This specification describes the Web Application Description Language (WADL). WADL is designed to
provide a machine process-able description of HTTP-based Web applications.

1.1 Web Applications
For the purposes of this specification, a Web application is defined as a HTTP-based application whose
interactions are amenable to machine processing. While many existing Web sites are examples of HTTPbased
applications, a large number of those require human cognitive function for successful non-brittle1 use.
Typically Web applications:
• Are based on existing Web architecture and infrastructure
• Are platform and programming language independent
• Promote re-use of the application beyond the browser
• Enable composition with other Web or desktop applications

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Feature list:
-Diamonds 2X (in front Joystick & back)
-Quad band GSM with 802.11b/g Wi-Fi
-Motorola Freescale CPU MC5249
-CPU Processor: Intel Xcale PXA255 (400MHz)
-SD RAM: 128MB
-Nor Flash: 16MB
-SIP Protocol
-2-inch colour LCD display (touchscreen)
-Dimension: 100X45X22mm;
-Polycarbonate with mirror finishing
-Touch sensitive keypad panel
-Titan chassis structure
-Windows Mobile 5
-MP3/MP4/MPEG4
-4 megapixel camera

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> The other day, in a pet shop in Hornsby, in Sydney's north, I was
> surprised to see some 10 Gouldian Finches, 2 Hooded Parrots and 2
> Princess Parrots. The owner said breeders who all had licences supplied
> them. In Peter Slater's new book he predicts that the Gouldian Finch
> will be the next bird extinct in OZ.
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> Should I be alarmed with the appearance of these finches and parrots in
> the pet shop?

There is no cause for alarm about any of these birds having come from
the wild. All three species breed extremely easily in the aviary and no
take from the wild, either legal or illegal, occurs. A single pair of
aviary Gouldians in Queensland can be expected, if kept well, to raise
about 10 young a year, while Princesses and Hooded's also are free
breeders. Princesses would usually have 3 to 6 babies and Hooded
similar. Both may well have two clutches a year.

There are undoubtedly far more Gouldians in aviaries than in the wild.
In NSW alone, NPWS figures for 1995 show 49,706 in aviaries, and
probably double that number held by aviculturalists who don't have to
register their birds under NSW law. There could easily be around
250,000 Gouldians in aviaries - all aviary bred - in Australia. Their
price has come down to around $20 a pair in Queensland since they are
breeding so prolifically.

The NSW figures show 20,892 Princesses registered in aviculture in NSW
in 1995, and maybe around 100,000 Australia-wide in aviculture. Again
probably far, far, more than in the wild, and for most of us it is the
only way we will ever see them. Their price is also quite low, at
around $100 a pair. Hooded's are less common, with 6278 registered by
NPWS in NSW in 1995. Perhaps around 20,000 in aviculture Australia
wide, a number which again might be competitive with the wild
population. Hooded's are also considered an easy bird to breed, in fact
in Queensland they have become so common that breeders cannot sell all

Benford's law, also called the first-digit law, states that in lists of numbers from many real-life sources of data, the leading digit is distributed in a specific, non-uniform way. According to Benford's law, the first digit is 1 almost one third of the time, and larger numbers occur as the leading digit with less and less frequency as they grow in magnitude, to the point that 9 is the first digit less than one time in twenty. This is based on the observation that real-world measurements are generally distributed logarithmically, thus the logarithm of a set of real-world measurements is generally distributed uniformly.

This counter-intuitive result applies to a wide variety of figures, including electricity bills, street addresses, stock prices, population numbers, death rates, lengths of rivers, physical and mathematical constants, and processes described by power laws (which are very common in nature). The result holds regardless of the base in which the numbers are expressed, although the exact proportions of course change.

It is named after physicist Frank Benford, who stated it in 1938, although it had been previously stated by Simon Newcomb in 1881 in his paper "Note on the Frequency of Use of the Different Digits in Natural Numbers". The first rigorous formulation and proof appears to be due to Theodore P. Hill in 1988.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

Mathematical statement

Eclipse Flash Development
http://fdt.powerflasher.com/products/fdt-30/enterprise/

Scratch data is transient data that only has value while a workflow is incomplete. Applications are running rampant with it.
Here’s a real world example of scratch data that’s easy to understand. You can image a math test where you choose from multiple
choice answers, ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ or ‘D’. Perhaps the scratch paper you use to arrive at the answer is not collected by the teacher at the
end of the test, and it therefore never becomes part of the official results, but without the scratch paper, you can’t take the test.
Furthermore, if you had to fill in a multiple choice form that somehow described all of your interim calculations, you might not be
able to complete the test in time!
Many of the applications that have scratch data today are operating in a load-balanced manner and are typically spread out across
more than one hardware machine / JVM. As a result of spreading the application across JVMs / servers, the scratch data inside
a lot of these applications is getting shoved into the database just in case traffic is routed incorrectly or in case a node fails. The
image below shows the problem graphically.
http://www.infoq.com/