Because you're not uploading a copy of the entire file system, you're only uploading a few files that happen to reside in an encrypted file system for convenience (as opposed to having an encrypted partition and a non-encrypted partition, a scenario in which you will probably be wasting space in the non-encrypted volume).
I know you will, and trust me, I thought deep and hard about this, but even though I read and cherished all your love letters and emails begging me to stay, in the end I just had to do what is best for me. Believe me, this was not as hard for me as it was for you but eventually it would happen. It's better to have done it while I still had some sanity left.
You are very welcome to visit any time you want, though, but I'm guessing you won't. And that is one of the reasons why I had to leave: you are too close-minded and wouldn't let me grow, learn, improve and be happy. I know you mean well and that deep down you think you're doing the right thing and that there's nothing wrong with your closed world. I wish I could show you. I wish you would listen. I wish you could change. But I know you won't. And that's OK, I forgive you.
I left the insane PHP world quite a while ago and wrote a post detailing some of my reasons. Even though PHP has improved a lot since then, the foundations still suck. For example, the vast majority of people writing PHP are still "web designers" who know nothing about writing proper code. And I just don't get it when people tell me I have to be patient because PHP is improving - why wait that PHP becomes better when you can work with better tools now? I get much better salaries and enjoy the projects I work on a lot more since I dropped PHP. It's just not worth it.
The linked article is from Dec 11 2015, I remember reading it when it came out. I don't get it. Is Slashdot participating in a disinformation campaign to weaken the morale of those who still want to try to do something about these issues?
PHP is getting better but still has a long way to go before I can say I would choose it over other languages. Besides many of the things already mentioned here, I have a few more basic gripes with the language, namely its community/"ecosystem", Composer, namespaces and autoloading. I wrote about it in more detail and as expected (unfortunately), it generated lots of criticism from some fan boys, as well as some other more rational defensive comments from not-so-fired-up readers. I also wrote about what I consider to be the mentality of these folks who defend PHP as if their life depended on it, and how I hope they someday can see the light.
It's the first time I'm hearing about IAC. That was not the company when I bought the two products, it was GG, nothing else. And at the time they actually had one guy from the community who was officially creating patches for the Linux version, and he was doing it for free. Suddenly they decided that the Linux version would be "community supported", which could be fine for a lot of people (myself included), but what infuriated me was when they simply decided that they would completely remove Linux support and not accept any more patches from that guy. This wasn't really costing them more money but they deliberately decided to fuck all the people who showed them their support, when they could have very easily maintained Linux as a target platform. So, as I said before, screw you GG.
Crowdfunding to port Torque to Linux? Interesting... but I'm not falling for that one again. I already "donated" a few years ago, when I shelled out over a couple hundred dollars for both Torque3D and Torque2D under the promise that they worked on Linux (they actually sold three versions: Windows, Mac and Linux), only to have all my requests for help completely ignored when I complained that neither of them worked, and see the whole Linux ball dropped a few months later.
So GarageGames: screw you, you're not getting my money again.
The suits are seeking monetary damages on behalf of potentially millions of users of the three companies.
Cool! I'm a user of google and facebook, so if they win, I'll get some mone... oh, wait...
I simply don't understand how this idiotic flood of lawsuits from everyone suing everyone else is still allowed. I mean, has anyone stopped to think of how much time and money is wasted on stupid cases? Not that this subject isn't important but come on, seeking monetary damages on behalf of the users?! WTF?!
Cool, I didn't know the iPad could use the mobile network. But in that case - and I'm not simply bashing the iPad, personally I have nothing against it - it just makes it more stupid: if it already connects to the mobile network, why not make phone calls?
No, of course not, but the specific situations you mentioned are man-driven. Besides, no species become extinct in those situations any more than, for example, the Iberian Wolf became extinct; they disappeared from southern Portugal and Spain but they're not extinct.
We are natural, indeed. Unless someone else created us (I don't believe in a god or a "superior entity", btw).
So we're either a glitch in Nature's seemingly perfect system, or a far technologically superior alien race made us.
