With regards to X10 home automation: when switched "off," the units feed a brief trickle charge every second or so, to see if the appliance has been turned on manually, and if so, to provide it full juice. This causes some CF to flicker a dim but noticeable amount once per second.
Drop a filament bulb on a hard floor. Drop a CF on a hard floor. Sweep up the glass in both cases. Or better yet, do NOT drop the CF in your house, or if you do, please call a hazmat team to quarantine your house for mercury reclamation for a day or two.
Others have already corroborated my claims of a hum associated with the units.
Why do people say "no, you're wrong, your claims are meritless" when they should instead just say "hm, I haven't experienced that"?
The phrase "lowest common denominator" has been in use for a long time when referring to cultural (or anti-cultural) trends. It's not a mathematics term.
Different cultures react in very different ways to color. What looks garish or mis-matched to you, may seem pleasant and calming to someone from a different culture. Look at the clothing from various countries: some prefer western muted colors and subtle accents like pinstripes, while some prefer a huge explosion of colors in floral or geometrical motifs.
Maybe this color scheme was a complete freak of random design, or maybe it was thoughtfully applied to resemble a comforting palette for the recipients. A lush young yellow-green succulent leaf serves as a plate for a sumptuous meal, for example.
If you're talking about accusing someone of stealing a muffin in the lunchroom, or even if you accuse someone of stealing a tractor-trailer filled with sex toys, and that charge is found to be unsubstantiated in the courts, I would agree with your sentiment that the police and the courts basically do their jobs and the final outcome for the falsely accused is to have an interesting anecdote to share with close friends later.
However, mix a report of pedophilia with a highly charged sensationalistic free press, an aggressive police commissioner who answers to the mayor who has "four daughters of his own," a rabid district prosecutor out to show he's tough on crime, a local judge up against a challenger in the next election cycle. Now see whether or not justice is blind, or merely stacked against ethical standards.
One of the most convenient ways of destroying someone's life forever is to hint that they're a pedd-o to the police. One of the least credible sources of information is through chat and blog and instant message internet services. This sounds like a great way to completely twist the whole of society tightly around the axle for years to come.
Leave some sodium and chlorine together and let the rest of the solution evaporate and you will spot a cubical arrangement of molecules. This concept is new?
Of course, you can find Edmund Halley biographies in many places, but he's not really a common figure since the comet receded in the '80s. He's got a lot more to him than just that one comet discovery too. My favorite factoid is his estimate of Earth's age by the salt levels in the oceans. Being Newton's publisher and friend didn't hurt his reputation either.
Of course, I might be biased in this suggestion...
Boy, and I thought my 2xAAA bluetooth optical mouse had a short battery life! The CCD sensors are only intended for bursts of a few seconds, not for continuous clicky-draggy mouse motions. They chew up a large amount of battery power to amplify extremely small amounts of incoming light signal into usable pixel values.
Imagine how silly this sounds:
"Bah, XP Pro is $199? I can get XP Home for $99. XP Pro is way too pricey compared to XP Home."
Silly to you, but it happens EVERY day, among the group of people who don't really use their computers for everything a computer can do.
Most people just want to download their AIM smileys and play the Sims. Why spend an extra hundred bucks for that? And why spend over $1000 for a machine that's cute, when it's just going to sit on the shitboard-n-glue Wal*Mart computadesk, get clogged with cat hair and peanut butter, when there are perfectly good smiley-downloading-Sims-playing computers with labels like Dell, Acer, or Daewoo for much less?
Wow, someone has way too much time on his hands. Go spend some of that playing Katamari Damashii, and get that ball up to the size of your mom, pronto!
The poster's concern is that of airline theft. The expensive, delicate, easy-to-fence stuff like cameras and laptops should not be left to the baggage handlers. The two-party system between government security officials and corporate contract labor basically ensures that if anything goes missing, the blame game and finger pointing will go on for months, and you'll never track down or get compensation.
I'm so disappointed to find out about Perl and Ruby. As an atheist, I'd like to stick to a language created by an atheist.
Just goes to show that athiesm is a religion: one, the firm belief that they know the truth and everyone else is deluded; and two, as exemplified in this message, the anti-communal system whereby great concepts and great inventions are spurned simply for the different viewpoints of their inventors.
