Little more efficient than CFLs?
Sure the stimulated phosphor emission of white light isn't any more efficient, but you're aware how a CFL generates the photons to excite the phosphor, yes?
Now how does an LED do it?
Tell me again about efficiency.
To be fair, Pulseaudio seems to work OK now, and something like it was needed.
Well, it definitely works... better than it used to.
I'm pretty sure it still holds some kind of record for being the only piece of software that every single distribution has a wiki entry for turning off.
Parent is attempting to silence dissent with the typical, "You don't think They should be able to read your email? So, you'd rather children get raped." argument.
I don't know. Certainly he doesn't deserve what is being dealt to him, but I find it a stretch to call him one of the more competent and forward thinking. Whatever prof gave him his CS degree should be punched in the balls, metaphorically speaking.
Hey may be competent at writing instructions into an editor and making it do what he wants, but as a software engineer, he is miserable. He's also a pretentious douche bag to deal with.
I'm not even saying rural. I don't believe what I've noticed about the midwest has anything to do with how rural it is. It's as bad in Tulsa as it is in Westville.
You keep trying to bring political beliefs into this as well, and I really don't get it.
I had a very evangelic math teacher in southern Oregon, who was frankly brilliant. He doesn't get included in my list. Very rural. Obviously a smart dude who believes some dumb shit. Generally *not* ignorant in any way.
Where did money come into play? I'm glad welders make good money. They should. Are you telling me you have to be educated to be a welder?
Now, back to the midwest. http://www.alec.org/publicatio... http://www.nationsreportcard.g...
Have you ever had to explain to argue with someone that we have proven that the Earth orbits the sun? Me neither, until I lived in Oklahoma.
I believe it's part of some evangelist southern baptist culture to reject science in general. All the sciences, from astronomy to math- not just things that conflict with their dogmatic teachings.
One note on the cattle rancher, you pointed out a bunch of true things about him, but in no way did you show that he was not generally ignorant. Ignorant people can be talented at things, or not ignorant in specific things. Good for them. The world needs cattle ranchers. Cattle ranchers who don't know a god damned thing about civics, math, science, engineering, history, or anything else outside what affects his field. Perfect kind of person for a democracy, right?
Sigh. They do. I'm sorry, this is no stereotype, I lived there, and I have friends and family there.
The ignorance in all things from science to history to basic (at least what I consider basic having grown up in Seattle) is astounding.
I believe I conceded that I don't know squat about urban "ghettos" (I really hate that term for some reason), because we don't really have anything like that in my area.
I'm not bigoted against my friends, who are all largely evangelic, as are most of the people from that part of the country that I have met- MOST. They are what they are, and they're still cool people, but they are largely ignorant and believe some really stupid shit. I've never had to argue with someone about why the sky is blue before having lived there. You're defending them from a position of ignorance yourself- it's pretty damn clear you haven't been there. I've been all over the area (as I said, I have family there, and lived there for a time).
I'm not saying they're stupid people, but they truly to celebrate their ignorance. It's a merit badge for them: knowing that their way of life is smarter than those weird progressive types.
Good people, but when the apocalypse comes, they'll be doing nothing but building our barns and growing our food. A useful position, but don't try to act like they'll be rebuilding our electrical infrastructure architecting our new buildings that use anything but equilateral triangles. Also, the generalization clearly doesn't apply to places like Huntsville and other enclaves of scientific literacy in the area.
Car A (the flu car) needs to get into accidents pretty much every day, and has an overall lifetime chance of one of those being fatal of about 0.
Car B (the ebola car) needs to have a lifetime chance of getting in an accident of just about 0, but the chance of that accident being fatal of 50-80%.
It is hard to spread ebola. It's not a very contagious virus. Even direct exposure to it is unlikely to be infectious, except in cases of extreme viral load (someone cough literally into your mouth? Did you have sex with them? Did you *eat the fucking infected animal*?). It's not the flu where you can get it by walking in the same room as someone who has been breathing and is infected.
You are completely incorrect regarding rural or otherwise people's belief in evolution. Back to the ignorance issue, I don't know if their science classes leave it out, or if their sunday schools successfully obliterated that part of their education with the fire and brimstone. I don't know the causative factors, but in my experience, the percentage of people in those areas who believe in *any form of evolution* (outside of the ability of a virus to mutate) is somewhere around 0%.
You're on a soap box, and I won't try to knock you off of it, and you're almost certainly correct, smart people in rural areas probably do great on SATs.
And I'm sure you're right about inner-city urban "ghettos".
But in my admittedly anecdotal experience, the average person who grew up in small-town midwest-south (wtf, DO they call Arkansas/Missouri/Kansas/Oklahoma?) if too ignorant to be much good for anything but working on old cars, building barns, and tending to cows and working the local retail outlets. It's no fault of the humans there, and I'm sure their actual cognitive intelligence is right around what is normal for the entire population. It's entirely a cultural issue, they have a culture that celebrates ignorance.
