Ever hear of the expression "lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part"? The product planners at the last company I worked for would take their sweet time deciding what the next big product would be and then would want it yesterday. They literally gave the engineering staff LESS time to develop the product than they took to come up with the details for. And guess who DIDN'T put in any overtime doing their job and who did. There is another expression, if you want it badly enough that's how good the product will be (IE: it will be BAD!). I'll gladly put in the extra hours to go the last mile, but if you schedule the ENTIRE project based on overtime, there won't be ANY time left to get that last mile in time.
It's the power density not the watt hours that make the price difference. In other words it's the watt/hours per kg that matters. Laptop batteries are not as dense (heavy) as power tool batteries, their power density is higher (more watt/hours per kg) than power tool batteries.
While working at Niles Audio it was sort of REQUIRED that we had music playing, but then again we were debugging the firmware for a whole house audio system. I usually had the test chassis receiver tuned to a classical music station on FM or Sirius/XM. Mozart or Pachelbel was probably the most productive music to have in the background, the 1812 or William Tell overture the least!
A good place to look would be http://scientificsonline.com/ AKA Edumund Scientific corp. They have just about every kind of science gift. I've ordered from them before and can recommend them.
I'm sure Microsoft's source code looks much more professional than the Linux source code. The company probably has rigid coding standards that all programmers must adhere to. Not only standards that have to do with the kinds of constructs you are allowed to use, but how the code must look, how many spaces to indent, how to format your comments, and where to put comments. In other words they probably have a 'grammar police' for code. (Do they still use Hungarian notation?). OTHO the Linux kernel was written by coders from ALL walks of life with different views on how to write code. There is only a very loose coding standard for the kernel, if Linus can read it and understand it, it gets used as is.
Does this make Microsoft source code work any better than Linux? No. Does it make it more supportable (for the programmers actually working on it)? Probably. But the people working on the Linux Kernel are used to the hodge-podge of coding standards in use. Still it could make it harder for someone to break into kernel support.
BTW, I've heard of some diehard Mircosofties getting windows tats. Wonder if Linux coders have a Tux tat. (yuck).
I would think that it is more important to find the perverts that produce this crap and throw the bookcase at them. Arresting someone just because they happen to have kiddie porn on their computer without considering HOW it got there (they could have been HACKED) is a misscarrage of justice. Just wait till some congressmen gets caught in a such a bind (maybe the Chinese or the Iranians hacked his computer) and the NY Times gets hold of the story.
At the frequency that cell phones operate on the effect of the RF energy is similar to a microwave oven in that it induces a heating effect. This is NOT the same effect as exposure to radioactivity from atomic sources such as radium and other isotopes. At higher frequencies such as X-Rays and Gamma rays the effect DOES become ionizing and could produce DNA damage, which can lead to cancers. If there was no increase in cancers from the use of microwave ovens, then I would not expect to see an increase in cancer rates from cell phones. Perhaps this came about because of the use of microwave ovens being referred to as 'nuking' the food, when in fact nothing of an atomic nature takes place. Then again, few people would ever put their head inside a microwave oven, yet they willingly hold a low power microwave transmitter next to their heads. (Note that the field strength difference between the two is considerable.)
Not only that but the software required to develop your own windows apps (in c, c++, or C#) is a FREE DOWNLOAD from M$! Granted for free you don't get the "enterprise" version of the thing, but all you are missing is the mission critical networking stuff that only server apps need. Want to develop games or desktop windows software? Go for it! I've used the free development packages and they are decent, with good on line documentation. The evil empire is learning......
If you are talking pop/rock then digital mp3 downloads are killing off CD's since most people would rather buy a single tune than an entire album in most cases. Of course there ARE albums that are worth owning such as ANYTHING by the Beatles, the Who's Tommy, etc. OTOH sales of classical music CD's shouldn't be down as much since here we are talking about music of longer lengths where only 1 - 3 selections fill an entire CD. Also people who listen to classical music are less likely to be happy with the quality of MP3's lossy compression and want the real thing.
Well there are OTHER plug standards in use here in the USA. Ever see a crows foot plug connector? How about a twist-lock? Now there are plugs with BALLS!.
Token rings have this big problem. I remember hooking up a token ring network once where I worked. Well the cable came disconnected and the token fell out and rolled behind a desk and was never found! We had to wait 2 weeks for a replacement to show up. What a bummer!
Years ago I had a brief email exchange with RMS about "GNU/Linux" vs "Linux". His point was that Linux is NOT an operating system, just the kernel of one. But GNU isn't an operating system either, it's just a good set of utilities that an OS needs to be useful. Linux by itself is sorta like a head without a body, but GNU is then a body without a head.
