No. Incandescent bulbs allow dynamic voltage and lighting. Meaning, the voltage can be controlled dynamically so that it glows brighter during darker hours and lesser during better lighting. This saves MORE power than is used by a flourescent bulb which operates only on two settings: on or off. Much like SSD reduces battery power in a notebook by being always on. Normal HD can power down and save battery. A SSD can't.
Companies get sued because customers misuse and abuse the product to the point of breaking their own things carelessly. I wonder what would have happen if Edison were to invent the lightbulb today: 1) The Association of Candle Manufacturers(ACM) and Gas Lamps Association(GLA) would jointly conduct a sit-in strike in front of Edison's home and plants. 2) The ACM would sue Edison for producing a product that's capable of killing someone. The OSHA conducts a raid on Edison's plant, followed by an FCC investigation. 3) The GLA lobbies congress for relief. Congresscritters DeLay and Pelosi go on record stating that Edison's electric light will result in the loss of jobs for 37,300 people directly while affecting the lives of 1.3 Million employers indirectly. 4) Edison approaches SCOTUS for relief. SCOTUS grants Edison relief stating that Progress cannot be stopped. 5) Rep Vern Buchanan and Sen. Ted Stevens together sponsor a resolution calling for a $1.3 billion bailout of the Candle Makers of USA. 5(a) The GLA sues the US Govt for excluding them from the bailout. 5(b) Hillary Clinton includes GLA into the bailout with a silent slip-in into a spending bill. 6) The FCC commissioner rules that Electricity is dangerous to health and that electric lamps are prone to be broken. Forces Edison to include HUGE warnings on each packet. 7) Edison sets up DC stations and powers Congress and Senate with electric lamps to show the congress the progress that can be made. he claims it can be always "Day" for congress. 8) Congress critters not used to working long hours, silently include a bill that forces states to individually certify that 10,000 volts of DC will not kill a man for Edison's lamps to be sold. 43 states refuse. Alaska's Palin approves Edison's lamps and charges oil companies with paying for same. Orders are sealed. 9) The children of GLA makers hold a massive rally in Washington demanding schooling and lunch relief. 10) Bush calls upon Congress to pass a law that outlaws Electric lamps under intense pressure from lobbyists. 11) Obama calls Bush a roadblock to progress and exhorts congress to reject such a law. 12) A GLA dealer in MN holds a BIG rally announcing providing free gas lamps for all who sign Edison is a public enemy. 13) Edison is sued in Alaska by 100 residents who claim that throwing the lamp on the floor caused them injuries. The case is taken up by FOX News and O'reilly states Edison is a pinhead. 14) Edison beats the lawsuit at tremendous cost. 15) AIG Refuses to extend insurance cover to Edison under pressure from congress. 16) Edison renounces US citizenship and migrates to China.
It is ironic that Google, the largest user of Internet capacity pays the least relatively to fund the Internet's cost; it is even more ironic that the company poised to profit more than any other from more broadband deployment, expects the American taxpayer to pick up its skyrocketing bandwidth tab
It is ironic that Comcast & AT&T which lay their lines with tax-payer money received as subsidies go ahead and charge the same tax payers a series of Fake Federal Charges on EVERY single bill. It is ironic that comcast expects the american tax payer to pick up comcast's operating expenses while the profits go straight to fund the CEO's latest Carribbean purchases. It is furthermore ironic that comcast continues to receive and demand federal subsidies towards providing rural connections, while refusing to provide such connections to any village and town AND suing said village that tries to provide its own connection.
Microsoft has no real casa belle for this. They sell shrink wrapped OS for all hardware. Forcing Apple to do the same just increases competition to them, Why the fcuk would they want to do it? They would be happier to let Apple continue its hardware software combo, I tried installing Leopard on my AMD X2. It was hard and i abandoned it even when after trying it for a whole weekend. My wife and son are mad at me, and i guess i just lost about 5 days of sex due to this Apple AMD shit.
