A suggestion: Grab one of the launchers. I use the Technic launcher most of the time. You can play any of the "official" modpacks with a click, or add the "unofficial" community packs right into it with minimal effort, and you don't have to worry about scummy click through sites, etc...
That's the only real issue I have with some of the MC mod community: way too in love with adfly, and way to possessive of "their" code which, in most cases, could be shutdown by Mojang in a minute if they decided to go full scumbag. A lot of other great folks, though, especially when you're starting out. And these days, once you get forge installed, it's just a breeze.
They had a big library, but they didn't have the kind of clout back then. It was pretty much the opposite of the current situation: the first party devs were the ones with all the juice who liked to borg up developers.
It always seemed strange to me that so many Android rooting tools were windows-exclusive.
They're generally just front-ends for adb and fastboot (and possibly curl, if they fetch the files, too), because average windows users are afraid of command lines. The equivalent tool in linux would be little more than a very small shell script.
I wouldn't say right now, though I'd definitely agree with the 80s. Back then, indie games (I'm reminded of the awesome Ghostbusters game on my C64 - Activision was still a little indie studio in '84) were about on par with what you could expect from the market as a whole.
Not really the case today. Even the "great" indie games of today (Fez, Bastion, etc..) are generations behind in gameplay.
IMO, they just seem great because the AAA scene of today is utterly fucked.
Bastion (developed by an indie team, published by a big name)
Bastion was a pretty good game, but I think that calling it "indie" is stretching the term to uselessness. You get all the belt-tightening quality of an indie team, plus all the obnoxious customer hostility of a big-time publisher?
I don't know about that one. I've been playing Minecraft for some time (since about 1.2.5, I think) and precious little has come out of Mojang that has improved it much. They finally fixed the lava flow problem, and occasionally add something cool (Redstone update in 1.5.0, e.g.), but I think that without the extremely rich mod community, which has little to thank the Devs for, Minecraft would have foundered a long time ago.
Of course any access point that is open or you have access to is always available.
That's what I thought they were talking about. But apparently, from some reading, they're talking about unlimited VOIP calling. I'm not sure if they have a transparent pass-thru or not, though.
I still don't understand how Sony had a format that was better than anything else on the market, existing economies of scale that would have made it possible to sell it for less than anything else on the market, and still failed.
Because they're Sony. The tech can be rock solid, the market set up for them to snatch it up in one go, and have it actually be a good thing for the customers buying it; but they still won't let it out the door before they've shit all over it with obnoxious lockdowns, crappy software, and customer contempt.
It isn't one manufacturer. There have been over 20 million recalled vehicles due to ignition switch problems, from basically every manufacturer, over the last 30 years.
You say that like it's a lot. Shit, Ford alone beat that in one recall back in the 80s (ish...?)
Oh, I actually thought you meant moving off the page to another page, in the same tab (e.g., click a link on/., slashdot cookie deletes after X seconds).
I saw that too. Decided to stay with Disconnect + NS + RequestPolicy.
There is only one thing you can take for granted for advertising: they will play dirty. If you offer them an olive branch, they'll beat you with it, then try to sell you a salve to make the pain go away. There's no difference in philosophy to that of the spammers of old (who the EFF used to support), and anyone who doesn't understand that has no business making a privacy tool.
I'm using Self-Destructing Cookies, too, but I haven't found any way to make it delete when you move off the page. The settings just seem to allow deleting them when you close the browser, or the tab. It would be nice, though. Can you tell me how you did it?
1. The suggestion to replace Ghostery was based on the knowledge that its devs are willing to work *with* scumbag advertisers, which puts them on the wrong side of privacy concerns. Using both doesn't remove the untrusted extension.
2. Both (all 3) apps do the same thing. Ignoring the possibility of Ghostery "whitewashing" their own lists for pay (a legitimate concern given #1), they're likely using the same (or near enough) lists, so you're just adding overhead and slowdowns to every page load.
That said, I wasn't aware of badger, having changed to Disconnect when I learned about Ghostery going bad. I'll have to check it out, to see if it's better than Disconnect.
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I've even heard it surmised (possibly here) that putting a computer program in memory for execution is technically a copyright violation
It's more than surmise, it's the entire "reasoning" for EULAs having any force.
Damn you, now I want to watch Blazing Saddles...
Especially when the community then takes those tools and DOES fix those problems
Of course, they had to go Steam DRM, even on the CDs, so screw 'em now.
It's a long assumption that the sun will live long enough, at the pace GRRM writes...
That prick in the BMW who's cut four people off in the past 37 seconds (you all know the one).
A suggestion: Grab one of the launchers. I use the Technic launcher most of the time. You can play any of the "official" modpacks with a click, or add the "unofficial" community packs right into it with minimal effort, and you don't have to worry about scummy click through sites, etc...
