That's a myth. The reason you don't want to use CFLs in sockets that have dimmer switches is that they tend to wear out more quickly. GE for instance has a line of CFLs that are designed for such fixtures, and you can also get dimmer switches which are designed with CFLs in mind.
The bigger issue though is that there are situations in which a CFL will use more power than a traditional incandescent light bulb, such as in closets where the bulb is typically used for brief periods of time. Also, CFLs don't seem to tolerate voltage fluctuation as well as incandescent bulbs do.
You shouldn't ever be deciding what bulb to buy based upon wattage. Wattage and base type will tell you if the bulb is safe to use in a given fixture, but watts aren't a unit of light, they're a unit of energy consumption. Lumens is what you should be using for that. You should be choosing the light bulb with the amount of lumens you want and then ideally choosing the one which consumes the least amount of electricity.
Note the qualifiers, pretty much everybody else, is not the same as everybody else. I've personally had much better luck in recent times searching with duck duck go
Searching for free software has been quite a challenge. It inevitably turns up more "free downloads" and "free trial" than actual free software by default, and you can't just eliminate those two without losing sites which offer both on the same page.
I gave up on AdSense years ago, just the fact that they didn't bother to care whether or not the javascript worked across platform was enough to lose any interest in using their product. I don't mind them filling in free ads if nobody has paid for a particular spot, but when their javascript prevents people from showing their ads on my page, that's a problem and given that they supply the tools necessary, it's completely unacceptable.
Whether it's Google or spammers that are responsible, the reality is that Google just isn't anywhere near as useful as it used to be. And I think they waited way too long to own up to the poor quality of results, they've been at parity with Bing and pretty much everybody else for quite a while, with their only advantage being rate of updates on their index.
I wouldn't recommend using MSO on any platform, unless you're really doing something specific Libreoffice does just fine for most purposes. I was however somewhat surprised that saving a powerpoint in MS' format wouldn't read in Powerpoint, but the open format would.
But yes, the lack of support for commonly used Windows software which one might need to interoperate with is pretty much the biggest downside to migrating to either platform.
Living in Seattle, we've got that 8+ magnitude earth quake coming, plus several active volcanoes that could at any time decide to cause havoc. That being said, the region has been planning for that for a long time, and fortunately because most of the buildings are recent in construction and or small, I'm not too worried. The main thing that I'm worried about is our aging viaduct, that will go down like that stretch did during the Loma Prieta quake in the late 80s.
In practice, I think the assumption being that we think about it constantly, when really we don't because there's no need to. Once you know what to do in general, you only have to worry about the routes where you're at, and most of the rest of it has already been handled by the building code.
If you're assuming that it would take less than 5 minutes to get the word out then you're overly optimistic. 20 seconds would be amazing if they could do it, but the problem is that even if you do hear the announcement immediately and take cover you're still talking about 30 seconds in most cases. And that's assuming that you're in a place to hear the warning which very few people will be, unless it happens to hit during prime time.
The problem is that this sort of measure is more of a feel good plan than something that's actually going to provide any sort of real world benefit, and that's where I take issue with it. The assumptions are way too rosy to reflect real life. I've been through fire alarms working security at a high rise, and you don't typically get a reaction out of the people there in less than a minutes after the alarm starts unless there's obvious smoke.
That's actually something that I'm curious about myself. It's definitely a more interesting question. Even more interesting than the article would be how many of those ads resulted in a response of some sort.
That's sound advice, it's not enough by itself, but it does make it a lot easier for the police to establish who you were with if something happens. I'm not personally sure why anybody in their right mind would agree to go out with somebody they met online without taking precautions.
And, even if you do meet them offline, it's not a bad idea to make the first few dates brunch, lunch or coffee during the daylight hours in a public place.
Seriously, when's the last time that anybody bothered to check Netscape compatibility? I mean Firefox has been around since I was in college, and I think by then I didn't know anybody that was using Netscape. I'd be surprised if there were many websites in use then that are still in use now that haven't gone through some pretty significant updates.
While we're at it, why don't we check to see if Mosaic is still workable for browsing the web.
The problem though is that there's a significant drop off in intensity related to the distance. Which means that by the time you're far enough away from the epicenter to be able to actually use the information, chances are that the intensity is low enough that it's more of a minor nuisance.
If you look at the US, it's hard to find anywhere that doesn't have earthquakes or some other natural disaster. Personally, I think it's more reasonable to build in earthquake country than in areas where it floods or gets hurricanes. At some point you hit the point where it's just not realistic to avoid the danger and have to focus on mitigating it. There have been some pretty substantial earthquakes back east, it's just that people forget about the 1812 New Madrid earthquake
I realize that you're joking, but up here in Seattle, we've been waiting for our massive earthquake for as long as I can remember. We get minor earthquakes more or less constantly, but you're not going to notice a magnitude 1 or 2 quake without specialized equipment. But, we do know that it's coming and it is pretty well established that it's going to be a huge one.
