Not that it makes much of a difference as "Window" was a generic term for a particular GUI widget long before either of these. (See for example the Xerox Star.)
What is the difference between UK and Great Britain?
Great Britain is the island containing England, Scotland and Wales. The UK ("United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland") is the state that also includes Northern Ireland.
It used to be simply "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" between 1801 and 1922 (Irish independence.)
We're talking about desktop development tools here, not server products.
Oracle is a great database server with some fantastic features not found, for example, in MS SQL Server. However the Oracle (9) client tools are worse than SQL Server's from a usability standpoint.
Oracle's client tools run in Linux and Windows because they are Java (I'm thinking the Enterprise Manager Console and SQL Plus Worksheet here.) This is great for them working cross-platform but is not great for usability because they do not use standard UI interface features from the host OS. This has knock-on effects - for example, a scroll mouse doesn't work.
We might also note that Macromedia's server products such as ColdFusion and JRun all run on Linux. (And have run on other UNIXes such as Solaris for a lot longer.) There just isn't the market there for a desktop port of Flash; if there was, they would port it. Or you could use CrossOver Office.
In any case, the Flash specification is open, so you are free to write your own authoring tools for Linux. (Certainly there are third party tools on Windows.)
Well, the point is that you shouldn't have to remove it, as (one would imagine) websites should not be going out of their way to identify you as an Opera user so that they can serve you something broken. (Although there are a very small number of sites that do this as a misguided protest over Google AdWords in the unregistered version of Opera - I can't find any references right now.) Opera actually explain how the spoofing works here and point out how you can always still detect Opera.
Opera would have a vested interest in making sure that the string is always there for people who are actually looking for it, to compile market share statistics (there is some discussion of the spoofing problem on that page also).
...it always appends the string 'Opera' at the end of the user agent string identifying itself as IE. The idea was that this would be sufficient to fool websites that were just checking for IE, as Opera will generally render such pages fine. It wasn't designed to deal with websites that actively try to target Opera users (why would someone want to do such a thing?)
MSN was searching for the string 'Opera' in order to serve up the broken style sheet.
Isn't there an option in Opera to send a different User-Agent, therefore fooling MSN into thinking that the browser is IE?
That's a lot of work for something that really doesn't matter that much.
You are either trolling, or are just unaware of how important final-year school exams can be, and how seriously they are taken. This is the case in many countries throughout the world; it's in no way specific to India or to developing nations.
Here in Ireland these exams are the most important you will ever do and count as a fairly pivotal point in your life. How many points you get in your final school exams determine what course you do and in what university, and from that what you do for your career. (There is a fixed number of places on each course, and students compete for entry on the basis of highest exam points.)
I'm guessing that your figures (I don't know where they come from) are probably for the narrowly defined 'city' (e.g. just the centre) and do not take into account the urban area which is a more reasonable definition when considering whether a population is urban or rural.
Europe probably has even greater urbanisation and even relatively small cities (under 1 million people) such as Bibao or Salzburg have good public transportation. I know it's not so good in the US for a variety of reasons (lack of government subsidies, more suburban sprawl, cultural attachment to cars, etc.)
Cars aren't such a problem in rural areas, where they are necessary; they only become a problem through congestion in cities. (Compare rural/urban MPG figures.)
My point was not to argue any of this but just to point out that even in cities where there *are* alternatives - good public transportation, or where people are within a cycling distance (note cities in Europe have higher densities) people will *still* drive to work.
So like it or not, in less populated areas of the US, a car isn't really a luxary as much as it is a necessity.
And in said less populated areas cars don't cause congestion, and because they *aren't* causing congestion are much more efficient and don't damage the environment half as much. Cars make a lot of sense in such areas; the problem is cars in major cities where they are causing much more of a problem, and where there are alternatives.
...that's what I did. We *are* in a free market here (called the EU/EEA) with complete freedom to import things from anywhere within any of those 28 countries at least (25 EU + 3 EEA).
