makes a guy ill... we're so bloody casual about tossing out billions to build it, gazillions to keep it running and then to trash it... when, please, are we going to float something up there that'll do something practical, such as generate a few terawatts and ship same back here to bring the day closer oil is obsolete.
they might just have figured out capturing solar energy and beaming it to earth, for themselves and perhaps to sell in the world market, is what's needed.
both Fuji and Bell & Howell make some tremendous scanners - even on eBay the good ones go for a chunk -look for a Fujitsu 3096E 11x17 high Speed Scanner Item # 2022530016. You don't need to OCR everything if you're gonna take in the whole book(s) intact, just readable images, you'll have page numbers that accurately relate to the TOC and index... and if you absolutely must have the stuff OCR'd this equip can do that too, just takes longer...
A lot of oral history and non-pro shot video has lots of echoing... much of this stuff is valuable, even irreplaceable, but the audio is so godawful it's damned hard to use. Whoever gets a sw, or even a hardware fix, for this problem and can get it to market at a non-prohibitive price (likely under $500) ought to find a good niche market.
you started to take credit cards so I could help/. out a little bit - it's a resource I use every day... too bad paypal is having such a tussle or I would've used 'em....
why else would anyone review? bookers get pretty well entertained, the publisher has lunch w GW... they ought to not be jealous of underlings lest they give to whole damn game away...
Isn't it about time we started treating these budding monopolies for what they are -public utilities- and insist that their books be open and their networks too to all comers hauling whatever they want to haul?
When/if an easy way is found to pay small change for ebooks there's no surety that a given work won't be duplicated a zillion times and then in effect become free to all with nothing going back to the author/publisher/editor... and it's important that thought be given to editors and publishers... especially since I'm both... I get manuscripts in that need months of editing, fact-checking, footnoting,indexing, layout, graphics bought for and all the rest that goes into making a readable book. Mr. Stallman's article in http://www.techreview.com/articles/may00/stallman. htm seems like mostly wishful thinking in regard to any compensation ever getting back to those who produce. I'd like to see some serious thought on compenstating producers not the pie-in-the-sky-maybe-you'll-get-paid-someday-someh ow blather RMS put out in the above cited "thought-provoker"...
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makes a guy ill... we're so bloody casual about tossing out billions to build it, gazillions to keep it running and then to trash it... when, please, are we going to float something up there that'll do something practical, such as generate a few terawatts and ship same back here to bring the day closer oil is obsolete.
because in climates not arid desert lichens start eating the stone - go look at tombstones of 100 or 150 years... many are unreadable.
they're too dumb to investe time or money on.
they might just have figured out capturing solar energy and beaming it to earth, for themselves and perhaps to sell in the world market, is what's needed.
both Fuji and Bell & Howell make some tremendous scanners - even on eBay the good ones go for a chunk -look for a Fujitsu 3096E 11x17 high Speed Scanner Item # 2022530016. You don't need to OCR everything if you're gonna take in the whole book(s) intact, just readable images, you'll have page numbers that accurately relate to the TOC and index... and if you absolutely must have the stuff OCR'd this equip can do that too, just takes longer...
A lot of oral history and non-pro shot video has lots of echoing... much of this stuff is valuable, even irreplaceable, but the audio is so godawful it's damned hard to use. Whoever gets a sw, or even a hardware fix, for this problem and can get it to market at a non-prohibitive price (likely under $500) ought to find a good niche market.
it seems the newest lexmark inkjets will call home about their status - anyone have details on this?
you started to take credit cards so I could help /. out a little bit - it's a resource I use every day... too bad paypal is having such a tussle or I would've used 'em....
why else would anyone review? bookers get pretty well entertained, the publisher has lunch w GW... they ought to not be jealous of underlings lest they give to whole damn game away...
Isn't it about time we started treating these budding monopolies for what they are -public utilities- and insist that their books be open and their networks too to all comers hauling whatever they want to haul?
When/if an easy way is found to pay small change for ebooks there's no surety that a given work won't be duplicated a zillion times and then in effect become free to all with nothing going back to the author/publisher/editor ... and it's important that thought be given to editors and publishers... especially since I'm both... I get manuscripts in that need months of editing, fact-checking, footnoting,indexing, layout, graphics bought for and all the rest that goes into making a readable book. Mr. Stallman's article in http://www.techreview.com/articles/may00/stallman. htm seems like mostly wishful thinking in regard to any compensation ever getting back to those who produce. I'd like to see some serious thought on compenstating producers not the pie-in-the-sky-maybe-you'll-get-paid-someday-someh ow blather RMS put out in the above cited "thought-provoker" ...