Good news,/. readers! It turns out we're going to die sooner that everyone else, so we can all get our brains transferred into computers and rule over the puny humans.
Meh. ETQW was pretty close to being a commercial bomb, and that's if it didn't really, actually bomb. I got the collectors' edition at release and I'd rather I hadn't. As someone put it, the Battlefield players hate it because it left out some things from Battlefield and the Wolfenstein players hate it because it didn't keep the Wolfenstein format intact.
I can't remember how many ETQW servers there were last time I looked at the server browser, it was either 200 or 700 - either way, it was under 1000, when BF2 at launch probably had over 9000 servers.
If you'll excuse my off-topicness for a moment here, I can't be the only one who was thinking "Wait, someone actually wrote a serious book about Half-Life?" when clicking onto this...
I've wondered about this before, and I have tried, as many are suggesting, using QoS before. However, on our Linksys WAG354G QoS doesn't seem to do anything at all (when, luckily, all the latency is caused by traffic coming through under three ports, otherwise there aren't enough text fields in the QoS dialog to fit more), and in fact the router just seems to lose the DSL connection and not reconnect after a while, although I'm not 100% sure that's caused by QoS.
So, basically, when I want to play online nobody can use BitTorrent or P2P at all on the LAN... or indeed when anybody wants to browse, as BitTorrent lag sometimes gets so bad Firefox will wait several minutes on a connection that is never established, forcing you to hit stop and then refresh. At lower speeds it just stops it from downloading stylesheets (for some reason FF considers them optional), which is nearly as annoying.
I'm going to spare myself the trouble of actually making a point and instead point out (zing!) that they probably forgot about Starforce and how that turned out.
The problem with CMSs (specifically the more bare-bones ones to which you're supposed to add plugins, like Drupal), is that, well, as I said, they need plugins to make themselves useful, and sometimes the plugins don't work together well or don't mesh with one another.
It might be just me, but last January I decided I wanted to create a profissional-looking (or at least profissional-working) newspaper site as a hobby. I know The Onion and Schamper and a whole lot of other online newspapers run on Drupal, but it certainly wasn't "simple" to do, even with custom logic coding. Views likes CCK but not some of its addons, theming a CCK node is complicated and a View of a CCK node doubly so, especially if you want to show news separated by Taxonomy classification on the front page, like most news sites do.
After convincing myself that if I were to use a CMS for that site, it would have to be Drupal, I started thinking it would just be a lot easier to code something which worked exactly the way I had in mind... of course, I'm only an amateur programmer who can do slightly decent Perl and, by extension, PHP, so even though I have read a bunch of books on common web application security holes (and associated techniques like CHAP login, session fixation prevention, etc.) the general opinion of the Internet was that "coding your own CMS is an even worse idea".
Anyway, I'm rambling, but the point is I never got said hobby site working. Maybe if I really had to get it done I could have achieved it (probably by cutting corners and making compromises), but to this day, short of custom-coding, I don't really see a minimally straightforward way of setting up a newspaper-style site (and, relatedly, while googling extensively on the topic I came across a/. post on the subject -- the consensus was Drupal). There's also Expression Engine and a host of whole other commercial CMSs, but at that point you might as well throw in a bit more cash and have the company customize it for you, which takes the fun out of the "hobby" process.
- Wikileaks Changes Headings to Times New Roman
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- Wikileaks leaks Wikileaks' Wikileaks leaks
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Actually, I wonder how traffic sign colors vary from country to country; over here in Portugal highway signs are white on blue, while freeway signs are white on green. I suspect the font is Blue Highway, but that is to be expected.
Following in Adobe's footsteps, the Linux community will tomorrow announce that future releases of yum will run only on 128 bit versions of Microsoft Windows 7.
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You can fedex typos now? Figures...
Good news, /. readers! It turns out we're going to die sooner that everyone else, so we can all get our brains transferred into computers and rule over the puny humans.
Meh. ETQW was pretty close to being a commercial bomb, and that's if it didn't really, actually bomb. I got the collectors' edition at release and I'd rather I hadn't. As someone put it, the Battlefield players hate it because it left out some things from Battlefield and the Wolfenstein players hate it because it didn't keep the Wolfenstein format intact.
I can't remember how many ETQW servers there were last time I looked at the server browser, it was either 200 or 700 - either way, it was under 1000, when BF2 at launch probably had over 9000 servers.
I'm going to invent a car that runs on strawmen.