Prices here in Ireland are even more extortionate than the UK, so I buy just about anything of any value from other EU/EEA countries (Germany, France, Norway, Spain). It's especially easy to compare prices now that much of the EU has the same currency.
I used to buy stuff from the UK also, but sterling is very expensive at the moment, and UK businesses seem much more insular and unwilling to sell to other European countries than continental companies (the Germans are particularly notable from a price and willing to deliver point of view). Of course the currency thing works well for you if you are earning sterling and purchasing from a Eurozone country.
I agree that the prices in the US are cheaper, but often this is not the case when you add on the tax and shipping (which can be extortionate). It's also somewhat artifically cheap right now due to the weakness of the dollar.
Try www.kelkoo.de to search the German prices (generally German shops are cheapest, I have also bought cameras from www.pixmania.com who do next day delivery anywhere in the EU for very little).
I got my EOS 300D from www.worldtronix.com where it is now available for €969. Shipping was €24 to Ireland. (Just make sure you order the one with the lens included.)
...delivering 110,000 orders per week. They are also the largest supermarket in the UK and Ireland (2nd largest in Europe) - it's thus interesting that they are doing online shopping (and profitably) while the likes of Walmart are not.
Tesco also do online shopping in Ireland as do Superquinn. Both vans are a common sight on the street so I would presume they are popular.
...but a substantial proportion of the population do live either in a major city *with* decent public transportation or within cycling distance of their place of work (say 5 miles). I'd even say a majority fall into one of these two categories (I'm in Europe.) That doesn't stop all of those people driving.
You are right that it is not the idea of doing something but the method of doing something that is parented. But there can be levels of generality with regard to that method, and it is often left up to the courts to decide what is invalid due to prior art, what is legitimately covered, and what infringes.
So *for example* if you invent a method of a frequency multiplier because you need to use one in 4Mhz steps, it is reasonable that your patent would also cover someone using an identical implementation except with 33Mhz steps.
If someone else can implement a multiplier with a different method entirely, they are OK.
(Note I am *not* claiming that there in any validity in this patent, I'm just using grandparent's example.)
...that's why patents start with the most general claims and work down to the specifics. In this case, the general claim for the system is made in (1):
1. In combination, a computer system board having a socket for a first microprocessor and a clock for generating a first clock signal intended for the operation of said first microprocessor; an accelerator board connected to said socket to replace said first microprocessor;
said accelerator board having an upgrade microprocessor thereon for operation under the control of a second clock signal having a frequency greater than that of said first clock signal;
means responsive to said first clock signal for generating a sub-harmonic signal at a frequency that is a common denominator of the frequency of said first clock signal and said second clock signal with a known phase relationship between said sub-harmonic signal and said first clock signal; and
phase lock loop oscillator means responsive to said sub-harmonic signal for generating said second clock signal in known phase relationship to said first clock signal.
4Mhz is mentioned further down as a more specific implemention of this general claim [in (4)].
Zombo.com. Someone else posted a link to this yesterday; it's always good to be reminded of its genius.
Seriously, though, Flash can have good applications, beyond entertainment. One of the key benefits is that it is truly cross-platform and works reliably and in the same way across browsers and OSes far more than any other mainstream technology. It can be a very good presentation or data capture layer for when HTML is insufficient.
13.7 / 13.3 = 1,030075188 => 0.03 % performance increase with the new, latest, more expensive system.
As another poster has pointed out, it's actually a 3% improvement.
The point is, that's only 200 or 300 million years from the very beginning of the universe, and it gets exponentially more difficult the further back you want to see.
Rather than 13.7 vs. 13.3 billion years back from now, think 200/300 million years from the start versus 600/700 years from the start. That's a pretty good improvement.
