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Right, because that already just works SOOO well against drugs. I mean, the things basically don't exist these days.

Firearms violations in the US are more of a cultural issue. When you compare similar weapons control laws to other countries, you start to see that it isn't actually the laws that make a difference. In fact, even within the US, it's very often the case that the areas with the highest restrictions against firearms tend to have the highest per capita weapons violations.

That and cold weather causes more homicides, as evidenced by this:

http://i.imgur.com/en3HZ5T.jpg

If by continuing presence you mean the fact that the jews are the only group to maintain any significant and continuous permanent habitation of the region for the last three thousand years then yes that's also part of what I'd mention, although it's neither a "land grab" nor a canard.

So yes, you will brazenly engage in hypocrisy with a straight face.

Your arguments on the other hand fit that definition handily, and your reference to the specious "canaanite" canard in another comment is a pretty clear giveaway that you're just here to shill for these guys: http://i.imgur.com/fVa0Nxq.jpg

Awww, did someone get butthurt that another canard went up in flames, so you had to try and project your racist shitbaggery onto someone else? Has that ever worked for you in the past? In any case, say hi to Francisco Pizarro and Bull Connor on your way into hell.

If by continuing presence you mean the fact that the jews are the only group to maintain any significant and continuous permanent habitation of the region for the last three thousand years then yes that's also part of what I'd mention, although it's neither a "land grab" nor a canard.

Your arguments on the other hand fit that definition handily, and your reference to the specious "canaanite" canard in another comment is a pretty clear giveaway that you're just here to shill for these guys: http://i.imgur.com/fVa0Nxq.jpg

Article 17 of the Hamas charter: "The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him! This will not apply to the Gharqad, which is a Jewish tree (cited by Bukhari and Muslim)."

PLO leader "Yasser Arafat's" uncle sitting with their closest political ally, discussing a mutual goal: http://i.imgur.com/NZ5DGwk.jpg?1

This is without even getting into the non-existance of the "palestinian" people, a fact admitted by multiple prominent palestinian leaders. Try a little google yourself, read about Mark Twain's account of his trip to the region, the british saying the land was so uninhabited it needed people to survive, even the ottoman census.

You need to read some history if that's what you think. Mark twain's trip is a particularly good account, the entire region was composed of malaria ridden swampland and ghost towns with the occasional temporary habitation by desert nomads. Multiple prominent leaders of the "palestinians" have admitted that the existence of any "palestinian" people is a complete and utter myth, invented solely as a political tool and populated by illegal immigrants from the surrounding arab nations. There are written accounts from governors who describe virtually their entire city's population sneaking into the british mandate to try and displace the jews.

Even the persona of "Yasser Arafat" of the PLO is a myth, a false name used by the nephew of the Grand Mufti Al-Husseini because (at the time) anyone who knew his real name would have immediately recognized that he was doing nothing other than continuing the goals of his uncle's closest political ally: http://i.imgur.com/NZ5DGwk.jpg?1

What it feels like using Windows 8

Yes, it is functional but only enjoyable to a small minority.

and soon: http://imgur.com/a/CnXGL

I think you're on to something there. An improved Cathode might help the flow of electrons to the n-side. We just need a more attractive Cat.

Crowd sourcing is only good at some very important tasks, but was truly terrible and libelous in an information vacuum. Reddit deserves some credit for Thursday night successes of the forum, but ultimately old fashioned police work was key in this specific case.

The "witch hunt" summary is accurate for the Monday to Thursday 5PM time, when so much was said that was unprovable, and much more difficult to disprove, like the NY Post photos of innocent people accused of being the terrorists, taking too many days to be seen as extremely wrong.

FBI OFFICIAL PHOTOS
After the FBI released Official Suspect photos at about 5PM Thursday, April 18, 2013, Reddit (or rather Subreddit "findbostonbombers") had some commenters who were actually very useful, and had contributions which were well substantial and well ahead of the media.

