And the gov gives no thought to the older generation when they mandate getting rid of incandescent bulbs and have us use the "energy saving", (what amounts to dim candles) bulbs.
Reality: lots of incandescent bulbs are and will remain on the market. LED and halogen bulbs are and will remain on the market. And even in the CFL zone, it's easy enough to jump from 15 to 26 W to get sufficient candlepower output, and you now have a wide range of color temperature-equivalent bulbs. Not that I think any of this will reduce total energy consumption, but that's a separate topic and has been covered often on /. .

IMHO, of course. There are NDAs and Proprietary Technology agreements that any company can require for specific projects or capabilities. It should end there. The thought that a corporation can own your thoughts, no matter how derivative, is just sad. Then again, so is the currrent state of copyright law. Not much way around IP (and copyright) law without a massive multi-target Pelican Brief operation :-(

I guess the "takeaway" from this is that trying to produce working code with .Net or PowerShell is well-nigh impossible.

A-O is "real" adaptive optics: measure the wavefront error and move some physical object, e.g., deformable mirrror, to correct the phase errors. It takes a bunch of math, but depends on fixing the light before it becomes an image.

You don't get the point of the standup meeting. Why is it standup, it is to keep the meeting short, and to the point. Where otherwise it will be an hour long sit down meeting once a week.
If the only way you can get people to speak less is to apply physical abuse (stand vs. sit), then you have a major problem w/ the way you run meetings.

the big problem I think is atmospherics. Getting two scopes to sync is the easy bit, getting them to dance out shimmer is difficult - the idea of interferometry (FYI) is to separate two points
Each telescope has its own adaptive optic correction system, which takes care of the atmospheric aberrations within its own field of view. The separate telescopes' corrected images are then combined interferometrically, plus and additional A-O step to account for atmospheric differences between telescopes. I'd call it all "magic" except that I worked on A-O systems for 20 years :-)

Any info as to just how the price of this goodie was set? Is it really 1e4 times as expensive to produce as , say, Valium?
Am I excessively cynical to think the price was set as high as they thought they could convince insurance companies to pony up?

oops, sorry about failing to tag properly.

http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003

They already had a Ferrari in the SR-71, but chose to retire it and kept the old Ford
Well, not exactly. A certain Dick(wad) Cheney forced the retirement in order to advance alternative aircraft from corporations favoring his wallet. There's a decent, if biased, writeup in Ben Rich's href="http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003" book .

If TV transmissions are interrupted during the NFL playoffs, I predict massive suicides and/or increases in alcohol consumption across the USA.