This top accounts only for a part of games genres. Important ones are absolutely forgotten. In any list like that Microsoft Flight Simulator has to be there. Not that I like it, but it's just a game with a HUGE following. Simulation is basically not represented. What, Wing Commander is a Simulator? The Falcon series, Silent Hunter should have been there.
What about card games? Do you know how many people play those? What about Chess games? Nothing there about that. Thei "top 50" is pretty useless.
I've been switching from NC 4.76 to Galeon 0.11.1 for about a month now. Galeon is pretty sweet, and the bookmarks and toolbars interface is much nicer and easy to use. One word: less bloat.
Some things that break are some https pages and some refreshes when reading local directories. Otherwise (although slower than NC), it is still pretty comfortable to use. My Ximian-configured 400Mhz box takes 10 open windows with Java and stuff without much sweat, which is not the case for Mozilla. (to install Java, you need to make Java running for mozilla first).
Took 4 years of development, 2 years of user-level beta-testing and 1 year of stolen-source-code-editing and bug fixing. And now, it's being worked on again for Falcon 5.0. And I'm not counting Falcon 3.0 before that.
Also, Microsoft flight Simulator has pretty long development cycle.
Not particularly, you can prove matematically that a certain encryption scheme can not be broken in a realistic amount of time. I would assume that any encryption scheme that does not come with such a proof is weak. This is a standard assumption in cryptology theory.
But the thing is, which lawyer will ever trust a mathematician (and viceversa)?
This post is more about people's attitude rather than the tech support thing.
I see this kind of flamethrowing almost on every forum on the net. Especially if it involves technical stuff, people are so easy to get angry and use bad language and attitude. And the thing is, some of them don't even realize it. It's just too easy to stay in front of the screen and release your worst frustrations, since there is little feedback for self-control.
The same thing goes on with e-mail, it's all soo easy for people to missunderstand an email, it's scary.
I just wanted to say that if someone has chosen to encrypt something (even with ROT-13), then it has the right to be protected from decription.
Whether the person which shows how to decrypt that ridiculos scheme should be arrested, that's a different thing. But that's not what the poster was refering to.
And, yes, I think it's a shame that Adobe uses such thing as an encryption scheme.
If I use ROT-13 to encript a file, and I send it to someone, then by that it means I don't want you to see it, and you should understand that and refrain from decripting it. Why should I spend money, CPU power and resources to encrypt data, just because there are people out there who have nothing else better to do then look into something that's none of their business? I have the right to be protected by law against these people.
Do you have a right to read letters in my mailbox just because you can read through the envelope looking into the light?
And your analogy with the Firestone truck is flawed: the information of flaws in the tyres is of public interest and did not emerged throug eavesdropping in the company's files.
In any case, the DMCA is fair in disallowing decrypting in order to prevent illegal eavesdropping. But what DMCA should also disallow companies using cheap encription schemes to cheat their users into a false sense of security. And it should be particularly hars about encription used in wide-spread programs with monopoly-like market share.
Well, I've tried recently to get into developing small GNOME applications: the ride was fairly smooth, some bumps at places. All the docs are at www.gnome.org, there are tutorials, API references, etc. Most are C, for C++ bindings to GNOME/GTK, look for Gnomemm, the first comlete release came out a few days ago.
Be aware that some of the APIs (mostly the newer ones) are under revision and the docs/tutorials are not allways updated. It might happen that you need to look into the.h files to find the right parameters for some API functions. But even like that, I like the GNOME architecture a lot, it's really flexible for programming.
This is the point where market self-regulation should kick in: theoretically, if content providers start to dissapear because they are not payed enough, the infrastructure providers will eventually start to support them to keep the customers in. But, since internet is more than just web content, I doubt that will happen soon.
Although I know a lot of people that choose cheap low-speed subscriptions because they use only email and are not interested in surfing and faster connections.
Yes, but running multiple instances of the same program, that's not the most convenient: why not be part of the same program? Especially since, with Pine at least, one instance locks the inbox, and you have to remember which is what, and so on. It's not really convenient on the long run.
About GUI: yes, I use pine through telnet most of the time, and I use it especially because of that. But still, it lacks this ability of multiple editing, and eventually you'll like some sort of GUI for that (maybe in text mode? Naah...)
...and about almost any other _decent_ mailers, is that you can not edit/read more than one message in the same time. Heck, if you want to edit one message and read another (to copy/paste text, for instance), you can't. You have to exit editing, read the other message, and come back.
That's why I think a GUI will eventually be better. Even a better interface with an emacs server might do.
Yes, but what about this 2500? Sounds like a ridiculous amount of money compared to the weight of the trademark. Ah, they must have heard about the salaries in German universities... that figures:)
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It's not that easy either!
1) I need to have my main email address on my website. I need that people that have not much clue about email and spam can see it, and ca use it: my email is my job. So, I get all the spam.
2) Fight back: that would take me even more time than the spam itself. I just don't want it!
3) Again, not applicable.
And, I get about 10 spams per day. Most of them are duplicates, as I appear together with my address on other mailing lists of my employer.
