Would it be possible to get information from the scan beyond that of the text itself? Perhaps each cut has a unique edge, so you could line up the columns of likely candidates. Or maybe the grain in the paper could be revealed, adding another potential edge. Maybe thickness of the paper could be compared or opaqueness. Put all this extra information together and maybe a computer could then work on the construction of the actual text.
I seem to notice that in software, at least in enterprise systems, if it is NOT free then then vendor thinks your time is worth nothing. Typical situation: This OS version of the server must be upgraded, or you wont be secure. Critical vendor software does not work with upgrade and ignores basic security protocols as a work around. You spend months with tech support, a consultant and your team trying to get everything to play nice. Tons of time is wasted. Set up another time for test and dev? Go to meetings and discuss licensing get approval from accounting and the contracts office. Yet more time wasted. Add more features and/or users? Repeat licensing meetings and contracts office. More time Wasted.
OR Free Software: OS, standard data protocols, standard design patterns (server --> web (data) --> client). Time is spent, this is true, but it is always moving forward, accomplishing your goals. Set up another environment for test and dev? Just copy it over. Add more users? No problem.
I disagree. This is exactly what my mom would be looking for. She doesn't like the camera on the phone - its not familiar and feels foreign (a phones a phone not a camera). She doesn't like that digital photos are only on digital devices, why wait for a computer to start up or a disc to load? She wants to take a picture, hold it in her hand, talk about it, and have it available to look at instantly later. She can organize her photos in a physical way, in a photo album or shoe box. She can take it to the neighbors or other family members. Remember, this is a physical object object that she has familiarity with, has zero boot time, and cuts out the middle man of waiting on a computer and printer.
Nope. Might work at first, but slowly Apple changes the ipod database, so for some of the devices above you ARE locked into iTunes. 2 seconds on google is not the answer. 2 seconds on google and an hour of aggravation actually trying to get one of those to work is. You can see an iPad, iphone or ipod in a variety of applications, but to read and write to them requires tinkering if they are current gen. And some apps just ride on itunes libs, so you would be required to have itunes even if you dont use it.
I havent had any problem with it. I use it at home exclusively, but I also use it at work when MS Office can't do the job. Just the other day I started writing a VB script for Excel (office version 10) got halfway through and remembered that the functionality I wanted was in Calc by default. But crashes? I just dont have them, could be I only use Linux versions.
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I hate Itunes so damn much. It always wants to update this or that, and remove software music or both. It is a serious pain in the ass. I have a music manager, it is 100 times better, and actually is intuitive, and doesnt advertise crap to me. This is why I never use the ipod part of my phone and keep it away from itunes unless i absolutely have to.
Maybe, but it isnt always the case. Last upgrade I did with my iPhone 4 caused it to die. No DFU, nothing. I hate iTunes, and have a mild distaste for Apple in general, but I do have to give them credit. I brought the phone in, they couldnt get it to boot or go into DFU either, so they exchanged phones, and I was out in and out in 10 minutes. No hassle, no discussion, just "yep its dead, here is a new one".
I wont allow it near my machines. Once I saw the big problems on machines it seriously affected I could no longer accept that it was a stable virtualizer. I switched to KVM+Qemu+a front end, and I am happy about it. Problems: Other drivers, such as wireless, begin to drop connections or hang. Strange behaviour in applications on both the guest and host. Remove virtual box and problems go away. Some computers dont seem to have any problems, but I wont take the chance anymore.
Setting up an alternative to virtualbox is NOT that hard. If you understand the basics, you can make it work, there are many articles and how to's out there. That said, I would re-evaluate your reliance on VirtualBox. The problems are no joke. Sure everything may seem good for awhile, but I have seen first hand odd behaviours, such as applications crashing to wireless cards that start working intermittently. This is with Linux and a Windows host, so its not just one platform. Sometimes it works fine, but I wouldn't rely on it any more.
Ribbon is not so bad, but does waste space. However the rest of Explorer is pretty lame. Tabs? Search and open folders (but not in search mode?) Ability to dock with applications? Split Views? Anything? Anything...you know...USEFUL?
I would say the opposite is true. They are saying "GO FREE MARKET!", because anyone can make an odf format document. Your problem is right there, the "Excel" sheet should be a spreadsheet one happens to use in Excel. Not to mention that if you are doing more then reports in Excel, you have a bigger problem.
Any company, any of those in a supply chain is free to move to any company they wish that can use an open format. Someone has to make standards, and unfortunately, sometimes it starts with the government.
The cake is the IP. Tux brings home MS's supposedly free cake. But the cake is filled with patents, and now they are inside Tux. Dont do it TUX! The cake is a LIE!
You might be right. And that makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a stick. Sharepoint is mediocre at its best and complete rubbish for the rest. Every company has the ability to use the same functions it offers, only better and freely by simply implementing a web server, apps, and a thought out workflow.
