Don't listen to this crap. Like many of the posters in this thread say, this game is absolutely fantastic and there are very very very few problems with it.
I really wasn't talking about transactions, though very important, I think enforced foreign-keys is what most DBA's would say is more important. Without foreign-keys, the developers could enter in whatever information they want into the database. If there was a bug in some code, you could have orphan records, and lose data integrity, which will be vital for reporting.
I could definitely see a reason for running MyISAM in situations where you don't care about orphan records, or data integrity, I just didn't see them doing it on such a huge important database as the adwords database. I think the developers originally made the case for speed over features (MyISAM over InnoDB), but there are reasons every major database has all of those features. Once your database gets over a certain size or certain complexity, those features are vital. As soon as you go from 5 developers to 30 or 100, having foreign keys etc will be vital.
Also, I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you meant to say "MyISAM" in all of the places you said "MySQL", but if you read your original post, you mention them using MySQL in places where you probably meant MyISAM, then at the end you switch to MyISAM. If this is what you meant, then I obviously misunderstood you, but from the responses and moderation I got, I'm assuming a lot of people misunderstood you too.
Your Post "InnoDB is the slower, but safer/transaction-able way to use MySQL. In an earlier blog entry "let's get a real database", Google revealed they run AdWords/AdSense on MySQL, and they rolled up their own transactions as they went for speed with MySQL. Now we see they changed their mind."
Umm, InnoDB is an engine for MySQL, they are still using MySQL. They just said they use the InnoDB engine exclusively rather than the other engines such as MyISAM. They probably never used MyISAM since it doesn't have foreign keys or transactions. No respected DBA would ever use MyISAM.
What's significantly different about all of the games based in the D&D universe? Oblivion, Morrowind, Baldur's Gate, Champions of Norath, every Fantasy MMORPG, etc. Each game has the same classes, almost the same spells, weapons etc. What changes? A few textures, a name or two in the same rehashed "you must fight evil" story?
Usually it is just new rosters and more player animations, capabilities. People buy the game to play with friends or online, once you play a game for awhile, you learn its quirks, so even if you had a new roster, the game wouldn't be as much fun. However a new game with new tweaks, will take a while to learn, so the game will be fun for another couple of months.
The worst part of this is you have to use their IDE. Which means no auto-completion, no color coding, no help, etc. As someone who relies on that kind of lookup stuff daily for their work, I can't see how any normal professional will do well in that environment. However, I can see how a college student who has to memorize all of the code/functions because they are tested on it and required to write code in class will have an easier time with the contest.
I wonder if they consider it cheating to write your code in another window and paste it into their window to test.
Personally I think the Yahoo YUI Toolkit is the best framework out there. It is commented very well, it is 100% cross browser compatible (they test on Opera, Firefox, Netscape, IE etc). It is fully supported by a team of engineers. They provide several versions of each script, so you can build your site with the -debug script, move to the normal script, and then when putting it on a live server, you include the minimzed script which is much smaller.
My wife has been pining over a new color laserjet for awhile. After doing a bit of research, she said the Dell 3100CN was a good deal. Its currently on delloutlet.com for $259.
So far I've done several fresh installs and 2 upgrades from 8i to 10g in the past quarter. Everything has run rather smoothly. It'd be nice if the OS was already pre-configured to support Oracle. Since the boxes only run Oracle, and no other software, I wouldn't mind using an OS which was fully supported by Oracle, so I wouldn't have to call RH, or look up solutions on Google.
This is a great idea. All of the Oracle installations I'm currently managing are running a version of Linux. This requires that not only do we need a good dba, but a linux administrator to maintain those machines. Luckily, we have other linux machines so we didn't need to hire a new guy just to manage the new linux boxes. With the new Oracle Linux Distribution, Oracle would provide the support, updates, etc for the OS, so we wouldn't need to have a full time guy to test software upgrades with our current Oracle installations, or to troubleshoot errors. This would solve a lot of headaches, and get more companies to use Oracle and Linux.
