2) We seem to get an occasional bad one. That hurts due to the price.
I keep the reciepts (and some packaging) and if they fail too soon (significantly before the rated number of hours) I just bring them back to the retailer and get a new one. I've returned about 5 out of about 100 (I have been replacing burnt out recessed flood lights in my kids' daycare centre over the past few years.)
CFLs have higher light output per watt of electricity for the typically light outputs that people want for space lighting. The longevity of LEDs and their low power requirements for low light output makes them ideal for flashlights though. I think for very high light output needs (lighting huge spaces like sports fields, street lights, etc) high pressure sodium and that sort of thing are more efficient than flourescents.
A 60W light bulb will give about 55W heat, and lots of light, which we also need (winter is dark).
All the light (except that which gets out the window) ends up as heat too - so in that sense they are basically 100% efficient. However using light bulbs as heaters isn't really very sensible - they typically don't put the heat where you want it - it all stays up on the ceiling, and they cost real money to replace. Thus, even those who heat with electricity typically see significant savings in their electric bill when switching to CFLs.
I don't know that statements about "unified graphics API" and "_in kernel_ interfaces" are necessarily the same thing. There are a lot of reasonable arguements that would support a "unified graphics API", independant of the linked article's contention that the optimal system (for Linux) is to have "drivers" as part of the main kernal tree.
Of course, I consider our floating election dates to be better than a mandated "First Tuesday in November," it adds a bit of randmoness that keeps the politicians on their toes.
There is a move to go with a fixed date - though I can't seem to find a web reference. it has some advantages, but I liked the randomness myselff.
It's likely undercover cops were present to confirm/asssist arrest. Taking pictures of said drug busts could cost lives.
That may well be, but there is a high standard that needs to be set when limiting the public's freedom of action, and it is fairly clear that this incident as presented did not live up to it. If the officer had explained his concern calmly there likely would not have beena problem - if the concern had been legitimate, he could have handled it better.
Here's a funny movie about Microsoft's marketing, from Microsoft's marketing department, which is beginning to gag on the company's culture of incompetence: Microsoft Ipod Parody.
There is some interesting reading at the "bad movie physics" webpage where the author explores how easy it is to light gasoline with a lit cigarette - he basicaly found that it was very difficult to do. See http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/mpmain.html#c igarettes for details (note that is a link to frame within a page - the page itself is at http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/ - hit the link on the left to "cigarettes" to get it displayed as the author intended.)
From the page:
Lighting puddles of gasoline with cigarettes in movies is a common device. The character takes a few puffs and tosses the glowing cigarette in the puddle. Immediately, the gasoline ignites. However, numerous readers have written us and said it isn't so. Some have cited experiences where they saw it attempted. Others have said that cigarettes don't get hot enough.
We searched the web and found several sites that say cigarettes do get hot enough. In other words the glowing tip of a lit cigarette is well above the autoignition temperature of gasoline. Normally this information would have convinced us, but as mentioned before, some of the people writing in seemed to have personal experience. Finally, we decided to conduct an experiment.
We poured a very small amount of gasoline in an aluminum pie pan or slightly deeper cake pan and placed it in the middle of a concrete slab. The pie and cake pans were chosen because they allowed the gasoline to spread out into a very shallow puddle the way it would if spilled on the ground. It also pretty much guaranteed that the vapors at some point above the pan would mix enough with air to form an ignitable mixture.....
If we used various breeder reactor designs we could take more of the energy from the mined uranium before junking it - right now we use systems that only extract a few percent of the available energy. It is possible to get more fuel out of a fast breeder reactor than you put into it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_breeder.
Anyhow, you don't want to toss out the "waste", because it contains good stuff - you want to process it, and extract the useful stuff and store the rest until you figure out a use for it. A few big facilities in the middle of the desert would be able to store the things we don't want people to touch for a while.
The absurdly antisocial behaviors which go on in schools every single day are things that no adult would put up with in the workplace for an instant.
Unfortunately, bullying and other "bad" behaviour goes on in the "adult world" all too often. Sometimes it is more subtle than "a boot to the head", but often it is just as blatent, and goes unaddressed.
"workplace bully" at google.com results in a bunch of hits.
I've had my prints taken 2x in my life - once when I was getting a security clearance, and once when doing a bonded/licensed thing. I remember, at the time, making jokes that I would have to remember to wear gloves if I ever committed a crime, but I *never* even once thought "Gosh, I sure hope this data about me doesn't fall into the wrong hands!" and I have read nothing in this thread to convince me otherwise about fingerprints.
One thing of concern is the lack of knowledge about how accurate fingerprint analysis is - see this article for example. Without your fingerprint in the database, they can't make an error and pull you in for something. (Although, if the database is large enough, maybe it would help show the accuracy of the system. Get data for the whole world and you might find that all of the murders in NYC are seemingly being committed by peasants in central China...)
