Posted on 05/08/2003 10:11:06 AM PDT by Nebullis
And all this time I thought it meant "skip this post".
No, I assume that the lawyers do not do the designing.
I don't think a lawyer wrote this---
OK, A single mutation makes a nerve cell respond to light.
The ability to detect dark/light allows a critter to duck when a sharow passes over it, very slightly decreasing the odds of getting eaten.
A single mutation increases the number of nerve cells in a patch that sense light.
This slightly improves the ability dodge predators, very slightly decreasing the odds of getting eaten.
A single mutation puts a slight dimple in the patch of nerve cells that sense light.
Now the rim of the patch shadows part of the sensitive area when the sigal is coming from the side. The patch now has some directional sensing ability. once again, this slightly improves the ability dodge predators, very slightly decreasing the odds of getting eaten.
A single mutation magnifys the dimple.
Now the dimple looks like the pit on a pit viper. The pit now good directional sensing ability. In a snake this greatly improves the ability dodge predators and strike prey, a very significant enhancement to survival.
The dimple gets deeper and more spherical, the top surface starts to close down forming a primative pinhole camera. Now the proto eye can image.
If this continues the eye closes off and becomes useless.
BUT an eye with a transparent thin layer of skin covering the pinhole is an improvement as the sensitive surfaces are now protcted from sand and grit getting in and damaging them.
A bulge in the layer makes a primative lens, providing a clearer image
and so on...
Well, golly you learn something new every day.
(An engineer would have just drawn the picture...)
Yes, but the words I wrote were in black. The blue words were from the U.S. Patent number 6,404,245.
P.S. I get lazy when it is obvious I am quoting something, such as a dictionary entry.
You might modify 'Christian' with the adjectives 'most modern'. Manichaean and gnostic Christians had very different ideas about the relationship between God, the devil, good, and evil. The gnostic Gospels and other parts of the New Testament Apocrypha, some parts of which are more ancient than most of the orthodox Gospels, are worth reading. The early Church had a vast diversity of belief about these matters; orthodox Christianity managed to stamp out most of it, although I think there are still small gnostic Christian sects in the Middle East (Persia, perhaps?)
And so does 9.
What part of better performanace equals more market share are you having trouble with???
The incremental cost of 6 more transistors is maybe 1/10¢, the improved performance adds a couple dollars to the sales price, and quadruples the market share.
(The difference between the old price and market share, and the new higher price and increased market share is called profit, BTW)...
I think he is...
sorry.
The design stipulated compact.
I have no doubt you think so, but you are wrong. I just understand that people use words for a reason. Words like compact.
I'm sure that any Freeper practicing engineer will correct me if I'm wrong, but I suspect that most circuits are up and running long before anyone writes a verbal description. That would be done by a technical writer, who might be a lawyer or work under the supervision of a lawyer.
Please provide your evidence for this assertion. I mean the exact performance enhancement across the design stipulations.
I was using the Pat Buchanan definition of white:)
Correct.
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