I wish some of you would remember that this 'ere intarweb is global... there are several patent offices. EPO, UKPO, ARIPO,... if you mean USPTO then please say so.
>> "There have at least at some point in history been some brains in the patent office."
You're right. I used to work at the UKPO... there are some extremely intelligent people working there! Not so many since I left of course;0)>
I think it's difficult for a manufacturer to say "Linux compatible". If they've tested it in the top-5 distros and then someone uses Vector Linux or DSL and it doesn't work out-of-the-box that person will have a negative opinion of the vendor.
I am suprised we don't get Mandriva / Fedora / Debian compatibility listed though.
It's not like I called an ambulance because I had a cold.
When the medical books at hand tell me that inguinal hernia's _if_pinched_ (aka strangulated) can lead to death in minutes... I should ignore them and wait a week for an appointment at my doctors clinic. Try that with a normally placid baby screaming blue murder at you. Observation of a rapid engorgement of the scrotum, apparent evidence of pain, and the young age caused me to assume it was an emergency - I guess I should just wait for signs of gangrene next time?!
In this instance there were a few others in the A&E reception area, sat reading and watching telly. I'm sure the doctors on duty were very busy but this doesn't excuse a long wait for triage.
The point is that the people wanting to fill in the record on their computer screen don't take a history of any sort until after the five minutes of questioning on basic information which should already be in the computer. Given the _potential_ gravity of this case I'd have thought speedy access to _triage_ was essential... after triage I agree it could probably have been established that strangulation hadn't occurred.
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>>> "A scrotal hydrocele that is sufficiently large and tense may cause ischemic injury to the testis. A communicating hydrocele may enlarge and lead to development of an inguinal-scrotal hernia (6). Nine to twenty percent of inguinal hernias in children become incarcerated with more than half of those cases occurring in children less than 12 months of age. The incidence of incarceration increases in premature infants and in term female infants (2,5). When incarcerated, complete manual reduction of the hernia may not be possible. Strangulation of the hernia can occur and ischemic injury to intestine and testis/ovary may result (3,6). Intestinal obstruction, intestinal gangrene, and gonadal infarction occur more commonly in the first 6 months of life (4). Thus, because the risk of incarceration is high, particularly in infants, with a risk of strangulation, prompt surgical intervention is recommended as soon as the diagnosis is made."...
"About 95% of inguinal hernias can be reduced by applying gentle but steady upward pressure on the hernia sac. If the hernia is easily reducible, referral to a pediatric surgeon should be done for elective surgical repair. While awaiting repair, parents should be counseled to seek immediate evaluation and treatment in an emergency department if signs and symptoms of incarceration and strangulation occur. Inguinal hernias that cannot be easily reduced are incarcerated and require immediate referral to an emergency department. In an emergency department, manual reduction can be attempted with sedation. Once the child is sedated, firm steady upward pressure can be applied to the hernia sac using one hand while the other hand gently guides the neck of the hernia sac into the distal ring of the inguinal canal. A Trendelenburg position may be helpful. If reduction is successful, a pediatric surgeon should be consulted for outpatient follow-up. However, children with difficult to reduce hernias or a history of incarceration in the past are at high risk for future incarceration and strangulation and should be managed more urgently. Some cases require inpatient observation. If reduction is unsuccessful, then a pediatric surgeon must be consulted immediately. If, however, a child presents with an incarcerated inguinal hernia and symptoms of intestinal obstruction or shock, a pediatric surgeon must be consulted emergently while resuscitation begins with intravenous fluids and nasogastric tube decompression of the stomach (5)."
I've had the misfortune to have to take my son (now 7 months) in to hospital twice since he was born. This is the hospital he was born at in a city in South Wales. The hospital that my wife has been treated at twice (one failure to diagnose, one mis-diagnosis!).
The first occassion was a suspected inguinal hernia; the medical books state this to be a huge emergency as the intestine can get pinched leading to extreme shock and death in minutes...
