thats ridiculous... OCR is not needed in this scenario, it is easy enough to write a program to find out what colour the background and foreground of text is, its probably just takes too much time to factor this in to the equation. your method would take _at least_ 10 seconds to even check a simple page (assuming all the code worked, which it wouldn't, cuz its OCR).
and, this way you are giving a lower ranking to pages which use text in images. it is not good practice to have all the text embedded in images, but it is often necessary for sytle purposes; an example being the logo of a site (ok, alt= should handle this). hell, i even do it! its cleaner than hoping the person on the other side can render the same fonts as me (which would be impossible cuz i filtered then thorugh GIMP to add some effects).
a lot of sites auto detect robots based on what you are saying, and either block them or launch a seek-and-destroy attack against you. to get around this, the file/robots.txt (which every large site should have) WILL be read by the google/yahoo prowler no matter what, and abided by. it plays the prominent role in what the search engines read... not the server reading the browser tag.
thats without even going into the algorithms of matching the read OCR text up against the text from the source.
need good support for OpenGL on [...] ATI graphics cards [...] we only have binary drivers
NO WE BLOODY WELL DON'T!! why dont people RTFM and find out that XFree86 have been writing their own accelerated (yes, 3D as well) drivers for ATI cards since time began... as they release the specs. sure, ati also make their own, but XFree86 also make them. and they also work on FreeBSD. also, incase you didn't notice, the linux kernel even ships with the radeon and ati Direct Rendering Modules.
if i have to point this out ONE MORE TIME on slashdot, i swear to god i'm gonna explode...
i wouldnt think for a minute that binary only drivers would work with Y... but i'd like to hear how different at the level of the source code, the drivers are from teh XFree86 ones... i.e., how hard will it be to port over XFree86 drivers? (assuming no license issues, which there will be since Y windows is GPL)
this is one of the most exciting projects i have ever seen... and it has appeared at JUST the right time with the XFree86 team being assholes, and the FreeDesktop.org guys without a useable server... they are almost on a par.
if someone could make an X11R6 compatibility layer on top of this thing... everyone oculd start using it (once drivers are made) and that is all the encouragement anybody needs to start porting their programs (or toolkits). but porting a toolkit kinda defeats the purpose, as this new implementation is trying to get rid of the need for multiple toolkit.
but to be quite honest, the thing i am most excited about is the license... fully GPL (probably someone will advice them to go LGPL)... which means no more jokes about GNU/Linux needing to be called GNU/XFree86/Linux:-)
i must say, it is VERY rare that Mandrake or Redhat ever impress me... but i am impressed; until now only bleeding edge LFS users (and probably gentoo has some way of doing this) were using the Native POSIX Threads Library.
being able to use it is one of the things i have looked forward to in the 2.6 series the most. I just switched from LFS to Debian, and i dont think even debian offer NPTL yet; and despite all the flaming they get for ancient packages in "stable" releases, "testing/unstable" is usually the first to implement something like this.
its a kind of "unoffical claim"... thats why i used _marks_ around claim. officially you can get an irish passport if your grandparents were born before ~1921 in northern ireland (can't remember date, im not a historian), but you will pretty much get one if you are from northern ireland and apply.
rumour has it that using the irish name of your place of birth helps, and don't go doing something stupid like getting a protestant minister to sign the back of your passport photo:-/, but thats probably all just folklore... i don't know anyone who has been rejected.
well since the island called Ireland is not connected to the island called "Great Britain", does that clarify anything for you?
if you are born in Northern Ireland, you are British and Irish dual nationality. most are too stupid to realise the benefits this can bring them (e.g. 2 visas in a lifetime, entry through countries at war with the UK) and reject one.
however, as to your original point: no Northern Ireland is not part of "Britain" (the shortened form of "Great Britain" the island), but yes it is under British rule, and yes it is part of the United Kingdom. The Republic of Ireland (the country) still _claims_ sovereignty, and thats why you are entitled to an Irish passport.
we speak "British English" everywhere in Ireland, not just the north, of course we call it "English" and your strange ways we call "American English". i would only ever say "British English" when speaking to an American, for emphasis.
