Still, regardless, they'd still have to manually scan those books all in (whether one page at a time or multiple pages via a multipage scanner), and do a spellcheck on everything to make sure whatever OCR technology they are using correctly identified all the characters.
And minimum wage laborers in 3rd world countries find themselves scanning books into computers and correcting the text using crappy OCR technology for 12 hours a day. This is one job I'd be happy to export to India.
Neither of which are provided by open source? You're kidding right. I've seen peoples mom's use Red Hat. How's that for ease of use and simplicity. Plus with the open source development community, just about anything you can imagine has been developed or is IN development... and free.
And unlike Windows, it's more secure and more stable. Didn't 30,000 Windows machines get taken out by SQL Slammer? Doesn't Microsoft have the worst record for security? Reboot isn't the answer for open source my friend. When we put a machine up, it stays up.
Exactly. Apache, MySQL, PHP, Java... they work on all platforms and I should know; as Microsoft is a big supporter of where I work, my company won't let me run on Linux so I just run cross platform compliant stuff on windows.
Never trust development languages that only work on one platform...
Oh crap... open mouth insert foot. Gotcha! Ok, I deserve a beating. Didn't realize I used the informal 'bist' over 'sind'. Still doesn't mean you, just means I'm good friends with the VCR... he's my buddy.
Still I deserve a big label of 'stupid' slapped square on my forehead before people start calling me Bush jr over in Deutschland.
As it has been stated before, this is nothing more than an arms race with each side escalating the threat and the defense with each move. The problem howver is that the RIAA is fighting against ALOT of techies and as such, not just in the US but worldwide. Even if they manage to pass laws against it in the US, people will still be developing tools to bypass in and will host them on international servers.
The sooner they discover they are fighting a losing battle and just accept it and look for a better marketing scheme, the better.
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Ok, I hate to nitpick but Javascript has NOTHING to do with Java. They just have a similar name is all.
Heh... totally. When I studied Deutsch at the Defense Language Institute, the course was so intense that people in their first week would be speaking German in their sleep. After a couple months, we would subconciously be slipping in and out of german and english when we spoke to others and not be aware of it. The term "germish" was what we called the mixxed gobbledy gook that we would come up with when we didn't know a word.
For instance:
"Wo bist die vcr-en?" == "Were are the VCRs?"
Oddly enough, this is a great way to practive the language until you know what the Deutsch word is for something.
It's kind of funny too as English has ALOT of German words and vice versa.
Companies are going to pay in the long run and many already are figuring out the folly in this. Though tech workers in foreign companies are cheaper, unless you are actualy willing to have a presence over there, this is not a viable solution. Communication barriers and cultural differences create too many miscommunications and problems and something that could have been done stateside takes twice as long.
My wife who is a QA tester, had to work for a company that moved all there QA to India and it became increasingly more and more difficult for the developers who were Indian to work with the developers who were American. Aside from that, they didn't understand goals and expectations for the product and ended up giving them something much different that what was asked for.
I think tech support, customer support and other low-tech things like that can be moved but in the long run, if you are willing to commit to a presence in a foreign country, you are better off sticking stateside... or trying Canada.:)
Yes recording audio is NOW legal. But it didn't used to be. Also the recording industry made a big hoo-ha about cassette tapes and being able to make copies then too. And we all know where that went... nowhere. Mainly because it couldn't be effectively traced. My point was they were all (or still are) considered forms of piracy.
Some questions have been raised about recording from TV due to TIVO. And some cable companies don't want you taping their shows when they are trying to sell them on DVD. Issues have been raised... I don't validate, merely repeat. Though the repetition could be considered a validation of some form *shrug*
Oooooh. Good one. In others words, why should we as tax payers support your prosecution of... well, US! As far as I'm concerned, you really can't put a lid on this... not technologically or legally. It's gonna happen. All information is free now. I can easily find out about other peoples credit rating, where they live and with a little leg work, their SSN. Nothing is protected anymore including content.
