I always begin with putting a $1 paypal donation link just right beside the "Download Now" button. The download button actually increments a counter..no wait...it actually creates a text file on the web folder as I find programming with databases too complicated. The text file contains the IP address, agent string, and the datetime stamp. When the number of text files reaches 100, I query the text files and match the IP addresses with geographic locations. If the location is in India, China, or Glxbltistan the file is immediately sent to the trash. This process is performed over time until the number of "good" text files is over 100. When that happens, I increase the the paypal link to $5.
The whole scheme is repeated while increasing the good text file quote by 100. When the donation link reaches $20, I hire some people from India, China, or Glxbltistan (via MSN messenger) to do some more serious marketing and probably maintain some parts of my product code or maybe add plugins for it which I can sell for $15.
You'll worry about these because you're writing both tiers (db and client). Often times it's not the case. The senior programmer will just tell you this is the database server and these are the stored procedures you can call to read or write stuff. You don't have to think about the table structure because the SPs handle those things.
If you're writing both tiers then I could understand that. I myself sometimes get tired of looking back and forth between the SP and the program code.
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When will cities be redesigned to accomodate this land vessel?
..EQ2 and World of Warcraft, which are rumored to be coming out on the same day.
Anybody wants to buy a girlfriend?
I don't consider anything cult classing until it is verified that there is a cult worshiping it.
A friend once started an online write your own chapter kind of thing. It started out really funny until someone typed goatse links near the end.
A few seconds ago I was having fun reading the tecords comments. Now it's corrected.
Killjoy editors.
This gives me an idea of the next version of Tetris. Bring out your hard hats people.
I think mine does. My northbridge is aligned to the northern dragon constellation, and my southbridge flows with the wind that which cannot be seen.
KRAMER: Hewwo and welcome to Movie phone. If you know the name of the movie you'd like to see, press one.
... Agent Zero? If that's correct, press one.
... Brown-Eyed Girl? If this is correct,
press one.
GEORGE: Come on. Come on.
KRAMER: Using your touch-tone keypad, please enter the first three letters of the movie title, now.
(George presses 3 keys)
KRAMER: You've selected
GEORGE: What?
KRAMER: Ah, you've selected
(George looks baffled)
KRAMER: Why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you've selected.
GEORGE: Chunnel?
KRAMER: To find the theater nearest you, please enter your five digit zip-code, now.
(George enters his zip-code)
KRAMER: Why don't you just tell me where you want to see the movie?
GEORGE: Lowes Paragon, 84th and Broadway.
KRAMER: (picks up paper) Chunnel, is playing at the Paragon 84th Street cinema in the main theater at 9:30 PM.
GEORGE: Yeah, now I gotcha! (hangs up the phone and rushes out the door)
KRAMER: It's also playing in theater number two at 9:00.
Look at my phone it has Tetris on it. Nope, that's the defragmenter.
It actually automatically purchases thousands of pop albums using your credit card, until you become a bum.
So Windows is an operating system that's easily broken into.
I'm not buying another iPod unless it can cook.
I just hope the drivers are downloadable and they won't charge $15 for the driver CD.
The whole scheme is repeated while increasing the good text file quote by 100. When the donation link reaches $20, I hire some people from India, China, or Glxbltistan (via MSN messenger) to do some more serious marketing and probably maintain some parts of my product code or maybe add plugins for it which I can sell for $15.
I'm impressed. At least they released it right after the Doom 3 hype has receded.
I will bet on the one that first says "All your base are belong to us" no matter how primitive the speech synthesis module is.
Night of the Lepus is cult classic. I loved it when I was a kid :)
Reading some of the letters, I kinda feel that the tone and language used seems very similar to those nigerian scam e-mails.
I was such a bad employee that my ex-employer forced me to work for their competitor.
So dragging windows now would get ~5fps on my TNT2.
If you're writing both tiers then I could understand that. I myself sometimes get tired of looking back and forth between the SP and the program code.
Don't forget your customized Doom 3 zboard keyset.
It was the same feeling when I read Zack Urlocker's Top 10 windows security functions at angrycoder.
..wait, let me RTFA again.
They'll just stop redistributing the modified code and turn their programmers into "consultants".