Wow! All this steam and no one read the patent. It's been a while since the Slashdotter stereotype was so well validated.
The patent is for incremental validation as the characters come in. The text input widget is primed with the regex and validates each character as it is keyed, and reacts immediately if it gets an invalid-in-context character. The effect is that it's not possible to enter an invalid string.
Whether you think this is novel or not, it's not ordinary.
Really, folks, RTFA. It's about open formats, not open source.
It seems to have been triggered by someone not being able to look at a WMV movie on the City of Vancouver site. They think you need IE to show a WMV. Gives you some idea of how intelligent the whole thing is.
Undoubtedly job#1 will be to convert all those WMVs to...what?
'We found that drinking cold liquids from polycarbonate bottles for just one week increased urinary BPA levels by more than two-thirds [from nearly zero to 1.6×nearly zero]. If you heat those bottles, as is the case with baby bottles, we would expect the levels to be considerably higher. This would be of concern since infants may be particularly susceptible to BPA's endocrine-disrupting potential,'
I'm going to guess that in the Thai language "gambling" and "gaming" are the same word. It's the only reasonable explanation for the apparent confusion between computer games and gambling sites.
'I thought that would be better than kind of like sticking it to [the alum] and saying the paper is always right and we can publish anything on the Web we want,' says the paper's editor."
Now that's embarrassing. You'd think the editor of a college paper would have some command of the language.
The linux percentage on servers is high because of the LAMP stack. It's well-known, easily staffed and supported, and there is a whole lot of server-stuff that runs on it. In other words, it is to web service what Windows is to the desktop.
that the accountants would figure out that upgrading to *nix
Fortunately for all of us, accountants don't make IT provisioning decisions. You may not have noticed, but a whole lot of the people who are actually qualified to make those decisions are deploying linux-based servers. They generally choose the technology that best meets their needs.
Like you, I can't figure out why anybody cares. Ham radio guys don't whine about everybody using cell phones instead of 2-meter transceivers. I play an acoustic guitar, but I've never felt a need to eliminate all the electrics. When I'm out walking my dogs I don't get hassled by joggers who want me to wear their brand of running shoe.
To all you linushim: Linux was built by geeks, for geeks. Why not just enjoy it and ignore everybody else. If linux had a 60% market share, would it run any differently on your machine?
Not only has Paro been around for a couple of years--except as dinner for a whale or a polar bear, no baby seal has been killed in nearly a quarter century.
These squishy-left nerds need to bring their propaganda up to date.
These people are either too stupid or too inexperienced to be making dangerous machines.
Anything that can't possibly happen, will happen. Machines fail in the most awkward ways. The most junior CNC designer knows this: that every device that could do harm has a remotely operated kill switch whose action bypasses all the machine's control systems, kills primary power and causes all components to fail safe (trigger finger relaxes, brakes go full on,...).
Putting a gun on a machine without a remote kill switch goes beyond incompetence and stumbles incoherently into criminal negligence.
How do we put this in terms this gang can understand?
How often has an IT admin, just doing his job, backed up sensitive HR files to an unsecured backup medium stored in an unsecured area? What? Encrypt the backup just for a few HR files? The files are scattered all over the SAN. Too much trouble. Besides, they're safe here. There's just eighteen admins with access to the area. Yah--the same eighteen people who know the one password we use for all the databases.
In an Archive, the preservationists are the "techies". They keep the archive available. These are the guys who keep building indexes and copying stuff from old media to new media so it's always readable. They are the "backup people", and like most IT admins, they don't let anything get in the way of doing what they believe is their mission.
What most likely happened was that, instead of taking their equipment into the high security zone to process the sensitive information in there, they brought the sensitive information out to their equipment in the low security zone. It was the expedient thing to do. I think also illegal.
No conspiracy here, just laziness and a lack of security awareness.
Dell seems to be aiming this site at a specific group, taking a cue from the way Apple sells its products as fashion statements.
There is a growing female demo who don't feel the need to impersonate men and are happy as they are. Watch any music channel or wander a mall and it becomes obvious that it likely includes 99% of those under 25. Della is no more insulting to these girlie girls than Cosmo or Victoria's Secret.
Dell isn't stereotyping women; it isn't forcing all its female visitors to use Della or go without a computer; it's using this site to sell to those who fit the girlie type and are attracted by the message. If that's not your type, don't go to Della.
If that were true, my annoyance with nvu would have resulted in a satisfying switch to Komposer. The reality is that Komposer is just as annoying and I am back to using n++ and hand-coding web pages.
I suppose the good news is that none of the proprietary WYSI[almost]WYG html editors are any better than the open-source ones.
The source of your confusion is that, in North America, the left and the right have traded sides over the last few decades (By modern standards, JFK would have been a Republican). In this particular version of the rabbit hole, Libertarian is extreme conservative. High taxes, nanny state, labor unions, gun control, animal rights, criminal rights, subordination of individual rights are liberal.
Taking just a few set points--taxes, socialized medicine, fox hunts, jailing crime victims for successful self-defense--I'd say the UK government is very liberal by the North American definition.
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Wow! All this steam and no one read the patent. It's been a while since the Slashdotter stereotype was so well validated.
The patent is for incremental validation as the characters come in. The text input widget is primed with the regex and validates each character as it is keyed, and reacts immediately if it gets an invalid-in-context character. The effect is that it's not possible to enter an invalid string.
Whether you think this is novel or not, it's not ordinary.
Really, folks, RTFA. It's about open formats, not open source.