But the old one is so bulky and I've seen the screen... it's pretty dim. I'm planning on getting 2 (one for the wifey), and I know I'll be using them with the Revolution so I want to make sure I have the latest and greatest.
I'm actually looking to buy 2 DS's so my wife and I can play... any suggestions on good games for it? We've already played Mario Kart on the GC to death, and we're def. going to buy Tetris DS in a couple days. Thanks.
My wife just because a high school math teacher a couple months ago, and she's always saying how she'd like some multiplayer computer or xbox/ps2/gc games for review days. She's looking for math related (Algebra / Geometry) games that the whole classroom can play together either on individual computers, or using the projector + a game console. She's bought some games from online that claim to have some of these features, but they're all really poorly done. She played the new trivial pursuit on the PS2 recently and liked how that was layed out, but it's not related to her topic.
If anyone knows or uses anything like what she's describing, please post a reply so we can check it out.
I was only complaining that it wasn't as good as last years (which I don't own since I always bought NFL2k and rented Madden), but I still like it and play it almost daily. It's still a great game, it's just pisses me off that I didn't have a choice this year. It's the concept that irks me not the game.
I promised myself that I wouldn't buy the game when I heard about the exclusive deal with the NFL. I really got turned on to the football games starting with NFL2k for the DC and continued to buy the NFL2k line until this year, when they didn't produce a game.
I was pretty close to not giving in but as the season got closer and I saw the preseason game, I gave in and bought it. I agree with the reviewers that the game isn't that special. It's basically a less fun version of 2k5.
Ohh well, I guess EA knew what they were doing. Even though everyone bad-mouthed them and swore not to buy their games, EA knew people would still buy their game because it was the only one available.:-( for capitalism.
Well since the amount of non-enterprise level web applications greatly outnumber the amount of enterprise level one's, I'd say my statement of "almost every situation" still stands. I am both a PHP and ASP.NET application developer and I know the strengths of each. I understand when I have an enterprise level application that I need to develop and when I have a site with a simple CMS or a sweepstakes or something else comparable. This is why I compared ASP.NET to Java and not PHP to ASP.NET for enterprise level applications.
Ruby on Rails has like what... 5 people using it? Okay lets be generous.. 100...
Juggernaut?? Please... the project will probably be abandoned in less than a year like all the other half-assed frameworks. (Though really, I'm sure that's what all the PHP haters said too.)
PHP and Java is who they're really fighting against. In the web dev. world PHP wins over ASP.NET in almost every situation. For all the other situations, Java and ASP.NET fight it out and it's usually a tossup on which gets chosen.
The real future of web. dev. though is this AJAX stuff. It allows the user experience to be exponentially better without forcing the developer to learn a new backend language. You can use PHP, Java, ASP.NET to talk to your database and do any heavy processing, and let AJAX display your data without screen refreshes and without a lot of traffic to your website.
I'm just simply amazed by both of the tools mentioned (the Crime Data and the Housing Maps)... we really live in interesting times. Why do these hacks work so well? Has google built an API to access these maps and to plot points on them, or have the developers of each of these hacks reverse-engineered the Google maps interface and figured out how to place stuff on them?
The nigerian scams aren't Phishing scams.... Phishing scams are the emails you get from your bank or paypal saying that you need to update your information. The link in the email is to a page that looks exactly like your bank's page, but the information you submit goes to the crooks. So they have your bank information or paypal information or whatever.
I wish there was Hip-Hop on MTV... you must realize that when they took out the music, they took out ALL the music. Some people might differ on what counts as "music" but still. There is truly nothing that even resembles music on MTV anymore.
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Don't listen to this crap. Like many of the posters in this thread say, this game is absolutely fantastic and there are very very very few problems with it.
I really wasn't talking about transactions, though very important, I think enforced foreign-keys is what most DBA's would say is more important. Without foreign-keys, the developers could enter in whatever information they want into the database. If there was a bug in some code, you could have orphan records, and lose data integrity, which will be vital for reporting.
