Not sure where you got the idea that "the main point" of using his software is to be able to download anonymously.
I've used Deluge for a long time before the announcement of this feature. It's a bittorrent client, just like Azureus or Ktorrent. The new anonymous browsing feature is nothing more than a built in web browser that uses their proxy.
I haven't been able to run the new release yet (download links are broken), so I might be wrong on this, but I'm pretty sure the anonymous part is only referring to finding the torrents. Downloading them works just like always. In fact, if you wanted to, you could probably use their proxy in a normal web browser to look for torrents.
It's also worth pointing out that he's not "making a buck". He's paying for the proxy out of his own pocket, he'll be lucky if he even breaks even.
Sorry, but did you even read the paragraph you cited? The guy is funding the service out of his own pocket. He needs to have some way to make back at least most of the money he's spending.
This on top of the fact that he's already dedicating his time to writing the software... Geez.
It's worth pointing out that the ads aren't showing up in the actual program. If you don't want to see them, don't use the anonymous browsing service.
Ever noticed the lack of a "Delete my account" button in the account settings? To get your account (and all of your private information) permanently deleted, you have to _argue with them_ over email.
I have doubts that they even deleted my information. It's more likely they just said it was all gone to shut me up.
The moral of my story is that anything you put in to Facebook might as well be viewable by the whole internet. It may not be at the immediate moment, but breaches of security happen, new privacy policies happen, etc I think you can see where I'm going with this. Not to mention you really don't know what they're doing with your data.
If Apple really wanted the unlocking to stop, I don't think they would have to look at the source code. I mean correct me if I'm wrong, but they could either:
a) Take legal action.
or
b) Decompile the unlocker, and figure out how it works that way.
Note: I don't know a lot about law, or decompiling programs for that matter.:)
A lot of people knocked Invisible War, but I had a lot of fun playing it. It wasn't as good as the first game, but honestly if they stick to the basic Deus Ex formula, I think it'll be a pretty good game.
This is kind of like the Doom "game" hidden in one of the old Microsoft office programs. If I remember right, one version of Excel also had a flight simulator.
Seems a bit like that fake PSP blog Sony had up awhile ago. People being paid to pretend to be real users that really like the product and all...
I especially like how he took one of the most calm (considering the circumstances) arguments I have seen in quite a while, and put a completely illogical spin on it.
Some poster: "I can't work because of this problem" JohninTN: "LOLS, you're so stupid. Go outside. It doesn't bother me, I'm going fishing."
Clearly you are a little biased, so I'm not sure why I'm replying... But please, enlighten me on how Perl/Python/PHP and Java are "sloppy primitive shit" compared to what Microsoft is doing. Especially considering Microsoft's creation of programming languages has pretty much consisted of making clones of preexisting languages (ie. Java --> C#, PHP --> ASP). A programming language is a programming language, what you can do with it depends on how skilled you are as a programmer. There are very few limiting factors, though one is the platforms on which that language can be used. All of the languages you listed as "shit" are easily cross platform. How about their "Microsoft versions"?
MS will likely never port their dev tools to another operating system while at the same time making the port just as functional as it's Windows analog. This is why we're all "OS kooks obsessed with ridiculous ideals"; Microsoft may pretend to want to play nice with everyone else, but the truth is they could care less about things like standards and compatibility with other products (and for those of us using "other products", that's not good).
Quite happy without MS dev tools on Linux, thank you very much.:)
Have fun writing a web applet in C++ or C# then.;)
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i.e. with all ports closed and all services off, then take the installing user through some wizards with a few different, and mostly conservative, minimalist options for opening things up, explaining the cost-benefit of the options.
I suppose it's just inertia combined with Windows' pre-internet-malevolence origins. The whole idea originally was for a number of socially responsible researchers to have their computers maximally cooperating with each other (go figure). It wasn't designed with human viruses (malicious crackers) in mind at the get-go.
But we've had net morons long enough now that you'd think a closed and incrementally open up policy would be a no-brainer for the default installations of net-facing OSes like Windows.
Could you clarify _which_ Microsoft products are compatible with multiple os'es?
They released a few things for Mac iirc (I have Internet Explorer and Office 98 on my Performa), but that was awhile ago and they really haven't been updated since. Anyway, I would hardly call that "most" of their software, even if they were updating it to this day.
That's true. I didn't mean to sound like "I know better", I'm just saying that perhaps creativity and documentation shouldn't go together. When I go to read docs, I don't do it because I'm looking for a good novel. I do it because I have a problem with the software, and typically the last thing I want to do when I have a problem is to play puzzles to get the answers.
I think the first question that comes to my mind is why? If the documentation was "so good" in the first place and people didn't read it, what makes them think that making it into an adventure game will make more people read?
It's certainly creative, but creative isn't always good...
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Not sure where you got the idea that "the main point" of using his software is to be able to download anonymously.
I've used Deluge for a long time before the announcement of this feature. It's a bittorrent client, just like Azureus or Ktorrent. The new anonymous browsing feature is nothing more than a built in web browser that uses their proxy.
I haven't been able to run the new release yet (download links are broken), so I might be wrong on this, but I'm pretty sure the anonymous part is only referring to finding the torrents. Downloading them works just like always. In fact, if you wanted to, you could probably use their proxy in a normal web browser to look for torrents.
It's also worth pointing out that he's not "making a buck". He's paying for the proxy out of his own pocket, he'll be lucky if he even breaks even.