In our case all we're able to do is make sure that the building code adequately handles it, emergency responce is planned for and that there's some provision for handling the aftermath. I'm personally skeptical that a system like this would be of much use. You'd have to be within immediate earshot of the warning and immediately act on it to get any advantage at all from it.
I'd personally spend the money on preparedness given how limited the effect of this is likely to be.
Indeed, and it probably shouldn't go off for a 5 either. I remember years back when we had that 5.3 magnitude quake, there was some property damage, but all in all pretty minimal, you'd have to be in a really strange situation for that to be worth mentioning. Anything built to code down there is going to be able to handle an earth quake in the low 5 range without any problems at all.
Up until relatively recently you absolutely had to include whatever hacks were necessary to get IE6 running on your site because it was the default browser on Windows and had a huge market share. Netscape hasn't had that sort of status in a really long time. So of course IE6 probably looks pretty good in comparison.
Now, look at more recent sites that don't include that kludge and see if it still looks OK.
No, they only do that if you happen upon a prototype that they were stupid enough to lose and not bother labeling in the first place by perverting the course of justice by having the police recover their property.
I could see them bumping the sample rate to 48k for albums, but going to 24 bits is insane. At this point, the way that albums are mastered and mixed, I think we might as well shrink the number of bits that we're using, because we're not really making any use of them on most albums.
OTOH, going to 24 bits and using those extra bits to provide extra channels, I could totally see.
That's not true, there's no particular clinical evidence to support that claim. It's something that the shoe companies tell people to justify overspending on shoes. You wear the shoes until they haven't got any traction or they start to let your legs out of alignment as you run. Depending upon the shoe that might be sooner, or later than that. Guidelines like that tend to be largely useless.
And personally, I've found shoes to be the main source of my foot problems. It's hard to have good posture or motion if you're feet aren't strong, and shoes tend to discourage your feet from staying strong.
The answer to that, is don't waste your money on running shoes. The cushioning actually causes you to strike the ground harder as your feet can't sense that they're on solid ground. Despite what shoe companies might tell you, the reality is that most of those injuries didn't become prevalent until the introduction of running shoes.
As long as the shoes are still level they're still perfectly good. The one thing you do want to avoid is where they cause your ankles to get out of alignment.
Same goes for the weed that grows wild in the midwest, it's pot, but it's so weak that nobody is likely to be smoking it. And actually, if that was typical of pot, we'd probably have legalized it by now, as it just isn't strong enough to elicit any of the health problems that people are worrying about, except possible lung damage.
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That's a myth. The reason you don't want to use CFLs in sockets that have dimmer switches is that they tend to wear out more quickly. GE for instance has a line of CFLs that are designed for such fixtures, and you can also get dimmer switches which are designed with CFLs in mind.
The bigger issue though is that there are situations in which a CFL will use more power than a traditional incandescent light bulb, such as in closets where the bulb is typically used for brief periods of time. Also, CFLs don't seem to tolerate voltage fluctuation as well as incandescent bulbs do.
You shouldn't ever be deciding what bulb to buy based upon wattage. Wattage and base type will tell you if the bulb is safe to use in a given fixture, but watts aren't a unit of light, they're a unit of energy consumption. Lumens is what you should be using for that. You should be choosing the light bulb with the amount of lumens you want and then ideally choosing the one which consumes the least amount of electricity.
Note the qualifiers, pretty much everybody else, is not the same as everybody else. I've personally had much better luck in recent times searching with duck duck go
How did you do that? Those are both the same link.
Searching for free software has been quite a challenge. It inevitably turns up more "free downloads" and "free trial" than actual free software by default, and you can't just eliminate those two without losing sites which offer both on the same page.
I gave up on AdSense years ago, just the fact that they didn't bother to care whether or not the javascript worked across platform was enough to lose any interest in using their product. I don't mind them filling in free ads if nobody has paid for a particular spot, but when their javascript prevents people from showing their ads on my page, that's a problem and given that they supply the tools necessary, it's completely unacceptable.
Whether it's Google or spammers that are responsible, the reality is that Google just isn't anywhere near as useful as it used to be. And I think they waited way too long to own up to the poor quality of results, they've been at parity with Bing and pretty much everybody else for quite a while, with their only advantage being rate of updates on their index.
I wouldn't recommend using MSO on any platform, unless you're really doing something specific Libreoffice does just fine for most purposes. I was however somewhat surprised that saving a powerpoint in MS' format wouldn't read in Powerpoint, but the open format would.
But yes, the lack of support for commonly used Windows software which one might need to interoperate with is pretty much the biggest downside to migrating to either platform.
Living in Seattle, we've got that 8+ magnitude earth quake coming, plus several active volcanoes that could at any time decide to cause havoc. That being said, the region has been planning for that for a long time, and fortunately because most of the buildings are recent in construction and or small, I'm not too worried. The main thing that I'm worried about is our aging viaduct, that will go down like that stretch did during the Loma Prieta quake in the late 80s.
In practice, I think the assumption being that we think about it constantly, when really we don't because there's no need to. Once you know what to do in general, you only have to worry about the routes where you're at, and most of the rest of it has already been handled by the building code.
