If this makes me a "bully," so be it. I'd rather be a bully than a pussy who can't handle justified criticism and needs to be isolated in their own personal fucking hugbox at all times.
yes yes, being polite and not acting as if the game developers owe me what I want at the expense of everyone else is for girls and fags, right? Nice misogyny there.
So following on from knowing that there is lots of in-game data collection and profiling the question becomes even more relvant: why bother hanging our on forums with a bunch of disaffected attention seekers, when you are getting reliable information about game play and users from more your own, objective, sources?
It probably goes something like this:
1. The "hardcore" players are the most vocal and visible.
2. Their posts/reviews/comments are the most likely to be seen because the casuals and less-hardcore don't post as much.
3. Which means that prospective new players only see what the hardcore have to say about the game. Which might be things like:
a. The game has gone carebear since the Pandas
b. The game has no high level content the devs are ignoring us hardcore l33t who have been playing since beta.
c. The devs can do no right.
4. Now even if the prospective player might end up only a casual or less hardcore...if they only see posts about how there is no high level content...they might not pick up the game even if they themselves might never reach high levels...because they also think that they might...someday.
5. So the devs have to placate the hardcore, to shut them up so they don't poison the discussion with negativity even more than they do. This eplains things like the recent skelly buff, healing changes, and regional difficulty in Minecraft. All done to placate the hardcore "the game is too easy and carebear" crowd. The sort of guys who stopped playing nethack and switched to one of the variants because they claimed it was too easy because they ascended all the race/class combos. Which, of course, took them YEARS of making Nethack the only game they played. You see what I'm saying?
That's looking at the past with rose-colored glasses. For every good 80's/90's game there was a lot of crap that you don't remember.
In the 90's if you picked up 5 random games, 4 of them would have been DOOM clones.
Personally I think the bar of quality has risen. Even the low-rated games are at least "playable" these days and have reasonably good graphics and sound even if they aren't up to AAA quality.
Wouldn't the photos have been already uploaded the moment they were taken on a camera phone with a data plan?
Shudders at Camera phone...even crappy point and shoots take better pictures. Heck I've got a 3.2MP Minolta Z10 that takes better pictures in most conditions than my 3.2MP phone and 5MP tablet.
Why are all applications banned from smartphones and tablets and games whose developers don't qualify for a console license necessarily "crap people don't care about"?
Stop asking why, because it's simply not something most are interested in. Your interests are not their interests and all your whining about how Nintendo/Sony/Whatever won't hand out dev kits willy to every wannabe game developer with a missle command clone they want to publish, won't change it.
You'd need a computer to do that first. A high school student who has only a smartphone and/or a tablet may not have any way to earn money to buy a computer.
How old are you, and why do you keep focusing so much on the "kids"? If a young person doesn't have enough money for a computer and doesn't have access to one at school, they can wait till they do, won't take long. If they want to be a programmer even some cheap refurb will do.
Fedora? Reboot? Naaah, it's very stable and thoroughly bug proof. The year of the Fedora Linux Desktop is at....^H^H
All kidding aside, I've been running Fedora since F12 and it's been stable and not crash prone....there ARE issues. Took till F17 before on-the-fly Pulseaudio output switching worked properly.
I wouldn't worry about "some" of the bleeding edge stuff, like systemd, that is pretty transparent to end users and you can still use "service" rather than systemctl if you want.
(Wii was getting great publicity over motion controllers so they stuck some gyroscopes in their, renamed it Sixaxis, and tried to pass it off as revolutionary),
You do know that the PS2 had motion controls before the Wii, right? PS2 Eyetoy? You remember Richard Marks "Magic Duel" at SIGGRAPH 2001?
Yes, the "Stop Having Fun Guys", they've ruined more games than I can count. They're very vocal and because developers are lazy bums they only read/listen to what they say....like with Minecraft, because it's easier that way.
I'm sorry but E-mail security simply can't be one button easy, but it's not that difficult. It's long past time that people should be expected to be able to use a reasonably simple UI alongside HOWTO's/Videos/Documentation to set secure mail up.
