I'm not sure if this is available in the States, but Samsung's Bada would probably be one of the most secure mobile OS at the moment. There are no exploits out in the wild and no way to root it unless you actually flash the firmware.
Due to increased costs of components and materials, HDD prices are likely to rise 30-40% from the level before the floods by the end of 2012, the sources indicated.
I wonder why Sigma-based network media tanks like the Popcorn Hour C-300 are not included. Is it because it supports [gasp!] "pirate-friendly" codecs and region-free coding? Or is it because these types of media players have far better picture and audio quality?
Try Samsung's Bada (also linux-based), it can be found on the Samsung Wave line-up of phones. Nothing stored in the cloud at all and has a great UI (looks like a bastard son of iOS and Android).
Given the fact that they would need to dredge deep oceans to mine rare earths, the potential environmental damage to marine ecosystems (that are not even fully understood) will probably be not worth any amount of mineral yield.
Remove any and all security and privacy settings on social networks. Only then will you get the desired coverage and not limit users to "within their existing friend groups."
what are worldwide figures? What are figures by country? Just because the US doesn't adopt something doesn't mean it's not getting adopted. The US has access to web streaming in HD of many shows and movies that the rest of the world does not - could that have anything to do with it?
In Asia (with the exception of Japan and South Korea), Blu-ray is way behind DVD's for the simple reason that there are no pirated blu-ray discs for sale out on every street corner. Pirated DVD's are quite ubiquitous and have been improving substantially in quality, due mainly to the various leaked screeners prior to a film's release.
DVD9's that contain HD content are starting to gain traction, however.
In the case of online media, there is also hardly any access to good streaming HD content in Asia due to region-specific policies.
This goes to show that Samsung could quite possibly have just reached milestones in their flash memory production, which is why they are willing to let go of their HD unit.
...Is probably the best resource online for all the Android tablets around, even the cheap sub $100 ones from China (clones that run Froyo are at least $140).
While we are on the topic, anyone seen a good solution to scan, OCR, and reconvert existing crappy pdfs to improve them?
I've tried quite a few free and proprietary OCR's and the best available right now, imho, is ABBYY Finereader. Other than fonts, it also easily recognizes tables, diagrams and illustrations. But most of all, it can read and render 189 languages (including Chinese and Cyrillic) accurately. A free trial version is available.
Everyone I've talked to about it says something like 'I don't care much about the movies, but have you seen football in 3D? It's just like being there! I don't want to buy stadium tickets anymore, I'll just watch from my house!' I'm not a sports fan, but the video I saw of volleyball in 3D made it pretty clear how cool sports look in 3D.
The "killer app" for home 3D will most probably be porn.
Kevin Mitnick and Adrian Lamo do not seem to like the idea of Moss getting the nod.
Mitnick prefers Bruce Schneier while Lamo believes Moss is a suit, "the reality is he's as corporate as hiring someone out of Microsoft."
I wonder what the reaction in the tech community would have been had the 2 above gotten the call instead.
From all the posts and comments above, it seems quite clear to most of us not living in the US that the average US resident has very little exposure to the latest in mobile phones. They are not to be blamed, of course, as the providers that they are stuck with force them to use clunky phones with ridiculous features and UI's (as compared to the latest Samsung, Nokia and Sony Ericsson generation of mobile phones). I guess this is also the reason that so much hype has accompanied the iPhone's impending release. Truth be told, the iphone's features have been around in Asian and European mobile phones ever since 2003. Nowadays, a mobile phone in Asia and Europe would not be top notch without:
a multiple megapixel camera capable of 30fps videos of decent quality; gps; wifi; bluetooth; music and video players; video conference capabilities, and other 3G goodness; Symbian OS with tons of applications; and at least a week of battery life.
The iphone, when stacked against the competition overseas, comes out as an overhyped and underfeatured product with an extravagant price, quite disappointing considering the pedigree of the company that made it.
From all the posts and comments above, it seems quite clear to most of us not living in the US that the average US resident has very little exposure to the latest in mobile phones. They are not to be blamed, of course, as the providers that they are stuck with force them to use clunky phones with ridiculous features and UI's (as compared to the latest Samsung, Nokia and Sony Ericsson generation of mobile phones).
