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Extreem Close-up of Telescopic Pixels  (Source: Anna Pyayt)
Technology is based on telescopic pixels

For a number of years now, the LCD display has all but made the older CRT displays extinct. While LCD screens are still being improved on by making them thinner, brighter, and produce better image quality, researchers are always on the lookout for the next technology breakthrough.

Microsoft announced that a pair of its engineers and a graduate student from the University of Washington, Anna Pyayt, have invented a new type of display technology that is much more efficient with energy than current LCDs. The new technology uses optics that are similar to those used in telescopes.

According to IEEE Spectrum, a typical LCD in use today is backlit and less than 10% of the light produced by the backlight is transmitted to the surface of the LCD screen. The polarizing layer alone absorbs 50% of the light output from the backlight.

The telescopic design on the other hand is able to transfer about 36% of the light produced to the surface in prototypes using reflective optics. The telescopic pixel has a tiny primary mirror facing the backlight with a hole in the middle. A smaller secondary mirror located 175 micrometers behind the primary mirror faces it and reflects light making it though the primary mirror back. When voltage is applied to the primary mirror it turns into a parabola and allows light to be focused on the secondary mirror and onto the screen.

The researchers say that in theory, as much as 75% of the light in the telescopic pixel display could reach the surface of the screen. Another benefit of the design is a much higher rate of speed at which the pixels can be turned on and off. The telescopic pixel can go from dark to light in 1.5ms.

Research of this type is not commonly done at Microsoft; the company is much more known for its software products like Windows Vista, Windows Home Server and Office. Anna Pyayt led the research team as part of her Ph.D. thesis and Microsoft has applied for a patent on the technology. IEEE Spectrum says that Microsoft will likely partner with a LCD manufacturer to build displays using the technology rather than build the displays themselves.

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patent
By Screwballl on 7/25/2008 2:42:27 PM , Rating: 3
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Anna Pyayt led the research team as part of her Ph.D. thesis and Microsoft has applied for a patent on the technology.


and a bright young student gets shafted out of millions once again...
I hope she at least gets 20 years of 10% royalty payments for letting MS patent this.




RE: patent
By nerdye on 7/25/08, Rating: 0
RE: patent
By FITCamaro on 7/25/2008 11:39:15 PM , Rating: 5
Don't act like it'd be different anywhere else.


RE: patent
By vapore0n on 7/25/2008 3:13:23 PM , Rating: 5
Back when I was in college, we had to sign a waiver stating that anything we created as part of a project was owned in total by the university.

Now that I work in the real world I also had to sign a waiver stating that anything I create is owned by the company.

So I guess she is missing out on a multi-million dollar deal, only if she had done it in her garage.


RE: patent
By Biodude on 7/25/2008 3:37:49 PM , Rating: 5
Yeah, having that entire lab, and all the equipment, and all that other talent around to collaborate with, didn't have anything to do with her invention.

Lesson for the day: If you want to invent something cool, make sure you work for a company that states ahead of time that they will cut you in on the profits/patents/loot. Or, quit your whining.


RE: patent
By Parhel on 7/25/2008 6:04:35 PM , Rating: 3
We had to also. In fact, a friend of mine had a pet project he wanted to write as his senior project, and was unable to do that as the school would have then owned the rights to his idea.

It's funny . . . people here will call someone a "patent troll" if they invent something useful, patent it, but don't intend to manufacture it themselves. Yet, if a company sponsors development of an idea and patents it with the full intention of bringing it to market, that company is "shafting" the inventor.


RE: patent
By Oregonian2 on 7/25/2008 8:41:32 PM , Rating: 5
Only if it's Microsoft. Had it been Apple, the Apple employees would have been praised with honors for such earth shattering brilliance and the student who did the grunt work be said to be lucky in getting a bit of the honors and recognition due to having been associated with Apple.


RE: patent
By teldar on 7/26/2008 10:03:36 AM , Rating: 2
That wouldn't have been sarcasm, would it?


RE: patent
By jmunjr on 7/26/2008 3:40:01 PM , Rating: 5
Does Apple actually invent anything? I don't recall much. They design products using other technology and write software... Their employees are too right-brained to do any real engineering..


RE: patent
By spluurfg on 7/27/2008 4:20:55 AM , Rating: 3
quote:
Does Apple actually invent anything? I don't recall much. They design products using other technology and write software... Their employees are too right-brained to do any real engineering..


