I'm sure someone else mentioned this; OLED are notorious for their short lifetime:
The biggest technical problem left to overcome has been the limited lifetime of the organic materials. Particularly, blue OLEDs typically have lifetimes of around 5,000 hours when used for flat panel displays, which is lower than typical lifetimes of LCD or Plasma technology. However, recent experimentation has shown that it's possible to swap the chemical component for a phosphorescent one, if the subtle differences in energy transitions are accounted for, resulting in lifetimes of up to 20,000 hours for blue PHOLEDs.
Also, the intrusion of water into displays can damage or destroy the organic materials. Therefore, improved sealing processes are important for practical manufacturing and may limit the longevity of more flexible displays. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED
20,000 hours (2 years and some change of being on 24/7) isn't probably what you were hoping for, but also in the wikipedia article it does say that OLED has the potential to cost less than LCD or Plasma which is a big plus. If that is true, I could see myself replacing my (fairly old) 19" LCDs for OLED.
Yeah... ever since I was young and heard the promises (and lies!) of near future sky cars I thought to myself that it'll never work until our buildings are made of something way harder and durable enough to withstand everyday "wear" of average people flying around.
I can just imagine people escalating the occasional "car drives into house" by entering through the roof.
I would of gave you points if you had a name. Oryx and Crake is spot on. For those that haven't read it, part of the story deals with genetics and what has come of it. In particular there are pigs that have human organs for transplants.
"We've already seen the University of Wisconsin tell the RIAA to go away, but the University of Nebaska has gone one step further: it's asking the RIAA to pay up for wasting its time with the silly demand to push students into paying up. The spokesperson for the University also notes that since they constantly rotate IP addresses and have no need to hang onto that information for very long, they simply cannot help the RIAA. They have no clue who was attached to which IP address at the time the RIAA is complaining about."
Between Final Fantasy XI, Worlds of Warcraft, and City of Heroes... I think a lot of people could care less about what MS is releasing (or shutting down for that matter). I don't think what MS is doing could be considered wrong, but I do believe this is going to hurt them later in the market. Who says that their next project won't be scrapped so quickly as well? MMORPG players will get really ticked if they keep having games released with no future support... playing a MMORPG is a huge investment in time for some.
He was a master at Identity Theft and forgery over 35 years ago, cashing in around $2.5 million dollars worth of fraudulent checks in every state and 26 foreign countries in a period of 5 years.
So what?
Well now he works for the FBI lecturing at their academy. Not only that, over 14,000 financial institutions, corporations and law enforcement agencies use his knowledge and prevention programs.
Well isn't that funny? Seems like the best person for the job is the one that actually spent time doing the crime. After all, they know how it works first hand.
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Also, the intrusion of water into displays can damage or destroy the organic materials. Therefore, improved sealing processes are important for practical manufacturing and may limit the longevity of more flexible displays. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED
20,000 hours (2 years and some change of being on 24/7) isn't probably what you were hoping for, but also in the wikipedia article it does say that OLED has the potential to cost less than LCD or Plasma which is a big plus. If that is true, I could see myself replacing my (fairly old) 19" LCDs for OLED.
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2006/12/photoshop_and _multicore.html
Multi-core processors may not be as fantastic as you thought.
Yeah... ever since I was young and heard the promises (and lies!) of near future sky cars I thought to myself that it'll never work until our buildings are made of something way harder and durable enough to withstand everyday "wear" of average people flying around.
I can just imagine people escalating the occasional "car drives into house" by entering through the roof.
http://bzine.com/ is on to your ideas, except they seem pretty hung up on Britney Spears right now.
Might as well just replace said secretary with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal.
I would of gave you points if you had a name. Oryx and Crake is spot on. For those that haven't read it, part of the story deals with genetics and what has come of it. In particular there are pigs that have human organs for transplants.
I hope the Univesity of Nebaska wins this battle. I also hope that this is a sign of othe colleges sticking up fo thei students as well.
But then again, it's all about who gets the money in the end isn't it? Looking out fo the paying custome seems to be in thei best inteest.
That must of been a lot of midget porn then, because of the smaller file size... *ducks*
Bleh... must ... learn to use preview button!
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Between Final Fantasy XI, Worlds of Warcraft, and City of Heroes ... I think a lot of people could care less about what MS is releasing (or shutting down for that matter). I don't think what MS is doing could be considered wrong, but I do believe this is going to hurt them later in the market. Who says that their next project won't be scrapped so quickly as well? MMORPG players will get really ticked if they keep having games released with no future support ... playing a MMORPG is a huge investment in time for some.
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Remember when MSN was broken for other browsers (namely Opera)? They supplied different browsers with stylesheets that made browser appear display webpages incorrectly.
I always thought that was fishy.
I was thinking more along the lines of Killer Segway Robots funded by the military.
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So it's basically an system emulator and N64 roms using flash and running on newer generation computer hardware. At least, that's how I see it.
Sweet! A cure for cancer!
It's found in our sewage?
Ew, nevermind then.
Trustworthy Computing is computing that is as available, reliable and secure as electricity, water services and telephony.
With yesterday's event, I'm thinking those aren't such good references anymore.
Eventually (hopefully) their handwriting will be so poor they'll have to use computers! Thats one way to get rid of the ancient use of paper.
... Which reminds me I need to figure out how these three seashells work.
Hmm
Stealing souls since '666
He was a master at Identity Theft and forgery over 35 years ago, cashing in around $2.5 million dollars worth of fraudulent checks in every state and 26 foreign countries in a period of 5 years.
So what?
Well now he works for the FBI lecturing at their academy. Not only that, over 14,000 financial institutions, corporations and law enforcement agencies use his knowledge and prevention programs.
Well isn't that funny? Seems like the best person for the job is the one that actually spent time doing the crime. After all, they know how it works first hand.