Another possible concern for the "innocent" is the possiblity of being framed by the state for somthing. If you want to get paranoid about "the man", giving "him" tools to make it easier to set you up might not be wise.
I don't know how they did the math either - maybe there is some difference between ALL oil consumption and transportation oil consumption? I do think that it would be a very good thing to at the very least, try to minimize the amount of tax subsidies that oil gets - if doing so makes oil too expensive for "the poor" then we could directly give the susidies to "the poor" rather than artificially supporting an industry that we should be trying to move away from in the long term. Heck, put a 20 year gradual reduction on those subsidies to "ease the transition" and we would still be better off in my opinion.
It is not ridiculously low, your taxes are ridiculously high.
Be that as it may, is the $1/gallon with or without factoring in the tax subsidies given to gasoline production in the US? this article puts the "true cost" of a gallon of US gas somewhere between $5 and $15. I wonder how we could get that paid directly at the pump rather than indirectly?
For example, I drive a 1995 Corolla station wagon, which is also not a great driver's car, but it's light-years ahead of the Prius. In my car, if I'm going 10mph in first gear and I touch my foot to the gas pedal, the car jumps forward instantly. If you floor the throttle in a Prius going 10mph, it takes a full second or two for the gas engine to turn on and rev up and for the CV transmission to adjust before anything actually happens. That's a really long time when you're trying to accelerate out of a corner, or if you're trying to avoid an imminent T-boning.
After driving "a stick" for fifteen years, I can certainly appreciate the difference between a manual and an automatic. In fairness however, my 2003 Prius feels more responsive than most other automatics I have driven (and I think the 2004 does even better, though I have yet to drive one). I get a bit of a "geek thrill" thinking about how the transmission system works every time I drive - direct gear connections at all times with no clutch - how cool is that? See here for some details, or drill down from here through "the original site" link to see all of the info within the autor's frameset.
Anyhow, I guess I don't get as much "fun" out of quick accelerations as you might. You know us old folk and our lazy Sunday afternoon drives and all...
I think you are incorrect - at the very least the emmissions are still going to be pretty low.
In any case, my experience with a 2003 Prius is that highway driving results in vitually identical consumption to city driving, and both are significantly better than most "regular" vehicles.
Sure, one could be doing better perhaps with some sort of motorcycle or "smart car", but if you want to pull the "most efficient" card, you should probably be taking the bus...
Interesting, but the majority of electricity in France (75% or more) is provided by nuclear power plants. And I don't really want to know how [ratical.org] much [bbc.co.uk] the decommissioning of those power plants (with all the recycling of radioactive waste) is going to cost.
You can sell nuclear energy to me when you can answer the question "What do we do with 48 tons of nuclear waste generated per year per plant [sfgate.com]"? Arrogant people think nuclear power is perfectly safe. Paranoid people think nuclear power will destroy the planet. Intelligent people see plant designs that are intrinsically safe, but want to know what we're going to do with the waste.
How about we grind it up fine and release it to the atmosphere? Or make big piles of the radioactive waste and leave them laying around?
Oh, that's how the radioactive elements in most coal is dealt with... from wikipedia we learn: Coal also contains many trace elements, including arsenic and mercury, which are dangerous if released into the environment. Coal also contains low levels of uranium, thorium, and other naturally-occurring radioactive isotopes whose release into the environment may lead to radioactive contamination.[6][7] While these substances are trace impurities, enough coal is burned that significant amounts of these substances are released, paradoxically resulting in more radioactive waste than nuclear power.
I suppose that using current "waste" in reactors designed to extract energy from it is out of the question?
If my sales team actually got to the point of telling a customer this, you're more than welcome to them. As in: we just kicked them to the curb because we weren't getting any value from the relationship and we're hoping that a competitor will get saddled with them while we spend our time and effort on more profitable relationships. We might even provide some sales intel to help get you the sale:)
Potentially the client might be impressed at being told that rather than having your team doing a half-assed job you think they would be happier with a team that better fit their needs. They may come back to you with business later because of that.
Well, not quite. The Italian railway system had fallen into a rather sad state during World War I, and it did improve a good deal during the 1920s, but Mussolini was disingenuous in taking credit for the changes: much of the repair work had been performed before Mussolini and the fascists came to power in 1922. More importantly (to the claim at hand), those who actually lived in Italy during the Mussolini era have borne testimony that the Italian railway's legendary adherence to timetables was far more myth than reality.
