If you have Acrobat Professional, you can do a Paper Capture(TM) which is basically doing an OCR on the PDF and then storing the recognized words as "keywords" so that the PDF is searchable via Spotlight or other indexing mechanisms.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but doesn't Google index PDFs? If that's the case, you can just upload it to a website and wait for it to be crawled for later searching.
That doesn't really help with the scanning problem though.
Parent's solution of slave useage might be best.
But many people are deathly afraid of the idea with good reason: when nuke plants fail they fail really, really badly. And the people who are telling us they're safe now told us the same things when they built the first generation of nuke plants.
Search and replace:
But many people are deathly afraid of the idea with good reason: when airplanes fail they fail really, really badly. And the people who are telling us they're safe now told us the same things when they built the first generation of airplanes.
2. New technology comes to fruition and pays off big-time, leads to economic boom and years of prosperity.
Except for all the highly-paid wannabe dupes who lost jobs in the overinflated tech bust and now are qualified for burger-flipping, err, I mean, alimentary service positions.
Let's face it, the business hype and resulting inevitable bust served one real purpose: to make everyone aware of the internet.
The future employment opportunities for young people are in any (non-degreed) job that requires one's physical presence: plumber, nurse, street cleaner, snow removal, police, etc.
"But wait!", you say, "won't all the robots, automated systems and computers need designers, engineers and maintenance people?"
I thought that this was caused by Slashdot's pending conversion to CSS and ongoing testing. Just goes to show what I know.
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This "review" was a biased advertisement stroking the right-wing conservatives egos that their missionary-position bi-monthly sex acts are acceptable and even encouraged while their co-workers' healthy and exciting sex life is deviant and unacceptable.
Please get a grip on your emotions. Do you have anything to back up that statement about conservatives?
Erotic is using a feather. Kinky is using the whole chicken.
Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders
Dumb and ambitious: Front line soldiers willing to die, easy to manipulate
Dumb and lazy: Useful for potatoe-peeling, easy to manipulate
Smart and ambitious: Gotta keep the competition close, easy to manipulate
Smart and lazy: my fellow subcommanders will follow my commands without question.
Here's another hint: a survey requires people who answer surveys. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that people making on the high end do not generally go out of their way to answer salary surveys, whereas people paid average or less than average might be a bit prone to worrying about their salary and therefore filling out surveys and looking them up.
Boner's Corollary: those with self-perceived sub-average penis size will not permit independant [1] third-party measurement of said member whereas above-average penis size gleaned from jock showering will invariably be exaggerated.
You think hero worship is not here today? What about movie stars, sports stars, TV soap opera stars? What is that all about?
Wishing that you are wealthy, famous and important?
I'm always astounded at the hero worship thrown at the Beatles in their early years. Was that genuine or fabricated by media?
If you stand somewhere and look up for 5 minutes or so inevitably a crowd will collect around looking up with you. Most will walk away after a few seconds, some will stay longer.
What I think to be more important than all this controversy about software usage is how all this information is going to be used.
When anyone can easily get detailed information on anyone else, where does this put us regarding privacy? Isn't that part of the promise of the US constitution?
I guess we threw all that out with widespread adoption of the internet.
The illiterate Brits (and Aussies) like to create their own little pet words and terms, it is a way of overcompensating for their loss of control over the English-speaking world.
Pretty sad, really.
Most edumacated English-speakers from the islands don't feel the need to improvise and bastardize the language. When was the last time you saw a previously-unknown existing word and looked it up? Quite often you'll find that we already have enough perfectly cromulent words.
I fully expect that the "English is a living language" crowd will now attack me (complete with misspellings and improper usage). You can always tell a non-reader because s/he always spells phoenetically without appreciation for word origins. Checking a dictionary is unimportant to them. Doing so would be "old-fashioned" or lame.
My use of "cromulent" and "edumacated" was intentional; the Simpsons' writers are smarter than you and me.
I confess that I hate Aussie-speak and Brit-speak. It always comes across as some third-world, local lingo that the speakers think is cool.
That's not to say that North American "good to go" terms and trendy language is any better. That sucks also.
Once a "sub group" of a language makes up its own silly, in-crowd words, it has ceased to be relevant and understood by the larger group. But then, that's cool.
- time
- X axis
- Y axis
- Z axis
- female perception of reality (this is the "Q" axis that will never be understood due to constantly changing parameters)
And, yes, I've had sex with females before, they are quite squishy and nice.
And no, I don't think you understand what capitalism is truly about. In pretty much all marketplaces there is room for more than one supplier of goods and services. Certainly that is the case with operating systems and office suites.
