However, fluorescent lighting has been around for many many years and has proven time and time again to be far more cost effective and environment friendly than incandescent.
Fluorescent lights have needed ballast for years. The cost of making them is insignificant. CFL's use glass just like incandescent, so I don't see how there could be much of a different in use of energy or resources to make them.
And, making an LED, or a cluster of 36 LED's for a light bulb probably takes even less to produce.. After all.. It's just a diode. They get turned out by the trillions every day.
Yeah.. In typical Slashdot form, I checked Google after responding and found the ccrane site and many articles about their lights.
The CFL bulbs I have inside the house use 14 watt and the ones outside are 7 watt, so they're still a huge savings over incandescent. When I switched over, I noticed my electric bill was about 10-15% lower the next billing cycle. I also noticed that my basement temperature dropped by about 15 degrees. CFL's don't generate anywhere near the heat that a regular bulb does.
If everyone switches to CFL, not only Wal-Mart will win. We as consumers win, because we have another choice. Choice is good. We as consumers also win by saving money on our electric bills and by easing the load on the national power grid. This can also help lessen our dependence on foreign oil.
Yes, CFL's have mercury, but mercury can be recyled if the bulbs are disposed of properly. So, we still win.
Right now, there's only a couple of companies making LED indoor lighting. That will change over time, the technology will improve and costs will come down. And we'll have another choice. Which is still a good thing..
I have 3 of them myself. They can be quite entertaining to watch.
Dander, saliva, and urine are the major causes of pet allergies. You are correct.
Both of my brothers-in-law have serious pet allergies. They actually react worse to cats than dogs, but they still get puffy eyes, runny noses, and have to use their inhalers around dogs.. All 3 of mine have been in their laps for extended periods grooming their hands and neither one has ever had a bad reaction to them.. So, that takes care of the dander and saliva part. I don't think they'd appreciate it if I tried throwing Basenji urine on them for the third test though:)
I do realize that nothing can be 100% allergy proof. But, in my experience, *my* Basenjis have never caused an allergic reaction in the time that I've owned them. Even in people with traditional pet allergies.
And yes, they can cause quite a racket when they want to. They are also one of the smartest and most stubborn breeds I've ever come across. I guess thats why I like them so much.
Why pay that much for a cat when theres plenty of dogs out there that are already hypoallergenic. Take the Basenji for example. It's hypoallergenic, doesn't bark, grooms itself like a cat, and dislikes water like most cats. And while they don't bark, they do make a yodeling type of noise.
And, you can usually get one for quite a lot less than $4000.
The problem is the fundamental Islamists. However, they make up a sizeable portion of those 1.3B that follow the religion.
How many fundamental Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, et al have you heard of in the past 20 years that have suicide bombed a market, or any other suicide killing for that matter? Let alone hijacking 4 large airliners and flying them into heavily populated buildings to cause as much death as possible.
The difference between the actions of the fundamental Christians in the link you provided and fundamental Muslims, is that the Muslims have killed thousands over just the past few years. We won't even consider going back, say 40 years.
While Islam may be the "Religion of Peace", it has some serious house cleaning that needs to get done. They need to quell the radical elements, as Christianity did hundreds of years ago.
So what... two 1ghz PC's and any Linux or BSD will give you reliable DNS without having to rely on your ISP.
DSL:
Lightening resets your connection (hope you have an autoconnect router)
Rain resets your connection
Wind resets your connection
Random acts of God resets your connection...
FUD BS * 4
I live in an area of the country that gets thunderstorms, rain, and high winds all summer long.. My DSL has yet to go out due to environmental concerns after 4 years. In fact, my uptime approaches 99.95% annually.
The fact of the matter is that if your internet connection is so important that your business depends on it, cable and DSL and other forms of 'broadband' are useless except to have as a backup in case your T1, DS3, whatever goes out. A T1 or similar line comes with an SLA that tells you what will happen in the event of an outage. If your provider isn't holding up their end of the SLA, then you should be shopping elsewhere. And, Ma and Pa Kettle ISP probably isn't the best place to get a T1 from either.
HDS MAN Most likely sir! I bet it was something nice though! Now... I have an insurance form. If you'll just sign here, here, and here, and initial here, and print your name here, we'll get the rest of the forms out to you as soon as we can.
I'm not one of the developers.. I'm one of the engineers, but..
"Ever thought of a tool that when you enter a citation, you set an optionnto get that case and all the cases it references, and all the cases they reference, in like a tree mode with the short summary?"
I believe the CheckCite application does that through both AutoCite and Shepards and possibly QuoteCheck also. I think you get CheckCite from the AR at your school.
As far as linking to a case goes, I use firefox and tabbed browsing so that I can right-click on a link and open it in a new tab..
