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Looking for a digital camera that doubles as a portable scanner that is excellent for students or genealogical research, check it out. Cheers Hilton
Commented Sep 26, 2010 on Did YouTube Cut the Gordian Knot of Video Codecs? at Coding Horror
Did YouTube Cut the Gordian Knot of Video Codecs?
Playing video on a computer has always been a crapshoot. You must have the correct video codec installed, the same video codec that the clip was encoded with. If you don't, the video won't play. You'll have to find, download, and install the proper codec first. It's even more of a problem on th...
If ever you need a Microfiche Reader for a library or personal research project I found this portable one that includes a motorised carrier for under a grand. Best Regards, Hilton
Commented Jul 27, 2010 on The Paper Data Storage Option at Coding Horror
The Paper Data Storage Option
As programmers, we regularly work with text encodings. But there's another sort of encoding at work here, one we process so often and so rapidly that it's invisible to us, and we forget about it. I'm talking about visual encoding -- translating the visual glyphs of the alphabet you're reading r...
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