There is nothing to blame on the "other side" at all.
Clearly you haven't even tried or are unable to understand the points I have made. Try reading some non biased sources and/or evaluate the bias of the sources you are reading and come to your own conclusions. Try looking for the percentage of people that bought mortgages at the maximum size they could qualify for before the bust vs people that chose to buy less. Try looking at what percentage of income the mortgage was and what percentage of income total debt is. Try looking at the average square footage that a family bought from 1900 to 2010. People were buying houses that they wouldn't be able to afford to keep if they were out of work for a single month. That's not responsibility.
The simple fact of the matter is that the banking industry can remove enough houses on the market, keeping them abandoned, that the demand is extremely high.
No they can't. If demand was that high, builders can build more, even in large cities you can build up. It's also not entirely a matter of jobs being only in metropolises. There are plenty of opportunities in smaller towns.
The rest of your post is just ridiculous. Banks don't have the power to do those things if people don't give it to them. People have the choice to rent or buy a smaller place, get qualified for higher paying jobs that give them more choices and more discretionary income. Instead, a large number of people chose mortgages they couldn't afford. That combined with very bad choices and corruption in the financial industry led to problems for more people.
Ok, that's pretty funny. My screen reader pronounced that word as stay-cation as in cation and anion from chemistry. That may not be funny to you, but when I was first learning chem I read the word carbocation before I had ever heard it pronounced and went with a pronunciation like vacation. so stay-cation has come full circle.
So voiceover apparently knows what a vacation is, what a cation is, but not a staycation. Perhaps there's hope yet.
A race to the bottom for margins doesn't mean quality as well. In most competitive industries you find that will it does allow for cheap, crap, items it also allows for reasonable, good, items.
Often a race to the bottom does involve quality as well though too. It depends on whether the buyer can tell the difference between a quality and non quality product and whether they will pay for the difference. If the consumer can't tell the difference, which is the case in most electronics for most consumers, then the race to the bottom drops the profit margins leaving the sellers looking for more profit. If they can cut corners and reduce their costs without the buyer knowing the difference, they will. This is what happens in consumer electronics markets. In markets with a more sophisticated and informed average buyer, this can't happen as easily.
After all, from a consumer point of view, profit is just money wasted. The best situation for a consumer is that a company earns no profit, all money is going to cover the cost of the good.
This is a fairly common misconception. While the consumer is better off in the short run if they get a lower price by the seller making no profit, in the long run that seller with no profit will go out of business if they are rational. So if the seller was a good and honest one, worth doing business with and one that one would want to do business with in the future, then the consumer is better off if the seller makes a reasonable profit because they will still be around to offer service, do business again in the future, and honor warranties. So the best situation for the consumer is not no profit as you mentioned, and it's not massive profit margins. It's a reasonable amount of profit.
Banks own 60% of the property and wealth in the US. They have been publicly leveraging that massive wealth to drive up the prices of everything they own to sell off, like De'Beers does with diamonds except with shelter, and forcing people into homelessness. If that is their publicly known business model, aren't you curious to find out what they have been hiding?
If banks own 60% of the property and have the power to force people into homelessness it's only because people give it to them willingly. You have choices when you obtain shelter, you can rent, pay the full asking price, get a land contract with a private party, or get into bed with a bank.
It used to be people only bought a house when they could afford to put the thing up themselves or with the help of neighbors. They were ashamed if they had to take a small mortgage. Now people willingly take the largest mortgage they can get, whether they can afford it or not, to buy the largest house they can get, whether they need it or not, and then picket when they are forclosed upon. And banks don't actually have the power to force people into homelessness. People have choices to downsize and get a small apartment before it goes that far. Mortgages are actually set up so that the bank can't call for all the money unless you chose a really dumb balloon product. Instead, all they can ask for is the monthly payment. Of course, many people did ask for or get sold a balloon mortgage, but that's a whole other set of bad decisions on both sides in many cases.
Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of blame to be had on the mortgage and financial industry side for being corrupt and morally bankrupt, but there's plenty of blame for the other side as well. People willingly chose to enter into bad situations. When we forget about personal responsibility, we get bad outcomes on both sides, with corrupt businesses and bad decisions by executives and consumers encouraged by bailouts for everyone.
