It isn't statistics in any way, just an insight of someone who lives in Israel (50km from Qassam threat).
However, majority of Israel is secular or "traditional" and while there is a LOT of grudge toward Hammas and various terror groups, the actual groups that would support hurting an innocent Palestinian as main target would be below 0.5%.
Obviously it doesn't cover the cases where collateral damage is involved while trying to harm Quassam sources. Then the numbers would be more around 70%-80%
"Well, let's see, since scene people like dopeman and such have already managed to rip the actual games and make it steam-free, you won't have to worry that much except for maybe the multiplayer games."
I am not worried. And yes, this offline mode is new to me. However, suppose you have a new computer and steam is offline forever, why should I need the help of pirates to play the OFFLINE games I played for?
I agree that it is DRM it its best (so far) but it is still restrictive and lets not forget that.
I find it quite curious how people that stand firm against DRM are so positive about Steam.
Doesn't Steam suffer from everything DRM does? It isn't portable, you need Steam to be ON to play and worse of all, what happens when Steam goes offline one day? Wouldn't all our games just stop playing?
I buy quite a lot of titles on Steam, however, I can't say I feel too good about it. I merely do it because it is comfortable, but it still doesn't seem to me like the Right Way to do things.
Offtopic but just would like to share a way (in my case) to bypass the work proxy:
1) Install a proxy at home from here: www.peacefire.org 2) Now with every site that is blocked, you could just go from your very own proxy. However going to your site every time you get blocked can get annoying. 3) Install Firefox (duh) and Greasemonkey 4) Create a custom Greasemonkey script to go to auto-use your proxy whenever you're blocked. A script can look something like that:// ==UserScript==// @name Proxy runner// @include http:///// ==/UserScript==
var titles = document.getElementsByTagName('title'); if(titles.length == 1 && titles[0].text == 'Blocked by WorkProxy')// CHANGE THIS TO YOUR PROXY TITLE {
var newlocation = window.location.toString().replace('http://', 'http/');
if(window.location.toString().indexOf('nph-516051. cgi') == -1)
window.location = 'https://1.1.1.1/cgi-bin/nph-516051.cgi/000110A/'+ newlocation; }
We cheer for Linux and for Firefox not only because they gained their 10% of the market but because they did it freely, using open source and in a way that improves the world.
We boo for Zune because their (less than) 10% market share was pushed by a behemoth of a company with a multi billion marketing campaign that advocates DRM and restriction of user rights and is against many things that people here believe in.
Funny thing is, you start paying for the call as soon as you get the "answering machine" talking to you. So basically if you waited too long for the person to answer and you didn't hang up, you will pay without any regard to whether you leave a message or not.
In Israel the latest Minister of Communication decided to put a stop to it and forced the telecom companies to place a voice warning you that you are about to get the "answering machine" so you have time to hang up before you pay for the call.
Now listen and be amazed. When you listen to automatic message for free, the companies don't joke around, it goes something like "youwillbetransferedtomessagingservicenow". The whole message is said in about 2 seconds top, I am 23 years old and I doubt I am always able to hang up on time. I really doubt older people can hang it up on time to be "excused" of payment.
Mushed text with letters that slide into each other, bad lighting and every other kind of bad scanning you can imagine. Hell, you'd be lucky if you can recognize letters at all.
Question is, if the machine couldn't figure out what the word is, how will it verify your answer? Is it going to be something along "by the popular vote"?
A dead human acrobat submitted his body? Someone killed a human acrobat and submitted his body? The murderer was submitted to some kind of law-enforcement?
So... On one hand people are spending some more time in reading the injokes of their work-buddies but on the other hand, people are consumed by endless edit-wars. I can see how helpful it can be for a company.
Seriously though, a friend of mine actually did install a wiki under the same premises of the article. They are having lots of fun with it, but it hardly helped their workplace.
How about using a regular Palm (or any other PDA)?
