I am going to win this contest with a Grid Spellchecker. From the official rules: https://coolapps.developer.network.com/Rules.html CoolApps Developer Challange Contest The 3rd word is misspelled! My Grid SpellChecker would have caught that in a fraction of the time of a regular old spellchecker... Sun should just send me the 15K right now.
My similar comment got moderated down as Flamebait, then Offtopic. Also I wonder if the Anonymous Coward with the Genius IQ who posted is also the moderator?
My Firefox 1.5 is on XP, I'll bet your on Linux. I checked the Firefox bugzilla, someone reported a bug today referencing this same google site. Their behavior was different than mine; their graphs wouldn't show up until they did a Print Preview, but Firefox didn't crash. Further testing with my Firefox has crashed on many other SVGs.
My Opera is 8.51 and renders the graphs as black rectangles.
And I would like to express special thanks to the user who moderated my original comment as flaimbait, but without knowing who they are I cannot.
The black box is caused by them not using type="text/css" on the ?xml-stylesheet declaration. type is a required attribute. If I add that it renders properly on all the svg viewers I tried.
The latest Opera shows the graphs as black rectangles as well.
As does the Batik squiggle project.
The only way I've sucessfully seen a graph is to view the source in IE, manually build the link to the svg, and go directly to the svg in the Firefox browser.
It probably wouldn't bother me so much if they would take those officers running speed traps and put them someplace genuinely useful, like busy intersections where people die all the time because asshats are always running the stop lights.
Except that when the enforce red light running, they do it with the same level of incompetence and revenue focus as their speeding enforcement efforts.
For example, Centennial CO often enforces red light running for left turners at Arapahoe and Havana with a spotter and 4 cruises just down the road. I saw a "trial" where the defendant and his father both testified that the cruisers , pulling people over too close to the intersection, had blocked traffic sufficiently to gridlock traffic into the intersection. Whether or not the defendant was in the intersection before the light was red doesn't matter; The police definitely made the intersection less safe. And of course the defendant lost anyway; Centennial is on the verge of bankruptcy and is thus, by the courts own admission, issuing 4-5 times more traffic tickets than they anticipated.
I've seen there since, typically there is a huge long line of left turners, traffic isn't backed up in any other directions, and there you have 5 police officers not doing anything about the situation except pulling people over after they waited through 4 or 5 cycles of the light and pushed it a little bit to not wait for another. Heaven forbid one of them stop eating doughnuts and make the left turn cycle a few seconds longer, or get out of the cruisers and direct traffic for a few minutes to alleviate the problem.
Last time I saw them there I flipped off the entire line of cruisers and told the spotter to go fuck himself.
I would wager that cops are on average, much dumber, and more prone to having biases and making mistakes than the average Slashdot reader / poster. I won't go so far as to say the average cop is dumber than the average person, although I have met individual officers who meet that criteria.
I wrote some software that does this. I used an SVG source, and Batik to break it up into tiles at various resolutions and convert to JPEG. There is even an example in the Batik documentation of how to do it. Couldn't be easier. And you are right, you can, and I do, serve up the entire thing as static files. You can check it out at http://reports.virtela.net/matrix/public/xslt/repo rts/worldmap2.jsp.
That is just because those are the most common breaks you take from work. I work really well when I'm hungover and have to take more frequent bathroom breaks.
I put GNU bg on its highest level and do no worse than split 7 point matches with it. And if I put it in the mode where you keep playing game after game to no upper limit of points, I invariably end up like 150 - 30 in points. It will stubbornly redouble as long as it thinks its ahead. Then I win lots of points. Its really funny when you then have it analyze the games. It will rate your play, it always rates itself is grandmaster, or whatever. It also rates the luck of each side. I like it when it has better luck than me, rates me as a beginner, and I still torch it for 4, 8, 16, 32, etc points. I would love to beat gnubg for money instead of just to pass time.
IANAE (I am not an economist, but the inflation argument that the price of gasoline once you factor in inflation is still lower than the times of the oil crisis is complete garbage. They are seriously just taking the overall inflation rate and compounding it against the price of gasoline back then, to come up with a figure in today's dollars. That is meaningless.
