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Comment White and monochromatic? (Score 2) 330

I'm just curious how they are making white lights? "...laser lighting is monochromatic, which means that the light waves all have the same length." followed by "...resulting light is very bright and white"

The bigger news is that they've found a single wavelength of light that is white!

Comment Re:News is spam (maybe) (Score 1) 212

SDHC cards are up to 32GB. Original ones were only up to 2GB (though some made it to 4 with a small tweak that rendered them useless in many readers). Now there are SDXC which are up to 2TB, but those are more just removing an artificial limitation in SDHC than they are an expansion of the technology that sd to SDHC was.

Comment Re:how to use best buy warranties (Score 1) 543

I had a similar experience with a car stereo at BB. I had purchased it open box so I decided to get the warranty. After a year or so it stopped playing discs at all so I took it in. A month later got it back still broken, a month later, the same. The third time it came back broken, I asked for them to replace it with a new "equivalent" model per the terms. Their manager told me that since I had gotten it open box, I would be allowed to choose another model in the $120 range as opposed to the ~$300 range that would be considered a similar product. Of course they only had an $80 stereo and a $150 stereo at that time so I was stuck with the crappiest stereo they carried. When I raised a stink about them refusing to at least refund/store credit the other $50 since I was already getting rather screwed by the deal, they had security kick me out.

Have not, and will not ever give Best Buy another penny of my money.

(On a previous trip, I was told that I could not write a check to pay for a camera. They could verify that there were funds in the account, but since they apparently don't consider a passport valid ID, they refused to accept it)

Comment Re:When in doubt... (Score 0) 203

Indeed, *anything* Linux based is clearly utterly and completely immune to any virus. So why are some many Android phones getting infected these days?

Oh right. The more users a platform has, the more people will write malware for that platform. No system is perfect and invulnerable. I have Windows, Apple and Linux boxes at home, none of them are perfect. If one were, I wouldn't have a use for the other two.

Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 397

Having on several occasions seen Vancouver "imports" in LA for hockey games, I can easily say that the vast majority of Canucks fans that I have met have been entitled hoodlums. I have worn my Kings jersey at several games in Canada, and have never had any issues except with Canuck fans.

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