If you keep elephants instead of cats you need very large cat flaps.
>>> If you always use external files for scripts
Yes, you're right. Many imaginary situations are extremely complex. For a site like slashdot I'd have thought in the "many small scripts" scenario that a template engine (either before or at page-serving stage) of some form could drag in the necessary scripts (eg: this file called this function so I'd better add the script file, in which the function is defined, to the final served page). It would still seem cheaper to have separate script files. But YMMV.
IANAL and from the UK, so this could be way off... but isn't copyright infringement a tort?
The damage is considered to be against the individual entity (person, company,..) and not against the state (in the first instance). So whilst the state has a duty to uphold the general consensus of copyright law - in accordance with international agreements like the "Berne Convention" - the act of infringement is against a person. Hence it is normally handled as a civil matter.
If I'd looked there first, the second wiki link states that in the US it's a "strict liability tort". The first link has the right version of what a tort is!!
You mean to say all those TV shows and films have it wrong? Surely the police enlist genius murdering psychos to catch not so genius murdering psychos!!??
>>> "I'm not sure that there is any commerical solution that can support 1 million emails well. Hence why Yahoo and Google have built there own custom systems. Some engineering may need to be required."
Well if Yahoo and Google have already done it, then I'd approach them for a quote on using their engineers to implement your system. They could say f***-off. They might give a price.
They might come over all generous and hand you their email system implementation docs... but I doubt it!
If you can't get the corps to play ball, find out who the lead engineers were and head hunt them. I reckon a one-million strong corporation could do this without blinking.
One other thought. Check for recent patent publications on email systems from either corp.. Long shot, but it may give you a start. This patent (http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=AU2 003299904&F=0) application from Google talks of an elision module - for removing header or repeating elements from mail. Which sounds like it might be a system for storing tokens in place of spam mails.
Or there's http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=WO20 05046111&F=0 from Yahoo... but neither of these help particularly. One thing corps seem to do is use abstractions of descriptions of real systems for the patent disclosure. It might help. I think it was the Google one that mention the three-fold sub-division suggested elsewhere on this page.
Yes I guess it could be related to that dudes exploits.
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>>> Theology is like being in a dark room, looking for a black cat that isn't there and shouting "I found it!"
If it's a completely dark room. How do you know there is no cat in there? Of course randomly shouting "I found it!" is stupid. But just because someone finds the cat and you can't see it... that doesn't mean it's not there.
I loved the fire pits personally. The way the air moved and blurred the scene. The real sense of heat.
I don't think they'd have been as enjoyable if instead of Link leaping in the air with a squeal he let out an agonising scream of tortured pain as his flesh charred and burnt away from his blackened skeletal remains.
What you do is give them the standards compliant site and show them screen caps from Safari, Konq., Firef., Moz., etc. so they can see it works as required by the NSR (ie, the spec). Then charge extra to make it work in IE, after all it's the IE fixes that take all the time up, why not earn extra off them!?!
80)>
That said, it would be great if clients knew that when a page doesn't work in IE it's usually a browser issue. I look forward to the day:
Client - "Your page looked terrible, so I upgraded my browser, now it's awesome" Me - "Great!"
as opposed to
Client - "You stink, this page looks like a crock of poo on IE5.1 on my Mac OS7. What am I paying you for - I could have done it myself in Word" Me - "Great!"
More seriously, following in the footsteps of the bird (which last time I checked is heavier than air) people had tried in vain to create a heavier than air flying machine.
Then there's folk like DaVinci.
And of course there's all the heavier than air (non-motorised) flight before the Wrights.
Oh, yeah and the [substantial] anecdotal evidence to suggest that others beat the Wrights to it.
How they laughed...
But I agree with the general gist of what you appear to be saying.;0)>
So does the question "did the universe have a beginning?" have a good answer? Isn't "good" subjective?
A corollary to your example.
Was it a lion or liger (lion-tiger) that jumped out the bush and ate me? How do you determine the species/genus? What amount of genetic differentiation is required? Is this not subjective?
I may have died (death is quite un-scientific as their are lots of unfalsifiable hypotheses about it, so perhaps I just got re-incarnated?) but you still don't know whether I was eaten by a lion or not. Indeed, perhaps the lion just killed me, perhaps the hyenas ate me. How much of me do the hyenas have to eat to be considered to have eaten me? Is the stuff that the hyenas ate, ie flesh, me?
Oh, and was the lion in the bushes before it jumped out and ate me. Or was this just a sense-data fed into your brain-jar.
So, you don't know if there are bushes or a lion. If there's lion you don't know if it's actually a _lion_ or some other creature that resembles lion. If it jumped out an mauled someone, you don't know whether they died or not, nor if _they_ were eaten by the lion. All of these points are subjective.
