If those little spheres are acting as lenses then how is it not a direct observation?
You can recover information that is usually lost in far field observation by putting something (like these spheres) very close to the source that turns those evanescent waves into propagating waves you can observe in the far field.
The customer doesn't know what they want
I thought that was the definition of customer
Actually, it was yesterday, it was some linux documentary (1:10:56).
By the way, I'll leave this here (sorry)
But seriously, fuck technically illiterate people doing silly things. It's the 21st century and computers are central to life, you can't keep thinking of them like magical black boxes.
Maybe we could give kids a basic idea on how computers work, from "the CPU reads instructions and performs operations" to "Outlook says HI to the mail server". You know, invest in the future so we'll have less annoying relatives producing WTFs.
And those who haven't
Look out, here comes a t!
they would widen the slashdot audience, so we get less of an echo-chamber effect. It's always good to have a different perspective on things.
That's why I stopped reading slashdot. I turned my addiction towards reddit and hacker news, and realized how perverse slashdot's custom of not reading TFA is. Discussions basically go around what everyone skimmed from the summary. I'm not saying it's all bad; I've learned a lot from Slashdot but I've grown to like other websites' form of discussion.
I still like your semi-daily journal entries
If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly. -- G.K. Chesterton
