but then you're stuck with a godawful controller that's utterly useless for gaming compared to keyboard and mouse.
You do know that back in the early days of PC gaming, games were often configured to use joysticks? But then the masses started buying C64's and PC clones and they were too cheap to buy cards with "game ports" and they complained about not being able to control to play the ports of NES games they bought. So then PC devs added keyboard controls...for action games....which sucked then and sucked now.
The mouse is a fine pointing device, it makes pointing easy. Too easy in my opinion. You probably knew about how the hardcore DOOM players thought about the "easy-mode mouse aiming for casuals" FPS's that came after DOOM
And now PC gamers are stuck with using mice and keyboards for EVERY game. It's not optimal. Keyboards suck for game control. If your'e going to game on a PC at least buy one of those those nostromo speedpads or razr tarterus things and bind movement to an analog stick. Yeah if you're playing some turn based hex game a mouse is fine, but you really shouldn't be playing something like War Thunder or Lego "whatever" or an action RPG with WASD.
That's essentially what it is, except it plays crappy android titles alongside GRID streaming and local PC game streaming...but ONLY from windows machines with Nvidia cards.
Said link is from a forbes article that links to the actual article...which is on a UK PC gaming website. Everyone knows that the UK and Europe is console hostile!
And note that the vast majority of that revenue is from MOBA's with DLC and MMO's with monthly fees, not actual game releases. In fact, quoting from the article:
Hereâ(TM)s another amazing statistic: DFC reports that their Top 20 list of PC games for 2013, in terms of usage, doesnâ(TM)t include a single game actually released in 2013. DFC says that MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) titles like League of Legends and DotA 2 âoedominate everything else by an order of magnitude in terms of more usage than other products,â followed by MMOs, strategy games, and shooters.
In other words, PC gamers are cheap bastard MOBA, CS, TF2 and WoW players who do nothing but basically play ONE game over and over and over.
Consoles are the dominant platform for single player at least because that's where the money is. Console gamers are willing to spend money on games, while many PC gamers seem to care more about buying hardware for e-peen bragging rights and benchmarks.....and then spend their time playing one map in DoTA or de_dust in CS.
selection bias...we all know that PC "master race types" like you tend to be pushy about PC gaming and tend to "encourage" others to go PC and tend to only hang out with other PC gamers and know little of consoles in general And it's worse if said "master race type" is from the UK or Europe.
PC has always played second fiddle to consoles in sales in general, for AAA titles anyway. In general mindset, there are only two time periods it didn't play second fiddle.
84-86: From the Death of the 2600 to the rise of NES. The C64 was king, it was cheap and most people who had one used it as a game console and only knew enough basic to load games from tape, or used cartridges. It helped that the C64 is a game console at heart.
93-95: DOOM and it's clones arrive, these were games the 16bit machines couldn't do well. this period ended with the PSone.
It's had a bit of resurgence with the Indie/Kickstarter/early access thing, indie devs are often don't have enough money, or experience to do a console port right away. Sometimes the dev is PC partisan, especially if they're in Europe. But usually a port will happen. .
If the XBOX or PS4 (as well as game developers) would just take the mouse and keyboard seriously
Sony takes mice and keyboard seriously with their Playstations. PS2's, PS3's and PS4's have USB ports for a reason. However Sony leaves it up to the developers to decide if they want to support keyboard/mouse and in what way. Requiring mouse/keyboard game control is probably not in their TRC requirements.
PS2: If a game has text chat or text entry, it almost always supports keyboards. That includes the settings disc for the Network adapter, and RPG Maker Keyboards/mice for game control is rarer, a few FPS's do like Half Life, FFXI, EQOA,
PS3: If a game or app uses the PS3 text entry widget, it automatically supports USB keyboard. Game chat, naming enchanted items in skyrim, signs in Minecraft, whatever. Keyboard for game control is rarer, again a few FPS like Dust514...but strangely, not the Orange Box. You can use keyboard/mouse to control the XMB.
