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Quote: Originally Posted by boredumb Okay, so now we've got Star Wars, to go along with Dune, the Terminators and Battlestar Galactica, but I have to say what Fake_William_Shatner reminded me of was…The Man Who Fell to Earth. Damn -- I thin…
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OK, my memory sucks. Glass has an index of refraction of around 1.52. Air is 1.003. Diamond is 2.418. Vacuum (no surprise) is 1. Water changes it's refraction index based on temperature -- Ice having a lower index than water at room temperature. S…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Fake_William_Shatner The affect of gravity would be minuscule -- it's the size to surface area ratio where as you get smaller, surface tension replaces gravity as a factor. This allows insects to walk on water (for i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich Your patent idea reminded me of the oil lenses of the electric binoculars used in Frank Herbert's science-fiction masterpiece, Dune (1963). Of course, Herbert never had to engineer his descriptions to …
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The affect of gravity would be minuscule -- it's the size to surface area ratio where as you get smaller, surface tension replaces gravity as a factor. This allows insects to walk on water (for instance). The other thing that you can use to cancel…
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Many, Many years ago I submitted a patent for a device that would amplify radio waves, as part of that, it used interferometry to split a laser and cancel out other "non information" on the carrier signal. I also designed a "ferro fluid lens" system…
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I'd like a Mac that went the OTHER way; skimp on the processor. Have 128 - 256 Gigs of hard drive, but a good, dedicated graphics card. The Mac Mini used to be an option but the Graphics card is more for Server routines now. This is a step backwar…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rayz Yup, that is precisely the point: there's nothing new in terms of language features, but it's new to Apple's platform, and that's what the developers at the WWDC care about. It's laughable to read all the ex…
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Quote: Originally Posted by brianr4666 This story is wrought with error. When WSJ broke down the deal, it was just the opposite price 500 million for Beats Music and 2.5 billion for Beats Electronics. How hard is it to do some fact checking? h…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cromas lol @ iMacs running Windows XP in the background. Are you sure those are Macs? At a guess, I'd think it would be diagnostic software and it didn't run on anything but Windows. Could be running in emulation th…
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Sounds like Apple recognized a good talent from the LLVM compiler. Let's hope this language really takes off and is robust enough to supplant Objective C and other languages that while powerful, force programmers to spend too much time on housekeepi…
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OK, this technique seems to work fine for Nick Cage, but what if I want Simon Cowell to stop calling and telling me of some new "barely legal" girl he's taking to the Caymans? How can I do this without the embarrassment of adding him as a contact?
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You make a good point about RGB. I was a color specialist in print for a while, and after a while I quit "cleaning up in CMYK" and stayed more in RGB. There are 6 color printers now, and there are many different printers that have specialized RIPs t…
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If someone added a vector-based ability like FreeHand had to Pixelmator -- that would make me spend less time on Graphics with Adobe. I've been using all their products for years and one major flaw is vector graphics. Their pen tool stinks. I have…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jack Baker For once the retails have the edge on the so called "smart" money. No doubt do to the inept, feckless sell-side analysts that don't understand the first think about what makes Apple "Apple." I don't th…
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"Wow, this stamp here says; 'Dolphin Safe!'" Looks at can; "You're right, I can't see any dolphin from here. It's a good thing we didn't buy that other product without the Dolphin Safe sticker. Oh look, the label comes from; 'Japan Super Credible …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Slurpy I was impressed, until I saw that Google (yikes), Facebook, Yahoo, and some others also got a perfect rating. Not that impressive anymore. Although this is laudable: "Apple's rating is particularly striki…
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This is protests about oil drilling -- and it likely spilled over to disrupt more than FoxConn. FoxConn has .9 million workers and they manufacture electronics for almost everyone. How does Apple own everything that is going down in that country n…
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Quote: Originally Posted by itpromike Ahhh I see so the capacitive buttons currently on phones that exhibit the same benefits don't count as capacitive buttons on a mobile device. Got it They didn't "get it". Like the iPod clamp disablin…
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To be honest, when I was about 8 or 9, I used to have dreams of people wearing these bands on their wrists or throats. Crystals in the lining would analyze light off the skin and determine the health of the person -- their chemistry, not just heart …