I myself used GPA (Gnu Privacy Assistant) to create my GnuPG key.
You see this is why I say Linux doesn't have a prayer on the desktop as those that have the skills to write the OS and programs suck sweaty balls when it comes to designing UIs for Joe and Jane Public,
Have you actually seen the UI's for Seahorse, Kleopatra or GPA? It really can't get any easier than that and you only need to do it once.
Trust me friend as I work for Joe and Jane 6 days a week and most can't tell you what OS they have on their PC or their phone, they sure as hell ain't gonna have the skills to set up and use your solution.
Come now, that's a bit condescending to Joe and Jane. I bet most would know if they have either an Android or iPhone and most know which Windows they're running, though they might not know if they're running 32 or 64 bit.
On Windows it's even easier than Linux, install gpg4win and Enigmail and they're good to go. They've even got documentation with pictures of the UI.
You've mentioned before that few people you know use a real e-mail client. Don't be part of the problem, tell them how using webmail is inherently not as good as using a real e-mail client.
on os x anyway, once you get the.ps7 (iirc) file on your desktop, double clicky and it's insta imported into your keychain.
Nice!
It would be nice if they added something inside the mail app itself to request a keypair - make the whole obtain/install process very easy, just click a button to obtain and install. I bet a lot more people would use it.
That process really belongs inside the email program anyway. Having to go outside the mail app to get and install an email keypair is awkward, not where it belongs.
Oh, I agree totally, somebody should suggest that to the free cert providers that they create an API for a plugin to call or something.
but i'm not fiddling with wine on a laptop, attaching that to a composite tv-out converter and then plugging it into a TV to watch a TV programme, that simply isn't convenient
What, your TV doesn't have VGA or better yet, HDMI?
There's always the "Get her a laptop" solution. Or you can get her a tablet, the default Gmail app can use IMAP, but K-9 can use IMAP and APG (the gnupg for android), then all she needs is wifi/3G/4G
Isn't the resolution to this to simply for everyone to create their own key pair?
Yeah, you can create your own S/Mime certs but if you use your own self created one the application on the receiving end puts up a "scary" message about it being self signed or something like that.
I took a look at this then pondered, why is it for free?
Free for personal use, they charge for business certs. There's no money in personal certs so they give them away as advertising/loss leader for their other services (like their security suites and business certs/services) IIRC their business certs have more features and are for more than a single year.
Note I am refering to S/MIME not PGP, which is different but doesn't work very well with HTML. message (or at least engimail doesn't last time I checked).
Say what? PGP doesn't care what the content is, especially not if you're using PGP/MIME rather than PGP/Inline
Part of the problem is he's using Symantec's PGP rather than the OSX build of GnuPG. And considering that the original version that HE created was command line only, he should know that to decrypt something sent to him, all he needs is his own private key. I mean, after all, he's Phil Zimmerman, doesn't he have his key?
So does yours. Though Slashdot's lameness filter does prevent one from posting an ascii armored encrypted message. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux)
I don't know! I too uploaded mine years ago and there doesn't seem to be any way in the "improved" account manager to upload one.
If only one could make the accounts thingy behave like the one in the old days.... at least you can still make Slashdot itself look and act mostly "traditional" By traditional I mean how Slashdot looked and acted when I joined in 1999-2000
I haven't seen a good writeup on "real" e-mail clients in years. As for android I think the default Mail app integrates with google calendar, but I don't know about K-9's integration, though you can add PGP support to K-9.
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If this makes me a "bully," so be it. I'd rather be a bully than a pussy who can't handle justified criticism and needs to be isolated in their own personal fucking hugbox at all times.
yes yes, being polite and not acting as if the game developers owe me what I want at the expense of everyone else is for girls and fags, right? Nice misogyny there.
So following on from knowing that there is lots of in-game data collection and profiling the question becomes even more relvant: why bother hanging our on forums with a bunch of disaffected attention seekers, when you are getting reliable information about game play and users from more your own, objective, sources?
