By that time you are nearing the price of getting a MAC right? I'm not saying windows is totally bad. I worked for MSFT for 5 years selling that.. I've built computers, supported them in numerous different ways. When I thought about all the hassle's Spam, viruses, training that I had to do for my PC sales. Selling those same users a MAC would have netted a result more favorable in terms of the after support time that I put into each PC sale.
MAC just makes it easy again. Something that PC users had right around the launch of XP.
Actually, you are wrong... standard incandescent lighting radiates its heat. LED lighting pushes all of its heat towards the junction point. This is the reverse of a standard lightbulb. When you build a high power LED you need to build in very capable cooling on or behind the socket in order to keep the full brightness of the LED and sustain long-life. 220W led would require the rough equivalent of a 3 foot by 1 foot round heat sync similar to a CPU heat sync in order to keep the heat to a reasonable level and sustain brightness in the LED.
You say custom hardware like its a good thing. They already have pretty much the max you can get on them. The OS has already been optimized for Intel CPU all the drivers are 100 percent tested to work with anything Mac. They are already faster than 99 percent of the available PC's on the market.
The moment Apple brings in other hardware is the moment that the price will have to go up in order to accept it because everything Apple is tested against everything else Apple. You can add your own ram if you wish. You could upgrade the CPU if you wanted. The motherboard is already at the server level. So, you wouldn't want to upgrade it unless you were doing some special clocking features.
I really don't think Vista is going to take hold of the market as a whole. I think(Been proven right thus far) that more and more people will simply Migrate to the Mac as they replace their machines rather than going to Vista. Mac gives users the flexibility of running Windows if needed and it has higher stability to boot. Sure, you pay more. But you get more value in return. You get server quality hardware on the inside. And, since no server level hardware manufacture is going to be caught dead with crappy drivers. You'll get better driver support to. With the end result getting you a high stability, smoother running machine.
You might have to buy a special fixture to handle it... But, I'd reccomend finding a circline CFL or a really bright CFL from www.buylighting.com They got a 100watt CFL there. Puts out around 6000 lumens of light in the warm 2700k color. Still not quite the same as the 22000 lumens that a halogen will put out. But, it should be more than bright enough to light a room. If all else fails get 2 or 3 of them. You'll be pumping out the same light for 1/3 the price in power.
Also, 1000w bulbs only last about 2000 hours compared to 10,000 hours for the CFL.
Think about how much that Halogen costs you in power...
At california prices you'd be paying at minimum about.20 an hour to use it. If its in a room thats used frequently you are probably paying about 10 bucks a month to use it. The price of a typical Satellite radio service.
CRI is pretty much a non-issue already. See Mona Lisa... They use a mix of LED colors to get whatever color they want. They can actually get a higher color rendering index than incandescent with LED lighting. Without the Fading, and Infrared that standard lighting setups put out.
As for the dimming effect I think you could possibly put an LCD over the LED and dim it out with that connected to a controller to output whatever pattern or color you want.
I don't really see production lighting as all that expensive to operate as far as power goes. So using LED on a cost basis isn't really going to pay out there until you see daily usage of 12 to 6 hours a day.
Incandescent bulbs will still have some commonplaces settings perhaps stage lighting is one of them...
This is already been addressed. You can order LED lighting in pretty much the same color as your standard incandescent at 2700k or 3100k. It's not going to be as efficient as a white would be. But, inside people are more comfortable with the standard yellowish colors and it makes sense.
Also, in commercial spaces as it stands today. LED actually pays out in the long-term(5-10 years) when you factor in the cost of replacing the bulbs every few years. Even better, there is 0 mercury content in LED. Plus, LED is getting cheaper and cheaper every year when you calculate all the costs involved. Which leads to the idea that LED will pretty much replace 90 percent of lighting by 2012.
The Mona Lisa is lit up with LED's Buckingham Palace is converting over to all LED lighting http://www.flickr.com/photos/lastboltnut/1466712839/. Many cities around the world are converting to LED lighting. It is really quite spectacular transformation of lighting in the world.
I expect to see 90 percent of lighting changed over to LED lighting by 2015...
No one has really perfected an HD format for downloading yet.
Quality is getting better all the time, storage requirements are going up with the addition of extra scenes, deleted scenes, director commentary, etc.
I doubt Blue-ray is the long-term format going forward until they get it(layer it) up to around the Terabyte size with a read speed in excess of 100 megabytes a second for fast loading and menu navigation. I think the next step in video technology is going to be interactive like a mystery novel and/or a Holographic format where even more data is needed on a per disc basis which very much rules out Blue-ray as a going forward technology. It also rules out downloading as a video format technology, because the bandwidth constraints prevent any sort of instant on gratification.
