Posting from Nexus 7 and here is what it looks like in portrait mode. Basically more than half the screen stays empty. What tablets did you test it with, besides iPad? Screenshot
I used to head up product and pre-sales in a company that we were trying to turn around. The way we got around the issue was that sales people had commission for each and every sale but for engineers, that was scoffed upon. So we increased the overall bonus bucket and made 30% of bonus of engineers and 50% for pre-sales engineers (Who also used to get commission for sales, but not as high as sales people) dependent on overall annual sales. The bonus was paid every 6 months so we could tweak it as we needed (e.g. if we needed a product done within tight timelines, we could dial up the engineers' bonus on hitting the timelines rather than sales).
Must say it is all easier said than done though, and it did take engineers sometime to get into the new mindset. However, once a few of them started getting bonuses and public recognition, people gradually started seeing value in that (I must admit, the first couple of times we actually paid bonuses even though the guys maybe didn't fully deserve it, but once that was done, that motivated others to do better). The most important change that happened was that when sales people asked engineers for help, they actually were willing to help, rather than considering it as a distraction as they used to do earlier.
I did exactly this when building out my recent company. Google mail service is fairly good, but hosted exchange is far better in terms of operating like a normal company with blackberries, etc. We outsource our web serving also. We basically have a fileserver and a pair of ADS boxes for inside services, and a redundant Internet connection.
Why can't you just use a Google apps connector to Blackberry enterprise server and save yourself some money (Assuming you only care about using blackberries for contact and calendar sync, because you can access email anyways). If it is a small company, you may just use Google Sync for Blackberry. Can't see the need for Exchange in either case
The most significant benefit of UK being part of EU but not Euro is that its bank can act independently of the European Central Bank (ECB) and it can devalue its currency when it so needs. So yes, UK did print extra money, which was used to buy Gilts, thus pumping extra money in the economy, but since UK is not part of Euro zone, there is nothing in the Maastricht treaty that prevents UK from doing so (similarly for Switzerland, Sweden etc.)
Of course in the long run, the government has to buy back the gilts from the BOE so it is a zero sum game. However, I think the biggest blunder of the EU was Euro, thereby depriving states like Greece any control on their currency and thus landing in situations where they need to be bailed out by other countries.
Call me old fashioned but one of the reasons I have always enjoyed reading traditional books is because the author only drops the hints at what the world in the book looks like but I actually paint the complete picture. This is the same reason why most movies based on books don't do well, because it is extremely difficult to compete with what we imagined that world to be in the detail and besides the imaginary world is individual to each reader. No two worlds probably look the same.
Unfortunately, the more we get into the interactive books which try to replace the written word with pictures (or even the ones which try to augment it), the more would we be limiting our imagination and seeing it from someone else's eyes, which almost certainly would result in less "different" people in the world. Most of us on slashdot are evolutionists and we do appreciate that it is this difference which results in our species evolving. Hell, it could be that Da Vinci etc. probably started looking at flying because they had heard or read fairy tales where humans flew, which then one day was realised by incremental advance in science. So in some ways, we would be limiting our potential by relying more on the visual medium rather than imagining the world.
What are Canonical's plans for mobile platforms? With Maemo, another Debian based distro, now available for smartphones, would Canonical also get involved with either that or maybe develop a completely new Distro?
With the desktop Linux market being extremely small and server markets being dominated by Red Hat and Novell, mobiles probably are the sweet spot for Canonical, with its strong focus on usability. Additionally, the lack of standardisation means that users are more willing to experiement with interfaces. So what is the relative priority of Mobile, Netbook, Desktop and Server platform in Canonical's roadmap?
I second that. It has been my favourite "phone" so far. It was only when I started using it, I realised that I didn't want a phone afterall. What I really wanted was a mobile computer, with a brilliant browser and a decent email client, and the ability to make and receive phone calls. I had read many complaints on maemo.org but personally I never noticed any of those problems. From my perspective, it does what I need it do very well (e.g. listening to spotify and transmitting it to my card radio via the builtin fm transmitter, accessing my home computer using VNC, using pandora over vpn). So yes, it works for me brilliantly.
