This has nothing to do with the PM's promise. Electrification was proceeding for decades even before he came to power or made the announcement, in fact at a faster rate. In the 10 years before, the village electrification percentage went from 78%to 96%. Only the last 4% was completed in the past 4 years. So electrification actually slowed down after he made the announcement!
Way to troll. How do you even know what the "Office Expenses" in a "Budget at a glance" head contains? FYI, it is just that - "office" expenses and no, that does not include software/hardware for schools. Kerala's expenditure on education is around Rs.15,000 crore in 2016-17 - refer page 25 of the detailed financial statement straight from Finance dept. You are either a fool or far removed from India and reality if you think just Rs.220 crore includes entire Kerala's education spend. You are two magnitudes off - in future, do a favor and do not comment authoritatively on things you know zilch about.
The 150k value per machine includes not just Office software but FOSS replacements for other highly valuable ones like Matlab, Animation software, Molecular modelling, Interactive geometric sketching etc.
Finally, what's with the ad hominem argument? I'll just leave this here.
Yet again, up to the readers to do the job of the editors for them. How fast exactly is Ultra-Fast? Here is an extract from the New Zealand UFB page which also makes it clear that it is a replacement of existing ADSL with FTTH.
In particular UFB upload speeds are typically at between 10-50 times faster than ADSL’s average 1MB/s upload.
The most popular offerings (utilising GPON technology) are currently:
Businesses and other organisations are able to purchase P2P (Point-to-Point) UFB fibre connections of up to 1Gigabit/s (1000Mb/s).
Editors - get a clue.When you take news articles from all sorts of publications and present them to a largely homogenous readership, you can put in a little bit of additional effort to account for any assumptions the original sources may have made about their readers. Do not teach the slashdot crowd what JavaScript is. Do not assume everybody reading this story on Slashdot is from New Zealand and knows details of what UFB is.
I use Evernote software extensively. I actually took the time out to read both old and new privacy policies and their FAQ closely as soon as I got the email from Evernote.
The article and the Slashdot summary are, as usual, best described as FUD. They make it seem as if Evernote is compromising privacy and making it impossible to opt out of. Nothing can be farther from the truth. The change being made now is to include an additional reason for Evernote employees to access my notes - and that is to verify that the machine learning is working as intended. This change can be entirely opted out of by unchecking an option in the client. The thing that is not possible to opt out of is, other circumstances and reasons for which Evernote employees access my data, which was already in the old policy and continues unchanged in the new policy. That relates to things like legal obligations, troubleshooting, TOS violations and protecting users against malware etc, which are the norm at any service provider.
See for yourself under "Do Evernote Employees Access or Review My Notes?" Old policy New policy
In fact, Evernote has some of the the most transparent and clear privacy and security policies I have ever seen among online service providers. 1. It is in the form of Q & A 2. The crux of it is in the form of clear tables with "We collect" and "Why we collect it" columns. 3. It is very comprehensive, dealing with all imaginable aspects of privacy and security
Not only did Evernote provide a very clear update on the upcoming changes, they also allowed a well advertised opt-out (although an opt-in would have been better). They also have an 800 word FAQ to specifically clarify the changes and my options here. They are also clear about not using my data for other purposes. From their 3 laws of data protection -
Our business model is old-fashioned: we only make money when you decide to pay us for a great product. This means that trust is our biggest asset and keeping your data private is fundamental
After trying all of the consumer routers and even Ubiquity Unifi, I finally settled on RouterBoard. Better performance/price ratio compared to even Ubiquity, with fine grained control over how it operates. Can be setup with a desktop application or a direct web interface. Rock solid setup and operation. This one is basically a wireless router, so it can be configured as your main router. But at just about $120, it is inexpensive enough to be configured and used for additional wireless access points spread across the house.
Look, there are a zillion things that MS did which are sneaky and downright reprehensible with regards to pushing Windows 10, but this is NOT one of them. Has anybody seen the actual dialog? It is NOT a question asking whether you want to upgrade. It is only a notification informing you that your PC is scheduled to upgrade since you have recommended updates turned on. Your PC would have updated to 10 in any case even if that dialog were not to popup, because 10 is a recommended upgrade. This notification is in reality offering you a chance to opt of it - I remember "click here if you want to change your update setting or cancel the upgrade" or something of that sort. Then an OK button. Clicking on "X" is not somehow "activating" an upgrade. It actually does nothing, as required of a notification dialog - it is just letting the already scheduled upgrade proceed, which is what one should expect.
