Isn't this similar to the old DOC format? I'm not sure when the semantic markers first appeared, but the oterh formatting was in a similar format, IIRC.
Maybe MS mean that Bing will ahve a clustering interface like, for example, Clusty. The previous version of this used the same sort of suggestion algorithm as Google suggest does, and used those suggested searches to group the results. This provides a better organisation of the results, which is very nice when searching for documentation of old hardware with missing or incomplete identification.
OTOH, if they were mains powered, I could buy one legally, whereas this would be classed as a laser pointer over 1mW, and thus be banned under weapons laws.
What about the keyboard? You could use a laser keyboard, but they are said to be a real pain to type on because of the lack of feedback (although tiny netbook keys also can be annoying).Otherwise, there. the other good option would be a roll-up keyboard, which takes up more space but could be wrapped around the box and power brick.
Nonetheless, I would probably buy one when the price comes down.
US$150k per annum in Somalia would be a very good standard of living. With that you could have a horde of servants, a large house and grounds, a decent internet connection to Egypt, and a small guard force to protect you.
Actually, they're trying to patent "A system for providing real-time validation of text input fields in a Web page comprising:a validation-enhanced text input element configured to contain an attribute for a validation expression for a text field in a rendered Web page, wherein the validation-enhanced text input element is contained within a source code document corresponding to the rendered Web page; and an input text validator configured to validate a user-entered character of the text field against the validation expression in real-time and visually indicate invalid user-entered characters," and "A method for providing real-time validation of text input fields in a Web page comprising:receiving a user-entered character in a text field displayed in a Web page;immediately validating the user-entered character against a validation expression contained within a validation-enhanced text input element associated with the text field, wherein the validation expression defines a set of acceptable characters and character positions for the text field; and when the user-entered character is determined invalid, visually marking the user-entered character," and "An input text validator for validating a text field of a Web page in real-time comprising:a partial input expression generator configured to generate an expanded version of a validation expression, wherein the expanded version of the validation expression defines a set of acceptable characters and character positions for a text field of a Web page; and an invalid text highlighter configured to visually highlight a user-entered character in the text field when the user-entered character is determined as invalid for the expanded validation expression."
Remember, patents are all about the claims. You don't know what they're "trying to patent" until you have read and understand the claims.
This isn't quite as bad as the summary suggests, since what they are doing is checking the data as you type, and highlighting the first character on which it fails. This could be tricky to do on the desktop if you're using a poor choice of widgets, and doing it in javascript could be rather hackish if it is to be portable.
The most obvious way to do it in Javascript is to use a div made to look like a text field, which, echoes the text to the div and formats it appropriately. If the setup is done entirely in javascript, the real element could be shown if scripts are disabled, or the CSS support is faulty.
The idea is a lot better than TFS suggested, but it is still fairly obvious, both in concept and an implementation, and shouldn't be patentable.
Someone told me that it used to be said sarcastically in parts of the US, but it just became idiomatic and lost the inflection needed to indicate sarcasm.
But WLAN is free, which is pretty helpful with some demographics. Furthermore, it is relatively simple to make your internet connection switch to WLAN or wired Ethernet when present, and fall back to UMTS if necessary. i have seen plenty of setups where this happens transparently to applications, and with only a user notification when switching from free to charged connections.
However, the commonly used definition of a species is the maximum group such that any two members of that group (of opposite gender if necessary) can breed and produce fertile offspring. The different breeds of dog are roughly equivalent to races of people, they look different, and can be used ot get an idea about ancestry, but there is no huge difference, and whist there are crude generalisations one can make about non-defining characteristics, they are very rough indeed.
The trouble with benevolent dictatorships is that it is far too easy for them to become malevolent dictatorships. Apart from the dictator turning evil, there is a chance that a future dictator will be evil, and manage to hide his true colours until too late. The real problem is that you only need one lucky evil man to break the system, but a whole load of good men to keep us safe.
BTW, sod gender-neutral language. the masculine forms are meant as unspecified gender, as is common practice throughout Europe and elsewhere. If you can't understand me, go and lobotomise yourself.
If the word "Worcester" is upsetting to you, try many of the Kentish towns. Some of them have well over half the letters silent or using non-obvious pronunciations.
FYI, JRR Tolkien first used it to mean those who were no longer teens, but under the age of 33. Unless you can find an earlier reference, I think the GP is using the word more correctly.
If it were the year of Linux on the Desktop, then we would see people using proper file systems on more storage devices, and so items would have the execute bit set. Also, some distros simply offer a prompt to choose whether to execute or display a file from a FAT device. Also remember that a desktop file is just a shell script with an arbitrary name and icon, and so social engineering wouldn't be too hard with all the ordinary lusers using Linux as well.