Isn't this one of the great things about buying an Apple product??? Closed loop system means you are only testing about 25 to 30 different hardware combinations. Instead of 6 million..
It's like buying a Honda vs a Ford in the 80s cept. the Honda is just as fast and powerful as the Ford.
You also need to look at China, the have a vast growing oil protection racket with their fast copycat program. Trying to steal any technology they can. Personally, I don't know why the US doesn't sell them stuff for double the price we paid for it. I imagine we could sell them some of our semi recent years stealth tech for several trillion dollars or more. It could quickly pay off the National Debt, or even allow us to pour even more money into research a development. We could still be top dog of the skies if we just sold China a bunch of new toys and kept a few keys to the kingdom top secrets. Sure, it might be more difficult to defeat them in an all out war. But, the chances of an all out war are slim, because no one is stupid enough to start that kind of war. MAD gives us that.
Sell em a functional stealth bomber or two for 32 billion bucks a piece, weld and epoxy every layer and panel together so they spend the next 10 years trying to learn from it. Use the 32-64 billion towards researching something better.
Seriously, what is the point of researching all this if it's only going to end up getting stolen or sold at some huge and significant loss. It would be better to control and profit on what goes out. Let nothing secret be attached to any sort of Wide area network. I have no idea why they did that.... They could just as easily built a second internet like the universities have and used that exclusively to connect inventory and data. This would have prevented 90 percent of the data from ever leaving.
As for the whole f-14 tomcat issue with Iran... WTF!!! Seriously, we could have nearly bankrupted them by jacking up the prices for the used pieces they needed to keep flying. It's an extraordinarily expensive piece of machinery to fly selling them slightly unreliable parts for the price we paid for it would only double that cost.
We talk about budget issues every day. Our primary asset is military technology surplus, and we sell it for less than a penny on the dollar. Why can't we turn it into dollars that we can use to pay down the national debt.
*PS, I'm not talking about those individuals who steal secrets and sell them to companies and works in China and other countries. That, is pure treason and deserves to be dealt with in no other way than a swift black death to both parties.
Actually, organizing physical games in a specific methodology or way can be patented along with the name I created for it. Its a structure of things used to increase sales.
Customers are people like you and me.
Here is a scarry one, people drive thier carts like they want to drive thier cars. If it wasn't for rules, they'd totally drive that way.
Some people have experience in other areas of retail. Companies have entire departments dedicated to Plan-o-Grams, RSP training, floor layouts, display setups. The pay is significantly higher and oddly, those departments don't deal with customers. They should, but they don't... Dealing with customers gives you an insight into how they think and shop. If you can see that, you can increase sales.
They might be able to patent it, but they wouldn't be able to enforce it. I've got this on file with Walmart, Circuit City, Fry's, Target, Gamestop. Walmart actively uses it for their POG.
My extensive retail experience says people like to shop by the following methods. Ratings, Genre, Alphabet.
So, if I was to setup a movie viewing for them. I'd setup something along the lines of a Genre, rating(R,PG-13,G), Alphabet.
It's kind of a takeoff on my video game organization method that increases sales of video games by 30 percent. I called it ABSRG short for Alphabetize By Section(4 foot section), Rating(M on top T in the middle and E towards the bottom.), Genre(Sports, driving, shoot em up). Please note, this cannot be patented, I already let it go out for more than a year(Started in 1998)and I have the pictures and time notes to prove it.
I'm thinking a mix of chemical and Capacitor. I'm thinking that we could use the capacitor as a buffer for the stronger motors out there. In effect you can keep your drain on the battery at a lower constant and let the capacitor deal with the voltage surges of daily driving. In a sense it simply just becomes another set of batteries setup to extend the life of the chemical batteries. You gain the ability to put in a stronger motor without having to signficantly increase your battery capacity.
Yep, according to them Microsoft hurt governments, consumers, and businesses. Blah, blah.. The people most hurt are the ones who have the most money. Microsoft has among the highest non-profit donations among companies in the world. So it only makes more sense to continue that tradition and just donate the money to non-profit organizations.
More money for corrupted EU politicians... I think 100 percent of the settlements regarding Microsoft should be Donated to non-profit organizations like the special olympics..
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By that time you are nearing the price of getting a MAC right? I'm not saying windows is totally bad. I worked for MSFT for 5 years selling that.. I've built computers, supported them in numerous different ways. When I thought about all the hassle's Spam, viruses, training that I had to do for my PC sales. Selling those same users a MAC would have netted a result more favorable in terms of the after support time that I put into each PC sale.
MAC just makes it easy again. Something that PC users had right around the launch of XP.
Actually, you are wrong... standard incandescent lighting radiates its heat. LED lighting pushes all of its heat towards the junction point. This is the reverse of a standard lightbulb. When you build a high power LED you need to build in very capable cooling on or behind the socket in order to keep the full brightness of the LED and sustain long-life. 220W led would require the rough equivalent of a 3 foot by 1 foot round heat sync similar to a CPU heat sync in order to keep the heat to a reasonable level and sustain brightness in the LED.
