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The dating services are not in the business of hooking people up, they are in the business of selling subscriptions and advertisements
LIES! This is only partially true. Dating services are in it for the love... The love of kittens, rainbows and money.
They have just announced the release of a complete collection of publisher tools, called Steamworks
Which will probably mean you'll be forced to deal with steam as an end-user. This is great news for all those who've seen Steam flat out refuse to start their games because the Steam servers were too busy (yes, single player games).
As a developer I'd be extremely wary of this as well, since I've just become dependent on something I have very little control over. I'm pretty sure that when I'm not paying a penny, Valve will gladly make sure that everything is working 100% of the time.
FWIW, steam does have its benefits, but the amount of problems I've had with steam as a player don't give me much confidence as a developer.
If you really are pissed off about this, write to fox news and complain (yourcomments@foxnews.com). The only thing that is going to make Fox News budge is if they realize they have offended their viewing demographic sufficiently.
I'm pretty sure that the next show on FOX will be about nerdrage now.
I wouldn't like to think of my kid-brother, at 16, playing it. He's nowhere near mature enough.
And you think an AO rating is going to stop him from getting that game one way or another? Remember when you were a teenager? How old were you when you watched your first porn flick? You can bet that a week after release at the very most, your brother has downloaded this game, installed it, and probably finished it.
Age based content rating (which is what the ESRB system is) is a terrible concept to start with. A content based rating is far more likely to be effective. Nudity, horror, violence, profanity,... Make those the categories on which to classify a game, and define clear boundaries when your game crosses from one category "level" to another. Then define what category "level" a game becomes adult only.
That way, the ratings cannot be bent to appease the marketability and doubted afterwards, parents know what their kids want (them) to buy, and politicians can stop whining about the subject. Content creators will have no choice but to follow the guidelines and stay under that well-defined line if they want stores/consoles to have their game.
Perhaps I'm a bit naive in assuming that it's easy to classify various things in "levels", but to me it seems really straight forward to make the difference between "contains nudity", "contains implied sex" and "contains breeding like rabbits", or "player shoots monsters", "player shoots realistic looking human beings" and "player must flay living human beings and sacrifice intestines to Zorgal, God of the Underworld, using a spoon".
As a hardcore RPG player, I'm dismayed by the amount of space manga has eaten up in your average bookstore, but it's the same thing that's driving this move to lockdown fan-subbing - there's a market now and the company wants you to pay for it in money. You used to have to pay for it in effort.
As someone who loves comics (and I count manga to be a comic, sue me) and to some lesser extent RPGs, what really startles me is the slow but certain rise of collectible games. You'll usually find them as card games (eg. pokemon, magic) and sometimes as board games that come in different sets. They've been slowly taking over more and more space in specialized "book stores" (perhaps comic/gaming store is more appropriate).
Manga have been on the rise for the past couple of years in the local specialized shops, but I think most people use amazon or whatever localized alternative floats their boat. The bulk of comics is still strips and comics, with manga being a minority. I had a talk with a local shopkeep about what he sells most and he told me that the games sell better than comics, with RPGs being on the decline and collectible games always on the rise. To tell you the truth, I'd rather not be the proprietor of such a shop. Battling against amazon and other online bookstores price-wise is an impossible task, and having to rely primarily on games and kids buying comics seems awfully risky.
I've noticed however that in the past couple of years, online specialized manga stores are booming (as far as you can boom selling comics). A "local" website started by a couple of geeks in their basement in 2001, seems to have survived and their catalogue has become quite huge. They've gone from selling manga and DVDs to selling figurines, posters, etc etc etc. Their stock is impressive, and most of their goods are not in backorder which either means they know they're going to be able to sell it, or they'd be making a loss. Public records for the company show that they're a healthy company however, much to my surprise (since I do believe that manga and anime are a very niche market).
There is the potential that it may be possible to extract a non-trivial amount of information on a person simply from their associations with others.
Isn't that what your parents told you when you were little when they said "He's a bad influence" ? Sorry for butchering your post, but I think that sort of applies. If you asociate with a drugdealer, people are going to assume you're somehow connected to drugs.
Does anybody run an ISP mail system with Qmail featuring predominately as MTA of choice?