PS4: like the PS3 there's pretty much automatic support for keyboards for text entry. There's at least one game that can use mouse/keyboard for game control in addition to chat and that's War Thunder. War Thunder also supports HOTAS, and uses the the PS4 Camera to use head tracking for view control.
Don't worry too much about the WoT, though carry around your key fingerprint with you so if you ever meet a gpg user in person you can show them that, they can copy it and then get your key. And sign your e-mail.
Let me guess, you're playing a lot of early access indies and "indies in general" that's the only way to have a library that large...and with that many Linux games on Steam.
Sure the small timers can do a Linux build... in fact what they're probably doing is taking their PS4 version and./configure make make installation-package or whatever for Linux (or vice versa)
But when it comes to games that aren't indies...well Linux is less well represented on Steam.
I now use webmail almost exclusively (when using PCs) and/or any number of different mobile device clients to get to my email. I don't even know how I would approach trying to set up an encrypted email system that works on 'everything' from webmail on PCs at home and at work to my ios tablet to my android phone to my girlfriend's macbook.
This is what IMAP is for. Just access your gmail over IMAP as the nerd gods intended with multiple gpg-supporting clients on multiple devices. Even if you don't use gpg, using gmail over IMAP is the way to go, you don't get the ads that way.
so it will work equally well from your home desktop machine and from a random internet cafe machine and from a web only terminal in an airport.
And yes it is insecure and fundamentally broken from a security point of view - that's the point being made.
Well, one can always use a gpg supporting mail client on an android device so that one doesn't need access mail insecurely over a web kiosk or internet cafe.
While I did generate at my first gpg key on a PS2 Linux kit, that's a serious edge case there with that vita statement, tepples. There ARE clients with gpg support for Android.
While the "user popup overlay thing" we usually get doesn't have the field to upload the key, I recently discovered you can upload them if you use this URL, which gives you the field to put it in.
I think Mail.app interfaces with OSX's built in "passwords/keys/keychain" feature to generate an S/MIME key if you don't want to use one of the comodo freecerts.
I don't use GPG to encrypt my email, for example, because nobody I know has anything installed capable of decrypting is or even verifying the signature.
I always sign my mail and follow a couple of mailing lists where gpg usage is not uncommon.
Sorry, I rambled on a bit there, but the point is, there's no real support or infrastructure for this kind of encryption.
Well, it's "some" better. The gpg4win download contains everything a windows user needs because it includes the windows version of claws mail, which has gpg support built in; the windows version of Kleopatra and GPA, two GUI's for gpg.
And the gpg4win documentation is "somewhat" better than it used to be. At least the PDF version is,
It's not built into the applications that people already use, so they have to get multiple plugins, and then other supporting files for those plugins.
Thunderbird really needs gpg support built in by default, like claws mail does. Technically the gpg support in claws-mail is also a plugin, but the plugin is included by default.
It's just a mess before you even get to key management, and there's not really a good, iron-clad key management system.
I'm not sure what you mean by that? But yes, it's not optimal on Windows. For us Linux users it's much easier because gpg is usually installed by default and every thing we need is a "yum install" or "apt-get install" away
I must be getting old when 7-digit UID"s are long time slashdotters. Get off my lawn! Hot Grits! CowboyNeal! Beowulf Clusters of Libraries of Congress!
Especially since I think those books are terrible. They are about as representative of BDSM as the average Pentecostal service is and the writing is terrible too. Seriously the sentences read like the comments on a facebook post about a middle-school cheerleading competition, only with more spelling errors.
The reason for that is obvious when you know that 50 Shades of Grey started out as Twilight fan-fiction.
The Fifty Shades trilogy was developed from a Twilight fan fiction series originally titled Master of the Universe and published episodically on fan-fiction websites under the pen name "Snowqueen's Icedragon".
If you want to use crypto in GMail then you have to cut and paste and clearly it's too much effort.
You don't have to cut and paste...if you access your Gmail with a real e-mail client over IMAP or POP3, which is what you should be doing anyway...no advertisements that way.