You say custom hardware like its a good thing. They already have pretty much the max you can get on them. The OS has already been optimized for Intel CPU all the drivers are 100 percent tested to work with anything Mac. They are already faster than 99 percent of the available PC's on the market.
The moment Apple brings in other hardware is the moment that the price will have to go up in order to accept it because everything Apple is tested against everything else Apple. You can add your own ram if you wish. You could upgrade the CPU if you wanted. The motherboard is already at the server level. So, you wouldn't want to upgrade it unless you were doing some special clocking features.
I really don't see the issue here...
I really don't think Vista is going to take hold of the market as a whole. I think(Been proven right thus far) that more and more people will simply Migrate to the Mac as they replace their machines rather than going to Vista. Mac gives users the flexibility of running Windows if needed and it has higher stability to boot. Sure, you pay more. But you get more value in return. You get server quality hardware on the inside. And, since no server level hardware manufacture is going to be caught dead with crappy drivers. You'll get better driver support to. With the end result getting you a high stability, smoother running machine.
I shudder to think of the cooling apparatus needed to cool 220Watts of high power LED's.
You might have to buy a special fixture to handle it... But, I'd reccomend finding a circline CFL or a really bright CFL from www.buylighting.com They got a 100watt CFL there. Puts out around 6000 lumens of light in the warm 2700k color. Still not quite the same as the 22000 lumens that a halogen will put out. But, it should be more than bright enough to light a room. If all else fails get 2 or 3 of them. You'll be pumping out the same light for 1/3 the price in power.
.20 an hour to use it. If its in a room thats used frequently you are probably paying about 10 bucks a month to use it. The price of a typical Satellite radio service.
Also, 1000w bulbs only last about 2000 hours compared to 10,000 hours for the CFL.
Think about how much that Halogen costs you in power...
At california prices you'd be paying at minimum about
Human eyes can see up to around 250hrtz with LED. Its a rare thing though. Greatly reduced once you get up past 200 or more.
CRI is pretty much a non-issue already. See Mona Lisa... They use a mix of LED colors to get whatever color they want. They can actually get a higher color rendering index than incandescent with LED lighting. Without the Fading, and Infrared that standard lighting setups put out.
As for the dimming effect I think you could possibly put an LCD over the LED and dim it out with that connected to a controller to output whatever pattern or color you want.
I don't really see production lighting as all that expensive to operate as far as power goes. So using LED on a cost basis isn't really going to pay out there until you see daily usage of 12 to 6 hours a day.
Incandescent bulbs will still have some commonplaces settings perhaps stage lighting is one of them...
This is already been addressed. You can order LED lighting in pretty much the same color as your standard incandescent at 2700k or 3100k. It's not going to be as efficient as a white would be. But, inside people are more comfortable with the standard yellowish colors and it makes sense.
http://www.leonardo-energy.org/drupal/node/809
Article mentions this PDF http://www.netl.doe.gov/ssl/workshop/Report%20led%20November%202002a_1.pdf from the DOE that outlines LED technology Roadmap putting LEDs at the same price of CFL lighting by 2012. Currently, LED technology is already ahead of the roadmap. www.LEDSmagazine.com
Also, in commercial spaces as it stands today. LED actually pays out in the long-term(5-10 years) when you factor in the cost of replacing the bulbs every few years. Even better, there is 0 mercury content in LED. Plus, LED is getting cheaper and cheaper every year when you calculate all the costs involved. Which leads to the idea that LED will pretty much replace 90 percent of lighting by 2012.
The Mona Lisa is lit up with LED's Buckingham Palace is converting over to all LED lighting http://www.flickr.com/photos/lastboltnut/1466712839/. Many cities around the world are converting to LED lighting. It is really quite spectacular transformation of lighting in the world.
I expect to see 90 percent of lighting changed over to LED lighting by 2015...
Ya know, Hitler's Nazi party did very similar things as they began to come to power and take-over everything.
Remember this quote well, "Hitler rose to power because good people did nothing to stop him"
No one has really perfected an HD format for downloading yet.
Quality is getting better all the time, storage requirements are going up with the addition of extra scenes, deleted scenes, director commentary, etc.
I doubt Blue-ray is the long-term format going forward until they get it(layer it) up to around the Terabyte size with a read speed in excess of 100 megabytes a second for fast loading and menu navigation. I think the next step in video technology is going to be interactive like a mystery novel and/or a Holographic format where even more data is needed on a per disc basis which very much rules out Blue-ray as a going forward technology. It also rules out downloading as a video format technology, because the bandwidth constraints prevent any sort of instant on gratification.
