Netbeans has subversion integration built into it, and function as a real-time diff from your working copy. It sounds like that would solve the problem the best. I don't use it myself anymore, and I don't know how it handles large files, but it's available on every platform, free, and will do what you asked. You do need to have a subversion repository, of course, though.
Unless I'm misunderstanding your point, Firefox has done this for a long time.
If you're on OSX, Command-click a link to open in a new tab. If you're on Windows or Linux, Ctrl-click to open in a new tab. You can also always right-click any link and select "open in a new tab".
The Ctrl key often interacts with the tabs. Like Alt-TAB will make you switch windows, Ctrl-TAB will make you switch tabs in Firefox.
You're right, it is silly for him to get worked up over it.
There are a lot of people, though, that do believe that you can use any image you find on the internet, any way you want to. I just figured I'd make sure people know that they still have to follow copyright law, even though it's on Google Images.
Sorry, I wasn't contesting anything other than that.
What are the policies of Wild West Domains (your momma registrar) regarding shutting down people's sites?
This discussion has made me consider switching all my domains to something other than GoDaddy. Price is one thing, but reliability in the face of legal troubles is something else. Does your domain provider hold up?
um, Mike Jandreau's photo is available from Google Images and other sites - it's fair use, baby.
This is untrue.
Google Images normally is allowed fair use for showing the images. It's mostly educational and informative in nature. There is one example where they were not allowed the fair use of certain images.
But, that does not mean if an image shows up in Google Images that it can be used anywhere, for any reason. Many of the images that Google shows are copyrighted. This means that for you to use the image in a way that does not fall under fair use, it is copyright infringement. So it would be illegal, for instance, if you stole a photo for your book cover.
So, in summary, just because you can see it, doesn't mean you can use it.
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Not sure if you, or anyone else, will see this, but I figured I'd respond in case you do.
There are multiple ways. The main one I was thinking about was simply defining a "handheld" stylesheet. For websites, the common way someone is going to view it would be using the "screen" media type. But you can also define other media types, like "print", "projection", "aural", and other things. You can find a list of them in several places. The one for mobile devices would be "handheld." The idea is that the content will simply transform how it displays based on how you are seeing it.
Slashdot uses a handheld media type in one of its stylesheets. Honestly, I've never tried visiting it with a handheld, but I guess they are doing it.
There is a very recent article on alistapart.com that uses javascript to change the layout based on the screen size, but in the case of mobile devices, many may not be able to run the script, so it's use is questionable.
The W3C also has defined the "best practices" for mobile devices, and there are couple of different ways to check them. In these cases, you'd pretty much have to deliver different content if their user-agent shows up as a mobile device, which would require scripting.
If you are serving different content, you can use the specialized version of xhtml for it.
Hope this helps.
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Another thing to note is that most websites aren't set up for mobile devices yet.
The good thing is that it can be done easily, and everything's in place for it to happen. It's one of the reasons that everyone gets excited about table-less designs. All it takes is a separate stylesheet to make your website formatted for a tiny iPod-sized screen.
Now all we need is for everyone to start making websites properly.
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The problem with them admitting defeat and actually charging the rate they've been speaking is that it makes them liable to charge the quoted rate to everyone else.
Imagine if they grabbed Johnny B., that guy over in tech support that has a math degree. He'd get on the phone and say, "Yeah, that's right, Verizon is quoting the wrong price, you should pay 72 cents."
Three days later, thousands of Verizon customers who were quoted the same rate demand equal compensation. Then Johnny B. has to find another low-wage job that has nothing to do with his major.
These reps could have secretly realized what they were saying, just as they were passing the call to their boss. No one wants to make the million dollar decisions, so playing dumb is better than playing unemployed.
Personally, I like reading your long insightful posts. I don't always agree with what you say, but I sometimes think about things differently than before.
Comments like yours are the reasons that I continue reading slashdot, and can't stand sites like digg.
I ended up setting up a forward for all mail that didn't specifically have a known account.
So, I just made the *@mydomain.com to go to mybounces@hotmail.com at the DNS (zoneedit.com).
I haven't checked that account in a long time, so I'm not sure if it's still being used for spam reply addresses.
No, I followed it, I tested it, and I've made adjustments for it, since beta.
