But honestly, if YOU were an alien, with this fantastic technology to fly hundreds of light years to visit another planet with life on it, would you just fly by some stuff then go home? Hell, I wouldn't drive 60 miles look at something and turn around and come home.
I believe I mentioned that. You generally get savings from *either* motion sensors or CF. With the frequent switching a motion sensor tends to do, a CF would burn out fairly rapidly. I didn't mention it in the first paragraph because I thought it was patently obvious that you wouldn't tend to leave on anything that was controlled by an automatic sensor by definition.
*there are circumstances under which a CF would benefit being in the same installation as a motion sensor, but it generally works out that the motion sensor was applied only to avoid having switches. Certain offices and classrooms for instance.
When LED prices come down they'll make even more sense everywhere as they don't have a limited number of starts like fluorescents do.
In the lights you only use for a minute at a time, such as your closet, the energy savings of a CF not worth the effort anyway. 75% of practically nothing is still practically nothing.
I've found I actually prefer the color temperature of the more modern CFs to incandescent in many rooms. Haven't noticed the "sterilizing glow" except when I tried to make a fake window with a shop light and "daylight" bulbs, but then that's hardly a compact florescent at all...
You can get dimable CFs, but unlike incandescents, they just get dimmer, not redder. So that kind of depends on what you wanted the dimable lights for to begin with.
"This makes them inappropriate for stairwells, bathrooms, and any place with automatic light sensors."
Indeed. However the power savings you get from those applications is negligible. (unless you tend to leave the lights on in the stairwells and bathrooms)
Compact fluorescents are great at reducing per-lumen light cost, and last almost indefinitely (but a finite number of starts...), but the best way to save energy is to not have the light on in the first place.
The intermittent usage of those mentioned applications makes them unsuitable to CF, but that very intermittent usage means they aren't on all that much to begin with.
The big irony is that the very people screaming the loudest are Starbucks' target market: Self-absorbed 'Trendy' people who're willing to pay a premium to be part of the latest fad. In fact, the price might even be a selling point.
Interestingly, Ubuntu seems to use the "starbucks color scheme." so they're probably on to something.
You know you *can* order in english if you want. Nothing's forcing you order in trendicode. What's sad is that there are so many people who think they're freakin' cosmopolitan or some junk because they used some kind of Italian sounding word to order water strained through burnt Ethiopian cherry pits.
Maybe we're saving it for later. After we've drained everyone else's. Then we'll have the fruits of all their oil and they'll have a formidable stack of worthless paper...
Um.. that's much better than the list. If the people on these lists are so dangerous that their potential neighbors need to be on extra special watch when they move in nearby, then they're dangerous enough that we shouldn't be letting them out in public at all.
You want to send people and robots to space to learn interesting things about the solar system, universe, cosmology, etc. But someone else might not care a whit about that.
Should you extract monies from him at the point of a gun for your pet project?
There shouldn't be a government funded (at least not directly...) space program at all. If scientists want to do those things, they should pool their grant money and form a space-corp or something to provide the data they need for research.
Later we can argue about the grants themselves, but ideally the national government would only extort money for things directly related to its constitutionally enumerated duties.
Actually, many states have a "reasonable and prudent" law which covers the very situation you state. Although such law can just as easily be used to enforce lower speeds under sub-optimal conditions. i.e. driving at 80 in a blizzard even if the posted limit is 80.
A law you believe to be unjust does not necessarily call for your breaking it no matter how much Thoreau you read. If the movie makers demand payment for every format you wish to have, then that's what you should do. Pay them for every format you wish to watch it on, or decide it's too expensive and avoid it altogether. It's not like stealing bread for your starving family. (which btw, most people would be willing to suffer the consequences for anyway if they were in such a situation)
Well you're probably covered with distribution advice, I'll just recommend heartily that if you're going to be doing a lot of LaTeX , You should get a nice gui front-end to take care of the mindless task of tag insertion.
