I agree - using the in built camera to capture text for OCR sounds like a really neat idea for a 3rd party application.
I do something similar with my digital camera - taking photos of posters or adverts to get the important details to follow up later (e.g. website or phone number).
Depending on the horsepower of the iPhone, the OCR might have to be done on a/your "real" computer after syncing (or even online via the net and some grid computing service), but it sounds very possible.
"Google is rolling out a technology designed to overcome the major drawback faced by all web-based applications: the fact that they don't work without an internet connection. Google Gears is an open source technology for creating offline web applications that is being launched today at Google's annual Developer Day gatherings around the world."
Does anyone else think it would be rather cool if Apple was shipping this on the iPhone? This would allow offline use of Safari based applets:)
A few seconds? Surely all that can be doing is setting up an empty ZFS file system on a new drive (overwritting any existing partition). I guess that's still much faster than other file systems.
However, wasn't the OP asking about converting an existing HFS+ partition into a ZFS partition while preserving the data - that would surely take a significant amount of time.
I expect it would be optional for upgraders, who might just stay on HFS+
I was expecting a different sad ending to the tale:
Peter was a very poor villager. He was saving some money to buy eggs and grow chickens with which to feed his family. One day he took the money, went to the market and bought the eggs, then headed to home.
...
But the eggs never hatched as most eggs in the shops are unfertilised.
Then a comparison to Windows versus Open Source, to tie it nicely to the topic of the article.
"Nowhere is there a legitimate reason to copy from an iPod _to_ your computer (except for a computer crashing and the only "backup" on the iPod)."
Rubbish! How about using the iPod to transfer music between my own computers? Sounds like perfectly common reason - without even stretching things like from my computer to "my" computer at work, where the legalities get a bit murky.
According to market analysist Nicholas Donatiello Jr quoted in the article, the ball park could be $300 for the box and between $6 adn $10 per movie. But they didn't touch on the bandwidth/data costs to the user - and as they are going with a peer-to-peer system, each customer will be donating some of their upload bandwidth too (possibly even when not watching a movie).
I would think it would be much better to do this with codons than with base pairs. Since it is codons that code for amino acids, we might actually see some really cool patterns that way. Some of the codons are polymorphic and that can be taken into account with the color assignments.
Sure you could color using the 64 possible codons, or 21 colours for the amino acids and stop codon.
BUT any given nucelotide seqence can be broken into codons in three phases, and if you consider the reverse complement sequence, that makes six phases.
This actually ends up much more complicated than a simple 5 color maping using the four nucleotides plus unknowns.
wouldn't it be possible to use it with an online retailer somehow though?
There is no PIN check with an online payment - you wouldn't need the man in the middle. All you need for the fraudulent online payment is to steal the card details (ideally including the CV2 number printed on the signature strip). Plain old fashioned photography would be enough (both sides of the card).
It was not the real hardware hacked to play tetris. It was different hardware in the same box.
Sure, this shows that you can fool a user to think they're using a valid machine, but it does not get at the transaction.
Have you read the article? There is a fake transaction at the victim's location which appears to be paying £20 for dinner. There is a real (but fraudulent) transaction at the jewelers at the same time for $2000 of diamonds.
The victim's card goes in the "fake pin machine" which is linked via laptops to a "fake card" in a "real pin machine" at another shop (in this case, a jewelers).
The laptop link makes it look like the victim's card is physically at the jewelers store, and takes care of all the validation. The victim is told the dinner price, and enters their PIN into the "fake PIN machine", which says "thank you" and prints a fake receipt. Meanwhile, the PIN number is then passed to the criminal at the jeweler to key into the real PIN machine and buy the diamonds.
Tricky to pull off due to the timing - but a real treat all the same.
kilodelta wrote:If we're only 3% different from chimpanzees, then 10% between humans is significant. It would tend to indicate that evolution is at play, which is something I've long suspected. Evolution doesn't happen all at once, it starts with a positive trait and then over time spreads out among descendants.Nope, your mixing your measurement methods: See for example this article:
Another implication of the finding is that we are more different to our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, than previously assumed from earlier studies. Instead of being 99 per cent similar, we are more likely to be about 96 per cent similar.
It sounds like it would be very easy for the networks to degrade the accuracy of the filter by introducing commercial-break-like elements into the regular programming.
Reading about how it looks for clumps of scene jumps method as one indicator of a commerical break immediately made me think of the stylish scene jumps used in TV series NYPD Blue as a possible false positive.
Currently at least, the BBC is funded by a "TV Tax" called the license fee, about £120 per year per household with a colour TV or computer capable or receiving broadcast TV. There are discounts for old black and white televisions, partially sighted people. The issue of how to deal with on demand TV over the net is still not settled.
The BBC is fairly independant of the UK Government, and frequently annoys ministers with its news reporting.
However, every few year's the BBC has to have its Charter renewed, and at that point the government can make significant changes...
Quoting, Wibree sensors could also be placed in a gold club and used to upload data to the Internet about a player's swing, again via a mobile phone, where a golf instructor could offer advice about improving his or her game.
Would that gold club be an iron or a wood? Maybe its a putting club?
Anyway, I guess any rich golfers that have a gold golf club won't mind the extra expense of a radio linked computer sensor... but it would spoil their boast of "My club is solid gold!".
I'm running a dual core 4600+ in an socket 939, and you could also buy the 4800+ today as well. So no, you wouldn't be stuck with a 3800+ processor if you had stayed with your 939 mobo.
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No, Kenya is NOT in the middle of the continent. Its on the east coast straddling the equator.
