Basketball's populist character derives in part from its tiny barriers to entry -- all you need is a ball and a hoop to practice alone, and a bona fide game can be played with just a pal or a small group of friends.
As discussed in my previous article introducing Samsung's various new TV technologies for 2018, the new panel structure introduces a 'black layer' that essentially places tiny barriers between each liquid crystal to ensure the light from each pixel goes directly forward rather than leaking out into the 'beams' of neighboring pixels.
TWO years ago, standing in front of houses ready to plunge into the sea, Gary A. Vegliante, the Mayor of this tiny barrier island village west of Westhampton Beach, predicted that within five years 90percentt of all the houses his community had lost to storms -- 190 out of 246 -- would be rebuilt.
Along with the ice goes the stability of the tiny barrier island itself.
— Residents of a tiny barrier island in Georgia on Tuesday won a temporary reprieve from property tax increases that they feared would drive them from their historic community.
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. — The question for this tiny barrier island town slammed by Hurricane Sandy is whether an 18-foot-high sand dune would save it or kill it.
But books — real books, not the virtual kind that show up on some tiny, hidden screen — lower that barrier to entry, providing a visual guarantee of common ground.
In sunscreens, titanium and zinc oxide occur as tiny particles that create a protective barrier to block UV light instead of filtering it.
And because the technology is essentially subsidized and the barrier to entry is tiny, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the neatest products to come out are from companies we haven't heard of yet the kind of guys that have good ideas and nothing to lose.
Here's some of the data behind that comparison, with apologies for the tiny text labels – they're not a barrier to understanding the trends.
The barrier to entry is gone.
