Re:Been demoing it myself. compare to BBEDIT
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I just recently gave TextMate a solid week of work (using the demo - still have 20+ days left) instead of my normal TextWrangler (BBEdit's little brother). I really like the way TextMate does some things, particularly the automatic matching of quotes and brackets and the shortcut to close an open HTML tag. I got used to the larger default font size and some of the preferences for dealing with files when the app starts up. But none of it was really enough for me to justify the ~$52 price tag. I went in and changed some prefs in TextWrangler to make it feel more like the things I liked from TextMate. The only thing I can't get the way I want in TextWrangler is that I have an option for when the app starts to either start with a new, empty file or not, that's fine when I invoke the app on its own but when I open a file and it starts the app, I'd rather it didn't create an unnecessary empty file. TextMate has that option and it doesn't seem to be much of a stretch. If TextWrangler weren't around, I'd definitely buy TextMate without a second thought.
T-mobile may not be the biggest but they are a carrier in the US and they have the SDA and MDA. Verizon has the Samsung SCH-i730 and XV6700. I don't think Cingular carries any right now but they're supposed to be getting an HTC and maybe a Nokia model that should have wifi.
Just trying to educate here, we're like the third world of cellular here in the US, so the pickings are slim.
Verizon has phones that have a GSM mode for international service, here's their list of three- Verizon Global Phone.
The Samsung i830 on that list has SDIO so it could be possible to add wifi.
A small shell script that runs constantly, checking sites with a validator (like the w3c already has, we are talking about websites, they'll be written in XHTML, WML, or some newer mark-up language) and emailing the names of sites that fail validation to the administrators for further investigation. It's not a complicated thing, you prevent taking down falsely non-compliant sites by requiring human intervention before that can happen, then you prevent situations like that BSA's script that was scanning for pirated software, and automatically sending out C&D letters. I think that as long as they make an example out of the first few that try to skirt the regulations, it should be pretty successful, wouldn't having a standard to develop sites against make it easier on the web developer? I know it's a lot easier for me when I build a site that's simply fully valid XHTML versus when I have to take into account IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc. Some one else said it but it's worth repeating, this will add value to the domain, customers will know that if you're a.mobi they'll be able to access your site without any problems on their device.
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I think it's just the general suck of cellular in the US, we've got 2 major carriers that actually use the same tech as the rest of the world (everyone else uses GSM, right?). They stick to the most widely consumer friendly models, like that damn RAZR everyone has these days, and only carry a few "geek phones" (Moto MPX220, Nokia 6680/1/2, and a handful of other smartphones). Fortunately, that SIM card you have(assuming a GSM carrier) will work in a phone you import, such as one of those "totally sweet(linux) smart phones" (personally, I've been drooling over a Motorola A780 for a while), the downside to this is that you can't take advantage of any subsidies your carrier may offer, and you have to hope that the phone will support the network you're on. For instance, if you're on Cingular, the 850 band is a must, at least in the Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York City area, I'm not really sure outside my little tri-state area. And just so there's no confusion, I am a Cingular customer, happy with my service and using an imported phone (Motorola E398, I only recently enabled the 850 band, before that my reception sucked miserably and I stuck with my V551 most of the time).
Google around or check howard forums, you might be able to use the Java mp3 player that comes with the Motorola e398, it's not amazing but it'll handle playlists and basic control. Then again, if you haven't looked around the phone to much, check in your Java games/applications area and see if the Java MP3 player is in there.
All they really did with the ROKR is add iTunes, an extra button and a different color case to the e398 they released sometime last year. I've had an e398 for a while and I like it, I think I'll be sticking with it since it doesn't have any restrictions on the number of songs it can handle and the built in MP3 is good enough for as much as I use it.