This is not true. PDF is capable of preserving text flow if the document contains such information.
Yes, this can be done, but it is almost universally not done. Of all the pdfs out there, almost all of them that have anything but single column text flow incorrectly. The answer is of course to include this information every time, but I don't see how you can mandate that if the standard doesn't include it and most or all current software creates pdfs that don't have it.
If you have a multi-column layout, then a pdf-to-text algorithm (first step in screen reading) is likely to put column-2-line-1 between column-1-lines-{1 and 2}. Best of luck sorting that out.
In this case it is the pdf-to-text algorithm to be broken, and should be fixed.
I'm not sure that you can always figure out the text flow correctly a posteriori. Once the correct text flow information hasn't been encoded in the document, it's a bit of a crap shoot in some cases to figure out what was intended. Where should that floating box go? Many pdfs have text flow broken up so badly that they appear to read randomly. A few bits from one sentence, then a few words or parts from the middle of another paragraph. Literally the best option for some pdfs is to export them as images and import those to an ocr program.
If current capabilities are all you need, and want then fine, but that's not what you asked. You asked what else one would want a computer to do that it wouldn't do now, and I gave a bunch of examples. If you don't see how those would impact people's lives, you're not being creative enough. Finally, while 8 hours is 2-4 times better than very old and current crappy laptops could do, the real benefits start to happen when you don't have to be tethered to power every few (or 8) hours. More than a day would start to have big benefits for wearable natural language processing applications, and a week would really open up the options.
You don't think today's computers are satisfactory? What do you need your computer do do that it won't do now? Most likely the GP's a geezer who's been around since the IBM PC, with no hard drive, a 360k floppy, 64k of RAM, and a 5mHz processor that cost $5,000 was the norm.
Yeah, they seem great compared to what they used to be able to do, but they are still far from reaching their capabilities. Voice recognition is still pretty poor and computer generated speech for general input is only moderately decent. Try getting it to speak a math text for example; that can only be done if the input text is in the perfect format currently. Computer vision is very poor, AI is nowhere near where people thought it would be at this point, and machine translation is moderate to poor, though useful in limited contexts. The amount of processing power that can be carried around on a battery charge that can last more than a day is also extremely limited compared to the uses that it could have for the above tasks and more.
I'm not saying computers aren't useful now, but they are far from where they could be. It just turns out many of these problems that would make them truly transformational are much harder than it was once thought they were.
It is a sad state of investing that investors like companies that are growing or expanding.
It's not a sad state at all. In fact, it's based on extremely basic finance math. If a company isn't growing, and is paying the same dividend, the value of your investment stays the same and your investment does not grow in value. If that dividend yield is low as most are, you would be better served choosing another investment. The only way to make money on an investment [the typical long position at least] is for it to appreciate in value or for it to pay a high enough income. Since most companies are choosing not to pay much in dividends, the only other option to make money is to buy growing companies. A growing company means growing future value and an investment that grows in value.
Considering that even Microsoft has trouble supporting VBA (i.e. the lack of VBA in various versions of Office on Mac), I wish the LibreOffice people luck in their efforts:)
I'm less inclined to believe they had trouble supporting it than they simply didn't support it or even intentionally didn't support it in order to make that platform less attractive. Call me a cynic, but MS has backed it up time and time again. Evidence is that they actually have talented coders and can put out good stuff when they have to.
So while I agree that ATM OO.o and LibreOffice is virtually the same, have they said ANYTHING about MS Office compatibility on their roadmap?
Yes, see the latest announcement. It specifically mentions VBA macro support, which is even dirtier than just supporting MS formats. At the same time the announcement mentions reducing Java dependency which is probably a good thing. Java probably wasn't integrated by Sun to fulfill a real need, but as a Java marketing method.
Currently Libre Office may still be dependent on Java, but it is a specific goal to reduce Java dependence in the future. I consider that a good thing and a realistic approach.
Yes, there is a corporate AMT too, and if GE were expecting to face it then they would probably not be able to take advantage of these credits currently. But corporate AMT has different limit/exemption amounts and is different in other ways. But like individual AMT, it essentially levels out a corporations tax, raising it when it would otherwise be lower, but then the corporation can get back the extra AMT tax they have paid if they move out of AMT. I didn't check how this electric vehicle credit works, if it is use it one year or lose it, or if it can be carried forward..