DAVID GREEN PHOTO
The David Green photo from the corner of Fairfield Street and Boylston Street just after the bombing was there, less than 2 hours after the FBI official suspect photo release, and more than 3 hours before it was on NY Times 11:14 PM published website article, and apparently also the CNN Piers Morgan interview of David Green the same late night. The Monday photo showed Suspect #2, with the white hat, with the smoke from both bombs visible, walking around the corner of Fairfield Street directly toward MIT campus, foreshadowing events late Thursday night, including the murder of the MIT police officer.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/new-higher-resolution-image-of-boston-marathon-suspect-emerges/

SUSPECT HAT IDENTIFICATION
The crowd sourcing found the official web catalog photos of both hats make/model/catalog-photos used by the terrorists. This is a quickly verifiable task, that the subreddit did very well. I suspect that all such commodity product identifications can be done fastest with most accuracy, by a large crowd that cares, such as was the case on Reddit that night. Reddit found links to the official web catalog photos of these hats, under ideal circumstances.

This is not the first time either, a prior case was solved by a sharped eyed reddit user identified a Cadillac 1990 head light from a crime scene photo, helping resolve that case.

The hat ID was potentially extremely useful for several reasons; More witnesses could be asked about the clear photos of the hats, helping the FBI. Also, somewhat technical, but the FBI could use computational clarifying techniques, using these identified and purchasable hats, to calculate a clearer image from fuzzy source photos of the faces of the Subjects in the photos. Admittedly these computer image refinement techniques are more familiar to astronomers than crime fighting, more like the CSI type TV shows than real life law enforcement, but it would be possible.

OTHER PHOTOS ON REDDIT AFTER 5PM THURSDAY
At least two other photos of the official FBI Suspects, not then available, were found and shared on Reddit. I have not seen either of these photos in the press.

Photo link: before the bombing possibly Suspect #1 black hat from behind, headed east on Boylston from about the Starbucks, (next to her ring). Less likely but possibly Suspect #2 far left (under her elbow).
http://imgur.com/a/34wtj

Photos link: Potentially a very damning photo, possibly Suspect #2, with the backwards white cap on, a back pack on ground, and possible 8 year old victim still alive. (the younger Tsarnaev brother is accused of being Suspect #2), a back pack on the ground, behind possibly the 8 year old bombing victim who was killed by a bomb blast.
http://imgur.com/a/fEZhX

DETAIL FROM IMAGES
Although guessing who the terrorists were was something that Reddit utterly failed at, libeling many people Monday to Thursday 5PM, once the FBI re

Crowd sourcing is only good at some very important tasks, but was truly terrible and libelous in an information vacuum. Reddit deserves some credit for Thursday night successes of the forum, but ultimately old fashioned police work was key in this specific case.

The "witch hunt" summary is accurate for the Monday to Thursday 5PM time, when so much was said that was unprovable, and much more difficult to disprove, like the NY Post photos of innocent people accused of being the terrorists, taking too many days to be seen as extremely wrong.

FBI OFFICIAL PHOTOS
After the FBI released Official Suspect photos at about 5PM Thursday, April 18, 2013, Reddit (or rather Subreddit "findbostonbombers") had some commenters who were actually very useful, and had contributions which were well substantial and well ahead of the media.

DAVID GREEN PHOTO
The David Green photo from the corner of Fairfield Street and Boylston Street just after the bombing was there, less than 2 hours after the FBI official suspect photo release, and more than 3 hours before it was on NY Times 11:14 PM published website article, and apparently also the CNN Piers Morgan interview of David Green the same late night. The Monday photo showed Suspect #2, with the white hat, with the smoke from both bombs visible, walking around the corner of Fairfield Street directly toward MIT campus, foreshadowing events late Thursday night, including the murder of the MIT police officer.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/new-higher-resolution-image-of-boston-marathon-suspect-emerges/

SUSPECT HAT IDENTIFICATION
The crowd sourcing found the official web catalog photos of both hats make/model/catalog-photos used by the terrorists. This is a quickly verifiable task, that the subreddit did very well. I suspect that all such commodity product identifications can be done fastest with most accuracy, by a large crowd that cares, such as was the case on Reddit that night. Reddit found links to the official web catalog photos of these hats, under ideal circumstances.

This is not the first time either, a prior case was solved by a sharped eyed reddit user identified a Cadillac 1990 head light from a crime scene photo, helping resolve that case.

