What he's probably looking for is something like PDF. You can leave the image on the front (i.e., it's what shows up in acrobat reader), and adobe's ocr ocr's the document and and indexes it for searches. The problem with this is, you wind up with big pdf's with poor quality.
Where I work we tried to turn a book into PDF that we no longer had an electronic copy of. Keeping the images up front with ocr text behind, about 300 pages alltogether. Even with max compression, and the lowest acceptable DPI (300 I think), the PDF came out to 95MB. It didn't help that we scanned the book page by page and generated the PDF by hand, on a slow hp general consumer model scanner, either. (the initial pdf took over 120hrs to produce, with rescans and ocr'ing and everything).
We wound up taking the acrobat ocr'd text (it was better than the off the shelf ocr package we had at the time) via the adobe accessibility website, and fixing it up. It was a pretty big project.
We recently hired a document imaging company to PDF a lot of smaller historical documents for us, and that has worked out well. It's kind of pricey, but we also paid them to proof the ocr behind the images, and to hand adjust the images for appearance. It's worked out rather well.
Ah, but that leads to another problem in typical Judeo-Christian theology/philosophy. If G. existed before the universe, the G. exists outside the universe. If G. exists outside the universe, then the universe could act on G., making G. not perfect.
I'm much more inclined to agree with Spinoza -- basically that the universe is G., that G. is infinite in space as well as time (forward and backword), and G. doesn't decide anything, G. simply "is". Most Judeo-Christians really don't like this because it means that man is actually *part* of G., and that all the "evil" in the world is part of G. too, and that all the "mythological" type stuff (such as creation) in the Judeo-Christian world wouldn't work (especially if G. aka the universe has always existed).
When Einstein was asked by a reporter if he believed in G., he said he believed in Spinoza's G.
I'd highly recommend Spinoza's Ethics to anyone who wants to know more.
The main SCSI advantage is not that it's faster in I/O than IDE (although it used to be). The really big advantage was that (and I think still is), that on a server under heavy memory and processor load, SCSI will outperform IDE because most of the logic is moved off the CPU and onto the SCSI card. So when the CPU is pegged, IDE crawls, but SCSI keeps on chugging.
I think one of the big things is that processor speeds have kept on shooting up, meaning that while IDE has been considered a serious contender for small to mid- sized servers increasingly over the past few years, it's now becoming much more plausible to use it on higher scale systems.
Actually, it is meant to support the hacker community. Tivo/TurboNet cards will work without additional software installations, no pulling out your hdd. See this post by a TiVo employee.
What I like about this sort of thing is the idea that you could work 40hrs straight (with a few breaks), sleep for 8-12hrs, and then you'd have Wed-Sun (or some other 5 day period) off every week. That would just kick arse. Super "alternative work week".
It would not be reasonable for the vendor to resell that can. They would have no assurance that it had not been tampered with. The can would have been tossed in the trash and wasted.
The best thing to do in the situation described would be to take the soda (waste not, want not), and leave a note or call the 800# on the machine and let them know it is having problems.
I'm not hacking my Tivo anytime soon, since it would require flashing a rom.
Also, DirecTV requires a line for PPV.
I have had nothing but hassles and run arounds from AT&T. I'm moving, and hopefully in about a week I can get DSL, get rid of my cable modem, and say bye-bye to AT&T forever. They've treated me like crap, and their service has been abysmal. I will never knowingly purchase another product or service from AT&T in my lifetime, given that I have a reasonable alternative.
I have a DirecTV + Tivo reciever. The DirecTV part needs to call in to DirecTV for PPV. Tivo needs to get program data.
I don't know of any way to allow either to use a cell phone (which wouldn't be that great because my Tivo probably spends about 70 minutes a week getting data, and software updates can take hours, over 28.8).
And it appears from other posts that VoIP introduces too much lag for PPP over VoIP (at least with the protocol this service uses) to be worthwile.
My AT&T broadband cable modem connection is spotty at best. I've had weeks of downtime, their level of customer service is horrible. They call me every now and again and try and sell me their voice over cable service. I wouldn't use it if they paid me. There's no way I'd use this. After all the problems I've had between the cable modem and the digital cable, I went with DirecTV, and even switched my long distance carrier. I just wish I had an affordable broadband alternative (too far down the loop for dsl). Like hell I would ever trust my phone service to AT&T broadband.
