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There will be big changes for you but you will be happy.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday January 10 2019, @02:29PM (26 children)
How about a poll like:
Which glows the brightest when supplied with a sufficiently high voltage and current:
* Light bulbs
* Vacuum tubes
* Crystal oscillators
* Transistors
* Integrated Circuits
* EEPROMs
* LEDs
* Other (Specify)
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday January 10 2019, @05:28PM (3 children)
I think the best way to pull this off would be to vaporize the component and use that ion channel to start an arc and just go with an old fashioned arc lamp using the LED as a sacrificial part to start it. Lots of light, current and voltage.
(Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday January 10 2019, @07:20PM (2 children)
All LEDs can be light emitting, at least once.
Then we move on to light emitting resistors. Especially the 15 ohm 1/4 watt variety. Ah, brown, green, black.
After preliminary research in the area of light emitting resistors, the principle investigator's wife said that further experiments in the field of light emitting resistors must be moved to the garage.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday January 10 2019, @07:22PM
Ugh, I meant all diodes can be light emitting, at least once.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday January 10 2019, @08:10PM
Ah yes that sounds like fun. As a teenager I did a lot of experiments with car batteries and light emitting strips of aluminum foil. Great stuff!
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 10 2019, @07:42PM (5 children)
Need to add Annoying Users to the list.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday January 10 2019, @08:51PM (1 child)
That suggests that in addition to measuring brightness data must also be collected on which one makes the most noise or yells the loudest.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 10 2019, @09:10PM
Nah, that's just an enjoyable side effect. Like fractals being pretty when plotted.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by bzipitidoo on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:43AM (1 child)
You want to set the poll to make it a contest you have good odds of winning? ;)
Well it won't work. Won't mention any names, but there's some stiff competition around here.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 12 2019, @05:00AM
Nice. Best reply all day.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 30 2019, @03:16PM
Future Poll Suggestion
Which one shines the brightest when subjected to a sufficiently high voltage and current:
* ARM
* Intel x86 (with Management Engine)
* AMD x86 (with Platform Security Processor)
* Pre-2008 Intel or Pre-2013 AMD (or any models without known backdoors)
* POWER or PowerPC
* RISC-V
* MIPS or SPARC
* None of the above (comment your answer)
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 3, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Thursday January 10 2019, @09:59PM
High voltage and current would turn an LED into a DED, a Dark Emitting Diode.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @12:28AM (2 children)
The brightest light source is a thermonuclear explosion.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday January 11 2019, @06:22AM (1 child)
No, the brightest light source, as far as we can tell, is a sufficiently well fed supermassive black hole. [wikipedia.org]
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday January 30 2019, @11:46AM
That feels like a joke
"Yo mamma so fat she's the brightest object in the universe"
(Score: 3, Funny) by requerdanos on Friday January 11 2019, @04:52PM (11 children)
Thanks for your suggestion! And thanks for subscribing and supporting Soylentnews.
Polls that ask factual instead of opinion-based questions (i.e., Which city is the farthest from NYC? Buffalo, NY; Rochester, NY; Sydney, Australia, etc., or Which glows the brightest when electrified) tend to rate as "lame" and "pointless" and, while they reveal something about the general level of knowledge of the base of respondents, don't reveal much else.
We already know that (a) almost everyone on the Internet is an idiot, and (b) almost everyone on this site is a genius; thus, such a poll is unlikely to serve any useful purpose.
Thanks again for your interest!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday January 11 2019, @08:36PM
It is (perhaps not) obviously intended to be funny. It might make a good April 1 poll.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by DECbot on Friday January 11 2019, @09:39PM (6 children)
Here's my suggestion for April 1st:
What is your favorite type of fuse?
I realize this is one over the permitted 8 options, but I couldn't in good conscience merge 1 and 2. I'll let the editors do that.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:48AM (1 child)
You forgot the "I don't use fuses you insensitive clod" option. Fry everything! Burn down the whole lab, melt the transformers and knock out the power to the entire neighborhood for a week.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday January 25 2019, @07:30PM
Most components are self fusing.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 12 2019, @05:02AM (2 children)
Damn, I like that one. Dropping it in #editorial on IRC.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @02:53PM (1 child)
i'm upset that my favorite type of fuse, 'cannon', is not listed.
with the write application to the cannonball delivery stack, one can learn a whole lot about compression and payload delivery and packet fragmentation! (pun intended--whoever heard of a useful read only ballistic device?)
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Sunday February 03 2019, @02:35PM
What do you have canon fuse for, Bert?
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday January 15 2019, @02:50PM
Free Unix Spectrum Emulator [sourceforge.net]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 30 2019, @03:18PM (2 children)
Future Poll Suggestion
Which one shines the brightest when subjected to a sufficiently high voltage and current:
* ARM
* Intel x86 (with Management Engine)
* AMD x86 (with Platform Security Processor)
* Pre-2008 Intel or Pre-2013 AMD (or any models without known backdoors)
* POWER or PowerPC
* RISC-V
* MIPS or SPARC
* None of the above (comment your answer)
this text added to make this post "more original" :-)
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Monday February 04 2019, @11:05PM (1 child)
That's actually pretty good.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 05 2019, @02:02PM
Also see the top level post which says:
How about a poll like:
Which glows the brightest when supplied with a sufficiently high voltage and current:
* Light bulbs
* Vacuum tubes
* Crystal oscillators
* Transistors
* Integrated Circuits
* EEPROMs
* LEDs
* Other (Specify)
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.