yaminb

yaminb responded to the thread switch default view to product list

May 23, 2008 at 12:48 pm

"doh, that thread is right there. Should have seen that. Sorry bout that. I should be able to make it to the community meeting. Makes senses to discuss it there. "

yaminb added switch default view to product list

May 23, 2008 at 12:29 pm

"I was browsing laptop here, and it took me a few seconds to realize I was in 'top-picks' mode. Just to be clear. On the main page: click 'Products'-> 'Computers' -> 'Laptops' and it starts off in 'top-picks mode' I think it would be good if the default mode was the 'products list' where you can sort by price / rating more

yaminb responded to the thread expand to restaurants, other services

May 21, 2008 at 10:21 pm

"Yeah, I can imagine. No fear, all products will eventually be wikied :P"

yaminb added expand to restaurants, other services

May 21, 2008 at 5:18 pm

"I think product wiki is one the best 'rating' kind of sites out there. I love the framework and the concept of adding your own +- points. Are there any plans to expand it to include more localized options; either as part of the same site or as part of a new site. For example restaurants could more

yaminb updated GIMP

May 17, 2008 at 3:23 am

Agreed: "No Pantone colors because of legal issues"

Agreed: "Missing some advanced productivity features found in Photoshop with layer management and history"

Agreed: "Extensive featureset, comparable to Photoshop"

Agreed: "Extensive file format support"

Agreed: "Available for UNIX/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows"

yaminb updated VLC media player

May 16, 2008 at 10:36 pm

Tapped as "love it"

Agreed: "Can't select multiple objects and have them play in succession"

Agreed: "Full-screen interface"

Agreed: "Does not use much memory and opens quickly"

yaminb updated 2 products

Updated Notepad++

May 16, 2008 at 3:25 pm

Tapped as "love it"

Updated 2007 Toyota Yaris

May 16, 2008 at 3:11 pm

New pro/con: Too much of a 'chick' car

yaminb updated FIFA 07

May 16, 2008 at 11:54 am

Tapped as "love it"

Untapped as "love it"

Tapped as "love it"

Agreed: "Very realistic commentators"

Agreed: "Improved ball physics"

yaminb responded to the thread con rating bug

May 16, 2008 at 11:50 am

"Amanie, Yeah, I was thinking of a checkbox / radio button option as well. It would definitely be more neutral. If you choose the radio button / checkbox way, the only thing I'd suggest is to rethink the count. Right now, the count is nicely tied to the color of True/False. So it's easy to see in the more

yaminb responded to the thread con rating bug

May 15, 2008 at 10:56 pm

"I did a quick mockup. Not sure how much of an improvement it is."

yaminb updated Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H

May 14, 2008 at 2:41 am

Tapped as "want it"

yaminb responded to the thread con rating bug

May 14, 2008 at 1:15 am

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"Yeah, it's tough. I think for starters you could just change the image agreement changed to green checkmark disagreement changed to red X I think those symbols would prevent some confusion. The other thing you could try is changing the text from "Do you agree?" To True False aligned in the column with the checkmark/X images. "

yaminb updated their about me

May 14, 2008 at 12:44 am

yaminb updated 3 products

Updated Samsung sGH-A736

May 13, 2008 at 10:36 pm

Edited the description

Updated the features

New pro/con: LCD Screen is large with a good resolution

New pro/con: Proprietary Samsung Connections

New pro/con: Sleek and Compact

Updated Notepad++

May 13, 2008 at 10:03 pm

Agreed: "Free, powerful text/source editor"

Updated Ubuntu

May 13, 2008 at 10:02 pm

Agreed: "Not all commercial software has Linux versions or ports"

Agreed: "Missing drivers for most new hardware."

Agreed: "Not all commercial software has Linux versions or ports"

Agreed: "Missing drivers for most new hardware."

yaminb commented on Samsung sGH-A736

May 13, 2008 at 10:26 pm

"This is very capable phone that has proven to be quite durable. However, it is the little things that either really impress or annoy you. My favorite feature is something very basic. It is an alarm clock that allows you to set multiple alarms for each day of the week. I set two morning alarms for more

yaminb responded to the thread con rating bug

May 13, 2008 at 10:01 pm

"Never mind. It's possible I had previously rated this, and I was simply undoing a previous vote of mine. "