I would be extremely surprised if it didn't have power available; all campgrounds will have power to at least a central point (e.g. campground office). Many/most will also be able to supply power to caravans and possibly even larger tents (never used that myself, as our two-person tent has to be small enough to carry on a bicycle.) The only places that I've camped which didn't have power somewhere were places that we shouldn't have been camping to begin with (field, side of road, picnic area, etc.)
This is my experience camping in Spain and France, anyway. If it's the sort of campground that is holding some sort of convention I think it's a fair guess they have power.
D.M.Y is a common European date style; I presume you use this in Finland. D/M/Y (with slashes) is the standard date style in the UK & Ireland (and a number of other European countries also). The date with the dots is understandable, given context, but certainly not standard. Taken in isolation, certain dates could be taken as a time rather than a date here. 09.10 for example would be seen as 10 minutes past nine, not as the ninth of October (although colons would be more standard for time).
I vaguely remember that Sweden almost uniquely use ISO-style dates (e.g. YYYY-MM-DD). I may be wrong.
...and that is exactly the property that lossy codecs exploit. What do you use to listen to your music, your ears, or a frequency analyzer?
"Better" in the realm of lossy encoding means "sounds closer to the original to a human," not has less binary differences, has a more similar waveform, has a more similar frequency fingerprint, etc.
You have half a point that non-trained ears can skew the result of public listening tests, but double-blind tests have been done with highly-trained ears also, generally with much the same results. And there is a remarkable amount of correlation between independent double-blind tests.
But at the end of the day the best, most relevant, double-blind tests are the ones you do yourself, with the music you like to listen to... This will tell you a lot more than a frequency analyser.
After all, if you can hear what a frequency analyser is telling you, you'll be able to hear it in a double-blind test... Right?
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...gently down the stream...
+1 Informative? Mods really aren't paying attention today.
Yeah, I'd say all those secretaries using Word are really missing those regular expressions. And comparing Word to vim!?
Wasnt there something called "XWindows" or "Windows X" on Unix years before M$ coined their Windows?
According to Wikipedia, The X Window System originated at MIT in 1984, while Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released in 1985.
Not that it makes much of a difference as "Window" was a generic term for a particular GUI widget long before either of these. (See for example the Xerox Star.)
What is the difference between UK and Great Britain?
Great Britain is the island containing England, Scotland and Wales. The UK ("United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland") is the state that also includes Northern Ireland.
It used to be simply "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" between 1801 and 1922 (Irish independence.)
We're talking about desktop development tools here, not server products.
Oracle is a great database server with some fantastic features not found, for example, in MS SQL Server. However the Oracle (9) client tools are worse than SQL Server's from a usability standpoint.
Oracle's client tools run in Linux and Windows because they are Java (I'm thinking the Enterprise Manager Console and SQL Plus Worksheet here.) This is great for them working cross-platform but is not great for usability because they do not use standard UI interface features from the host OS. This has knock-on effects - for example, a scroll mouse doesn't work.
We might also note that Macromedia's server products such as ColdFusion and JRun all run on Linux. (And have run on other UNIXes such as Solaris for a lot longer.) There just isn't the market there for a desktop port of Flash; if there was, they would port it. Or you could use CrossOver Office.
In any case, the Flash specification is open, so you are free to write your own authoring tools for Linux. (Certainly there are third party tools on Windows.)
...while passive RFID tags don't require power. This application just wouldn't be practical in the same way with IR.
RFID tags would be much cheaper and smaller. I don't think you'd be able to embed an IR transmitter easily into a poster.
Well, the point is that you shouldn't have to remove it, as (one would imagine) websites should not be going out of their way to identify you as an Opera user so that they can serve you something broken. (Although there are a very small number of sites that do this as a misguided protest over Google AdWords in the unregistered version of Opera - I can't find any references right now.) Opera actually explain how the spoofing works here and point out how you can always still detect Opera.
Opera would have a vested interest in making sure that the string is always there for people who are actually looking for it, to compile market share statistics (there is some discussion of the spoofing problem on that page also).
