LEDs now days are so good that after they hit their typical 70% of brand-new output they're still pushing more light per watt than brand-new HID bulbs.

So who buys used LEDs? Smart people.

5 years payback time?

You can buy the full fucking retrofit from Alibaba and your typical payback time is six months OR LESS.

LEASING SCHEMES ARE SCAMS. QUIT FALLING FOR LEASING SCAMS.

registrar turned off auto-renew, the alert emails were nowhere to be found, and my domain was suddenly owned by a cayman islands company.

Lesson: never rely on others to save you from yourself.

Don't ever take a chance with your domains, register them for 10 years at a time.

100% agree. I've owned a 4char domain for over two decades. Fortunately it's not a common combination and doesn't make any good acronyms, so no problems so far for me. But I still keep it registered 10 out AND make damn sure I know my domain unlock codes. (you will remember when godaddy locked all those people out awhile ago when their dns and registrar pages went down, no unlock codes means you do not have control, only your registrar does)

I have a very basic web page system and also have been running email on that domain the entire time though, so I hope that's a good enough case if need be.

Your statistics suck. Nothing talking about what caused the traffic-related death. Drunk fucks? Inattentive idiots on cell phones? Intentional suicide? Too busy focusing on the radio dial than the road? None of your point has any relevance without that additional information.

"So your night vision isn't getting fucked with by the head lights of oncoming cars?"

Less so than when you go throwing more photons at your eyes from inside the windshield, taking detail away from what's outside the windshield, and blocking your vision because you're trying to see shit outside your windshield through a damned reflected projection coming from inside your windshield.

"but that's probably because sodium vapor lights are efficient and reliable"

*LAAAAAUGH* Efficient in ONE COLOR with horrible color and detail reproduction.

" The move to LED street lighting is going to see a lot more blue light at night (white LED's being a blue LED with yellow phosphor)"

You're trying to talk to someone that does LEDs for a living about LEDs?

We've got new junction tech that allows a single substrate to produce all wavelengths, and is tunable in-manufacturing. Blue with a shit phosphor isn't going to be around much longer.

"No, there is substantial debate on this subject still."

From IDIOTS. The USAF has already conducted test after test after test. For night conditions, a red HUD causes the least amount of interference. We also know exactly why this is, it is a simple matter of chemistry.

"Get a car with good headlights, use them."

That won't make a difference if your green or blue HUD is overcoming the average levels of light coming through your windshield - it will effectively wash out anything past the HUD. Similar to a dirty windshield in application.

though only if you identify the scope of the work. You need a bricklayer to build the house, but he needs to be educated if he's going to be the GC / project lead. Don't hire unskilled labor for a skilled position.

But it totally makes sense to hire basic codemonkeys for the grind work. You don't need a CS degree to maintain your site's javascript or write queries all day long.

"browser standards compliance is so much better"

Not even. Closest one to any sort of compliance is Chrome, which is a multi-process steaming hunk of garbage. It can do HTML5 and WebGL properly.

FireFox? Trying to log into my in-development game using the web interface, (again, pure HTML5 and WebGL) it fucking horks. What's sad is that IE8 works better for my web game than the latest version of FireFox.

Opera? Give me a fucking break.

"some developers distrust its use in larger projects because (some say) it ultimately leads to breakage-prone code that's harder to maintain."

Most likely because they write shit bloated code in the first place.

Meanwhile, jQuery + SQLite + MariaDB connector, I've got my own personal intelligent porn recommendation/scraper/indexer site that runs through a few million images and renders my requested search results in under a tenth of a second.

So odds are, it's those developers talking about breakage-prone code that are the crap devs, anyways.

Avira sucks.

Common sense with yearly upgrades.

Haven't been compromised since Win2K/BLASTER days.

Meanwhile, I can force-uninstall Avira, because its own protection mechanisms are ABSOLUTE ASS.

You're the shill. Take Avira's dick out of your mouth for a minute. Even NOD32 kicks the shit out of Avira.

Dude, Canada's maple whiskey is some of the best shit on the planet.

http://www.saq.com/page/en/saq...

If you think otherwise, you're sorely mistaken.

That's coming from a BAD alcoholic with two+ decades of experience tasting alcohols from around the world.

You do not need to be driving. You do not need HUDs to tell you that the red sign up ahead is a stop sign. Nor do you need some accident early-warning system - if you WATCHED THE FUCKING ROAD you'd likely see the accident scene before getting to it (some locations/obstructions of scenery may give varying results.)

And wait for your night vision to get completely turned to ass when they start introducing these HUDs in different colors as a fashion statement. Anything other than red - you're much more likely to crash at night because your night vision is being fucked with.

HUDs MAKE ZERO SENSE IN TYPICAL CIVILIAN APPLICATIONS.

Keep that shit in the military where it belongs.

Apparently since the mods have zero critical thinking ability, I'll just have to answer.

We have EMULATORS.

Transpilers are FUCKING WORTHLESS in the face of emulation.

"On a very closely related thought this same sort of idea can be used to translate software so that what ran on older legacy platforms or incompatible platforms can automatically be able to run on newer hardware"

Transpilers have existed for ages.

" We need this in a big way."

There's a reason transpilers aren't in use today despite existing - I'll leave that up to you and some deeper critical thinking than what you currently display.