They make it seem like this is some revolutionary new way to identify pneumonia and is better than anything we currentally have. But it just turns a cheap microphone into a crappy stethoscope.
You forgot to add the Million dollars of Doctors training also connected to said scope and its not just a crappy stethoscope it is a
measuring device used day to day by medical professionals.
This app turns a (smart? its running windows) mobile and crappy microphone into Expert recommendations
this means you and I could diagnose this condition as well as a medical professional with years of training.
How sad and cynical do you have to be to seriously believe that all the time and money Gates has spent, especially post-Microsoft, is some sort of elaborate ploy to make people think better of him? I'm sure he's under no illusion that he can convince certain elements of the Slashdot community, but really, that's far more a reflection on those people than it is him.
Your comment has truly depressed me. Doubly so that it got modded anything other than flamebait.
I hope your joking please don't kill yourself , it is only Bill Gates after all....
Bill Gates is just following the pattern of all powerful people who discover they are hated and founding a charity to present them in a better light.
I find this article annoying as the poster is using this article to promote his point of view which is biased and misleading.
The CSIRO is a scientific research organization and as such it can in no way commercialize the technology.
I agree that it was sad that CSIRO have to take companies to court to defend their patents but if these these companies would play by the rules and
license the technology then CSIRO would not have to resort to the flawed legal system.
The fact that you do not like the way it uses patents to fund research is neither here nor their it as it is using patent law for it's intended purpose
which is different from a person or organization that uses patents purely for litigation.
I would ask the poster that if he is going to submit propaganda that at least he should be truthful and honest about what he is doing.
propaganda [prop-uh-gan-duh] Show IPA
noun
1.information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.....
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/propaganda
Speaking as an Indian, I can safely say that we as a country don't deserve to have ANY control over the Internet......
However if you think about it the Indian government, going by past experience with the commonwealth games,
could runs things so badly it just might be a positive. Internet chaos might be good.
I don't understand what Optus is doing. If they win then they will have no long term competitive advantage because their competitors could then do it too. It seems to be all risk with no real reward.
What Optus (big nasty Telco) is doing is getting around a monopoly on broadcasting rights that Telstra (other big nasty Telco) bought from the AFL & NRL (Australian football sports leagues) . It has the potential to save them millions in broadcasting license fees just by facilitating a service and saying "we are not doing anything illegal its the customer who wants to time-shift the broadcast".
Can you imagine all the "poor" (he he) footballers not getting paid the "big bucks" if this is allowed to go through ?
You have to give Optus points for "having the balls" to try it.
please mod parent post by seb42 up +5 ultra informative
These scientists should have God status people without WIFI were you would gamers be ?
The same goes for you Ipad people.
These guys took radio signal processing that they used to study stars and applied it to data communications.
I remember the early 1990's and mobile data communications meant dial up speeds and that was only IF you were the only person sending data to the mobile phone tower in your area its the one of the reason's why sms text messages are so short that is all you could send with the technology at the time.
The article said they had the caught suspect on CCTV well enough already show us the picture.
Then everywhere he goes everyone will know him for what his A dirty scummy THIEF!!!
Trust once he has been slash-dotted he will never do it again.
This is incorrect I always get patted down flying out of Australia. I reckon chocolate sets their detector thing off as I always have chocolate (cheapest drink) while waiting to fly out of the airport.
Curt Shilling I think you have a poor business model or your being greedy
If you need to be paid every time your product changes hands.
Yes I know Bill Gates used to have fits because it felt that people were stealing
his basic code but that was then now is now.
Dare I say it but when you sell your product its is out their in the market place
and I have the physical product that I have paid money for why cant I trade it in
so I can get another game?
The only reason there is such a large used games market is that the games are too
expensive and the only way I can get new games is to trade the old ones in.
Why do you do that? It's "companies". Don't you read anything but the illiterate ramblings on Yahoo? Meet Bob, maybe you can look less like an illiterate moron.
Mods, I'm offtopic, please mod me down.
Oops, Sorry!.
Hope my poor spelling did not stop you from understanding my message.
Seriously dude, It's slashdot and you find my minor spelling mistake so changing ?
Look that was an honest mistake he did sort of look like one of the guys they were looking for
and the coppers are human if at the critical moment , when you have to ID the person you are about to assassinate,
nature calls well nature calls man
Its part of a pattern of using military weaponry against civilians. In The Battlefield Today? In Your Backyard Tomorrow.
