The bulb itself may be fine, but the metal base near the socket (the heatsink) certainly does get hot. I don't really know if that's normal, but from what I've read online about LED operating temperatures it seems to be.
New LED light bulbs fit into my old fixtures just fine. They're all screw-in.
My only real complaint about LED bulbs at this point (since flicker, color, and price seem to have been largely resolved) is heat. They just don't work very well in certain fixtures due to the large amount of heat they generate and have to dissipate or suffer damage.
For example, I have a standing floor lamp that's simply an inverted shade on a pole. With a 40w equivalent LED bulb in it, the lamp will shut off automatically every few hours because it has a heat sensor in it to prevent you from using anything more than a 150w incandescent bulb, and the brand new Phillips LED bulb I have eventually gets hot enough to trigger this safety mechanism.
The same problem happens with fully enclosed fixtures like some ceiling and outdoor lamps. it's an annoying issue with the power systems design that still limits LED bulb usage.
I assume that was an autocorrect mistake, but I absolutely love it. Some kind of mix between a crotchety old-timer who doesn't want to give up his horse buggy and a mindless hipster twitter jokey who thinks all fossil fuels are pure evil.
Irrelevant. I don't understand why so many people don't understand this. Exchanging real money to give you a pull on the slot machine, even if the slot machine only spits out shitty hats, is still gambling.
I am. The desktop and mobile form factors are fundamentally incompatible. They have different display sizes, different input devices, different levels of accuracy, are used in different environments, and are used for different purposes. And that's only a few of the many, many differences between them.
Trying to make a desktop work like a phone, or a phone like a desktop, just leads to a really shitty desktop or a really shitty phone. Developers and OS designers need to simply accept and embrace this and instead focus on making both the best they can be.
I don't always agree with Tim Cook, but:
"So maybe the company would be more efficient at the end of the day. But that's not what it's about. You know it's about giving people things that they can then use to help them change the world or express their passion or express their creativity. So this merger thing that some folks are fixated on, I don't think that's what users want."
is damned spot-on. Ultimately, Microsoft is really just pinching pennies and trying to lock people into a Windows ecosystem by merging their desktop and mobile systems. Nothing about the attempt to merge these systems is good for consumers.
Why is there not a way to whitelist sites to allow automatic video playback? When I open a YouTube link, it's because I want to watch the video. That seems drastically different than autoplay ads or the garbage CNN forcibly shoves down your throat.
On desktop, Chrome has a Media Engagement Index (MEI), which measures the propensity to consume media for each site you visit. You can check your MEI for each site by navigating to the chrome://media-engagement internal page. The MEI is determined by a ratio of visits to significant media playback events per origin, with these four factors taken into account:
Oh, because Google wants to control what gets auto-played and what doesn't. Of course, how silly of me to expect them to grant lowly users this power.
We received mixed results with YouTube videos, however — sometimes they played automatically and other times they did not.
This is the basic reason that a private healthcare system can never be an ethical or ideal system. Making a profit can only come at the expense of someone's health, life, or livelihood. It ultimately places the burden of providing that profit on society as a whole.
The only rational and ethical health system is one that is non-profit.
That sounds nice at first glance, but therein lies the problem. All a company like Apple has to do is license zero repair shops and suddenly they have a monopoly on device repairs. They can charge any amount, or outright refuse to repair anything they want.
No company should be expected to honor a warranty on devices that were broken or improperly repaired by tinkerers who don't know what they're doing.
Nobody is really saying they should be; however, the onus to prove the item was damaged by a failed repair job is on the warranty provider -- just as it is on them to prove you didn't mistreat it in other ways (drop in the toilet, put in the microwave, etc).
How is this better than DNS Watch? They are a free, not ad-sponsered, privacy-focused DNS provider with goals of neutrality and anti-censorship.
Cloudflare is basically the Big Brother gatekeeper of the Internet at this point, with strong ties to the US. Them claiming "privacy" as something they care about is pretty absurd.
Anyone who "fears" losing their job already feels that they are getting paid more than the market would pay for their services. That's not taking advantage of anyone.
If you're going to change my premise, you can't then argue against my conclusion. My point was specifically about people who feel they are in a precarious situation due to something other than their performance, such as their race or gender or other "just not a good team fit" type of excuses.
This may be part of it, but much more goes into salary determination than just worker value. Seniority, experience, niche skills, etc. If nothing else, some people are simply worse at negotiating (or re-negotiating) their salary.