I'm looking forward to the day that we can just get rent movies from the store in a worm drive read only card format.
Think, if you could get hd format movies in full length put onto an SSD that simply plays the movies. No more CD scratching.... Errors, etc.
Depends on what you mean by regular. I've had some windows machines that fucked up weekly and others that ran for 400 days at a time.
Most of the Apple products I've worked with continually go 200 to 300 days without any maintenance or any problems.
Isn't this one of the great things about buying an Apple product??? Closed loop system means you are only testing about 25 to 30 different hardware combinations. Instead of 6 million..
It's like buying a Honda vs a Ford in the 80s cept. the Honda is just as fast and powerful as the Ford.
You also need to look at China, the have a vast growing oil protection racket with their fast copycat program. Trying to steal any technology they can. Personally, I don't know why the US doesn't sell them stuff for double the price we paid for it. I imagine we could sell them some of our semi recent years stealth tech for several trillion dollars or more. It could quickly pay off the National Debt, or even allow us to pour even more money into research a development. We could still be top dog of the skies if we just sold China a bunch of new toys and kept a few keys to the kingdom top secrets. Sure, it might be more difficult to defeat them in an all out war. But, the chances of an all out war are slim, because no one is stupid enough to start that kind of war. MAD gives us that.
Sell em a functional stealth bomber or two for 32 billion bucks a piece, weld and epoxy every layer and panel together so they spend the next 10 years trying to learn from it. Use the 32-64 billion towards researching something better.
Seriously, what is the point of researching all this if it's only going to end up getting stolen or sold at some huge and significant loss. It would be better to control and profit on what goes out. Let nothing secret be attached to any sort of Wide area network. I have no idea why they did that.... They could just as easily built a second internet like the universities have and used that exclusively to connect inventory and data. This would have prevented 90 percent of the data from ever leaving.
As for the whole f-14 tomcat issue with Iran... WTF!!! Seriously, we could have nearly bankrupted them by jacking up the prices for the used pieces they needed to keep flying. It's an extraordinarily expensive piece of machinery to fly selling them slightly unreliable parts for the price we paid for it would only double that cost.
We talk about budget issues every day. Our primary asset is military technology surplus, and we sell it for less than a penny on the dollar. Why can't we turn it into dollars that we can use to pay down the national debt.
*PS, I'm not talking about those individuals who steal secrets and sell them to companies and works in China and other countries. That, is pure treason and deserves to be dealt with in no other way than a swift black death to both parties.
Actually, organizing physical games in a specific methodology or way can be patented along with the name I created for it. Its a structure of things used to increase sales.
Customers are people like you and me.
Here is a scarry one, people drive thier carts like they want to drive thier cars. If it wasn't for rules, they'd totally drive that way.
Some people have experience in other areas of retail. Companies have entire departments dedicated to Plan-o-Grams, RSP training, floor layouts, display setups. The pay is significantly higher and oddly, those departments don't deal with customers. They should, but they don't... Dealing with customers gives you an insight into how they think and shop. If you can see that, you can increase sales.
Just so happens, I've worked in all these areas.
They might be able to patent it, but they wouldn't be able to enforce it. I've got this on file with Walmart, Circuit City, Fry's, Target, Gamestop. Walmart actively uses it for their POG.
My extensive retail experience says people like to shop by the following methods. Ratings, Genre, Alphabet.
So, if I was to setup a movie viewing for them. I'd setup something along the lines of a Genre, rating(R,PG-13,G), Alphabet.
It's kind of a takeoff on my video game organization method that increases sales of video games by 30 percent. I called it ABSRG short for Alphabetize By Section(4 foot section), Rating(M on top T in the middle and E towards the bottom.), Genre(Sports, driving, shoot em up). Please note, this cannot be patented, I already let it go out for more than a year(Started in 1998)and I have the pictures and time notes to prove it.
I'm thinking a mix of chemical and Capacitor. I'm thinking that we could use the capacitor as a buffer for the stronger motors out there. In effect you can keep your drain on the battery at a lower constant and let the capacitor deal with the voltage surges of daily driving. In a sense it simply just becomes another set of batteries setup to extend the life of the chemical batteries. You gain the ability to put in a stronger motor without having to signficantly increase your battery capacity.
Yep, according to them Microsoft hurt governments, consumers, and businesses. Blah, blah.. The people most hurt are the ones who have the most money. Microsoft has among the highest non-profit donations among companies in the world. So it only makes more sense to continue that tradition and just donate the money to non-profit organizations.
I'll bet Apple is still experimenting with the new API and the only reason its not published is because they can't tell if its fully effective or not.
More money for corrupted EU politicians... I think 100 percent of the settlements regarding Microsoft should be Donated to non-profit organizations like the special olympics..