You can only try to be subtle about it. Try to make them jealous. Bring over hot girls that they can't have. Go on trips with your buddies and come back and tell him how awesome it was.
I think there should be a big if (...) { around that }.
My summer vacation plans include a week in a beach house (I think that's what you'd call it, in Danish we call it a "summer house") with two of my friends, playing D&D 4th ed and Magic: The Gathering.
I don't know what you think of when you say "Go on trips with your buddies". Maybe it'd be drinking, maybe it'd be kayaking or fishing or whatever.
But consider this: if you want to make your friend want to quit gaming, think long and hard about the alternatives you present to him. Would they appeal to him? I imagine some people can have a blast having a week-long party on the beach. I'd probably be bored out of my mind; all you can do is lie still, bathe, drink and dance with people who don't want to talk about anything interesting. Would he feel the same?
And bringing hot girls over... yeah, he'd probably want them. Do you think he thinks he can get them? If not, then you're just reminding him that there's something he wants but can't get. Rubbing salt in the wound going to motivate him to... do exactly what? He can't succeed (according to himself), so there's nothing he can do about it. You're just going to make him hate being in a situation he believes he can't get out of even more.
"Hi. I just had an awesome time doing something you don't like or can't do. Why don't you join me?"
The Schulze method has a strictly better set of desirable criteria (if IRV has desirable property p from a particular set of properties P, so does Schulze).
Now they just need the focus to [...] make you feel happy when you look at the screen.
Not if it's at expense of my being happy when I press the keyboard (or twiddle my trackball).
Don't get me wrong: good visual appearance is great. It's absolutely wonderful. But a pleasant interaction is more important.
If you've ever looked at a screenshot (or screencast) of compiz, yet felt it didn't do justice to how you experienced it yourself, this is why.
If you're not using it, you're just seeing pretty pictures. If you are using it, you're thinking "okay, now I want to switch to this window which is over there", you press alt tab, and then you are pleased by the ease with which you can switch to that window when you can see them all thanks to the Scale plugin.
And conversely, a word processor can have the most gorgeous icons in its toolbar, but if I'm forced to take my hand off my keyboard to click on them while I'm typing, instead of navigating a menu system from the keyboard, I'm not going to be happy. In fact, I'm going to be annoyed at a system that wastes my time.
And from video games: Super Mario Galaxy looks absolutely gorgeous. But it has a horrible flaw: the camera control is awful, and especially when swimming it's really hard to judge the distance from Mario to various objects, and Mario's direction. That makes for a frustrating playing experience which isn't saved by the absolutely gorgeous visuals. Here it's not speed but a feeling of not being in control that annoys the user (which is arguably more aggravating).
(..., I think. I'm not an expert on UIs, usability, user experience, psychology or anything like it. It's just how I make sense of my experience.)
I don't think I've ever seen an OS market share report that wasn't flawed in some way.
How would you measure market share in an unflawed way?
Let's say you call up random people and ask which OSes they have installed on computers they control, and how many of each.
First of all, you're limiting yourself to people who have telephones. If you're not careful, you might bias towards people who have more than one telephone number. If you only call up people in Silicon Valley, you might get a skewed number. Yes, the last point is not realistic, but location-based bias might exist; what are your predictions on linux usage in urban vs. rural areas, and why?
Also, depending on what you want to measure, you might need to do this world-wide. I've heard a theory stating that people use at home what they use at work. Is the Munich Linux market share representative of the general world population? How about the countries where the OLPC laptop has been shipped to?
The world is a complex place. Whatever we measure, it means something. But a study isn't flawed if we wanted to measure something else, it just doesn't answer our question. And different questions (and their answers) are applicable to different scenarios.
How would a non-flawed market share study look like?
But if the FSF wants* to preach to the unconverted, that pretty much requires IE support. That is difficult for saints in the church of emacs, who run a wholly (not the pun) free operating system;-)
(some members are non-saints, though).
*it does; that's much of what RMS does these days.
Should have considered, perhaps, that they might actually have desired and expected that he adhere to the contract that he as an adult signed.
Contracts say a load of shit. Not trying to troll, or flamebait, or defend this guy. Just making a point, and then y'all can make of it what you want.