If anything is sneaky, it is TFA which portrays the dialog box in a false light. The entire media just repeats without once stopping to think - it has become fashionable in tech media to hit on MS pushing Win 10, but this kind of reporting only detracts from the credibility of reporting on all the real sneaky things that MS is doing.
What I find strange is that there was a strike on Jan. 26th, and so a scientist was camping in the area, and then another strike in the same area only a couple weeks later. What are the odds of that?
I would say very high. It could have been an orbiting rock that broke into pieces some time in the past (for whatever reason), each piece continuing to follow more or less the same orbit but slightly separated in time.
The DesignSync and ProjecySync components of Dassault Systems Enovia Synchronicity will do almost all of what you ask, including versioning of text/binary files, windows client software, web based interface, integration with its bug tracking system or its customizable process flows such as reviews/approvals, customizable data sets, triggers, scripts, email alerts etc and excellent documentation to boot. Probably the only piece of software I have seen that does it all. Just a happy user for the last 10 years. http://www.3ds.com/products-se...
It is correct that a pseudo random sequence (either LiDAR or Radar or SONAR) can offset this to some extent. I imagine the receiver already has some kind of heterodyning (synchronous mixing or counting) to detect the ranging delays in a continuous stream of uniform pulses. I also imagine the hack used here uses a synchronous emission - ie; detects the incoming pulse and emits a suitably phased identical pulse in the next cycles that would seem to be coming from a nearby obstacle with a lesser delay. A pseudo random sequence can counter such a synchronous emission since the attacker has no way of knowing the delay of the next pulse in respect to the currently received one. The synchronous emission essentially should show up as background noise.
Absolutely with you on that. However, there seems to be a workaround - just double tap and then without lifting your finger, drag down or up to zoom in or out (drag to zoom). Its quite usable, surprisingly.
I think he means the photon detector itself, not the actual counter. The detector needs a cool off or reset period before it is ready for the next photon. This can easily be of the order of several 10's of ns.
A whole lot of hogwash in here - wrong units, dimensionally inconsistent equations, plain ridiculous or missing assumptions but still the post gets modded as insightful just because it *sounds* insightful.
- Larger pixels improve dynamic range. DR is defined as max signal before pixel saturation, divided by noise. Noise is limited by shot noise and electronics so does not scale with pixel size. Larger pixels have more signal range. So DR is higher. - You calculate DR as if there is only one electron noise. Try several magnitudes higher noise! I am not sure DR is what you think it is. - QE for most sensors is between 20% and 50%. 10% is nonsense. - ISOCELL improves color rendition, it has nothing to do with sensitivity.
Following from Samsung should help -
According to Samsung, the ISOCELL sensor design achieves better image quality than is normally possible from the very small CMOS sensors used in smartphones and tablets. ISOCELL uses a backside-illuminated (BSI) photodiode that is unique compared to past designs thanks to its integrated barriers between the individual pixels. Compared to conventional BSI sensors, this reduces electrical crosstalk by about 30 percent. Crosstalk - the bleeding of photons and photoelectrons between neighboring pixels - has been a disadvantage of traditional BSI sensor design, one that can reduce image sharpness and color accuracy because light intended for one particular pixel spreads to its neighbors.
Existing BSI designs, with their photodiodes near the front of the sensor, lack any inherent structures that prevent light bleeding between pixels (a role fortuitously played by the circuitry in front of the photodiodes in older, frontside-illuminated chips). The barriers in the ISOCELL design prevent this bleeding.
How do you equate 10% QE to 5pLumens/pix "sensitivity"? I am not sure Sensitivity is what you think it is. Sensitivity is defined as voltage output from the sensor for a given light input. What is the voltage output assumed here? How does it compare to the camera noise?
Given this, rest of your statements do not make any sense either. When you say "generous" assumptions, it turns out they are actually ridiculous assumptions - you have removed the entire point of analysis and pixel size and even ignored reality, which is what the OP is commenting about. You disagreed with his points that are based on solid reality, but then ended up giving a half-baked proof derived from supposedly "fundamental" limits that are nowhere close to reality.
Every 180 years to be precise. Your bigger problem would be material rot, assuming you would want anything more than a couple of decades worth of backup.
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This has nothing to do with the PM's promise. Electrification was proceeding for decades even before he came to power or made the announcement, in fact at a faster rate. In the 10 years before, the village electrification percentage went from 78%to 96%. Only the last 4% was completed in the past 4 years. So electrification actually slowed down after he made the announcement!
Yeah, I knew all those. It was my honeypot, you insensitive clod!
