Well, actually they don't. What they've said is that their PAYING customers direct their efforts and those customers prioritize differently than the "MySQL sucks" crowd. It's not terribly surprising which one gets their features implemented first.
Understandable, but this assumes that their PAYING customers know what they are talking about. I use MySQL every day and I've used RDBMSs quite a bit. The feeling that I get from MySQL is that they think a lot of "features" of RDBMSs are just "fluff" (like transactions, stored procedures, foreign key constraints at one time or another) and not really needed or important. In my experience, the most vocal supporters of MySQL know little about RDBMS requirements and/or database design and just think that any database is a "big place to dump data so you can query it out later". Unfortunately, they tend to approach every DB project with the same attitude. I shudder to think how many small businesses out there are running their payrolls, customer database, orders, and the like on myISAM databases. But hey... it's *fast*, which is all that these people think that matters.
I think MySQL is a great product for what its features are. Unfortunately, it is *not* an RDBMS and shouldn't be used in place of one.
The suggestions include 'joining the 300 Club at the South Pole (they take a sauna to 200 degrees Fahrenheit, then run naked to the pole in minus 100 F 'Things to do before you die' is a very apt term for this, I think.
I think that particular thing was the last item on the list.
For some reason things which run hot attract a ton of dust.
Probably the hotter part creates more air convection/movement because it heats the air locally. More air movement means more air moving across it (containing dust) which has a more likelyhood of dropping the dust out in less dense air. I don't really know for sure, but this sounds plausible to me just winging it.
I agree with this... and it's the first thing I thought of. Reciting truth is just recalling some memories/data. Fabricating a lie requires the use of imagination and creativity as well as a bit of logic to make sure that it all fits together properly AND remembering what the truth is so you can be different from it AND remember all the previous lies so that they all tie in together.
Also agreeing with the parent, I imagine that you can rehearse something enough to where it becomes simple recall, possibly fooling the test.
I typically read at about 1 page per minute with a new book. At least, that's the estimate I use when considering a new book (hmmm... 300 pages, around 300 minutes of reading). I also tend to read and reread some parts to make sure I get what's going on.
On books that I've read before (I rarely read any book twice, and very rarely read it more than twice... I can only think of three series that I've read more than twice) I can get a bit faster because it's more like jogging my memory instead of absorbing it the first time.
Well... unless the monitor and all other externally powered devices have similar power supplies, you won't get far with a live computer and a dead monitor.
As far as the 'small UPS' in the power supply, a minimally configured PC may do fine with that battery for 2 minutes. Add a high end processor and a bunch of cards like high end graphics and that will drop pretty fast. You'll have to be constantly upgrading your power supply every time you upgrade hardware, unless you buy the big expensive power supply first.
If you go to the arcade these days in the USA, you'll find games that you can't reasonably afford the input device for home such as a driving booth that spins around(as opposed to just a wheel and gas/brake), dance floor sensors, etc.
Typically, when some company is able to make these special input devices, the games that use that input device tend to migrate homeward. Even DDR is being hit now because the dance pads are reasonably priced for home consoles now.
Is GuildWars actually an MMORPG or is it like Diablow in that you use Battle.net as a chat/meeting place and then the games are peer-to-peer?
Everquest, for example, has over 1000 machines in its server farm, more than one data center (gotta lease, own, or pay rent), and bandwidth out the wazoo. Also, there are people to pay to keep all that running. None of that comes with no cost, even the F/OSS understand that hardware and bandwidth costs money, if not the people and code.
In comparison, Battle.net isn't that big of a deal.
Beta tests and actual game aren't necessarily the same. Many people play the betas to see if they will like the game. If they don't like it, they don't buy it. Even if they get 400,000 buyers, that's $20M. The project probably had a budget they have to pay back of a few $M. After that, if they actually have to maintain a server farm like Everquest, they'll blow through the rest of that money in a year or two at most. Everquest has been around for 5 years. Perhaps GuildWars doesn't plan on being around that long...
I don't know about where others live, but where I live, the local software stores salespersons make you aware of any requirements the game has like having to have a valid credit card for activation, monthly fees, etc. before they ring it up. They actually say "you are aware that..." and they'll explain it to you before they ring it up. If you don't want it after knowing that, then they'll put it back on the shelf for you.
It sounds like picking up "The Watchmen" as a way to start/renew reading comics may be a bad thing. If it is indeed "the greatest" comicbook, then anything else in the genre won't be as good and you'll probably tire of the genre pretty fast, having sampled its best.