I think it's just a business model, otherwise we could complain about hotel companies hiring architects and designers or commercial airline manufacturers for using off-the-shelf technology, or, say, OEM manufacturers following reference specifications. You can't do everything, and Apple's willingness to simply license the right technology rather than try and develop it has clearly been a big part of its success in the last several years.


RE: patent
By xphile on 7/27/2008 9:07:35 PM , Rating: 2
Come on now - this is going to be VERY difficult for Microsoft.

Someone somewhere is going to have to sit in a meeting and try and explain to Steve Balmer that Microsoft owns the rights to an emerging technology and they haven't actually had to BUY it.

Could delay the to market by anything up to 12 months just trying to get him to come to grips with the concept...


RE: patent
By Adonlude on 7/28/2008 3:53:03 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
It's funny . . . people here will call someone a "patent troll" if they invent something useful, patent it, but don't intend to manufacture it themselves. Yet, if a company sponsors development of an idea and patents it with the full intention of bringing it to market, that company is "shafting" the inventor.


This seems to be human nature, at least for some. Hating the big guy, loving the little guy, counter culture, renaissance, and all that jazz. As soon as people start to forget Apple's underdog times and Apple dominates long enough it's public opinion will fall the same way. Some people will always think this way. The same people who think war is unnecessary, that we should all just get along, that there is plenty of room for imigrants in all the major countries, that we don't need firearms, that we should sing Cumbaya, sit in a drum circle, and vote for Obama.


RE: patent
By Rugar on 7/25/2008 3:53:31 PM , Rating: 2
I suppose it depends on the University. For us, co-investigators split 50% and the University gets the other 50% of any royalties.


RE: patent
By Steve Guilliot on 7/26/2008 1:06:43 AM , Rating: 4
You make it sound as if she stumbled into a MS lab, developed the technology one afternoon alone, then got scooped by cloaked MS fiends who immediately ran to the patent office.

The rights to the patent were certainly arranged in advance, so she knew what she was getting into.


RE: patent
By Steve Guilliot on 7/26/2008 1:08:57 AM , Rating: 5
BTW I also note that here MS innovates, and instead of getting a hint of credit, it gets twisted on them in a negative light. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.


RE: patent
By EricMartello on 7/26/2008 5:05:23 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
and a bright young student gets shafted out of millions once again... I hope she at least gets 20 years of 10% royalty payments for letting MS patent this.


It's fair game. She was only able to do what she did using resources that she herself did not procure or establish. If you invent something on "company time", it belongs to the company paying you (or providing your resources) at that time. In this case, she used Microsoft's resources to do her work - therefore, she has no claims to the technology. If a person wants to profit from their efforts, they gotta establish themselves without hand-holding from other corporate entities.


Could be promising
By William Gaatjes on 7/25/2008 3:04:36 PM , Rating: 2
The 1 reason i have not yet bought an lcd is because of lousy contrast values and no real black. And the typical artefacts and moiré of lcd monitors.
And i have to buy a device to color correct the lcd.

I could just save for a long while and buy a 2000 euro lcd and be done with it. But for that kind of money i rather wait for something that really outshines my good old industrial grade crt monitor.
Cause i have not seen 1 lcd monitor that outshined a good crt monitor except for size and power usage.




RE: Could be promising
By geddarkstorm on 7/25/08, Rating: 0
RE: Could be promising
By Hakuryu on 7/25/2008 4:09:23 PM , Rating: 3
I have a friend who is a graphics designer, and he will not buy a LCD either. It has to do with graphical work - imagine getting a hardcopy picture of something, and you need to replicate the exact color match for a logo on new work you are creating... LCD's are sub-par to CRT's when trying to accomplish this (brighter and dimmer parts of the screen make colors look different for example).


RE: Could be promising
By William Gaatjes on 7/25/2008 4:10:51 PM , Rating: 5
A good crt with a high refresh does not flicker. I have minimal 85 and i can go up to max160Hz but 100Hz is enough for me.

I sit approximately 50 cm minimal distance away from the screen.

And i never keep it that high in light output. I have brightness and contrast at 60 percent for years now and i am fine with it. And as i sad it is a industrial grade monitor. It's shielded in every way. Back in the days these babies would go for about 1600 euro's when you could buy a good monitor for 500 euro. I got it for free, we had an abandunce of spare parts material in the company i once worked. So this one came together from spare parts. Those spare parts where going to be thrown away because we had so much spare parts( good monitor design). I asked nicely and i could assemble and take it home. I have never been happier. It is still crisp and sharp. The only lcd monitors that could replaced it are the lcd monitors from 1000 euro or more. And even those monitors still have difficulty competing.