I've switched to CFL's from incandescent bulbs in many of the light fixtures in my house. However the fixture in my bedroom is controlled by an X10 switch/dimmer module so we can adjust the lighting from the bed. I have not yet found any CFL bulb that will work with this dimmer. Several 'dimmable' CFL's I've tried would work with a dimmer switch in other rooms of the house, but NOT with the X10 modules. So for now my bedroom will still use incandescent lamps. Because they are gas discharge lamps, CFL's don't dim evenly, or go down below about 30% output. You must use matched bulbs if you want to dim a fixture using more than one bulb. LED lamps should work better with dimmers. I'd be willing to pay $30-40 a bulb for LED lamps, IF they work with the dimmer as well as incandescent lamps and will last as long as promised. BTW about half of the CFL's I've installed are still working, and the other half burned out as quick as the average incandescent. About the range of quality I'd expect from crap made in China!
You went about it all wrong. I tried to get a seller to pay for return shipping when he sent the wrong item (his description was wrong). When the seller wouldn't see things my way and PayPal wouldn't help, I just told Amex I had a complaint and wanted the charges dropped from my account. Amex did their OWN investigation and reversed the charges on PayPal. Finally the seller issued me a refund AND paid the cost for return of the item, at which point I shipped it back to him. I then told Amex that the problem was fixed and they and PayPal finalized things. NEVER use a bank account to fund a charge with PayPal. You give up too much clout.
The ONLY way I pay though PayPal is via my American Express card. One time I had a problem and PayPal was zero help. So I directed my complaint through Amex. Good old American Express came down like a ton of bricks on PayPal and REVERSED the transfer, which got PayPals attention quick! All of a sudden, PayPal was in my court and got the seller to fix things.
Fixture has nothing to do with it, it's just 4 frag'n bulb sockets wired in parallel. All the guts are in the bulbs. The dimmer is an X-11 wall switch module. Bulbs were GE (major brand). I think the newer cold cathode CFL's are better as dimmable lamps, these are not yet available at the local home depot you have to buy them online.
It's actually the wear and tear on the bulb life. Each time you turn the bulb on and off you reduce it's life span. There is some balance between constant use (NEVER turning it off) and limiting how often you power cycle the bulb. But the expense isn't from the cost of power, it's the cost of the bulb. And yes, CFL's do have a limited number of power cycles they can handle before crapping out.
The "dimmable" CFL's I tried were made by GE. They dimmed down to about 80% then went off. I could not get less than 80% of full out of them. Maybe the fact that the fixture had 4 bulbs in parallel had something to do with this, but it is NOT acceptable for only ONE bulb to be usable on a single dimmer.
If the oven bulb is in a separate compartment and fan cooled maybe it would work. Florecent lamps usually don't like the cold, so use in the 'fridge might be a problem. Good to see that some exceptions for appliance and rough service bulbs (this includes ceiling fan bulbs). Actually I expect LED lamps to fill in the under 40w appliance area.
A TOTAL ban on incandescent lamps? I think not. You can't put CFL's in the 'fridge. They won't work in ovens. They don't work worth a damn with dimmers (I've tried several "dimmable" CLF's, they have a range of maybe 20%). Until they make CFL's or way cheaper LED bulbs equal to 60-100W incandescent lamps that work with a dimmer, I'll keep the "Edison bulbs" in my dimmable fixtures, even If I have to buy black market lamps from Korea.
YES! and some nice collections of stuff are now on BD at prices only slightly higher than DVD. Such as the original 6 Star Trek movies on BD with an "extras" disk. Lists for about $100, but you can find it for about half that on line.
Also there are some very nice players under $200, I've even seen a $99 player at Wally*World. Also a nice "universal" player (CD,CDR,CDRW, DVD+/- R/RW (with mp3, ogg, mp4, avi, dvix, etc) super upconverting of DVD's, discrete 7.1 analog audio out (don't need external surround decoder) for about $500.
The only reason BD may die is if video on demand download in HD really catches on. Right now with all the crappy compression VOD HD sucks compared to BD. For those who say the increase in PQ isn't worth going BD, try getting a better TV. On a good 50" or larger LCD or Plasma you CAN see the difference. (With a good DVD issue, and a HQ de-interlace and upconversion processor the DVD will look real good on a large screen set to the point you might not want to update your entire DVD collection to BD, but you WILL see a difference)
Does anybody reading this own an early BD player that no longer will work due to changes in BD+? Has anybody reading this had to get their BD player firmware updated to play existing or new discs as a result of changes in BD+ (firmware updates to get new features such as BD live don't count)? I know that the design of BD+ makes this possible, but has it actually happened?
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Ever hear of the expression "lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part"? The product planners at the last company I worked for would take their sweet time deciding what the next big product would be and then would want it yesterday. They literally gave the engineering staff LESS time to develop the product than they took to come up with the details for. And guess who DIDN'T put in any overtime doing their job and who did.
