Anathem rewards persistence, it's not an easy book to get into, but if you stick with it, you'll be taken on a seriously impressive journey. There's a strong chance you'll come out the other side thinking it's one of the best books ever written, and that Fraa Jad is... well, I can't say much without spoilers, but he's one of my favourite literary characters ever.

Yes, anandtech has a block diagram in their review here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7603/mac-pro-review-late-2013/8

Meanwhile, I've been running the same Gentoo install for ~9 years now (having migrated through 5 different machines). Rolling upgrades are awesome.

(It would be >10 years, but I did have to reinstall early on to migrate from x86 to x86-64).

The MHz number on the box is the bandwidth, not the sample rate. The sample rate is measured in samples per second (GSps). A 100MHz scope is probably adequate for analog signals up to 100MHz. However, if you're debugging a digital signal, you want a scope that has 3x the bandwidth of your signal's base frequency or more, because square waves are composed of the base frequency and an infinite number of harmonics. If you only have bandwidth for the base frequency, your square wave will be distorted into a sine wave and you won't be able to accurately see ringing, glitching, and other artifacts.

I have a 1GSps, 100MHz scope. I wouldn't use it for serious digital signal debugging above 30MHz (which is 33x lower than the sample rate), due to the bandwidth constraint. It's adequate for seeing if stuff up to 100-150MHz is "there" though (and for reading the bits out if you just want to use it as a poor man's logic analyzer), just don't expect to diagnose signal integrity and timing issues at those speeds.

Low-speed 1.8V and high-speed 0.5V LVDS mode, 800MHz... a MIPI-DSI display? :-)

Well, the summary may be misleading, but it seem to say that a proof has been found that the gap between two consecutive primes is NEVER over 600.

Or one of these (it also passes through USB 3.0, which is nice):
http://www.amazon.com/Centech-USB-Power-Meter/dp/B00DAR4ITE

This isn't new.

Funny, I had the same reaction when I read it. He seemed like a salesman for Google or something.

Dear Prince Bernard, If you're talking about my bank account, you're barking up the wrong tree :)

Fair use cases are very fact specific. If you start monkeying with the facts, Judge Chin might not feel the same way about it.

I don't know but please hire me as your lawyer when you do.

Thatswhatappealscourtsarefor

You can correct for chromatic aberration in software, to a varying degree. You can approximate it (so the aberration is ~1/3 of what it would normally be, by aligning the centers of the primary colors) for arbitrary inputs, e.g. a photograph captured with an imperfect lens (image editing software can do this). You can do it on the output side with perfect accuracy if you're displaying an image using three monochromatic light sources (e.g. a laser display), since the three wavelengths involved would then be distorted by three discrete amounts that are perfectly correctable. For RGB panels like LCDs and OLED displays the primaries aren't monochromatic, but they are more concentrated around the dominant wavelength than a natural light source with a uniform frequency distribution, so you get a result that's somewhere in between. This is what the Rift does to correct for chromatic aberration in software.

Uneven pixel density is only a problem if the pixel density at the sparsest point is too low. Today's displays already exceed visual acuity when viewed at a reasonable distance (e.g. a Nexus 10 or an iPad with a Retina display at a normal operation distance), though of course that is without covering a large fraction of the FOV. Give it a few more years and it'll only get better - once we have 8K phone-sized displays this will probably be a non-issue.