But there is always the thought that maybe with the final version, something will be fixed, or something else will be broken. It's like playing musical chairs. You can't sit down until the music stops, and the music just stopped.
Trust me, I know about web standards. I use conditional comments for my iehacks.css files. I don't like the way Microsoft does a lot of things, but I use their products, and I know that most people use their products. But now is the time when the shit hit the fan, and we know for sure how the pages will render.
Sorry to interrupt, but if you have Firefox, you might want to do a "View > Page Style > No Style".
They have text links for just about all of their links. I'm not sure if those were in place at the time of the suit, but they are there now.
The great thing about what's happening on the web right now is that with all of the web standards, and great image-replacement techniques, it's possible to have image-based links and still have an accessible, down-grading website that will work for everyone in some fashion.
There was definitely a time when the Flash Backlash began and everyone joined the armored bandwagon against using Flash for websites. I know, I've been on the wagon for awhile now. But just like how people are starting to learn how to use Javascript and image links properly now, they are also using Flash properly and responsibly.
I realize not everyone will know how to do a "View Source" or see pages without styling, but you may want to keep it in mind for the future.
To the creator of the new design (in case he reads this): a "cursor: pointer" style would be nice, and possibly a hover attribute on the tag that has the section name, for those without internet explorer.
your grandma does not need a computer, she needs an appliance that can not get a virus or trojan or spyware and she cant accidently delete all the dll's on. same for over 90% of the other people you know and meet.
Stock losses are "ideally" not supposed to happen. When a product is damaged, it is sent into reclamation, which keeps track of the UPC, and most of it can be sent back to the company they bought it from for a small refund. In practice, theft is a huge issue, as well as misplaced stock.
The shelves are checked all the time, in the systems that use automated ordering. Especially if a customer tells a manager it's out. The stockers also will know when a shelf is empty, and can inform someone with the ordering ability. Also, there is one or two people who walk around the store and check for holes, and can order more cases of it.
In a completely automated system, with very little human interaction and using RFID tags, the store just knows when a place on the shelf is empty, and can fill it. It also knows if the cases that should be filling it are in the store somewhere.
I stocked groceries overnight for a total of four years. Three and a half were while I was putting myself through college, and another 6 months before I got a decent job.
There isn't very much technology interaction at all, anymore, however. The first store I worked at, I was one of the guys who went through the store every other night and scanned the barcodes on the shelf tags to order the next day's truck. There were times when the order gun failed to boot properly, or was giving peculiar errors, and at times I was able to fix it. This is the old way of doing things, now though. Most major stores use inventory tracking and the trucks are ordered by computer, with only "minor" adjustments by the humans. It often has problems for various reasons, like a case of ketchup gets put somewhere in the back and forgotten about, so the computer never orders more, despite the shelf being empty.
With the advent of RFID tags, everything will become much more automated, and much more precise. It will let you find where that case of ketchup went, as well as keep track of what's in the back, and what's on the floor. Then, you could get robots to stock the shelves. They'd complain a lot less, though they wouldn't have as interesting philosophies on life.
That's very true. You can think of it like magazines. You can get a subscription to one, and they'll send it to your house, or you can pick them up at random from stores, similar to downloading movies or television shows. But no magazine can ever be produced by only the subscribers' slim pickings. The real revenue comes from the ads inside it.
This is also why you can get subscriptions for a fraction of the cover price, because then the publishing company has statistics of you to give to the advertisers.
None of this will change for television and movie downloading. There will still be commercials, whether in the show or "around" it, but the big bucks will come from that and not what you pay to download it.
I'm anxious to see dynamic (digital) paper, like with newspapers and junk, but I doubt we'll be seeing them this year.
Most likely the number one spot will be a-la-carte television and music downloading. Not just to compete with piracy, but just because that's what people want.
Not sure if you know/care, but those are the numbers from the television show "Lost" that have some magical powers or something. There are a lot of ideas about what they might mean in regards to the show.
Slashdot Mirror
Netbeans has subversion integration built into it, and function as a real-time diff from your working copy. It sounds like that would solve the problem the best. I don't use it myself anymore, and I don't know how it handles large files, but it's available on every platform, free, and will do what you asked. You do need to have a subversion repository, of course, though.
Unless I'm misunderstanding your point, Firefox has done this for a long time.
