Comment Sorry about the paywall everybody (Score 1) 56
They must have paywalled it after I submitted the story. It was not paywalled at the time of submission.
Submission + - Nuance Loses Patent Trial Over OCR Tech
rtobyr writes: The Recorder is reporting that Nuance and partner Mofo have lost a suit over patent infringement of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) against Russian competitor ABBYY Software House.
Nuance had accused ABBYY Software House of infringing three of its patents and mirroring its packaging. Both companies market software that uses optical character recognition technology, or OCR, to convert scanned images of text so they can be searched and edited digitally. Represented by a team of lawyers from Morrison & Foerster and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Nuance argued that ABBYY's FineReader was little more than a copy of its signature product OmniPage. The Burlington, Mass.-based company also sued Lexmark International Inc. for its use of ABBYY's products and sought more than $100 million in total damages from the two companies. Nuance did not prevail on any claims in Nuance Communications v. ABBYY Software House, 08-0912. MoFo partner Michael Jacobs, who is co-lead counsel for Nuance with fellow MoFo partner James Bennett, declined to comment.
Roku Finally Gets a 2D Menu System 80
DeviceGuru writes "Many of us have griped for years about Roku's retro one-dimensional user interface. Finally, in conjunction with the release of the new Roku 3 model, the Linux-based media streaming player is getting a two-dimensional facelift, making it quicker and easier to access favorite channels and find new ones. Current Roku users, who will now begin suffering from UI-envy, will be glad to learn that Roku plans to push out a firmware update next month to many earlier models, including the Roku LT, Roku HD (model 2500R), Roku 2 HD, Roku 2 XD, Roku 2 XS, and Roku Streaming Stick. A short demo of the new 2D Roku menu system is available in this YouTube video."
Comment Linus has always been an a-hole (Score 1, Interesting) 786
Remember when he criticized GNOME? That was about as professional as a judge recommending a lawyer. What about when he called the OpenBSD team a bunch of masturbating monkeys? Linus is an a-hole. This isn't news.
Comment Crap (Score 1) 1
I just realized that I should have tried to patent the idea of anti-keywords before posting the idea on Slashdot ;-)
Comment No shit says Sherlock study. (Score 1) 84
It's in the title.
Comment HA! A real life Riddler (Score 1) 83
I never thought I'd see the day when comic book supervillains come to life.
Comment Bulimic Bob (Score 1) 65
It's in the title.
Comment Not all veterans (Score 1) 62
are soldiers. Are airmen, sailors, and marines excluded from the offer?
Comment When magnetic poles switch: evolution leaps? (Score 1) 1142
We know that the magnetic poles switch about every 200,000 years. During the 1,000 year process, we experience double or more radiation from the Sun. Do you suppose that evolutionary leaps result, which could account for some of the sudden leaps in evolution that Creationists like to point out?
Comment Linus has always been an a-hole (Score 1) 1223
Remember when he criticized GNOME? That was about as professional as a judge recommending a lawyer. What about when he called the OpenBSD team a bunch of masturbating monkeys? Linus is an a-hole. This isn't news.
Comment Upgrade Path (Score 1) 867
Red Hat -> Fedora -> CentOS -> Slackware -> Ubuntu -> OpenBSD -> Ubuntu -> PC-BSD -> Mint -> Ubuntu -> OSX
Where I can't use a Mac, I stick with Ubuntu. AFAIK, it's the only distro that can always be upgraded from one release to the next without the need to re-install.
Comment Was this inspired by (Score 1) 73
Was this inspired by robot scorpions in your belly-button?
Comment Intense gamma ray source? (Score 2) 41
Didn't Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno show us why this is a bad idea?
Comment Really? (Score 1) 5
There's a particle with a name so close to "marijuana" that at first glance you think it is that word?
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