I work with character recognition software all the time. It does work very well for clearly written characters - however if the characters were intentionally distorted in unpredictable ways it would be very hard for any character recognition software to accurately identify characters. The author of the original idea of this post said that each person would use their own website as the communication medium. With all the varied was of implementing this there would be no way to predict the location of the 5 digit or whatever string let-alone read it. One more thing - why are you working on character recognition software anyway? Isn't there enough of it in the world now? why don't you work on improving existing recognition algorithms.
I guess this is the first one where the primary character is physically larger than life
well, superman, spiderman, the x-men, batman etc. aren't supposed to be physically larger than life. They are either normal humans like bat man or enhanced humans like the x-men or spider man. Super man, well his clark kent alter ego wouldn't work out if he didn't look human
Java applications run slower than C++ applications and people will notice this
IBM's software is unintuitive. Every piece of IBM software I've ever used does things its own way - Its like they are trying to reinvent the wheel and they always do it poorly.
Websphere? Aren't there already enough IBM products with this branding? Can't IBM come up with new names for different products instead of naming them all the same thing?
There's already too much competition among MS office alternatives. Star Office is probably the leading alternative and its cheap and it has a growing market share
If EA is making games that work better on an NVidia card and no other big game software company is making games that work better on ATI cards guess which one I'd buy.
I have an ATI Radeon 8500 128MB right now and it will be time to upgrade pretty soon. I'm considering switching to NVidia simply because I've heard of a few games that work better on NVidia cards. SimCity 4 (an EA game) to name one has some problems graphically even with the ATI 9700 - Makes NVidia look good to me. (But there's no way I'm going to get the FX with the big freaking fan on it)
Why merge the two when they should be mutually exclusive?
well, a Floppy drive or a cd burner or hard drive are Input and output devices - not a totally new concept to do both I and O on the same device. Given these are all storage medias and a monitor is presentation media - but how many presentation medias are there (I can think of 2) I'd be pretty suprised if there weren't speaker / microphone combos out already.
and if it worked really well It might be nice to free up that large portion of my desk that the scanner is taking up
This solution must be somewhat intuitive if people were holding sheets of paper up to the screen trying to fax them.
Isn't that another reason why flying should only be used for transcontinental travels?
What in God's name are you talking about?
You obviously don't have a job that would require you to leave your office. Most programmers I know (including myself) don't fly too often but we still need to go to training and stuff.
I live in Wisconsin. I don't think my employer would want me to take a "Road Trip" to go to IBM in California.
Plus - people like to take vacation once in a while and don't want to waste their precious time off of work driving to disney land in a station wagon.
Could be any operating system any format (desktop laptop handheld). I would not consider an MP3 player a personal computer though. The OS has to be a complete OS.
Everyone else in the damn world seems to think that
They also treat their cusomers like cows, milking them for all they've got. Windows should not cost $300 [microsoft.com]. Microsoft Office should not cost $600
Why shouldn't windows cost $300. Photoshop costs $609.00[adobe.com]
Windows does a lot more than photoshop.
There are LOTS of expensive software packages. Microsoft isn't the only company that doesn't follow the open source model. They just happen to be the biggest consumer software company.
How come nobody rips on IBM the way they do on Microsoft. They've got business by the balls the same way MS has the consumers. I couldn't tell you how many hundereds of thousands of dollars my company has spent on their operating systems / Databases / software packages.
Before the flood of Blue Screen of Death / crashing during the movie jokes gets out of control I would just like to say that the Anit-Microsoft jokes have been beaten to death lately on ANY microsoft related article.
Please, post responsibly and any modding of "funny" for these pathetic jokes is irresponsible.
the engineer is the one that takes all variables into consideration, and comes up a best-fit solution - it's the programmer's responsibility to produce that solution (much the way that carpenters, bricklayers, masons, and steelworkers would construct a building designed by an architect)
Huh? an ARCHITECT is the one that takes all variables into consideration. It is usually a PROJECT MANAGER's responsibility to produce that solution (who may or may not be a programmer). The programmers ARE the carpenters / bricklayers, not the architect.
