That reminds me to stop by Menards and pick up the cheapest incandescent bulbs they have before the next time I stay at a hotel. Just swap in a dollars worth of the cheapies and take home fifty bucks of the good ones in a suitcase. I doubt if they'd notice the swap before a half dozen or so guests have been through the room...
My theory is that the LEDs fail at a substancially lower operating temperature than a regular lamp. So while they might not heat up the same as an incandescent or flourescent bulb, they can only survive at a temperature much much lower.
Semicondutor junctions are just like that, those are the breaks.
Those of us into the electronics hobby thing should probably skulk around quite a bit at the after-christmas sales. I still want to build a matrix of LEDs to flash insults at tailgaters on the road, etc. Stupid consumers, and their retailers, always 'blow out' stuff at low-low prices when the calendar tells them the fun is over and back to the saltmine to pay down that credit card debt...
I suspect the LEDs will strip out of all that Christmas riggery nicely and be useable.
Further, many 'environmentally friendly' vehicles earn that mark in part because they're made with the 'new materials,' i.e. plastics that biodegrade rapidly.
The ironic thing in this is that for us cheap old fucks (with our 10-25 year old cars because we REFUSE to leap on the 'trade up every other year' marketing bullshit), engine parts made of the most durable plastics that are reasonable are better than the automakers cleverly getting their 'planned obsolescence' material choises labeled 'green.'
If Linux is so easy to use that it needs little support then how does RedHat or Mandrake make money?
RedHat gave up trying to make money with desktop-Linux awhile back. And I've heard appeals and pleading for money and help from Mandrake people. And I've seen people NARU'd on eBay for selling Mandrake 10 CDs.
There is always somebody trying to give somebody 'better' credit than history deins appropriate. Your romantic notion of 'anarchists' for example.
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This is one of the reasons that I believe that when Americans and Europeans think about war, they actually conceptualize very different things.
Also, because a bunch of the Europeans fought on the 'wrong side' of said wars, the sides which were responsible for many of the atrocities, and lost the war. (yes, in WWII there were good and evil sides to take)
There's no reason to be overly noble about it all, or cop a superior attitude.
'Real' journalists just have 'degrees.' In many regards, it is just like the 'credentials' that the Wizard of Oz gave out to the Scarecrow, Lion, etc.
When a mediocre student flunks calculus, and the english department won't admit him, he enrolls in J-School. None of the classic 'journalists' of the past went to J-School. They rose up through the ranks starting as copy-boys.
How about standing up to usurpers like Dubya in order to make life better for the people who live here?
Sounds like cheap entertainment to me. Please don't break anything important on your adventures.
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Don't hold 'journalists' to such high standards. Freedom of the press means anybody can own a press. Sure, there are 'watchdogs' out there pretending that they are objective. But the whole trick is to recognize that everybody has an agenda.
And the agenda of many 'J-school' cheerleaders is quite bald and obvious.
Some might argue (I wouldn't, but some would) that the "RDB and AWK impaired" are the people who know too much about those tools, and not enough about anything else.
I was hoping, while reading the headline, that they were going to require Flash memory in all phones, i.e. flash-upgradability of the firmware. I thought 'cool, easily installed free-OS replacement.'
I wrote the firmware for a biofeedback EMG/electro-stim. urinary incontinence device. Some people in marketing referred to it as the 'auto-kegel' device.
I remember when I was a kid and there was a 'Walt Disney Presents' television show on Sundays. Walt Disney himself came out at the beginning and introduced that night's film live.
Actions like this (trying to help another) are what really make a community.
Not to be overly cynical, but whenever I hear that kind of thing being said about an online community, what comes to mind is the way a chatroom freaks out when one of the 'regulars' starts rambling suicidal in 'the room.'
It's both sad and pathetic to observe. (and, ummm, pathetic to admit possibly having witnessed. But at least I'm talking past-tense here)
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If y'all are truly concerned about the safety of the lighting, that's an OSHA violation if anyone has to go there with severe risk of falling through,
Well, there ya go. Call in the OSHA people and shut the whole theatre down and out of business. That will make it a much safer non-work environment.
That reminds me to stop by Menards and pick up the cheapest incandescent bulbs they have before the next time I stay at a hotel. Just swap in a dollars worth of the cheapies and take home fifty bucks of the good ones in a suitcase. I doubt if they'd notice the swap before a half dozen or so guests have been through the room...
My theory is that the LEDs fail at a substancially lower operating temperature than a regular lamp. So while they might not heat up the same as an incandescent or flourescent bulb, they can only survive at a temperature much much lower.
