Apple has introduced dozens of new tgs into the RSS spec just to handle wonderful iTunes specific stuff. The feeds designed for iTunes will work in other aggregators, for now. I am sure that eventually the will introduce and require soemthign that breaks other podcatchers
I remember having one of the logitech ones - 24 bit color 300dpi and it was motorized so you did not have to worry about moving the things at the right speed. I bought it for $125. I also had a flatbed at work that cost $500. (this was '87or so)
That is the kind of scanner I would like to have right now, something that I can throw in the laptop case, scan a 4x6 image reasonably fast. Does not have to have the same quality as my flatbed. I could use my camera but I do not carry my camera everywhere I go, it is generally at home unless I carry it when we go out with the kids. I guess I could buy a seperate camera just to have for this purpose, and cheap 3-4 mp cameras can be had in the $100-$150 range now anyway, which puts it where the hand scanner used to be. Even one of the cheap ones would be good enough for what I am talking about, and I would always have a camera with me.... its a thought... What would really be good would be a decent 3mp camera phone. I do have my phone with me all the time.
Have you been able to get a picture good enough to run it through OCR? I used to do that all the time with the hand scanner, which was perfectly sized for a column of type.
Its a shame really. Hand scanners seemed to ahve peaked in popularity before their time. I understand that they were popular because they were a lot cheaper to build that flatbeds, and as flatbeds came down in price, the hand scanners died away. Seems perfectly reasonable since the handscanner was a pretty ppor match for a desktop computer anyway. The only problem with this was that as the price of flatbeds fell, so did the price of laptops, now a lot of folks have laptops, and hand scanners would be perfect to throw in the laptop bag.... If you are in a library or somehwhere and need a quick scan, the hand scanner would have been perfect. But I have not been able to find a single color hand scanner that will run with XP, which is what I run on my laptop. If I could find one, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. The last time I needed a scan of something when I was not at home, I ended up puling out my digital camera (which I had with me for another reason, and snapping a picture. This was not the ideal situation, but it worked for what I needed. How often do you have a good digital camera with you (not the crappy one in your cell phone)
Does anyone know of a handscanner compatible with XP? I'd still like to have one.
You pay for it this way because that is how the vendors choose to sell it. You can purhcase other software if this does not suit you.... Why do you pay several thousand dollars for a car, because that is the price. Want something cheaper, buy another model.
find a host, start a wiki and lets write the book. (When its done, we publish and split the profits among those involved;-), no, not really)
I know there have to be some folks here on/. who know these programs in and out. I am no GIMP expert, but I spent 12 years in printing doing photo retouching with Photoshop. I think I know it pretty well...Just from having done so much of this, I know the theory behind a lot of it. I would contribute to such a site. I get tired of having people ask me how to do something, or how something can be done, and of course they do not have Photoshop. They may have GIMP, but I can tell you the keystrokes in Photoshop, not GIMP. If I could point them to a place where they can learn the theory, with notes on the implementation by the different programs, it would be great. If you really are interested in this, then do more than just ask slashdot, set upa project and lets get started.
Just because thw web site is nothign put a parked domain someplace full of banner ads does not mean that this is an unused domain. I own a domain name. I have no web site. Perhaps I should put one up, but it is not a high priority as I have used the name for years for email , not a web site. Perhaps this person is using the name for email, perhaps they just want a static name to hit when they telnet into a machine, that is just as legitimate a use as your company. Might want to find out what they are using it for before you jump into anything legal
If they sold them for $200 to people who can afford it, they could donate one for each one sold and not lose all that money
This is a fantastic idea. If the $100 price to sell to foreign govt's is not a loss, but actually covers the cost, then why license the machine to commercial ventures to sell for $200 and only see $20-30 out of it like Negraponte suggests. Why not sell meone for $200 and take the $100 profit to cover the entire cost of one donated
The article does not say these will be donated, it says they wil be sold to the governments to distribute. The real question becomes does the $100 that the govt pays cover the manufacturing cost, in which case a $200 sale to me would buy one to donate as well, or is it only partial to minimize loss.