This is the expected condition -- Even when we start running out, the inflation on gasoline will always be lower than the overall inflation. If, temporarily, the price of gasoline inflates faster than the overall, don't worry, the rest of the economy will catch up shortly.
The reason you see this bullshit argument all over the news is the oil companies and your government want you to think you're not being gouged. Meanwhile the oil companies are making record profits.
You're a fucking moron. Obeying the law in that case results in being stopped at a red light. This was ten plus years ago, and I bet its still broken. I don't think I've ever cried about it though. If you cry to the Herndon police enough about being tailgated and give them pictures, you'll probably get yourself on another list of theirs. You're probably on it already.
There was a light that did this on Herndon Parkway. It was set wrong. If you went the speed limit it would almost always turn red. The only way to make the light and not hate yourself for driving slow was to take it at 15 over. It couldn't change to red fast enough then, and you would make it. If you did miss the light it was proper etiqutte to lay on the horn until it changed, optionally followed by a peal out.
People are only buying the good singles off albums because the price is cheap ($.99) relative to the price of the album ($9.99+), at least for how many tracks they actually want. So the first thing they do in response is raise the price of some albums to $13.99 (or 16.99)!??? That's backwards! Seems to me they should be pricing the album based on how good/desiable it is, which should roughly correlate to how many good tracks there are, and try to make a price point less than total_number_ of_tracks * $.99, but more than average_purchased_single_tracks * $.99, in order to maximize the amount of profit off the shitty tracks. So the price of the full album should drop until (enough) people are buying the whole album instead of just one or two tracks... For each album there should be a ratio of singles/full downloads to maximize profit. Done right should easily overcome alleged 7.5% decline in made up numbers.
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I am going to win this contest with a Grid Spellchecker. From the official rules:
https://coolapps.developer.network.com/Rules.html
CoolApps Developer Challange Contest
The 3rd word is misspelled! My Grid SpellChecker would have caught that in a fraction of the time of a regular old spellchecker...
Sun should just send me the 15K right now.
If your Firefox 1.5 doesn't display the graphs, or crashes, do the following as suggested by the Google webstats author:
8 1#c3
Apparently there's a problem in Firefox 1.5 regarding SVG images if you
had SVG in the registry. Try following the steps described here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3035
10k is pretty big. If the goal was small size they would use svgz.
Agreed; I will try to figure it out what's wrong for the betterment of Firefox.
My similar comment got moderated down as Flamebait, then Offtopic. Also I wonder if the Anonymous Coward with the Genius IQ who posted is also the moderator?
My Firefox 1.5 is on XP, I'll bet your on Linux. I checked the Firefox bugzilla, someone reported a bug today referencing this same google site. Their behavior was different than mine; their graphs wouldn't show up until they did a Print Preview, but Firefox didn't crash. Further testing with my Firefox has crashed on many other SVGs.
My Opera is 8.51 and renders the graphs as black rectangles.
And I would like to express special thanks to the user who moderated my original comment as flaimbait, but without knowing who they are I cannot.
The black box is caused by them not using type="text/css" on the ?xml-stylesheet declaration. type is a required attribute. If I add that it renders properly on all the svg viewers I tried.
The latest Opera shows the graphs as black rectangles as well.
As does the Batik squiggle project.
The only way I've sucessfully seen a graph is to view the source in IE, manually build the link to the svg, and go directly to the svg in the Firefox browser.
And IE6 + ASV6 (http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/beta.html ) doesn't work either. All the graphs are blank, and if I go directly to svg by url, I get a big black rectangle.
I vote this as the worst use of svg on the internet.
Firefox 1.5 isn't showing the graphs; instead it crashes.
Except that when the enforce red light running, they do it with the same level of incompetence and revenue focus as their speeding enforcement efforts.
For example, Centennial CO often enforces red light running for left turners at Arapahoe and Havana with a spotter and 4 cruises just down the road. I saw a "trial" where the defendant and his father both testified that the cruisers , pulling people over too close to the intersection, had blocked traffic sufficiently to gridlock traffic into the intersection. Whether or not the defendant was in the intersection before the light was red doesn't matter; The police definitely made the intersection less safe. And of course the defendant lost anyway; Centennial is on the verge of bankruptcy and is thus, by the courts own admission, issuing 4-5 times more traffic tickets than they anticipated.