most late-period colonial countries are the same (i know they all set their dictionaries to "British English" in South Africa at least)
why not just use LaTeX then? i've always found the default font choices to be of a publishing quality, and if you want to change them... its only a single line at the top of your.tex file.
all maths and physics journals which i am aware of require papers to be submitted in LaTeX (maybe with a few extra macros they write around LaTeX)
are you serious? well... the "before" looks more realistic if you imagine it as a chocolate monkey... but its supposed to be bronze; in which case you must be mad if you think it is more realistic than the "after" image!
in the UK the courts are a way to settle injustice; unlike in the US where courtcases are seen as a second income.
the courtroom will not have its time wasted on stupid bickering like you suggest. and besides, i'm sure they will include some kind of description of email/txt which falls under this law... otherwise ANY txt and email from a company at the moment is illegal.
but is that free as in freedom, or as in beer? will they be releasing specs so that possibly free-er alternatives can be made to interoperate with yahoos product? will they block out 3rd parties?
if they do not share the technology completely, this is a bad thing as yahoo will have some kind of power over all email servers. the article doesnt go into those kind of details... does anyone know any more, and like to share the knowledge?
you know, i was disappointed by the ending.. but i think no matter what would have happenned, we would have been disapointing; its a geeks movie series and noone could have lived up to the hype, so dont blame the creators.
now, the only way i can think of making the ending really cool would have been to have multiple endings... and not tell anyone!! with the matrix being such a big movie... one which even philosophers talk about... you can only begin to think of the havoc that kind of thing would have on people.
but, i dont think they did that... or did they?;-)
Both it and Opteron are more cost-effective than UNIX and SPARC, respectively.
ok, opteron is cheaper than sparc (not as good, mind)... but, what do you mean by Solaris is cheaper than UNIX? surely Solaris IS one of the few registered true UNIX operating systems: a feat that GNU/Linux is not aiming towards. i'm not sure if the *BSDs are exluded for not hitting the standards compliance, or if they just didnt want to fork out the cash to "sit the exam".
i believe you'll find its irish whiskEy go to "The Spelling of";-) and i didnt know they made "single malt bushmills"... last time i checked it was always triple. i would ask someone to check that up, if it wasnt for the fact that i have a bottle here it is is clearly triple... only dem mad scots drinks singles. (by the way, blackbush is a blend). what im getting it is... that webiste sells fantastic stuff, but they dont know shit from crap. (and i cant believe they export the 21-year to bloody foreigners... aah f**k it, i cant afford it anyway)
and before some smart-arse scot says it... "irish whiskey is always triple distilled becuase it takes them 3 times to get it right" (i'll let yous believe that... more bush for me:-P)
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and, this way you are giving a lower ranking to pages which use text in images. it is not good practice to have all the text embedded in images, but it is often necessary for sytle purposes; an example being the logo of a site (ok, alt= should handle this). hell, i even do it! its cleaner than hoping the person on the other side can render the same fonts as me (which would be impossible cuz i filtered then thorugh GIMP to add some effects).
a lot of sites auto detect robots based on what you are saying, and either block them or launch a seek-and-destroy attack against you. to get around this, the file /robots.txt (which every large site should have) WILL be read by the google/yahoo prowler no matter what, and abided by. it plays the prominent role in what the search engines read... not the server reading the browser tag.
thats without even going into the algorithms of matching the read OCR text up against the text from the source.
nah, its more like... Brian Blessed. GORDONS ALIVE?????
NO WE BLOODY WELL DON'T!! why dont people RTFM and find out that XFree86 have been writing their own accelerated (yes, 3D as well) drivers for ATI cards since time began... as they release the specs. sure, ati also make their own, but XFree86 also make them. and they also work on FreeBSD. also, incase you didn't notice, the linux kernel even ships with the radeon and ati Direct Rendering Modules.
if i have to point this out ONE MORE TIME on slashdot, i swear to god i'm gonna explode...
i wouldnt think for a minute that binary only drivers would work with Y... but i'd like to hear how different at the level of the source code, the drivers are from teh XFree86 ones... i.e., how hard will it be to port over XFree86 drivers? (assuming no license issues, which there will be since Y windows is GPL)
this is one of the most exciting projects i have ever seen... and it has appeared at JUST the right time with the XFree86 team being assholes, and the FreeDesktop.org guys without a useable server... they are almost on a par.