I've got something similar on my personal site, it reads:
IE can't handle the valid CSS and XHTML that comprise this site properly. I'm using a rather simple browser detection method to feed IE browsers a different style sheet and some different images(replacing transparent pngs). If you happen to be spoofing your browser's identity, shame on you! Be proud that you've given up IE and show all the other webmasters that it's worth supporting other browsers, anyway remove your spoof or switch to a more standards compliant browser and you'll be able to view my site as I designed it.
I recommend any of the following.
Links to Firefox, Opera and Mozilla Suite follow that (I assume most Mac users know about Safari and Linux users already know better). It only appears on the front page and only to IE. Initially I used the comment conditionals in IE <!--[if IE 5]> <![endif]--> but since then I've moved to a homegrown php detection script that sniffs the user agent string and picks up browsers that aren't IE but use its rendering engine.
Dell coupons kick ass, I just picked up a 2005FPW, 20 inch widescreen(1680x1050) for around $450. Google "Dell coupons" and you'll find plenty of sites that list them.
Use sudo, or open up netinfo manager and enable the root account. Apple's X11 comes with its own termnial that should know about the DISPLAY variable. Someone else already posted about how to enable ssh, just start it in the system preferences.
Considering that the majority of the site isn't flash, just that big header at the top, and that the HTML is very nicely indented and commented.
I have my doubts if you actually looked at how the site works. More like firefox requested the flash plugin and you got pissy. If you had looked at it, they actually have a Javascript that detects if you have flash or not, if you don't they write a JPG version of the flash to the page instead. All of the little pop up effects and such are generated with javascript.
One of the reasons the U2 iPod is $50 more is because it comes with a shitload of U2 songs("more than 400"), including the new album. If you don't happen to be a U2 fan, this probably has little value to you but if you are, well then it seems worth it.
I'm pretty sure you're wrong, I went through this about 2 months ago with AOL, exactly the same situation. It used to be that if you cancelled AOL you could retain releted AIM accounts but that's not true anymore. Current AOL policy is that upon cancellation of an AOL account all related AIM and AOL accounts are suspended for 6 months. They're working hard to retain members these days and since AIM is a free service they can change terms whenever they like. What they'll offer is to put you on the low usage plan, you get to retain your SNs, you only get a few hours of dial-up service per month and you only pay $5/month. Essentially they're trying to get old AOL members to pay $5/month for AIM. From what I've seen they've been rather successful, a lot of people I know(myself included) moved off AOL to cable or DSL and tried cancelling but didn't want to lose their SN, so now they're paying an extra $5/month to keep their AIM name.
AOL has a(relatively recent, I'm told) policy of suspending AIM accounts with the same name as AOL accounts for 6 months "in case you decide to come back to AOL." This has the nice effect of keeping you stuck with AOL if you want to keep your screen name, they don't care how long you've had it, or if it started as an AIM name or what. The option they gave me when I wanted to cancel AOL but retain my screen name was to move down to their "super-light usage" plan, which is five bucks a month, you get to keep your screen name and you get something like 5 hours of dial-up a month. It makes me sick to think that I'm paying $5/month for AIM but for the time being it's worth it.
Even though I happen to be a very happy Mandrake user, I know lots of people dislike it because it's no small package. I don't think you'll like Fedora for the same reason you dislike Mandrake, they're both "heavy" distros, lots of apps and services installed by default. Ubuntu would probably suit you in this case, it's based on Debian which has a lighter default install; the CD is even a live CD so you can try it before installing it like Knoppix.
My economics professor last semster warned us about Mankiw's book. He was so dissatisfied with the book that he is/was in the process of writing his own text book to directly compete with or, hopefully, replace Mankiw's book.
Check out Expocity if you're a Gnome user and Kompose if you're a KDE user. Granted, it'd be nicer to see this built into X but for the time being they're not so bad.
Apparently my Kyocera SE47(slider) only accepts png images as backgrounds. I can't confirm this though because I have a nice Verizon encumbered version. At least Kyocera has the right idea(using/supporting open file formats).
