On Friday 22 November 2002 15.17, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 02.11.22 at 08:50, John Pettigrew wrote:
Does gocr require a specific bit depth, or resolution/font size?
I don't know.
It's *really worth finding this out! Otherwise, you suffer badly from GIGO.
What's GIGO? :-?
I think I will need an "English email acronym dictionary" O:-)
Use "dict", it's an insanely useful tool on the net # dict gigo
From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) [jargon]:
GIGO /gi:'goh/ [acronym] 1. `Garbage In, Garbage Out' -- usually said in response to {luser}s who complain that a program didn't "do the right thing" when given imperfect input or otherwise mistreated in some way. Also commonly used to describe failures in human decision making due to faulty, incomplete, or imprecise data. 2. `Garbage In, Gospel Out': this more recent expansion is a sardonic comment on the tendency human beings have to put excessive trust in `computerized' data.