On arrival at the hospital ER we were sent to a different childrens reception where we had to wait for the _one_ receptionist to finish on the phone. She starts take name and address details, dates of birth of the family, where we work, occupation... I interrupt and say something along the line of "we just rushed here with a suspected inguinal hernia, I gather it's extremely serious - we need to see a doctor now!" she says: "you'll be seen shortly", I say: "are there any doctors?" she says: "you'll have to wait"
Now, I've done quite a lot of first aid; and feel I wasn't being completely irrational. The doctor did say it could well have been the suspected hernia (common in children of his age). But, thankfully the elasticity of the intestine can allow the problem to fix itself. The thing that got me was pulling up at the front of the ER where the ambulances are and rushing into the hospital... I expected at least to be asked what the problem was. No-one would have know for those 5 minutes or so whether our son had a bleeding wound, a crush injury, been blacked out or anything... but at least they took his parents work details and home contact info - WHICH THEY HAD ALREADY!! He'd been born there 3 months or so earlier.
Right, move up to about 5 months. Christmas day morning... he'd been coughing so hard for the last 24 hours that he'd coughed up all his food; turns out he had a viral infection that required an overnight stay in hospital (due to low blood oxygen saturation), was close to needing a drip, and required xrays to be sure there wasn't any pneumonia.
Same sort of thing - childrens ER reception, Christmas morning... was manned by a cleaning lady who told us to go to the other reception. On arrival, we're asked our bloody life history... again I had to interrupt and say something like we're here for an emergency appointment, any chance of seeing the triage nurse (who sent us immediately to see a doctor!).
Now, bear in mind we've prepaid via our taxes and National Insurance so it's not like they have to squeeze some money out of us first.
It still amazes me that the first question on arriving at the _A&E_ is not "what appears to be the problem" but instead is "what's your name... age... dob... address... current occupation... doctors name... surgery address...".
Just because an answer has an appearance of perfect simplicity doesn't make it true.
I've always found Occam's razor to be stupid. In life it seems to me that the simplest solution is rarely the real answer. As a methodology, of course, restricting yourself to altering the fewest variables (or assuming the least degrees of freedom, etc.) is probably good because it makes things easier... but I don't see how easy => truth.
>>> "The "moderate" {$religiousGroup} has simply chosen to ignore the basic tenets os his faith which call for hate and bigotry against those not exactly like him."
I don't think this is true if ($religiousGroup == Christians). Jesus, the central focus of the Christian faith said "love your neighbour as yourself". The Bible believing Christian's attention is drawn several times to the differences amongst men (and by that term I mean humankind) being valuable - we're all parts of one body, can an ear see, can an eye hear?
But to God the Father through Jesus Christ these differences are immaterial in his desire to have a loving relationship with us - in Him there is no slave nor free, no male nor female, no Jew nor gentile [Galatians 3:28].
Oh, and the basis of Christian life: 1) love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind; 2) love your neighbour as yourself.
Did you know that those cartoons were re-prints. They had been published previously in Denmark, even in Egypt (in October 2005!), without the worldwide baying of "muslims" for blood.
If you ask me (which I know you were going to:0)> ) it is the Islamic states which are using the caricatures as a sort of reverse propaganda (perhaps it's a soviet thing?!?). "Look what you've done, these cartoons give us the right to murder a few people and burn a whole bundle of stuff down...".
"if your company is one of the evil ones generating patents to try to milk money from other companies"
Patents are a monopoly over an area of technology (or would be if they were done properly!) and exist solely for economic reasons.
Even if you are using the patents as a bargaining chip then you are using them to prevent having to pay another company licensing fees.
If you don't want others to patent your stuff but are opposed to patents you can do "defensive publication" - this creates a well established piece of prior art in an area that Patent Examiners should be using to research the inventiveness of patent applications. There are several well renowned places to do this (depending on your field of tech).
One option is to have a patent application (A-document in the UK, A1 [IIRC] in Europe) published but not actually pay to have the patent Examined nor enforced: this establishes a firm priority date and puts your disclosure firmly in sight of Patent Examiners. Thus you can stop others from stopping you using your invention (assuming it was a genuine innovation and no prior patent exists on it) without preventing the world at large from exploiting said innovation.
