Ahhh... So it *might* be that there are lenses etc submerged in water to give a different refractive index at the interface. That's interesting information, I'm still lacking a description of why this improves diffraction in the optics of the system.....
Dude, this is also illegal in America. I'm all for capitalism, and I'm all for prosecuting these sons of bitches for stealing hours. The two are not incompatible. I'm as pissed off reading this as you are, but the best way to stop this is to jail some managers and *regional managers* for fraud IMHO, and heavily punish the companies for tollerating this while paying lip service to solutions.
I think a new law requiring daily printouts of hourly shifts could be good too. McDonald's seems to have this covered. Why the heck they don't have any audit trail that can show excessive edits to the timeclock I don't know. It would be pretty easy to prevent this in software, sure you need to make some edits to the clock but every edit should be a serious business and should be logged and counted. Systematic in store edits of employee hours should raise a red flag.
Dude that's screwed up. Managers should know when people are going slow or whatever. They should measure productivity, that's what a manager is supposed to do. Even is a person is working slowly on the clock you can't go taking away their hours, no matter what you think. That's just screwed up. The appropriate action is to warn them, discipline them and fire them if it continues.
I dunno where you're coming from, under no circumstances is stealing clocked hours from employees legal, or moral. It is absolutely the equivalent of theft.
Given that this is so widespread I got pretty angry reading this article. I'm salaried, it doesn't affect me. I work long hours and get paid the same reguardless. However these guys don't get paid much, they have an employment agreement, they have legal protections and they put up with a lot of shit anyway. They should not be cheated by any S.O.B. that docks their hours while increasing their workload. There is no excuse of justification for this.
People it's called refraction. We don't need some dumbed down nonsense with no real detail, for most people (especially around here) it is completely counter productive and only confuses the issue.
The technique mentioned seems to be forming a liquid lens. So my question is, why is this any different from a conventional lens. Lenses are used all the time in lithography.
Does it help with diffraction limited optics or is there some other reason?
They're talking about increasing the imaging limits even at current wavelengths by effectively changing the lensing system, so it has to be something to do with reducing diffraction IMHO.
So... anyone here care to offer a reasonable technical description of why this is?
Does a single refractive interface with the wafer submerged and therefore inside the lens help reduce diffraction?
IMHO they're fake. Yes there are commentaries but to me they don't sound like George Lucas, they also have the famous Gredo shootout where George draws a comparrison with the original film and also the Indiana Jones film and says he hasn't gotten around to correcting Indiana's cowardice when he shoots the swordfighter, but that he intends to.
There are many natural sources of radiation out there, let's get this in perspective, this ain't an orbiting chernobyl, it's a small mass of moderately radioactive debris that will decay over time.
All radioactive isotopes have a half life and their radioactivity halves over that period. So cool it, get the facts and stop getting hysterical every time someone mentions radioactivity. Every time you stand on the beach of near a granite mountain you're increasing your radioactive dosage more than this satellite ever will for your grandkids.
This is not the Pot calling the Kettle Black. This is akin to the British gunboats forcing China to allow trade in Opium. If the US has moral or other objections to online gambling it should be permitted to enforce them. It is ludicrous that this should be permitted in contravention of U.S. domestic law. The U.S. tries to get it's way through existing legal means like extradition or trying to get laws equalized for example in teh case of Copyrights, (for the record I strongly object to the way Copyright restrictions are spiraling out of control limiting our freedoms).
To pretend that a trade treaty forces a nation to accept practices it has even outlawed domestically is utterly ludicrous.
It doesn't matter what he wasn't trying to do. That would still have been the net result of his license deal had he not expressed regret now. Someone ducking for cover and bolstering a vicious predator like SCO to cover their own ass makes them the enemy in my book. His intentions are not the whole issue, we all have to live with the consequences of his action. The real lesson here is if you want to shake down a company then EV1 is a good place to knock on the door.
P.S. my bad, there's more in there describing the effects of the scourging, sounds pretty bad:
Isaiah 52:14 Just as there were many who were appalled at him - his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness
It wasn't necessarily exaggerated based on what is written in the Bible and what is historically known and documented about Roman practices. All of the gospels mention that Jesus was scourged then crucified. This was actually a common practice and scourging was brutal and has been documented as often leaving the flesh hanging in shreds. Whether this is exactly what happened to Jesus we don't know but it's a reasonable interpretation. Scourging could be performed using a range of implements and under Roman law would be limited to 40 blows, probably 39 incase they miscounted. So although it has never been emphasized in any other movies it is there in the bible and that is pretty much the source of the story the movie is telling, most of the gospels have no detail on the execution except John and he doesn't give any detail about the scourging. So you're left to interpret the events based on what is known historically about the practice.
