The end of the article is pretty telling. Basically any professional OCR software from the mid 1990's and normal consumer grade commercial software from today is lightyears ahead of open source solutions. Which is kind of sad, but the problem is that there really isn't a huge market for OCR in the way that there is for web browsers and other more successful projects, coupled with the inherent difficulty in doing good OCR.
And yes, I expect those operators at the plant will likely die before their time due to cancer or even worse
Spread FUD much? So far there have been no reports of workers getting sick from radioactive exposure. Sure they are getting some exposure but nothing that will cause a significant increase in cancer risk. If any one of those workers smokes then the smoking will likely be thousands of times more likely to be lethal than the "radeeayshun" will.
Full HD video --> Works just fine on my 2008 era Intel laptop with integrated video... and I'm using it to drive a 1080p display to show ripped Blu-Rays at full definition on top of a composited KDE desktop.
Nvidia's VDPAU is already an open standard that other video drivers can implement in Linux for video acceleration, so I'm not sure what this buys us. VDPAU as implemented by Nvidia is also about the only video acceleration standard that isn't totally broken and that can accelerate videos beyond MPEG-2 as well.
Developers new to the scene will probably draw parallels between BPEL and BPM.
Damn straight... BPEL is totally east coast while BPM is rockin' the hood west sieede.
Or maybe "developers new to the scene" won't have any idea what the hell two obscure acronyms stand for and maybe.. just maybe.. you could provide a bit of context?
And for the people who are going to whine about Googling for the answer... if I can google for the answer, why bother buying this book or reading the review to begin with?
Sarah Palin's calls for violence incited her followers and real people died.
Citation REALLY FUCKING NEEDED. (oh and if you are talking about the shooting in Arizona, then Sarah Palin's "follower" was someone who ignored all politics... you may just as blamed Obama since Obama talked about bringing guns to knife fights in Philadelphia when he was campaigning) Just because a politician like Palin is unpopular on Slashdot does not make her a terrorist. What's even worse is that people on this website will twist themselves into moral and logical pretzels to defend real terrorists like Hamas and Hezbollah while condemning any western politician that they disagree with.
Remember everybody, anyone who suggests that playing violent video games 18 hours a day everyday might have any negative consequences what so ever is obviously a deluded Christian fanatic who just wants to censor everything. Censorship is evil!
Also please be sure to remember that talk radio and Sarah Palin are so evilly powerful that they single-handedly caused the shootings in Arizona even though the shooter didn't even listen to talk radio! (it was the evil permeating waves). Finally, remember that if any school child even hears the word "God" used in anything other than a derogatory manner or even sees a Bible that isn't being desecrated, that school child will forever mentally scarred beyond comprehension. Censorship is good!
No, I don't take all of the preceding comments seriously, but Slashdot is strewn with +5 insightful mods that do state all of those positions seriously... and sometimes in the same post.
are patents, and fat cats using patents to bludgeon little guys.
Yes you used all the correct terms to get an Insightful mod on Slashdot while saying the exact opposite of what really happens. Please name for me the last "little" guy who was sued for patent infringement, especially for software patents..... Usually it's the "little guys" suing Microsoft, Google, etc. etc.
The reason is money. Despite the narrative that Slashdot likes to portray of multi-billion dollar companies suing some open source developer on Source Forge, patent litigation is expensive and if you sue somebody who isn't make big money already, you've already lost no matter who wins the case.
I don't recall seeing any complaints online about degraded SATA performance, so it looks like Intel caught this internally and took the appropriate action before the issue became widespread in the wild. The bug sucks but it just goes to show how difficult it can be to test complex hardware under all situations. Kudos to Intel for being proactive... they have learned from the FDIV bug fiasco, and some other companies with fruity logos might learn from the example.