The committee found that the candidates were qualified. However, it judged the proposal did not adequately substantiate the premise that the popularizing of Intelligent Design Theory had detrimental effects on Canadian students, teachers, parents and policymakers. Nor did the committee consider that there was adequate justification for the assumption in the proposal that the theory of Evolution, and not Intelligent Design theory, was correct. It was not convinced, therefore, that research based on these assumptions would yield objective results. In addition, the committee found that the research plans were insufficiently elaborated to allow for an informed evaluation of their merit. In view of its reservations the committee recommended that no award be made.
I don't know, the sentences before and after might be reasonable, but the damning one in the middle seems clearly to cast doubt on the validity of evolution and the non-validity of ID. Without that sentence, the rejection might be reasonable. With it, there is some question as to the understanding of the committee.
While this is a legitimate concern, Apple refused to bundle X11 or Developer tools with the OEM systems in the past for that same reason. After a little time, the threat of not porting X11 apps to OS X declined.
I think that the X11 and developer tools have always come bundled with systems, but they are not always installed on machines from the factory - usually one needs to run the installers either from the hard drive or the included optical media.
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I keep the reciepts (and some packaging) and if they fail too soon (significantly before the rated number of hours) I just bring them back to the retailer and get a new one. I've returned about 5 out of about 100 (I have been replacing burnt out recessed flood lights in my kids' daycare centre over the past few years.)
CFLs have higher light output per watt of electricity for the typically light outputs that people want for space lighting. The longevity of LEDs and their low power requirements for low light output makes them ideal for flashlights though. I think for very high light output needs (lighting huge spaces like sports fields, street lights, etc) high pressure sodium and that sort of thing are more efficient than flourescents.
All the light (except that which gets out the window) ends up as heat too - so in that sense they are basically 100% efficient. However using light bulbs as heaters isn't really very sensible - they typically don't put the heat where you want it - it all stays up on the ceiling, and they cost real money to replace. Thus, even those who heat with electricity typically see significant savings in their electric bill when switching to CFLs.
I don't know that statements about "unified graphics API" and "_in kernel_ interfaces" are necessarily the same thing. There are a lot of reasonable arguements that would support a "unified graphics API", independant of the linked article's contention that the optimal system (for Linux) is to have "drivers" as part of the main kernal tree.
There is a move to go with a fixed date - though I can't seem to find a web reference. it has some advantages, but I liked the randomness myselff.
That may well be, but there is a high standard that needs to be set when limiting the public's freedom of action, and it is fairly clear that this incident as presented did not live up to it. If the officer had explained his concern calmly there likely would not have beena problem - if the concern had been legitimate, he could have handled it better.
There is some interesting reading at the "bad movie physics" webpage where the author explores how easy it is to light gasoline with a lit cigarette - he basicaly found that it was very difficult to do. See http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/mpmain.html#c igarettes for details (note that is a link to frame within a page - the page itself is at http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/ - hit the link on the left to "cigarettes" to get it displayed as the author intended.)
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From the page:
Lighting puddles of gasoline with cigarettes in movies is a common device. The character takes a few puffs and tosses the glowing cigarette in the puddle. Immediately, the gasoline ignites. However, numerous readers have written us and said it isn't so. Some have cited experiences where they saw it attempted. Others have said that cigarettes don't get hot enough.
We searched the web and found several sites that say cigarettes do get hot enough. In other words the glowing tip of a lit cigarette is well above the autoignition temperature of gasoline. Normally this information would have convinced us, but as mentioned before, some of the people writing in seemed to have personal experience. Finally, we decided to conduct an experiment.
We poured a very small amount of gasoline in an aluminum pie pan or slightly deeper cake pan and placed it in the middle of a concrete slab. The pie and cake pans were chosen because they allowed the gasoline to spread out into a very shallow puddle the way it would if spilled on the ground. It also pretty much guaranteed that the vapors at some point above the pan would mix enough with air to form an ignitable mixture.
If we used various breeder reactor designs we could take more of the energy from the mined uranium before junking it - right now we use systems that only extract a few percent of the available energy. It is possible to get more fuel out of a fast breeder reactor than you put into it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_breeder.
Anyhow, you don't want to toss out the "waste", because it contains good stuff - you want to process it, and extract the useful stuff and store the rest until you figure out a use for it. A few big facilities in the middle of the desert would be able to store the things we don't want people to touch for a while.
Unfortunately, bullying and other "bad" behaviour goes on in the "adult world" all too often. Sometimes it is more subtle than "a boot to the head", but often it is just as blatent, and goes unaddressed.
"workplace bully" at google.com results in a bunch of hits.
I've had my prints taken 2x in my life - once when I was getting a security clearance, and once when doing a bonded/licensed thing. I remember, at the time, making jokes that I would have to remember to wear gloves if I ever committed a crime, but I *never* even once thought "Gosh, I sure hope this data about me doesn't fall into the wrong hands!" and I have read nothing in this thread to convince me otherwise about fingerprints.
