"Do universities even know what they exist for these days? Certainly those thousands of dollars would have been better spent by providing students with better classrooms, attracting better professors, or more scholarships for families with financial trouble."
Hmmm. So how do you feel about third-world countries getting the internet?
I really don't see any issue. It's a private institution doing an experiment that just might work out for other institutions. Also for those who read the article it mentions that the apps are designed so that in the future one could go with a different phone. So once again audience, where's the problem?
""Our wonderful government here in the UK has decided we're not being surveilled enough, and agreed to spend £12 billion on a programme to monitor every Briton's phone calls, e-mails, and internet usage."
With economies going the way they are. job security will be spying on each other.
Hmmm. Well I guess my co-worker down the hall who's "entertaining" the whole office by throwing pencils into the ceiling acoustic tile should be making millions.
"There is something about the culture in American society today which doesn't really seem to encourage men or women in mathematics," said Michael Sipser, the head of M.I.T.'s math department. "Sports achievement gets lots of coverage in the media. Academic achievement gets almost none."
Assuming he's talking about pure instead of applied math. Sports has all kinds of math in it. One can make one interesting by recognizing it in the other.
"Since the US commercial space industry is effectively isolated by ITAR restrictions, but is still dominant overall for now, a US restriction basically leads to a world-wide restriction for everyone but other governments. A loosening of US regulation is the only real way to improve commercial space imagery in the short term, although if ITAR isn't loosened soon, the world's going to catch up and surpass the US anyway."
Well except for one thing. Other governments are likely to place restrictions on their satellite sources for similar reasons to the US. And they're also likely to insist that other governments do the same. Remember the French outcry several months back? Were secrets are concerned, most governments are pretty much alike.
"With the right accessorizing and appropriate leather:latex:chainmail ratio, you can ensure even the most intrepid airport screener will breeze you through in record time."
"Users do care about openness, not necessarily because it's openness, but rather for the things that it allows."
Correct, but it would be a false impression to think that "open" doesn't have as much a price as "proprietary". For example all the advantages you listed wouldn't be worth as much if one had to stand on their head, whistling Dixie, while hand-editing files in hexadecimal. As some open source projects are finding out it costs money to gain some of "proprietary"'s advantages. e.g ease of use.
" With the advent of online distribution, are the traditional music industry functions of promotion, samples, radio, and marketing now nothing but costly overhead for the artists?"
"The USPS might see a return on investment if their OCR equipment works on 75% of text, routing the hard-to-read 25% to humans. That's a huge reduction in workload, because otherwise every letter would need to be scanned by a human."
USPS got smart there. They have that info encoded as a bar code at the point of origin were the problem's easier to deal with. Same really with the other carriers.
"And here's a somewhat related question: Is there good freeware or GPL'd OCR software usable on windows? I have a few dozen pages, scanned in as high-res PNGs, that I need to convert. Snag: It has some Kanji characters sprinkled throughout."
Well do as the other poster mentioned and do the poor man's version of what the stories suggesting and find a citizen in another country that'll do the work in exchange for something else.
"Saying that computers can be as good as a human at some things is like saying different brands of cow milk taste the same. Why is this not standard now! Computers are more capable at many tasks, especially things that are repetitive and tedious."
Slashdot Mirror
"Inhabitat has posted an article detailing a recent announcement of a process to turn CO2 into Fuel."
And you all thought a Breathalyzer was bad.
"Flash sucks, a lot. The sooner we have another cross platform app for doing online animations and movies the better."
SVG and SMIL so where's my viewer?
"Do universities even know what they exist for these days? Certainly those thousands of dollars would have been better spent by providing students with better classrooms, attracting better professors, or more scholarships for families with financial trouble."
Hmmm. So how do you feel about third-world countries getting the internet?
I really don't see any issue. It's a private institution doing an experiment that just might work out for other institutions. Also for those who read the article it mentions that the apps are designed so that in the future one could go with a different phone. So once again audience, where's the problem?
"I believe it is much easier to fool an average human than a person with even some basic knowledge about AI."
In other words Slashdot's too smart to be fooled by these programs is what you're saying.