I've used FrameMaker, I've also used acrobat but only the reader. There is some overlap with these products but I had no idea you couldn't use Acrobat for authoring stuff. That's pretty surprising, I'm not sure I believe you.
You should bear in mind that a lot of people who use FrameMaker use it for pretty menial stuff, it may have a bunch of fancy features but like most complex apps, most users only require a small subset of those features. Where I worked it was basically used as a Unix word processor and was way to expensive for the use we put it to. Open Office would obviously replace it under those circumstances.
Isn't it the case that Acrobat is pretty much killing FrameMaker. I'm not saying that it's a replacement in every case but people are using Acrobat.
That FrameMaker has been killed on Apple clearly means it's sales there much be utterly miniscule because the incremental development for that platform should be relatively minor.
That money bag is America's money bag, not NASA's, and using the funds elsewhere is not looting anyone. Profligate deficit spending is looting all Americans.
Let's remember that the Russions almost killed the ISS due to cost overruns and overly optimistic projections. NASA had to bail them out again and again with U.S. taxpayer dollars.
Besides, even if this were feasible (and it isn't) it would be insane for the US to spend US tax dollars on this kind of R&D in another country. If the Russians can do it let them spend their own cash on it and persuade the Russian government to fund it.
Let's remember people that the space program is a gigantic job creation scheme, it takes money from us and uses it to fund jobs and development domestically. When it starts spending that money abroad we're all thoroughly screwed.
I've heard Hoagland on radio, I think he eats his own dogfood. (i.e he believes what he's saying). He get's quite expressive when he talks about NASA coverups etc. He's a real tinfoil hat guy.
So you believe everything you read despite the article mentioning that this was scanning paper votes? It's not e-voting, the journalist is as ignorant as the reader in this case.
Dudes, it's pen & ink. There have been machines to automate vote counting in use for decades. This is not new, it is a problem, but what it illustrates (yet again) is that no system is perfect. Even traditional voting systems are subject to error and counting problems and an e-voting system, even one with flaws may still be better than the existing systems in use today.
Hoagland has some wild theories based on the flimsiest of evidence and even doctored photographs (introducing symmetry where none existed for example). He's a guy who just can't let go of his pet theories in the face of mounting evidence refuting them.
What really gets me annoyed with this guy though is when he starts criticizing NASA & accusing them of dishonesty & coverup when the data don't match his preposterous theories. Half the time it's his own technical ignorance that's the problem.
The guy just doesn't understand that we'd all like to find evidence of life on Mars, bipedal walking around life most of all, but we can't let that cloud our judgement.
If mankind ever does find evidence of life on Mars it'll be no thanks to fools like Hoagland, although I'm sure he'll be the first to say "I told you so".
Claims on the basis of the most tennuous of evidence and outlandish conjecture are worse than useless.
Perhaps, but I've never seen the viking orbiter from the surface of Mars, & neither have you. OTOH it could have been a mateorite, or even little green men. Take your pick, I'll wait for them to refine the data on the Viking orbiter.
As detailed in the initial NASA article the streaking was actually the result of a 15 second exposure of the sensor. It is likely that the actual object appeared as a bright moving dot against a dark sky. The length of the streak and exposure time gives NASA an estimate of speed for various theories based on the angle covered across the sensor in that 15 seconds. The data doesn't rule out a Viking orbiter but does rule out all other orbiters.
Likely origin of the "UFO" - Earth. Cool, there's finally real evidence that the UFO sighted is actually from another planet. Unfortunately if it's true then it would really be an identified flying object, not an unidentified one.
The most important thing required for a successful gaming platform is an audience to purchase the games. If you have that, game developers will develop for your platform. Linux does not have this yet and it is a bit of a chicken and egg scenario.
About the only thing Linux can hope for in the short term is the occasional port but even that may not be financially viable for quite some time judging by the smouldering crater that was once Loki.
All these guys are pro Copyright & strong I.P enforcement. They're in the content business this is part of the problem. Your news & media pipe is controlled by the content creators and of course they want to turn the screws on us all over their government entitlements.
Wonder no more, it will not wipe out life.
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It is really frustrating to hear this kind of ignorant nonsense masquerading as legitimate concern. The natural sources for radioactivity on Europa vastly outweigh anything man could introduce with this probe plan. The last thing we need is junk science wielded by knee jerk eco-fanatics over other Solar System bodies without justification. Stick to torching SUVs pretending you're having a positive effect instead of a negative one & leave the brain trust to get on with the difficult process of rational thought and exploring the Solar Sysetem.
Hmm, just what I need to pay for.. a handle on my printer. You know I was wondering what my current printer was missing and bingo there it is. I need a printer that looks like a handbag because I might want to carry it around as a fashion statement the next time I'm out instead of using it to print stuff.
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer designs a new car for a company, bankrupting them.
