Comment Re:What's the problem? (Score 1) 355
I work at Xerox and it's not a secret, they'll tell you outright that they are there.
Comment Bose had something like this (Score 2) 274
I worked for Bose back in 2005 and they were researching something like this. They were partnering with GM at the time but I think it fell out because the system was too heavy. There's a video floating around on YouTube of a car jumping over a bump using the Bose system.
Comment Re:Can you get false positives? (Score 1) 111
Dice's coefficient is another important one. You can use it to across words, sentences, and paragraphs to determine a similarity measure.
Comment Re:Can you get false positives? (Score 1) 111
I just saw a presentation that described the two basic formulas that these programs use. The important one is to measure Damerau–Levenshtein distance. This can be combined with fuzzy string searching or other algorithms to determine a percentage.
Comment Posts are really late (Score 1, Informative) 512
Has anyone noticed that stories on Slashdot are showing up well after everyone has heard them from every other source? Why bother reporting it if you're going to report it the day after everyone has heard it.
Comment Airports will still charge (Score 1) 376
I'm sure that they will still charge for Wi-Fi at places where a monopoly can be guaranteed like airports.
Comment Yahoo doesn't do their own searches (Score 2, Insightful) 527
Not sure if it was worth including Yahoo as an alternate since they are going to be powered by Bing eventually.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8174763.stm
EA Flip-Flops On Battlefield: Heroes Pricing, Fans Angry 221
An anonymous reader writes "Ben Kuchera from Ars Technica is reporting that EA/DICE has substantially changed the game model of Battlefield: Heroes, increasing the cost of weapons in Valor Points (the in-game currency that you earn by playing) to levels that even hardcore players cannot afford, and making them available in BattleFunds (the in-game currency that you buy with real money). Other consumables in the game, such as bandages to heal the players, suffered the same fate, turning the game into a subscription or pay-to-play model if players want to remain competitive. This goes against the creators' earlier stated objectives of not providing combat advantage to paying customers. Ben Cousins, from EA/DICE, argued, 'We also frankly wanted to make buying Battlefunds more appealing. We have wages to pay here in the Heroes team and in order to keep a team large enough to make new free content like maps and other game features we need to increase the amount of BF that people buy. Battlefield Heroes is a business at the end of the day and for a company like EA who recently laid off 16% of their workforce, we need to keep an eye on the accounts and make sure we are doing our bit for the company.' The official forums discussion thread is full of angry responses from upset users, who feel this change is a betrayal of the original stated objectives of the game."
