There isn't necessarily a word which can be recognized by OCR (at least, reCAPTCHA's in-house OCR-- I'm sure there's some spammy stuff out there which does fine).
Once a word is "confirmed" by enough humans, the same image is added to the list of control words, so a word known to the computer system is not necessarily one which has been successfully OCRed. In fact, it's not even terribly likely.
I don't mind paying taxes, but I wish the US did something like VAT in Europe.
Basically, the prices you see advertised already include the tax in them. No trying to figure out 8% of some number, no more $2.99 item being just a hair over $3 and filling your pockets with loose change.
For that matter, they could have done it during setup or any other time. It doesn't matter if a floppy's in the drive or not. Check if there is one the old fashioned way (spinning the motor) and then do your routine. Bam, trained, and you never have to spin the drive again for this purpose.
From my days as a Dreamcast pirate (yarrrr), I can tell you there were a good many European games which had English, French, German and maybe Spanish all on the same disc. I don't know if that's still the case, but if it is couldn't the companies just give Quebec the European versions (region reset to whichever region Canadia is, of course).
What if someone bypassed the EULA entirely (e.g. hacking the installer so that "I Decline" still continues).
Since you've never agreed to the EULA in the first place, you're not disallowed from hacking it (consumer-unfriendly millennial laws not withstanding).
Note that I specifically decided not to post this as AC so hopefully I won't be flagged as a troll...
But I think this is actually really cool.
Is it going to make any musical masterpieces? Probably not.
Does it sound like a fun little toy to mess with? Yes, yes it does.
Incidentally, I've never heard Sergeant Pepper before (yeah yeah, go ahead and -1 me for cultural illiteracy), and I thought the music worked rather well with the lyrics, even if it didn't sound particularly interesting.
Microsoft is a special case. They've got a monopoly and there are so many people who think that there is no other choice.
And then there are plenty of people, such as myself, who are perfectly aware of the other choices and have chosen Windows (XP in my case, but there are some poor misguided fools who like Vista, too).
It's been a while since I did much with warez, but I distinctly remember many things (including the game Rune) being available for download much sooner than it was available to buy.
Oh, don't worry! Our xenophobic government and populace has been going through pains to encourage students not to come to the US, e.g. making visas more difficult to obtain.
Better yet, how about a combination of image recognition and random questions?
E.g. you're shown a randomly-generated picture with a duck, a chicken, a skunk, and a dog, and background noise. You're asked to click the duck. If you correctly click in the general area of the duck, you're verified.
Probably not the best example, since you'd have a reasonable success rate just for guessing, but it seems like a solid concept.
Actually, I don't know how common it is, but I have a friend who sometimes does read books backwards. Ge reads the last chapter first, and then each chapter before it.
I imagine that works best in books with relatively short and numerous chapters.
I saw a documentary on card cheating devices, and one of the early card-counting computers was dipped in something to prevent people from backwards engineering it. It included a failsafe, as well, a thin filament wire designed to be pulled off if the stuff protecting the computer was scraped away, and without that wire in place it would malfunction.
On the one hand, I think this is a sleazy practice and I'll be happy to see it go.
On the other hand, it's simple enough for someone who knows what they're doing to just reformat the computer with a fresh install of their OS of choice, so the discount you get on your PC for it is pretty nice.
I suspect that if this practice does die out, it'll mean the big guys are on slightly less uneven footing with the little mom & pop PC shops, so I guess that's always a good thing.
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There isn't necessarily a word which can be recognized by OCR (at least, reCAPTCHA's in-house OCR-- I'm sure there's some spammy stuff out there which does fine).
Once a word is "confirmed" by enough humans, the same image is added to the list of control words, so a word known to the computer system is not necessarily one which has been successfully OCRed. In fact, it's not even terribly likely.
I don't mind paying taxes, but I wish the US did something like VAT in Europe.
Basically, the prices you see advertised already include the tax in them. No trying to figure out 8% of some number, no more $2.99 item being just a hair over $3 and filling your pockets with loose change.