If you're on OSX, Command-click a link to open in a new tab. If you're on Windows or Linux, Ctrl-click to open in a new tab. You can also always right-click any link and select "open in a new tab".
The Ctrl key often interacts with the tabs. Like Alt-TAB will make you switch windows, Ctrl-TAB will make you switch tabs in Firefox.
Now these email contacts make a beautiful line, and we're out of beta, we're releasing over time.
You're right, it is silly for him to get worked up over it.
There are a lot of people, though, that do believe that you can use any image you find on the internet, any way you want to. I just figured I'd make sure people know that they still have to follow copyright law, even though it's on Google Images.
Sorry, I wasn't contesting anything other than that.
What are the policies of Wild West Domains (your momma registrar) regarding shutting down people's sites?
This discussion has made me consider switching all my domains to something other than GoDaddy. Price is one thing, but reliability in the face of legal troubles is something else. Does your domain provider hold up?
This is untrue.
Google Images normally is allowed fair use for showing the images. It's mostly educational and informative in nature. There is one example where they were not allowed the fair use of certain images.
But, that does not mean if an image shows up in Google Images that it can be used anywhere, for any reason. Many of the images that Google shows are copyrighted. This means that for you to use the image in a way that does not fall under fair use, it is copyright infringement. So it would be illegal, for instance, if you stole a photo for your book cover.
So, in summary, just because you can see it, doesn't mean you can use it.
Not sure if you, or anyone else, will see this, but I figured I'd respond in case you do.
There are multiple ways. The main one I was thinking about was simply defining a "handheld" stylesheet. For websites, the common way someone is going to view it would be using the "screen" media type. But you can also define other media types, like "print", "projection", "aural", and other things. You can find a list of them in several places. The one for mobile devices would be "handheld." The idea is that the content will simply transform how it displays based on how you are seeing it.
Slashdot uses a handheld media type in one of its stylesheets. Honestly, I've never tried visiting it with a handheld, but I guess they are doing it.
There is a very recent article on alistapart.com that uses javascript to change the layout based on the screen size, but in the case of mobile devices, many may not be able to run the script, so it's use is questionable.
The W3C also has defined the "best practices" for mobile devices, and there are couple of different ways to check them. In these cases, you'd pretty much have to deliver different content if their user-agent shows up as a mobile device, which would require scripting.
If you are serving different content, you can use the specialized version of xhtml for it.
Hope this helps.
Another thing to note is that most websites aren't set up for mobile devices yet.
The good thing is that it can be done easily, and everything's in place for it to happen. It's one of the reasons that everyone gets excited about table-less designs. All it takes is a separate stylesheet to make your website formatted for a tiny iPod-sized screen.
Now all we need is for everyone to start making websites properly.
The problem with them admitting defeat and actually charging the rate they've been speaking is that it makes them liable to charge the quoted rate to everyone else.
Imagine if they grabbed Johnny B., that guy over in tech support that has a math degree. He'd get on the phone and say, "Yeah, that's right, Verizon is quoting the wrong price, you should pay 72 cents."
Three days later, thousands of Verizon customers who were quoted the same rate demand equal compensation. Then Johnny B. has to find another low-wage job that has nothing to do with his major.
These reps could have secretly realized what they were saying, just as they were passing the call to their boss. No one wants to make the million dollar decisions, so playing dumb is better than playing unemployed.
Personally, I like reading your long insightful posts. I don't always agree with what you say, but I sometimes think about things differently than before.
Comments like yours are the reasons that I continue reading slashdot, and can't stand sites like digg.
ps. Was this last post meant to be a poem?
This happened to me as well.
I ended up setting up a forward for all mail that didn't specifically have a known account. So, I just made the *@mydomain.com to go to mybounces@hotmail.com at the DNS (zoneedit.com).
I haven't checked that account in a long time, so I'm not sure if it's still being used for spam reply addresses.
No, I followed it, I tested it, and I've made adjustments for it, since beta.
But there is always the thought that maybe with the final version, something will be fixed, or something else will be broken. It's like playing musical chairs. You can't sit down until the music stops, and the music just stopped.
Trust me, I know about web standards. I use conditional comments for my iehacks.css files. I don't like the way Microsoft does a lot of things, but I use their products, and I know that most people use their products. But now is the time when the shit hit the fan, and we know for sure how the pages will render.
I know that this sounds like a troll, and you can mod it that way if you want, but it did really happen.
