If you put them on a dimmer, make sure the power is maxed. My parents have had several CFLS die, all on their lights that have dimmers. They will buzz and flicker more on a dimmer as well. When we remodeled, we didn't use any dimmers, because we have all CFLs. Will LEDs work on a dimmer?
I was at a Wisconsin Wal-Mart once (yeah yeah, I hate it too) and they had real cheese, then American cheese, then imitation cheese, then imitation-American cheese, then "cheese food" which looked like real cheese (except it contained no milk, only oils, and was a few cents cheaper, and selling like mad). Their "cheese food" wasn't even "real" enough to be considered American cheese (which i think needs to be more than 50% cheese).
I refused to buy any of the low quality cheese's they had, and I left. I then went to my parents, and they had the "cheese food" sitting on the counter. I can't describe the taste, because it had none. It was salty oil...that is all.
This is true, however if someone is running windows server 2008 as their OS, they are probably tech savy enough to live without an antivirus package bogging down their PC.
I mean, why spend $1k on your snappier OS, just to bog it down with the latest bloated antivirus?
Your armour-plated, tank driving army is useless without it's fuel supply lines, and communications. It is more fragile than you may think. If the citizens of the US revolted as a group, the government would be powerless.
Funny you should say that..........here in the Midwest, we struggle to heat our homes. Yet I have idiot neighbors who think that adding more insulation will bring up their Air Conditioning bills in the summer.
Here in the midwest, people could get a decent insulation, and a "whole house fan", and AC really isn't needed (except maybe 1-2 weeks per year, where you can survive without it). The fan exchanges your air at night when it is cool.
With closed cell foam in our house, we have been able to reduce our fuel usage by 75%, while increasing the internal temperature from 66F to 69F (and we still have 1/3 of the house to do).
Or, someone could use geothermal, which I believe can cool the house in the winter now too (seems like it should be a simple matter anyway).
If you are going to install your own OS, Windows requires far more babysitting and futzing before you will end up with a fully functional system.
Come on mods, this is moderated insightful? I know this is slashdot, but insight? Really? Insight? LowUID=Insight?
1. Install windows
2. Toss in the CD's for any hardware that windows didn't accept on the fly (or download them from the manufacturers website).
Anyway, I respectfully disagree. If this is difficult, I am going to have to revoke your 4 digit geek card from someone. No, I won't get off your lawn!
Are you upset that windows doesn't ship with drivers for every printer and accessory, or are you upset that Windows doesn't ship with 400 other programs pre-installed?
Not that MS is perfect, but I don't think it is any harder than installing any other OS.
Erm. Some of my colleagues heat their (superinsulated) houses with solar, with a small electric auxiliary heater.
This is our eventual plan. You can often couple this with heat storage bricks to allow you to buy that electricity at a discounted rate.
I really don't understand why people would rather spend their money on a bigger heating system rather than better insulation. Remodel your house, spend $5k on closed cell foam insulation, and heat your house with the waste heat from your PC!
I am thinking it is a problem with the latest version not liking one of our pieces of hardware. 12 works perfect, for 1 backup, then it doesn't work again. Reinstall, works once. Also, it seems DEADLY slow.
"I'm really hoping Backup Exec and Netbackup don't go the same way."
Too late. We just rolled back to an older version of Backup Exec because of constant crashing in the latest version, along with horrid performance, and overall unreliability. Symantec support is useless. The new version runs dead slow on a fairly powerful machine as well. If anyone can recommend some software that works with a tandberg storage loader, let me know.
"non-scientific = WRONG" Exactly. We shouldn't teach non-scientific stuff in a science class.
We do teach other scientific theories.....however intelligent design is not a scientific theory.
The church can cover religion, as well as any classes about religous beliefs. Nobody is trying to take away your religion, we just want it left out of the classroom.
Is it too much to ask to keep the religious beliefs out of the science classes. It saddens me to look at how many people will accept intelligent design without a shred of evidence put in front of them, however they can see evolution in their own home and refuse to acknowledge it.
"Why wouldn't it be illegal? Theres no good reason to be carrying a knife."
I don't know many guys who don't carry a knife of some sort. They are usually small, and folded, but a knife nonetheless. I use mine multiple times per day. Hell, my wife has a little knife in her purse (in one of her high-maintenance lifestyle kits, I think it is for cleaning or scraping or scratching, I dunno).
Seriously, why would it be illegal? I assume there is some archaic rule about the length or intended purpose then......because if carrying something is illegal because it is sharp then half of the tools in my toolbox should be illegal.
So, because of a few drunk drivers we are getting rid of automobiles and beer? Because of a few pedophiles we are banning children? Because of a few sick first-posters we are going to ban porn? Nice.
"What could possibly be more important than a multiplayer online game?"
Nothing, but thats not the point.
Look at it this way. An email is like saying "Hey, I have something I want to tell you, please reply at your convenience".
