I call bullshit. This is slashdot. Your girlfriend can't drive unless somebody inflates her and animates her first. Then again, maybe you can keep a spare in the trunk, right next to the spare tire.
If she does manage to get there, and you do make videos...can you send them to me?
There are lots of p0rn on the internet. They charge $4 for just dl'ing p0rn without unknown quality in a tiny screen is just silly. Now if you tell me that there is some interactions (say chat lines/requests), may be there is a market.
We'll see if you sing the same tune when your car breaks down on the way to your girlfriend's house and the towing company says they'll be there in four hours...and you realize you've forgotten your laptop.
You're pretty dense. You can't even read. Here's a cost-benefit analysis of what _I_ proposed:
1. Don't have to buy four new lamps just because you want more light: At least $80 savings. More if you don't like lamps and would have an electrician mount fixtures. 2. Put in a 65 watt CF instead = your time and space saved
A 65 watt CF is going to be a lot brighter than a 100 watt incandescent, even after dimming with age. They are useful as a specialty application, where you have a limited fixture and need significantly more light.
I've got a couple hundred CF bulbs installed in my house. Yes, you read that right; the previous owner installed more lighting than is used for surgery in hospitals. My closets are more well lit than most whole houses. I don't notice if they lose some brightness; I just turn up the dimmer (many fixtures have dimmers and use expen$ive dimmable CF bulbs) or turn on additional lights. I've been here a year and a half and have only had one bulb fail -- the one in the bathroom fan fixture.
Sounds like a recipe for 30hz flicker...although I don't know if 30hz flicker would be bothersome except when using video displays such as monitors and televisions.
Personally, I love CF bulbs. I prefer white light over stale yellow incandescent light, although you can get CF bulbs that are tuned to provide incandescent-like light. If I want yellow light, I'll burn some logs in the fireplace.
Oh, and here's one situation where you get _more_ light out of CF bulbs: In fixtures with low wattage limits. If you have a lamp rated for maximum 65 watts, you can put CF bulbs in that make huge amounts of light for less than that 65 watts.
The headline draws rather a long bow. [...] "patents encourage innovation, by allowing developers to enjoy profitable monopolies on their inventions which in turn inspire them to create new inventions" - this is still true.
Well, actually, there is at least one example of which I'm aware where the patent system discourages the development of a new drug. Witness the male contraceptive pill. There is an existing drug, whose patent has expired, which shows much promise as a male contraceptive pill, but which is not being developed for that use because it cannot be patented again. Meanwhile, I gotta use a rubber when making love to my wife! (Yes, we've thoroughly investigated other options, none of which are quite right for us.)
From http://www.malecontraceptives.org/methods/nifedipi ne.php : "...the patents on the formulation of nifedipine have expired. Other drug companies have begun manufacturing generic nifedipine, undercutting the drugs price. Because they no longer retain the exclusive right to manufacture nifedipine, large drug companies have little incentive to invest in developing it as a contraceptive."
Although, really, the patent system isn't discouraging, but rather it is not encouraging.
Hrmph...figures. No Ubuntu package, and what's in the Ubuntu repository is old (v.36, while current version is at least.42). I guess I ought to compile from source...;)
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I call bullshit. This is slashdot. Your girlfriend can't drive unless somebody inflates her and animates her first. Then again, maybe you can keep a spare in the trunk, right next to the spare tire.
If she does manage to get there, and you do make videos...can you send them to me?
You've taken it uptheb.um?
That wasn't my intention, but it did come to mind when I posted that.
I love your Ender's Game sig.
No more coffee with your paper? What, did you eat a caffeinated donut?
Big butts are highly underrated.
Never done anything with AC electricity, have you...try reading a little about residential house wiring.
- power
http://www.answers.com/topic/three-phase-electric
http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/tech/threeph.htm
Porn clogs the tubes. Our children will thank us for leaving the tubes unclogged.
You're pretty dense. You can't even read. Here's a cost-benefit analysis of what _I_ proposed:
1. Don't have to buy four new lamps just because you want more light: At least $80 savings. More if you don't like lamps and would have an electrician mount fixtures.
2. Put in a 65 watt CF instead = your time and space saved
You didn't get my point at all. I wasn't talking about slight improvements.
Example: http://www.rewci.com/vercomfluorb.html
A 65 watt CF is going to be a lot brighter than a 100 watt incandescent, even after dimming with age. They are useful as a specialty application, where you have a limited fixture and need significantly more light.
I've got a couple hundred CF bulbs installed in my house. Yes, you read that right; the previous owner installed more lighting than is used for surgery in hospitals. My closets are more well lit than most whole houses. I don't notice if they lose some brightness; I just turn up the dimmer (many fixtures have dimmers and use expen$ive dimmable CF bulbs) or turn on additional lights. I've been here a year and a half and have only had one bulb fail -- the one in the bathroom fan fixture.
Sounds like a recipe for 30hz flicker...although I don't know if 30hz flicker would be bothersome except when using video displays such as monitors and televisions.
Personally, I love CF bulbs. I prefer white light over stale yellow incandescent light, although you can get CF bulbs that are tuned to provide incandescent-like light. If I want yellow light, I'll burn some logs in the fireplace.
Oh, and here's one situation where you get _more_ light out of CF bulbs: In fixtures with low wattage limits. If you have a lamp rated for maximum 65 watts, you can put CF bulbs in that make huge amounts of light for less than that 65 watts.
I was going to post this a few days ago. Anyway, see my tagline...
Also, from TFA:
Nice idea, but we don't need high-tech transparent transistors. Existing HUD technology would do the job just fine.
From http://www.malecontraceptives.org/methods/nifedip
"...the patents on the formulation of nifedipine have expired. Other drug companies have begun manufacturing generic nifedipine, undercutting the drugs price. Because they no longer retain the exclusive right to manufacture nifedipine, large drug companies have little incentive to invest in developing it as a contraceptive."
Although, really, the patent system isn't discouraging, but rather it is not encouraging.
Troll or not, that one was funny.
(This post will be -1, Offtopic in no time.)
Does anybody remember "Page the SysOp"?
Drat...you beat me to it. I was going to ask if the cure worked only on USB mice, or if it was effective on PS/2 and serial mice too.
http://www.google.com/search?q=mid+atlantic+region
I think somebody needs glasses
Anyway...Curly brackets? Nyuk nyuk nyuk!
I was too busy trying to evaluate pow(DRM,Microsoft) to realize that it could possibly mean anything else...
Hrmph...figures. No Ubuntu package, and what's in the Ubuntu repository is old (v .36, while current version is at least .42). I guess I ought to compile from source... ;)