That issue aside, has anyone checked out how this works for data connections? Even if you have high speed net, DirecTV + Tivo still needs pots.
The problem is codifying this sentiment into a law that applies universally.... I'm sure you didn't mean that an anti-spam law should encode what Hallow thinks is appropriate, and apply that to everyone.
I would agree that is indeed a problem. Actually I wouldn't go so far as to ban FIN's or ACK's even. What I should have made clearer that what I was talking about was SPAM email, and it's use of my bandwidth, and SPAM email alone.
The complexity of the legal system is an issue, however I think this would get the "honest" direct marketers out of the game, and the really bad offenders would be easier to weed out.
I ask you, was all that effort really worth it to avoid having to hit delete?
Yeah, when it saves me hitting delete 40-50x/day. Plus it's the extra $50/year or so I have to pay for bandwidth as a direct result of SPAM. It doesn't sound like a lot of money I know, but every little bit counts. That $50 is 2 nights out with good beer for me, and losing even one of those a year pisses me off. It's bigger companies such as AOL, Earthlink, etc., that have the real problem, where the annual amount they have to spend to deal with the SPAM probably runs bigger than the Everquest economy.;)
Or would you prefer to do away with due process in order to avoid those extra mouse clicks? Sometimes I wonder...
I know that's where their money comes from. The user is also paying for the telephone equipment, technical support, server services (web hosting, email, etc.), admin's, hr people, advertising, etc. What I was trying to get at is that most ISP's charge a flat rate for dialup, or they charge by the hour, not by the gig or kb, as such it's exponentially more difficult to assess the cost to the end user. The end user also has no "ownership" of the resource, it's the ISP that "owns" the bandwidth, if you will.
All the SPAM'ers cite freedom of speech. Well, I wanna know what the hell happened to your rights ending where mine begin?
The problem of SPAM on fax machines back in the 80's, due to the fact that paper/toner/etc. cost $$ as well as tying up a business' fax line prompted a law that bans SPAMing fax machines. It was the use of resources and stopping of business that got this law passed.
Well, bandwidth is a resource, and if a major ISP's mail service is unusable for a good chunk of time, that's a stopping of business.
I pay for my bandwidth to run my own server. Using my resources (bandwidth), for a purpose I don't approve of, should be considered theft. It might be different for a dialup user (the end user doesn't pay for bandwidth, they pay a monthly fee for access, the ISP pays for the bandwidth, usually).
I'm so incredibly sick of SPAM! Oh, and by all means, I don't want to limit SPAM to commercial mail. I think any email that is soliciting, be it a campaign contribution, a donation to the kidney fund, or religion oriented ("come join us in fellowship", blah) should be considered SPAM as well.
Although, having said all that, I think that legislation is only part of the problem. I think what we need is a modification to the SMTP protocol itself that makes it easy and lightweight to identify and handle these types of email, and legislation enforcing this.
Something like identifying the message as spam immediately after the HELO or RCPT TO, or perhaps even requiring spam to use another port!
But even that's not enough because you know those direct marketing jackasses will still send it without the proper identifiers.
I'm real close to setting up a system where you have to give me your email address and I have to approve you to send me email or I'll never see it. (with a seperate dump account for registrations for web boards, etc.)
Well, I stand corrected. I looked at the website and this place has new movies, dolby digital, dts.. And they even have decent beer and decent food. Crap. I wish we had a place like that here, that would've kicked butt.
We had a place like that here in Richmond called Cinema and Draft House, where you could only get crappy beer and really bad food (most of it deep fried). The screens were tiny. They went out of business awhile ago though.
Places like this only show old movies. It's not a place you go to be seriously entertained or engrossed in the film (heck, even vhs at home would probably be better quality), it's a place you go with friends who are too poor to afford good beer and current movies;)
All this talk about solar and wind power reminded me of something I'd seen just recently that combines the two, and I found the article here.
Basically the idea is to build a very tall tower (1km high) with a big greenhouse (20sq km or more) at the bottom. As the sun heats the air in the bottom of the tower, it rises, and gets pushed out the top, spinning 32 turbines for a peak output of 200MW as it goes. Each of these towers would clean about 920,000 tonnes of co2 emissions from burning fossil fuels from the air every year.
