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Re: What are the 10 most harmful jobs?

Gareth Jones — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 05:44:31 -0000

I was surprised to find 'Patent trolls' on this list. Whilst there's clearly some abusive behaviour in the industry (e.g. extracting settlement fees by exploiting costs of defending patent infringement litigation), I'm not personally convinced the overall impact is significant enough to warrant a place on this list. Some quick thoughts: the $29b figure cited is disputed (http://www.iam-media.com/bl... definitions of patent troll / NPE often vary and have a significant impact on any figures (http://info.articleonepartn... and http://www.iam-media.com/bl... litigation costs might be lower if defendants were actually willing to deal with patent holders (http://patentlyo.com/patent... patents are intended to foster innovation (http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2....

Re: Look how far we’ve got to go in this industry

Gareth Jones — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:28:37 -0000

If your timezone change meant that you lost a few hours of a day, you'd be getting less than 24 hours for the 'day' you paid for, and vice-versa. Keeping it in the home timezone does at least mean you pay for consistent blocks of 24 hours (albeit unable to use some of it while on a plane!). I imagine if it swapped with the timezone it could get confusing for both the operator and the customer. Especially if you were hopping between multiple timezones.

Re: Paying for your meal via the restaurant’s own app: Why Delos Solutions are rocking my world!

Gareth Jones — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:09:06 -0000

Web technology has caught up with the native app experience in a lot of ways; I don't think there's anything here that couldn't be done in an identical way with a web app. The biggest problem with web apps is probably discover-ability (though Mozilla is trying to solve this - https://apps.mozillalabs.com/), but that isn't a particular issue in this case.

Re: Paying for your meal via the restaurant’s own app: Why Delos Solutions are rocking my world!

Gareth Jones — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:03:44 -0000

This is fantastic and I sincerely applaud the team at both Don Fernando's, and Delos, but why an app? If you're a loyal customer, visit regularly and receive discounts etc., then great. If you're visiting a restaurant as a one-off, I personally wouldn't want the hassle of downloading an app and it clogging up the list of apps on my phone. I would however love to pay by mobile in some way; a web-based solution seems to fit better here, don't you think? It should be cheaper for the retailer too, as you wouldn't have to develop for each mobile platform, and pay app store costs etc.

Re: The Digital Native divide: How difficult is it to send photos to Granny?

Gareth Jones — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:40:34 -0000

Mindings (http://www.mindings.com/) is looking like a really great solution for this kind of thing. I saw Stu give a talk about it and was blown away by the potential.

Re: Free daily news to a Kindle

Gareth Jones — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 05:45:42 -0000

Thanks Andy, post updated :)

Re: Learning sign language

Gareth Jones — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:12:46 -0000

Hi Flora. It's actually been quite a long time since I did any BSL so my memory is pretty hazy. I can only remember four of the ones I was taught which (I think!) were the following:

- Up/down the side of the body (e.g. growing up)
- Left/right across the front of the body (e.g. next/previous)
- Toward/away from the front of the body (e.g. next year)
- Back/forth over the shoulder (e.g. until now)

Sorry I couldn't be of more use! Possibly worth asking a BSL teacher if you know any, or maybe looking in a BSL grammar book?

Re: Building a RESTful Web application with PHP

Gareth Jones — Fri, 27 May 2011 03:17:56 -0000

As pointed out by Spac32, this should actually be:
$service = new RestService();
$service->handleRawRequest($_SERVER, $_GET, $_POST);

Re: Building a RESTful Web application with PHP

Gareth Jones — Fri, 27 May 2011 03:16:34 -0000

Hey, thanks for your comments. No idea if the HTTPS thing is a change in PHP or a platform-specific thing or what but glad you found a solution. Yes, you're right about my reply to PepperHill - good spot!

Re: Free daily news to a Kindle

Gareth Jones — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:22:48 -0000

Great, glad you got it working. It'd definitely not a speedy process :)

Re: Free daily news to a Kindle

Gareth Jones — Mon, 09 May 2011 05:18:06 -0000

Hey James. Sorry, I didn't have that problem but was working on Ubuntu Linux. Possibly a missing Python package you need to install? Odd that it works from the GUI but not the command line tools, I wonder what it's doing differently. You could try searching through / raising a bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/...

Let me know how you get on.

Re: BSL word ordering

Gareth Jones — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:38:22 -0000

Hi Jenny. I'm afraid I don't know of a site that does that. Hopefully the rules in my post will help but your teacher will be the best person to ask if you're not sure!

Re: Learning sign language

Gareth Jones — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:36:00 -0000

Hi Jo. I did my level 3 at Peter Symonds College in Winchester (http://psc.ac.uk/). No idea if they still run the course or what price it is though. Level 3 was a massive increase in cost from level 2 for me though.

Re: Garden Hose – A BSL story (/homework!)

Gareth Jones — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:25:23 -0000

Hey Carmen, glad you've found my videos useful. I finished my BSL Level 3 in 2009 but haven't continued studying because the next qualifications seem to be aimed at people who use it professionally. Good luck with your portfolio!

Re: Using Jena as a SPARQL endpoint

Gareth Jones — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:02:28 -0000

Sorry, that one I don't know the answer too. I believe it can be done but I've no idea how much can be easily automated.

Re: Goodbye IBM, hello Vodafone

Gareth Jones — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:13:40 -0000

Thanks Ashley :)

Re: Using Jena as a SPARQL endpoint

Gareth Jones — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:40:47 -0000

You can use the HTTP Accept header to specify the required output format, or use the 'accept' URL parameter. See http://www.joseki.org/proto... for details.

Re: Using Jena as a SPARQL endpoint

Gareth Jones — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:25:51 -0000

Joseki implements the SPARQL protocol (http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sp... ) so you should just be able to execute HTTP requests from PHP (using fopen or curl) to your SPARQL endpoint. See http://www.joseki.org/proto... for details. I would assume the Joseki GUI and command line just interact with this endpoint but I've not actually checked.

Re: Using Jena as a SPARQL endpoint

Gareth Jones — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:18:41 -0000

If I understand your problem correctly, you need to expose your Joseki installation on the public Internet. sparql.org will interpret 'localhost' as itself, not your local server.

Re: Using Jena as a SPARQL endpoint

Gareth Jones — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:21:40 -0000

Have you tried setting Joseki up using the quickstart instructions (http://www.joseki.org/start... and does that result in something running on port 2020? For your local database setup, maybe try some of the instructions here: http://www.joseki.org/confi...

Re: Goodbye IBM, hello Vodafone

Gareth Jones — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:56:51 -0000

Cheers Roo, you proved it can be done so I decided not to wait for the 10 year pen and just go for it :)

Re: Goodbye IBM, hello Vodafone

Gareth Jones — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:56:16 -0000

Thanks Andy - I'll certainly be missing you all at Hursley and the rest of IBM too.

Re: Goodbye IBM, hello Vodafone

Gareth Jones — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:23:48 -0000

Thanks :)

Re: Goodbye IBM, hello Vodafone

Gareth Jones — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:22:37 -0000

Thanks Matt - bet there's a whole load of ex-IBMers there. I'll have to start an alumni or something!

Re: Using JSLint from gedit in Ubuntu 10.10

Gareth Jones — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:12:26 -0000

Hey Oliver. Not sure what's happened to that rhino directory, but the JSLint code appears to now be hosted on github: https://github.com/douglasc...
One of those versions may work with Rhino. Failing that, there's always the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/...