I'd personally love to have one of these as an eBook reader is nothing else. Doesn't need storage... I have a USB pen drive, holds a GB, and that is a lot of books. Something with those specs just might make eBooks a bit more popular. Its a functioning computer that can actually be used for something other than eBooks, power consumption is not a real problem, the screen will have a mode to read in daylight, it can fold like a book or tablet... and its fairly small.... something you can carry into the john with you. Put me on the waiting list, I'm ready, and $200 is a nice price point as well
I am not sure about all libraries who are using WMA, but here in Maryland, all of the libraries share resources in what is known as the Maryland eLibrary consortium, so they all use the same tech, and when we download an audio book this way, the wma file includes a lisence to burn to CD. Yes folks, you can burn to CD. They are trusting that you will not burn to CD and keep it, or rip it back to mp3. You can burn to disc and listen to it in you car or wherever you have a cd player. I have listened to about 10 audio books from their library. Its a brilliant Idea. no reutrn trip to the library to return the books. If its currently unavailable (yes, they honor the one copy, one borrower at a time poilicy) I put it on hold, and they send me an email when it is available, and I have 3 days to pick it up. The only problem is that you can not return the books early.
I don't see an honest opinion here as flamebait. Its not like the poster said "Microsoft rulez", he simply states that the business world uses Windows, this is true. If its on a desk at a business, its running windows (and if its not, then you are part of such a statistically insignificant segment that you do not count). If the poster wants the tools of a pro, and wants to be a pro, then do what those in the profession do, run windows, run the right tools.
Come on, I dislike MS as much as the next Slashdotter (the company, not the products. I think they have a few outstanding products, some that are alrights, and a lot of crap, like any other big software company and certainly just like the F/OSS world) , but the right tool for the right job. If the tools exist, but not for our platform, then you are using the wrong platform for the job
This is exactly what the taskbar allows you to do. Try this on a windows box... open a few windows, grab a file from the top window, while hoilding it, drag to taskbar, you will see one, or many buttons for open explroer windows, depending on if you have them set to group. If it is set to group, then hover over the group for a second, and it will expand and show you all the windows open, while still hoolding the mouse, drag to the name of the window you want to move to (or of not grouped, just hover over the button for the window). That window will pop to the front, at which time ou can drag to it and release. The whol procedure takes about 2 seconds and work quite well.... You can use this to drag files into open applications as well.. I use it all the time to drag files into a running copy of photoshop
There should be continuous data loss as the nail grows. I would assume that the 5mb that they mention would be the entire nail, but part of that data would be lost as soon as you cut or bit your nails, or if they broke off.... Not really sure what you would use this for other than biometric identification, but you would have to be sure that the person did not allow the nail to grow out completely and then cut it off and use the nail as an overlay later.
Finally, a voice of reason. True, this does not help the win2k users out there, and you know what? patches realeased now do not help the folks who are still using the linux 1.x kernels, the OS has moved on, MS has moved on. XP is, what?, 3 or 4 years old now. Its on SP2 for God's sake. If you have not moved up, then fine, use what works for you, and if it does not work for you then don't compalin that they are not making it work for you.
I have a slew of machines, evenly split between Windows and non-Windows machines. NT5.0 was a huge step forward as far as stability went, and 5.1 was a huge step forward as far as ease of use went for many users (though mine has been returned to the non-playschool look because that is what *I* prefer). Its not perfect, but then again, nothing is. Much of what I do is under Windows, and I have no real reason to complain. My machines are behind a firewall, I don't reboot my desktops except for the odd update that requires is, and I only shut down my laptops running windows when I take them out of the house (Off still uses less battery than standby and I'd rather have the extra 15-30 minutes of power than save 30-60 seconds of boot time).
So MS is now trying to make their OS, the current one better. Great. I think its a wonderful idea. I applaud the effort. Since XP is their current OS, its not too late, and if it works, its not too little.
Grow up folks. The "My Dad is better than your Dad" attitude does nothing to help the cause. Show valid reasons why things are better now, and don't act like my 2 year old when the competition fixes something to close the gap, instead, make something better to re-open it, that is how you win.