The hat ID was potentially extremely useful for several reasons; More witnesses could be asked about the clear photos of the hats, helping the FBI. Also, somewhat technical, but the FBI could use computational clarifying techniques, using these identified and purchasable hats, to calculate a clearer image from fuzzy source photos of the faces of the Subjects in the photos. Admittedly these computer image refinement techniques are more familiar to astronomers than crime fighting, more like the CSI type TV shows than real life law enforcement, but it would be possible.

OTHER PHOTOS ON REDDIT AFTER 5PM THURSDAY
At least two other photos of the official FBI Suspects, not then available, were found and shared on Reddit. I have not seen either of these photos in the press.

Photo link: before the bombing possibly Suspect #1 black hat from behind, headed east on Boylston from about the Starbucks, (next to her ring). Less likely but possibly Suspect #2 far left (under her elbow).
http://imgur.com/a/34wtj

Photos link: Potentially a very damning photo, possibly Suspect #2, with the backwards white cap on, a back pack on ground, and possible 8 year old victim still alive. (the younger Tsarnaev brother is accused of being Suspect #2), a back pack on the ground, behind possibly the 8 year old bombing victim who was killed by a bomb blast.
http://imgur.com/a/fEZhX

DETAIL FROM IMAGES
Although guessing who the terrorists were was something that Reddit utterly failed at, libeling many people Monday to Thursday 5PM, once the FBI re

These things already exist.

Yes, they do, and I've even tried two different models at Google I/O, but they're not the same as this thing. This Indian device promises to be a thousand times better and cooler. See pictures here and here.

Unfortunately, it seems to be a concept-only device right now. No outsider was given the actual prototype to try in real life, and no one was even shown a demo in real life. So to me, that means it's a concept-only device.

I generally do not trust picture mockups and PR people, especially from a company that I've never heard of before (the company could be legit, but honestly, I just don't know that either way). So one hopes that this device does work and does behave as described, and that it will come out soon. Because for all we know, this could be just another flying car concept: a very cool and attractive concept, but one that doesn't really work as originally advertised or as originally promised.

http://i.stack.imgur.com/xJ6V8.png http://i.stack.imgur.com/oBXZJ.png http://i.stack.imgur.com/h7ntP.jpg http://pages.ciphercloud.com/AnyAppfiveminutesdemo.html?alild=1

http://i.stack.imgur.com/xJ6V8.png http://i.stack.imgur.com/oBXZJ.png http://i.stack.imgur.com/h7ntP.jpg http://pages.ciphercloud.com/AnyAppfiveminutesdemo.html?alild=1

http://i.stack.imgur.com/xJ6V8.png http://i.stack.imgur.com/oBXZJ.png http://i.stack.imgur.com/h7ntP.jpg http://pages.ciphercloud.com/AnyAppfiveminutesdemo.html?alild=1

to ease the American population into accepting military and police roaming their neighborhoods, searching, etc;
http://imgur.com/a/Asgdb#31

...and all of this will happen again.

Doesn't make sense but the gun grabbers are outraged that one of their laws just failed to pass the senate.
http://www.infowars.com/gun-grabbers-react-with-outrage-as-second-amendment-is-upheld-in-senate/

Then you got these suspicious looking guys who could potentially be gov agents, military, or mercenary contractors. Inconclusive IMO but interesting:
http://www.infowars.com/craft-international-private-military-forces-at-boston-marathon/

One think Alex Jones is reporting that supposedly is not making it to the mainstream news is that before all this happened eye witness reports said there were people with bull horns telling the crowd that the increased security and bomb sniffing dogs is just-a-drill. This is one of the hall marks of a false flag op. Look up Operation Northwoods and Operation Gladio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

I think they're related in that it shows information publicized that governments are willing to attack their own people and blame it on a patsy in order to advance an agenda. Don't forget the reichstag fire was another false flag that is credited for alling Hitler to assume dictatorial powers and formally establish the Nazi state:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

This next link may be totally bogus misinfo or it could be a whistle blower if this whole thing is following a script to advance an agenda. This was posted a couple days ago and seems like it may be come predictive and prophet. This was the reason I was going to respond as it offers a potential explanation to link this event to the gun control agenda:

http://i.imgur.com/paK3lGJh.png

What is going on? What's the big picture? Here's another long article that attempts to paint a picture and offer an explanation. This is wild and out there. Call it crazy. But if you can suspend belief and give it a hearing like a fictional book. Maybe it makes sense? Could truth be stranger than what we think is reality? The people in charge of public large government and infrastructure are completely insane. They certainly aren't interested in serving the greater good nor the people's best interests. Maybe it's good old fashioned greed for money/power/etc. Maybe it goes deeper than that?