That's actually a thought that crossed my mind a few times. Not that I give it any credibility or much thought at all but sometimes I imagine that we're nothing but tiny little particles in someone else's universe. Kind of like the galaxy in MIB 1:)
Again, as I said in the comment I replied to a few minutes ago, those are not naturally occurring situations, those are situations created by man.
Rats didn't swim to easter island and cats were introduced in some regions by humans, too - not to mention that the latter are a species created by humans.
Look folks, it's quite simple: species don't anihilate each other just like that, because it would disrupt the whole ecosystem around them. This isn't rocket science and even farmers (no disrespect meant, it's just that farmers are not biologists, just as biologists wouldn't know how to grow corn) know what happens when some animal species gets wiped out from a region. The effects can be invisible or can be catastrophic. And Nature doesn't "let" such things happen just like that. The whole system is "built" on a very delicate balance.
Although logically correct, I don't think your arguments are valid, because you are mentioning situations that do not occur naturally in nature - they are created by man.
Actually, Bananatree3 is right: we are the only species that destroy our own world and lead other species to extinction.
What you are talking about is natural selection, something that occurs naturally; what Bananatree3 was talking about is doing it on purpose, in a unnatural way.
The domain owner is not stupid. He possibly bought the domain because he had other plans for it. The web is full of sites with "cool" and "funny" domain names like this one. Why should this be different?
What he should do is let the banks and companies sue him for having their private documents, and then counter-sue and make a big pile of money. That would probably teach something to those stupid admins. But even if it didn't, at least he'd be rich. I know I'd hope that it would go on, if I were him.
Yes, getting TGE to run on Linux is an ungrateful task, to say the least.
Some time ago I got lured into buying it because they used to state on the product page that they supported linux. I bought both Torque Game Engine (3D) and Torque Game Builder (2D).
Long story short, the Linux version is far from the quality of the Windows and OS X counterparts (when it runs at all) and the company dropped Linux as a supported platform, "because it consumes too many of their resources". Instead, the Linux version is now supported by the community - but it bears the same price tag, nonetheless...
There used to be a guy who offered himself to help with the Linux version of the engine. He did this *for free*. Garage Games used to take months to reply to his e-mails when he sent them a message saying "hey guys, you just released a new TGE version so I took care of making a linux release, it's ready for you to put on your page". There was somewhat of a revolt on the forums and Garage Games eventually worked with this guy for some more time (still for free) and after that, I just gave up on Garage Games, because their support really suck. It's just as UnDiWhan said on another comment: a pervasive attitude of "If you can't figure it out without help, you shouldn't have gotten the Advanced Engine". This is also valid for the regular TGE and TGB.
Things may have changed, though, because Garage Games created a buzzword for their documentation and also a site to host it. But again, just like the Linux versions are "community-supported", the documentation is mostly (all?) user created content - it's a Wiki...
As for Ogre3D, I wouldn't say it's slow, it's actually pretty good and pretty fast. But if you don't use it correctly, it can kill your game. I've seen games using Ogre very efficiently and others that were slow as hell.
Now I can send documents in OpenDocument format to everyone and when they say "hey, I don't know how to open this thing you sent me", I can tell them "well, you can either use OpenOffice or get the converter". The rest of the conversation would be something like this: - Hey, but the converter is only available for Office 2003 and 2007, I only have XP and I don't want to spend $100+ on a new version of MS Office! - Well, you can either buy it or switch to the another Office software, if you want to read the documents I sent you. - I will not! Why should someone be forced to buy or use something against his will, just to open someone else's documents?? - Exactly...;)
I definitely recommend Gandi.net. They're friendly, their terms of service are fair and honest and they don't offer as much options as Godaddy - yes, this is good, because I'm talking about all the sh$t that Godaddy tries to push down clients' throats when they buy one simple domain name.
I started to think of moving away from Godaddy when they made the huge change to MS-based servers and that's when I started to notice all the news about them shutting down domain names without notice, their tricky way of pushing unneeded stuff onto their customers and also their draconian terms of service.
There's just one thing that Godaddy offers and Gandi.net doesn't which I think could be usefull for some - anonymous information for the domains. But then again, if Godaddy is willing to release the ownership information just because of one single legal threat, as the article says, then it's not worth that much, wither.
