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Optical Microscope with 50 nanometer resolution!

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    GAMerritt
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    The University of Manchester has released a paper about their new microscope, which uses a transparent microsphere as a far-field superlens in an optical microscope. The paper is at this download link: http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/staff/academic/profile/publications/journal_pdfdownload.php?id=2669[^]

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      The University of Manchester has released a paper about their new microscope, which uses a transparent microsphere as a far-field superlens in an optical microscope. The paper is at this download link: http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/staff/academic/profile/publications/journal_pdfdownload.php?id=2669[^]

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      David1987
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      It's a bloody pdf. Here's a google docs viewer link: Optical Microscope with 50 nanometer resolution

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        It's a bloody pdf. Here's a google docs viewer link: Optical Microscope with 50 nanometer resolution

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        Brady Kelly
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        What's wrong with PDF?

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          What's wrong with PDF?

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          David1987
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          1. The plugin often crashes (taking the browser down with it depending on what browser it is) 2) Even if it doesn't, it's terribly slow 3) If you download it and use an actual viewer, it turns out they all suck in several different ways (being bloated and having an evil mandatory auto-updater, making black text purple, failrendering images, etc, take your pick) Bonus: the file format sucks internally, which doesn't "matter" but it offends me as a programmer.
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            The University of Manchester has released a paper about their new microscope, which uses a transparent microsphere as a far-field superlens in an optical microscope. The paper is at this download link: http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/staff/academic/profile/publications/journal_pdfdownload.php?id=2669[^]

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            RichardM1
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            Yeah, neat trick, capturing the near field and making it available far field. They do need to make a sheet with known sphere positions so they can back out all the artifacts. But that's just a nit. It's good work.

            Opacity, the new Transparency.

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              1. The plugin often crashes (taking the browser down with it depending on what browser it is) 2) Even if it doesn't, it's terribly slow 3) If you download it and use an actual viewer, it turns out they all suck in several different ways (being bloated and having an evil mandatory auto-updater, making black text purple, failrendering images, etc, take your pick) Bonus: the file format sucks internally, which doesn't "matter" but it offends me as a programmer.
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              Are you the remaining person left on the planet that still uses the Adobe Acrobat reader instead of the Foxit pdf reader? :)


              There is no failure only feedback

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                Are you the remaining person left on the planet that still uses the Adobe Acrobat reader instead of the Foxit pdf reader? :)


                There is no failure only feedback

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                No. Foxit can gobble my balls. It's about as bad as Acrobat, but worse in that it doesn't have a reason for it. I use Evince, which at least renders black text as black, but otherwise also sucks. I'd love to hear about a pdf reader that doesn't suck. Until then, google docs viewer wins.

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                  No. Foxit can gobble my balls. It's about as bad as Acrobat, but worse in that it doesn't have a reason for it. I use Evince, which at least renders black text as black, but otherwise also sucks. I'd love to hear about a pdf reader that doesn't suck. Until then, google docs viewer wins.

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                  Wow, you are extremely atypical then. I've used Foxit heavily for many years and never had any issues with it of any kind. It's been perfect. That's what I hear from everyone else as well. You're the first person to say anything negative about it with the exception of one person who used some obscure feature that only acrobat had.


                  There is no failure only feedback

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                    Wow, you are extremely atypical then. I've used Foxit heavily for many years and never had any issues with it of any kind. It's been perfect. That's what I hear from everyone else as well. You're the first person to say anything negative about it with the exception of one person who used some obscure feature that only acrobat had.


                    There is no failure only feedback

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                    For about half a year or so all was fine between me and Foxit, but then it started misbehaving after an update that didn't want to be reversed.

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