You would think that the Slashdot developers would be smart enough to write a function that automaticly searches for similar headlines, and even blurb text, and displays the results next to the article when it gets reviewed.
Well, really, they are smart enough. They're just a bit lazy.
Apple probably figured out that dragging people into court usually does little for one's popularity.
Doubt it. Your average person, and the average Mac user probably hasn't even heard about this.
People here oftern blab on about how doing X is going to affect the company's image. But the truth is, only a small group of people even read or follow these kinds of things.
A lot of what people describe sounds suspiciously like ADD.
I don't think it does, as we're only talking about a few traits found in ADD. Traits that--as this article suggests--are caused by the environment the person is in. An ADD diagnosis requires these traits to be there from a young age, and to not be caused by the environment the person is currently in.
Of course, we don't really need to put ritalin in the water supply. Since most people are already being medicated by Starbucks and the likes;)
With the amount of bandwidth that Google uses, I doubt helping out Wikipedia is going to cost them that much.
I'm glad they're doing it, even if it means a "Hosting kindly donated by Google" message at the bottom of the page, or even ads. The last few times I've tried to access Wikipedia, I've given up waiting for it to load.
As I said before: No shit, I 100% argee. But that is not point. Please go back to the start and re-read my post, as I think you've got the wrong end of the stick.
It would have been much cheaper to have kept tags on this guy and made sure that he was still taking his medication, than it would be to keep him in jail. And as a bonus, you won't have a more violent, dangerous person walking about in society. Unless you're suggesting life sentences with no chance of parole, or the death penalty for any kind of molestation charges?
And for the pantie stealer...
I have no idea what you're refering to here. Rape? Evlis? Rockstars?
Perhaps I need to spell it out more clearly. Putting child molesters in prison isn't going to make them want to stop molesting children. Infact, being exposed to all the violence in prison is more likely to make them more violent.
Of course, the whole idea of punishment is really quite barbaric, and only really exists as a form of revenge for the victim, most of the time.
So exactly what is more important here? Preventing other children from being abused, or getting this evil, sick fuck back?
...you see enough to get your blood boiling and actually want to do something and catch the bastard.
Of course, this is probably an undesirable effect. Since they simply want the picture to jog people's memory, not distract them with the idea of a crime.
With people like you around, it's not wonder pedeophiles exist in the first place. Pedeophiles belong in a psych ward, not a jail cell. Unless you want them to come back out worse than before.
You can't punish someone for being mentaly ill. It doesn't make sence.
For hours on end? More like 10 seconds. Anyone who's smart enough to do the job would do a quick/rough job of blacking-out the victim before they went ahead with the labourous task of re-creating the background.
The quality of the editing job, since the better it is, the greater privacy the victim will have.
And how do you come to that very strange conclusion? Any idiot can could use the paint brush tool and crudly black-out the person. And it would be just as effective in terms of keeping privacy as realisticly re-creating the background where the person was.
Uh... Monthly fee? I don't need to pay any fees at all to keep my Treo 600 running. Perhaps you're refering to cellphone network fees? I'm on pre-paid, and the credit lasts for an entire year. Plus I can still use my Treo as a perfectly good PDA if I turn the cellphone part off.
As for craptastic input methods. I'll take a Qwery keyboard over Graffiti any day.
Please find out what the hell you're talking about before posting next time, huh?
Try a Treo 650. The keyboard is much smaller than a Psion. But it's still faster than an on-screen keyboard or a cellphone keypad. Plus you get a free cellphone with it;)
You know. Microsoft PocketPC is not the only PDA OS our there. Ever heard of Palm OS?
As for killer apps. PDAs already have them: Calander, contacts, notes, todo lists etc. Not everyone is the same as you, you know. I use these apps all the time.
Also, those killer apps you listed that PDAs never got; my Treo 600 has them all! Sure, it's called a "smartphone", but it's really just a plain old Palm OS PDA combined with a cellphone.
No it's not. Slashdot is saying "Slashdot coders produce ugly hack code".
No. Perhaps that's what was mean to be said. But the impression they give out to people not familiar with the open source community is that they are all hackish.
Your rant gives the impression that valid HTML is worthless, rather than the more correct truth that it's not the only important thing.
BTW. I'm not sure what you're on about with the "moving target" part. When Firefox supports XHTML 2, it will still support XHTML 1.0. As long as your HTML is valid and declares it's self as such, of course. That's kinda the whole point of the standards.
As for lack of browser support. Untill developers do their part, then the brower makers aren't going to bother to do their part.
I think they mean that if you expected a certain site to show up in the results, but it hasn't, then you submit the URL for it and their bot will probably take a look.
And if you know that a site isn't showing up, then you obviously know its URL.
Well you see, when someone actually tries to follow standards and there are problems, then there's something to talk about/solve. If, on the other hand, the site obviously doesn't give the slightest damn about standards, then there's not much point in analysing and discussing the problems.
Google's HTML is almost as bad as Slashdot's. But untill they decide to do something about it there's no point in trying to help them out by detailing specific issues, is there?