Also, not every individual that can afford the car is that likely to be subject to AMT. It all depends on what your level of preference items are to your total deductions and overall income. Things like high real estate taxes tend to make people subject to AMT, and people that have higher disposable incomes tend to have higher real estate taxes and other AMT preference items, but not always. It depends on your lifestyle choices. Either way, you are right in that more people with more disposable income are subject to AMT than ever before. The other side though is that if you have a very high income, you are again less likely to be subject to the AMT. It's the people in the middle somewhere or have other specific tax events that get sqeezed.
That was by design I'm sure. That way MS could trumpet the number of sold out locations. And that did happen in quite a number of articles. Most didn't say how many were sold or make any comparison to how many iPhone or Android phones were sold on the same day, they just referred to many locations selling out. The numbers I have seen were that the iPhone4 sold either 120,000 or 250,000 on it's first day. It's not hard to sell out when you only get 4 phones, which many people have reported for WP7 launch locations. I could maybe see only stocking 4 phones if it is a single model of the hottest Android phone or an iPhone and that's all you could get from manufacturing, but there were 9 different WP7 models. So this was either a case of MS artificially restricting the supply to bump up the sold out numbers or the carriers just weren't interested in pushing something they didn't think would sell well.
But more important than the initial sales numbers is how it does long term. Do people like it when they use it enough to recommend it to others? Time will tell. Reviews so far are good apparently, but it is lacking in many features the other phones already have. That can be fixed and apparently it's easy to develop for if you already know.Net as many do. Maybe MS will be able to improve it in time to compete. They certainly haven't offered anything better than the competition, merely copied it. But as I've said before, I'm fine if MS makes a lot of money in this market because they'll have to put out a good quality product to do so and they won't be able to corner and restrict the market since it is dominated by other players already. Just imagine how much further we'd be ahead if the PC marketplace had been healthier over the last 20-25 years with interoperability. The mobile space still has a chance for that to happen.
Yeah, I think a spaceship factory is kind of cool too, but with a name like Mojave Air and Space Port, I'm really disappointed there's been 30 some comments and no one has made a reference to the "wretched hive of scum and villainy", Mos Eisley. It's even out in the desert southwest where at least one of the far off shots from the film were done.
That's exactly the point the article makes. The part of my submission that Taco trimmed out for space was that I don't really mind if MS mints money in selling to commercial markets, because what this article is evidence of is that for MS to continue making money they are going to have to compete on quality. That's been my only major beef with MS products over the years: you were almost forced to use their products even though they were terrible in most cases. Now that there are significant competitors in the mobile space and that market is growing, and Apple, and to some extent open source and even perhaps eventually Google Chrome are providing competition on the desktop or making it irrelevant, I don't really care if MS grabs say 30% of the mobile market. Because to do so, they'll have to put out a really good product. Same goes for commercial applications and servers. There's fierce competition there and Linux is doing well. If they make a lot of money still, then great, they just won't be able to subvert markets and consumers and businesses will be better off for it.
What Safari flash blocker is reliable/not malware? None of the ones I found in a search passed the initial sniff test. They were all from some random download site and didn't seem to have any reliable name backing them. I must say I didn't dig deeper, but that's why I'm asking.
I find it interesting that in Apple's war with Flash they don't have a granular Flash blocking solution like no-script for Safari.
If you like that, you'll really like double edge razors. You can get a decent handle on Amazon for $9 and the blades get to as low as $.17 a piece for decent blades. Yeah you'll spend a little more to get a decent brush, sample pack of a variety of razor blade brands, and soap and stuff, but you'll never regret it. Anyone that is sick of paying absurd prices for cartridge razors should consider it as well. It does take a little more time, but it's well worth the better shave and knowledge that you're not supporting a ridiculous business model. Then save the disposable razors for travel.
Double edge/straight razor shaving is the slashdot way to shave for sure.
Maybe a better solution would be to find an existing camera that's A.Cheap B.Good enough for amateur cinema work (the target audience here) and C.Hackable.