FWIW I used to be a UK Patent Examiner, part of the reason why I am no longer is because I couldn't work for something I didn't believe in [the enrichment of the rich at the expense of the poor via] the patent system. But that's not to say I don't believe in _fair_ reward for innovation!
10k is quite big, but not for an image that can be resolved infinitesimally.
Also, I suspect that if Google use mod_gzip (or whatever it's called) then the benefit of svgz wouldn't exist. The 10k was the size of the file stored on my comp: gzipped it's 1544k (so I assume that is the transmitted size).
This review is quite interesting (from a web dev's POV).
There are also some handy little bits of info: Lists of most used attributes and tags could give an indication as to which tags Google will use and which will just be thrown out.
Statements like: "More pages use the completely worthless <meta> name="revisit-after"> than use the <em> element!"; appear to be dropped in on purpose as hints for less experienced devs. Similarly "Next we have two name values: keywords, which these days is mostly useless" on http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/metadata.h tml suggests that I can stop worrying that perhaps Google finds even a smidge of value in this data.
Then there's bits like "One area of future study would be to see what these attributes are used for: is onunload used mostly by Web applications for legitimate purposes, or is it used more by hostile sites to show pop-unders?" which suggest that if you're using onunload legitimately your pagerank is about to take a nose dive!!?
I'd not come across pingback and "link rev" before.
>>> "Can anyone tell me what's here that can't be visualized with GIF's?"
I don't think that's the point... it's about the creation of the images, not their visualisation. These images can be created on the fly from varying data with only textual manipulation of the code - the processing will be extremely light as will the data load on the servers. Presumably the xml-to-image parsing in the browser incurs a processing penalty though.
If you view code of one of the graphs http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/charts/uni que-classes-per-page.svg you'll see that it is less than 10k. It also has a theoretical infinite resolution; which might be useful if the graphs are to be used for a presentation (like printing them on the moon using lasers!!?).
Use of FF isn't too suprising as the section code.google.com is for promotion of OSS.
It looks to be an internal project that we have just happened to be given access too... assuming the officers of Google that need access have FF1.5 then the web devs have probably met their brief?!
But it wouldn't be joy, joy requires an absence of suffering, if there's is no notion even of suffering then I can't truly be joyfully... and how joyful must I be? Do I have to be wetting my pants with glee _all_ day??
Bear with me here, this is a direct response to Dephex_Twin's post.
Imagine you bear a child of your own flesh and blood. You delight in them smiling at you (when you can be reasonably certain they are acting in a cognisant manner).. you get a buzz because they are demonstrating freely that you have made them happy.
Now imagine if at birth you'd had that child operated on so that their face displayed a permanent smile. Would that mean you'd take the same delight?
Another simpler parallel is for those of us who live in places where the weather is bad a lot of the time... we enjoy far more the hot weather than if it was just hot all the time.
My view: God gave us a mind, that we can choose - I don't claim to understand the manifold layer between freewill and determinism but I think we live in it - if we choose to acknowledge him and his ways, he delights in us; if we choose to shun him and/or follow a path of evil he's not so happy with us. But he wouldn't be any happier with us if he just made us into robots without a mind to choose our own path.
Another few thoughts:
"God didn't have to create dullness..." Well perhaps he wanted to create a system in which some change occurred; eg dark and light; matter no matter; heat and absence of heat... if we were excited by everything we'd just be an automaton programmed to giggle and beam with glee.
"I can't think of any reason that God would make the universe where bad things could happen to anyone..." No, you're not omniscient are you. Perhaps God should have just made a single mind that delighted in greyness, and only one thing for that mind to perceive and that thing being itself greyness... then the world would be a wonderful place of sweetness and light...???! Doh!
Seriously though, you have a good point, why God would allow mankind to turn their backs on him, and then come to them in the form of a man and die so that men could return to a right relationship with Him - baffles me too.
