Fact: Stored procedures, being pre-compiled, perform significantly faster than ad-hoc queries.
Also fact, when you have several different applications performing the similar functions (trust me, happens a lot in large projects), it's a sure-fire way of making sure all apps are doing the same thing. Likewise, if something needs changing/optimizing, it can be changed in one place, instead of hunting down every place the functionality is performed.
Um, no need for procedures - I just use views for 99% of what most bonehead DBA use stored procedures, of course using a proper DB is a requirement...
Admittedly, this has a lot ot do with my style - I'm old school enough that I write my logic in C, C++ or Perl and use the database purely for storing and retrieving data. DBMS vendors (and some database researchers, to be fair) would like coders to do program purely with database packages. I've always though this a supremely boneheaded idea - I trust database designers to design databases, but not progamming langauges thank you. However, if that approach appeals, then you probably need a lot more features than I do.
Amen!
I hate stored procedures, they may be useful when the DB designer has borked the design, but just redesign the damn thing already! There is no other sane use for them.
The workplace these days is just a bad parody of The Office.
Actually the reason I found The Office unfunny was the very bad parody of real life. I've worked with/for people like that, they are ten times worse than that in real life.
Mind you Nathan Barley was quite amusing, I've worked with those idiots as well, of course that bombed as nobody could believe there were people out there like that (except for people being spoofed, but they just missed the joke).
Maybe I can have the controller on the righthand side for a change.
I'm righthanded like most of the population, and it really sucks all consoles have that dumb lefthanded control system. I mean my left hand is great for mashing buttons, and holding stuff but is all but useless otherwise.
Except of course any sensible cybercafe doesn't allow SMTP out, and any sensible company allows SMTP-Auth for people on the road, usually on a non-standard port, so they can a) keep a record of what is sent from their company email addresses and b) allow support for things like SPF
Apart from those ISPs that hijack any smtp traffic & forward it via their servers so that whilst in theory you are using smtp auth the isp is hijacking the connection.
Naturally this works great until the ISP mail servers are full of spam and no one can send any email.
Yes, yes. I know what's the point. Making it harder to include binary carbage in the kernel makes it harder to provide modules for proprietary hardware solutions.
Forward to the past!
Yes, binary only modules are unacceptable in principle. Unfortunately unless you want to head back the days when most hardware wouldn't work under Linux they are a necessary evil.
Of course the zealots who want pure open-source will eventually have to face the fact that some companies will never open-source anything or live in eternal denial.
It's not a coincidence: There were only Republicans on the ballot. The surprising thing is that election officials seem to think that it's more appropriate for a Democrat to vote for a Republican than to not vote at all. (The really surprising thing is that the nonvotes were only one percent or so, meaning a whole lot of straight-ticket Democrats DID vote for a Republican when that was the only choice.)
Um, what planet do you live on?
Ever heard of negative-voting - you vote against the candidate you don't want to win?
Sure all the options are people you don't want to vote for, but you make sure that the worst case does not happen!
Sega always sold better in the UK than Nintendo until the Saturn debacle.
As for Elite and Championship Manager. UK games players have never been console crazy until recently, during the 80s as Atari suicided the Home computer was doing very well in Europe.
From Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, through Atari ST and Commodore Amiga the consoles didn't really get a look in until Sega & Sonic broke through with the 16 bit Megadrive (aka Genesis).
Say you need some image manipulation software, but you can't afford Photoshop. What if you could have afforded something else, say Paintshop Pro? We all know you can afford Gimp. Pirating a copy of Photoshop you couldn't have afforded anyway hurts noone? No, it hurts lots of people, including the competitors (you could argue it especially hurts the competitors, since you were their target demographic) and the handling/distribution company of their is one.
If the high end software is the standard then the low end alternative software is obviously not acceptable. PaintShop Pro is only acceptable to people who don't care. The competitors would not see the money at all.
I have serious problems making fast turns in my game. Basically if I jerk the mouse too fast in trying to do a 90 degree left turn to shoot some villain coming from that direction, all that really ends up happening is my character twitches and moves about 10 degrees to the right. Needless to say, I then die. Very frustrating. I've also had situations where my character suddenly is looking straight up. That's very disorienting. A friend had one that would suddenly look left. Odd.
Not odd at all - it is a function of your mouse mat or whatever surface you are using. There have been numerous posts on various usenet gaming groups about this.
You need a nice random surface with not too much plain area. For the cheapskate a boring bit of cardboard (I use the backing off a large art pad) is adequate. I also have a nice leather (around sheet metal) pad from IKEA or I have found a Ratpadz to expensive but very effective.
Certainly the removal of trade barriers should be a force for good all round, but not when unrestricted trade allows a masive multinational to come in and crush local industry by running at a loss until the market is "secure".
Certainly. But the ultimate goal of removing trade barriers is one planet = one company.
Globalism will just end up with a global corporate state.
No mention of the rivals that were about at the time and this doesn't mention ANY game before wolf3d!
Catacomb Abyss is a much better game than Wolfenstein 3D...