And that camera would be...? The whole point of the effort in this article and the Magic Lantern is that no such thing exists, particularly at HD quality. This effort is trying to put the hardware together from scratch and Magic Lantern is trying to hack existing hardware that has the features they want. However you should read up on the things they have to do to decode the Canon firmware just to have the chance to try to improve it. And that's for one of the cameras it's possible for.
Well the not being hemmed in by the MPEG-LA's patent trolling would be one big advantage. "It's a shame your film has made some money or become famous, let's talk about damages."
Being limited to the C or CS lenses seems like a pretty big thing when the 5D has a large range of interchangeable lenses, and apparently the Red One can use Nikon and Canon lenses with adapters and even have full electronic control of them.
The people developing the Magic Lantern firmware seem to be a fan of the 5D's larger sensor compared to the Red One, etc to the point where they are reverse engineering the camera to add some cinematic improvements to its firmware. That's pretty hard core.
Have you listened to a audio book read by a person compared to the same work done by a computer? The person doesn't even have to be very good to win that battle.
It depends what your criteria are. It takes a freeking eon to listen to an audio book because it's read at a normal or below normal speaking pace, which is much slower than a reading pace. When people use screen readers they typically crank up the speed to the highest speed they can still understand the given content at. That means you don't have to listen for 12 hours or more for your average book. Most devices that can play audio books still don't have easy features for speeding them up, so text to speech wins out in many cases if you have much to get through. After a while, the voice doesn't matter and all you care about is the content. Text to speech also wins for studying since you can search through for desired words or strings.
It's an interesting conversation in light of the potential of future tech, and to be sure it's getting better, but there's a long way to go before professional book readers will be looking for work.
Since there are a lot of people that don't need the audio feature, but simply choose it for convenience, you're right. Those people are likely to choose a regular audio book for a while. However the state of the art text to speech is pretty good. It's just that most people don't have experience with the state of the art with good voices. They only hear the stripped down stuff something like the Kindle has.
If you want to prove that all the digits are correct, you only have to check a few things:
1. There is a sound mathematical proof that the algorithm used in fact does generate the digits of pi, and
2. The algorithm was coded correctly. This should be even easier to check, though likely more tedious.
Actually, 1 isn't very hard. It's known that the series expansion used approaches pi in the limit. If you mean each of the algorithms that they use to break down the Chudnovsky formula, then that's harder. 2 is the real kicker along with hardware errors as others have noted. Basically it was not fully verified that the coding was done correctly. How many things really have mathematically proven and truly 0 bug coding anyway? I don't think even medical or nuclear installations have that.
But because of implementation and hardware errors these types of records are always done twice on different hardware or with different algorithms. That wasn't done here, instead they just checked a few digits with Plouffe's algorithm and claim that's good enough. Also they use a pi calculation app that uses an unpublished algorithm: "The Hybrid NTT is a currently unpublished algorithm...".
So there are various reasons to put an asterix next to this record at the least. It's still an impressive technical feat, it just would have been nice had they been more careful to iron out the details if they wanted to claim a world record.
The FTC lacks the legal authority to fine Intel unless they breach the terms of the FTC settlement.1 Also, the way this was brought as a section 5 investigation and not a standard anti-trust case had two major implications. One was that it allowed the FTC greater lattitude in what it could go after Intel for, but it also didn't create the opportunity for triple damages liability that a standard anti-trust litigation suit would have opened Intel up to.2 After a normal anti-trust case competitors can apparently go after the convicted for triple damages in certain cases. Not sure why that didn't apply to MS.
All of the major OCR packages will have a Pro version that will have a drop folder server type setup that will do that. OmniPage and FineReader are the standard options with OmniPage being a little more accurate, but if you want to go budget busting (not kidding even a little) for extreme accuracy go for PrimeOCR. They also seem to have the consulting and support services you may want. But for searchable PDFs you don't actually need extreme accuracy, just moderate depending on the task, so perhaps support options can be found for the other packages that meet your needs.
This is tesseract without training so the error rates are going to be high. It doesn't say if it is specifically using the development version, but if it's not, there is no layout analysis. That doesn't stop you from doing the scanning, and then do the OCR sometime in the future. Consider Diybookscanner.org for a much faster, cheaper, etc. way to scan your books.
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There is nothing to blame on the "other side" at all.
