Well, I did something that may be unique. I was in an area that had two choices - one of which was unlimited. When I looked to move to be closer to work, I actually looked at different neighborhoods, and the ISPs available. The neighborhood I settled on also only had two ISPs available, but one had no caps. I called to verify. They do offer discounts if you use less than 10 gig a month, but no penalties if you go high. They said their "caps" are bandwidth related - ie there is a limit to how much you can pull with a specific bandwidth amount. If you need to pull more than that, you go up to a faster speed.
I am averaging about 300-550 gig a month in transfers according to their bandwidth meter, and have been doing that since I moved to the area 10 months ago. Yeah, I torrent a lot too (that is the months that I am around 550 gig), but in months that I am not torrenting, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and Vudu and Youtube viewing can easily hit 300 gig,
It's all a conspericy! The weather in space is causing the changes on Earth! There is no such thing as global warming - its a myth dreamed up by tree huggers!
So Yahoo doesn't roll back (just like any other company who makes changes), and instead are replying to threads in the forums by saying "we are aware of the issue, this is planned to be fixed", but it is not fast enough for you.
You then write a blog about it. When that doesn't get what you want, you go to slashdot?
I use a combination of two different ones. The best OCR software seems to be http://www.paperfile.net/ which is free. So I usually scan into a PDF, run through that, OCR, output to RTF, and then clean up in word, then use Calibre to convert to epub.
A good proprietary piece of software is Wondershare PDF converter - http://www.wondershare.com/ It is actually really good for quicky conversions and keeps formatting, but I am not too thrilled with the OCR - I have some issues with spacing and with it converting edges of pages into graphics and |
Which software I am using really depends on what I am scanning, and what I want my final to look like.
The two most annoying parts is scanning (average book takes me about 1-2 hours to scan), and cleanup (roughly 8-10 hours a book, but your millage may vary). Basically,with cleanup, I fix line breaks and then run spelling and grammer checks (Word is great for this) because sometimes OCR just does some strange stuff (especially on books where text may not be as sharp near the binding as your book isn't perfectly flat - Paperfile is really good about countering that, but not perfect).
So yeah, the time involved pretty much means that I am really only doing this for books I know I am going to read again and again - IE usually I have already read the book once, and know that I will want to read it again.
I also do cleanup on some books I pull from different online repositories - a lot of people will just scan and OCR and not do any cleanup, and just upload books, and it looks like crap on the Kobo. If my damned DRM would work right, I would buy more ebooks.
If Amazon, though, is offering this service, I may just give in and pay the $130 and get a Kindle.
This should keep me from scanning, OCRing and formatting books I bought off of Amazon just for the convienance of reading on an eReader. I was just so annoyed that print copies cost less than digital copies.
Going through the comments, it seems as if I am the only person who seems to think this is a good thing. I got a name-brand phone, but its on a discount carrier. Surprisingly, Cyanogen does not have a fork for my phone (apparently, even though this phone is the most popular Samsung Galaxy my carrier carries, it is still not popular enough for a Cyanogen Mod ROM). My phone is stuck on 2.3.6, meaning that I can't use TWC app on it. I don't think my provider has EVER pushed out an OTA update for any of their phones. My old phone was on 2.0, but luckily there was a Cyanogen Mod for it (actually, it was not an official release, had to dig through forums to find people working on it), and was able to get it to 2.3
My tablett is worse - it is made by an off-name brand chinese company (actually considering wiping it next year and giving it to a friend and picking up a Nexus), and it is only that they released a VERY SIMILAR tablet with a newer OS on it that I was able to get the thing to update to 4.1, otherwise I would still be stuck on 2.1. However, because the phone is rooted, I cannot view Ultraviolet content on it. (Stupid, really, as Netflix works just fine)
So to get updated features, I have to root my device, mess with half a dozen ROMs before finding one that works, go back into the Cyanogen Mod settings (if there is a Cyanogen Mod ROM, otherwise whatever ROM you are using) and punch in my carrier details, hoping my data and texts still work, and run the risk of possibly bricking my device.
Now Google is talking about pushing out updates through the Play Store? What a brilliant idea! Give people new features without them having to Root their phones or install custom ROMs. This will also mean for app developers that more devices will have newer features, allowing special features of your app to run on more devices. This sounds like a VERY good thing.
If you don't like it, block the updates. But for the rest of us, this sounds like a great idea, and I can't wait for Google to push out thier first new updates, and hope this means better app support on my devices.
