That might be true, but all too often I read here in/. people complaining their story hasn't been accepted while RP's or someone's else has. That said, I think you're understating your problem. Your real problem is not stop people complaining from "famous" submitters. Your problem is improving the submission/approval system as a whole. This would do away with dupes, links to [self]advertising, shallow articles, and so on. Target the causes and not the effects (this was straight from a PHB manual).
Cap the submission number. Or the number of stories accepted. If these guys are submitting 100k stories and 3 or 4 get through evry day, they are basically spamming the system. Should that be rewarded? Alternatively, wait five minutes. Someone else is bound to post the same story.
People here at/. are funny in a funny way. While discussing Aragog's mum, people bash others for their misinformation about the origins of HIV. You're not an expert in the field, I hear the/. masses say, an so you're not even entitled to an fscking opinion. But people fail to realize that science is contraditory in its own nature.
For example, Duesberg simply denies that HIV even causes AIDS. He is a most respectable virologist, so I guess he is entitled to his opinion. People like Kary Mullis, Nobel prize winner, and a host of others, support him.
So the next time Joe-not-a-scientist says something, don't rule it out just because he is not en expert in the field, or just because there isn't "extreme evidence" available.
someone both can solve complex nonlinear differential equations in their heads, AND goes around killing people in a macabre fashion? On second thought, what if one goes around murdering people in a not-so-macabre fashion? There could be a completely polite and respectful serial killer out there, I guess.
AFAIK, *calling* for the murder of other people is perfectly legal. That's why nazis and KKK's are not illegal there. Actually murdering someone is a crime, though, or it used to be.
But then, I'm brazilian, racism/nazism and such are illegal in my coutry, as in some other countries as well. I might be wrong.
Can't the keybindings be customizable? I always wondered why most productivity apps wouldn't include a way to customize their keybinding and interface in general, the way, say FPS games do. That would do away with all this "make it more like Photoshop/Corel/macromedia/whatever". Let the user decide which way work better for him. Throw in a nice graphical way of doing this in a later release, but keep the config file format simple so I can edit it by hand. Presto. No more "ALT + smthing should do this instead of that". I understand perhaps this might not be so easy to code in if the application wasn't intended to support it from the ground up, but it is a resource worth looking for, specially in a field which everybody is so picky about the interface.
well, it's still not available, but it seems to be one heck of a Linux PDA. 800x480 16bit screen, dual wireless - that's wifi and bluetooth builtin. Oh, and it is supposed to be 802.g, not 802.b, as 110% of the others PDAs that have some kind of wireless access.
I wish it had a snappier CPU (200MHz ARM9) and more memory (64MB RAM). Also, CompactFlash support would be great, but it will sport RS-MMC, for compability with current Symbian Nokia phones. Or so I'm told.
Since you said "at this point", point me a computer that can win a match against a Go Master. Yes, it's a game that can be mathematically explained, only it's orders of magnitude more complex than Chess. Computers suck at it. The calculation capacity of a computer will always be finite, so I predict there will always be a game, mathematically explanable, that Men will won. I'm not taking Hobbits into account here, mind you.
and my 100Mhz Symbian cellphone, which isn't even stereo, plays Ogg Vorbis without a glitch (using OggPlay, go look in Sourceforge,I'm too lazy for a link)? Before anyone replies that being mono eases the strain on the machine, the Nokia 6620 is stereo and also plays OggVorbis files of high bitrate pefectly. Too bad the battery doesn't last much.
If they wanted to throw in Ogg support to appeal to the few geeks that prefer it over wma (such as myself, since I refuse to have DRM-friendly media files), they could go all the way and make sure it worked first. Go figure.
Mine decodes Oggs just fine, through Oggplay (symbianoggplay.sourceforge.net/). It's done using the DSP AFAIK. Can't see why this beauty wouldn't. The 6600 sports an ARM9 CPU too, running at 104Mhz.
It looks like Saturn's rings. For a moment, I wondered why they didn't include the IP address of each host in the picture... then I realized they're all 127.0.0.1. Duh.
If you notice that Luke had his hand cut off by his Fath^H^H^H^HVader, and did not so much as receive a warm kiss from Leia, you'll see that having a limb cut off is not a big deal in that faraway and ancient galaxy. Protetic replacements seem to be cheap and easy to install in SW's universe.WTF, you might just #emerge bionic left-hand there.
Dood, you americans are so fat because you insist on using that old imperial system. Weight yourself in IS units and you'll be all lighter faster than you can say "kilogram". An example? You say you weight 170 lbs, if you were using kg you'd be weighting only 77!;)
Oh please. Less than 100 braziLLians (sic) would benefit from the openness angle of Linux? Conectiva(ops, Mandrake now I guess) alone has probably more employees than that. WindowMaker was developed by a brazilian, like GoboLinux and the LUA scripting language. Sorry guys, you may be not happy to hear, but most of the 170M brazilians do not live in the Amazon Rainforest.
And BTW, Marcelo Tosatti does not work for Conectiva anymore. He is working at Cyclades.
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That might be true, but all too often I read here in /. people complaining their story hasn't been accepted while RP's or someone's else has. That said, I think you're understating your problem. Your real problem is not stop people complaining from "famous" submitters. Your problem is improving the submission/approval system as a whole. This would do away with dupes, links to [self]advertising, shallow articles, and so on. Target the causes and not the effects (this was straight from a PHB manual).
