microscopic

It doesn't solve the problem of microscopic plastic parts ? So what ?

Once you get down to that microscopic level, the illusion breaks down.

And who are these people scrubbing their faces with microscopic plastic beads? What's wrong with good old fashioned coarse salt or sugar?

This nit doesn't even qualify as microscopic. It'd be better if you just skipped picking it.

It's espionage and subterfuge on a microscopic and high-frequency scale.

I used microscopic lens to see how they are made, you will see concentric holes that are microns wide. I was amazed too, I knew it only could be made by lasers but I was delighted how someone could have that original idea.

It's easy to envision a scenario in which a microscopic chunk of the stuff breaks off and ends up in the air or your stomach. The article only hints at this, where it mentions "mechanical stability."

I realize we're all in our early 20s with 20/15 vision, but this trend of microscopic fonts is really unfriendly to the old guys who sometimes want to read things on the web.

But if you try and make a centimetre long nanotube it'll be full of defects and will never, ever, be as good as a single microscopic nanotube which is almost perfect. Anyway, the point is, there's no perfect material.

MVP is not about shooting for the stars, but it is about microscopic, incremental, improvement -- and a dramatic reduction in risk. That's the optimistic-stochastic viewpoint in action.

Your money is a microscopic magnetic domain of bits on a hard drive on a computer in a bank somewhere. If you acquire twice as much, you didn't even get a new bit, because you prolly already had at least 32 allocated, if not more, just one of them flipped its spin orientation to represent a "1".

It would be plain human-readable text and diagrams engraved into a hard disc of some stable material, starting out big and legible at the edges and gradually getting smaller and smaller as it spirals towards the center, until it's microscopic. The text would start out as a Rosetta Stone type of thing, to try to establish a common language.

Very few internet companies are going public these days, and those that are aren't enough to create a bubble large enough that a collapse would mean more than a microscopic percentage of the market at large losing a substantial amount of money. Most employees are not paid entirely in stock, so you wouldn't see a whole class of people go from millionaires to penniless in a matter of days.

Fundamentally this is because modern computation and storage are microscopic phenomena. Even today we take it as an act of faith that our freshly produced electronics only do what the manufacturers say - and this is an ongoing problem for US defense contractors that outsource component manufacture to China.

If you are a person with even a barely-functioning social instinct, and recognize and respect when someone feels uncomfortable in a situation, there is only a microscopic chance that anything you do will be misinterpreted as harassment. And if you do say something that someone interprets as sexist, the first response will simply be to call you out on it.

Failure rates, service rates, lifespan, side by side images of components at a microscopic level, data showing resistance to heat, cold, dust, impacts etc. What you will find is a lot of people repeating the claim about Apple hardware and the OS. A belief based it seems on one fact - they are happy with their Mac and haven't used anything else for ages, so how can other computers possibly be as good.

<clarification> I'm not arguing against the benefits of semantic markup - just that a lot of the hand-wavey "this is semantic and this isn't" advice that gets thrown around is either nonsense or adds such a microscopic amount of semantic information that it's not actually providing any benefit to anyone. The real test is to list actual benefits for actual user agents.

It should be noted that most minimal-energy devices process information and microscopic materials, not consumer goods. The function of "our" society may depend on processing information and biotechnology to subjugate goods-producing societies.

Also, it ought to be possible to model only the macroscopic dimensions explicitly, replacing the other seven microscopically enfolded dimensions with a bunch of arbitrary constants that accomplish more or less the same thing. Might drive our observers a bit batty, because those constants would appear to refer to a bunch of microscopic enfolded dimensions, which they'd never actually be able to detect.