A phone call is like saying "Hey, I have something to say, and i expect you to drop everything you are doing in order to listen."
If some fellow humans decide to honor you with their presence during a game, movie, or eating out, you could at least have the courtesy to turn off the phone and give them your undivided attention. On the rare occasion you are expecting an important phone call, just let everyone know...but don't make a habit of it.
I have had the opposite come true. We put cheap CFLs in our house everywhere, and have had 1 burn up in 4 years. I wonder if the pollution saved by burning less coal offsets the mercury in these bulbs?
My parents however have had similar problems to yours, using the same bulbs I am using. I assume there is a difference in the quality of the power? They are on a different power company.
Do not use the CFLs in any fixture that has a dimmer switch.......that kills them, even if you try to always set the dimmer to high.
As others have said, the CFLs start out a bit dimmer (the old ones anyway, which I still have). I like this however, it is easier on the eyes in the morning.
If DST was abolished, and all companies were encouraged and allowed to alter their hours accordingly, they would. States that didn't have DST still survived, happier by many arguments.
In manufacturing, hours are already often changed due to heating and energy issues. Office workers hours could be changed for similar reasons, and the general customer service industry will follow suit.
Excellent point. It is an electric car with a different type of battery (a much simpler one).
The gas/air hybrid seems to solve a few problems. I have read about some cars powered entirely by air. The problem for us cold-weather consumers is the heating. A pure air powered car has decent air conditioning, but not heating. The expanded air is nice and cold.
The traditional gas/electric hybrid has the same issues around here in the winter. If you want to use Defrost or Heat, the gas engine must run.
I don't have mod points, but I want to thank you for posting such an insightful comment. I always felt the same way, but you worded it better than I could have. The concept of funding the military for the purpose of scientific progress really bothers my gastrointestinal system.
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Oh, and the posts that summarize the different types of posts. And the posts that add one last thing that the previous poster forgot.
If you put them on a dimmer, make sure the power is maxed. My parents have had several CFLS die, all on their lights that have dimmers. They will buzz and flicker more on a dimmer as well. When we remodeled, we didn't use any dimmers, because we have all CFLs. Will LEDs work on a dimmer?
Wouldn't the mercury in the tuna be from our waste though? I think this is the same issue.
I was at a Wisconsin Wal-Mart once (yeah yeah, I hate it too) and they had real cheese, then American cheese, then imitation cheese, then imitation-American cheese, then "cheese food" which looked like real cheese (except it contained no milk, only oils, and was a few cents cheaper, and selling like mad). Their "cheese food" wasn't even "real" enough to be considered American cheese (which i think needs to be more than 50% cheese).
I refused to buy any of the low quality cheese's they had, and I left. I then went to my parents, and they had the "cheese food" sitting on the counter. I can't describe the taste, because it had none. It was salty oil...that is all.
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This is true, however if someone is running windows server 2008 as their OS, they are probably tech savy enough to live without an antivirus package bogging down their PC.
I mean, why spend $1k on your snappier OS, just to bog it down with the latest bloated antivirus?
My users might have yours beat....at least in one area. If I say "Internet Explorer", their eyes glaze over. I have to call it "The Blue E".
One user impressed me, by saying he quit using Microsoft products. Then he explained that he was using "Foxfire for XP".
Your armour-plated, tank driving army is useless without it's fuel supply lines, and communications. It is more fragile than you may think. If the citizens of the US revolted as a group, the government would be powerless.
So, windows is hard to install because it doesn't ship with your favorite email, office, and graphics programs preinstalled?
Yet if windows shipped with all of these things, you would be complaining of monopoly abuse.
On a side note, a true geek shouldn't need to run an AV and antispyware product on their box.
Funny you should say that..........here in the Midwest, we struggle to heat our homes. Yet I have idiot neighbors who think that adding more insulation will bring up their Air Conditioning bills in the summer.
Here in the midwest, people could get a decent insulation, and a "whole house fan", and AC really isn't needed (except maybe 1-2 weeks per year, where you can survive without it). The fan exchanges your air at night when it is cool.
With closed cell foam in our house, we have been able to reduce our fuel usage by 75%, while increasing the internal temperature from 66F to 69F (and we still have 1/3 of the house to do).
Or, someone could use geothermal, which I believe can cool the house in the winter now too (seems like it should be a simple matter anyway).
If you are going to install your own OS, Windows requires far more babysitting and futzing before you will end up with a fully functional system.
Come on mods, this is moderated insightful? I know this is slashdot, but insight? Really? Insight? LowUID=Insight?
1. Install windows 2. Toss in the CD's for any hardware that windows didn't accept on the fly (or download them from the manufacturers website).
Anyway, I respectfully disagree. If this is difficult, I am going to have to revoke your 4 digit geek card from someone. No, I won't get off your lawn!
Are you upset that windows doesn't ship with drivers for every printer and accessory, or are you upset that Windows doesn't ship with 400 other programs pre-installed?
