Title: Don't Scan While Drunk Post by: Khaldun on August 01, 2011, 05:55:34 AM I think somebody at Google Books was a little bit bored while working on this text: http://books.google.com/books?id=go05AAAAcAAJ&pg=PR8-IA1#v=onepage&q&f=false
Title: Re: Don't Scan While Drunk Post by: Hawkbit on August 01, 2011, 05:58:34 AM They give all the ancient German texts to the new guy to scan.
Title: Re: Don't Scan While Drunk Post by: Merusk on August 01, 2011, 08:51:19 AM Ancient German Philosophy.. so mind-bending it even warps 21st century tech.
Title: Re: Don't Scan While Drunk Post by: Sheepherder on August 01, 2011, 08:10:44 PM FIFY. I was once asked by a philosophy professor what I though of the readings we were assigned on Kant. My response was pretty much, " I had no damn clue what he was trying to say, but I'm sure it was very nice." Title: Re: Don't Scan While Drunk Post by: Khaldun on August 03, 2011, 07:20:32 AM Awwww. They fixed it.
Title: Re: Don't Scan While Drunk Post by: Sky on August 03, 2011, 07:24:48 AM The tech has left his thumbprint on the scanning world.
Title: Re: Don't Scan While Drunk Post by: Hawkbit on August 03, 2011, 07:25:26 AM Kinda. Of course, it will be preserved for all time with some janky filthy fingernails still in frame. When mankind dies off and a new species achieves sentience, only to find our knowledge and technology housed in our supercomputers, they'll think "Gods, look at those dirty fingernails! What Neanderthals."
Title: Re: Don't Scan While Drunk Post by: Lakov_Sanite on August 03, 2011, 08:18:58 PM Saw thread expecting heads being blown up while drinking jaeger, was disappointed.
Title: Re: Don't Scan While Drunk Post by: KallDrexx on August 04, 2011, 05:10:58 AM I thought Google had machines to scan the books. It's kinda mind boggling if they scan each set of pages manually O.o
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