my guess is that they tried to diversify products too quickly and blew it for the year. I was wondering how the heck they could make money on the software they pushed last year.
dropping mindstorms is a mind blowing mistake. who else is better primed to be the toy robot king of the future? even a working mini toy rover today should have made bank.
There is a differentation here - he's likely has a working prototype of his invention (sensor for holographic display), but his invention is contingent on the existance of a holographic display for it to be coupled with.
You can have an invention contingent on a non-existant technology as long as it's within the real of possibility.
So as long as someone comes up with a usable holo-display in the next 20 yrs he has a shot at making money off the patent.
"Charter plans to begin commercial rollout in the Rochester, Minnesota area during Q4 of 2003. The Rochester market currently serves 55,000 households."
Factor in that 100k units were reportedly purchased and this means nobody is realistically seeing this until mid-late '04.
but I suppose you could still move to Rochester, MN
old monochrome plasma displays are transparent and they have been used as bank teller screens (camera was behind the screen). the electrodes were made thin enough to be transparent. so you can get a transparent screen with offboard circuitry. lcds use transparent electrodes today.
the use of high speed transparent transistors appears to be the trick here, so the full video circuitry could be put on the screen.
thank goodness someone else can read.
the article says 10-20Mb/s of throughput for.g vs 5Mb/s for.b
it doesn't say if.g will be marketed at 50ish Mbit/s raw data rate either and that could still happen.
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my guess is that they tried to diversify products too quickly and blew it for the year. I was wondering how the heck they could make money on the software they pushed last year. dropping mindstorms is a mind blowing mistake. who else is better primed to be the toy robot king of the future? even a working mini toy rover today should have made bank.
The Martian daytime sky is generally a butterscotch (yellow/brown) color. See NASA link here: http://humbabe.arc.nasa.gov/mgcm/faq/sky.html
I think it's odd that they mentioned radiation as an issue, but not hypersonic winds. I haven't seen anyone adequately address this yet.
There is a differentation here - he's likely has a working prototype of his invention (sensor for holographic display), but his invention is contingent on the existance of a holographic display for it to be coupled with. You can have an invention contingent on a non-existant technology as long as it's within the real of possibility. So as long as someone comes up with a usable holo-display in the next 20 yrs he has a shot at making money off the patent.
"Charter plans to begin commercial rollout in the Rochester, Minnesota area during Q4 of 2003. The Rochester market currently serves 55,000 households." Factor in that 100k units were reportedly purchased and this means nobody is realistically seeing this until mid-late '04. but I suppose you could still move to Rochester, MN
my question is - if you try to open an incompatible zip file, can you tell if its incompatible, or is there just a general error?
old monochrome plasma displays are transparent and they have been used as bank teller screens (camera was behind the screen). the electrodes were made thin enough to be transparent. so you can get a transparent screen with offboard circuitry. lcds use transparent electrodes today. the use of high speed transparent transistors appears to be the trick here, so the full video circuitry could be put on the screen.
thank goodness someone else can read. the article says 10-20Mb/s of throughput for .g vs 5Mb/s for .b
it doesn't say if .g will be marketed at 50ish Mbit/s raw data rate either and that could still happen.
or then again, if they suck, I might not use Opteron chips. come on, people. this sun news has been repeated monthly