Grassroots democracy and mass public relations campaigns basically break down somewhere between 10e6 and 10e8. Why? Taking it in physics terms, the inertia of the sheeple outweighs even a huge and aware minority.
Major corporations can laugh with derision at any sort of boycott. Does Disney cower when Dobbson's flock yell about Gay Day at the parks? Can five hundred small towns bring Wal*Mart to the mat when Wal*Mart dangles a carrot of a few hundred underpaid, underinsured jobs each?
You're never going to get 2/3 of Americans to vote the whole system out. You can't even get 2/3 of Americans to put one little amendment on the constitution very often, and that's small potatos compared to legislating a revolution.
If there is a crime then he just publicity hounding and forcing an issue that should never had occured.
Yeah, that worked SO well for Judith Miller's career. It seems the likelihood of some journalism-martyrdom-phoenix incentive scenario for getting incarcerated for not letting authority get what it wants as being pretty thin here.
I've coded a lot of GUI code, in everything. Pascal, C, C++, Java, Tcl/Tk, Perl/Tk, HTML, you name it. One thing I've found is that C or C++ may be useful for problem-specific custom widgets, but after that, the higher-level the better. GUIs are a fluid, flexible, dynamic, change-on-the-fly, subject-to-change, feedback-driven kind of feature.
As such, you don't want to be saddled with a language which requires you to think about every malloc(), to manipulate strings of characters as bytes, to set up event handler callback routines, or to call methods on layout-bag-grid-column junk.
You want to build up that layout graphically, name the elements appropriately, and work with the highest-level language you can find to deal the behavior behind 98% of all GUI requirements.
Because you know some PHB is gonna tell you to make some widget mauve because it has more RAM. Again.
The same kind of experience went for me when I tried to introduce my family to the Final Fantasy series. First was FF9 since it was out at the time. They liked it mostly for the music, as well as the pile of little sidegames that FF has long included.
Then I showed them FF8 and I have to say, even if the characters weren't four heads high semi-chibi style (a major complaint of FF9), they weren't more compelling either.
I got an old copy of FF7, arguably the best-loved of the "modern" FF series, and the low resolution graphics was positively oppressive. It had more edge, the translation not shying away from mild but persistent profanity. I flipped through some mame roms for earlier FF games and each trip backwards showed less game, less character, less world, and yet, maintained a few elements that bind all FF concepts.
Then we played FFX and FFX2, and were quite pleased with the artwork, storylines and world scopes (though FF games are still way too linear in my opinion). The smoother, easy-on-the-eyes antialiased graphics and more fluid animation style didn't hurt either. The voiceovers are controversial but we didn't really mind them. It's still not what you'd call state of the art in ANY direction technically, but it's an impressive tour de force when taken all together. Some still fondly think back to FF7 or FF3 or whatever, but give me more YRP. And if my family is to judge, the newer games in the series are just more fun than the old ones.
I know they're just looking for another revenue stream, but its great to see big companies (even inadvertently) fighting the system on behalf of individuals rights.
Er, this is the same Circuit City that tried to get you to buy into the original "pay to play" DVD format DivX concept? (Not to be confused with the XviD/DivX;) codec.) Anyone who thinks Circuit City just decided, out of the blue, to come up with this service without the knowledge and blessing of their retail channel sources (nee, RIAA/MPAA) is seriously missing some brain cells.
You said that Gandalf "skipped" the undressing mythology. Er, aside from the brief passage when he recounts his ordeal and said something like being laid bare, I think you'd be pretty blind to forget his very prominent change of raiment. It is this transformation of death and rebirth that caused/enabled him to transcend from Gandalf Grayhame to Gandalf the White.
So in web2.0 terms, this is Google Zeitgeist meets the Statistically Improbable Phrase analysis like you see on Amazon. Find pairs or sets of words which are out of the statistical norm for English, then start to track their rise and fall among the "marketplace of ideas" in Congress. Also, on the c|net news site, they have two graph views to visualize connections between similar-topic stories or often-viewed "hot" stories.
It would be interesting to see how many phrases are just a matter of the odd language that Congress uses. There's a stock metaphorical phrase for just about anything, and there are also a lot of phrases that are steeped in tradition which often get misunderstood by layfolk.
