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Accurate OCR?
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Perfect or near-perfect OCR is one of the holy grails of information technology. Various companies are therefore constantly coming up with the "next big thing" and applying the latest buzzwords to the problem. I can remember when perfect OCR was just around the corner due to "fuzzy logic", then it was just around the corner due to "neural nets", then it was coming soon because of "heuristic analysis", then... ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
I don't think we'll ever have near-perfect OCR. 90% is as good as it gets.
So why, when I rent a tape or a DVD at the local major-national-chain video store, does it contain the standard warning that this tape or disc is licensed solely for private home viewing, and that rental is prohibited?
Maybe it's different in America, but in Canada, all the tapes seem to be this way.
Why is it that 90% of "Ask Slashdot" pieces seem to boil down to "I have no real world experience, and I'm just wondering how I can solve problem X for Y dollars when twenty different vendors all sell solutions for 100 * Y dollars?"?
Modern carpet has anti-static material already built in.
Conductive flooring isn't anti-static; it's a method of draining and neutralizing the charge you're already carrying.
I think it is possible to develop a useful feel for this kind of thing. The issue is this, I think. If you don't have any condition in which you can make sparks jump from your fingers after vigorously trying, you are (probably) okay.
You think wrong. A discharge of a few dozen volts is enough to damage a modern CPU or memory chip, and you'll never notice that type of discharge with your senses. If you can see or hear a spark when you touch something grounded, you were carrying a charge in the thousands of volts.
Are you serious? ESD is an extremely serious threat. You can't possibly think of setting up a commercial assembly line for electronics and not worry about things like anti-static wriststraps. Serious places install expensive conductive flooring just to mitigate the buildup from walking around.
Why are you asking Slashdot about this? Ask people who know about this.
The author must use his web browser to make frozen dacquiris or something:
The Internet Explorer 5 browser has become the benchmark against which I measure the standards compliance of other browsers. The Mac version is far superior to the Windows releases of Internet Explorer except in one area: rendering HTML pages.
How, exactly, can a browser be superior to its competition if the only thing it sucks at is -- rendering HTML?
This boils down to you're trying to protect people from themselves -- and it won't work, because it can't.
Why assume people are idiots? Why not assume they'll be able to tell the difference between upper and lower case letters? The only reason case equivalency is intuitive is because it's what the system they currently use does it that way.
A Commodore 64 isn't really a small system, and therefore isn't a great demo. Truly small embedded systems have on the order of a kilobyte of ROM and a hundred bytes of RAM available, not 64KB.
Examples you might be familiar with include things like the BASIC Stamp and other PICs. Your toaster's built-in logic is going to resemble these much more closely than in does a general-purpose 8-bit computer.
Atari would later fall to the wayside to be replaced by Nintendo, then Sega, and othes that followed.
Actually, the Atari VCS/2600 was replaced by the Intellivision console, which was displaced by the Colecovision console. Please get your history straight...
... automated backup of workstations can go a long way...
What are users doing saving files on their workstations in the first place? Make them save everything they do on the fileserver like they're supposed to.
That's why we should all be supporting Project UDI [project-udi.org] (Uniform Driver Interface). You write a hardware driver once and it works (unchanged) on all UDI-enabled operating systems.
At the price of absolutely terrible performance and scalability. UDI support has been soundly rejected by Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Peter Anvin, et al every time it's been brought up.
It's not just Linux developers who think the idea sucks, either -- that's why it's not supported by other OSes as well.
However, Lindows is under no obligation to release the source. They only have to do that if a) they are selling the binaries and b) someone requests it.
Sorry, you're incorrect. Read the GPL again. They have to provide source to anyone they've provided a binary to (whether money changed hands or not) who asks for it. They are not obligated to provide the source to people who obtained a binary from someone other than them.
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The result was that, for a period of about two and a half weeks in January, David was receiving over 1000 bounced emails a day, effectively mailbombing his account.
1000 a day? Uh, we got joe-jobbed twice, averaging 13 million bounces a day. I think your friend got off lucky.
