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But hey, your mileage may vary and all that.

(PS. As English is not my native language: Did the latter expression ("your mileage may vary...") perhaps stem from the expression "that extra mile"? Just realized they may be related! Oh well...)

I implemented something similar (soft hyphenation related) some years back and ended up looking into just what you're asking about. My conclusion then was: The big ones act nicely, and that's about where I stopped looking.

A quick Google for "soft hyphens and google" will give a good indication or simply search this page for "google": http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/shy.html

The settings are in the new "content" button into "under the hood" tab.

All I need now is faster access to the whitelist and ability to add temporary permissions, then I'm about ready to switch to Chrome.

I'm curious, though, why don't you just aggregate some content on to them? Perhaps throw up a blog or two, some Google Ad's and Amazon links? It doesn't take that much work once you have the implementation in place. (Okay, it would be hard for ME to maintain it, but that's because I have an attention span of a goldfish when it comes to writing)

I'm not active in either of the communities, so don't see this as an application. :)

I fail to see why that change was made, it feels as if they were just looking for something to change.

The sole purpose of the game is to kill things. Was this changed due to violence? I'd think that a puddle of blood would be a bit more violent than a pile of bones, to be honest!

Objectionable content. Okay, sure, skeletons can be a tad bit scarier than a human. But c'mon, look at the gnomes!

Erotic content? I guess one could argue that skeletons are nude...

Yeah, that's gotta be it.

Beginning of January sounds good :)

Alas. No money to be made here :)

(edit as I re-read: doubtful that this fulfill your needs, you are probably better off with a more traditional Bugzilla-type-of thing. Keeping this posted anyway :)

This is an application that I wrote for internal usage. Have you ever heard of TeuxDeux (http://teuxdeux.com/)? Well, basically, I fell in love with the user-interface and it fulfilled that part of my needs. So, I took the look & feel and ran with it and made the following additions to my own version:

- Under the "some day" items I added categories which could be edited by dragging & dropping the category into the "some day" input box.

- Encouraged the usage of "hash tags" to TODO-items (#projectabbr Fix nasty crash bug)

- Added a filtering box which would highlight queried TODO's with that search filter

- Made it so that when you hover over a todo-item during drag/drop: a tree would pop-up with issues that depend on parent. You can drop the todo-item you are dragging and dropping into any of the items in that tree. When a parent is "freed" (done), its immediate children become separate TODO's in the list again. Rince/repeat.

- A detail screen which would appear when clicking on "..." next to a TODO item.

Put in mind here that I like the minimalistic and straight-to-the-point of this layout. I want my TODO lists to act like post-its :)

Unfortunately I have not open sourced it and I really never intended to do that for the very reason that I basically "ripped off" the look & feel of Teux Deux. But this might give you a few ideas, though. And it's not really too hard to implement. Give me a holler if you need a bit more info :)

When I see something from readwriteweb.com now I think the submitter has been "bought" to submit the story. I'm not sure who or what to blame or whether this is a good reaction.

Bottom line is, the biggest loser here is definitely readwriteweb.com since I basically thought less of the article in question without looking at it.

Either way, the fact that Google is (partially) killing support for IE6 has made its rounds on HN before, so news-worthiness of it is so-so.

Bear in mind, though, I am the kinda person that likes clean and minimal and don't really like having to manage online profiles on a gazillion sites.

But say, next to the articles you send out, perhaps have a few tags that categorizes the article. For instance, if it's related to Europe, US, Global, automobile, IT, woodcrafting. Make the tags clickable (unique ID per user in the mail) -- a click on it means "yay, gimme more". How to undo a click, well, I dunno... Some down-arrow like at HN?

b) I imagine people may want to personalize it, but I don't think that is something you need to worry about just yet. Keep it lean and mean. But that's my personal opinion.

c) Get them to flag individual items in the mail they get (I want more of this, I want less of this)

One thing I missed when going to the site was the ability to see what the last 2-3 days mails looked like. Before I sign up I'd like to see what I'm getting in to. :)

Pixelcal.com feels like a parked-domain-with-links kinda thing. I guess it's the style under "Upcoming" and "Recently added". Just thought I'd let you know (didn't look further, but going back now) :)

I went back to the site and had another look.

Poor Adobe.

I remember making these types of fonts myself back in the Amiga days just to fit it on bootsector(s) (memory fails me here, was it one or two?). The difference then was that sub pixel rendering was not an option, and fixed width fonts at this size always looked bad (i vs m), so you'd have to be careful how you wrote things. :-)

Without having ever experimented with subpixel rendering I am intrigued by the fact that « is made a whole lot more "blue" than » -- spontaneously one would think it would simply be a matter of mirroring the glyphs (obviously not) :)

If you aren't a troll, then why were you beneath a bridge, smartguy?

Edit: Ah. Submitter is a licensee of the technology in question. :)

...that said, I think you are right.

Did you have bad luck with the time you submitted the story, or so? During lunch hour? A lot of other submissions? I would genuinely have thought this would be of interest.

Since you want this to be as widely spread as possible with the underlying concept attached to it, you might want to get in touch with PirateBay (and similar). They seem to like this kind of stuff and might give it front-page attention.

It will inevitably become an illegal* torrent sooner rather than later, but you might appeal to the group that thinks the current model of making money off of media is far from optimal.

* illegal: I might be a bit thick, but am I getting the rights to distribute (fileshare) this after I have bought the DVD-R, or can anyone do it? Filesharing today generally means torrent, which means that everyone downloading the torrent is also sharing it... I guess my question here is: I can share it, but can anyone legally download it from me?

I find the concept intriguing and I'm really looking forward to what other people here will say. Will keep an eye on where you're going from here!

PS. Not that I ever use PirateBay, of course.

I admit that I went a bit over the top in the scare mongering with "_you_", though.

(the comments at the end of the article linked above is quite interesting, by the way)

When skimming the comments on that page, seems there is something new, (as of yesterday):

http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20News%20List/Attachme... [pdf]

The companies that implement and support H.264 also know all about the license, and they have most likely gotten some pretty sweet deals for getting this thing as widely deployed as possible.

What needs to be done is to get the message through so that the masses realize that MPEG LA will come after _you_ with their pitchforks and torches in less than a year from now. Worse yet, we do not even know how the license will look.

But maybe scaring people is not the key here. The question remains then: How do we get that message through to the big masses? Make alternatives look "cool"? Next generation video?

I know, I know. I'm not saying anything new...

A (6 month old) interesting link: http://streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/h264-royalties-w...

However, this is actually a decent idea in my opinion. He makes an "okay" case in the post except that he ends it with some reasoning that Google should care about their image (pun not intended). He should have ended it by pointing out that it would then finally be "safe" to link to Google Images without having to worry (too much) about the results that might appear for the user (you don't know if they have safe search on or off).

Hell, I can think if valid reasons for why I could have wanted to link to a Google Image resultset and not doing it because of what might pop up for the user.

This might also have the added benefit of porn-sites playing the search rankings less. At least for innocent words.

Boy, they are in worse shape than I first thought. They will open source the parts they own of this beast, the problem is it will be too late to make a difference.

Sure, he brings up the fact that they can update the majority of Web clients in less than a year. But what was it they said about the currently fastest growing web-browser out there? 95% of browsers updated within the span of a few weeks? (I don't recall the sources, sadly)

And this one is almost too good to not take out of context: "We strongly believe the Web should remain an open environment with consistent access to content and applications". Oh well.

Probably.