I did look at those bulbs, but it's a hack...I'd rather have a fixture that replaces it. Well, I'll just keep waiting for now. Thanks for the info.

I don't have inside information into 60 Minutes programming, but my guess is that 60 Minutes' primary audience these days is older people. I don't know the politics, if they even have a bent one way or the other. I doubt many people under 40 watch it. It used to be one of the better investigative journalism shows - I remember a tagline that said something like, "You know it's going to be a bad day when... there's a 60 Minutes news crew outside your office." I have no idea what they've been doing more recently; I haven't watched an episode in years. It's supposed to be in depth news, rather like reading an article out of a weekly news magazine, where you get in-depth analysis, history, etc., instead of a shorter, simpler summary of events like you'd get out of the daily newspaper.

Also, if you look closely at your first link, those are replacement bulbs, rather than fixtures designed to use LEDs.

Thanks, but at $150/each, I'm not. I have four two-bulb 4' florescent fixtures; assuming I'd still need four, that's $600 for the LEDs. That was part of the point I was trying to make - the few options available are far too expensive yet.

I bought an LED bulb the other day (we had a coupon). We love it - instant on, and the light looks exactly like the classic incandescent. I'm sold; once they get a bit less expensive (or we find more coupons), we're buying more. I'm hoping we've bought our last CFL - they always felt like an interim solution until LEDs improved.

Now, can we get some lighting fixtures that use LEDs that are actually designed for LEDs? For example, I'd like to put in some LED downlights in the living room, but everything I can find is just an LED replacement bulb for a classic fixture, rather than a fixture designed for an LED. I'd also like to replace the 40 watt florescent tube fixtures in our garage with LEDs, but so far I can't find much that would work. I was thinking strips of LEDs, one color, but it was looking like several hundred dollars for several strips of the length I'd need.

Actually that's not really true - the earliest listed on Wikipedia was in 1764. It is, unfortunately, not a new problem, although I'm certain it has received much more sensational news coverage in recent decades.

...that's an A-T field!

You're just accounting for pressing and packaging the disk.

Really good mikes cost a lot of money. Five digits USD is not uncommon. Renting a studio is expensive, and so's building one. THen there's mixing, editing and all that. Talented, skilled engineers cost money, and lots of it.

I'm not rooting for the labels, but props where props are due: "The Labels" know / knew what they were doing. Archiv / Deutsche Gramophone, Atlantic, Telarc, RCA, Columbia, Decca all went out of their way to get better sound. They invented, innovated, adapted new technologies / methods. And that aspect of their business has my support.

Example: Deutsche Gramophone worked with Yamaha to make a recording system capable of getting a 144db dynamic range. That's beyond ridiculous. I have a set of Beethoven Symphonies recorded with this. I had to get a much better amp. The old one couldn't handle it cleanly. When was the last time some indie producer pushed the limits like that?

But of course, if one listens only on crap earbuds or a crap car stereo, then who cares, right? I bet you 9 out of 10 people just flat out don't care about how it sounds, and by extension how your body perceives it. It's more than just your ear holes, you know.

I still think streaming is for suckers. You pay for something that can be arbitrarily taken away by the "content owner" at their whim.

That would be awesome.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that most people killed in auto accidents are in cars with less than 200 hp. It doesn't take much HP to be an idiot. Those accidents don't make national news for several days straight, though, most of the time.

It's not even the texting that makes them dangerous. What makes them dangerous is that they think it's okay to have their attention focused elsewhere while they continue maneuvering several thousand pounds of machinery. The text messaging is just the latest example, but there have always been examples of people reading, putting on makeup, eating, playing with the radio, talking on the phone, etc. People just don't understand, or care, that driving IS the activity you're doing. In a logical world, these people would be the biggest supporters of public transportation, so they can do those things without risk.

I had something similar happen with my Samsung S3. It turned out the cable I was using (an Amazon Basics 6' cable) is bad - if you page through the reviews for it, you'll find a few reviews mentioning the same issue. The charger was delivering a full 1 amp or whatever, but the cable had too much resistance. If I was in an area with a weak cell signal and no wifi, my phone would take practically all night to charge, even with Wifi and Bluetooth turned off. Sometimes I'd even wake up in the morning and find it was only charged to 85%. Similarly, when using my phone as a GPS in my car, the charge on my phone would decrease even while plugged in with one of those cables. Unfortunately, I'd bought about 5 of those cables before I discovered the problem. I've replaced the three cables that were causing me the most headache. I replaced the one that was the biggest problem with an official Samsung cable just to be sure.

They apparently have many in the facility in Suitland, MD, which occasionally does do tours, usually in conjunction with "____ history month" - for example they just did one for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.

This sounds a lot like the advice Groupon got.

It's just the photino birds.