With regard to "feature complete" status, Paul Thurrott of WinSuperSite writes in a section entitled "Feature complete, my butt":
testers didn't get a so-called feature-complete Vista version until February 2006. However, that build, and a subsequent interim build 5342, are not feature complete. In fact, there are many, many features missing from these builds that will apparently show up in future builds. (Link.)
I would say that this issue in TFA could still be... an issue/problem.
With regard to your Think Secret comments, I am reminded of a recent change in my Apple-tracking habits. Through the iPod color and iPod video releases, I hung on every word of the rumor sites (an alumnium G5-esque iPod... oh boy!) and tracked Engadget, Slashdot, etc. etc. to excess. Then, I realized that knowing about an Apple product I couldn't afford, and finding out about many 'products' that were merely in the imagination of Think Secret's staff was utterly pointless and a waste of my time.
Now, to follow what new thing Apple has released... I simply visit their homepage a couple of times per week.
I was thinking about the exact same issue while reading this article. After putting a lot of effort into near-silent cooling of a Pentium Northwood 2.8 chip, heat is certainly on my mind.
I think the statement (emphasis mine)
Based on the ability of electrons to exhibit one of two states - orientations described as up or down - spin transistors are switches whose state can be detected and altered without applying an electrical charge.
addresses the issue of heat generation... though in the intermediate stages between now and spin transistors (discussed above), I would think heat (and the noise associated with it) would continue to be a very significant issue.
Now wait a second. 130+ OLED's and the controlling electronics are not going to be expensive.
The controlling electronics statement can be easily discounted as false with some basic thinking: an average monitor has about 1024*1280 = 1 310 750 pixels (about 1.3*10^6 pixels) that require control. From the pictures supplied by Art. Lebedev, I counted square keys as being about 35 pixels across. This gives a single key 35^2 = 1225 pixels times around 140 keys = only 171 500 pixels to control for the keyboard. Multiply that by 2 if you feel my estimate is off, giving 343 000 pixels to control. This is about _one quarter_ of the number of pixels a normal graphics card has to deal with. Controlling only 1/4th the number of pixels will make the card at least 1/4 of the price.
As for the former, (the cost of OLED's) do note that, as quoted here (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/OLED.html) OLED technology is less expensive than LCD:
"It [OLED technology] is beginning to replace LCD technology in handheld devices such as PDAs and cellular phones because the technology is brighter, thinner, faster, lighter than LCDs, uses less power, offers higher contrast and is cheaper to manufacture."
The cost of this keyboard will be set by what people are willing to pay, not the technology that is contained within it.
Ideal free distribution studies (the sort which could be conducted over larger distances using this new technology) are complicated because the individuals involved require (by definition) both (1) perfect knowledge of the foraging sites and (2) unlimited freedom to travel to those sites, with negligible cost to do so.
the difficult thing is when real world applications have a siginificant effect on results... ideal free has been studied with foraging seals to guppies and many things in between, it's part of the important theory of optimal foraging.
but to answer your question - sometimes the study finds that there is no ideal free distribution - this can be due to individual competition disrupting the distribution or something such as difficulty in assessing patch quality. in this way, one study leads to 2 questions (and 2+ studies).
Having participtated in small scale ecology studies, I would guess that these senors will raise many more questions (which would be a good definition of the "new windows") than answers. Population ecology and the evolutionary biology that ties into it is a field with many more 'big' questions than most people realize.
In most of the primary literature I cover, for every possible cause of a behavior (such as migratory routes) that is eliminated, another 2 consistently appear (seriously). I think we will see some very interesting questions, rather than any definite answers (at least in the short term). I would definitely like to see this used with the arctic tern.
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With regard to your Think Secret comments, I am reminded of a recent change in my Apple-tracking habits. Through the iPod color and iPod video releases, I hung on every word of the rumor sites (an alumnium G5-esque iPod ... oh boy!) and tracked Engadget, Slashdot, etc. etc. to excess. Then, I realized that knowing about an Apple product I couldn't afford, and finding out about many 'products' that were merely in the imagination of Think Secret's staff was utterly pointless and a waste of my time.
... I simply visit their homepage a couple of times per week.
Now, to follow what new thing Apple has released
Now wait a second. 130+ OLED's and the controlling electronics are not going to be expensive. The controlling electronics statement can be easily discounted as false with some basic thinking: an average monitor has about 1024*1280 = 1 310 750 pixels (about 1.3*10^6 pixels) that require control. From the pictures supplied by Art. Lebedev, I counted square keys as being about 35 pixels across. This gives a single key 35^2 = 1225 pixels times around 140 keys = only 171 500 pixels to control for the keyboard. Multiply that by 2 if you feel my estimate is off, giving 343 000 pixels to control. This is about _one quarter_ of the number of pixels a normal graphics card has to deal with. Controlling only 1/4th the number of pixels will make the card at least 1/4 of the price. As for the former, (the cost of OLED's) do note that, as quoted here (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/OLED.html) OLED technology is less expensive than LCD: "It [OLED technology] is beginning to replace LCD technology in handheld devices such as PDAs and cellular phones because the technology is brighter, thinner, faster, lighter than LCDs, uses less power, offers higher contrast and is cheaper to manufacture." The cost of this keyboard will be set by what people are willing to pay, not the technology that is contained within it.
Ideal free distribution studies (the sort which could be conducted over larger distances using this new technology) are complicated because the individuals involved require (by definition) both (1) perfect knowledge of the foraging sites and (2) unlimited freedom to travel to those sites, with negligible cost to do so.
... ideal free has been studied with foraging seals to guppies and many things in between, it's part of the important theory of optimal foraging.
the difficult thing is when real world applications have a siginificant effect on results
but to answer your question - sometimes the study finds that there is no ideal free distribution - this can be due to individual competition disrupting the distribution or something such as difficulty in assessing patch quality. in this way, one study leads to 2 questions (and 2+ studies).
Having participtated in small scale ecology studies, I would guess that these senors will raise many more questions (which would be a good definition of the "new windows") than answers. Population ecology and the evolutionary biology that ties into it is a field with many more 'big' questions than most people realize.
In most of the primary literature I cover, for every possible cause of a behavior (such as migratory routes) that is eliminated, another 2 consistently appear (seriously). I think we will see some very interesting questions, rather than any definite answers (at least in the short term). I would definitely like to see this used with the arctic tern.