Way to troll. How do you even know what the "Office Expenses" in a "Budget at a glance" head contains? FYI, it is just that - "office" expenses and no, that does not include software/hardware for schools. Kerala's expenditure on education is around Rs.15,000 crore in 2016-17 - refer page 25 of the detailed financial statement straight from Finance dept. You are either a fool or far removed from India and reality if you think just Rs.220 crore includes entire Kerala's education spend. You are two magnitudes off - in future, do a favor and do not comment authoritatively on things you know zilch about.
The 150k value per machine includes not just Office software but FOSS replacements for other highly valuable ones like Matlab, Animation software, Molecular modelling, Interactive geometric sketching etc.
Finally, what's with the ad hominem argument? I'll just leave this here.
A British journalist had asked Mahatma Gandhi: "What do you think of western civilization?"
Gandhi: "I think it is a good idea"
Yet again, up to the readers to do the job of the editors for them. How fast exactly is Ultra-Fast? Here is an extract from the New Zealand UFB page which also makes it clear that it is a replacement of existing ADSL with FTTH.
In particular UFB upload speeds are typically at between 10-50 times faster than ADSL’s average 1MB/s upload.
The most popular offerings (utilising GPON technology) are currently:
– 30Mb/s download, 10Mb/s upload
– 100Mb/s download, 50Mb/s upload
Businesses and other organisations are able to purchase P2P (Point-to-Point) UFB fibre connections of up to 1Gigabit/s (1000Mb/s).
Editors - get a clue.When you take news articles from all sorts of publications and present them to a largely homogenous readership, you can put in a little bit of additional effort to account for any assumptions the original sources may have made about their readers. Do not teach the slashdot crowd what JavaScript is. Do not assume everybody reading this story on Slashdot is from New Zealand and knows details of what UFB is.
I use Evernote software extensively. I actually took the time out to read both old and new privacy policies and their FAQ closely as soon as I got the email from Evernote.
The article and the Slashdot summary are, as usual, best described as FUD. They make it seem as if Evernote is compromising privacy and making it impossible to opt out of. Nothing can be farther from the truth. The change being made now is to include an additional reason for Evernote employees to access my notes - and that is to verify that the machine learning is working as intended. This change can be entirely opted out of by unchecking an option in the client. The thing that is not possible to opt out of is, other circumstances and reasons for which Evernote employees access my data, which was already in the old policy and continues unchanged in the new policy. That relates to things like legal obligations, troubleshooting, TOS violations and protecting users against malware etc, which are the norm at any service provider.
See for yourself under "Do Evernote Employees Access or Review My Notes?"
Old policy
New policy
In fact, Evernote has some of the the most transparent and clear privacy and security policies I have ever seen among online service providers.
1. It is in the form of Q & A
2. The crux of it is in the form of clear tables with "We collect" and "Why we collect it" columns.
3. It is very comprehensive, dealing with all imaginable aspects of privacy and security
Not only did Evernote provide a very clear update on the upcoming changes, they also allowed a well advertised opt-out (although an opt-in would have been better). They also have an 800 word FAQ to specifically clarify the changes and my options here. They are also clear about not using my data for other purposes. From their 3 laws of data protection -
.
I couldn't have asked for anything better.
After trying all of the consumer routers and even Ubiquity Unifi, I finally settled on RouterBoard. Better performance/price ratio compared to even Ubiquity, with fine grained control over how it operates. Can be setup with a desktop application or a direct web interface. Rock solid setup and operation. This one is basically a wireless router, so it can be configured as your main router. But at just about $120, it is inexpensive enough to be configured and used for additional wireless access points spread across the house.
Welcome to Slashdot - where even facts are modded flamebait by frothing zombies just because the facts happen to favor of Microsoft!
Look, there are a zillion things that MS did which are sneaky and downright reprehensible with regards to pushing Windows 10, but this is NOT one of them. Has anybody seen the actual dialog? It is NOT a question asking whether you want to upgrade. It is only a notification informing you that your PC is scheduled to upgrade since you have recommended updates turned on. Your PC would have updated to 10 in any case even if that dialog were not to popup, because 10 is a recommended upgrade. This notification is in reality offering you a chance to opt of it - I remember "click here if you want to change your update setting or cancel the upgrade" or something of that sort. Then an OK button. Clicking on "X" is not somehow "activating" an upgrade. It actually does nothing, as required of a notification dialog - it is just letting the already scheduled upgrade proceed, which is what one should expect.
If anything is sneaky, it is TFA which portrays the dialog box in a false light. The entire media just repeats without once stopping to think - it has become fashionable in tech media to hit on MS pushing Win 10, but this kind of reporting only detracts from the credibility of reporting on all the real sneaky things that MS is doing.
