I've been looking at WURFL and the Wall JSP tags in particular. I'd be interested to know what extensions you needed to make to the tag library and how you got on in general.
The updates to the device database are a fact of life I guess (especially given that the WURFL guys seem to be Europe based and you seem to be US based - I assume there are some differences in the devices available).
Intel has not spent eleventy bazillion dollars over the past 15 years on their 'Intel Inside' campaign for nothing. It was done to inextricably position Intel the minds of their target customers as the centre of the computer and the only CPU you'd want. The fact that the home user is, as you put it "computer illiterate" works in Intel's favour not against it. Many users will not buy a PC without the Intel Inside logo. I don't think that the B2B market cares as much about the Intel Inside factor though so maybe that's where Dell can start.
Did anybody move to GMail just because of the 1GB limit? I was a YahooMail user and was waaaayyyy off the 250Mb limit. The attractiveness of GMail for me was the snappiness of the responses, the threaded email conversations and general clean UI. Cranking YahooMail up to a GB will not change any of this.
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Actually Adobe Acrobat will load very fast if you disable a lot of the plugins that it normally loads. I've done this and have yet to come across a case where the lack of the plugin causes a problem so I can only assume most plugins are required only for more advanced features. Quick search on Google will list a load a programs that will do this for you e.g.
As many posters have pointed out Sellafiled (or Windscale as it was called before its last major incident) is nowhere near London. It's on the Irish sea which is handy for all that nasty run-off from the plant.
Luminous green is the 41st shade to be added to existing 40 shades of green Ireland had become famous for.
The article highlights the possibilities for blind people to regain some of their senses (There's a similar project focusing on allowing blind and deaf people 'see' and 'hear' though their tongues.)
So maybe not common usage but not as far out as some of the other examples given.
Why does nobody use it?
ITASoftware the people behind Orbitz (the 2nd/3rd largest online travel agency depending on who you ask) and a host of Airline web sites (Northwest at a minimum) use lisp. But apart from them I am aware of no big players.
Better would be where you fill on the vote on a computer and the computer prints out your vote slip in a computer and human readable format. This slip then gets scanned by the vote counter and retained for later recounts. That means you don't run into the "some dolt filled in two ovals" situation as the computer would force a valid vote (or spoiled vote where you want to offer the option of a spoiled "I vote for the turkey" vote).
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Cyrano de Bergerac. (See the commedy with Steve Martin called Roxane.)
Or why not see the movie Cyrano de Bergerac or the play. Much better ending than the happy-clappy Roxanne.
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Based on this it seemed to be pretty far advanced (and that was two years ago). Granted I've yet to see it being used commercially.
unless you're a network admin, you probably don't.
Agree with the above. Sniffing will also not get you anywhere if you are trying to see what happening on a https stream as all you'll see is the encrypted traffic.
If you are stuck with IE as a browser for whatever reasons there are two tool comparable to live http headers plugin for Mozilla.
HTTP Watch - used it and love it. Also the company are open to product improvement suggestions
HTTPLook - Have not used it myself but have customers who have
Hmmm... searchguild.com. Could that be theguild?
I agree that it is advisable to click on the direct link or, if clicking on the original link, at least to wear a tin foil hat to prevent falling under the mind control of the new world order.
>Actually, flying straight the sun is very difficult. Tell me about it. When I wake up in the morning it is in the east and when I go to bed at night it is in the west. Talking about aiming at a moving target...
Seriously if this 2.5 Gigabit per second link has any real business application for these customers then you should have no trouble thinking up uses.
I get that you asked for a gee-whiz type application but if the faster line is sooooo good surely then surely there's something in your potential customers business that will benefit from it. Nothing more gee-whiz than a solution to an exiting problem or a new oppurtunity for them.
I think you'll find that the recent announcement is the completion of something they have been building it for the last two and a half years.
>Not sure what ESBs plan is to connect this main telecomms artery to anything useful...
The network provides broadband infrastructure across the country. There are plans to make broadband available to an additional 90 towns in a short time frame and at a very competitive price.
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I've been looking at WURFL and the Wall JSP tags in particular. I'd be interested to know what extensions you needed to make to the tag library and how you got on in general.
The updates to the device database are a fact of life I guess (especially given that the WURFL guys seem to be Europe based and you seem to be US based - I assume there are some differences in the devices available).
[pnee] [at] [toombeola.com]
Similar effort - a book full of stuff
... you aren't posting here just to pimp your FreePSP scheme?
Intel has not spent eleventy bazillion dollars over the past 15 years on their 'Intel Inside' campaign for nothing. It was done to inextricably position Intel the minds of their target customers as the centre of the computer and the only CPU you'd want.
