Where is the contradiction? The summary claims that gamers are tired of sequels, which implies that they were not tired of them in the past. In 2004, sequels did well, but now gamers are tired of them. What you missed is that situations can change with time.
Yes, very compelling argument. Let's break it down.
Of course it is!
Can't refute an exclamation point.
For one FLOSS developers often happen to be users as well
Yes, but it only protects their freedoms as users, not developers. It is possible for one person to be affected in both positive and negative respects from a given situation.
also developers tend to be more interested in source code then users...
That's true, but what does it have to do with your point? Substituting an ellipse for reasoning isn't the best way to convince.
People often confuse correlation with causation, and I'd bet that applies here, too. I doubt Linus opposes GPLv3 because his employers say so. It's more likely that he decided to work for them in the first place because his motives were already similar. Do you really think that Linus couldn't find another employer in the blink of an eye if he felt like he was being pressured?
which is to protect freedom, users, and developers.
The GPL isn't concerned with the freedom of developers, even in spirit. In fact, the entire point of the GPL is to limit the freedom of developers, so that they can't reduce the freedom of the users.
Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:
The GPL has always been focused on the user, not the developer. It certainly is no great benefit for a developer who wants to use some GPL code to have extra restrictions placed on him. Those restrictions are there so that users cannot get locked out of their own software. They are not there so that the code remains available for developers to play with.
Although I think it's a bit extreme to put what amounts to usage guidelines (anti-guidelines?) into the license, it does fall in line with their intention to protect freedoms of the users, at the expense of freedoms of the developers.
if I had to deal with comments pages in my mailbox (if that's what you meant), I'd quickly give it up.
The RSS feed just holds the stories, no comments. I think it's nice because I can do the bulk of my Slashdot reading the same way I read my email. Then if there's a story that I think might have an interesting discussion, I can follow the link to the story page to see comments.
And dialup that maxes out at 28k isn't suitable for anything beyond stripped down versions of anything.
That's why it's so great! With RssFwd you can check an option to only send text, so it is just a stripped down version. Even the HTML version (which I use for clickable links) is quite minimal.
Sure you could. You're a subscriber, so you get a personalized RSS feed with the stories you would have seen on the front page. (You can find the RSS link at the bottom of any page.) Use R|Mail or RssFwd to have the stories sent to your inbox.
I used to do that too, to make sure I didn't miss anything. But now I find it's easier just to use personalized RSS. Sure, you have to subscribe, but having new stories automatically show up in my RSS reader is much easier. Set your Homepage preferences to show stories from every section, and every story posted gets put in the feed, just like search.pl.
Yes, in rTorrent you can set individual file priorities.
Select the torrent by pressing the up or down arrows until the correct one is highlighted.
Press the right arrow to show detailed peer information for the torrent.
Press the right arrow again to show a listing of the files in the torrent.
Use the up and down arrows to highlight the given file.
Press the spacebar to switch between the four priorities: no priority (default), high priority, low priority, off (don't download).
You can get back to the main torrent view by pressing the left arrow twice.
Re:About 3 years too late
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What is Perl 6?
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PUGS (a Haskell implementation of Perl 6; that's gotta be speedy, eh?)
I keep seeing statements like this, but I don't understand them. A Haskell implementation of a Perl interpreter is no different than a C implementation, which is what Perl 5 uses. The interpreter has to be written in something. Why not choose a high level language that will allow high productivity?
My guess is that you, and the others who make these remarks, don't know anything about Haskell and think it is Yet Another Scripting Language. Haskell is a statically-typed language, and can be compiled to machine code. In terms of speed, it's quite competitive when written correctly.
Re:Balkanization
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Demise of C++?
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Haskell is neither a scripting language nor dynamic. It is compiled (first to C and then to machine code), and employs compile-time static typing. It just feels dynamic because the type inferencer is so good that you usually don't need to put in the type directives yourself.
terrorists are stupid. Why do they target ordinary people?
They target ordinary people because they aren't trying to cause a governmental collapse; they're trying to instill fear. Which is scarier: a dozen politicians that you never met get killed, or a dozen regular people just like you get killed. In fact, they were so much like you, it could have been you.
If you think they target politicians or big wigs, you might be angry or think it's a tragedy, but you won't be scared. If you think they target anyone at all, you will be.
But on the other hand, what difference does it make? What if the Apollo moon landings really were faked? That doesn't change the fact that I have to go to work every day or pay my bills each month. The reason people don't doubt history more often is that it, in most cases, it wouldn't matter either way.