The only way I see to battle piracy is to provide MORE content. For example, an MP3 isn't an MPEG. An MPEG isn't a JPG. etc etc. You bundle your CD with an interview, a comic book, a special login and pass for special content on the website and maybe even with a special entry form to be registered in a contest to meet the artist in person. With all that content (at a reasonable price), it would be impossible to download all of it. You have to AGAIN make a product we WANT to buy.
I guess in could be considered one but the fact is that peoples MOM's now do this. People copy video tapes, record songs off the radio, create mixed tapes etc and no one pays a dime. This is a fact of life and these are ALL considered piracy.
How many people do you think honestly read that beginning to video tapes that says if you copy that video tape, the FBI could fine you and think to themselves 'Gee whiz, I'd better not copy this video tape then'? The number is dwindling.
And as such, this is becoming common place. How can you battle something that is within every houshold without battling the public at large? Technically, this could be considered a troll but at the same time, it is a serious question. I'd like to see if they DO think this is another war on drugs and whether they think it is unwinnable or not. I know their answer but I would like to see if they will give an honest response instead:)
Ok, I guess my question would be this: with the ability for everything to be digitized, we are experiencing a revolution or a renaissance of information in which all information can be shared. With this Pandora's Box opened, is it truly possible to keep information from being shared or do they believe that they are fighting a losing battle? In other words, Is this going to be another 'war on drugs' in which money is pumped into a battle that can never be won or do they honestly believe that legislation will be passed that can be easily enforced upon the masses at large?
LOL! Yeah brains... is that what you call it. I'd suggest wiping your ass cause you've got your brains sticking to your butt hair:)
And I mean no offense by that, I just mean that if you cannot figure the contradictory nature of an omnipotent, omnipresent being, you must not being using your brains properly. Hell, even the dead sea scrolls proved it was all metaphor; there were no miracles. Read up on the pesher method.
The sin is mightier than the lord. Grow or brain or climb back into the trees with the rest of the monkies.
Oh my god! I thought you were joking! Your serious about this god stuff? Wow. Don't meet too many people on Slashdot that promote not using your brain. But hey, whatever gets your rocks hard.
credit card fraud. Tons and tons of credit card fraud in smaller european countries. Companies have gotten tired of trying to combat it so in some cases, they just don't accept certain orders which may seem questionable.
Errors in coding mean next to nothing when it is a machine that is checking the syntax of your code. Variations in coding techniques that are perfectly acceptable often show up as errors merely because the program doing the code checking does not understand your syntax. I've seen it happen time and again with error checkers and one could even say that 2% of all errors found by error checkers are mere differences in syntax.
My wife who is a lead QA tester could vouch for that...
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Still, regardless, they'd still have to manually scan those books all in (whether one page at a time or multiple pages via a multipage scanner), and do a spellcheck on everything to make sure whatever OCR technology they are using correctly identified all the characters.
And minimum wage laborers in 3rd world countries find themselves scanning books into computers and correcting the text using crappy OCR technology for 12 hours a day. This is one job I'd be happy to export to India.
This is nothing short of blackmail over something that they haven't even proven yet. Pathetic.
And unlike Windows, it's more secure and more stable. Didn't 30,000 Windows machines get taken out by SQL Slammer? Doesn't Microsoft have the worst record for security? Reboot isn't the answer for open source my friend. When we put a machine up, it stays up.
Never trust development languages that only work on one platform...
Still I deserve a big label of 'stupid' slapped square on my forehead before people start calling me Bush jr over in Deutschland.
Um... last I knew 'die' isn't 'you. Unless the german language changed. Du=you (of course this is the informal form). As in:
'Wo bist du?' oder vielleicht, 'wo sind sie?'
My deutsch ist sehr schlecht but apparently it's still better than yours.
The sooner they discover they are fighting a losing battle and just accept it and look for a better marketing scheme, the better.
Ok, I hate to nitpick but Javascript has NOTHING to do with Java. They just have a similar name is all.