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/04/10/kingpins-and-cutouts-aliens-and-hybrids/

That article relates to gun control down towards the bottom...

"In the meantime as the US economy continues to unravel, the apparent goal of the USG now appears to be to oppress and asset strip the American People and to destroy America as a nation-state."
...

"Before the USG can proceed to asset strip all available pension funds, 401Ks, IRAs and even social security, they know they must get the guns out of the hands of the average American. If they attain that as they have been ordered by the OBN they will then grab all the funds, organize them into one big USG managed fund and means test the populace for what is deemed “a fair share” which in reality will be starvation retirement for most. A point is coming when the Banksters can not issue or print any more money but will have to seize savings accounts like in Cyprus and seize and means test all pensions."
...

"So far these staged attacks have worked as designed, but the world-wide Internet has begun to seriously erode these USG propaganda narratives and crack in them are appearing daily, with many waking up for the first time."
...

"The USG’s specialty is now staged false flag attacks and pre-emptive, unprovoked, illegal, undeclared, unconstitutional wars of aggression and oppression of American Citizens it defines as “domestic terrorists” or any dissenter of any kind. This classification has been extended to include Vets, returning Vets and numerous County Sheriffs who have stated publicly they will

4chan may have found them... http://imgur.com/a/sUrnA

They also found Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, thousands of times. 4Chan is not exactly a bastion of reliable information. Now I get what you're saying about crowdsourcing, but there's another, older term, for this sort of thing:

Witch hunt.

This guy. Looks like he should have bought a notebook.

What, like this? - http://i.imgur.com/rXSMukA.jpg

That's called ceramic recombination.

And those phosphors are far better than fluorescent phosphors.

See?

Fuck you're so wrong it's not even funny. Update your knowledgebase. At best we need a boost in the 420 and 670 nm range.

Get with the times, please.

"and might eventually even give a good color."

Guess you've not been watching LED for the past 5 years.

Better look at this, pal.

This is disturbing - just look how few civilized areas a missile aimed at the east coast would track over.
It would be near Toronto before it got noticed if it was missed by radar in northern Alaska.

At least any weapons with a sufficient range aren't known to be part of DPRK's arsenal.

We might need to have a talk about what "steady" means.

A good lawyer??

On the other hand, throwing money at controlled fusion has not been very successful. We don't know how to make that work.

We know what we need to do, the path forward is fairly clear. We haven't exactly been throwing money at it, that's the problem.

Other than that, I agree with your post.

classic looks of windows 98 used in enterprises will be gone for ever.

Say what?

http://i.imgur.com/njNKxBg.png

--
BMO

I do LED work for a living. I work very closely with Cree, Nichia, etc.

All good high-efficiency white diodes are UVB diodes with a triple-component or more phosphor layer, and possibly with a ceramic recombination package design. You start with UV, add a blue phosphor base on top of that, then add your amber and red phosphors on top of that, then try to use the packaging to redirect light that scatters back through the phosphors for maximum output.

"UV is very problematic as it quickly degrades the plastic optics which are predominantly used with LEDs"

I have raw UV diodes in most of my growing panels. They all have plastic covers. Not one single problem. Teflon is quite UV resistant, and is used quite often in this particular application, mainly because of the localized heat put off by an LED plus the UV emissions.

"Plus, you would only get the yellow light from the phosphor, not white light."

Wrong again, as per above. I'm holding engineering samples of MK-R, 200 lumen/w @ 7000K CCT and a 93 CRI. You put it through a diffraction grating, and you see EVERYTHING. From ~370nm up to 700, no line breaks or indications of narrow-range phosphors. In fact, most newer white LEDs have essentially blackbody output, you can't tell a difference under a spectrometer between incandescent and LED, except that the LED is far brighter (with the exception around 680-700nm) and misses most of the IR/NIR range. Here, have a picture.

Also, note your chosen datasheet only goes as low as 380nm. Not even close to the UVB range, which is where white diodes begin their life. Go put one of your XPG2 over a sheet with yellow highlighter on it or one of those green USPS tracking confirmation labels. Watch it fluoresce like mad. Even most blue diodes start with a UVB base, including the ones used in the growing lights I design. This isn't Near-UV, here. This is full UV.