OTOH, I have a WWII Ministry of Supply wooden desk, designed to be cheap and easy to build, and apart from needing new varnish, the desk is in pretty good condition, being somewhat dented and battered, but structurally sound. I also have some bedroom furniture provided to people who had been blitzed, and it was likewise the bottom-end, most basic furniture, but it is of far better construction than most mid-range modern furniture.
Whilst the survival bias may play a part, it is clear that these items were built very well compared to modern furniture.
I certainly do agree in regards to computers, but for items which are basically unchanging, production quality has often dropped, although this is partly that the bottom of the market ahs become lower.
HTML 3 allowed audio and video players to be embedded into pages. Assuming this hasn't been removed (a fairly big assumption, but I don't do web stuff any more), it might be possible to change the src attribute to point to the new song when it is selected. As the browser was able to tell the player to play (for example, the autoplay and loop options), it may also have been possible to tell the player to stop and start using JS. I expect the audio tag will provide al the features necessary to make the NIN page work anyway.
I think he was referring to the genie effect (for minimising), exposé, fading stalled apps, transparency, and so on. It is interesting that some of these features (such as genie and exposé) have exactly the same name in OSX as in Compiz (which AIUI had them first).
The obvious solution is to change the magic numbers in all your files, then mod file(1) to use your magic numbers instead. Without some heavy investigation of non-music files, they wouldn't be able to figure out what is music.
My own university requires electronic (text-based) documents to be in ODF, TXT, RTF, PDF, or TEX (in certain circumstances) formats, with DOC allowed at the option of the marker. If a student submits any other format, it must be approved by the tutor in advance or it is mere pot luck whether the work will be marked at all. Printed material can be produced any way the student likes, even hand-written, provided it is legible.
Walk into the average Comp sci lab or *UG, and you will see that the overwhelming majority of the people there are male. I'm not arguing that this is either a good or bad thing, merely that this is the way it is.
The story I heard was that "flammable" was one of Webster's misspellings/reforms, and that it has only recently become used outside the US because of the reason the PP gave, and the alleged[1][2] decline in standards of English in certain places which favour EN-GB over EN-US.
[1] weasel words added to discourage this thread from going even further off topic than it already is.
[2] Usually by members of the "get off my lawn" community, referring to those on said lawn.
Doesn't the US have the "moron in a hurry" standard for deciding if a trademark is infringing? That standard means that if a moron in a hurry would mistake your link/packaging/label/name for a trademarked one in the same field, then you are infringing. Of course, given the amazing levels of stupidity which the universe can come up with, that is a fairly unpredictable standard.
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Isn't this similar to the old DOC format? I'm not sure when the semantic markers first appeared, but the oterh formatting was in a similar format, IIRC.
I expect most Australians are quite happy to let America keep him.
Maybe MS mean that Bing will ahve a clustering interface like, for example, Clusty. The previous version of this used the same sort of suggestion algorithm as Google suggest does, and used those suggested searches to group the results. This provides a better organisation of the results, which is very nice when searching for documentation of old hardware with missing or incomplete identification.
It is better with Windows
No, no: IT's better with Windows
for whom?
OTOH, if they were mains powered, I could buy one legally, whereas this would be classed as a laser pointer over 1mW, and thus be banned under weapons laws.
Nonetheless, I would probably buy one when the price comes down.
US$150k per annum in Somalia would be a very good standard of living. With that you could have a horde of servants, a large house and grounds, a decent internet connection to Egypt, and a small guard force to protect you.
Actually, they're trying to patent "A system for providing real-time validation of text input fields in a Web page comprising:a validation-enhanced text input element configured to contain an attribute for a validation expression for a text field in a rendered Web page, wherein the validation-enhanced text input element is contained within a source code document corresponding to the rendered Web page; and an input text validator configured to validate a user-entered character of the text field against the validation expression in real-time and visually indicate invalid user-entered characters," and "A method for providing real-time validation of text input fields in a Web page comprising:receiving a user-entered character in a text field displayed in a Web page;immediately validating the user-entered character against a validation expression contained within a validation-enhanced text input element associated with the text field, wherein the validation expression defines a set of acceptable characters and character positions for the text field; and when the user-entered character is determined invalid, visually marking the user-entered character," and "An input text validator for validating a text field of a Web page in real-time comprising:a partial input expression generator configured to generate an expanded version of a validation expression, wherein the expanded version of the validation expression defines a set of acceptable characters and character positions for a text field of a Web page; and an invalid text highlighter configured to visually highlight a user-entered character in the text field when the user-entered character is determined as invalid for the expanded validation expression."