I could definitely see a reason for running MyISAM in situations where you don't care about orphan records, or data integrity, I just didn't see them doing it on such a huge important database as the adwords database. I think the developers originally made the case for speed over features (MyISAM over InnoDB), but there are reasons every major database has all of those features. Once your database gets over a certain size or certain complexity, those features are vital. As soon as you go from 5 developers to 30 or 100, having foreign keys etc will be vital.
Also, I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you meant to say "MyISAM" in all of the places you said "MySQL", but if you read your original post, you mention them using MySQL in places where you probably meant MyISAM, then at the end you switch to MyISAM. If this is what you meant, then I obviously misunderstood you, but from the responses and moderation I got, I'm assuming a lot of people misunderstood you too.
Your Post
"InnoDB is the slower, but safer/transaction-able way to use MySQL. In an earlier blog entry "let's get a real database", Google revealed they run AdWords/AdSense on MySQL, and they rolled up their own transactions as they went for speed with MySQL. Now we see they changed their mind."
Umm, InnoDB is an engine for MySQL, they are still using MySQL. They just said they use the InnoDB engine exclusively rather than the other engines such as MyISAM. They probably never used MyISAM since it doesn't have foreign keys or transactions. No respected DBA would ever use MyISAM.
Hate to reply to myself, but I know that Oblivion and some of those games aren't "IN" the D&D universe, but in D&D-like fantasy universes.
What's significantly different about all of the games based in the D&D universe? Oblivion, Morrowind, Baldur's Gate, Champions of Norath, every Fantasy MMORPG, etc. Each game has the same classes, almost the same spells, weapons etc. What changes? A few textures, a name or two in the same rehashed "you must fight evil" story?
Usually it is just new rosters and more player animations, capabilities. People buy the game to play with friends or online, once you play a game for awhile, you learn its quirks, so even if you had a new roster, the game wouldn't be as much fun. However a new game with new tweaks, will take a while to learn, so the game will be fun for another couple of months.
The worst part of this is you have to use their IDE. Which means no auto-completion, no color coding, no help, etc. As someone who relies on that kind of lookup stuff daily for their work, I can't see how any normal professional will do well in that environment. However, I can see how a college student who has to memorize all of the code/functions because they are tested on it and required to write code in class will have an easier time with the contest.
I wonder if they consider it cheating to write your code in another window and paste it into their window to test.
Personally I think the Yahoo YUI Toolkit is the best framework out there. It is commented very well, it is 100% cross browser compatible (they test on Opera, Firefox, Netscape, IE etc). It is fully supported by a team of engineers. They provide several versions of each script, so you can build your site with the -debug script, move to the normal script, and then when putting it on a live server, you include the minimzed script which is much smaller.
My wife has been pining over a new color laserjet for awhile. After doing a bit of research, she said the Dell 3100CN was a good deal. Its currently on delloutlet.com for $259.
I belive it should be:
Sharper than yo momma's KNEES.
So far I've done several fresh installs and 2 upgrades from 8i to 10g in the past quarter. Everything has run rather smoothly. It'd be nice if the OS was already pre-configured to support Oracle. Since the boxes only run Oracle, and no other software, I wouldn't mind using an OS which was fully supported by Oracle, so I wouldn't have to call RH, or look up solutions on Google.
This is a great idea. All of the Oracle installations I'm currently managing are running a version of Linux. This requires that not only do we need a good dba, but a linux administrator to maintain those machines. Luckily, we have other linux machines so we didn't need to hire a new guy just to manage the new linux boxes. With the new Oracle Linux Distribution, Oracle would provide the support, updates, etc for the OS, so we wouldn't need to have a full time guy to test software upgrades with our current Oracle installations, or to troubleshoot errors. This would solve a lot of headaches, and get more companies to use Oracle and Linux.