Should someone make 20-30% less than another more or less equivalent worker just because they are significantly introverted and do not or cannot negotiate for a salary increase? Or what about a woman or minority who fears (legitimately or otherwise) that they could lose their job if they "rock the boat"? Both of these are taking advantage of someone in a way that should not be allowed or encouraged.
A salary range for the variance between workers is a good thing but it needs to be justifiable by management, and a lower-paid worker should be able to find out what they can do to work towards achieving a higher level of compensation.
I gave up and went to 56 after getting warnings from Google apps saying my browser version was no longer supported. 56 is the last version to support XUL addons, so my entire browser hasn't gone to the new shit UI and shit functionality, but it's still new enough to be fully supported.
I don't know what I'll do when 56 gets too old or a severe security issue is discovered and Mozilla refuses to backport the fix. Honestly I'm hoping something better has come along by then - perhaps a real fork of Firefox that continues with XUL compatibility and makes Web Extensions optional.
They're not OK. Really, it's worth the effort to try to cover them up as much as possible. Cultivate the best sleep you can and darkness is really good for sleep.
Exactly. For anyone interested, try this experiment sometime:
Look at your room at night as it is normally when you go to bed. Now cover the blinds with a dark sheet or blanket to remove most exterior light. Turn off or unplug any other light sources. Turn your alarm clock towards the wall, or put it face down to hide the light.
Now turn off the lights and take another look at your room. It should surprise you how much darker it is, and, it should feel much more inviting and easier to fall asleep. The sleep you do get will probably feel deeper and more restful than usual.
As for waking up, a lamp with a dim (30-40 watt) warm colored bulb on a cheap timer set to turn on about 30 minutes before your alarm goes off does wonders. This mimics sunrise and helps you wake up more slowly, instead of getting yanked out of REM sleep by a buzzer (or the howling of whoever the current pop favorite is).
When the media stopped mentioning suicides in the news in the 1980s, they plummeted significantly.
Completely false. Even assuming you're right about reduced mention of suicides in the 80's, this chart shows a complete lack of "plummeting": At best it shows about 12 deaths per 100,000 in 1980, and about 10 deaths per 100,000 in 2005.
That's a drop of 16%, which could just as easily be attributed to the reduction of leaded gasoline. Or the invention of Internet porn. Or any number of other things.
Microsoft execs say there's now an AI platform in Windows 10 that enables developers to use "pre-trained machine learning in their apps on Windows 10 devices."
That's not hardware acceleration, because you need, ya know, specialized hardware for that which you can't send via a software update. In fact, the word "hardware" isn't even in the linked article, so where did this silly headline even come from?
I hope subscriptions come back too, I'm more than happy to pay for this.
+1 for this. I reject and block advertising, but give me a way to pay a fair amount for something I enjoy and I'm more than happy to. I'm not sure the per-page-view subscription model is still relevant, but a flat monthly charge to support the site would be most welcome.
So I don't consider the safety net perfect, but we DO have one in the USA, or we did before the ACA...
I'm glad things worked out for your mom, but what safety net are you talking about? Hoping that a private hospital will just write off most of your bills is not a safety net. Welfare and Medicaid are helpful, but they don't really do anything to prevent bankruptcy - just to keep you warm and fed while you try and get back on your feet (if you can still walk).
Am I the only person left willing to pay for games
No, but fewer and fewer publishers are willing to accept your one-time payment when they could instead leech off "freemium" transactions for years, not to mention their hopes of catching a whale.
I do like often the Free to play first chapter, or limited world just so I can determine if the game is worth my money or not.
The free-to-play idea is what started the trip down this road to microtransaction hell. And determining the value of a game before buying it was something we solved decades ago with the game demo -- but that's pretty much been killed off by early access games, another horrible money grab.
Agreed. The addition of a tiny message saying "Blah blah in-game purchases blah blah" is not only toothless, it will just be ignored by literally everyone - kids, parents, and publishers alike.
In-game gambling for real-world money should not only affect the rating of the title, it should impact who can purchase the item. If people under 18 are not allowed to gamble in casinos, they should also not be allowed to buy a game with real-money random loot boxes.
This is just another example of consumer protection in the US being a complete joke. I wonder why the ESRB is unwilling to take a stand on this issue?
The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is an American self-regulatory organization that assigns age and content ratings to consumer video games. [1]
Obama was required to appoint a republican since the law requires the commission to have a 3-2 split between the parties. Guess who recommended Pai to Obama? Oh yeah, Mitch McConnell.
Obama's FCC chairperson was for "fast lanes" before they reversed position due to public outcry.