For this price, you could buy a very nice PDA like device or table PC, hit Gutenberg, they have many of these books, and a lot of other not in the collection. A nice little perl script to do formatting, and you have a much better collection, and a tablet PC to boot
what was more embarrassing is how badly open office mangled the powerpoint presentation, and you KNOW it did.
the dump may not be such a bad idea
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Not sure about the dump in your locality, but where I live, just before you enter the dump per se, there is a steel building. There you will usually find hundreds of items that people think are too valuable to throw away, but they have no need for... I dropped off a few old computer chasis and an older printer, monitor and some cables one Friday afternoon. Found something else Saturday morning, and by the time I got back there, the stuff I had dropped off Friday was gone to a good home. See if there is something simialr in your area. If not, talk to someone about starting something like it
The continuity should not be a problem really. Yes, the boys voices will change, but the only ones that will really be a problem is Eustace and Jill who would likely have grown quite a bit between "Silver Chair" and Final battle. Peter should be older in "Prince Caspian", and then Susan does not return (he is supposed to be older in fnal battle, so it will not be an issue) then Edmund and Lucy will be in Caspian and Dawn treader with Eustace), but they are to old to come back for silver chair, so Eustace and Jill make their appearance. All is well until then. They would just have to gamble that magician's nephew and boy and his horse will do well enough and film final battle then, sacrifice continuity by having Eustace and Jill be a bit older than they should be in the final movie.
and in spite of the usual low budge BBS production, those shows, (LW&W, Prince Caspian, Dawn Treader and Silver Chair) were all fantastic. With the exception on the city under the sea n dawn treader, I don't think they took any liberties with C.S. Lewis' books at all.... I am sure that DIsney wil not be as kind. Disney, the Politically correct mass marketting machine, producing what are essentially extended metaphors for Christian beliefs. I can't wait until it comes out to see how they butcher it. I am sure that Peter will not kill the wolf, (a child, kill?) I wonder how they will explain the magic deeper than the deep magic that states that if a willing victim gives his life, death will be defeated. OUtta be interesting.
Where do you live? Everyone I know has a terms of service agreement that restricts what they can do with "their" bandwidth (an in fact, my ISP blocks port 80)
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Apple has introduced dozens of new tgs into the RSS spec just to handle wonderful iTunes specific stuff. The feeds designed for iTunes will work in other aggregators, for now. I am sure that eventually the will introduce and require soemthign that breaks other podcatchers
I remember having one of the logitech ones - 24 bit color 300dpi and it was motorized so you did not have to worry about moving the things at the right speed. I bought it for $125. I also had a flatbed at work that cost $500. (this was '87or so)
That is the kind of scanner I would like to have right now, something that I can throw in the laptop case, scan a 4x6 image reasonably fast. Does not have to have the same quality as my flatbed. I could use my camera but I do not carry my camera everywhere I go, it is generally at home unless I carry it when we go out with the kids. I guess I could buy a seperate camera just to have for this purpose, and cheap 3-4 mp cameras can be had in the $100-$150 range now anyway, which puts it where the hand scanner used to be. Even one of the cheap ones would be good enough for what I am talking about, and I would always have a camera with me.... its a thought... What would really be good would be a decent 3mp camera phone. I do have my phone with me all the time.
Have you been able to get a picture good enough to run it through OCR? I used to do that all the time with the hand scanner, which was perfectly sized for a column of type.
Its a shame really. Hand scanners seemed to ahve peaked in popularity before their time. I understand that they were popular because they were a lot cheaper to build that flatbeds, and as flatbeds came down in price, the hand scanners died away. Seems perfectly reasonable since the handscanner was a pretty ppor match for a desktop computer anyway. The only problem with this was that as the price of flatbeds fell, so did the price of laptops, now a lot of folks have laptops, and hand scanners would be perfect to throw in the laptop bag.... If you are in a library or somehwhere and need a quick scan, the hand scanner would have been perfect. But I have not been able to find a single color hand scanner that will run with XP, which is what I run on my laptop. If I could find one, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. The last time I needed a scan of something when I was not at home, I ended up puling out my digital camera (which I had with me for another reason, and snapping a picture. This was not the ideal situation, but it worked for what I needed. How often do you have a good digital camera with you (not the crappy one in your cell phone)
Does anyone know of a handscanner compatible with XP? I'd still like to have one.
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This might have been a great line, if you had spelled satan correctly.
