"Do modern AMD cards still have soft-disabled capabilities?"

Yup. Today we just toss a firmware blob in there to unlock it and then fix the card report string.

OTOH, that's also how cards get counterfeited, as well.

"Obviously you've never been a digital nomad."

Tel that to my 512kbit portable satellite internet connection. Pretty much anywhere in the northern hemisphere, I have a connection.

Annnnd I've had that for roughly a decade.

So you wrote a program that knocks users on public wifi off if they're being hogs?

What if I'm using that connection to download something legal for MY work, asshole?

Being a digital nomad, you should be more than competent enough to pay for your own hotspot and secure it yourself instead of being an asshole to everyone else around you. If you rely upon being connected while mobile THAT MUCH, it's common fucking sense (which you seem to lack in spades.)

Instead you write a program that will invariably get used on and affect legitimate users.

Fuck off and think before you write code, next time.

"Do you think the reactions 'round here would be different if it had been a woman harassing a guy?"

Considering about half of this site is firmly SJW material - yes.

Are you that blind?

"you'll have to provide evidence that that's the case; it's not self-evident."

Another ignorant idiot that has never heard of Omega Drivers.

Been around for a decade plus, still unheard of.

Wake up. We're still implementing shit DX13 will not even have.

"New DX versions often require new hardware"

And this is why OpenGL is superior, and always has been.

At roughly 33% less power/cycle cost vs DX which requires being sent through the CPU two or three times instead of going directly to the GPU.

Plus, OpenGL can have anything added in - you're stuck with DX features.

"The other part is that many trade secrets lay within those binary blobs.."

Gimme a break. By now other companies have come up with the same algorithms and processes for optimal execution of specific commands on given silicon. The shit shouldn't be patentable or trade secret in the first place as it's all math.

Seriously. Two years into a three year contract and they haven't provided what is advertised within a reasonable effort?

It's only been just under a year for the company I just got hired on, I found the website isn't working as advertised, and was never meant to (hard-coded HTML as placeholders, unable to accept AJAX input from my auction plugin despite them saying they could do it) and we're already lawyering up.

We've already been hit with tens of thousands of dollars in losses because of the site - you better believe you're getting hit for as much and you need to be contacting a lawyer as this is going beyond small claims court.

Two things make me think the whole red/blue thing is wrong.

A. Shelf life of plants grown under red/blue only light. So far, I have results from the UK and Australia regarding leaf lettuces grown under full-spectrum and red/blue LEDs. The shelf life of plants grown under white light is almost double that of the shelf life of plants grown under red/blue. The plants grown under red/blue tend to have weaker stem/water transport systems.

B. While red/blue LEDs are getting closer and closer, they are still not providing the yield nor huge plants the cannabis industry expected versus HPS. While I loathe this rating, everyone uses and 'understands' it, so I'll use it here. An HPS has been shown, even in the lower power ranges, to provide over 3-4 grams per watt of rated lamp power. Red/Blue LEDs with some of the best methods are only really hitting ~2 g/w. I fixed that somewhat by increasing the blue output (because blue is needed for biomass production) but that only helped with about a 5% gain.

"That's why plants look green."

Uh, have you ever encountered a purpurea? Any variegated style of plant? Guess what color most of those tend to NOT be?

Green.

"it ignores the light reflected by the leaf"

No, it doesn't. Did you even read and comprehend the entire thing? Light that either passes through or is reflected is still eventually absorbed if it continues to be reflected towards and transmitted through leaf tissues.
And that is where the higher quantum efficiency comes in.

This is why an HPS lamp can provide such a huge yield and grow far larger-sized plants.

And I don't sell LEDs any more - I run direct fabrication of junctions, now, along with the designing and building of hydroponics buildings. EcogroLED is no longer my business, hasn't been for... two years.

Try again.

Utilize red/green instead of blue/green.

http://www.thinkspain.com/news...

The University and Professor are named in the article. Finding the study itself shouldn't be too difficult, I can't find it this moment as I'm at work.

No, the simplest solution would be to realize that you can simply make an array of blue LEDs to match mains frequencies within a given engineering tolerance (since LEDs nowdays, in the blue range, have a reverse-breakdown voltage about double-triple their forward operating voltage) and act as a rectifier. Use a phosphor with emission persistence and no flicker concerns for visual lighting unless you're relying upon a shutter timing-based system like a video camera, which will only see a dimming and not flickering of the light at certain frequencies.

God I developed this a year ago and despite practically giving the knowledge away for free people are still screwing around. Do I need to patent this shit and shut the entire market out entirely?

"LED house "bulbs" do not have long life, they're deliberately capped around 9-10,000 hours"

Tell that to my LED lamps which have been running 16+ hours daily since 2008.

Shit, I just went 3x past your rated lifetime without thinking. My bad, you ignorant shill.

>implying LEDs use a ballast, which by definition is an HVT running pure AC, versus LEDs which typically (unless they use my tech) run with an AC-DC rectifier.

Get on my level.