Semicondutor junctions are just like that, those are the breaks.
Those of us into the electronics hobby thing should probably skulk around quite a bit at the after-christmas sales. I still want to build a matrix of LEDs to flash insults at tailgaters on the road, etc. Stupid consumers, and their retailers, always 'blow out' stuff at low-low prices when the calendar tells them the fun is over and back to the saltmine to pay down that credit card debt...
I suspect the LEDs will strip out of all that Christmas riggery nicely and be useable.
Glad you made that correction, cuz I was about to club you with my wirewrap gun.
Probably they were comparing it to carbon-arc lamps.
People selling stuff often do tricks like that.
(also, environments pushing untenable solutions)
The local Ham radio survivalist types could build a whole comm station into a package that runs on a small hand crank.
Further, many 'environmentally friendly' vehicles earn that mark in part because they're made with the 'new materials,' i.e. plastics that biodegrade rapidly.
The ironic thing in this is that for us cheap old fucks (with our 10-25 year old cars because we REFUSE to leap on the 'trade up every other year' marketing bullshit), engine parts made of the most durable plastics that are reasonable are better than the automakers cleverly getting their 'planned obsolescence' material choises labeled 'green.'
Cram your 'corn' plastic, Detroit.
The good things come at a price.
And it's nice to be an expert who can speak at a few human right 'panels' and/or the guy who gets a free tote-bag for donating to A.I..
Sucks to be 'on the ground' when the shit has been spun up into the air.
If Linux is so easy to use that it needs little support then how does RedHat or Mandrake make money?
RedHat gave up trying to make money with desktop-Linux awhile back. And I've heard appeals and pleading for money and help from Mandrake people. And I've seen people NARU'd on eBay for selling Mandrake 10 CDs.
There is always somebody trying to give somebody 'better' credit than history deins appropriate. Your romantic notion of 'anarchists' for example.
This is one of the reasons that I believe that when Americans and Europeans think about war, they actually conceptualize very different things.
Also, because a bunch of the Europeans fought on the 'wrong side' of said wars, the sides which were responsible for many of the atrocities, and lost the war. (yes, in WWII there were good and evil sides to take)
There's no reason to be overly noble about it all, or cop a superior attitude.
'Real' journalists just have 'degrees.' In many regards, it is just like the 'credentials' that the Wizard of Oz gave out to the Scarecrow, Lion, etc.
When a mediocre student flunks calculus, and the english department won't admit him, he enrolls in J-School. None of the classic 'journalists' of the past went to J-School. They rose up through the ranks starting as copy-boys.
I see you've found your windmill to tilt at, dude.
Don't be such a bloviated turd.
How about standing up to usurpers like Dubya in order to make life better for the people who live here?
Sounds like cheap entertainment to me. Please don't break anything important on your adventures.
Don't hold 'journalists' to such high standards. Freedom of the press means anybody can own a press. Sure, there are 'watchdogs' out there pretending that they are objective. But the whole trick is to recognize that everybody has an agenda.
And the agenda of many 'J-school' cheerleaders is quite bald and obvious.
It sure sounds like there's an active campaign to discredit her, for some reason. Maybe we should explore that whole matter more deeply.
("yum -y update" "apt-get update").
So you can just type "apt-get regression_test" and away it goes??
Where you own it, and those grubby end users can pay homage to access it.
Yes. We understand.
Some might argue (I wouldn't, but some would) that the "RDB and AWK impaired" are the people who know too much about those tools, and not enough about anything else.
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I'm just sayin'. .
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I was hoping, while reading the headline, that they were going to require Flash memory in all phones, i.e. flash-upgradability of the firmware. I thought 'cool, easily installed free-OS replacement.'
IOW- the third kind of Flash.
I wrote the firmware for a biofeedback EMG/electro-stim. urinary incontinence device. Some people in marketing referred to it as the 'auto-kegel' device.
The electrode was, uh...
I remember when I was a kid and there was a 'Walt Disney Presents' television show on Sundays. Walt Disney himself came out at the beginning and introduced that night's film live.
Actions like this (trying to help another) are what really make a community.
Not to be overly cynical, but whenever I hear that kind of thing being said about an online community, what comes to mind is the way a chatroom freaks out when one of the 'regulars' starts rambling suicidal in 'the room.'
It's both sad and pathetic to observe. (and, ummm, pathetic to admit possibly having witnessed. But at least I'm talking past-tense here)