For just word or other static pictures lcd monitors are perfect. But when it comes to moving pictures and good color reproduction i am not amazed. I still feel lcd monitors are a step back.

If i would buy a flatscreen for the livingroom it would always be a plasma or those future laserscreens from arasor.

http://www.arasor.com.au/consumer/consumer.asp

But it will be a while before those laser tv's become a reality. There are billions invested in lcd manufacturer companies and that money together with profits have to be earned back first before the major companies will allow or make laser projection flatscreens. Plasma is always better then lcd and from what i have seen, those lasertelevisions should be better then plasma.

Anyway, when a monitor comes out that is worthy to replace my crt monitor maybe i will. But at this moment i am not amazed with what i see.


RE: Could be promising
By mccollums on 7/25/2008 4:26:48 PM , Rating: 2
Mitsubishi will have a laser HDTV late this year or early next year...

OLED TVs may end up being the replacements to Plasma and LCD....

LCDs should get a HUGE boost in quality this fall with the release of the Samsung a950 and the Sony XBR8 ... LED backlit with local dimming ...

head on over to avsforum.com to keep up with the HDTV scene...


RE: Could be promising
By William Gaatjes on 7/25/2008 4:39:04 PM , Rating: 1
I will, thank you.

Mitsubishi would already deliver the lasertv 1st quarter of this year if i am not mistaken but they have postponed the launch. I do hope they come ...

Sooner or later the led backights for lcd will be a led per lcd pixel and when that happens, why do you still need lcd ? :)


RE: Could be promising
By teckytech9 on 7/26/2008 2:58:02 PM , Rating: 2
I too am not impressed with LCDs since the true colors and contrast ratios are very lacking in quality. I also see artifacts and pixilation in very fast moving sequences in LCD's which CRT's don't distort (i.e. signal strength is optimum and not an issue).

Laser TV's and OLEDs with higher contrast ratios and truer colors will make the current LCD's and Plasma's far inferior in technology. Also, LCD's should not have any delay in response times (i.e. 5ms>2ms>1ms>.5ms etc). This tells me that the video processing engines in LCD's are lacking in design and will need better chips in the future to improve quality. Backlighting is also very inefficient since a percentage of signal/noise is lost in the transfer.

I'll just stick with LCD's for the computer and CRT's in the living room for now. Ahh just love the Sony Trinitron CRTs.


RE: Could be promising
By teckytech9 on 7/26/2008 3:10:18 PM , Rating: 3
Correction: LCDs instead of LCD's and CRTs instead of CRT's.


RE: Could be promising
By matt0401 on 7/26/2008 11:03:22 PM , Rating: 1
Nope, you were good. Correct English grammar is apparently to use an apostrophe for plural acronyms. I myself didn't know this for a hell of a long time. :P

Concerning the article... Finally some good to come from Microsoft! And I hope the inventor gets a good cut of the profits from the technology should it see manufacturing.


RE: Could be promising
By omnicronx on 7/28/2008 9:18:40 AM , Rating: 2
quote:
Also, LCD's should not have any delay in response times (i.e. 5ms>2ms>1ms>.5ms etc). This tells me that the video processing engines in LCD's are lacking in design and will need better chips in the future to improve quality.
Everything has some kind of latency, even CRT televisions, but especially when talking about the digital realm, or if any conversion at all is taking place, you are going to have latency of some kind, regardless of the technology. In fact most people who do not like LCDs connect their PC to their monitor with an old fashion VGA cable expecting there not to be any latency. Well I am sorry to say its just not possible, no matter what monitor you have, when converting analog to digital its going to create some kind of latency.

I personally stick with my 22 inch CRT just because of what I will have to pay to get an LCD with similar quality, but I must say, although whites and blacks are definitely lacking on LCD displays, they are brighter, sharper, and if you have a medium to high quality monitor, I would even say that colors rival or surpass CRTS in many situations. LCDS also have ALOT less glare than CRTS which is very annoying if your monitor faces the window.

All in all they both still have their purpose, but I say unless you do some kind of graphic design, or you need to have perfect color reproduction (in which your CRT is going to cost you 1500$ anyways), or you are a gamer that just can not afford 200-300 for a medium level monitor, LCD monitors are the best solution for the average user.

