I once worked for a Belgian reseller company using PROGRESS. Every procedure was build on top of another and they were all using one user authentication procedure. One day the authentication server was down and no one could log in, causing the company to be down all night (they had an Australian subdivision using their program as well) with huge losses as a result. A quick fix was introduced, replacing the 100-line authentication script:
DEFINE OUTPUT PARAMETER opSuccess AS LOGICAL.
ASSIGN opSucces = 1.
They forgot about it and only weeks after they fixed it.
I wonder: who's interested in this kind of throw-away gaming? I like to buy games for the sake of playing them over a long period of time. I still have my GameGear and all of my games for it.
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I once worked for a Belgian reseller company using PROGRESS. Every procedure was build on top of another and they were all using one user authentication procedure. One day the authentication server was down and no one could log in, causing the company to be down all night (they had an Australian subdivision using their program as well) with huge losses as a result. A quick fix was introduced, replacing the 100-line authentication script: DEFINE OUTPUT PARAMETER opSuccess AS LOGICAL. ASSIGN opSucces = 1. They forgot about it and only weeks after they fixed it.
So my wireless Cisco router can run android now? Most of these devices have no ability to install an OS because they don't have a hard drive AFAIK...
I wonder: who's interested in this kind of throw-away gaming? I like to buy games for the sake of playing them over a long period of time. I still have my GameGear and all of my games for it.