Heh... totally. When I studied Deutsch at the Defense Language Institute, the course was so intense that people in their first week would be speaking German in their sleep. After a couple months, we would subconciously be slipping in and out of german and english when we spoke to others and not be aware of it. The term "germish" was what we called the mixxed gobbledy gook that we would come up with when we didn't know a word.
For instance:
"Wo bist die vcr-en?" == "Were are the VCRs?"
Oddly enough, this is a great way to practive the language until you know what the Deutsch word is for something.
It's kind of funny too as English has ALOT of German words and vice versa.
It's either german or germ-ish (a mixture of german and english). Plurals in Deutsch are commonly handled with an 'en' at the end of a word.
My wife who is a QA tester, had to work for a company that moved all there QA to India and it became increasingly more and more difficult for the developers who were Indian to work with the developers who were American. Aside from that, they didn't understand goals and expectations for the product and ended up giving them something much different that what was asked for.
I think tech support, customer support and other low-tech things like that can be moved but in the long run, if you are willing to commit to a presence in a foreign country, you are better off sticking stateside... or trying Canada. :)
Yes recording audio is NOW legal. But it didn't used to be. Also the recording industry made a big hoo-ha about cassette tapes and being able to make copies then too. And we all know where that went... nowhere. Mainly because it couldn't be effectively traced. My point was they were all (or still are) considered forms of piracy.
I agree. Broadcasting your content is like asking me to tape it. But they want to make money coming and going.
Some questions have been raised about recording from TV due to TIVO. And some cable companies don't want you taping their shows when they are trying to sell them on DVD. Issues have been raised... I don't validate, merely repeat. Though the repetition could be considered a validation of some form *shrug*
The only way I see to battle piracy is to provide MORE content. For example, an MP3 isn't an MPEG. An MPEG isn't a JPG. etc etc. You bundle your CD with an interview, a comic book, a special login and pass for special content on the website and maybe even with a special entry form to be registered in a contest to meet the artist in person. With all that content (at a reasonable price), it would be impossible to download all of it. You have to AGAIN make a product we WANT to buy.
Yes but this is assuming you DON'T own the music.
How many people do you think honestly read that beginning to video tapes that says if you copy that video tape, the FBI could fine you and think to themselves 'Gee whiz, I'd better not copy this video tape then'? The number is dwindling.
And as such, this is becoming common place. How can you battle something that is within every houshold without battling the public at large? Technically, this could be considered a troll but at the same time, it is a serious question. I'd like to see if they DO think this is another war on drugs and whether they think it is unwinnable or not. I know their answer but I would like to see if they will give an honest response instead :)
Ok, I guess my question would be this: with the ability for everything to be digitized, we are experiencing a revolution or a renaissance of information in which all information can be shared. With this Pandora's Box opened, is it truly possible to keep information from being shared or do they believe that they are fighting a losing battle? In other words, Is this going to be another 'war on drugs' in which money is pumped into a battle that can never be won or do they honestly believe that legislation will be passed that can be easily enforced upon the masses at large?
LOL! Yeah brains... is that what you call it. I'd suggest wiping your ass cause you've got your brains sticking to your butt hair :)
And I mean no offense by that, I just mean that if you cannot figure the contradictory nature of an omnipotent, omnipresent being, you must not being using your brains properly. Hell, even the dead sea scrolls proved it was all metaphor; there were no miracles. Read up on the pesher method.
The sin is mightier than the lord. Grow or brain or climb back into the trees with the rest of the monkies.
Oh my god! I thought you were joking! Your serious about this god stuff? Wow. Don't meet too many people on Slashdot that promote not using your brain. But hey, whatever gets your rocks hard.
Yep, if Bush had his way, the law would assume that everyone is a suspect. Nostradamus has nothing on Orwell.
credit card fraud. Tons and tons of credit card fraud in smaller european countries. Companies have gotten tired of trying to combat it so in some cases, they just don't accept certain orders which may seem questionable.
No but if you like I can take pictures of my foot up your @ss!
My wife who is a lead QA tester could vouch for that...