[gui-talk] For those who use Kurzweil 1000, you've sure got a few things to complain about.

Mon Jan 15 11:17:12 CST 2007

Hi,
The point isn't which operating system is on your system; just running Win 
XP is no guarantee that you have a particularly powerful CPU or a lot of 
RAM. It's these things that you'd want to know in response to someone's 
asking if your computer is a capable one in some rgard.
operationg hat
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dane Trethowan" <danetrethowan at iprimus.com.au>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] For those who use Kurzweil 1000,you've sure got a 
few things to complain about.

I certainly think I do yes, the machine is 3 years old and runs XP
but to be fair, I'll take a look at version 11 and see if it runs
better.

On 15/01/2007, at 10:37 PM, albert griffith wrote:

I can say I've had no serious stability problems.  When I have, there
has
always been a fix.  Do you have a machine which lack the processor
strength
and/or memory to run today's programs?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Trethowan" <danetrethowan at iprimus.com.au>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 3:12 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] For those who use Kurzweil 1000,you've sure
got a
few things to complain about.

|I disagree with you there, the stability issue is one that any
| company deserves a damn good bashing over, imagine the fury if
| Microsoft released a version of Office that crashed unpredictably.
| Now contrary to other opinion expressed on this list, I have never
| thrown a a tantrem when K1000 has crashed etc, actually I've cracked
| up laughing because such a shoddy product would (had I been testing
| it) never have gotten out of the building let alone shipped around
| the world.
| Anyway, I'll pay the upgrade cost for K100 v11 and see if its any
| better, I've been using K100 for more than 6 years now and my main
| reason for writing my findings was to see if anyone else had the
| stability issues I've experienced.
|
| On 15/01/2007, at 1:10 PM, Les Kriegler wrote:
|
| Why don't you frame any of your comments in a positive manner?
| Personally,
| while it would be nice to have that feature, I don't have a problem
| re-loading seetins I wish to use for specific tasks.  Hardly worth
| bashing a
| company over.
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-
| bounces at nfbnet.org] On
| Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
| Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:00 PM
| To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
| Subject: Re: [gui-talk] For those who use Kurzweil 1000,you've sure
| got a
| few things to complain about.
|
| I could be wrong about this, but I don't think that most OCR packages
| save
| document specific parameters when the document itself is saved.  This
| might
| be a good feature, but I'm not sure that I buy the statement that the
| developers should be ashamed of themselves.  That sounds a bit harsh,
| unless
| I'm missing something here.
|
| On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:49:01 +1100, Dane Trethowan wrote:
|
| > Ok, I've been using this product for a while and quite frankly the
| > developers of this software ought to be absolutely
| ashamed of themselves. I'll relate what I've found and I sincerely
| hope I'm
| wrong with allot of my findings and I hope I can be corrected but if
| I can't
| then a few black marks ought to be thrown Kurzweil's way.
| > Now, this is the worst stuff up in software I've ever seen in my
| > lifetime. Those of you who use recognition and scanning
| applications would be aware that you have to tweek the setings of the
| application depending on what sort of scanning or recognition work
| you're
| doing, an example of which is the different settings required for say
| colour
| brochures and a paperback book, both types of print and paper are
| different
| so using different scanning and recognition settings for each can
give a
| more accurate result. Kurzweil has a function that allows
| optimization of
| settings for different jobs, once the settings have been optimized
| for say
| the pages in a book, they can be saved so far so good.
| > So you're scanning your book happily, 100 pages scanned and another
| > 300
| > to go and you decide to call it quits for a
| while and have a snack, you naturally save your document so you don't
| lose
| your valuable work. Having had your fill you return to the scanning
| task at
| hand, launching Kurzweil and re-opening your document but where
have all
| your optimized settings gone for your book that Kurzweil created for
| you?
| Well they're saved in the filename you gave them, well they will be
| if you
| saved them but wouldn't it have been allot easier if the folks at
| Kurzweil
| had actually saved your settings along with the document? I tell you,
| I've
| heard of some illogical programming in my time but this one takes the
| cake.
| > And my final absolute irritation with this product? Well it would
help
| > if I had a chrystal ball in front of me that could tell
| me when Kurzweil is about to spit the dumby and either crash my
computer
| completely or just decide to stop working, an "auto-save" function
| would be
| very nice here don't you think <smile>.
| > Dane Trethowan
| > Phone: +613 9747 3975
| > Fax: +613 9743 7954
| > Mobile: +61 425 777 508
| > Skype: grtdane11
|
|
|
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