Wow! Good info. Thanks a lot!. I'm looking forward to May now :-D
But the old one is so bulky and I've seen the screen... it's pretty dim. I'm planning on getting 2 (one for the wifey), and I know I'll be using them with the Revolution so I want to make sure I have the latest and greatest.
Anyone know when the DS Lite is coming to the US? I've been holding out, for one and don't want to pay $300 bux for one from Lik Sang.
I'm actually looking to buy 2 DS's so my wife and I can play... any suggestions on good games for it? We've already played Mario Kart on the GC to death, and we're def. going to buy Tetris DS in a couple days. Thanks.
My wife just because a high school math teacher a couple months ago, and she's always saying how she'd like some multiplayer computer or xbox/ps2/gc games for review days. She's looking for math related (Algebra / Geometry) games that the whole classroom can play together either on individual computers, or using the projector + a game console. She's bought some games from online that claim to have some of these features, but they're all really poorly done. She played the new trivial pursuit on the PS2 recently and liked how that was layed out, but it's not related to her topic.
If anyone knows or uses anything like what she's describing, please post a reply so we can check it out.
I was only complaining that it wasn't as good as last years (which I don't own since I always bought NFL2k and rented Madden), but I still like it and play it almost daily. It's still a great game, it's just pisses me off that I didn't have a choice this year. It's the concept that irks me not the game.
Since the NFL season ends in 06... I think.
I promised myself that I wouldn't buy the game when I heard about the exclusive deal with the NFL. I really got turned on to the football games starting with NFL2k for the DC and continued to buy the NFL2k line until this year, when they didn't produce a game.
:-( for capitalism.
I was pretty close to not giving in but as the season got closer and I saw the preseason game, I gave in and bought it. I agree with the reviewers that the game isn't that special. It's basically a less fun version of 2k5.
Ohh well, I guess EA knew what they were doing. Even though everyone bad-mouthed them and swore not to buy their games, EA knew people would still buy their game because it was the only one available.
Well since the amount of non-enterprise level web applications greatly outnumber the amount of enterprise level one's, I'd say my statement of "almost every situation" still stands. I am both a PHP and ASP.NET application developer and I know the strengths of each. I understand when I have an enterprise level application that I need to develop and when I have a site with a simple CMS or a sweepstakes or something else comparable. This is why I compared ASP.NET to Java and not PHP to ASP.NET for enterprise level applications.
Way to jump the gun.
but.... hahahahhahhahahahahahaha
Ohhh god... it hurts... soo bad...
hahahhahahahahaha...
Ruby on Rails has like what... 5 people using it? Okay lets be generous.. 100...
Juggernaut?? Please... the project will probably be abandoned in less than a year like all the other half-assed frameworks. (Though really, I'm sure that's what all the PHP haters said too.)
PHP and Java is who they're really fighting against. In the web dev. world PHP wins over ASP.NET in almost every situation. For all the other situations, Java and ASP.NET fight it out and it's usually a tossup on which gets chosen.
The real future of web. dev. though is this AJAX stuff. It allows the user experience to be exponentially better without forcing the developer to learn a new backend language. You can use PHP, Java, ASP.NET to talk to your database and do any heavy processing, and let AJAX display your data without screen refreshes and without a lot of traffic to your website.
I'm just simply amazed by both of the tools mentioned (the Crime Data and the Housing Maps)... we really live in interesting times. Why do these hacks work so well? Has google built an API to access these maps and to plot points on them, or have the developers of each of these hacks reverse-engineered the Google maps interface and figured out how to place stuff on them?
The nigerian scams aren't Phishing scams.... Phishing scams are the emails you get from your bank or paypal saying that you need to update your information. The link in the email is to a page that looks exactly like your bank's page, but the information you submit goes to the crooks. So they have your bank information or paypal information or whatever.
Ummm ... first sentence: Bricolage is a full-featured, enterprise-class content management and publishing system.
I wish there was Hip-Hop on MTV... you must realize that when they took out the music, they took out ALL the music. Some people might differ on what counts as "music" but still. There is truly nothing that even resembles music on MTV anymore.