I use iSilo on my Palm and I read already around 50 regular books on it and it felt great (partly due to how awesome iSilo and partly to the nice, even if small, Zire71 screen). It can accept anything you can convert to HTML or plain text. That means.doc,.pdf and pretty much anything else I can think of.
The only other device I'd consider to read my books: 1) Treo-like device - Because then it is PDA, books, video, music AND cellphone. 2) DRM-less eBook reader that's written on elastic e-paper that I can bend.
What! That's nothing! When I was a kid I was spending seventeen hours EVERY DAY, grinding copper out of old AA batteries. Then my dad would beat my bloody and send to sleep in a box. In a middle of a pool.
I played Civ4 for a bit and found it quite enjoyable, BUT merely because it got another step closer to the perfection of SMAC (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri).
With each new Civilization game they add "new" features that were in 1999 in SMAC: Borders, technology quotes, complex diplomacy, UN.
Everything was done before and better and it is really a sad year when Civ4 gets picked by IGn as game of the year.
I just wish Brian Reynolds would do another SMAC2:(.
True, that's what I had in mind... I am on Windows however so this is of little help. I use Foxilicious right now in Firefox but that's not even getting close to Cocoalicious.
I love the concept of Delicious. However, I really hate how I have to wait everytime I want to search/edit my bookmarks. I really wish that there was some kind of external app (Powermarks style) that let me easily play with my bookmarks and update/sync from Delicious only in the background.
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It isn't statistics in any way, just an insight of someone who lives in Israel (50km from Qassam threat).
However, majority of Israel is secular or "traditional" and while there is a LOT of grudge toward Hammas and various terror groups, the actual groups that would support hurting an innocent Palestinian as main target would be below 0.5%.
Obviously it doesn't cover the cases where collateral damage is involved while trying to harm Quassam sources. Then the numbers would be more around 70%-80%
Umm, isn't the part about Islam is also factual part of history?
"Well, let's see, since scene people like dopeman and such have already managed to rip the actual games and make it steam-free, you won't have to worry that much except for maybe the multiplayer games."
I am not worried. And yes, this offline mode is new to me. However, suppose you have a new computer and steam is offline forever, why should I need the help of pirates to play the OFFLINE games I played for?
I agree that it is DRM it its best (so far) but it is still restrictive and lets not forget that.
Actually I didn't know some of that!
I guess I Steam isn't as bad as I thought.
Thanks for explaining.
I find it quite curious how people that stand firm against DRM are so positive about Steam.
Doesn't Steam suffer from everything DRM does? It isn't portable, you need Steam to be ON to play and worse of all, what happens when Steam goes offline one day? Wouldn't all our games just stop playing?
I buy quite a lot of titles on Steam, however, I can't say I feel too good about it. I merely do it because it is comfortable, but it still doesn't seem to me like the Right Way to do things.
What do you guys think?
The Segway is hardly alive. Maybe more like "Segway-putter-out-of-misery".
My sysadmin told me to vote for him or he'll post my internet logs and rape my user permissions.
You forgot Windows ME.
But I suppose you're going to address that in your next post.
Here is one:
http://goatse.ch/ascii.html
Offtopic but just would like to share a way (in my case) to bypass the work proxy:
// ==UserScript== // @name Proxy runner // @include http:/// // ==/UserScript==
// CHANGE THIS TO YOUR PROXY TITLE. cgi') == -1)+ newlocation;
1) Install a proxy at home from here: www.peacefire.org
2) Now with every site that is blocked, you could just go from your very own proxy. However going to your site every time you get blocked can get annoying.
3) Install Firefox (duh) and Greasemonkey
4) Create a custom Greasemonkey script to go to auto-use your proxy whenever you're blocked. A script can look something like that:
var titles = document.getElementsByTagName('title');
if(titles.length == 1 && titles[0].text == 'Blocked by WorkProxy')
{
var newlocation = window.location.toString().replace('http://', 'http/');
if(window.location.toString().indexOf('nph-516051
window.location = 'https://1.1.1.1/cgi-bin/nph-516051.cgi/000110A/'
}
5) Enjoy your new proxy free environment.
