It just irritates me Americans just seem to instantly think of a 30 year old movie as the first thing that comes to mind when they think of Australia
And that's the point, it's a useful piece of iconography on an American site to make 'em go "Australia". It's like having pictures on a menu so the unlettered folk can point at the food they'd like and grunt "four".
I don't think there's an icon for Ireland but if there was, what would it be? Text now and win a prize!
Text "A" for: A Leprechaun! Text "B" for: A Shamrock! Text "C" for: Government corruption and petty revenge! Text "D" for: A bishop covering up a priest's sexual abuse of altar boys!
You're in a mass-market. You can not expect the majority of users to know anything about computers. You can debate that point all you like, but that's how it is. Saying otherwise is like saying only car mechanics should be allowed to drive cars.
No, it's more like saying "people should know how to drive before taking their car on public roads"
There were about 5 dictionary words correctly recognised in the right-way-up version (with a lot of partial recognitions) and a lot of junk in the upside-down. I'm wondering now if there are easily recognised patterns in the junk without the overhead of naively running each "word" (even filtering out/[^a-zA-Z]/) through a cached subset of the language or performing some approx. string matching. Something like counting long, uninterrupted sequences of alpha chars perhaps?
Don't like replying to myself, but an interesting pattern has emerged passing a value of certainty of 100 to gocr (-a 100).
The amount of output is significantly larger (~50-100% more bytes) on recognisable text than upside-down and is very low on images (either way up).
I'm sure there's another way around, but gocr on the top or bottom section wouldn't provide enough data to "overrule" the header / footer, and doing the whole document would be pretty wasteful of computing time...
Well, I just did 2 gocr runs (with defaults) on a fax and its rotation, took about 4 seconds total on a VM sitting on a fairly over-subscribed box. The rotation itself took a negligible amount of time. Not implemented any automatic detection but what would be the overhead there?
There were about 5 dictionary words correctly recognised in the right-way-up version (with a lot of partial recognitions) and a lot of junk in the upside-down. I'm wondering now if there are easily recognised patterns in the junk without the overhead of naively running each "word" (even filtering out/[^a-zA-Z]/) through a cached subset of the language or performing some approx. string matching. Something like counting long, uninterrupted sequences of alpha chars perhaps?
It all falls apart on diagrams/handwritten contents...:)
I work at a federal regulatory agency which is having the same issue. They were asking IT/tech/computer people if there was a solution around. Nobody knew of any software that auto rotates images based on text. Anybody? Reply here.
Run gocr on the document (run 1), rotate it 180 degrees and run gocr on that (run 2).
If (no of dictionary words(run 2) > no of dictionary words(run 1)) {
doc = rotated doc; }
I'd like to point out that long before xkcd there was userfriendly, and that in my circle we still like to and this sort of joke by saying "magnets" and giggle. The "Edward Lorenz, the butterfly and the chaos theory" punchline seems a bit forced (unless you go for the 'M-x butterfly' twist to make the emacs guy get the attention;) )
XKCD is occasionally amusing, UF never was.
Also, inodes? They're talking about DOS... sheesh!
Well the problem here is the saved games are remote and you have to have an authenticated version to connect to it. So a cracked game is not the solution. Or the cracker will have to enable a local save game engine. Which will be tricky to say the least.
A solution might be for the crack to implement a network service of its own which authenticates the gameplay (ugh, it strikes me more now how awful this Ubisoft idea is) and saves files to some local location. Add a hosts file entry or a small patch to the game binary to use the local crack service instead of the real remote one.
In french we say "Assis dans un fauteuil". This means literaly "sat in an armchair". Sorry for this french-ism.
Strange... I do sit in a chair, but I sit on a sofa. It's not a French-ism, it's just another of those wonderful quirks of the English language - even native speakers don't get it right a lot of the time.
It's more than just the graphics. Engineers who can repair items, plant sentry turrets, or the ability to launch flying sentries. Medics who can heal/revive teammates or drain energy from the enemy. The ability to plant spawn points can really make a difference in the game balance too. Saboteurs and cloaked snipers, while not that unique, rounds out the player balance...
Mobile providers are almost all offering bundled broadband deals these days and of course you can get the mobile version is you want to move around more and don't mind coping with only a few GB of bandwidth.