I agree though, the idea that this may be on the reading list for a university English Literature course does make me want to check it out.
when you manage to delegate more important stuff, contribution comes from greater people. status has weight.
Not exactly correct... you cannot draw the conclusion that delegating important stuff to other people necessarily means that they are greater people.
"when you manage to delegate more important stuff, contribution comes from a greater number people."
Which may have merit in making something better, but it might not either. I remember sayins such as "design by committee" and "too many cooks spoil the broth" that tend to warn against having too many people trying to do something. Basically, the statement is a tautism in that if you delegate more stuff out to more people, then more people have contribution into it. It doesn't really mean much else.
I saw on the History Channel this weekend that clears up the "Magic Bullet Theory". Here is a link that talks about the Single Bullet Trajectory. Basically, the "Magic Bullet Theory" is wrong in it's placement of where Connally was sitting in the car.
Interesting and all... but I've yet to witness any user who just uses a computer for email and web surfing. There are either some applications they like (OpenOffice is a good replacement for MSOffice for what most folks do) or they play games. Games (and the lack thereof) are the Linux staller. Until someone can find a way to make money developing games for Linux, I doubt it will make the 25% mark.
From everything I've seen and heard (I have several friends who have been in WoW since the first beta), WoW is a great game. However, in all the descriptions, it sounds like a single player game that you must connect to a server to play. Once you finish the quests (which are really, really good) and then maybe do the quests for one or two other races, what will it have to keep you around? It sounds like if you don't like PvP then there is no end game for you, it's just a single player game. When the quests run out, I expect lots of folks to quit playing.
There are EQ players who have played for 5 years. I played for 4 years myself before I had to quit because of time constraints. The *main* reason I kept playing was because of the folks in the guild I was in. We had fun tackling encounters and stuff, but the grouping and guilding (basically the online relationships) is what keeps many people in EQ. WoW doesn't seem to have much, if any, grouping or guilding and what grouping it does have is just to complete some quest, at which point the people who grouped seperate and go about their own business, probably to never see each other again.
Our EQ guild had a number of get-togethers over the years that didn't necessarily coincide with the FanFairs that SOE ran. Will WoW have this type of following?
I'm by far not the only one who has done this, but I met a girl playing EQ who was a member of the guild I was in at one of our guild get-togethers about 3 years ago. This past August we got married after dating for about a year but being friends for several years prior (we were friends in game before the get-together). Would you expect to see these type things in WoW?
It's just another example where I think that more games are going to go to the subscription model. Users have to enter a valid credit card number for service. You want to ban them, just ban that credit card number. The user can still play with another credit card number but if they continue to be stupid but still dead-set on cheating on this game (or others), eventually they'll be applying for a bunch of credit cards (probably paying yearly service charges) and eventually will get denied when other credit card companies start finding out that this person already has 20 or so cards. In the process, this person will be causing their credit rating to be screwy looking and when they want to go buy a car or house, they'll get denied and they will have screwed themselves over because of their idiocy. Sounds like just rewards to me.
Well... I hunt as does almost all the male members of my family. Yes, we enjoy the hunt but we also enjoy the 'bonding' that goes on. We enjoy hunting even if we come back empty handed for the day. We enjoy the time spent in the woods, observing nature, and telling each other what we saw or heard or whatever. It's great to be in the woods and watch different animals in their environment. I've watched all sorts of things in the woods that many people have to rely on the TV to see.
We do eat everything we kill unless we kill it and found out that it was diseased or something. (This happened once when one of us killed a deer and found out it was gut-shot sometime in the past and was suffering from gaingrene.) We also do not kill an animal unless we intend to eat it unless it is considered a pest and is legal by the hunting laws to kill it.
In fact, between my dad, me, my uncle, and a couple of family friends, we usually kill enough deer during the season each year to cut into steaks, have hamburger and sausage made by a local meat processor (who processes cattle, pigs, and the like normally but also deer and game during the appropriate seasons), stew meat, roast and the like to last most of the rest of the year without having to buy meat from a butcher or supermarket.
We also try our best to keep our sights/scopes on our rifles accurrate to try to insure a one-shot, clean kill. None of us like or want to see the animal suffer. A one-shot drop is the best result for us. Most times, if your first shot isn't on, any followup shots are next to worthless as the animal is going to be speeding away at top speed to get away. Hitting a moving target is a lot tougher than taking a good clean shot at a motionless one.