My question is, did she ever tell followers not to get vaccinated? The blurb says she had "concerns" about the ties. From the article
Pearsons claims she’s not anti-vax, but the church does promote faith healing, and in August Pearsons voiced concern over vaccinations and autism, a link which has been thoroughly debunked.
Just because a church believes in faith healing does not mean they are anti-vacine. If they are a mega-church, then they probably draw people from many religious backgrounds, and there probably is a small segment that comes from extreme Penticostal backgrounds (not all Penticostals are like this) that don't believe in vaccinations or emergancy room visits.
It sounds like the simple fact that the church is now offering vaccination clinics proves that the church is not anti-vax, but rather one of the pastors had concern.
The articles are also misleading. It says this is a mega-church. As I hadn't heard of it, I decided to do a little digging. Eagle Mountain International is NOT a mega-church. The definition of a mega-church is a church having 2,000 or more in average weekly attendance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megachurch
So... In the process of trying to raise money for legal fees against his former employer, he releases pictures taken on Lockheed property of Lockheed IP stuff, and some documents most likely protected via Lockheed IP and national security laws? So, he invites yet another lawsuit, breaks ebay Terms and Conditions, breaks national laws, and tries to become another Snowden.
So either this is a huge hoax, or this guy is an idiot. At least try to flee the country first next time! Russia might give you temporary assylum!
14 cooperating space agencies around the world could mean that a Canadian astronaut.... The International Space Exploration Coordination Group, of which Canada is a part/quote
So what about the other 13 space agencies? I mean, it could be Canadian, but couldn't it just as well be one of the other countries? I just skimmed the article, but I didn't say where it listed what countries the other agencies were from.
No kidding. I had to go back and read the headline twice after reading the blurb and the article before it made sense.
Well, no DUH that Unix is loosing ground to Linux. I honestly cannot remember the last time I saw a data center with true UNIX machines (oh wait, yeah I can, it was 14 years ago, unless you want to include OSX as a UNIX, in which case that was five years ago). This has been happening for like 15 years.
When I saw the headline, I was thinking "*nix is loosing ground to Windows?" (which also wouldn't have been a huge surprise).
Yes, I got an antenna, and its plugged into the PC. Sadly the only thing on broadcast television that is worth watching is Fox Sundays (although Fox Tuesdays [or is it Fox Thursdays? I honestly don't know what day those comedies air on] has some shows that I could get hooked on if I tried - seen a couple of shows - enough to knwo I like them, not enough to get me hooked).
NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS (who dropped most of their good stuff), CW, MY, Daystar, TBN, Univision, Telemundo, Qubo, ion, Cozi, so forth and so on, don't really air anything worth timeshifting, although I may land on one of the channels if browsing.
Truthfully, the majority of stuff on cable isn't worth timeshifting either. Half the stuff I like air at the same time, which is why multi-channel DVRs were great - set up recordings, watch back when there was crap on television. But the costs were higher than I was willing to pay.
(and people who have trouble spelling ilitteratcy).
So, if this comes out, students no longer have an incentive to read - they just take their smart phone to class, take a picture of their books, and Bing returns youtube videos? Thanks a lot, Bill Gates, for killing reading and reading comprehension!
I thought they used a similar technology in the 2012 Olympics. I tried to find something on Youtube, but unfortunately all I can find when I do a search for "gymnastics 3d view" or "360 degree view" just returns gymnastics videos in 3D for from gyms named 3d gymnastics or 360gymnastics or something like that. Grrr.
I'll take it a step futher. I ended up canceling the cable. Here is why:
4 choices here - Dish, DirectTV, Time Warner, and AT&T Uverse. I wanted to bundle in internet, and have unlimited data. That rulled out everyone except Time Warner.
Time Warner said that they would bundle cable for $10 a month more. But then there was the charge for the HD reciever. Then the HD tier. Then they didn't carry all the channels I wanted in HD.
Then I tried to get a DVR. There was one option, with a tiny harddrive that held about 10 hours of HD recording. And there was a DVR fee (on top of the HD box fee) and a DVR service fee.
The choice to get out of the fees was to get either a TiVO (wait, there are fees there) or a cable card for the PC. I elected the latter - I got terrabytes of storage space, and I could archive stuff to disc..... EXCEPT....
Time Warner puts broadcast flags on EVERYTHING. Would not work in Linux or a half dozen programs I tried in Windows - it ONLY worked with Windows Media Center. The recordings were then wrapped in DRMed crap, meaning it would not play in anything other than Windows Media Center. Which would still be an option, except that if you moved the recordings to another location or device, the recordings became unwatchable.
