In addition to the effects of ambient lighting, a matte screen diffuses light generated by the display. Fine details lose more contrast on a matte screen than on a glossy screen, and you can't read the intensity levels of fine details with a camera's light meter.
The article says that most water cooling systems use silicone tubing, which the author seems to think is not a plastic. I'm not an expert on plastics, but PVC seems like a poor choice to me. It's too likely to degrade over a decade or so and become brittle or fragile.
I recently read a book about Australia, and one of the conclusions was that Australia's remarkable biodiversity is due in part to the variety of very nasty conditions. Areas with good conditions support generalist species and they dominate. Areas with bad conditions -- too much bauxite, too much iron, too much magnesium -- develop specialized species that can live only there and not elsewhere.
In other words, conditions that encourage biodiversity do not necessarily encourage useful or productive species. The value of supporting biodiversity needs to be examined for each instance.
I think it would be better to describe evolution as a statistical process. A genetic improvement doesn't guarantee survival, it merely improves the odds.
Rubber treads are no problem, it's steel treads that can tear up roads. Some old farm tractors had metal wheels, and generally they aren't allowed on public roads because of the damage they do.
How times change. In 1968, MIT's introductory computer course taught FORTRAN. Much of the learning struggle involved batch processing and FORTRAN's peculiarities and strict format rules.
The optical scanners are simply counters, and their purpose (compared to hand counting) is to be less labor intensive and more accurate. Touchscreen and other all-electronic systems get rid of any permanent physical medium for making the vote. Lacking a macroscopic physical medium, there is no meaningful way to inspect ballots or do a recount that has any significance.
The closest I've seen to soldiers in the street was state national guard after the Los Angeles / Rodney King riots. People were generally very grateful to see them.
Whether people are happy with "soldiers are marching in the street acting like cops HERE" depends entirely upon whether they are thought to be enemies or friends.
There is no such word as varifiable, but if there were it would come from the obsolete root word "varify", which means "to make varied, to diversify". This would oppose what I assume you mean, "verifiable".
Others have already mentioned technical changes in the game affecting the probabilities. History also changes the probabilities. In 1942 we were in World War II, and there was a draft. Some good players were already gone, making it easier for the outstanding remaining players to set individual records.
If the companies sited their data centers in big cities and used old, inefficient equipment, you'd be griping about pollution and global warming.
Saving money means making the best use of manpower. It means not wasting. It means freeing resources to put to other, better uses. Don't sneer at greed, it promotes progress.
Germanium has a lower temperature limit than silicon. One reason is that its bandgap is smaller, so it goes to zero at a lower temperature, at which point it's useless. I've also read that germanium typically uses a dopant which melts at a low temperature. Materials with large bandgaps (silicon carbide) are useful for high temp semiconductors.
Vitesse had a 0.35 micron GaAs CMOS process that was capable - in principle - of putting millions of mesfets on a chip. As the internet bubble collapsed and Vitesse lost huge amounts of money, they abandoned the process. They could not afford the step to a smaller geometry.
As I understand it (I'm no expert; I could easily be wrong) GaAs starts to lose its speed advantage below the 0.35 micron node because the drift velocity saturates.
An additional (less significant) factor is that the equipment to make larger finished wafers is more expensive. Big, accurate optics and steppers are difficult to make and costly.
I went to a grade school where everyone brought their own lunch. Not a single child was eating stolen food, food from a source that no parent could determine that was fresh and nutritious. There were no cases of hundreds of children getting ill at once from food-borne disease, as happened several times later in my education at a school with a cafeteria. No demands for special foods for kids with allergies or peculiar diseases. No lawsuits.
I've never understood why Conservatives are opposed to funding research.
Because government funded research is government controlled research, politically controlled research. Censored. Restricted and directed by bureaucrats, whose incentive is to keep their jobs by extending the duration of the project.
Because if the government funds a project, people who do not agree with that project are forced to suport it at gunpoint.
The flash plugin itself may not have access to my filesystem (I don't know), but the browser using the plugin has access to the filesystem. If I view a flash image, it's stored as a file in the cache directory. I can exit the browser, restart the browser, read the file and display it. I can rename the file XXXX.swf, move it anywhere, view it any time.
A little more history: Motorola's Quasar brand was a very significant attempt to gain market share. Motorola had always been an also-ran brand of TV, and Mot recognized that with American TVs losing market share they were going to have to do much better if they were going to be profitable. Mot introduced the Quasar brand with a lot of publicity and heavy advertising, and they made a good product. It didn't help, any gain in market share was insignificant. The situation was for all practical purposes hopeless, so they gave up.