There's also the price tag thing - Gandi.net is not as cheap as Godaddy but I think the advantages of working with an honest company who treats their clients fairly and doesn't try to sell them 5 tonnes of unneeded crap, largely compensate the extra money I pay for the domains I have there.
It may sound too harsh but it's true: most computer users don't have a clue about the machine they have in front of them.
Recently I have noticed that more and more people (clients, friends, family members, etc) use Google as their "entry point" for the internet. They don't type URLs directly on the browser, they load google and "search" for the site they want to visit - even if they know the direct URL for the site! It's both funny and irritating to see someone type 'www.google.com', only to enter 'www.someothersite.com' in the search box.
If some of them do know how to type 'www.google.com' (those that don't have it as the start page on Firefox, for example), why don't they type the website URL directly? I questioned a couple of clients about this and both answered with another question: "how would I get to the website if I didn't search for it?"...
The X-COM series (actually, just the first two, IMHO) was probably the best strategy game I have ever played. Sometimes I even think it was the best game I ever played. It's a shame they ruined it starting with the third installment in the series.
UFO: Aftermath, Aftershock (and soon, Afterlight) are pretty cool games but they're nowhere near the coolness of X-COM: UFO Defense (or, for those of us in Europe and other parts of the world, UFO: Enemy Unknown) and X-COM: Terror From The Deep.
Unfortunately, most computer users are stupid and don't have a clue about what they're doing.
In order to make more moeny, companies want their programs to be easier and easier to use, so that more and more stupid users will buy their programs. Can't really blame them for that, after all, they want to make money! But making a program for stupid users is not an easy task. Programmers have to take into account every stupid thing the user might do and that causes the software to get bloated. I wrote something about this in my blog, some time ago: http://borfast.com/node/23
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook
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Because you're not uploading a copy of the entire file system, you're only uploading a few files that happen to reside in an encrypted file system for convenience (as opposed to having an encrypted partition and a non-encrypted partition, a scenario in which you will probably be wasting space in the non-encrypted volume).
I know you will, and trust me, I thought deep and hard about this, but even though I read and cherished all your love letters and emails begging me to stay, in the end I just had to do what is best for me. Believe me, this was not as hard for me as it was for you but eventually it would happen. It's better to have done it while I still had some sanity left.
You are very welcome to visit any time you want, though, but I'm guessing you won't. And that is one of the reasons why I had to leave: you are too close-minded and wouldn't let me grow, learn, improve and be happy. I know you mean well and that deep down you think you're doing the right thing and that there's nothing wrong with your closed world. I wish I could show you. I wish you would listen. I wish you could change. But I know you won't. And that's OK, I forgive you.
XXX,
borfast
PS - Don't forget to feed jeff and stroke his head, he loves it and it makes him happy.
PPS - http://theoatmeal.com/comics/b...
I left the insane PHP world quite a while ago and wrote a post detailing some of my reasons. Even though PHP has improved a lot since then, the foundations still suck. For example, the vast majority of people writing PHP are still "web designers" who know nothing about writing proper code. And I just don't get it when people tell me I have to be patient because PHP is improving - why wait that PHP becomes better when you can work with better tools now? I get much better salaries and enjoy the projects I work on a lot more since I dropped PHP. It's just not worth it.
The linked article is from Dec 11 2015, I remember reading it when it came out. I don't get it. Is Slashdot participating in a disinformation campaign to weaken the morale of those who still want to try to do something about these issues?
PHP is getting better but still has a long way to go before I can say I would choose it over other languages. Besides many of the things already mentioned here, I have a few more basic gripes with the language, namely its community/"ecosystem", Composer, namespaces and autoloading. I wrote about it in more detail and as expected (unfortunately), it generated lots of criticism from some fan boys, as well as some other more rational defensive comments from not-so-fired-up readers. I also wrote about what I consider to be the mentality of these folks who defend PHP as if their life depended on it, and how I hope they someday can see the light.
