Actually, a lawyer (or legal team) can process an insane amount of paperwork rather swiftly.
I work for a company that provides document scanning software to do OCR, document endorsing, tagging and other scanning related tasks. We market our high volume product to what is coined a "copy-shop", where a litigation firm will take several boxes containing tens or hundreds of thousands of documents. On some scanners our high volume product is capable of scanning and processing > 6000 documents per hour. We also have lower volume scanning product that some litigation firms purchase to do in-house scanning. Either way, turing 100,000 pieces of paper into searchable, bookmarked PDF's that are perpared for court submission with location information (box/folder/paperclip/staple), endorsing and proper Bates Numbering isn't as difficult as one might assume (provided they use our's or a similar product).
Conversly, we also offer a product that can print out scaned images from PDF's or MTiff's to paper, so if you decided to sue me I could send a truckload of paper as opposed to a searchable cd or two. This technique is known as "blow back" and , IMHO, is aligned with the level of ethics associated with most legal matters.
It's a weird market I had no idea about until I began my job here a month ago. But we are a thriving company that started in the midst of the tech burst, so while niche there is a big market.(shameless plug) www.ribstoneusa.com
So... spend $5 a month to use my $400 gfx card at half speed? 50% of my machine cost is my video card. Why would I want to emulate the software it's supposed to accelerate? I don't think so.
I'll continue to run Windows as a main OS and VMWare my Linux installation(s). Linux, because it is better (smller at least), runs quite well in VMWare whereas CS:Source would probably scream under emulation.
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I work for a company that provides document scanning software to do OCR, document endorsing, tagging and other scanning related tasks. We market our high volume product to what is coined a "copy-shop", where a litigation firm will take several boxes containing tens or hundreds of thousands of documents. On some scanners our high volume product is capable of scanning and processing > 6000 documents per hour. We also have lower volume scanning product that some litigation firms purchase to do in-house scanning. Either way, turing 100,000 pieces of paper into searchable, bookmarked PDF's that are perpared for court submission with location information (box/folder/paperclip/staple), endorsing and proper Bates Numbering isn't as difficult as one might assume (provided they use our's or a similar product).
Conversly, we also offer a product that can print out scaned images from PDF's or MTiff's to paper, so if you decided to sue me I could send a truckload of paper as opposed to a searchable cd or two. This technique is known as "blow back" and , IMHO, is aligned with the level of ethics associated with most legal matters.
It's a weird market I had no idea about until I began my job here a month ago. But we are a thriving company that started in the midst of the tech burst, so while niche there is a big market.(shameless plug) www.ribstoneusa.com
So... spend $5 a month to use my $400 gfx card at half speed? 50% of my machine cost is my video card. Why would I want to emulate the software it's supposed to accelerate? I don't think so. I'll continue to run Windows as a main OS and VMWare my Linux installation(s). Linux, because it is better (smller at least), runs quite well in VMWare whereas CS:Source would probably scream under emulation.