I had a similar thought with regard to energy (frequency, wavelength). Send the incoming photon through a prism to separate various energy levels out to many discrete detectors. I suppose there's some limitation set by quantum efects, but it seems to me 8 or 10 bits should not be too dificult theoretically.
High pressure lamps are not monochromatic because the high pressure tends to spread the spectrum significantly. They are very strongly dominantly yellow.
A low pressure sodium lamp is more nearly monochromatic.
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Take a look at table tennis, where the ball can cross the net four times in a second. Try to explain that in terms of prediction with a 500 ms lag.
In addition to the effects of ambient lighting, a matte screen diffuses light generated by the display. Fine details lose more contrast on a matte screen than on a glossy screen, and you can't read the intensity levels of fine details with a camera's light meter.
Most warping tools are of poor quality so is Photoshop's liquify. Liquify quickly turns the part of the image it's working on to mush.
The article says that most water cooling systems use silicone tubing, which the author seems to think is not a plastic. I'm not an expert on plastics, but PVC seems like a poor choice to me. It's too likely to degrade over a decade or so and become brittle or fragile.
In other words, conditions that encourage biodiversity do not necessarily encourage useful or productive species. The value of supporting biodiversity needs to be examined for each instance.
I think it would be better to describe evolution as a statistical process. A genetic improvement doesn't guarantee survival, it merely improves the odds.
Rubber treads are no problem, it's steel treads that can tear up roads. Some old farm tractors had metal wheels, and generally they aren't allowed on public roads because of the damage they do.
How times change. In 1968, MIT's introductory computer course taught FORTRAN. Much of the learning struggle involved batch processing and FORTRAN's peculiarities and strict format rules.
In my day we had to use Rubylith and stone knives, and we liked it that way.
The optical scanners are simply counters, and their purpose (compared to hand counting) is to be less labor intensive and more accurate. Touchscreen and other all-electronic systems get rid of any permanent physical medium for making the vote. Lacking a macroscopic physical medium, there is no meaningful way to inspect ballots or do a recount that has any significance.
Whether people are happy with "soldiers are marching in the street acting like cops HERE" depends entirely upon whether they are thought to be enemies or friends.
There is no such word as varifiable, but if there were it would come from the obsolete root word "varify", which means "to make varied, to diversify". This would oppose what I assume you mean, "verifiable".
Another question is how bad the spurs (secondary resonances) are. This is important for filters; for oscillators you generally don't care.
Others have already mentioned technical changes in the game affecting the probabilities. History also changes the probabilities. In 1942 we were in World War II, and there was a draft. Some good players were already gone, making it easier for the outstanding remaining players to set individual records.
Saving money means making the best use of manpower. It means not wasting. It means freeing resources to put to other, better uses. Don't sneer at greed, it promotes progress.
Germanium has a lower temperature limit than silicon. One reason is that its bandgap is smaller, so it goes to zero at a lower temperature, at which point it's useless. I've also read that germanium typically uses a dopant which melts at a low temperature. Materials with large bandgaps (silicon carbide) are useful for high temp semiconductors.
As I understand it (I'm no expert; I could easily be wrong) GaAs starts to lose its speed advantage below the 0.35 micron node because the drift velocity saturates.
An additional (less significant) factor is that the equipment to make larger finished wafers is more expensive. Big, accurate optics and steppers are difficult to make and costly.
I went to a grade school where everyone brought their own lunch. Not a single child was eating stolen food, food from a source that no parent could determine that was fresh and nutritious. There were no cases of hundreds of children getting ill at once from food-borne disease, as happened several times later in my education at a school with a cafeteria. No demands for special foods for kids with allergies or peculiar diseases. No lawsuits.
Because if the government funds a project, people who do not agree with that project are forced to suport it at gunpoint.
The flash plugin itself may not have access to my filesystem (I don't know), but the browser using the plugin has access to the filesystem. If I view a flash image, it's stored as a file in the cache directory. I can exit the browser, restart the browser, read the file and display it. I can rename the file XXXX.swf, move it anywhere, view it any time.
A little more history: Motorola's Quasar brand was a very significant attempt to gain market share. Motorola had always been an also-ran brand of TV, and Mot recognized that with American TVs losing market share they were going to have to do much better if they were going to be profitable. Mot introduced the Quasar brand with a lot of publicity and heavy advertising, and they made a good product. It didn't help, any gain in market share was insignificant. The situation was for all practical purposes hopeless, so they gave up.
I had a similar thought with regard to energy (frequency, wavelength). Send the incoming photon through a prism to separate various energy levels out to many discrete detectors. I suppose there's some limitation set by quantum efects, but it seems to me 8 or 10 bits should not be too dificult theoretically.
A low pressure sodium lamp is more nearly monochromatic.