Have you read the EULAs of all your software? Can you remember what all of them say? Can you tell me what your employment contract says (NDA and non-compete clauses in particular)? Your account with your phone company, ISP and TV company (cable, sat, what have you), what do they say about what you can and can't do to their networks? Your contract with the bank, what does it say about liability for debit/credit card abuse?
All those kind of contracts typically say a lot of reasonable stuff. And a little bit of shit hidden in the cracks. "You work overtime for free", "We can cut off your Internet if we don't like how you use it", "we can evict you if someone files a civil suit against you".
Modern game makers now have music scores and scripts and god help us "plots!!"
What's wrong with "Go shoot the Nazis, they're evil" or "Go shoot the monsters, they're evil" or "Go shoot the grey/brown monsters, they're evil" or "Go pogo-stick the monsters, they're evil"?
[It shall be illegal to] circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work...
[It shall be illegal to] circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work
Now, the DRM flags in the official RTMP specification are a technological measure designed to control access to the copyrighted work in question
How about circumventing technological measures that ineffectively controls access to a work?
Trusting the client can hardly be consider effective unless you control all the clients.
Also, would this make tcpdump a circumvention tool? How about tr and sed (counting rot13 as access control)? How about emacs? It has a mode which assists you breaking substitution ciphers by hand...
We need to replace the M[ySQL] with a true open source project [...]
As far as I know,
MySQL is available under the GPL (among other licenses).
The GPL is an OSI-approved Open Source license.
A project is "open source" if it's available under at least one OSI-approved Open Source license.
replace the 'M' with something really open source and public that does not belong to a company.
The FSF holds the copyright of many important pieces of open source software (though they prefer to emphasize that it's Free Software). They're not commercial in nature.
They're a non-commercial organization. Companies are commercial organization. The only difference I can see is the commercial aspect, yet commercial use and copying of both Open Source software and Free Software is allowed in the definition.
I think you wanted to address something other than the licensing. Maybe the development model? Copyright transfer? Governance and leadership?
They do tend to go hand-in-hand. But it's useful do distinguish different-yet-correlated concepts, such that we can discuss them more clearly and intelligently.
[That's also why RMS is against using the term "intellectual property".]
I have zero faith in politicians and government agencies to pass and enforce legislation that is constitutional, but the court system has for the most part kept them in check. Agree or not with which way they rule, the supreme court tends to make decent decisions in that regard.
I don't know about how it works in the US, but in Denmark the members of parliament are not all lawyers. Some are (educated as) teachers, plumbers, farmers, electricians, liberal arts and other assorted trades.
Sure, there's a lot of politics, economy and law majors, and the politicians have staff that might read over the laws for potential constitutionality problems; but they might perform at less than perfect competence, or not be available.
I'd expect the judiciary to set a higher bar (pun not intended) than "popular".
Slashdot Mirror
What are you saying? Half the pixels are white and the other two are black?
1. Any crime in the physical world can be ignored if it is done using the Internet.
0. You do not talk about the Internet.
get him addicted to slashdot instead
I'm glad my phd advisor is on facebook rather than slashdot... =D
Sleep deprivation can do funny thing to you memory
Just see what it did to you spelling.
You can only try to be subtle about it. Try to make them jealous. Bring over hot girls that they can't have. Go on trips with your buddies and come back and tell him how awesome it was.
I think there should be a big if (...) { around that }.
My summer vacation plans include a week in a beach house (I think that's what you'd call it, in Danish we call it a "summer house") with two of my friends, playing D&D 4th ed and Magic: The Gathering.
I don't know what you think of when you say "Go on trips with your buddies". Maybe it'd be drinking, maybe it'd be kayaking or fishing or whatever.
But consider this: if you want to make your friend want to quit gaming, think long and hard about the alternatives you present to him. Would they appeal to him? I imagine some people can have a blast having a week-long party on the beach. I'd probably be bored out of my mind; all you can do is lie still, bathe, drink and dance with people who don't want to talk about anything interesting. Would he feel the same?
And bringing hot girls over... yeah, he'd probably want them. Do you think he thinks he can get them? If not, then you're just reminding him that there's something he wants but can't get. Rubbing salt in the wound going to motivate him to... do exactly what? He can't succeed (according to himself), so there's nothing he can do about it. You're just going to make him hate being in a situation he believes he can't get out of even more.