Yeah, no _real_ questions ever get obtuse and debatable...
I'm sure you think I'm just baiting, but if you have a scientific proof for [starting with the basics] the existence of other minds (than my own of course;0)> ), then I'd love to hear it.
You can't get a registered trade mark (RTM) (in UK at least, and so I guess Europe too) for a generic term.
Webportal is a generic (descriptive of the tech.) term.
Macdonalds can't RTM the word "beefburger" because it describes the goods. An RTM is a reference to the origin of goods, hence "Big Mac" is fine as it has nothing to do with beef burgers.
Get it?
So, web portal can't be an RTM (but a specific font layout could be, I think). "beefburger" could be registerd for a web portal though, as it's not descriptive in that field.
I use Inkscape still as my download of Acrylic didn't even get past the install stage (I'm using Inkscape on Slack and WinXP - if you haven't got the latest install get it now, it's awesome). I've read good things about Acrylic(some whilst stood in my local news agents!).
I'd be prepared to bet that the SVG files produced aren't vanilla....
Yeah, and it's also a bad idea to lock away handguns to prevent kids getting hold of them. Why?
Well...
1) Locks can be broken with a crowbar 2) Locks can be opened with a key 3) You can forget to lock 4) Containers with locks can be broken open 5) I don't mind my kid shooting people
</sarcasm>
Near enough every system has flaws. But that shouldn't stop you trying.
By the time a kid is typing in IP addresses to get to porn sites, they already know that these sites are a reserved subsection of the internet... and that's what the TLD is intended to show.
You're wrong (in UK at least). Negative advertising is fine, as long as you tell the truth. Tesco (major grocery (and everything else) retailer) currently has price comparison adverts on TV saying how much cheaper they are and give prices for other main supermarkets.
Like others mention, "there's no such thing as bad publicity" (not true, I don't think); so mentioning 'Bud gives you less wind than Guinness' is never done.
A couple of years ago when I bought a Sony NetMD minidisc player I thought "the Sony store will be the best place to go".
So I went to the Sony store, they didn't know anything about the model I wanted (that they were selling). I asked "does it have a microphone input" and they'd say "no", then I'd say "what about this socket that says 'mic'"...
I went to Dixons to get a price check. The guy there knew all the features of the model and the next best Panasonic (IIR-the-brand-C).
Still neither of them told me that I couldn't upload live audio digitally, so I still ended up buying the damn thing!!
This is merely a reflection on how society has changed... small local shops apparently haven't been in demand because everyone now wants to sit in an office all day and only go out in their cars.
It used to be that people got married, and stayed married, one of the couple went out to work and the other stayed closer to home. This freed one of the couple to do perhaps the most important work: child rearing, social cohesion and re-provisioning.
Now get this. In towns and cities, people would walk to local shops!!! So they didn't need to drive out of town to find a parking lot with a shop attached. They'd also buy from several stores. In the country, even in villages, they had shops too.
Now there are lots of things wrong with this sort of model - particularly if you're a capitalist (eg profits can't be maximised with small scale operations). But some of it seemed to work too.
WRT your particular situation. Lots of places now have "box schemes" where you can get fresh fruit and veg from local farmers/suppliers delivered to your door. Also, independent shops may be willing to change their hours. But, I agree - they could get a clue already. Based on your map on the Ivorsky website (header background suggest Chalfont St Giles, which has a Tesco!) - http://www.fieldfare-organics.com/index.html may be able to help.
I run an independent (non-food) local shop. We're pretty much open any time that we're asked + normal hours.
Slashdot Mirror
If you keep elephants instead of cats you need very large cat flaps.
>>> If you always use external files for scripts
Yes, you're right. Many imaginary situations are extremely complex. For a site like slashdot I'd have thought in the "many small scripts" scenario that a template engine (either before or at page-serving stage) of some form could drag in the necessary scripts (eg: this file called this function so I'd better add the script file, in which the function is defined, to the final served page). It would still seem cheaper to have separate script files. But YMMV.
Well, maybe, perhaps just a few more details ...?
You mean just throw a petrol bomb at the camera!!??
IANAL and from the UK, so this could be way off ... but isn't copyright infringement a tort?
..) and not against the state (in the first instance). So whilst the state has a duty to uphold the general consensus of copyright law - in accordance with international agreements like the "Berne Convention" - the act of infringement is against a person. Hence it is normally handled as a civil matter.
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The damage is considered to be against the individual entity (person, company,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tort
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringeme
If I'd looked there first, the second wiki link states that in the US it's a "strict liability tort". The first link has the right version of what a tort is!!
