People will believe anything if it's marketed well enough... or they have no other option.
LTE is looking promising as there's been trials here in Australia at over 100km ~80mbps connection. I'm just concerned that mobile providers are on the one hand loading their customer endpoints with gear that has lightening quick speeds, but refuse to upgrade their network to support it. Then they have the balls to cry foul when consumers say their service is shit.
We have the same problem here in Australia with Vodaphone/3/Hutchinson (dunno how you are supposed to say that). 2 networks merged and it's worse than ever. Class actions all over the place and they want to introduce 4G. Just makes me facepalm.
Both Battlefield 2 and C&C Generals had china as an enemy in them. There's plenty with Russia as an enemy too (Operation Flashpoint, the old ones, MW2, BF2), there is a definite need when making a game for the west to have the "good" side as US or UK and the bad side needs to be people who we don't know much about. At least that's how small minded designers seem to see it.
The same as all mass produced art, play to people's fears to sell a lot.
The problem is they have yet to go public with the breach. They are releasing dribs and drabs, stories are changing. The same culture of secrecy that is prolific in TEPCO seems to be running through Sony. Deny there is a problem, cover it up, astroturf every journo you can, and biggest rule of all, don't let the public know what's really going on.
The only articles that have made sense recently about this are being written by security researchers or journos writing about what security researchers have been doing. The general consensus is that not only has the problem not been fixed, Sony seem to have no intention of changing their attitude toward security.
I have to say, I love watching others play. No matter if they are highly skilled or not. It's great to watch people's reactions to situations, maybe learn a little in the process. I've always enjoyed watching quake rolls, raid run downs, and the like. Having gamed for over 20 years, once it's in your blood you kind of enjoy everything about them.
One thing I find is it's hard for traditional media to cover events that have more than 2 players. Switching between 8, 16, or even 32 players would give anyone a headache.
HDCP has nothing to do with the cable but everything to do with the devices at the ends of the cable. It's just a DRM encryption, and HDMI being digital, well, it doesn't make a difference if the signal is delayed by 200ns, as long as the signal gets there and the device supports HDCP it will be decoded.
People seem to find it hard to get their head around low latency digital equipment these days. Maybe it's too many years of dealing with analogue devices.
They are asking for a tricorder like device to diagnose "better than a panel of board certified physicians".
First, one doctor or nurse (yes, this can be used by a nurse that is trained) is not a "panel". Secondly, a tricorder required a doctor to make sense of the diagnosis in Star Trek, thus why Dr McCoy was needed. Otherwise they wouldn't need a ship's doctor or even a medical bay.
Aside from this, MycroLab can be used by a non-physician. As the inventor, Micah Atkin, says "my invention supplies fast, accurate, life-saving information to untrained users anywhere in the world".
Corperate environments are usually controlled and less likely to get malware.
That's not true at all. Having worked support in various corporations I can assure you that the infection rate is still very high. I remember working for a large bank and they had conficker on 1500 servers and 20000 workstations. This is supposed to be a sterile environment as it's a bank, not so. Where you have staff who aren't exactly computer literate you will have large infection rates.
The US didn't win the American war in Vietnam, committed war crimes, and no one was brought before the Internation War Crimes Tribunal. So this doesn't ring true really.
It's more that whoever controls the information controls whether someone is brought up on war crimes charges.
Exactly. Add to this that the US has dragged other nations into their criminal wars. More people have died at the hands of US forces committing war crimes than any other nation over the last two decades.
Again, this is not to say other countries aren't doing this, but to claim that taking down Sadam for gassing 30 000 people by killing more than 10 fold people is fine is just wrong.
I know I'll get modded down by the US patriots, but war crimes are war crimes. No escaping it, no matter how just you think they are.
Then stop reading slashdot. It seems that people just come here to complain about the news articles. No one is forcing you to come to slashdot, and if you do, no one is forcing you to click on the story link.
Pretty much it./. seems to be a mix of enthusiasts, professionals and trolls. There's almost always something to learn from the comments, even if it's an article that you're not even interested in. Things sway wildly off-topic but are still interesting and get modded accordingly.
The beauty of/. is the moderation system. Other sites I've read have moved to the/. style moderation system and the sites have almost collapsed over the backlash. It seems that while it's a harsh system that not everyone likes, it's a system that works. You just need to start with a system like/. and not remove features to emulate slashdot.
While this is all massively off topic, it needed to be said.
The problem is that you have IT managers that are trained to manage not understand IT, IT admins that are trained in only MS software, and users who aren't trained at all on how to use software effectively.