Cap the submission number. Or the number of stories accepted. If these guys are submitting 100k stories and 3 or 4 get through evry day, they are basically spamming the system. Should that be rewarded? Alternatively, wait five minutes. Someone else is bound to post the same story.
The PSP screen res is 480x272, not 320x240.
and MSN? God forbids one of those.
... would it block its own ads (back when the free version had banners)? Yes, it's a silly question.
Your Mac Mini Varies.
People here at /. are funny in a funny way. While discussing Aragog's mum, people bash others for their misinformation about the origins of HIV. You're not an expert in the field, I hear the /. masses say, an so you're not even entitled to an fscking opinion. But people fail to realize that science is contraditory in its own nature.
For example, Duesberg simply denies that HIV even causes AIDS. He is a most respectable virologist, so I guess he is entitled to his opinion. People like Kary Mullis, Nobel prize winner, and a host of others, support him.
So the next time Joe-not-a-scientist says something, don't rule it out just because he is not en expert in the field, or just because there isn't "extreme evidence" available.
Can't you people see it? Vinci = 20 in italian, and 11+9 = 20!
= GENERAL User Interface. I wonder how many more things he managed to learn in those 10 days.
someone both can solve complex nonlinear differential equations in their heads, AND goes around killing people in a macabre fashion? On second thought, what if one goes around murdering people in a not-so-macabre fashion? There could be a completely polite and respectful serial killer out there, I guess.
Wake up. It's England.
AFAIK, *calling* for the murder of other people is perfectly legal. That's why nazis and KKK's are not illegal there. Actually murdering someone is a crime, though, or it used to be. But then, I'm brazilian, racism/nazism and such are illegal in my coutry, as in some other countries as well. I might be wrong.
And you'll own it. No really.
Can't the keybindings be customizable? I always wondered why most productivity apps wouldn't include a way to customize their keybinding and interface in general, the way, say FPS games do. That would do away with all this "make it more like Photoshop/Corel/macromedia/whatever". Let the user decide which way work better for him. Throw in a nice graphical way of doing this in a later release, but keep the config file format simple so I can edit it by hand. Presto. No more "ALT + smthing should do this instead of that". I understand perhaps this might not be so easy to code in if the application wasn't intended to support it from the ground up, but it is a resource worth looking for, specially in a field which everybody is so picky about the interface.
well, it's still not available, but it seems to be one heck of a Linux PDA. 800x480 16bit screen, dual wireless - that's wifi and bluetooth builtin. Oh, and it is supposed to be 802.g, not 802.b, as 110% of the others PDAs that have some kind of wireless access.
I wish it had a snappier CPU (200MHz ARM9) and more memory (64MB RAM). Also, CompactFlash support would be great, but it will sport RS-MMC, for compability with current Symbian Nokia phones. Or so I'm told.
A good review here: http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2005/06/jko ntherun_gues.html
and the official page: http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,74866,00.html
Can someone say for sure how long did it take to Google get out of beta? I have to set up the fireworks for Gmail you know...
i.e. people use just IE.
Since you said "at this point", point me a computer that can win a match against a Go Master. Yes, it's a game that can be mathematically explained, only it's orders of magnitude more complex than Chess. Computers suck at it. The calculation capacity of a computer will always be finite, so I predict there will always be a game, mathematically explanable, that Men will won. I'm not taking Hobbits into account here, mind you.
and my 100Mhz Symbian cellphone, which isn't even stereo, plays Ogg Vorbis without a glitch (using OggPlay, go look in Sourceforge,I'm too lazy for a link)? Before anyone replies that being mono eases the strain on the machine, the Nokia 6620 is stereo and also plays OggVorbis files of high bitrate pefectly. Too bad the battery doesn't last much.
If they wanted to throw in Ogg support to appeal to the few geeks that prefer it over wma (such as myself, since I refuse to have DRM-friendly media files), they could go all the way and make sure it worked first. Go figure.
Of course, they can't do that... huh.. since it's disallowed by the midiclhorians. Man, that was close.
Mine decodes Oggs just fine, through Oggplay (symbianoggplay.sourceforge.net/). It's done using the DSP AFAIK. Can't see why this beauty wouldn't. The 6600 sports an ARM9 CPU too, running at 104Mhz.
It looks like Saturn's rings. For a moment, I wondered why they didn't include the IP address of each host in the picture... then I realized they're all 127.0.0.1. Duh.
If you notice that Luke had his hand cut off by his Fath^H^H^H^HVader, and did not so much as receive a warm kiss from Leia, you'll see that having a limb cut off is not a big deal in that faraway and ancient galaxy. Protetic replacements seem to be cheap and easy to install in SW's universe.WTF, you might just #emerge bionic left-hand there.
Dood, you americans are so fat because you insist on using that old imperial system. Weight yourself in IS units and you'll be all lighter faster than you can say "kilogram". An example? You say you weight 170 lbs, if you were using kg you'd be weighting only 77! ;)
Oh please. Less than 100 braziLLians (sic) would benefit from the openness angle of Linux? Conectiva(ops, Mandrake now I guess) alone has probably more employees than that. WindowMaker was developed by a brazilian, like GoboLinux and the LUA scripting language. Sorry guys, you may be not happy to hear, but most of the 170M brazilians do not live in the Amazon Rainforest.
And BTW, Marcelo Tosatti does not work for Conectiva anymore. He is working at Cyclades.
http://www.cyclades.com/pressroom/1085486400