One thing of concern is the lack of knowledge about how accurate fingerprint analysis is - see this article for example. Without your fingerprint in the database, they can't make an error and pull you in for something. (Although, if the database is large enough, maybe it would help show the accuracy of the system. Get data for the whole world and you might find that all of the murders in NYC are seemingly being committed by peasants in central China...)Another possible concern for the "innocent" is the possiblity of being framed by the state for somthing. If you want to get paranoid about "the man", giving "him" tools to make it easier to set you up might not be wise.
I don't know how they did the math either - maybe there is some difference between ALL oil consumption and transportation oil consumption? I do think that it would be a very good thing to at the very least, try to minimize the amount of tax subsidies that oil gets - if doing so makes oil too expensive for "the poor" then we could directly give the susidies to "the poor" rather than artificially supporting an industry that we should be trying to move away from in the long term. Heck, put a 20 year gradual reduction on those subsidies to "ease the transition" and we would still be better off in my opinion.
Be that as it may, is the $1/gallon with or without factoring in the tax subsidies given to gasoline production in the US? this article puts the "true cost" of a gallon of US gas somewhere between $5 and $15. I wonder how we could get that paid directly at the pump rather than indirectly?
For example, I drive a 1995 Corolla station wagon, which is also not a great driver's car, but it's light-years ahead of the Prius. In my car, if I'm going 10mph in first gear and I touch my foot to the gas pedal, the car jumps forward instantly. If you floor the throttle in a Prius going 10mph, it takes a full second or two for the gas engine to turn on and rev up and for the CV transmission to adjust before anything actually happens. That's a really long time when you're trying to accelerate out of a corner, or if you're trying to avoid an imminent T-boning.
After driving "a stick" for fifteen years, I can certainly appreciate the difference between a manual and an automatic. In fairness however, my 2003 Prius feels more responsive than most other automatics I have driven (and I think the 2004 does even better, though I have yet to drive one). I get a bit of a "geek thrill" thinking about how the transmission system works every time I drive - direct gear connections at all times with no clutch - how cool is that? See here for some details, or drill down from here through "the original site" link to see all of the info within the autor's frameset.Well, not as much as electrics, eh?
Anyhow, I guess I don't get as much "fun" out of quick accelerations as you might. You know us old folk and our lazy Sunday afternoon drives and all...
What else are you using your car to do besides the A->B stuff for anyway? Get a hotel room - it is much more comfortable.
I think you are incorrect - at the very least the emmissions are still going to be pretty low.
In any case, my experience with a 2003 Prius is that highway driving results in vitually identical consumption to city driving, and both are significantly better than most "regular" vehicles.
Sure, one could be doing better perhaps with some sort of motorcycle or "smart car", but if you want to pull the "most efficient" card, you should probably be taking the bus...
You don't HAVE to ask them permission.
You can sell nuclear energy to me when you can answer the question "What do we do with 48 tons of nuclear waste generated per year per plant [sfgate.com]"? Arrogant people think nuclear power is perfectly safe. Paranoid people think nuclear power will destroy the planet. Intelligent people see plant designs that are intrinsically safe, but want to know what we're going to do with the waste.
How about we grind it up fine and release it to the atmosphere? Or make big piles of the radioactive waste and leave them laying around?Oh, that's how the radioactive elements in most coal is dealt with... from wikipedia we learn: Coal also contains many trace elements, including arsenic and mercury, which are dangerous if released into the environment. Coal also contains low levels of uranium, thorium, and other naturally-occurring radioactive isotopes whose release into the environment may lead to radioactive contamination.[6][7] While these substances are trace impurities, enough coal is burned that significant amounts of these substances are released, paradoxically resulting in more radioactive waste than nuclear power.
I suppose that using current "waste" in reactors designed to extract energy from it is out of the question?
If my sales team actually got to the point of telling a customer this, you're more than welcome to them. As in: we just kicked them to the curb because we weren't getting any value from the relationship and we're hoping that a competitor will get saddled with them while we spend our time and effort on more profitable relationships. We might even provide some sales intel to help get you the sale :)
Potentially the client might be impressed at being told that rather than having your team doing a half-assed job you think they would be happier with a team that better fit their needs. They may come back to you with business later because of that.Not according to these folk:
That sounds like Vancouver's Bait Car program. I gather it has been pretty successful, and produced a number of funny advertisements.
I don't know, the sentences before and after might be reasonable, but the damning one in the middle seems clearly to cast doubt on the validity of evolution and the non-validity of ID. Without that sentence, the rejection might be reasonable. With it, there is some question as to the understanding of the committee.
I think that the X11 and developer tools have always come bundled with systems, but they are not always installed on machines from the factory - usually one needs to run the installers either from the hard drive or the included optical media.