Bobby isn't a validator in the same sense that the W3C's is; Bobby is more of an accessibility checker than an HTML verifier. They're both useful tools; you should use them both!
If you meant some other "Bobbie", then I'm obviously talking rubbish and should be ignored:)
The w3c, of course. What makes you say that they are "arbitrary"? I suppose you could say that "HTML is arbitrary", which to some extent it is, but it's not very hard to produce standard-compliant HTML (and also to verify it). It's all very well to talk about de facto standards, but you should remember that all the world isn't a Windows PC, and that's going to become increasingly true over time.
The dictionary can be modified (for the Linux version, it's in input/dict). There's no reason that you couldn't have both (say) color and colour in the dictionary. Having common TLAs (what's a TLM??) in the dictionary would make using them quicker, and having the program learn from you would be even better.
ATM, it just predicts based on words (AFAIK), it'd be impressive if it could go further and predict further (eg, I often type "cup of" followed by "tea").
The prediction ability of the program is based on the dictionary which it uses as input, which is static (ie, loaded once) at the moment (I think). A cool idea would be for it to learn as you use it, so it'd be faster to use as you used it more.
I can tell a E5 note from an E10 note just from a glance at part of it, by colour and size. I don't have to even see the numbers. Is there a particular objection to making life easier? It seems that most of the messages in this thread are doing just that!
Possibly sue for what? It's not libellous to (truthfully) say "n years ago, so and so said 'whatever'".
It's always been the case that "if you don't want a future potential employer to read it, don't put it out in public". If a newspaper prints a libellous story, they issue a retraction, they don't seek out and destroy all copies of the paper.
The UK equivalent of the Dept of the Interior is the Home Office. The Department for Work and Pensions is a merger of parts of what used to be the Department for Education and Employment and the Department for Social Security (formerly the Department for Health and Social Security). Is that clear?!
I've always found depts and ministries whose name includes "Interior" slightly sinister, probably for cold-war-hangover reasons.
The Register has a little more info. It seems that there is a workaround which involves changing the settings in Domino, though persuading everyone in the world who's running Domino to apply the fix might be hard! It seems like orbz.org is down already, and it's probably going to stay that way:(
There's a pilot scheme called Consume in London. More details in the BBC article. The idea is that the network is made up of "nodes": PCs with wireless cards, and people connect to that. It's supposed to be low cost and community-based, and seems like a really nifty idea!
Microvision (the company responsible) also have a "Nomad", which has more hardware, but less of it's in the way of your eye. That seems more practical, in that you can see more, but the equipment is more bulky.
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If you meant some other "Bobbie", then I'm obviously talking rubbish and should be ignored :)
It uses a dictionary to determine the relative probabilities and build the language model when it's loaded.
ATM, it just predicts based on words (AFAIK), it'd be impressive if it could go further and predict further (eg, I often type "cup of" followed by "tea").
The prediction ability of the program is based on the dictionary which it uses as input, which is static (ie, loaded once) at the moment (I think). A cool idea would be for it to learn as you use it, so it'd be faster to use as you used it more.
I can tell a E5 note from an E10 note just from a glance at part of it, by colour and size. I don't have to even see the numbers. Is there a particular objection to making life easier? It seems that most of the messages in this thread are doing just that!
If they're easy to tell apart, you can just stuff them in. It's human factors 101...
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Oh, some people are blind?
It appears that some countries [ hint: "colour", "defence" ] have bills of different sizes... That sounds suspiciously un-American...
Possibly sue for what? It's not libellous to (truthfully) say "n years ago, so and so said 'whatever'".
It's always been the case that "if you don't want a future potential employer to read it, don't put it out in public". If a newspaper prints a libellous story, they issue a retraction, they don't seek out and destroy all copies of the paper.
It must be true! Google told me so!
Perhaps you mean: Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!
It looks like JANET (the Joint Academic NETwork) is going to lose its connection to the rest of the world, unless they speed up their process for procuring a replacment: according to their current schedule, a replacement will be active on the first of September, while KPNQwest is probably closing down in a couple of hours (time correct as I write) :(
I've always found depts and ministries whose name includes "Interior" slightly sinister, probably for cold-war-hangover reasons.
The Register has a little more info. It seems that there is a workaround which involves changing the settings in Domino, though persuading everyone in the world who's running Domino to apply the fix might be hard! It seems like orbz.org is down already, and it's probably going to stay that way :(
There's a pilot scheme called Consume in London. More details in the BBC article. The idea is that the network is made up of "nodes": PCs with wireless cards, and people connect to that. It's supposed to be low cost and community-based, and seems like a really nifty idea!
I hope not: if it's powerful enough to melt contacts, it's powerful enough to do serious damage to your eyes!
Microvision (the company responsible) also have a "Nomad", which has more hardware, but less of it's in the way of your eye. That seems more practical, in that you can see more, but the equipment is more bulky.