Uh... so you install a several months old version of Linux on a brand new architecture and it doesn't work, therefore the architecture is "broken"????? There are fully 100% open source drivers available for Sandy Bridge RIGHT NOW. Phoronix (usually the purveyor of sensationalism but a voice of reason in this case) goes out of its way to detail exactly what you need to run Sandy Bridge with 100% open source code. Now... is it 100% released yet? No, but at the same time, you have to remember that SB isn't even officially for sale yet. It WILL be fully released in the next round of distro updates, and you can get all the stuff to run it right now if you are truly as l33t as you think you are. I'm just sitting back and waiting for the AMD fanboys to scream about how AMD is so wonderful and all AMD graphics work perfectly in Linux when someone gets GLX gears running on a 6000 series part in 6 months......
Randomly sending SMS messages to the wrong recipient is a huge performance and security bug. Performance: if the intended recipient does not get the message, the phone is not performing a basic function correctly and the effective messaging performance is zero. Security: It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that sending SMS messages to the wrong people could definitely have a negative effect on user privacy, making this a BIG security bug.
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6): Failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. Basically, the plaintiff (Interval) didn't submit a proper complaint that states both 1. the claim and 2. relief that the court could grant under the law. Twombly & Iqbal are two cases that courts have used in determining whether a complaint avoids a 12(b)(6) dismissal.
This is not the end of the case, the plaintiff can go back and amend the complaint to meet the standard. It is sort of embarrassing that these high-priced and supposedly very highly skilled attorneys couldn't even draft a complaint that states the claim & prayer for relief though.
Obviously this is a joke but... I just got done editing a file using Office 2007 SP2.... on my Arch Linux box using Crossover. Office 2010 isn't supported yet, but I have a feeling it will be in the first half of next year. I also use Openoffice on a daily basis for making drawings with OODraw. I did a master's thesis and all my law-review related work in OOWriter. Unfortunately, right now I need MS Office for compatibility since my daily use involves ping-ponging documents back & forth with other people using track changes.. an area where OO still sorely lags even using the ODF document formats.
Stop using logic when Slashdot is having its 2 minutes of hate for Microsoft! And for the love of There-is-no-God don't point out the fact that Ballmer will be paying more $$ to the Federal goverment in Capital Gains taxes in this one transaction than all of the collective readers of this Slashdot story will pay in any form of taxes for their entire lives combined. Ballmer is rich, and therefore must have stolen the money from the Government! Anyone who makes more money than the Slashdot poster bashing the rich is automatically an evil rich bastard!*
* (Exceptions apply to CEO's of companies we are fanboys of, and billionares who dump money on left-wing "grassroots" causes like Moveon.org, with an exception-to-the-exception being Bill Gates who is still evil even though he dumps money on causes that the group would approve of if anyone else dumped the money)
Here in Indiana... also known as "flyover country" to you sophisticated Coasties, we are just so primitive and backwards. All we have here are paper ballots that are easy to fill in and are then automatically optically scanned to register the vote electronically while still having a full paper record of the ballots. I wish we could be more sophisticated and have exotic electronic systems that employ security experts to both verify them and crack into them at the same time.. think of all the taxpayer money we could spend!
1) Traveling into the "interior" is not particularly safe. The locals are VERY well armed and sometimes well organized. Attempts at forcefully expressing an opinion may be countered with such rhetorical mechanisms as "the hail of gunfire" and "the pick-axe handle to the head".
I REALLY hope this is just a masterful troll with a heavy dose of sarcasm, because of the smooth delivery I'd give it a funny mod in a heartbeat. The sad truth is that I have met people who actually think like this for real... and it is fascinating to see how bigoted and provincial many of the self-appointed "cultured and enlightened" people really are outside of their own echo chambers.
I have a long history of Dell hatred, but I will say that my 2707WFP monitor works extremely well and has a build quality that beats most things I've seen from Apple recently. Dell, like many large companies, is a sort of Jekyll and Hyde beast where some parts are evil/crappy/incompetent, while other parts are actually pretty good. The problem is that the negatives usually outweigh the positives in the public opinion. Case in point: Here at the office we just ordered a bunch of HP's to replace the 7+ year old Dells. What is ironic is that the Dells we have are actually quite reliable even though they are all ancient, but HP got the nod for the new machines nonetheless based on Dell's reputation.
I was going to go through the claims in detail, but you said it very succinctly. Slashdot never lets things like "facts" get in the way of bashing a patent even though the patent is actually pretty narrow in scope and does not cover modern GPU encoding techniques.