Tom Wheeler may have come into the FCC with some preconceived opinions and bias, like anyone would, but he quickly revised his stance as he learned the facts. This is what separates a rational, thinking person from a mindless party hack like Pai. Frankly, Tom Wheeler was one of the best commissioners the FCC has ever had, and as close to a champion of consumer advocacy the US has seen in decades.
And I'm betting there will be class-action lawsuits if this really does happen. In what possible way does buying a car grant a third part the right to collect and sell any data gathered from it? Ignoring the privacy implications - the data is not theirs to take! I genuinely don't understand the mentality behind these sociopathic advertising asshats which makes them think they have any sort of right to do something like this.
If they want to install this bullshit in the car then they had better give owners the ability to shut it completely off. I only hope that whatever judge this ends up in front of is a rational person and not some right wing nut who just wants to fuck over the American public and hand them over to his corporate overlords.
In fact he lives in Broward county. Thats 90% DEMOCRAT. its probably going to come out in the wash that both his parents were registered democrats.
What relevance does any of that have? Aside from the fact that the kid can't even vote yet, many teenagers (especially disturbed ones like this kid) rebel against their parents and their ideologies.
Dont stereotype on this shit, it will backfire every time
Doesn't stop the leftist types from shrieking "How **DARE** you **POLITICIZE** this **TRAGEDY**!!!" the moment anyone not so leftist demurs from their politicizing in favor of their solution of banning all guns.
Huh? The only group shrieking about politicizing a tragedy after a shooting is the gun lobby and their buddies on the right.
Without taking sides, if a public shooting and innocent dead people aren't a good reason to discuss the issue of gun control and public safety, when is a good time?
Why does it matter which one is greater? Both are evil and should be stopped.
We should have moved past this "greater of two evils" false dichotomy bullshit a long time ago. It doesn't matter if we're talking about computers or phones or politicians. Shit is shit and evil is evil -- how about we just avoid all of it and work towards a good alternative?
Oh, that's right... nobody actually cares about good or evil - just whether it looks like their team is currently winning, or if it isn't, to throw shit at the other team to make them look bad.
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The bulb itself may be fine, but the metal base near the socket (the heatsink) certainly does get hot. I don't really know if that's normal, but from what I've read online about LED operating temperatures it seems to be.
New LED light bulbs fit into my old fixtures just fine. They're all screw-in.
My only real complaint about LED bulbs at this point (since flicker, color, and price seem to have been largely resolved) is heat. They just don't work very well in certain fixtures due to the large amount of heat they generate and have to dissipate or suffer damage.
For example, I have a standing floor lamp that's simply an inverted shade on a pole. With a 40w equivalent LED bulb in it, the lamp will shut off automatically every few hours because it has a heat sensor in it to prevent you from using anything more than a 150w incandescent bulb, and the brand new Phillips LED bulb I have eventually gets hot enough to trigger this safety mechanism.
The same problem happens with fully enclosed fixtures like some ceiling and outdoor lamps. it's an annoying issue with the power systems design that still limits LED bulb usage.
Infernal combustion cars
I assume that was an autocorrect mistake, but I absolutely love it. Some kind of mix between a crotchety old-timer who doesn't want to give up his horse buggy and a mindless hipster twitter jokey who thinks all fossil fuels are pure evil.
They are purely cosmetic.
Irrelevant. I don't understand why so many people don't understand this. Exchanging real money to give you a pull on the slot machine, even if the slot machine only spits out shitty hats, is still gambling.
But I'm not convinced it can't be better.
I am. The desktop and mobile form factors are fundamentally incompatible. They have different display sizes, different input devices, different levels of accuracy, are used in different environments, and are used for different purposes. And that's only a few of the many, many differences between them.
Trying to make a desktop work like a phone, or a phone like a desktop, just leads to a really shitty desktop or a really shitty phone. Developers and OS designers need to simply accept and embrace this and instead focus on making both the best they can be.
I don't always agree with Tim Cook, but:
"So maybe the company would be more efficient at the end of the day. But that's not what it's about. You know it's about giving people things that they can then use to help them change the world or express their passion or express their creativity. So this merger thing that some folks are fixated on, I don't think that's what users want."
is damned spot-on. Ultimately, Microsoft is really just pinching pennies and trying to lock people into a Windows ecosystem by merging their desktop and mobile systems. Nothing about the attempt to merge these systems is good for consumers.
Why is there not a way to whitelist sites to allow automatic video playback? When I open a YouTube link, it's because I want to watch the video. That seems drastically different than autoplay ads or the garbage CNN forcibly shoves down your throat.
