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This is something I just don't understand. Leona Helmsley did something similar by putting personal expenses on her company's petty cash account, and ending up going to jail for it. I don't get why people who are worth many millions worry about a few thousand dollars. It's pocket change to...

Thinking about this a bit, you could get the shoplights two across and four deep, which means you could have 8 shoplights above your workbench. When overdriven as per that article, you get about 10,000 lumens each. That's 80,000 lumens over 24 ft², or 3333 lm/ft², which is very intense. Full...

You're such a part of this place that I missed your posting while you were thinking of something momentus to say for your 5000th post. Thanks for helping to make this place worth coming to, and don't worry about burdening us with your problems. It's no bother at all. I personally feel honored...

You might be interested in Sylvania's cool white deluxe tubes then. We bought 3 ten-packs a while ago, and I noticed the better color immediately, especially the reds. After I got interested in light, I checked for the specs online. The color temp is 4100K, like all cool whites, and the CRI...

Those pictures of the dead city are haunting. I also wasn't aware that the death toll was so high.

I wonder how Martha will spruce up that drab orange jumpsuit? :lol: As e_dawg said, the comedians will have a field day with this one. :mrgrn:

This place has CFLs with a 5500K color temp and a CRI of 91. They are a bit pricey, but if you buy 12 or more you get free shipping. Subjectively, 5000K to 5500K is about as white as it gets. If the color temp is higher, the light does look noticeably bluish. Any lower and it looks...

It's not just the cost of CF bulbs that turns people off. It's also the fact that they don't last as long as claimed when turned on and off frequently. People just don't get it that you can't turn a fluorescent on and off constantly. LEDs don't suffer from this problem. I also wouldn't be...

Some red-orange LEDs in the lab have approached 50% efficiency. Within a few years you'll have production LEDs close to that or perhaps even better. It's a rapidly evolving technology whereas fluorescent and especially incandescent likely won't get much more efficient than they already are...

The best T-8 and T-5 fluorescents have an efficiency of around 100 lm/W, which translates into about 35% efficiency dependng upon the particular spectrum the tube is putting out. Most run of the mill high-brightness LEDs these days have efficiencies in the range of 15 to 40 lm/W, depending upon...

Another interesting development on the LED front. Osram reaches 96 lm/W in 617 nm. This technology will be employed in the next generation of Osram LEDs. While it is not a white LED (617 nm is red-amber), it is an interesting develpment nonetheless as 96 lm/W in red-orange color represents a...

Ah yes, that was the name of the movie. I couldn't remember it. I "watched" part of it while I was in the middle of designing a circuit so I may have misinterpreted some parts. You're saying there's no such malady as a brain cloud? It wasn't an early April fool's joke. I was 100% serious as...

My Yahoo! is my start page. I like to check my e-mail and get up to date on the news. After that I either go to SR or SF, depending upon which I'm more active in at the moment.

I think the being easily awakened part means you just never go into REM sleep, which is why you feel tired all the time and never remember dreaming. I've had nights where I was in bed 7 or 8 hours, but constantly awakened, and felt tired. I've also had times where I was dead tired, conked out...

Since I work at home I can work when I'm sick without worries of infecting anyone. When I worked a regular job I would go in if it was only a slight cold but anything serious I would stay home-I only missed one day of work as I rarely get seriously ill. Most jobs I used to work had no sick...

You mean you get penalized for paying your balance in full each month the way I do? :o It's almost as if they want people to carry balances. I learned that carrying debt is never a good thing. Sometimes it's unavoidable with a big ticket purchase like a house, but generally I see debt as a...

My sister has the Elantra for I believe the past two years and she's very happy with it. No problems so far, and I think it has a 10-year, 100K mile warranty on the drivetrain.

Even more stupid is that Windows can't even recognize, let alone format, some of the extended formats that let you get more on a disk. It can recognize the DMF (21 sectors per track) format, and can deal with non-standard numbers of tracks(some of my drives can do up to 86 tracks instead of the...

This assumes that whatever reporting biases are present in the survey are spread across all makes of drives. It also assumes that the samples for each drive are large enough to draw reliable conclusions. While you might make a good case for the first part, the number of people self-reporting...

Version 2.7 is actually a step back for me. It only reads the first 8GB of the drive and there's no check box for advanced size check. No fix either-according to the docs on some Win95/98/ME systems HDTach will only read the first 8GB of the drive.

I lost about 5 pounds myself when I had the flu. About the only other positive thing was I caught up on the first two parts of Lord of the Rings, which happened to be on cable when I was sick. I watched them like five times each. Hope you're feeling better soon.

Yuck. :( That sounds like the summer of '93 here in New York-strings of days over 90°F combined with oppressive humidity, and we had one day where it reached 106°F in the shade. I think that day shattered the records-until we hit 108°F a few years later. Strangely, this past January was the...

Congratulations on passing the road test. :) Now all you need to practice is keeping your anger in check as you deal with the legions of idiot NY drivers. :x I think Prof. Wizard jinxed your truck in that thread on SR. :(

I'm grasping at straws here, but perhaps some of those places that rejected your card have your old address in their database, and because it didn't match your new address (as reported by your bank when verifying the card) they rejected the card. I had a similar problem where my ISP was...

Amen to that. That's also why we grow some of our own vegetables, especially tomatoes. The store bought stuff is inedible. Yes, we wash them before eating. I'm sure some of them get covered with bird poop. Too bad we don't have room for a few nut trees (especially almonds and walnuts), or...