I think it's a great idea, if the Australian government buys in and it ever happens. Growing plants to produce clean energy that even improves the environment in the long run? Could it sound any more too good to be true?
Titanium, plastic, obsidian, flint, bone, antler or any number of other materials that could be used as a weapon and strapped onto someone's body. Security is just great, ain't it? Doesn't it just make you feel so much safer? You'd literally have to strip-search everybody.
I am almost constantly reminded these days of one of my favorite quotes:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franking, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Ben Franklin knew and understood back then that trading freedom for a feeling of safety was no trade at all. I wish all the sheeple would start to realize it.
Ok. Let's tax blank cd's,dvd's, portable mp3 players, and vhs tapes and give the money to the RIAA and MPAA to compensate them for "possible" theft. That makes so much sense!
I can see book publishers getting in on this too! "Oh, those scanners and digital cameras, along with copiers, could be used to copy our books! We need compensation for our potential losses. Oh yeah, don't forget to tax pens, pencils, paper, as well!"
The people that commit the crimes should have to pay. This is like the entire population being punished for the crimes of a few. So why is it that the U.S. and Candian citizenry have to subsidize the RIAA and MPAA? They've got such a good scam going...
If you want to distribute a product based on GPLed code, then you have to share the code of your derivative work.
You are allowed under the GPL to create a derivative work, say a modification particular to your business, and as long as you don't distribute the application outside of your business, then you are not obligated to share the code of the derivitve work (although you're encouraged to if the code might be useful to others).
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You probably haven't used Acrobat or Word for awhile. They both can contain links.
You will not get a BSOD with this problem. The machine will just hang (be it win2k or linux). I've been having this problem for quite awhile. I thought it was the video card over heating.
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What he's probably looking for is something like PDF. You can leave the image on the front (i.e., it's what shows up in acrobat reader), and adobe's ocr ocr's the document and and indexes it for searches. The problem with this is, you wind up with big pdf's with poor quality.
Where I work we tried to turn a book into PDF that we no longer had an electronic copy of. Keeping the images up front with ocr text behind, about 300 pages alltogether. Even with max compression, and the lowest acceptable DPI (300 I think), the PDF came out to 95MB. It didn't help that we scanned the book page by page and generated the PDF by hand, on a slow hp general consumer model scanner, either. (the initial pdf took over 120hrs to produce, with rescans and ocr'ing and everything).
We wound up taking the acrobat ocr'd text (it was better than the off the shelf ocr package we had at the time) via the adobe accessibility website, and fixing it up. It was a pretty big project.
We recently hired a document imaging company to PDF a lot of smaller historical documents for us, and that has worked out well. It's kind of pricey, but we also paid them to proof the ocr behind the images, and to hand adjust the images for appearance. It's worked out rather well.
Ah, but that leads to another problem in typical Judeo-Christian theology/philosophy. If G. existed before the universe, the G. exists outside the universe. If G. exists outside the universe, then the universe could act on G., making G. not perfect.
I'm much more inclined to agree with Spinoza -- basically that the universe is G., that G. is infinite in space as well as time (forward and backword), and G. doesn't decide anything, G. simply "is". Most Judeo-Christians really don't like this because it means that man is actually *part* of G., and that all the "evil" in the world is part of G. too, and that all the "mythological" type stuff (such as creation) in the Judeo-Christian world wouldn't work (especially if G. aka the universe has always existed).
When Einstein was asked by a reporter if he believed in G., he said he believed in Spinoza's G.
I'd highly recommend Spinoza's Ethics to anyone who wants to know more.
The main SCSI advantage is not that it's faster in I/O than IDE (although it used to be). The really big advantage was that (and I think still is), that on a server under heavy memory and processor load, SCSI will outperform IDE because most of the logic is moved off the CPU and onto the SCSI card. So when the CPU is pegged, IDE crawls, but SCSI keeps on chugging.
I think one of the big things is that processor speeds have kept on shooting up, meaning that while IDE has been considered a serious contender for small to mid- sized servers increasingly over the past few years, it's now becoming much more plausible to use it on higher scale systems.