"It makes no sense that people like... rapists make God sad... if he didn't think up these concepts and incorporate them into his universe... " Assuming God made man to procreate by intercourse: that's all the equipment. Then if man has freewill... need I go on?
And don't forget the guitar playing singing nun, no IT department should be missing one... I can't wait to see this episode, a homage to Airplane (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/); cool.
I was going to recommend reading Singh's book (see link) but it seems it was the course text so...
Perhaps something a little less maths-y (or math-y if you're US-ian). She could study the use of PGP, the basics behind the cryptography, it's place in current email systems, historical export restrictions, why it's not used more, it's cipher strengths, how many nano-seconds it takes the NSA to crack it.
OHIM, which manages the europe-wide trademark system confirms that "windows" is a trademark of the Microsoft Corporation and has been since 1996.
You see, before "windows" the term meant "panes of glass in the wall of a house" to most people.
Just like I couldn't have the term "fishing boat" as a trademark in the boat making industry but could in say the pencil making industry. "fishing boat" is not a term in the pencil making art (AFAIK) and so can be used to indicate origin (in the sense of the originating company for a product) - the purpose of trademarks.
1, How about you have a website where people upload their private dictionaries (with a language option too??). This shouldn't be too hard using the OOo files as they are presumably XML, might be quite server intensive though. Strip the words and tabulate them (add them to a (pgsql?) database) - you can throw any away that you have enough of or that have already been rejected as misspellings (sp?!?).
If a word appears with the same spelling in 100 (or downloaders preference) dictionaries then it is tagged for inclusion in the master dictionary.
Uploaders could specify the general area they write in as well as the language, eg Physical Sciences, Literature, Agriculture,... so a dictionary request could be limited by subject field too.
Require a dictionary upload _OR_ payment of a fee to avoid freeloaders.
2,... 3, Profit ??!
[PS: I just looked and OOo uses.aff or.dic formats.]
Dentists used to have things called "disclosing tablets" that I got given as a child (about 1985-ish) they turned your mouth bright pink and where way coool... it looked like you were a vampire that had just finished feasting!
You'd brush away the dye to show that you've cleaned properly.
I'm prepared to wager that not everyone with access has the correct clearance (cleaners?). Moreover I'll bet that he or a colleague has their back to a window outside which white vans can park and snoop on restricted government data.
Besides which this probably doesn't meet requirement on data protection if the computers contain personal info on anyone.
Except we don't know whether the CBR is from a re-expansion or a big bang (or some other form, eg a crazy steady state) and so ultimately we can't verify. But, yes, it is scientific from the perspective of falsifiability.
Incidentally, current expansion proves nothing. And at the point of ex-nihilo (sp?) creation there was nothing to radiate nor time to pass for a fluctuation to occur in. So no radiation eminates from a big bang event, only after an event, and there are multiple possible explanations for the post-event radiation... hence no way of knowing for sure. Hence, you either use faith, or random chance, or populism,... but not science to determine the root cause of the universes current existence.
Oh and big bang theory AFAIK has no explnation for baryonic assymmetry (for want of the proper term)...?
If I concede the verity of an inflationary model will you explain where the inflating universe came from?
If it's branes colliding then I'm quite excited by the possibility of God being personally manifest within those extra dimensions. in which the branes move. But, at the end of the day it's all just a systematic self consistent construct that aids in our conception of reality.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but Einstein worked in the Bern patent office (see eg http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathem aticians/Einstein.html). Not in the USPTO.
... there are several patent offices. EPO, UKPO, ARIPO, ... if you mean USPTO then please say so.
... there are some extremely intelligent people working there! Not so many since I left of course ;0)>
I wish some of you would remember that this 'ere intarweb is global
>> "There have at least at some point in history been some brains in the patent office."
You're right. I used to work at the UKPO
I think it's difficult for a manufacturer to say "Linux compatible". If they've tested it in the top-5 distros and then someone uses Vector Linux or DSL and it doesn't work out-of-the-box that person will have a negative opinion of the vendor.