Let's take Meteor... 5GB cap, high latency all the time, frequent connection drop outs, unavailability of 3G (or even edge) in many areas...
Just out of curiosity, what do you really need out of a Creative sound card that you can't get out of the resident sound on a PC? I would think a quadcore PC these days could mix a mountain of channels in software...
I installed an old SB Live! in a new machine last year as the on board card had at least a half second latency during gaming.
The board chipset is ATI SB600 for anyone interested. Not great.
I'd rather they stick with feature-based releases which focus on the quality of features rather than trying to force feature development into a specific duration.
You should try Slackware - Pat only releases when ready.
Apt broke on me again this morning (this time during an upgrade). Find myself thinking "Guh, I wish this was Slack" every time that happens.
don't forget the unexplained brain features that haven't been documented because science can't explain them - like twins feeling what the other feels and people with transplanted organs perceiving memories of the donor.
Explain?! It hasn't even been observed yet.
You might as well say "But your precious science has yet to explain psychic powers and zombies!"
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Hermes: Sweet Sally in the Alley!
*Shivering* ...somewhere...
Sweet.. something of
Oh sweet they're announcing a new sequel to Koyaanisqatsi too, done by valve? Wild.
Well, word is Aperture don't make their laboratory ware from Pyrex but from Philip Glass.
It just irritates me Americans just seem to instantly think of a 30 year old movie as the first thing that comes to mind when they think of Australia
And that's the point, it's a useful piece of iconography on an American site to make 'em go "Australia". It's like having pictures on a menu so the unlettered folk can point at the food they'd like and grunt "four".
I don't think there's an icon for Ireland but if there was, what would it be? Text now and win a prize!
Text "A" for: A Leprechaun!
Text "B" for: A Shamrock!
Text "C" for: Government corruption and petty revenge!
Text "D" for: A bishop covering up a priest's sexual abuse of altar boys!
ENTER NOW!
Cheap cop-out.
You're in a mass-market. You can not expect the majority of users to know anything about computers. You can debate that point all you like, but that's how it is. Saying otherwise is like saying only car mechanics should be allowed to drive cars.
No, it's more like saying "people should know how to drive before taking their car on public roads"
I'm not impressed. Epic had Unreal Engine 3 running on the iPhone back in december last year...
But they have yet to ship a Linux binary. BAH!
The cancer that is killing slashdot or the AIDS that is killing slashdot? You decide!
He's the editor who just got added to my exclusions list!
First on the ogg vorbis vs h.264. You cannot compare ogg vorbis to h.264...
I agree with this completely.
It is more practical to compare ogg theora and h.264.
There were about 5 dictionary words correctly recognised in the right-way-up version (with a lot of partial recognitions) and a lot of junk in the upside-down. I'm wondering now if there are easily recognised patterns in the junk without the overhead of naively running each "word" (even filtering out /[^a-zA-Z]/) through a cached subset of the language or performing some approx. string matching. Something like counting long, uninterrupted sequences of alpha chars perhaps?
Don't like replying to myself, but an interesting pattern has emerged passing a value of certainty of 100 to gocr (-a 100).
The amount of output is significantly larger (~50-100% more bytes) on recognisable text than upside-down and is very low on images (either way up).
Now, experiment with this or go to the pub?
I'm sure there's another way around, but gocr on the top or bottom section wouldn't provide enough data to "overrule" the header / footer, and doing the whole document would be pretty wasteful of computing time...
Well, I just did 2 gocr runs (with defaults) on a fax and its rotation, took about 4 seconds total on a VM sitting on a fairly over-subscribed box. The rotation itself took a negligible amount of time. Not implemented any automatic detection but what would be the overhead there?
There were about 5 dictionary words correctly recognised in the right-way-up version (with a lot of partial recognitions) and a lot of junk in the upside-down. I'm wondering now if there are easily recognised patterns in the junk without the overhead of naively running each "word" (even filtering out /[^a-zA-Z]/) through a cached subset of the language or performing some approx. string matching. Something like counting long, uninterrupted sequences of alpha chars perhaps?
It all falls apart on diagrams/handwritten contents... :)
I work at a federal regulatory agency which is having the same issue. They were asking IT/tech/computer people if there was a solution around. Nobody knew of any software that auto rotates images based on text. Anybody? Reply here.