if someone could make an X11R6 compatibility layer on top of this thing... everyone oculd start using it (once drivers are made) and that is all the encouragement anybody needs to start porting their programs (or toolkits). but porting a toolkit kinda defeats the purpose, as this new implementation is trying to get rid of the need for multiple toolkit.
but to be quite honest, the thing i am most excited about is the license... fully GPL (probably someone will advice them to go LGPL)... which means no more jokes about GNU/Linux needing to be called GNU/XFree86/Linux :-)
i must say, it is VERY rare that Mandrake or Redhat ever impress me... but i am impressed; until now only bleeding edge LFS users (and probably gentoo has some way of doing this) were using the Native POSIX Threads Library.
being able to use it is one of the things i have looked forward to in the 2.6 series the most. I just switched from LFS to Debian, and i dont think even debian offer NPTL yet; and despite all the flaming they get for ancient packages in "stable" releases, "testing/unstable" is usually the first to implement something like this.
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we are nearly ready to release the section on physics to the world :-D
we also have sections on maths, chemisty and biology in the pipeline.
rumour has it that using the irish name of your place of birth helps, and don't go doing something stupid like getting a protestant minister to sign the back of your passport photo :-/, but thats probably all just folklore... i don't know anyone who has been rejected.
if you are born in Northern Ireland, you are British and Irish dual nationality. most are too stupid to realise the benefits this can bring them (e.g. 2 visas in a lifetime, entry through countries at war with the UK) and reject one.
however, as to your original point: no Northern Ireland is not part of "Britain" (the shortened form of "Great Britain" the island), but yes it is under British rule, and yes it is part of the United Kingdom. The Republic of Ireland (the country) still _claims_ sovereignty, and thats why you are entitled to an Irish passport.
To me, its a perfect deal!
most late-period colonial countries are the same (i know they all set their dictionaries to "British English" in South Africa at least)
"Kiss Technology failed to answer our inquiry for their source files (which they are obligated to provide), so this news entry is posted."
hmm, i just got caught by a troll, didnt i :-/
all maths and physics journals which i am aware of require papers to be submitted in LaTeX (maybe with a few extra macros they write around LaTeX)
are you serious? well... the "before" looks more realistic if you imagine it as a chocolate monkey... but its supposed to be bronze; in which case you must be mad if you think it is more realistic than the "after" image!
then go to releases/ARCH/ISO-IMAGES/5.2-RC1
the courtroom will not have its time wasted on stupid bickering like you suggest. and besides, i'm sure they will include some kind of description of email/txt which falls under this law... otherwise ANY txt and email from a company at the moment is illegal.
you clearly haven't been to here. and i thought goatse was bad...
if they do not share the technology completely, this is a bad thing as yahoo will have some kind of power over all email servers. the article doesnt go into those kind of details... does anyone know any more, and like to share the knowledge?
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now, the only way i can think of making the ending really cool would have been to have multiple endings... and not tell anyone!! with the matrix being such a big movie... one which even philosophers talk about... you can only begin to think of the havoc that kind of thing would have on people.
but, i dont think they did that... or did they? ;-)
ok, opteron is cheaper than sparc (not as good, mind)... but, what do you mean by Solaris is cheaper than UNIX? surely Solaris IS one of the few registered true UNIX operating systems: a feat that GNU/Linux is not aiming towards. i'm not sure if the *BSDs are exluded for not hitting the standards compliance, or if they just didnt want to fork out the cash to "sit the exam".
that is a stupid question
What if RMS was sane?
that is a much more sensible question, but asked in a profoundly stupid way
and before some smart-arse scot says it... "irish whiskey is always triple distilled becuase it takes them 3 times to get it right" (i'll let yous believe that... more bush for me :-P)
aaah, not Johnny Walkers, ok i thought yous had all lost your mind there! everyone knows this is what REAL hackers drink ;-)
well, id think not... mach 5 biting at your "end" is gotta burn something off!
is that a european, or an african cat?
some people just don't RTFA, do they...
what??? you mean i've been wasting my time here!!!!