I was saying all this 14 years ago. FOSS Encryption is a mess. It is basically impossible for a regular user to set up encrypted mail. I'm an expert, and I never even managed too. (The K-Mail crew basically lying about their GPG-features didn't help back then)
First things first, there are easy button ways to create your keys. I used GPA for my first key, but that's deprecated/no longer used. We have KGPG and Seahorse now. (Seahorse might be the Passwords & Keys application in your menu)
But it's not that hard to do it on the command line. All you do is:
[code] gpg --gen-key [/code]
Then follow the prompts/instructions, which are actually fairly clear with reasonable defaults.
Then you need an e-mail client with good support for it. I personally recommend either Claws-Mail or Thunderbird with the Enigmail plugin. Then you follow their details on how to set up the e-mail client for gnupg.
I'd like to add that I hate PGP signatures in email messages, too.
For one, the operating systems and apps do not treat keys and sigs as first-class objects; they always end up looking like inlined ASCII barf,,/quote>
pgp-mime is supposed to be preferred over pgp-inline, at least for e-mail/newsgroups.
or little text files that have no informative icon + tooltips or associated apps.
For the e-mail client I use, they do have a little key icon and a tooltip that says Type: application/pgp-signature Size: xxx Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature"
No application is assigned to them though, but I don't really need it in my e-mail application.
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but then you're stuck with a godawful controller that's utterly useless for gaming compared to keyboard and mouse.
You do know that back in the early days of PC gaming, games were often configured to use joysticks? But then the masses started buying C64's and PC clones and they were too cheap to buy cards with "game ports" and they complained about not being able to control to play the ports of NES games they bought. So then PC devs added keyboard controls...for action games....which sucked then and sucked now.
The mouse is a fine pointing device, it makes pointing easy. Too easy in my opinion. You probably knew about how the hardcore DOOM players thought about the "easy-mode mouse aiming for casuals" FPS's that came after DOOM
And now PC gamers are stuck with using mice and keyboards for EVERY game. It's not optimal. Keyboards suck for game control. If your'e going to game on a PC at least buy one of those those nostromo speedpads or razr tarterus things and bind movement to an analog stick. Yeah if you're playing some turn based hex game a mouse is fine, but you really shouldn't be playing something like War Thunder or Lego "whatever" or an action RPG with WASD.
That's essentially what it is, except it plays crappy android titles alongside GRID streaming and local PC game streaming...but ONLY from windows machines with Nvidia cards.
At least the PS TV has better native titles.
It'll be an easy sell for me, not Sony and not MS.
It's ability to play PC games is based on streaming them from a Windows machine, so it's tied to MS the same as any Windows gaming box would be.
Said link is from a forbes article that links to the actual article...which is on a UK PC gaming website. Everyone knows that the UK and Europe is console hostile!
And note that the vast majority of that revenue is from MOBA's with DLC and MMO's with monthly fees, not actual game releases. In fact, quoting from the article:
Hereâ(TM)s another amazing statistic: DFC reports that their Top 20 list of PC games for 2013, in terms of usage, doesnâ(TM)t include a single game actually released in 2013. DFC says that MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) titles like League of Legends and DotA 2 âoedominate everything else by an order of magnitude in terms of more usage than other products,â followed by MMOs, strategy games, and shooters.
In other words, PC gamers are cheap bastard MOBA, CS, TF2 and WoW players who do nothing but basically play ONE game over and over and over.
Consoles are the dominant platform for single player at least because that's where the money is. Console gamers are willing to spend money on games, while many PC gamers seem to care more about buying hardware for e-peen bragging rights and benchmarks.....and then spend their time playing one map in DoTA or de_dust in CS.
selection bias...we all know that PC "master race types" like you tend to be pushy about PC gaming and tend to "encourage" others to go PC and tend to only hang out with other PC gamers and know little of consoles in general And it's worse if said "master race type" is from the UK or Europe.
PC has always played second fiddle to consoles in sales in general, for AAA titles anyway. In general mindset, there are only two time periods it didn't play second fiddle.
84-86: From the Death of the 2600 to the rise of NES. The C64 was king, it was cheap and most people who had one used it as a game console and only knew enough basic to load games from tape, or used cartridges. It helped that the C64 is a game console at heart.