"Hi. I just had an awesome time doing something you don't like or can't do. Why don't you join me?"
What do you think he's going to answer?
How much Internet infrastructure runs on Linux?
How much Internet infrastructure was running *BSD or another Unix when Linux was created? How much of it kept running said Unix?
Just as "one and one only" voting has been shown to be inferior to "instant runoff"
Instant Runoff Voting isn't monotone. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system#Criteria_in_evaluating_single_winner_voting_systems
The Schulze method has a strictly better set of desirable criteria (if IRV has desirable property p from a particular set of properties P, so does Schulze).
Now they just need the focus to [...] make you feel happy when you look at the screen.
Not if it's at expense of my being happy when I press the keyboard (or twiddle my trackball).
Don't get me wrong: good visual appearance is great. It's absolutely wonderful. But a pleasant interaction is more important.
If you've ever looked at a screenshot (or screencast) of compiz, yet felt it didn't do justice to how you experienced it yourself, this is why.
If you're not using it, you're just seeing pretty pictures. If you are using it, you're thinking "okay, now I want to switch to this window which is over there", you press alt tab, and then you are pleased by the ease with which you can switch to that window when you can see them all thanks to the Scale plugin.
And conversely, a word processor can have the most gorgeous icons in its toolbar, but if I'm forced to take my hand off my keyboard to click on them while I'm typing, instead of navigating a menu system from the keyboard, I'm not going to be happy. In fact, I'm going to be annoyed at a system that wastes my time.
And from video games: Super Mario Galaxy looks absolutely gorgeous. But it has a horrible flaw: the camera control is awful, and especially when swimming it's really hard to judge the distance from Mario to various objects, and Mario's direction. That makes for a frustrating playing experience which isn't saved by the absolutely gorgeous visuals. Here it's not speed but a feeling of not being in control that annoys the user (which is arguably more aggravating).
(..., I think. I'm not an expert on UIs, usability, user experience, psychology or anything like it. It's just how I make sense of my experience.)
I don't think I've ever seen an OS market share report that wasn't flawed in some way.
How would you measure market share in an unflawed way?
Let's say you call up random people and ask which OSes they have installed on computers they control, and how many of each.
First of all, you're limiting yourself to people who have telephones. If you're not careful, you might bias towards people who have more than one telephone number. If you only call up people in Silicon Valley, you might get a skewed number. Yes, the last point is not realistic, but location-based bias might exist; what are your predictions on linux usage in urban vs. rural areas, and why?
Also, depending on what you want to measure, you might need to do this world-wide. I've heard a theory stating that people use at home what they use at work. Is the Munich Linux market share representative of the general world population? How about the countries where the OLPC laptop has been shipped to?
The world is a complex place. Whatever we measure, it means something. But a study isn't flawed if we wanted to measure something else, it just doesn't answer our question. And different questions (and their answers) are applicable to different scenarios.
How would a non-flawed market share study look like?
Windows has 90% of the market, Mac OS X has 9%, and Linux has 1%.
You got those numbers from Netcraft, right?
If not, how come there's no *BSD?
<a href="youtube.com/videos/${ID}.flv">play video</a>
--or--
<embed src="youtube.com/videos/${ID}.flv"/>
It of course also stops me from using wireshark (or LiveHTTPheaders) to snoop the GET request for the image and repeating it ;-)
Well played, sir ;-)
But if the FSF wants* to preach to the unconverted, that pretty much requires IE support. That is difficult for saints in the church of emacs, who run a wholly (not the pun) free operating system ;-)
(some members are non-saints, though).
*it does; that's much of what RMS does these days.
Should have considered, perhaps, that they might actually have desired and expected that he adhere to the contract that he as an adult signed.
Contracts say a load of shit. Not trying to troll, or flamebait, or defend this guy. Just making a point, and then y'all can make of it what you want.
Have you read the EULAs of all your software? Can you remember what all of them say? Can you tell me what your employment contract says (NDA and non-compete clauses in particular)? Your account with your phone company, ISP and TV company (cable, sat, what have you), what do they say about what you can and can't do to their networks? Your contract with the bank, what does it say about liability for debit/credit card abuse?
