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Portable Scanner Solutions for Research?

Posted by Cliff on from the I-am-now-officially-a-Mac-head dept.

Fished asks: "Lately, I'm finding that I need to do a lot of research in Libraries -- remember those? I'm tired of feeding dimes to the copiers, and would like to buy some kind of portable scanner to go with my Powerbook. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find one that will work. Back in the eighties, this were as common as dirt: they were small, four inch wide scanners that you could run over the page. Also, while I've found three portable scanners for PC's (from Antec and Pentax) even if I could somehow get them to work with Mac OS X, they are sheet-fed, which is useless for scanning pages out of books. Does anyone still make the old-fashioned Hand Scanners, and do they make them for Macs?"

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  1. 1st post by MaxVolume · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes I remember those. A usb update of them would be sweet. Or how about a beowulf cluster?

  2. Re:Copyright by cdf12345 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    DMCP? Wtf?

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  3. Re:Copyright by DrLudicrous · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WTF indeed! I meant DMCA, so my bad, and a big ole DOH on me.

  4. Here's one gripe I have about slashdot. by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    People who spew ridiculous tripe about some law or another without even getting the spelling of the law right. It's DMCA.

    Here's some more shit that bugs me:

    The RIAA controls the music industry, not the MPAA.

    The MPAA controls the movie industry, not the RIAA.

    Hilary Rosen doesn't care too much if you steal a copy of "Moulin Rouge". Jack Valenti doesn't care too much if you steal a copy of NSync's "No Strings Attached". (see above.)

    Copyright law is not trademark law. Trademark law is not copyright law.

    Neither have anything to do with patent law.

    Bills on the floor in the House or Senate are not laws yet. They do not affect you yet. They may never affect you.

    I'm sure there's more, but that's all I could think of on short notice.

    - A.P.

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    1. Re:Here's one gripe I have about slashdot. by DrLudicrous · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Yeah no shit. Thanks for lowering my karma, but I guess I don't care what a bunch of geeks think about my faceless postings anyways. So once again, SUCK MY DICK. I ain't no troll, but if you do something bad to me for no good reason, goddamn right I am gonna bitch about it.

      Sub-400 doesn't necessarily mean super-100 IQ, obviously. It's fucking amazing how an innocuous comment that was meant as a little joke can be turned into a flamewar by a geek more concerned with spelling and semantics than humor. Way to go, fuckface (Wacky). You only show why so many slashdotters are socially inept and fail in the real world as far as friends go. Definitely, you fall into this group.

      Better my funny little comment than yet another genius saying first post or raving about bukkake. Don't forget that, loser. And for all those modder's out there, a big FUCK YOU to you too. Amazing how that post is off topic, trolling, over rated, etc. Just goes to show you how pessimistic and negative (not to be repetitive and redundant) you people are. Get back to your hand cream and internet porn, I know I will be bothering with ./ a lot less in the future because of geek assholes like you.

  5. Re:Jesus Tits by g_bit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're disgusting. You know you don't have to be obnoxious to make a point. What'r you 13 years old?

  6. I'll see your Troll and raise you one by spRed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    .sig September 11th, 2001: The most successful day for totalitarian government in American history

    The most successful attack by totalitarians (The Islamo-Marxist variety) against a democracy?

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  7. Rant by dfinney · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When Douglas Engelbart was active (inventor of the mouse, early hypermedia developer) he wanted to create systems to augment the human intellect. Today, we HAVE systems for acquiring, storing and retrieving vast amounts of rich media. All of your textbooks from college, or even graduate school, or even all of the books you'll ever be able to read can be stored on a handheld system. Napster, all hoopla aside, was a library of all music you ever might like to listen.

    But, the lawyers won't let us use these systems.

    Ted Nelson, inventor of the word hypertext, warned against the "Balkanization" of information systems as early as the 70s.

    Well, here we are. The dream of universal information access, the telco commercial for "all movies ever made in every language", and tools for augmenting human intellect, these things may just be unreachable not for technical reasons but for business reasons.