Your VCs almost certainly got a look at the books.
IMO million dollar plus should set some money aside for auditing of the books, if an independent third party says the obligations have been met they get the money, if not there's an audit and we all get to see how they really spend the money.
On reading the article he just wants to use MEMS because supposedly that's necessary, which is bullshit. The only problem with larger scanners is that they might be a little noisy, 1000 scans per second with a polygon or small flat mirror is going to be quiet enough for a prototype though.
I'd worry more about the detectors, doing sub ns time to digital is not really hard, doing it cheaply for a lot of detector is going to take a bit of R&D though.
Sure, a 1500nm range IR laser plane scanned at a couple 1000 RPM with good interlocks. Why not?
That range gets absorbed inside the bulk of the eye by the way, which is why it's slightly misleadingly known as eye-safe. Longer wavelengths dump most of their energy on the cornea and shorter wavelengths dump most of their energy on the retina, so they have much lower damage thresholds.
Throwing a horizontal and vertical laser plane across the space at 1000 times per second is pretty trivial, 10000 per second too... 0.1 ms not fast enough?
Commercial publishers charge what maximizes the profits not "fees that basically cover the cost of managing journals and infrastructures".
Those Journals and infrastructures are also optimized for their profit, not for their academic usefulness. They produce journals far more elaborately than what the audience really needs, is that luxury worthwhile? On the one hand it adds prestige and academics is all about prestige, on the other hand the names of the editor add far more prestige than glossy. DRM and copyright enforcement adds cost as well.
There are perverse incentives in scientific publishing, in the end only actions like this can provide the necessary push back against those incentives. So that in the future they truly will just charge fees that basically cover the cost of managing academically useful journals and infrastructures and a healthy margin. But that probably won't be the billion dollar business they are in now...
Producing a professional glossy is expensive, so don't. Let the libraries print it out to get a paper copy and accept that the index and cover are barebones.
It's entirely up in the air where the threats came from. It could be a Jace, it could be mattress girl, it could be the Jew going around his neighbourhood painting Swastikas, it could be me, it could be you.
We have known cases of SJWs getting people fired, which is why for the moment the violence of SJWs is more effective than the alleged threats of violence from GG/MRAs. For the moment SJWs have the power to ruin arbitrary people's career and they aren't afraid to use it, while GG/MRAs have the power to troll people online who make a career out of getting trolled online for pity bucks.
At some point GG/MRAs might become more violent, but going on the past you have more to fear from the SJWs.
WTF is with all these apologists? They are making money hand over fist on these materials, materials they created over the course of doing their job, materials which could be distributed for negligible cost.
It's not uncommon for college professors to be utter scumbags indeed, doesn't make it right.
They can have course material printed and bound at the university and sell it for 10 bucks or less, there is no reason to have it hard bound at a real publisher except for reasons of vanity and self enrichment.
When I started college nearly all textbooks were created by the teachers giving the course, we had a college bookshop with hundreds upon hundreds of locally printed course material. Slowly they were transforming to books while I was there.
Both those people had people on site at the top of the totem pole. They might not have realized that no one was in control, but they were certainly paid to be.
He didn't sign a contract which said "you indemnify us even if we appoint a moron to direct your work which allows circuits to be energized completely willy nilly without a care of his workers". We don't allow contracts like that to be signed.
From reading TFA it seems he didn't know it was live because there were 2 companies at work without any single person being responsible for coordination.
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Your VCs almost certainly got a look at the books.
IMO million dollar plus should set some money aside for auditing of the books, if an independent third party says the obligations have been met they get the money, if not there's an audit and we all get to see how they really spend the money.
They tried too.
Maybe if they had open accounting and I knew exactly how much they enriched themselves.
At the moment they are a mess of perverse incentives and an invitation to scammers.
The backers came out of this poorer, how did they starters come out of it?
On the other hand they did terrorize and then confiscated the land of Christians in Israel (Maalul &co).
Then the Golan Heights, then everything from the Nile to the Euphrates.
