Error correcting modems have transmit and receiver buffers that are not part of the UART. The USR Courier even had a setting to lower the buffer size and latency for better performance with short block protocols like xmodem.

LEDs are about ~$30 on amazon. They've dropped about half what they were two years ago, so not really that expensive (they last a lifetime).

Incandescent bulbs here generally last 2 years. CFL and LED bulbs last half that because of our dirty power. Which is more economical in that case?

Laser light is coherent (which has to do with waveform). That's its fundamental property. The fact that it comes out of most lasers already collimated to a great extent is just a bonus side-effect of the way those lasers are built.

But most lasers are only coherent for a distance of millimeters or less and they are used for their brightness and/or narrow bandwidth. They are useless for holography and interferometry.

There IS a word. Coherent. The fact that lasers are generally for the creation and use as coherent light sources is the cause of the confusion.

coherent != collimated

And most lasers are not even coherent in use. Holography and interferometry require coherence. Most laser applications just require either a bright source or a narrow spectrum but not coherence.

Manning took the same oath that everyone entering the military takes, to defend the Constitution of the United States.

It is more of a guideline than a rule.

Professor Bernard Quatermass: The will to survive is an odd phenomenon. Roney, if we found out our own world was doomed, say by climatic changes, what would we do about it?
Dr. Mathew Roney: Nothing, just go on squabbling like usual.

Let me tell you about the time I connected the directional coupler backwards . . .

Hot fudge sundae falls on a Tuesday.

I have read that book. It did not turn out well for the LHC or the Axis.

One reason for the fees is that without ongoing activity, the state can consider the balance as abandoned and claim it for themselves.