On desktop, Chrome has a Media Engagement Index (MEI), which measures the propensity to consume media for each site you visit. You can check your MEI for each site by navigating to the chrome://media-engagement internal page. The MEI is determined by a ratio of visits to significant media playback events per origin, with these four factors taken into account:
Oh, because Google wants to control what gets auto-played and what doesn't. Of course, how silly of me to expect them to grant lowly users this power.
We received mixed results with YouTube videos, however — sometimes they played automatically and other times they did not.
That famed Google quality.
There's no money to be made in health.
This is the basic reason that a private healthcare system can never be an ethical or ideal system. Making a profit can only come at the expense of someone's health, life, or livelihood. It ultimately places the burden of providing that profit on society as a whole.
The only rational and ethical health system is one that is non-profit.
repair yourself
The right to repair is an important part of ownership. Anything else and you start getting into "implied licensing" territory, which is exactly the bullshit John Deere pulls with their tractors.
or at an unlicensed shop voids the warranty
That sounds nice at first glance, but therein lies the problem. All a company like Apple has to do is license zero repair shops and suddenly they have a monopoly on device repairs. They can charge any amount, or outright refuse to repair anything they want.
No company should be expected to honor a warranty on devices that were broken or improperly repaired by tinkerers who don't know what they're doing.
Nobody is really saying they should be; however, the onus to prove the item was damaged by a failed repair job is on the warranty provider -- just as it is on them to prove you didn't mistreat it in other ways (drop in the toilet, put in the microwave, etc).
How is this better than DNS Watch? They are a free, not ad-sponsered, privacy-focused DNS provider with goals of neutrality and anti-censorship.
Cloudflare is basically the Big Brother gatekeeper of the Internet at this point, with strong ties to the US. Them claiming "privacy" as something they care about is pretty absurd.
Anyone who "fears" losing their job already feels that they are getting paid more than the market would pay for their services. That's not taking advantage of anyone.
If you're going to change my premise, you can't then argue against my conclusion. My point was specifically about people who feel they are in a precarious situation due to something other than their performance, such as their race or gender or other "just not a good team fit" type of excuses.
This may be part of it, but much more goes into salary determination than just worker value. Seniority, experience, niche skills, etc. If nothing else, some people are simply worse at negotiating (or re-negotiating) their salary.
Should someone make 20-30% less than another more or less equivalent worker just because they are significantly introverted and do not or cannot negotiate for a salary increase? Or what about a woman or minority who fears (legitimately or otherwise) that they could lose their job if they "rock the boat"? Both of these are taking advantage of someone in a way that should not be allowed or encouraged.
A salary range for the variance between workers is a good thing but it needs to be justifiable by management, and a lower-paid worker should be able to find out what they can do to work towards achieving a higher level of compensation.
I gave up and went to 56 after getting warnings from Google apps saying my browser version was no longer supported. 56 is the last version to support XUL addons, so my entire browser hasn't gone to the new shit UI and shit functionality, but it's still new enough to be fully supported.
I don't know what I'll do when 56 gets too old or a severe security issue is discovered and Mozilla refuses to backport the fix. Honestly I'm hoping something better has come along by then - perhaps a real fork of Firefox that continues with XUL compatibility and makes Web Extensions optional.
They're not OK. Really, it's worth the effort to try to cover them up as much as possible. Cultivate the best sleep you can and darkness is really good for sleep.
Exactly. For anyone interested, try this experiment sometime:
Look at your room at night as it is normally when you go to bed. Now cover the blinds with a dark sheet or blanket to remove most exterior light. Turn off or unplug any other light sources. Turn your alarm clock towards the wall, or put it face down to hide the light.
Now turn off the lights and take another look at your room. It should surprise you how much darker it is, and, it should feel much more inviting and easier to fall asleep. The sleep you do get will probably feel deeper and more restful than usual.
As for waking up, a lamp with a dim (30-40 watt) warm colored bulb on a cheap timer set to turn on about 30 minutes before your alarm goes off does wonders. This mimics sunrise and helps you wake up more slowly, instead of getting yanked out of REM sleep by a buzzer (or the howling of whoever the current pop favorite is).
When the media stopped mentioning suicides in the news in the 1980s, they plummeted significantly.
Completely false. Even assuming you're right about reduced mention of suicides in the 80's, this chart shows a complete lack of "plummeting": At best it shows about 12 deaths per 100,000 in 1980, and about 10 deaths per 100,000 in 2005.
That's a drop of 16%, which could just as easily be attributed to the reduction of leaded gasoline. Or the invention of Internet porn. Or any number of other things.