You pay for it this way because that is how the vendors choose to sell it. You can purhcase other software if this does not suit you.... Why do you pay several thousand dollars for a car, because that is the price. Want something cheaper, buy another model.
find a host, start a wiki and lets write the book. (When its done, we publish and split the profits among those involved ;-), no, not really)
/. who know these programs in and out. I am no GIMP expert, but I spent 12 years in printing doing photo retouching with Photoshop. I think I know it pretty well...Just from having done so much of this, I know the theory behind a lot of it. I would contribute to such a site. I get tired of having people ask me how to do something, or how something can be done, and of course they do not have Photoshop. They may have GIMP, but I can tell you the keystrokes in Photoshop, not GIMP. If I could point them to a place where they can learn the theory, with notes on the implementation by the different programs, it would be great. If you really are interested in this, then do more than just ask slashdot, set upa project and lets get started.
I know there have to be some folks here on
of course it will, silly, NetBSD will run on anything, including my Red LED wrist watch from 1979.
Just because thw web site is nothign put a parked domain someplace full of banner ads does not mean that this is an unused domain. I own a domain name. I have no web site. Perhaps I should put one up, but it is not a high priority as I have used the name for years for email , not a web site. Perhaps this person is using the name for email, perhaps they just want a static name to hit when they telnet into a machine, that is just as legitimate a use as your company. Might want to find out what they are using it for before you jump into anything legal
If they sold them for $200 to people who can afford it, they could donate one for each one sold and not lose all that money
This is a fantastic idea. If the $100 price to sell to foreign govt's is not a loss, but actually covers the cost, then why license the machine to commercial ventures to sell for $200 and only see $20-30 out of it like Negraponte suggests. Why not sell meone for $200 and take the $100 profit to cover the entire cost of one donated
The article does not say these will be donated, it says they wil be sold to the governments to distribute. The real question becomes does the $100 that the govt pays cover the manufacturing cost, in which case a $200 sale to me would buy one to donate as well, or is it only partial to minimize loss.
I'd personally love to have one of these as an eBook reader is nothing else. Doesn't need storage... I have a USB pen drive, holds a GB, and that is a lot of books. Something with those specs just might make eBooks a bit more popular. Its a functioning computer that can actually be used for something other than eBooks, power consumption is not a real problem, the screen will have a mode to read in daylight, it can fold like a book or tablet... and its fairly small.... something you can carry into the john with you. Put me on the waiting list, I'm ready, and $200 is a nice price point as well
and at $500, it does NOT fit in the $3-400 price range, which is still way too high for this functionanlity.
I am not sure about all libraries who are using WMA, but here in Maryland, all of the libraries share resources in what is known as the Maryland eLibrary consortium, so they all use the same tech, and when we download an audio book this way, the wma file includes a lisence to burn to CD. Yes folks, you can burn to CD. They are trusting that you will not burn to CD and keep it, or rip it back to mp3. You can burn to disc and listen to it in you car or wherever you have a cd player. I have listened to about 10 audio books from their library. Its a brilliant Idea. no reutrn trip to the library to return the books. If its currently unavailable (yes, they honor the one copy, one borrower at a time poilicy) I put it on hold, and they send me an email when it is available, and I have 3 days to pick it up. The only problem is that you can not return the books early.
I don't see an honest opinion here as flamebait. Its not like the poster said "Microsoft rulez", he simply states that the business world uses Windows, this is true. If its on a desk at a business, its running windows (and if its not, then you are part of such a statistically insignificant segment that you do not count). If the poster wants the tools of a pro, and wants to be a pro, then do what those in the profession do, run windows, run the right tools.
Come on, I dislike MS as much as the next Slashdotter (the company, not the products. I think they have a few outstanding products, some that are alrights, and a lot of crap, like any other big software company and certainly just like the F/OSS world) , but the right tool for the right job. If the tools exist, but not for our platform, then you are using the wrong platform for the job
tags anyone.... really standards compliant...
or its precursor, only in reality......
