As far as social bookmarking sites go I think StumbleUpon was a clear favorite, though Digg and Reddit seemed to be very similar to how Delicious was setup, I wonder who will "win" in the end...actually, I really don't care.
The first paragraph complains about FPS that are easy to complete in "4 hours", but then the post goes on to compare that against games like Zelda Ocarina of Time, a RPG...
Let me break things down for those who have not grasped this concept:
FPS: First Person Shooters (ie: Halo, MoA, etc) have typically "short" single player campaigns because the games typically have a lot of replay value in that after you "finish" the game you spend the majority of your time going head to head with others online, or at home, or on different modes co-op.
RPG: Role Playing Games (ie: Zelda, DragonAge, etc) have typically 80-120 hours of game play story because typically once you beat them you never play them again. Granted, you may play the game again "later", like I played FF: Tactics when I was in high school and when it was released on the PSP I got a copy to play again.
No really, adjust your designs to fit with modern technology and stop trying to convert print sizes (A4) to web (pixels not inches)
I saw a report earlier this year online that said, 70% of screens are still rocking 1280x1024 resolutions, though I expect that when the numbers come out for 2010 I imagine it'll be more like 60% with the bulk of the remaining viewers using wide-cinema style resolutions given the popularity of 16-17" laptops and wide screens.
I really like WP, IMO it's actually the best CMS out there in the sense of easy to use and doesn't require you to have a hands on php developer in house or on contract to change up the layout or add in new features, unlike the more robust CMS Drupal.
Of course I say this not having played with Joomla or Modx and of course it's slightly off topic since this is about the blogging features and not the CMS features...
I see tons of frivolous items that could be reported on throughout their site to the DMCA. Just start submitting and eventually 3 notices will make it through....Should be great to see Suddenlink have to take their own site down.
I don't really care about the excessive ads, it's more so that people use it excessively. Take any fashion designers website which so often is 100% flash, so every page is really part of a flash app that doesn't allow a user to simply go "back" to a previous page. Not to mention it's annoying having a solid cable connection and yet the site takes 30 seconds to load because the creators wanted to have a 1920x1600 screen full of 24 different flash animations comprising the page.
If they managed to actually shut down The Pirate Bay, EZTV and all the other torrent sites on the entire internet, all that would happen is people would go back to grabbing lists from IRC and FTP downloading like they did in the late 90's to 2001ish.
More time and effort should be spent on making sure products are actually worth selling, and then piracy wouldn't matter. For example, I'm pretty sure Blizzard's Starcraft 2 is still making tons of money regardless of it being available for download, as well as I'm pretty sure the next Harry Potter movie is going to make shitloads of money, just like it's previous movies, regardless of it being on The Pirate Bay.
What successful product has ever really been hurt by piracy? How many shitty products that deserve to fail (or at least get subpar earnings) has been tanked by piracy? So companies that make shitty movies make less money - good - that's how business is designed to work.
Forgot to add it with my silly post...in 1997 I graduated Highschool and I had just migrated from a 33.6k modem to a 56k modem and was switching over to a thing called DSL for $30 a month since I had a job at CompUSA. The DSL was a 256/128 connection (it gradually improved to a 512/256 connection the next couple years).
I switched to a Point to Point based connection in 2000 or 2001 that was a 1.5mb connection for $80/mo with the worst latency I had ever experienced so I switched back to DSL and while I saw commercials advertising 1.5/768 connections for $60/mo (eventually dropped down to around $30 in recent years) with DSL I apparently just never lived in places with good enough phone wires to actually reach that speed.
It wasn't until around 2004 or 2005 that I got my first taste of a Cable Modem that just rocked my socks off and since then it's been primarily what I've used in both the Bay Area (Comcast) and Southern Nevada when I lived there (Cox).
Of course today I just leach the interwebs from two of my neighbors who have failed to secure their wireless routers and saves me a good chunk of booze money each month.
I suppose Ask.com will stick around to some extent like how Excite.com is still an active website, but no one will ever give it a real look, it's just "there" with the other legacy sites on the web.
I have a feeling XBox Live could increase up to $100 per year and everyone would still do it. Anymore than that and they'd probably start losing a few subscribers.
I'm in Northern CA and I just paid $3.799 for the 89 Octane. Last year at this time I was living in Southern Nevada and it was about the same pricing there.
I'm working with Team San Jose who works with promoting and managing the arts and cultural venues and events within the city of San Jose and within the office those who have desks and computers are still on Windows XP. There isn't any budget to upgrade to 7 anytime soon and when we do get funding it's put towards events and the venues and technology and software especially is the very LAST thing to be looked at. With continuing declining city revenue I don't see this changing anytime soon.
I've said this before, and I'm saying it again, eReaders really need to support PDF's and Word files a lot better than they currently do, especially if they want to get their devices into a college or have anything other than a black and white book novel read...
It doesn't matter if it's a college text book, a role playing game manual, or any type of publication that uses complex images/tables/graphs/charts/etc you need a PDF or Office type of file (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) file and you need to view it well. The current ePub files don't display these types of content well and the Kindle just doesn't work well with PDFs right now and doesn't support other file types. Sony and Apple have some support but not complete by any means.
It'd be great if there was a way to "purge" useless sites from the web...of course that's a pretty broad description there, perhaps purge "sites that dot he same thing as other sites but not as well" hmm...
Jokes aside this does sound a great alternative to the pill, shot or tube tieing that women have to go through or the needle in the nut and a snip that men have to go through to stop from making the babies.
After reading the article it said that some of the Wordpress Blogs hosted by GoDaddy were hacked, but that the issue/vulnerability wasn't on GoDaddy's side.
I took a look at the source of my files after logging into the admin area, as well as did a find on the directory of the files for the malicious code from the article and I can't seem to find the script anywhere nor am I experiencing any issues of any kind.
The article didn't mention what type of WP accounts were hacked either...which brings up a question in my mind...
I'm using WordPress 2.9.2. I have MySQL 5.x and PHP 5 on as well. Do we know if this is something that just hit PHP 4 users of WP?
The thing is, I only recently upgraded to PHP 5 because I am playing around with Drupal for another site of mine that will be hosted on the same server and I needed PHP 5, WP still runs on both PHP 4 and 5.
I partially kid, but seriously, as someone who reads/. and other tech-ish webnews pages as well as plays too many video games and even some that involve dice...I've never used Usenet or even had a desire too and neither have any of my IT friends. Sure, if you ask them what it is they'll tell you, they'll even rattle off some services that have replaced them, but when you ask them "Have you ever used Usenet?" they'd tell you know.
Granted, me and my friends are not the majority of/. readers, but given that this is a niche community to begin with I fail to see why anyone would really want to hold on to the past when there are new better tools to find information and hell, even better ways to pirate shit these days...speaking of Piracy I remember in high school when IRC was the best way to download shit, then it was using IRC to get a Text file and using an FTP app, then it was napster, then it was limewire, then those died and now it's bittorrent and thepiratebay.org - in a couple years something will replace that, lets build a bridge and get the fuck over it...
I agree with everything you said. However, I wish the game could have been re-skinned to be more modern.l On the video I see on MekTek it still looks like something out of the 90's
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As far as social bookmarking sites go I think StumbleUpon was a clear favorite, though Digg and Reddit seemed to be very similar to how Delicious was setup, I wonder who will "win" in the end...actually, I really don't care.
So they have to pay a dollar...I wonder how much it cost in legal and a check fee for that...not that Google would care...
So let's see, what's the worst way to deliver that $1? Pennies? A moist dollar? An out of state check/money order so it has a week hold on it?
The first paragraph complains about FPS that are easy to complete in "4 hours", but then the post goes on to compare that against games like Zelda Ocarina of Time, a RPG...
Let me break things down for those who have not grasped this concept:
FPS: First Person Shooters (ie: Halo, MoA, etc) have typically "short" single player campaigns because the games typically have a lot of replay value in that after you "finish" the game you spend the majority of your time going head to head with others online, or at home, or on different modes co-op.
RPG: Role Playing Games (ie: Zelda, DragonAge, etc) have typically 80-120 hours of game play story because typically once you beat them you never play them again. Granted, you may play the game again "later", like I played FF: Tactics when I was in high school and when it was released on the PSP I got a copy to play again.
No really, adjust your designs to fit with modern technology and stop trying to convert print sizes (A4) to web (pixels not inches)
I saw a report earlier this year online that said, 70% of screens are still rocking 1280x1024 resolutions, though I expect that when the numbers come out for 2010 I imagine it'll be more like 60% with the bulk of the remaining viewers using wide-cinema style resolutions given the popularity of 16-17" laptops and wide screens.
I really like WP, IMO it's actually the best CMS out there in the sense of easy to use and doesn't require you to have a hands on php developer in house or on contract to change up the layout or add in new features, unlike the more robust CMS Drupal.
Of course I say this not having played with Joomla or Modx and of course it's slightly off topic since this is about the blogging features and not the CMS features...
I see tons of frivolous items that could be reported on throughout their site to the DMCA. Just start submitting and eventually 3 notices will make it through....Should be great to see Suddenlink have to take their own site down.
I don't really care about the excessive ads, it's more so that people use it excessively. Take any fashion designers website which so often is 100% flash, so every page is really part of a flash app that doesn't allow a user to simply go "back" to a previous page. Not to mention it's annoying having a solid cable connection and yet the site takes 30 seconds to load because the creators wanted to have a 1920x1600 screen full of 24 different flash animations comprising the page.
If they managed to actually shut down The Pirate Bay, EZTV and all the other torrent sites on the entire internet, all that would happen is people would go back to grabbing lists from IRC and FTP downloading like they did in the late 90's to 2001ish.
More time and effort should be spent on making sure products are actually worth selling, and then piracy wouldn't matter. For example, I'm pretty sure Blizzard's Starcraft 2 is still making tons of money regardless of it being available for download, as well as I'm pretty sure the next Harry Potter movie is going to make shitloads of money, just like it's previous movies, regardless of it being on The Pirate Bay.
What successful product has ever really been hurt by piracy? How many shitty products that deserve to fail (or at least get subpar earnings) has been tanked by piracy? So companies that make shitty movies make less money - good - that's how business is designed to work.
Forgot to add it with my silly post...in 1997 I graduated Highschool and I had just migrated from a 33.6k modem to a 56k modem and was switching over to a thing called DSL for $30 a month since I had a job at CompUSA. The DSL was a 256/128 connection (it gradually improved to a 512/256 connection the next couple years).
I switched to a Point to Point based connection in 2000 or 2001 that was a 1.5mb connection for $80/mo with the worst latency I had ever experienced so I switched back to DSL and while I saw commercials advertising 1.5/768 connections for $60/mo (eventually dropped down to around $30 in recent years) with DSL I apparently just never lived in places with good enough phone wires to actually reach that speed.
It wasn't until around 2004 or 2005 that I got my first taste of a Cable Modem that just rocked my socks off and since then it's been primarily what I've used in both the Bay Area (Comcast) and Southern Nevada when I lived there (Cox).
Of course today I just leach the interwebs from two of my neighbors who have failed to secure their wireless routers and saves me a good chunk of booze money each month.
Who is Cricket and Metro PCS? I only know who AT&T and Verizon are... ;)
I suppose Ask.com will stick around to some extent like how Excite.com is still an active website, but no one will ever give it a real look, it's just "there" with the other legacy sites on the web.
Ninjas won't have a chance against Cyborg Pirates!
I was told today to shift my focus from our websites SEO/Traffic and focus on getting to 5 digits in "Fans" with our Facebook page...
I have a feeling XBox Live could increase up to $100 per year and everyone would still do it. Anymore than that and they'd probably start losing a few subscribers.
I don't understand it. Why is it the video game's fault that someone has no self control? For that matter why is it the food, drink or drugs fault?
People need to let natural selection work and stop making everyone else pay for it.
heh meant $2.77, though I wouldn't be surprised if in a few decades it is $277 a gallon...
I'm in Northern CA and I just paid $3.799 for the 89 Octane. Last year at this time I was living in Southern Nevada and it was about the same pricing there.
Where the hell is $277/gallon?
There's a case for that.
That's really what it comes down to.
I'm working with Team San Jose who works with promoting and managing the arts and cultural venues and events within the city of San Jose and within the office those who have desks and computers are still on Windows XP. There isn't any budget to upgrade to 7 anytime soon and when we do get funding it's put towards events and the venues and technology and software especially is the very LAST thing to be looked at. With continuing declining city revenue I don't see this changing anytime soon.
I've said this before, and I'm saying it again, eReaders really need to support PDF's and Word files a lot better than they currently do, especially if they want to get their devices into a college or have anything other than a black and white book novel read...
It doesn't matter if it's a college text book, a role playing game manual, or any type of publication that uses complex images/tables/graphs/charts/etc you need a PDF or Office type of file (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) file and you need to view it well. The current ePub files don't display these types of content well and the Kindle just doesn't work well with PDFs right now and doesn't support other file types. Sony and Apple have some support but not complete by any means.
It'd be great if there was a way to "purge" useless sites from the web...of course that's a pretty broad description there, perhaps purge "sites that dot he same thing as other sites but not as well" hmm...
Can we just start the internet over?
Jokes aside this does sound a great alternative to the pill, shot or tube tieing that women have to go through or the needle in the nut and a snip that men have to go through to stop from making the babies.
After reading the article it said that some of the Wordpress Blogs hosted by GoDaddy were hacked, but that the issue/vulnerability wasn't on GoDaddy's side.
I took a look at the source of my files after logging into the admin area, as well as did a find on the directory of the files for the malicious code from the article and I can't seem to find the script anywhere nor am I experiencing any issues of any kind.
The article didn't mention what type of WP accounts were hacked either...which brings up a question in my mind...
I'm using WordPress 2.9.2. I have MySQL 5.x and PHP 5 on as well. Do we know if this is something that just hit PHP 4 users of WP?
The thing is, I only recently upgraded to PHP 5 because I am playing around with Drupal for another site of mine that will be hosted on the same server and I needed PHP 5, WP still runs on both PHP 4 and 5.
I partially kid, but seriously, as someone who reads /. and other tech-ish webnews pages as well as plays too many video games and even some that involve dice...I've never used Usenet or even had a desire too and neither have any of my IT friends. Sure, if you ask them what it is they'll tell you, they'll even rattle off some services that have replaced them, but when you ask them "Have you ever used Usenet?" they'd tell you know.
Granted, me and my friends are not the majority of /. readers, but given that this is a niche community to begin with I fail to see why anyone would really want to hold on to the past when there are new better tools to find information and hell, even better ways to pirate shit these days...speaking of Piracy I remember in high school when IRC was the best way to download shit, then it was using IRC to get a Text file and using an FTP app, then it was napster, then it was limewire, then those died and now it's bittorrent and thepiratebay.org - in a couple years something will replace that, lets build a bridge and get the fuck over it...
I agree with everything you said.
However, I wish the game could have been re-skinned to be more modern.l On the video I see on MekTek it still looks like something out of the 90's