But would an add-on make game devs add that functionality? I have played games using a Wii Controller sideways connected with bluetooth on the iphone and that works well (if you can prop the phone up of course), so its technically possible.
I appreciate your honesty, I don't think you are trolling. My biggest concern is others will give up, sometimes computers just are a big pain in the ass no matter what you are using. Maybe I have just gotten lucky, but I am not sure that is true. We use Debian, I gave up on Redhat when they switched to Fedora as the community distro. After using Debian for so long, Fedora confuses me.
I dont know what planet you are on, seriously. Did you just Gentoo or something? My family use linux, the kids have always had it, the eldest always had a choice of windows or linux, but got sick of me having to fix windows, and the wireless never worked right. My friends use Linux, or dual boot. Its always, and I mean always, windows that I have to support. For the past 4 or so years the Linux boxes just work. I dont mess with them, they install software, play games, do their homework, take their pictures, make videos whatever. Sound, Video, and Wireless work. I just got a new laptop, I came home to see my sig other printing. I asked her how was it to set up the printer. She said, I dunno, I just plugged it in. (usb, she doesnt even know what its called). The was no driver to get, no setup nothing. It just worked. Yes there are issues in free software world, but less then in windows in my experience, and everybody I know who gets used to it and really doesnt miss windows at all.
ROFLMAO, then explain to me why Linux desktops have the better workflows, more functionality, and dont drive me batshit insane like windows does? I have not used a CLI to manage this Linux box in over a year. Sure I do things with the command line, because I am not some stupid carpal tunnel wannabe such as yourself, nor am I adverse to accomplishing things faster and making repetitive tasks easy, (hmmm is that why windows is getting powershell now?). And by they way almost every office I am doing business with still has some.BAT file automating some sort of process in their windows environment, so i would say it cuts both ways.
In any case no modern OS should have a GUI alone. I dont want to tech support some computer trying to explain where to click. Open terminal, paste command, and get on with life, linux or windows.
Explorer still doesn't have Tabs, Split views, or push to back, and why the hell can't windows just have all my applications I was using last time just come back after a reboot? Can't Microsoft make a decent desktop environment?
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Do they just call it nothing now days it is just expeced to be some variant, or that it is so mainstream?
And you get 0 points. Wow, just wow. Thats the way it should work.
Would it be possible to get information from the scan beyond that of the text itself? Perhaps each cut has a unique edge, so you could line up the columns of likely candidates. Or maybe the grain in the paper could be revealed, adding another potential edge. Maybe thickness of the paper could be compared or opaqueness. Put all this extra information together and maybe a computer could then work on the construction of the actual text.
I seem to notice that in software, at least in enterprise systems, if it is NOT free then then vendor thinks your time is worth nothing.
Typical situation: This OS version of the server must be upgraded, or you wont be secure. Critical vendor software does not work with upgrade and ignores basic security protocols as a work around. You spend months with tech support, a consultant and your team trying to get everything to play nice. Tons of time is wasted. Set up another time for test and dev? Go to meetings and discuss licensing get approval from accounting and the contracts office. Yet more time wasted. Add more features and/or users? Repeat licensing meetings and contracts office. More time Wasted.
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Free Software: OS, standard data protocols, standard design patterns (server --> web (data) --> client). Time is spent, this is true, but it is always moving forward, accomplishing your goals. Set up another environment for test and dev? Just copy it over. Add more users? No problem.
I disagree. This is exactly what my mom would be looking for. She doesn't like the camera on the phone - its not familiar and feels foreign (a phones a phone not a camera). She doesn't like that digital photos are only on digital devices, why wait for a computer to start up or a disc to load? She wants to take a picture, hold it in her hand, talk about it, and have it available to look at instantly later. She can organize her photos in a physical way, in a photo album or shoe box. She can take it to the neighbors or other family members. Remember, this is a physical object object that she has familiarity with, has zero boot time, and cuts out the middle man of waiting on a computer and printer.
Nope. Might work at first, but slowly Apple changes the ipod database, so for some of the devices above you ARE locked into iTunes. 2 seconds on google is not the answer. 2 seconds on google and an hour of aggravation actually trying to get one of those to work is. You can see an iPad, iphone or ipod in a variety of applications, but to read and write to them requires tinkering if they are current gen. And some apps just ride on itunes libs, so you would be required to have itunes even if you dont use it.
I havent had any problem with it. I use it at home exclusively, but I also use it at work when MS Office can't do the job. Just the other day I started writing a VB script for Excel (office version 10) got halfway through and remembered that the functionality I wanted was in Calc by default. But crashes? I just dont have them, could be I only use Linux versions.
I think you meant Microsoft Office.
I hate Itunes so damn much. It always wants to update this or that, and remove software music or both. It is a serious pain in the ass. I have a music manager, it is 100 times better, and actually is intuitive, and doesnt advertise crap to me. This is why I never use the ipod part of my phone and keep it away from itunes unless i absolutely have to.