At my previous job we used to run qmail for our mailhosting boxes. I can tell you that we were really happy with qmail back then, with the right patches it can be a really flexible mailserver, and once you're used to how it works you'll be in SMTP bliss. However, when you need functionality that isn't provided by qmail, you're doing one (or some) of the following:
patching qmail, recompiling, testing, deploying
writing a perl/bash/whatever script that goes somewhere in the Big Qmail Picture
muttering curses and djb's name for the licensing
I can't really bring myself to bashing qmail over these things because it's served me well and I've hardly had any "unexpected" things happen to me, which is something I can't really say of other MTAs I've tried and I've never had any security problems (altough you might want to read this page). There's a lot of information available on qmail, and you can check out this guide (although this may now be quite dated). An indispensible tool is qmHandle for inspecting and manipulating the qmail queue in case something did go wrong.
Finally, I have to admit that when I left that company my own mailhosting services are currently being run by postfix, simply because I don't have the time to build my own qmail packages whenever I need some feature. If you look at the postfix design, any qmail user will see similarities and the fact that you're not patching and rebuilding it whenever you need feature X sort of grows on you.
I know that if I were to start hosting a large mailserver, I'd have a hard time deciding between the two and I'd do a lot of testing before I made a choice.
Every major domain registrar lets you do a "private domain registration" for a few bucks extra
Actually, some cc-tlds forbid it. They don't give out the owner on the whois request, but they do on their website after entering a captcha. The captcha itself however hasn't stopped persistent spammers and even domain name scammers.
A few years ago a certain registrar started sending out lots of snailmail warning people that their domain name was about to expire. Many customers immediately responded by signing that document they got by mail, and making a donation to this registrars bank account. The problem was that those people often forgot that they already had another company taking care of their hosting and DNS, which now pointed to some prefab "Welcome to your new web space" page. No MX record, just an A and a CNAME pointing to that one server. While questionable, it was perfectly legal at the time. The paperwork was all there and signed no less by people who didn't feel like reading it entirely.
Oh, I remember the crying and screaming on the telephone that year... A marvelous symphony of remorse and despair when they realized that it was actually they themselves and not their hosting company that screwed them over. In retrospect it was quite funny, but at the time it was a drama of epic proportions. There were managers screaming into their phones on "how much business they lost" in one day, frustrated sysadmins wondering why their bosses signed a document without consulting them first, and of course the couple of people with personal vanity domains who were quite upset that they couldn't post to their blog or whatever anymore.
Ever since that day, I hate whois (except when it's proven useful to me)
Gigantic robotic arms with huge potato mashers. Once every year they set them loose around the office down here, and everyone screams and runs. The survivors get a raise, the widows of those who didn't make it get a ham. Best teambuilding event ever, especially when you're screaming "Every man for himself!" at the top of your lungs while avoiding the masher.
you think text editing should be this slow because of some highlighting and anti-aliasing?
Yeah, but it's using a unified lighting and shadow model like doom 3. However because it was too dark to be eligable they had to up the contrast. Add to that some proper anti-aliassing, and you've got a real CPU/GPU hungry editor right there.
These plans went awry when an Israeli registrar realized the Hebrew word ICANN thought meant "hippopotamus" was an expletive and threatened to involve the Israeli government.
I wonder what test translates to... I hope they hired a translator who doesn't like practical jokes.
is it the odd-numbered trek movies that are good, or are they the ones that suck?
From what I gathered it's odd-numbered trek movies that suck.
1. A probe returns to earth, lots of "visual effects", some fusion between man and machine and the universe is happy. After watching this movie, you'll find yourself wondering "What did I just watch?" and "Did I pay money for that DVD?"
3. Spock respawns, thus making nearly as good as Jesus but with the mental capacity of a peanut. Near the end of the movie he tries to turn water into wine with Saavik (who decided to change her appearance completely, because the previous actress was insulted when trekkies referred to her as "Vulcagirl"). Kirk gets upset when the Klingons kill his son (the one he'd never seen until in the previous movie) and decides that blowing up the Enterprise is the solution to all of his problems and provides a neat fireworks display down on the planet. He then steals a Klingon bird of prey, sails off to Vulcan and they live happily ever after (until the next movie)
5. God is pretty mad with the Enterprise crew for Spock respawning out of nowhere. He kindly asks that Kirk hands over his brand new Enterprise, but Kirk refuses. Why does God need a starship? (Especially one whose captain won't hesitate to blow it up).
