Word: fractionals
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...your photo phone - on either 3G or regular networks - to snap a picture of yourself, a Barbie, or a Stalin statue, plug in a message and send it as a surprisingly lifelike animation. FaceWave uses a statistical model of human faces to create video-quality messages with a fraction of the bandwidth and memory required by streaming video. In classic tech-visionary style, CEO Andrew Berend claims it will "break the link between celebrity and the people behind it." Tech Watch wouldn't go that far, but FaceWave does promise to make mobile communication less abstract, and certainly more...
...second exhibit, “Jorge Borges at Houghton Library,” includes a selection of materials related to Borges’s tenure as Norton Professor of Poetry in the late 1960s. The exhibits display only a fraction of the writer’s work and personal correspondences that Houghton has amassed over the last three decades...
...their conversations, it is the priority of completing the mission with the least risk to the troops they lead. Another striking feature of their discussions is how much time is devoted to the concern of limiting the dangers to Iraqi civilians. If Saddam cared about his own people a fraction as much as our military leadership does, there would be no crisis...
...inventories of thousands of copyright-cleared articles that are free if included in an online coursepack, but any article a professor wanted to use outside of those stockpiles would still accrue copyright fees. Students would have to pay for access to such Internet-based coursepacks, and only a tiny fraction of the cost of printed sourcebooks would be eliminated by saving on physical copying and distribution...
...inventories of thousands of copyright-cleared articles that are free if included in an online coursepack, but any article a professor wanted to use outside of those stockpiles would still accrue copyright fees. Students would have to pay for access to such Internet-based coursepacks, and only a tiny fraction of the cost of printed sourcebooks would be eliminated by saving on physical copying and distribution...