Sure, we (programmers) can be architects for little tiny projects. But if a new skyscraper is going up (aka big system) there's going to be a bunch of Architects who lay down the blue prints. and a bunch more code monkeys to pour the concrete.
PC == Windows Box || Linux Box || Mac Box || etc. ..
IBM Compatible PC
I may be wrong but This is an OLD term going back to the days when IBM PCs were king and ran DOS. Any non IBM manufactured PC that ran DOS was said to be compatable. I wish people would say Windows when they mean Windows. When I think IBM compatable I think IBM operating systems like OS/390 or AIX.
besides the improper use of terms this guy is a NUT anyway. . . All rambly and stuff
Photoshop is better on Windows because of the hardware.
I can either buy Apple Hardware which is expensive and slow OR I can build my own computer with hand picked superior parts.
Any application will run better on my Windows system not because of Windows but because the 3.06 Ghz Pentium 4 Processor, Gig of Rambus, Etc. Is going to be better than some crappy Motorola rig.
While we're at it, lets charge web servers a penny for every HTML page they serve up. This will dramatically reduce the amount of crappy web pages on the web.
Then we can charge Google for every result they return in their querys. This will reduce the amount of irrelavent pages returned to the user
I paid 200 bucks for an Audigy 2 Platinum.
The Creative software that comes with it crashes my computer (XP Pro - P4 2.4, 512 DDR). Therefore rendering the remote control useless.
The other software that comes with it not made by Creative is great, especially Cubasis VST 4.0 for home recording. SOF deuce is a fun game.
When I make home recordings (acoustic guitar from a microphone) for some reason there will be an occasional pop sound. Otherwise the sound is just beautiful.
It is great having the Front panel drive that came with the Platinum. I/O Ports Galore!
and it is sweet having the volume knob for the headphones and mic input right on the computer.
I think it sucks that if you want a black faceplate for the drive you have to buy it separately for 20 bucks. You should get the option to buy a black one for the same price as a beige panel one.
All in all I give it a 6/10 because of the software problems I had and the occasional pop sound in recording.
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Here comes another surge of people named Legolas or Dwimli or whatever in every gaming server regardless if its a WW2 game or Star Wars game.
I work with character recognition software all the time. It does work very well for clearly written characters - however if the characters were intentionally distorted in unpredictable ways it would be very hard for any character recognition software to accurately identify characters. The author of the original idea of this post said that each person would use their own website as the communication medium. With all the varied was of implementing this there would be no way to predict the location of the 5 digit or whatever string let-alone read it. One more thing - why are you working on character recognition software anyway? Isn't there enough of it in the world now? why don't you work on improving existing recognition algorithms.
well, superman, spiderman, the x-men, batman etc. aren't supposed to be physically larger than life. They are either normal humans like bat man or enhanced humans like the x-men or spider man. Super man, well his clark kent alter ego wouldn't work out if he didn't look human
Yeah, totally. Like X-men, Superman, Batman, Spawn, Daredevel, The Punisher or even Spider Man would have made way better movies.
Bad Idea. Here's Why:
If EA is making games that work better on an NVidia card and no other big game software company is making games that work better on ATI cards guess which one I'd buy.
I have an ATI Radeon 8500 128MB right now and it will be time to upgrade pretty soon. I'm considering switching to NVidia simply because I've heard of a few games that work better on NVidia cards. SimCity 4 (an EA game) to name one has some problems graphically even with the ATI 9700 - Makes NVidia look good to me. (But there's no way I'm going to get the FX with the big freaking fan on it)
well, a Floppy drive or a cd burner or hard drive are Input and output devices - not a totally new concept to do both I and O on the same device. Given these are all storage medias and a monitor is presentation media - but how many presentation medias are there (I can think of 2) I'd be pretty suprised if there weren't speaker / microphone combos out already.
and if it worked really well It might be nice to free up that large portion of my desk that the scanner is taking up
This solution must be somewhat intuitive if people were holding sheets of paper up to the screen trying to fax them.
What in God's name are you talking about?
You obviously don't have a job that would require you to leave your office. Most programmers I know (including myself) don't fly too often but we still need to go to training and stuff.I live in Wisconsin. I don't think my employer would want me to take a "Road Trip" to go to IBM in California.