Actually, it is meant to support the hacker community. Tivo/TurboNet cards will work without additional software installations, no pulling out your hdd. See this post by a TiVo employee.
They won't support it if you call them, but that's why there's http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/
No, most likely the update will take quite awhile to download. It's probably so they don't exceed their capacity and tie up phone lines forever.
What I like about this sort of thing is the idea that you could work 40hrs straight (with a few breaks), sleep for 8-12hrs, and then you'd have Wed-Sun (or some other 5 day period) off every week. That would just kick arse. Super "alternative work week".
It would not be reasonable for the vendor to resell that can. They would have no assurance that it had not been tampered with. The can would have been tossed in the trash and wasted.
The best thing to do in the situation described would be to take the soda (waste not, want not), and leave a note or call the 800# on the machine and let them know it is having problems.
I'm not hacking my Tivo anytime soon, since it would require flashing a rom.
Also, DirecTV requires a line for PPV.
I have had nothing but hassles and run arounds from AT&T. I'm moving, and hopefully in about a week I can get DSL, get rid of my cable modem, and say bye-bye to AT&T forever. They've treated me like crap, and their service has been abysmal. I will never knowingly purchase another product or service from AT&T in my lifetime, given that I have a reasonable alternative.
I have a DirecTV + Tivo reciever. The DirecTV part needs to call in to DirecTV for PPV. Tivo needs to get program data.
I don't know of any way to allow either to use a cell phone (which wouldn't be that great because my Tivo probably spends about 70 minutes a week getting data, and software updates can take hours, over 28.8).
And it appears from other posts that VoIP introduces too much lag for PPP over VoIP (at least with the protocol this service uses) to be worthwile.
My AT&T broadband cable modem connection is spotty at best. I've had weeks of downtime, their level of customer service is horrible. They call me every now and again and try and sell me their voice over cable service. I wouldn't use it if they paid me. There's no way I'd use this. After all the problems I've had between the cable modem and the digital cable, I went with DirecTV, and even switched my long distance carrier. I just wish I had an affordable broadband alternative (too far down the loop for dsl). Like hell I would ever trust my phone service to AT&T broadband.
That issue aside, has anyone checked out how this works for data connections? Even if you have high speed net, DirecTV + Tivo still needs pots.
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The problem is codifying this sentiment into a law that applies universally. ... I'm sure you didn't mean that an anti-spam law should encode what Hallow thinks is appropriate, and apply that to everyone.
;)
I would agree that is indeed a problem. Actually I wouldn't go so far as to ban FIN's or ACK's even. What I should have made clearer that what I was talking about was SPAM email, and it's use of my bandwidth, and SPAM email alone.
The complexity of the legal system is an issue, however I think this would get the "honest" direct marketers out of the game, and the really bad offenders would be easier to weed out.
I ask you, was all that effort really worth it to avoid having to hit delete?
Yeah, when it saves me hitting delete 40-50x/day.
Plus it's the extra $50/year or so I have to pay for bandwidth as a direct result of SPAM. It doesn't sound like a lot of money I know, but every little bit counts. That $50 is 2 nights out with good beer for me, and losing even one of those a year pisses me off. It's bigger companies such as AOL, Earthlink, etc., that have the real problem, where the annual amount they have to spend to deal with the SPAM probably runs bigger than the Everquest economy.
Or would you prefer to do away with due process in order to avoid those extra mouse clicks? Sometimes I wonder...
Oh I wonder too, but no, I wouldn't.
I know that's where their money comes from. The user is also paying for the telephone equipment, technical support, server services (web hosting, email, etc.), admin's, hr people, advertising, etc. What I was trying to get at is that most ISP's charge a flat rate for dialup, or they charge by the hour, not by the gig or kb, as such it's exponentially more difficult to assess the cost to the end user. The end user also has no "ownership" of the resource, it's the ISP that "owns" the bandwidth, if you will.
All the SPAM'ers cite freedom of speech. Well, I wanna know what the hell happened to your rights ending where mine begin?
The problem of SPAM on fax machines back in the 80's, due to the fact that paper/toner/etc. cost $$ as well as tying up a business' fax line prompted a law that bans SPAMing fax machines. It was the use of resources and stopping of business that got this law passed.
