Actually, the title isn't misleading. There's two companies mentioned in the article. You're referring to Andreas Dreher, the CEO of Ophthonix (a competitor). Their product gives enhanced contrast and less double vision, but not greater than 20/20 sight.
The main body of the article is referring to PixelOptics (presumably lead by Ron Blum) who claim the greater than 20/20 vision to which the title is referring.
I really don't think those quotes are valid anymore: they may have been applicable in the time when those men lived but this is a *very* different world now. I'll gladly give up a little liberty for some safety if it means I'm less likely to get murdered for some extremist cause.
Of course, there are limits - there always are. But I really don't think a few security checks at an airport could be considered the destruction of "liberty".
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If I had mod points you'd be at +3 insightful right now.
Great post. Took the words right out of my mouth.
Actually, the title isn't misleading. There's two companies mentioned in the article. You're referring to Andreas Dreher, the CEO of Ophthonix (a competitor). Their product gives enhanced contrast and less double vision, but not greater than 20/20 sight.
The main body of the article is referring to PixelOptics (presumably lead by Ron Blum) who claim the greater than 20/20 vision to which the title is referring.
Providing my numbers aren't off, I'm pretty sure yours are (the pesky bits/bytes thing):
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It's actually 131Gb/s (Gigabits per second), which works out to about 16.4 GB/s (Gigabytes/sec).
16.4 / 0.00132 = approx. 12,424 users/sec streaming 1x speed DVD data.
Or, using your metrics, about 12.4 KDVDs/sec
I really don't think those quotes are valid anymore: they may have been applicable in the time when those men lived but this is a *very* different world now. I'll gladly give up a little liberty for some safety if it means I'm less likely to get murdered for some extremist cause.
Of course, there are limits - there always are. But I really don't think a few security checks at an airport could be considered the destruction of "liberty".