I don't think the Shenzhen example is valid, and not with the population (while some city, like Beijing is overcrowded), but I think the problem here is unbalanced development.
Shenzhen was built when Zheng Xiaoping began modernize China, with the help of USA. There was with plenty of opportunity to develop at this time, when China was likely built from the ground up. But now, it's easy to build city, but it's much harder to create social services, move to the businesses, etc, to the newly city.
And here I thought only the USA had the best government money can buy.
Billionaire Lawmakers Ensure the Rich Are Represented in China’s Legislature
It seems that Chinese is trying to copy USA, but "building" bigger model. They are now going to build their military structure from USA model (of course, with more soldiers), they already copied the USA highway system, but with larger road, and more lanes.
In Firefox and Chrome if you hold the mouse left-button and drag the cursor above a link, this will not work as you want.
In Opera (= 12), if mouse left-button was held long enough (less than a second), the browser knows that you want to select text instead of drag a link.
Cuneiform is opensourced from enterprise grade software, which on a par with Abbyy (they are competitors in Russian market).
From my experience, cuneiform (opensource version) has limitation, and was not updated since 2011, but it's still accurate than tesseract.
I use 'scantailor' for post processing scanned pages (nearly automatic) (dewarp, cleaning, etc..) then use cuneiform to ocr (output must be hocr format data) (it's faster and more accurate than tesseract but not update since 2011), then convert to DJVU and embed the ocred text layer into it.
I have seen some ads from Chinese companies, such as their tablets, these could play HD videos while do other multi-tasks without any lag, the responding of touching ability is amazing fast, etc... AND the price is about less than 99$.;)
About this scanner, they claim their scanner could scan 300 pages per 5 minutes, it means 2 pages per 2 seconds (the scanner scans 2 pages at once), it's possible but what I doubt is about the quality of outputs at that speed and price.
I have seen this kind products for years (lamp-style scanner) all from China (or produced there) with different brands or no name. Now, I know where they copy from.
Don't care much until I saw this appears in Slashdot with title likely about an innovation, I expected a scanner, like which was introduced in Slashdot before:
The bomb narrative happens to be the most profitable one for both stated US interests against Russia's Syria adventures and CNN's ratings with all assertions carefully constructed such that they get to walk away when they are proven to be wrong.
That is!
I'm glad that a least someone said about this.
I also notice the rise of citing "anonymous official/source" during the involvement of Russia in Syria , especially when they was caught lying or providing fake evident or citing "social media" before.
That's strange, the oil fields, which ISIS has illegally sold the oil to Turkey, one of the most important resources of ISIS, still operated during the U.S and NATO bombing, and now stopped by Russian.
That's strange, ISIS never had to cut their beard and masked as women to flee to Arab Saudi, Turkey, until Russian bombs them.
That's strange, when Russian didn't bomb Al-Quaeda/ISIS, the Al-Quaeda claimed Syria will be Russian graveyard.
That's strange, while the West try hard to play down the role of Russia in Syria, the people in the region love Putin.
That's strange, MH17, there is no U.S satellite data, but the 9268 case, they quickly released the data of "heat flash" detected by satellite.
Of course, any conclusions right now could be considered "conspiracy". And I do NOT blame any NATO/U.S for "suspected bombing" of 9268, but I think this the opportunity to press on Putin plan on Syria, may shape public opinion about anti-bombing campaign in Syria among Russian population.
Addons could be obsoleted, and never be updated.
Addons could be crashed, and not works each browser's update.
Addons could make browser much slower.
Not mention that somethings "easily be implemented as addons for Firefox" are not the same things (those) addons intend to be implemented.
Example, I use Opera 12 (Presto), one function that sometime I need is "Cached images", which is disable displaying, completely/partially load/not load images in webpages. Firefox has an addons called "imgLikeOpera", which does not worked with current Firefox if not do some work-around, and not easier, be convenient as Opera 12.
Opera 12 has function of selecting any text on pages, include the links, by holding the mouse's left-button while moving cursor like text editor. There is a work-around solution in Opera-Chrome but cause some unwanted side-effect. Firefox, does not have this.
In Opera (Presto), email client could be used as feed reader.
I don't know what if Vivaldi will be if it has, but in Opera 12, built-in feed reader (mail) has advantages, and it consumes zero additional resource.
Damn, I saw a rebuilt modern Grozny. It's what you mentioned in your Google search!?
When I read news about Tsarnaev brothers bombing in Boston in New York Times, I have seen many comments about "Chechen terrorists", instead of "rebel" I have seen before. Do the people change their mind when the shit happens to them!?
And, about "secret wars", no one can beat the U.S.
While I agree, almost the "Teach yourself" titles are rubbish. But, the book of Robert Lafore, "Sams Teach Yourself Data Structures and Algorithms in 24 Hours" is really good.
