If they really managed to create an device that tracks multiple objects, in 3D (even when stacked), and with a resolution of 10 microns they won't just revolutionize computers and gaming. I've used industrial sensing devices that cost 100x as much and aren't even remotely capable of such feats.
^^^ 100% THIS ^^^
For the moment, I am assuming that the original reporter misunderstood the measurement. 0.01mm is REALLY SMALL. We aren't talking about tracking hands or fingers, we are talking about tracking the hairs on said hands and/or fingers.
Well, all Very Serious People know the Founding Fathers had their fingers crossed when they wrote the Bill of Rights. They only meant for the 2nd and 10th to be taken seriously.
Eh. Who cares? If the part cracks, it was over loaded. Period. Whether the part yielded plastically or elastically is immaterial.
Forging is cool. It allows the highest unit strain of any material forming process. It is also very expensive and is only possible with a limited set of geometries.
PM methods are cool. Especially with metal injection molding. You can achieve metallurgies that are impossible any other way due to differing melt / phase precipitation temperatures. It is also expensive and has its own (different) set of geometric limitations.
What I am getting at is there is no superior forming technology and understanding the strengths, weaknesses, and (most importantly) limitations is part of what engineering is all about.
Arguing that one method is "better" than another unnecessarily limits the design.
It might also be that the facebook app on the iPhone is complete shit. Gets worse with every update. Frequent force quits and even reinstalls are required to keep it responsive.
Thank you for your clearly objective and well researched treatise. I shall immediately endeavor to improve the sorry state of my personal character and reform it to your standards.
That is pretty much right there is the essential essence of Conservatism.
To paraphrase Ghandi: I like your Conservatism. Your Conservatives, on the other hand.
Since the mid-70's Conservatives have not been at all interested with efficiency in government programs. They have been focused on elimination of government programs. They do not want to do more with less, they want to do less with less (unless their district is involved, then they might be interested in doing less with more).
So it is bad to invade, but it is also bad to sit back and stay out of the rest of the worlds affairs? make up your minds people
This is the middle east. Any opinion (or even fact) you may have regarding the political situation there is WRONG. HORRIBLY WRONG. And only HITLER would propose such HORRIBLY WRONG opinions (or even facts).
I suspect that it is even worse than that. In my experience (20 years in both mass manufacturing and custom one-off manufacturing), You rarely see significant savings for production runs less than 500. Especially in aerospace where every damn thing is toleranced to the quarter-gnat's-ass.
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Yes, but. Do you know what the QUEERS are doing to the SOIL?!?
Take that HIPSTERS.
Tube amps are SOCIALISM!
Which is why NASA sank $300m into SpaceX am-I-right?
This whole "rendering" business is so gauche. I prefer to read the pure html. It can be quite refreshing.
In my defense, wikipedia places a range on the human hair from 17 to 180 microns.
The vendor's site was /.ed before. It currently does not claim a specific resolution. Just the relative improvement values of 100x and 200x.
... but this has "fake" written all over it.
If they really managed to create an device that tracks multiple objects, in 3D (even when stacked), and with a resolution of 10 microns they won't just revolutionize computers and gaming. I've used industrial sensing devices that cost 100x as much and aren't even remotely capable of such feats.
^^^ 100% THIS ^^^
For the moment, I am assuming that the original reporter misunderstood the measurement. 0.01mm is REALLY SMALL. We aren't talking about tracking hands or fingers, we are talking about tracking the hairs on said hands and/or fingers.
The one right next to the shiny red make-coffee button?
Well, all Very Serious People know the Founding Fathers had their fingers crossed when they wrote the Bill of Rights. They only meant for the 2nd and 10th to be taken seriously.
Not bold enough. We need to plug the analog hole with MAFIAA approved methods.
Profitably Harnessed Asteroid
Since when is a collection of Best Buy customer reviews a reasonable data set?
BB customers are a very low standard for consistent, informed, and detail oriented reviewers.
Eh. Who cares? If the part cracks, it was over loaded. Period. Whether the part yielded plastically or elastically is immaterial.
Forging is cool. It allows the highest unit strain of any material forming process. It is also very expensive and is only possible with a limited set of geometries.
PM methods are cool. Especially with metal injection molding. You can achieve metallurgies that are impossible any other way due to differing melt / phase precipitation temperatures. It is also expensive and has its own (different) set of geometric limitations.
What I am getting at is there is no superior forming technology and understanding the strengths, weaknesses, and (most importantly) limitations is part of what engineering is all about.
Arguing that one method is "better" than another unnecessarily limits the design.
It might also be that the facebook app on the iPhone is complete shit. Gets worse with every update. Frequent force quits and even reinstalls are required to keep it responsive.
Thank you for your clearly objective and well researched treatise. I shall immediately endeavor to improve the sorry state of my personal character and reform it to your standards.
That is pretty much right there is the essential essence of Conservatism.
To paraphrase Ghandi:
I like your Conservatism. Your Conservatives, on the other hand.
Since the mid-70's Conservatives have not been at all interested with efficiency in government programs. They have been focused on elimination of government programs. They do not want to do more with less, they want to do less with less (unless their district is involved, then they might be interested in doing less with more).
So it is bad to invade, but it is also bad to sit back and stay out of the rest of the worlds affairs? make up your minds people
This is the middle east. Any opinion (or even fact) you may have regarding the political situation there is WRONG. HORRIBLY WRONG. And only HITLER would propose such HORRIBLY WRONG opinions (or even facts).
I suspect that it is even worse than that. In my experience (20 years in both mass manufacturing and custom one-off manufacturing), You rarely see significant savings for production runs less than 500. Especially in aerospace where every damn thing is toleranced to the quarter-gnat's-ass.
Pro tip:
Before you do something illegal on your computer, switch to your non-dominant hand to maintain deniability.
If you are not manually flipping the switches yourself, you just aren't trying.
NetBSD? Is that you?
Peace is War
Love is Hate
Freedom is Slavery
Or did you have a different three in mind?
The more I think about it, the less sense the parent comment makes.
What shade of madness caused HR to hire an economist for a programming position?
The hypocrisy of such individuals is quite appalling.
The Japanese also had geometry that exceeded their mathematics.