The company's that produce these military weapons have fewer places to sell their products.
Stuff like fewer wars and more country's starting to sign up to and believe in Geneva conventions puts a dampener on things.
You know Peace can be a bit of a pain in the arse.
But do not worry when you have a nation , Insert god fearing christian nation here, thats freaked out by Musilm's,Black and just generally different to their way of thinking people you have a ready made market for your products.
....average throat-cutting, convoy robbing, wife-whuppin', goat-fucking Taliban Mujahedin* in the Iraq or the Afghanistan. Yay for Democracy, Freedom and other Western Values.
--------------
* This image of the Taliban is based on post-Soviet era Western media portrayal. Before that the Mujahedin were brave, just, honest and peace-loving farmers who were badly abused by the Bloody KGB and only kept goats for the milk and the meat**.
** This image of the brave, just, honest and peace-loving Mujahedin is in reality Western propaganda while the image of the "average throat-cutting, convoy robbing, wife-whuppin', goat-fucking Taliban Mujahedin" is the truth... honest.
If someone has mod points please mod this up. (+5 profound)
This is the real issue here I bet this company in the article outsourced the day to day running of this plant to another firm.
When you outsource you lose the knowledge , skills and most importantly quality control of the product.
The quality of the product is what differentiates you from the competition.
Slashdot Mirror
Why have you taken steps to immigrate to Australia, rather than Canada?
Canada does not have _any_ real national plans for the internet especially Ontario/Quebec.
Touché ....
Woz?
Someone Mod the parent post down -1000 devils spawn............. please?
Steve just wanting to know the story with Steve jobs baby "The Mac" in 80's and what were your thoughts on its development?
Can someone mod this guy as Troll -1 I know negativity is bad but this looks like advertising
They make it seem like this is some revolutionary new way to identify pneumonia and is better than anything we currentally have. But it just turns a cheap microphone into a crappy stethoscope.
You forgot to add the Million dollars of Doctors training also connected to said scope and its not just a crappy stethoscope it is a measuring device used day to day by medical professionals.
This app turns a (smart? its running windows) mobile and crappy microphone into Expert recommendations this means you and I could diagnose this condition as well as a medical professional with years of training.
mod the parent post up (please) +5 insightful (also +5 experience - poor bastard)
Are 12-16 Hour Workdays Productive? - This is the wrong question.
The Real Question/s should be Why ?
Why does the company find it necessary ?
Why can't they employ more staff?
Why do staff spend 16 hours at this company?
Why haven't they got a life outside of work ? (I mean come on 8 hours which is just enough time to sleep)
How sad and cynical do you have to be to seriously believe that all the time and money Gates has spent, especially post-Microsoft, is some sort of elaborate ploy to make people think better of him? I'm sure he's under no illusion that he can convince certain elements of the Slashdot community, but really, that's far more a reflection on those people than it is him.
Your comment has truly depressed me. Doubly so that it got modded anything other than flamebait.
I hope your joking please don't kill yourself , it is only Bill Gates after all....
Bill Gates is just following the pattern of all powerful people who discover they are hated and founding a charity to present them in a better light.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel
My Memories of Micro$oft and Bill is of an aggressive Tech company that had no ethics and would follow a pattern of Steal , Sue and Buyout.
But hey hes doing some good now changing from the Anti-Christ into something sweeter smelling... (still shit but a with touch of roses)
I find this article annoying as the poster is using this article to promote his point of view which is biased and misleading.
The CSIRO is a scientific research organization and as such it can in no way commercialize the technology.
I agree that it was sad that CSIRO have to take companies to court to defend their patents but if these these companies would play by the rules and license the technology then CSIRO would not have to resort to the flawed legal system.
The fact that you do not like the way it uses patents to fund research is neither here nor their it as it is using patent law for it's intended purpose which is different from a person or organization that uses patents purely for litigation.
I would ask the poster that if he is going to submit propaganda that at least he should be truthful and honest about what he is doing.
propaganda [prop-uh-gan-duh] Show IPA noun 1.information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. ....
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/propaganda
:-) Yeah I know but It's slashdot . Some people take it seriously putting that in front stops the flames :-)
And letting in the US is better ?
Well I think it's , at least for westerners, a case of the devil ( USA) you know.
USA is a very easy devil to deal with just throw money at it and it will let you do what ever you like.