LyX simplifies things to such a degree that it's almost not worth editing LaTeX files by hand anymore. It's just so much more convenient, and has the most efficient and stable equation editing environment I have seen. The only downside is the danger that you'll forget LaTeX markup or never learn it.
Whatever distribution you choose should have a fairly recent version of it in one of its repositories. There is a windows version out if you have a LaTeX installed already(miktex for instance) and want to try it.
Wow. I totally misunderstood the summary. I assumed that "...it's bound to pit the new group against other Best Buy factions like Geek Squad." meant "Geek Squad" would be irritated because people would call them to troubleshoot their poorly configured houses after installing this overpriced monstrosity.
No, that's bullshit. Since you have to keep moving your hand to the keyboard to initiate the commands with cryptic text entry. Which is fine if you want to type a drawing, but if you're drawing it...
With something like microstation the mouse, gestures, and intuitive ui does all, and you can keep one hand hovering over the numeric pad for data entry. Not to mention that the interface is typically much quicker to learn.
But just as we'll always have emacs, and things that it's actually good for and people that insist on using it for everything even when it's really inappropriate, we'll always have autocad. Autocad is the Emacs of the drafting world.
The only downside is that not everyone will necessarily wake up at the end of the flight. But most of those people will be the aged, infirm, or very young, so as long as we don't care about those groups we're good to go!
Nobody outside of engineers could be sure the board doesn't actually have wireless it's not telling you about either. How paranoid do you really want to be?
Very well, I shall explain myself. As you seem to have assumed completely the opposite of what I intended.
When futurama was cancelled, much of the consensus here and elsewhere was that it was a crappy simpsons ripoff, and that it was good that they kept the "true simpsons" on the air instead of sacrificing it for the glory of the hypnotoad.
Sadly, it turns out that the simpsons cast and writers were quite tired and depleted from their record breaking cartoon run. Further, it appears in retrospect that futurama was far superior as a whole to the simpsons as a whole. Almost as if the writers learned something from their experience on the simpsons....
But just as we refused to let futurama find its feet, many here dismiss atlantis similarly. I'm not sure if it will turn out that atlantis is superior to sg1, but it is clear that much of the talent behind sg1 is ready for a break. (except perhaps claudia black and ben browder...)
The only reason I can see for arguing they shouldn't go off the air yet is that the current arc with the Ori seems to be a bit too deep and epic to resolve in the half-season that remains.
Seeing as most of the tolls I've been through recently have been of the order of dollars, I fail to see how a dollar coin is less convenient to that purpose. Two coins are a lot easier to find & toss than eight quarters or twenty dimes.
Why not have paper quarters, dimes, pennies too?
Fact is, coinage lasts a lot longer than paper money, so over its lifetime, a dollar coin is a lot cheaper to produce than the dollar bills necessary. Since the low denominations get traded a lot, they get worn out quicker, which is why coins are coins to begin with. Frankly, I'm willing to put up with the inconvenience of a dollar coin if it means I will have to send fewer actual dollars to washington for the purpose of replacing damaged currency.
But I don't see it as entirely inconvenience either. Dollar coins are great for tipping street performers for instance. No worry about the money blowing away in a puff of wind. Or for use in vending machines where prices are regularly in the 1-2 dollar range.
I hate carrying change in my pockets as well. So I think we should get rid of the worst offenders: everything smaller than quarters is no longer useful and should therefore be eliminated.
No, that's not a problem. That's actually the key strength. It means that a relatively small menu of super optimized special processors will be sufficient to satisfy most of their customer's needs at ludicrous speed.
Why would I want to carry around $15 in one-dollar bills? It's a pain in the ass compared to $15 in five dollar bills. Your argument is silly because switching dollar bills for dollar coins would not create a need for carrying more than four of 'em around at any time.
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But honestly, if YOU were an alien, with this fantastic technology to fly hundreds of light years to visit another planet with life on it, would you just fly by some stuff then go home? Hell, I wouldn't drive 60 miles look at something and turn around and come home.