So, the $10 extra a month became $80 extra a month to get HD channels and a DVR that held almost no data, third party solutions did not work, and the MAJORITY of the shows I watch are available on Netflix or Hulu? That was an easy choice for me. I cut the cable, Netflix, Hulu or Amazon what I can, Vudu the couple of shows I can't, (which averages the same cost as a little over a month of cable for a year's worth of shows - I guess about 2-3 months if you add in subscrition costs to the other services) and torrent the stuff that is not available on any of those services.
I did look at going back and getting cable and DVRs through one of the other three companies and keeping internet through Time Warner (I loved Dish's DVR when I had them), but when the quality of streaming media off of Hulu looks better than Dish's or UVerse's HD channels, and DirectTV's pricing system and contracts make me cringe, the solution was simple - fast internet pipe and streaming services.
Yeah, I am wondering how well this will sell. I was all excited about this phone and was debating on getting one. However, it was just today that I learned that it was a Windows phone, not an Android, so its a no sell for me. Looking at the Galaxy Zoom now.
Now, if you want to give me this camera tech and put it in a stand-alone camera, without the Windows OS, and sell it for like $150 at Walmart, we will talk.
Oh cool, thanks, someone mod that up! I may play with this some when I get home. Now this leads to an additional quesion - both this, and the software from Disney, seems to focus mainly on buildings. I guess I can try myself, but I wonder how well this works with people? It would also be nice if I can feed in a video, but I guess I can always take my video, feed it into some video editing software and export as a jpeg or bmp securence or something.
My question is, where is the software? All I saw on the Disney Research page was a Youtube video, and a link to white papers and links to download the original images. Just thinking how much I would love to take some old home movies and generate some semi-3D scenes from them. Could also be useful in 3D film conversions (although I thought that this was a similar approach to what they were already doing).
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Well, I did something that may be unique. I was in an area that had two choices - one of which was unlimited. When I looked to move to be closer to work, I actually looked at different neighborhoods, and the ISPs available. The neighborhood I settled on also only had two ISPs available, but one had no caps. I called to verify. They do offer discounts if you use less than 10 gig a month, but no penalties if you go high. They said their "caps" are bandwidth related - ie there is a limit to how much you can pull with a specific bandwidth amount. If you need to pull more than that, you go up to a faster speed.
I am averaging about 300-550 gig a month in transfers according to their bandwidth meter, and have been doing that since I moved to the area 10 months ago. Yeah, I torrent a lot too (that is the months that I am around 550 gig), but in months that I am not torrenting, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and Vudu and Youtube viewing can easily hit 300 gig,
It's all a conspericy! The weather in space is causing the changes on Earth! There is no such thing as global warming - its a myth dreamed up by tree huggers!
If Antartica is now an Island, than Eurasia is an Island, Africa is an Island, and the Americas are an island.
So Yahoo doesn't roll back (just like any other company who makes changes), and instead are replying to threads in the forums by saying "we are aware of the issue, this is planned to be fixed", but it is not fast enough for you.
You then write a blog about it. When that doesn't get what you want, you go to slashdot?
Sounds like someone is having a tantrum.
I use a combination of two different ones. The best OCR software seems to be http://www.paperfile.net/ which is free. So I usually scan into a PDF, run through that, OCR, output to RTF, and then clean up in word, then use Calibre to convert to epub.
A good proprietary piece of software is Wondershare PDF converter - http://www.wondershare.com/ It is actually really good for quicky conversions and keeps formatting, but I am not too thrilled with the OCR - I have some issues with spacing and with it converting edges of pages into graphics and |
Which software I am using really depends on what I am scanning, and what I want my final to look like.
The two most annoying parts is scanning (average book takes me about 1-2 hours to scan), and cleanup (roughly 8-10 hours a book, but your millage may vary). Basically,with cleanup, I fix line breaks and then run spelling and grammer checks (Word is great for this) because sometimes OCR just does some strange stuff (especially on books where text may not be as sharp near the binding as your book isn't perfectly flat - Paperfile is really good about countering that, but not perfect).
So yeah, the time involved pretty much means that I am really only doing this for books I know I am going to read again and again - IE usually I have already read the book once, and know that I will want to read it again.
I also do cleanup on some books I pull from different online repositories - a lot of people will just scan and OCR and not do any cleanup, and just upload books, and it looks like crap on the Kobo. If my damned DRM would work right, I would buy more ebooks.
If Amazon, though, is offering this service, I may just give in and pay the $130 and get a Kindle.
This should keep me from scanning, OCRing and formatting books I bought off of Amazon just for the convienance of reading on an eReader. I was just so annoyed that print copies cost less than digital copies.