All those kind of contracts typically say a lot of reasonable stuff. And a little bit of shit hidden in the cracks. "You work overtime for free", "We can cut off your Internet if we don't like how you use it", "we can evict you if someone files a civil suit against you".
Some additions to the translation:
"jÃvsanklagade" --- "jäv" means bias, "anklage" means accuse, "anklagede" means accused (i.e. defendant).
"jÃvsfrÃ¥gan" --- "frågan" is derived from question; "the question of bias"
"Today came beslutet:" --- today it was decided.
"immaterialrÃttsliga" --- immaterial rights or immaterial law. That is, intellectual property.
"jÃvs-invÃndningen" --- complaint, objection (regarding bias).
"specialinriktning" --- special interest? Unsure about this one.
(I'm Danish, Danish and Swedish are somewhat similar languages. I'm not 100% sure, but quite close.)
Modern game makers now have music scores and scripts and god help us "plots!!"
What's wrong with "Go shoot the Nazis, they're evil" or "Go shoot the monsters, they're evil" or "Go shoot the grey/brown monsters, they're evil" or "Go pogo-stick the monsters, they're evil"?
[It shall be illegal to] circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work ...
[It shall be illegal to] circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work
Now, the DRM flags in the official RTMP specification are a technological measure designed to control access to the copyrighted work in question
How about circumventing technological measures that ineffectively controls access to a work?
Trusting the client can hardly be consider effective unless you control all the clients.
Also, would this make tcpdump a circumvention tool? How about tr and sed (counting rot13 as access control)? How about emacs? It has a mode which assists you breaking substitution ciphers by hand...
We need to replace the M[ySQL] with a true open source project [...]
As far as I know,
replace the 'M' with something really open source and public that does not belong to a company.
The FSF holds the copyright of many important pieces of open source software (though they prefer to emphasize that it's Free Software). They're not commercial in nature.
They're a non-commercial organization. Companies are commercial organization. The only difference I can see is the commercial aspect, yet commercial use and copying of both Open Source software and Free Software is allowed in the definition.
I think you wanted to address something other than the licensing. Maybe the development model? Copyright transfer? Governance and leadership?
They do tend to go hand-in-hand. But it's useful do distinguish different-yet-correlated concepts, such that we can discuss them more clearly and intelligently.
[That's also why RMS is against using the term "intellectual property".]
The do not need to provide the wining fork, just support it.
Wining, Diming, Forking... sounds like a good date(1).
Don't worry [...] the director mistakes 'beating the viewer with a blunt stick until they get it' with 'foreshadowing'.
Could you please refresh my memory of The Sixth Sense: what blunt-stick-beatings are there?
Thanks, you owe me a new keyboard and some brain bleach.
I can only view your post in Chromium.
Apparently firefox has "has-\"no-adblock\"-block"-block.
I have zero faith in politicians and government agencies to pass and enforce legislation that is constitutional, but the court system has for the most part kept them in check. Agree or not with which way they rule, the supreme court tends to make decent decisions in that regard.
I don't know about how it works in the US, but in Denmark the members of parliament are not all lawyers. Some are (educated as) teachers, plumbers, farmers, electricians, liberal arts and other assorted trades.
Sure, there's a lot of politics, economy and law majors, and the politicians have staff that might read over the laws for potential constitutionality problems; but they might perform at less than perfect competence, or not be available.
I'd expect the judiciary to set a higher bar (pun not intended) than "popular".
Heh, now there's chromium vs chromium-browser and epiphany vs epiphany-browser. Both the non-"-browser" packages are games.
Coincidence?!? I think not!
</tin-foil-hat>
Google is due for some Flock about this.
Broke that for you.
Google is due for some flac^Hk about this.
Fixed that for you, maybe. You could mean that Google should get some publicity (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/flack), of the bad variety.
You could also mean that they deserve criticism and a hostile reaction (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/flak).
The two seem to go hand in hand...
Google is due for some flax about this.
But it's all zen in the end ;-)
They would do well to support Linux usitatissimum (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/flax). (s/x/m/g)