I hate to say it, but good/useful features like that will be abused by stupid DB guys who can't program.
Once upon a time I worked in the entertainment industry and was working on a big MMO game project.
Company X could not scale up their game clusters past about 1000 players. Somewhere between 1000 and 2000 players, the game would just start bogging down and in-game events piled up and everything trainwrecked and was unplayable.
So, it turns out that most of the game logic was built off of complicated SQL stored procedures, triggers, logic, etc. Basically, they were using their hard drive as a processor.
The problem was with the MS-SQL server disk IO Wait. CPU was okay on all of the systems, but they could just not imagine that the disks in the database server (only one DB server per cluster) could be the source of the problems. Every time there was an item dropped, crafted, or certain other special things happened, there was an atomic commit and that basically required writing to disk on the spot. Get enough of that going and you're whole 20-something CPU cluster sits with idle CPU while the DB server works it's hard drives.
Company went chapter 11, all staff eventually let go, and later was sold off for nothing.
I had pointed out this problem to them, but it was late in development and when you tell the people who are responsible for designing the product that they are idiots, well, they behave like idiots and don't really listen. Not that they could have fixed it anyway due to time and intellect restraints.
Anyway, point of the story is that cool SQL features are cool. But don't use your hard drive as a processor.
I worked a couple of MMOs that went flop before I got out of the industry. This has got to be a new record for simply the size of people working on it (MMOs, I mean, not game shops in general).
I worked on an MMO project that was released under Atari some years back and we had, what, 60 people max, with a considerable amount of them just being customer support goons.
Another project only had 30 people, and we published after two years. Granted, that company went down too after while.
You're MMO has to be a GINORMOUS success these days to succeed. You can't just sqeak by with these large releases.
They should have done it gmail-invite style or something, then scaled it up and fixed bugs.
I tried MythTV some time back and it wasn't all that. I still have that Asus Pundit box that I bought for it sitting around doing something else now. It's more like a framework than an actual usable product. Note that most of my gripes were actually about the DVR capability rather than just media-player capability.
What about a remote? Nothing that works out-of-the-box. Sure, you can tinker and hack anything to work with it, but no matter what, you have to tinker and hack. Nothing "just works" with a drop-in config. I just want something that works and it wasn't there.
I had endless issues with the video, on a hardware platform that was apparently "highly recommended". Wasn't just me. Forms were full of people with the same issues at the time.
As a real network admin, I hear this at minimum, once a week, sometimes more often.
95% of the time, it's not the network. It's almost always the endpoints.
How is the network to blame here? Someone screw up spanning tree, OSPF not using md5 authentication? DHCP mis-configuration? DNS? Wrong gateway used? What? The article gives nothing, just like most of the sysadmins and managers that come to my desk crying about how slow scp/nfs/smb copies are all because of the network and how they can't understand why they can't just bridge Infiniband over Ethernet.
Pay in the gaming industry sucks. I left and immediately made about 15% more, the job was more stable, and less stressful. Went on to make much more later.
The second issue that really got to me was the stupid endless "crunch time". It was ALWAYS crunch time. Project management sucked so it was just some fat-ass bigwigs always just moving up the powerpoint milestones, while adding requirements at the same time. I got tired of the 50-to-60-hour work weeks.
More pay for less work. Only idiot noobs straight out of high-school could think much good of that industry. "I wanna make video games for a living!" says the dork who played video games for the last 15-years of his life (at 20).
Sometimes I think about the fun, and I might join some startup again some day, but I'd never work for any of the big guys again.
Stupid end-user. As with KDE4, you're perspective and interest in GNOME 3 is irrelevant. The developers are writing code for their own personal entertainment, not because they want you to use it.
Should your message have been posted on a GNOME or KDE message board, it would have been deleted by an admin for being a troll.
Absolutely 100% yes. I used to work with a woman just like this, and some artists designers who were that farked up (not at the same company though). Today I work in a new office and there is definitely one guy here that would make a personal request like that, except that he would have probably accepted the orange cat picture because he would have liked the idea of getting a better cat out of it.
Okay, so the bay area is kind a technology hub, but that's about as close as I can get to associating this article with anything to do Slashdotty. Are nerds secret pot smokers or something. WTF does this have to do with science, computers, technology, or even nerdy-politics. Nothing. WTF?
I bought my Nexus One just three months after I bought a MyTouch. I loved the operating system, but the "MyTouch Lag" was horrible. So, I had to pay the full $550 for the Nexus One and I'm still locked into a TMobile contract for the two years. And, I don't regret it. The Nexus One is an awesome phone.