I agree - using the in built camera to capture text for OCR sounds like a really neat idea for a 3rd party application.
I do something similar with my digital camera - taking photos of posters or adverts to get the important details to follow up later (e.g. website or phone number).
Depending on the horsepower of the iPhone, the OCR might have to be done on a/your "real" computer after syncing (or even online via the net and some grid computing service), but it sounds very possible.
Anyone remember this recent story, Google Gears:
"Google is rolling out a technology designed to overcome the major drawback faced by all web-based applications: the fact that they don't work without an internet connection. Google Gears is an open source technology for creating offline web applications that is being launched today at Google's annual Developer Day gatherings around the world."
Does anyone else think it would be rather cool if Apple was shipping this on the iPhone? This would allow offline use of Safari based applets :)
Does Via's nanobook use this tiny motherboard?
A few seconds? Surely all that can be doing is setting up an empty ZFS file system on a new drive (overwritting any existing partition). I guess that's still much faster than other file systems.
However, wasn't the OP asking about converting an existing HFS+ partition into a ZFS partition while preserving the data - that would surely take a significant amount of time.
I expect it would be optional for upgraders, who might just stay on HFS+
Some have speculated that this is in fact a widescreen iPod, rather than a second revision of the iPhone (for a non-USA market?)
I was expecting a different sad ending to the tale:
...
Peter was a very poor villager. He was saving some money to buy eggs and grow chickens with which to feed his family. One day he took the money, went to the market and bought the eggs, then headed to home.
But the eggs never hatched as most eggs in the shops are unfertilised.
Then a comparison to Windows versus Open Source, to tie it nicely to the topic of the article.
In the UK we still need a landline from BT for ADSL, which is the only reason I have one (no cable where I live).
However, from reading other posts you can have ADSL without the land line in Finland and other countries...
"Nowhere is there a legitimate reason to copy from an iPod _to_ your computer (except for a computer crashing and the only "backup" on the iPod)."
Rubbish! How about using the iPod to transfer music between my own computers? Sounds like perfectly common reason - without even stretching things like from my computer to "my" computer at work, where the legalities get a bit murky.
According to market analysist Nicholas Donatiello Jr quoted in the article, the ball park could be $300 for the box and between $6 adn $10 per movie. But they didn't touch on the bandwidth/data costs to the user - and as they are going with a peer-to-peer system, each customer will be donating some of their upload bandwidth too (possibly even when not watching a movie).
You seem to be aware of Knuth as a Computer Science God, but I guess you didn't get the "Baby Jesus" analogy?
BUT any given nucelotide seqence can be broken into codons in three phases, and if you consider the reverse complement sequence, that makes six phases.
This actually ends up much more complicated than a simple 5 color maping using the four nucleotides plus unknowns.
The Register's got this now:r ity_attack/
p -pin-relay-attacks/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/06/card_secu
Original blog:
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2007/02/06/chi
The victim's card goes in the "fake pin machine" which is linked via laptops to a "fake card" in a "real pin machine" at another shop (in this case, a jewelers).
The laptop link makes it look like the victim's card is physically at the jewelers store, and takes care of all the validation. The victim is told the dinner price, and enters their PIN into the "fake PIN machine", which says "thank you" and prints a fake receipt. Meanwhile, the PIN number is then passed to the criminal at the jeweler to key into the real PIN machine and buy the diamonds.
Tricky to pull off due to the timing - but a real treat all the same.
Isn't the UK the 51st State, not Canada?
Did you read the article? The new X-ray based imaging revealed additional lettering which is believed to the instructions for using the device.
kilodelta wrote:If we're only 3% different from chimpanzees, then 10% between humans is significant. It would tend to indicate that evolution is at play, which is something I've long suspected. Evolution doesn't happen all at once, it starts with a positive trait and then over time spreads out among descendants.Nope, your mixing your measurement methods: See for example this article: Another implication of the finding is that we are more different to our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, than previously assumed from earlier studies. Instead of being 99 per cent similar, we are more likely to be about 96 per cent similar.
"... With the early success of Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, Shuttleworth and company may be onto something."
Maybe that could have been phrased better... Mark Shuttleworth only looks after Ubuntu for now. Not really the best snippet to use for Slashdot.
It sounds like it would be very easy for the networks to degrade the accuracy of the filter by introducing commercial-break-like elements into the regular programming.
Reading about how it looks for clumps of scene jumps method as one indicator of a commerical break immediately made me think of the stylish scene jumps used in TV series NYPD Blue as a possible false positive.
Currently at least, the BBC is funded by a "TV Tax" called the license fee, about £120 per year per household with a colour TV or computer capable or receiving broadcast TV. There are discounts for old black and white televisions, partially sighted people. The issue of how to deal with on demand TV over the net is still not settled.
The BBC is fairly independant of the UK Government, and frequently annoys ministers with its news reporting.
However, every few year's the BBC has to have its Charter renewed, and at that point the government can make significant changes...
Quoting, Wibree sensors could also be placed in a gold club and used to upload data to the Internet about a player's swing, again via a mobile phone, where a golf instructor could offer advice about improving his or her game.
Would that gold club be an iron or a wood? Maybe its a putting club?
Anyway, I guess any rich golfers that have a gold golf club won't mind the extra expense of a radio linked computer sensor... but it would spoil their boast of "My club is solid gold!".
I'm running a dual core 4600+ in an socket 939, and you could also buy the 4800+ today as well. So no, you wouldn't be stuck with a 3800+ processor if you had stayed with your 939 mobo.
Does anyone know any of the missing details from this story? Like what exactly did the browser leave behind? cookies? history files?