I understand that the judge ruled that the channel has no value in Canada. But I'm not sure I totally agree with that, at least from a moral point of view. After all, the guys now do not need to pay in another way to see some movies or shows they would otherwise pay for, maybe to another distributor. So, even if DirectTV does not lose, someone else is losing.
Again, morally, I think it's wrong to do it. It does not make it right to use the hairdresser just because he can not receive your money.
I understand that the judge ruled that the channel has no value in Canada. But I'm not sure I totally agree with that, at least from a moral point of view. After all, the guys now do not need to pay in another way to see some movies or shows they would otherwise pay for, maybe to another distributor. So, even if DirectTV does not lose, someone else is losing.
Again, morally, I think it's wrong to do it. It does not make it right to use the hairdresser just because he's blind and he can not count your money.
Are these guys killing people or sodomizing small children? No. They're getting access to a cable channel which you cannot pay for even if you want to in the country that they are from.
No, they are not killing people, it sounds more to me like they are going to the hairdresser and forget to pay the bill at the end.
So what if they are not able to pay for the channel? They are getting something that has a value (yes, a TV channel may have a value, at least money-wise) without paying for it. That's morally wrong.
What if the radio signal you happened to pick up was somebody's cordless-phone conversation? Are you breaking the law?
Well, if you are using your fillings to listen to that conversation, then you are breaking the law.
Remember, law is not a formal system that you are supposed to find holes in. Law is ment to help the people see the right from wrong. There is need for human common-sense at some point.
I was refering to the particular sentence in the particular post. In particular, I belive that building a receiver to listen to other people's conversation should be illegal. Maybe it's not stealing, but it's invasion of privacy.
Intercepting or faking a digital account, in order to access/listen to something that's not yours (whether it belongs to a private person or a company) is much the same thing to me.
Stealing? maybe not the right word, but the same effect. And no, a movie it's not yours to see unless you pay for it.
Service providers should protect their data with technology, not new laws.
I disagree. Why should service providers have to pay to protect their data from stealing? It's like saying that I'm responsible for not using a more solid door lock if someone is breaking into my house.
The content, like it or not, is the property of the distributor, and just because it's easy to steal it's not making stealing more justified.
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This top accounts only for a part of games genres. Important ones are absolutely forgotten. In any list like that Microsoft Flight Simulator has to be there. Not that I like it, but it's just a game with a HUGE following. Simulation is basically not represented. What, Wing Commander is a Simulator? The Falcon series, Silent Hunter should have been there.
What about card games? Do you know how many people play those? What about Chess games? Nothing there about that. Thei "top 50" is pretty useless.
I've been switching from NC 4.76 to Galeon 0.11.1 for about a month now. Galeon is pretty sweet, and the bookmarks and toolbars interface is much nicer and easy to use. One word: less bloat.
Some things that break are some https pages and some refreshes when reading local directories. Otherwise (although slower than NC), it is still pretty comfortable to use. My Ximian-configured 400Mhz box takes 10 open windows with Java and stuff without much sweat, which is not the case for Mozilla. (to install Java, you need to make Java running for mozilla first).
Took 4 years of development, 2 years of user-level beta-testing and 1 year of stolen-source-code-editing and bug fixing. And now, it's being worked on again for Falcon 5.0. And I'm not counting Falcon 3.0 before that.
Also, Microsoft flight Simulator has pretty long development cycle.
Not particularly, you can prove matematically that a certain encryption scheme can not be broken in a realistic amount of time. I would assume that any encryption scheme that does not come with such a proof is weak. This is a standard assumption in cryptology theory.
But the thing is, which lawyer will ever trust a mathematician (and viceversa)?
This post is more about people's attitude rather than the tech support thing.
I see this kind of flamethrowing almost on every forum on the net. Especially if it involves technical stuff, people are so easy to get angry and use bad language and attitude. And the thing is, some of them don't even realize it. It's just too easy to stay in front of the screen and release your worst frustrations, since there is little feedback for self-control.
The same thing goes on with e-mail, it's all soo easy for people to missunderstand an email, it's scary.
I just wanted to say that if someone has chosen to encrypt something (even with ROT-13), then it has the right to be protected from decription.
Whether the person which shows how to decrypt that ridiculos scheme should be arrested, that's a different thing. But that's not what the poster was refering to.
And, yes, I think it's a shame that Adobe uses such thing as an encryption scheme.
If I use ROT-13 to encript a file, and I send it to someone, then by that it means I don't want you to see it, and you should understand that and refrain from decripting it. Why should I spend money, CPU power and resources to encrypt data, just because there are people out there who have nothing else better to do then look into something that's none of their business? I have the right to be protected by law against these people.
Do you have a right to read letters in my mailbox just because you can read through the envelope looking into the light?
And your analogy with the Firestone truck is flawed: the information of flaws in the tyres is of public interest and did not emerged throug eavesdropping in the company's files.
In any case, the DMCA is fair in disallowing decrypting in order to prevent illegal eavesdropping. But what DMCA should also disallow companies using cheap encription schemes to cheat their users into a false sense of security. And it should be particularly hars about encription used in wide-spread programs with monopoly-like market share.
