He meant "crates created" -- unlike many games, which seem to have the exactly the same crate / canister / explosive barrel duplicated millions of times throughout the world, spore will dynamically generate crates such that each of them has its own unique wood pattern.
The kinds of private places that are protected from "invasions of privacy" are places like bathrooms and bedrooms. A public gathering (even on private property) is not a place where you can expect to be free from public scrutiny. Are you a lawyer? And does what you say apply to private gatherings on private property (which is what this was)?
Everyone is always... Protip: the vast majority of generalisations are horribly flawed.
the SAME people are bitching Can you provide a list of usernames? I would think it far more likely that person A is bitching about one thing, and person B is bitching about another -- just because persons A and B visit the same website does not make them hypocrites for saying different things...
why it matters that the password is less than X characters. Between 5 and 10 characters? WHY? what is wrong with between 5 and 50 characters? or 5 and 100 characters?
Because those would take up too much room in the database:P
It's scary how many sites have max length limits, which implies that they're storing passwords unhashed -- even scarier is when you *know* sites are storing passwords unhashed, because every time they send you a bit of physical mail your username and password is printed across the top of it. An example of this UCAS, an organisation with vast amounts of personal information about pretty much every university student in the UK.
A related weird one is UK student finance, who require you to have an ID number (10 digits) one password (5-10 letters, no punctuation (to stop SQL injection?), and at least one number), and one security question* -- and you have to answer all of the questions every time...
* with a very limited range of questions -- "who is your favourite football team?", "what's your favourite band?", "where did you meet your current boy/girlfriend?", none of which applied to me, but all of which could be trivially socially engineered in 90% of cases.
Here in the UK I've been paying £30-£40 ($60-$80) for games since '95:-/
Actually, from '95 to '96 -- at which point I found a cheaper hobby to pass the time until last week, when I bought a PS2 and top 12 games for $200:P (All second hand, of course)
Just the other day I was thinking; how possible would it be to take a punched-tape computer and give it a mobius strip as input, and have it perform valid instructions all the way round?
Just a few weeks back there was some anime / subliminal propoganda sponsored by the japanese equivalent of NASA, and they had suits which looked just like that:O
(That series also introduced me to reverse polish calculators, and it's true, I can no longer stand to use a regular calculator; RPN just seems so much more elegant...)
A good PHPer should write codes that works in both PHP4 and PHP5. What if a good PHPer wants to take advantage of all the new and useful feautures of PHP5?
It's a buggy implementation of a poor design; even if you get your head round the braindeadedness of how things are supposed to work, you still find that there are parts of the language which don't even manage to work at that level...
I still run applications that were developed (and even compiled sometimes) in java 1.0 on the java 5 platform ... how is this relevant? The story is about dropping support for the old runtime. You can still run php4 code under php5, just like you can run java 1 code in java 5...
Getting your head round the install (My switch to postgres was delayed by several months because there was never a huge "you need to be user 'postgres' to do admin stuff, user 'root' is not enough" sign, so I never managed to create a database to work with...)
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You know you've been programming too long when you turn your code comments into ASCII space tanks (about half way down). It won't get through the lameness filter though:(
On topic: if that comment only needed 79 characters, then 80 should be plenty!:P
I've recently switched several websites from mysql to postgres, and found:
Postgres doesn't fall over, die, and corrupt all your data when the system runs out of RAM
Postgres runs slightly faster when the table is too big to fit in ram
Postgres' query optimiser is *much* better[1]
Speed of common PHP webapps will depend on what they've been optimised for -- postgres runs all SQL fairly quickly; mysql runs things quickly if you spend extra time and effort making your queries mysql-friendly.
[1] An example I've been working with today: SELECT * FROM images WHERE images.id IN (SELECT image_id FROM tags WHERE tag = 'a_tag')
The postgres way: run the subquery, pull out two image_id's that result, look up those IDs in the images table. Total data lookups, 3.
The mysql way: do a full table scan over the images table, run the subquery once for every row to see if it matches. Total data lookups, 15000.
