While I'm waiting for you to get modded down as the troll (or neanderthal) you are, I'm bored enough to reply to entertain the lurkers.
Those were my personal experiences with girls in a rather big game community that I had pleasure to gather arround my forum.
So, if that's what women gamers are "really" like, what am I?
Anomaly, that happends sometimes.
My MMORPG experience has been primarily Shadowbane and DAoC (RR5).
I could troll here that mmorpgs are for ppl with no lifes, but i will not:)
I lived for PK. And no, not my own team.
OK, I overcolored things a little bit.
My favorite games of all time include StarCraft, Civilization, MOO2, WarCraft, and Age of Empires. (yes, I have a Napoleon complex) Lately, I've been playing Conqueror a lot. (free web wargame, check it out)
Civ is a perfect example of a girl game. I have no idea what it is, but my Ex, and all playing woman gamers I know like Sid Meyer like games.
I enjoy FPS's but, sadly, I can't compete with teenage reflexes and/or aimbots.
Ther is very little about reflex in those games nowadays. Its about predator instincts. You woman lack them.
About the only games I won't play at least once are card games (except Solitaire when I'm on the phone), flying games (no fun without expensive controllers), and anything that says "The Sims" on it or involves other people but has no way to gank them.
Cant blame you. But I personally like card minigames in Japan RPGs.
Oh, and not only do I know how to turn on the computer but I build them (including both of my current game machines) and not only can I post on forums, I'm a decent Perl coder and could write a forum system if I needed one.
Told ya, you are an anomaly !;-) I'l bet my arm and a leg that you are one of say 100 woman posters on slashdot, thats 100 on a milion.
You, I suspect, will discard this entire description as anomalous data.
:)
Your mind is made up and you won't be confused by little things like reality. If a data point fits your preconceptions, you keep it to support them; if it doesn't fit into your existing worldview, you throw it away.
So thats what makes a TROLL? I Guess you consider Aristotle a TROLL too (Topics).
I can imagine you, in the middle of a room full of thousands of women hunched over their keyboards in white-knuckle UT deathmatches, finding some reason to say they don't count at all.
Exactly, you can imagine those womans, but thats it, they dont exist. I dont know for other countries, but in Poland UT (and TO) communities are tight, almost everybody knows everybody, we got big conventions etc... those women you just made up are MADE UP:)
I suspect you think the average woman acts the way you describe because either a) you ignore any instances of women not acting that way
They are average, I didnt say that all act like this.
or b) women who don't act that way (that is, who are normal, ordinary people) want nothing to do with someone like you.
ad hominem ? how low of you:P Who is a TROLL now ?:D
And now try to list:
2 famous woman chess players
2 famous woman generals
2 famous woman footbal players
2 famous woman bike riders
2 famous woman motorbike riders
oh, and remember this silly thing that Greek ppl called Olympic Games ?
Those are all games, or kind of games.. and there were NO woman involved for a quite a few years.
Woman are good at Harvest Moon because evolution made them good at.. milking cows and taking care of the children.;)
I know of a number of other women who would die before they admitted to fellow players that they were IRL females.
I know quite a few men payers who die laughing everyday pretending tha they are women.;-)
Too many of us have had too many years of being treated like a talking dog ("the wonder is that she plays games at all!")
But you are in the way a talking dog. Not so long ago ppl were amazed that women could vote. Just from my experience average woman acts:
"And I was like in this mall shopping
And that guy came over, and looked at me
and I was all like ihihihihih"
Now add this to:
"WoW, I killed like all of them ihihihi"
"Yes, but they were on your team"
"How am I supposed to know that ?"
"Well, they all were BLUE, You are RED, we all screamed "Friendly Fire !! and it was 3 first seconds of the round in your very own base"
" but... but I killed all of them, I'm the winner ihihihih"
or like a lame sissy.
But again, you are mostly lame at games. Well, at men games like FPS/RTS/Sim/Race/. RPG is an exception I guess, and MMORPG is not a game, its a waste of time;o).
The odds are that those 2 out of 250 were not the only female players -- just the only two who had the guts to admit it.
