I often need to email someone a file that's on my desktop, so I SSH in from my cell phone, and e-mail it using mutt. Beats using VNC+"some modern client". It also helps when I break thunderbird for some reason, or when I'm on a PC that's not my own (over SSH, again), since I don't have any webmail configure (yet).
Actually, we do. Bioware, on several occasions promised a lot of things story-wise that were not real in the end.
For example, they explicitly stated that the ending would not be based on some last-minute choice, but be based on all the decisions made throughout the game. (LOL!) They said the outcome of the game could vary greatly since they did not have to think about a sequel and how to merge those endings in future. This link says it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPelM2hwhJA
So while I cannot dictate how they make their game, I *can* complain that they did not keep their word and deliver what they promised. People decide if they pay for something according to what is promised, you know.
You think in terms of black and white. The fact that MS has bad practices doesn't make google magically good. I avoid Google products whenever possible. That doesn't mean I even get close to MS. I don't. There are other alternatives.
Granted, they shouldn't be unable to take down a single reaper. But remember there where enough to "[...] darken the sky of every world". One, or a thousand are insignificant numbres. Vigil also made a similar remark, IIRC.
Sorry, I made a typo, it was "It's being redistributed and with ads." And of course it's being redistributes. User tries to access www.example.org. Hotspot operator downloads content of site, and puts some ads on it, for his own profits. Sends altered website to user. There's your redistribution, with alterations, and for-profit.
Endings aside, the charactes itself lacked any depth. In previous mass effect games, you could talk *a lot* with every character, get to know them very very well, even Dr. Chakwas. Now, every time I try to talk to most characters it's "Hey Shepard!", except for very scarse dialogs on very counted occasions.
In Mass Effect 1, it takes the entire human fleet, plus some others to kill a single reaper, and it was only because it's defenses where low while it docked into The Citadel. It makes no sense that >1 reaper is killed in the final battle for earth.
Sadly, some things do change depending on earlier choices. For example, Mordin's survival depends on choices you made on ME1 and ME2 (kill wrex and save the formula). There are other small parts like this that vary according to previous games. Sadly, the ending is not one of these part.
Not true actually. I haven't purchased any EA games (excepto for Mass Effect 1-2-3) for year. After ME3, it's clear what bioware has been completely assimilated by EA. I'm never buying or recomending any EA or Bioware games every again. Even if a game if promising, I can't be sure they won't mutilate it in the sequel, just like what happened to ME. ME1 was hard sci-fi. ME3 is totally inconsistent.
Actually, it's not limited to just that. On the final mission, I too Liara (who I'd romanced) with me. No one else made it to the citadel/the-blue-beam, since everyone else died.
At the end of the ending video, I can see her exiting the Normandy. I've yet to understand how she revived, got away from three of four reapers on earth, made in back to the normandy in such a short time!
I had a hard time understaind what the photo was actually. Since the quarians hadn's been outside unmasked for a couple of hundred years before Tali was born, I couldn't understand what this photo was. A *huge* plothole if you ask me. Any ME fan would never guess that that photo is meant to be tali, due to where it's taken.
FYI, there is an HTTPS Everywhere for chrome; I noticed the download link right next to the firefox one every time I install a new PC.:) I tried to use putty one, but never found the equivalent for "-D". Just use cygwin's SSH.
Large messages? People who are offline ATM? E-mail is like an internet letter. They'll read it when they can, and it can be as long as you want. IM is like an internet phone call. The other person need to anwser right away, and you can't take your time to write 30 lines while they're waiting on the other end.
I remember an ISP here doing something similar (when you had to change to ADSL password, for some obscure reason). They'd notify on every webpage for a while, and then stop. Of course, if jdownloader or some other automated downloader was running at the time, your downloads would fail, but you'd never get to see the message they sent. Beat me why they didn't use e-mail.
And any decent browser would show a *huge* warning stating that you're visiting a site with a self-signed certificate. Anyway, if they do this when visiting a bank, I don't think it'd be hard to sue them really. They're un-securing a communication between you and your bank.
I've never seen this happen, and I tend to use public hotspots whenever possible (since I only get 2G coverage most of the time). I've used hotspot in hotels, restaurants, subway stations, coffee shops, etc.
It takes someone with balls to take the place of someone that went to prision/got convicted. And it sure needs to be profitable. Six or seven years ago, I knew people who would have sent spam for money. Nowadays, the risk is simply too much, I'm sure they wouldn't.
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I often need to email someone a file that's on my desktop, so I SSH in from my cell phone, and e-mail it using mutt. Beats using VNC+"some modern client".
It also helps when I break thunderbird for some reason, or when I'm on a PC that's not my own (over SSH, again), since I don't have any webmail configure (yet).