The great depressions didn't just become "great" overnight. It took YEARS and YEARS and 2 presidents before it turned around
Which is exactly why 2003-2008 will be termed "Great". We had two presidents, Bush and Cheney plus years and years before we finally ground the budget surplus to dust and made it into a Trillion Dollar Hole coupled with bounties for every neocon and their contractors...
That pompous windbag single handedly brought computing to modern age much like American Pie brought fun part of college life into movies. He was not a windbag: he was just forceful in his thoughts and knew what he talked about. And unlike today's lawsuit-fearing professors he did not suffer idiots and morons. The fact he wrote so much about computing without owning a computer is like Newton writing so much about Gravity without experiencing the apple hitting his bald (and jelly-filled) cranium...
Who would have thought that a BSOD producing crap of an OS running on any available hardware would be more preferred than the godzilla-sized-requirements-hog of VISTA? Two years ago slashdot was filled with comments about how crappy XP was. Now they are glad to go back to XP because Vista is sooo... bad. Is this a ploy by MSFT to force people to like XP?
You are a moral moron. Corporates don't think of ethics when they charge you $210 for a textbook that costs only $10 to produce and out of which less than 20 cents goes to the author, while another 3 cents is thrown to the shareholders. The rest is eaten by the "management" for funding their latest villa in SF City. I don't think of ethics when i download and read books that i didn't pay for. I think of it as a service to myself. Hey, if the copyright holder objects, i delete it. No harm done. Legally, it is defensible. I borrow something from the author without his permission. Once he finds out, i return it to him: intact. Where does the question of illegality enter into this equation? Oh, you mean i *read* the book. Well then sue me to undo the knowledge i gained and unless you can prove that this specific knowledge was used by me to make a million dollars, then i ain't paying a penny to any corporate. I pay taxes. That money is not used to benefit me. Instead it is used to fund the retirement funds and bonuses of the Rich and Infamous. If that is not piracy, then what am doing is not piracy too.
Exactly. I bought Spore, but i downloaded and installed a cracked version. Same with OF and Crysis. And FarCry. So far i have not had issues with SecurROM, although kaspersky warned me. Stardock games are far better. But not many such games are released by Stardock
I left him with my iBook open. There were NO sharp instruments anywhere nearby, am not that dumb to leave it like that. Sometimes a situation arises that you can't cater to or prepare for. That is what happened.
Pay attention to your offspring while Jihad'ing for your country first.
And you morons wonder why you got hit on Pearl harbor and 9/11, not to mention the kick-in-nuts you got in Korea, Vietnam and now getting your ass handed over to you in Iraq and Afghanistan... what a bunch of bullshit. Don't go that path my friend, don't include nationality in this. You got more to lose than us. I was trying to help you see logic. Seems you don't have any. Enjoy your fun while it lasts, because you may not have a roof over your heads next year,,,
HEY! She could swallow those small keys and choke to death. Do you want to be charged with inadvertent manslaughter charges? My 3 1/2 yr old son pried off EACH key of my iBook a year ago when left alone with it. I mean every single damn key on the keyboard was on the floor when i entered. Thankfully he has NEVER eaten anything not fed by me or his mom (no off-floor eating, etc). So he was safe. Imagine if he put those things in his mouth? NEVER EVER do that again, Understand? Unless you are planning to get rid of your daughter (you can drop her off at a Nevada hospital, you dumbass) Sorry am angry, but i still remember my scene vividly.
Hey! What's the price? You have an ebay page? Do you offer international shipping? Am serious. If you can offer international shipping, am willing to buy it via ebay. My son is 3.5 yrs old and i had the misfortune of letting him alone with my iBook a year before. He meticulously cleared out the keyboard of ALL keys, precisely and accurately. Plucked out EACH key with his tiny fingers. I complained to Apple that their keyboard allows small fingers to get between the spaces and pull them out. They agreed but did nothing i guess. Anyways a Commodore 64 is FAR harder to break-:)
He was referring to audio fidelity & encoding. A tape is analogue (although you could make it digital by using it to record my Commodore 64 programs) . A LP is analogue. A CD is digital. The medium is physical in all cases. The modulation and encoding differ. I prefer tapes. Easy and quick.
