Oracle's legal action against Google over Android has already created confusion among developers about the future of Java as a platform. And, if Oracle is to able to stop Google from developing Android, Java will likely be avoided by any large companies for their new product. And, now this news that M$ might give up developing.NET any further adds to serve more confusion.
With the recent news, there is another programming area likely to be severely hit i.e., the development of Mono. If.NET is gonna stop, it would be difficult to justify any development on Mono. Seems RMS was right again this time in opposing Mono from the very beginning.
Only good thing this would serve in long term is more interest of developers in languages like Python, Perl. But, the present developments will definitely add so much of chaos to the programming sphere.
low light should be easy, wire up a lensed white LED pair with one light on each side of the camera, it could even run the lights in sequence to help identify photos or other fake faces
Definitely, there are a lot of things that one can try to overcome poor lighting to make things work. But, that is not the point. The point here is that a manufacturer is not providing you a ready-made solution that one expects.
I have got a DELL laptop that has face recognition feature but I hardly use it. Yep, you guessed it right, because of poor lighting (I come from a nation badly struggling with power shortage). I often use it at night (and hence in dark) and have to rely on manual password entry.
For me, there is nothing new in the news (and I seriously think the appearance of this story on Slashdot look like a joke). If Lenovo, for example, could solve the problems like one mentioned above or could differentiate between real human and his photograph, then it would have made sense.
It is definitely great to know that MySQL is doing great even in Oracle's hands and even Linux is growing in Eclipse User Survey.
However, the title of the post is totally misleading as it is merely based on Eclipse User survey and that too with merely 1696 users. Nearly 40% of the respondents came merely from Germany and France (The survey believes this shouldn't bias result but we really have no reason to believe their assumption).
People at NASA must have already started looking for water, life on this planet. Wait for a few days, someone out there must have already set a timeline for posting such news on Slashdot.
Yes but they're using Macs. Why not just use netbooks w/Windows 7 Starter? Cheaper for taxpayers and parents alike, and Windows 7 at least prepares them for the corporate world.
Why don't they simply go with Free/Libre Open source? This way one saves a lot, is not stuck to any particular platform and is actually learning something.
A legal course or anything alike will only give Facebook bad repute (btw, its privacy policy is already under fire which it keeps changing now and then).
If Facebook has gotten an impression that only because it has got huge user base it can get evil and control things at user end, let me let Mark Zuckerberg, the countdown begins. Humans are so good at adaptation. They adapted when they switched from Myspace, Orkut to Facebook. They would adapt well to new social media from FB if they decide to.
"I guess most people don't care, and select one of the browser at random"
Spot on. Most people do not even know what browser they are using or what a browser even is. They are given a choice, and they just choose without really knowing what it is that they are choosing from.
Well, this all sounds great! Only thing I don't understand is Why slashdot had to name this story "Every British Citizen To Have a Personal Webpage' instead of 'Government going online in Britain' or something.
This story has nothing to do with Personal homepage at all.
By his own logic, seems he should also be liable for not buying a saw using the "Saw Stop" technology. I hope the jury sees that.
Someone needs to ask the idiot, if he was gonna afford the extra cost that would have been added to get license for the patents? And, if yes, why didn't he do it in first place?
And the jury must have been really dumb. The table saw company should have been only liable if the information they give about the materials/equipments used were misleading, exaggerated or wrong.
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Oracle's legal action against Google over Android has already created confusion among developers about the future of Java as a platform. And, if Oracle is to able to stop Google from developing Android, Java will likely be avoided by any large companies for their new product. And, now this news that M$ might give up developing .NET any further adds to serve more confusion.
With the recent news, there is another programming area likely to be severely hit i.e., the development of Mono. If .NET is gonna stop, it would be difficult to justify any development on Mono. Seems RMS was right again this time in opposing Mono from the very beginning.
Only good thing this would serve in long term is more interest of developers in languages like Python, Perl. But, the present developments will definitely add so much of chaos to the programming sphere.
low light should be easy, wire up a lensed white LED pair with one light on each side of the camera, it could even run the lights in sequence to help identify photos or other fake faces
Definitely, there are a lot of things that one can try to overcome poor lighting to make things work. But, that is not the point. The point here is that a manufacturer is not providing you a ready-made solution that one expects. I have got a DELL laptop that has face recognition feature but I hardly use it. Yep, you guessed it right, because of poor lighting (I come from a nation badly struggling with power shortage). I often use it at night (and hence in dark) and have to rely on manual password entry. For me, there is nothing new in the news (and I seriously think the appearance of this story on Slashdot look like a joke). If Lenovo, for example, could solve the problems like one mentioned above or could differentiate between real human and his photograph, then it would have made sense.
It is definitely great to know that MySQL is doing great even in Oracle's hands and even Linux is growing in Eclipse User Survey. However, the title of the post is totally misleading as it is merely based on Eclipse User survey and that too with merely 1696 users. Nearly 40% of the respondents came merely from Germany and France (The survey believes this shouldn't bias result but we really have no reason to believe their assumption).
People at NASA must have already started looking for water, life on this planet. Wait for a few days, someone out there must have already set a timeline for posting such news on Slashdot.
Yes but they're using Macs. Why not just use netbooks w/Windows 7 Starter? Cheaper for taxpayers and parents alike, and Windows 7 at least prepares them for the corporate world.
Why don't they simply go with Free/Libre Open source? This way one saves a lot, is not stuck to any particular platform and is actually learning something.
*Has this been deemed an official religion?
Yes, Buddhism is deemed as an official religion and is state religion in nations like Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia.
He must have read it somewhere in 'Laws of nations' that keeping things you borrow with you for ever is not a punishable act by law.
A legal course or anything alike will only give Facebook bad repute (btw, its privacy policy is already under fire which it keeps changing now and then). If Facebook has gotten an impression that only because it has got huge user base it can get evil and control things at user end, let me let Mark Zuckerberg, the countdown begins. Humans are so good at adaptation. They adapted when they switched from Myspace, Orkut to Facebook. They would adapt well to new social media from FB if they decide to.
"I guess most people don't care, and select one of the browser at random" Spot on. Most people do not even know what browser they are using or what a browser even is. They are given a choice, and they just choose without really knowing what it is that they are choosing from.
I remember having watched this video on Youtube which was really shocking! Daily Internet users with no idea what a browser is what browser they were using. Find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ&feature=PlayList&p=B43525924119E338&index=27
Well, this all sounds great! Only thing I don't understand is Why slashdot had to name this story "Every British Citizen To Have a Personal Webpage' instead of 'Government going online in Britain' or something. This story has nothing to do with Personal homepage at all.
By his own logic, seems he should also be liable for not buying a saw using the "Saw Stop" technology. I hope the jury sees that.
Someone needs to ask the idiot, if he was gonna afford the extra cost that would have been added to get license for the patents? And, if yes, why didn't he do it in first place? And the jury must have been really dumb. The table saw company should have been only liable if the information they give about the materials/equipments used were misleading, exaggerated or wrong.
Well, the invention really looks interesting! The point is how much it can help save power cost and how scalable the architecture is