Sure, build your own box for $2k instead of buying one for three times that much -- if you don't mind being fired.
You don't pay $6k or $8k for a server just because there's high markup on the parts. A lot of it is due to tighter tolerances required for high-availability or high-reliability equipment. There's greater consideration for issues of heat, RF, power consumption and stability -- and then there's the built-in redundancy for many components (power supplies, fans, etc).
This has far-reaching ramifications, as it opens up anyone publishing anything on a web-site (and also Usenet) in America to the more restrictive domestic laws of other countries...
More importantly, it opens up those of us publishing info on a website in a truly free country to the more restrictive domestic laws of the United States of America. See thefreeworld.net for an example of needing to avoid this.
OO design has nothing to do with C++ versus C. You can do OO design with any language you like; much of the Linux kernel has elements of OO design, but is implemented in C.
Language is an implementation detail. It does not dictate design.
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Perfect or near-perfect OCR is one of the holy grails of information technology. Various companies are therefore constantly coming up with the "next big thing" and applying the latest buzzwords to the problem. I can remember when perfect OCR was just around the corner due to "fuzzy logic", then it was just around the corner due to "neural nets", then it was coming soon because of "heuristic analysis", then ... ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
I don't think we'll ever have near-perfect OCR. 90% is as good as it gets.
So why, when I rent a tape or a DVD at the local major-national-chain video store, does it contain the standard warning that this tape or disc is licensed solely for private home viewing, and that rental is prohibited?
Maybe it's different in America, but in Canada, all the tapes seem to be this way.
Why is it that 90% of "Ask Slashdot" pieces seem to boil down to "I have no real world experience, and I'm just wondering how I can solve problem X for Y dollars when twenty different vendors all sell solutions for 100 * Y dollars?"?
Are you serious? ESD is an extremely serious threat. You can't possibly think of setting up a commercial assembly line for electronics and not worry about things like anti-static wriststraps. Serious places install expensive conductive flooring just to mitigate the buildup from walking around.
Why are you asking Slashdot about this? Ask people who know about this.
This boils down to you're trying to protect people from themselves -- and it won't work, because it can't.
Why assume people are idiots? Why not assume they'll be able to tell the difference between upper and lower case letters? The only reason case equivalency is intuitive is because it's what the system they currently use does it that way.
A Commodore 64 isn't really a small system, and therefore isn't a great demo. Truly small embedded systems have on the order of a kilobyte of ROM and a hundred bytes of RAM available, not 64KB.
Examples you might be familiar with include things like the BASIC Stamp and other PICs. Your toaster's built-in logic is going to resemble these much more closely than in does a general-purpose 8-bit computer.
"throw my props "?
I wish I knew what these people were talking about sometimes.
I have moderation points, but it won't let me moderate the story itself as "pointless" or "redundant"
It's really too bad when the people running the site know less than the people reading it.
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It's not just Linux developers who think the idea sucks, either -- that's why it's not supported by other OSes as well.
Twoflower
Is this Hemos' revenge on Taco?
Twoflower
Sure, build your own box for $2k instead of buying one for three times that much -- if you don't mind being fired.
You don't pay $6k or $8k for a server just because there's high markup on the parts. A lot of it is due to tighter tolerances required for high-availability or high-reliability equipment. There's greater consideration for issues of heat, RF, power consumption and stability -- and then there's the built-in redundancy for many components (power supplies, fans, etc).
It's not as simple as you think.
Twoflower
Go to the front page here, to see how many suckers each site has gotten:
http://www.wemarket4u.net/
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OO design has nothing to do with C++ versus C. You can do OO design with any language you like; much of the Linux kernel has elements of OO design, but is implemented in C.
Language is an implementation detail. It does not dictate design.
Twoflower
You stole that comment from a fairly famous rec.humor.funny posting... Software Requirements
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Eighty bucks a month doesn't buy you five nines. Try eight hundred a month, or maybe more.
It is if his testimony is "No, we never did that. Why do you ask?"