For that matter, they could have done it during setup or any other time. It doesn't matter if a floppy's in the drive or not. Check if there is one the old fashioned way (spinning the motor) and then do your routine. Bam, trained, and you never have to spin the drive again for this purpose.
From my days as a Dreamcast pirate (yarrrr), I can tell you there were a good many European games which had English, French, German and maybe Spanish all on the same disc. I don't know if that's still the case, but if it is couldn't the companies just give Quebec the European versions (region reset to whichever region Canadia is, of course).
April Fool's achievement, you say?
For sufficiently large values of 2. ;)
Don't forget Lycos!
When you were 10 a google was not a fixed value or anything for that matter.
Perhaps you're thinking of a googol.
There were no googles on the interbutts when I was 10, you insensitive clod!
Hence:
(consumer-unfriendly millennial laws not withstanding)
What if someone bypassed the EULA entirely (e.g. hacking the installer so that "I Decline" still continues).
Since you've never agreed to the EULA in the first place, you're not disallowed from hacking it (consumer-unfriendly millennial laws not withstanding).
Ah, I was confused because the summary didn't make much of a distinction that the last bit was from an unrelated article.
Misleading summary, how unusual.
Statement 1: Bundling does not lead to market share.
Statement 2: If we are bundled, we may become a monopoly.
Statement 2 seems to directly contradict statement 1...
Except that if the lie detector says the scientists are telling the truth, the company can either:
1. Publicly admit that the scientists are telling the truth.
2. Publicly claim that the scientists are lying and, thus, also publicly admit that their own lie detectors are faulty.
Note that I specifically decided not to post this as AC so hopefully I won't be flagged as a troll...
But I think this is actually really cool.
Is it going to make any musical masterpieces? Probably not.
Does it sound like a fun little toy to mess with? Yes, yes it does.
Incidentally, I've never heard Sergeant Pepper before (yeah yeah, go ahead and -1 me for cultural illiteracy), and I thought the music worked rather well with the lyrics, even if it didn't sound particularly interesting.
Microsoft is a special case. They've got a monopoly and there are so many people who think that there is no other choice.
And then there are plenty of people, such as myself, who are perfectly aware of the other choices and have chosen Windows (XP in my case, but there are some poor misguided fools who like Vista, too).
0-day? Pfft.
It's been a while since I did much with warez, but I distinctly remember many things (including the game Rune) being available for download much sooner than it was available to buy.
How would one who had installed one of those programs become involved in the class-action lawsuit?
Oh, don't worry! Our xenophobic government and populace has been going through pains to encourage students not to come to the US, e.g. making visas more difficult to obtain.
It's only fair, after all.
Sort of a Moore's Law for debt, eh?
Every 2 terms of republican presidency, the national debt increases by a factor of 10. :D
Incidentally, anyone know what 1989's $2.7 Trillion is in today's dollars?
Better yet, how about a combination of image recognition and random questions?
E.g. you're shown a randomly-generated picture with a duck, a chicken, a skunk, and a dog, and background noise. You're asked to click the duck. If you correctly click in the general area of the duck, you're verified.
Probably not the best example, since you'd have a reasonable success rate just for guessing, but it seems like a solid concept.
Actually, I don't know how common it is, but I have a friend who sometimes does read books backwards. Ge reads the last chapter first, and then each chapter before it.
I imagine that works best in books with relatively short and numerous chapters.
the NSA could be using loopholes in the law
Why use loopholes when they don't have any qualms about outright breaking the law?
I saw a documentary on card cheating devices, and one of the early card-counting computers was dipped in something to prevent people from backwards engineering it. It included a failsafe, as well, a thin filament wire designed to be pulled off if the stuff protecting the computer was scraped away, and without that wire in place it would malfunction.
On the one hand, I think this is a sleazy practice and I'll be happy to see it go.
On the other hand, it's simple enough for someone who knows what they're doing to just reformat the computer with a fresh install of their OS of choice, so the discount you get on your PC for it is pretty nice.
I suspect that if this practice does die out, it'll mean the big guys are on slightly less uneven footing with the little mom & pop PC shops, so I guess that's always a good thing.