What do you need to get the game up and running? Can people distribute this code? Will I need to buy the original to get the data files (artwork + level maps)?
No look.. You said you made 7 mistakes. I said no that was a mistake, and so there were 8 mistakes, which is why it was a mistake saying there were 7..
Hi,
Could you tell me why you would use stored procedures?
It just seems better to have another layer that handles that logic, seperate from the database. That way you can change databases easily.
Is it just because the gui tools make it easier or something?
"Nevermind that it will break most any W3C compliant browser on the planet."
Same problem with english. Most people have a high degree of fault tolerance when parsing natural language, which means any old crap will still just about be readable.
(sorry - I had to after reading that statement heh)
hmm - I think that '100% usage' is ambigous. I believe that this generally means that 100% of the brain has a use. As opposed to all the neurons are firing all the time:)
And to your second statement - of course you can get better without increasing the percentage of the brain used. A computer can run better and faster algorithms, but still use the same CPU percentage as worse algorithms.
My personal belief is that the brain can do minimal rerouting for damage, and train some neurons in different ways.
Don't be daft. MS don't set the timeframe - the competitors, market situation, customers, budget considerations, and so on set the timeframe.
Do you really think that MS could just decide to spend 10 years writing a program perfectly? No, they will have to sell it within 5 years before the competition releases theirs, and before allocated budget wears out, and so on.
as far as I can remember - the RPM was only variable on 1x cdroms. In fact a 2x cdrom was when they just switched to constant RPM. It's been constant ever since.
Imagine this: A gui with two tabs. On the first tab you have options with are common to all package managers.
Install Uninstall Search for some file in all packages Search for package by name and so on.
On the second tab you have advanced options which are just for your package manager. (Like...hmm well update and so on).
It would be nice for apps to be able to call this with some package name they want installed (with perhaps the files they are expecting inside of it incase the package name changed.)
For example in kdevelop, when it says I can't search because glimpse is missing, I should be able to just tell it to install it, regardless of what distro I use.
I'm not convinced that a machine with the monitor and hard disks on standby and the cpu idling is going to use that much electricity.
I'm on an electric meter, and at first worried about the computer in my room - but it's far outweighed by the electric used by the cooker (even when averaged out).
(I don't even dare turn the electric heater on these days)
Agreed. And that bastard who evented the tractor and put lots of people out of work, and Oxfam who sells clothes and has volunteer staff, putting clothes-store workers out of work, and so on.
No - and you've given the reason why not. backwards compatibility. bioses can up with hack after hack to get round the limitation of only supporting small hard drives, for example. Most bioses lie about the number of cylinders etc on a hard disk, and lie in different ways.
Another example is the way bioses handle PCI. Many outright lie about the information, and have horrible bugs.
It seems the bios writters get it working just enough to manage to boot into windows, then consider that a success.
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What do you need to get the game up and running?
Can people distribute this code?
Will I need to buy the original to get the data files (artwork + level maps)?
No look.. You said you made 7 mistakes. I said no that was a mistake, and so there were 8 mistakes, which is why it was a mistake saying there were 7..
it's a recursive thing...
jeez it was a joke - read it again :P
Actually you made eight mistakes. The eighth being that you wrote the wrong number of mistakes down.
(Think about that! Hah!)
Hi,
Could you tell me why you would use stored procedures?
It just seems better to have another layer that handles that logic, seperate from the database. That way you can change databases easily.
Is it just because the gui tools make it easier or something?
"Nevermind that it will break most any W3C compliant browser on the planet."
Same problem with english. Most people have a high degree of fault tolerance when parsing natural language, which means any old crap will still just about be readable.
(sorry - I had to after reading that statement heh)
hmm - I think that '100% usage' is ambigous. I believe that this generally means that 100% of the brain has a use. As opposed to all the neurons are firing all the time :)
And to your second statement - of course you can get better without increasing the percentage of the brain used. A computer can run better and faster algorithms, but still use the same CPU percentage as worse algorithms.
My personal belief is that the brain can do minimal rerouting for damage, and train some neurons in different ways.
or you could do what the first post said, many times, and emphasied, many times. Use conduit :P
Don't be daft. MS don't set the timeframe - the competitors, market situation, customers, budget considerations, and so on set the timeframe.
Do you really think that MS could just decide to spend 10 years writing a program perfectly? No, they will have to sell it within 5 years before the competition releases theirs, and before allocated budget wears out, and so on.
So if I told you to rewrite windows, and you have 1 week - you could do it?
"Done on time" is doing it in the time your boss says. Not a time frame that is necessarily reasonable.
No, if you can't trust him, then the statement is unknown whether it is true or not.
"Everyone also knows that the average human only ever uses 10% of her potential brain power"
Proof-by-everyone-knowing eh?
It's wrong and
wrong.
as far as I can remember - the RPM was only variable on 1x cdroms. In fact a 2x cdrom was when they just switched to constant RPM. It's been constant ever since.
I disagree :)
Imagine this: A gui with two tabs.
On the first tab you have options with are common to all package managers.
Install
Uninstall
Search for some file in all packages
Search for package by name
and so on.
On the second tab you have advanced options which are just for your package manager. (Like...hmm well update and so on).
It would be nice for apps to be able to call this with some package name they want installed (with perhaps the files they are expecting inside of it incase the package name changed.)
For example in kdevelop, when it says I can't search because glimpse is missing, I should be able to just tell it to install it, regardless of what distro I use.
I think that's his point.
It should be standardised as to how to install and remove packages. (even if the underlying system is different).
I don't know the full story, but I know I'd try to cause trouble if I was kicked out of where I lived because the landlord wanted to sell the place.
I'm not convinced that a machine with the monitor and hard disks on standby and the cpu idling is going to use that much electricity.
I'm on an electric meter, and at first worried about the computer in my room - but it's far outweighed by the electric used by the cooker (even when averaged out).
(I don't even dare turn the electric heater on these days)
Agreed. And that bastard who evented the tractor and put lots of people out of work, and Oxfam who sells clothes and has volunteer staff, putting clothes-store workers out of work, and so on.
No - and you've given the reason why not. backwards compatibility. bioses can up with hack after hack to get round the limitation of only supporting small hard drives, for example.
Most bioses lie about the number of cylinders etc on a hard disk, and lie in different ways.
Another example is the way bioses handle PCI. Many outright lie about the information, and have horrible bugs.
It seems the bios writters get it working just enough to manage to boot into windows, then consider that a success.
Then you can't complain that you can't install something that was released a couple of days ago!
Yeah, but how the interface is implemented varies wildly and buggily :) Hence the reason the bios is ignored.
or it could be that people are fed up of having this stupid case being compared to nazi germany.
Read kuro5hin for why this is a stupid case.
hmm, well you learn something everyday.
Then _at maximum_ previous apps would be dual licensed under 2.X and 3, with the user able to chose which he wants.
"learn me" - wtf ?
Sounds like something bush would say.
And no, I'm not trolling - I'm come on.