I am suprised we don't get Mandriva / Fedora / Debian compatibility listed though.
Mm, OK.
... I should ignore them and wait a week for an appointment at my doctors clinic. Try that with a normally placid baby screaming blue murder at you. Observation of a rapid engorgement of the scrotum, apparent evidence of pain, and the young age caused me to assume it was an emergency - I guess I should just wait for signs of gangrene next time?!
... after triage I agree it could probably have been established that strangulation hadn't occurred.
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It's not like I called an ambulance because I had a cold.
When the medical books at hand tell me that inguinal hernia's _if_pinched_ (aka strangulated) can lead to death in minutes
In this instance there were a few others in the A&E reception area, sat reading and watching telly. I'm sure the doctors on duty were very busy but this doesn't excuse a long wait for triage.
The point is that the people wanting to fill in the record on their computer screen don't take a history of any sort until after the five minutes of questioning on basic information which should already be in the computer. Given the _potential_ gravity of this case I'd have thought speedy access to _triage_ was essential
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>>> "A scrotal hydrocele that is sufficiently large and tense may cause ischemic injury to the testis. A communicating hydrocele may enlarge and lead to development of an inguinal-scrotal hernia (6). Nine to twenty percent of inguinal hernias in children become incarcerated with more than half of those cases occurring in children less than 12 months of age. The incidence of incarceration increases in premature infants and in term female infants (2,5). When incarcerated, complete manual reduction of the hernia may not be possible. Strangulation of the hernia can occur and ischemic injury to intestine and testis/ovary may result (3,6). Intestinal obstruction, intestinal gangrene, and gonadal infarction occur more commonly in the first 6 months of life (4). Thus, because the risk of incarceration is high, particularly in infants, with a risk of strangulation, prompt surgical intervention is recommended as soon as the diagnosis is made."
"About 95% of inguinal hernias can be reduced by applying gentle but steady upward pressure on the hernia sac. If the hernia is easily reducible, referral to a pediatric surgeon should be done for elective surgical repair. While awaiting repair, parents should be counseled to seek immediate evaluation and treatment in an emergency department if signs and symptoms of incarceration and strangulation occur. Inguinal hernias that cannot be easily reduced are incarcerated and require immediate referral to an emergency department. In an emergency department, manual reduction can be attempted with sedation. Once the child is sedated, firm steady upward pressure can be applied to the hernia sac using one hand while the other hand gently guides the neck of the hernia sac into the distal ring of the inguinal canal. A Trendelenburg position may be helpful. If reduction is successful, a pediatric surgeon should be consulted for outpatient follow-up. However, children with difficult to reduce hernias or a history of incarceration in the past are at high risk for future incarceration and strangulation and should be managed more urgently. Some cases require inpatient observation. If reduction is unsuccessful, then a pediatric surgeon must be consulted immediately. If, however, a child presents with an incarcerated inguinal hernia and symptoms of intestinal obstruction or shock, a pediatric surgeon must be consulted emergently while resuscitation begins with intravenous fluids and nasogastric tube decompression of the stomach (5)."
from: http://www.hawaii.edu/medicine/pediatrics/pedtext
I've had the misfortune to have to take my son (now 7 months) in to hospital twice since he was born. This is the hospital he was born at in a city in South Wales. The hospital that my wife has been treated at twice (one failure to diagnose, one mis-diagnosis!).
...
... I interrupt and say something along the line of "we just rushed here with a suspected inguinal hernia, I gather it's extremely serious - we need to see a doctor now!"
... I expected at least to be asked what the problem was. No-one would have know for those 5 minutes or so whether our son had a bleeding wound, a crush injury, been blacked out or anything ... but at least they took his parents work details and home contact info - WHICH THEY HAD ALREADY!! He'd been born there 3 months or so earlier.
... he'd been coughing so hard for the last 24 hours that he'd coughed up all his food; turns out he had a viral infection that required an overnight stay in hospital (due to low blood oxygen saturation), was close to needing a drip, and required xrays to be sure there wasn't any pneumonia.