Microsoft execs say there's now an AI platform in Windows 10 that enables developers to use "pre-trained machine learning in their apps on Windows 10 devices."
That's not hardware acceleration, because you need, ya know, specialized hardware for that which you can't send via a software update. In fact, the word "hardware" isn't even in the linked article, so where did this silly headline even come from?
I hope subscriptions come back too, I'm more than happy to pay for this.
+1 for this. I reject and block advertising, but give me a way to pay a fair amount for something I enjoy and I'm more than happy to. I'm not sure the per-page-view subscription model is still relevant, but a flat monthly charge to support the site would be most welcome.
So I don't consider the safety net perfect, but we DO have one in the USA, or we did before the ACA...
I'm glad things worked out for your mom, but what safety net are you talking about? Hoping that a private hospital will just write off most of your bills is not a safety net. Welfare and Medicaid are helpful, but they don't really do anything to prevent bankruptcy - just to keep you warm and fed while you try and get back on your feet (if you can still walk).
Am I the only person left willing to pay for games
No, but fewer and fewer publishers are willing to accept your one-time payment when they could instead leech off "freemium" transactions for years, not to mention their hopes of catching a whale.
I do like often the Free to play first chapter, or limited world just so I can determine if the game is worth my money or not.
The free-to-play idea is what started the trip down this road to microtransaction hell. And determining the value of a game before buying it was something we solved decades ago with the game demo -- but that's pretty much been killed off by early access games, another horrible money grab.
Agreed. The addition of a tiny message saying "Blah blah in-game purchases blah blah" is not only toothless, it will just be ignored by literally everyone - kids, parents, and publishers alike.
In-game gambling for real-world money should not only affect the rating of the title, it should impact who can purchase the item. If people under 18 are not allowed to gamble in casinos, they should also not be allowed to buy a game with real-money random loot boxes.
This is just another example of consumer protection in the US being a complete joke. I wonder why the ESRB is unwilling to take a stand on this issue?
The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is an American self-regulatory organization that assigns age and content ratings to consumer video games. [1]
Oh, that's why.
winamped
I've never seen this verb before, but wow it sure says a lot in a single word. Very nice.
Obama appointed Pai to the FCC.
Obama was required to appoint a republican since the law requires the commission to have a 3-2 split between the parties. Guess who recommended Pai to Obama? Oh yeah, Mitch McConnell.
Obama's FCC chairperson was for "fast lanes" before they reversed position due to public outcry.
Tom Wheeler may have come into the FCC with some preconceived opinions and bias, like anyone would, but he quickly revised his stance as he learned the facts. This is what separates a rational, thinking person from a mindless party hack like Pai. Frankly, Tom Wheeler was one of the best commissioners the FCC has ever had, and as close to a champion of consumer advocacy the US has seen in decades.
And I'm betting there will be class-action lawsuits if this really does happen. In what possible way does buying a car grant a third part the right to collect and sell any data gathered from it? Ignoring the privacy implications - the data is not theirs to take! I genuinely don't understand the mentality behind these sociopathic advertising asshats which makes them think they have any sort of right to do something like this.
If they want to install this bullshit in the car then they had better give owners the ability to shut it completely off. I only hope that whatever judge this ends up in front of is a rational person and not some right wing nut who just wants to fuck over the American public and hand them over to his corporate overlords.
In fact he lives in Broward county. Thats 90% DEMOCRAT. its probably going to come out in the wash that both his parents were registered democrats.
What relevance does any of that have? Aside from the fact that the kid can't even vote yet, many teenagers (especially disturbed ones like this kid) rebel against their parents and their ideologies.
Dont stereotype on this shit, it will backfire every time
And yet look at you doing the exact same thing.
Doesn't stop the leftist types from shrieking "How **DARE** you **POLITICIZE** this **TRAGEDY**!!!" the moment anyone not so leftist demurs from their politicizing in favor of their solution of banning all guns.
Huh? The only group shrieking about politicizing a tragedy after a shooting is the gun lobby and their buddies on the right.
Without taking sides, if a public shooting and innocent dead people aren't a good reason to discuss the issue of gun control and public safety, when is a good time?
So who's the greater evil?
Why does it matter which one is greater? Both are evil and should be stopped.
We should have moved past this "greater of two evils" false dichotomy bullshit a long time ago. It doesn't matter if we're talking about computers or phones or politicians. Shit is shit and evil is evil -- how about we just avoid all of it and work towards a good alternative?
Oh, that's right... nobody actually cares about good or evil - just whether it looks like their team is currently winning, or if it isn't, to throw shit at the other team to make them look bad.