93-95: DOOM and it's clones arrive, these were games the 16bit machines couldn't do well. this period ended with the PSone.
It's had a bit of resurgence with the Indie/Kickstarter/early access thing, indie devs are often don't have enough money, or experience to do a console port right away. Sometimes the dev is PC partisan, especially if they're in Europe. But usually a port will happen.
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yes, but each of those discs was sold new for $60.
Imagine a new console game selling 500000 copies whether disc/download at 60 bucks vs 1000000 copies at 5 bucks.
Fiend Folio was the dumbest. Some of the monsters were really lame
How dare you disparage the mighty Flumph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
The Flumph is most certainly NOT a lame....oh wait...it IS a lame monster.
If the XBOX or PS4 (as well as game developers) would just take the mouse and keyboard seriously
Sony takes mice and keyboard seriously with their Playstations. PS2's, PS3's and PS4's have USB ports for a reason. However Sony leaves it up to the developers to decide if they want to support keyboard/mouse and in what way. Requiring mouse/keyboard game control is probably not in their TRC requirements.
PS2: If a game has text chat or text entry, it almost always supports keyboards. That includes the settings disc for the Network adapter, and RPG Maker Keyboards/mice for game control is rarer, a few FPS's do like Half Life, FFXI, EQOA,
PS3: If a game or app uses the PS3 text entry widget, it automatically supports USB keyboard. Game chat, naming enchanted items in skyrim, signs in Minecraft, whatever. Keyboard for game control is rarer, again a few FPS like Dust514...but strangely, not the Orange Box. You can use keyboard/mouse to control the XMB.
PS4: like the PS3 there's pretty much automatic support for keyboards for text entry. There's at least one game that can use mouse/keyboard for game control in addition to chat and that's War Thunder. War Thunder also supports HOTAS, and uses the the PS4 Camera to use head tracking for view control.
but what if the old machine doesn't have it? Be just as difficult to get Trumpet Winsock on an old machine as get files off of it.
Start by uploading the public key to the keyservers and putting it here:
https://slashdot.org/users.pl?...
Don't worry too much about the WoT, though carry around your key fingerprint with you so if you ever meet a gpg user in person you can show them that, they can copy it and then get your key. And sign your e-mail.
Let me guess, you're playing a lot of early access indies and "indies in general" that's the only way to have a library that large...and with that many Linux games on Steam.
Sure the small timers can do a Linux build... in fact what they're probably doing is taking their PS4 version and ./configure make make installation-package or whatever for Linux (or vice versa)
But when it comes to games that aren't indies...well Linux is less well represented on Steam.
claws-mail
http://www.claws-mail.org/
I now use webmail almost exclusively (when using PCs) and/or any number of different mobile device clients to get to my email. I don't even know how I would approach trying to set up an encrypted email system that works on 'everything' from webmail on PCs at home and at work to my ios tablet to my android phone to my girlfriend's macbook.
This is what IMAP is for. Just access your gmail over IMAP as the nerd gods intended with multiple gpg-supporting clients on multiple devices. Even if you don't use gpg, using gmail over IMAP is the way to go, you don't get the ads that way.
so it will work equally well from your home desktop machine and from a random internet cafe machine and from a web only terminal in an airport.
And yes it is insecure and fundamentally broken from a security point of view - that's the point being made.
Well, one can always use a gpg supporting mail client on an android device so that one doesn't need access mail insecurely over a web kiosk or internet cafe.
While I did generate at my first gpg key on a PS2 Linux kit, that's a serious edge case there with that vita statement, tepples. There ARE clients with gpg support for Android.
While the "user popup overlay thing" we usually get doesn't have the field to upload the key, I recently discovered you can upload them if you use this URL, which gives you the field to put it in.
https://slashdot.org/users.pl?...
I think Mail.app interfaces with OSX's built in "passwords/keys/keychain" feature to generate an S/MIME key if you don't want to use one of the comodo freecerts.
https://sendgrid.com/blog/end-...