If brain were indeed made of memoristors and these had finite write cycles, could it be that once we have reached these write cycles, the memoristors stop of being any use. Ofcourse the brain would try to minimise dmage to memoristors by spreading the data around but you will eventually reach a limit and eventually the same memoristors would be overwritten again and again, until eventually you start reaching the write limit for some of these, which might explain why we start losing memory after reaching 30s or so.
I suppose the way to check it, potentially, would be to see if people who have impaired senses (e.g. someone who is deaf or dumb etc.) show better brain functions in older age, as they didn't have that much data to store as someone who was getting data from all the senses.
Looking at the picture and having read about it on a few outlets, it seems to be a 10"x5" handheld with a small builtin LCD and a micrcontroller which allows the device to go online (don't know how). User can download more content on the device and presumably use the LCD to view it.
So to me it looks like an ebook reader which can then be used to potentially replace expensive books and possibly offer a richer multimedia learning experience to the kids. From that perspective, it may not be that bad an investment and I would dare say, it may be more useful than OLPC in the Indian context.
As someone who works in this industry, this is nothing new. Othershavedoneit for years now (notice that all the companies linked here are based in different countries), but gotta love IBM for taking credit for something which they neither invented nor perfected.
This technology has been around for some time now and has been tested successfully in many instances. Contrary to the impression this article gives, the technology came from US and Israel, where it was successfully used for border surveillance and also for protecting airports and railways, infrastructure crtical for teh working of a company.
This is reflected in the companies working on this technology, namely Object Video, IoImage etc.
But lately UK has become very active in this and like with most surveillance technologies, it has surpassed the rest of the world but the applications that UK is looking at are not all 1984ish. One of the biggest applications which is being looked in UK is to alart the CCTV operators when a car parks in the hard shoulder for more than say 5 minutes and automatically alert highway patrols. This is potentially very useful. I am not sure about the rest of the people here but I have spent hours on the roadside with a punctured tire in really cold weather on more than one occasion (on for those are wondering why I didn't use the spare, try changing a driver's side tyre with all the big trucks passing within a feet or so of you and you will know) and I think it would have been great if help had come sooner.
So like all technology, the technology itself is not bad. But you can use in both constructive and destructive way.
Why oh why can't they make something which can be directly connected to a router rather than me having to leave my PC on when I go abroad? Would save me a fortune in electricity bills.
Last year the CEO of MTV Europe visited my buinsess school and at that time I had asked him if they wanted to enter the online music business, with all the brand awareness, the reach and all. To this he replied that MTV wasn't even remotely interested in this business, with its low profit margins and volumes.He even accused apple of cross subsidizing their music sales with ipod sales and hence making the price point ($0.99 per song) unattractive for most pleayers. Basically he went on and on about how much you have to pay the music studios per song, the number of songs you can sell in a year and how overall the business will be really small, and how MTV would rather use its resources elsewhere. It actually made sense at that time.
So assuming that the economics of the music business haven't really changed, I wonder what has changed? Could it be that Microsoft is just using MTV's reach to push wma, for which it gets licensing fee from all the companies that sell mp3 players with support for wma and ensuring that those companies dont switch to some alternate standard?
I don't believe in intelligent design and as I will prove, this can't be true.
Intelligent design assumes that someone intelligent designed the world.
This Intelligent being also created George W Bush.
But no one in their right frame of mind will create a moron like Bush. So the intelligent design theory vanishes in a puff of logic. QED.
It is little known that lying underneath one of The United States largest and most picturesque National Parks - Yellowstone Park - is one of the largest "super volcanoes" in the world.
Scientists have revealed that Yellowstone Park has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago...so the next is overdue. The next eruption could be 2,500 times the size of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. Volcanologists have been tracking the movement of magma under the park and have calculated that in parts of Yellowstone the ground has risen over seventy centimeters this century.
