"I've heard of some 40% efficiency gains by avoiding the usual transformers per lamppost."

Or they could go with LEDs driven with very high-persistence phosphors, and run the LEDs direct off the main lines in a rectifier configuration, and have pretty much nil loss associated with a power driver in the first place. Just a proper resistor acting as the bridge element in the center of the diode config is all you would need.

" which is a lot different ballistically"

Not even. It's just a higher and narrower arc for the most part, with the addition of more moving layers of air.

"Have you guys ever shot a shotgun??? I call BS on this 200ft claim and the 'expert'."

You've never gone hunting, I guess.

Here's 230 yards with ACCURACY on a roughly human-sized target.

Granted, it's a slug. But I've seen .410 shotgun using single/double/triple pellet buckshot load do some damage at distance, too, with accuracy.

Any half-competent person with a proper load can get 150 yards on a regular day with anything slightly larger than birdshot and a good choke.

Deliberately bottlenecking the hell out of the older Dual cores with a GTX 980 and 4GB RAM?

"That's what your computer's battery is for."

You assume everyone has a laptop, or has a laptop with a functional battery.

My laptop has the charger hardwired into the motherboard since the proprietary DC jack went bad. There is no battery, that thing exploded years ago.

Vista with SP1 over here is solid. I haven't had an issue with it.

Me. That pile of garbage needs a special history book dedicated to it.

"The kernel devs and Linus have probably contributed significantly more to the world than you have"

I keep people fed and develop new technologies to ensure people can remain fed. They do nothing nearly as important. The world could exist quite well without people like them. Not much of a world would exist without people like me.

Try again when you're not so ignorantly assumptive.

So, what, you never heard of the Denon Link cable?

"That's about 2 secs for an average microwave"

Most average microwaves are 800-1200W. 2000w is getting into industrial/commercial-level microwaves.

Linus needs to apologize for his devs going "Not my fucking fault!" when in fact it WAS their fault.

https://blog.algolia.com/when-...

Here's the company that found the actual problem and pinpointed it.

" Firstly, 3k is not 2048x1536, it would be 2880x1620."

Bah, you're right. Stupid brain got resolutions and pixel count mixed.

"For gaming with decent graphics at a decent (i.e. 30+) framerate, yes, it's gonna put out a lot of heat. You're looking at a 980 ti or Fury X to handle 4k"

Nope. Currently on a GeForce GTX260 Core216. 4K works juuuust fine. All the Doom, Quake3 (with forced resolution and widescreen mod) Half-Life, Binding of Isaac, Nation Red, Terraria, etc. all that runs at 4K pretty damned well. Since AAA gaming has gotten so shit that people are just bothering with "Reaction" pics and videos instead of actually playing the game to review, I really don't need to do the latest and greatest hardware since the latest and greatest gaming is shit and does not interest me.

On an overclocked E7500 (to E7800 speeds) I'm only using a 250W PSU. *yawn*

If the kernel devs and Linus don't apologize, they're all a bunch of self-absorbed shitlords and should be smacked off the face of this planet.

"A PC that drives 4k is going to be hot"

Are you that ignorant of current processor and GPU technology? I've been driving 2048x1536 (that would be 3K to you) on my desktop well over 15 years with Matrox. Qualcomm has Snapdragon, meant for MOBILE PHONES, driving 4K. For gaming, it ain't getting hot unless you do something STUPID like pick some power-hungry GPU. For video, even without acceleration from the GPU, a shit-tier i3 can handle 4K video. I was doing 1080p video on a Geforce 2 and Pentium 4 back when..... Naruto Shippuuden first came out and DB started doing 1080p encodes.

"I don't know what kind of crack you're on but the lasers I used would put out between 2 and 4 watts with over 20 lines across the entire visible spectrum."

http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/w... - Uhhh, what? I'm certainly not counting 20+ lines there.

Also, a measly 4 watts? I've got nearly double that in my pocket laser.