I agree, I hate a ton of extra keys cluttering up my keyboard. I found this, it's branded as an IBM product but it's actually made my Micro Innovations - TigerDirect
It does have 2 extra keys on it, but they're quite useful - browser back and forward; and they work in linux with no special drivers or software (they do it by binding those keys to alt+left/right arrow, thank you xev).
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Most newish Nokia S60 devices do as well.
I just recently gave TextMate a solid week of work (using the demo - still have 20+ days left) instead of my normal TextWrangler (BBEdit's little brother). I really like the way TextMate does some things, particularly the automatic matching of quotes and brackets and the shortcut to close an open HTML tag. I got used to the larger default font size and some of the preferences for dealing with files when the app starts up. But none of it was really enough for me to justify the ~$52 price tag. I went in and changed some prefs in TextWrangler to make it feel more like the things I liked from TextMate. The only thing I can't get the way I want in TextWrangler is that I have an option for when the app starts to either start with a new, empty file or not, that's fine when I invoke the app on its own but when I open a file and it starts the app, I'd rather it didn't create an unnecessary empty file. TextMate has that option and it doesn't seem to be much of a stretch. If TextWrangler weren't around, I'd definitely buy TextMate without a second thought.
T-mobile may not be the biggest but they are a carrier in the US and they have the SDA and MDA. Verizon has the Samsung SCH-i730 and XV6700. I don't think Cingular carries any right now but they're supposed to be getting an HTC and maybe a Nokia model that should have wifi.
Just trying to educate here, we're like the third world of cellular here in the US, so the pickings are slim.
Verizon has phones that have a GSM mode for international service, here's their list of three- Verizon Global Phone. The Samsung i830 on that list has SDIO so it could be possible to add wifi.
A small shell script that runs constantly, checking sites with a validator (like the w3c already has, we are talking about websites, they'll be written in XHTML, WML, or some newer mark-up language) and emailing the names of sites that fail validation to the administrators for further investigation. It's not a complicated thing, you prevent taking down falsely non-compliant sites by requiring human intervention before that can happen, then you prevent situations like that BSA's script that was scanning for pirated software, and automatically sending out C&D letters. I think that as long as they make an example out of the first few that try to skirt the regulations, it should be pretty successful, wouldn't having a standard to develop sites against make it easier on the web developer? I know it's a lot easier for me when I build a site that's simply fully valid XHTML versus when I have to take into account IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc. Some one else said it but it's worth repeating, this will add value to the domain, customers will know that if you're a .mobi they'll be able to access your site without any problems on their device.
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I think it's just the general suck of cellular in the US, we've got 2 major carriers that actually use the same tech as the rest of the world (everyone else uses GSM, right?). They stick to the most widely consumer friendly models, like that damn RAZR everyone has these days, and only carry a few "geek phones" (Moto MPX220, Nokia 6680/1/2, and a handful of other smartphones). Fortunately, that SIM card you have(assuming a GSM carrier) will work in a phone you import, such as one of those "totally sweet(linux) smart phones" (personally, I've been drooling over a Motorola A780 for a while), the downside to this is that you can't take advantage of any subsidies your carrier may offer, and you have to hope that the phone will support the network you're on. For instance, if you're on Cingular, the 850 band is a must, at least in the Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York City area, I'm not really sure outside my little tri-state area. And just so there's no confusion, I am a Cingular customer, happy with my service and using an imported phone (Motorola E398, I only recently enabled the 850 band, before that my reception sucked miserably and I stuck with my V551 most of the time).
Google around or check howard forums, you might be able to use the Java mp3 player that comes with the Motorola e398, it's not amazing but it'll handle playlists and basic control. Then again, if you haven't looked around the phone to much, check in your Java games/applications area and see if the Java MP3 player is in there.
All they really did with the ROKR is add iTunes, an extra button and a different color case to the e398 they released sometime last year. I've had an e398 for a while and I like it, I think I'll be sticking with it since it doesn't have any restrictions on the number of songs it can handle and the built in MP3 is good enough for as much as I use it.