No, I mean ignorant. I'm pretty open minded to differing points of view. Whatever passes for history education in that region is ridiculously dismal, though.
Ask your average Okie how clouds form. I'm not kidding.
I don't feel like that's a political point-of-view thing, but these days... Shit, it's hard to say.
I'm not sure literacy rate is a good way to measure general ignorance either, though.
I live in Seattle, and have lived in southern Oregon and Oklahoma.
I'm not a bigot toward my Okie friends (of which I have a few), but they generally are, while literate, very, very ignorant.
Peak oil is a mathematical concept. It's entirely impossible to accurately predict when it will happen, and if we're talking about the original definition of it, it already has. All deviation from the Hubbert curve has been expensive "unconventional" oil prospects, and we're *still* outpacing growth of production with growth of demand.
I don't understand why this is a difficult concept for some people. The math is pretty fucking simple. You can't win. We got all the easy shit. Every time we find a new field that buys the earth another few months, all you whack jobs jump out and go "aha! see! peak oil is a myth!", without taking into account that these 3 month extensions to the expiration date of cheap oil only come about once every few years.
I think it's more of a jest for most educated folk here in the States. We're well aware of French history, and their part in the American Revolution. (We have school, streets, cities named after La Fayette).
It's still good for a mild giggle to talk about white flags and such. Vichy was a bitch. If they can't take a joke, they can shut their asses about Bush.
You don't PWM an AC waveform. You PWM a DC output (as it has no waveform, it peaks and stays peaked.)
You do in fact PWM an AC waveform for dimming (less fires that way). You're cutting apart a sine wave, so the result is less obvious than simple DC duty-cycle, but it is PWM nonetheless.
No, PWM dimming is caused by a PNP transistor circuit, not a capacitor.
Or this fantastic invention called a thyristor. You have probably encountered one of them in your average wall dimmer.
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Little more efficient than CFLs?
Sure the stimulated phosphor emission of white light isn't any more efficient, but you're aware how a CFL generates the photons to excite the phosphor, yes?
Now how does an LED do it?
Tell me again about efficiency.
Parent to yours. You were spot-on.
That's quite possibly the most awesome slashdot quote I have *ever* seen.
You are probably (I'd like to hope) right. I can't honestly say if he was that way before the controversy started.
Goebbels: They're just being haters. They can't even give a good argument for *not* toasting the Jews.
Reductio ad absurdum only works if the argument truly is invalid.
I've felt the same way- I've never thought to try to articulate it though. Kudos.
I believe that is the module in systemd that manages setting the default gateway from Avahi cues.
Actually, his post shows considerably better structure than systemd. I suspect his major was English, not CompSci.
To be fair, Pulseaudio seems to work OK now, and something like it was needed.
Well, it definitely works... better than it used to.
I'm pretty sure it still holds some kind of record for being the only piece of software that every single distribution has a wiki entry for turning off.
Parent is attempting to silence dissent with the typical, "You don't think They should be able to read your email? So, you'd rather children get raped." argument.
I don't know. Certainly he doesn't deserve what is being dealt to him, but I find it a stretch to call him one of the more competent and forward thinking. Whatever prof gave him his CS degree should be punched in the balls, metaphorically speaking.
Hey may be competent at writing instructions into an editor and making it do what he wants, but as a software engineer, he is miserable. He's also a pretentious douche bag to deal with.
I'm not even saying rural. I don't believe what I've noticed about the midwest has anything to do with how rural it is. It's as bad in Tulsa as it is in Westville.
You keep trying to bring political beliefs into this as well, and I really don't get it.
I had a very evangelic math teacher in southern Oregon, who was frankly brilliant. He doesn't get included in my list. Very rural. Obviously a smart dude who believes some dumb shit. Generally *not* ignorant in any way.
Where did money come into play? I'm glad welders make good money. They should. Are you telling me you have to be educated to be a welder?
Now, back to the midwest.
http://www.alec.org/publicatio...
http://www.nationsreportcard.g...
Have you ever had to explain to argue with someone that we have proven that the Earth orbits the sun? Me neither, until I lived in Oklahoma.
I believe it's part of some evangelist southern baptist culture to reject science in general. All the sciences, from astronomy to math- not just things that conflict with their dogmatic teachings.
One note on the cattle rancher, you pointed out a bunch of true things about him, but in no way did you show that he was not generally ignorant. Ignorant people can be talented at things, or not ignorant in specific things. Good for them. The world needs cattle ranchers. Cattle ranchers who don't know a god damned thing about civics, math, science, engineering, history, or anything else outside what affects his field. Perfect kind of person for a democracy, right?
Sigh. They do. I'm sorry, this is no stereotype, I lived there, and I have friends and family there.
The ignorance in all things from science to history to basic (at least what I consider basic having grown up in Seattle) is astounding.