HTH!
I've seen the test where they simulate someone sitting on a chair.
But I didn't realise they had a bed that was used that often!
>>> "Homicide detectives don't hire murderers"
..
You mean to say all those TV shows and films have it wrong? Surely the police enlist genius murdering psychos to catch not so genius murdering psychos!!??
</sarcasm, I think>
<reality>
Lots of rehab groups use ex-addicts
You stole my pedantic response ... but I had forgotten which adjectives it applied too.
Good Work 10/10
>>> "I'm not sure that there is any commerical solution that can support 1 million emails well. Hence why Yahoo and Google have built there own custom systems. Some engineering may need to be required."
... but I doubt it!
2 003299904&F=0) application from Google talks of an elision module - for removing header or repeating elements from mail. Which sounds like it might be a system for storing tokens in place of spam mails.
0 05046111&F=0 from Yahoo ... but neither of these help particularly. One thing corps seem to do is use abstractions of descriptions of real systems for the patent disclosure. It might help. I think it was the Google one that mention the three-fold sub-division suggested elsewhere on this page.
Well if Yahoo and Google have already done it, then I'd approach them for a quote on using their engineers to implement your system. They could say f***-off. They might give a price.
They might come over all generous and hand you their email system implementation docs
If you can't get the corps to play ball, find out who the lead engineers were and head hunt them. I reckon a one-million strong corporation could do this without blinking.
One other thought. Check for recent patent publications on email systems from either corp.. Long shot, but it may give you a start. This patent (http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=AU
Or there's http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=WO2
Yes I guess it could be related to that dudes exploits.
... that doesn't mean it's not there.
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>>> Theology is like being in a dark room, looking for a black cat that isn't there and shouting "I found it!"
If it's a completely dark room. How do you know there is no cat in there? Of course randomly shouting "I found it!" is stupid. But just because someone finds the cat and you can't see it
HTH
Yee-haw, my first troll rating!!!
I loved the fire pits personally. The way the air moved and blurred the scene. The real sense of heat.
I don't think they'd have been as enjoyable if instead of Link leaping in the air with a squeal he let out an agonising scream of tortured pain as his flesh charred and burnt away from his blackened skeletal remains.
FWIW.
.. too moral I expect.
What you do is give them the standards compliant site and show them screen caps from Safari, Konq., Firef., Moz., etc. so they can see it works as required by the NSR (ie, the spec). Then charge extra to make it work in IE, after all it's the IE fixes that take all the time up, why not earn extra off them!?!
80)>
That said, it would be great if clients knew that when a page doesn't work in IE it's usually a browser issue. I look forward to the day:
Client - "Your page looked terrible, so I upgraded my browser, now it's awesome"
Me - "Great!"
as opposed to
Client - "You stink, this page looks like a crock of poo on IE5.1 on my Mac OS7. What am I paying you for - I could have done it myself in Word"
Me - "Great!"
Enquiring minds wish to know.
...
;0)>
More seriously, following in the footsteps of the bird (which last time I checked is heavier than air) people had tried in vain to create a heavier than air flying machine.
Then there's folk like DaVinci.
And of course there's all the heavier than air (non-motorised) flight before the Wrights.
Oh, yeah and the [substantial] anecdotal evidence to suggest that others beat the Wrights to it.
How they laughed
But I agree with the general gist of what you appear to be saying.
I only did a very quick search but truncation of data fields doesn't appear to be in the Bugs database. Have you submitted it, please give the #.
If you have submitted, I apologise, otherwise cut some slack and help the cause.
What?
...
;0)> ), then I'd love to hear it.
So does the question "did the universe have a beginning?" have a good answer? Isn't "good" subjective?
A corollary to your example.
Was it a lion or liger (lion-tiger) that jumped out the bush and ate me? How do you determine the species/genus? What amount of genetic differentiation is required? Is this not subjective?
I may have died (death is quite un-scientific as their are lots of unfalsifiable hypotheses about it, so perhaps I just got re-incarnated?) but you still don't know whether I was eaten by a lion or not. Indeed, perhaps the lion just killed me, perhaps the hyenas ate me. How much of me do the hyenas have to eat to be considered to have eaten me? Is the stuff that the hyenas ate, ie flesh, me?
Oh, and was the lion in the bushes before it jumped out and ate me. Or was this just a sense-data fed into your brain-jar.
So, you don't know if there are bushes or a lion. If there's lion you don't know if it's actually a _lion_ or some other creature that resembles lion. If it jumped out an mauled someone, you don't know whether they died or not, nor if _they_ were eaten by the lion. All of these points are subjective.