From the credits:
Programming by Mike Maynard, Jim Row, and Nolan Martin
Art Direction by Steve Maines
Art Production by Steve Maines, Carol Ludden, Jerry Jones and Adrian Carmack
Quality Assurance by Jim Weiler and Judi Mangham
3D Imaging Effects by ID Software
So thats the precursor to the Wolf3d engine in a better games, with graphics done by Adrian Carmack (not relation to John) who later joined the iD crew. The same engine that was use in earlier iD game Catacomb 3D.
Oh and for what it is worth it plays a bit like Blood.
Any way check out the Apogee FAQ:
html &
TXT
Slashdot Mirror
I hate stored procedures, they may be useful when the DB designer has borked the design, but just redesign the damn thing already! There is no other sane use for them.
(wishing I had mod-points...)
Mind you Nathan Barley was quite amusing, I've worked with those idiots as well, of course that bombed as nobody could believe there were people out there like that (except for people being spoofed, but they just missed the joke).
- Gets robots.txt like a good spider
- Gets default.asp
- Gets / on the site
Hmm, interesting. So MSN Bot is looking servers running ASP pages.Yes the visio version of the bar is right PITA.
The toolbars are dead easy to remove.
Cool!
Maybe I can have the controller on the righthand side for a change.
I'm righthanded like most of the population, and it really sucks all consoles have that dumb lefthanded control system. I mean my left hand is great for mashing buttons, and holding stuff but is all but useless otherwise.
Apart from those ISPs that hijack any smtp traffic & forward it via their servers so that whilst in theory you are using smtp auth the isp is hijacking the connection.
Naturally this works great until the ISP mail servers are full of spam and no one can send any email.
Forward to the past!
Yes, binary only modules are unacceptable in principle. Unfortunately unless you want to head back the days when most hardware wouldn't work under Linux they are a necessary evil.
Of course the zealots who want pure open-source will eventually have to face the fact that some companies will never open-source anything or live in eternal denial.
Order give an Etch-a-sketch and see if he likes his new Tablet PC and dont't forget to explain how to reset it (hold above head and shake)
Um, what planet do you live on?
Ever heard of negative-voting - you vote against the candidate you don't want to win?
Sure all the options are people you don't want to vote for, but you make sure that the worst case does not happen!
Sega always sold better in the UK than Nintendo until the Saturn debacle.
As for Elite and Championship Manager. UK games players have never been console crazy until recently, during the 80s as Atari suicided the Home computer was doing very well in Europe.
From Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, through Atari ST and Commodore Amiga the consoles didn't really get a look in until Sega & Sonic broke through with the 16 bit Megadrive (aka Genesis).
Hmm, not looked to hard have we? I'll admit they are not common but:
And there are more game soundtrack (Amiga & C64) cd's on: Bjorn Lynne's Lynne Music shop http://www.lynnemusic.com/cdshop.html
If the high end software is the standard then the low end alternative software is obviously not acceptable. PaintShop Pro is only acceptable to people who don't care. The competitors would not see the money at all.
My logitech optical (MS Intellimouse explorer ripoff) had a blue LED. It went well on my Ikea leather mouse mat.
So go buy a logitech one then...
Not odd at all - it is a function of your mouse mat or whatever surface you are using. There have been numerous posts on various usenet gaming groups about this.
You need a nice random surface with not too much plain area. For the cheapskate a boring bit of cardboard (I use the backing off a large art pad) is adequate. I also have a nice leather (around sheet metal) pad from IKEA or I have found a Ratpadz to expensive but very effective.
Unless there are local laws or you parked on private property thats nice and legal.
Otherwise that is theft.
Certainly the removal of trade barriers should be a force for good all round, but not when unrestricted trade allows a masive multinational to come in and crush local industry by running at a loss until the market is "secure".
Certainly. But the ultimate goal of removing trade barriers is one planet = one company.
Globalism will just end up with a global corporate state.
That is why it is so much freer - you can do anything. The choice is yours!
Yep:
Hammer of God
Arthur C. Clarke 1993
An expanded version of his short story that appeared in (I think) Time magazine
Um, KPMG is multinational you have just found their other country sites...
You ever heard of symbolic links?
This sounds like a nice way to have both structures.
Sorting by functionality and organisation is essential. But being able to find all the perl/C(++)/java/SQL files is also necessary.
Of course if you are on a MS platform...
Still SourceSafe sort of works...
Courier is nice mailserver it has three major problems which may or may not live with:
On the plus side the mailing list is very good despite Sam Varshavchik unhelpful posts.
Security is on the high side by default and is easy to configure when you find what each config file does!
I can live with broken email clients/servers not being able to send me mail.
Hmm. This seems to be missing a lot.
No mention of the rivals that were about at the time and this doesn't mention ANY game before wolf3d!
Catacomb Abyss is a much better game than Wolfenstein 3D...
From the credits:
So thats the precursor to the Wolf3d engine in a better games, with graphics done by Adrian Carmack (not relation to John) who later joined the iD crew. The same engine that was use in earlier iD game Catacomb 3D.
Oh and for what it is worth it plays a bit like Blood. Any way check out the Apogee FAQ: html & TXT
And more specifically the iD software bit http://rinkworks.com/apogee/s/2.7.2.shtml
It is not Death of Mice but Death of Rats
(Critical mode)
Um.. I enjoyed the book..
The plot unfortunately jumps about a bit halfway in a slightly distracting manner but otherwise it is a typical pterry Discworld book.
(Perl mode resumed)