We had quite a few TacOps conventions. There were more women involved, but mostly wifes and partners. Some on them even knew how to turn on computer and post on the forum:).
My EX is a serious gamer. She had few Sega consoles, PSX, has PC now. Knows almost every RPG ever released, can play Harvest Moon or Chocobo games all night long. She is a pro in her RPG 'kill the dragon and milk the cows' field.. and I still consider her a lame player:o)
Women cant play games, just as white man cant jump.
Nothing prevents users from installing a rogue access point on a regular wired connection so that point doesn't really count. If you're worried about someone on the internal network intercepting communications then you can use encryption all the way to the internal server that provides the service the client is requesting or to internet gateway.
well, but its only a part of the plan
As for point 2, a DOS attack doesn't compromise security. It just means that the target will either switch over to a physical cabling or spend some time identifying the location of the attacker. Remember, that in order to mess up the wireless connections, you have to transmit signals and that can be used to locate the transmitter.
.. or will try to connect without VPN software. My estimates are 1 of 2 non security aware people will try to turn off VPN to check WiFi connection. One short login to rogue AP just to see if it works without VPN can give attacker loads of data.
This is the latest beta of the official Conexant/Linuxant driver. Works great, 56kbps all the way, no problems... but it violates the GPL so i will NEVER EVER buy anything Conexant.
unless you're a company with big buying power (like Microsoft) you're not going to have invested in security necessary to protect those back-end servers from every HTTPD/mySQL/BIND?
womens place is in the kitchen, or serving beer, or cleaning bathroom, or making children. I dont want no women in my online games.
On a serious note. I was running a big community forum for a TacticalOps game in Poland for over a year (Was here before closing, the main site is still up, but unmaintained). ~5000 registered users, ~250 active players. There were two womans among the players. I repeat, TWO. And one of them was kinda good at it, while the other one was 15 and desperatelly wanded to meet boys in her age:D.
What are the conclusions ? Womens involvement in that particular game was around 0.8%. Total women involvement in the comunity was arround 0.2%. Those are well within statistical error. Conclusion = there are NO woman gamers !:D
No it isn't. Attach your wireless access points to a router, set the router to reject non vpn connections, and use strong crypto to encrypt and authenticate vpn connections.
1 Rogue acces point and all your passwords are belong to us.
2 deassociate the hell out of them waiting as long that they give up those fancy dandy little VPNs of their, or wifi all the way for cable.
_offtopic_
Well, thats the ONLY ISP in Polands capital city (thats not even funny). They got three plans. 128, 320 and 640 kbit, all two times more expensive than France Telecom counterparts. My ISP is owned by France Telecom. France Telecom has some serious cash flow problems.. so they charge 2x in Poland. Thats very kind of them. I simply LOVE my provider. Overpriced, offering silly 128/96 DSL for $13 a month, being virtually a monopoly in the capital city LOL.
_/offtopic_
Besides I was'nt ranting only at my provider, but at the files length. I recently downloaded a movie taken at our univeristy WiFi meeting, it was 42minutes and 120MB (320x240@25). Quality was poor, but the content is important, not the eye candy. They also gave ppt presentation with it so I could watch it in my own pace. Half of this movie is about the powerpoint presentation.. taken on a DV camera and produced using MPEG1 compression, thats ehrm not too smart to say at least.
Update: Ian sez, "Hi, I'm not sure who posted re: Beastie Boys copy protection, but I just spoke with Mike D and their management and they wanted me to pass along that a) This is all territories except the US and UK -- US and UK discs do not have this protection on them; b) All EMI CDs are treated this way, theirs isn't receiving special treatment; c) They would have preferred not to have the copy protection, but weren't allowed to differ from EMI policy."
Oh my, so theirs isn't receiving special treatment ? Well it DOES, i will especially download this one from Kazza/torrent. I bought their albums in the past, but this one is gonna be a freebie. Someone has to show them.
torrent works fine, but OMFG a 900MB file !!
Thats going to fill up my monthly quota:/ (lame 5gb for a 10$ a month).
And now i read they didnt edited the video, just great. I'm a little pissed. I want to see it, but i definitelly dont want to see someone figuring out the remote for a 200mb of the movie:(.