Not that MS is perfect, but I don't think it is any harder than installing any other OS.
Erm. Some of my colleagues heat their (superinsulated) houses with solar, with a small electric auxiliary heater.
This is our eventual plan. You can often couple this with heat storage bricks to allow you to buy that electricity at a discounted rate.
I really don't understand why people would rather spend their money on a bigger heating system rather than better insulation. Remodel your house, spend $5k on closed cell foam insulation, and heat your house with the waste heat from your PC!
I am thinking it is a problem with the latest version not liking one of our pieces of hardware. 12 works perfect, for 1 backup, then it doesn't work again. Reinstall, works once. Also, it seems DEADLY slow.
"I'm really hoping Backup Exec and Netbackup don't go the same way."
Too late. We just rolled back to an older version of Backup Exec because of constant crashing in the latest version, along with horrid performance, and overall unreliability. Symantec support is useless. The new version runs dead slow on a fairly powerful machine as well. If anyone can recommend some software that works with a tandberg storage loader, let me know.
The best user quote from the symantec forum (one of many)......."Unfortunately, I've rebuilt the server because 11d pretty much ruined my life." Congrats Kevin K.
I got some new Goat-Skin-RWs, and they work great. The smell a bit when burning, but the resolution is awesome.
I am having trouble playing them in my PS3 though.
Maybe take some of the useless "luggage screeners" and send them out to grab the laser felons.
We sealed the cockpit doors, so now they come through the windows.
Maybe we should put bigger lasers on the planes, and fire back. It shouldn't be hard to hit the person....they are giving us a beacon.
Disagree with yourself much...
"non-scientific = WRONG" Exactly. We shouldn't teach non-scientific stuff in a science class.
We do teach other scientific theories.....however intelligent design is not a scientific theory.
The church can cover religion, as well as any classes about religous beliefs. Nobody is trying to take away your religion, we just want it left out of the classroom.
Is it too much to ask to keep the religious beliefs out of the science classes. It saddens me to look at how many people will accept intelligent design without a shred of evidence put in front of them, however they can see evolution in their own home and refuse to acknowledge it.
"Why wouldn't it be illegal? Theres no good reason to be carrying a knife."
I don't know many guys who don't carry a knife of some sort. They are usually small, and folded, but a knife nonetheless. I use mine multiple times per day. Hell, my wife has a little knife in her purse (in one of her high-maintenance lifestyle kits, I think it is for cleaning or scraping or scratching, I dunno).
Seriously, why would it be illegal? I assume there is some archaic rule about the length or intended purpose then......because if carrying something is illegal because it is sharp then half of the tools in my toolbox should be illegal.
So, because of a few drunk drivers we are getting rid of automobiles and beer? Because of a few pedophiles we are banning children? Because of a few sick first-posters we are going to ban porn? Nice.
"What could possibly be more important than a multiplayer online game?"
Nothing, but thats not the point.
Look at it this way. An email is like saying "Hey, I have something I want to tell you, please reply at your convenience".
A phone call is like saying "Hey, I have something to say, and i expect you to drop everything you are doing in order to listen."
If some fellow humans decide to honor you with their presence during a game, movie, or eating out, you could at least have the courtesy to turn off the phone and give them your undivided attention. On the rare occasion you are expecting an important phone call, just let everyone know...but don't make a habit of it.
I have had the opposite come true. We put cheap CFLs in our house everywhere, and have had 1 burn up in 4 years. I wonder if the pollution saved by burning less coal offsets the mercury in these bulbs?
My parents however have had similar problems to yours, using the same bulbs I am using. I assume there is a difference in the quality of the power? They are on a different power company.
Do not use the CFLs in any fixture that has a dimmer switch.......that kills them, even if you try to always set the dimmer to high.
As others have said, the CFLs start out a bit dimmer (the old ones anyway, which I still have). I like this however, it is easier on the eyes in the morning.
If DST was abolished, and all companies were encouraged and allowed to alter their hours accordingly, they would. States that didn't have DST still survived, happier by many arguments.
In manufacturing, hours are already often changed due to heating and energy issues. Office workers hours could be changed for similar reasons, and the general customer service industry will follow suit.
DST is the tool of the Devil.
Are you saying that you would promote person A over person B because B had a belt and shoes that were a different color?
Excellent point. It is an electric car with a different type of battery (a much simpler one).
The gas/air hybrid seems to solve a few problems. I have read about some cars powered entirely by air. The problem for us cold-weather consumers is the heating. A pure air powered car has decent air conditioning, but not heating. The expanded air is nice and cold.
The traditional gas/electric hybrid has the same issues around here in the winter. If you want to use Defrost or Heat, the gas engine must run.
I don't have mod points, but I want to thank you for posting such an insightful comment. I always felt the same way, but you worded it better than I could have. The concept of funding the military for the purpose of scientific progress really bothers my gastrointestinal system.