Run gocr on the document (run 1), rotate it 180 degrees and run gocr on that (run 2).
If (no of dictionary words(run 2) > no of dictionary words(run 1)) {
doc = rotated doc;
}
I'd like to point out that long before xkcd there was userfriendly, and that in my circle we still like to and this sort of joke by saying "magnets" and giggle. The "Edward Lorenz, the butterfly and the chaos theory" punchline seems a bit forced (unless you go for the 'M-x butterfly' twist to make the emacs guy get the attention ;) )
XKCD is occasionally amusing, UF never was.
Also, inodes? They're talking about DOS... sheesh!
Frankly, it doesn't matter if it happens to OS X. What matters is that it could become the standard going forward...
This is where I tuned out.
What are you doing posting on slashdot? Haven't you called a series of interminable meetings to sap the time and will from your colleagues?
Well the problem here is the saved games are remote and you have to have an authenticated version to connect to it. So a cracked game is not the solution. Or the cracker will have to enable a local save game engine. Which will be tricky to say the least.
A solution might be for the crack to implement a network service of its own which authenticates the gameplay (ugh, it strikes me more now how awful this Ubisoft idea is) and saves files to some local location. Add a hosts file entry or a small patch to the game binary to use the local crack service instead of the real remote one.
The machine you link to doesn't come with RAM or HD. The box in question does.
Yes it does. 320GB 2.5" HDD and 2GB DDR2.
Click Product Specification in the link I posted.
But you missed the point of the machine
I didn't miss the point, I just feel it may be ever so slightly overpriced.
English is not my native language.
In french we say "Assis dans un fauteuil". This means literaly "sat in an armchair". Sorry for this french-ism.
Strange... I do sit in a chair, but I sit on a sofa. It's not a French-ism, it's just another of those wonderful quirks of the English language - even native speakers don't get it right a lot of the time.
The prices approach the price of Apple hardware. I'd rather get a Mac and run Linux on an open source VM.
I'd rather get an ASRock Ion 330 for over 100 quid less.
Oh wait... I did!
It's more than just the graphics. Engineers who can repair items, plant sentry turrets, or the ability to launch flying sentries. Medics who can heal/revive teammates or drain energy from the enemy. The ability to plant spawn points can really make a difference in the game balance too. Saboteurs and cloaked snipers, while not that unique, rounds out the player balance...
Yeah, Enemy Territory is great.
Huh? What the fuck is "Kill Zone"?
Well, how do you think you would feel if you were dumped after 10 years?
My kingdom for a mod point!
Bravo, sir.
You have some mobile providers listed there - they're not broadband
Taking just Vodafone out of the list they do a full set of both mobile and home broadband in Ireland.
Mobile providers are almost all offering bundled broadband deals these days and of course you can get the mobile version is you want to move around more and don't mind coping with only a few GB of bandwidth.
Let's take Meteor... 5GB cap, high latency all the time, frequent connection drop outs, unavailability of 3G (or even edge) in many areas...
Not very broad, in other words.
there are plenty of alternatives to Eircom in Ireland, BT, Smart Telecom, Perlico, UPC, Meteor, O2, Vodafone to name but a few
You have some mobile providers listed there - they're not broadband...
Just out of curiosity, what do you really need out of a Creative sound card that you can't get out of the resident sound on a PC? I would think a quadcore PC these days could mix a mountain of channels in software...
I installed an old SB Live! in a new machine last year as the on board card had at least a half second latency during gaming.
The board chipset is ATI SB600 for anyone interested. Not great.
You can always tar/configure/make in Debian just like you can in Slackware.
I don't generally build from source...
I'd rather they stick with feature-based releases which focus on the quality of features rather than trying to force feature development into a specific duration.
You should try Slackware - Pat only releases when ready.
Apt broke on me again this morning (this time during an upgrade). Find myself thinking "Guh, I wish this was Slack" every time that happens.
don't forget the unexplained brain features that haven't been documented because science can't explain them - like twins feeling what the other feels and people with transplanted organs perceiving memories of the donor.
Explain?! It hasn't even been observed yet.
You might as well say "But your precious science has yet to explain psychic powers and zombies!"
I have of course heard of the comedy program 2.4 children.
That was comedy?! Jesus...