If one thing reunited the french people in the 30's
WRONG. It was tiredness, and a penchant to AVOID war at any cost in 1930s.
1939, The french government declared war to Germany as the consequence to the Poland invasion,
Which it did when forced to do by Britain. The French wanted to avoid war at all costs. That is why they were prepared to let Hitler retake Ruhr and Saar. When Hitler moved his troops into Ruhr, they were under strict orders to scoot back to Germany if France or Britain attacked them. Unfortunately the French did not bother. GB, USA and Britain provided most of the equipment and they did attack German-occupied France. But they did it, not because they wanted to liberate France. They did it primarily because Stalin and his General Zhukov were hitting Hitler so hard that Hitler was rolling down the hill fast. If allowed, USSR could have won the war single handedly although it would have taken longer. So, remember one thing: No one, except you can help your country men fight against your tyrannic government.
You Dumbass. This is slashdot, not Shakespeare & e.e.cummings Forum. Shove your prim & proper English usage up your as$ and concentrate on Simplified English. Didn't the Paperwork Reduction Act teach you anything? oh screw that. Didn't Churchill teach you anything? Simple words are the best. Go read "The River War" or the "My Early Life". I hate grammar nazis, especially when they think they have mastered the queen's language without knowing shit about it.
He who had three bottles of wine and passes out cold under the table is NOT French. Seems you know little about the French and very little about their wine. And Sydney Syrup? WTF is that? The Aussie Wines??? Ha ha ha... Billabong wines??? Not even Australians drink that crap. Its meant to be exported to those suckers who think kangaroos walk in Sydney.
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Who got roasted in the recent elections?
He's probably a Republican.
What is the point you are trying to say dumbass?
No. Incandescent bulbs allow dynamic voltage and lighting.
Meaning, the voltage can be controlled dynamically so that it glows brighter during darker hours and lesser during better lighting.
This saves MORE power than is used by a flourescent bulb which operates only on two settings: on or off.
Much like SSD reduces battery power in a notebook by being always on.
Normal HD can power down and save battery. A SSD can't.
Companies get sued because customers misuse and abuse the product to the point of breaking their own things carelessly.
I wonder what would have happen if Edison were to invent the lightbulb today:
1) The Association of Candle Manufacturers(ACM) and Gas Lamps Association(GLA) would jointly conduct a sit-in strike in front of Edison's home and plants.
2) The ACM would sue Edison for producing a product that's capable of killing someone. The OSHA conducts a raid on Edison's plant, followed by an FCC investigation.
3) The GLA lobbies congress for relief. Congresscritters DeLay and Pelosi go on record stating that Edison's electric light will result in the loss of jobs for 37,300 people directly while affecting the lives of 1.3 Million employers indirectly.
4) Edison approaches SCOTUS for relief. SCOTUS grants Edison relief stating that Progress cannot be stopped.
5) Rep Vern Buchanan and Sen. Ted Stevens together sponsor a resolution calling for a $1.3 billion bailout of the Candle Makers of USA.
5(a) The GLA sues the US Govt for excluding them from the bailout.
5(b) Hillary Clinton includes GLA into the bailout with a silent slip-in into a spending bill.
6) The FCC commissioner rules that Electricity is dangerous to health and that electric lamps are prone to be broken. Forces Edison to include HUGE warnings on each packet.
7) Edison sets up DC stations and powers Congress and Senate with electric lamps to show the congress the progress that can be made. he claims it can be always "Day" for congress.
8) Congress critters not used to working long hours, silently include a bill that forces states to individually certify that 10,000 volts of DC will not kill a man for Edison's lamps to be sold. 43 states refuse. Alaska's Palin approves Edison's lamps and charges oil companies with paying for same. Orders are sealed.
9) The children of GLA makers hold a massive rally in Washington demanding schooling and lunch relief.
10) Bush calls upon Congress to pass a law that outlaws Electric lamps under intense pressure from lobbyists.
