So, for example, you could take this as evidence that it's not "just a clone" of the original game, it's what games should be: a constant and ongoing maintenance that will continue for as long as people are interested in playing it.
There should be a permadeath server. It's funny that when the discussion began about permadeath, the idea that you could run multiple servers of the same game was considered unthinkable. Now it's standard practice.
After looking at JCVD's last 5 movies, I have to admit that you're right. He's been trying to do "serious" films which has royally pissed off his fans and has just demonstrated to the rest of us what we already knew: he can't act. There are negative reviews on IMDB but you have to go digging for them as the ones that get "voted up" are dominated by their fans.
No, what I'm saying is that if you want the protection of the US government and, as this story shows, the FBI, you should have to pay for it. It hardly makes sense that the majority of people, who don't make works for which they want copyright protection, should have to pay for the minority of people who do.
Any comment that is negative of the film is dropped. The same appears to go for books and games on Amazon.
It's pretty obvious too, I mean the number of positive reviews for Jean-Claude Van Damme can be counted on zero hands and yet imdb always appears to have at least 10 people saying his latest flop was the greatest movie ever.
Jesus, yes, that's the whole freakin' point of Archy. It's made by a foundation that does professional usability testing and was created by a man who was a god in his field.
You don't understand, he's just told you enough to make you STFU and take his advice. He's treating you like a simpleton because, to him, you are. Seriously, medical doctors are the perfect example. They've forgotten more about medicine than you'll ever learn. To question them is to waste their time and yours. Take their advice, don't question it, and go get on with your own god damn job.
No doctor, I will not take these pills to keep my blood pressure down until you tell me exactly how my heart works and what this "blood" stuff is made out of! Seriously, he's an expert, take his advice. If you want to understand why his advice is correct go learn his discipline. Now STFU.
What's hard to understand is that copyright infringement hasn't been a criminal matter for very long. We're all siting here thinking shit, that seems like a waste of FBI resources, maybe if we had some control over our government we could repeal these stupid laws.
Worse yet is the fact that there's no registration of copyright works, so if you find some old game that you think is great and would like to distribute it you have no idea who you have to contact to get permission. I recently ran into this problem with a game called Flashback. There's an interesting open source project which can read the original content of this game and present it on Windows/Linux/Mac etc instead of just DOS (and I think some old consoles too). This was a game I played when I was a kid and really enjoyed and I think the casual game players of today would like to play it too. Unfortunately the company that wrote the game is no longer around and I have no idea how to track down who actually owns the copyright. Of course, there is one way: I could just distribute the game and wait for them to sue me. But by then asking for permission would be a bit too late.
If you had to pay a yearly fee to maintain your copyright this kind of crap wouldn't happen. As soon as a game/book/movie/whatever is no longer being sold it should pass into the public domain. Not that the public domain will exist in 5 years.
Yes, but many of his recommendations are purely technical and probably make no sense to you unless you have some experience with usability. What I'm saying is that you should try to learn something about usability before telling this expert that he is wrong. And no, I don't think it is his responsibility to help you learn. He should cite references and studies so that you can go read them, but he shouldn't have to nurse you on the fundamentals of usability.
Sorry, I'm an objective realist when it comes to user interfaces. One method must be better than another. The user should have the option of using the best method or not using the system at all. If their preference is to use some inefficient way of doing things they can go use someone else's product (dare I say, Microsoft's). Which, I think, is what this all boils down to. If you want to use the most efficient system, use Archy. If you want to exercise your "preference" to do things some inferior way, don't.
pah-lease, it's more like people complaining that they have to learn how to use an accelerator, a steering wheel and blinkers all at the same time when they're used to just peddling.
See, that's just brain dead. When you take your car to your mechanic do you demand that he explain why you should put oil in it regularly, get new tires, stop pumping the clutch, stop redlining the engine daily, etc, or do you just say well shit, you're a mechanic and I'm not so I'll just take your word for it. If you want to understand why what Mr Thomas has to say is good advice, go do a usability course and study the field a little. It's not his responsibility to educate you.
but you do have a guarenteee that the new system will make you more efficient, you're just too ignorant of the field of usability to understand that guarentee.