I wonder if some model predicted that Asimov would write about the concept....
makes the mind reel
This is exactly what the taskbar allows you to do. Try this on a windows box... open a few windows, grab a file from the top window, while hoilding it, drag to taskbar, you will see one, or many buttons for open explroer windows, depending on if you have them set to group. If it is set to group, then hover over the group for a second, and it will expand and show you all the windows open, while still hoolding the mouse, drag to the name of the window you want to move to (or of not grouped, just hover over the button for the window). That window will pop to the front, at which time ou can drag to it and release. The whol procedure takes about 2 seconds and work quite well.... You can use this to drag files into open applications as well.. I use it all the time to drag files into a running copy of photoshop
There should be continuous data loss as the nail grows. I would assume that the 5mb that they mention would be the entire nail, but part of that data would be lost as soon as you cut or bit your nails, or if they broke off.... Not really sure what you would use this for other than biometric identification, but you would have to be sure that the person did not allow the nail to grow out completely and then cut it off and use the nail as an overlay later.
Finally, a voice of reason. True, this does not help the win2k users out there, and you know what? patches realeased now do not help the folks who are still using the linux 1.x kernels, the OS has moved on, MS has moved on. XP is, what?, 3 or 4 years old now. Its on SP2 for God's sake. If you have not moved up, then fine, use what works for you, and if it does not work for you then don't compalin that they are not making it work for you.
I have a slew of machines, evenly split between Windows and non-Windows machines. NT5.0 was a huge step forward as far as stability went, and 5.1 was a huge step forward as far as ease of use went for many users (though mine has been returned to the non-playschool look because that is what *I* prefer). Its not perfect, but then again, nothing is. Much of what I do is under Windows, and I have no real reason to complain. My machines are behind a firewall, I don't reboot my desktops except for the odd update that requires is, and I only shut down my laptops running windows when I take them out of the house (Off still uses less battery than standby and I'd rather have the extra 15-30 minutes of power than save 30-60 seconds of boot time).
So MS is now trying to make their OS, the current one better. Great. I think its a wonderful idea. I applaud the effort. Since XP is their current OS, its not too late, and if it works, its not too little.
Grow up folks. The "My Dad is better than your Dad" attitude does nothing to help the cause. Show valid reasons why things are better now, and don't act like my 2 year old when the competition fixes something to close the gap, instead, make something better to re-open it, that is how you win.
For this price, you could buy a very nice PDA like device or table PC, hit Gutenberg, they have many of these books, and a lot of other not in the collection. A nice little perl script to do formatting, and you have a much better collection, and a tablet PC to boot
what was more embarrassing is how badly open office mangled the powerpoint presentation, and you KNOW it did.
Not sure about the dump in your locality, but where I live, just before you enter the dump per se, there is a steel building. There you will usually find hundreds of items that people think are too valuable to throw away, but they have no need for... I dropped off a few old computer chasis and an older printer, monitor and some cables one Friday afternoon. Found something else Saturday morning, and by the time I got back there, the stuff I had dropped off Friday was gone to a good home. See if there is something simialr in your area. If not, talk to someone about starting something like it
The continuity should not be a problem really. Yes, the boys voices will change, but the only ones that will really be a problem is Eustace and Jill who would likely have grown quite a bit between "Silver Chair" and Final battle. Peter should be older in "Prince Caspian", and then Susan does not return (he is supposed to be older in fnal battle, so it will not be an issue) then Edmund and Lucy will be in Caspian and Dawn treader with Eustace), but they are to old to come back for silver chair, so Eustace and Jill make their appearance. All is well until then. They would just have to gamble that magician's nephew and boy and his horse will do well enough and film final battle then, sacrifice continuity by having Eustace and Jill be a bit older than they should be in the final movie.
and in spite of the usual low budge BBS production, those shows, (LW&W, Prince Caspian, Dawn Treader and Silver Chair) were all fantastic. With the exception on the city under the sea n dawn treader, I don't think they took any liberties with C.S. Lewis' books at all.... I am sure that DIsney wil not be as kind. Disney, the Politically correct mass marketting machine, producing what are essentially extended metaphors for Christian beliefs. I can't wait until it comes out to see how they butcher it. I am sure that Peter will not kill the wolf, (a child, kill?) I wonder how they will explain the magic deeper than the deep magic that states that if a willing victim gives his life, death will be defeated. OUtta be interesting.
I can do whatever I want with that bandwidth
Where do you live? Everyone I know has a terms of service agreement that restricts what they can do with "their" bandwidth (an in fact, my ISP blocks port 80)
NOPE!, a 3MP camera, well 3.2, is 2048x1536. So a 1 MP camera would be 1152x864 or so, if square, it would be 1000x1000.