Clearly you haven't even tried or are unable to understand the points I have made. Try reading some non biased sources and/or evaluate the bias of the sources you are reading and come to your own conclusions. Try looking for the percentage of people that bought mortgages at the maximum size they could qualify for before the bust vs people that chose to buy less. Try looking at what percentage of income the mortgage was and what percentage of income total debt is. Try looking at the average square footage that a family bought from 1900 to 2010. People were buying houses that they wouldn't be able to afford to keep if they were out of work for a single month. That's not responsibility.
The simple fact of the matter is that the banking industry can remove enough houses on the market, keeping them abandoned, that the demand is extremely high.
No they can't. If demand was that high, builders can build more, even in large cities you can build up. It's also not entirely a matter of jobs being only in metropolises. There are plenty of opportunities in smaller towns.
The rest of your post is just ridiculous. Banks don't have the power to do those things if people don't give it to them. People have the choice to rent or buy a smaller place, get qualified for higher paying jobs that give them more choices and more discretionary income. Instead, a large number of people chose mortgages they couldn't afford. That combined with very bad choices and corruption in the financial industry led to problems for more people.
Ok, that's pretty funny. My screen reader pronounced that word as stay-cation as in cation and anion from chemistry. That may not be funny to you, but when I was first learning chem I read the word carbocation before I had ever heard it pronounced and went with a pronunciation like vacation. so stay-cation has come full circle. So voiceover apparently knows what a vacation is, what a cation is, but not a staycation. Perhaps there's hope yet.
A race to the bottom for margins doesn't mean quality as well. In most competitive industries you find that will it does allow for cheap, crap, items it also allows for reasonable, good, items.
Often a race to the bottom does involve quality as well though too. It depends on whether the buyer can tell the difference between a quality and non quality product and whether they will pay for the difference. If the consumer can't tell the difference, which is the case in most electronics for most consumers, then the race to the bottom drops the profit margins leaving the sellers looking for more profit. If they can cut corners and reduce their costs without the buyer knowing the difference, they will. This is what happens in consumer electronics markets. In markets with a more sophisticated and informed average buyer, this can't happen as easily.
After all, from a consumer point of view, profit is just money wasted. The best situation for a consumer is that a company earns no profit, all money is going to cover the cost of the good.
This is a fairly common misconception. While the consumer is better off in the short run if they get a lower price by the seller making no profit, in the long run that seller with no profit will go out of business if they are rational. So if the seller was a good and honest one, worth doing business with and one that one would want to do business with in the future, then the consumer is better off if the seller makes a reasonable profit because they will still be around to offer service, do business again in the future, and honor warranties. So the best situation for the consumer is not no profit as you mentioned, and it's not massive profit margins. It's a reasonable amount of profit.
Banks own 60% of the property and wealth in the US. They have been publicly leveraging that massive wealth to drive up the prices of everything they own to sell off, like De'Beers does with diamonds except with shelter, and forcing people into homelessness. If that is their publicly known business model, aren't you curious to find out what they have been hiding?
If banks own 60% of the property and have the power to force people into homelessness it's only because people give it to them willingly. You have choices when you obtain shelter, you can rent, pay the full asking price, get a land contract with a private party, or get into bed with a bank.
It used to be people only bought a house when they could afford to put the thing up themselves or with the help of neighbors. They were ashamed if they had to take a small mortgage. Now people willingly take the largest mortgage they can get, whether they can afford it or not, to buy the largest house they can get, whether they need it or not, and then picket when they are forclosed upon. And banks don't actually have the power to force people into homelessness. People have choices to downsize and get a small apartment before it goes that far. Mortgages are actually set up so that the bank can't call for all the money unless you chose a really dumb balloon product. Instead, all they can ask for is the monthly payment. Of course, many people did ask for or get sold a balloon mortgage, but that's a whole other set of bad decisions on both sides in many cases.
Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of blame to be had on the mortgage and financial industry side for being corrupt and morally bankrupt, but there's plenty of blame for the other side as well. People willingly chose to enter into bad situations. When we forget about personal responsibility, we get bad outcomes on both sides, with corrupt businesses and bad decisions by executives and consumers encouraged by bailouts for everyone.
