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Shaw on the Immorality of Imitating Art

February 16, 2012 12:56pm

George Bernard Shaw was of the same persuasion as Wilde in terms of whether art imitated life or life imitated art. Shaw, in his preface to ‘Three Plays’ wrote: “I have noticed that when a certain type of feature appears in painting and is admired as beautiful, it presently becomes common in nature; so that the Beatrices and Francescas in the picture galleries of one generation come to life as the parlour-maids and waitresses of the next”. Shaw disagreed with Wilde on many points however. Wilde did not see anything reprehensible in the fact that life imitated art but Shaw did and saw it as a point issue that required redressing. Shaw believed that the art people usually chose to imitate was romanticized and idealistic and thus such imitation of art in life was reprehensible.

So basically, Wilde did not mind that people would romanticize camera cases due to its romanticized depiction in art, he simply observed it. George Bernard Shaw however did mind that people would romanticize aspects of life due to the ways in which they had been portrayed in artwork.

Why LED Lamps are not always be Dimmable

February 14, 2012 11:24am

If you have a dimmer switch in your home, then you don’t have to worry about buying special “dimmable” incandescent lights. All incandescent bulbs will work with the dimmer. This is not the case with LED lamps. If you want to dim an LED, you must buy a special dimmable LED. Luckily, most LEDs today are dimmable and don’t cost much more than the un-dimmable LED lamps.

LED lamps must keep a consistent positive/negative electric input which is not compatible with standard home electricity (alternating current). If you try to use an un-dimmable LED with a dimmer, it will take away from its life and will not be covered by the LED warranty!!! Dimmable LED lamps are different because they have added an extra component to convert the AC power into DC power. Note, all LED lamps do this but only dimmable LED lamps have the right setting. You can use a dimmable LED lamps with your standard dimmer. However, some people experience problems with these dimmers, like flickering or dropping out. For that reason, it is best to use dimmable LED lamps with LED dimmer switches.

What Are Electronic Cigarettes?

February 9, 2012 6:55pm

Die hard critics of the electronic cigarettes are burning the midnight oil searching for any medical reports in the internet as to whether Electronic Cigarettes Harmful effects do exists. One article wrote that electronic cigarettes are as dangerous to health as is drinking a cup of coffee, while another reported that using electronic cigarette is as harmful as using a deodorant.

This is somehow an ironic statement which most critics of the electronic cigarette would use in collecting their articles while belittling a product or a service which somehow managed to reach the heights of success in such a short time in the market. They do this to gain notoriety and most probably to direct internet traffic in their site.

While it is true that Electronic Cigarette is found to contain an anti-freeze component known as Diethylene Glycol. This compound is present in almost all household items such as hair shampoos and hand soaps. To a certain extent, it is lethal to humans and can cause health worries. This is one of the major Electronic Cigarette side effects that is still being studied at the moment.

Carcinogens are present in the processing of tobacco filled cigarette and if it exceeds forty, this leads to the release of hundreds of toxic chemicals in the earth’s atmosphere. The releasing of these toxic chemicals in the air always result in people inhaling the fumes via second hand smoke, which so far is as deadly or worse, deadlier than actually taking a puff of a tobacco filled cigarette.

The fact would always remain that people are stricken with cancer, cardiac arrests and several chronic diseases which are related to the respiratory tract including chronic asthma, but as to whether these are Electronic Cigarette harmful effects is still a hotly contested issue.

Temporality

February 6, 2012 1:19pm

Augustine argued that there is no such thing as past and future but instead just the present. Augustine argues that the past , present, and future ‘do exist in some way in the mind, but I do not find them elsewhere. The present of things past is memory. The present of things present, sight. The present of things future, expectation…’ Augustine’s chief concern was the relationship between the temporal world and the spiritual world, both operating on very distinct notions of time. Both forms of time have existed for many different cultures. Some cultures downplay the importance of the measurement of time because of their preference for the theologically oriented views of essential immutability and permanence. Other more scientifically oriented cultures preferred to develop systems of measurement that enabled a reckoning of past, present, and future.

The development of mechanical approaches to the measurement of time, such as uhrens, occurred during the Enlightenment when the age of faith faded and the age of reason took hold. The arrival of the clock led to a mastering of the concept of time and in measuring it. Though the theologians may still continue to believe in the static nature of time, the universe began to be perceived by others as a place of perpetual motion.

Digital Camera Memory Card Types

January 20, 2012 3:52pm

There are five main types of digital camera memory cards. The first is secure digital, or SD. It is the most common memory card type and found amongst all types of cameras. While SD memory cards may be common, they have a downside of usually only storing a maximum of 2 GB of memory. In newer digital cameras or camcorders, you will often find a type of SD memory card known as Secure Digital High Capacity, or SDHC. These are the same size of an SD memory card but can hold a lot more data, usually up to 32 GB. An SD memory card can be used in place of a SDHC but an SDHC cannot be used in the older cameras which take SD only.

If you have a Sony camera or other digital device, then you can use a memory stick or the Pro or Pro Duo versions of the memory card. For Olympus digital cameras, the memory stick is called xD Picture Card. There are various storage spaces available for the xD Picture Card. The smallest memory card that you will find (at least of memory cards which are currently available) is the MicroSD or MicroSDHC card. These are usually found in mobile phones or sometimes in small Olympus digital cameras, though you will need a special adapter to use it in place of the xD Picture Card. A MicroSD/SDHC memory card is small but it has limits in how much data can be stored.

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