I guess this is also the reason that so much hype has accompanied the iPhone's impending release. Truth be told, the iphone's features have been around in Asian and European mobile phones ever since 2003. Nowadays, a mobile phone in Asia and Europe would not be top notch without:
a multiple megapixel camera capable of 30fps videos of decent quality;
gps;
wifi;
bluetooth;
music and video players;
video conference capabilities, and other 3G goodness;
Symbian OS with tons of applications;
and at least a week of battery life.
The iphone, when stacked against the competition overseas, comes out as an overhyped and underfeatured product with an extravagant price, quite disappointing considering the pedigree of the company that made it.
Voices in Iran have no other medium to publicize their dissensions other than the Internet. This is one site where, hopefully, trolls will be heard out and not modded down. The chances of this happening are, of course, rather remote.
TWAIN scanners are all over the place so it won't be difficult finding them.
Imho, if your primary use for a scanner is to keep digital copies of your documents, books, papers, etc. It is also just as important to get a good OCR program that could accurately replicate the document into digital form.
Unfortunately, the OCR software that comes with scanners these days generally suck so when you probably scan your documents, what you will get are very poor digital copies (if you could call them copies at all).
I have yet to see an OCR program that is even close to the functionality, capability, and accuracy of the latest version of ABBYY Finereader.
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I'm not sure if this is available in the States, but Samsung's Bada would probably be one of the most secure mobile OS at the moment. There are no exploits out in the wild and no way to root it unless you actually flash the firmware.
More information on security is available via this developer link.
What's so relieving about:
Due to increased costs of components and materials, HDD prices are likely to rise 30-40% from the level before the floods by the end of 2012, the sources indicated.
-- FTFA
I wonder why Sigma-based network media tanks like the Popcorn Hour C-300 are not included. Is it because it supports [gasp!] "pirate-friendly" codecs and region-free coding? Or is it because these types of media players have far better picture and audio quality?
Try Samsung's Bada (also linux-based), it can be found on the Samsung Wave line-up of phones. Nothing stored in the cloud at all and has a great UI (looks like a bastard son of iOS and Android).
I fully expect a Cyanogenmod port for this within the coming weeks. I'll buy one as soon as a stable release is out.
Given the fact that they would need to dredge deep oceans to mine rare earths, the potential environmental damage to marine ecosystems (that are not even fully understood) will probably be not worth any amount of mineral yield.
Microsoft is heavily invested into Facebook, so we can't expect Zuck and the gang to join any joint ventures to provide a Skype alternative.
Remove any and all security and privacy settings on social networks. Only then will you get the desired coverage and not limit users to "within their existing friend groups."
what are worldwide figures? What are figures by country? Just because the US doesn't adopt something doesn't mean it's not getting adopted. The US has access to web streaming in HD of many shows and movies that the rest of the world does not - could that have anything to do with it?
In Asia (with the exception of Japan and South Korea), Blu-ray is way behind DVD's for the simple reason that there are no pirated blu-ray discs for sale out on every street corner. Pirated DVD's are quite ubiquitous and have been improving substantially in quality, due mainly to the various leaked screeners prior to a film's release.
DVD9's that contain HD content are starting to gain traction, however.
In the case of online media, there is also hardly any access to good streaming HD content in Asia due to region-specific policies.
This goes to show that Samsung could quite possibly have just reached milestones in their flash memory production, which is why they are willing to let go of their HD unit.
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...Is probably the best resource online for all the Android tablets around, even the cheap sub $100 ones from China (clones that run Froyo are at least $140).
While we are on the topic, anyone seen a good solution to scan, OCR, and reconvert existing crappy pdfs to improve them?
I've tried quite a few free and proprietary OCR's and the best available right now, imho, is ABBYY Finereader. Other than fonts, it also easily recognizes tables, diagrams and illustrations. But most of all, it can read and render 189 languages (including Chinese and Cyrillic) accurately. A free trial version is available.