If you're assuming that it would take less than 5 minutes to get the word out then you're overly optimistic. 20 seconds would be amazing if they could do it, but the problem is that even if you do hear the announcement immediately and take cover you're still talking about 30 seconds in most cases. And that's assuming that you're in a place to hear the warning which very few people will be, unless it happens to hit during prime time.
The problem is that this sort of measure is more of a feel good plan than something that's actually going to provide any sort of real world benefit, and that's where I take issue with it. The assumptions are way too rosy to reflect real life. I've been through fire alarms working security at a high rise, and you don't typically get a reaction out of the people there in less than a minutes after the alarm starts unless there's obvious smoke.
That's actually something that I'm curious about myself. It's definitely a more interesting question. Even more interesting than the article would be how many of those ads resulted in a response of some sort.
That reminds me of the time that Cartman got semen for free, all he had to do was suck it out of a hose with his eyes closed.
That's sound advice, it's not enough by itself, but it does make it a lot easier for the police to establish who you were with if something happens. I'm not personally sure why anybody in their right mind would agree to go out with somebody they met online without taking precautions.
And, even if you do meet them offline, it's not a bad idea to make the first few dates brunch, lunch or coffee during the daylight hours in a public place.
Seriously, when's the last time that anybody bothered to check Netscape compatibility? I mean Firefox has been around since I was in college, and I think by then I didn't know anybody that was using Netscape. I'd be surprised if there were many websites in use then that are still in use now that haven't gone through some pretty significant updates.
While we're at it, why don't we check to see if Mosaic is still workable for browsing the web.
The problem though is that there's a significant drop off in intensity related to the distance. Which means that by the time you're far enough away from the epicenter to be able to actually use the information, chances are that the intensity is low enough that it's more of a minor nuisance.
If you look at the US, it's hard to find anywhere that doesn't have earthquakes or some other natural disaster. Personally, I think it's more reasonable to build in earthquake country than in areas where it floods or gets hurricanes. At some point you hit the point where it's just not realistic to avoid the danger and have to focus on mitigating it. There have been some pretty substantial earthquakes back east, it's just that people forget about the 1812 New Madrid earthquake
I realize that you're joking, but up here in Seattle, we've been waiting for our massive earthquake for as long as I can remember. We get minor earthquakes more or less constantly, but you're not going to notice a magnitude 1 or 2 quake without specialized equipment. But, we do know that it's coming and it is pretty well established that it's going to be a huge one.
In our case all we're able to do is make sure that the building code adequately handles it, emergency responce is planned for and that there's some provision for handling the aftermath. I'm personally skeptical that a system like this would be of much use. You'd have to be within immediate earshot of the warning and immediately act on it to get any advantage at all from it.
I'd personally spend the money on preparedness given how limited the effect of this is likely to be.
Indeed, and it probably shouldn't go off for a 5 either. I remember years back when we had that 5.3 magnitude quake, there was some property damage, but all in all pretty minimal, you'd have to be in a really strange situation for that to be worth mentioning. Anything built to code down there is going to be able to handle an earth quake in the low 5 range without any problems at all.
Up until relatively recently you absolutely had to include whatever hacks were necessary to get IE6 running on your site because it was the default browser on Windows and had a huge market share. Netscape hasn't had that sort of status in a really long time. So of course IE6 probably looks pretty good in comparison.
Now, look at more recent sites that don't include that kludge and see if it still looks OK.
No, they only do that if you happen upon a prototype that they were stupid enough to lose and not bother labeling in the first place by perverting the course of justice by having the police recover their property.
I would've though it would be iFUC.
I could see them bumping the sample rate to 48k for albums, but going to 24 bits is insane. At this point, the way that albums are mastered and mixed, I think we might as well shrink the number of bits that we're using, because we're not really making any use of them on most albums.
OTOH, going to 24 bits and using those extra bits to provide extra channels, I could totally see.
That's not true, there's no particular clinical evidence to support that claim. It's something that the shoe companies tell people to justify overspending on shoes. You wear the shoes until they haven't got any traction or they start to let your legs out of alignment as you run. Depending upon the shoe that might be sooner, or later than that. Guidelines like that tend to be largely useless.
And personally, I've found shoes to be the main source of my foot problems. It's hard to have good posture or motion if you're feet aren't strong, and shoes tend to discourage your feet from staying strong.
The answer to that, is don't waste your money on running shoes. The cushioning actually causes you to strike the ground harder as your feet can't sense that they're on solid ground. Despite what shoe companies might tell you, the reality is that most of those injuries didn't become prevalent until the introduction of running shoes.
As long as the shoes are still level they're still perfectly good. The one thing you do want to avoid is where they cause your ankles to get out of alignment.
Same goes for the weed that grows wild in the midwest, it's pot, but it's so weak that nobody is likely to be smoking it. And actually, if that was typical of pot, we'd probably have legalized it by now, as it just isn't strong enough to elicit any of the health problems that people are worrying about, except possible lung damage.