It's the first time I'm hearing about IAC. That was not the company when I bought the two products, it was GG, nothing else. And at the time they actually had one guy from the community who was officially creating patches for the Linux version, and he was doing it for free. Suddenly they decided that the Linux version would be "community supported", which could be fine for a lot of people (myself included), but what infuriated me was when they simply decided that they would completely remove Linux support and not accept any more patches from that guy. This wasn't really costing them more money but they deliberately decided to fuck all the people who showed them their support, when they could have very easily maintained Linux as a target platform. So, as I said before, screw you GG.
Crowdfunding to port Torque to Linux? Interesting... but I'm not falling for that one again. I already "donated" a few years ago, when I shelled out over a couple hundred dollars for both Torque3D and Torque2D under the promise that they worked on Linux (they actually sold three versions: Windows, Mac and Linux), only to have all my requests for help completely ignored when I complained that neither of them worked, and see the whole Linux ball dropped a few months later. So GarageGames: screw you, you're not getting my money again.
One more unfortunate step towards 1984... :(
The suits are seeking monetary damages on behalf of potentially millions of users of the three companies.
Cool! I'm a user of google and facebook, so if they win, I'll get some mone... oh, wait...
I simply don't understand how this idiotic flood of lawsuits from everyone suing everyone else is still allowed. I mean, has anyone stopped to think of how much time and money is wasted on stupid cases? Not that this subject isn't important but come on, seeking monetary damages on behalf of the users?! WTF?!
Cool, I didn't know the iPad could use the mobile network. But in that case - and I'm not simply bashing the iPad, personally I have nothing against it - it just makes it more stupid: if it already connects to the mobile network, why not make phone calls?
"Cool, an iPad! I can finally make phone ca.... oh, wait..."
Knowingly?
Causing the situation by means of their actions and not doing anything (or very little) about it?
No, of course not, but the specific situations you mentioned are man-driven. Besides, no species become extinct in those situations any more than, for example, the Iberian Wolf became extinct; they disappeared from southern Portugal and Spain but they're not extinct.
We are natural, indeed. Unless someone else created us (I don't believe in a god or a "superior entity", btw).
So we're either a glitch in Nature's seemingly perfect system, or a far technologically superior alien race made us.
That's actually a thought that crossed my mind a few times. Not that I give it any credibility or much thought at all but sometimes I imagine that we're nothing but tiny little particles in someone else's universe. Kind of like the galaxy in MIB 1 :)
Again, as I said in the comment I replied to a few minutes ago, those are not naturally occurring situations, those are situations created by man.
Rats didn't swim to easter island and cats were introduced in some regions by humans, too - not to mention that the latter are a species created by humans.
Look folks, it's quite simple: species don't anihilate each other just like that, because it would disrupt the whole ecosystem around them. This isn't rocket science and even farmers (no disrespect meant, it's just that farmers are not biologists, just as biologists wouldn't know how to grow corn) know what happens when some animal species gets wiped out from a region. The effects can be invisible or can be catastrophic. And Nature doesn't "let" such things happen just like that. The whole system is "built" on a very delicate balance.
Enough babling, I think I made my point.
Although logically correct, I don't think your arguments are valid, because you are mentioning situations that do not occur naturally in nature - they are created by man.
Actually, Bananatree3 is right: we are the only species that destroy our own world and lead other species to extinction.
What you are talking about is natural selection, something that occurs naturally; what Bananatree3 was talking about is doing it on purpose, in a unnatural way.
The domain owner is not stupid. He possibly bought the domain because he had other plans for it. The web is full of sites with "cool" and "funny" domain names like this one. Why should this be different? What he should do is let the banks and companies sue him for having their private documents, and then counter-sue and make a big pile of money. That would probably teach something to those stupid admins. But even if it didn't, at least he'd be rich. I know I'd hope that it would go on, if I were him.
Yes, getting TGE to run on Linux is an ungrateful task, to say the least.
Some time ago I got lured into buying it because they used to state on the product page that they supported linux. I bought both Torque Game Engine (3D) and Torque Game Builder (2D).
Long story short, the Linux version is far from the quality of the Windows and OS X counterparts (when it runs at all) and the company dropped Linux as a supported platform, "because it consumes too many of their resources". Instead, the Linux version is now supported by the community - but it bears the same price tag, nonetheless...