I later sold the MyTouch on ebay for something like $180, where I had paid like $150 in store for it with the contract.
This one aspect of the Nexus One was a failure: Online sales. The phone itself is great: both the hardware and OS.
Yea, I have to second this. As a Mac user at home and work, Macs going from 32 to 64 was more smooth than Microsoft.
That being said, 64 bit Vista and XP were ignorable. I didn't consider them serious and so never even tried. Windows 7 is installed entirely 64 bit at my organization and we have very few problems there either. Some stupid printer drivers and other oddball crap, but we tell the vendor to shape up or we dump them, but we don't do Windows 7 32 bit without a seriously justifiable exception, and there hasn't been one yet.
Yea,what this guy said. I've got a Nexus One right now. It's great and getting it to work with TMobile was easy. I've been with TMobile since long before it was TMobile (VoiceStream) and I've always had good experiences when talking with their customer support, and I HATE customer support phone droid goobers.
The reason that your school had Apple computers, was the same exact reason why Coke/Pepsi(Yumco) fights DESPERATELY to get vending machines into schools. There is no difference.
In one case, you get to play with computers (rots your eyes and gives you a big butt), in the other case, you get a high-energy drink (rots your teeth and also gives you a big butt).
Either way, there are definitely substantive ethical issues with "donations" to young, malleable, minds.
You might argue that the donating company could be doing it for good or bad. This is a valid argument.
Likewise, the school administrators may or may not be doing it for their personal green. Also arguable.
Please ban the word "blog". Please, you f---ing retards. Just because you think you were the first one to discover the Internet in 2003/4/5/whenever and you needed something to call it, doesn't mean you can call it a blog.
The greatest way for anyone to indicate their noobieness/stupidity when it comes to the Internet is to use the word "blog" or any derivative of.
Like this guy, I have nothing good to say about the KDE developers and their current desire to remove code and replace it with new, less functional, more buggy, code that just happens to have their names on it. It's like they just want to check in stuff with their name to get credit in the community ("I wrote most of KDE, all by myselfs!").
Had I posted this on a KDE forum, it would have been deleted before morning.
In case you are wondering about the truck, that's a Ford Kodiak. I've actually seen one that had a private owner out on the road. It's ridiculous. The thing is a semi.
I spent like $50 on Android apps in the last month or two. I don't know WTF what authors prob is, but I really like the Android Market. The app could use improvements in regards to categorization of apps, but it works for me.
As a long-time KDE user, I have to say to ever damn software update that KDE has released in the last, I don't know, three or four years: DO NOT WANT.
KDE4 was like Vista. In fact, I think they were trying to outright copy Vista in style, features, and bugginess. They were very successful in all three areas, except features. They had to remove features to fit new bugs in.
Every damn k app they go and touch loses features. The only thing I have anything good to say about is Dolphin, which is pretty decent.
Criticism on the KDE message boards is, for the most part, deleted by admins, so we have to go to other websites to vent and discuss why we don't like what the batty KDE devs are doing.
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I didn't watch Lost.
Now that's its over, and based on what I am hearing from other people in my office and here on Slashdot, I am not going to!
Ha Ha to all of you who watched that crap and got baited in. What did you expect from TV these days?
Most of the people in my office are totally bummed because so many mysteries went unexplained and basically the last few seasons made it out to be a whole lot of NOTHING. They wasted YEARS on that stupid show and will never get their time back. I guess they were entertained though.
Some people have interpreted the ending to have been "all a dream" sort of thing. The important thing is that even if it wasn't, it might as well have been, because nothing was resolved and that's how the ending made you feel.... Lost.
I would mod this up more, if I could. Specifically, about KDE developers and their nonsense "rewrite it for fun with less features" bullcrap. KDE4 is pretty much a disaster, and I would recommend anyone thinking about using a GNU/Linux desktop to avoid anything based on KDE. It is really really sad.
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I hate to say it, but good/useful features like that will be abused by stupid DB guys who can't program.
Once upon a time I worked in the entertainment industry and was working on a big MMO game project.
Company X could not scale up their game clusters past about 1000 players. Somewhere between 1000 and 2000 players, the game would just start bogging down and in-game events piled up and everything trainwrecked and was unplayable.
So, it turns out that most of the game logic was built off of complicated SQL stored procedures, triggers, logic, etc. Basically, they were using their hard drive as a processor.