Sure, as long as these operating systems can effectively communicate with each other. Without this "cross-platform" ability to communicate, the power of computers is lost.
The difference between now and the traditional, historical Luddite time is that now, workers that used to be able to count on mentals skills to move into offices are being replaced by "thinking" machines. If machines can think through menial brain work (this actually constitutes a large portion of white collar workers, conveniently leaving out the emotions and office politics) where does this leave the rest of us?
I remember being told that once robotics become commonplace in the workplace, well, we'll always need people to take care of and maintain the robots. So don't worry.
But now we have software that is increasingly easy to use becoming a core to our information economy to the point where 10,000 machinists' or boilermakers' knowledge is distilled down to a few programs that have been "perfected".
[Someone should set up a site for the early cell phone users]
Mine was a Mitsubishi which was huge, the base contained the large battery. The base unit connected to the handheld had a slide-out handle to carry it around. Together, the assembly was about the size of a Kleenex box.
Motorola subsequently came out with a totally handheld version - that was really cool at the time.
And even though there's the possiblity (I won't go into how likely it is) that it's natural, shouldn't we do our best to counteract it's effects as much as possible?
I think you're onto something there, mate.
Lets stop all use of petroleum, like, tomorrow! and implement more friendly energy production.
It always pisses me off that people are so stupid and cannot see the world the way we do.
...possibly not pass on a liveable planet to our future children.
Try having some children sometime and then get back to me about saving the environment. Whoops, I forgot, that 'holier than thou' thing only works when one lives in a fantasy world where you can bitch about everything and everyone else.
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If you have Acrobat Professional, you can do a Paper Capture(TM) which is basically doing an OCR on the PDF and then storing the recognized words as "keywords" so that the PDF is searchable via Spotlight or other indexing mechanisms.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but doesn't Google index PDFs? If that's the case, you can just upload it to a website and wait for it to be crawled for later searching.
That doesn't really help with the scanning problem though. Parent's solution of slave useage might be best.
Hey, maybe they figured out how to direct hurricanes towards Louisiana also!
But many people are deathly afraid of the idea with good reason: when nuke plants fail they fail really, really badly. And the people who are telling us they're safe now told us the same things when they built the first generation of nuke plants.
Search and replace:
But many people are deathly afraid of the idea with good reason: when airplanes fail they fail really, really badly. And the people who are telling us they're safe now told us the same things when they built the first generation of airplanes.
2. New technology comes to fruition and pays off big-time, leads to economic boom and years of prosperity.
Except for all the highly-paid wannabe dupes who lost jobs in the overinflated tech bust and now are qualified for burger-flipping, err, I mean, alimentary service positions.
Let's face it, the business hype and resulting inevitable bust served one real purpose: to make everyone aware of the internet.
The future employment opportunities for young people are in any (non-degreed) job that requires one's physical presence: plumber, nurse, street cleaner, snow removal, police, etc.
"But wait!", you say, "won't all the robots, automated systems and computers need designers, engineers and maintenance people?"
I thought that this was caused by Slashdot's pending conversion to CSS and ongoing testing. Just goes to show what I know.
This "review" was a biased advertisement stroking the right-wing conservatives egos that their missionary-position bi-monthly sex acts are acceptable and even encouraged while their co-workers' healthy and exciting sex life is deviant and unacceptable.
Please get a grip on your emotions. Do you have anything to back up that statement about conservatives?
Erotic is using a feather. Kinky is using the whole chicken.
CAD users are already familiar with this, see http://www.rsi.gmbh.de/spacemouse_e.htm. They are fairly expensive.
Actually, I'm just a tard.
Next time I get mod points I'll wander around the old ghetto and mod up the good ones that got ignored due to short attention spans.
I agree. Quirky is good, but when every character is like that it is grating.
Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders
Dumb and ambitious: Front line soldiers willing to die, easy to manipulate
Dumb and lazy: Useful for potatoe-peeling, easy to manipulate
Smart and ambitious: Gotta keep the competition close, easy to manipulate
Smart and lazy: my fellow subcommanders will follow my commands without question.
Slashdotters take note: the people rebuilding the area will be real engineers, not so-called "computer engineers" or "software engineers".
My comment will be modded down to oblivion.
Here's another hint: a survey requires people who answer surveys. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that people making on the high end do not generally go out of their way to answer salary surveys, whereas people paid average or less than average might be a bit prone to worrying about their salary and therefore filling out surveys and looking them up.
Boner's Corollary: those with self-perceived sub-average penis size will not permit independant [1] third-party measurement of said member whereas above-average penis size gleaned from jock showering will invariably be exaggerated.
[1] "pendant" mispelled intentionally.