And its the mixture of green and blue and red that makes CCT. RGB. Yellow is not included in the official CIE 1960 color space as a primary source.

So nearly complete. So nearly perfect! If you only have a Linux brain....

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http://imgur.com/a/gW7F9

Does EA's CEO have any response to the fact that SimCity's "simulation" is so trivial that optimal play involves have 100% residential zones, no taxes, and no services of any kind?

A 5th grader with a pencil and a piece of paper could come up with a more realistic simulation that this.

3000 miles along the great circle path puts a warhead short of Anchorage, Alaska. Honolulu is 4600 miles. Here is an equidistant azimuthal projection centered on Pyongyang. The first yellow distance ring is 4000 km, the second is 8000 km. Assuming their missle range is 3000mi/4825 km, they can only reach the distant Aleutian Islands. I wouldn't be the least bit worried of you're not within the 4000km ring.

Just scrolling through the +5 comments, I see a ton of xenophobia...

Can't find an entry level IT job? Where are you? Arkansas? Here in silicon valley, we're experiencing another surge in hiring. I'm pretty low on the skillset, so whenever I get myself back into IT, I consider the economy to be doing well. Case in point... Company I work for. We've been losing a ton of local talent to google who's been on a hiring binge. When a small shop like ours (120 or so employees) can afford to pay great salaries, but we lose out to name brands like google, we have to turn to H1B.

And for the H1B worker, life isn't all cherries and apple pie. Case in point, this big ass march from immigration voice.
http://imgur.com/YKxR6NG

See the white guy with pelican case in tow? That's me.

Let's say you're here from India on H1B and you have a family emergency. You have to go home. So many H1B's are scared to go home, because when they try to return more often than not, they're denied re-entry into the country. I haven't met a single H1B that wouldn't LOVE to be a US citizen, but instead we give them a non-citizen status as an H1B that gives them basically no rights as a US citizen.

I think we should just trash H1B altogether, and allow anyone of decent education (BA or BS) come live here, become a citizen, and pay taxes.

As slashdotters, we shouldn't hate on the H1B people. They are not the problem. It's our policy, the very creation of H1B to sidestep proper citizenship that is.

http://i.imgur.com/IWPsqOR.png

This is the shot I saw of some of his comments that was posted on Reddit. He seems to be rather out of touch.

Not sure if this one is real (the above I feel pretty confident is untouched) but found it funny:

http://i.imgur.com/rixjoS6.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/IWPsqOR.png

This is the shot I saw of some of his comments that was posted on Reddit. He seems to be rather out of touch.

Not sure if this one is real (the above I feel pretty confident is untouched) but found it funny:

http://i.imgur.com/rixjoS6.jpg

I graphed the number of networks visible in the morning and evening commutes. The first ~5 min of the morning commute is sitting stationary. The vertical lines are caused by the obnoxious-as-hell network manager that comes with Ubuntu accessing the interface and causing a "device or resource busy" error with my thing, which causes a report of 0 networks in range. Remember the drag I mentioned before: the three big peaks little after 10AM correspond to the three most popular stops along the street with bigger apartment buildings, but the decline from the peaks occurred even as the bus was sitting before.

There were >1600 unique SSIDs seen in the morning commute, >1200 in the evening one, and >1800 total.

The way I collected this data was to:

collect it with for num in $(seq 1 3600); do iw dev wlan0 scan > $num.txt; sleep 2; done

convert it to CSV with for file in *.txt; do echo "$file, $(stat --printf="%y" $file | cut -f2 -d" "), $(wc -l net.csv

and then graph it in LO Calc.

I graphed the number of networks visible in the morning and evening commutes. The first ~5 min of the morning commute is sitting stationary. The vertical lines are caused by the obnoxious-as-hell network manager that comes with Ubuntu accessing the interface and causing a "device or resource busy" error with my thing, which causes a report of 0 networks in range. Remember the drag I mentioned before: the three big peaks little after 10AM correspond to the three most popular stops along the street with bigger apartment buildings, but the decline from the peaks occurred even as the bus was sitting before.

