Probably the best format for the open OCR to look at is something many modern photocopiers create these days: PDFs. To use them now, you've got to convert them into TIFF files or other image format, but being able to perform OCR on PDFs seems like a natural solution. That, or fax images...
That's a good point. There's no need to fight over this. I think the reason CNR hasn't taken off is simply that no distro has bothered to make it their primary package installer, except maybe Linspire (IIRC). The reason that APT and RPM are both so popular is that so many other distros are based on Debian or Red Hat. What else is based on Linspire?
Packaging it with Feisty might help speed acceptance. As long as I don't have to lose my precious APT, I'll be happy to have CNR as an option.
The same principle that applies to your son living in your household. It's your property, not his, so you should have some say over how your property, including the computer you foolishly allowed him to have in his room, is used. You have the right, if not the obligation, to tell Junior that he can't cruise porn sites or adult chatrooms. He can get his own apartment (preferably next to the adult bookstore) if that's the way he wants to behave.
Using a CLI requires two things: the ability to read, and the ability to type (even if it's just hunt-and-peck typing).
If a user can't do that, they need to learn. There are too many users that shut off their brains when they sit in front of a computer and it needs to stop.
While I prefer doing Ubuntu things through Gnome-enabled synaptic, I agree with this post. While Ubuntu is more or less ready to go for most folks, when you want to do stuff beyond what Gnome allows you to do, you need to know a bit o'CLI. But with the Ubuntu Guides and the Envy script, most Ubuntu n00bs will be able to install the proprietary drivers themselves if they want them.
I think what's eventually going to happen is that fueling stations will simply exchange your drained batteries for already-charged ones, once the automakers figure out how to make a quick-switch battery pack.
Hmmph. Most of the pics are of cats. And the only thing wrong with kittens is that they grow up to be cats!
(Yeah, I like cats, but I wanted to see kittens, dammit!)
I really don't mean to troll here, because I don't think you're one of these people, but the cry of "what about the gamers?" is starting to sound a lot like the cry of "what about the children?" (used when someone wants to press the boot a little harder on our necks). One day, businesses are going to get completely fed up with all of this lock-in extortion when there are many better alternatives, and not just open source alternatives, to all of Microsoft's products and file formats. Don't think gamers really drive the market. When businesses either migrate to Linux and/or OS X (no reason it can't run on a PC if Apple would only make it so), the gamers will just have to adapt accordingly or buy a console.
"I grew up with the believe that police were there to protect and serve. I'm not quite sure who they are protecting now."
Truth to say, the police departments have been completely corrupted by the War on Drugs. Not necessarily corrupted in the sense that most are on the take, but corrupted in the more fundamental sense that their brawn and their guns are now largely arrayed against the people that they swore to serve and protect, in support of a completely unwinnable and unjust police action. They didn't start the war (politicians did), but they're the ones fighting it, so to keep from becoming victims, police departments have become more paramilitary in both appearance and tactics.
And this is also why in France, excelling in the Arts and Science is viewed as a "desirable national characteristic", whilst commerce is viewed as a vile, unwholesome, fithy activity.
Then who, pray tell, is selling us all that wine and cheese?
One thing that evolutionists that study humans agree on is that while the human race, as well as the various local adaptations, evolved via Darwinian natural selection, human culture is inherently Lamarkian. Everything that makes up a human culture is passed from generation to generation and from mind to mind. There is nothing random about human action, as opposed to genetic variability. Looking at the evolution of culture through a Darwinian lens is bound to lead you down the wrong path.
A free market is one where participants exchange goods and services without coercion or interference, for the mutual benefit of both buyers and sellers. Minus sales taxes, most everyday purchases qualify as free market transactions.
Points to you for your observations. Goverment regulation of coinage takes monetary policy out of the realm of the free market and makes possible monetary inflation and fractional-reserve banking, both of which involve theft and fraud to some degree.
Unfortunately, cartels will always form among producers. (Nobody said businessmen are above petty corruption.) In a free market, nothing will stop collusion except the fact that such agreements are almost always short-lived, and are broken as soon as one of the participants thinks it can profit at the expense of the others, or a nonparticipant moves in and cleans up. It's the goverment-protected cartels (mostly defense contractors, agricultural interests, utilities and labor unions) that cause the most harm.
Putting your thumb on the scale constitutes fraud, and would justly be outlawed.
But everytime we talk about how capitalism beat communism because it is inherently better, we should remember all of these incidents which were expressly designed to choke out the Soviet State. Did it wither away because it was inefficient and inferior? Or because we had the strength at the time to hound it into oblivion?
Socialist nations are always and everywhere more inefficient than free-market-oriented nations. The Soviet Union would have withered and died with no interference from the West whatsoever, it may have just taken a little longer. But that is no reason to murder innocents who happen to live there, which, if it was true, seems to have been the point of the software sabotage mentioned above.