Slashdot Mirror
cvsup is a great thing.
Good question..
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However, fluorescent lighting has been around for many many years and has proven time and time again to be far more cost effective and environment friendly than incandescent.
A little research finds this: http://www.nema.org/lamprecycle/epafactsheet-cfl.
Fluorescent lights have needed ballast for years. The cost of making them is insignificant. CFL's use glass just like incandescent, so I don't see how there could be much of a different in use of energy or resources to make them.
And, making an LED, or a cluster of 36 LED's for a light bulb probably takes even less to produce.. After all.. It's just a diode. They get turned out by the trillions every day.
Yeah.. In typical Slashdot form, I checked Google after responding and found the ccrane site and many articles about their lights.
The CFL bulbs I have inside the house use 14 watt and the ones outside are 7 watt, so they're still a huge savings over incandescent.
When I switched over, I noticed my electric bill was about 10-15% lower the next billing cycle. I also noticed that my basement temperature dropped by about 15 degrees. CFL's don't generate anywhere near the heat that a regular bulb does.
If everyone switches to CFL, not only Wal-Mart will win. We as consumers win, because we have another choice. Choice is good.
We as consumers also win by saving money on our electric bills and by easing the load on the national power grid. This can also help lessen our dependence on foreign oil.
Yes, CFL's have mercury, but mercury can be recyled if the bulbs are disposed of properly. So, we still win.
Right now, there's only a couple of companies making LED indoor lighting. That will change over time, the technology will improve and costs will come down. And we'll have another choice. Which is still a good thing..
Haven't had to change a bulb all year long.
I even changed the bulbs outside around my house, and installed some solar powered LED lighting.
I hear that there are LED based light bulbs coming that use even less power and last longer than CFL. Maybe I'll switch to those in a year or two.
I have 3 of them myself. They can be quite entertaining to watch.
:)
Dander, saliva, and urine are the major causes of pet allergies. You are correct.
Both of my brothers-in-law have serious pet allergies. They actually react worse to cats than dogs, but they still get puffy eyes, runny noses, and have to use their inhalers around dogs.. All 3 of mine have been in their laps for extended periods grooming their hands and neither one has ever had a bad reaction to them.. So, that takes care of the dander and saliva part. I don't think they'd appreciate it if I tried throwing Basenji urine on them for the third test though
I do realize that nothing can be 100% allergy proof. But, in my experience, *my* Basenjis have never caused an allergic reaction in the time that I've owned them. Even in people with traditional pet allergies.
And yes, they can cause quite a racket when they want to. They are also one of the smartest and most stubborn breeds I've ever come across. I guess thats why I like them so much.
Why pay that much for a cat when theres plenty of dogs out there that are already hypoallergenic.
Take the Basenji for example. It's hypoallergenic, doesn't bark, grooms itself like a cat, and dislikes water like most cats.
And while they don't bark, they do make a yodeling type of noise.
And, you can usually get one for quite a lot less than $4000.
The problem is the fundamental Islamists. However, they make up a sizeable portion of those 1.3B that follow the religion.
How many fundamental Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, et al have you heard of in the past 20 years that have suicide bombed a market, or any other suicide killing for that matter? Let alone hijacking 4 large airliners and flying them into heavily populated buildings to cause as much death as possible.
The difference between the actions of the fundamental Christians in the link you provided and fundamental Muslims, is that the Muslims have killed thousands over just the past few years. We won't even consider going back, say 40 years.
While Islam may be the "Religion of Peace", it has some serious house cleaning that needs to get done. They need to quell the radical elements, as Christianity did hundreds of years ago.
I live in an area of the country that gets thunderstorms, rain, and high winds all summer long.. My DSL has yet to go out due to environmental concerns after 4 years. In fact, my uptime approaches 99.95% annually.
The fact of the matter is that if your internet connection is so important that your business depends on it, cable and DSL and other forms of 'broadband' are useless except to have as a backup in case your T1, DS3, whatever goes out. A T1 or similar line comes with an SLA that tells you what will happen in the event of an outage. If your provider isn't holding up their end of the SLA, then you should be shopping elsewhere. And, Ma and Pa Kettle ISP probably isn't the best place to get a T1 from either.
[cue Ace Ventura]
GRUFF MAN
It sounds broken.
HDS MAN
Most likely sir! I bet it was something nice though! Now... I have an insurance form. If you'll just sign here, here, and here, and initial here, and print your name here, we'll get the rest of the forms out to you as soon as we can.
Make a PB&J..
Go to jail...
Its the law...
As far as linking to a case goes, I use firefox and tabbed browsing so that I can right-click on a link and open it in a new tab..
The graveyard has been part of LexisNexis for a very long time.. I've been employed there for 9 1/2 years now. Its really kind of cool to see.