I don't understand why the DOD doesn't go directly to Cisco to purchase the equipment? Why still go through potentially shady deals with middlemen?
Everyone I've talked to about it says something like 'I don't care much about the movies, but have you seen football in 3D? It's just like being there! I don't want to buy stadium tickets anymore, I'll just watch from my house!' I'm not a sports fan, but the video I saw of volleyball in 3D made it pretty clear how cool sports look in 3D.
The "killer app" for home 3D will most probably be porn.
So what makes Microsoft think that they can make a decent tablet?
They will probably leverage on the advances that they've gained with multi-touch interfaces courtesy of Microsoft Surface.
It's the economy, stupid.
I currently run Ubuntu Netbook Remix on an Acer Aspire One (8GB SSD version). I have been very happy with it.
The only reason I'm ever gonna move on to the Chrome OS is if I see a serious performance boost over my UNR-powered netbook.
Kevin Mitnick and Adrian Lamo do not seem to like the idea of Moss getting the nod. Mitnick prefers Bruce Schneier while Lamo believes Moss is a suit, "the reality is he's as corporate as hiring someone out of Microsoft."
I wonder what the reaction in the tech community would have been had the 2 above gotten the call instead.
I would have to agree.
From all the posts and comments above, it seems quite clear to most of us not living in the US that the average US resident has very little exposure to the latest in mobile phones. They are not to be blamed, of course, as the providers that they are stuck with force them to use clunky phones with ridiculous features and UI's (as compared to the latest Samsung, Nokia and Sony Ericsson generation of mobile phones). I guess this is also the reason that so much hype has accompanied the iPhone's impending release. Truth be told, the iphone's features have been around in Asian and European mobile phones ever since 2003. Nowadays, a mobile phone in Asia and Europe would not be top notch without:
a multiple megapixel camera capable of 30fps videos of decent quality;
gps;
wifi;
bluetooth;
music and video players;
video conference capabilities, and other 3G goodness;
Symbian OS with tons of applications;
and at least a week of battery life.
The iphone, when stacked against the competition overseas, comes out as an overhyped and underfeatured product with an extravagant price, quite disappointing considering the pedigree of the company that made it.
From all the posts and comments above, it seems quite clear to most of us not living in the US that the average US resident has very little exposure to the latest in mobile phones. They are not to be blamed, of course, as the providers that they are stuck with force them to use clunky phones with ridiculous features and UI's (as compared to the latest Samsung, Nokia and Sony Ericsson generation of mobile phones). I guess this is also the reason that so much hype has accompanied the iPhone's impending release. Truth be told, the iphone's features have been around in Asian and European mobile phones ever since 2003. Nowadays, a mobile phone in Asia and Europe would not be top notch without: a multiple megapixel camera capable of 30fps videos of decent quality; gps; wifi; bluetooth; music and video players; video conference capabilities, and other 3G goodness; Symbian OS with tons of applications; and at least a week of battery life. The iphone, when stacked against the competition overseas, comes out as an overhyped and underfeatured product with an extravagant price, quite disappointing considering the pedigree of the company that made it.
Voices in Iran have no other medium to publicize their dissensions other than the Internet. This is one site where, hopefully, trolls will be heard out and not modded down. The chances of this happening are, of course, rather remote.
I am posting this using Firefox 1.5.0.4 on a Celeron 300 with 96mb of RAM. I also have 12 tabs up. It ain't slow on this box.
From the article:
Neither is as good as a relatively inexpensive dedicated point and shoot digital camera, but they are "good enough" for many situations.
TWAIN scanners are all over the place so it won't be difficult finding them.
Imho, if your primary use for a scanner is to keep digital copies of your documents, books, papers, etc. It is also just as important to get a good OCR program that could accurately replicate the document into digital form.
Unfortunately, the OCR software that comes with scanners these days generally suck so when you probably scan your documents, what you will get are very poor digital copies (if you could call them copies at all).
I have yet to see an OCR program that is even close to the functionality, capability, and accuracy of the latest version of ABBYY Finereader.
No, I don't work for them.