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I wonder, what technology the database is implemented in.

I didn't know, that a question for "any definitive scientific research results" "doesn't make any sense".

'Izzy' also keeps a comprehensive OPDS catalog of Public Domain ePubs here;

- English: https://ebooks.qumran.org/opds/?lang=en&pageformat=html - German: https://ebooks.qumran.org/opds/?lang=de&pageformat=html

(if you change 'pageformat=html' into 'pageformat=xml' (or 'atom'), you should be able to connect with any OPDS capable client to it.

Don't they need to show up the purchase recipt/bill? Wouldn't the store's location be identified on that?

This was a great read! I also love the fact, that this is an old-skool serve via the user's home (~learnest). So much nicer than "You have 2 more Medium articles free this month".

This is just what these displays are capable of. I guess, that also might be the reason, they took book covers from the 1940's. Vintage look is quite attractive, this way, but it would be worse with modern high-def imagery.

Ha! I am the same with OLED. Ever since I saw a video recorded in an OLED lab, where one of the guys had a transparent foil, looking just like those for the overhead projectors in high-school in the 80's, connected to a HDMI cable. He switched it on and a movie was playing on that foil. He bent it, rolled it and said, this could be cut to any shape and size.

I would be in DIY heaven, if one could buy such foil by the meter, for a sensible price. Just imagine, what kind of displays for DIY devices one could accomplish!

> Amateur Scientist 3.0 CD-ROM, including columns from 1928 to 2001

I know a lot of DataHoarders, who would love to get a hand on this ;-)

I thought so, too. Especially, since the Office 2007 image is so small, that I could not get anything out of it.

Wow, that's sad. Sometimes I just don't understand, why people (those teams) can not show the respect, that would be due.

I wonder how many of these "Execs" are Libertarians, who oppose any form of tax.

Thanks, I will check this out. Nice to explain the background also.

> An API based OCR already exists in Apple / Microsoft / and Google

Where can I reach them? Thx.

> Currently we are looking into developing an OCR API. Would that be useful for you?

Oh yes! Absolutely! However, I only would use it for private purposes, I do not plan to write an application for it, that I'd release. I would do a lot of preprocessing (mostly cutting into boxes, which I would then save in separate bitmaps) and then upload that.

Just these days I am in the process of converting the scans of a recipe-book, that is not available electronically, but which I want to have on my smartphone. There is a PDF online, but that is only a slideshow of bitmap images. It also has ornamental frames on each page, ornaments in text, etc. And as I did not find the results of open source OCR apps to be satisfactory, I started roaming the commercial sector (I still have to evaluate ABBYY Finereader, but that would be very expensive).

Ideally, so I thought, a household would have an account, that is realized via a basic subscription plus pay by volume, and then available as a REST API. The subscription provider would offer a simple user client like https://www.roxyappsdev.com/applications/windows-10-applicat... and a mobile client (think "document scan", with batch and auto deskew/process) but otherwise work (hard ;-)) on the recognition. Now, if hand-writing would also be possible, that would be great!

BTW: What is 'OSD'? And why not some graphics, that explain the different page-selection/-recognition modes?

It's interesting to note, how all these "Competition is Good for the Business(tm)" folks, in reality, do not want any competition, at all.

Seeing this post slowly fading away, I guess, there is a lot of Googlers here. Hasn't a Google employee just sued Google, because of the "Don't be Evil" contractual item not being applied?

I want a phone I can use with a single hand, that has a really good camera (within physical smartphone limits, of course), still has upper class hardware specs and doesn't place me on Apple's property.

> This is my favourite BS argument by audiophiles when defending some impossible claim or other: you have to listen to it.

Just like a lot of engineers will tell you, that having studied a topic on university/college doesn't make up for "field experience".

> Then the next step is always some disparaging remark that you can't hear the difference because your system isn't "high enough resolution".

It's true. Just like there is differences in quality of measuring instruments (cheap china multimeter vs. Agilent or the like) there is difference in electronic components for audio reproduction.

