Cree's TW-series bulbs have a CRI of 93. That doesn't match incandescent, but it comes damned close (I'd argue indistinguishably so, for most people), and at a much lower total cost of ownership, too.

Really, the only issue with Cree is that they don't yet offer an own-brand LED bulb with a candelabra base. Most of the upstairs rooms in my house had brand-new ceiling fan light fixtures when I bought the place, and thanks to Chimpy McFlightsuit and a Republican congress, ceiling fans are now required by law to have candelabra or other lesser-used fixtures, unless they're sold with CFL bulbs in the box. The subsequent switch to candelabra bulbs by most of the industry now means Cree bulbs can't be used in them without a bulky, space-wasting adapter. (And the requirement that all fans must ship with bulbs in the box means you no longer have a choice of what bulb to start with, unless you care to throw them straight in the trash when you buy a new ceiling fan.)

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The frustrating thing is that Cree has a candelabra reference design, and others may make candelabra bulbs based on Cree LEDs, but they lack Cree's excellent warranty and build / design.

What he said.

Given that I don't like bloat, no, Vivaldi holds no interest for me. I don't need a swiss army knife to browse the web. I need a stable, fast web browser with support for my chosen extensions.

He did, indeed, report to ATC that he'd lost his engine. They cleared a runway for him as requested, but it seems he realized he wasn't going to make it, and chose the golf course as the next best thing.

They're also hopelessly out of date. CES 2015 ended on January 9th, or FIVE WEEKS ago. This content might have been relevant then; now it's ancient history.

You're only just now realizing this? Even Toyota, the world's largest automaker, has *global* production of just around 10 million cars per year, and unlike Tesla, their vehicles aren't carefully aimed at sucking blood from the rich -- they actually sell vehicles the common man can afford. It's beyond completely absurd to suggest that Tesla will get to even a third of that point within a decade.

Even the supposed 1440p of the DK3 -- has that spec ever been officially confirmed? Not to my knowledge -- spanned across a 100-degree field of view as in the DK2 is less than 25.6 horizontal pixels per degree.

I can't calculate more precisely than that, sadly, because I can't find a FOV spec for an individual eye with the Oculus, and I don't know what overlap there is between eyes to calculate this. Check out what the human visual system is capable of, though, and even 25.6 pixels per degree is not remotely close, so it's splitting hairs to worry about what the actual figure is.

The fact of the matter is that even on the latest model, you are getting just around 1280x1440 pixels per eye -- far less than even a consumer monitor these days -- and that is being wrapped around a much greater area of your field of view than would be the case with that consumer monitor. The perceived resolution of every VR rig on the market or that I've seen publicly in development is awful; the DK3 is just a bit less awful than most. The problem is that to provide sufficient resolution would require custom displays (instead of cheaping out and using existing smartphone LCDs), and it would require a hell of a lot more processing power to provide a low-latency, lag and stutter-free signal at that resolution. In other words, it would be expensive as hell, and that's before the developer themselves made any profit at all.

To my mind, we're still a good five years or more away from quality VR being affordable on a consumer budget. Whether there will be a viable gaming industry left at that point is up for debate, with the way that so much of the industry has abandoned quality games in favor of nickel-and-diming its customers to death on freemium drek.

And having used the latest version myself in a tech demo at CES, even Oculus suffers badly from latency, not to mention absolutely shockingly-low resolution that makes it feel like a 1980s video game. Sorry, but I'll be sitting out this round of VR entirely; we need much greater processing power and resolution before VR becomes anything more than a momentary distraction that is quickly forgotten.

I used it for a year as a preinstall, and have since finally paid full retail to upgrade my machine to Windows 7 due to Win8's shocking user interface, and the fact that in my environment at least, it is noticeably less stable. Says it all, really.

And you'd have to root it if you wanted to choose where to go yourself, rather than Google choosing your destination for you. (But that would still be better than the Apple car, which would only allow you to travel to Apple stores.)

Go easy on him. He never got the chance to learn those words by reading them in an ebook, because he was too hung up on the fonts used to get past the first page...

That should have said "And 45 miles by road is probably more like 35 miles as the crow flies."

90 miles is frankly pathetic. That's a best case scenario 45 miles there and back; less with frequent starting and stopping. And 45 miles by road is probably not like 35 miles as the crow flies. Imagine a 35 mile radius around your home. You cannot get any further than that without recharging. And that's supposed to be good mileage?

These work for a regular daily commute of relatively short distance, nothing more. In the real world you need to own a second car to do anything useful after work, on weekends and holidays, or when taking a vacation. And if you need a second car for that, you bought the wrong first car.

Except that as soon as one patent nears expiration, another slightly differing patent that still covers the same item is filed for and granted. And you'd be a fool to assume that patents will stay at 20 years when our politicians are completely corrupt and have a revolving-door system with the very corporations the public needs protection from. Lobbying (read: legalized bribery) makes it likely that the scope of patents will continue to expand, just as the scope of copyright does.

Of course, that still leaves the problem of the company that does one thing, and damn well, then being taken over by Google, Apple, or Microsoft, at which point their product languishes unupdated or is canceled altogether, or it's turned into a new Google / Apple / Microsoft product that is abandoned a year later.

The smart money is on those who do one thing, and do it just about well enough. Not good enough to get bought and taken over, not diversified enough to stop giving a crap. They're stuck making just-good-enough products for you and me to use.

and I'm only half-joking.