Because it is above (gasp) math and statistics.
We cheer for Linux and for Firefox not only because they gained their 10% of the market but because they did it freely, using open source and in a way that improves the world.
We boo for Zune because their (less than) 10% market share was pushed by a behemoth of a company with a multi billion marketing campaign that advocates DRM and restriction of user rights and is against many things that people here believe in.
Funny thing is, you start paying for the call as soon as you get the "answering machine" talking to you. So basically if you waited too long for the person to answer and you didn't hang up, you will pay without any regard to whether you leave a message or not.
In Israel the latest Minister of Communication decided to put a stop to it and forced the telecom companies to place a voice warning you that you are about to get the "answering machine" so you have time to hang up before you pay for the call.
Now listen and be amazed. When you listen to automatic message for free, the companies don't joke around, it goes something like "youwillbetransferedtomessagingservicenow". The whole message is said in about 2 seconds top, I am 23 years old and I doubt I am always able to hang up on time. I really doubt older people can hang it up on time to be "excused" of payment.
...Wait till you see these new CAPTCHAS.
Mushed text with letters that slide into each other, bad lighting and every other kind of bad scanning you can imagine. Hell, you'd be lucky if you can recognize letters at all.
Question is, if the machine couldn't figure out what the word is, how will it verify your answer? Is it going to be something along "by the popular vote"?
Something is very not right in all this.
A dead human acrobat submitted his body?
Someone killed a human acrobat and submitted his body?
The murderer was submitted to some kind of law-enforcement?
That is late at night here, however.
So... On one hand people are spending some more time in reading the injokes of their work-buddies but on the other hand, people are consumed by endless edit-wars.
I can see how helpful it can be for a company.
Seriously though, a friend of mine actually did install a wiki under the same premises of the article. They are having lots of fun with it, but it hardly helped their workplace.
A company that spreads rootkits to its customers today, will kill robotic dogs tomorrow.
How about using a regular Palm (or any other PDA)?
.doc, .pdf and pretty much anything else I can think of.
I use iSilo on my Palm and I read already around 50 regular books on it and it felt great (partly due to how awesome iSilo and partly to the nice, even if small, Zire71 screen). It can accept anything you can convert to HTML or plain text. That means
The only other device I'd consider to read my books:
1) Treo-like device - Because then it is PDA, books, video, music AND cellphone.
2) DRM-less eBook reader that's written on elastic e-paper that I can bend.
What! That's nothing! When I was a kid I was spending seventeen hours EVERY DAY, grinding copper out of old AA batteries. Then my dad would beat my bloody and send to sleep in a box. In a middle of a pool.
That's the kind I enjoy the most. Such as "Pontifex" (Bridge Builder) and to a lesser extend "Gish" (same from the same company by the way.
In fact, the latest "game" I enjoyed most is the Falling Sand game.
Nice! @ Civ2. Had no idea Brian designed that one too.
So it seems that I did like all the games Brian did so far. Can't wait for the Rise Of Legends.
I played Civ4 for a bit and found it quite enjoyable, BUT merely because it got another step closer to the perfection of SMAC (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri) .
:(.
With each new Civilization game they add "new" features that were in 1999 in SMAC: Borders, technology quotes, complex diplomacy, UN.
Everything was done before and better and it is really a sad year when Civ4 gets picked by IGn as game of the year.
I just wish Brian Reynolds would do another SMAC2
The battle-school sport in Ender's Game is complex enough.
I can even think of a few ways for the freezing guns.
I spelled it wrong, here you go:
http://dietrich.ganx4.com/foxylicious/
True, that's what I had in mind... I am on Windows however so this is of little help. I use Foxilicious right now in Firefox but that's not even getting close to Cocoalicious.
I love the concept of Delicious.
However, I really hate how I have to wait everytime I want to search/edit my bookmarks. I really wish that there was some kind of external app (Powermarks style) that let me easily play with my bookmarks and update/sync from Delicious only in the background.
Anyone knows anything like that?