Word: compressional
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Sibley's guide is a treasure of valuable information, but it is also, as a result, a pretty heavy and bulky item to carry while prowling for birds. Kaufman's is light and fits easily into pocket or purse, but its compression comes at a cost: the necessity of filling...
With VOIP, telecommunications companies can break down your voice into packets of digital data and then transmit them over the Internet. Using compression technology, VOIP telephone calls require eight times less network resources to complete a call.
The danger, as authors Whitney Roban and Michael Conn pointed out in a report for the Girls Scouts of America called Girls Speak Out, is that the stages of childhood development--cognitive, physical and emotional--have got out of synch. Roban and Conn call this "developmental compression" and pepper their...
The name DivX--the official spelling is DivX;-), with a winky smiley face--is geek gallows humor. It's named after a home-video format that died an ignominious and expensive death last year. The new DivX, developed by French hackers, turns theatrical movies into relatively small computer files that...
Speedo's Fastskin suit mimics a shark's dermal denticles, V-shaped ridges that lessen drag by directing water flow away from the body. Adidas' version uses a compression Lycra that, the company claims, minimizes muscle vibration. Swimming's international governing body has ruled the suits do not enhance performance...