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With regards to X10 home automation: when switched "off," the units feed a brief trickle charge every second or so, to see if the appliance has been turned on manually, and if so, to provide it full juice. This causes some CF to flicker a dim but noticeable amount once per second.
Drop a filament bulb on a hard floor. Drop a CF on a hard floor. Sweep up the glass in both cases. Or better yet, do NOT drop the CF in your house, or if you do, please call a hazmat team to quarantine your house for mercury reclamation for a day or two.
Others have already corroborated my claims of a hum associated with the units.
Why do people say "no, you're wrong, your claims are meritless" when they should instead just say "hm, I haven't experienced that"?
Wow, I never knew that Hewlett and Packard founded the Sun Microsystems company. The things you learn on Slashdot...
The phrase "lowest common denominator" has been in use for a long time when referring to cultural (or anti-cultural) trends. It's not a mathematics term.
Different cultures react in very different ways to color. What looks garish or mis-matched to you, may seem pleasant and calming to someone from a different culture. Look at the clothing from various countries: some prefer western muted colors and subtle accents like pinstripes, while some prefer a huge explosion of colors in floral or geometrical motifs.
Maybe this color scheme was a complete freak of random design, or maybe it was thoughtfully applied to resemble a comforting palette for the recipients. A lush young yellow-green succulent leaf serves as a plate for a sumptuous meal, for example.
If you're talking about accusing someone of stealing a muffin in the lunchroom, or even if you accuse someone of stealing a tractor-trailer filled with sex toys, and that charge is found to be unsubstantiated in the courts, I would agree with your sentiment that the police and the courts basically do their jobs and the final outcome for the falsely accused is to have an interesting anecdote to share with close friends later.
However, mix a report of pedophilia with a highly charged sensationalistic free press, an aggressive police commissioner who answers to the mayor who has "four daughters of his own," a rabid district prosecutor out to show he's tough on crime, a local judge up against a challenger in the next election cycle. Now see whether or not justice is blind, or merely stacked against ethical standards.
One of the most convenient ways of destroying someone's life forever is to hint that they're a pedd-o to the police. One of the least credible sources of information is through chat and blog and instant message internet services. This sounds like a great way to completely twist the whole of society tightly around the axle for years to come.
Leave some sodium and chlorine together and let the rest of the solution evaporate and you will spot a cubical arrangement of molecules. This concept is new?
They're still trying to iron out the bugs. They'll run it through the wringer in no time flat. So don't be a fly in the ointment.
What is an acronym, and what is an initialism, depends on how you pronounce it.
NAFTA is an acronym, because you don't pronounce it En-Ay-Eff-Tee-Ay. Same for SONAR and SCUBA.
"The ESR" would be pronounced like The Ee-Ess-Ar. Not an acronym. The ESRB, the NAACP, and OSDN are all initialisms.
Of course, you can find Edmund Halley biographies in many places, but he's not really a common figure since the comet receded in the '80s. He's got a lot more to him than just that one comet discovery too. My favorite factoid is his estimate of Earth's age by the salt levels in the oceans. Being Newton's publisher and friend didn't hurt his reputation either.
Of course, I might be biased in this suggestion...
Boy, and I thought my 2xAAA bluetooth optical mouse had a short battery life! The CCD sensors are only intended for bursts of a few seconds, not for continuous clicky-draggy mouse motions. They chew up a large amount of battery power to amplify extremely small amounts of incoming light signal into usable pixel values.
Silly to you, but it happens EVERY day, among the group of people who don't really use their computers for everything a computer can do.
Most people just want to download their AIM smileys and play the Sims. Why spend an extra hundred bucks for that? And why spend over $1000 for a machine that's cute, when it's just going to sit on the shitboard-n-glue Wal*Mart computadesk, get clogged with cat hair and peanut butter, when there are perfectly good smiley-downloading-Sims-playing computers with labels like Dell, Acer, or Daewoo for much less?
Wow, someone has way too much time on his hands. Go spend some of that playing Katamari Damashii, and get that ball up to the size of your mom, pronto!
The game of Diplomacy, except 80 years in the future. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005EBA0
The poster's concern is that of airline theft. The expensive, delicate, easy-to-fence stuff like cameras and laptops should not be left to the baggage handlers. The two-party system between government security officials and corporate contract labor basically ensures that if anything goes missing, the blame game and finger pointing will go on for months, and you'll never track down or get compensation.