There were >1600 unique SSIDs seen in the morning commute, >1200 in the evening one, and >1800 total.

The way I collected this data was to:

collect it with for num in $(seq 1 3600); do iw dev wlan0 scan > $num.txt; sleep 2; done

convert it to CSV with for file in *.txt; do echo "$file, $(stat --printf="%y" $file | cut -f2 -d" "), $(wc -l net.csv

and then graph it in LO Calc.

... for those of you who have never been to Scotland, is that you might enjoy its landscape when flying over it.

The only thing you can see when flying over Scotland is the top of the rainclouds.

I can only comment on the west coast, as that's the only part I've ever flown over, but I think the cloud tends to form at least a little inland.

I had nice views: http://i.imgur.com/cj5qwuT.jpg (not very well photographed). It's very nice, lots of lochs, rivers and mountains.

http://i.imgur.com/DnDVszZ.gif

Consider the following Nuclear Monroe Doctrine example

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?lat=-4.959937902085307&lng=76.28965300000004&zm=1&kt=20000000000

Basically the US would tow a very large nuke - perhaps one designed to ignite the ocean - just off Diego Garcia.

It's good to know that supplies of plastic dogshit will still be secure after that.

Of course it may not come to that but who knows?

Here's an NZ version

http://i.imgur.com/sr6LR.jpg

The age of the universe is pure guess work.

In your opinion.

What is more newsworthy in my opinion is why people are gullible enough to think crap like this is actually "newsworthy".

Like many on /. you're just too clever for the rest of us plebs, never mind the broad consensus of the discipline of cosmology.

I'll add that it's very sad that the people that believe these models are real when it's admitted to be mostly made of magical materials and energy, and yet those same people make fun of others that believe in theology.

Please specify the magical materials and energy involved.

As a non-expert in cosmology, I veer away from having strong opinions about it. Provisionally accepting the broad consensus is perfectly reasonable. You on the other hand know better. I suspect mount stupid is at work here.

At the very least consider sharing your genuis with the field and help enlighten humankind.

Did you say Idiocracy?

New rule: If you don't know the difference between trademark and copyright, you're not allowed to send DMCA takedown notices on behalf of your company.

Can we encode this rule into a simple test like the Kingdom of Loathing literacy test? http://i.imgur.com/PeClG.jpg

AFAIK this is the penis joke she made:

http://i.imgur.com/1ND42rS.png

Whether or not you're into penis jokes it's, IMO, worth making a distinction between a talking loudly at a conference and a twitter mention. IIRC, her twitter post was semi-private, being automatically visible to the intended recipient (and potentially mutual followers) but nobody else. Someone could see that she posted that, but they'd have to go looking. Not only that, but twitter is a medium for both professional and casual postings. OTOH, if you're talking loud enough to be overheard in a crowded conference hall that's far less private, but is typically intended to be a more formal setting than twitter. From what I can tell, she wasn't eavesdropping, but the two guys were being loud enough to be disruptive (regardless of whether the topic of their conversation was appropriate or offensive).

Look, I enjoy a good penis joke... but I you know what? I'm a guy and I get tired of the frat house / Bevis & Butthead mentality that seemingly pervades so many tech things. I went to the last MongoSF with my then-boss. At one of the talks I sat next to a woman who was an employee for a government contractor looking to glean some insight into fixing the problems they were having with their Oracle to Mongo migration. I spent some time before the talk picking her brain. At every opportunity my boss interrupted with jokes and comments that were off-topic at best. After the talk, my boss came up to me and asked if I got her number and if was going to fuck her. Is it really that hard to act in a semi-professional manner in public? Dunno, I've made a point of not going to tech conferences with my boss any longer, so. There's a time and a place for dick jokes, and a conference is neither that time nor that place.

What amuses about this situation is how much all of the free speech champions are nailing Adria to the wall for someone else's actions. Free speech is good and well unless you don't agree with it or the reactions to it, right? Right-o.

... the "if you are a paying customer" vs. "If you are a pirate" graphic:
http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg

The porn shop job was to add R&D money to my already meager R&D budget set forth by my investors. Now that they're putting more money into R&D since they see that I know what I'm doing and can do it with a very modest increase in funding, I quit the porno shop job.