Going through the comments, it seems as if I am the only person who seems to think this is a good thing. I got a name-brand phone, but its on a discount carrier. Surprisingly, Cyanogen does not have a fork for my phone (apparently, even though this phone is the most popular Samsung Galaxy my carrier carries, it is still not popular enough for a Cyanogen Mod ROM). My phone is stuck on 2.3.6, meaning that I can't use TWC app on it. I don't think my provider has EVER pushed out an OTA update for any of their phones. My old phone was on 2.0, but luckily there was a Cyanogen Mod for it (actually, it was not an official release, had to dig through forums to find people working on it), and was able to get it to 2.3
My tablett is worse - it is made by an off-name brand chinese company (actually considering wiping it next year and giving it to a friend and picking up a Nexus), and it is only that they released a VERY SIMILAR tablet with a newer OS on it that I was able to get the thing to update to 4.1, otherwise I would still be stuck on 2.1. However, because the phone is rooted, I cannot view Ultraviolet content on it. (Stupid, really, as Netflix works just fine)
So to get updated features, I have to root my device, mess with half a dozen ROMs before finding one that works, go back into the Cyanogen Mod settings (if there is a Cyanogen Mod ROM, otherwise whatever ROM you are using) and punch in my carrier details, hoping my data and texts still work, and run the risk of possibly bricking my device.
Now Google is talking about pushing out updates through the Play Store? What a brilliant idea! Give people new features without them having to Root their phones or install custom ROMs. This will also mean for app developers that more devices will have newer features, allowing special features of your app to run on more devices. This sounds like a VERY good thing.
If you don't like it, block the updates. But for the rest of us, this sounds like a great idea, and I can't wait for Google to push out thier first new updates, and hope this means better app support on my devices.
This is not the Android you are looking for.
My question is, did she ever tell followers not to get vaccinated? The blurb says she had "concerns" about the ties. From the article
Pearsons claims she’s not anti-vax, but the church does promote faith healing, and in August Pearsons voiced concern over vaccinations and autism, a link which has been thoroughly debunked.
Just because a church believes in faith healing does not mean they are anti-vacine. If they are a mega-church, then they probably draw people from many religious backgrounds, and there probably is a small segment that comes from extreme Penticostal backgrounds (not all Penticostals are like this) that don't believe in vaccinations or emergancy room visits.
It sounds like the simple fact that the church is now offering vaccination clinics proves that the church is not anti-vax, but rather one of the pastors had concern.
The articles are also misleading. It says this is a mega-church. As I hadn't heard of it, I decided to do a little digging. Eagle Mountain International is NOT a mega-church. The definition of a mega-church is a church having 2,000 or more in average weekly attendance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megachurch
Eagle Mountain averages 1,250 in attendance:
http://www.findachurch.com/a_sch/sch_det.asp?lst_num=1844
So the articles are very misleading.
A downed transmission line in Ohio or wildfire in California shouldn't affect me.
http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/national_energy_grid/united-states-of-america/graphics/USA_grid.gif
So... In the process of trying to raise money for legal fees against his former employer, he releases pictures taken on Lockheed property of Lockheed IP stuff, and some documents most likely protected via Lockheed IP and national security laws? So, he invites yet another lawsuit, breaks ebay Terms and Conditions, breaks national laws, and tries to become another Snowden.
So either this is a huge hoax, or this guy is an idiot. At least try to flee the country first next time! Russia might give you temporary assylum!
14 cooperating space agencies around the world could mean that a Canadian astronaut.... The International Space Exploration Coordination Group, of which Canada is a part/quote
So what about the other 13 space agencies? I mean, it could be Canadian, but couldn't it just as well be one of the other countries? I just skimmed the article, but I didn't say where it listed what countries the other agencies were from.
But wouldn't this mean that they are circumventing DRM? In that case, isn't this a violation of the DMCA?
I agree. How in the world can the original poster say that this is two steps forward? Using organs from executed prisoners is a great idea!
No kidding. I had to go back and read the headline twice after reading the blurb and the article before it made sense.
Well, no DUH that Unix is loosing ground to Linux. I honestly cannot remember the last time I saw a data center with true UNIX machines (oh wait, yeah I can, it was 14 years ago, unless you want to include OSX as a UNIX, in which case that was five years ago). This has been happening for like 15 years.
When I saw the headline, I was thinking "*nix is loosing ground to Windows?" (which also wouldn't have been a huge surprise).
No news here.