I've seen this happen a lot in business, the bigger they are, the less emphasis there is on positive IT policies or employing IT professionals who actually know what they are doing. The main emphasis in big business is to climb the corporate ladder, buy stuff from vendors you get kickbacks from, and employ people who are cheap or friends of managers.
The IT side of business is not getting any better, we're seeing data breeches, hacked sites, and takedowns happening on some of the largest corporations in the world. These kind of things would not have happened if IT managers, admins, and users were trained properly or employed for the right reasons.
This isn't a problem with the users, it's a problem with the network. As with almost all mobile data providers, they oversell and underprovision. It's all about squeezing users for as much as they can. If they can force people to pay a premium for the same data service they will, if they don't have to upgrade the network, even better.
Add to this that if I am on the road I use as much data on my phone/iPad as I do at home (sometimes more if I'm watching videos remotely), so there's really no excuse for not allowing people to tether their phones. It's just about not spending money on upgrading infrastructure and getting more from double billing customers.
Even then, I have yet to work for a company that has a searchable PDF archive. Even when I worked for Fairfax (media company here in AU that publishes national & local newspapers), the PDF archive that came straight out of the publishing app wasn't searchable. Hell, it only had 3 months of the paper on servers, the rest were on archive DVDs.
The whole idea of searchable PDFs died a long time ago, this is why business use purpose built products.
Also, the OP stated that it was the original PDF that was generated better, the next step is to run OCR on the PDF. I have no idea what GP was on about, seems like they just wanted to post on this topic.
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No such thing as free speech laws in the UK. You are liable for your actions/words.
People will believe anything if it's marketed well enough... or they have no other option.
LTE is looking promising as there's been trials here in Australia at over 100km ~80mbps connection. I'm just concerned that mobile providers are on the one hand loading their customer endpoints with gear that has lightening quick speeds, but refuse to upgrade their network to support it. Then they have the balls to cry foul when consumers say their service is shit.
We have the same problem here in Australia with Vodaphone/3/Hutchinson (dunno how you are supposed to say that). 2 networks merged and it's worse than ever. Class actions all over the place and they want to introduce 4G. Just makes me facepalm.
Yeh, because what they've been using more than the shuttle is so much more advanced.
Funny thing is, THIS IS ROCKET SCIENCE. Stupid comments like this betray one's inability to understand why the shuttle was a REALLY bad idea.
If a shuttle has a bad launch, everyone dies. If a Soyuz has a bad launch, the command module ends up in Siberia. I know what I'd prefer to fly.
Both Battlefield 2 and C&C Generals had china as an enemy in them. There's plenty with Russia as an enemy too (Operation Flashpoint, the old ones, MW2, BF2), there is a definite need when making a game for the west to have the "good" side as US or UK and the bad side needs to be people who we don't know much about. At least that's how small minded designers seem to see it.
The same as all mass produced art, play to people's fears to sell a lot.
The problem is they have yet to go public with the breach. They are releasing dribs and drabs, stories are changing. The same culture of secrecy that is prolific in TEPCO seems to be running through Sony. Deny there is a problem, cover it up, astroturf every journo you can, and biggest rule of all, don't let the public know what's really going on.
The only articles that have made sense recently about this are being written by security researchers or journos writing about what security researchers have been doing. The general consensus is that not only has the problem not been fixed, Sony seem to have no intention of changing their attitude toward security.
I have to say, I love watching others play. No matter if they are highly skilled or not. It's great to watch people's reactions to situations, maybe learn a little in the process. I've always enjoyed watching quake rolls, raid run downs, and the like. Having gamed for over 20 years, once it's in your blood you kind of enjoy everything about them.
One thing I find is it's hard for traditional media to cover events that have more than 2 players. Switching between 8, 16, or even 32 players would give anyone a headache.
HDCP has nothing to do with the cable but everything to do with the devices at the ends of the cable. It's just a DRM encryption, and HDMI being digital, well, it doesn't make a difference if the signal is delayed by 200ns, as long as the signal gets there and the device supports HDCP it will be decoded.
People seem to find it hard to get their head around low latency digital equipment these days. Maybe it's too many years of dealing with analogue devices.
They are asking for a tricorder like device to diagnose "better than a panel of board certified physicians".
First, one doctor or nurse (yes, this can be used by a nurse that is trained) is not a "panel". Secondly, a tricorder required a doctor to make sense of the diagnosis in Star Trek, thus why Dr McCoy was needed. Otherwise they wouldn't need a ship's doctor or even a medical bay.
Aside from this, MycroLab can be used by a non-physician. As the inventor, Micah Atkin, says "my invention supplies fast, accurate, life-saving information to untrained users anywhere in the world".