Yeah, no _real_ questions ever get obtuse and debatable
I'm sure you think I'm just baiting, but if you have a scientific proof for [starting with the basics] the existence of other minds (than my own of course
Thanks
You could well be right there ...
PS: What's with the sig??
Four states of matter?
Has the author been living in a hole? Even being conservative I think you'd have to plump for there being 5 states of matter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_matter
That's aside from the poor wording which suggests that there are 7 states (or perhaps that's what he meant??).
You can't get a registered trade mark (RTM) (in UK at least, and so I guess Europe too) for a generic term.
Webportal is a generic (descriptive of the tech.) term.
Macdonalds can't RTM the word "beefburger" because it describes the goods. An RTM is a reference to the origin of goods, hence "Big Mac" is fine as it has nothing to do with beef burgers.
Get it?
So, web portal can't be an RTM (but a specific font layout could be, I think). "beefburger" could be registerd for a web portal though, as it's not descriptive in that field.
UK trademark registry http://webdb1.patent.gov.uk/RightSite/formexec?DMW _DOCBASE=ibis&DMW_INPUTFORM=ibis/ohim.htm&ohimnum= E851246 has the important date as 30th Dec 1994 (based on a German registration).
_ details.show_tm_details?p_tm_number=985197&p_searc h_no=1&p_ExtDisp=D&p_detail=DETAILED&p_rec_no=11&p _rec_all=13) records the pertinent date as 19th Jan 2004
IP Australia (http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/atmoss/falcon
>>> "AFAIK, Microsoft is mostly ignoring it."
....
Well you clearly haven't come across the beta for Acrylic - http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/ - which merges vector graphics (SVG, yee-haw) and raster.
I use Inkscape still as my download of Acrylic didn't even get past the install stage (I'm using Inkscape on Slack and WinXP - if you haven't got the latest install get it now, it's awesome). I've read good things about Acrylic(some whilst stood in my local news agents!).
I'd be prepared to bet that the SVG files produced aren't vanilla
Assuming you live in "the west" you are in a [largely] capitalist society.
So, this is how it works: The ISP blocks stuff you want to see/use. You cancel your account and go elsewhere.
No foul.
Yeah, and it's also a bad idea to lock away handguns to prevent kids getting hold of them. Why?
...
... and that's what the TLD is intended to show.
Well
1) Locks can be broken with a crowbar
2) Locks can be opened with a key
3) You can forget to lock
4) Containers with locks can be broken open
5) I don't mind my kid shooting people
</sarcasm>
Near enough every system has flaws. But that shouldn't stop you trying.
By the time a kid is typing in IP addresses to get to porn sites, they already know that these sites are a reserved subsection of the internet
You're wrong (in UK at least). Negative advertising is fine, as long as you tell the truth. Tesco (major grocery (and everything else) retailer) currently has price comparison adverts on TV saying how much cheaper they are and give prices for other main supermarkets.
Like others mention, "there's no such thing as bad publicity" (not true, I don't think); so mentioning 'Bud gives you less wind than Guinness' is never done.
A couple of years ago when I bought a Sony NetMD minidisc player I thought "the Sony store will be the best place to go".
...
So I went to the Sony store, they didn't know anything about the model I wanted (that they were selling). I asked "does it have a microphone input" and they'd say "no", then I'd say "what about this socket that says 'mic'"
I went to Dixons to get a price check. The guy there knew all the features of the model and the next best Panasonic (IIR-the-brand-C).
Still neither of them told me that I couldn't upload live audio digitally, so I still ended up buying the damn thing!!
This is merely a reflection on how society has changed ... small local shops apparently haven't been in demand because everyone now wants to sit in an office all day and only go out in their cars.
It used to be that people got married, and stayed married, one of the couple went out to work and the other stayed closer to home. This freed one of the couple to do perhaps the most important work: child rearing, social cohesion and re-provisioning.
Now get this. In towns and cities, people would walk to local shops!!! So they didn't need to drive out of town to find a parking lot with a shop attached. They'd also buy from several stores. In the country, even in villages, they had shops too.
Now there are lots of things wrong with this sort of model - particularly if you're a capitalist (eg profits can't be maximised with small scale operations). But some of it seemed to work too.
WRT your particular situation. Lots of places now have "box schemes" where you can get fresh fruit and veg from local farmers/suppliers delivered to your door. Also, independent shops may be willing to change their hours. But, I agree - they could get a clue already. Based on your map on the Ivorsky website (header background suggest Chalfont St Giles, which has a Tesco!) - http://www.fieldfare-organics.com/index.html may be able to help.
I run an independent (non-food) local shop. We're pretty much open any time that we're asked + normal hours.
HTH