16 hours do download, I just love those 128kBit DLS lines:P.
like the landline ? you mean plain text / no encryption / wires hanging out of the building wall asking to be mocked ?:) Thats just like 95% of the wifi looks wright now.
Tabbed browsing - you may use tabs either in graphical or even in text mode.
Lua scripting - ported from Links-Lua, not from current ELinks code, but
the differences are not so sensitive, I hope.
HTTP Auth - stable, ported from Elinks
HTTP Proxy Auth - ported from Elinks, need to be checked.
Blocking of selected images - my own code;-). You may block images containing given
substring (of course, it is better to use regexps, but this way is
more portable). Just press '-' to edit the list of blocked patterns.
Cookies saving - ported from ELinks, now our HTTP-header date parsing is
correct, I hope.
New options system - inspired by ELinks one, but much more uglier
currently;-)) Only a few options are implemented through it.
Press 'Ctrl+o' to call options manager.
Possibility to open new windows instead of new links instances in graphics
mode - new socket is created with name 'glinks' in links dir, instead
of 'links' for text instances, so they can work independently. After
that command 'links -g' works like 'mozilla -remote', simply opening
new instances from currently running one. But it has some limitations -
these new windows will open on the same display as original one...
Url copying - some code from Ludvik Tezar' patch, but the backend is organized
more cleanly - there are two additional fields in struct graphics_driver -
put_to_clipboard and get_from_clipboard. Only X11 backend is functional
now, as I don't use others;-)
Full-text selection - Now we have nearly complete full-text selection -
you may select any part of rendered text (except form controls) and copy
it to clipboard. Clipboard charset is configurable through new options
system (Ctrl+'o').
Simple printing - It is VERY simple - we make
PDF file (throung pdflib) with text only (just a rectangles instead of images), and
with PDF internal fonts only (don't even try to print non-latin-1 texts!!!) - but we have more-or-less correct layout and
page breakings. Press 'P', and it will ask you for filename to print to.
Forward history - really, single history list, you can move backward
and forward through it
Extended and configurable 'toolbar' - there are currently Back, History, Forward, Reload,
Bookmarks, Home and Stop buttons.
'Configurability' means that you can change each button look
(they use pixmaps from special internal system-medium-serif-vari font you
can find in graphics/font dir) and even turn it on or off.
Configurable 'mini-status' - some useful info in lower right corner of
your window to show how many connections now in 'running' or 'connecting'
state are, and also SSL, Content-Encoding and Images flags.
Some small but useful improvements - support for "small" and "big" tags,
keybinding ("i") to turn on/off images, possibility to show HTTP
header ("|", as in Elinks), support for compressed content (Content-Encoding
and gzipped local files), configurable support for Accept-Charset and Accept-Language.
Modularized font subsystem - currently builtin fonts and Unicode
TrueType (through freetype backend) may be used. Font manager is available
(Ctrl+'i') for adding/deleting external (only freetype yet) fonts.
External fonts have the same way into the code - so they are antialiased
as good as builtin;-)
Dialogs shadows and borders - Just shadows;-))
From links-hacked site.
Can you spell BLOAT ? I know you want to, c'mon, dont be shy, Lets say it togethet, Mozilla is a BLOATHOG !
As a matter of a fact i run Dillo AND Opera, I even run Links on the console (cheap routers maintance) and on the X.
How does THAT look for you ? This IS a small footprint browser, no bloat, no dependency lists longer than my penis.
Hell, I used to run ARACHNE on my DOS thin client back in the days. Now it looks like an abandoned project:(.
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Why is this post Insightful ? Poster didnt even RTFA:/
Click on the Promise link you insensitive clod, ALL FastTrak SX4xxx series controllers are HARDWARE RAIDs:/. Plus http://techreport.com/reviews/2002q4/ideraid/index.x?pg=1
Promise SX4xxx is the best in the low budget area (beating Adaptec and 3ware).
does google have screen resolution statistics ? That would help a LOT.