I have one other disparaging remark for you: Not only is your system not resolving enough, your ears are not trained enough to hear the difference ;-).

> Audiophiles have become more insufferable as systems improved.

Well, that just proves audiophiles from the 1980's were right: They told us, that there can be better systems. It's just, that those developments, back then, were expensive and new, which resulted in high product prices, while today they are common main stream.

I did not overlook the devaluation of the product in the title, which can only be a result: "Snake Oil". This is why I said: "No measurements AND no experience." But he came to a conclusion: It's snake-oil. Unprofessional.

That's not fair at all! At least not to the major audiophile magazines, here in Germany, or such a prestigious publication like "The Stereophile". Just two examples:

https://www.stereophile.com/content/bowers-wilkins-diamond-s...

or

https://www.stereo.de/hifi-test/produkt/aavik-d-180-2058 (see "Messergebnisse" and "Messwerte").

No measured data AND no hearing experience. Now that's what I call serious journalism!

On Android, there is "SmartTubeNext" (or so), you may find it via "STN youtube". It just takes out all the crap from YouTube, but keeps all features (at least the ones I know).

> Wirecard scandal

Oh yes, the regulation (BaFin?) totally was out of order on that one!

Thanks for that insight. When it comes to Stocks & Co. I don't know much, if anything. I find it always interesting to read information, that puts things into a relative perspective. The information I had was from an infographic I saw a few weeks ago.

In Germany, the employer must pay half of the monthly healtcare plan and the employee pays the other half. Goes like this since decades in one of the strongest economies of the world. Of course, Apple is more worth than the whole DAX...

Finally I can use Arc, btw.!

I once liked Vivaldi. However, a few months ago I started to dislike it, since it adds more and more useless stuff instead of being innovative:

* Graphics RGB color diagram * Mail client * Calendar client * Since over a year I can't play back video, that ha audio, because then the browser hangs for minutes. * Theme editor * Philips Hue integration * Razor Chroma intergration * (sophisticated) time based theme changes * built in Vivaldia computer game

and these were just the things I found in the first four settings categories... Oh, Notes comes to mind... that doesn't belong into the browser, it belongs into a separate application...and so on...

Yes, the tabs are nice, the quick command (F2) is nice, there is a few other things (it doesn't crash, which is a big one!) but the only reason I am still with it, is, that I have already stored so much information in it and I am too lazy to switch.

It's a browser, that is slowly getting infantile.

> VPU?

Already taken: Video Processing Unit.

> Are "power users" disappearing, or are they just being ignored?

I believe they are mostly ignored.

A power user is a user, who doesn't fear the technical outcall. (S)he wants to get work done and uses a computer as a serious, professional tool. Sooner or later this will require this kind of user to step into configuration, the command line, etc. These users will accumulate IT knowledge auto-didactically, by visiting forums, mailing-lists, etc.

However, they come from many different positions and professions. And as such, they are a moving target of many, often highly specialized, communities. Not the typical customer base a large corporation wants. The large corporation will delegate such communities to "consultants", which those communities either can, or can not afford. I am not an archaeologist, but I could imagine, that archaeologists may benefit from tablets, that can do photos on-site and a document format, that let's them keep track of their excavations, link those to relevant data, etc. Photos like this [1] clearly show a pattern, that relies on coordinates. However, I guess, they are notoriously underfunded and nobody cares anyway.

> Software (and online services) has been in a race to the bottom for over a decade.

I wholeheartedly agree.

I remember the times of ActiveScripting on Windows. It was a great (and much needed) idea, that, however, has been positioned at system admins only (the most typical power user in a Windows environment, typically just some secretary or coworker, who is ready to do it, than a full position) and thus never really took off. Same for XML. Just because software-engineers don't like the format, it must not mean, that there is not some people being "document-engineers". Not everybody, who wants to use a computer programmatically, works at a Web/Cloud startup, etc.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Virginia-Butler/publica...

...and well understood the horrors of a Cyberpunk like dystopia in time.