There is another expression, if you want it badly enough that's how good the product will be (IE: it will be BAD!). I'll gladly put in the extra hours to go the last mile, but if you schedule the ENTIRE project based on overtime, there won't be ANY time left to get that last mile in time.
It's the power density not the watt hours that make the price difference. In other words it's the watt/hours per kg that matters. Laptop batteries are not as dense (heavy) as power tool batteries, their power density is higher (more watt/hours per kg) than power tool batteries.
While working at Niles Audio it was sort of REQUIRED that we had music playing, but then again we were debugging the firmware for a whole house audio system. I usually had the test chassis receiver tuned to a classical music station on FM or Sirius/XM. Mozart or Pachelbel was probably the most productive music to have in the background, the 1812 or William Tell overture the least!
A good place to look would be http://scientificsonline.com/ AKA Edumund Scientific corp. They have just about every kind of science gift. I've ordered from them before and can recommend them.
I'm sure Microsoft's source code looks much more professional than the Linux source code. The company probably has rigid coding standards that all programmers must adhere to. Not only standards that have to do with the kinds of constructs you are allowed to use, but how the code must look, how many spaces to indent, how to format your comments, and where to put comments. In other words they probably have a 'grammar police' for code. (Do they still use Hungarian notation?). OTHO the Linux kernel was written by coders from ALL walks of life with different views on how to write code. There is only a very loose coding standard for the kernel, if Linus can read it and understand it, it gets used as is.
Does this make Microsoft source code work any better than Linux? No. Does it make it more supportable (for the programmers actually working on it)? Probably. But the people working on the Linux Kernel are used to the hodge-podge of coding standards in use. Still it could make it harder for someone to break into kernel support.
BTW, I've heard of some diehard Mircosofties getting windows tats. Wonder if Linux coders have a Tux tat. (yuck).
I would think that it is more important to find the perverts that produce this crap and throw the bookcase at them. Arresting someone just because they happen to have kiddie porn on their computer without considering HOW it got there (they could have been HACKED) is a misscarrage of justice. Just wait till some congressmen gets caught in a such a bind (maybe the Chinese or the Iranians hacked his computer) and the NY Times gets hold of the story.
At the frequency that cell phones operate on the effect of the RF energy is similar to a microwave oven in that it induces a heating effect. This is NOT the same effect as exposure to radioactivity from atomic sources such as radium and other isotopes. At higher frequencies such as X-Rays and Gamma rays the effect DOES become ionizing and could produce DNA damage, which can lead to cancers. If there was no increase in cancers from the use of microwave ovens, then I would not expect to see an increase in cancer rates from cell phones. Perhaps this came about because of the use of microwave ovens being referred to as 'nuking' the food, when in fact nothing of an atomic nature takes place. Then again, few people would ever put their head inside a microwave oven, yet they willingly hold a low power microwave transmitter next to their heads. (Note that the field strength difference between the two is considerable.)
Not only that but the software required to develop your own windows apps (in c, c++, or C#) is a FREE DOWNLOAD from M$! Granted for free you don't get the "enterprise" version of the thing, but all you are missing is the mission critical networking stuff that only server apps need. Want to develop games or desktop windows software? Go for it!
I've used the free development packages and they are decent, with good on line documentation. The evil empire is learning......
If you are talking pop/rock then digital mp3 downloads are killing off CD's since most people would rather buy a single tune than an entire album in most cases. Of course there ARE albums that are worth owning such as ANYTHING by the Beatles, the Who's Tommy, etc. OTOH sales of classical music CD's shouldn't be down as much since here we are talking about music of longer lengths where only 1 - 3 selections fill an entire CD. Also people who listen to classical music are less likely to be happy with the quality of MP3's lossy compression and want the real thing.
Well there are OTHER plug standards in use here in the USA. Ever see a crows foot plug connector?
How about a twist-lock? Now there are plugs with BALLS!.
Token rings have this big problem. I remember hooking up a token ring network
once where I worked. Well the cable came disconnected and the token fell out
and rolled behind a desk and was never found! We had to wait 2 weeks for a
replacement to show up. What a bummer!
Years ago I had a brief email exchange with RMS about "GNU/Linux" vs "Linux". His point was that Linux is NOT an operating system, just the kernel of one. But GNU isn't an operating system either, it's just a good set of utilities that an OS needs to be useful. Linux by itself is sorta like a head without a body, but GNU is then a body without a head.