Also, many mentioned scalable CSS and such. Are there any good tutorials how to make a scalable webpage ? I tried some time ago (a year) and relative positioning was a APIN (different web for IE and gecko browsers, broken images and all).
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>Dan is obviously a very smart guy .. and copied DNS and other ideas from others.
And now try to list
2 famous woman chess players
2 famous woman generals
2 famous woman footbal players
2 famous woman bike riders
2 famous woman motorbike riders
oh, and remember this silly thing that Greek ppl called Olympic Games ?
Those are all games, or kind of games
Woman are good at Harvest Moon because evolution made them good at
"And I was like in this mall shopping
And that guy came over, and looked at me
and I was all like ihihihihih"
Now add this to
"WoW, I killed like all of them ihihihi"
"Yes, but they were on your team"
"How am I supposed to know that ?"
"Well, they all were BLUE, You are RED, we all screamed "Friendly Fire !! and it was 3 first seconds of the round in your very own base"
" but... but I killed all of them, I'm the winner ihihihih"
But again, you are mostly lame at games. Well, at men games like FPS/RTS/Sim/Race/. RPG is an exception I guess, and MMORPG is not a game, its a waste of time
My EX is a serious gamer. She had few Sega consoles, PSX, has PC now. Knows almost every RPG ever released, can play Harvest Moon or Chocobo games all night long. She is a pro in her RPG 'kill the dragon and milk the cows' field
Women cant play games, just as white man cant jump.
This is the latest beta of the official Conexant/Linuxant driver. Works great, 56kbps all the way, no problems. .. but it violates the GPL so i will NEVER EVER buy anything Conexant.
womens place is in the kitchen, or serving beer, or cleaning bathroom, or making children. I dont want no women in my online games.
:D. :D
On a serious note. I was running a big community forum for a TacticalOps game in Poland for over a year (Was here before closing, the main site is still up, but unmaintained). ~5000 registered users, ~250 active players. There were two womans among the players. I repeat, TWO. And one of them was kinda good at it, while the other one was 15 and desperatelly wanded to meet boys in her age
What are the conclusions ? Womens involvement in that particular game was around 0.8%. Total women involvement in the comunity was arround 0.2%. Those are well within statistical error. Conclusion = there are NO woman gamers !
1 Rogue acces point and all your passwords are belong to us.
2 deassociate the hell out of them waiting as long that they give up those fancy dandy little VPNs of their, or wifi all the way for cable.
and what about Opera identified as IE ?
_offtopic_ .. so they charge 2x in Poland. Thats very kind of them. I simply LOVE my provider. Overpriced, offering silly 128/96 DSL for $13 a month, being virtually a monopoly in the capital city LOL.
.. taken on a DV camera and produced using MPEG1 compression, thats ehrm not too smart to say at least.
Well, thats the ONLY ISP in Polands capital city (thats not even funny). They got three plans. 128, 320 and 640 kbit, all two times more expensive than France Telecom counterparts. My ISP is owned by France Telecom. France Telecom has some serious cash flow problems
_/offtopic_
Besides I was'nt ranting only at my provider, but at the files length. I recently downloaded a movie taken at our univeristy WiFi meeting, it was 42minutes and 120MB (320x240@25). Quality was poor, but the content is important, not the eye candy. They also gave ppt presentation with it so I could watch it in my own pace. Half of this movie is about the powerpoint presentation
torrent works fine, but OMFG a 900MB file !! Thats going to fill up my monthly quota :/ (lame 5gb for a 10$ a month). :(.
:P.
And now i read they didnt edited the video, just great. I'm a little pissed. I want to see it, but i definitelly dont want to see someone figuring out the remote for a 200mb of the movie
16 hours do download, I just love those 128kBit DLS lines
yes, torrent would be GREAT, all the mirrors are shashdotted :(
- Tabbed browsing - you may use tabs either in graphical or even in text mode.
- Lua scripting - ported from Links-Lua, not from current ELinks code, but
the differences are not so sensitive, I hope.
- HTTP Auth - stable, ported from Elinks
- HTTP Proxy Auth - ported from Elinks, need to be checked.