As for TV's, widescreen LCD's surpass anything non HD CRT TV's have to offer, regardless of the contrast ratios. When sitting far back from your TV, response times become less and less of an issue, as your brain should compensate for most of the delay, and yes that includes you gamers.


RE: Could be promising
By William Gaatjes on 7/28/2008 8:48:33 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
they are brighter, sharper, and if you have a medium to high quality monitor, I would even say that colors rival or surpass CRTS in many situations. LCDS also have ALOT less glare than CRTS which is very annoying if your monitor faces the window.


FIrst of all, an crt monitor has no digital processing when it comes to color or any part of the video signal. It is all analog. This means there is no quantisation going on inside the crt monitor(The bandwith of the videosignal ampifier is so big, that that is not a limiting factor.
If i would say something quantises the displayed videopicture it would be the pixels(holes in the screen) of the crt it self. This is called dotpitch. I don't know dotpitch numbers from the head, but i do know that the dotpitch from an lcd is calculated differently when compared to the dotpitch from an crt.

With a good crt monitor, the quality of the signal is more depended on the dac converter and analog filters on the graphics card. In the past these where not always as good.
And this was a serious factor if you wanted a good quality signal. But also the vgacable was very important. If you wanted best picture, you had to use coax cables. Now with dvi or hdmi it is not important since it a digital signal. Although there can be jitter in the videoclock. But a good expensive lcd monitor compensates for this.

Any lcd has quantisation and when you buy the popular models you have 6 bit per color. Those lcd's can never match a good crt. A true 8 bit lcd (which are expensive and have enough color reproduction that our eyes will not notice can rival it. But those monitors are slow when it come to latency and expensive.
You have the input circuit the processing circuits and the lcd itself. All slow when compared with crt's.
The reason lcd's seems to look sharper is because you can actually see the pixels. This make it seem more crisp and sharp but actually it is the reverse effect of what is used in games called anti-aliasing.The pixels from a crt are so small you need a magnifying glass to see them at the same size as pixels from an lcd.

Another rule of thumb, the more control you want over the pixel of an lcd, the slower it get's.

quote:
Everything has some kind of latency, even CRT televisions,


Please keep in perspective that with crt monitors you talk about nanoseconds. Compare that with ten's of ms total from any lcd monitor. that is at least 1000.000 times more.
The analog circuitry from a crt just amplifies and level shifts the 3 red green and blue signals and drives the grid's inside the cathode ray tube.

When talking about lcd's :
The adc's and dac's are so fast , you would never notice. These also are in the nanoseconds range. No, it is the processing , the driving of the lcd's and the lcd it self that cause the latency. But as i mentioned below, a modern lcd has no adc input anymore for the vga. Some do as option. But you are not going to use it with modern videocards that support dvi or hdmi or those other digital formats as output signal.

Analog vga input's on lcd was orignally when lcd's came into a crt dominated market.
lcd's had to make this conversion step.
>> digital to analog, cable, analog to digital. Now the path is >>digital cable digital. Every conversion step makes the signal loose integrity. You cannot restore a signal to what you don't know.

quote:
As for TV's, widescreen LCD's surpass anything non HD CRT TV's have to offer, regardless of the contrast ratios. When sitting far back from your TV, response times become less and less of an issue, as your brain should compensate for most of the delay, and yes that includes you gamers.


When watching a movie i want high contrast and good color reproduction.
I know what you mean, when the wide screen crt monitors came out, the videosignal was converted into the digital domain and after processing converted back into an analog signal and after amplification send to the cathode ray tube itself. But the circuitry used for this was so low cost that quality of the picture was afwull. No sharp pictures and bad color reproduction. Give me a good old simple quality 100hz tv and it out shines any lcd or hd tv crt. I was walking into a store that selled plasma's and lcd's and i am horrified by the awfull quality these lcd monitors have. With plasma i am satisfied.

And if i have to sit so far from an lcd to not notice it's defects, i could have stayed with the smaller size crt :).
I buy a big screen cause i want to immerse myself into the movie. Not to sit away farther from it.


The Microsoft LCD
By vapore0n on 7/25/2008 2:05:46 PM , Rating: 5
Standard Edition: 6ms,6bit color space
Business Edition: 3ms, 8bit color space, few extra buttons
Ultimate Edition: 3ms, 8 bit color space, more buttons, and the promise of newer firmware for Ultimate Editions only (but never delivered)




RE: The Microsoft LCD
By Parhel on 7/25/2008 2:43:49 PM , Rating: 4
What about the Home Premium monitor? I hear it's just like the Business edition, but has an entirely different set of extra buttons.