Yes, I got an antenna, and its plugged into the PC. Sadly the only thing on broadcast television that is worth watching is Fox Sundays (although Fox Tuesdays [or is it Fox Thursdays? I honestly don't know what day those comedies air on] has some shows that I could get hooked on if I tried - seen a couple of shows - enough to knwo I like them, not enough to get me hooked).
NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS (who dropped most of their good stuff), CW, MY, Daystar, TBN, Univision, Telemundo, Qubo, ion, Cozi, so forth and so on, don't really air anything worth timeshifting, although I may land on one of the channels if browsing.
Truthfully, the majority of stuff on cable isn't worth timeshifting either. Half the stuff I like air at the same time, which is why multi-channel DVRs were great - set up recordings, watch back when there was crap on television. But the costs were higher than I was willing to pay.
*Cable Card Tunner with a Time-Warner supplied switcher box, that is. And had to go through three switcher boxes before I got one that worked.
Yes. But I tried the TV tuner card in January of 2013. Broadcast flags on all channels except for locals and ESPN
(and people who have trouble spelling ilitteratcy).
So, if this comes out, students no longer have an incentive to read - they just take their smart phone to class, take a picture of their books, and Bing returns youtube videos? Thanks a lot, Bill Gates, for killing reading and reading comprehension!
You might see that she isn't actually naked!
I thought they used a similar technology in the 2012 Olympics. I tried to find something on Youtube, but unfortunately all I can find when I do a search for "gymnastics 3d view" or "360 degree view" just returns gymnastics videos in 3D for from gyms named 3d gymnastics or 360gymnastics or something like that. Grrr.
Maybe it was a commercial I saw.
I'll take it a step futher. I ended up canceling the cable. Here is why:
4 choices here - Dish, DirectTV, Time Warner, and AT&T Uverse. I wanted to bundle in internet, and have unlimited data. That rulled out everyone except Time Warner.
Time Warner said that they would bundle cable for $10 a month more. But then there was the charge for the HD reciever. Then the HD tier. Then they didn't carry all the channels I wanted in HD.
Then I tried to get a DVR. There was one option, with a tiny harddrive that held about 10 hours of HD recording. And there was a DVR fee (on top of the HD box fee) and a DVR service fee.
The choice to get out of the fees was to get either a TiVO (wait, there are fees there) or a cable card for the PC. I elected the latter - I got terrabytes of storage space, and I could archive stuff to disc..... EXCEPT....
Time Warner puts broadcast flags on EVERYTHING. Would not work in Linux or a half dozen programs I tried in Windows - it ONLY worked with Windows Media Center. The recordings were then wrapped in DRMed crap, meaning it would not play in anything other than Windows Media Center. Which would still be an option, except that if you moved the recordings to another location or device, the recordings became unwatchable.
So, the $10 extra a month became $80 extra a month to get HD channels and a DVR that held almost no data, third party solutions did not work, and the MAJORITY of the shows I watch are available on Netflix or Hulu? That was an easy choice for me. I cut the cable, Netflix, Hulu or Amazon what I can, Vudu the couple of shows I can't, (which averages the same cost as a little over a month of cable for a year's worth of shows - I guess about 2-3 months if you add in subscrition costs to the other services) and torrent the stuff that is not available on any of those services.
I did look at going back and getting cable and DVRs through one of the other three companies and keeping internet through Time Warner (I loved Dish's DVR when I had them), but when the quality of streaming media off of Hulu looks better than Dish's or UVerse's HD channels, and DirectTV's pricing system and contracts make me cringe, the solution was simple - fast internet pipe and streaming services.
Yeah, I am wondering how well this will sell. I was all excited about this phone and was debating on getting one. However, it was just today that I learned that it was a Windows phone, not an Android, so its a no sell for me. Looking at the Galaxy Zoom now.
Now, if you want to give me this camera tech and put it in a stand-alone camera, without the Windows OS, and sell it for like $150 at Walmart, we will talk.
Oh cool, thanks, someone mod that up! I may play with this some when I get home. Now this leads to an additional quesion - both this, and the software from Disney, seems to focus mainly on buildings. I guess I can try myself, but I wonder how well this works with people? It would also be nice if I can feed in a video, but I guess I can always take my video, feed it into some video editing software and export as a jpeg or bmp securence or something.
My question is, where is the software? All I saw on the Disney Research page was a Youtube video, and a link to white papers and links to download the original images. Just thinking how much I would love to take some old home movies and generate some semi-3D scenes from them. Could also be useful in 3D film conversions (although I thought that this was a similar approach to what they were already doing).