New Testingstan

Revenge of the Sith really didn't do TEO any favours. Within 6 month to a year of it's release there is a >40% drop in posting activity.

The first couple of Halo novels weren't terrible. I mean, they weren't spectacular and I probably wouldn't read them on their own merits, but they were pretty fun. I dunno about the more recent ones. Greg Bear is doing a sequence about the Forerunners that sounds utterly crazy. Greg Bear work was d...

Dalton already set the bar really fucking low when he threated to ban people over suggesting Fox News may have a systematic bias which has them swapping Rs to Ds consistantly when a Republican is caught doing something wrong. And got really nasty over suggesting Fox News deliberately lies, despite t...

It is however amazingly rare to get an official apology out of how fucking poor the tie-in was. Even if nothing comes of it.

RogueIce wrote:stupidly priced (more than $100 for Star Trek season DVDs?)

About 5 years ago, I saw a 3 season box set for Startrek the Original series at north of $600 AUD.

weemadando wrote:Mass Effect books have occasionally been interesting.

I can tell you aren't talking about the most recent one. Mass Effect: Deception is fucking horrible, so bad that Bioware and the Del Rey issued a public apology over it!

TEO also had a precipitous drop in patronage at some point. Remember the days of hundreds of active users live at a time? When debates turned over super rapidly and we *needed* to split the forums so much to manage traffic. The ending of several major sci-fi series all at once (stargate, nbsg, etc)...

Never mind the 4-10 minutes of downtime as 50mb of patches apply. Damn .NET framwwork.

Oxymoron wrote:have we reached peak lament

For as long as we have people. No.

Glass Fort MacLeod wrote:Wow you guys actually lock these things periodically? I'm shocked.

The moderation interface for phpBB is nearly a crime against humanity.

I tried out Windows 8 a while back. My first exposure to Windows Server 2012 was trying to use it in a windowed RDP session with the system I was connecting from having multipule monitors. I raged and deleted the VM inside of an hour. Since then, I've upgraded a bunch of my home lab to use it, but ...

The new Hitman Absolution game disables all the achievements on easy, this prevents a fairly large number of unlocks from being exposed.

FLOSS IDEs have a different development model, and are therefor distinct, but none of those IDEs in the article was FLOSS. FLOSS IDEs are also stinking piles of shit. Really doesn't help that gcc, the GPLed compiler to use, is actively hostile to any sort of integration which kinda a bad thing for ...

It is either baddly configured backups, or the xenforo caching crap growing like crazy before whatever prunes it kicks in. Saddly, it will probably get worse as Kier is a rather absent forum owner. Throwing more resources at it would help, but that would cost money. And Kier hasn't even bothered to ...

timmy wrote:I envy those of your who are able to maintain a sense of self-respect at work.

I don't interact with the general public, this helps a lot.

Zablorg wrote:man i thought maybe this story was going to be about plucky youths discovering secret heritage and making out

They do that, saddly thier secret heritage has a bit of bite to it.

I somehow can't see this series ending on an overly "happy" note.

Zablorg wrote:I am interested to know how all this social engineering is conducive to being chill bros

A later episode gives a throw away line about the 'too quiet ones' also being selected against, and it's heavily hinted quite earlier on that they consider social isolation just as bad as violence.

Oxymoron wrote:[1] : god I hate this word for all the ways it has been hijacked by the singulitarian wankers.

Amen.

Gands wrote:Universities charge 20k a year?

WTF?

Crazy. I graduated with $21K total HECS debt(only took 8 years to get my 3 year degree!), but that is indexed by cost of living and I only payback when I'm above an income threshold.

RyanThunder wrote:needs a like button

Kinda tempted to install the following mod; thanks for and modify it to use the word "like" instead.

mainly the type system which makes no difference between declaring and assigning variables, meaning if you misspell a variable this might not be a compile-time error, and dynamic typing, meaning you can't really assume anything about the input to your functions (nor the output) Actually, the worse ...

adr wrote:and the fucking dvd player turns itself off halfway through the second episode.

Wait, people use DVD players?

I thought they where just a mythical source for downloadable copies!

god the humanist inheritance was so fucking good even as a rough draft This, so very much. I'm going to make one last push at publication over the winter; if I don't get at least a nibble by next Memorial Day, I'm self-publishing at zero profit for me; the paper version will be printing and shippin...

RogueIce wrote:Shoulda used MS Access.

These words instill a lot of disgust.

MySQL's limitations are wierd, arbitrary and make zero sense.

And will randomly change between versions.