"The problem isn't just the ear butds. There's a LOT of ambient noise in offices today, thanks to noisy fans in computers. "
Another reason to use thin clients. Now if we could only look at the hearing loss amongst IT professionals.
And to prevent blindness Slashdot implemented a filter. Thanks Slashdot!
""Our wonderful government here in the UK has decided we're not being surveilled enough, and agreed to spend £12 billion on a programme to monitor every Briton's phone calls, e-mails, and internet usage."
With economies going the way they are. job security will be spying on each other.
Hmmm. Well I guess my co-worker down the hall who's "entertaining" the whole office by throwing pencils into the ceiling acoustic tile should be making millions.
The article in question.
"Most TV programs today glorify hospital and courtroom dramas. "
Numb3rs.
"There is something about the culture in American society today which doesn't really seem to encourage men or women in mathematics," said Michael Sipser, the head of M.I.T.'s math department. "Sports achievement gets lots of coverage in the media. Academic achievement gets almost none."
Assuming he's talking about pure instead of applied math. Sports has all kinds of math in it. One can make one interesting by recognizing it in the other.
"Since the US commercial space industry is effectively isolated by ITAR restrictions, but is still dominant overall for now, a US restriction basically leads to a world-wide restriction for everyone but other governments. A loosening of US regulation is the only real way to improve commercial space imagery in the short term, although if ITAR isn't loosened soon, the world's going to catch up and surpass the US anyway."
Well except for one thing. Other governments are likely to place restrictions on their satellite sources for similar reasons to the US. And they're also likely to insist that other governments do the same. Remember the French outcry several months back? Were secrets are concerned, most governments are pretty much alike.
Mmmm. Petty, petty, petty. Reminds me of why I don't watch Fox news.
"With the right accessorizing and appropriate leather:latex:chainmail ratio, you can ensure even the most intrepid airport screener will breeze you through in record time."
Hehe. Family photos huh?
" I would be quite worried if I thought the aircraft could be flown with a bluetooth mouse.""
I'd be more worried that a forum with the moniker "News for nerds" didn't understand technical subjects.
"Users do care about openness, not necessarily because it's openness, but rather for the things that it allows."
Correct, but it would be a false impression to think that "open" doesn't have as much a price as "proprietary". For example all the advantages you listed wouldn't be worth as much if one had to stand on their head, whistling Dixie, while hand-editing files in hexadecimal. As some open source projects are finding out it costs money to gain some of "proprietary"'s advantages. e.g ease of use.
"Why don't they get a little more real... say MSDN subscription for life? Yeah, I suppose that is too much to give to a MS developer... sheesh"
Maybe because developers like to get away from WORK now and then.
" With the advent of online distribution, are the traditional music industry functions of promotion, samples, radio, and marketing now nothing but costly overhead for the artists?"
Good question. Are all your customers online?
""As I predicted a week ago, it looks as if the third quarter was ugly for software vendors, due to the economic crisis. "
And FOSS's role in all this?
Ah the usual copyright-slash-flame war.
Anyway here's something to read and think about from a former pirate.
"I have re-played original deus ex upwards of 20-30 times ..."
Obviously you didn't run into the same bug that I did with the GOTY version.
If you save too many time the game can't continue when it does an auto save.
"The USPS might see a return on investment if their OCR equipment works on 75% of text, routing the hard-to-read 25% to humans. That's a huge reduction in workload, because otherwise every letter would need to be scanned by a human."
USPS got smart there. They have that info encoded as a bar code at the point of origin were the problem's easier to deal with. Same really with the other carriers.
"And here's a somewhat related question: Is there good freeware or GPL'd OCR software usable on windows? I have a few dozen pages, scanned in as high-res PNGs, that I need to convert. Snag: It has some Kanji characters sprinkled throughout."
Well do as the other poster mentioned and do the poor man's version of what the stories suggesting and find a citizen in another country that'll do the work in exchange for something else.
"Saying that computers can be as good as a human at some things is like saying different brands of cow milk taste the same. Why is this not standard now! Computers are more capable at many tasks, especially things that are repetitive and tedious."
And what computers can't do. Cheap labor can.
"A related submission from David Gerard points out that BoycottNovell has leaked the ISO OOXML documents, which ISO has keep behind passwords. "
OK we slashdot their servers. Now what?