That's nothing. I've discovered programmers working in grey cubicals of resolute despair. It's a particularly tough environment, with no light, no personal hygiene, and extremely bad management. But the programmers appear to live -- and thrive -- off a combination of electricity and light, according to a new study. The result of that strange metabolism is the brilliant ability to avoid work called "Reading Slashdot".
Presumably (as far as Asthma goes) the same applies to sitting in front of computers/sitting playing handheld games like the DS. Though it would be interesting to know whether that carries the same correlations with the other undesirable outcomes.
When I was a student, Psygnosis came to the university on a recruitment drive and spoke about their games.
Aside from that being cool in itself, what did stick in my memory was a comment about what made a game good - getting enjoyment from the playing itself, not just from completing goals.
But this was way before Half-life and putting a story into gaming. Can't beat a good story.
So really the best solution has to encompass both, bit of a story and development, and a nice environment to explore complete with side quests.
GTA IV manages it quite nicely, so it is possible, and clearly successfully appeals to a wide audience.
The servers with the most real, breathing, living players are listed first.
This makes it slightly easier to find servers with real people on. The trouble is that there are quite a few servers and people tend to flock to small subset as group (obviously wanting to play together). It's hard to find any pattern as one set of servers may be popular for a few days and then another set of servers.
Evenings are a good time to play - it seems that most people are like the OP and want to let off a bit of steam after work. And what better way than with a nice big chaingun?:)
As for most popular, that's bit of a loaded question. They all play differently - really it's down to personal choice. All of the free FPS mentioned in the article are excellent and have a dedicated following. They're good quality considering they're produced by the effort of a few dedicated souls just for the hell of it, so it's worth giving each a try to see what appeals.:)
Wikipedia also has a list of free FPS, which includes some other gems not mentioned in the article (like Warow, OpenArena and Cube):
users of Adeona can rest assured that no one can abuse the system in order to track where they use their laptop
Honestly, publishing that on slashdot is like telling a small child "there is no way you can reach the delicious stash of chocolate in that cupboard right there"
I'm going to find Google's most influential plan hatcher and drown him in the combined tears of the world's geeks, collected in a giant pot with the letters "DON'T BE EVIL" stencilled on the outside.
If you want people to play your game, and keep playing your game, you will not be able to simply change the rules to test some theory of yours concerning economics... No, you'll have to be busy keeping people interested, and not randomly changing the rules is one aspect of that!
It's a great idea, I give you that, but it's simply not feasible for real... Don't be daft - people love economic rule changes.
By the way, I've changed the rules to add a my-reading-your-post tax, which incurs a two cent administrative fee per word. Thus you owe me $1.78, which exponentially increases if there are replies to this (and possibly other) thread(s) unless a) they are moderated Insightful b) Jupiter's third moon aligns with the rhombus of Capricorn. On a Tuesday.*
*Rules subject to change at my discretion and with no notice. It'll be more fun than crack cocaine, honest.
Who wants to bet that the 'unrelated problem' that resulted the the site shutting down was SQL injection. If you're stupid enough to allow access to other people's details via slight URL changes, you're probably also stupid enough not to check or parameterise form fields. I blame that Canadian called '; drop table passport_info -- ' and password = ''; myself.
...the comments. They get bullied by the rest of the code because they're "different". Even the compiler excludes them, the poor little buggers.
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If you were doing real database work on a well run DB you wouldn't have been able to take the DB down =) Real DB's have resource limiters that allow the DBA to insure that no one user can exhaust resources to the point of taking the DB down. We even limit the percentage of system resources a user can take just to make sure that one bad report doesn't slow down OLTP processing. I'm not the DBA but I know enough to know that there are toys and then there are real business tools. Indeed. This was a mysql database that I had previously tested long queries on. I was monitoring the progress of the query when the server went unresponsive. All hell broke out from there.
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...until your carefully crafted union of two huge tables fails, taking down a mysql server common to over 400 sites and incurring the wrath of your previously friendly hosting company.
Try double-man sized. That thing must weigh 4 times what a man weights. 2 times what an American weighs. It's all extrapolation. I bet it had a 46cm claw and a tiny disproportionate 4cm body with weedy legs, making it the early equivalent to the modern programmer and not the scary hideous gargantuan portrayed by the media.
The hell? Even xname's DNS service isn't that bad.
