Sorry about the dual post, I forgot to add I was looking at launching a website which indexes web comic strip text since as you point out it is very easy to extract and identify, but even then you need a targeted approach for each strip.
I actually did this as part of my graduate thesis. I even managed to get a high percentage of (about 80% of words inside my sample of 50 images I could recognise) recognition of text inside images. While you are right and that standard OCR techniques work very well, the bigger problem is extracting the text so you can recognize it. I don't know of any technique that can extract this text that does not also massively scale the problem. I used multiple techniques to do this such as multivalued image decomposition and each turned the problem of finding text in one image to finding text in at least 10 images. A 10x increase and even that wont find much of the text in many images. I also had a large amount of false positives.
I concluded that these problems really make pixel text indexing a headache. I guess you could match the pixel text against the text of the document to fix problems with false positives but that somewhat defeats the purpose of finding new content to begin with. Even if you do solve that you still have the scale of the problem, although thankfully it scales out to multiple machines very well.
If anyone is interested in getting my thesis just leave a note on my website and I will link it, or email.
I really don't get why people talk about pointers being a difficult concept. The only slightly obtuse thing about them is the syntax, and as anyone who can code in more then one language will tell you learning syntax is easy.
Im sure this is a deliberate troll, but to avoid someone getting misinformation....
1. You don't to publish your changes to GNU GPL code unless you are doing to distribute it. IE if you change linux to suit your environment and never sell/give away those changes you are not obliged to release code.
2. Check the license for GCC, things created with it do not have to be released under the GNU GPL.
I suggest you get better lawyers, contact the FSF or at very least read the FAQ on the FSF website.
Here is some free advice for the OLPC people.
Let people outside the US and Canada buy the dammed thing. I have been wanting a product like this for a long time. Since I live in Australia I am unable to get one (through any conventional means).
Sell them without the warm and fuzzy feeling method of buy one get one free. This will increase the demand and lower the price point down to the orginal $100 assuming enough people look at buying one.
The trick to sim farm was plant 4 crops of strawberries. Then keep buying land till you have 8 crops of them. Finally convert all of them to oranges. They have the advantage of only needing to be sprayed once every now and then, and having the crop sell for a bucketload of money.
Using that strat you can easily beat the game and start planting whatever the hell you want.
While this contributes to the death of the set it wasn't the beginning.
What really killed the chemistry set is marketing. Have a look at the sets of old where you saw a scientist with a white coat with the ugly beard doing something cool. The sets of these days have some sort of slobbing freak creating other freaks using green goo. Nobody was buying them for that reason alone.
It seems to have a lot of UI changes for styles sake. While I understand that will get people to upgrade surely its on the same level as the how most people see the change between XP and Vista.
Dont get me wrong though I quite like that OS X. What I would really like them to do though is fix the Dock Bar so that when things are minimised to it they can be easily distinguised and save me looking through them all to find the one I want.
Nothing. Other then the fact I cant hold a laptop in my arms as easily as I can hold a magazine. Not to mention its harder to change the page since you need to move the mouse/gspot/trackthing.
It is also much nicer to read something that isnt on a screen.
While true that the information in any Mag is out of date, it is still nice to read something thats not on a computer screen. Its also nice to lie on the couch or wander outside or take a crap while reading a mag.
I just had a look then at at video for it and I must say it does look very impressive... I think they are actually close to Pixar level quality during in game scenes.
But I am still going to reserve final judgement till I see it up close and running in HD. Since my scholarship's second half pays soon I might actually be tempted to get a PS3 based on the game.
Totally agree. At my house wires are not an option due to the layout so I moved to wireless. I would dearly love to use Ubuntu or some other linux but I have been unable to get it to work at all.
My experience with 7.10 was that it correctly sets up my card, connects to the AP, gets an IP address and then....
cannot do anything. Even ping the router. Its frustrating in the extreme. I tried it on several other machines (with different cards) and none worked out of the box.
The only consolation I have is that my laptop with the cheapest PCMCIA wifi card I could find ($30) works flawlessly.
I don't see why the PSP gets bashed so much. For what you pay you do get a nice bit of kit. Even without hacking it there is a large amount of functionality there. I have one, which yes I did hack, but I would have no problems with using it as Sony wants me to.
I dont know if I agree with this. Chinese under 14 are all part of the single child generation and as such they get everything they could possibly want, so points to the game manufacturers there. Over 14 they are under so much pressure to do well in exams to get into University they dont have time for games (or anything else for that matter). I guess this means there is a large market for the big N, however Chinese tend to hate anything Japanese (although they love Sony... go figure).
I dunno. I work in China in a IT company and most of the guys I see are conforming to the Asian sterotype playing Starcraft and Red Alert 2. Most of then havent heard of the newer games. Other then WoW I cant think of many mainstream games that have taken root here.
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Sorry about the dual post, I forgot to add I was looking at launching a website which indexes web comic strip text since as you point out it is very easy to extract and identify, but even then you need a targeted approach for each strip.