Cause it's gets a bit nasty if you don't have money but at least it's an honest devil.
(joke [ducks] [hides] [begs for mercy]) Whoops I thought the internet's primary purpose is porn distribution ?
please mod parent post as informative . South Korea is run by Industry giants.
Speaking as an Indian, I can safely say that we as a country don't deserve to have ANY control over the Internet......
However if you think about it the Indian government, going by past experience with the commonwealth games, could runs things so badly it just might be a positive. Internet chaos might be good.
Do you think big content cares about what's legal and what isn't?
Mod Parent post up +5 Insightful This is the real issue here .
I don't understand what Optus is doing. If they win then they will have no long term competitive advantage because their competitors could then do it too. It seems to be all risk with no real reward.
What Optus (big nasty Telco) is doing is getting around a monopoly on broadcasting rights that Telstra (other big nasty Telco) bought from the AFL & NRL (Australian football sports leagues) . It has the potential to save them millions in broadcasting license fees just by facilitating a service and saying "we are not doing anything illegal its the customer who wants to time-shift the broadcast". Can you imagine all the "poor" (he he) footballers not getting paid the "big bucks" if this is allowed to go through ? You have to give Optus points for "having the balls" to try it.
The same goes for you Ipad people. These guys took radio signal processing that they used to study stars and applied it to data communications.
I remember the early 1990's and mobile data communications meant dial up speeds and that was only IF you were the only person sending data to the mobile phone tower in your area its the one of the reason's why sms text messages are so short that is all you could send with the technology at the time.
The article said they had the caught suspect on CCTV well enough already show us the picture.
Then everywhere he goes everyone will know him for what his A dirty scummy THIEF!!!
Trust once he has been slash-dotted he will never do it again.
This is incorrect I always get patted down flying out of Australia. I reckon chocolate sets their detector thing off as I always have chocolate (cheapest drink) while waiting to fly out of the airport.
Curt Shilling I think you have a poor business model or your being greedy If you need to be paid every time your product changes hands. Yes I know Bill Gates used to have fits because it felt that people were stealing his basic code but that was then now is now. Dare I say it but when you sell your product its is out their in the market place and I have the physical product that I have paid money for why cant I trade it in so I can get another game? The only reason there is such a large used games market is that the games are too expensive and the only way I can get new games is to trade the old ones in.
The company's that produce these military weapons
Why do you do that? It's "companies". Don't you read anything but the illiterate ramblings on Yahoo? Meet Bob, maybe you can look less like an illiterate moron.
Mods, I'm offtopic, please mod me down.
Oops, Sorry!.
Hope my poor spelling did not stop you from understanding my message.
Seriously dude, It's slashdot and you find my minor spelling mistake so changing ?
Unless they're running for a train in London...
sarcasm warning
Look that was an honest mistake he did sort of look like one of the guys they were looking for and the coppers are human if at the critical moment , when you have to ID the person you are about to assassinate, nature calls well nature calls man
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/629/629/7073125.stm
Its part of a pattern of using military weaponry against civilians. In The Battlefield Today? In Your Backyard Tomorrow.
The company's that produce these military weapons have fewer places to sell their products.
,Black and just generally different to their way of thinking people you have a ready made market for your products.
Stuff like fewer wars and more country's starting to sign up to and believe in Geneva conventions puts a dampener on things.
You know Peace can be a bit of a pain in the arse.
But do not worry when you have a nation , Insert god fearing christian nation here, thats freaked out by Musilm's
....average throat-cutting, convoy robbing, wife-whuppin', goat-fucking Taliban Mujahedin* in the Iraq or the Afghanistan. Yay for Democracy, Freedom and other Western Values.
--------------
* This image of the Taliban is based on post-Soviet era Western media portrayal. Before that the Mujahedin were brave, just, honest and peace-loving farmers who were badly abused by the Bloody KGB and only kept goats for the milk and the meat**.
** This image of the brave, just, honest and peace-loving Mujahedin is in reality Western propaganda while the image of the "average throat-cutting, convoy robbing, wife-whuppin', goat-fucking Taliban Mujahedin" is the truth ... honest.
If someone has mod points please mod this up. (+5 profound)
This is the real issue here I bet this company in the article outsourced the day to day running of this plant to another firm.
When you outsource you lose the knowledge , skills and most importantly quality control of the product.
The quality of the product is what differentiates you from the competition.