It seems to have been triggered by someone not being able to look at a WMV movie on the City of Vancouver site. They think you need IE to show a WMV. Gives you some idea of how intelligent the whole thing is.
Undoubtedly job#1 will be to convert all those WMVs to ...what?
'We found that drinking cold liquids from polycarbonate bottles for just one week increased urinary BPA levels by more than two-thirds [from nearly zero to 1.6×nearly zero] . If you heat those bottles, as is the case with baby bottles, we would expect the levels to be considerably higher. This would be of concern since infants may be particularly susceptible to BPA's endocrine-disrupting potential,'
This is propaganda, not science.
I'm going to guess that in the Thai language "gambling" and "gaming" are the same word. It's the only reasonable explanation for the apparent confusion between computer games and gambling sites.
'I thought that would be better than kind of like sticking it to [the alum] and saying the paper is always right and we can publish anything on the Web we want,' says the paper's editor."
Now that's embarrassing. You'd think the editor of a college paper would have some command of the language.
The linux percentage on servers is high because of the LAMP stack. It's well-known, easily staffed and supported, and there is a whole lot of server-stuff that runs on it. In other words, it is to web service what Windows is to the desktop.
that the accountants would figure out that upgrading to *nix
Fortunately for all of us, accountants don't make IT provisioning decisions. You may not have noticed, but a whole lot of the people who are actually qualified to make those decisions are deploying linux-based servers. They generally choose the technology that best meets their needs.
Like you, I can't figure out why anybody cares. Ham radio guys don't whine about everybody using cell phones instead of 2-meter transceivers. I play an acoustic guitar, but I've never felt a need to eliminate all the electrics. When I'm out walking my dogs I don't get hassled by joggers who want me to wear their brand of running shoe.
To all you linushim: Linux was built by geeks, for geeks. Why not just enjoy it and ignore everybody else. If linux had a 60% market share, would it run any differently on your machine?
These squishy-left nerds need to bring their propaganda up to date.
Right you are. My fault for posting while needing sleep.
We must make sure that no one ever mixes europium with administerium. An EU "unfettered by resistance" could set civilization back a thousand years.
You forgot the winky face. Why are we paying attention to someone who can't find the shift key on their keyboard?
robots and machines that can predict war, formulate resolutions to our current wars, and advance mankind as a civilization.
Proof that if you are sufficiently naive, you can turn Azimov's observation on its head: "Sufficiently advanced technology can perform magic."
"Consistently" doesn't mean what you think it does.
These people are either too stupid or too inexperienced to be making dangerous machines.
Anything that can't possibly happen, will happen. Machines fail in the most awkward ways. The most junior CNC designer knows this: that every device that could do harm has a remotely operated kill switch whose action bypasses all the machine's control systems, kills primary power and causes all components to fail safe (trigger finger relaxes, brakes go full on, ...).
Putting a gun on a machine without a remote kill switch goes beyond incompetence and stumbles incoherently into criminal negligence.
To paraphrase: A robot is a numerically controlled mechanism whose maker calls it a robot.
How do we put this in terms this gang can understand?
How often has an IT admin, just doing his job, backed up sensitive HR files to an unsecured backup medium stored in an unsecured area? What? Encrypt the backup just for a few HR files? The files are scattered all over the SAN. Too much trouble. Besides, they're safe here. There's just eighteen admins with access to the area. Yah--the same eighteen people who know the one password we use for all the databases.
In an Archive, the preservationists are the "techies". They keep the archive available. These are the guys who keep building indexes and copying stuff from old media to new media so it's always readable. They are the "backup people", and like most IT admins, they don't let anything get in the way of doing what they believe is their mission.
What most likely happened was that, instead of taking their equipment into the high security zone to process the sensitive information in there, they brought the sensitive information out to their equipment in the low security zone. It was the expedient thing to do. I think also illegal.
No conspiracy here, just laziness and a lack of security awareness.
Just wondering--What color is the sky in the world where you live?
I guess I should take that to mean that C hasn't acquired min().
Read anything you can find about the "long tail"
Dell seems to be aiming this site at a specific group, taking a cue from the way Apple sells its products as fashion statements.
There is a growing female demo who don't feel the need to impersonate men and are happy as they are. Watch any music channel or wander a mall and it becomes obvious that it likely includes 99% of those under 25. Della is no more insulting to these girlie girls than Cosmo or Victoria's Secret.
Dell isn't stereotyping women; it isn't forcing all its female visitors to use Della or go without a computer; it's using this site to sell to those who fit the girlie type and are attracted by the message. If that's not your type, don't go to Della.
I've got to update my tools. When did C get min()?
Aaaugh! Waddya think you're using? QBasic?
len = (dlen<slen)?dlen:slen;
If that were true, my annoyance with nvu would have resulted in a satisfying switch to Komposer. The reality is that Komposer is just as annoying and I am back to using n++ and hand-coding web pages.
I suppose the good news is that none of the proprietary WYSI[almost]WYG html editors are any better than the open-source ones.
A bit of a postscript: Has the UK got around to banning smoking in pubs as Canada has?
The source of your confusion is that, in North America, the left and the right have traded sides over the last few decades (By modern standards, JFK would have been a Republican). In this particular version of the rabbit hole, Libertarian is extreme conservative. High taxes, nanny state, labor unions, gun control, animal rights, criminal rights, subordination of individual rights are liberal.
Taking just a few set points--taxes, socialized medicine, fox hunts, jailing crime victims for successful self-defense--I'd say the UK government is very liberal by the North American definition.
A USian might say so.