Sorry, you've failed at looking smart.
This has already been done by an Australian. It's a micro-lab basically. It was on a TV show called The New Inventors where inventions are showcased.
Maybe if they learnt to use a decent search engine they'd have found this:
http://www.lifescientist.com.au/article/309857/handheld_lab_receives_innovic_gong/
and this:
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors/txt/s2669552.htm
Looks like an Aussie gets the $10m.
Corperate environments are usually controlled and less likely to get malware.
That's not true at all. Having worked support in various corporations I can assure you that the infection rate is still very high. I remember working for a large bank and they had conficker on 1500 servers and 20000 workstations. This is supposed to be a sterile environment as it's a bank, not so. Where you have staff who aren't exactly computer literate you will have large infection rates.
I still reject this idea. It's about information, not who "won".
The US didn't win the American war in Vietnam, committed war crimes, and no one was brought before the Internation War Crimes Tribunal. So this doesn't ring true really.
It's more that whoever controls the information controls whether someone is brought up on war crimes charges.
Exactly. Add to this that the US has dragged other nations into their criminal wars. More people have died at the hands of US forces committing war crimes than any other nation over the last two decades.
Again, this is not to say other countries aren't doing this, but to claim that taking down Sadam for gassing 30 000 people by killing more than 10 fold people is fine is just wrong.
I know I'll get modded down by the US patriots, but war crimes are war crimes. No escaping it, no matter how just you think they are.
Yeh, because the US isn't run by "good-old-boy" political parties.
The US is a corrupt police state that claims to be spreading democracy. Just look at the way your government treats it's own citizens.
Then stop reading slashdot. It seems that people just come here to complain about the news articles. No one is forcing you to come to slashdot, and if you do, no one is forcing you to click on the story link.
I have no idea why people come to slashdot just to post as an AC and denounce every new bit of technology.
Luddites are alive and well in the 21st century, it's just amazing how much effort goes into it these days.
I doubt you have any idea what you're talking about.
It's actually a great looking device for musicians like myself. Built in MIDI & DMX512 ports.
Nice attempt at trolling open source projects.
For a moment there I thought you were describing JJ Abrams desecration of Star Trek.
Pretty much it. /. seems to be a mix of enthusiasts, professionals and trolls. There's almost always something to learn from the comments, even if it's an article that you're not even interested in. Things sway wildly off-topic but are still interesting and get modded accordingly.
The beauty of /. is the moderation system. Other sites I've read have moved to the /. style moderation system and the sites have almost collapsed over the backlash. It seems that while it's a harsh system that not everyone likes, it's a system that works. You just need to start with a system like /. and not remove features to emulate slashdot.
While this is all massively off topic, it needed to be said.
The problem is that you have IT managers that are trained to manage not understand IT, IT admins that are trained in only MS software, and users who aren't trained at all on how to use software effectively.
I've seen this happen a lot in business, the bigger they are, the less emphasis there is on positive IT policies or employing IT professionals who actually know what they are doing. The main emphasis in big business is to climb the corporate ladder, buy stuff from vendors you get kickbacks from, and employ people who are cheap or friends of managers.
The IT side of business is not getting any better, we're seeing data breeches, hacked sites, and takedowns happening on some of the largest corporations in the world. These kind of things would not have happened if IT managers, admins, and users were trained properly or employed for the right reasons.
I see you are not aware of lobbying....
This isn't a problem with the users, it's a problem with the network. As with almost all mobile data providers, they oversell and underprovision. It's all about squeezing users for as much as they can. If they can force people to pay a premium for the same data service they will, if they don't have to upgrade the network, even better.
Add to this that if I am on the road I use as much data on my phone/iPad as I do at home (sometimes more if I'm watching videos remotely), so there's really no excuse for not allowing people to tether their phones. It's just about not spending money on upgrading infrastructure and getting more from double billing customers.
Even then, I have yet to work for a company that has a searchable PDF archive. Even when I worked for Fairfax (media company here in AU that publishes national & local newspapers), the PDF archive that came straight out of the publishing app wasn't searchable. Hell, it only had 3 months of the paper on servers, the rest were on archive DVDs.
The whole idea of searchable PDFs died a long time ago, this is why business use purpose built products.
Also, the OP stated that it was the original PDF that was generated better, the next step is to run OCR on the PDF. I have no idea what GP was on about, seems like they just wanted to post on this topic.
Why is this even a question for slashdot. A quick google will inform you that Belrus has a state owned telco.
Nuff said. They own the telco, they'd have access to all traffic across it.
Yeh, because they wouldn't do it anywhere else.
(hint, they are already doing this)