That was surprisingly fascinating to watch. I'm really impressed with how backwards compatible the windows platform is. I love my MacBook but I hate how even the most basic programs seem to always require the latest version of MacOS to run so that you are forced to upgrade. I admit this is more like "forward compatibility" though.
Good luck with that.
No mod points today so a simple thank you will have to suffice. I've recently been more and more annoyed at summaries lacking the essential point for the post to make any sense. Maybe I'm just getting old or something.
I'm confused. From the quotes around "clean coal" I imagine you're being sarcastic. But the image show a beautiful scenery and no smoke or anything from the chimney, so it does indeed look very clean. Did I miss-understand anything?
The article mentions an avarage cost of $5000 to install 1 kW of solar, so it seems like a pretty good investment overall.
The patent in question, US patent 5787449, was filed on June 2 1994 so that is the date you would have to beat.
And how much has that hurt you? Are you without a job? In that case, would you have a job if Japan didn't exist? Did development in the US stop because of Japan, or is there other research still going on? Would the Prius have been built in the US if Japan didn't exist? Just curious on the reasoning.
I fail to see how loosing positions in ranking has any thing to do with that if life actually gets better for everyone. I'm not saying that is the case, just that it is an equally valid explanation.
Wow thanks for bringing my attention to such an interesting and fascinating guy. From what you write he sounds like a truly brilliant engineer and businessman man. Of course only a tiny proportion of all products make the dominating and long lasting impact on the market that you seem to want, think the light bulb, printing press or the integrated circuit. However an even tinier amount of inventions ever make it to the market or generate any revenue at all! This guy has been able to do that over and over again!
Over 220 patents! Enough said indeed! Wow, when does he even have time to come up with all these ideas, yet alone file for patent, start companies and make money. Fantastic!
But since it should be strictly more difficult to design a codec for voip (latency matters) that implies that they are doing a very good job. Unless the sound samples in the test were only spoken words. Then I agree that it is an unfair/unnecessary comparison.
oops should of course be "compliment" not "complement".
Still not allowing editing of submitted comments I notice...
I honestly didn't notice until I read the news item! And that's a complement, I hate when my favorite sites completely change style. The changes I can see so far looks good too.
Yeah I remember my friends dad using something similar for their Windows 3.11 computer. So that should have been mid 90s.
And not to forget: keeping the viewer's 100% attention just so they don't miss the skip button once it appears. Forcing the viewer to interact with the ad is probably more worth than them actually watching the remaining 15s of the ad.
Replying to my self here. Zooming the image up in gimp seems to indicate that there is in fact some fussyness built into the font already. Pretty clever way of getting our brains to fill in the missing gaps, allowing for instance W to be only four pixels wide (not "technically" enough to get all the features). So even though I found it a bit hard to read I must say it's a pretty cool attempt. Would be interesting to read the ideas and thoughts behind it all but TFA doesn't state much.
Is there fuzzy-ness built into the font or is that just firefox interpolating when I'm zooming in? One pixel is way to small on my screen to be able to read this, but maybe with larger pixels it would be ok. I guess I have to try to zoom in in gimp.
What this country needs is a good five dollar plasma weapon.