... was manned by a cleaning lady who told us to go to the other reception. On arrival, we're asked our bloody life history ... again I had to interrupt and say something like we're here for an emergency appointment, any chance of seeing the triage nurse (who sent us immediately to see a doctor!).
... age ... dob ... address ... current occupation ... doctors name ... surgery address ...".
The first occassion was a suspected inguinal hernia; the medical books state this to be a huge emergency as the intestine can get pinched leading to extreme shock and death in minutes
On arrival at the hospital ER we were sent to a different childrens reception where we had to wait for the _one_ receptionist to finish on the phone. She starts take name and address details, dates of birth of the family, where we work, occupation
she says: "you'll be seen shortly",
I say: "are there any doctors?"
she says: "you'll have to wait"
Now, I've done quite a lot of first aid; and feel I wasn't being completely irrational. The doctor did say it could well have been the suspected hernia (common in children of his age). But, thankfully the elasticity of the intestine can allow the problem to fix itself. The thing that got me was pulling up at the front of the ER where the ambulances are and rushing into the hospital
Right, move up to about 5 months. Christmas day morning
Same sort of thing - childrens ER reception, Christmas morning
Now, bear in mind we've prepaid via our taxes and National Insurance so it's not like they have to squeeze some money out of us first.
It still amazes me that the first question on arriving at the _A&E_ is not "what appears to be the problem" but instead is "what's your name
Whoops I think I went off on one then!
Just because an answer has an appearance of perfect simplicity doesn't make it true.
... but I don't see how easy => truth.
I've always found Occam's razor to be stupid. In life it seems to me that the simplest solution is rarely the real answer. As a methodology, of course, restricting yourself to altering the fewest variables (or assuming the least degrees of freedom, etc.) is probably good because it makes things easier
>>> "The "moderate" {$religiousGroup} has simply chosen to ignore the basic tenets os his faith which call for hate and bigotry against those not exactly like him."
I don't think this is true if ($religiousGroup == Christians). Jesus, the central focus of the Christian faith said "love your neighbour as yourself". The Bible believing Christian's attention is drawn several times to the differences amongst men (and by that term I mean humankind) being valuable - we're all parts of one body, can an ear see, can an eye hear?
But to God the Father through Jesus Christ these differences are immaterial in his desire to have a loving relationship with us - in Him there is no slave nor free, no male nor female, no Jew nor gentile [Galatians 3:28].
Oh, and the basis of Christian life: 1) love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind; 2) love your neighbour as yourself.
Did you know that those cartoons were re-prints. They had been published previously in Denmark, even in Egypt (in October 2005!), without the worldwide baying of "muslims" for blood.
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:0)> ) it is the Islamic states which are using the caricatures as a sort of reverse propaganda (perhaps it's a soviet thing?!?). "Look what you've done, these cartoons give us the right to murder a few people and burn a whole bundle of stuff down ...".
See eg http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48
If you ask me (which I know you were going to
That's what it looks like to me.
"if your company is one of the evil ones generating patents to try to milk money from other companies"
Patents are a monopoly over an area of technology (or would be if they were done properly!) and exist solely for economic reasons.
Even if you are using the patents as a bargaining chip then you are using them to prevent having to pay another company licensing fees.
If you don't want others to patent your stuff but are opposed to patents you can do "defensive publication" - this creates a well established piece of prior art in an area that Patent Examiners should be using to research the inventiveness of patent applications. There are several well renowned places to do this (depending on your field of tech).
One option is to have a patent application (A-document in the UK, A1 [IIRC] in Europe) published but not actually pay to have the patent Examined nor enforced: this establishes a firm priority date and puts your disclosure firmly in sight of Patent Examiners. Thus you can stop others from stopping you using your invention (assuming it was a genuine innovation and no prior patent exists on it) without preventing the world at large from exploiting said innovation.
