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Updated 122 Days ago
What's the deal with the Jonas Brothers?
I suppose if I had a teenager, or even a pre-teen, I'd get it. I don't...and I don't.
What's the story on the Jonas Brothers? I realize they are among the latest creations of the Disney machine that brought us Hannah Montana, Brittney Spears, and Christina Aguilera. But it seems like I simply blinked my eyes, and these guys were going to fill up the Verizon Wireless theater tonight.
It sounds like the Jonas parents fancy the older boy, Nick, as a kind of Tiger Woods of music. They had him on Broadway when he was seven. I hope these people don't turn into another trainwreck like Lindsey Lohan's stage nightmare folks.
The music isn't bad. Its about the bubble gum rock you'd expect from three teenagers that are on the wall of every eighth grade girl in America. Click the the Video tab if you're curious.
Personally, I'll be at the Cardinals game. Maybe I'm just a fuddy duddy.
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Nick is the youngest, he is 15. Joe is next at 18 and Kevin is oldest at 20. Nick had a dream of being on Broadway since he was 2 (his older bro Joe was on Broadway). They are extremely talented and versatile and their Mom and Dad were both show people back in their day. This act is a family organization, they have faith in God and give Him glory for the 'dream they are living'.
I was blessed last night to attend this concert. It was a gift to my daughter, who is 13. The ages of fans, both boys and girls, ranged from about 4 to adult with the average JoBro Fan to be about 15. The put on an unbelievable show and I have seen some top acts (huge acts) in my day! The facts that they care about young fans, give huge sums to charity, show and share their faith, etc... is what makes Moms and Dads happy that they are roll models.
If it was not for my profile page I would not of seen my silly error, I love the ease and convenience of our profile pages!
What is reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books.A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them Ñ colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.
About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that's not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into "reading" books.
To archive human knowledge and to make information more accessible to the world, multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books that were written before the computer age. The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then transformed into text using "Optical Character Recognition" (OCR). The transformation into text is useful because scanning a book produces images, which are difficult to store on small devices, expensive to download, and cannot be searched. The problem is that OCR is not perfect.
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. This is possible because most OCR programs alert you when a word cannot be read correctly.
But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct.
Currently, we are helping to digitize books from the Internet Archive and old editions of the New York Times.