OCR is already at the stage where simply distorting letters isn't sufficient anymore. The real trick now is to generate the the letters and background clutter in such a way that the software cannot segment the image into seperate characters.
It's not that they can't count, it's just that their calculators can't handle answers above 4. "1+1" they can manage ("2"), and "1+2" ("3") and "2+2" ("4") or "tan 74" ("3.4874145"), but anything above "4" they represent merely as "A Suffusion of Yellow". I'm not quite sure if this is a programming error or an insight beyond my ability to fathom.
In essence, Turnitin is making a good deal of money by using other people's work. If those people want a cut of the proceeds, I don't see a problem with that.
I had the same problem. Go get yourself a Caberg Justissomo. It has an inner sun visor and a slider on the side of the lid to drop and raise it. Very easy to use while riding with gloved hands - and as an added benefit it looks damn cool:).
Quite true. What people fail to realise that the real power in Iran is not Achmadinejad, but the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei is the commander in chief of the Iranian military, has the sole power to declare war and is directly in command of Iran's nuclear program.
If another meteor the size of the one from Arizona were to hit a city, which is twice as likely to happen than a terrorist strike,
Faulty logic. The estimated odds of a random individual out of roughly 6 billion people dying from an act of terrorism is 1/80,000. On the other hand I'd estimate the odds of at least one person dying in the next 24 hours due to an act of terrorism are about 1.
back in the 1980s people communicated via bulletin board systems over 300 baud modems
if it is true that the internet won't scale in the scenarios outlined above, it won't scale only in a specific context: the context of bps hungry applications
ok: so you won't be able to watch the latest youtube laugh video. whoop de friggin doo
Back in the 1800s people commuted and transported goods on horse drawn carrages and wind powered ships. So what if our modern transport intrastructure collapses - people will just have to do without speedy travel and affordable foreign goods.
Amazing how the whole premise of ARPANet was decentralizing everything, and now we've slowly reverted back to a situation where a failure in certain key core backbone facilities can really wreck things, and a failure in only a handful of root DNS servers can similarly decimate usability.
No you just have to go to a country where the branches of government are not in the pockets of the music industry. The economic model of that country is irrelevant.
Iraq was a terrorist-supporting regime with WMD programs. We were already at war with Iraq because they violated the terms of the cease-fire after the Kuwait war. It had been the official policy of the US to remove Saddam from power in Iraq since 1998. That's why. Not a single WMD was found. No evidence of collaboration between Saddam and Al'Queda was found.
Why not somewhere else? I guess we'll wait and see. North Korea has China's protection, so they're a difficult target. North Korea has enough conventional weapons to reduce Seoul to rubble within a few hours - that's why the US hasn't gona near them. China doesn't particularly like North Korea either - they just don't want millions of Korean refugees crossing their borders.
Iran has internal groups who might solve the problem without US military intervention, but they haven't done it yet. Achmadinejad is on the way out in Iran - the Iranians are tired of his constant sabre-rattling with the US. Arn't we lucky Iran is a democratic country.
The US could try to solve a problem somewhere where Europe would be willing to help us solve it. But there doesn't seem to be such a place. Europe would be willing to help in a US plan that actually has some hope of alleviating the terrorist threat instead of sending their recruitment levels skyrocketing. But there doesn't seem to be any such plan.
You criticize war, but you have no plan to solve anything. Just because I have no plan for putting out a fire does not validate your plan of throwing petrol on it.
Damn right. Personally I think google should give every state $93 million. I mean every one of those states could put that money towards good causes -- schools, roads, etc. In fact, why don't citizens pay their entire wage as income tax, I mean that money could go towards good cases -- schools, roads, etc.
Wake up. The benefit to NC from this deal is a hell of a lot more than $89 million. Google benefits. The citizens of NC benefit.
I for one am glad Bush had the insight to take steps to improve Human-Fish relations thus avoiding an intergalactic war. And you noobs called him imcompetant.... sheesh.
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That won't do any good. I'll go get a plunger and unblock the tubes.
Damn staight - I much prefer working in the schools without any teachers.
Oh good god no!!!!
Quick - someone ban cameras!
Give it ten more years and we'll be singing "The Internet killed the Copyright Whores".
OCR is already at the stage where simply distorting letters isn't sufficient anymore. The real trick now is to generate the the letters and background clutter in such a way that the software cannot segment the image into seperate characters.
It's not that they can't count, it's just that their calculators can't handle answers above 4. "1+1" they can manage ("2"), and "1+2" ("3") and "2+2" ("4") or "tan 74" ("3.4874145"), but anything above "4" they represent merely as "A Suffusion of Yellow". I'm not quite sure if this is a programming error or an insight beyond my ability to fathom.
I had the same problem. Go get yourself a Caberg Justissomo. It has an inner sun visor and a slider on the side of the lid to drop and raise it. Very easy to use while riding with gloved hands - and as an added benefit it looks damn cool :).
And if you do - why the hell hasn't someone stolen it all with probe teams?
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Sidenote: confirmation word for this post was 'covert'
Makes sense. Judging from the lack of punishment when they were found guilty in the states, their plan the buy the USA has already succeeded.
Repeat after me: Tax AVOIDANCE is not illegal. This is the entirely legal process of minimizing the amount of tax you pay.
Tax EVASION on the other hand - IS illegal. Ie: not paying the tax you owe.
Please try and use the correct terminology. It's almost annoying as the creationist crowd who use theory when they mean hypothesis.
Quite true. What people fail to realise that the real power in Iran is not Achmadinejad, but the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei is the commander in chief of the Iranian military, has the sole power to declare war and is directly in command of Iran's nuclear program.
Except of course that a dedicated heating system will produce the same amount of heat using less energy than an incandesent bulb.
That was fine 5 years ago. It would be bearable today. But what about n years from now when our society becomes dependant on network connectivity.
Exactly! I mean this is the exact same reason we never have traffic jams.
This guy obviously didn't think this through. Any script kiddie with a garden hose could create buffer overflows at will.
No you just have to go to a country where the branches of government are not in the pockets of the music industry. The economic model of that country is irrelevant.
Damn right. Personally I think google should give every state $93 million. I mean every one of those states could put that money towards good causes -- schools, roads, etc. In fact, why don't citizens pay their entire wage as income tax, I mean that money could go towards good cases -- schools, roads, etc. Wake up. The benefit to NC from this deal is a hell of a lot more than $89 million. Google benefits. The citizens of NC benefit.
Tax Evasion is cooking the books and not paying tax you legally owe.
Tax Avoidance is minimizing your tax liability through legal means.
I for one am glad Bush had the insight to take steps to improve Human-Fish relations thus avoiding an intergalactic war. And you noobs called him imcompetant.... sheesh.