I just shifted to following a handful of artists on social media - the general trend of webcomic update notifications integrates seamlessly into the rest of my twitter feed, and it seems to be easier to interface with some creators, at least casually.
I dimly recall seeing ads in RSS feeds back in the day but that may have only been on one or two sites. Fact is, while RSS is great for the consumers of information it's not nearly as useful for content creators, at least where monetization is involved.
I tried RSS back in the late aughts - problem was, nearly everything I read at the time was a webcomic, and their RSS feeds amounted to little more than update notifications. Full syndication was rare then, I can't imagine how rare it is now.
Do I use RSS? No. But the feed on my webcomic has gotten over 8,000 hits since I added a redirect from the old feed location a few weeks ago, so it's definitely still in use.
I don't have this problem at all on the desktop. On my phone, on the other hand, it happens with every single website on the commercial web. The damned things spend more time loading than they do displaying content, and it seems like pages are constantly refreshing, only to add nag-boxes for some mobile app I don't want, then to bug me to "subscribe." etc. End result is I don't feel compelled to upgrade my phone, I just don't use the web on it anymore. I can't, it's crap.
With Yahoo! looking for a buyer, someone has to pick up the slack.
The biggest problems I've had with G+ are the fact that it loads on marginal connections whereas facebook just appears, and the fact that it already has access to my gmail contacts without asking. There's a thick wall with razor wire and armed guards on top between work and the rest of my life and I react badly to anything that doesn't perceive or respect that boundary.
Though G+ is less annoying than LinkedIn...
If F4 is moddable (and there's no sane reason for it not to be) then many launch issues will be sorted by the community within a year. As good as F3/FNV were it took fan support and fan-made patches to make them stable, let alone playable, on modern systems.
If you have F3: GOTY and have all DLC for New Vegas, you might want to give this a try at some point: Tale of Two Wastelands merges F3 into FNV and gives you an F3 start, the FNV rules, and access to everything in both wastelands. I added a TTW developer-supplied mod to slow down experience gain and after 120+ hours I still have plenty to do and I'm level 46 (FNV level cap) - using FNV mods like NVAC, Project Nevada, etc.
It's an action film, and it tells its story through action. It does it so well, that I'm not completely sure I've ever actually seen it done before at all.
My thoughts exactly. I've never seen an action film this good, let alone a hollywood action film, let alone in the theater. It's the first film I've experienced that's actually exceeded my expectations.
As a creative type who's done the research and who's intentionally let military history and physics inform (and "correct") their storytelling and vehicle design, you do not speak for all of us.
Though that is speaking as a writer. Speaking as an artist, sometimes the function winds up being deduced from the design as opposed to the other way around.
Depending on the design and just how serious you are about keeping it around you could convert it to a static site. You don't have to worry about wordpress or plugin updates if there's no CMS on the server.
That said, I have a number of sites that get next to no traffic and probably the biggest issue with maintaining a WP install these days is theme and plugin updates. Trim those down, strip out comments (or move the "responsibility" for them to something like Disqus), fiddle
* It's possible to allow only a specific IP to see wp-admin, or no IP at all. The biggest problem with this approach in my experience is forgetting that you've set the condition.
While Starcraft was released in 1998, Quakeworld was released in 1996 - three years before CS.
My high school had something like that in the 90s. It was a cheap way to inject advertising into a completely captive audience under the guise of "educational" programming.
Viewing was initially mandatory but early in eleventh grade I unplugged the damned thing so I could study and the response from the teacher and the rest of the class was a mix of acceptance and relief. That year the school was running the thing first and third lunch (lunch being three 30 minute periods) which meant our class got it twice... and we preferred a solid hour of journalism class to 15 minutes paid advertorial 15 minutes of class, repeat.
That was my first attempt to do something about invasive advertising - and it's been an uphill battle ever since!
Why train employees when you hire the exact pre-trained skill set you need? Companies aren't hiring programmers or developers or designers, they're hiring 5+ years javascript, node.js, SASS, ruby on rails,
Networking matters more than paper qualifications now more than ever before - we're heading for a post-labor world and nobody bothered to inform the workforce.
They don't need to give a crap about how developers feel about the platform - they're printing money and the fanbase will bounce anyone critical of what they're doing.
Seriously; try voicing any sort of well-reasoned logical criticism of the brand - in short order some kool-aid guzzler is going to try like hell to make you feel like your problems with OS X or iOS or Final Cut Pro or QuickTime codecs ("using Apple products for more than five years," basically) are your fault and not Apple's.
If they honestly wanted to add functionality, the Firefox developers could do it in a way that didn't disrupt existing users. Apple did this more or less right with Spaces, Expose, and the Dashboard - I don't use any of them, I never will, and I don't have to to perform the same basic tasks I've been using a Mac for since the 90s. The shortcuts are on the keyboard and in the system preferences but it's difficult to accidentally invoke these things unless you're looking for them. They're unobtrusive.
The frequent buzzwordy trendy chrome-chasing "disruption" designed to draw attention to the changes is one of the reasons I left Firefox - I don't need my browser to "reinvent" itself at random. That happens enough with iTunes, thank you. I need it to get faster, run the add-ons I want, and otherwise not change at all. Firefox isn't really a browser anymore, it's a UX playground with a captive audience that's slowly trickling away to browsers that don't change their core functionality as much, or as often.
Chrome recently tried to push graphical bookmarks on me - an under-handed and unannounced violation of trust that gave me a panic attack. Fortunately the change was easily reverted, but it was a harsh reminder that no browser is safe - developers drunk on kool-aid can and will change whatever they want whenever they want it doesn't matter how strenuously users object or how well-reasoned our arguments are, we're always dismissed as "edge cases" or brushed off with a dismissive "nobody uses a browser that way."
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