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yaminb added con rating bug

May 13, 2008 at 9:59 pm

"I was reviewing ubuntu http://www.productwiki.com/ubuntu/ -------------------- Cons: Do you agree? • Not all commercial software has Linux versions or ports +10 • Missing drivers for most new hardware. -8 -------------------- The agreement (green thumb up) worked differently for some reason. Both of these are Cons and should have operated the same. Why I clicked on the thumbs up for "Not all commercial software" the count went up (+10) from more

yaminb responded to the thread 2008 United States election

May 12, 2008 at 6:20 pm

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"Perhaps, This according to the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7384859.stm). Race will be an issue. I agree with that, but you have to take the good with the bad. Is it racism that 90% of african americans in NC voted for Obama? Is voting for Obama because he is black any better than not voting for him because there more

yaminb responded to the thread Facebook: A complete waste of time?

May 12, 2008 at 1:05 pm

"Erik, that's a bit of a false example there. In the who wants to be a millionaire, the audience has no motivation to twist the truth. They're trying to help the person just as much as their friend. Statistically, you might just choose a friend who doens't know the answer, but the average of a crowd more

yaminb responded to the thread Facebook: A complete waste of time?

May 12, 2008 at 12:51 am

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"Facebook is hardly a complete waste of time. The basic functionality (events, keeping people connected... are amazing). People who would never have organized things online, now use facebook events with ease. The applications...well they can be a bit of pain. I don't use any of them, except the games, though i have been tempted by the more

yaminb responded to the thread 2008 United States election

May 6, 2008 at 1:05 pm

""Obama is up by about 500,000 in the popular vote. (14.8 to 14.3 million). The news anchors need to be harder on Clinton." I'm sorry, I'm no backer of Clinton, but this is hardly a trouncing by Obama. Total votes = 14.8 + 14.3 = 29.1 mil Popular vote gap = 500k %difference = 500k/29.1 mil more

yaminb responded to the thread The Best Deal Sites:

April 7, 2008 at 12:30 am

"http://www.redflagdeals.com/ "

yaminb updated Ubuntu

April 6, 2008 at 9:22 pm

Agreed: "Missing drivers for most new hardware."

yaminb updated Notepad++

April 6, 2008 at 4:14 pm

Agreed: "You can set up to Windows to use Notepad++ by default instead of standard Notepad"

Agreed: "Powerful regular expression text search and replace"

Agreed: "Multi-view for visualizing documents side-by-side"

Agreed: "Customizable interface (colors, fonts, etc.)"

Agreed: "Language-specific and user-defined syntax highlighting"

yaminb responded to the thread 2008 United States election

April 6, 2008 at 1:25 am

"Charon, You seem like I was a few years back :) Very hyped on liberty. I don't know if you'd agree, but maybe this will add another perspective: (My Shameless Plug) http://freedompages.wikidot.com/can-we-have-freedom Well if we look around the world, there are not any 'free' countries. Some are freer than others of course :) Some are free in economic ways (Singapore) but lack social freedoms. Some are socially free, but not economically free. The US constitution was arguably the most free constitution every written. There is no way the founding fathers of the USA would have permitted the kind of government involvement in the USA today. Income taxes? Drug wars? World police/Imperialism? Heck no. So what do you do about it? I don't think the answer lies in political action. I don't think a 'freedom' party has ever been elected and done what it set out to do. Too much of the population is dependent on government in one way or another and demands their cut of the loot. Want to reform education=fight teachers. Want to reform drug laws=fight police/social conservatives. Want to reform income tax=go up against the poor and public sector as a whole. You'll never change society by changing the government. Well, I've largely given up on political action. Sure, maybe we'll have a couple small reforms but nothing big. Whereever you are, the government will be. Try a revolution, have no fear, the government will slowly take it over in a few generations. Just ask the French and the Americans who both had great revolution of liberty only to become some of the biggest governments in the world. So what do you do then as a freedom loving person? Just live your life as if you were free. Does your state prohibit smoking marijuana…do it anyways (without being stupid about it). With enough people doing it, eventually the law becomes redundant (just go to British Columbia in Canada to see this). You can live without the state's approval. If you're gay, just live your life as a married gay person. Who cares about government rules? Just ignore them. Can you be just as happy without the official certificate from the government? Mad about income taxes? I am too. But what can you do about it? Change your state of mind. Instead of thinking you make 100k, but only take home 60k, just think of your salary as 60k. I mean considering all the money manipulation and inflation and the fact that money is not backed by real assets anymore, just take your pay and maximize it. This is not to say sometimes the state is so involved in your life that you cannot just 'ignore it'. In those cases, fight the good fight as best you can. Am I sounding like a defeatist? Possibly. Yet it is reality. This is going to sound like a strange analogy, but in a perverse way political freedom parties are like political Islam. Political freedom parties promise liberty and a solution to many of the world's ills, but they can never do it right. Whenever they try it, it eventually fails…and fails horribly. USA, France, England…all had great revolutions for freedom of big government…they all eventually become big bad governments themselves. In the same way, you see all these muslims in the middle east claiming political islam is the solution. In an ideal world, maybe it is. Islam will set them free from their oppresive governments in Egypt, Syria…. But whenever political Islam is put to action, slowly, but surely it is taken over by more and more oppression. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Palestine… There is not a single example of the so-called glorious Islamic State. Just as their is no example of the so-called 'free-state'. Maybe there were brief period when such states existed, but they always…always…always…always end up in oppression. So why not just stay where you are and fight the small political fights you can win; instead of dreaming of a fantasy that will not come to fruition. And hey, maybe I'm wrong and just a defeatist…in that case, I'll come to whatever country you manage to achieve this freedom in. " more