Sorry, but did you even read the paragraph you cited? The guy is funding the service out of his own pocket. He needs to have some way to make back at least most of the money he's spending.
This on top of the fact that he's already dedicating his time to writing the software... Geez.
It's worth pointing out that the ads aren't showing up in the actual program. If you don't want to see them, don't use the anonymous browsing service.
You shouldn't trust Facebook at all.
Ever noticed the lack of a "Delete my account" button in the account settings? To get your account (and all of your private information) permanently deleted, you have to _argue with them_ over email.
I have doubts that they even deleted my information. It's more likely they just said it was all gone to shut me up.
The moral of my story is that anything you put in to Facebook might as well be viewable by the whole internet. It may not be at the immediate moment, but breaches of security happen, new privacy policies happen, etc I think you can see where I'm going with this. Not to mention you really don't know what they're doing with your data.
You forget how corrupt our legal system can be. ;)
If Apple really wanted the unlocking to stop, I don't think they would have to look at the source code. I mean correct me if I'm wrong, but they could either:
:)
a) Take legal action.
or
b) Decompile the unlocker, and figure out how it works that way.
Note: I don't know a lot about law, or decompiling programs for that matter.
A lot of people knocked Invisible War, but I had a lot of fun playing it. It wasn't as good as the first game, but honestly if they stick to the basic Deus Ex formula, I think it'll be a pretty good game.
I'm just hoping that it isn't Vista-only...
http://taoyue.com/tutorials/pascal/contents.html
I've been reading through that and it seems pretty decent.
Googling "pascal tutorials" or something similar turns up quite a few results as well.
I liked Robotech.
:(
I also liked Transformers, Hollywood butchered that.
Mind you that's supposed to be plugin (once). Really should use that preview button...
Eclipse doesn't come with support for PHP out of the box, it comes in a plugin plugin.
There is a wiki page here on installing Eclipse, the PHP plugin, and anything else you might need.
Eclipse rules, I use it for PHP and Java development. The summary != what is linked to though...
This is kind of like the Doom "game" hidden in one of the old Microsoft office programs. If I remember right, one version of Excel also had a flight simulator.
I love easter eggs.
Agreed. When I do an ls of my home directory, I don't really want to see 50+ config files/directories.
I think the fact that Sony isn't hiding this directory with conventional means proves they're up to something shady...
Not everyone uses Gnome/KDE or even X. Everyone who uses Linux, uses a kernel though. I think that was the point he was trying to make.
I noticed that as well.
Seems a bit like that fake PSP blog Sony had up awhile ago. People being paid to pretend to be real users that really like the product and all...
I especially like how he took one of the most calm (considering the circumstances) arguments I have seen in quite a while, and put a completely illogical spin on it.
Some poster: "I can't work because of this problem"
JohninTN: "LOLS, you're so stupid. Go outside. It doesn't bother me, I'm going fishing."
Aghhhhh
Clearly you are a little biased, so I'm not sure why I'm replying... But please, enlighten me on how Perl/Python/PHP and Java are "sloppy primitive shit" compared to what Microsoft is doing. Especially considering Microsoft's creation of programming languages has pretty much consisted of making clones of preexisting languages (ie. Java --> C#, PHP --> ASP). A programming language is a programming language, what you can do with it depends on how skilled you are as a programmer. There are very few limiting factors, though one is the platforms on which that language can be used. All of the languages you listed as "shit" are easily cross platform. How about their "Microsoft versions"?
:)
MS will likely never port their dev tools to another operating system while at the same time making the port just as functional as it's Windows analog. This is why we're all "OS kooks obsessed with ridiculous ideals"; Microsoft may pretend to want to play nice with everyone else, but the truth is they could care less about things like standards and compatibility with other products (and for those of us using "other products", that's not good).
Quite happy without MS dev tools on Linux, thank you very much.
AJAX is nice. I never said anything against using that. ;)
My original post was just to point out that C isn't for everything. I never said Java was.
ActiveX is useful for little more than serving as an example of things not to do while programming.
People are pretty good about Java applets. If anything you should be worried about blocking flash. THAT, people overuse.
Have fun writing a web applet in C++ or C# then. ;)
i.e. with all ports closed and all services off, then take the installing user through
some wizards with a few different, and mostly conservative, minimalist options
for opening things up, explaining the cost-benefit of the options.
I suppose it's just inertia combined with Windows' pre-internet-malevolence
origins. The whole idea originally was for a number of socially responsible researchers
to have their computers maximally cooperating with each other (go figure). It wasn't designed
with human viruses (malicious crackers) in mind at the get-go.
But we've had net morons long enough now that you'd think a closed and incrementally
open up policy would be a no-brainer for the default installations of net-facing OSes like
Windows.
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Could you clarify _which_ Microsoft products are compatible with multiple os'es?
They released a few things for Mac iirc (I have Internet Explorer and Office 98 on my Performa), but that was awhile ago and they really haven't been updated since. Anyway, I would hardly call that "most" of their software, even if they were updating it to this day.
That's true. I didn't mean to sound like "I know better", I'm just saying that perhaps creativity and documentation shouldn't go together. When I go to read docs, I don't do it because I'm looking for a good novel. I do it because I have a problem with the software, and typically the last thing I want to do when I have a problem is to play puzzles to get the answers.
I think the first question that comes to my mind is why? If the documentation was "so good" in the first place and people didn't read it, what makes them think that making it into an adventure game will make more people read?
It's certainly creative, but creative isn't always good...