But since my main target is mysql, I ended up spending several hours hacking about until eventually I managed to come up with a query which was much less elegant, just so that it was simple enough for mysql to understand... This is a repeat thing with almost all my SQL -- I write it elegantly and postgres optimises it, but mysql falls over; then I have to scrap it and do ugly things for mysql's benefit:(
What if (say) Microsoft was including some Apple products in Vista - and hadn't responded to Apple's questions for 22 days. Would you be saying "Calm down, give Microsoft some more time to seek legal advice"? Is SWSoft a big enough company to have a full time dedicated legal department?
Protip: if you're going to correct someone, especially when you're going to correct them with bold text and exclamation marks, you should first make sure that they are wrong and you are right.
(For reference: Go *is* a Chinese game, they just kept it to themselves for many years; then the Japanese found it and popularised it)
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He meant "crates created" -- unlike many games, which seem to have the exactly the same crate / canister / explosive barrel duplicated millions of times throughout the world, spore will dynamically generate crates such that each of them has its own unique wood pattern.
Or is this basically the same story as the one cmdrtaco posted a couple of hours ago (and is still on the front page)?
Congratulations, you got the point! Go bake yourself a cookie :P
While doing so, consider why I used "the majority" rather than "all"~
Because those would take up too much room in the database :P
It's scary how many sites have max length limits, which implies that they're storing passwords unhashed -- even scarier is when you *know* sites are storing passwords unhashed, because every time they send you a bit of physical mail your username and password is printed across the top of it. An example of this UCAS, an organisation with vast amounts of personal information about pretty much every university student in the UK.
A related weird one is UK student finance, who require you to have an ID number (10 digits) one password (5-10 letters, no punctuation (to stop SQL injection?), and at least one number), and one security question* -- and you have to answer all of the questions every time...
* with a very limited range of questions -- "who is your favourite football team?", "what's your favourite band?", "where did you meet your current boy/girlfriend?", none of which applied to me, but all of which could be trivially socially engineered in 90% of cases.
Fox News = Brasseye.
The trouble being, Brasseye is filed under "Satire" and Fox calls itself "News"...
Here in the UK I've been paying £30-£40 ($60-$80) for games since '95 :-/
Actually, from '95 to '96 -- at which point I found a cheaper hobby to pass the time until last week, when I bought a PS2 and top 12 games for $200 :P (All second hand, of course)
Can I grow a beard, stop showering, *and* use recent technology?
Just the other day I was thinking; how possible would it be to take a punched-tape computer and give it a mobius strip as input, and have it perform valid instructions all the way round?
Just a few weeks back there was some anime / subliminal propoganda sponsored by the japanese equivalent of NASA, and they had suits which looked just like that :O
(That series also introduced me to reverse polish calculators, and it's true, I can no longer stand to use a regular calculator; RPN just seems so much more elegant...)
It's a buggy implementation of a poor design; even if you get your head round the braindeadedness of how things are supposed to work, you still find that there are parts of the language which don't even manage to work at that level...
(For reference, I work with PHP for a living ;_;)
People need to understand this :(
You know you've been programming too long when you turn your code comments into ASCII space tanks (about half way down). It won't get through the lameness filter though :(
On topic: if that comment only needed 79 characters, then 80 should be plenty! :P
Speed of common PHP webapps will depend on what they've been optimised for -- postgres runs all SQL fairly quickly; mysql runs things quickly if you spend extra time and effort making your queries mysql-friendly.
[1] An example I've been working with today: SELECT * FROM images WHERE images.id IN (SELECT image_id FROM tags WHERE tag = 'a_tag')
But since my main target is mysql, I ended up spending several hours hacking about until eventually I managed to come up with a query which was much less elegant, just so that it was simple enough for mysql to understand... This is a repeat thing with almost all my SQL -- I write it elegantly and postgres optimises it, but mysql falls over; then I have to scrap it and do ugly things for mysql's benefit :(
So we have a username and password, great. Now where's the login prompt?
Why ask what it would be like? We're living in the middle of one right now :O
Protip: if you're going to correct someone, especially when you're going to correct them with bold text and exclamation marks, you should first make sure that they are wrong and you are right.
(For reference: Go *is* a Chinese game, they just kept it to themselves for many years; then the Japanese found it and popularised it)