...it always appends the string 'Opera' at the end of the user agent string identifying itself as IE. The idea was that this would be sufficient to fool websites that were just checking for IE, as Opera will generally render such pages fine. It wasn't designed to deal with websites that actively try to target Opera users (why would someone want to do such a thing?)
MSN was searching for the string 'Opera' in order to serve up the broken style sheet.
Isn't there an option in Opera to send a different User-Agent, therefore fooling MSN into thinking that the browser is IE?
telling her that'd she'd failed while she'd in fact past. (sorry a repost because my a href didnt work properly)
;-)
Well you fixed your HREF but your spelling seems to suffered for it. The cosmic balance is restored
That's a lot of work for something that really doesn't matter that much.
You are either trolling, or are just unaware of how important final-year school exams can be, and how seriously they are taken. This is the case in many countries throughout the world; it's in no way specific to India or to developing nations.
Here in Ireland these exams are the most important you will ever do and count as a fairly pivotal point in your life. How many points you get in your final school exams determine what course you do and in what university, and from that what you do for your career. (There is a fixed number of places on each course, and students compete for entry on the basis of highest exam points.)
People get enormously concerned about the results; other posters have already pointed out the suicide of a girl who erroneously thought she had failed, and this is only one of thousands of exam-related suicides in India around this time of year.
So yes, I think students would like to know the results as soon as possible.
So the thing that city folk always forget, is that most folk aren't city folk.
That is just wrong. Most people *are* city folk.
The US population has been predominantly metropolitan since 1950 and the 2000 census reports that 80% live in a metropolitan area. 60% of the US population are accounted for in urban agglomerations over 1 million people. (177m out of 290m total.)
I'm guessing that your figures (I don't know where they come from) are probably for the narrowly defined 'city' (e.g. just the centre) and do not take into account the urban area which is a more reasonable definition when considering whether a population is urban or rural.
Europe probably has even greater urbanisation and even relatively small cities (under 1 million people) such as Bibao or Salzburg have good public transportation. I know it's not so good in the US for a variety of reasons (lack of government subsidies, more suburban sprawl, cultural attachment to cars, etc.)
Cars aren't such a problem in rural areas, where they are necessary; they only become a problem through congestion in cities. (Compare rural/urban MPG figures.)
My point was not to argue any of this but just to point out that even in cities where there *are* alternatives - good public transportation, or where people are within a cycling distance (note cities in Europe have higher densities) people will *still* drive to work.
So like it or not, in less populated areas of the US, a car isn't really a luxary as much as it is a necessity.
And in said less populated areas cars don't cause congestion, and because they *aren't* causing congestion are much more efficient and don't damage the environment half as much. Cars make a lot of sense in such areas; the problem is cars in major cities where they are causing much more of a problem, and where there are alternatives.
...that's what I did. We *are* in a free market here (called the EU/EEA) with complete freedom to import things from anywhere within any of those 28 countries at least (25 EU + 3 EEA).
Prices here in Ireland are even more extortionate than the UK, so I buy just about anything of any value from other EU/EEA countries (Germany, France, Norway, Spain). It's especially easy to compare prices now that much of the EU has the same currency.
I used to buy stuff from the UK also, but sterling is very expensive at the moment, and UK businesses seem much more insular and unwilling to sell to other European countries than continental companies (the Germans are particularly notable from a price and willing to deliver point of view). Of course the currency thing works well for you if you are earning sterling and purchasing from a Eurozone country.
I agree that the prices in the US are cheaper, but often this is not the case when you add on the tax and shipping (which can be extortionate). It's also somewhat artifically cheap right now due to the weakness of the dollar.
Try www.kelkoo.de to search the German prices (generally German shops are cheapest, I have also bought cameras from www.pixmania.com who do next day delivery anywhere in the EU for very little).