RE: The Microsoft LCD
By daftrok on 7/25/08, Rating: 0
RE: The Microsoft LCD
By goku on 7/25/2008 3:49:12 PM , Rating: 4
That changes nothing. There is nothing in this technology that prevents the usage of LEDs as this is a competitor to LCD displays, not their backlights. A fluorescent, LED, or what have you backlight could obviously be used with this display. Did you even read the article?


RE: The Microsoft LCD
By mindless1 on 7/26/2008 8:47:38 PM , Rating: 2
Not necessarily, this is a spin on LCD tech, while it would not be needed in LED tech based monitors unless the LEDs were only the backlight.


RE: The Microsoft LCD
By onwisconsin on 7/25/2008 3:07:49 PM , Rating: 5
The Apple LCD will be twice as expensive with an ad campaign to supplement. Also Jason Mick will write useless, sensationalist articles slanting towards that Apple version.

(just joking Jason)


RE: The Microsoft LCD
By hellokeith on 7/25/08, Rating: 0
Going from 10% to 70%...
By DanoruX on 7/25/2008 2:08:01 PM , Rating: 2
Damn screen will actually fully light my room now!




RE: Going from 10% to 70%...
By SpaceRanger on 7/25/2008 2:53:06 PM , Rating: 2
It'll do that once you approve a UAC dialog..


RE: Going from 10% to 70%...
By peldor on 7/25/2008 4:29:17 PM , Rating: 2
Have you tried Mojave?


RE: Going from 10% to 70%...
By SpaceRanger on 7/25/2008 4:34:04 PM , Rating: 2
Yeah.. I did.. Looked a hell-of-a-lot like Vista...

Sorry you didn't see the sarcasm in my post...


great invention
By corduroygt on 7/25/2008 2:14:01 PM , Rating: 1
Unfortunately, it will only display blue




RE: great invention
By Crusty on 7/25/2008 3:00:06 PM , Rating: 1
I think you mean "green"


RE: great invention
By geddarkstorm on 7/25/2008 3:33:01 PM , Rating: 3
Blue as in BSOD ;3


RE: great invention
By matt0401 on 7/26/2008 11:05:44 PM , Rating: 3
Or perhaps it will sense when one sees a BSOD and automatically make it colorful and cheery and downplay the severity of your loss of crucial work.


Microsoft Monitor
By matt0401 on 7/26/2008 11:07:58 PM , Rating: 5
Hmm, a monitor from Microsoft...

"We are sorry but the non-Microsoft operating system you are using is incompatible with this monitor."




cool!
By JoshuaBuss on 7/25/2008 2:00:32 PM , Rating: 2
now.. what if the backlight is already brighter and better focused like in LED backlit displays? even more contrast?




RE: cool!
By DanoruX on 7/25/2008 2:03:44 PM , Rating: 2
Depends on what kind of black levels you get on them...


nobody asked...
By blwest on 7/26/2008 3:19:00 AM , Rating: 3
is she hot?




The keyboard + mouse & now the monitor
By crystal clear on 7/26/2008 8:09:59 AM , Rating: 1
quote:
the company is much more known for its software products like Windows Vista, Windows Home Server and Office.


Yes in addition they are also known for their keyboards + mouse,

Quite possible your keyboard+mouse is a Microsoft product....

Just to remind you of Surface technology - computer touch screens that Microsoft is developing.....

http://www.dailytech.com/Microsoft+ATT+Partner+Up+...

This new technology developed by Anna Pyayt will be integrated into the surface technology under development, & also used to manufacture computer monitors & touch screens LCDs etc.

This technology could be used also in NOTEBOOKS/NETBBOKS etc.

Eventually you will have Keyboards+Mouse+ Monitors all from Microsoft on your table.




By crystal clear on 7/30/2008 5:11:18 AM , Rating: 2
quote:
Just to remind you of Surface technology - computer touch screens that Microsoft is developing.....


Thats was a broad hint to whats coming - Read below,

Video: Microsoft's Sphere display in action

In the video above, Hrvoje Benko of Microsoft Research demonstrates Sphere

Sphere is a cousin of the Microsoft Surface tabletop computer, already being used in retail and hospitality settings. The underlying hardware for Sphere is sold commercially by Global Imagination of Los Gatos, Calif., but Microsoft researchers made numerous enhancements and developed specialized software.