Two words: Leaf Peepers.
I believe I mentioned that. You generally get savings from *either* motion sensors or CF. With the frequent switching a motion sensor tends to do, a CF would burn out fairly rapidly. I didn't mention it in the first paragraph because I thought it was patently obvious that you wouldn't tend to leave on anything that was controlled by an automatic sensor by definition.
*there are circumstances under which a CF would benefit being in the same installation as a motion sensor, but it generally works out that the motion sensor was applied only to avoid having switches. Certain offices and classrooms for instance.
When LED prices come down they'll make even more sense everywhere as they don't have a limited number of starts like fluorescents do.
In the lights you only use for a minute at a time, such as your closet, the energy savings of a CF not worth the effort anyway. 75% of practically nothing is still practically nothing.
I've found I actually prefer the color temperature of the more modern CFs to incandescent in many rooms. Haven't noticed the "sterilizing glow" except when I tried to make a fake window with a shop light and "daylight" bulbs, but then that's hardly a compact florescent at all...
You can get dimable CFs, but unlike incandescents, they just get dimmer, not redder. So that kind of depends on what you wanted the dimable lights for to begin with.
"This makes them inappropriate for stairwells, bathrooms, and any place with automatic light sensors."
Indeed. However the power savings you get from those applications is negligible. (unless you tend to leave the lights on in the stairwells and bathrooms)
Compact fluorescents are great at reducing per-lumen light cost, and last almost indefinitely (but a finite number of starts...), but the best way to save energy is to not have the light on in the first place.
The intermittent usage of those mentioned applications makes them unsuitable to CF, but that very intermittent usage means they aren't on all that much to begin with.
The big irony is that the very people screaming the loudest are Starbucks' target market: Self-absorbed 'Trendy' people who're willing to pay a premium to be part of the latest fad. In fact, the price might even be a selling point.
Interestingly, Ubuntu seems to use the "starbucks color scheme." so they're probably on to something.
You know you *can* order in english if you want. Nothing's forcing you order in trendicode. What's sad is that there are so many people who think they're freakin' cosmopolitan or some junk because they used some kind of Italian sounding word to order water strained through burnt Ethiopian cherry pits.
Maybe we're saving it for later. After we've drained everyone else's. Then we'll have the fruits of all their oil and they'll have a formidable stack of worthless paper...
Um.. that's much better than the list. If the people on these lists are so dangerous that their potential neighbors need to be on extra special watch when they move in nearby, then they're dangerous enough that we shouldn't be letting them out in public at all.
You want to send people and robots to space to learn interesting things about the solar system, universe, cosmology, etc. But someone else might not care a whit about that.
Should you extract monies from him at the point of a gun for your pet project?
There shouldn't be a government funded (at least not directly...) space program at all. If scientists want to do those things, they should pool their grant money and form a space-corp or something to provide the data they need for research.
Later we can argue about the grants themselves, but ideally the national government would only extort money for things directly related to its constitutionally enumerated duties.
Actually, many states have a "reasonable and prudent" law which covers the very situation you state. Although such law can just as easily be used to enforce lower speeds under sub-optimal conditions. i.e. driving at 80 in a blizzard even if the posted limit is 80.
A law you believe to be unjust does not necessarily call for your breaking it no matter how much Thoreau you read. If the movie makers demand payment for every format you wish to have, then that's what you should do. Pay them for every format you wish to watch it on, or decide it's too expensive and avoid it altogether. It's not like stealing bread for your starving family. (which btw, most people would be willing to suffer the consequences for anyway if they were in such a situation)
Well you're probably covered with distribution advice, I'll just recommend heartily that if you're going to be doing a lot of LaTeX , You should get a nice gui front-end to take care of the mindless task of tag insertion.
LyX simplifies things to such a degree that it's almost not worth editing LaTeX files by hand anymore. It's just so much more convenient, and has the most efficient and stable equation editing environment I have seen. The only downside is the danger that you'll forget LaTeX markup or never learn it.