No, they were all replaced by AI. It's the next big thing after computers. Get over it.
Decide for yourself
What I find strange is that there was a strike on Jan. 26th, and so a scientist was camping in the area, and then another strike in the same area only a couple weeks later. What are the odds of that?
I would say very high. It could have been an orbiting rock that broke into pieces some time in the past (for whatever reason), each piece continuing to follow more or less the same orbit but slightly separated in time.
That is definitely welcome, just the way you described it.
The DesignSync and ProjecySync components of Dassault Systems Enovia Synchronicity will do almost all of what you ask, including versioning of text/binary files, windows client software, web based interface, integration with its bug tracking system or its customizable process flows such as reviews/approvals, customizable data sets, triggers, scripts, email alerts etc and excellent documentation to boot. Probably the only piece of software I have seen that does it all. Just a happy user for the last 10 years.
http://www.3ds.com/products-se...
It is correct that a pseudo random sequence (either LiDAR or Radar or SONAR) can offset this to some extent. I imagine the receiver already has some kind of heterodyning (synchronous mixing or counting) to detect the ranging delays in a continuous stream of uniform pulses. I also imagine the hack used here uses a synchronous emission - ie; detects the incoming pulse and emits a suitably phased identical pulse in the next cycles that would seem to be coming from a nearby obstacle with a lesser delay. A pseudo random sequence can counter such a synchronous emission since the attacker has no way of knowing the delay of the next pulse in respect to the currently received one. The synchronous emission essentially should show up as background noise.
Undoing wrong moderation.
Sign me up for systemd@init.sh please :)
Absolutely with you on that. However, there seems to be a workaround - just double tap and then without lifting your finger, drag down or up to zoom in or out (drag to zoom). Its quite usable, surprisingly.
Not until it can allow me to cut a full row and insert it elsewhere using a reasonable number of mouse clicks as in Excel (two vs seven now!).
While Google just watched the eye-wear, eh samzenpus?
I think he means the photon detector itself, not the actual counter. The detector needs a cool off or reset period before it is ready for the next photon. This can easily be of the order of several 10's of ns.
A whole lot of hogwash in here - wrong units, dimensionally inconsistent equations, plain ridiculous or missing assumptions but still the post gets modded as insightful just because it *sounds* insightful.
- Larger pixels improve dynamic range. DR is defined as max signal before pixel saturation, divided by noise. Noise is limited by shot noise and electronics so does not scale with pixel size. Larger pixels have more signal range. So DR is higher.
- You calculate DR as if there is only one electron noise. Try several magnitudes higher noise! I am not sure DR is what you think it is.
- QE for most sensors is between 20% and 50%. 10% is nonsense.
- ISOCELL improves color rendition, it has nothing to do with sensitivity.
Following from Samsung should help -
According to Samsung, the ISOCELL sensor design achieves better image quality than is normally possible from the very small CMOS sensors used in smartphones and tablets. ISOCELL uses a backside-illuminated (BSI) photodiode that is unique compared to past designs thanks to its integrated barriers between the individual pixels. Compared to conventional BSI sensors, this reduces electrical crosstalk by about 30 percent. Crosstalk - the bleeding of photons and photoelectrons between neighboring pixels - has been a disadvantage of traditional BSI sensor design, one that can reduce image sharpness and color accuracy because light intended for one particular pixel spreads to its neighbors.
Existing BSI designs, with their photodiodes near the front of the sensor, lack any inherent structures that prevent light bleeding between pixels (a role fortuitously played by the circuitry in front of the photodiodes in older, frontside-illuminated chips). The barriers in the ISOCELL design prevent this bleeding.
How do you equate 10% QE to 5pLumens/pix "sensitivity"? I am not sure Sensitivity is what you think it is. Sensitivity is defined as voltage output from the sensor for a given light input. What is the voltage output assumed here? How does it compare to the camera noise?
Given this, rest of your statements do not make any sense either. When you say "generous" assumptions, it turns out they are actually ridiculous assumptions - you have removed the entire point of analysis and pixel size and even ignored reality, which is what the OP is commenting about. You disagreed with his points that are based on solid reality, but then ended up giving a half-baked proof derived from supposedly "fundamental" limits that are nowhere close to reality.
Not so fast! They still haven't perfected slipstream of rootkits onto Vinyl.
Periodically you swap over to a new tape.
Every 180 years to be precise. Your bigger problem would be material rot, assuming you would want anything more than a couple of decades worth of backup.
Posting to remove mistaken moderation