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"ah, stumbled onto this productwiki and wandered onto the forums :) And now I'll needlessly voice on my views on the US election. (BTW...this text box is acting funny whenever I press ENTER, it resets the view so the line I'm tying it at the bottom of my firefox window...is this intentional?) Preface: I'm a fairly libertarian person, so if I could, I would have voted for Ron Paul. Yet he didn't get the nomination, and I'm a Canadian, so it's rather pointless :) I'll make a 2 main points about Obama. 1. He is your run of the mill democrat in terms of policies: There is very little in his platform that actually make him stand out. As a matter of fact some of his policies are strange. For example his promise to have seniors making under 50k not pay any tax. How does this make sense? Younger people are just starting out in life; definitely don't own a house and might even have kids to take care of. Yet, he promises this tax break for only seniors? 2. The hope people are putting in him is dangerous. I'm more concerned with this point actually. I'm Indian, but I grew up in Africa and I've heard this kind of politician before. Great speaches, able to rise the masses with promises of equality and the end of poverty.... let's just say it doesn't end well. It's actually one of the reasons I admire Nelson Mandela. He earned the freedom of his country and then left politics. He didn't promise the world...only freedom. This is not about black or white. It's about people putting their faith in politicians to fix bad situations in an easy way. It's this kind of mentality that led to Germans electing Hitler. Germany was in bad shape post WW1. Rather than deal with the realities of the country, they elected Hitler who promised a return to glory, jobs, pensions... I'm not saying Obama is going to be this bad...but it's the mentality of people that is worrisome. I can't even think of a single politician who promised people such things and actually delivered a good solution. I doubt a libertarian candidate will ever get elected as too many people are dependent on government, but if we were to take a Canadian example: I liked the chretien/martin years. They were not at all inspirational, but they did what government is supposed to do...they got the job done. They got the country's finances under control, reformed the pension system... Contrast that with Canada's closest thing to Obama, Trudeau, who didn't bother to pay for any of his programs. He just spent like a drunken sailor (debt from 24% GDP ot over 45% GDP) and acted in a very fascist way towards quebec. This worshiping of politicians is also what gave George Bush his elections. It just so happens he made great promises to those on the right. We just needed to 'believe' in him to change the world...so much good that did. So call me the guy who wants to vote the most boring but effective politician. That's the only time I've seen politicians be effective. If I had to vote for any of the US Candidates right now: Obama, Hilary, or McCain... I would say they're all bad choices. Yet, I would ultimately vote for McCain as he seems to promise the least and appears the most boring. As I say...if you want inspiration...find Jesus/Allah/Bhudda.... leave the politicians out of it. " more

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Erik

Hey, I finally was able to recreate the FCKEditor bug you've found. Apparently, it's a compatibility issue between FCKEditor and Firefox 3. The latest release of FCKEditor fixes the problem, so I'll try and get that up ASAP.

The problem is pretty annoying, as you well know...

Jun 23, 2008 10:22am

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Erik didn't give you the moderator user guide? The link for it is http://www.productwiki.com/home/article/moderator-user-guide.html

May 30, 2008 1:03pm

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