"Finally, I'll just tack on that if sparklines are so great and this is all so obvious, then surely there's an open source version that predates this application. Remember, though, that this application was filed on May 7, 2008, so the open source version would need to predate that, preferably (but not necessarily) by a year or more. That would actually be an important piece of prior art."
A quick search shows: http://sparkline.org/ which on their sf page have a release dated 2004-11-09
That 127.0.0.1 guy has been downloading crap off my computer all year. Anytime I try to block him with the firewall he kills my net connection.. HLEP!!! =)
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"Finally, I'll just tack on that if sparklines are so great and this is all so obvious, then surely there's an open source version that predates this application. Remember, though, that this application was filed on May 7, 2008, so the open source version would need to predate that, preferably (but not necessarily) by a year or more. That would actually be an important piece of prior art." A quick search shows: http://sparkline.org/ which on their sf page have a release dated 2004-11-09
how about a game of global thermo nuclear war?
so you don't want to use google or yahoo to search the interwebs? use msn! lol
next release of oakley sunglasses will have built in planet spotting capabilities.. wheee
That 127.0.0.1 guy has been downloading crap off my computer all year. Anytime I try to block him with the firewall he kills my net connection.. HLEP!!! =)