For those that missed the articles about C.M.'s associated project for validating all those scanned words on all those scanned pages: http://recaptcha.net/
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA.
That's absolutely correct. The only real news is in the Reuters article which quotes an anonymous source at EMI as saying they are "looking" into cutting back funding to "trade groups". The rest of it is rampant speculation by Ars along with a ton of self links to similarly speculative articles. The celebrations need to wait for official statements confirming that this is related in any way to the RIAA.
Check out this story by well-known songwriter Jim Vallance, about what The Romantics thought of the song "Teacher, Teacher" that he co-wrote with.38 Special.
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For those that missed the articles about C.M.'s associated project for validating all those scanned words on all those scanned pages: http://recaptcha.net/
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA.
That's absolutely correct. The only real news is in the Reuters article which quotes an anonymous source at EMI as saying they are "looking" into cutting back funding to "trade groups". The rest of it is rampant speculation by Ars along with a ton of self links to similarly speculative articles. The celebrations need to wait for official statements confirming that this is related in any way to the RIAA.
Check out this story by well-known songwriter Jim Vallance, about what The Romantics thought of the song "Teacher, Teacher" that he co-wrote with .38 Special.