Sphere, as it's known, is expected to be shown publicly for the first time Tuesday at Microsoft's Faculty Summit in Redmond.
For now, it's purely a research project. The company says it doesn't currently have plans to offer it as a product. The idea is to see what the technology can do, and how people will use it.

Sphere will be shown Tuesday at the annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit alongside other projects from Microsoft and university researchers.

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archi...


Hmmm...
By ThatNewGuy on 7/25/08, Rating: 0
RE: Hmmm...
By geddarkstorm on 7/25/2008 3:38:09 PM , Rating: 2
We should ask Tom Dickson from Blendtec, he'd be able to answer that question :D!


Something new every day...
By nvalhalla on 7/25/2008 2:37:40 PM , Rating: 2
Is that how extreem is spelled? Huh, to think I've been spelling it wrong all these years...




hah...
By DASQ on 7/25/2008 3:05:29 PM , Rating: 2
IT'S EXTREEEEEEEEEM.




RROOODDDDSSS......
By greylica on 7/25/2008 4:14:59 PM , Rating: 1
Look at the picture.

Then, there will be Gazillions of RRODs...

:P




PRODUCING?
By JonnyDough on 7/25/08, Rating: -1
RE: PRODUCING?
By Performance Fanboi on 7/25/2008 5:05:28 PM , Rating: 2
Except the fact that the use of the word 'produce' is correct in this instance and what you are suggesting is not.


RE: PRODUCING?
By Zshazz on 7/25/2008 5:10:29 PM , Rating: 4
Indeed.

To simplify it so it's easier to see, just remove the conjunction.

original:
improved on by making them thinner, brighter, and produce better image quality

original - conjunction:
improved on by making them produce better image quality

your suggestion - conjunction:
improved on by making them producing better image quality


RE: PRODUCING?
By JonnyDough on 7/26/08, Rating: -1
RE: PRODUCING?
By HaZaRd2K6 on 7/26/2008 12:47:00 AM , Rating: 3
You, sir, are also clearly not an English major.

Yes, the subject of the sentence is the LCD screens, and yes, thinner and brighter are adjectives. But since when is "better image quality" an adjective? "Better," standing alone, would be an acceptable adjective, but "better image quality" is simply not.

In addition, the verbs you speak of are in fact in the same tense. The verb "improved" in the sense in which it is written, is without an object. The Oxford English Dictionary defines "improved" in that sense as:

im·prove: verb; to make improvements, as by revision, addition, or change.

Seeing as the sentence is about LCD technology being improved, the use of the word in that sense is completely acceptable. Therefore, by extension, the use of the word "produce" in the same sentence is also acceptable.

In case you don't believe me, read this (straight from the Oxford English Dictionary, as well):

pro·duce: verb (used with object); to bring into existence.

Now please, stop giving English majors a bad name.


RE: PRODUCING?
By plinkplonk on 7/26/2008 12:33:38 PM , Rating: 2
none of you people in the US speak real English anyway so STFU


RE: PRODUCING?
By BaronMatrix on 7/26/2008 12:41:31 PM , Rating: 2
You're all wrong yet all right. The problem with the sentence is the punctuation. What they did was LIST a set of qualities. The proper formation of the sentence would be

by making them: x; y; z.


RE: PRODUCING?
By sld on 7/27/2008 3:22:04 PM , Rating: 2
The above comment is worth serious consideration, haha.
http://www.apostropheabuse.com/

Here's the take of a non-US citizen, non-English major individual:

quote:
While LCD screens are still being improved on by making them thinner, brighter and with better image quality, researchers are always on the lookout for the next technology breakthrough.


I'm not sure if "still" and "always" should swop places though.


RE: PRODUCING?
By HaZaRd2K6 on 7/28/2008 10:53:25 PM , Rating: 2
Well, it's a good thing I'm not in the US then, isn't it?

And politeness is always appreciated... so heed your own advice :)


RE: PRODUCING?
By FS on 7/25/08, Rating: 0
RE: PRODUCING?
By Arc 0V on 7/26/2008 12:37:27 AM , Rating: 2
same


RE: PRODUCING?
By plinkplonk on 7/26/08, Rating: -1
"Spreading the rumors, it's very easy because the people who write about Apple want that story, and you can claim its credible because you spoke to someone at Apple." -- Investment guru Jim Cramer



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