21 May
2012
21 May
'12
11:14 a.m.
On Mon, 21 May 2012, John Foust wrote:
At 11:28 AM 5/21/2012, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Why not simply build a paper tape reader? It's not that hard to do.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
If you were
scanning a short stack of cards, it wasn't so bad, but a 3 foot deck?
You'd spend a lot of time just getting the cards in and out of the
scanner.
Well, there are many scanners that can auto-feed a half-inch-tall pile.
As for paper tape, what about the super-duper overkill of recognizing
a video stream from a web cam? All you'd need is a jig to slowly
pull the tape past the fixed camera.