I was fooled by the title of his book at first, and would not read if I did not know Lafore is good author by his other books before.
Some people very funny, their reaction about things very fast, that I say myself "why do you could think about that". They are "intelligent" in social interaction, but, may be they are not "intelligent" at physic.
Some well known scientists are famous with their forgetfulness, and social skill, e.g, Paul Frampton:
The former wife of Paul Frampton, the Oxford-educated scientist in prison in Argentina accused of smuggling cocaine, says in her first full interview that he is a "naïve fool".
Your quote is not complete, just read the GP's quote: "...wherever else, Latin America, Asia, or Eastern Europe..."
The article "precisely" pointed out what "wherever else" is.
That why, I said "the article *did not* mention Europe" (Western, Southern, Scandinavia).
From this article, can you conclude about "Europe"!? Nope!
It's Cold War heritage. When saying Western, or the West, it does not mean 'the West' as cardinal point (e.g, Italy), so are the Eastern Europe. Now, when countries are in EU, they're mentioned as Europe, that what the medias have use to report.
Ayy, stop this pointless discussion!
OK, I agree my comment was flawed, that use ambiguous word. I update my comment:
The article did not mention Western Europe, Southern Europe, Scandinavia, so more precisely, U.S is better than Latin America, Asia or Eastern Europe.
Slashdot Mirror
A bit off-topic, but I surprise that Slashdot not report this, Rupert Murdoch Takes Over at National Geographic, Immediately Starts Laying off Award-Winning Staff. I've read from SoylentNews.
I don't think the Shenzhen example is valid, and not with the population (while some city, like Beijing is overcrowded), but I think the problem here is unbalanced development.
Shenzhen was built when Zheng Xiaoping began modernize China, with the help of USA. There was with plenty of opportunity to develop at this time, when China was likely built from the ground up. But now, it's easy to build city, but it's much harder to create social services, move to the businesses, etc, to the newly city.
And here I thought only the USA had the best government money can buy.
Billionaire Lawmakers Ensure the Rich Are Represented in China’s Legislature
It seems that Chinese is trying to copy USA, but "building" bigger model. They are now going to build their military structure from USA model (of course, with more soldiers), they already copied the USA highway system, but with larger road, and more lanes.
Ghost cities are not new in China. I have seen these news every years.
Just Google some:
http://www.dailybrainfreeze.co...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
*Living* in a ghost city let you the only one to get first post.
In Firefox and Chrome if you hold the mouse left-button and drag the cursor above a link, this will not work as you want.
In Opera (= 12), if mouse left-button was held long enough (less than a second), the browser knows that you want to select text instead of drag a link.
As I know, Openlibrary books have been scanned and OCRed by Webarchive.
They use ABBYY version 8, which is very old.
Cuneiform is opensourced from enterprise grade software, which on a par with Abbyy (they are competitors in Russian market).
From my experience, cuneiform (opensource version) has limitation, and was not updated since 2011, but it's still accurate than tesseract.
I use 'scantailor' for post processing scanned pages (nearly automatic) (dewarp, cleaning, etc..) then use cuneiform to ocr (output must be hocr format data) (it's faster and more accurate than tesseract but not update since 2011), then convert to DJVU and embed the ocred text layer into it.
I have seen some ads from Chinese companies, such as their tablets, these could play HD videos while do other multi-tasks without any lag, the responding of touching ability is amazing fast, etc... AND the price is about less than 99$. ;)
About this scanner, they claim their scanner could scan 300 pages per 5 minutes, it means 2 pages per 2 seconds (the scanner scans 2 pages at once), it's possible but what I doubt is about the quality of outputs at that speed and price.
I have seen this kind products for years (lamp-style scanner) all from China (or produced there) with different brands or no name. Now, I know where they copy from.
Don't care much until I saw this appears in Slashdot with title likely about an innovation, I expected a scanner, like which was introduced in Slashdot before:
Japanese Researchers Develop World's Fastest Book Scanner
or
Google's Book Scanning Technology Revealed
or a DIY scanner, with two old point-n-shoot cameras:
DIY High-Speed Book Scanner from Trash and Cheap Cameras
All steps in one page
One of recent headline in The Guardian maintains your point.
Sinai plane crash may show price of Putin's military adventurism in Syria
The bomb narrative happens to be the most profitable one for both stated US interests against Russia's Syria adventures and CNN's ratings with all assertions carefully constructed such that they get to walk away when they are proven to be wrong.
That is!
I'm glad that a least someone said about this.
I also notice the rise of citing "anonymous official/source" during the involvement of Russia in Syria , especially when they was caught lying or providing fake evident or citing "social media" before.
That's strange, the oil fields, which ISIS has illegally sold the oil to Turkey, one of the most important resources of ISIS, still operated during the U.S and NATO bombing, and now stopped by Russian.
