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  1. Re:Avoid CFL mistakes on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 1

    You can replace the starter easily if you don't break the electrodes trying to separate the ballast from it.

    And even though most of these bulbs have plug-in ballasts (avoiding the need to solder before putting the casing together) you're still going to have a bitch of a time finding the exact proper replacement in order to ensure efficiency.

  2. Re: 9 month test required + uniform radial flux on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The ES certification makes ZERO sense to those of us with real optoelectronics experience, for both human and horticultural lighting.

    Energy Star can't even use photon flux density, the REAL SI unit.

    The interpretation makes almost no sense given the totally differing methods various semiconductor manufacturers have.

    And if you worked in this industry like I do, you'd see that.

    It's a purely pay-for-play scam based upon the worst 'scientific' measurements ever conceived.

    Speaking as a horticultural and interior lighting research director.

  3. Re:uncollimated light vs. collimated light on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 1

    "Yeah, but since they prefixed "radial flux" with "170 degrees", it sounded more like a description of "3-d angular subtend""

    ITT people don't understand what a viewing angle is.

  4. Re:Certifications on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    *ANY* lamp will emit IR. That's a natural side-effect of thermodynamics.

    Whether or not the frequency pulses will trigger your TV or not is a different story.

  5. Re:Certifications on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 1

    LEDs are still better in higher wattage applications.

    Seriously, have you not seen Cree's XP-G2 or MK-R diodes? 180+ and 200+ lumens per watt, respectively, at far better CCT and CRI than sulfur plasma?

  6. We haven't been playing catch-up on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 2

    And Gizmodo has those interviews all wrong, because the interviewees aren't telling the full truth.

    The REAL problem is the barrier to entry caused by Energy Star certification programs and other certifications. We're not playing catch-up; we're playing save-up so we can pay the exorbitant and outrageous extortion fees these entities are charging us.

    Phillips little 22w LED ain't shit.

    I can take two Cree MK-R, drive them at 6w, and absolutely utterly destroy any 100w CFL (and if Philips needs 22w to do what I can do in 12, well, you see the barrier to entry? I'm a small business, Philips has tons of money.)

    And in reality, a single 6w-driven Cree MK-R destroys 100w incan/26w CFL/22w Philips LED, at 7000K CCT and a CRI of 93.

    Tis okay, though. Phillips wins the interior lighting race. They still sorely lose on the horticultural side, and I'm way outperforming them across the globe (in actual tests, not sales.)

  7. Re: Adoption by Mass Market? on New Thunderbolt Revision Features 20 Gbps Throughput, 4K Video Support · · Score: 1

    >24 FPS

    >120Hz Plasma 4K can do

    And there's where you're pretty stupid.

  8. Re:Smart on Bin Laden Raid Member To Be WikiLeaks Witness · · Score: 1

    Actually, we have BETTER tech on the Apaches since they can carry a heavier and more complex load.

    Better watch you some Faces of Death sometime.

  9. Re:It's still silicon on Tiny Chiplets: a New Level of Micro Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    >doesn't know about libraROMs which has custom Droid w/o MMU
    >doesn't know shit about the hacked ROM community

    Typical 7 digit.

  10. Re:It's still silicon on Tiny Chiplets: a New Level of Micro Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Oh how naive you are.

    But of course you chose to post AC and prove nothing.

    And LED is just the more popular of my semiconductor work around the globe.

    But you keep trying. 22nm means the half-pitch (aka half the distance) between identical memory cells, or transistors.

    And we have traces smaller than that. They're used in joining diodes together in a single package.

    Judging by your cowardice and lack of knowledge or information, you know nothing.

    Seeya.

  11. Re:It's still silicon on Tiny Chiplets: a New Level of Micro Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Anyone that uses an ultra-low power ARMv5 core.

    Like my ZTE Blade u880.

    But you keep on being ignorant about technology, sayeth someone that works in semiconductors.

  12. Re:Smart on Bin Laden Raid Member To Be WikiLeaks Witness · · Score: 1

    "So how were two white dots supposed to be identified as children from 2+ miles away?"