What possible advantage does Adobe receive by keeping their free reader program proprietary? They're not hiding details of the PDF, it's an open standard. They're not going to be overwelmed with competition against their core products, there's already plenty of PDF readers that are open source and no-one is turning those into competing products. By keeping proprietary software they give away for free anyway they're just increasing their maintenance costs. By keeping their software out of Linux distributions they're just increasing their network maintenance costs as everyone who wants it has to download it. And finally, by keeping their software proprietary they're inviting dilution of their open standard as more and more people implement their own PDF viewing code interpret the standard slightly differently.
It's not difficult to show that what he says is sensible based on straight forward usability theory, testing and experience. Many people just happen to be ignorant of all three and yet still believe they are qualified to disagree. It's like me telling Steven Hawking that this whole black hole thing is bunk cause light's gotta go somewhere. It's a silly ignorant objection to an otherwise superb expert analysis. Simply put, you ignore expert advice at your own peril.
Why do we have to convince you? Can you just read the wealth of research that supports these basic usability choices for yourself? Oh, I see, you're not a usability expert. You have no training in usability, but you're unwilling to take the advice of people who are experts. Guess there's just no helping you. Continue using your shit environment.
Of course, all of this is completely irrelevant to Ubuntu, which should be making the right choices so others don't fall into the same trap as you have.
and what I'm saying is that you could go to school and study for 3 years to learn why these things are frowned upon. He shouldn't have to educate you. Either you've done the required reading and understand what he's talking about (in which case you have a leg to stand on when you argue) or you take his word for it.
So what you're saying is that rather than us just accepting that someone who is a Usability Expert has told us that it is wrong we should demand that he teach us his entire discipline before we accept his advice.
As evidenced here on Slashdot, he's an expert in his field who is ignored because he doesn't care to explain to all you non-experts why what you are doing is shit. Instead he says here's my professional opinion: fix this, this and this, and here are my credentials, to which people say nah, I'm just going to ignore your expert opinion because I think my uninformed gut feeling is better. How could you not leave in a huff?
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Yeah, they should have to send spies to your city to find that out.
I think you missed the point. Freeciv is about people who love a game maintaining and extending it for as long as they are interested in playing it.
So, for example, you could take this as evidence that it's not "just a clone" of the original game, it's what games should be: a constant and ongoing maintenance that will continue for as long as people are interested in playing it.
There should be a permadeath server. It's funny that when the discussion began about permadeath, the idea that you could run multiple servers of the same game was considered unthinkable. Now it's standard practice.
After looking at JCVD's last 5 movies, I have to admit that you're right. He's been trying to do "serious" films which has royally pissed off his fans and has just demonstrated to the rest of us what we already knew: he can't act. There are negative reviews on IMDB but you have to go digging for them as the ones that get "voted up" are dominated by their fans.
No, what I'm saying is that if you want the protection of the US government and, as this story shows, the FBI, you should have to pay for it. It hardly makes sense that the majority of people, who don't make works for which they want copyright protection, should have to pay for the minority of people who do.
Any comment that is negative of the film is dropped. The same appears to go for books and games on Amazon.
It's pretty obvious too, I mean the number of positive reviews for Jean-Claude Van Damme can be counted on zero hands and yet imdb always appears to have at least 10 people saying his latest flop was the greatest movie ever.
Jesus, yes, that's the whole freakin' point of Archy. It's made by a foundation that does professional usability testing and was created by a man who was a god in his field.
You don't understand, he's just told you enough to make you STFU and take his advice. He's treating you like a simpleton because, to him, you are. Seriously, medical doctors are the perfect example. They've forgotten more about medicine than you'll ever learn. To question them is to waste their time and yours. Take their advice, don't question it, and go get on with your own god damn job.
No doctor, I will not take these pills to keep my blood pressure down until you tell me exactly how my heart works and what this "blood" stuff is made out of! Seriously, he's an expert, take his advice. If you want to understand why his advice is correct go learn his discipline. Now STFU.
What's hard to understand is that copyright infringement hasn't been a criminal matter for very long. We're all siting here thinking shit, that seems like a waste of FBI resources, maybe if we had some control over our government we could repeal these stupid laws.