11) Obama calls Bush a roadblock to progress and exhorts congress to reject such a law.
12) A GLA dealer in MN holds a BIG rally announcing providing free gas lamps for all who sign Edison is a public enemy.
13) Edison is sued in Alaska by 100 residents who claim that throwing the lamp on the floor caused them injuries. The case is taken up by FOX News and O'reilly states Edison is a pinhead.
14) Edison beats the lawsuit at tremendous cost.
15) AIG Refuses to extend insurance cover to Edison under pressure from congress.
16) Edison renounces US citizenship and migrates to China.
??? WTF? A bank allows ANYONE to debit from your account WITHOUT any authorisation?
It is ironic that Google, the largest user of Internet capacity pays the least relatively to fund the Internet's cost; it is even more ironic that the company poised to profit more than any other from more broadband deployment, expects the American taxpayer to pick up its skyrocketing bandwidth tab
It is ironic that Comcast & AT&T which lay their lines with tax-payer money received as subsidies go ahead and charge the same tax payers a series of Fake Federal Charges on EVERY single bill.
It is ironic that comcast expects the american tax payer to pick up comcast's operating expenses while the profits go straight to fund the CEO's latest Carribbean purchases.
It is furthermore ironic that comcast continues to receive and demand federal subsidies towards providing rural connections, while refusing to provide such connections to any village and town AND suing said village that tries to provide its own connection.
Sorry, the fact i wasted a whole sunday and ended up losing a enjoying a romp with my casa belle made me make this mistake.
Microsoft has no real casa belle for this.
They sell shrink wrapped OS for all hardware.
Forcing Apple to do the same just increases competition to them,
Why the fcuk would they want to do it?
They would be happier to let Apple continue its hardware software combo,
I tried installing Leopard on my AMD X2. It was hard and i abandoned it even when after trying it for a whole weekend.
My wife and son are mad at me, and i guess i just lost about 5 days of sex due to this Apple AMD shit.
The great depressions didn't just become "great" overnight. It took YEARS and YEARS and 2 presidents before it turned around
Which is exactly why 2003-2008 will be termed "Great".
We had two presidents, Bush and Cheney plus years and years before we finally ground the budget surplus to dust and made it into a Trillion Dollar Hole coupled with bounties for every neocon and their contractors...
That pompous windbag single handedly brought computing to modern age much like American Pie brought fun part of college life into movies.
He was not a windbag: he was just forceful in his thoughts and knew what he talked about.
And unlike today's lawsuit-fearing professors he did not suffer idiots and morons.
The fact he wrote so much about computing without owning a computer is like Newton writing so much about Gravity without experiencing the apple hitting his bald (and jelly-filled) cranium...
Who would have thought that a BSOD producing crap of an OS running on any available hardware would be more preferred than the godzilla-sized-requirements-hog of VISTA?
Two years ago slashdot was filled with comments about how crappy XP was.
Now they are glad to go back to XP because Vista is sooo... bad.
Is this a ploy by MSFT to force people to like XP?
You are a moral moron.
Corporates don't think of ethics when they charge you $210 for a textbook that costs only $10 to produce and out of which less than 20 cents goes to the author, while another 3 cents is thrown to the shareholders. The rest is eaten by the "management" for funding their latest villa in SF City.
I don't think of ethics when i download and read books that i didn't pay for.
I think of it as a service to myself.
Hey, if the copyright holder objects, i delete it.
No harm done.
Legally, it is defensible. I borrow something from the author without his permission. Once he finds out, i return it to him: intact. Where does the question of illegality enter into this equation?
Oh, you mean i *read* the book. Well then sue me to undo the knowledge i gained and unless you can prove that this specific knowledge was used by me to make a million dollars, then i ain't paying a penny to any corporate.
I pay taxes. That money is not used to benefit me. Instead it is used to fund the retirement funds and bonuses of the Rich and Infamous.
If that is not piracy, then what am doing is not piracy too.
Damn you idiot. My iBook G4 needs to another keyboard to replace my Coke spilled one...