A mac is a personal computer. PC stands for personal computer. Can we please stop using the terms as if they are mutually exclusive?
I can tell you are an old-school Mac fan from the 1980's - pre-Jobs '90s from the pedantry. Now please go tell Apple what you just told us since they just finished a years long "Mac vs. PC" ad campaign that flies in the face of what you just said. I'm not even going to bother with the YouTube links at this point.
1680x1050 is 16:10 not 16:9. 16:10 monitors are actually very nice and are a very close approximation of the Golden Ratio. 16:9 monitors are the work of the DEVIL however.
Considering Michelle Bachmann is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives... a FEDERAL government official, her influence on the decision of what software STATE bureaucracies in Minnesota use was likely somewhere south of zero.
The H-Root server does NOT run Windows, just in case anyone was wondering;-)
On a more serious note, while the downtime is bad... there are 13 root servers owned by different organizations (both government & non-government) for a reason.. to provide redundancy. Interestingly, the D-Root at College Park and H-Root at Aberdeen are relatively close to one another geographically. The distributing the H-Root service would be nice, but there are lots of other letters to use in the Root namespace. In short: The Army should probably take some steps to beef things up, but the (usual) mouth-breathing hypersensationalized crap spewed in the summary is mostly for getting ad revenue into Taco's bank account and not a rational evaluation of the situation.
This is not a case of judicial activism. Judges are supposed to interpret the law, which is exactly what this judge did... the existing wiretap laws in Maryland were (quite rightly) found to NOT cover a police officer who is on duty on a public roadway. An "activist" judgment that Slashdot would agree with would be where a judge rules a computer fraud law unconstitutional because someone that Slashdot approves of (like say.. Wikileaks) breaks the law with a "morally correct" motive (meaning the plebes on Slashdot agree with the ends so therefore any and every means are justified). That is judicial activism, not what the judge did here.
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the exact location of the vehicle â" latitude and longitude â" and even the speed at which the vehicle is traveling at the time of the request.
Heisenberg says NEIN!
The end of the article is pretty telling. Basically any professional OCR software from the mid 1990's and normal consumer grade commercial software from today is lightyears ahead of open source solutions. Which is kind of sad, but the problem is that there really isn't a huge market for OCR in the way that there is for web browsers and other more successful projects, coupled with the inherent difficulty in doing good OCR.
And yes, I expect those operators at the plant will likely die before their time due to cancer or even worse
Spread FUD much? So far there have been no reports of workers getting sick from radioactive exposure. Sure they are getting some exposure but nothing that will cause a significant increase in cancer risk. If any one of those workers smokes then the smoking will likely be thousands of times more likely to be lethal than the "radeeayshun" will.
Full HD video --> Works just fine on my 2008 era Intel laptop with integrated video... and I'm using it to drive a 1080p display to show ripped Blu-Rays at full definition on top of a composited KDE desktop.
Nvidia's VDPAU is already an open standard that other video drivers can implement in Linux for video acceleration, so I'm not sure what this buys us. VDPAU as implemented by Nvidia is also about the only video acceleration standard that isn't totally broken and that can accelerate videos beyond MPEG-2 as well.
Developers new to the scene will probably draw parallels between BPEL and BPM.
Damn straight... BPEL is totally east coast while BPM is rockin' the hood west sieede.
Or maybe "developers new to the scene" won't have any idea what the hell two obscure acronyms stand for and maybe.. just maybe.. you could provide a bit of context?
And for the people who are going to whine about Googling for the answer... if I can google for the answer, why bother buying this book or reading the review to begin with?
Sarah Palin's calls for violence incited her followers and real people died.
Citation REALLY FUCKING NEEDED. (oh and if you are talking about the shooting in Arizona, then Sarah Palin's "follower" was someone who ignored all politics... you may just as blamed Obama since Obama talked about bringing guns to knife fights in Philadelphia when he was campaigning) Just because a politician like Palin is unpopular on Slashdot does not make her a terrorist. What's even worse is that people on this website will twist themselves into moral and logical pretzels to defend real terrorists like Hamas and Hezbollah while condemning any western politician that they disagree with.
