That is, until the Samsung firmware actually supports their own containers...
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Early adoption of new technologies is usually mired by complications, but what’s been shitting me lately is the trend manufacturers seem to have of pushing tech to market that doesn’t even support the main draw card of the product. I purchased a Samsung UA55F9000 UHD TV in December 2013: the month they were released, solely for the 4k capability. Fast forward a year later and I’m still fighting with the upper echelons of Samsung tech support concerning the absolute necessity of being able to use my 4k TV to play 4k content.
So long as that colour isn't yellow. I hate yellow.
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If you’re a fan of LaTeX typography, you may have come across the Motion Mountain set of physics textbooks.
This long term project has its own class file, which has been tweaked and honed over many years, has seen many of its pages grace many typography showcases (not to mention commercial successes and other recognitions).
One particular stylistic choice that piqued my interest was the use of coloured rules inside the \table{} environment.
There colortbl package (available on CTAN), with albeit hideous examples, allows for the inclusion of colour into tables; usually to highlight cells, but with a bit of finesse can be persuaded to alter the rule colour also.
The new parpool option for Matlab 2014b is depreciating matlabpool, merging the ideas of parallelisation locally and remotely in to one.
Now, the same code can be easily sent off to a large, remote cluster or ran over a few more cores on your own machine without much hassle.
Another useful feature is the fact that idle pools will close down after inactivity, allowing you to be lazy with your implementations, while at the same time giving the possibility of efficiency if you require the pool again inadvertently.