The moon landings will always be doubted, and doubtable, until we're heading there for vacations and doing real business there
I think most sane people would not doubt that people could land on the moon today. The "controversy" is whether they did it in 1969. And at this point, it's too late. Not that it matters, anyway. Everyone who actually believes they didn't land on the moon will probably be dead in a decade or two and then we can just forget about it.
You'd think so, and there is an option to disable it. But for some reason Windows didn't want to remember any changes to that setting. I would change it, press Apply, then OK, open the dialog again and it would be back to the default setting. So I just removed the other keyboard layout.
One reason is that if I need my wife to look something up for me, I have to translate the layout in my head and tell her the right keys to press. It gets a bit tedious.
If you do decide to try switching, and come back to this subthread for the instructions, you should also follow this tip: remove the regular US keyboard layout. If you leave them both enabled, you'll be switching between them accidentally whenever you hit the "switch keyboard layouts" shortcut. You'll be typing and all of the sudden your keys will change. It was very annoying for me. You can always add the old layout back and remove Dvorak if you decide not to keep it.
I'd paraphrase it so that information, inherently, is free.
Information can't be "inherently free," because freedom is just an idea, not a natural property. It's an abstract concept that people use to describe a situation in a particular way. Two people could see the same situation completely differently, because they have different ideas about freedom.
Statements like "information should be free," or "information wants to be free," or "information is free" are meaningless because they have no context. Freedom doesn't exist in a vacuum, it only exists in the minds of people.
I actually have two gmail accounts: one for regular mail, one for mailing lists and rss feeds. That way I don't have to worry about the traffic mixing.
I used Google Reader for a while. I liked the same things about it that you mention: read it from anywhere, keeps track of what you've already read, and you can mark things as unread to come back to them later. The one thing that made me stop using it was that you can't separate the feeds (or couldn't when I used it). It's just one long list.
So now I use RssFwd to send my feeds to my Gmail account, where I have filters to give them separate labels. The interface is so much better, I love it. And since I'm already using Gmail to read my mail, I get to consolidate my reading habits.
It's because you associate with people that have similar interests as you (ie, care about nice looking TVs) and are at a similar financial level (ie, can afford nice looking TVs). Another reason is that the media industry wants you to think everyone has one so that if you didn't, you'd feel left out and think you needed one.
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Where is the contradiction? The summary claims that gamers are tired of sequels, which implies that they were not tired of them in the past. In 2004, sequels did well, but now gamers are tired of them. What you missed is that situations can change with time.
My point is that there really isn't an official word for such things
Yes, there is: mistake.
Yes, very compelling argument. Let's break it down.
Of course it is!
Can't refute an exclamation point.
For one FLOSS developers often happen to be users as well
Yes, but it only protects their freedoms as users, not developers. It is possible for one person to be affected in both positive and negative respects from a given situation.
also developers tend to be more interested in source code then users...
That's true, but what does it have to do with your point? Substituting an ellipse for reasoning isn't the best way to convince.
Linus opposes it because his paymsters do.
People often confuse correlation with causation, and I'd bet that applies here, too. I doubt Linus opposes GPLv3 because his employers say so. It's more likely that he decided to work for them in the first place because his motives were already similar. Do you really think that Linus couldn't find another employer in the blink of an eye if he felt like he was being pressured?
which is to protect freedom, users, and developers.
The GPL isn't concerned with the freedom of developers, even in spirit. In fact, the entire point of the GPL is to limit the freedom of developers, so that they can't reduce the freedom of the users.
It's not really a paradox when you look closer:
Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:
The GPL has always been focused on the user, not the developer. It certainly is no great benefit for a developer who wants to use some GPL code to have extra restrictions placed on him. Those restrictions are there so that users cannot get locked out of their own software. They are not there so that the code remains available for developers to play with.
Although I think it's a bit extreme to put what amounts to usage guidelines (anti-guidelines?) into the license, it does fall in line with their intention to protect freedoms of the users, at the expense of freedoms of the developers.
if I had to deal with comments pages in my mailbox (if that's what you meant), I'd quickly give it up.
The RSS feed just holds the stories, no comments. I think it's nice because I can do the bulk of my Slashdot reading the same way I read my email. Then if there's a story that I think might have an interesting discussion, I can follow the link to the story page to see comments.
And dialup that maxes out at 28k isn't suitable for anything beyond stripped down versions of anything.
That's why it's so great! With RssFwd you can check an option to only send text, so it is just a stripped down version. Even the HTML version (which I use for clickable links) is quite minimal.
I couldn't read slashdot otherwise myself.
Sure you could. You're a subscriber, so you get a personalized RSS feed with the stories you would have seen on the front page. (You can find the RSS link at the bottom of any page.) Use R|Mail or RssFwd to have the stories sent to your inbox.