Well, bandwidth is a resource, and if a major ISP's mail service is unusable for a good chunk of time, that's a stopping of business.
I pay for my bandwidth to run my own server. Using my resources (bandwidth), for a purpose I don't approve of, should be considered theft. It might be different for a dialup user (the end user doesn't pay for bandwidth, they pay a monthly fee for access, the ISP pays for the bandwidth, usually).
I'm so incredibly sick of SPAM! Oh, and by all means, I don't want to limit SPAM to commercial mail. I think any email that is soliciting, be it a campaign contribution, a donation to the kidney fund, or religion oriented ("come join us in fellowship", blah) should be considered SPAM as well.
Although, having said all that, I think that legislation is only part of the problem. I think what we need is a modification to the SMTP protocol itself that makes it easy and lightweight to identify and handle these types of email, and legislation enforcing this.
Something like identifying the message as spam immediately after the HELO or RCPT TO, or perhaps even requiring spam to use another port!
But even that's not enough because you know those direct marketing jackasses will still send it without the proper identifiers.
I'm real close to setting up a system where you have to give me your email address and I have to approve you to send me email or I'll never see it. (with a seperate dump account for registrations for web boards, etc.)
if they setup the network because they're going to be showing Revolution OS. ;)
Well, I stand corrected. I looked at the website and this place has new movies, dolby digital, dts.. And they even have decent beer and decent food. Crap. I wish we had a place like that here, that would've kicked butt.
We had a place like that here in Richmond called Cinema and Draft House, where you could only get crappy beer and really bad food (most of it deep fried). The screens were tiny. They went out of business awhile ago though.
;)
Places like this only show old movies. It's not a place you go to be seriously entertained or engrossed in the film (heck, even vhs at home would probably be better quality), it's a place you go with friends who are too poor to afford good beer and current movies
All this talk about solar and wind power reminded me of something I'd seen just recently that combines the two, and I found the article here.
Basically the idea is to build a very tall tower (1km high) with a big greenhouse (20sq km or more) at the bottom. As the sun heats the air in the bottom of the tower, it rises, and gets pushed out the top, spinning 32 turbines for a peak output of 200MW as it goes. Each of these towers would clean about 920,000 tonnes of co2 emissions from burning fossil fuels from the air every year.
I think it's a great idea, if the Australian government buys in and it ever happens. Growing plants to produce clean energy that even improves the environment in the long run? Could it sound any more too good to be true?
Hrm. So there's no way to check for:
Titanium, plastic, obsidian, flint, bone, antler or any number of other materials that could be used as a weapon and strapped onto someone's body. Security is just great, ain't it? Doesn't it just make you feel so much safer? You'd literally have to strip-search everybody.
I am almost constantly reminded these days of one of my favorite quotes:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franking, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Ben Franklin knew and understood back then that trading freedom for a feeling of safety was no trade at all. I wish all the sheeple would start to realize it.
Ok. Let's tax blank cd's,dvd's, portable mp3 players, and vhs tapes and give the money to the RIAA and MPAA to compensate them for "possible" theft. That makes so much sense!
I can see book publishers getting in on this too! "Oh, those scanners and digital cameras, along with copiers, could be used to copy our books! We need compensation for our potential losses. Oh yeah, don't forget to tax pens, pencils, paper, as well!"
The people that commit the crimes should have to pay. This is like the entire population being punished for the crimes of a few. So why is it that the U.S. and Candian citizenry have to subsidize the RIAA and MPAA? They've got such a good scam going...
If you want to distribute a product based on GPLed code, then you have to share the code of your derivative work.
You are allowed under the GPL to create a derivative work, say a modification particular to your business, and as long as you don't distribute the application outside of your business, then you are not obligated to share the code of the derivitve work (although you're encouraged to if the code might be useful to others).
You probably haven't used Acrobat or Word for awhile. They both can contain links.
Actually there was an ext2 fs plugin for 95 that I used once or twice. Pretty handy in a dual boot conflaguration. ;)
You will not get a BSOD with this problem. The machine will just hang (be it win2k or linux). I've been having this problem for quite awhile. I thought it was the video card over heating.