Friday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on June 10, 2005 at 2:57:25 PM
I'll be throwing up some content tonight hopefully, if not then tomorrow.
Apple developers try the Intel Macs.
DTV requirements faster.
Twisty bypass better than straight.
Math solves Deep Impact's camera problems.
Apple developers try the Intel Macs.
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For smaller companies that may not want to invest the time or the $1,000 to rent the Intel system, a company called Advenio has a service in which it will do the necessary porting work. As an indication of the relative time involved, the company is charging a flat $100 fee to create a universal binary of a Cocoa application; the fee for porting a Carbonized program starts at $500 and depends on the amount of work involved.
DTV requirements faster.
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The Federal Communications Commission voted 4-0 to require that all medium-sized televisions, those with screens from 25 to 36 inches in diameter, be capable of receiving both digital and traditional analog signals by March 1, four months earlier than the commission had decreed three years ago. Regulators also retained a requirement that half of all new mid-size televisions must have digital receiving capability by July 1.
Twisty bypass better than straight.
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When surgeons make a graft to bypass a blockage in a blood vessel they often have to use prosthetic tubes because suitable arteries and veins are hard to come by. Similarly, when patients with renal disease have dialysis, a loop of tubing may be fitted between a vein and an artery, usually in the arm. This loop, made from polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), is called a shunt. The problem with this is that blood flow in these prosthetic tubes is different from in natural blood vessels. Arteries naturally twist like a corkscrew and this 3D structure makes the blood swirl as it flows, which stops it stagnating. In contrast, blood flows through an artificial tube like water in a river, leading to areas of faster and slower flow, and stagnant zones, resembling the inside of river bends where sand builds up.
Math solves Deep Impact's camera problems.
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However in March it was discovered that the Flyby spacecraft's High Resolution Instrument (HRI) was not focusing properly. The team will use a process, called deconvolution, to remedy the situation. Deconvolution is widely used in image processing and involves the reversal of the distortion created by the faulty lens of a camera or other optical devices, like a telescope or microscope.