Comment Re:Indirect Recruitment (Score 1) 90
also it's good for his CV
Comment Re:Indirect Recruitment (Score 1) 90
maybe, maybe not but if so joing a open source project as a contrib. could exponentialy boost his knowledge in the area and skills (my expirience)
Comment Re:Why not Linux? (Score 1) 90
why waste time to teach student how a unix clone works instand of the most used one for personal computers - windows ?
Submission + - Russian University Launches OS Course based on ReactOS, led by Alex Bragin (reactos.org) 2
jeditobe writes: Aleksey Bragin reported that starting in February he would be a lecturer at the Moscow State Technical University teaching the operating system course. He said that he intends to incorporate ReactOS into the lab work so that students would have the opportunity to work on an actual operating system. He also intends to translate and upload the slides he will use for class for others to see.
Submission + - Russian Search Engine Yandex Beats Bing (techweekeurope.co.uk)
judgecorp writes: "The Russian search engine Yandex has beaten Microsoft in the search engine rankings, taking fourth place behind Google, China's Baidu and Yahoo, according to ComScore. The result won't be encouraging for Microsoft, which will also be disappointed to see Bing behind its partner Yahoo."
Comment hmm amaterism (Score 2, Interesting) 312
the problem is they didn't used enought feature factors or the relevant ones (like detailed statgistics for every player, for that player with coop with another player). i didn't read the stuff but i am sure they used only few factors mostly historic data the detailed forcast would cost too much money (but they invest them into stock forecast)
Submission + - 26 Gigapixel photo sets new world's record (google.com) 2
FrenchSilk writes: The largest gigapixel photograph ever created with a DSLR camera was made by A.F.B. Media GmbH in Dresden, Germany. 1655 images, each 21.6 megapixels in size, were taken with a Canon 5D Mark II and a 400 mm lens over a period of 176 minutes. The images were stitched on a 16 processor system with 48 G of main memory, taking 94 hours to create the final result. The interactive view can be found here: http://www.dresden-26-gigapixels.com/dresden26GP.