    Considering we've had such technology to allow such things for more than two decades, I think you need to get out of your cave and join the rest of the technologically-advanced world.

  13. Re:It's still silicon on Tiny Chiplets: a New Level of Micro Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    My older phone is powered by a FA606TE 32-bit RISC CPU based on V5TE instruction set without MPU, MMU, and LBC, no cache controller, no scratchpad controller.

    That was like 2009.

  14. Re: Adoption by Mass Market? on New Thunderbolt Revision Features 20 Gbps Throughput, 4K Video Support · · Score: 1

    Thunderbolt is STUCK AT 10Gbits per channel (with a maximum of 20 channels) while HDMI can go much higher than that, and 48-bit deep color support pretty much ensures you need more bandwidth than Thunderbolt could ever provide on a single channel, (not enough bandwidth to support trillions of colors @ 4K resolution) while HDMI has no issues with it.

  15. Re:astounding that defaults are not tougher on The Search Engine More Dangerous Than Google · · Score: 1

    Already done on my Belkin.

    Problem is that if you just hit SUBMIT the router inputs the default password for you, no typing required, and you're in.

    What shit fucking security. I'll never touch another Belkin product.

  16. Re:Har`first on Hackers Swipe Unreleased Game From Ubisoft · · Score: 2

    You mean Ass-Bad. Even Borderlands had more variety in the fetch quests, and that was a run of the mill FPS.

  17. Re:Here's the patent application on Tiny Chiplets: a New Level of Micro Manufacturing · · Score: 2

    Same way reflow-soldering does it - surface tension, plus the possibility of two-way transistors and ICs.

  18. Re:"dies"? Isn't it "dice"? on Tiny Chiplets: a New Level of Micro Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    This coming from someone that has never worked with tool and tap dies before, obviously.

  19. Re:It's still silicon on Tiny Chiplets: a New Level of Micro Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Putting this in a smartphone form factor would pretty much make everything you said a moot point.

    Let's say the size of my ZTE Score 500.

  20. Re:quality on Tiny Chiplets: a New Level of Micro Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    "What next? Tiny chiplet sections assembled to create tiny chiplets, then the ultimate goal of assembling components one atom at a time?"

    You mean similar to the already-existing multi-core technology used in GPUs?

  21. Re:Can laser printing create nano-size circuits ? on Tiny Chiplets: a New Level of Micro Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    "For example, the latest Intel's microchip, the Ivy Bridge (and soon the Haswell) have circuit-sizes as small as 22nm"

    I'll bet on the traces being even smaller than that. You must mean transistor size.

  22. Re:Ok..So verizon has shown they cant be trusted.. on FBI's Smartphone Surveillance Tool Explained In Court Battle · · Score: 1

    Most court orders aren't issued without some probable cause.

    Example: The court order for me to report for a felony trial (aka a warrant for my arrest) was issued because my IP tied directly to the IP which sent out an e-mail, with my headers and info.

    There's plenty of means to find probable cause. Your definition might differ from others with higher or lower logical skills.

  23. Re:Ok..So verizon has shown they cant be trusted.. on FBI's Smartphone Surveillance Tool Explained In Court Battle · · Score: 1

    "The above 3 posts fail to take into account that all persons of interest are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law"

    You must not have been paying attention to the system for the last decade+.

  24. Re:Ok..So verizon has shown they cant be trusted.. on FBI's Smartphone Surveillance Tool Explained In Court Battle · · Score: 1

    "A court order is not a warrant,"

    In fact, a warrant is a court order signed and issued by a judge via the District Attorney's office.

    Try again. This isn't the '50s.

  25. Re:Adoption by Mass Market? on New Thunderbolt Revision Features 20 Gbps Throughput, 4K Video Support · · Score: 1

    Your captcha was calling you the retard.

    USB3 took forever to get here, we had Firewire 3200 for fucking AGES.

    Go figure it's an anonymous coward that's wrong again, as usual.