The problem was with the MS-SQL server disk IO Wait. CPU was okay on all of the systems, but they could just not imagine that the disks in the database server (only one DB server per cluster) could be the source of the problems. Every time there was an item dropped, crafted, or certain other special things happened, there was an atomic commit and that basically required writing to disk on the spot. Get enough of that going and you're whole 20-something CPU cluster sits with idle CPU while the DB server works it's hard drives.
Company went chapter 11, all staff eventually let go, and later was sold off for nothing.
I had pointed out this problem to them, but it was late in development and when you tell the people who are responsible for designing the product that they are idiots, well, they behave like idiots and don't really listen. Not that they could have fixed it anyway due to time and intellect restraints.
Anyway, point of the story is that cool SQL features are cool. But don't use your hard drive as a processor.
Story sucks. Alarmist advertisement poop.
Holy crud. 300 employees worked on that thing.
I worked a couple of MMOs that went flop before I got out of the industry. This has got to be a new record for simply the size of people working on it (MMOs, I mean, not game shops in general).
I worked on an MMO project that was released under Atari some years back and we had, what, 60 people max, with a considerable amount of them just being customer support goons.
Another project only had 30 people, and we published after two years. Granted, that company went down too after while.
You're MMO has to be a GINORMOUS success these days to succeed. You can't just sqeak by with these large releases.
They should have done it gmail-invite style or something, then scaled it up and fixed bugs.
I tried MythTV some time back and it wasn't all that. I still have that Asus Pundit box that I bought for it sitting around doing something else now. It's more like a framework than an actual usable product. Note that most of my gripes were actually about the DVR capability rather than just media-player capability.
What about a remote? Nothing that works out-of-the-box. Sure, you can tinker and hack anything to work with it, but no matter what, you have to tinker and hack. Nothing "just works" with a drop-in config. I just want something that works and it wasn't there.
I had endless issues with the video, on a hardware platform that was apparently "highly recommended". Wasn't just me. Forms were full of people with the same issues at the time.
"Waaaaaa! The network's down!"
"Waaaaaa! The network's slow!"
As a real network admin, I hear this at minimum, once a week, sometimes more often.
95% of the time, it's not the network. It's almost always the endpoints.
How is the network to blame here? Someone screw up spanning tree, OSPF not using md5 authentication? DHCP mis-configuration? DNS? Wrong gateway used? What? The article gives nothing, just like most of the sysadmins and managers that come to my desk crying about how slow scp/nfs/smb copies are all because of the network and how they can't understand why they can't just bridge Infiniband over Ethernet.
Stop crying about the network.
It cost me X years of my life! That wasn't a gift. I paid for it/earned it. I could have been sitting around watching my butt get fat instead.
Pay for the work wasn't worth it.
Pay in the gaming industry sucks. I left and immediately made about 15% more, the job was more stable, and less stressful. Went on to make much more later.
The second issue that really got to me was the stupid endless "crunch time". It was ALWAYS crunch time. Project management sucked so it was just some fat-ass bigwigs always just moving up the powerpoint milestones, while adding requirements at the same time. I got tired of the 50-to-60-hour work weeks.
More pay for less work. Only idiot noobs straight out of high-school could think much good of that industry. "I wanna make video games for a living!" says the dork who played video games for the last 15-years of his life (at 20).
Sometimes I think about the fun, and I might join some startup again some day, but I'd never work for any of the big guys again.
Can you actually name an android app that records calls, and if so, does it require a rooted phone?
Does anyone have advice on what call recording app for android that they use? What's best, etc?
Every company that I've ever worked for has taught me that stealing is right.
Stupid end-user. As with KDE4, you're perspective and interest in GNOME 3 is irrelevant. The developers are writing code for their own personal entertainment, not because they want you to use it.
Should your message have been posted on a GNOME or KDE message board, it would have been deleted by an admin for being a troll.
Absolutely 100% yes. I used to work with a woman just like this, and some artists designers who were that farked up (not at the same company though). Today I work in a new office and there is definitely one guy here that would make a personal request like that, except that he would have probably accepted the orange cat picture because he would have liked the idea of getting a better cat out of it.
WTF?
Okay, so the bay area is kind a technology hub, but that's about as close as I can get to associating this article with anything to do Slashdotty. Are nerds secret pot smokers or something. WTF does this have to do with science, computers, technology, or even nerdy-politics. Nothing. WTF?
This guy is right.