Remember everybody, anyone who suggests that playing violent video games 18 hours a day everyday might have any negative consequences what so ever is obviously a deluded Christian fanatic who just wants to censor everything. Censorship is evil!
Also please be sure to remember that talk radio and Sarah Palin are so evilly powerful that they single-handedly caused the shootings in Arizona even though the shooter didn't even listen to talk radio! (it was the evil permeating waves). Finally, remember that if any school child even hears the word "God" used in anything other than a derogatory manner or even sees a Bible that isn't being desecrated, that school child will forever mentally scarred beyond comprehension. Censorship is good!
No, I don't take all of the preceding comments seriously, but Slashdot is strewn with +5 insightful mods that do state all of those positions seriously... and sometimes in the same post.
are patents, and fat cats using patents to bludgeon little guys.
Yes you used all the correct terms to get an Insightful mod on Slashdot while saying the exact opposite of what really happens. Please name for me the last "little" guy who was sued for patent infringement, especially for software patents..... Usually it's the "little guys" suing Microsoft, Google, etc. etc.
The reason is money. Despite the narrative that Slashdot likes to portray of multi-billion dollar companies suing some open source developer on Source Forge, patent litigation is expensive and if you sue somebody who isn't make big money already, you've already lost no matter who wins the case.
I don't recall seeing any complaints online about degraded SATA performance, so it looks like Intel caught this internally and took the appropriate action before the issue became widespread in the wild. The bug sucks but it just goes to show how difficult it can be to test complex hardware under all situations. Kudos to Intel for being proactive... they have learned from the FDIV bug fiasco, and some other companies with fruity logos might learn from the example.
Uh... so you install a several months old version of Linux on a brand new architecture and it doesn't work, therefore the architecture is "broken"????? There are fully 100% open source drivers available for Sandy Bridge RIGHT NOW. Phoronix (usually the purveyor of sensationalism but a voice of reason in this case) goes out of its way to detail exactly what you need to run Sandy Bridge with 100% open source code. Now... is it 100% released yet? No, but at the same time, you have to remember that SB isn't even officially for sale yet. It WILL be fully released in the next round of distro updates, and you can get all the stuff to run it right now if you are truly as l33t as you think you are. I'm just sitting back and waiting for the AMD fanboys to scream about how AMD is so wonderful and all AMD graphics work perfectly in Linux when someone gets GLX gears running on a 6000 series part in 6 months......
but not a performance or security related issue.
Randomly sending SMS messages to the wrong recipient is a huge performance and security bug. Performance: if the intended recipient does not get the message, the phone is not performing a basic function correctly and the effective messaging performance is zero. Security: It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that sending SMS messages to the wrong people could definitely have a negative effect on user privacy, making this a BIG security bug.
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6): Failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. Basically, the plaintiff (Interval) didn't submit a proper complaint that states both 1. the claim and 2. relief that the court could grant under the law.
Twombly & Iqbal are two cases that courts have used in determining whether a complaint avoids a 12(b)(6) dismissal.
This is not the end of the case, the plaintiff can go back and amend the complaint to meet the standard. It is sort of embarrassing that these high-priced and supposedly very highly skilled attorneys couldn't even draft a complaint that states the claim & prayer for relief though.
Obviously this is a joke but... I just got done editing a file using Office 2007 SP2.... on my Arch Linux box using Crossover. Office 2010 isn't supported yet, but I have a feeling it will be in the first half of next year. I also use Openoffice on a daily basis for making drawings with OODraw. I did a master's thesis and all my law-review related work in OOWriter. Unfortunately, right now I need MS Office for compatibility since my daily use involves ping-ponging documents back & forth with other people using track changes.. an area where OO still sorely lags even using the ODF document formats.