You can click on my signature for more information.
Yes, as I had already acknowledged that the Priory of Sion could very well be a hoax. But it still doesn't change the fact that firstly, there are potential inconsistencies in the last supper. Secondly, according to Gospel of Philip -
And the companion of [the Savior is] Mary Magdalene. The [Savior] loved her more than all his disciples, and frequently kissed her on the mouth. The rest of [the disciples] [got close to her to ask]. They told him: "Why do you love her more than all of us?" The Savior responded and said: "Why do I not love you as I love her?" (Gospel of Philip 63-64).
Well, kissing on the mouth would probably be considered rather human, don't you think? You won't do that to someone who is just a follower I suppose.
Also according to the dead sea scrolls, Jesus was still considered human. So this whole Son of God thing may very well be made up by church. In fact thats something that both Jews and Muslims agree upon, that Jesus was only human (though muslims do consider him a prophet).
As far as buring of 5 million women and all is considered, that may very well be bull shit.... I don't have any way of verifying that.
But yeah, Les Dossier Secrets was supposed to be planted evidence, which is still contested. In which case, the whole theory collapses:-) Maybe Newton just like to write stuff... but hey, whats wrong in a little bit of conspiracy theory:-)
This doesn't much come as a surprise, does it? I mean according to Les Dossiers Secrets (yes, they do exist), Newton was a member of the Priory of Sion (it exists/existed as well). The connection between the grail and the Priory is questionable but it is a known fact that the Priory was never a friend of the Church. So it is not really surprising that Newton delves into early history of Church.
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Posting from Nexus 7 and here is what it looks like in portrait mode. Basically more than half the screen stays empty. What tablets did you test it with, besides iPad?
Screenshot
I used to head up product and pre-sales in a company that we were trying to turn around. The way we got around the issue was that sales people had commission for each and every sale but for engineers, that was scoffed upon. So we increased the overall bonus bucket and made 30% of bonus of engineers and 50% for pre-sales engineers (Who also used to get commission for sales, but not as high as sales people) dependent on overall annual sales. The bonus was paid every 6 months so we could tweak it as we needed (e.g. if we needed a product done within tight timelines, we could dial up the engineers' bonus on hitting the timelines rather than sales).
Must say it is all easier said than done though, and it did take engineers sometime to get into the new mindset. However, once a few of them started getting bonuses and public recognition, people gradually started seeing value in that (I must admit, the first couple of times we actually paid bonuses even though the guys maybe didn't fully deserve it, but once that was done, that motivated others to do better). The most important change that happened was that when sales people asked engineers for help, they actually were willing to help, rather than considering it as a distraction as they used to do earlier.
No dice. You are much more likely to get an NFC enabled microSD card than a new phone from your bank.
I did exactly this when building out my recent company. Google mail service is fairly good, but hosted exchange is far better in terms of operating like a normal company with blackberries, etc. We outsource our web serving also. We basically have a fileserver and a pair of ADS boxes for inside services, and a redundant Internet connection.
Why can't you just use a Google apps connector to Blackberry enterprise server and save yourself some money (Assuming you only care about using blackberries for contact and calendar sync, because you can access email anyways). If it is a small company, you may just use Google Sync for Blackberry. Can't see the need for Exchange in either case
The most significant benefit of UK being part of EU but not Euro is that its bank can act independently of the European Central Bank (ECB) and it can devalue its currency when it so needs. So yes, UK did print extra money, which was used to buy Gilts, thus pumping extra money in the economy, but since UK is not part of Euro zone, there is nothing in the Maastricht treaty that prevents UK from doing so (similarly for Switzerland, Sweden etc.)
Of course in the long run, the government has to buy back the gilts from the BOE so it is a zero sum game. However, I think the biggest blunder of the EU was Euro, thereby depriving states like Greece any control on their currency and thus landing in situations where they need to be bailed out by other countries.
