In fact if you're dealing with established enterprise software, you know right away what the roadmap & minimum end-of-life is from the day it's released. Even if you implement the latest stable version of any of these things for any project, tech debt begins immediately. Why does it matter than the particular example I chose had a cutoff date 2008? It's the same issue with any language, program, platform, OS, etc. etching onto the backing electrode a grid of "buckets" for individual micro-capsules to fall into.)
If this was for reading rather than imagery, and you wanted to have true blacks, you could also just step one level forward in e-ink technology, and have the colored micro-capsule groups be just dual-tone (the capsule's color plus black), giving you bitplanes.Īre e-ink display manufacturers just imprecise in the way they deposit the capsules into the panel, making it impossible to address individual capsules? (If so, that seems like something that could be solved pretty easily with modern photolithography processes, e.g.
(And you could fix the registration with a precisely-cast diffuser layer, convolving each subpixel-cluster.) Sure, it'd look like badly-registered offset printing, but that only matters for small up-close displays, not large far-away displays. It also had a laundry room so if your stay is long, that could be very useful.So, why exactly is it that color e-ink displays try to make every micro-capsule capable of switching to any of the supported colors rather than laying (groups of) CMYK micro-capsules out in a subpixel-like arrangement, and then wiring them to the substrate such that each of the CMYK "bitplanes" forms an independently-addressed display signal? Here's the living room and kitchen of the unit. But maybe it's also because we only booked a day before our flight. Guess how much it costs? Php8,000++ (USD177++) per night and that's the cheapest we could get.
:( Anyway, we ended up staying in a condotel - a 10-minute walk to the convention centre. We couldn't find anything cheap on Agoda.
We stayed in the city near the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Accommodations could be very expensive too.
The cab driver whom we approached said - it's faster if you walk than ride in my cab! Haha.ģ. When we got off in the city from the Skybus, we were so exhausted from the flight (no sleep!), so we thought of taking a cab going to the hotel. Then we remembered something - when the cab driver picked us up from the condotel on our first day, we saw him hand something to the front desk as he shook the personnel's hand (must be his commission).īut on the bright side, we also had one refreshing experience with a cab driver. But the next day, we got a cab ourselves and we went to the same destination, guess how much it was? Only about AUD40 (USD30)! Half the price.
We went to the suburbs and the meter reached AUD80 (about USD60). On our first day, we asked the front desk of our condotel to call one for us. But if it's inevitable, just walk to a taxi stand and get a cab yourself. Taking a cab in Melbourne could be expensive. It's called the SkyBus and a 1-way fare is AUD18 (about USD14). You can ride a bus from the airport and it goes straight to the city. It's so easy to commute from the airport to the city.
Here are some interesting discoveries and tips when you visit Melbourne.ġ. It was my third time in Melbourne in March but my first time to stay in the city. I am slowly working on my travel backlogs before I forget everything.