FWIW I used to be a UK Patent Examiner, part of the reason why I am no longer is because I couldn't work for something I didn't believe in [the enrichment of the rich at the expense of the poor via] the patent system. But that's not to say I don't believe in _fair_ reward for innovation!
::chuckle:: ;0)>
10k is quite big, but not for an image that can be resolved infinitesimally.
Also, I suspect that if Google use mod_gzip (or whatever it's called) then the benefit of svgz wouldn't exist. The 10k was the size of the file stored on my comp: gzipped it's 1544k (so I assume that is the transmitted size).
This review is quite interesting (from a web dev's POV).
h tml suggests that I can stop worrying that perhaps Google finds even a smidge of value in this data.
There are also some handy little bits of info: Lists of most used attributes and tags could give an indication as to which tags Google will use and which will just be thrown out.
Statements like: "More pages use the completely worthless <meta> name="revisit-after"> than use the <em> element!"; appear to be dropped in on purpose as hints for less experienced devs. Similarly "Next we have two name values: keywords, which these days is mostly useless" on http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/metadata.
Then there's bits like "One area of future study would be to see what these attributes are used for: is onunload used mostly by Web applications for legitimate purposes, or is it used more by hostile sites to show pop-unders?" which suggest that if you're using onunload legitimately your pagerank is about to take a nose dive!!?
I'd not come across pingback and "link rev" before.
Thanks for all the fish.
>>> "Can anyone tell me what's here that can't be visualized with GIF's?"
... it's about the creation of the images, not their visualisation. These images can be created on the fly from varying data with only textual manipulation of the code - the processing will be extremely light as will the data load on the servers. Presumably the xml-to-image parsing in the browser incurs a processing penalty though.
i que-classes-per-page.svg you'll see that it is less than 10k. It also has a theoretical infinite resolution; which might be useful if the graphs are to be used for a presentation (like printing them on the moon using lasers!!?).
... assuming the officers of Google that need access have FF1.5 then the web devs have probably met their brief?!
I don't think that's the point
If you view code of one of the graphs http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/charts/un
Use of FF isn't too suprising as the section code.google.com is for promotion of OSS.
It looks to be an internal project that we have just happened to be given access too
But it wouldn't be joy, joy requires an absence of suffering, if there's is no notion even of suffering then I can't truly be joyfully ... and how joyful must I be? Do I have to be wetting my pants with glee _all_ day??
Bear with me here, this is a direct response to Dephex_Twin's post.
.. you get a buzz because they are demonstrating freely that you have made them happy.
... we enjoy far more the hot weather than if it was just hot all the time.
..." ... if we were excited by everything we'd just be an automaton programmed to giggle and beam with glee.
..." ... then the world would be a wonderful place of sweetness and light ...???! Doh!
... rapists make God sad ... if he didn't think up these concepts and incorporate them into his universe ... " ... need I go on?
Imagine you bear a child of your own flesh and blood. You delight in them smiling at you (when you can be reasonably certain they are acting in a cognisant manner)
Now imagine if at birth you'd had that child operated on so that their face displayed a permanent smile. Would that mean you'd take the same delight?
Another simpler parallel is for those of us who live in places where the weather is bad a lot of the time
My view: God gave us a mind, that we can choose - I don't claim to understand the manifold layer between freewill and determinism but I think we live in it - if we choose to acknowledge him and his ways, he delights in us; if we choose to shun him and/or follow a path of evil he's not so happy with us. But he wouldn't be any happier with us if he just made us into robots without a mind to choose our own path.
Another few thoughts:
"God didn't have to create dullness
Well perhaps he wanted to create a system in which some change occurred; eg dark and light; matter no matter; heat and absence of heat
"I can't think of any reason that God would make the universe where bad things could happen to anyone
No, you're not omniscient are you. Perhaps God should have just made a single mind that delighted in greyness, and only one thing for that mind to perceive and that thing being itself greyness
Seriously though, you have a good point, why God would allow mankind to turn their backs on him, and then come to them in the form of a man and die so that men could return to a right relationship with Him - baffles me too.
