This seems like a mistake... it's hard to build a brand around a huge amount of products with only marginal differences. Yes there are advantages of one aspect over another, but having to choose which aspect to spend $500 on could be an infuriating choice to make.
Same - been on the fence about the biolite because it's only paying for the weight if you're 100% wood based on your trip.
This kind of makes that decision easy I think. The design seems nice, and the fact that it folds is doubly so. In backpacking your limits are in both weight and volume.
I'd like to see some reviews of ruggedness - the main thing I'm concerned about is what happens to the part of my USB cord that's plugged into the unit - it may be designed for high heat, but an average apple plug probably isn't.
I am not sure if these replies count as confirmed. They are more sources citing different events. But the sources are often official USSR documents, which are not being doctoring.
The final official transcript, for one, reads like propaganda.
How far have LEDs come in terms of looking pleasant in terms of light quality? There's wildly different anecdotal data on how well people respond even to the highest quality CRI. Looking at spectroradiometer charts even bulbs rated 95+ CRI have very narrow spikes compared to a blackbody radiator.
In terms of CRI, I have not yet found a line of LED bulbs that can accomplish the same color accuracy I've come to enjoy from my high-CRI fluorescent bulbs. CREE and SORAA are among the best, as far as I can tell. But I am a layperson when it comes to illumination. I have also decided to concede high-CRI as long as I can retain the high color temperature that I prefer (I prefer 5000K interior illumination even in the evening, which I understand is uncommon).
I'm not running a lab or anything where CRI is critical. I had simply preferred high-CRI when I was given the luxury of opting for that when I switched my house from incandescent to fluorescent ten years ago. I would like to see better CRI in LED, but to-date it doesn't seem to be a focus, even amount the high-end brands.
> Looking at spectroradiometer charts even bulbs rated 95+ CRI have very narrow spikes compared to a blackbody radiator.
Are you sure you're not looking at SPDs for CFLs instead?
LED lightbulbs at least typically seem to have relatively broad and even spectral coverage, even if the distribution is a little lumpy and only a rough approximation of a BB.
All the SPDs of CFLs I've seen on other other hand, are vastly worse, with lots of super intense and narrow spikes in the middle of large areas of almost nothing.
In other words, CFL SPDs look nothing like a BB SPD, whereas LEDs can kinda-sorta-come-close-if-you-squint (it depends on the particular bulb, but some are not bad at all).
[LED lighting also seems much more likely to improve significantly in the future, as it's been developed for a much shorter time than florescent lighting.]
I have Cree LED bulbs throughout my house. I've been very happy with their quality of light. I haven't done any in depth analysis, but being a photographer, I've come to notice light quality, and these are similar to most incandescent bulbs.
I moved into an apartment not too long ago that was full of CFLs. For me I found the quality of the light incredibly bad, a bit like being under office strip lighting but not as bright. I replaced them all with Philips LED bulbs and am extremely happy with the quality of the light. The light is more bluey than a tungsten bulb but apart from that I found them to be the best bulbs of any type that I've ever had.
One thing I'm seeing on Hipmunk specifically is lower contrast and lack of shading has to be made up for by white space - the after seems to have a lot less information on screen, while still being (at least in my perspective) harder to read at a glance.
the windows client is equally excellent, and it's still the only IM platform (to my knowledge) that supports inline image sending, which I've gotten very used to. Plus the windows version handles IRC elegantly enough.
The problem here wasn't that he was accused, but that the entire case was seemingly going through based on an interpretation of the primary evidence, as opposed to the evidence itself, which seems ridiculous to me.
I am more concerned about the possibility that this is not unique, that it happens all the time, and that people wind up pleading guilty because they think they have no chance of winning the trial.
I tend to only buy cheap games (or heavily discounted games) on Steam, partially because of their DRM. A game on Steam isn't bought, it's more of an indefinite lease. If Steam as a service shuts down, or something happens to my account, Valve isn't guaranteeing me access to my games (as far as I know).
I try to buy on GOG even if it's slightly more for games I wish to keep, archive the installer, and be able to revisit years into the future.