The right thing to do in such a situation is find the Wiki entry, correct the information, and tell your correspondent that he got the reference wrong!
You've missed another important point in the comparison: take it to a company like that, and they suck the oil out from the filler tube, which leaves all the crap in your engine's sump. Do it yourself, and you get the opportunity to undo the sump nut, thereby removing all the crap.
Uhh, undo the what and the whozit? And drain out the crap how? Oh, look, I can divide my mileage by 3000. Time to go to the quicky-lube! Yay!
And therefore legitimate. It is, however, another way to get property, which is what the guy's sig was about. Just wanted to make sure all the bases were covered.
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Probably the best format for the open OCR to look at is something many modern photocopiers create these days: PDFs. To use them now, you've got to convert them into TIFF files or other image format, but being able to perform OCR on PDFs seems like a natural solution. That, or fax images...
That's a good point. There's no need to fight over this. I think the reason CNR hasn't taken off is simply that no distro has bothered to make it their primary package installer, except maybe Linspire (IIRC). The reason that APT and RPM are both so popular is that so many other distros are based on Debian or Red Hat. What else is based on Linspire? Packaging it with Feisty might help speed acceptance. As long as I don't have to lose my precious APT, I'll be happy to have CNR as an option.
I think what's eventually going to happen is that fueling stations will simply exchange your drained batteries for already-charged ones, once the automakers figure out how to make a quick-switch battery pack.
Hmmph. Most of the pics are of cats. And the only thing wrong with kittens is that they grow up to be cats! (Yeah, I like cats, but I wanted to see kittens, dammit!)
I really don't mean to troll here, because I don't think you're one of these people, but the cry of "what about the gamers?" is starting to sound a lot like the cry of "what about the children?" (used when someone wants to press the boot a little harder on our necks). One day, businesses are going to get completely fed up with all of this lock-in extortion when there are many better alternatives, and not just open source alternatives, to all of Microsoft's products and file formats. Don't think gamers really drive the market. When businesses either migrate to Linux and/or OS X (no reason it can't run on a PC if Apple would only make it so), the gamers will just have to adapt accordingly or buy a console.
The look on your wife's face when she opens the MasterCard bill? Priceless.
Heh. Meanwhile, in the OSS world, there are rock-solid programs that haven't yet released a 1.0 candidate.
Am I the only one who thought "PHD" stood for "Pointy-haired Director"?
(psst: it's Ph.D.)
Truth to say, the police departments have been completely corrupted by the War on Drugs. Not necessarily corrupted in the sense that most are on the take, but corrupted in the more fundamental sense that their brawn and their guns are now largely arrayed against the people that they swore to serve and protect, in support of a completely unwinnable and unjust police action. They didn't start the war (politicians did), but they're the ones fighting it, so to keep from becoming victims, police departments have become more paramilitary in both appearance and tactics.
Would that mean we'd all be living "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts?"
One thing that evolutionists that study humans agree on is that while the human race, as well as the various local adaptations, evolved via Darwinian natural selection, human culture is inherently Lamarkian. Everything that makes up a human culture is passed from generation to generation and from mind to mind. There is nothing random about human action, as opposed to genetic variability. Looking at the evolution of culture through a Darwinian lens is bound to lead you down the wrong path.
I've never been able to solve sudoku in my sleep. Way to go!
A free market is one where participants exchange goods and services without coercion or interference, for the mutual benefit of both buyers and sellers. Minus sales taxes, most everyday purchases qualify as free market transactions.
Points to you for your observations. Goverment regulation of coinage takes monetary policy out of the realm of the free market and makes possible monetary inflation and fractional-reserve banking, both of which involve theft and fraud to some degree.
Unfortunately, cartels will always form among producers. (Nobody said businessmen are above petty corruption.) In a free market, nothing will stop collusion except the fact that such agreements are almost always short-lived, and are broken as soon as one of the participants thinks it can profit at the expense of the others, or a nonparticipant moves in and cleans up. It's the goverment-protected cartels (mostly defense contractors, agricultural interests, utilities and labor unions) that cause the most harm.
Putting your thumb on the scale constitutes fraud, and would justly be outlawed.
Most. Boring. Camp. Ever.
I once saw a CNN news report describing the damage from tornadoes to a mobile home manufacturing facility!
It's because you're an anarchocapitalist that you would never steal.
Socialist nations are always and everywhere more inefficient than free-market-oriented nations. The Soviet Union would have withered and died with no interference from the West whatsoever, it may have just taken a little longer. But that is no reason to murder innocents who happen to live there, which, if it was true, seems to have been the point of the software sabotage mentioned above.
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The right thing to do in such a situation is find the Wiki entry, correct the information, and tell your correspondent that he got the reference wrong!
And therefore legitimate. It is, however, another way to get property, which is what the guy's sig was about. Just wanted to make sure all the bases were covered.