This is not true. PDF is capable of preserving text flow if the document contains such information.
Yes, this can be done, but it is almost universally not done. Of all the pdfs out there, almost all of them that have anything but single column text flow incorrectly. The answer is of course to include this information every time, but I don't see how you can mandate that if the standard doesn't include it and most or all current software creates pdfs that don't have it.
If you have a multi-column layout, then a pdf-to-text algorithm (first step in screen reading) is likely to put column-2-line-1 between column-1-lines-{1 and 2}. Best of luck sorting that out.
In this case it is the pdf-to-text algorithm to be broken, and should be fixed.
I'm not sure that you can always figure out the text flow correctly a posteriori. Once the correct text flow information hasn't been encoded in the document, it's a bit of a crap shoot in some cases to figure out what was intended. Where should that floating box go? Many pdfs have text flow broken up so badly that they appear to read randomly. A few bits from one sentence, then a few words or parts from the middle of another paragraph. Literally the best option for some pdfs is to export them as images and import those to an ocr program.
If current capabilities are all you need, and want then fine, but that's not what you asked. You asked what else one would want a computer to do that it wouldn't do now, and I gave a bunch of examples. If you don't see how those would impact people's lives, you're not being creative enough. Finally, while 8 hours is 2-4 times better than very old and current crappy laptops could do, the real benefits start to happen when you don't have to be tethered to power every few (or 8) hours. More than a day would start to have big benefits for wearable natural language processing applications, and a week would really open up the options.
You don't think today's computers are satisfactory? What do you need your computer do do that it won't do now? Most likely the GP's a geezer who's been around since the IBM PC, with no hard drive, a 360k floppy, 64k of RAM, and a 5mHz processor that cost $5,000 was the norm.
Yeah, they seem great compared to what they used to be able to do, but they are still far from reaching their capabilities. Voice recognition is still pretty poor and computer generated speech for general input is only moderately decent. Try getting it to speak a math text for example; that can only be done if the input text is in the perfect format currently. Computer vision is very poor, AI is nowhere near where people thought it would be at this point, and machine translation is moderate to poor, though useful in limited contexts. The amount of processing power that can be carried around on a battery charge that can last more than a day is also extremely limited compared to the uses that it could have for the above tasks and more.
I'm not saying computers aren't useful now, but they are far from where they could be. It just turns out many of these problems that would make them truly transformational are much harder than it was once thought they were.
It is a sad state of investing that investors like companies that are growing or expanding.
It's not a sad state at all. In fact, it's based on extremely basic finance math. If a company isn't growing, and is paying the same dividend, the value of your investment stays the same and your investment does not grow in value. If that dividend yield is low as most are, you would be better served choosing another investment. The only way to make money on an investment [the typical long position at least] is for it to appreciate in value or for it to pay a high enough income. Since most companies are choosing not to pay much in dividends, the only other option to make money is to buy growing companies. A growing company means growing future value and an investment that grows in value.
Considering that even Microsoft has trouble supporting VBA (i.e. the lack of VBA in various versions of Office on Mac), I wish the LibreOffice people luck in their efforts :)
I'm less inclined to believe they had trouble supporting it than they simply didn't support it or even intentionally didn't support it in order to make that platform less attractive. Call me a cynic, but MS has backed it up time and time again. Evidence is that they actually have talented coders and can put out good stuff when they have to.
So while I agree that ATM OO.o and LibreOffice is virtually the same, have they said ANYTHING about MS Office compatibility on their roadmap?
Yes, see the latest announcement. It specifically mentions VBA macro support, which is even dirtier than just supporting MS formats. At the same time the announcement mentions reducing Java dependency which is probably a good thing. Java probably wasn't integrated by Sun to fulfill a real need, but as a Java marketing method.
Currently Libre Office may still be dependent on Java, but it is a specific goal to reduce Java dependence in the future. I consider that a good thing and a realistic approach.
Yes, there is a corporate AMT too, and if GE were expecting to face it then they would probably not be able to take advantage of these credits currently. But corporate AMT has different limit/exemption amounts and is different in other ways. But like individual AMT, it essentially levels out a corporations tax, raising it when it would otherwise be lower, but then the corporation can get back the extra AMT tax they have paid if they move out of AMT. I didn't check how this electric vehicle credit works, if it is use it one year or lose it, or if it can be carried forward..