Maybe, but it isnt always the case. Last upgrade I did with my iPhone 4 caused it to die. No DFU, nothing. I hate iTunes, and have a mild distaste for Apple in general, but I do have to give them credit. I brought the phone in, they couldnt get it to boot or go into DFU either, so they exchanged phones, and I was out in and out in 10 minutes. No hassle, no discussion, just "yep its dead, here is a new one".
I wont allow it near my machines. Once I saw the big problems on machines it seriously affected I could no longer accept that it was a stable virtualizer. I switched to KVM+Qemu+a front end, and I am happy about it.
Problems: Other drivers, such as wireless, begin to drop connections or hang. Strange behaviour in applications on both the guest and host. Remove virtual box and problems go away. Some computers dont seem to have any problems, but I wont take the chance anymore.
Setting up an alternative to virtualbox is NOT that hard. If you understand the basics, you can make it work, there are many articles and how to's out there. That said, I would re-evaluate your reliance on VirtualBox. The problems are no joke. Sure everything may seem good for awhile, but I have seen first hand odd behaviours, such as applications crashing to wireless cards that start working intermittently. This is with Linux and a Windows host, so its not just one platform. Sometimes it works fine, but I wouldn't rely on it any more.
Sensationalist crap. Not interesting in the least. A very misleading title to boot. Make it go away.
Ribbon is not so bad, but does waste space. However the rest of Explorer is pretty lame. Tabs? Search and open folders (but not in search mode?) Ability to dock with applications? Split Views? Anything? Anything...you know...USEFUL?
I would say the opposite is true. They are saying "GO FREE MARKET!", because anyone can make an odf format document. Your problem is right there, the "Excel" sheet should be a spreadsheet one happens to use in Excel. Not to mention that if you are doing more then reports in Excel, you have a bigger problem.
Any company, any of those in a supply chain is free to move to any company they wish that can use an open format. Someone has to make standards, and unfortunately, sometimes it starts with the government.
The cake is the IP. Tux brings home MS's supposedly free cake. But the cake is filled with patents, and now they are inside Tux.
Dont do it TUX! The cake is a LIE!
My thoughts too. What about Flash? I would rather trust webgl over flash....
I can imagine a lot of cool things to do with a phone. But first I want one that lasts for at least a month without recharging. Otherwise, no deal.
I dont want to wake anyone either, nor do I want to lose night vision, so I reach for my cell and it lights the way. No need to turn on lights.
You might be right. And that makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a stick. Sharepoint is mediocre at its best and complete rubbish for the rest. Every company has the ability to use the same functions it offers, only better and freely by simply implementing a web server, apps, and a thought out workflow.
But would an add-on make game devs add that functionality? I have played games using a Wii Controller sideways connected with bluetooth on the iphone and that works well (if you can prop the phone up of course), so its technically possible.
I appreciate your honesty, I don't think you are trolling. My biggest concern is others will give up, sometimes computers just are a big pain in the ass no matter what you are using. Maybe I have just gotten lucky, but I am not sure that is true. We use Debian, I gave up on Redhat when they switched to Fedora as the community distro. After using Debian for so long, Fedora confuses me.
I dont know what planet you are on, seriously. Did you just Gentoo or something? My family use linux, the kids have always had it, the eldest always had a choice of windows or linux, but got sick of me having to fix windows, and the wireless never worked right.
My friends use Linux, or dual boot. Its always, and I mean always, windows that I have to support. For the past 4 or so years the Linux boxes just work. I dont mess with them, they install software, play games, do their homework, take their pictures, make videos whatever. Sound, Video, and Wireless work. I just got a new laptop, I came home to see my sig other printing. I asked her how was it to set up the printer. She said, I dunno, I just plugged it in. (usb, she doesnt even know what its called). The was no driver to get, no setup nothing. It just worked.
Yes there are issues in free software world, but less then in windows in my experience, and everybody I know who gets used to it and really doesnt miss windows at all.
ROFLMAO, then explain to me why Linux desktops have the better workflows, more functionality, and dont drive me batshit insane like windows does? I have not used a CLI to manage this Linux box in over a year. Sure I do things with the command line, because I am not some stupid carpal tunnel wannabe such as yourself, nor am I adverse to accomplishing things faster and making repetitive tasks easy, (hmmm is that why windows is getting powershell now?). .BAT file automating some sort of process in their windows environment, so i would say it cuts both ways.
And by they way almost every office I am doing business with still has some
In any case no modern OS should have a GUI alone. I dont want to tech support some computer trying to explain where to click. Open terminal, paste command, and get on with life, linux or windows.
Explorer still doesn't have Tabs, Split views, or push to back, and why the hell can't windows just have all my applications I was using last time just come back after a reboot? Can't Microsoft make a decent desktop environment?