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Comment Re:Doubtful (Score 1) 328

GP is probably referring to the continuous spectrum of a black-body emitter.

Try putting a spectrometer (eg a CD) on an LED or CFL bulb and compare that with the spectrum of an incandescent. Now, that awful banding you see on the former applies to actual objects as well, which leads to things looking "unnatural".

That said, phosphors have improved a bit lately so the problem isn't quite as bad as it used to be.

Comment Re:I've already LED-ified most of my house (Score 1) 328

I noticed that too. My two outdoor lights are presently one each of LED and CFL. Bugs flock to the CFL like, well, moths to the proverbial, but the LED one appears to be completely ignored.

Does anyone here have an idea why that might be? I wondered perhaps if the high frequency PWM strobing from the LED was perceived by the bugs as a flashing, rather than stable, light source.

Comment Re:Out of touch (Score 1) 450

I buy no Mac software, but I provide support for plenty of people who do.

They will occasionally buy software on DVD, want to watch a DVD, listen to/rip a CD, create a CD or DVD to give to a friend/relative.

Not everything is on iTunes, you know. Not by a long shot.

Comment Out of touch (Score 1) 450

"We donâ(TM)t need all those other ports, Apple says. We are living in a wireless world now, where we can connect most of our peripherals without cords."

That statement alone should give some clue as to how out of touch Apple are with reality.

I'm reminded of that every time I have to haul around an external optical drive for another enlightened Mac user.

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New Wolfenstein Game Announced: The Old Blood 61

jones_supa writes Last year, Wolfenstein: The New Order was well received, and showed that old school shooters still can do extremely well in the current market and actually be a lot of fun. Now, Bethesda Softworks is already announcing a standalone prequel to The New Order, called Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. It's back to the roots for B.J. Blazkowicz, and you embark on a perilous journey "deep within Bavaria", with the goal of infiltrating the Castle Wolfenstein. Just like last years' game, The Old Blood has been developed by Swedish company MachineGames on the same platform including id Tech 5 engine. The release date is May 5th and the game will be available for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.

Comment A few guesses (Score 1) 208

Accounts would sign in to Microsoft Live or whatever they call it now.
Linux clients (and possibly servers) would mysteriously not work quite as well as before, when the new updates intentionally use Java features known to not work well on non-MS platforms.
Servers might just be consolidated to "authorized" providers such as XBox Live.
The PC version might be crippled to get "feature parity" with the console versions?

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