I believe I conceded that I don't know squat about urban "ghettos" (I really hate that term for some reason), because we don't really have anything like that in my area.
I'm not bigoted against my friends, who are all largely evangelic, as are most of the people from that part of the country that I have met- MOST. They are what they are, and they're still cool people, but they are largely ignorant and believe some really stupid shit. I've never had to argue with someone about why the sky is blue before having lived there. You're defending them from a position of ignorance yourself- it's pretty damn clear you haven't been there. I've been all over the area (as I said, I have family there, and lived there for a time). I'm not saying they're stupid people, but they truly to celebrate their ignorance. It's a merit badge for them: knowing that their way of life is smarter than those weird progressive types.
Good people, but when the apocalypse comes, they'll be doing nothing but building our barns and growing our food. A useful position, but don't try to act like they'll be rebuilding our electrical infrastructure architecting our new buildings that use anything but equilateral triangles. Also, the generalization clearly doesn't apply to places like Huntsville and other enclaves of scientific literacy in the area.
That analogy is completely broken.
Car A (the flu car) needs to get into accidents pretty much every day, and has an overall lifetime chance of one of those being fatal of about 0.
Car B (the ebola car) needs to have a lifetime chance of getting in an accident of just about 0, but the chance of that accident being fatal of 50-80%.
It is hard to spread ebola. It's not a very contagious virus. Even direct exposure to it is unlikely to be infectious, except in cases of extreme viral load (someone cough literally into your mouth? Did you have sex with them? Did you *eat the fucking infected animal*?). It's not the flu where you can get it by walking in the same room as someone who has been breathing and is infected.
You are completely incorrect regarding rural or otherwise people's belief in evolution. Back to the ignorance issue, I don't know if their science classes leave it out, or if their sunday schools successfully obliterated that part of their education with the fire and brimstone. I don't know the causative factors, but in my experience, the percentage of people in those areas who believe in *any form of evolution* (outside of the ability of a virus to mutate) is somewhere around 0%.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/218...
There's a national poll.
http://www.religioustolerance....
There's a good breakdown by state.
Very few? Come on. You're making shit up now.
You're on a soap box, and I won't try to knock you off of it, and you're almost certainly correct, smart people in rural areas probably do great on SATs.
And I'm sure you're right about inner-city urban "ghettos".
But in my admittedly anecdotal experience, the average person who grew up in small-town midwest-south (wtf, DO they call Arkansas/Missouri/Kansas/Oklahoma?) if too ignorant to be much good for anything but working on old cars, building barns, and tending to cows and working the local retail outlets. It's no fault of the humans there, and I'm sure their actual cognitive intelligence is right around what is normal for the entire population. It's entirely a cultural issue, they have a culture that celebrates ignorance.
No, I mean ignorant. I'm pretty open minded to differing points of view. Whatever passes for history education in that region is ridiculously dismal, though. Ask your average Okie how clouds form. I'm not kidding.
I don't feel like that's a political point-of-view thing, but these days... Shit, it's hard to say.
I'm not sure literacy rate is a good way to measure general ignorance either, though.
I live in Seattle, and have lived in southern Oregon and Oklahoma.
I'm not a bigot toward my Okie friends (of which I have a few), but they generally are, while literate, very, very ignorant.
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I have no doubt that you own rheostat dimmers, but I seriously doubt they're the average.
I haven't encountered one in well over 2 decades.
Parent was otherwise correct about the operation of the standard wall dimming unit
Peak oil is a mathematical concept. It's entirely impossible to accurately predict when it will happen, and if we're talking about the original definition of it, it already has. All deviation from the Hubbert curve has been expensive "unconventional" oil prospects, and we're *still* outpacing growth of production with growth of demand.
I don't understand why this is a difficult concept for some people. The math is pretty fucking simple. You can't win. We got all the easy shit. Every time we find a new field that buys the earth another few months, all you whack jobs jump out and go "aha! see! peak oil is a myth!", without taking into account that these 3 month extensions to the expiration date of cheap oil only come about once every few years.
I think it's more of a jest for most educated folk here in the States. We're well aware of French history, and their part in the American Revolution. (We have school, streets, cities named after La Fayette).
It's still good for a mild giggle to talk about white flags and such. Vichy was a bitch. If they can't take a joke, they can shut their asses about Bush.
You don't PWM an AC waveform. You PWM a DC output (as it has no waveform, it peaks and stays peaked.)
You do in fact PWM an AC waveform for dimming (less fires that way). You're cutting apart a sine wave, so the result is less obvious than simple DC duty-cycle, but it is PWM nonetheless.
No, PWM dimming is caused by a PNP transistor circuit, not a capacitor.
Or this fantastic invention called a thyristor. You have probably encountered one of them in your average wall dimmer.
Wow- I had never heard that.
Thanks for posting it
I'd +5 informative you if I could. Thanks for the info.