Do we like the kill? Sure. There is an adrenalin rush that goes with it plus the story of everything that happened is sure to be told many times over the next day or so to family and friends. Although typically each person hunts solo, there is quite a bit of socializing that goes on before and after the hunt that revolves around the hunt itself - where to go, how to get there, what you saw, what you heard, etc.
Since I've "grown up" and moved away, my hunting trips with my family are far less frequent now, usually ending up with only a couple days a year, and I do miss them a lot. There's a lot more to hunting than just "shooting up the woods" as some people think "hunters" do. We try to distance ourselves from those road-hunters as much as possible because they actually poison the whole experience for us. People who "hunt" like that really detract from the experience for me.
Yes, the mauling is to kill it. Remember that one of the biggest enemies of any wild animal is injury (and infection). If you don't disable/kill your prey fast, you can be injured which may lead to infection which will likely end up with your starving to death or dying from the infection.
It is always in the predator's best interest to disable/kill prey as quickly as possible (and efficiently because wasted energy is a bad thing as well) in order to avoid injury to itself.
(though even at 45 degrees, not a whole lot of firearms will make it past 300 acres).
There are 640 acres in a square mile (1 mile on a side). Most states have laws requiring the minimum calibre rifle for hunting deer being.223 or larger. Other than.30-30,.35 Remington, and some of the slower rounds, most rifles that are considered to be "high powered hunting rifles" used for hunting medium sized game (.30-06 being very popular,.270,.300, 7mm,.243,.308 etc. regardless of the 'species' such as Winchester, Remington, or Weatherby) are quite capable of maximum distances over a mile when fired in such a way.
Two things here I guess. The first is that animal carcasses (road kills even) can be used by animal shelters to defray the costs of feeding dogs and cats.
The other thing practiced in a number of states are programs where hunters can donate the carcasses of animals they've killed (particularly deer) to soup kitchens and/or orphanages to help feed the homeless and orphans to help with food costs.
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Well, actually they don't. What they've said is that their PAYING customers direct their efforts and those customers prioritize differently than the "MySQL sucks" crowd. It's not terribly surprising which one gets their features implemented first.
Understandable, but this assumes that their PAYING customers know what they are talking about. I use MySQL every day and I've used RDBMSs quite a bit. The feeling that I get from MySQL is that they think a lot of "features" of RDBMSs are just "fluff" (like transactions, stored procedures, foreign key constraints at one time or another) and not really needed or important. In my experience, the most vocal supporters of MySQL know little about RDBMS requirements and/or database design and just think that any database is a "big place to dump data so you can query it out later". Unfortunately, they tend to approach every DB project with the same attitude. I shudder to think how many small businesses out there are running their payrolls, customer database, orders, and the like on myISAM databases. But hey... it's *fast*, which is all that these people think that matters.
I think MySQL is a great product for what its features are. Unfortunately, it is *not* an RDBMS and shouldn't be used in place of one.
The suggestions include 'joining the 300 Club at the South Pole (they take a sauna to 200 degrees Fahrenheit, then run naked to the pole in minus 100 F
'Things to do before you die' is a very apt term for this, I think.
I think that particular thing was the last item on the list.
For some reason things which run hot attract a ton of dust.
Probably the hotter part creates more air convection/movement because it heats the air locally. More air movement means more air moving across it (containing dust) which has a more likelyhood of dropping the dust out in less dense air. I don't really know for sure, but this sounds plausible to me just winging it.
I agree with this... and it's the first thing I thought of. Reciting truth is just recalling some memories/data. Fabricating a lie requires the use of imagination and creativity as well as a bit of logic to make sure that it all fits together properly AND remembering what the truth is so you can be different from it AND remember all the previous lies so that they all tie in together.
Also agreeing with the parent, I imagine that you can rehearse something enough to where it becomes simple recall, possibly fooling the test.
I typically read at about 1 page per minute with a new book. At least, that's the estimate I use when considering a new book (hmmm... 300 pages, around 300 minutes of reading). I also tend to read and reread some parts to make sure I get what's going on.
On books that I've read before (I rarely read any book twice, and very rarely read it more than twice... I can only think of three series that I've read more than twice) I can get a bit faster because it's more like jogging my memory instead of absorbing it the first time.
Well... unless the monitor and all other externally powered devices have similar power supplies, you won't get far with a live computer and a dead monitor.
