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Comment Re: Well, there's DeepSeek (Score 1) 192

by pcias1 on Sunday March 16, 2025 @12:24AM (#65237177) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open-Source Local-Only AI Solutions?

Obviously, and itâ(TM)s so commonly known. I am really astonished where /. both questions and replies go these days

Comment Thatâ(TM)s even more stupid than RPA (Score 1) 41

by pcias1 on Thursday January 23, 2025 @03:04PM (#65112943) Attached to: OpenAI Unveils AI Agent To Automate Web Browsing Tasks

Spent years on system integrations, API development just to see the âzRPA revolutionâ and costly consultants to get enlightened

Comment Time has come for us to be prompt-engineered (Score 2) 25

by pcias1 on Monday December 30, 2024 @02:38AM (#65049345) Attached to: AI Tools May Soon Manipulate People's Online Decision-Making, Say Researchers

AIâ(TM)s revenge

Comment Re: Next token predictors (Score 1) 114

by pcias1 on Sunday December 08, 2024 @05:05AM (#64998987) Attached to: AI Safety Testers: OpenAI's New o1 Covertly Schemed to Avoid Being Shut Down

Exactly, not paying attention for years

Comment paper crypto wallets (Score 2) 82

by pcias1 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @07:38AM (#61603903) Attached to: EU Plans To Make Bitcoin Transfers More Traceable

Yes, please regulate the anynymous paper wallets and passphrases. Educate THEN legislate

Comment Re:Careful what you wish for. (Score 1) 82

by pcias1 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @07:32AM (#61603889) Attached to: EU Plans To Make Bitcoin Transfers More Traceable

Yes, privacy is from private entities (bad) while anonimity would hard ever rising hunger of government's surveillance (very gooood)

Comment Re: Handmaids tale was a portend... (Score 1) 390

by pcias1 on Monday May 24, 2021 @07:15AM (#61415528) Attached to: Are We Ready for a Looming Decline in World Population?

Absolutely right. Variables of exponential growth do not exponentially collapse. This is a nonsense

Comment Re: Wow, that's really stupid (Score 1) 165

by pcias1 on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @01:02AM (#58970460) Attached to: Siemens Contractor Pleads Guilty To Planting Logic Bomb In Company Spreadsheets

I do not hey what you mean at all. SAP application code is open. Anyone with any experience with SAP knows that ABAP code is browsable and debuggable. All customers do it.

Comment You're getting the SPOF concept wrong (Score 1) 209

by pcias1 on Thursday July 31, 2014 @04:18PM (#47576913) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: When Is It Better To Modify the ERP vs. Interfacing It?

If you use a chain of apps interfacing to the ERP and all of them are critical for the business process to run, you are creating a chain of multiple SPOFs. Surely ERPs are made for limiting the technology diversity, so companies whose business is not IT can use IT limiting its exposure to technology expenditure and risks

How To Find Bad Programmers 359

Posted by samzenpus on Friday April 09, 2010 @12:16PM from the how-little-work-can-you-do-in-a-day dept.

AmberShah writes "The job post is your potential programmer's first impression of your company, so make it count with these offputting features. There are plenty of articles about recruiting great developers, but what if you are only interested in the crappy ones?" I think much of the industry is already following these guidelines.

Sony Joins the Offensive Against Pre-Owned Games 461

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 19, 2010 @07:11AM from the saddle-up dept.

BanjoTed writes "In a move to counter sales of pre-owned games, EA recently revealed DLC perks for those who buy new copies of Mass Effect 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Now, PlayStation platform holder Sony has jumped on the bandwagon with similar plans for the PSP's SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo 3. '[Players] will need to register their game online before they are able to access the multiplayer component of the title. UMD copies will use a redeemable code while the digital version will authenticate automatically in the background. Furthermore ... anyone buying a pre-owned copy of the game will be forced to cough up $20 to obtain a code to play online."

How To Play HD Video On a Netbook 205

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 18, 2010 @09:34PM from the addressing-that-stuttering-problem dept.

Barence writes with some news to interest those with netbooks running Windows: "Netbooks aren't famed for their high-definition video playing prowess, but if you've got about $10 and a few minutes going spare, there is a way to enjoy high-definition trailers and videos on your Atom-powered portable. You need three things: a copy of Media Player Classic Home Cinema, CoreCodec's CoreAVC codec, and some HD videos encoded in AVC or h.264 formats. This blog takes you through the process."

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