To be pedantic, CFL's flicker but they do so at around 40 kHz thanks to some electronics, whereas the old tubes flicker at 60Hz.
In any case to respond to the article, it would be pretty easy to make a CFL with power factor correction. However, when you're trying to break into a market dominated by a piece of glass with a wire inside, it's tough to not cut every possible corner. I'll bet that as switch-mode loads begin to dominate overall household consumption, that power companies are either going to demand PFC legislation or start billing for volt-amps.
I had a box once that kept crashing randomly. I thought it was the OS, the memory, couldn't figure it out. Finally realized that one of the memory slots was bad. Kept that one empty and it was solid.
Meh, I tend to be more strict on the "perpetual" requirement of the definition, thus eliminating solar cells and anything else that's actually possible.
Yeah, he's an idiot who doesn't understand watts vs joules. If a nuke happens in 1 ms, then it's about 50-10000 gW vs 2.6 gW per square mile of sun. Plus, I DO see solar-powered mushroom clouds, they're called hurricanes.
What part of "I'm an American" don't you get? Lol:)
I exaggerate of course; I'm actually an electrical engineer. It's not that I CAN'T add fractions, it's just that I'm used to addition being somewhat instantaneous and having to pause for a moment is annoying.
On my metric wrench set, the 8 is one next to the 7. On my American wrench set, the 5/32 is next to the.. I have no idea, I would have to go look. It's even worse if I have to add 3/32" to 5 7/8".
If you really need fractions, then 7.9 cm is 7 9/10 cm and 22.5 C is 22 1/2 C.
Misconception. RISC may be more elegant but it is less efficient. Translation and register renaming take up tiny amounts of die compared to the instruction cache savings of x86.
Whenever I've thought an expert in a field I don't know as well is wasting their time, I usually come to realize that I was actually not understanding the situation.
Did you watch DS9 after the war started and they started to let Ron Moore do his thing? Watching the creature-comfort Federation come to the brink of collapse was much more interesting than watching Picard show up at a planet and lecture the locals about their backward traditions.
By the way, if you win a Trek argument on slashdot, you automatically get laid tonight. I promise.
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I can't say I'm an obsessive purist
Then what IS the reason? I run Linux exclusively, and I independently reached the same conclusion as AC: The best Linux DVD ripper is DVDFab.
If DVDFab isn't a "Linux solution" because it requires WINE, then KDE isn't a Linux solution because it requires Qt.
To be pedantic, CFL's flicker but they do so at around 40 kHz thanks to some electronics, whereas the old tubes flicker at 60Hz.
In any case to respond to the article, it would be pretty easy to make a CFL with power factor correction. However, when you're trying to break into a market dominated by a piece of glass with a wire inside, it's tough to not cut every possible corner. I'll bet that as switch-mode loads begin to dominate overall household consumption, that power companies are either going to demand PFC legislation or start billing for volt-amps.
I dunno about the whole USA, but I've seen people that take up a sizable portion of it...
I know, what if they release a new version of Windows 95 and you need a software update to support it!!
The more comprehensive solution, it turns out, was to get a job.
I had a box once that kept crashing randomly. I thought it was the OS, the memory, couldn't figure it out. Finally realized that one of the memory slots was bad. Kept that one empty and it was solid.
Granted, it was a $30 motherboard.
Who's to say robots can't feel pain? /canofworms
If it's just thrashing/twitching, that's a reflex. If it's trying to get out of the pot, that's behavior.
When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death!
Meh, I tend to be more strict on the "perpetual" requirement of the definition, thus eliminating solar cells and anything else that's actually possible.
A perpetual motion machine can have a power source as long as it's a perpetual power source ;)
You don't understand Mitochondrial Eve. According to the theory, many/most of her contemporaries are ALSO our common ancestors.
Yeah, he's an idiot who doesn't understand watts vs joules. If a nuke happens in 1 ms, then it's about 50-10000 gW vs 2.6 gW per square mile of sun. Plus, I DO see solar-powered mushroom clouds, they're called hurricanes.
What part of "I'm an American" don't you get? Lol :)
I exaggerate of course; I'm actually an electrical engineer. It's not that I CAN'T add fractions, it's just that I'm used to addition being somewhat instantaneous and having to pause for a moment is annoying.
American cars are all metric. American sockets are mostly used for hammering on to rusty metric bolts ;)
I'm an American, and I disagree completely.
On my metric wrench set, the 8 is one next to the 7. On my American wrench set, the 5/32 is next to the.. I have no idea, I would have to go look. It's even worse if I have to add 3/32" to 5 7/8".
If you really need fractions, then 7.9 cm is 7 9/10 cm and 22.5 C is 22 1/2 C.
so?
Agreed, you can get a 16 bit, 40 MIPS PIC in a through hole package.
Misconception. RISC may be more elegant but it is less efficient. Translation and register renaming take up tiny amounts of die compared to the instruction cache savings of x86.
No problem. New Zealanders use wizardry to make electricity, and Aussies haven't discovered it yet.
Pentium 4 -based laptop?
Whenever I've thought an expert in a field I don't know as well is wasting their time, I usually come to realize that I was actually not understanding the situation.
You, or the guy that hands out the grant money..
Except that NTFS does exactly the same thing. Perhaps GP meant it's not a filesystem bug.
Did you watch DS9 after the war started and they started to let Ron Moore do his thing? Watching the creature-comfort Federation come to the brink of collapse was much more interesting than watching Picard show up at a planet and lecture the locals about their backward traditions.
By the way, if you win a Trek argument on slashdot, you automatically get laid tonight. I promise.
Yea, I was sorta going for a laugh, although I DO run ridiculous cables to things in my house.
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