- Blocking of selected images - my own code
;-). You may block images containing given
substring (of course, it is better to use regexps, but this way is
more portable). Just press '-' to edit the list of blocked patterns.
- Cookies saving - ported from ELinks, now our HTTP-header date parsing is
correct, I hope.
- New options system - inspired by ELinks one, but much more uglier
currently
;-)) Only a few options are implemented through it.
Press 'Ctrl+o' to call options manager.
- Possibility to open new windows instead of new links instances in graphics
mode - new socket is created with name 'glinks' in links dir, instead
of 'links' for text instances, so they can work independently. After
that command 'links -g' works like 'mozilla -remote', simply opening
new instances from currently running one. But it has some limitations -
these new windows will open on the same display as original one...
- Url copying - some code from Ludvik Tezar' patch, but the backend is organized
more cleanly - there are two additional fields in struct graphics_driver -
put_to_clipboard and get_from_clipboard. Only X11 backend is functional
now, as I don't use others
;-)
- Full-text selection - Now we have nearly complete full-text selection -
you may select any part of rendered text (except form controls) and copy
it to clipboard. Clipboard charset is configurable through new options
system (Ctrl+'o').
- Simple printing - It is VERY simple - we make
PDF file (throung pdflib) with text only (just a rectangles instead of images), and
with PDF internal fonts only (don't even try to print non-latin-1 texts!!!) - but we have more-or-less correct layout and
page breakings. Press 'P', and it will ask you for filename to print to.
- Forward history - really, single history list, you can move backward
and forward through it
- Extended and configurable 'toolbar' - there are currently Back, History, Forward, Reload,
Bookmarks, Home and Stop buttons.
'Configurability' means that you can change each button look
(they use pixmaps from special internal system-medium-serif-vari font you
can find in graphics/font dir) and even turn it on or off.
- Configurable 'mini-status' - some useful info in lower right corner of
your window to show how many connections now in 'running' or 'connecting'
state are, and also SSL, Content-Encoding and Images flags.
- Some small but useful improvements - support for "small" and "big" tags,
keybinding ("i") to turn on/off images, possibility to show HTTP
header ("|", as in Elinks), support for compressed content (Content-Encoding
and gzipped local files), configurable support for Accept-Charset and Accept-Language.
- Modularized font subsystem - currently builtin fonts and Unicode
TrueType (through freetype backend) may be used. Font manager is available
(Ctrl+'i') for adding/deleting external (only freetype yet) fonts.
External fonts have the same way into the code - so they are antialiased
as good as builtin
;-)
- Dialogs shadows and borders - Just shadows
;-))
From links-hacked site.Can you spell BLOAT ? I know you want to, c'mon, dont be shy, Lets say it togethet, Mozilla is a BLOATHOG !
As a matter of a fact i run Dillo AND Opera, I even run Links on the console (cheap routers maintance) and on the X.
:(.
How does THAT look for you ? This IS a small footprint browser, no bloat, no dependency lists longer than my penis.
Hell, I used to run ARACHNE on my DOS thin client back in the days. Now it looks like an abandoned project
Why is this post Insightful ? Poster didnt even RTFA :/
:/. Plus x .x?pg=1
Click on the Promise link you insensitive clod, ALL FastTrak SX4xxx series controllers are HARDWARE RAIDs
http://techreport.com/reviews/2002q4/ideraid/inde
Promise SX4xxx is the best in the low budget area (beating Adaptec and 3ware).
Newsflash : Copper Bacteria on the lose, more cities turned in to grey goo ...
Its oxymoron.
Agreed. 802.1x is the only way to go.
Mac filtering ? Ar you even serious ?
ifconfig wi0 lladdr 01:02:03:04:05:06
Radius and good acces policy, some centralised CMSlike management console and your set.
Somehow doesnt sount as minimal as it should be, I'l stick to Opera.
PS: Anybody got Opera Pageloader stats ?
KOrganizer works for me.
does google have screen resolution statistics ? That would help a LOT.
Also, many mentioned scalable CSS and such. Are there any good tutorials how to make a scalable webpage ? I tried some time ago (a year) and relative positioning was a APIN (different web for IE and gecko browsers, broken images and all).