So do city-adapted squirrels (and house-adapted orangutans ;)). We have two squirrels who derive a good portion of their diet from birdseed. One of them hangs upside down from the metal bird feeder hanger on the garage wall in order to get its meal. Unfortunately, until it has its fill the...

You left out one choice-try to take the bird out yourself-assuming you know how. This is a tough call. I'm bothered way more when I see injustices to animals than to people. Around here we've had our hands full dealing with stray cats. We took in some, and found homes for others. There's...

Very nice. :thumbright: I think for good measure I would have also told him that I informed the authorities of his little side business. :diablo: If nothing else, it would have had his heart up a few beats every time a police car was nearby. Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do, what you...

I don't know about you but perfume makes me as nauseous as gasoline fumes. I feel genuinely sorry for you having to put up with that all day. :cry:

One problem I had with the test was that there was no "neutral" or "no opinion" choice. For example, if a question on abortion came up that would be my choice. Also, answering agree or strongly agree to certain questions can have dual meanings. For instance, most of my agree or strongly agree...

Here is a nice little test to find out how far left or right as well as libertarian or authoritarian you are. My results were as follows: Your political compass Economic Left/Right: -3.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87 I'm a somewhat left-leaning libertarian. This puts me closest to...

Speaking of spam, is the government ever going to make any meaningful legislation against it? These stupid opt-out lists are merely a way for spammers to confirm live addresses. To be sure, legislation wouldn't stop it immediately, but it would give law enforcement the tools to go after the...

Kerry will be the Democratic nominee for sure, but it's too early to predict the election results. If the economy tanks, he'll be the next President. If not, my money is on Bush. Sure, Kerry will carry my home state of New York easily, and probably California as well. That still doesn't...

Funny, I predicted 1 TB by 2005 a couple of years ago. Looks like we won't be anywhere near that. Apparently the difficulties going first to 80 GB platters and now to 100 GB platters are greater than anticipated. Anyone else here think magnetic storage is very close to reaching its areal...

A revolution every now and then is a healthy thing. -Thomas Jefferson It doesn’t matter if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches the mice -Deng Xiaoping Hey Beavis, I'm getting a stiffy, hehehehe. -Butthead Stupid fat Hobbit, you ruined it! -Gollum

I assume they're talking about averages here. Given that drives are at 300 GB maximum now (not sure of the average-maybe 100 GB?), doubling in capacity in the space of 3 years doesn't seem like that much progress. We were doing that in a year until recently. Of course, if the average drive is...

You sound like my brother. I think his exact line was there's no place in the world for me. For what it's worth, I get that way from time to time. It's normal.

More or less my sentiments as well. Never had any meaning even when I was with someone. I kind of like the idea of celebrating romantic love, only I think it should be done every day. A dozen roses or a box of chocolates once a year seems contrived and commercial. In fact, with the person I...

Maybe a portable coffee maker? Think of the marketing on that one-compute at warp speed for five minutes and then enjoy a nice hot cappuccino. Seriously, something that requires 103 watts does not fall into the category of mobile. Or at least it won't until we have miniature cold fusion power...

I can relate to nearly everything in that article. Although I don't consider myself a geek in the strictest sense of the word, I'm the one who ends up explaining all things technical to everyone I know. As of late, I've also taken to telling people who don't know basic things to pick up a...

Doesn't this kind of crap ever end? I got this today:

Same here. To me football looks like a bunch of guys standing around waiting for a signal to start steamrolling into each other, and then every time the action starts to get interesting the referee blows the whistle and everyone stands around for too long waiting for the next cue to start. In...

True, although fog is very rare in NYC, and the mercury vapor were a distinct bluish-green which causes more blinding than pure white would. IIRC they replaced a 400W mercury vapor lamp with a 250W sodium vapor one during the energy crisis in the early 1970s. Both allegedly had about the same...

That's probably a good estimate (2250 lm for the Sunshine tubes), although the place I ordered from also has 40W tubes (same specs as the 32W) getting 3600 lumens, or more than the typical 3200 to 3400 lumens of the bulk tubes you mentioned. It all depends on the phosphors used. Anyway, as the...

NYC did that a few years ago, and also replaced the walk/don't walk signs with LED ones using international symbols (don't walk is a red-orange hand, walk is a lunar white person walking). The amber lights weren't replaced (presumably because they're only on a short time). Anyway, since the...

That's actually pretty reasonable for a tube of those specs. I paid $7 + shipping for the full-spectrum tubes that I ordered (32W T-8, 2950 lumens, CCT 5000K, CRI 91), and that was by far the best price I had ever seen on those kind of tubes. Considering that the tubes last at least 20,000...

I'd like to say that's incredible that someone with as much formal education as a lawyer could not know a fact even most third-graders know, but the (albeit limited) contact I've had with people in the legal system leads me to believe this guy's story. Lawyers easily take the prize in the "how...

Speaking of noise, how come electronic noise cancellation has never been used on cars and especially airplanes? This was supposed to be the next big thing in the late 1980s. You could make a car the produces virtually no noise at all as you could cancel engine, wind, and tire noise. It would...

Let's just say the first part (about the TV blowing up) is technical ignorance, and the second part is a definite phobia of some kind. In any case this person has issues. :mrgrn:

Ah yes, punch cards. I remember one computer lab in my school still had input via punch cards. I had to input a whole BASIC program this way. :( This was in the early 1980s. Most of the rest had terminals, but I don't think there were any color terminals.