7. Kirk somehow gets stuck in an eternal happiness vortex of fun. When Picard show up, Kirk bakes some eggs, decides it's time to leave his newly found utopia, and kicks some Malcolm McDowel ass. Famous last words: Captain on the bridge... I mean, bridge on the captain. (I'm assuming the metal thing that fell on his head was some sort of bridge like construction, please excuse the pun if it was a staircase)
9. Data does something really odd, which induces long talks about the prime directive by various crewmembers of the enterprise. By the time Picard decides to kick ass, half the movietheatre is asleep, while the other half finds themselves complaining what a waste of money that ticket was in the pub.
The worst part was that movie #10 didn't bring balance to the trek universe. Data dies, nobody cares.
This is once again an odd-numbered trek movie, and from the looks of it, it won't break the rule. Prequels suck, george lucas proved it (although that has more to do with George Lucas than with the concept of a prequel), Enterprise proved it (although that has a lot more to do with certain writers, whom I won't name to avoid starting a flamewar).
I think Trek needs a long holliday. 10 years sounds about right. Make some room for other scifi, then give those shows a run for their money. That way, people will want to see it again, now everyone is just waiting for the release so they can say "That was horrible".
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LIES! This is only partially true. Dating services are in it for the love... The love of kittens, rainbows and money.
That's NOT the correct way to use fibre-optic cable!
Which will probably mean you'll be forced to deal with steam as an end-user. This is great news for all those who've seen Steam flat out refuse to start their games because the Steam servers were too busy (yes, single player games).
As a developer I'd be extremely wary of this as well, since I've just become dependent on something I have very little control over. I'm pretty sure that when I'm not paying a penny, Valve will gladly make sure that everything is working 100% of the time.
FWIW, steam does have its benefits, but the amount of problems I've had with steam as a player don't give me much confidence as a developer.
I'm pretty sure that the next show on FOX will be about nerdrage now.
But it's so easy...
Pvp is pretty awesome in Eve, but there are a lot of parts in the game that could really use some improvmezzzZZZZzzzzzZZZ
who?
So that way YOU this morning stuck in traffic next to me! If you went any deeper you risked lobotomizing yourself.
And you think an AO rating is going to stop him from getting that game one way or another? Remember when you were a teenager? How old were you when you watched your first porn flick? You can bet that a week after release at the very most, your brother has downloaded this game, installed it, and probably finished it.
Age based content rating (which is what the ESRB system is) is a terrible concept to start with. A content based rating is far more likely to be effective. Nudity, horror, violence, profanity, ... Make those the categories on which to classify a game, and define clear boundaries when your game crosses from one category "level" to another. Then define what category "level" a game becomes adult only.
That way, the ratings cannot be bent to appease the marketability and doubted afterwards, parents know what their kids want (them) to buy, and politicians can stop whining about the subject. Content creators will have no choice but to follow the guidelines and stay under that well-defined line if they want stores/consoles to have their game.
Perhaps I'm a bit naive in assuming that it's easy to classify various things in "levels", but to me it seems really straight forward to make the difference between "contains nudity", "contains implied sex" and "contains breeding like rabbits", or "player shoots monsters", "player shoots realistic looking human beings" and "player must flay living human beings and sacrifice intestines to Zorgal, God of the Underworld, using a spoon".
As someone who loves comics (and I count manga to be a comic, sue me) and to some lesser extent RPGs, what really startles me is the slow but certain rise of collectible games. You'll usually find them as card games (eg. pokemon, magic) and sometimes as board games that come in different sets. They've been slowly taking over more and more space in specialized "book stores" (perhaps comic/gaming store is more appropriate).
Manga have been on the rise for the past couple of years in the local specialized shops, but I think most people use amazon or whatever localized alternative floats their boat. The bulk of comics is still strips and comics, with manga being a minority. I had a talk with a local shopkeep about what he sells most and he told me that the games sell better than comics, with RPGs being on the decline and collectible games always on the rise. To tell you the truth, I'd rather not be the proprietor of such a shop. Battling against amazon and other online bookstores price-wise is an impossible task, and having to rely primarily on games and kids buying comics seems awfully risky.
I've noticed however that in the past couple of years, online specialized manga stores are booming (as far as you can boom selling comics). A "local" website started by a couple of geeks in their basement in 2001, seems to have survived and their catalogue has become quite huge. They've gone from selling manga and DVDs to selling figurines, posters, etc etc etc. Their stock is impressive, and most of their goods are not in backorder which either means they know they're going to be able to sell it, or they'd be making a loss. Public records for the company show that they're a healthy company however, much to my surprise (since I do believe that manga and anime are a very niche market).