I actually did this as part of my graduate thesis. I even managed to get a high percentage of (about 80% of words inside my sample of 50 images I could recognise) recognition of text inside images. While you are right and that standard OCR techniques work very well, the bigger problem is extracting the text so you can recognize it. I don't know of any technique that can extract this text that does not also massively scale the problem. I used multiple techniques to do this such as multivalued image decomposition and each turned the problem of finding text in one image to finding text in at least 10 images. A 10x increase and even that wont find much of the text in many images. I also had a large amount of false positives. I concluded that these problems really make pixel text indexing a headache. I guess you could match the pixel text against the text of the document to fix problems with false positives but that somewhat defeats the purpose of finding new content to begin with. Even if you do solve that you still have the scale of the problem, although thankfully it scales out to multiple machines very well. If anyone is interested in getting my thesis just leave a note on my website and I will link it, or email.
I really don't get why people talk about pointers being a difficult concept. The only slightly obtuse thing about them is the syntax, and as anyone who can code in more then one language will tell you learning syntax is easy.
Im sure this is a deliberate troll, but to avoid someone getting misinformation.... 1. You don't to publish your changes to GNU GPL code unless you are doing to distribute it. IE if you change linux to suit your environment and never sell/give away those changes you are not obliged to release code. 2. Check the license for GCC, things created with it do not have to be released under the GNU GPL. I suggest you get better lawyers, contact the FSF or at very least read the FAQ on the FSF website.
Here is some free advice for the OLPC people. Let people outside the US and Canada buy the dammed thing. I have been wanting a product like this for a long time. Since I live in Australia I am unable to get one (through any conventional means). Sell them without the warm and fuzzy feeling method of buy one get one free. This will increase the demand and lower the price point down to the orginal $100 assuming enough people look at buying one.
Now Google starts to slide into the abyss with Microsoft/Sony/SCO and all the other evil companies.
The trick to sim farm was plant 4 crops of strawberries. Then keep buying land till you have 8 crops of them. Finally convert all of them to oranges. They have the advantage of only needing to be sprayed once every now and then, and having the crop sell for a bucketload of money. Using that strat you can easily beat the game and start planting whatever the hell you want.
While this contributes to the death of the set it wasn't the beginning. What really killed the chemistry set is marketing. Have a look at the sets of old where you saw a scientist with a white coat with the ugly beard doing something cool. The sets of these days have some sort of slobbing freak creating other freaks using green goo. Nobody was buying them for that reason alone.
It seems to have a lot of UI changes for styles sake. While I understand that will get people to upgrade surely its on the same level as the how most people see the change between XP and Vista. Dont get me wrong though I quite like that OS X. What I would really like them to do though is fix the Dock Bar so that when things are minimised to it they can be easily distinguised and save me looking through them all to find the one I want.
Nothing. Other then the fact I cant hold a laptop in my arms as easily as I can hold a magazine. Not to mention its harder to change the page since you need to move the mouse/gspot/trackthing. It is also much nicer to read something that isnt on a screen.
While true that the information in any Mag is out of date, it is still nice to read something thats not on a computer screen. Its also nice to lie on the couch or wander outside or take a crap while reading a mag.
"When text editing is less then instant on a 3ghz machine you know something is very very wrong..."
I just had a look then at at video for it and I must say it does look very impressive... I think they are actually close to Pixar level quality during in game scenes. But I am still going to reserve final judgement till I see it up close and running in HD. Since my scholarship's second half pays soon I might actually be tempted to get a PS3 based on the game.
Totally agree. At my house wires are not an option due to the layout so I moved to wireless. I would dearly love to use Ubuntu or some other linux but I have been unable to get it to work at all.
My experience with 7.10 was that it correctly sets up my card, connects to the AP, gets an IP address and then....
cannot do anything. Even ping the router. Its frustrating in the extreme. I tried it on several other machines (with different cards) and none worked out of the box.
The only consolation I have is that my laptop with the cheapest PCMCIA wifi card I could find ($30) works flawlessly.
I am hoping whoever wins on the Triton auction ressurects it, chucks slash code on it and sets it up with the old slashdot look and feel.
I don't see why the PSP gets bashed so much. For what you pay you do get a nice bit of kit. Even without hacking it there is a large amount of functionality there. I have one, which yes I did hack, but I would have no problems with using it as Sony wants me to.
I dont know if I agree with this. Chinese under 14 are all part of the single child generation and as such they get everything they could possibly want, so points to the game manufacturers there. Over 14 they are under so much pressure to do well in exams to get into University they dont have time for games (or anything else for that matter). I guess this means there is a large market for the big N, however Chinese tend to hate anything Japanese (although they love Sony... go figure). I dunno. I work in China in a IT company and most of the guys I see are conforming to the Asian sterotype playing Starcraft and Red Alert 2. Most of then havent heard of the newer games. Other then WoW I cant think of many mainstream games that have taken root here.
Since I cant figure out how to reply to the article I will chuck something here (perhaps someone can help a slashdot noob here). http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/08/19402 10
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