I used to do that too, to make sure I didn't miss anything. But now I find it's easier just to use personalized RSS. Sure, you have to subscribe, but having new stories automatically show up in my RSS reader is much easier. Set your Homepage preferences to show stories from every section, and every story posted gets put in the feed, just like search.pl.
You can get back to the main torrent view by pressing the left arrow twice.
PUGS (a Haskell implementation of Perl 6; that's gotta be speedy, eh?)
I keep seeing statements like this, but I don't understand them. A Haskell implementation of a Perl interpreter is no different than a C implementation, which is what Perl 5 uses. The interpreter has to be written in something. Why not choose a high level language that will allow high productivity?
My guess is that you, and the others who make these remarks, don't know anything about Haskell and think it is Yet Another Scripting Language. Haskell is a statically-typed language, and can be compiled to machine code. In terms of speed, it's quite competitive when written correctly.
Haskell is neither a scripting language nor dynamic. It is compiled (first to C and then to machine code), and employs compile-time static typing. It just feels dynamic because the type inferencer is so good that you usually don't need to put in the type directives yourself.
Maybe he slept with his aunt? Not that tough to come up with. Now, being your own grandfather, that's a bit harder.
terrorists are stupid. Why do they target ordinary people?
They target ordinary people because they aren't trying to cause a governmental collapse; they're trying to instill fear. Which is scarier: a dozen politicians that you never met get killed, or a dozen regular people just like you get killed. In fact, they were so much like you, it could have been you.
If you think they target politicians or big wigs, you might be angry or think it's a tragedy, but you won't be scared. If you think they target anyone at all, you will be.
But on the other hand, what difference does it make? What if the Apollo moon landings really were faked? That doesn't change the fact that I have to go to work every day or pay my bills each month. The reason people don't doubt history more often is that it, in most cases, it wouldn't matter either way.
The moon landings will always be doubted, and doubtable, until we're heading there for vacations and doing real business there
I think most sane people would not doubt that people could land on the moon today. The "controversy" is whether they did it in 1969. And at this point, it's too late. Not that it matters, anyway. Everyone who actually believes they didn't land on the moon will probably be dead in a decade or two and then we can just forget about it.
does Coke work better to clean, or does Pepsi work better.
Well which is it??
You'd think so, and there is an option to disable it. But for some reason Windows didn't want to remember any changes to that setting. I would change it, press Apply, then OK, open the dialog again and it would be back to the default setting. So I just removed the other keyboard layout.
Why re-arrange anyway?
One reason is that if I need my wife to look something up for me, I have to translate the layout in my head and tell her the right keys to press. It gets a bit tedious.
If you do decide to try switching, and come back to this subthread for the instructions, you should also follow this tip: remove the regular US keyboard layout. If you leave them both enabled, you'll be switching between them accidentally whenever you hit the "switch keyboard layouts" shortcut. You'll be typing and all of the sudden your keys will change. It was very annoying for me. You can always add the old layout back and remove Dvorak if you decide not to keep it.
I'd paraphrase it so that information, inherently, is free.
Information can't be "inherently free," because freedom is just an idea, not a natural property. It's an abstract concept that people use to describe a situation in a particular way. Two people could see the same situation completely differently, because they have different ideas about freedom.
Statements like "information should be free," or "information wants to be free," or "information is free" are meaningless because they have no context. Freedom doesn't exist in a vacuum, it only exists in the minds of people.
One question:
Why do people keep posting criticisms of what others do with their own time, especially when it has no bearing on them whatsoever?
Please enlighten us as to what you spend your time on. And if it isn't coming up with a new energy supply, you'd better have a good explanation ready.
I actually have two gmail accounts: one for regular mail, one for mailing lists and rss feeds. That way I don't have to worry about the traffic mixing.
I used Google Reader for a while. I liked the same things about it that you mention: read it from anywhere, keeps track of what you've already read, and you can mark things as unread to come back to them later. The one thing that made me stop using it was that you can't separate the feeds (or couldn't when I used it). It's just one long list.
So now I use RssFwd to send my feeds to my Gmail account, where I have filters to give them separate labels. The interface is so much better, I love it. And since I'm already using Gmail to read my mail, I get to consolidate my reading habits.
My perception is that almost everyone has one.
It's because you associate with people that have similar interests as you (ie, care about nice looking TVs) and are at a similar financial level (ie, can afford nice looking TVs). Another reason is that the media industry wants you to think everyone has one so that if you didn't, you'd feel left out and think you needed one.