As far as the 'small UPS' in the power supply, a minimally configured PC may do fine with that battery for 2 minutes. Add a high end processor and a bunch of cards like high end graphics and that will drop pretty fast. You'll have to be constantly upgrading your power supply every time you upgrade hardware, unless you buy the big expensive power supply first.
If you go to the arcade these days in the USA, you'll find games that you can't reasonably afford the input device for home such as a driving booth that spins around(as opposed to just a wheel and gas/brake), dance floor sensors, etc.
Typically, when some company is able to make these special input devices, the games that use that input device tend to migrate homeward. Even DDR is being hit now because the dance pads are reasonably priced for home consoles now.
Is GuildWars actually an MMORPG or is it like Diablow in that you use Battle.net as a chat/meeting place and then the games are peer-to-peer?
Everquest, for example, has over 1000 machines in its server farm, more than one data center (gotta lease, own, or pay rent), and bandwidth out the wazoo. Also, there are people to pay to keep all that running. None of that comes with no cost, even the F/OSS understand that hardware and bandwidth costs money, if not the people and code.
In comparison, Battle.net isn't that big of a deal.
Beta tests and actual game aren't necessarily the same. Many people play the betas to see if they will like the game. If they don't like it, they don't buy it. Even if they get 400,000 buyers, that's $20M. The project probably had a budget they have to pay back of a few $M. After that, if they actually have to maintain a server farm like Everquest, they'll blow through the rest of that money in a year or two at most. Everquest has been around for 5 years. Perhaps GuildWars doesn't plan on being around that long...
A scrotum in the hand is worth two in the bush?
Those who are willing to give up rights for scrotum protection deserve neither the rights nor the scrotum.... or something like that...
I don't know about where others live, but where I live, the local software stores salespersons make you aware of any requirements the game has like having to have a valid credit card for activation, monthly fees, etc. before they ring it up. They actually say "you are aware that..." and they'll explain it to you before they ring it up. If you don't want it after knowing that, then they'll put it back on the shelf for you.
It sounds like picking up "The Watchmen" as a way to start/renew reading comics may be a bad thing. If it is indeed "the greatest" comicbook, then anything else in the genre won't be as good and you'll probably tire of the genre pretty fast, having sampled its best.
I agree though, the idea that this may be on the reading list for a university English Literature course does make me want to check it out.
when you manage to delegate more important stuff, contribution comes from greater people. status has weight.
Not exactly correct... you cannot draw the conclusion that delegating important stuff to other people necessarily means that they are greater people.
"when you manage to delegate more important stuff, contribution comes from a greater number people."
Which may have merit in making something better, but it might not either. I remember sayins such as "design by committee" and "too many cooks spoil the broth" that tend to warn against having too many people trying to do something. Basically, the statement is a tautism in that if you delegate more stuff out to more people, then more people have contribution into it. It doesn't really mean much else.
I saw on the History Channel this weekend that clears up the "Magic Bullet Theory". Here is a link that talks about the Single Bullet Trajectory. Basically, the "Magic Bullet Theory" is wrong in it's placement of where Connally was sitting in the car.
Interesting and all... but I've yet to witness any user who just uses a computer for email and web surfing. There are either some applications they like (OpenOffice is a good replacement for MSOffice for what most folks do) or they play games. Games (and the lack thereof) are the Linux staller. Until someone can find a way to make money developing games for Linux, I doubt it will make the 25% mark.
Well... if history serves, they can write 16 nasty/angry letters over 12 years and have the violator laugh at them because they can do nothing.
From everything I've seen and heard (I have several friends who have been in WoW since the first beta), WoW is a great game. However, in all the descriptions, it sounds like a single player game that you must connect to a server to play. Once you finish the quests (which are really, really good) and then maybe do the quests for one or two other races, what will it have to keep you around? It sounds like if you don't like PvP then there is no end game for you, it's just a single player game. When the quests run out, I expect lots of folks to quit playing.
There are EQ players who have played for 5 years. I played for 4 years myself before I had to quit because of time constraints. The *main* reason I kept playing was because of the folks in the guild I was in. We had fun tackling encounters and stuff, but the grouping and guilding (basically the online relationships) is what keeps many people in EQ. WoW doesn't seem to have much, if any, grouping or guilding and what grouping it does have is just to complete some quest, at which point the people who grouped seperate and go about their own business, probably to never see each other again.
Our EQ guild had a number of get-togethers over the years that didn't necessarily coincide with the FanFairs that SOE ran. Will WoW have this type of following?
