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Comment Re:Thought they used Facebook for all logins? (Score 4, Informative) 50

Rewriting history there - the Facebook "integration" came later, when it was released here in the Nordic countries it was just a login/pass. I don't think it was ever mandatory though? At least, as an existing customer, I've never needed to link my Spotify account to Facebook.

Comment Re:Best of luck to them (Score 1) 181

I don't know how much of a profit they're making on their APUs, but they're the winners of the current console generation (somewhat surprisingly, the winner of the previous gen was IBM with PPC/Cell). I'm hoping they stay afloat - they may only be competitive (when it comes to general x86/x64) on very few tasks that require very many cores (and even then probably using more watts at that), but it's never healthy to have a monopoly.

Comment Re:Android tablets not good compared to phones (Score 4, Interesting) 179

Try a 2013 Nexus 7? WRT software, I find it very odd that even today iOS doesn't support multiple/restricted profiles. They're not that useful in a phone but make perfect sense on a tablet - I can "sandbox" the tablet for my daughter to be kid-friendly (and deny access to a browser, for now).

Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 166

But they don't do the same thing to Europe (Game of Thrones as an example).

Huh. I guess that I get HBO Nordic (with full HBO backlog, excluding sadly Deadwood and Oz due to some ownership issues) and recent episodes the next day they're broadcast in the US with local subtitles on my smart-ish TV was just a dream. Oh wait, it wasn't, GoT day today.

Comment Re:So much nonsense in terms (Score 3, Insightful) 258

Why would they need less power consumption. The lumens per watt of most HID lamps is the same or better than LEDs. This Wikipedia page has several examples of the efficiency of different kinds of lights. Most of the LED examples they give show around 50-100 lumens per watt. For metal halide, they show 65-115 l/w, for high pressure sodium it's 85-150 l/w and for low pressure sodium it's 100-200 l/w. It sounds to me like the HID lamps are MORE efficient than the LEDs, so why is it obvious that the LEDs would use "much less power consumption"?

I'm not pretending to be an expert on the issue, as stated this is second hand information - however, that Wikipedia page seems to describe the kind of lights one would use in general lighting. The lights she's shown me are nothing of the kind, mostly a mixture of red(ish) and blue(ish) LEDs. Apparently that's what plants crave (I suppose the light has electrolytes).

Comment Re:So much nonsense in terms (Score 4, Interesting) 258

My sister-in-law works developing LED lamps. She's a biologist, was headhunted from the university after her PhD (that was about how different types of UV light affect plant growth) by some engineers. Basically what she does is she tests various configurations of LED lights and fixtures, checks how they affect plant growth, tells the engineers to build "that one". Rinse and repeat.

What she's told me, and I have no reason to doubt this as she's not trying to sell me anything (and the fact that she's very proud of her work ethics), they're getting very much better results than with HIDs. With much less power consumption, obviously. Now, they specifically haven't tested cannabis, but I have a hard time believing the light requirements would be so drastically different than from other very light-needy plants.

The thing is though, they're not yet selling to consumers, just to large commercial greenhouses. The company is still early stages. And she's been unwilling to loan me a unit for test purposes, dammit ;) But I'm willing to bet in a few years HIDs will no longer be the choice, at least when it comes to power consumption and heat; I expect the lights will be quite pricey, at least initially.

Comment Re:Common Examples (Score 2) 285

I really recommend you give Bhut Jolokia a try. Yes, it is very, very, very hot, but obviously you don't use that much of it on a meal. Personally I prefer it to Habaneros - they have a bitter taste to them IMHO, while Bhut is really quite sweet and fruity, once you get past the heat. However it's advisable to use gloves when handling it (picking your nose or rubbing your eyes can be an experience afterwards). Also to get rid of the initial "shock", try frying it in oil for a while before adding anything else to the pan (if you do, take care of proper ventilation though, the stuff really can irritate your lungs).

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