Florescent light bulbs?

[The Ghost In The Machine]

In sci.math, John Fields
<[email protected]>
wrote

It makes little difference; unless there's a rectifier/capacitor
somewhere in the circuit, those fluorescents are going to flicker as
they are driven by either a 50 Hz (in Europe) or 60 Hz (America) power
source.

Apparently JMF is more susceptible to such flickering.

 

[[email protected]]

My $500 terminal is now a dinosaur?! I can't keep up with this
biz.

Way newer things than CRT's are already dinosaurs. Anybody still
remembers the Zip drive?

the
worries expressed in this thread about the energy wasted by
screensavers are, if not misplaced, then at least vastly exaggerated.

hmmm...I never thought about screensavers' functionality w.r.t.
the new [emoticon hunts for term]display technology. I don't
know much about it. Are you implying that the displays can't get
burnt in?

Not to my knowledge, no.

It that's not clear, tell me and I'll try again tomorrow. I'm thinking
through the fourth bout of the dumb flu.

Sorry to hear about it. Hope you'll get well soon.

Mati Meron | "When you argue with a fool,
[email protected] | chances are he is doing just the same"

 

[The Ghost In The Machine]

In sci.math, [email protected]
<[email protected]>
wrote

I have watched people fill the auto gas tank. Despite all warnings
I've seen men and women hanging onto a cigarette while doing so.

I think the 'if' in your sentence should be spelled IFF.

/BAH

There is some good news. The old movie cliche about tossing a butt into
a pool of gasoline is just that: an old movie cliche.

http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/
http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/mpmain.html#cigarettes

However, under the right conditions -- the subtext describes a tube
filled with pure oxygen and a few drops of gasoline, with an ignition
source (a cigarette, natch) -- kaboom. But apparently it takes some
doing, and while O2 tanks are available for medical use they're not all
that common, especially when refueling cars.

Not that I smoke anyway.

 

[The Ghost In The Machine]

In sci.math, Spehro Pefhany
<[email protected]>
wrote

Y'know, back in the day (of analog cellphones) it was possible to
listen in on conversations easily if you had an appropriate receiver.
One could hear some "interesting" stuff.

Well, I do have a "bug" -- somewhere -- which is basically
a small pickup coil with a suction cup that can be
attached to a phone. It was about the size of my thumb.
(No, I'm not affiliated with the NSA or CIA or DEA or MIA
or DOA or ... well, OK, I *am* in the USA.) I've mislaid
the silly thing now, admittedly, and when was the last
time anyone's seen a traditional phone cradle?

I think it had to be attached to the earpiece, which
would probably be *rather* noticeable anyway (it wasn't
a wireless bug) -- "Hey, what's this *other* cord?" .

And there was some noises way back of scanners picking
up cellphones. (I don't have a scanner or a cellphone.)

There are of course far more nefarious schemes one can
cook up; a particularly simple one involves attaching a
connector between computer and keyboard. The connector
would derive juice from the computer (the PS/2 specs
and USB specs include a small amount of +5V power) and
broadcast to a nearby receiver.

*mass sound of people unplugging their keyboards*

 

[[email protected]]

It isn't cell phones and cigarettes that you need to
be concerned about. It's sweaters.

 

[Eeyore]

Having watched the current misusage of those things, I would
not be surprised if they use them during sex.

LOL ! Just don't ask what for.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

er ... um ... while I never have done so, someone did mention the fact
that they vibrate nicely!

Apparently one can do quite a bit of erotic teasing with a mere phone
call and not saying a word.

This is how Nokia got such a big market share perhpas ?

Graham

 

[Michael Press]

<[email protected]>
,

If you read the actual words, he claimed to have financed it.

What he said was carefully crafted to give the
impression that he is responsible, while allowing
plausible deniability. Therefore he is a liar.

 

[[email protected]]

Al Gore came on Opera yesterday and said we could save 20% of the
energy our light bulbs use if we switched to more expensive florescent
bulbs. These bulbs last longer you know. But are you aware that the
light bulb companies are conspiring to keep florescent bulbs off the
market? They charge you more for them already, but Tesla invented a
florescent bulb that is still burning in the Tesla Museum 50 years
later. If we all used his bulbs we would never have to worry about
screwing in light bulbs. So the answer to the most important question
of the day: How many scientists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

It takes an inifinite number,
Since we valled flourescent lighting tubes for the
simple reason so that moron bio-chemist retard
wouldn't get shocked br the invariant frequency effects,
and we called the connectors ballast pin-outs
so that global warming moorons like Gore Quantum Crapola
wouldn't confuse them with Nova Station Break Pinups.

 

[[email protected]]

That's not a misspelling.
It's a forcing function inserted lower case "U". (YOO is Swahili)
for Physics Telsa Coil retards
who can't understand how you
spell "Uranium Hexa-Flouride".

 

[John Fields]

That's not a misspelling.
It's a forcing function inserted lower case "U". (YOO is Swahili)
for Physics Telsa Coil retards
who can't understand how you
spell "Uranium Hexa-Flouride".

 

[Autymn D. C.]

That's not a misspelling.
It's a forcing function inserted lower case "U". (YOO is Swahili)
for Physics Telsa Coil retards
who can't understand how you
spell "Uranium Hexa-Flouride".

retard:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci....b058845497/e8b063cea3217c65?#e8b063cea3217c65

 

[Eeyore]

Way newer things than CRT's are already dinosaurs. Anybody still
remembers the Zip drive?

Anyone remember the Jazz drive ?

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

Mt comment is about ppls' propensity to do what they're asked not to do.

Graham

 

[[email protected]]

retard:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci....b058845497/e8b063cea3217c65?#e8b063cea3217c65

Nobody knows what the hell that
means other than that the NSA redacted it
from retards at Berrkley.

c

 

[Eeyore]

And what is the problem with using cellphones while filling petrol? There
has (according to what I recently read somewhere) been absolutely no
evidence of mobil phones being a problem at petrol stations.

Mobil ? phones !

Graham

 

[krw]

Mt comment is about ppls' propensity to do what they're asked not to do.

This only shows tour willingness to be controlled, like the good
Eurosheep you are.

 

[krw]

Did you see in the papers where Merriam-Webster's word of the year is
"truthiness"?

No, why is it interesting? ...and what does it have to do with
AlGore's serial lies?

 

[Eeyore]

[email protected] says...

This only shows tour willingness to be controlled, like the good
Eurosheep you are.

You're being ridiculous. I think a sea-change may be in progress btw.

Graham

 

[Satori]

It existed before he was in congress. He lied (again), is the
point.

Yes, ARPANET goes back to before Gore was in Congress. But the Internet as
we know it today is a lot more than a tool for letting research institutions
communicate with eachother. The High Performance Computing Act, which Gore
introduced, created a lot of the fiber optic infrastructure that made the
Internet ubiquitous. At the time, I think most people in the US who were on
any networks at all were on systems like Compuserve and Prodigy, which were
mostly using X.25 networks, not TCP/IP.

Gore did take the initiative, both as a Senator and as Vice-President, to
see policies put in place to bring the Internet into American homes. So,
when he said he "took the iniative to create the Internet", I don't think he
was lying. The statement was taken out of context.