I'm by far not the only one who has done this, but I met a girl playing EQ who was a member of the guild I was in at one of our guild get-togethers about 3 years ago. This past August we got married after dating for about a year but being friends for several years prior (we were friends in game before the get-together). Would you expect to see these type things in WoW?
It's just another example where I think that more games are going to go to the subscription model. Users have to enter a valid credit card number for service. You want to ban them, just ban that credit card number. The user can still play with another credit card number but if they continue to be stupid but still dead-set on cheating on this game (or others), eventually they'll be applying for a bunch of credit cards (probably paying yearly service charges) and eventually will get denied when other credit card companies start finding out that this person already has 20 or so cards. In the process, this person will be causing their credit rating to be screwy looking and when they want to go buy a car or house, they'll get denied and they will have screwed themselves over because of their idiocy. Sounds like just rewards to me.
Well... I hunt as does almost all the male members of my family. Yes, we enjoy the hunt but we also enjoy the 'bonding' that goes on. We enjoy hunting even if we come back empty handed for the day. We enjoy the time spent in the woods, observing nature, and telling each other what we saw or heard or whatever. It's great to be in the woods and watch different animals in their environment. I've watched all sorts of things in the woods that many people have to rely on the TV to see.
We do eat everything we kill unless we kill it and found out that it was diseased or something. (This happened once when one of us killed a deer and found out it was gut-shot sometime in the past and was suffering from gaingrene.) We also do not kill an animal unless we intend to eat it unless it is considered a pest and is legal by the hunting laws to kill it.
In fact, between my dad, me, my uncle, and a couple of family friends, we usually kill enough deer during the season each year to cut into steaks, have hamburger and sausage made by a local meat processor (who processes cattle, pigs, and the like normally but also deer and game during the appropriate seasons), stew meat, roast and the like to last most of the rest of the year without having to buy meat from a butcher or supermarket.
We also try our best to keep our sights/scopes on our rifles accurrate to try to insure a one-shot, clean kill. None of us like or want to see the animal suffer. A one-shot drop is the best result for us. Most times, if your first shot isn't on, any followup shots are next to worthless as the animal is going to be speeding away at top speed to get away. Hitting a moving target is a lot tougher than taking a good clean shot at a motionless one.
Do we like the kill? Sure. There is an adrenalin rush that goes with it plus the story of everything that happened is sure to be told many times over the next day or so to family and friends. Although typically each person hunts solo, there is quite a bit of socializing that goes on before and after the hunt that revolves around the hunt itself - where to go, how to get there, what you saw, what you heard, etc.
Since I've "grown up" and moved away, my hunting trips with my family are far less frequent now, usually ending up with only a couple days a year, and I do miss them a lot. There's a lot more to hunting than just "shooting up the woods" as some people think "hunters" do. We try to distance ourselves from those road-hunters as much as possible because they actually poison the whole experience for us. People who "hunt" like that really detract from the experience for me.
Yes, the mauling is to kill it. Remember that one of the biggest enemies of any wild animal is injury (and infection). If you don't disable/kill your prey fast, you can be injured which may lead to infection which will likely end up with your starving to death or dying from the infection.
It is always in the predator's best interest to disable/kill prey as quickly as possible (and efficiently because wasted energy is a bad thing as well) in order to avoid injury to itself.
(though even at 45 degrees, not a whole lot of firearms will make it past 300 acres).
.223 or larger. Other than .30-30, .35 Remington, and some of the slower rounds, most rifles that are considered to be "high powered hunting rifles" used for hunting medium sized game (.30-06 being very popular, .270, .300, 7mm, .243, .308 etc. regardless of the 'species' such as Winchester, Remington, or Weatherby) are quite capable of maximum distances over a mile when fired in such a way.
There are 640 acres in a square mile (1 mile on a side). Most states have laws requiring the minimum calibre rifle for hunting deer being
Something like the electorial college made sense 200 years ago, but not now!
Why? There are reasons for a representative body to make decisions (see: Legislative Branch of the USA Government).
They also "play" with their prey (as other animals do as well, especially young ones) to practice/hone hunting skills.
or donated to animal orphanages
Two things here I guess. The first is that animal carcasses (road kills even) can be used by animal shelters to defray the costs of feeding dogs and cats.
The other thing practiced in a number of states are programs where hunters can donate the carcasses of animals they've killed (particularly deer) to soup kitchens and/or orphanages to help feed the homeless and orphans to help with food costs.