Just goes to show that athiesm is a religion: one, the firm belief that they know the truth and everyone else is deluded; and two, as exemplified in this message, the anti-communal system whereby great concepts and great inventions are spurned simply for the different viewpoints of their inventors.
Grassroots democracy and mass public relations campaigns basically break down somewhere between 10e6 and 10e8. Why? Taking it in physics terms, the inertia of the sheeple outweighs even a huge and aware minority.
Major corporations can laugh with derision at any sort of boycott. Does Disney cower when Dobbson's flock yell about Gay Day at the parks? Can five hundred small towns bring Wal*Mart to the mat when Wal*Mart dangles a carrot of a few hundred underpaid, underinsured jobs each?
You're never going to get 2/3 of Americans to vote the whole system out. You can't even get 2/3 of Americans to put one little amendment on the constitution very often, and that's small potatos compared to legislating a revolution.
Yeah, that worked SO well for Judith Miller's career. It seems the likelihood of some journalism-martyrdom-phoenix incentive scenario for getting incarcerated for not letting authority get what it wants as being pretty thin here.
I've coded a lot of GUI code, in everything. Pascal, C, C++, Java, Tcl/Tk, Perl/Tk, HTML, you name it. One thing I've found is that C or C++ may be useful for problem-specific custom widgets, but after that, the higher-level the better. GUIs are a fluid, flexible, dynamic, change-on-the-fly, subject-to-change, feedback-driven kind of feature.
As such, you don't want to be saddled with a language which requires you to think about every malloc(), to manipulate strings of characters as bytes, to set up event handler callback routines, or to call methods on layout-bag-grid-column junk.
You want to build up that layout graphically, name the elements appropriately, and work with the highest-level language you can find to deal the behavior behind 98% of all GUI requirements.
Because you know some PHB is gonna tell you to make some widget mauve because it has more RAM. Again.
The same kind of experience went for me when I tried to introduce my family to the Final Fantasy series. First was FF9 since it was out at the time. They liked it mostly for the music, as well as the pile of little sidegames that FF has long included.
Then I showed them FF8 and I have to say, even if the characters weren't four heads high semi-chibi style (a major complaint of FF9), they weren't more compelling either.
I got an old copy of FF7, arguably the best-loved of the "modern" FF series, and the low resolution graphics was positively oppressive. It had more edge, the translation not shying away from mild but persistent profanity. I flipped through some mame roms for earlier FF games and each trip backwards showed less game, less character, less world, and yet, maintained a few elements that bind all FF concepts.
Then we played FFX and FFX2, and were quite pleased with the artwork, storylines and world scopes (though FF games are still way too linear in my opinion). The smoother, easy-on-the-eyes antialiased graphics and more fluid animation style didn't hurt either. The voiceovers are controversial but we didn't really mind them. It's still not what you'd call state of the art in ANY direction technically, but it's an impressive tour de force when taken all together. Some still fondly think back to FF7 or FF3 or whatever, but give me more YRP. And if my family is to judge, the newer games in the series are just more fun than the old ones.
Er, this is the same Circuit City that tried to get you to buy into the original "pay to play" DVD format DivX concept? (Not to be confused with the XviD/DivX;) codec.) Anyone who thinks Circuit City just decided, out of the blue, to come up with this service without the knowledge and blessing of their retail channel sources (nee, RIAA/MPAA) is seriously missing some brain cells.
You said that Gandalf "skipped" the undressing mythology. Er, aside from the brief passage when he recounts his ordeal and said something like being laid bare, I think you'd be pretty blind to forget his very prominent change of raiment. It is this transformation of death and rebirth that caused/enabled him to transcend from Gandalf Grayhame to Gandalf the White.
So in web2.0 terms, this is Google Zeitgeist meets the Statistically Improbable Phrase analysis like you see on Amazon. Find pairs or sets of words which are out of the statistical norm for English, then start to track their rise and fall among the "marketplace of ideas" in Congress. Also, on the c|net news site, they have two graph views to visualize connections between similar-topic stories or often-viewed "hot" stories.
It would be interesting to see how many phrases are just a matter of the odd language that Congress uses. There's a stock metaphorical phrase for just about anything, and there are also a lot of phrases that are steeped in tradition which often get misunderstood by layfolk.