Actually, we do. Bioware, on several occasions promised a lot of things story-wise that were not real in the end.
For example, they explicitly stated that the ending would not be based on some last-minute choice, but be based on all the decisions made throughout the game. (LOL!) They said the outcome of the game could vary greatly since they did not have to think about a sequel and how to merge those endings in future. This link says it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPelM2hwhJA
So while I cannot dictate how they make their game, I *can* complain that they did not keep their word and deliver what they promised. People decide if they pay for something according to what is promised, you know.
You think in terms of black and white. The fact that MS has bad practices doesn't make google magically good. I avoid Google products whenever possible. That doesn't mean I even get close to MS. I don't. There are other alternatives.
Look at the poster, or the teaser trailer.
Granted, they shouldn't be unable to take down a single reaper. But remember there where enough to "[...] darken the sky of every world". One, or a thousand are insignificant numbres. Vigil also made a similar remark, IIRC.
Sorry, I made a typo, it was "It's being redistributed and with ads."
And of course it's being redistributes.
User tries to access www.example.org. Hotspot operator downloads content of site, and puts some ads on it, for his own profits. Sends altered website to user. There's your redistribution, with alterations, and for-profit.
Endings aside, the charactes itself lacked any depth. In previous mass effect games, you could talk *a lot* with every character, get to know them very very well, even Dr. Chakwas. Now, every time I try to talk to most characters it's "Hey Shepard!", except for very scarse dialogs on very counted occasions.
In Mass Effect 1, it takes the entire human fleet, plus some others to kill a single reaper, and it was only because it's defenses where low while it docked into The Citadel.
It makes no sense that >1 reaper is killed in the final battle for earth.
Sadly, some things do change depending on earlier choices. For example, Mordin's survival depends on choices you made on ME1 and ME2 (kill wrex and save the formula). There are other small parts like this that vary according to previous games. Sadly, the ending is not one of these part.
Not true actually. I haven't purchased any EA games (excepto for Mass Effect 1-2-3) for year. After ME3, it's clear what bioware has been completely assimilated by EA. I'm never buying or recomending any EA or Bioware games every again.
Even if a game if promising, I can't be sure they won't mutilate it in the sequel, just like what happened to ME. ME1 was hard sci-fi. ME3 is totally inconsistent.
Actually, it's not limited to just that.
On the final mission, I too Liara (who I'd romanced) with me.
No one else made it to the citadel/the-blue-beam, since everyone else died.
At the end of the ending video, I can see her exiting the Normandy.
I've yet to understand how she revived, got away from three of four reapers on earth, made in back to the normandy in such a short time!
The epilogue really proves that!
I had a hard time understaind what the photo was actually. Since the quarians hadn's been outside unmasked for a couple of hundred years before Tali was born, I couldn't understand what this photo was. A *huge* plothole if you ask me. Any ME fan would never guess that that photo is meant to be tali, due to where it's taken.
It's being redistributed, and this ads. The goal of the redistributer, is to make profit, so I think that would be ilegal.
It's not really free if I pay USD200 a night at the hotel, is it?
FYI, there is an HTTPS Everywhere for chrome; I noticed the download link right next to the firefox one every time I install a new PC. :)
I tried to use putty one, but never found the equivalent for "-D". Just use cygwin's SSH.
Large messages? People who are offline ATM?
E-mail is like an internet letter. They'll read it when they can, and it can be as long as you want.
IM is like an internet phone call. The other person need to anwser right away, and you can't take your time to write 30 lines while they're waiting on the other end.
I remember an ISP here doing something similar (when you had to change to ADSL password, for some obscure reason). They'd notify on every webpage for a while, and then stop. Of course, if jdownloader or some other automated downloader was running at the time, your downloads would fail, but you'd never get to see the message they sent. Beat me why they didn't use e-mail.
And any decent browser would show a *huge* warning stating that you're visiting a site with a self-signed certificate.
Anyway, if they do this when visiting a bank, I don't think it'd be hard to sue them really. They're un-securing a communication between you and your bank.
I've never seen this happen, and I tend to use public hotspots whenever possible (since I only get 2G coverage most of the time). I've used hotspot in hotels, restaurants, subway stations, coffee shops, etc.
You can just get your porn from thepiratebay.org, and yes, it works over HTTPS.
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This is actually a pretty good way to measure incoming spam.
I used to receive about 100 spam emails per day (I have a wildcarded address, so *@domain.com went to MY email). Nowadays, I get about 15 to 20.
It takes someone with balls to take the place of someone that went to prision/got convicted. And it sure needs to be profitable.
Six or seven years ago, I knew people who would have sent spam for money. Nowadays, the risk is simply too much, I'm sure they wouldn't.