And they're a free DNS provider that gets huge DDoS attacks. Oh, nice - didn't know about them. Thanks for the tip (would make good 3rd/4th choice nameservers)!:)
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That's nothing. I've discovered programmers working in grey cubicals of resolute despair. It's a particularly tough environment, with no light, no personal hygiene, and extremely bad management. But the programmers appear to live -- and thrive -- off a combination of electricity and light, according to a new study. The result of that strange metabolism is the brilliant ability to avoid work called "Reading Slashdot".
I fear for all those poor websites with red backgrounds...
...its dark at night.
I want to know if I can borrow it to play Half-Life 2: EP3 when it comes out. Now that would be awesome. :)
I like this:
Get published in national newspaper that you live in an affluent area.
Attempt to prevent Google street view publicising that you live in an affluent area.
Good work, numbskull!
how many people can say that they have talked on a phone made by hand by the inventor of the telephone
Not you, according to the article/Wikipedia entry. It would seem Meucci got there before Gray/Bell.
iptables -A INPUT -s ! 192.168.0.0/16 -j DROP
That should keep those pesky non-locals out. ;)
The summary states "tied to TV viewing". Don't know about you, but that sounds pretty bad to me!
Presumably (as far as Asthma goes) the same applies to sitting in front of computers/sitting playing handheld games like the DS. Though it would be interesting to know whether that carries the same correlations with the other undesirable outcomes.
When I was a student, Psygnosis came to the university on a recruitment drive and spoke about their games.
Aside from that being cool in itself, what did stick in my memory was a comment about what made a game good - getting enjoyment from the playing itself, not just from completing goals.
But this was way before Half-life and putting a story into gaming. Can't beat a good story.
So really the best solution has to encompass both, bit of a story and development, and a nice environment to explore complete with side quests.
GTA IV manages it quite nicely, so it is possible, and clearly successfully appeals to a wide audience.
It's possible to see a list of Alien Arena players online here:
http://chaingun.org/browser/
The servers with the most real, breathing, living players are listed first.
This makes it slightly easier to find servers with real people on. The trouble is that there are quite a few servers and people tend to flock to small subset as group (obviously wanting to play together). It's hard to find any pattern as one set of servers may be popular for a few days and then another set of servers.
Evenings are a good time to play - it seems that most people are like the OP and want to let off a bit of steam after work. And what better way than with a nice big chaingun? :)
As for most popular, that's bit of a loaded question. They all play differently - really it's down to personal choice. All of the free FPS mentioned in the article are excellent and have a dedicated following. They're good quality considering they're produced by the effort of a few dedicated souls just for the hell of it, so it's worth giving each a try to see what appeals. :)
Wikipedia also has a list of free FPS, which includes some other gems not mentioned in the article (like Warow, OpenArena and Cube):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_first-person_shooters
In my version of Medipedia, picking your nose and then eating it is allowed. ;)
One to turn it on, the rest to shine flashlights on it?
Honestly, publishing that on slashdot is like telling a small child "there is no way you can reach the delicious stash of chocolate in that cupboard right there"
It's cool that we're seeing real world applications now.
Superconducters are way cool man.
I'm going to find Google's most influential plan hatcher and drown him in the combined tears of the world's geeks, collected in a giant pot with the letters "DON'T BE EVIL" stencilled on the outside.
It's a great idea, I give you that, but it's simply not feasible for real... Don't be daft - people love economic rule changes.
By the way, I've changed the rules to add a my-reading-your-post tax, which incurs a two cent administrative fee per word. Thus you owe me $1.78, which exponentially increases if there are replies to this (and possibly other) thread(s) unless a) they are moderated Insightful b) Jupiter's third moon aligns with the rhombus of Capricorn. On a Tuesday.*
*Rules subject to change at my discretion and with no notice. It'll be more fun than crack cocaine, honest.
Irresponsible name to have these days.
...the comments. They get bullied by the rest of the code because they're "different". Even the compiler excludes them, the poor little buggers.
...until your carefully crafted union of two huge tables fails, taking down a mysql server common to over 400 sites and incurring the wrath of your previously friendly hosting company.
Mental note - test locally first.
...would be legging it the other way if I found that under a rock.
And they're a free DNS provider that gets huge DDoS attacks. Oh, nice - didn't know about them. Thanks for the tip (would make good 3rd/4th choice nameservers)!