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Slashdot's Disagree Mail 135

This installment of Disagree Mail highlights a man's concern about illegal cloning in the Hollywood community, a guy who is sick of US imperialism and his low karma, and an example of the kind of people you don't want as roommates in college. Read below to find out just how crazy, angry and irresponsible it gets.

Comment Re:Content Based Image Retrieval (Score 1) 389

No, Google Image Search is not CBIR. Google relies on textual metadata for its search. The "content" in CBIR is the image content - raw pixel values and all that can be learned from them (color, texture, intensity, orientation, etc.). Common CBIR queries are performed by example (providing a sample image) or by more exotic means - drawing a sketch, specifying what the color histogram might looks like, tracking eye movements, and many others.

Google Image Labeler is also not CBIR. It is an example of semantic annotation.

Nintendo UK Defends the Wii 123

GamesIndustry.biz is running a story defending the Wii from across the pond. Nintendo's UK boss David Yarnton has nothing but good words for the new name for the Revolution. From the article: "It's like any new name ... it takes a while to get established. I think that you'll find that in not even six months, in a short period of time, people will accept it; they won't be referring to Revolution or next-generation, it'll just be Wii."

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