I don't use GPG to encrypt my email, for example, because nobody I know has anything installed capable of decrypting is or even verifying the signature.
I always sign my mail and follow a couple of mailing lists where gpg usage is not uncommon.
Sorry, I rambled on a bit there, but the point is, there's no real support or infrastructure for this kind of encryption.
Well, it's "some" better. The gpg4win download contains everything a windows user needs because it includes the windows version of claws mail, which has gpg support built in; the windows version of Kleopatra and GPA, two GUI's for gpg.
And the gpg4win documentation is "somewhat" better than it used to be. At least the PDF version is,
http://wald.intevation.org/frs...
the HTML version still has sucky navigation:
http://www.gpg4win.org/doc/en/...
It's not built into the applications that people already use, so they have to get multiple plugins, and then other supporting files for those plugins.
Thunderbird really needs gpg support built in by default, like claws mail does. Technically the gpg support in claws-mail is also a plugin, but the plugin is included by default.
It's just a mess before you even get to key management, and there's not really a good, iron-clad key management system.
I'm not sure what you mean by that? But yes, it's not optimal on Windows. For us Linux users it's much easier because gpg is usually installed by default and every thing we need is a "yum install" or "apt-get install" away
Since the parent was a Linux user (obviously since they mentioned Kmail), I didn't feel the need to do a complete step by step detailed tutorial.
besides, doing either:
[code] sudo apt-get install seahorse claws-mail thunderbird -enigmail kgpg[/code]
or [code]sudo yum install seahorse claws-mail thunderbird-enigmail kgpg[/code]
Really isn't that hard. Just found out GPA isn't deprecated, updated version is available...it's not in the Fedora repos though.
Oh I know, I'm a long-time slashdotter
I must be getting old when 7-digit UID"s are long time slashdotters. Get off my lawn! Hot Grits! CowboyNeal! Beowulf Clusters of Libraries of Congress!
Especially since I think those books are terrible. They are about as representative of BDSM as the average Pentecostal service is and the writing is terrible too. Seriously the sentences read like the comments on a facebook post about a middle-school cheerleading competition, only with more spelling errors.
The reason for that is obvious when you know that 50 Shades of Grey started out as Twilight fan-fiction.
- Crypto doesn't play well with webmail
- Find a way to make it work with webmail.
It does already work with webmail, if you use a proper e-mail client to access your webmail, which is what people should be doing anyway.
If you want to use crypto in GMail then you have to cut and paste and clearly it's too much effort.
You don't have to cut and paste...if you access your Gmail with a real e-mail client over IMAP or POP3, which is what you should be doing anyway...no advertisements that way.
What is holding adoption back is webmail. Until someone comes up with a really good solution for webmail
The solution is to use a proper e-mail client with your webmail service. I use gmail but I use it via IMAP with a real e-mail client.
I was saying all this 14 years ago.
FOSS Encryption is a mess. It is basically impossible for a regular user to set up encrypted mail.
I'm an expert, and I never even managed too. (The K-Mail crew basically lying about their GPG-features didn't help back then)
First things first, there are easy button ways to create your keys. I used GPA for my first key, but that's deprecated/no longer used. We have KGPG and Seahorse now. (Seahorse might be the Passwords & Keys application in your menu)
But it's not that hard to do it on the command line. All you do is:
[code]
gpg --gen-key
[/code]
Then follow the prompts/instructions, which are actually fairly clear with reasonable defaults.
Then you need an e-mail client with good support for it. I personally recommend either Claws-Mail or Thunderbird with the Enigmail plugin. Then you follow their details on how to set up the e-mail client for gnupg.
I'd like to add that I hate PGP signatures in email messages, too.
For one, the operating systems and apps do not treat keys and sigs as first-class objects; they always end up looking like inlined ASCII barf,,/quote>
pgp-mime is supposed to be preferred over pgp-inline, at least for e-mail/newsgroups.
or little text files that have no informative icon + tooltips or associated apps.
For the e-mail client I use, they do have a little key icon and a tooltip that says
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: xxx
Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature"
No application is assigned to them though, but I don't really need it in my e-mail application.