Stop using logic when Slashdot is having its 2 minutes of hate for Microsoft! And for the love of There-is-no-God don't point out the fact that Ballmer will be paying more $$ to the Federal goverment in Capital Gains taxes in this one transaction than all of the collective readers of this Slashdot story will pay in any form of taxes for their entire lives combined. Ballmer is rich, and therefore must have stolen the money from the Government! Anyone who makes more money than the Slashdot poster bashing the rich is automatically an evil rich bastard!*
* (Exceptions apply to CEO's of companies we are fanboys of, and billionares who dump money on left-wing "grassroots" causes like Moveon.org, with an exception-to-the-exception being Bill Gates who is still evil even though he dumps money on causes that the group would approve of if anyone else dumped the money)
Here in Indiana... also known as "flyover country" to you sophisticated Coasties, we are just so primitive and backwards. All we have here are paper ballots that are easy to fill in and are then automatically optically scanned to register the vote electronically while still having a full paper record of the ballots. I wish we could be more sophisticated and have exotic electronic systems that employ security experts to both verify them and crack into them at the same time.. think of all the taxpayer money we could spend!
1) Traveling into the "interior" is not particularly safe. The locals are VERY well armed and sometimes well organized. Attempts at forcefully expressing an opinion may be countered with such rhetorical mechanisms as "the hail of gunfire" and "the pick-axe handle to the head".
I REALLY hope this is just a masterful troll with a heavy dose of sarcasm, because of the smooth delivery I'd give it a funny mod in a heartbeat. The sad truth is that I have met people who actually think like this for real... and it is fascinating to see how bigoted and provincial many of the self-appointed "cultured and enlightened" people really are outside of their own echo chambers.
I have a long history of Dell hatred, but I will say that my 2707WFP monitor works extremely well and has a build quality that beats most things I've seen from Apple recently. Dell, like many large companies, is a sort of Jekyll and Hyde beast where some parts are evil/crappy/incompetent, while other parts are actually pretty good. The problem is that the negatives usually outweigh the positives in the public opinion. Case in point: Here at the office we just ordered a bunch of HP's to replace the 7+ year old Dells. What is ironic is that the Dells we have are actually quite reliable even though they are all ancient, but HP got the nod for the new machines nonetheless based on Dell's reputation.
I was going to go through the claims in detail, but you said it very succinctly. Slashdot never lets things like "facts" get in the way of bashing a patent even though the patent is actually pretty narrow in scope and does not cover modern GPU encoding techniques.
A mac is a personal computer. PC stands for personal computer. Can we please stop using the terms as if they are mutually exclusive?
I can tell you are an old-school Mac fan from the 1980's - pre-Jobs '90s from the pedantry. Now please go tell Apple what you just told us since they just finished a years long "Mac vs. PC" ad campaign that flies in the face of what you just said. I'm not even going to bother with the YouTube links at this point.
The alternative would be to endorse Harry Reid. Given those choices, it doesn't matter what Angle stole, she still looks like the better candidate.
1680x1050 is 16:10 not 16:9. 16:10 monitors are actually very nice and are a very close approximation of the Golden Ratio. 16:9 monitors are the work of the DEVIL however.
Considering Michelle Bachmann is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives... a FEDERAL government official, her influence on the decision of what software STATE bureaucracies in Minnesota use was likely somewhere south of zero.
The H-Root server does NOT run Windows, just in case anyone was wondering ;-)
On a more serious note, while the downtime is bad... there are 13 root servers owned by different organizations (both government & non-government) for a reason.. to provide redundancy. Interestingly, the D-Root at College Park and H-Root at Aberdeen are relatively close to one another geographically. The distributing the H-Root service would be nice, but there are lots of other letters to use in the Root namespace. In short: The Army should probably take some steps to beef things up, but the (usual) mouth-breathing hypersensationalized crap spewed in the summary is mostly for getting ad revenue into Taco's bank account and not a rational evaluation of the situation.
This is not a case of judicial activism. Judges are supposed to interpret the law, which is exactly what this judge did... the existing wiretap laws in Maryland were (quite rightly) found to NOT cover a police officer who is on duty on a public roadway. An "activist" judgment that Slashdot would agree with would be where a judge rules a computer fraud law unconstitutional because someone that Slashdot approves of (like say.. Wikileaks) breaks the law with a "morally correct" motive (meaning the plebes on Slashdot agree with the ends so therefore any and every means are justified). That is judicial activism, not what the judge did here.