The fact that the home user is, as you put it "computer illiterate" works in Intel's favour not against it. Many users will not buy a PC without the Intel Inside logo. I don't think that the B2B market cares as much about the Intel Inside factor though so maybe that's where Dell can start.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/intel_inside.htm
Tax evasion is a crime. However the grandparent was talking about tax avoidance which is totally legal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_evasion
Did anybody move to GMail just because of the 1GB limit? I was a YahooMail user and was waaaayyyy off the 250Mb limit. The attractiveness of GMail for me was the snappiness of the responses, the threaded email conversations and general clean UI. Cranking YahooMail up to a GB will not change any of this.
Actually Adobe Acrobat will load very fast if you disable a lot of the plugins that it normally loads. I've done this and have yet to come across a case where the lack of the plugin causes a problem so I can only assume most plugins are required only for more advanced features. Quick search on Google will list a load a programs that will do this for you e.g.
- SpeedUp.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/PDF
As many posters have pointed out Sellafiled (or Windscale as it was called before its last major incident) is nowhere near London. It's on the Irish sea which is handy for all that nasty run-off from the plant.
Luminous green is the 41st shade to be added to existing 40 shades of green Ireland had become famous for.
The article highlights the possibilities for blind people to regain some of their senses (There's a similar project focusing on allowing blind and deaf people 'see' and 'hear' though their tongues.)
So maybe not common usage but not as far out as some of the other examples given.
Why does nobody use it?
ITASoftware the people behind Orbitz (the 2nd/3rd largest online travel agency depending on who you ask) and a host of Airline web sites (Northwest at a minimum) use lisp. But apart from them I am aware of no big players.
With the Eolas victory,
This Eolas victory? Looks like it is still very much a live issue.
I'll open a can of worms here and say - "VHS,Betamax".
Luckily you can clean yourself up while being compliant to the standard!
Better would be where you fill on the vote on a computer and the computer prints out your vote slip in a computer and human readable format. This slip then gets scanned by the vote counter and retained for later recounts. That means you don't run into the "some dolt filled in two ovals" situation as the computer would force a valid vote (or spoiled vote where you want to offer the option of a spoiled "I vote for the turkey" vote).
Cyrano de Bergerac. (See the commedy with Steve Martin called Roxane.)
Or why not see the movie Cyrano de Bergerac or the play. Much better ending than the happy-clappy Roxanne.
Based on this it seemed to be pretty far advanced (and that was two years ago). Granted I've yet to see it being used commercially.
Agree with the above. Sniffing will also not get you anywhere if you are trying to see what happening on a https stream as all you'll see is the encrypted traffic.
If you are stuck with IE as a browser for whatever reasons there are two tool comparable to live http headers plugin for Mozilla.
Or if you don't have the time to see the full set of DVDs you can try these guys. All 37 plays in 97 minutes and funny as hell.
Personally, an authentic Vietnamnese ice coffee rocks
Not the Vietnamnese weasel coffee?
Hmmm ... searchguild.com. Could that be the guild?
I agree that it is advisable to click on the direct link or, if clicking on the original link, at least to wear a tin foil hat to prevent falling under the mind control of the new world order.
>Actually, flying straight the sun is very difficult. ...
Tell me about it. When I wake up in the morning it is in the east and when I go to bed at night it is in the west. Talking about aiming at a moving target
... how are you going to sell it?
Seriously if this 2.5 Gigabit per second link has any real business application for these customers then you should have no trouble thinking up uses.
I get that you asked for a gee-whiz type application but if the faster line is sooooo good surely then surely there's something in your potential customers business that will benefit from it. Nothing more gee-whiz than a solution to an exiting problem or a new oppurtunity for them.
>I'm just amazed they haven't done this ages ago
I think you'll find that the recent announcement is the completion of something they have been building it for the last two and a half years.
>Not sure what ESBs plan is to connect this main telecomms artery to anything useful...
The network provides broadband infrastructure across the country. There are plans to make broadband available to an additional 90 towns in a short time frame and at a very competitive price.
Details here
Yes indeed - glad somebody knows the difference. While you can make out Middle English (especially when spoken) Old English is barely intelligible
Old English, Middle English and Modern English are terms used by modern scholars to segment a continuum of language change which begins sometime after the 5th-century Germanic settlements in Britain. 'Old English' (or 'Anglo-Saxon', as it is sometimes called) is generally taken to cover the period c600-1100 AD. The earliest surviving text is the Northumbrian version of Caedmon's Hymn, in Cambridge University Library MS Kk.5.16 (c737). Inscriptions also offer evidence for Early Old English: for example, minting of coins began in the early 7th century (Mitchell and Reeds 1996), and early post-invasion runic inscriptions are found on objects such as cremation urns, sword pommels, and brooches (Page 1987).