Call me old fashioned but one of the reasons I have always enjoyed reading traditional books is because the author only drops the hints at what the world in the book looks like but I actually paint the complete picture. This is the same reason why most movies based on books don't do well, because it is extremely difficult to compete with what we imagined that world to be in the detail and besides the imaginary world is individual to each reader. No two worlds probably look the same.
Unfortunately, the more we get into the interactive books which try to replace the written word with pictures (or even the ones which try to augment it), the more would we be limiting our imagination and seeing it from someone else's eyes, which almost certainly would result in less "different" people in the world. Most of us on slashdot are evolutionists and we do appreciate that it is this difference which results in our species evolving. Hell, it could be that Da Vinci etc. probably started looking at flying because they had heard or read fairy tales where humans flew, which then one day was realised by incremental advance in science. So in some ways, we would be limiting our potential by relying more on the visual medium rather than imagining the world.
What are Canonical's plans for mobile platforms? With Maemo, another Debian based distro, now available for smartphones, would Canonical also get involved with either that or maybe develop a completely new Distro?
With the desktop Linux market being extremely small and server markets being dominated by Red Hat and Novell, mobiles probably are the sweet spot for Canonical, with its strong focus on usability. Additionally, the lack of standardisation means that users are more willing to experiement with interfaces. So what is the relative priority of Mobile, Netbook, Desktop and Server platform in Canonical's roadmap?
I second that. It has been my favourite "phone" so far. It was only when I started using it, I realised that I didn't want a phone afterall. What I really wanted was a mobile computer, with a brilliant browser and a decent email client, and the ability to make and receive phone calls. I had read many complaints on maemo.org but personally I never noticed any of those problems. From my perspective, it does what I need it do very well (e.g. listening to spotify and transmitting it to my card radio via the builtin fm transmitter, accessing my home computer using VNC, using pandora over vpn). So yes, it works for me brilliantly.
For me, like the tester, OpenDNS (17-18ms) performed better than Google (25ms). My ISP (O2 in UK - 22ms) was somewhere in between OpenDNS and Google.
For those who want to test it themselves, you can do so quite easily under linux. The Command to use is dig
e.g.
dig @server slashdot.org
Do it a few time to see how fast your DNS server actually is.
Dear Sir GIven that we have precedent of Apple claiming that booting the OS creates an illegal copy of the OS in the RAM, we are sure that using the same logic, creating a copy of music in your head constitutes illegal copying. See you in court.
If brain were indeed made of memoristors and these had finite write cycles, could it be that once we have reached these write cycles, the memoristors stop of being any use. Ofcourse the brain would try to minimise dmage to memoristors by spreading the data around but you will eventually reach a limit and eventually the same memoristors would be overwritten again and again, until eventually you start reaching the write limit for some of these, which might explain why we start losing memory after reaching 30s or so.
I suppose the way to check it, potentially, would be to see if people who have impaired senses (e.g. someone who is deaf or dumb etc.) show better brain functions in older age, as they didn't have that much data to store as someone who was getting data from all the senses.
Looking at the picture and having read about it on a few outlets, it seems to be a 10"x5" handheld with a small builtin LCD and a micrcontroller which allows the device to go online (don't know how). User can download more content on the device and presumably use the LCD to view it.
So to me it looks like an ebook reader which can then be used to potentially replace expensive books and possibly offer a richer multimedia learning experience to the kids. From that perspective, it may not be that bad an investment and I would dare say, it may be more useful than OLPC in the Indian context.
Yeah, Buzzcocks does seem to work. Seems that they haven't got the right DRM on most of the newer shows.
Same here
As someone who works in this industry, this is nothing new. Others have done it for years now (notice that all the companies linked here are based in different countries), but gotta love IBM for taking credit for something which they neither invented nor perfected.
