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by yaakov34 15y ago
If we are going to go into detail, then let's mention that the fact that you've matched the black-body line in the CIE color space does not mean that you've matched the black-body spectrum. Which means that you can have a light that looks
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by yaakov34 15y ago
Hold on, HMIs are not incandescents, they are an arc-discharge lamp, and they have all the spectrum problems of that technology. They are probably some of the worst offenders in terms of peaky spectrum, so it's not surprising you have pro
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by yaakov34 15y ago
The picture at link [1] is correct, but it makes the LED look way, way better than it is. It does show some light smeared through the spectrum, unlike with the CFLs, but it's not actually even in intensity, and has some sharp peaks (which y
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by yaakov34 15y ago
>> LEDs have a radically different spectrum from "regular white light" > So do incandescents. What do you mean? Incandescents have essentially the perfect black-body spectrum (the effects of the spectrum of tungsten are insign
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by yaakov34 15y ago
First, to settle the question about this particular lamp: I found some specs on their website, and they claim a CRI (color rendition index) of 65 for their "neutral" version and 85 for the "warm" version. This is poorer than most modern flu
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by yaakov34 15y ago
The liquid cooling technology is what enables so many LEDs to be inside a small enclosure. I don't see how that improves the spectrum. They company doesn't even seem to make any claims along those lines (measurable claims that is - they do
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by yaakov34 15y ago
This kind of casual evaluation by a non-expert observer is incredibly meaningless. LEDs have a radically different spectrum from "regular white light". This shows up in weird looking colors when this light is used in real settings; the fact
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by yaakov34 15y ago
I seems that only blog.jquery.com is misconfigured. jquery.com is OK. But it makes sense that this would be a part of the problem, since the blog has the freshest content, and the bad result does come from the blog. However, this still does
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by yaakov34 15y ago
Can you share some details about what you found? I am not much of a webmaster, but naive searches with Google don't find any massive backlinkage to jquery.it. Maybe they are already cleaning the index, or maybe I didn't search it right. EDI
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by yaakov34 15y ago
Vitriol? Certainly not from me - I think I've been perfectly civil, and I am trying to understand the situation. I don't think your explanation holds. Pagerank is based on reputation (created by links and other means which Google isn't very
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by yaakov34 15y ago
Do you have any insight into what makes jquery.it rank so highly? I thought a pagerank of 8 was very difficult to attain. Was this done with just some SEO, or did some mega-popular site link to them by mistake? This is the real problem here
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by yaakov34 15y ago
I completely agree with the tone of your post. A spam site outranking the official site of a popular tech download is a big deal. Yes, as a web designer, you should know better, but if they can outrank jquery, they can outrank anything . I
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by yaakov34 15y ago
This is the problem with the customization of Google - for me, these are not in the top 4 results even sorted by date, although 2 of your titles show up further down. But yes, I see your point now, someone spammed Google News as well. Scum.
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by yaakov34 15y ago
I checked it out. RezVera is obviously a commercial name, not a generic name, and its entire internet presence consists of a few PR sites. Google News finds them all, and puts them on one page. It's not like they are crowding out better Rez
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by yaakov34 15y ago
Please don't get the government involved in this. As much as I dislike eHow.com, I don't think they need to be dragged away in chains for "SEOing one's way to the top of search results, title 256, section D". That's not a good kind of call
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by yaakov34 15y ago
The conflicting interests involved in building a search engine are a fascinating subject. This is probably a bit deep in the comment tree to start a discussion of it, but it's certainly true that it doesn't do you any good to present wonder
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by yaakov34 15y ago
> can't separate the wheat from the chaff at /co.cc/. The wheat is a lie.
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by yaakov34 15y ago
You must somehow have avoided running into it, but .co.cc was a fever swamp and a nightmare. For any popular search terms you can think of, it contained "popular-search-terms.co.cc" and "my-popular-search-terms.co.cc" and "best-popular-sear
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by yaakov34 15y ago
Hey, I come here to offer useless kvetching and complaints, not solutions :). Seriously, if I knew how to solve it, I'd be the CTO of Google. But I'll make a couple of guesses. I think they need to go for a lot more human input. It goes aga
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by yaakov34 15y ago
Great, and now that you let the secret out, the wires to the domain registrars are on fire, bringing us names like "i-love-my-acme-grill.com". :)
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by yaakov34 15y ago
I don't know, Google News actually doesn't seem very spammy to me. I just searched for "diabetes" - this is usually a good one to check if an index is spammed - and while it brings up some sensationalist garbage (that's life for you), it do
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by yaakov34 15y ago
Look, you and I and just about all the readers here can figure out where to find this type of information. But for a lot of internet users - maybe most of them - the internet is viewed through the slit of Google Search, so to speak. And thi
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by yaakov34 15y ago
The Google search results are still extremely spammy. For anything with commercial potential and especially anything which could lead to an immediate purchase, the noise is just overwhelming. I recently looked into getting a VPN provider; i
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by yaakov34 15y ago
From talking to Greeks, is seems that tax avoidance is a way of life for everyone from barbers and mechanics to doctors and homebuilders. Maybe the very lowest income brackets are not in on it, but it's definitely not just the billionaires
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by yaakov34 15y ago
Yeah, you've got a pretty good democracy in America. The reason that it seems like it's always "more of the same, no matter who you vote for" is that the government actually has external constraints on what it does. Bush did a lot of the un
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by yaakov34 15y ago
So the government is not a legitimate democratic representative of its people? I didn't realize the colonels were still around. Give my regards to Papadopoulos. On a more serious note, Greece is a wealthy (by world standards), educated, wel
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by yaakov34 15y ago
Really? You are from Greece, and you're serious about this? I didn't expect that this would be a serious alternative. OK, suppose that government debt gets defaulted as Greece leaves the Euro. What about private external debt, which I think
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by yaakov34 15y ago
OK, and I think I was exaggerating and being unfair to the Greeks - they are not gambling drunks, although I am annoyed at many of them throwing a tantrum because they have to repay money that was spent by their government in their coun
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by yaakov34 15y ago
Well, at least after they default, they get the thing they've been trying so hard to reach: a balanced budget. For the simple reason that nobody will lend them a cent any longer. "There, fixed that for you guys."
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by yaakov34 15y ago
You make a good point, and if it wasn't for the panic that's been gripping everyone for the last 3 years any time there is any kind of talk of bad debt, I'd say "stand back and let whoever lent money to them do due diligence next time." Get

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