Whatever distribution you choose should have a fairly recent version of it in one of its repositories. There is a windows version out if you have a LaTeX installed already(miktex for instance) and want to try it.
Wow. I totally misunderstood the summary. I assumed that "...it's bound to pit the new group against other Best Buy factions like Geek Squad." meant "Geek Squad" would be irritated because people would call them to troubleshoot their poorly configured houses after installing this overpriced monstrosity.
No, that's bullshit. Since you have to keep moving your hand to the keyboard to initiate the commands with cryptic text entry. Which is fine if you want to type a drawing, but if you're drawing it...
With something like microstation the mouse, gestures, and intuitive ui does all, and you can keep one hand hovering over the numeric pad for data entry. Not to mention that the interface is typically much quicker to learn.
But just as we'll always have emacs, and things that it's actually good for and people that insist on using it for everything even when it's really inappropriate, we'll always have autocad. Autocad is the Emacs of the drafting world.
The only downside is that not everyone will necessarily wake up at the end of the flight. But most of those people will be the aged, infirm, or very young, so as long as we don't care about those groups we're good to go!
Nobody outside of engineers could be sure the board doesn't actually have wireless it's not telling you about either. How paranoid do you really want to be?
Very well, I shall explain myself. As you seem to have assumed completely the opposite of what I intended.
When futurama was cancelled, much of the consensus here and elsewhere was that it was a crappy simpsons ripoff, and that it was good that they kept the "true simpsons" on the air instead of sacrificing it for the glory of the hypnotoad.
Sadly, it turns out that the simpsons cast and writers were quite tired and depleted from their record breaking cartoon run. Further, it appears in retrospect that futurama was far superior as a whole to the simpsons as a whole. Almost as if the writers learned something from their experience on the simpsons....
But just as we refused to let futurama find its feet, many here dismiss atlantis similarly. I'm not sure if it will turn out that atlantis is superior to sg1, but it is clear that much of the talent behind sg1 is ready for a break. (except perhaps claudia black and ben browder...)
The only reason I can see for arguing they shouldn't go off the air yet is that the current arc with the Ori seems to be a bit too deep and epic to resolve in the half-season that remains.
He lives in a van down by the river.
I mean a cozy, location-enabled waterfront property with independent electrical system.
Didn't we learn this lesson with Futurama vs. The Simpsons?
The bender paradox is not true. As evidence, I submit to you, "Hell Is Other Robots."
You're such a gas.
Seeing as most of the tolls I've been through recently have been of the order of dollars, I fail to see how a dollar coin is less convenient to that purpose. Two coins are a lot easier to find & toss than eight quarters or twenty dimes.
Why not have paper quarters, dimes, pennies too?
Fact is, coinage lasts a lot longer than paper money, so over its lifetime, a dollar coin is a lot cheaper to produce than the dollar bills necessary. Since the low denominations get traded a lot, they get worn out quicker, which is why coins are coins to begin with. Frankly, I'm willing to put up with the inconvenience of a dollar coin if it means I will have to send fewer actual dollars to washington for the purpose of replacing damaged currency.
But I don't see it as entirely inconvenience either. Dollar coins are great for tipping street performers for instance. No worry about the money blowing away in a puff of wind. Or for use in vending machines where prices are regularly in the 1-2 dollar range.
I hate carrying change in my pockets as well. So I think we should get rid of the worst offenders: everything smaller than quarters is no longer useful and should therefore be eliminated.
No, that's not a problem. That's actually the key strength. It means that a relatively small menu of super optimized special processors will be sufficient to satisfy most of their customer's needs at ludicrous speed.
Um.. are those even real coins?
Why would I want to carry around $15 in one-dollar bills? It's a pain in the ass compared to $15 in five dollar bills. Your argument is silly because switching dollar bills for dollar coins would not create a need for carrying more than four of 'em around at any time.
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