That's the only real issue I have with some of the MC mod community: way too in love with adfly, and way to possessive of "their" code which, in most cases, could be shutdown by Mojang in a minute if they decided to go full scumbag. A lot of other great folks, though, especially when you're starting out. And these days, once you get forge installed, it's just a breeze.
They had a big library, but they didn't have the kind of clout back then. It was pretty much the opposite of the current situation: the first party devs were the ones with all the juice who liked to borg up developers.
It always seemed strange to me that so many Android rooting tools were windows-exclusive.
They're generally just front-ends for adb and fastboot (and possibly curl, if they fetch the files, too), because average windows users are afraid of command lines. The equivalent tool in linux would be little more than a very small shell script.
Get a handheld gaming device
Which is, of course, the correct answer, but directly contradicts GGPs assertion that "no one needs both a smart phone and a handheld game console."
I wouldn't say right now, though I'd definitely agree with the 80s. Back then, indie games (I'm reminded of the awesome Ghostbusters game on my C64 - Activision was still a little indie studio in '84) were about on par with what you could expect from the market as a whole.
Not really the case today. Even the "great" indie games of today (Fez, Bastion, etc..) are generations behind in gameplay.
IMO, they just seem great because the AAA scene of today is utterly fucked.
Bastion (developed by an indie team, published by a big name)
Bastion was a pretty good game, but I think that calling it "indie" is stretching the term to uselessness. You get all the belt-tightening quality of an indie team, plus all the obnoxious customer hostility of a big-time publisher?
I don't know about that one. I've been playing Minecraft for some time (since about 1.2.5, I think) and precious little has come out of Mojang that has improved it much. They finally fixed the lava flow problem, and occasionally add something cool (Redstone update in 1.5.0, e.g.), but I think that without the extremely rich mod community, which has little to thank the Devs for, Minecraft would have foundered a long time ago.
That's too bad. =\ I would have jumped at the deal otherwise (I'm already on sprint, so the coverage isn't an issue).
Of course any access point that is open or you have access to is always available.
That's what I thought they were talking about. But apparently, from some reading, they're talking about unlimited VOIP calling. I'm not sure if they have a transparent pass-thru or not, though.
KitKat is the latest model, on the Moto G. 4.2.2 is recent enough that I considered it "late model" enough, which is on the Moto X.
I don't consider either version particularly usable.
I like how they list "unlimited wifi" as a feature of all their plans. XD
Too bad they only seem to support two phones, and both are Moto and running late-model android versions. :P
I still don't understand how Sony had a format that was better than anything else on the market, existing economies of scale that would have made it possible to sell it for less than anything else on the market, and still failed.
Because they're Sony. The tech can be rock solid, the market set up for them to snatch it up in one go, and have it actually be a good thing for the customers buying it; but they still won't let it out the door before they've shit all over it with obnoxious lockdowns, crappy software, and customer contempt.
Organizing and acting in concert for ostensibly common interests (unionizing) is orthogonal to bribing lawmakers (lobbying).
It isn't one manufacturer. There have been over 20 million recalled vehicles due to ignition switch problems, from basically every manufacturer, over the last 30 years.
You say that like it's a lot. Shit, Ford alone beat that in one recall back in the 80s (ish...?)
Oh, I actually thought you meant moving off the page to another page, in the same tab (e.g., click a link on /., slashdot cookie deletes after X seconds).
I saw that too. Decided to stay with Disconnect + NS + RequestPolicy.
There is only one thing you can take for granted for advertising: they will play dirty. If you offer them an olive branch, they'll beat you with it, then try to sell you a salve to make the pain go away. There's no difference in philosophy to that of the spammers of old (who the EFF used to support), and anyone who doesn't understand that has no business making a privacy tool.
What would be really impressive would be the plugin that removes (N + 1) of kookboi's dribblings.
I'm using Self-Destructing Cookies, too, but I haven't found any way to make it delete when you move off the page. The settings just seem to allow deleting them when you close the browser, or the tab. It would be nice, though. Can you tell me how you did it?
Using both of them has a couple of downsides:
1. The suggestion to replace Ghostery was based on the knowledge that its devs are willing to work *with* scumbag advertisers, which puts them on the wrong side of privacy concerns. Using both doesn't remove the untrusted extension.
2. Both (all 3) apps do the same thing. Ignoring the possibility of Ghostery "whitewashing" their own lists for pay (a legitimate concern given #1), they're likely using the same (or near enough) lists, so you're just adding overhead and slowdowns to every page load.
That said, I wasn't aware of badger, having changed to Disconnect when I learned about Ghostery going bad. I'll have to check it out, to see if it's better than Disconnect.
Just a suggestion: Consider replacing Ghostery with Disconnect. Ghostery embraces the Dark Side