I bought my Nexus One just three months after I bought a MyTouch. I loved the operating system, but the "MyTouch Lag" was horrible. So, I had to pay the full $550 for the Nexus One and I'm still locked into a TMobile contract for the two years. And, I don't regret it. The Nexus One is an awesome phone.
I later sold the MyTouch on ebay for something like $180, where I had paid like $150 in store for it with the contract.
This one aspect of the Nexus One was a failure: Online sales. The phone itself is great: both the hardware and OS.
Yea, I have to second this. As a Mac user at home and work, Macs going from 32 to 64 was more smooth than Microsoft.
That being said, 64 bit Vista and XP were ignorable. I didn't consider them serious and so never even tried. Windows 7 is installed entirely 64 bit at my organization and we have very few problems there either. Some stupid printer drivers and other oddball crap, but we tell the vendor to shape up or we dump them, but we don't do Windows 7 32 bit without a seriously justifiable exception, and there hasn't been one yet.
That's right, the robot did it. It's all the robot's fault. Bad robot.
Really, this thing was being driven by a human. Don't blame the stupid robot. Blame the stupid operator.
The quality of twitter posts are right there with Youtube replies. That's all that needs to be said.
Yea,what this guy said. I've got a Nexus One right now. It's great and getting it to work with TMobile was easy. I've been with TMobile since long before it was TMobile (VoiceStream) and I've always had good experiences when talking with their customer support, and I HATE customer support phone droid goobers.
The reason that your school had Apple computers, was the same exact reason why Coke/Pepsi(Yumco) fights DESPERATELY to get vending machines into schools. There is no difference.
In one case, you get to play with computers (rots your eyes and gives you a big butt), in the other case, you get a high-energy drink (rots your teeth and also gives you a big butt).
Either way, there are definitely substantive ethical issues with "donations" to young, malleable, minds.
You might argue that the donating company could be doing it for good or bad. This is a valid argument.
Likewise, the school administrators may or may not be doing it for their personal green. Also arguable.
Please ban the word "blog". Please, you f---ing retards. Just because you think you were the first one to discover the Internet in 2003/4/5/whenever and you needed something to call it, doesn't mean you can call it a blog.
The greatest way for anyone to indicate their noobieness/stupidity when it comes to the Internet is to use the word "blog" or any derivative of.
Like this guy, I have nothing good to say about the KDE developers and their current desire to remove code and replace it with new, less functional, more buggy, code that just happens to have their names on it. It's like they just want to check in stuff with their name to get credit in the community ("I wrote most of KDE, all by myselfs!").
Had I posted this on a KDE forum, it would have been deleted before morning.
In case you are wondering about the truck, that's a Ford Kodiak. I've actually seen one that had a private owner out on the road. It's ridiculous. The thing is a semi.
I spent like $50 on Android apps in the last month or two. I don't know WTF what authors prob is, but I really like the Android Market. The app could use improvements in regards to categorization of apps, but it works for me.
As a long-time KDE user, I have to say to ever damn software update that KDE has released in the last, I don't know, three or four years: DO NOT WANT.
KDE4 was like Vista. In fact, I think they were trying to outright copy Vista in style, features, and bugginess. They were very successful in all three areas, except features. They had to remove features to fit new bugs in.
Every damn k app they go and touch loses features. The only thing I have anything good to say about is Dolphin, which is pretty decent.
Criticism on the KDE message boards is, for the most part, deleted by admins, so we have to go to other websites to vent and discuss why we don't like what the batty KDE devs are doing.
I didn't watch Lost.
Now that's its over, and based on what I am hearing from other people in my office and here on Slashdot, I am not going to!
Ha Ha to all of you who watched that crap and got baited in. What did you expect from TV these days?
Most of the people in my office are totally bummed because so many mysteries went unexplained and basically the last few seasons made it out to be a whole lot of NOTHING. They wasted YEARS on that stupid show and will never get their time back. I guess they were entertained though.
Some people have interpreted the ending to have been "all a dream" sort of thing. The important thing is that even if it wasn't, it might as well have been, because nothing was resolved and that's how the ending made you feel.... Lost.
All that time you Lost watching.
All the hopes you had for a great ending.
Your faith that the producers would end it well.
Lost.
I would mod this up more, if I could. Specifically, about KDE developers and their nonsense "rewrite it for fun with less features" bullcrap. KDE4 is pretty much a disaster, and I would recommend anyone thinking about using a GNU/Linux desktop to avoid anything based on KDE. It is really really sad.