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#1 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 16:59 MacNN
This is a edited version of a question once asked on a Slashdot poll...

How many LED's are currently lit in the room you're in, including those that you cannot see?

Personally, I have quite a few. Let's count:

Monitor (1)
CPU #1 (1)
CPU #2 (1)
Speaker Set #1 (1)
Speaker Set #2 (1)
Cable Modem (4)
Router (4)
USB Hub (5)
SmartMedia/CompactFlash Reader (2)
Printer (1)
Palm Pilot (1)
Surge Protector #1 (2)
Surge Protector #2 (2)
Ethernet Jack #1 (1)
Ethernet Jack #2 (1)
Keyboard (7)
Phone (1)
Bluetooth Adapter (1)

Total: 37 LED's

Edit: How could I have forgotten my KVM switch? 38 LED's, baby!
#2 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 17:11 MacNN
I refuse to count. But,

Prediction: People are going to make fun of you.

Also, In Before gorickey.
#3 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 17:12 MacNN
Currently lit = 8
Monitor, computer, speakers, cable modem, answering machine. + 3 on 2 powerbars.
#4 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 17:16 MacNN
too many.
#5 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 17:21 MacNN
Quote:
Originally posted by bradoesch:
Prediction: People are going to make fun of you.

that's regardless of the content of his post, right?
#6 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 17:23 MacNN
Quote:
Originally posted by philzilla:
that's regardless of the content of his post, right?

dont be mean.
#7 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 17:28 MacNN
Quote:
Originally posted by Peter:
dont be mean.
I've gotten used to it, and I'd like to think that it's all in the name of fun.

On a different note...

I really have trouble sleeping, because my room is never dark. Does anyone else have this problem?
#8 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 17:43 MacNN
Actually I liked the topic. But I also do have a LED fetish.

ESP the blue ones.

OoOOoOer.

I have 17 here. One on my monitor, One on my G4, one that lights up IN the G4, 1 keyboard LED, 5 lite up on my cable modem, 4 on my router, one on my scanner, 2 on the PC, and one on it's monitor. And another on the keyboard, and on the network card.

I'd love to replace them all with green and blue LEDs.
#11 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 19:12 MacNN
I'll answer when I'm at work - over 200 there (my office is also the server room - lotsa XServes there).
#12 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 19:18 MacNN
- G5 Power Light (1)
- Bluetooth Adapter (1)
- USB Hub (4)
- Powermate (1)
- Speakers (2)
- Network Hub (connected to router using ethernet thru walls) (3)
- T610 Charging Light (1)
- MIDI Keyboard (1)
- Monitor (1)
- Printer (1)
- UPS (1)
- Phone (4) <- Intercom, so lots of lights

Total: 21
#13 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 19:36 MacNN
Quote:
Originally posted by philzilla:
that's regardless of the content of his post, right?


Absolutely. I think he enjoys the attention he gets here.
#14 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 19:39 MacNN
Quote:
Originally posted by tavilach:

How many LED's are currently lit in the room you're in, including those that you cannot see?


How do I count those?
#15 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 19:43 MacNN
Quote:
Originally posted by bradoesch:
Absolutely. I think he enjoys the attention he gets here.
Yes, I certainly enjoy being your local forum loser. Perhaps it's the rest of you who enjoy the attention you get by constantly insulting the one who constantly gets insulted? It makes you feel at home, doesn't it? It makes you fit in.

Quote:
Originally posted by Socially Awkward Solo:
How do I count those?
You find them. You turn your CPU around, you look behind the table...
#16 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 19:56 MacNN
Quote:
Originally posted by tavilach:
Yes, I certainly enjoy being your local forum loser. Perhaps it's the rest of you who enjoy the attention you get by constantly insulting the one who constantly gets insulted? It makes you feel at home, doesn't it? It makes you fit in.


I kid, I kid. I thought you said stuff because you liked the reaction.
#17 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 20:06 MacNN
Quote:
Originally posted by bradoesch:
I kid, I kid. I thought you said stuff because you liked the reaction.
You thought wrong...
#18 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 21:39 MacNN
I voted the less than 10.
#19 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 21:46 MacNN
Quote:
Originally posted by bradoesch:
Also, In Before gorickey.


#20 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 21:48 MacNN
room? try cafe dude.
#21 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 22:06 MacNN
Quote:
Originally posted by tavilach:
I really have trouble sleeping, because my room is never dark. Does anyone else have this problem?


I had this problem with some older Logitech speakers. I had to "ghettofy" them by taking electric tape and putting it over the LED so the blue didn't shine in my face.

x.
#22 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 - 23:21 MacNN
Too many! (about 20)
#23 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 - 00:33 MacNN
Quote:
Originally posted by d4nth3m4n:
room? try cafe dude.
If you're inside, you're still in a room...try to estimate the LED count if you can't access certain areas, I guess. If you're outside, use the landscape as your boundary. If you're on grass, for example, the "room" ends where the grass ends. If you're on tile, the "room" ends where the tile ends.
#24 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 - 03:06 MacNN
69 lit ones. (The bulk of them parts of 7-segment LED displays on two clocks and two digitally-controlled window air conditioning units.)

Probably around 60 more unlit ones, if you include the backlight LEDs on my cellphone and iPod and Cli�.

tooki
#25 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 - 03:22 MacNN
Quote:
Originally posted by tooki:
69 lit ones. (The bulk of them parts of 7-segment LED displays on two clocks and two digitally-controlled window air conditioning units.)

Probably around 60 more unlit ones, if you include the backlight LEDs on my cellphone and iPod and Cli�.

tooki
I have a lot more unlit ones, too.

...but wow. 69, despite your clock excuse, is a lot of LED's!

Edit: [middle school humor]69! Haha![/middle school humor]
#26 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 - 05:53 MacNN
Quote:
Originally posted by f1000:
The Amish now use LED lamps on their buggies.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scit...hts_031023.html
Quote:
Local resident Benjamin Zook, for example, seems to like the slow pace and lack of change in Intercourse.
har har har.
#27 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 - 09:22 MacNN
Lots - there's a mixing desk and a couple of racks of music gear sitting in the room.
#28 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 - 09:26 MacNN
Just four, I'm not doing anything this morning.
#29 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 - 09:48 MacNN
Only ones that are lit, eh?

Well, then I think I can count 24...

What do the blinking ones count as? Or the ones that display numbers, do they just count as one or one for each "stroke" in each number, or..?
#30 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 - 18:45 MacNN
Quote:
Originally posted by Ois�n:
Only ones that are lit, eh?

Well, then I think I can count 24...

What do the blinking ones count as? Or the ones that display numbers, do they just count as one or one for each "stroke" in each number, or..?
Blinking LED's are just single LED's. As for clocks...I just didn't count them . Maybe I should...

I guess that it's one LED per "stroke," so...I have 16 more LED's at this moment in time.

...it's too bad that I can't change my vote .
#31 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 - 22:17 MacNN
25
#32 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 - 22:30 MacNN
1, I can't see anymore
#34 Fri, 16 Jul 2004 - 03:20 MacNN
Hrmmm, lit ones hey:

G5 Power Light
Monitor Power Lights (2)
Optical Mouse LED
PowerBook Battery LEDs (4)
Stereo Power Light
Stereo Display Backlight
Messages on phone (flashing)
Switch Power Light
Switch Link Lights (4)
Battery Charger (2)
Digital Clock Segments (18)
Total: 36

Maybe some more if I kept looking for electronic devices hiding under things

- proton
#35 Fri, 16 Jul 2004 - 05:56 MacNN

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