If you moded this up as funny, you probably need to take a vacation there to get some laughs..
Well, I've tried recently to get into developing small GNOME applications: the ride was fairly smooth, some bumps at places. All the docs are at www.gnome.org, there are tutorials, API references, etc. Most are C, for C++ bindings to GNOME/GTK, look for Gnomemm, the first comlete release came out a few days ago.
.h files to find the right parameters for some API functions. But even like that, I like the GNOME architecture a lot, it's really flexible for programming.
Be aware that some of the APIs (mostly the newer ones) are under revision and the docs/tutorials are not allways updated. It might happen that you need to look into the
seems like a more appropriate choice.
This is the point where market self-regulation should kick in: theoretically, if content providers start to dissapear because they are not payed enough, the infrastructure providers will eventually start to support them to keep the customers in. But, since internet is more than just web content, I doubt that will happen soon.
Although I know a lot of people that choose cheap low-speed subscriptions because they use only email and are not interested in surfing and faster connections.
Yes, but running multiple instances of the same program, that's not the most convenient: why not be part of the same program? Especially since, with Pine at least, one instance locks the inbox, and you have to remember which is what, and so on. It's not really convenient on the long run.
About GUI: yes, I use pine through telnet most of the time, and I use it especially because of that. But still, it lacks this ability of multiple editing, and eventually you'll like some sort of GUI for that (maybe in text mode? Naah...)
I guess it can't be everything to everyone...
...and about almost any other _decent_ mailers, is that you can not edit/read more than one message in the same time. Heck, if you want to edit one message and read another (to copy/paste text, for instance), you can't. You have to exit editing, read the other message, and come back.
That's why I think a GUI will eventually be better. Even a better interface with an emacs server might do.
Yes, but what about this 2500? Sounds like a ridiculous amount of money compared to the weight of the trademark. Ah, they must have heard about the salaries in German universities... that figures
It's not that easy either!
1) I need to have my main email address on my website. I need that people that have not much clue about email and spam can see it, and ca use it: my email is my job. So, I get all the spam.
2) Fight back: that would take me even more time than the spam itself. I just don't want it!
3) Again, not applicable.
And, I get about 10 spams per day. Most of them are duplicates, as I appear together with my address on other mailing lists of my employer.
with opera is non existent. That might be OK with you, but not with me, sorry.
I understand that the judge ruled that the channel has no value in Canada. But I'm not sure I totally agree with that, at least from a moral point of view. After all, the guys now do not need to pay in another way to see some movies or shows they would otherwise pay for, maybe to another distributor. So, even if DirectTV does not lose, someone else is losing.
Again, morally, I think it's wrong to do it. It does not make it right to use the hairdresser just because he can not receive your money.
I understand that the judge ruled that the channel has no value in Canada. But I'm not sure I totally agree with that, at least from a moral point of view. After all, the guys now do not need to pay in another way to see some movies or shows they would otherwise pay for, maybe to another distributor. So, even if DirectTV does not lose, someone else is losing.
Again, morally, I think it's wrong to do it. It does not make it right to use the hairdresser just because he's blind and he can not count your money.
Are these guys killing people or sodomizing small children? No. They're getting access to a cable channel which you cannot pay for even if you want to in the country that they are from.
No, they are not killing people, it sounds more to me like they are going to the hairdresser and forget to pay the bill at the end.
So what if they are not able to pay for the channel? They are getting something that has a value (yes, a TV channel may have a value, at least money-wise) without paying for it. That's morally wrong.
What if the radio signal you happened to pick up was somebody's cordless-phone conversation? Are you breaking the law?
Well, if you are using your fillings to listen to that conversation, then you are breaking the law.
Remember, law is not a formal system that you are supposed to find holes in. Law is ment to help the people see the right from wrong. There is need for human common-sense at some point.
[b]If you don't want me to view it, don't beam it into my house.[/b]
Does that mean that if I speak on a mobile phone next to your house, you have the right to intercept my conversation?
That would be quite funny as an argument.
No, I'm not a troll. (are you?)
I was refering to the particular sentence in the particular post. In particular, I belive that building a receiver to listen to other people's conversation should be illegal. Maybe it's not stealing, but it's invasion of privacy.
Intercepting or faking a digital account, in order to access/listen to something that's not yours (whether it belongs to a private person or a company) is much the same thing to me.
Stealing? maybe not the right word, but the same effect. And no, a movie it's not yours to see unless you pay for it.
I disagree. Why should service providers have to pay to protect their data from stealing? It's like saying that I'm responsible for not using a more solid door lock if someone is breaking into my house.
The content, like it or not, is the property of the distributor, and just because it's easy to steal it's not making stealing more justified.
Ever tried Falcon 4.0? I wonder why the never-ending saga of the Falcon 4.0 source code has never made it into Slashdot?
No, he claimed that Gnome and Nautilus were a drag for him, with his distribution. And then he said that Konqueror was a better option.
And I was just making the point that I had the same problems with my distribution, just the other way around. Ok?