that was available in 1998 or 1999.
SFT automatically redials AOL until it makes a connection, enters your screen name and password, minimizes the Welcome news window, and zaps AOL's reminders that you've been online for x minutes. You can even set it to answer intrusive IM's.
seems like an IM BOT to me
when is the patent office going to learn about Google
The decision seems at odds with the position of executives in other parts of the AOL Time Warner empire who have expressed alarm at the impact that personal video recorders will have on broadcast networks that rely on advertising for revenue.
This is not at odds with what T/W has expressed. From the article, it seems T/W will charge a fee for the service plus you will have to watch commercials.
Digital recording through their box will give them instant feedback on your viewing habits and allow them to sell directed avertising.
So lets recap. You pay T/W for cable TV, you pay T/W for the privilege to digitally record, advertisers pay T/W for data on your personal viewing habits. You still get the same old crappy TV shows and you still have to sit through commercials (you may even be getting targeted commercials).
Gee Alex, I'll take "fucked but not even kissed" for $500.
Another day another duplicate story on Slashdot!!
Comments get slammed for redundancy in moderation. But/. editors can be redundant with a vengance!!
How about a moderation system for the stories like Kuro5hin?
How about a moderation system for the editors? Each moderator gets 5 comment moderations and 1 story moderation. The story moderation goes for or against the editor. If the editor's "editor karma" drops below a minimum level then his story postings require a second editor's approval. Editor moderation could be SCOOP +2, WIRE +1, WHATEVER +0, WHY DO I CARE -1, BEEN THERE DONE THAT -2.
Of course CmdrTaco claims this is a difficult problem to solve. God forbid the/. editors simply READ SLASHDOT themselves. How friggin difficult can it be to coordinate the efforts of 4 to 6 guys?
Place all of your sensitive corporate documents on your web server then place a lot of links to the pages so that Google will index them. After this you can simply go to Google and type {search phrase} site:{company domain} filetype:{file type}.
AI nothing!! Do your business trends change dynamically? Do your employees come and go every 15 minutes? Are you going to tie this application to your student registration system (FERPA ALERT -- FERPA ALERT)? Yeeeesh, your degree in CS and AI is making this problem a lot more difficult than what it needs to be. Obviously the human scheduler knew when and where he needed people because of repeating and predictable business trends.
Your S.U. manager should know how many employees he needs where and when he needs them. Simply break the days up into fixed shifts for each day (i.e. 2 people from 8am-10am, 4 people from 10am-2pm, 2 people from 2pm-4pm, etc.) Let the students "bid" on shifts (i.e. first come first serve) or pick the shifts based on a lottery. For shifts that aren't popular, use the hammer of employment (i.e. do you like your 10am-2pm shift then you will work the 6pm-10pm shift) Since your student's class schedule shouldn't change for at least 16 weeks, once you have 1 week of scheduling done copy it to the next 15 weeks. If a student employee needs to change shifts he needs to find his own replacement.
If you really got your pecker hard for a computer program try a freaking random number generator and drop students into shifts and then allow a human to correct what few openings are left. You can call it the "5th order polynomial with a 32 bit ROR" AI scheduling algorithm. (Hey, the Liberal Arts students will believe it.)
You aren't the first person that needs to schedule 400+ employees on a rotating schedule. This is how the real world does it buddy!!!
That AI degree isn't going to do anything but impress your ignorant friends at parties. Now go play in the street.
If you really want to go through all this effort use both PDF and OCR.
OCR sucks royally for large documents, documents with images or diagrams, handwritten comments, etc. However scanning the pages to an image and then creating a PDF of the images does not care about any of that.
So, scan all of your books as images that your OCR software can process. Use the OCR output to create an index of pages. If a specific word on a specific page doesn't OCR well who cares. With typed and professionally printed books your OCR software should be about 90% accurate. Take the images and create PDF files.
Now you have your nice clean images but you still have a searchable index. BTW, when you get this done post your procedures, problems, and solutions to a web site somewhere so that you can share your experiences with the rest of the world.
Hmmm, but you don't have to buy Schick blades that cost 1/4 to 1/2 of the price of the razor.
I wouldn't mind ink cartridges costing so much if the printer manufactures simply gave the printers away. If this is the model the printer manufactures want to follow then they should create disposable printers with sealed ink wells. When you run out of ink you buy a new printer. Or buying cartridges from a third party supplier.
However, after I buy a product (printer, razor, car, widget, etc.) I can do with it what I want. However the printer manufacturers are implementing systems that prevent me from refilling my own ink cartridges to use in my own printer.
How about Ford creating a new car that only used Ford gasoline? If you were low on gas and went to QuikTrip to fill-up the "invalid gas type" light would come on and your car would refuse to start.
Slashdot Mirror
"Oops I did it again"
It also uses statistical modeling. If you enter the password enough times, it will start to predict that you are entering it.