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Ahhh... So it *might* be that there are lenses etc submerged in water to give a different refractive index at the interface. That's interesting information, I'm still lacking a description of why this improves diffraction in the optics of the system.....
Does this make sense to anyone?
Dude, this is also illegal in America. I'm all for capitalism, and I'm all for prosecuting these sons of bitches for stealing hours. The two are not incompatible. I'm as pissed off reading this as you are, but the best way to stop this is to jail some managers and *regional managers* for fraud IMHO, and heavily punish the companies for tollerating this while paying lip service to solutions.
I think a new law requiring daily printouts of hourly shifts could be good too. McDonald's seems to have this covered. Why the heck they don't have any audit trail that can show excessive edits to the timeclock I don't know. It would be pretty easy to prevent this in software, sure you need to make some edits to the clock but every edit should be a serious business and should be logged and counted. Systematic in store edits of employee hours should raise a red flag.
Dude that's screwed up. Managers should know when people are going slow or whatever. They should measure productivity, that's what a manager is supposed to do. Even is a person is working slowly on the clock you can't go taking away their hours, no matter what you think. That's just screwed up. The appropriate action is to warn them, discipline them and fire them if it continues.
I dunno where you're coming from, under no circumstances is stealing clocked hours from employees legal, or moral. It is absolutely the equivalent of theft.
Given that this is so widespread I got pretty angry reading this article. I'm salaried, it doesn't affect me. I work long hours and get paid the same reguardless. However these guys don't get paid much, they have an employment agreement, they have legal protections and they put up with a lot of shit anyway. They should not be cheated by any S.O.B. that docks their hours while increasing their workload. There is no excuse of justification for this.
People it's called refraction. We don't need some dumbed down nonsense with no real detail, for most people (especially around here) it is completely counter productive and only confuses the issue.
The technique mentioned seems to be forming a liquid lens. So my question is, why is this any different from a conventional lens. Lenses are used all the time in lithography.
Does it help with diffraction limited optics or is there some other reason?
They're talking about increasing the imaging limits even at current wavelengths by effectively changing the lensing system, so it has to be something to do with reducing diffraction IMHO.
So... anyone here care to offer a reasonable technical description of why this is?
Does a single refractive interface with the wafer submerged and therefore inside the lens help reduce diffraction?
IMHO they're fake. Yes there are commentaries but to me they don't sound like George Lucas, they also have the famous Gredo shootout where George draws a comparrison with the original film and also the Indiana Jones film and says he hasn't gotten around to correcting Indiana's cowardice when he shoots the swordfighter, but that he intends to.
There are many natural sources of radiation out there, let's get this in perspective, this ain't an orbiting chernobyl, it's a small mass of moderately radioactive debris that will decay over time.
All radioactive isotopes have a half life and their radioactivity halves over that period. So cool it, get the facts and stop getting hysterical every time someone mentions radioactivity. Every time you stand on the beach of near a granite mountain you're increasing your radioactive dosage more than this satellite ever will for your grandkids.
That tunnel is filled with CO2 right now.
This is not the Pot calling the Kettle Black. This is akin to the British gunboats forcing China to allow trade in Opium. If the US has moral or other objections to online gambling it should be permitted to enforce them. It is ludicrous that this should be permitted in contravention of U.S. domestic law. The U.S. tries to get it's way through existing legal means like extradition or trying to get laws equalized for example in teh case of Copyrights, (for the record I strongly object to the way Copyright restrictions are spiraling out of control limiting our freedoms).
To pretend that a trade treaty forces a nation to accept practices it has even outlawed domestically is utterly ludicrous.
It doesn't matter what he wasn't trying to do. That would still have been the net result of his license deal had he not expressed regret now. Someone ducking for cover and bolstering a vicious predator like SCO to cover their own ass makes them the enemy in my book. His intentions are not the whole issue, we all have to live with the consequences of his action. The real lesson here is if you want to shake down a company then EV1 is a good place to knock on the door.
P.S. my bad, there's more in there describing the effects of the scourging, sounds pretty bad:
Isaiah 52:14 Just as there were many who were appalled at him - his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness
It wasn't necessarily exaggerated based on what is written in the Bible and what is historically known and documented about Roman practices. All of the gospels mention that Jesus was scourged then crucified. This was actually a common practice and scourging was brutal and has been documented as often leaving the flesh hanging in shreds. Whether this is exactly what happened to Jesus we don't know but it's a reasonable interpretation. Scourging could be performed using a range of implements and under Roman law would be limited to 40 blows, probably 39 incase they miscounted. So although it has never been emphasized in any other movies it is there in the bible and that is pretty much the source of the story the movie is telling, most of the gospels have no detail on the execution except John and he doesn't give any detail about the scourging. So you're left to interpret the events based on what is known historically about the practice.