There used to be a guy who offered himself to help with the Linux version of the engine. He did this *for free*. Garage Games used to take months to reply to his e-mails when he sent them a message saying "hey guys, you just released a new TGE version so I took care of making a linux release, it's ready for you to put on your page". There was somewhat of a revolt on the forums and Garage Games eventually worked with this guy for some more time (still for free) and after that, I just gave up on Garage Games, because their support really suck. It's just as UnDiWhan said on another comment: a pervasive attitude of "If you can't figure it out without help, you shouldn't have gotten the Advanced Engine". This is also valid for the regular TGE and TGB.
Things may have changed, though, because Garage Games created a buzzword for their documentation and also a site to host it. But again, just like the Linux versions are "community-supported", the documentation is mostly (all?) user created content - it's a Wiki...
As for Ogre3D, I wouldn't say it's slow, it's actually pretty good and pretty fast. But if you don't use it correctly, it can kill your game. I've seen games using Ogre very efficiently and others that were slow as hell.
Now I can send documents in OpenDocument format to everyone and when they say "hey, I don't know how to open this thing you sent me", I can tell them "well, you can either use OpenOffice or get the converter". ;)
The rest of the conversation would be something like this:
- Hey, but the converter is only available for Office 2003 and 2007, I only have XP and I don't want to spend $100+ on a new version of MS Office!
- Well, you can either buy it or switch to the another Office software, if you want to read the documents I sent you.
- I will not! Why should someone be forced to buy or use something against his will, just to open someone else's documents??
- Exactly...
Reading the description in the summary reminded me of Windtraps, the power generators of Westwood's Dune 2. Great game. Those were the days... :)
I definitely recommend Gandi.net. They're friendly, their terms of service are fair and honest and they don't offer as much options as Godaddy - yes, this is good, because I'm talking about all the sh$t that Godaddy tries to push down clients' throats when they buy one simple domain name.
I started to think of moving away from Godaddy when they made the huge change to MS-based servers and that's when I started to notice all the news about them shutting down domain names without notice, their tricky way of pushing unneeded stuff onto their customers and also their draconian terms of service.
There's just one thing that Godaddy offers and Gandi.net doesn't which I think could be usefull for some - anonymous information for the domains. But then again, if Godaddy is willing to release the ownership information just because of one single legal threat, as the article says, then it's not worth that much, wither.
There's also the price tag thing - Gandi.net is not as cheap as Godaddy but I think the advantages of working with an honest company who treats their clients fairly and doesn't try to sell them 5 tonnes of unneeded crap, largely compensate the extra money I pay for the domains I have there.
It may sound too harsh but it's true: most computer users don't have a clue about the machine they have in front of them.
Recently I have noticed that more and more people (clients, friends, family members, etc) use Google as their "entry point" for the internet. They don't type URLs directly on the browser, they load google and "search" for the site they want to visit - even if they know the direct URL for the site! It's both funny and irritating to see someone type 'www.google.com', only to enter 'www.someothersite.com' in the search box.
If some of them do know how to type 'www.google.com' (those that don't have it as the start page on Firefox, for example), why don't they type the website URL directly? I questioned a couple of clients about this and both answered with another question: "how would I get to the website if I didn't search for it?"...
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The X-COM series (actually, just the first two, IMHO) was probably the best strategy game I have ever played. Sometimes I even think it was the best game I ever played. It's a shame they ruined it starting with the third installment in the series.
:)
UFO: Aftermath, Aftershock (and soon, Afterlight) are pretty cool games but they're nowhere near the coolness of X-COM: UFO Defense (or, for those of us in Europe and other parts of the world, UFO: Enemy Unknown) and X-COM: Terror From The Deep.
Those were the days...
Unfortunately, most computer users are stupid and don't have a clue about what they're doing.
In order to make more moeny, companies want their programs to be easier and easier to use, so that more and more stupid users will buy their programs. Can't really blame them for that, after all, they want to make money! But making a program for stupid users is not an easy task. Programmers have to take into account every stupid thing the user might do and that causes the software to get bloated. I wrote something about this in my blog, some time ago: http://borfast.com/node/23
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook