I didn't even think of web-comics until I saw...possibly Megatokyo...or maybe little gamers...I think...there's lots of links between the good ones. Lots of links to the up-and-comings, too.
I've seen lots of comments on/. slating them for either the infrequency of new comics, or the topics of their rants or lack of continuous story, or lack of one-off giggles, or whatever.
Fact is, they're free, and it costs you nothing but the effort it takes to click the link/type the url, and at the and of the day, there's just someone (like you) out there putting them up 'cos they want to.
Personally, I usually turn up to work, and go thru my daily ritual of checking megatokyo, little gamers, pvponline, penny-arcade, slashdot and bbc news, and then my mail. It bugs me that people keep bitching about the content, rants, update frequency etc - they're FREE (as in beer). Lighten up guys! So what if Piro doesn't get the 3 comics he says he'll do up a week? Who cares if you don't like the artwork? So what if you don't think Userfriendly isn't funny today? There's no end of comics out there.
For me, the web is about what YOU like. If it bugs you that there isn't a comic every day, or your don't like the story, don't follow that comic This is the the web. There's lots of other stuff out there.
UF might, as I've seen some posts comment, use some second-hand jokes, but they're still funny - I'm thinking User:ID=10t. Made me giggle:)
btw, if you haven't seen it, check out When I am King - possibly the funniest thing I've seen on the web yet...
Amen to that. I used to be a software tester, and did a lot of testing stuff on different platforms, OSs, branded kits etc. The ATI cards were generally good cards, but they threw up a lot of driver problems - if there was any sort of hardware issue in the test matrix, you could pretty much guarantee it'd be an ATI card that did it.
The biggest gift you could give would the space to make her own mistakes. Lost the girl, got a pants degree, and I'm still doing better than most of the people I went to Uni with.
There's time to be well rested (never had any money as a student) when you're old. You'll never have time to be young again.
Money's the only thing I ever needed or wanted at university. Given money, I could always get everything else I ever wanted/needed. It was the only thing I was ever short of.
For those of you on the other side of the water (I'm English), I have no personal knowledge of how your system works, but over here, university(read: college) is about a) learning all about the subject you thought was going to pay your way through life (hahaha, physics and japanese, loads of jobs there) and b) getting over the feeling of being a kid. You know what I'm talking about, getting home at a reasonable hour, sleeping in a bed you recognise, sleeping in a bed at all, eating real food etc.
Give the girl some cash. She'll misuse it, but she'll always think well of you for the gift.
I disagree. I work on digital tv platforms where the client is _really_ thin. HTML is better for layout, certainly, but in comparison to WML, which has just turned up on Sky digital, it's slow and heavy. For a thin client (and I'm talking about a 386 with up to 4MB ram here), WML is a lot more suitable.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not particularly fond of it, and I don't think it's got anywhere near the power of the good ol' DHTML/javascript combo, but if you're talking about the sort of platforms it was developed for, it is, IMHO, definitely better than HTML.
Now all we need is a mobile with a 1024*768 screen...
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I didn't even think of web-comics until I saw...possibly Megatokyo...or maybe little gamers...I think...there's lots of links between the good ones. Lots of links to the up-and-comings, too.
/. slating them for either the infrequency of new comics, or the topics of their rants or lack of continuous story, or lack of one-off giggles, or whatever.
:)
I've seen lots of comments on
Fact is, they're free, and it costs you nothing but the effort it takes to click the link/type the url, and at the and of the day, there's just someone (like you) out there putting them up 'cos they want to.
Personally, I usually turn up to work, and go thru my daily ritual of checking megatokyo, little gamers, pvponline, penny-arcade, slashdot and bbc news, and then my mail. It bugs me that people keep bitching about the content, rants, update frequency etc - they're FREE (as in beer). Lighten up guys! So what if Piro doesn't get the 3 comics he says he'll do up a week? Who cares if you don't like the artwork? So what if you don't think Userfriendly isn't funny today? There's no end of comics out there.
For me, the web is about what YOU like. If it bugs you that there isn't a comic every day, or your don't like the story, don't follow that comic This is the the web. There's lots of other stuff out there.
UF might, as I've seen some posts comment, use some second-hand jokes, but they're still funny - I'm thinking User:ID=10t. Made me giggle
btw, if you haven't seen it, check out When I am King - possibly the funniest thing I've seen on the web yet...
Amen to that. I used to be a software tester, and did a lot of testing stuff on different platforms, OSs, branded kits etc. The ATI cards were generally good cards, but they threw up a lot of driver problems - if there was any sort of hardware issue in the test matrix, you could pretty much guarantee it'd be an ATI card that did it.
It'll add a whole new dimension to pr0n ;)
I fucked it up too.
The biggest gift you could give would the space to make her own mistakes. Lost the girl, got a pants degree, and I'm still doing better than most of the people I went to Uni with.
There's time to be well rested (never had any money as a student) when you're old. You'll never have time to be young again.
Hey, half my girlfriends at college left me to go find girlfriends. I'd say ask before not sending her one...
For those of you on the other side of the water (I'm English), I have no personal knowledge of how your system works, but over here, university(read: college) is about a) learning all about the subject you thought was going to pay your way through life (hahaha, physics and japanese, loads of jobs there) and b) getting over the feeling of being a kid. You know what I'm talking about, getting home at a reasonable hour, sleeping in a bed you recognise, sleeping in a bed at all, eating real food etc.
Give the girl some cash. She'll misuse it, but she'll always think well of you for the gift.
I disagree. I work on digital tv platforms where the client is _really_ thin. HTML is better for layout, certainly, but in comparison to WML, which has just turned up on Sky digital, it's slow and heavy. For a thin client (and I'm talking about a 386 with up to 4MB ram here), WML is a lot more suitable.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not particularly fond of it, and I don't think it's got anywhere near the power of the good ol' DHTML/javascript combo, but if you're talking about the sort of platforms it was developed for, it is, IMHO, definitely better than HTML.
Now all we need is a mobile with a 1024*768 screen...
I notice The Cure's "Killing an arab" made it thru...