Phosphor? Thats a bit disappointing. While I haven't followed the field much, I would have expected that they would have have come up with a way to make a variable band gap so you have electrons jumping back and forth over a wide range of frequencies.
Another thing I imagine might be to make the LED as an integrated circuit - an array of LEDS with each junction a slightly different gap than the preceding, so while you don't really get a true continuum, a few million different colors would be awfully close (and besides the frequency that an LED produces does have a band width, so if each color is close enough, you do get a continuum with enough colors.)
Anyone know if anyone is working on either method?
But the problem is whether these people have opportunity (or reward) to work in the field in which they are talented.
Also a problem in the US - If you're in science in most cases you need to either truly love the field or otherwise be motivated in some manner for other than monetary gains (or otherwise go into law/business and contribute brilliance there).
example:
Disparity of salaries between University Professors and Football Coaches - overall, who provides more long term gain to society and who are rewarded more in terms of salary (almost an order of magnitude difference)?
But now, how do you create an object consisting of exaclty 6.022*10^23 C12-Atoms so you can calibrate your scale?
You find someone with a **lot** of time on their hands and very teeny tiny tweezers
:-)
But thats actually a pretty good question - would it be possible to take some crystal, and "count" the atoms using some technique such as Xray crystallography?
Or perhaps use some vapor deposition scheme that could precisely deposit a specific # of atoms/ molecules (counted to the precision required?)
So I suppose have a high IQ could be considered a handicap...
(and perhaps could be considered for government entitlements?)
"Help! My IQ has gone through the roof and I can't get up!"
Oh yeah your post is very true - I know many people whose IQ (at least as I perceive them) is fairly high but they are "failures" at life. Just too lazy and bored. Quite sad actually.
Yeah they would be totally blown away. Until they compare execution times normalized to processor speed, compare file size of programs with similar capability, and you tell them about viruses and exploits that involve buffer overruns (wait - didnt we know about that one back in the '50s?) and while the audience will be amazed at how fast and advanced hardware developed, they'll shake their heads in disbelief at how bloated and creaky software became.
Once its turned on and acquires AI capability, it'll realize that it is quite impolite to turn off other folks' electronics without permission and thus shut down itself
Ha! Back in my day we "time machined " using tar -u -g -v -f $backup_disk/$backup_dir/$backup_name up hill both ways in 10 feet of snow and we liked it! - heck our time machine had shiny knobs and dials with detailed oak scroll work not like this cheap plastic injection molded junk and and...
I agree. Plus you can get an "adapter" so that the old monitors can still be used.
Also proprietary is proprietary when no one else adopts your "standard" (industry standard may or may not exist/be firm at the time the product comes out)
Apple does have a history of being stubborn - keyboard/mouse connections, Hard drive, serial ports, ethernet, memory chips...
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Another thing I imagine might be to make the LED as an integrated circuit - an array of LEDS with each junction a slightly different gap than the preceding, so while you don't really get a true continuum, a few million different colors would be awfully close (and besides the frequency that an LED produces does have a band width, so if each color is close enough, you do get a continuum with enough colors.)
Anyone know if anyone is working on either method?
Another article http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/86/i28/html/8628cover4.html provides some interesting information on organic LEDs - OLEDs have interesting design applications since you can make them in flat sheets
(I think an illuminating wall would be way cool, but maybe thats just me :-))
Right now efficiencies are similar to the inorganic LEDs and fluorescent bulbs.
college sports are often _highly_ profitable to their host universities,.......subsidizing higher-order activities with populist bread and circuses :)
Hmmmm....I wonder if any Universities thought of producing "reality TV"?
{ thinking about what goes on in dorms...}
Maybe.
But the problem is whether these people have opportunity (or reward) to work in the field in which they are talented.
Also a problem in the US - If you're in science in most cases you need to either truly love the field or otherwise be motivated in some manner for other than monetary gains (or otherwise go into law/business and contribute brilliance there).
example:
Disparity of salaries between University Professors and Football Coaches - overall, who provides more long term gain to society and who are rewarded more in terms of salary (almost an order of magnitude difference)?
http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/86/i28/html/8628education.html
uh, yeah it's been done before, but the other way around.
Pre-teen through adults can appreciate his stories - his satirical and funny stories are easy to understand, clean, fun and make you want to think
Quantum mechanics is vastly, overwhelmingly, massively tested.
Gee - you're telling me - in chemistry you can hardly move without quantum mechanics rearing its head.
At least in theory.
No wait that s my hypothesis - oh geez....
You find someone with a **lot** of time on their hands and very teeny tiny tweezers
But thats actually a pretty good question - would it be possible to take some crystal, and "count" the atoms using some technique such as Xray crystallography?
Or perhaps use some vapor deposition scheme that could precisely deposit a specific # of atoms/ molecules (counted to the precision required?)
{ Well, at least have that as one of their ingredients }
Perhaps they have a few of:
:-)
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Good News:
MS is releasing specs on Word & Excel!
Bad News:
The documentation can only be opened using WordStar 2.0...
(But I hear they're working on a version for TROFF)
(and perhaps could be considered for government entitlements?)
"Help! My IQ has gone through the roof and I can't get up!"
Oh yeah your post is very true - I know many people whose IQ (at least as I perceive them) is fairly high but they are "failures" at life. Just too lazy and bored. Quite sad actually.
Go to Central Park in NYC and pay $1.00 to $2.50 / liter water.
Of course you could go to a public water fountain and pay $0...[and get water just as good or better]
In fact, a bit of work experience before college can be a really good thing.
"He's such a good salesman, he could sell ice to the Eskimos!"
and along that line:
"He's such a good salesman, he could bottle water and sell it!"
Prophetic. Hopefully the first one will not become true also (and neither the one about bottled air...)
(and yes, I can understand the reasons for buying bottled water, but compare the cost of it at $1 a bottle and the price of gasoline...)
I'll cut your tax in half
I'll make the Russians laugh
I'll feed the hungry people everywhere.
I'll bring the railroads back
New trains and new track
From Waikiki to old Delaware.
Vote for me, vote for me
I want the nomination for the Presidency
Vote for me, vote for me
If I am elected, this is how it will be.
I'll give Detroit one year
New cars that run on beer
Or anything except gasoline.
Lyrics from Chicago "Vote for Me"
Gore won - he did! Look at my chads - wooo hoo!
So's your mom!
Once its turned on and acquires AI capability, it'll realize that it is quite impolite to turn off other folks' electronics without permission and thus shut down itself
Well, kind modder, may that Karma become your Karma
But really, that monitor- remember when flat screens first came out and cost in that range?
5 years from now screens wil be very interesting...
Oh God, I don't know why I had to say that, there goes my Karma...
How else are they going to put your information on junk mail lists and sell them?
[What no e-mail addresses????]
:-)
hey kids, get your durn iPods off my lawn!
Also proprietary is proprietary when no one else adopts your "standard" (industry standard may or may not exist/be firm at the time the product comes out)
Apple does have a history of being stubborn - keyboard/mouse connections, Hard drive, serial ports, ethernet, memory chips...