Not just any virtual jail, virtual man jail with virtual soap getting dropped in the shower
I hope they bring souvenirs, like a pair of whales
Sadly, yes...
It needed more special effects and long quiet scenes where the enterprise hovers over a very large ship.
AWESOME! Have you ever thought about becoming a professional Star Trek script writer? You might just pull it off.
Just so we're absolutely clear about this, animals in general don't tick. If they do you might want to go looking for your wristwatch. ;)
Isn't that what your parents told you when you were little when they said "He's a bad influence" ? Sorry for butchering your post, but I think that sort of applies. If you asociate with a drugdealer, people are going to assume you're somehow connected to drugs.
At my previous job we used to run qmail for our mailhosting boxes. I can tell you that we were really happy with qmail back then, with the right patches it can be a really flexible mailserver, and once you're used to how it works you'll be in SMTP bliss. However, when you need functionality that isn't provided by qmail, you're doing one (or some) of the following:
I can't really bring myself to bashing qmail over these things because it's served me well and I've hardly had any "unexpected" things happen to me, which is something I can't really say of other MTAs I've tried and I've never had any security problems (altough you might want to read this page). There's a lot of information available on qmail, and you can check out this guide (although this may now be quite dated). An indispensible tool is qmHandle for inspecting and manipulating the qmail queue in case something did go wrong.
Finally, I have to admit that when I left that company my own mailhosting services are currently being run by postfix, simply because I don't have the time to build my own qmail packages whenever I need some feature. If you look at the postfix design, any qmail user will see similarities and the fact that you're not patching and rebuilding it whenever you need feature X sort of grows on you.
I know that if I were to start hosting a large mailserver, I'd have a hard time deciding between the two and I'd do a lot of testing before I made a choice.
Actually, some cc-tlds forbid it. They don't give out the owner on the whois request, but they do on their website after entering a captcha. The captcha itself however hasn't stopped persistent spammers and even domain name scammers.
A few years ago a certain registrar started sending out lots of snailmail warning people that their domain name was about to expire. Many customers immediately responded by signing that document they got by mail, and making a donation to this registrars bank account. The problem was that those people often forgot that they already had another company taking care of their hosting and DNS, which now pointed to some prefab "Welcome to your new web space" page. No MX record, just an A and a CNAME pointing to that one server. While questionable, it was perfectly legal at the time. The paperwork was all there and signed no less by people who didn't feel like reading it entirely.
Oh, I remember the crying and screaming on the telephone that year... A marvelous symphony of remorse and despair when they realized that it was actually they themselves and not their hosting company that screwed them over. In retrospect it was quite funny, but at the time it was a drama of epic proportions. There were managers screaming into their phones on "how much business they lost" in one day, frustrated sysadmins wondering why their bosses signed a document without consulting them first, and of course the couple of people with personal vanity domains who were quite upset that they couldn't post to their blog or whatever anymore.
Ever since that day, I hate whois (except when it's proven useful to me)
Gigantic robotic arms with huge potato mashers. Once every year they set them loose around the office down here, and everyone screams and runs. The survivors get a raise, the widows of those who didn't make it get a ham. Best teambuilding event ever, especially when you're screaming "Every man for himself!" at the top of your lungs while avoiding the masher.
Yeah, but it's using a unified lighting and shadow model like doom 3. However because it was too dark to be eligable they had to up the contrast. Add to that some proper anti-aliassing, and you've got a real CPU/GPU hungry editor right there.
Oh really? Never say never. ;)
I wonder what test translates to... I hope they hired a translator who doesn't like practical jokes.
From what I gathered it's odd-numbered trek movies that suck.
The worst part was that movie #10 didn't bring balance to the trek universe. Data dies, nobody cares.
This is once again an odd-numbered trek movie, and from the looks of it, it won't break the rule. Prequels suck, george lucas proved it (although that has more to do with George Lucas than with the concept of a prequel), Enterprise proved it (although that has a lot more to do with certain writers, whom I won't name to avoid starting a flamewar).
I think Trek needs a long holliday. 10 years sounds about right. Make some room for other scifi, then give those shows a run for their money. That way, people will want to see it again, now everyone is just waiting for the release so they can say "That was horrible".
Know your place, plebe, and let the aristocracy speak first and for all. Now if you'll excuse me, it's time for the daily slave orgy.
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