That's strange, ISIS never had to cut their beard and masked as women to flee to Arab Saudi, Turkey, until Russian bombs them.
That's strange, when Russian didn't bomb Al-Quaeda/ISIS, the Al-Quaeda claimed Syria will be Russian graveyard.
That's strange, while the West try hard to play down the role of Russia in Syria, the people in the region love Putin.
That's strange, MH17, there is no U.S satellite data, but the 9268 case, they quickly released the data of "heat flash" detected by satellite.
Of course, any conclusions right now could be considered "conspiracy". And I do NOT blame any NATO/U.S for "suspected bombing" of 9268, but I think this the opportunity to press on Putin plan on Syria, may shape public opinion about anti-bombing campaign in Syria among Russian population.
Addons could be obsoleted, and never be updated.
Addons could be crashed, and not works each browser's update.
Addons could make browser much slower.
Not mention that somethings "easily be implemented as addons for Firefox" are not the same things (those) addons intend to be implemented.
Example, I use Opera 12 (Presto), one function that sometime I need is "Cached images", which is disable displaying, completely/partially load/not load images in webpages. Firefox has an addons called "imgLikeOpera", which does not worked with current Firefox if not do some work-around, and not easier, be convenient as Opera 12.
Opera 12 has function of selecting any text on pages, include the links, by holding the mouse's left-button while moving cursor like text editor. There is a work-around solution in Opera-Chrome but cause some unwanted side-effect. Firefox, does not have this.
In Opera (Presto), email client could be used as feed reader.
I don't know what if Vivaldi will be if it has, but in Opera 12, built-in feed reader (mail) has advantages, and it consumes zero additional resource.
We don't need another one of those.
Vivaldi is built for the ex-Opera-Presto users. They focus on this community.
This browser is not for you, so move on.
When I read news about Tsarnaev brothers bombing in Boston in New York Times, I have seen many comments about "Chechen terrorists", instead of "rebel" I have seen before. Do the people change their mind when the shit happens to them!?
And, about "secret wars", no one can beat the U.S.
Fun fact:
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was on CIA terror database, and Russia warned U.S. about the brothers years before, but ignored.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/t...
http://www.foreignpolicyjourna...
https://www.corbettreport.com/...
Uncle of Tsarnaev, Ruslan worked with State Department and CIA connected USAID, and was married to the daughter of Graham E. Fuller - former high-ranked CIA official, who has served 20 years in the Foreign Service, mostly the Muslim World.
About Syria, U.S funded FSA, in fact, terrorist groups. They are terrorists as in definition in dictionary:
Longman dictionary:
someone who uses violence such as bombing, shooting etc to obtain political demands
or, by their actions: "Insurgent" Eats Heart of Syrian Soldier, or Free Syrian Army allegedly trafficking in human organs. They are just like the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) which U.S supported before.
Moreover, U.S official admitted that they has trained only 'four or five' Syrian fighters against Isis, top general testifies, and it's cost about 500 M, and the U.S funded groups frequently desert or handed armors, weapons to the Al Qaeda.
While I agree, almost the "Teach yourself" titles are rubbish. But, the book of Robert Lafore, "Sams Teach Yourself Data Structures and Algorithms in 24 Hours" is really good.
I was fooled by the title of his book at first, and would not read if I did not know Lafore is good author by his other books before.
Overall, I agree with you.
Also, there are counterproofs that someone can be "smarter" (in unusual ways):
When Brain Damage Unlocks The Genius Within
http://www.popsci.com/science/...
http://www.livescience.com/453...
Some well known scientists are famous with their forgetfulness, and social skill, e.g, Paul Frampton:
The former wife of Paul Frampton, the Oxford-educated scientist in prison in Argentina accused of smuggling cocaine, says in her first full interview that he is a "naïve fool".
Your quote is not complete, just read the GP's quote: "...wherever else, Latin America, Asia, or Eastern Europe..."
The article "precisely" pointed out what "wherever else" is.
That why, I said "the article *did not* mention Europe" (Western, Southern, Scandinavia).
From this article, can you conclude about "Europe"!? Nope!
It's Cold War heritage. When saying Western, or the West, it does not mean 'the West' as cardinal point (e.g, Italy), so are the Eastern Europe. Now, when countries are in EU, they're mentioned as Europe, that what the medias have use to report.
Ayy, stop this pointless discussion!
OK, I agree my comment was flawed, that use ambiguous word. I update my comment:
The article did not mention Western Europe, Southern Europe, Scandinavia, so more precisely, U.S is better than Latin America, Asia or Eastern Europe.
Normally, when saying Europe, it's meant EU states, vs Eastern Europe, which are former Soviet bloc states.
The article did not mention Europe, so more precisely, U.S is better than Latin America, Asia or Eastern Europe.