Yes, we can do 60w per square meter. See we have light-moving technology. And the iteration in that video is actually 90w using older-gen LED tech. If we were to use something on the class of the MK-R LED but tuned for growth, we'd hit likely 45w consumption to light up that whole area. Many plants don't need the light shining steadily upon them at full intensity.

See, some crops don't respond very well to large levels of light. Those types of crops such as leafy crops (basil, lettuce, the wheatgrass you saw growing under practically zero light in the prior video) tend to bolt at higher light levels and go to shit as far as a commercially usable product goes. Also, under targeted LED, plants tend to pack more nutrition in them per unit of fertilizer, simply because of the enhanced action.

"Last I looked there where something like 2 reds, 2 greens and 2 blues. Nothing like complete spectrum coverage"

You haven't put a white LED under a spectrometer, then, in at LEAST 4 years. We've had output similar to blackbody radiation for years, now.

Got any more outdated information you'd like to share and have dispelled?

"Cree and Philips are probably neck-and-neck for the lead position in the LED market."

Not even close, Cree wins. I just got hold of their MK-R diodes. At 100ma, not bad. At 300mA, it starts to hurt your eyes and it lights up fairly nicely. At 500mA you need to start shielding your eyes. Here's video of it, 500mA, lighting my nearly-dark living room/dining room. (camera auto-adjusted some, hence all the extra video noise and artificially-high starting light levels.)

At 500mA, that's 6w. 6w nearly lights up (~2ft above the floor, pointed upwards) a 14' x 20' room. If this were on the ceiling, in the center, all of the kitchen would be included as well. At a full 15w that the MK-R is capable of handling, That would easily be the only light I'd need in that entire section of the house excepting some additional kitchen lighting. The bedrooms would EASILY be fine just using these at 6w, ditto the bathrooms.

What I've seen from Philips, not even close. I haven't seen anything even close from any other manufacturer that has given me samples of their supposed best. Cree won this round, and will likely continue to do so once they incorporate the new S3 tech into the MK-R line and push past 240 lumens per watt (when driven at 1w.)

"Cree and Philips are probably neck-and-neck for the lead position in the LED market."

Not even close, Cree wins. I just got hold of their MK-R diodes. At 100ma, not bad. At 300mA, it starts to hurt your eyes and it lights up fairly nicely. At 500mA you need to start shielding your eyes. Here's video of it, 500mA, lighting my nearly-dark living room/dining room. (camera auto-adjusted some, hence all the extra video noise and artificially-high starting light levels.)

At 500mA, that's 6w. 6w nearly lights up (~2ft above the floor, pointed upwards) a 14' x 20' room. If this were on the ceiling, in the center, all of the kitchen would be included as well. At a full 15w that the MK-R is capable of handling, That would easily be the only light I'd need in that entire section of the house excepting some additional kitchen lighting. The bedrooms would EASILY be fine just using these at 6w, ditto the bathrooms.

What I've seen from Philips, not even close. I haven't seen anything even close from any other manufacturer that has given me samples of their supposed best. Cree won this round, and will likely continue to do so once they incorporate the new S3 tech into the MK-R line and push past 240 lumens per watt (when driven at 1w.)

"Cree and Philips are probably neck-and-neck for the lead position in the LED market."

Not even close, Cree wins. I just got hold of their MK-R diodes. At 100ma, not bad. At 300mA, it starts to hurt your eyes and it lights up fairly nicely. At 500mA you need to start shielding your eyes. Here's video of it, 500mA, lighting my nearly-dark living room/dining room. (camera auto-adjusted some, hence all the extra video noise and artificially-high starting light levels.)

At 500mA, that's 6w. 6w nearly lights up (~2ft above the floor, pointed upwards) a 14' x 20' room. If this were on the ceiling, in the center, all of the kitchen would be included as well. At a full 15w that the MK-R is capable of handling, That would easily be the only light I'd need in that entire section of the house excepting some additional kitchen lighting. The bedrooms would EASILY be fine just using these at 6w, ditto the bathrooms.

What I've seen from Philips, not even close. I haven't seen anything even close from any other manufacturer that has given me samples of their supposed best. Cree won this round, and will likely continue to do so once they incorporate the new S3 tech into the MK-R line and push past 240 lumens per watt (when driven at 1w.)

can you guys remove the motorcycle from this picture?