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After work today I was driving to my mother's house to bring her phone to her (she left it at my house a few days back). While listening to some guy on NPR talk about the difference between the current wholesale inflation and core inflation rates, I had an epiphany - you know that duck-shooting game you could play where you plugged an electronic 'gun' into the console and shot at targets on the screen? I had always wondered how those things worked, and now I do (I checked it out when I got home).
The 'gun' doesn't actually shoot anything at all. It's a light sensor that detects the target by its lightness (Or by a mathematical calculation based on time and refresh rates. See http://www.howstuffworks.com/question273.htm for details). For some reason, this took 20 years to occur to me.
I have a lot of other, arguably more important stuff I'd really like to write about, but I'm tired and cranky, so I'm going to sleep.
- Zohar S.E.
The 'gun' doesn't actually shoot anything at all. It's a light sensor that detects the target by its lightness (Or by a mathematical calculation based on time and refresh rates. See http://www.howstuffworks.com/question273.htm for details). For some reason, this took 20 years to occur to me.
I have a lot of other, arguably more important stuff I'd really like to write about, but I'm tired and cranky, so I'm going to sleep.
- Zohar S.E.