Plus - people like to take vacation once in a while and don't want to waste their precious time off of work driving to disney land in a station wagon.
Could be any operating system any format (desktop laptop handheld). I would not consider an MP3 player a personal computer though. The OS has to be a complete OS.
Everyone else in the damn world seems to think that
PC = Windows desktop or laptop
For those of you who haven't already heard: Microsoft's Linux distro
Cubase/Logic Audio. AutoCAD maybe. I'm sure there are plenty more. I was going to post the same thing. I agree 100%
Why shouldn't windows cost $300. Photoshop costs $609.00[adobe.com]
Windows does a lot more than photoshop.
There are LOTS of expensive software packages. Microsoft isn't the only company that doesn't follow the open source model. They just happen to be the biggest consumer software company.
How come nobody rips on IBM the way they do on Microsoft. They've got business by the balls the same way MS has the consumers. I couldn't tell you how many hundereds of thousands of dollars my company has spent on their operating systems / Databases / software packages.
Please, post responsibly and any modding of "funny" for these pathetic jokes is irresponsible.
Ok, you can't just let something like 2.5 D slip and not explain yourself more than saying "it's like doom"
I would be so bold as to say "it's either 3D or it's not
Duke Nukem 3D certainly LOOKS 3D to me. The illusion of depth is created. Isn't that all it takes?
I suspected we were saying the same thing. In that case you are correct :)
Huh? an ARCHITECT is the one that takes all variables into consideration. It is usually a PROJECT MANAGER's responsibility to produce that solution (who may or may not be a programmer). The programmers ARE the carpenters / bricklayers, not the architect.
Sure, we (programmers) can be architects for little tiny projects. But if a new skyscraper is going up (aka big system) there's going to be a bunch of Architects who lay down the blue prints. and a bunch more code monkeys to pour the concrete.
PC == Personal Computer
PC == Windows Box || Linux Box || Mac Box || etc. . .
IBM Compatible PC
I may be wrong but This is an OLD term going back to the days when IBM PCs were king and ran DOS. Any non IBM manufactured PC that ran DOS was said to be compatable. I wish people would say Windows when they mean Windows. When I think IBM compatable I think IBM operating systems like OS/390 or AIX.besides the improper use of terms this guy is a NUT anyway. . . All rambly and stuff
Yeah, Because Windows Media Player is a bad storage media.
I can either buy Apple Hardware which is expensive and slow OR I can build my own computer with hand picked superior parts.
Any application will run better on my Windows system not because of Windows but because the 3.06 Ghz Pentium 4 Processor, Gig of Rambus, Etc. Is going to be better than some crappy Motorola rig.
Not like I never wasted money before though. Thats the price you pay for buying cutting edge products and I assume that risk knowingly.
You assume too much.
I think that they will rlease one too but I don't go around calling somebody a moron and declaring it a fact.
While we're at it, lets charge web servers a penny for every HTML page they serve up. This will dramatically reduce the amount of crappy web pages on the web.
Then we can charge Google for every result they return in their querys. This will reduce the amount of irrelavent pages returned to the user
This is an article about PS3 - not PS2. I think he was talking about linux for the PS3, for which there currently is not a linux kit available.
I paid 200 bucks for an Audigy 2 Platinum. The Creative software that comes with it crashes my computer (XP Pro - P4 2.4, 512 DDR). Therefore rendering the remote control useless. The other software that comes with it not made by Creative is great, especially Cubasis VST 4.0 for home recording. SOF deuce is a fun game. When I make home recordings (acoustic guitar from a microphone) for some reason there will be an occasional pop sound. Otherwise the sound is just beautiful. It is great having the Front panel drive that came with the Platinum. I/O Ports Galore! and it is sweet having the volume knob for the headphones and mic input right on the computer. I think it sucks that if you want a black faceplate for the drive you have to buy it separately for 20 bucks. You should get the option to buy a black one for the same price as a beige panel one. All in all I give it a 6/10 because of the software problems I had and the occasional pop sound in recording.
Hi, I was an intern at an insurance company in Wisconsin until August. I got paid 15 bucks an hour plus benefits