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  1. Re:why are sensors in RGB instead of CMY? on Kodak Unveils Brighter CMOS Color Filters · · Score: 1

    A green filter allows through half of pure cyan and half of pure yellow light. Cyan and yellow together constitute 2/3rds of your defined color space in different combinations. In order to have a basis vector for the color spectrum (really what we're looking for), we need magenta as well, of which a green filter absorbs 100%. So your green filter allows through 1/2 of 2/3rds of your spectrum = 1/3

    A cyan filter allows through 100% of cyan light, 50% of yellow light (the green part), and 50% of magenta light (the blue part).
    That's a total of 2/3rds of the available spectrum.

    Each filter of RGB absorbs 2/3rds of the spectrum.
    Each filter of CMY absorbs 1/3rd of the spectrum.
    You can linearly combine either set of color filters to get all achievable colors.

  2. Re:why are sensors in RGB instead of CMY? on Kodak Unveils Brighter CMOS Color Filters · · Score: 1

    Actually, a green filter would only allow the green components of the cyan and yellow light through. Light always works in the additive space. leehwtsohg is right. You also shouldn't theoretically lose any color resolution (I think wiki's wrong on this one), since twice as much of each color is being sampled on each 2x2 pixel.

  3. Re:wow, that must be embarassing on Semi-Identical Twins Discovered · · Score: 1
    From TFA:

    The twins are chimaeras, meaning that their cells are not genetically uniform. Each sperm has contributed genes to each child. So they would be "identical" from the mother's DNA (which depending on the genes that activate from the mother's side, can increase or decrease the closeness of appearance between the twins). However each sperm would contribute a different set of DNA (but since the twins are chimeras, they get both sets in different areas).

    I don't even want to imagine the scenario that would be required to get two sperm from two different fathers to fertilize one egg at the same time.
  4. Re:Highest Honor on James Gosling Appointed to the Order of Canada · · Score: 1

    That's only true if there's a Canadian team in the finals.

  5. I doubt it on The Open Source Business? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Strangely enough, we tried this type of concept in running our WoW guild. It was nice at first, but as we increased in visibility, we needed people to take on specific roles, and be able to make snap decisions without consulting others. A hierarchical power structure ended up materializing despite our best efforts to keep it decentralized. Also, when we tried decision-making by polling everyone on every single issue, the decisions would take insanely long to determine. In the end, while in a perfect world an "Open-Source Business" should be implementable, I would need major convincing to believe that it could be done and maintained in our world.

  6. Re:interesting theory on Proposal to Update the Electoral College · · Score: 1

    Um...isn't Democracy about making everyone's voice heard, no matter how educated/uneducated you are? Your statement leans disturbingly toward controlling who can/can't vote.

  7. Re:Tax payer money at work on Virtual Reality Gaming System Tests for Telepathy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not THAT weird. By measuring the state of the first entangled particle, you are affecting the state of the second particle, but there's no direct way you can directly influence to which state the first particle resolves. The fact that the second particle resolves to the same state is pretty much irrelevant (for information transfer anyways), seeing as you can't actually influence the first particle's state.

  8. Re:WOW! a movie!!! on More Details on The Warcraft Movie · · Score: 1

    Night Elf Mage? You haven't played much WoW at all, have you?

  9. Re:Lost In Translation on More Details on The Warcraft Movie · · Score: 1

    And once you've actually seen the movie (assuming you got past the numerous 2 hour lines), you'll discover that it's mostly a black screen. The studio/theater will deny anything is wrong with it for several weeks. Then they'll release an "updated" version that has less black. This will continue until the 1080p HD DVD/Blu Ray release several years down the line.

  10. Re:well duh on Canadian Music Stars Fight Against DRM · · Score: 1

    Naw. If we get Shatner back, we need to keep Evangeline Lilly and Elisha Cuthbert to counter Shatner's anti-hotness.