I've switched to CFL's from incandescent bulbs in many of the light fixtures in my house. However the fixture in my bedroom is controlled by an X10 switch/dimmer module so we can adjust the lighting from the bed. I have not yet found any CFL bulb that will work with this dimmer. Several 'dimmable' CFL's I've tried would work with a dimmer switch in other rooms of the house, but NOT with the X10 modules. So for now my bedroom will still use incandescent lamps. Because they are gas discharge lamps, CFL's don't dim evenly, or go down below about 30% output. You must use matched bulbs if you want to dim a fixture using more than one bulb. LED lamps should work better with dimmers. I'd be willing to pay $30-40 a bulb for LED lamps, IF they work with the dimmer as well as incandescent lamps and will last as long as promised. BTW about half of the CFL's I've installed are still working, and the other half burned out as quick as the average incandescent. About the range of quality I'd expect from crap made in China!
At least Budweiser is served COLD.
You went about it all wrong.
I tried to get a seller to pay for return shipping when he sent
the wrong item (his description was wrong). When the seller wouldn't
see things my way and PayPal wouldn't help, I just told Amex I had
a complaint and wanted the charges dropped from my account. Amex did
their OWN investigation and reversed the charges on PayPal. Finally the
seller issued me a refund AND paid the cost for return of the item, at which
point I shipped it back to him. I then told Amex that the problem was fixed and
they and PayPal finalized things.
NEVER use a bank account to fund a charge with PayPal. You give up too much
clout.
The ONLY way I pay though PayPal is via my American Express card.
One time I had a problem and PayPal was zero help. So I directed my
complaint through Amex. Good old American Express came down like a ton
of bricks on PayPal and REVERSED the transfer, which got PayPals attention quick!
All of a sudden, PayPal was in my court and got the seller to fix things.
We used to joke about no-name gas stations selling "Horse Piss". Guess
it won't be a joke much longer!
Fixture has nothing to do with it, it's just 4 frag'n bulb sockets wired in parallel. All the guts are in the bulbs. The dimmer is an X-11 wall switch module. Bulbs were GE (major brand). I think the newer cold cathode CFL's are better as dimmable lamps, these are not yet available at the local home depot you have to buy them online.
It's actually the wear and tear on the bulb life. Each time you turn the bulb on and off you reduce it's life span. There is some
balance between constant use (NEVER turning it off) and limiting how often you power cycle the bulb. But the expense isn't
from the cost of power, it's the cost of the bulb. And yes, CFL's do have a limited number of power cycles they can handle
before crapping out.
The "dimmable" CFL's I tried were made by GE. They dimmed down to about 80% then went off.
I could not get less than 80% of full out of them. Maybe the fact that the fixture had 4 bulbs in parallel
had something to do with this, but it is NOT acceptable for only ONE bulb to be usable on a single dimmer.
If the oven bulb is in a separate compartment and fan cooled maybe it would work. Florecent lamps usually
don't like the cold, so use in the 'fridge might be a problem. Good to see that some exceptions for
appliance and rough service bulbs (this includes ceiling fan bulbs). Actually I expect LED lamps to fill
in the under 40w appliance area.
The description of the video sounds like Weird Al's "Don't download this song" video.
A TOTAL ban on incandescent lamps? I think not. You can't put CFL's in the 'fridge. They won't work in ovens. They don't work worth a damn
with dimmers (I've tried several "dimmable" CLF's, they have a range of maybe 20%). Until they make CFL's or way cheaper LED bulbs equal to 60-100W incandescent lamps that work with a dimmer, I'll keep the "Edison bulbs" in my dimmable fixtures, even If I have to buy black market lamps from Korea.
He has a few other other useless cars an motorcycles.
YES! and some nice collections of stuff are now on BD at prices only slightly higher than DVD.
Such as the original 6 Star Trek movies on BD with an "extras" disk. Lists for about $100, but you
can find it for about half that on line.
Also there are some very nice players under $200, I've even seen a $99 player at Wally*World.
Also a nice "universal" player (CD,CDR,CDRW, DVD+/- R/RW (with mp3, ogg, mp4, avi, dvix, etc)
super upconverting of DVD's, discrete 7.1 analog audio out (don't need external surround decoder)
for about $500.
The only reason BD may die is if video on demand download in HD really catches on. Right now
with all the crappy compression VOD HD sucks compared to BD. For those who say the increase
in PQ isn't worth going BD, try getting a better TV. On a good 50" or larger LCD or Plasma you CAN
see the difference. (With a good DVD issue, and a HQ de-interlace and upconversion processor the
DVD will look real good on a large screen set to the point you might not want to update your entire
DVD collection to BD, but you WILL see a difference)
Does anybody reading this own an early BD player that no longer will work
due to changes in BD+? Has anybody reading this had to get their BD
player firmware updated to play existing or new discs as a result of
changes in BD+ (firmware updates to get new features such as BD live
don't count)? I know that the design of BD+ makes this possible, but
has it actually happened?