It will be replaced by IPv4/NATv2. Until we start he first interplanetary network, which will require an entirely new approach - IPv4 with hierarchical NATv2.
Well... IPv4 works well because IPv6 doesn't. My ISP doen't offer IPv6, so their customers don't use it, so there's no demand so they don't offer it.
After some complaint, they did apparently offer it for a shot time last summer but today the only mention of it on their website is in their Wikipedia mirror.
Interestingly, it does not move for me. Perhaps because Google detected that I'm on an IPv4 connection and thus too uncool for 2008's animated GIF goodness.
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Nature never was sued. There are rumors of a secret licensig deal; on the other hand polution wasn't really an issue before the whole mess started...
Well, have they solved the flicker problem yet? While CFLs are energy-efficient I'm currently sticking with halogens because I can't stand flicker.
The mercury in CFLs is not the end of the world, but being able to avoid it is desirable. We already generate enough toxic waste. The trick is finding an alternative that is about as efficient for home use scenarios and doesn't generate toxic waste...
Depends on your definition of "twice as efficient". It can either mean "having an efficiency that is twice as high" (so twice 50% would be 100%) or "being half as far away from 100%" (so twice 50% would be 75%).
The latter definition certainly isn't unheard of and makes sense: When I'm talking about energy efficiency I want to know how much energy goes to waste. So "twice as efficient" meaning "wastes half as much energy" is what I'm thinking of.
This bulb is not yet ready for use in projectors. First they have to make it easy to inadvertantly break, hideously expensive and extremely hot while at the same time not very heat resistant. Industry standards, you know.
CFLs aren't incendescent lights and they work completely differently than incendescents. Try touching a halogen spot that has been running for a while. That's an incandescent light and it does get quite hot.
Neither your monitor nor a light bulb with colored plastic wrap are blackbody emitters. Your monitor relies on causing small elements to emit very specific wavelengths of light; having these elements close together allows for mixing. The light bulb emits light from a quite hot filament and then you selectively remove certain wavelengths with the plastic wrap.
It kind of makes sense to assume that an incandescent light source is hot because, to quote the all-knowing Wikipedia, incandescence is the release of electromagnetic radiation, usually visible radiation, from a body due to its temperature.
Because what I really need is five LEDs per square meter just to get somewhat acceptable lighting indoors.
Currently, I use either halogen spots (hot, not very efficient, not good at lighting a whole room) or halogen uplights (very hot, inefficient but at least good at lighting a room). Traditional incandescents suck even more power than halogens and CFLs give off a rather terrible light and contain mercury. LEDs are not an option because they're much more expensive than halogen spots while being much less bright.
This plasma bulb might turn into a decent alternative to regular halogen bulbs. Unfortunately TFvideo didn't compare this thing to regular halogens, but perhaps it or a weaker version of it could be used as a replacement for the fly roasting machine that calls itself my uplight. An additional question would be whether this bulb is dimmable.
I tried to, but Slashdot infomed me that I can't downmod a post already at -1. So that post will remain Redundant unless someone mods it up. Which I don't really recommend.
Not quite. .invalid is an official TLD.
Probably because someone made a few thousand very important points somewhere.
You know, I used to respect ISO... Microsoft proved that they can ruin anything they want. Well, except for Google.
And as someone else has pointed out, tampering with voting machines should be treated as treason or even high treason. Add more draconian laws. If any voting machine is found to misbehave, a full-scale investigation of eversone involved is started, including the manufacturer. The voting machine manufacturers would be very eager to produce tamper-proof machines if any tampering by anyone automatically equaled an FBI raid on the manufacturer.
Of course it could also mean that nobody wants to make voing machines anymore, which might not be that bad. Paper voting is quite safe when implemented properly.
Not Linux. I'd go with an application-specific OS/firmware, of course open-sourced. The reason? I'd make it a requirement for the entire voting machine/local network to meet at least EAL 6, EAL 7 very much preferred. Have them prove that every single component is free of error.
Ideally, there should be mathematical proof that the voting machine/network work either absolutely correct or not at all under any circumstances. Once that is met we can start worrying about making the machines tamper-proof and suppyling a nondigital fallback mechanism in case of failure.
This is hardware that can determine the future policy of what's arguably the nation with the highest destructive potential on earth. "Good enough" doesn't cut it. Vendor-approved doesn't cut it. Mil-spec doesn't cut it. The only acceptable standard is technical perfection.
I didn't contest that Apple's platform-specific APIs are platform-specific. What I pointed out was that Apple offers these APIs in addition to standard APIs as opposed to Microsoft, who offer them instead of them. And no, I'm not talking about X11, I'm talking about things like perror.
On the other hand, Apple similarly offers a full-featured API with development tools while at the same time maintaining compatibility to the *nix world, including even X11. Of course the old stuff is a bit of a second-class citizen, but it does work.
Never gonna give you up / never gonna let -- We interrupt this video with a short ad relevant to your interests. "Ooooh, naughty girls with backup tapes. Only on DatacenterOfLove.com!" -- you down~
The followers of Rick Astley probably won't be the only ones displeased.
Of course things would be more interesting if they extracted meaning from the videos (or at least tried doing that) and used that to determine which ads to show. I wonder who'd then advertise in the 2G1C response videos... Charmin?
I'm going to put GA into my hosts file under 0.0.0.0; the scary tracking ability is part of the decision but the tipping stone is the fact that GA makes the web slow. Well, even slower.
Granted, "everywhere else" in the scope of popular home/server OSes is more or less equivalent to "in the POSIX world".
No, but when you haven't done any development on Windows so far you come in expecting C to work like it does pretty much everywhere else. The fact that it doesn't can really eat your productivity as you end up having weird errors that can only be resolved by digging through the MSDN until you have learned Microsoft's way of doing something.
Of course Windows is not "supposed" to implement POSIX. Microsoft can do whatever they want to. But them doing their own thing means that you can't easily apply C(++) skills from another platform on Windows and vice versa. In my opinion, that makes Windows a worse development platform than Linux.
By the way, Windows NT actually used to be POSIX conformant, but that was dropped pretty soon.
Actually, Linux is also a superior programming environment for languages like C. A friend of mine is pulling his hair out because he's writing an app on Windows and lots of standard functions are implemented differently than everywhere else (eg. errno being replaced by WSAGetLastError) and MinGW apparently suffers from ages-old bugs like vsnprintf returning -1 if the supplied buffer is too small - which was fixed after glibc-2.0.
Under Linux you can be reasonably sure that everything works as intended by the C/C++/POSIX standard. That's a huge asset.
It's really easy to argue with penguins, actually. Just take an anti-herring stance.
Ah, the joys of non-looping GIFs. One more technology that breaks when used in conjunction with tabbed browsing.
I can't see the dancing logo when using Google through a 4-to-6 tunnel, though. The reason for that, however, is simple: Google auto-forwards me to the localized version of the page.
It will be replaced by IPv4/NATv2. Until we start he first interplanetary network, which will require an entirely new approach - IPv4 with hierarchical NATv2.
Well... IPv4 works well because IPv6 doesn't. My ISP doen't offer IPv6, so their customers don't use it, so there's no demand so they don't offer it.
After some complaint, they did apparently offer it for a shot time last summer but today the only mention of it on their website is in their Wikipedia mirror.
Interestingly, it does not move for me. Perhaps because Google detected that I'm on an IPv4 connection and thus too uncool for 2008's animated GIF goodness.