I've seen there since, typically there is a huge long line of left turners, traffic isn't backed up in any other directions, and there you have 5 police officers not doing anything about the situation except pulling people over after they waited through 4 or 5 cycles of the light and pushed it a little bit to not wait for another. Heaven forbid one of them stop eating doughnuts and make the left turn cycle a few seconds longer, or get out of the cruisers and direct traffic for a few minutes to alleviate the problem.
Last time I saw them there I flipped off the entire line of cruisers and told the spotter to go fuck himself.
I would wager that cops are on average, much dumber, and more prone to having biases and making mistakes than the average Slashdot reader / poster. I won't go so far as to say the average cop is dumber than the average person, although I have met individual officers who meet that criteria.
I wrote some software that does this. I used an SVG source, and Batik to break it up into tiles at various resolutions and convert to JPEG. There is even an example in the Batik documentation of how to do it. Couldn't be easier. And you are right, you can, and I do, serve up the entire thing as static files. You can check it out at http://reports.virtela.net/matrix/public/xslt/repo rts/worldmap2.jsp.
duh, just outsource it to india.
Already happening, wasn't it Ted Kennedy who had trouble flying recently?
Its set in Vegas, casinos have pretty good surveillance gear.
That is just because those are the most common breaks you take from work. I work really well when I'm hungover and have to take more frequent bathroom breaks.
I put GNU bg on its highest level and do no worse than split 7 point matches with it. And if I put it in the mode where you keep playing game after game to no upper limit of points, I invariably end up like 150 - 30 in points. It will stubbornly redouble as long as it thinks its ahead. Then I win lots of points. Its really funny when you then have it analyze the games. It will rate your play, it always rates itself is grandmaster, or whatever. It also rates the luck of each side. I like it when it has better luck than me, rates me as a beginner, and I still torch it for 4, 8, 16, 32, etc points. I would love to beat gnubg for money instead of just to pass time.
I think there's nip. There's a kid with an ice cream cone who causes the lady to sit up and expose herself.
IANAE (I am not an economist, but the inflation argument that the price of gasoline once you factor in inflation is still lower than the times of the oil crisis is complete garbage. They are seriously just taking the overall inflation rate and compounding it against the price of gasoline back then, to come up with a figure in today's dollars. That is meaningless.
This is the expected condition -- Even when we start running out, the inflation on gasoline will always be lower than the overall inflation. If, temporarily, the price of gasoline inflates faster than the overall, don't worry, the rest of the economy will catch up shortly.
The reason you see this bullshit argument all over the news is the oil companies and your government want you to think you're not being gouged. Meanwhile the oil companies are making record profits.
You're a fucking moron. Obeying the law in that case results in being stopped at a red light. This was ten plus years ago, and I bet its still broken. I don't think I've ever cried about it though.
If you cry to the Herndon police enough about being tailgated and give them pictures, you'll probably get yourself on another list of theirs. You're probably on it already.
There was a light that did this on Herndon Parkway. It was set wrong. If you went the speed limit it would almost always turn red. The only way to make the light and not hate yourself for driving slow was to take it at 15 over. It couldn't change to red fast enough then, and you would make it. If you did miss the light it was proper etiqutte to lay on the horn until it changed, optionally followed by a peal out.
People are only buying the good singles off albums because the price is cheap ($.99) relative to the price of the album ($9.99+), at least for how many tracks they actually want. So the first thing they do in response is raise the price of some albums to $13.99 (or 16.99)!??? That's backwards!
Seems to me they should be pricing the album based on how good/desiable it is, which should roughly correlate to how many good tracks there are, and try to make a price point less than total_number_ of_tracks * $.99, but more than average_purchased_single_tracks * $.99, in order to maximize the amount of profit off the shitty tracks. So the price of the full album should drop until (enough) people are buying the whole album instead of just one or two tracks... For each album there should be a ratio of singles/full downloads to maximize profit. Done right should easily overcome alleged 7.5% decline in made up numbers.
Had you written the application in JAVA using JDBC, you wouldn't have had a 3 month setback writing your database layer.
Lets trade them to China for a case of beer and some twinkies.