Dell coupons kick ass, I just picked up a 2005FPW, 20 inch widescreen(1680x1050) for around $450. Google "Dell coupons" and you'll find plenty of sites that list them.
Rutgers New Brunswick campus does too - Where Is My Bus?
What would be really scary to see is how many people sign up for dial-up on their VOIP system...
Use sudo, or open up netinfo manager and enable the root account. Apple's X11 comes with its own termnial that should know about the DISPLAY variable. Someone else already posted about how to enable ssh, just start it in the system preferences.
Considering that the majority of the site isn't flash, just that big header at the top, and that the HTML is very nicely indented and commented.
I have my doubts if you actually looked at how the site works. More like firefox requested the flash plugin and you got pissy. If you had looked at it, they actually have a Javascript that detects if you have flash or not, if you don't they write a JPG version of the flash to the page instead. All of the little pop up effects and such are generated with javascript.
One of the reasons the U2 iPod is $50 more is because it comes with a shitload of U2 songs("more than 400"), including the new album. If you don't happen to be a U2 fan, this probably has little value to you but if you are, well then it seems worth it.
I'm pretty sure you're wrong, I went through this about 2 months ago with AOL, exactly the same situation. It used to be that if you cancelled AOL you could retain releted AIM accounts but that's not true anymore. Current AOL policy is that upon cancellation of an AOL account all related AIM and AOL accounts are suspended for 6 months. They're working hard to retain members these days and since AIM is a free service they can change terms whenever they like. What they'll offer is to put you on the low usage plan, you get to retain your SNs, you only get a few hours of dial-up service per month and you only pay $5/month. Essentially they're trying to get old AOL members to pay $5/month for AIM. From what I've seen they've been rather successful, a lot of people I know(myself included) moved off AOL to cable or DSL and tried cancelling but didn't want to lose their SN, so now they're paying an extra $5/month to keep their AIM name.
AOL has a(relatively recent, I'm told) policy of suspending AIM accounts with the same name as AOL accounts for 6 months "in case you decide to come back to AOL." This has the nice effect of keeping you stuck with AOL if you want to keep your screen name, they don't care how long you've had it, or if it started as an AIM name or what. The option they gave me when I wanted to cancel AOL but retain my screen name was to move down to their "super-light usage" plan, which is five bucks a month, you get to keep your screen name and you get something like 5 hours of dial-up a month. It makes me sick to think that I'm paying $5/month for AIM but for the time being it's worth it.
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I think he meant running Linux from the iPod, not on the iPod. Cool stuff though.
Even though I happen to be a very happy Mandrake user, I know lots of people dislike it because it's no small package. I don't think you'll like Fedora for the same reason you dislike Mandrake, they're both "heavy" distros, lots of apps and services installed by default. Ubuntu would probably suit you in this case, it's based on Debian which has a lighter default install; the CD is even a live CD so you can try it before installing it like Knoppix.
My economics professor last semster warned us about Mankiw's book. He was so dissatisfied with the book that he is/was in the process of writing his own text book to directly compete with or, hopefully, replace Mankiw's book.
Check out Expocity if you're a Gnome user and Kompose if you're a KDE user. Granted, it'd be nicer to see this built into X but for the time being they're not so bad.
Apparently my Kyocera SE47(slider) only accepts png images as backgrounds. I can't confirm this though because I have a nice Verizon encumbered version. At least Kyocera has the right idea(using/supporting open file formats).
I agree, I hate a ton of extra keys cluttering up my keyboard. I found this, it's branded as an IBM product but it's actually made my Micro Innovations - TigerDirect
It does have 2 extra keys on it, but they're quite useful - browser back and forward; and they work in linux with no special drivers or software (they do it by binding those keys to alt+left/right arrow, thank you xev).
My initial reaction to seeing the new batmobile was "It kinda looks like a Hummer taking a crap."