Also, not every individual that can afford the car is that likely to be subject to AMT. It all depends on what your level of preference items are to your total deductions and overall income. Things like high real estate taxes tend to make people subject to AMT, and people that have higher disposable incomes tend to have higher real estate taxes and other AMT preference items, but not always. It depends on your lifestyle choices. Either way, you are right in that more people with more disposable income are subject to AMT than ever before. The other side though is that if you have a very high income, you are again less likely to be subject to the AMT. It's the people in the middle somewhere or have other specific tax events that get sqeezed.
That was by design I'm sure. That way MS could trumpet the number of sold out locations. And that did happen in quite a number of articles. Most didn't say how many were sold or make any comparison to how many iPhone or Android phones were sold on the same day, they just referred to many locations selling out. The numbers I have seen were that the iPhone4 sold either 120,000 or 250,000 on it's first day. It's not hard to sell out when you only get 4 phones, which many people have reported for WP7 launch locations. I could maybe see only stocking 4 phones if it is a single model of the hottest Android phone or an iPhone and that's all you could get from manufacturing, but there were 9 different WP7 models. So this was either a case of MS artificially restricting the supply to bump up the sold out numbers or the carriers just weren't interested in pushing something they didn't think would sell well.
.Net as many do. Maybe MS will be able to improve it in time to compete. They certainly haven't offered anything better than the competition, merely copied it. But as I've said before, I'm fine if MS makes a lot of money in this market because they'll have to put out a good quality product to do so and they won't be able to corner and restrict the market since it is dominated by other players already. Just imagine how much further we'd be ahead if the PC marketplace had been healthier over the last 20-25 years with interoperability. The mobile space still has a chance for that to happen.
But more important than the initial sales numbers is how it does long term. Do people like it when they use it enough to recommend it to others? Time will tell. Reviews so far are good apparently, but it is lacking in many features the other phones already have. That can be fixed and apparently it's easy to develop for if you already know
Yeah, I think a spaceship factory is kind of cool too, but with a name like Mojave Air and Space Port, I'm really disappointed there's been 30 some comments and no one has made a reference to the "wretched hive of scum and villainy", Mos Eisley. It's even out in the desert southwest where at least one of the far off shots from the film were done.
That's exactly the point the article makes. The part of my submission that Taco trimmed out for space was that I don't really mind if MS mints money in selling to commercial markets, because what this article is evidence of is that for MS to continue making money they are going to have to compete on quality. That's been my only major beef with MS products over the years: you were almost forced to use their products even though they were terrible in most cases. Now that there are significant competitors in the mobile space and that market is growing, and Apple, and to some extent open source and even perhaps eventually Google Chrome are providing competition on the desktop or making it irrelevant, I don't really care if MS grabs say 30% of the mobile market. Because to do so, they'll have to put out a really good product. Same goes for commercial applications and servers. There's fierce competition there and Linux is doing well. If they make a lot of money still, then great, they just won't be able to subvert markets and consumers and businesses will be better off for it.
Thanks. Not having a license leaves me a little leery, but it's probably better than being left open to random flash security holes.
What Safari flash blocker is reliable/not malware? None of the ones I found in a search passed the initial sniff test. They were all from some random download site and didn't seem to have any reliable name backing them. I must say I didn't dig deeper, but that's why I'm asking. I find it interesting that in Apple's war with Flash they don't have a granular Flash blocking solution like no-script for Safari.
If you like that, you'll really like double edge razors. You can get a decent handle on Amazon for $9 and the blades get to as low as $.17 a piece for decent blades. Yeah you'll spend a little more to get a decent brush, sample pack of a variety of razor blade brands, and soap and stuff, but you'll never regret it. Anyone that is sick of paying absurd prices for cartridge razors should consider it as well. It does take a little more time, but it's well worth the better shave and knowledge that you're not supporting a ridiculous business model. Then save the disposable razors for travel. Double edge/straight razor shaving is the slashdot way to shave for sure.
Maybe a better solution would be to find an existing camera that's A.Cheap B.Good enough for amateur cinema work (the target audience here) and C.Hackable.