  11. Boom vs. Bubble on The New Boom · · Score: 1

    "The problem is that exuberance can make it hard to tell one from the other." If one looks more deeply into it, it's actually far easier to tell than the poster would imply. Quite simply, for the .com bubble of the late 90s, there was a ton of capital being invested in companies that were yet to turn a profit. These companies also had barely any assets worth discussing. Their market capitalization to total assets ratio was so inflated that one wonders how people didn't notice earlier. Today's "boom" is slightly different in that many of the large, successful companies such as Google and Yahoo are turning very nice, positive EPS numbers, and their market cap to total assets ratio isn't nearly as ridiculous (even if it's still inflated...which is usually the case in a bullish market). Google's current share price is roughly 15x each share's book value, reflected by assets (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=GOOG). This is inflated, but with a 20% annual return on assets, Google has enough cashflow to be able to help justify this. Also, Google has almost 100% quarterly revenue growth, which also helps justify the share price. Basically people don't invest into them in hopes that they will deliver a product that will turn profits in the future; they invest because they're constantly delivering products that are turning a profit. That doesn't seem like a bubble inflated with hot air for me.

  12. Re:Planets from stars? on Strange Mini Solar System Found · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Stars shine, planets don't.

  13. Really good service on Google Local Launched In Canada · · Score: 1

    I used google the other day to search for furniture stores near Waterloo, ON. I didn't know it had the local feature yet, but it spit out (among a bunch of links to directory listings) amazing outlets with the distance to each from my home (scary, I know)...or at least within .5 miles.

  14. Re:Why Harry? on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 1

    I was referring to witchcraft being presented as evil. As I said, magic is just a plot device.

  15. Re:Why Harry? on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 1

    In narnia, it's presented as evil. In potter, it's presented as good. simple difference, but it can be what sways between a banning or full support.

  16. Re:Why Harry? on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Harry Potter actually refers to it as witchcraft. This causes a problem with some Christian organizations, as it's clearly against their teaching. CS Lewis, on the other hand, was simply using it as a plot device. Also, the author of Harry Potter is a proponent of wicca. I'm not saying anything for or against either, but those are the main reasons for banning them.

  17. Another link: on Revenge Really Does Taste Sweet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Here's a link to the same article from CBC. I have to say, this seems to be one of those things we don't need to be TOLD are true. Everyone knows that getting revenge feels good (temporarily anyways).

  18. Outsourcing your own job. on Outsourcing is Good for You · · Score: 5, Funny

    On top of that, you can outsource your own job, take up another one, and outsource it too. Basically you can be making way more than you currently are. I think there was a /. story on this a while back.

  19. Re:A busy day for the feds... on Justice Dept. Raids Homes of File Swappers · · Score: 5, Informative

    As someone who has used the DC client before, most hubs run between 10 and 200 TB or user shares. So the idea that there was 40 PB per hub being shared is preposterous. Neo-Modus had a news item on their site when the TOTAL culmination of ALL THE HUBS sharing data reached ONE PETABYTE. I'm sure that each hub was probably sharing around 40TB.

  20. School on Sims 2 Goes Gold · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great...just in time for the next semester. That means one of two things: either I get addicted and fail the semester, or I wait till my next work term. What a dilemma.

  21. Re:Other problems .... on Lucas to Make Sequels to Star Wars After All? · · Score: 1

    You have to consider that in the Thrawn Trilogy, they were using an imperfect cloning method, not nearly as refined as the Kamino cloners'. If he wants his actors aged, I guess he could use some of the NJO, but that has much less of a Star Wars feel. I guess the X-Wing series would be good too, as they cover the taking-over of many important areas. However, those books don't focus on the main character (which I guess COULD be a good thing).

  22. Thrawn Trilogy on Lucas to Make Sequels to Star Wars After All? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If he used the stories from the Thrawn Trilogy, and got a different director, basically only producing the project (taking some cut), they might be ok.

  23. Mars and Moon deeds on Lawyers In Space... · · Score: 1

    What about those Mars and Moon deeds that you can buy at Mastermind or other science stores? Do these automatically become null and void?

  24. IBM needs linux on IBM Has 'No Intention' of Using Patents Against Linux · · Score: 1

    Currently IBM has thousands of developers working with linux. It would simply be uneconomical for them to try to get rid of it.

  25. Re:Why? on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    um...WHAT??? Last time I checked, 10/3 (and 10/4 and 10/6 and 10/7 and 10/8 and 10/9...let alone every number greater than 10) is NOT an integer, thus 10 is NOT divisible by every number aside from 0. The prime factors of 10 are 2 and 5, thus it is divisible by 2 and 5, aside from 1 and itself.