I already had RC2 installed on it. I downloaded the exe linked from the article and ran it.
It uninstalled the old IE, rebooted, worked on installing for about five minutes, then rebooted.
After that, it would get to the desktop without the menu bar at the bottom and show errors:
lsass.exe
The application failed to initialize properly. (0xc0000005) Click OK to terminate the application.
It had the same error for services.exe, and show them both twice.
After that, it does nothing.
This is just a warning for people. It screwed up mine, I assumed it was screwing up others, too.
Warning:
Don't install unless you want your computer to be b0rked.
My desktops not starting up Windows now.
What's that sound?
Oh yeah, it's thousands of webmasters scrambling to test their sites on the latest mutilation of web standards.
Sorry to interrupt, but if you have Firefox, you might want to do a "View > Page Style > No Style".
They have text links for just about all of their links. I'm not sure if those were in place at the time of the suit, but they are there now.
The great thing about what's happening on the web right now is that with all of the web standards, and great image-replacement techniques, it's possible to have image-based links and still have an accessible, down-grading website that will work for everyone in some fashion.
There was definitely a time when the Flash Backlash began and everyone joined the armored bandwagon against using Flash for websites. I know, I've been on the wagon for awhile now. But just like how people are starting to learn how to use Javascript and image links properly now, they are also using Flash properly and responsibly.
I realize not everyone will know how to do a "View Source" or see pages without styling, but you may want to keep it in mind for the future.
Perhaps we can look at some other games using Google Maps.
m esOnGoogleMaps
http://moloko.itc.it/trustmetricswiki/moin.cgi/Ga
To the creator of the new design (in case he reads this): a "cursor: pointer" style would be nice, and possibly a hover attribute on the tag that has the section name, for those without internet explorer.
Everyone loves some sort of visual cue.
Looks good though.
So... what? Like a Macintosh?
The shelves are checked all the time, in the systems that use automated ordering. Especially if a customer tells a manager it's out. The stockers also will know when a shelf is empty, and can inform someone with the ordering ability. Also, there is one or two people who walk around the store and check for holes, and can order more cases of it.
In a completely automated system, with very little human interaction and using RFID tags, the store just knows when a place on the shelf is empty, and can fill it. It also knows if the cases that should be filling it are in the store somewhere.
I can attest to this.
I stocked groceries overnight for a total of four years. Three and a half were while I was putting myself through college, and another 6 months before I got a decent job.
There isn't very much technology interaction at all, anymore, however. The first store I worked at, I was one of the guys who went through the store every other night and scanned the barcodes on the shelf tags to order the next day's truck. There were times when the order gun failed to boot properly, or was giving peculiar errors, and at times I was able to fix it. This is the old way of doing things, now though. Most major stores use inventory tracking and the trucks are ordered by computer, with only "minor" adjustments by the humans. It often has problems for various reasons, like a case of ketchup gets put somewhere in the back and forgotten about, so the computer never orders more, despite the shelf being empty.
With the advent of RFID tags, everything will become much more automated, and much more precise. It will let you find where that case of ketchup went, as well as keep track of what's in the back, and what's on the floor. Then, you could get robots to stock the shelves. They'd complain a lot less, though they wouldn't have as interesting philosophies on life.
That's very true. You can think of it like magazines. You can get a subscription to one, and they'll send it to your house, or you can pick them up at random from stores, similar to downloading movies or television shows. But no magazine can ever be produced by only the subscribers' slim pickings. The real revenue comes from the ads inside it.
This is also why you can get subscriptions for a fraction of the cover price, because then the publishing company has statistics of you to give to the advertisers.
None of this will change for television and movie downloading. There will still be commercials, whether in the show or "around" it, but the big bucks will come from that and not what you pay to download it.
I'm anxious to see dynamic (digital) paper, like with newspapers and junk, but I doubt we'll be seeing them this year.
Most likely the number one spot will be a-la-carte television and music downloading. Not just to compete with piracy, but just because that's what people want.
In two years, it will read:
"all will be released simultaneously in theaters, as HDNet movies, on DVDs, and for download on iTunesVideo"
Not sure if you know/care, but those are the numbers from the television show "Lost" that have some magical powers or something. There are a lot of ideas about what they might mean in regards to the show.
Info in the section labeled "Numbers"