My dad had dual fluorescent tube drafting table lights going back before I was born using a mix of warm white and cool white to get a more pleasant "white".
Prior art?
The patent system makes me rather irritated. I hope this doesn't get patented. I was just sitting here thinking of putting 3 different color temp CF lamps in my ceiling fixture to get a more balanced white. Then I found this. Ridiculous. Every trivial obvious idea people want to patent.
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No, I've noticed the opposite. If you put together a bunch of wannabe musicians who aren't very good, it sounds like CRAP. ---- Rich
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However, if you put together a bunch of vocalists, like in a church choir, NONE who have any solo ability, with some practice they can sound pretty good as a choir. It all depends on the circumstance.....
For the record, laser dots look grainy because they are made with wheat lasers. Everything looks grainy with wheat lasers. That's why they use gas or rubies.
The guy's obviously a nitwit. Look at his first sentence: "Have you noticed how a group of neophyte musicians who are poor soloists, sound pretty good as a band."
No, I've noticed the opposite. If you put together a bunch of wannabe musicians who aren't very good, it sounds like CRAP.
Well, these days the kids seem to prefer noise anyway.
And just for our edification, what _is_ it that makes a laser dot look grainy?
I'm just a student, but what grain are you guys talking about? Besides, i thoughtthe specles were because of diffuse reflection, by the time individual light rays reach your eyes two waves 180 degrees out of sinc (as my book put it, saying a full wave was 360 degrees) hit your retina in the same place cancelling each other out making a black spot.
Interference. The bits of surface with a path length from the laser to you of an integer number of wavelengths to you reflect light that interferes destructively with the bits of surface that have a half wavelength path difference.
Speaking of laser tormentation, one time in Thailand, I was renting a nice bungalow in a nice neighborhood downtown Ubon, and I had a neighbor whose window was about 6' from mine, about a half-story above in elevation; he could look down from his living room window and see me sitting on my couch. One time, I was lying on the couch with my GF, and I spotted a little red spot out of the corner of my eye. "What was that?" Both my GF and I kinda got our hackles up - we weren't sure what that flittering, flickering red spot was - I remember thinking, "Do they have red fireflies in Thailand?" And I swear, all of the hair on my head stood up, and a goodly portion of the rest of my body. "What the FUCK!!!!?!?!??!" And my GF was about to panic - you know, how you can, like, feel it? Anyway, after a few seconds of this, I realized, my neighbor worked in the laser designator shop, and he had brought home a little demo laser - this was in 1975 or so, well before the days of the laser pointer. He laughed, and I wanted to smack him. Scared the f*ck out of me! Not to mention my GF! (I could say it led to hot sex, but that wouldn't distinguish it from anything else I did with my GF in those days...)
I think that's because practically everybody who can talk, can sing - carrying a tune is another matter. I think it's a matter of self- confidence. I'm a singer, and quite good at it, although my voice is more suited to choral music (preferably barbershop, but SPEBSQSA charges these days), and I've noticed that, if there's somebody to follow, most people can hit the note spot on. I've done ersatz duets with people who weren't very good, and I've found myself switching to their part, when they follow me. The point being, if there's a bunch of people singing, staying in tune is almost trivial - just sing the same note everybody else is singing. That's almost natural. But playing an instrument? Nah. If you can't play an instrument, you can't play it.
Well, it certainly winds up the cat. His enemy, Red Dot, always starts out from behind the washing machine before ending up there again after running around taunting him. He often stakes out its hiding place in his spare time waiting for it to make a mistake.
Takes his mind of the hamster, at least.
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Probably you mentioned it specifically because it IS patented. But some might not know. This patent is well worth a read, and was obviously done as a joke.
5443036: Method of exercising a cat
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20 February 1974 he was recovering from the effects of sodium pentothal administered after the extraction of an impacted wisdom tooth. Answering the door to receive a delivery of additional painkillers, he noticed the woman delivering the package was wearing a pendant with what he called the "vesicle pisces". (He probably was referring to the intersecting arcs of the vesica piscis.) After her departure, Dick began experiencing strange visions. Although this may have initially been attributed to the painkillers, after weeks of these visions, such a rationale becomes less probable. Throughout February and March of 1974 he received a series of visions which he collectively referred to as 2-3-74, shorthand for February/March of 1974. He described his initial visions as laser beams and geometric patterns, and occasionally brief pictures of Jesus and ancient Rome, which he would glimpse periodically. As the pictures increased in length and frequency, Dick claimed that he began to live a double life, one as himself and one as Thomas, a Christian persecuted by Romans in the 1st century C.E. Despite his current and past drug use, Dick accepted these visions as reality, believing that he had been contacted by a god-entity of some kind, VALIS, and most often Godwhich he referred to as Zebra."
Like I said- a crock of manure- people like you have enough problems getting on with the basics. Dick was a fraud who made his living duping fools like you into thinking you're conscious and/or not subnormal mental capacity.
If you're so smart then how come you can't spell absence? Congrats on the engagement BTW- everyone deserves to find someone=- maybe she can talk some "scence" into you.
VALIS is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being are The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.*
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Someone else who has never read it and only too willing to jump to pig ignorant conclusions.
Here - let me spoil it for you, although I doubt that's possible since you will never read it anyway.
Philip = Horse lover in Greek Fat = Dicke in German
It's a kind of metaphysical autobiography of Dick's life. And given that he's earned his place in history with his writing, and you are a nobody, I think I'll ignore your opinions in favour of his insights.
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People like me eh? And what would those basics be then? Because I have no problems that I can see. I have money, and interesting job as a partner in a startup company, a girlfriend who loves me and whom I will marry next year, health, strength and an IQ of 150 (just rejoined Mensa after 25yrs abscence).
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