This technology has been around for some time now and has been tested successfully in many instances. Contrary to the impression this article gives, the technology came from US and Israel, where it was successfully used for border surveillance and also for protecting airports and railways, infrastructure crtical for teh working of a company. This is reflected in the companies working on this technology, namely Object Video, IoImage etc. But lately UK has become very active in this and like with most surveillance technologies, it has surpassed the rest of the world but the applications that UK is looking at are not all 1984ish. One of the biggest applications which is being looked in UK is to alart the CCTV operators when a car parks in the hard shoulder for more than say 5 minutes and automatically alert highway patrols. This is potentially very useful. I am not sure about the rest of the people here but I have spent hours on the roadside with a punctured tire in really cold weather on more than one occasion (on for those are wondering why I didn't use the spare, try changing a driver's side tyre with all the big trucks passing within a feet or so of you and you will know) and I think it would have been great if help had come sooner. So like all technology, the technology itself is not bad. But you can use in both constructive and destructive way.
Why oh why can't they make something which can be directly connected to a router rather than me having to leave my PC on when I go abroad? Would save me a fortune in electricity bills.
Install ntfs-3g. Should solve your problem
Ever heard of United Nations? They even have courts you know.
Last year the CEO of MTV Europe visited my buinsess school and at that time I had asked him if they wanted to enter the online music business, with all the brand awareness, the reach and all. To this he replied that MTV wasn't even remotely interested in this business, with its low profit margins and volumes .He even accused apple of cross subsidizing their music sales with ipod sales and hence making the price point ($0.99 per song) unattractive for most pleayers. Basically he went on and on about how much you have to pay the music studios per song, the number of songs you can sell in a year and how overall the business will be really small, and how MTV would rather use its resources elsewhere. It actually made sense at that time.
So assuming that the economics of the music business haven't really changed, I wonder what has changed? Could it be that Microsoft is just using MTV's reach to push wma, for which it gets licensing fee from all the companies that sell mp3 players with support for wma and ensuring that those companies dont switch to some alternate standard?
I don't believe in intelligent design and as I will prove, this can't be true. Intelligent design assumes that someone intelligent designed the world. This Intelligent being also created George W Bush. But no one in their right frame of mind will create a moron like Bush. So the intelligent design theory vanishes in a puff of logic. QED.
It is little known that lying underneath one of The United States largest and most picturesque National Parks - Yellowstone Park - is one of the largest "super volcanoes" in the world. Scientists have revealed that Yellowstone Park has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago...so the next is overdue. The next eruption could be 2,500 times the size of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. Volcanologists have been tracking the movement of magma under the park and have calculated that in parts of Yellowstone the ground has risen over seventy centimeters this century. You can click on my signature for more information.
Yes, as I had already acknowledged that the Priory of Sion could very well be a hoax. But it still doesn't change the fact that firstly, there are potential inconsistencies in the last supper. Secondly, according to Gospel of Philip - And the companion of [the Savior is] Mary Magdalene. The [Savior] loved her more than all his disciples, and frequently kissed her on the mouth. The rest of [the disciples] [got close to her to ask]. They told him: "Why do you love her more than all of us?" The Savior responded and said: "Why do I not love you as I love her?" (Gospel of Philip 63-64). Well, kissing on the mouth would probably be considered rather human, don't you think? You won't do that to someone who is just a follower I suppose. Also according to the dead sea scrolls, Jesus was still considered human. So this whole Son of God thing may very well be made up by church. In fact thats something that both Jews and Muslims agree upon, that Jesus was only human (though muslims do consider him a prophet). As far as buring of 5 million women and all is considered, that may very well be bull shit.... I don't have any way of verifying that.
But yeah, Les Dossier Secrets was supposed to be planted evidence, which is still contested. In which case, the whole theory collapses :-) Maybe Newton just like to write stuff... but hey, whats wrong in a little bit of conspiracy theory :-)
This doesn't much come as a surprise, does it? I mean according to Les Dossiers Secrets (yes, they do exist), Newton was a member of the Priory of Sion (it exists/existed as well). The connection between the grail and the Priory is questionable but it is a known fact that the Priory was never a friend of the Church. So it is not really surprising that Newton delves into early history of Church.