Sure, if you are 13 forever.
You think hero worship is not here today? What about movie stars, sports stars, TV soap opera stars? What is that all about?
Wishing that you are wealthy, famous and important?
I'm always astounded at the hero worship thrown at the Beatles in their early years. Was that genuine or fabricated by media?
If you stand somewhere and look up for 5 minutes or so inevitably a crowd will collect around looking up with you. Most will walk away after a few seconds, some will stay longer.
(more joss whedon dialogue please)
Maybe it's just me, but this witty/clever/trend-making dialogue (as seen in Buffy and to a lesser extent, Angel) got to be tiresome really quickly.
And if you know kids, there's no such thing as "Too many times"
I have 10 children; I know the meaning of "too many times".
Everyone expects their horse to be the winner.
Geez, for a second there I thought you wrote, "Everyone expects their house to be the winner."
Not much difference, really, if you compare to the real estate market. Although, I'd submit that the real estate market is a bit more questionable.
What I think to be more important than all this controversy about software usage is how all this information is going to be used.
When anyone can easily get detailed information on anyone else, where does this put us regarding privacy? Isn't that part of the promise of the US constitution?
I guess we threw all that out with widespread adoption of the internet.
I agree.
The illiterate Brits (and Aussies) like to create their own little pet words and terms, it is a way of overcompensating for their loss of control over the English-speaking world.
Pretty sad, really.
Most edumacated English-speakers from the islands don't feel the need to improvise and bastardize the language. When was the last time you saw a previously-unknown existing word and looked it up? Quite often you'll find that we already have enough perfectly cromulent words.
I fully expect that the "English is a living language" crowd will now attack me (complete with misspellings and improper usage). You can always tell a non-reader because s/he always spells phoenetically without appreciation for word origins. Checking a dictionary is unimportant to them. Doing so would be "old-fashioned" or lame.
My use of "cromulent" and "edumacated" was intentional; the Simpsons' writers are smarter than you and me.
I confess that I hate Aussie-speak and Brit-speak. It always comes across as some third-world, local lingo that the speakers think is cool.
That's not to say that North American "good to go" terms and trendy language is any better. That sucks also.
Once a "sub group" of a language makes up its own silly, in-crowd words, it has ceased to be relevant and understood by the larger group. But then, that's cool.
Some of these are actually measureable:
- time
- X axis
- Y axis
- Z axis
- female perception of reality (this is the "Q" axis that will never be understood due to constantly changing parameters)
And, yes, I've had sex with females before, they are quite squishy and nice.
How is "whingeing" actually pronounced? Is it like "winging" but sounds like wine-ging? "Whining" is what I always see this as.
But, tut-tut, mate, no need to make up pet words. It tends to isolate you as being insecure with your language. Yo.
Each step is significant. Computational Physics isn't quite like REAL physics, is it? It's easier to do something on a computer than in real life.
Yeah, but much more temporarily important is to be able to do a "Booyah, In your FACE!". That always wins.
And no, I don't think you understand what capitalism is truly about. In pretty much all marketplaces there is room for more than one supplier of goods and services. Certainly that is the case with operating systems and office suites.
Sure, as long as these operating systems can effectively communicate with each other. Without this "cross-platform" ability to communicate, the power of computers is lost.
The difference between now and the traditional, historical Luddite time is that now, workers that used to be able to count on mentals skills to move into offices are being replaced by "thinking" machines. If machines can think through menial brain work (this actually constitutes a large portion of white collar workers, conveniently leaving out the emotions and office politics) where does this leave the rest of us?
I remember being told that once robotics become commonplace in the workplace, well, we'll always need people to take care of and maintain the robots. So don't worry.
But now we have software that is increasingly easy to use becoming a core to our information economy to the point where 10,000 machinists' or boilermakers' knowledge is distilled down to a few programs that have been "perfected".
[Someone should set up a site for the early cell phone users]
Mine was a Mitsubishi which was huge, the base contained the large battery. The base unit connected to the handheld had a slide-out handle to carry it around. Together, the assembly was about the size of a Kleenex box.
Motorola subsequently came out with a totally handheld version - that was really cool at the time.
And even though there's the possiblity (I won't go into how likely it is) that it's natural, shouldn't we do our best to counteract it's effects as much as possible?
I think you're onto something there, mate.
Lets stop all use of petroleum, like, tomorrow! and implement more friendly energy production.
It always pisses me off that people are so stupid and cannot see the world the way we do.
Try having some children sometime and then get back to me about saving the environment. Whoops, I forgot, that 'holier than thou' thing only works when one lives in a fantasy world where you can bitch about everything and everyone else.