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Comment · 17 years ago
an equivalent to how pngcrush works then
Comment · 17 years ago
Comment · 17 years ago
Thats:
%d - 2 digit day number by month;
%b - 3 letter month name;
%Y - 4 digit year CE;
for those who don't recall so well.
Comment · 17 years ago
Of course I meant a justification for the mixed up ordering as being of greater utility (more easily parsed, understood, less confused, more easily read, better sorted, more standardised with other users) than the other common orderings.
Let the word go forth ... your logical justification please?
Comment · 17 years ago
I don't think their market moves that much, slippers might be OTT.
Comment · 17 years ago
When it's cold I sleep in my bathrobe (we call it a "dressing gown" which is a particularly poor name for it as one wears it when not getting dressed!). It has long sleeves, is below the knee in length and snug - very comfortable.
Comment · 17 years ago
No you couldn't, suppose your A does better in the first market and your B worse (accounting for size) in the second. You choose A. Which does even worse in second market. B was doing the best job for the second market, it is just that market is less open to your product, B would have totally pwned in the first market.
You have to do the A/B within the same market to get useful results.
Comment · 17 years ago
lol
Comment · 17 years ago
It's 99% correlated (in line with) the longer test method. OK. Then you learn that there were 77 in the study. So they got the result wrong 1% of the time, for 0.8 of a child?
Shenanigans.
"the two tests have a 99% correlation"
"they recruited 77 gifted children through"
[yes, it could be a rounding error]
Comment · 17 years ago
"My take away: easier to make money off rich firms than poor individuals."
A worthy insight IMO, one of those 'I know it but it helps to be reminded' comments.
Comment · 17 years ago
US date order always makes me laugh - it's like people looked at date order and thought if the day comes before the month that will be the European way, lets flip it. Then they realised that would be YYYY-mm-dd and so be ISO standard order, dang can't have that, hey lets have a mixture.
I know it didn't happen this way but some sort of logical order would be good.
Comment · 17 years ago
They can request you don't use it as condition for access to their platform - claiming it's a trademark is different. The mark (in the EC at least) needs to be indicative of the origin of goods or services and needs to be distinctive in order to achieve that aim - chat bubbles are not distinctive and are not indicative that Apple Computers Inc. are providing the service. Fail IMO.
Comment · 17 years ago
Was he homosexual or bisexual - his engagement and his acknowledgement to his fiancée that he had "homosexual tendencies" (eg http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Clarke_J... ) suggests that he was not exclusively attracted to men what actual sexual activity he undertook is not known to men nor I suspect to anyone else who didn't share whatever arena he chose for his affairs.
The manner in which he was arrested rather suggests a honeytrap [I'm speculating here, assess for yourself] - which could account for any animosity of the UK Government, not particularly wanting to reward spies that fell victim to enemy traps. The other point at issue may be that Turing as a 40 year old was picking up teenagers for sex (according to the reports of his arrest) - would someone now be knighted who knowingly followed that sort of promiscuous lifestyle? Would you expect that to be true also in the mid 20th century?
Turing was a great mathematician and left a great legacy in that field, other aspects of his character appear less clear.
Comment · 17 years ago
"By all means express regret that a previous government did such and such"
Of course the government didn't act unilaterally against the wishes of the people - they implemented the laws as required by society at the time.
Comment · 17 years ago
One of, if not the, scariest moment of my life was waking up at home on the couch and not knowing where I was or who I was. It lasted for maybe 5 minutes and then things started fading back as I wandered about the house. Frightened the life out of me.