lhaeh - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Fujitsu ScanSnap or similar (Score 4, Informative) 308

by lhaeh on Saturday February 11, @01:05PM (#39005805) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Go Paperless At Home?

Yup, the Fujitsu ScanSnap 1500M is amazing. Never jams, great OCR software, VERY fast.

You can just toss in receipts and odd sized documents, handles them all fine.

Comment: Why not stainless steel? (Score 1) 121

by lhaeh on Friday February 03, @05:30PM (#38921315) Attached to: 83-Year-Old Woman Gets New 3D-Printed Titanium Jaw

Not just in this case, but in general for medical implants. Sure it is heavier, but it is much stronger, just as corrosion resistant, and non-magnetic.

Comment: MOD PARENT UP (Score 1) 336

by lhaeh on Tuesday March 29 2011, @07:25PM (#35660988) Attached to: MySpace Loses Ten Million Users In One Month

From the original article:
"Tech industry analysts comScore say figures show MySpace lost more than 10 million unique users worldwide between January and February."

Canadian songwriters propose $10/mo Internet fee.-> 0

Submitted by BitterOak on Saturday March 05 2011, @04:09PM

BitterOak writes "According to this story, Canadian songwriters are proposing a $10 fee to be added to monthly ISP bills, giving users a license to download music using peer-to-peer file sharing technologies for free, without fear of reprisal. The money collected would be distributed to members of a Canadian association of songwriters (SOCAN). The story doesn't make clear whether the license would apply only to Canadian music, or how musicians in other nations would be compensated otherwise."
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DNA sequencing costs falling fast-> 1

Submitted by hajus on Saturday March 05 2011, @03:37PM

hajus writes "DNA sequencing costs seem to be falling faster than the gene sequencing equivalent of Moore's Law would predict. At about $10,000 per million bases in Jan 2001, the cost has fallen to $.50 per million in Jan 2011."
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Could we reconnect eastern Libya? 1

Submitted by GrumpyBagpuss on Saturday March 05 2011, @03:35PM

GrumpyBagpuss writes "We all know that the internet is supposed to route around damage, but currently eastern Libya is off the net because all their connectivity goes through Tripoli. How difficult would it to be to reconnect eastern Libya via a microwave link to Crete? It's less than 200km away, on the Libyan end there are mountains up to 850m and on Crete they're higher than 2000m. People have achieved distances of over 300km with simple WiFi equipment, but would it be possible to increase the bandwidth to handle a whole, or at least half a country? How would you connect the link at both ends? What other problems would there be? How many pringle cans would we need?"

Nintendo Hypes 3DS While Slamming Apple at GDC Key-> 0

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Mike Rohde

on Saturday March 05 2011, @02:53PM

Mike Rohde writes "Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo, believes that social games are both leading innovation and at the same time killing the industry — so much so, that if trends continue, it’s going to be very difficult for developers to earn a living making social games. In particular, he made the innuendo that certain phone manufacturers do not care about the quality of the content, and they are perfectly content at selling free or extremely cheap games in mass quantity that might not be the highest of quality. He went on to state that Nintendo focuses on the value of the game and that content is the top priority. What’s interesting to note, is that between Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo is the company with the most amount of games, and they are also the company with the dreaded title of “shovelware” for much of their Wii titles. With the launch of the 3DS is Nintendo now going to focus on quality and make a solid attempt at eliminating their shovelware reputation? GoozerNation reports from GDC."
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Comment: Electronic transponder system (Score 4, Interesting) 620

by lhaeh on Tuesday December 21 2010, @11:23PM (#34637826) Attached to: Electric Cars May Be Made Noisier By Law

It seems unnecessary to make things nosier for everyone when the number of people that need the noise is very small. Why not just have an electronic transponder system so that people can know where cars are relative to them. It would even work on vibration for those that are blind and deaf. It could give out more information, like speed and direction, and it it could work from further away if necessary.

Comment: They are also kiling Altavista (Score 4, Interesting) 311

by lhaeh on Thursday December 16 2010, @07:04PM (#34582050) Attached to: Yahoo! To Close Delicious

From looking at the leaked slide, they are getting rid of Altavista which has more meaning for me. Delicious as just another Web 2.0 company, but Altavista was an early pioneer on the web and could have easily been what Google is now.

Comment: Re:None of the above. (Score 1) 342

by lhaeh on Friday September 10 2010, @05:37PM (#33540240) Attached to: My Camera ...

Yup, I went from a S3IS to a 300D a while back and couldn't be happier. Well, I do miss live view, video recording, and focusing manually is harder. The price was right though: I sold my S3 for $175 and got my 300D for $180 the next day.

The big difference in the two is sensor size (12x bigger IIRC) and all that goes with it: ISO400 on the 300D has about the same noise as ISO100 on the S3, and the 300D can go up to ISO3200 if need be. Shots that I needed a tripod for, can now be hand held. Exposures that took 5 minutes now take 30 seconds. I I put it on ISO100 then things are silky smooth.

The range of lenses is a nice help too: Reversal rings, and extension tubes give great macro results for cheap. Another cheap option I like are 50mm, fast lenses, they are great if I don't want to use a tripod: Even a F2 lets in about 2.5x more light then the S3 at F3.5, I just wish I didn't have to deal with the crop factor that are the bane of APS-C sensors.