We didn't pump 100s of billions of dollars into them.
Oops, I'm a couple orders of magnitude off with the timing, I guess even 10ns resolution would be more than enough.
On reading the article he just wants to use MEMS because supposedly that's necessary, which is bullshit. The only problem with larger scanners is that they might be a little noisy, 1000 scans per second with a polygon or small flat mirror is going to be quiet enough for a prototype though.
I'd worry more about the detectors, doing sub ns time to digital is not really hard, doing it cheaply for a lot of detector is going to take a bit of R&D though.
Sure, a 1500nm range IR laser plane scanned at a couple 1000 RPM with good interlocks. Why not?
That range gets absorbed inside the bulk of the eye by the way, which is why it's slightly misleadingly known as eye-safe. Longer wavelengths dump most of their energy on the cornea and shorter wavelengths dump most of their energy on the retina, so they have much lower damage thresholds.
A 100 Hz display is probably good enough as long as it's stroboscopic and not sample and hold.
Throwing a horizontal and vertical laser plane across the space at 1000 times per second is pretty trivial, 10000 per second too ... 0.1 ms not fast enough?
It's perfectly possible that his brash attitude attracts people, or at least people that matter.
Commercial publishers charge what maximizes the profits not "fees that basically cover the cost of managing journals and infrastructures".
Those Journals and infrastructures are also optimized for their profit, not for their academic usefulness. They produce journals far more elaborately than what the audience really needs, is that luxury worthwhile? On the one hand it adds prestige and academics is all about prestige, on the other hand the names of the editor add far more prestige than glossy. DRM and copyright enforcement adds cost as well.
There are perverse incentives in scientific publishing, in the end only actions like this can provide the necessary push back against those incentives. So that in the future they truly will just charge fees that basically cover the cost of managing academically useful journals and infrastructures and a healthy margin. But that probably won't be the billion dollar business they are in now ...
Producing a professional glossy is expensive, so don't. Let the libraries print it out to get a paper copy and accept that the index and cover are barebones.
Land generates risk free rent without the need for any investment.
It's entirely up in the air where the threats came from. It could be a Jace, it could be mattress girl, it could be the Jew going around his neighbourhood painting Swastikas, it could be me, it could be you.
We have known cases of SJWs getting people fired, which is why for the moment the violence of SJWs is more effective than the alleged threats of violence from GG/MRAs. For the moment SJWs have the power to ruin arbitrary people's career and they aren't afraid to use it, while GG/MRAs have the power to troll people online who make a career out of getting trolled online for pity bucks.
At some point GG/MRAs might become more violent, but going on the past you have more to fear from the SJWs.
If they get no significant kick back from a 180$ book why even publish it at a publisher? Have it printed and bound locally.
But of course they do ...
WTF is with all these apologists? They are making money hand over fist on these materials, materials they created over the course of doing their job, materials which could be distributed for negligible cost.
They are fucking scumbags.
It's not uncommon for college professors to be utter scumbags indeed, doesn't make it right.
They can have course material printed and bound at the university and sell it for 10 bucks or less, there is no reason to have it hard bound at a real publisher except for reasons of vanity and self enrichment.
When I started college nearly all textbooks were created by the teachers giving the course, we had a college bookshop with hundreds upon hundreds of locally printed course material. Slowly they were transforming to books while I was there.
The material always became worse, no exceptions.
Both those people had people on site at the top of the totem pole. They might not have realized that no one was in control, but they were certainly paid to be.
Pull their certs.
He didn't sign a contract which said "you indemnify us even if we appoint a moron to direct your work which allows circuits to be energized completely willy nilly without a care of his workers". We don't allow contracts like that to be signed.
From reading TFA it seems he didn't know it was live because there were 2 companies at work without any single person being responsible for coordination.
Even if they don't know what they're doing, they are at least getting hazard pay.
Laissez faire economics don't work for the common man, because we have finite natural resources. Just ask any medieval peon.