I've used FrameMaker, I've also used acrobat but only the reader. There is some overlap with these products but I had no idea you couldn't use Acrobat for authoring stuff. That's pretty surprising, I'm not sure I believe you.
You should bear in mind that a lot of people who use FrameMaker use it for pretty menial stuff, it may have a bunch of fancy features but like most complex apps, most users only require a small subset of those features. Where I worked it was basically used as a Unix word processor and was way to expensive for the use we put it to. Open Office would obviously replace it under those circumstances.
Isn't it the case that Acrobat is pretty much killing FrameMaker. I'm not saying that it's a replacement in every case but people are using Acrobat.
That FrameMaker has been killed on Apple clearly means it's sales there much be utterly miniscule because the incremental development for that platform should be relatively minor.
That money bag is America's money bag, not NASA's, and using the funds elsewhere is not looting anyone. Profligate deficit spending is looting all Americans.
Let's remember that the Russions almost killed the ISS due to cost overruns and overly optimistic projections. NASA had to bail them out again and again with U.S. taxpayer dollars.
Besides, even if this were feasible (and it isn't) it would be insane for the US to spend US tax dollars on this kind of R&D in another country. If the Russians can do it let them spend their own cash on it and persuade the Russian government to fund it.
Let's remember people that the space program is a gigantic job creation scheme, it takes money from us and uses it to fund jobs and development domestically. When it starts spending that money abroad we're all thoroughly screwed.
I've heard Hoagland on radio, I think he eats his own dogfood. (i.e he believes what he's saying). He get's quite expressive when he talks about NASA coverups etc. He's a real tinfoil hat guy.
So you believe everything you read despite the article mentioning that this was scanning paper votes? It's not e-voting, the journalist is as ignorant as the reader in this case.
Dudes, it's pen & ink. There have been machines to automate vote counting in use for decades. This is not new, it is a problem, but what it illustrates (yet again) is that no system is perfect. Even traditional voting systems are subject to error and counting problems and an e-voting system, even one with flaws may still be better than the existing systems in use today.
Hoagland has some wild theories based on the flimsiest of evidence and even doctored photographs (introducing symmetry where none existed for example). He's a guy who just can't let go of his pet theories in the face of mounting evidence refuting them.
What really gets me annoyed with this guy though is when he starts criticizing NASA & accusing them of dishonesty & coverup when the data don't match his preposterous theories. Half the time it's his own technical ignorance that's the problem.
The guy just doesn't understand that we'd all like to find evidence of life on Mars, bipedal walking around life most of all, but we can't let that cloud our judgement.
If mankind ever does find evidence of life on Mars it'll be no thanks to fools like Hoagland, although I'm sure he'll be the first to say "I told you so".
Claims on the basis of the most tennuous of evidence and outlandish conjecture are worse than useless.
Perhaps, but I've never seen the viking orbiter from the surface of Mars, & neither have you. OTOH it could have been a mateorite, or even little green men. Take your pick, I'll wait for them to refine the data on the Viking orbiter.
As detailed in the initial NASA article the streaking was actually the result of a 15 second exposure of the sensor. It is likely that the actual object appeared as a bright moving dot against a dark sky. The length of the streak and exposure time gives NASA an estimate of speed for various theories based on the angle covered across the sensor in that 15 seconds. The data doesn't rule out a Viking orbiter but does rule out all other orbiters.
Likely origin of the "UFO" - Earth. Cool, there's finally real evidence that the UFO sighted is actually from another planet. Unfortunately if it's true then it would really be an identified flying object, not an unidentified one.
The most important thing required for a successful gaming platform is an audience to purchase the games. If you have that, game developers will develop for your platform. Linux does not have this yet and it is a bit of a chicken and egg scenario.
About the only thing Linux can hope for in the short term is the occasional port but even that may not be financially viable for quite some time judging by the smouldering crater that was once Loki.
All these guys are pro Copyright & strong I.P enforcement. They're in the content business this is part of the problem. Your news & media pipe is controlled by the content creators and of course they want to turn the screws on us all over their government entitlements.
It is really frustrating to hear this kind of ignorant nonsense masquerading as legitimate concern. The natural sources for radioactivity on Europa vastly outweigh anything man could introduce with this probe plan. The last thing we need is junk science wielded by knee jerk eco-fanatics over other Solar System bodies without justification. Stick to torching SUVs pretending you're having a positive effect instead of a negative one & leave the brain trust to get on with the difficult process of rational thought and exploring the Solar Sysetem.
Hmm, just what I need to pay for.. a handle on my printer. You know I was wondering what my current printer was missing and bingo there it is. I need a printer that looks like a handbag because I might want to carry it around as a fashion statement the next time I'm out instead of using it to print stuff.
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer designs a new car for a company, bankrupting them.