I got my EOS 300D from www.worldtronix.com where it is now available for €969. Shipping was €24 to Ireland. (Just make sure you order the one with the lens included.)
...delivering 110,000 orders per week. They are also the largest supermarket in the UK and Ireland (2nd largest in Europe) - it's thus interesting that they are doing online shopping (and profitably) while the likes of Walmart are not.
Tesco also do online shopping in Ireland as do Superquinn. Both vans are a common sight on the street so I would presume they are popular.
...but a substantial proportion of the population do live either in a major city *with* decent public transportation or within cycling distance of their place of work (say 5 miles). I'd even say a majority fall into one of these two categories (I'm in Europe.) That doesn't stop all of those people driving.
You are right that it is not the idea of doing something but the method of doing something that is parented. But there can be levels of generality with regard to that method, and it is often left up to the courts to decide what is invalid due to prior art, what is legitimately covered, and what infringes.
So *for example* if you invent a method of a frequency multiplier because you need to use one in 4Mhz steps, it is reasonable that your patent would also cover someone using an identical implementation except with 33Mhz steps.
If someone else can implement a multiplier with a different method entirely, they are OK.
(Note I am *not* claiming that there in any validity in this patent, I'm just using grandparent's example.)
We need one. Please!
4Mhz is mentioned further down as a more specific implemention of this general claim [in (4)].
Zombo.com. Someone else posted a link to this yesterday; it's always good to be reminded of its genius.
Seriously, though, Flash can have good applications, beyond entertainment. One of the key benefits is that it is truly cross-platform and works reliably and in the same way across browsers and OSes far more than any other mainstream technology. It can be a very good presentation or data capture layer for when HTML is insufficient.
...somewhere
13.7 / 13.3 = 1,030075188 => 0.03 % performance increase with the new, latest, more expensive system.
As another poster has pointed out, it's actually a 3% improvement.
The point is, that's only 200 or 300 million years from the very beginning of the universe, and it gets exponentially more difficult the further back you want to see.
Rather than 13.7 vs. 13.3 billion years back from now, think 200/300 million years from the start versus 600/700 years from the start. That's a pretty good improvement.
...how long ago/far away is that in Libraries of Congress?
I would be extremely surprised if it didn't have power available; all campgrounds will have power to at least a central point (e.g. campground office). Many/most will also be able to supply power to caravans and possibly even larger tents (never used that myself, as our two-person tent has to be small enough to carry on a bicycle.) The only places that I've camped which didn't have power somewhere were places that we shouldn't have been camping to begin with (field, side of road, picnic area, etc.)
This is my experience camping in Spain and France, anyway. If it's the sort of campground that is holding some sort of convention I think it's a fair guess they have power.
D.M.Y is a common European date style; I presume you use this in Finland. D/M/Y (with slashes) is the standard date style in the UK & Ireland (and a number of other European countries also). The date with the dots is understandable, given context, but certainly not standard. Taken in isolation, certain dates could be taken as a time rather than a date here. 09.10 for example would be seen as 10 minutes past nine, not as the ninth of October (although colons would be more standard for time).
I vaguely remember that Sweden almost uniquely use ISO-style dates (e.g. YYYY-MM-DD). I may be wrong.
...and that is exactly the property that lossy codecs exploit. What do you use to listen to your music, your ears, or a frequency analyzer?
"Better" in the realm of lossy encoding means "sounds closer to the original to a human," not has less binary differences, has a more similar waveform, has a more similar frequency fingerprint, etc.
You have half a point that non-trained ears can skew the result of public listening tests, but double-blind tests have been done with highly-trained ears also, generally with much the same results. And there is a remarkable amount of correlation between independent double-blind tests.
But at the end of the day the best, most relevant, double-blind tests are the ones you do yourself, with the music you like to listen to... This will tell you a lot more than a frequency analyser.
After all, if you can hear what a frequency analyser is telling you, you'll be able to hear it in a double-blind test... Right?