It probably goes something like this:
1. The "hardcore" players are the most vocal and visible.
2. Their posts/reviews/comments are the most likely to be seen because the casuals and less-hardcore don't post as much.
3. Which means that prospective new players only see what the hardcore have to say about the game. Which might be things like:
a. The game has gone carebear since the Pandas
b. The game has no high level content the devs are ignoring us hardcore l33t who have been playing since beta.
c. The devs can do no right.
4. Now even if the prospective player might end up only a casual or less hardcore...if they only see posts about how there is no high level content...they might not pick up the game even if they themselves might never reach high levels...because they also think that they might...someday.
5. So the devs have to placate the hardcore, to shut them up so they don't poison the discussion with negativity even more than they do. This eplains things like the recent skelly buff, healing changes, and regional difficulty in Minecraft. All done to placate the hardcore "the game is too easy and carebear" crowd. The sort of guys who stopped playing nethack and switched to one of the variants because they claimed it was too easy because they ascended all the race/class combos. Which, of course, took them YEARS of making Nethack the only game they played. You see what I'm saying?
That's looking at the past with rose-colored glasses. For every good 80's/90's game there was a lot of crap that you don't remember.
In the 90's if you picked up 5 random games, 4 of them would have been DOOM clones.
Personally I think the bar of quality has risen. Even the low-rated games are at least "playable" these days and have reasonably good graphics and sound even if they aren't up to AAA quality.
Wouldn't the photos have been already uploaded the moment they were taken on a camera phone with a data plan?
Shudders at Camera phone...even crappy point and shoots take better pictures. Heck I've got a 3.2MP Minolta Z10 that takes better pictures in most conditions than my 3.2MP phone and 5MP tablet.
Why are all applications banned from smartphones and tablets and games whose developers don't qualify for a console license necessarily "crap people don't care about"?
Stop asking why, because it's simply not something most are interested in. Your interests are not their interests and all your whining about how Nintendo/Sony/Whatever won't hand out dev kits willy to every wannabe game developer with a missle command clone they want to publish, won't change it.
You'd need a computer to do that first. A high school student who has only a smartphone and/or a tablet may not have any way to earn money to buy a computer.
How old are you, and why do you keep focusing so much on the "kids"? If a young person doesn't have enough money for a computer and doesn't have access to one at school, they can wait till they do, won't take long. If they want to be a programmer even some cheap refurb will do.
Why would you run that on your desktops? At least run CentOS.
Fedora is too bleeding edge and releases too quickly.
CentOS isn't new enough.
I want something in-between.
Fedora? Reboot? Naaah, it's very stable and thoroughly bug proof. The year of the Fedora Linux Desktop is at....^H^H
All kidding aside, I've been running Fedora since F12 and it's been stable and not crash prone....there ARE issues. Took till F17 before on-the-fly Pulseaudio output switching worked properly.
I wouldn't worry about "some" of the bleeding edge stuff, like systemd, that is pretty transparent to end users and you can still use "service" rather than systemctl if you want.
(Wii was getting great publicity over motion controllers so they stuck some gyroscopes in their, renamed it Sixaxis, and tried to pass it off as revolutionary),
You do know that the PS2 had motion controls before the Wii, right? PS2 Eyetoy? You remember Richard Marks "Magic Duel" at SIGGRAPH 2001?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PtoxKDcCXc
So yes, Sony did do something before Nintendo did.
Yes, the "Stop Having Fun Guys", they've ruined more games than I can count. They're very vocal and because developers are lazy bums they only read/listen to what they say....like with Minecraft, because it's easier that way.
I'm sorry but E-mail security simply can't be one button easy, but it's not that difficult. It's long past time that people should be expected to be able to use a reasonably simple UI alongside HOWTO's/Videos/Documentation to set secure mail up.
I myself used GPA (Gnu Privacy Assistant) to create my GnuPG key.