"It makes no sense that people like
Assuming God made man to procreate by intercourse: that's all the equipment. Then if man has freewill
And don't forget the guitar playing singing nun, no IT department should be missing one ... I can't wait to see this episode, a homage to Airplane (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/); cool.
I was going to recommend reading Singh's book (see link) but it seems it was the course text so ...
Perhaps something a little less maths-y (or math-y if you're US-ian). She could study the use of PGP, the basics behind the cryptography, it's place in current email systems, historical export restrictions, why it's not used more, it's cipher strengths, how many nano-seconds it takes the NSA to crack it.
Ask Zimmerman to mentor it! Worth a shot?!
The Code Book: Simon Singh - http://tinyurl.com/d5zjs
Wikipedia entry on PGP - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP
There's a joke in there about the barn-door paradox, but I can't seem to find it .. any assistance greatfully[sic] excepted[sic].
OHIM, which manages the europe-wide trademark system confirms that "windows" is a trademark of the Microsoft Corporation and has been since 1996.
.... http://oami.eu.int/CTMOnline/RequestManager/en_Res ult_unidentified , see CTM numbered 000079681.
You see, before "windows" the term meant "panes of glass in the wall of a house" to most people.
Just like I couldn't have the term "fishing boat" as a trademark in the boat making industry but could in say the pencil making industry. "fishing boat" is not a term in the pencil making art (AFAIK) and so can be used to indicate origin (in the sense of the originating company for a product) - the purpose of trademarks.
I'd give a direct link but OHIM's db pages suck
pbhj
1, How about you have a website where people upload their private dictionaries (with a language option too??). This shouldn't be too hard using the OOo files as they are presumably XML, might be quite server intensive though. Strip the words and tabulate them (add them to a (pgsql?) database) - you can throw any away that you have enough of or that have already been rejected as misspellings (sp?!?).
... so a dictionary request could be limited by subject field too.
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.aff or .dic formats.]
If a word appears with the same spelling in 100 (or downloaders preference) dictionaries then it is tagged for inclusion in the master dictionary.
Uploaders could specify the general area they write in as well as the language, eg Physical Sciences, Literature, Agriculture,
Require a dictionary upload _OR_ payment of a fee to avoid freeloaders.
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3, Profit ??!
[PS: I just looked and OOo uses
Dentists used to have things called "disclosing tablets" that I got given as a child (about 1985-ish) they turned your mouth bright pink and where way coool ... it looked like you were a vampire that had just finished feasting!
You'd brush away the dye to show that you've cleaned properly.
FWIW
I'm prepared to wager that not everyone with access has the correct clearance (cleaners?). Moreover I'll bet that he or a colleague has their back to a window outside which white vans can park and snoop on restricted government data.
Besides which this probably doesn't meet requirement on data protection if the computers contain personal info on anyone.
You are so full of it ... snopes confirms this is a hoax!
So, what you're saying is 'God plays dice'?? :0p
>>>> "Why are there signs that tell you how to get to psychic conventions"
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There are no signs! Tell me, what did you see
Except we don't know whether the CBR is from a re-expansion or a big bang (or some other form, eg a crazy steady state) and so ultimately we can't verify. But, yes, it is scientific from the perspective of falsifiability.
... hence no way of knowing for sure. Hence, you either use faith, or random chance, or populism, ... but not science to determine the root cause of the universes current existence.
...?
Incidentally, current expansion proves nothing. And at the point of ex-nihilo (sp?) creation there was nothing to radiate nor time to pass for a fluctuation to occur in. So no radiation eminates from a big bang event, only after an event, and there are multiple possible explanations for the post-event radiation
Oh and big bang theory AFAIK has no explnation for baryonic assymmetry (for want of the proper term)
If I concede the verity of an inflationary model will you explain where the inflating universe came from?
If it's branes colliding then I'm quite excited by the possibility of God being personally manifest within those extra dimensions. in which the branes move. But, at the end of the day it's all just a systematic self consistent construct that aids in our conception of reality.