What's your point?
Exactly. I bought Spore, but i downloaded and installed a cracked version. Same with OF and Crysis. And FarCry.
So far i have not had issues with SecurROM, although kaspersky warned me.
Stardock games are far better. But not many such games are released by Stardock
I left him with my iBook open. There were NO sharp instruments anywhere nearby, am not that dumb to leave it like that.
Sometimes a situation arises that you can't cater to or prepare for. That is what happened.
you can mail me at anand_REMOVETHIS_@anandcp.com
Pay attention to your offspring while Jihad'ing for your country first.
And you morons wonder why you got hit on Pearl harbor and 9/11, not to mention the kick-in-nuts you got in Korea, Vietnam and now getting your ass handed over to you in Iraq and Afghanistan... what a bunch of bullshit. Don't go that path my friend, don't include nationality in this. You got more to lose than us.
I was trying to help you see logic.
Seems you don't have any. Enjoy your fun while it lasts, because you may not have a roof over your heads next year,,,
HEY! She could swallow those small keys and choke to death.
Do you want to be charged with inadvertent manslaughter charges?
My 3 1/2 yr old son pried off EACH key of my iBook a year ago when left alone with it. I mean every single damn key on the keyboard was on the floor when i entered.
Thankfully he has NEVER eaten anything not fed by me or his mom (no off-floor eating, etc). So he was safe.
Imagine if he put those things in his mouth?
NEVER EVER do that again, Understand? Unless you are planning to get rid of your daughter (you can drop her off at a Nevada hospital, you dumbass) Sorry am angry, but i still remember my scene vividly.
Hey! What's the price? You have an ebay page?
Do you offer international shipping?
Am serious.
If you can offer international shipping, am willing to buy it via ebay.
My son is 3.5 yrs old and i had the misfortune of letting him alone with my iBook a year before.
He meticulously cleared out the keyboard of ALL keys, precisely and accurately. Plucked out EACH key with his tiny fingers.
I complained to Apple that their keyboard allows small fingers to get between the spaces and pull them out.
They agreed but did nothing i guess.
Anyways a Commodore 64 is FAR harder to break-:)
He was referring to audio fidelity & encoding.
A tape is analogue (although you could make it digital by using it to record my Commodore 64 programs) . A LP is analogue. A CD is digital.
The medium is physical in all cases.
The modulation and encoding differ.
I prefer tapes. Easy and quick.
If one thing reunited the french people in the 30's
WRONG.
It was tiredness, and a penchant to AVOID war at any cost in 1930s.
1939, The french government declared war to Germany as the consequence to the Poland invasion,
Which it did when forced to do by Britain. The French wanted to avoid war at all costs. That is why they were prepared to let Hitler retake Ruhr and Saar. When Hitler moved his troops into Ruhr, they were under strict orders to scoot back to Germany if France or Britain attacked them. Unfortunately the French did not bother.
GB, USA and Britain provided most of the equipment and they did attack German-occupied France.
But they did it, not because they wanted to liberate France. They did it primarily because Stalin and his General Zhukov were hitting Hitler so hard that Hitler was rolling down the hill fast. If allowed, USSR could have won the war single handedly although it would have taken longer.
So, remember one thing: No one, except you can help your country men fight against your tyrannic government.
You Dumbass. This is slashdot, not Shakespeare & e.e.cummings Forum.
Shove your prim & proper English usage up your as$ and concentrate on Simplified English.
Didn't the Paperwork Reduction Act teach you anything? oh screw that. Didn't Churchill teach you anything?
Simple words are the best.
Go read "The River War" or the "My Early Life".
I hate grammar nazis, especially when they think they have mastered the queen's language without knowing shit about it.
He who had three bottles of wine and passes out cold under the table is NOT French.
Seems you know little about the French and very little about their wine.
And Sydney Syrup? WTF is that? The Aussie Wines??? Ha ha ha... Billabong wines??? Not even Australians drink that crap. Its meant to be exported to those suckers who think kangaroos walk in Sydney.