Kind of a security hole doncha know!!
that was available in 1998 or 1999. SFT automatically redials AOL until it makes a connection, enters your screen name and password, minimizes the Welcome news window, and zaps AOL's reminders that you've been online for x minutes. You can even set it to answer intrusive IM's.
seems like an IM BOT to me
when is the patent office going to learn about Google
Try this you lazy patent examiners
This is not at odds with what T/W has expressed. From the article, it seems T/W will charge a fee for the service plus you will have to watch commercials.
Digital recording through their box will give them instant feedback on your viewing habits and allow them to sell directed avertising.
So lets recap. You pay T/W for cable TV, you pay T/W for the privilege to digitally record, advertisers pay T/W for data on your personal viewing habits. You still get the same old crappy TV shows and you still have to sit through commercials (you may even be getting targeted commercials).
Gee Alex, I'll take "fucked but not even kissed" for $500.
You will spend less time and get better results hiring starving, desperate for money, college students to do data entry.
...at least I'll get out of jail in 5-10 years.
how do you tell your insurance company
"My windows crashed!!!"
It looks cool, but image the first time he parks his car in the sun with the windows rolled up and the inside gets to about 160 degrees Farenheit.
Will he post pictures then?
"Hey, what's this big assed black piece of glass you got right here in the middle of your control panel?"
Yeah, but cowboy neal's joystick is no xbox controller either.
How about a moderation system for the stories like Kuro5hin?
How about a moderation system for the editors? Each moderator gets 5 comment moderations and 1 story moderation. The story moderation goes for or against the editor. If the editor's "editor karma" drops below a minimum level then his story postings require a second editor's approval. Editor moderation could be SCOOP +2, WIRE +1, WHATEVER +0, WHY DO I CARE -1, BEEN THERE DONE THAT -2.
Of course CmdrTaco claims this is a difficult problem to solve. God forbid the /. editors simply READ SLASHDOT themselves. How friggin difficult can it be to coordinate the efforts of 4 to 6 guys?
Place all of your sensitive corporate documents on your web server then place a lot of links to the pages so that Google will index them. After this you can simply go to Google and type {search phrase} site:{company domain} filetype:{file type}.
-- for the irony impaired this is humor --
AI nothing!! Do your business trends change dynamically? Do your employees come and go every 15 minutes? Are you going to tie this application to your student registration system (FERPA ALERT -- FERPA ALERT)? Yeeeesh, your degree in CS and AI is making this problem a lot more difficult than what it needs to be. Obviously the human scheduler knew when and where he needed people because of repeating and predictable business trends.
Your S.U. manager should know how many employees he needs where and when he needs them. Simply break the days up into fixed shifts for each day (i.e. 2 people from 8am-10am, 4 people from 10am-2pm, 2 people from 2pm-4pm, etc.) Let the students "bid" on shifts (i.e. first come first serve) or pick the shifts based on a lottery. For shifts that aren't popular, use the hammer of employment (i.e. do you like your 10am-2pm shift then you will work the 6pm-10pm shift) Since your student's class schedule shouldn't change for at least 16 weeks, once you have 1 week of scheduling done copy it to the next 15 weeks. If a student employee needs to change shifts he needs to find his own replacement.
If you really got your pecker hard for a computer program try a freaking random number generator and drop students into shifts and then allow a human to correct what few openings are left. You can call it the "5th order polynomial with a 32 bit ROR" AI scheduling algorithm. (Hey, the Liberal Arts students will believe it.)
You aren't the first person that needs to schedule 400+ employees on a rotating schedule. This is how the real world does it buddy!!!
That AI degree isn't going to do anything but impress your ignorant friends at parties. Now go play in the street.
Did the RIAA get permission from Activision for the Pitfall scene in their movie?
If you really want to go through all this effort use both PDF and OCR.
OCR sucks royally for large documents, documents with images or diagrams, handwritten comments, etc. However scanning the pages to an image and then creating a PDF of the images does not care about any of that.
So, scan all of your books as images that your OCR software can process. Use the OCR output to create an index of pages. If a specific word on a specific page doesn't OCR well who cares. With typed and professionally printed books your OCR software should be about 90% accurate. Take the images and create PDF files.
Now you have your nice clean images but you still have a searchable index. BTW, when you get this done post your procedures, problems, and solutions to a web site somewhere so that you can share your experiences with the rest of the world.
Hmmm, but you don't have to buy Schick blades that cost 1/4 to 1/2 of the price of the razor.
I wouldn't mind ink cartridges costing so much if the printer manufactures simply gave the printers away. If this is the model the printer manufactures want to follow then they should create disposable printers with sealed ink wells. When you run out of ink you buy a new printer. Or buying cartridges from a third party supplier.
However, after I buy a product (printer, razor, car, widget, etc.) I can do with it what I want. However the printer manufacturers are implementing systems that prevent me from refilling my own ink cartridges to use in my own printer.
How about Ford creating a new car that only used Ford gasoline? If you were low on gas and went to QuikTrip to fill-up the "invalid gas type" light would come on and your car would refuse to start.
DURON
If you mod this down this is what happens to your precious mod points!!!
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The Forked
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My what a big MODERATOR you have!!!!
WOOHOO still posting at +1
bring on the moderation I've got the karma!!!
Come on people these are GOATSE LINKS
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