Worse yet is the fact that there's no registration of copyright works, so if you find some old game that you think is great and would like to distribute it you have no idea who you have to contact to get permission. I recently ran into this problem with a game called Flashback. There's an interesting open source project which can read the original content of this game and present it on Windows/Linux/Mac etc instead of just DOS (and I think some old consoles too). This was a game I played when I was a kid and really enjoyed and I think the casual game players of today would like to play it too. Unfortunately the company that wrote the game is no longer around and I have no idea how to track down who actually owns the copyright. Of course, there is one way: I could just distribute the game and wait for them to sue me. But by then asking for permission would be a bit too late.
If you had to pay a yearly fee to maintain your copyright this kind of crap wouldn't happen. As soon as a game/book/movie/whatever is no longer being sold it should pass into the public domain. Not that the public domain will exist in 5 years.
Yes, but many of his recommendations are purely technical and probably make no sense to you unless you have some experience with usability. What I'm saying is that you should try to learn something about usability before telling this expert that he is wrong. And no, I don't think it is his responsibility to help you learn. He should cite references and studies so that you can go read them, but he shouldn't have to nurse you on the fundamentals of usability.
Sorry, I'm an objective realist when it comes to user interfaces. One method must be better than another. The user should have the option of using the best method or not using the system at all. If their preference is to use some inefficient way of doing things they can go use someone else's product (dare I say, Microsoft's). Which, I think, is what this all boils down to. If you want to use the most efficient system, use Archy. If you want to exercise your "preference" to do things some inferior way, don't.
That's the whole point of Archy, using your keyboard is a lot faster than fussing around with a mouse. Therefore my analogy is sound.
pah-lease, it's more like people complaining that they have to learn how to use an accelerator, a steering wheel and blinkers all at the same time when they're used to just peddling.
See, that's just brain dead. When you take your car to your mechanic do you demand that he explain why you should put oil in it regularly, get new tires, stop pumping the clutch, stop redlining the engine daily, etc, or do you just say well shit, you're a mechanic and I'm not so I'll just take your word for it. If you want to understand why what Mr Thomas has to say is good advice, go do a usability course and study the field a little. It's not his responsibility to educate you.
but you do have a guarenteee that the new system will make you more efficient, you're just too ignorant of the field of usability to understand that guarentee.
What possible advantage does Adobe receive by keeping their free reader program proprietary? They're not hiding details of the PDF, it's an open standard. They're not going to be overwelmed with competition against their core products, there's already plenty of PDF readers that are open source and no-one is turning those into competing products. By keeping proprietary software they give away for free anyway they're just increasing their maintenance costs. By keeping their software out of Linux distributions they're just increasing their network maintenance costs as everyone who wants it has to download it. And finally, by keeping their software proprietary they're inviting dilution of their open standard as more and more people implement their own PDF viewing code interpret the standard slightly differently.
It's not difficult to show that what he says is sensible based on straight forward usability theory, testing and experience. Many people just happen to be ignorant of all three and yet still believe they are qualified to disagree. It's like me telling Steven Hawking that this whole black hole thing is bunk cause light's gotta go somewhere. It's a silly ignorant objection to an otherwise superb expert analysis. Simply put, you ignore expert advice at your own peril.
Why do we have to convince you? Can you just read the wealth of research that supports these basic usability choices for yourself? Oh, I see, you're not a usability expert. You have no training in usability, but you're unwilling to take the advice of people who are experts. Guess there's just no helping you. Continue using your shit environment.
Of course, all of this is completely irrelevant to Ubuntu, which should be making the right choices so others don't fall into the same trap as you have.
and what I'm saying is that you could go to school and study for 3 years to learn why these things are frowned upon. He shouldn't have to educate you. Either you've done the required reading and understand what he's talking about (in which case you have a leg to stand on when you argue) or you take his word for it.
So what you're saying is that rather than us just accepting that someone who is a Usability Expert has told us that it is wrong we should demand that he teach us his entire discipline before we accept his advice.
As evidenced here on Slashdot, he's an expert in his field who is ignored because he doesn't care to explain to all you non-experts why what you are doing is shit. Instead he says here's my professional opinion: fix this, this and this, and here are my credentials, to which people say nah, I'm just going to ignore your expert opinion because I think my uninformed gut feeling is better. How could you not leave in a huff?