Check back tomorrow for the press release.
If you'll excuse my off-topicness for a moment here, I can't be the only one who was thinking "Wait, someone actually wrote a serious book about Half-Life?" when clicking onto this...
I've wondered about this before, and I have tried, as many are suggesting, using QoS before. However, on our Linksys WAG354G QoS doesn't seem to do anything at all (when, luckily, all the latency is caused by traffic coming through under three ports, otherwise there aren't enough text fields in the QoS dialog to fit more), and in fact the router just seems to lose the DSL connection and not reconnect after a while, although I'm not 100% sure that's caused by QoS.
So, basically, when I want to play online nobody can use BitTorrent or P2P at all on the LAN... or indeed when anybody wants to browse, as BitTorrent lag sometimes gets so bad Firefox will wait several minutes on a connection that is never established, forcing you to hit stop and then refresh. At lower speeds it just stops it from downloading stylesheets (for some reason FF considers them optional), which is nearly as annoying.
I'm going to spare myself the trouble of actually making a point and instead point out (zing!) that they probably forgot about Starforce and how that turned out.
I'm more concerned about what target those people would switch to if we somehow successfully managed to eradicate obesity.
Or maybe the forthcoming* video game version of Shark.
* Not forthcoming, thankfully.
Now, now, don't you go putting words in the Vatican's mouth. They didn't say anything about Douglas DC-8 airplanes.
The problem with CMSs (specifically the more bare-bones ones to which you're supposed to add plugins, like Drupal), is that, well, as I said, they need plugins to make themselves useful, and sometimes the plugins don't work together well or don't mesh with one another.
/. post on the subject -- the consensus was Drupal). There's also Expression Engine and a host of whole other commercial CMSs, but at that point you might as well throw in a bit more cash and have the company customize it for you, which takes the fun out of the "hobby" process.
It might be just me, but last January I decided I wanted to create a profissional-looking (or at least profissional-working) newspaper site as a hobby. I know The Onion and Schamper and a whole lot of other online newspapers run on Drupal, but it certainly wasn't "simple" to do, even with custom logic coding. Views likes CCK but not some of its addons, theming a CCK node is complicated and a View of a CCK node doubly so, especially if you want to show news separated by Taxonomy classification on the front page, like most news sites do.
After convincing myself that if I were to use a CMS for that site, it would have to be Drupal, I started thinking it would just be a lot easier to code something which worked exactly the way I had in mind... of course, I'm only an amateur programmer who can do slightly decent Perl and, by extension, PHP, so even though I have read a bunch of books on common web application security holes (and associated techniques like CHAP login, session fixation prevention, etc.) the general opinion of the Internet was that "coding your own CMS is an even worse idea".
Anyway, I'm rambling, but the point is I never got said hobby site working. Maybe if I really had to get it done I could have achieved it (probably by cutting corners and making compromises), but to this day, short of custom-coding, I don't really see a minimally straightforward way of setting up a newspaper-style site (and, relatedly, while googling extensively on the topic I came across a
... look forward to Battlebotnets.
Scientists Prove Headline Simplification Sometimes Deleterious Headline Intelligibility.
Film 11, Tuned.
- Wikileaks Changes Headings to Times New Roman
- Wikileaks Director Recommends Ivory Soap
- Wikileaks to Sponsor Next Super Bowl
- Wikileaks leaks Wikileaks' Wikileaks leaks
- Wikileaks wikileaks wikileaks, Wikileaks wikileaks
That's what OK Go thought, and look where they ended up.
Let's not turn this into a clusterflock now.
Actually, I wonder how traffic sign colors vary from country to country; over here in Portugal highway signs are white on blue, while freeway signs are white on green. I suspect the font is Blue Highway, but that is to be expected.
Um... er... kinky?
Following in Adobe's footsteps, the Linux community will tomorrow announce that future releases of yum will run only on 128 bit versions of Microsoft Windows 7.
Almost: he's doing pro-Bono work.
It's cool, if a bit jarring... I just wish individual comments had a bottom border so you can distinguish them from their reply tree.
Now geeks will have an excuse to snuggle up to other people...
But can you do the freaking moonwalk?
Apparently a fully processed cadaver can fetch up to $250,000. Now, who says I'm worth more alive than dead?"
I thought I heard someone say that the average healthy adult is worth about $2 million in the human smuggling business?
Yup. It's called oniomania.
Happy therapy!