Remember, patents are all about the claims. You don't know what they're "trying to patent" until you have read and understand the claims.
This isn't quite as bad as the summary suggests, since what they are doing is checking the data as you type, and highlighting the first character on which it fails. This could be tricky to do on the desktop if you're using a poor choice of widgets, and doing it in javascript could be rather hackish if it is to be portable.
The most obvious way to do it in Javascript is to use a div made to look like a text field, which, echoes the text to the div and formats it appropriately. If the setup is done entirely in javascript, the real element could be shown if scripts are disabled, or the CSS support is faulty.
The idea is a lot better than TFS suggested, but it is still fairly obvious, both in concept and an implementation, and shouldn't be patentable.
Someone told me that it used to be said sarcastically in parts of the US, but it just became idiomatic and lost the inflection needed to indicate sarcasm.
But WLAN is free, which is pretty helpful with some demographics. Furthermore, it is relatively simple to make your internet connection switch to WLAN or wired Ethernet when present, and fall back to UMTS if necessary. i have seen plenty of setups where this happens transparently to applications, and with only a user notification when switching from free to charged connections.
However, the commonly used definition of a species is the maximum group such that any two members of that group (of opposite gender if necessary) can breed and produce fertile offspring. The different breeds of dog are roughly equivalent to races of people, they look different, and can be used ot get an idea about ancestry, but there is no huge difference, and whist there are crude generalisations one can make about non-defining characteristics, they are very rough indeed.
BTW, sod gender-neutral language. the masculine forms are meant as unspecified gender, as is common practice throughout Europe and elsewhere. If you can't understand me, go and lobotomise yourself.
Your problem is that it has long been a grey oldie.
If the word "Worcester" is upsetting to you, try many of the Kentish towns. Some of them have well over half the letters silent or using non-obvious pronunciations.
FYI, JRR Tolkien first used it to mean those who were no longer teens, but under the age of 33. Unless you can find an earlier reference, I think the GP is using the word more correctly.
If it were the year of Linux on the Desktop, then we would see people using proper file systems on more storage devices, and so items would have the execute bit set. Also, some distros simply offer a prompt to choose whether to execute or display a file from a FAT device. Also remember that a desktop file is just a shell script with an arbitrary name and icon, and so social engineering wouldn't be too hard with all the ordinary lusers using Linux as well.
Whilst the survival bias may play a part, it is clear that these items were built very well compared to modern furniture.
I certainly do agree in regards to computers, but for items which are basically unchanging, production quality has often dropped, although this is partly that the bottom of the market ahs become lower.
HTML 3 allowed audio and video players to be embedded into pages. Assuming this hasn't been removed (a fairly big assumption, but I don't do web stuff any more), it might be possible to change the src attribute to point to the new song when it is selected. As the browser was able to tell the player to play (for example, the autoplay and loop options), it may also have been possible to tell the player to stop and start using JS. I expect the audio tag will provide al the features necessary to make the NIN page work anyway.
I think he was referring to the genie effect (for minimising), exposé, fading stalled apps, transparency, and so on. It is interesting that some of these features (such as genie and exposé) have exactly the same name in OSX as in Compiz (which AIUI had them first).
The obvious solution is to change the magic numbers in all your files, then mod file(1) to use your magic numbers instead. Without some heavy investigation of non-music files, they wouldn't be able to figure out what is music.
My own university requires electronic (text-based) documents to be in ODF, TXT, RTF, PDF, or TEX (in certain circumstances) formats, with DOC allowed at the option of the marker. If a student submits any other format, it must be approved by the tutor in advance or it is mere pot luck whether the work will be marked at all. Printed material can be produced any way the student likes, even hand-written, provided it is legible.
There are already 5000000 of them.
Walk into the average Comp sci lab or *UG, and you will see that the overwhelming majority of the people there are male. I'm not arguing that this is either a good or bad thing, merely that this is the way it is.
[1] weasel words added to discourage this thread from going even further off topic than it already is.
[2] Usually by members of the "get off my lawn" community, referring to those on said lawn.
Doesn't the US have the "moron in a hurry" standard for deciding if a trademark is infringing? That standard means that if a moron in a hurry would mistake your link/packaging/label/name for a trademarked one in the same field, then you are infringing. Of course, given the amazing levels of stupidity which the universe can come up with, that is a fairly unpredictable standard.