You see this is why I say Linux doesn't have a prayer on the desktop as those that have the skills to write the OS and programs suck sweaty balls when it comes to designing UIs for Joe and Jane Public,
Have you actually seen the UI's for Seahorse, Kleopatra or GPA? It really can't get any easier than that and you only need to do it once.
Trust me friend as I work for Joe and Jane 6 days a week and most can't tell you what OS they have on their PC or their phone, they sure as hell ain't gonna have the skills to set up and use your solution.
Come now, that's a bit condescending to Joe and Jane. I bet most would know if they have either an Android or iPhone and most know which Windows they're running, though they might not know if they're running 32 or 64 bit.
On Windows it's even easier than Linux, install gpg4win and Enigmail and they're good to go. They've even got documentation with pictures of the UI.
You've mentioned before that few people you know use a real e-mail client. Don't be part of the problem, tell them how using webmail is inherently not as good as using a real e-mail client.
on os x anyway, once you get the .ps7 (iirc) file on your desktop, double clicky and it's insta imported into your keychain.
Nice!
It would be nice if they added something inside the mail app itself to request a keypair - make the whole obtain/install process very easy, just click a button to obtain and install. I bet a lot more people would use it.
That process really belongs inside the email program anyway. Having to go outside the mail app to get and install an email keypair is awkward, not where it belongs.
Oh, I agree totally, somebody should suggest that to the free cert providers that they create an API for a plugin to call or something.
but i'm not fiddling with wine on a laptop, attaching that to a composite tv-out converter and then plugging it into a TV to watch a TV programme, that simply isn't convenient
What, your TV doesn't have VGA or better yet, HDMI?
For Android use k-9 mail with APG. Works with gmail or whatever.
There's always the "Get her a laptop" solution. Or you can get her a tablet, the default Gmail app can use IMAP, but K-9 can use IMAP and APG (the gnupg for android), then all she needs is wifi/3G/4G
Isn't the resolution to this to simply for everyone to create their own key pair?
Yeah, you can create your own S/Mime certs but if you use your own self created one the application on the receiving end puts up a "scary" message about it being self signed or something like that.
I've been using Claws-Mail for some years now. I replaced Thunderbird with it back in the Thunderbird 1.5 days IIRC.
I took a look at this then pondered, why is it for free?
Free for personal use, they charge for business certs. There's no money in personal certs so they give them away as advertising/loss leader for their other services (like their security suites and business certs/services) IIRC their business certs have more features and are for more than a single year.
Note I am refering to S/MIME not PGP, which is different but doesn't work very well with HTML. message (or at least engimail doesn't last time I checked).
Say what? PGP doesn't care what the content is, especially not if you're using PGP/MIME rather than PGP/Inline
Easy fix for that, switch her to a real e-mail client so that she can use gmail via IMAP as the Geek Gods intended. As a plus...no more ads.
Several tools exist for searching keyservers, seahorse on Linux can search multiple ones.
Part of the problem is he's using Symantec's PGP rather than the OSX build of GnuPG. And considering that the original version that HE created was command line only, he should know that to decrypt something sent to him, all he needs is his own private key. I mean, after all, he's Phil Zimmerman, doesn't he have his key?
Actually there is no such insistence on key exchanges being in person.
That may be, but several people in this discussion have either said or implied that key exchanges should only be done in person.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
So does yours. Though Slashdot's lameness filter does prevent one from posting an ascii armored encrypted message.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAlIHmE8ACgkQnludVzJNqF0cAwCgjLhVmE7jzuKZSWsogiFOlf4Q
JVoAn3BW/V0FD4rX32AR+3YbEUcwrYOE
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I don't know! I too uploaded mine years ago and there doesn't seem to be any way in the "improved" account manager to upload one.
If only one could make the accounts thingy behave like the one in the old days.... at least you can still make Slashdot itself look and act mostly "traditional" By traditional I mean how Slashdot looked and acted when I joined in 1999-2000
I haven't seen a good writeup on "real" e-mail clients in years. As for android I think the default Mail app integrates with google calendar, but I don't know about K-9's integration, though you can add PGP support to K-9.