And that camera would be...? The whole point of the effort in this article and the Magic Lantern is that no such thing exists, particularly at HD quality. This effort is trying to put the hardware together from scratch and Magic Lantern is trying to hack existing hardware that has the features they want. However you should read up on the things they have to do to decode the Canon firmware just to have the chance to try to improve it. And that's for one of the cameras it's possible for.
Well the not being hemmed in by the MPEG-LA's patent trolling would be one big advantage. "It's a shame your film has made some money or become famous, let's talk about damages."
Being limited to the C or CS lenses seems like a pretty big thing when the 5D has a large range of interchangeable lenses, and apparently the Red One can use Nikon and Canon lenses with adapters and even have full electronic control of them. The people developing the Magic Lantern firmware seem to be a fan of the 5D's larger sensor compared to the Red One, etc to the point where they are reverse engineering the camera to add some cinematic improvements to its firmware. That's pretty hard core.
Have you listened to a audio book read by a person compared to the same work done by a computer? The person doesn't even have to be very good to win that battle.
It depends what your criteria are. It takes a freeking eon to listen to an audio book because it's read at a normal or below normal speaking pace, which is much slower than a reading pace. When people use screen readers they typically crank up the speed to the highest speed they can still understand the given content at. That means you don't have to listen for 12 hours or more for your average book. Most devices that can play audio books still don't have easy features for speeding them up, so text to speech wins out in many cases if you have much to get through. After a while, the voice doesn't matter and all you care about is the content. Text to speech also wins for studying since you can search through for desired words or strings.
It's an interesting conversation in light of the potential of future tech, and to be sure it's getting better, but there's a long way to go before professional book readers will be looking for work.
Since there are a lot of people that don't need the audio feature, but simply choose it for convenience, you're right. Those people are likely to choose a regular audio book for a while. However the state of the art text to speech is pretty good. It's just that most people don't have experience with the state of the art with good voices. They only hear the stripped down stuff something like the Kindle has.
If you want to prove that all the digits are correct, you only have to check a few things:
1. There is a sound mathematical proof that the algorithm used in fact does generate the digits of pi, and 2. The algorithm was coded correctly. This should be even easier to check, though likely more tedious.
Actually, 1 isn't very hard. It's known that the series expansion used approaches pi in the limit. If you mean each of the algorithms that they use to break down the Chudnovsky formula, then that's harder. 2 is the real kicker along with hardware errors as others have noted. Basically it was not fully verified that the coding was done correctly. How many things really have mathematically proven and truly 0 bug coding anyway? I don't think even medical or nuclear installations have that.
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But because of implementation and hardware errors these types of records are always done twice on different hardware or with different algorithms. That wasn't done here, instead they just checked a few digits with Plouffe's algorithm and claim that's good enough. Also they use a pi calculation app that uses an unpublished algorithm: "The Hybrid NTT is a currently unpublished algorithm
So there are various reasons to put an asterix next to this record at the least. It's still an impressive technical feat, it just would have been nice had they been more careful to iron out the details if they wanted to claim a world record.
The FTC lacks the legal authority to fine Intel unless they breach the terms of the FTC settlement.1 Also, the way this was brought as a section 5 investigation and not a standard anti-trust case had two major implications. One was that it allowed the FTC greater lattitude in what it could go after Intel for, but it also didn't create the opportunity for triple damages liability that a standard anti-trust litigation suit would have opened Intel up to.2 After a normal anti-trust case competitors can apparently go after the convicted for triple damages in certain cases. Not sure why that didn't apply to MS.
All of the major OCR packages will have a Pro version that will have a drop folder server type setup that will do that. OmniPage and FineReader are the standard options with OmniPage being a little more accurate, but if you want to go budget busting (not kidding even a little) for extreme accuracy go for PrimeOCR. They also seem to have the consulting and support services you may want. But for searchable PDFs you don't actually need extreme accuracy, just moderate depending on the task, so perhaps support options can be found for the other packages that meet your needs.
This is tesseract without training so the error rates are going to be high. It doesn't say if it is specifically using the development version, but if it's not, there is no layout analysis. That doesn't stop you from doing the scanning, and then do the OCR sometime in the future. Consider Diybookscanner.org for a much faster, cheaper, etc. way to scan your books.