Yeah. A pain in the ass. I get this about 1/3 the time I come here. Of course, the Firefox team shouldn't feel oblidged to fix it, since Slashdot's HTML is such a joke, it can't really be considered a bonafide bug in Firefox's rendering engine.
So, when is Slashdot going to fix their HTML? They don't even have to use XHTML or even CSS. Just plain old HTML 4.01, or even another older version of HTML. As long as they actually follow the specs for whatever version they choose to follow instead of serving up utter shite.
What Slashdot are doing by not fixing their HTML is saying: "Open source developers produce ugly hack code". It doesn't matter if you believe that or not, or that Slashdot is just one site and hardly a true representation of the open source community. But because Slashdot is popular, and is afiliated with people like OSDN, this is the message that many people get.
Although I generally think that 3D interfaces are not the way to go in terms of most tasks, most 3D games are really 3D. Sure, many take place on a 2D map. But when you're shooting something (in the case of FPSs) you usually have to aim verticaly. There's also quite a bit of jumping in most FPSs, in my experience.
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Well, really, they are smart enough. They're just a bit lazy.
Doubt it. Your average person, and the average Mac user probably hasn't even heard about this.
People here oftern blab on about how doing X is going to affect the company's image. But the truth is, only a small group of people even read or follow these kinds of things.
Why not? Businesses are made up of people.
I don't think it does, as we're only talking about a few traits found in ADD. Traits that--as this article suggests--are caused by the environment the person is in. An ADD diagnosis requires these traits to be there from a young age, and to not be caused by the environment the person is currently in.
Of course, we don't really need to put ritalin in the water supply. Since most people are already being medicated by Starbucks and the likes ;)
I'm glad they're doing it, even if it means a "Hosting kindly donated by Google" message at the bottom of the page, or even ads. The last few times I've tried to access Wikipedia, I've given up waiting for it to load.
As I said before: No shit, I 100% argee. But that is not point. Please go back to the start and re-read my post, as I think you've got the wrong end of the stick.
And for the pantie stealer...
I have no idea what you're refering to here. Rape? Evlis? Rockstars?
Of course, the whole idea of punishment is really quite barbaric, and only really exists as a form of revenge for the victim, most of the time.
So exactly what is more important here? Preventing other children from being abused, or getting this evil, sick fuck back?
Of course, this is probably an undesirable effect. Since they simply want the picture to jog people's memory, not distract them with the idea of a crime.
Of course it would. But that is not the point.
You can't punish someone for being mentaly ill. It doesn't make sence.
For hours on end? More like 10 seconds. Anyone who's smart enough to do the job would do a quick/rough job of blacking-out the victim before they went ahead with the labourous task of re-creating the background.
Can you please rephrase youself? I have absolutly no idea what the hell you are on about.
And how do you come to that very strange conclusion? Any idiot can could use the paint brush tool and crudly black-out the person. And it would be just as effective in terms of keeping privacy as realisticly re-creating the background where the person was.
TVs have a 2D display, and generally a 2D interface, the remotes have a 2D interface. Most radio controls have a 2D interface as well.
Perhaps some of us just get sick of people who spew out false information?
As for craptastic input methods. I'll take a Qwery keyboard over Graffiti any day.
Please find out what the hell you're talking about before posting next time, huh?
Try a Treo 650. The keyboard is much smaller than a Psion. But it's still faster than an on-screen keyboard or a cellphone keypad. Plus you get a free cellphone with it ;)
As for killer apps. PDAs already have them: Calander, contacts, notes, todo lists etc. Not everyone is the same as you, you know. I use these apps all the time.
Also, those killer apps you listed that PDAs never got; my Treo 600 has them all! Sure, it's called a "smartphone", but it's really just a plain old Palm OS PDA combined with a cellphone.
No. Perhaps that's what was mean to be said. But the impression they give out to people not familiar with the open source community is that they are all hackish.
And lets face it, we already knew that.
Oh, for sure... We do. Others don't.
BTW. I'm not sure what you're on about with the "moving target" part. When Firefox supports XHTML 2, it will still support XHTML 1.0. As long as your HTML is valid and declares it's self as such, of course. That's kinda the whole point of the standards.
As for lack of browser support. Untill developers do their part, then the brower makers aren't going to bother to do their part.
And if you know that a site isn't showing up, then you obviously know its URL.
Google's HTML is almost as bad as Slashdot's. But untill they decide to do something about it there's no point in trying to help them out by detailing specific issues, is there?
So, when is Slashdot going to fix their HTML? They don't even have to use XHTML or even CSS. Just plain old HTML 4.01, or even another older version of HTML. As long as they actually follow the specs for whatever version they choose to follow instead of serving up utter shite.
What Slashdot are doing by not fixing their HTML is saying: "Open source developers produce ugly hack code". It doesn't matter if you believe that or not, or that Slashdot is just one site and hardly a true representation of the open source community. But because Slashdot is popular, and is afiliated with people like OSDN, this is the message that many people get.
Although I generally think that 3D interfaces are not the way to go in terms of most tasks, most 3D games are really 3D. Sure, many take place on a 2D map. But when you're shooting something (in the case of FPSs) you usually have to aim verticaly. There's also quite a bit of jumping in most FPSs, in my experience.