This is an honest question and isn't meant to belittle anyone in any way. But why is that your parents "wish to learn more" but haven't? I'm assuming that you've tried to educate them on the subject before. So why is it that they still haven't learned, despite their efforts to understand?
You are correct--there are some people who honestly are interested in learning about these things so that they can make these decisions themselves. However, they are the exception, not the rule. If someone is truly interested in learning, I'm more than happy to help them out. But when offers of assistance are met with "I don't want to know about that" or "That doesn't matter to me" then all bets are off and you're on your own, as far as I'm concerned.
It really boils down to marketing, IMHO. And laziness. The average person doesn't want to have to learn about something and investigate its merits. By and large they're much happier being told that Item A does XYZ, while Item B does XYZ *and* W, all while being easier to use than Item A. Despite W being a useless feature, and the "easier to use" claim being baseless, Item B will win out due to how it's been marketed.
Don't forget to check Usenet (or Google Groups for the NNTP-challenged) for answers. After all, this is the sort of thing that it excels at (or did at one time).
Ahhh, journalism at its finest: "The new chips will be able to overclock one of the cores if the other core is not being used." Then two paragraphs later: "This is not overclocking. Overclocking is when you take a chip and increase its clock speed and run it out of spec. This is not out of spec."
That said, this seems to make perfect sense to me. If they're able to pump all that power into a single core while the other one is asleep/idle, all while keeping it within its operating parameters, then I'm all for it.
My take of the situation is that this guy found some hardware/BIOS problem that will brick a certain model of laptop when you try to cold boot it with a certain model usb-serial adapter is installed. That's it.
If this is news to you, then it shows that you didn't bother reading through your contract before signing it. In which case, all I can say is tough shit!
Although Acrobat's OCR engine leaves a bit to be desired, the approach there works pretty well. You can have it create the OCR'd text page layout that uses the original image as an overlay. So, in essence you get a page that looks like the original scanned image, but that lets you highlight/select the text from the background text layer. I'm sure other programs out there can do this, too. None that are OS (to my knowledge), as per the GP's requirements, though.
All you people who are worried about this breaking captchas seem to be missing something--there have been a number of fairly decent OCR packages out there for a long time. The goal of this Google project is to create an open-sourced one that does a good job deciphering HUMAN-READABLE TEXT. Captchas are far from human-readable (the good ones at least), and I seriously doubt this project will help very much in that arena.
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I looked into that one once, but it was full of holes...
Chalk another one up to Zonkism.
What, pray tell, is your problem with the word?
This is an honest question and isn't meant to belittle anyone in any way. But why is that your parents "wish to learn more" but haven't? I'm assuming that you've tried to educate them on the subject before. So why is it that they still haven't learned, despite their efforts to understand?
You are correct--there are some people who honestly are interested in learning about these things so that they can make these decisions themselves. However, they are the exception, not the rule. If someone is truly interested in learning, I'm more than happy to help them out. But when offers of assistance are met with "I don't want to know about that" or "That doesn't matter to me" then all bets are off and you're on your own, as far as I'm concerned.
It really boils down to marketing, IMHO. And laziness. The average person doesn't want to have to learn about something and investigate its merits. By and large they're much happier being told that Item A does XYZ, while Item B does XYZ *and* W, all while being easier to use than Item A. Despite W being a useless feature, and the "easier to use" claim being baseless, Item B will win out due to how it's been marketed.
Don't forget to check Usenet (or Google Groups for the NNTP-challenged) for answers. After all, this is the sort of thing that it excels at (or did at one time).
I think a better word is "went".
Ahhh, but the key here is the 'tedious journey' part, which is not conveyed at all if he simply said "I went to the post office."
The FCC has little reason to investigate cookies.
I thought the FDA was responsible for investigating cookies...
If you just keep saying 'I'm Rick James, bitch! Look it up!' then you'll get nowhere.
But what if my name is Rick James?
Ahhh, journalism at its finest: "The new chips will be able to overclock one of the cores if the other core is not being used." Then two paragraphs later: "This is not overclocking. Overclocking is when you take a chip and increase its clock speed and run it out of spec. This is not out of spec."
That said, this seems to make perfect sense to me. If they're able to pump all that power into a single core while the other one is asleep/idle, all while keeping it within its operating parameters, then I'm all for it.
Yeeps. I stand corrected. : (
Sorry, bud. You got it wrong. The article is correct.
Anyone that's been on IRC can clearly confirm the above statement...
That statement makes me wonder which one you were--the deceiver or the deceived.
I moused over the whole summary, but I couldn't find a link anywhere in there...
Either way, everybody using a Mac has to buy it and will buy it.
Yeah, I know they've FORCED me to buy the upgrades several times now. Damn I wish I still had freewill...
Alright, who's the Dick who did this?!?
My take of the situation is that this guy found some hardware/BIOS problem that will brick a certain model of laptop when you try to cold boot it with a certain model usb-serial adapter is installed. That's it.
"Oh, but there's a subwoofer, so it's not tinny!"
No, it's tinny AND boomy! (Mids? What are mids?)
So why is Ohm resistant?
Get out of here! Now!
If this is news to you, then it shows that you didn't bother reading through your contract before signing it. In which case, all I can say is tough shit!
Although Acrobat's OCR engine leaves a bit to be desired, the approach there works pretty well. You can have it create the OCR'd text page layout that uses the original image as an overlay. So, in essence you get a page that looks like the original scanned image, but that lets you highlight/select the text from the background text layer. I'm sure other programs out there can do this, too. None that are OS (to my knowledge), as per the GP's requirements, though.
Decipherable is different from readable.
All you people who are worried about this breaking captchas seem to be missing something--there have been a number of fairly decent OCR packages out there for a long time. The goal of this Google project is to create an open-sourced one that does a good job deciphering HUMAN-READABLE TEXT. Captchas are far from human-readable (the good ones at least), and I seriously doubt this project will help very much in that arena.
Number one extension to use: IE7 God, what a lot of drivel.
Where can I find this "IE7 God" extension?