I tell you what, you feel free to trust the DB layer to do that validation work, and I won't.
We'll see who's happier in the end with the results.
Personally, I like my database code to be intelligent and in one place where it can be debugged as a unit. That means I don't have indexing decisions being made in applications any more than I have text format codes in the database.
Its interesting how you think a foreign key has anything to do with validating stored data before putting it into a database.
Of course, I know you're just talking out of your alternate orifice to make a point, and more power to you, but yours is completely invalid.
You made no point, and gave no reason as to why validation of dates should be done by the underlying database system.
Do I expect you to use a language or library capable of basic date manipulation when writing software? You bet I do. Do I expect you to validate data even IF the underlying database system does it? Yes. Trusting the DB layer to do data validation is like trusting your bank to handle your money without a chequebook to validate against.
The only problem you seem to have with Java plugins is the load time -- this is only resolved by Javascript because JS is pre-loaded by the browser at all times (in modern browsers at least).
If other plugins were to be marked as 'frequently used' by the plugin engine and loaded at runtime instead of page load-time, they'd obviously be just as responsive as Javascript (or more so, since Java is compiled to native code in many cases).
Making a browser that integrates Java in a reasonable way and makes it work just as seamlessly as Javascript was tried already (by Netscape) but it was before we had computers with enough RAM to handle it IMHO.
Many girls in North America now begin puberty around age 8. Obviously to most I'd think, this is before the age of consent ought to be. Therefore, the age of consent will probably always be older than girls begin to be sexually developed.
To answer your question directly: play because its fun to play.
I played HOURS of Qbert and Jumpman Jr. when I was younger... and what did I get out of it? A highscore. What did I get while playing? Nothing. It was just fun.
If the grinding is fun to do, then its fun. If its just something you do to "get to the fun part" then the game is faulty as a game (although probably successful as a business model).
I've put MONTHS of real time into playing Wurm and enjoyed most of it. Some people would go in and grind for hours to get something they wanted as a skill, while others just did whatever they felt like and had lots of fun doing it. Grind doesn't make a game less fun if the grinding is part of the gameplay.
Oblivion (and Morrowind before it) are much more involved games from a plot and story point of view, and of course much more suited to the single-player mentality.
Incorrect analogy. The Linux user isn't changing the product in any way, just using it.
This is more akin to a handicapped person buying a Big Mac from McDonald's and not being able to figure out how to open the cardboard box its in on their own.
I'm betting a McD's employee would help. Broadcom would tell them to enjoy their Big Mac IN the box.
How about this one? The queries ACID makes (no relation to ACID of DB studies) against the database data generated by Snort are significantly faster in MySQL than Postgresql with certain operations.
PS, that's really old data but I knew where to find it quickly:-).
The only time I've blown a table, I did something stupid to the filesystem MySQL was running on while MySQL was still running.
I might add, I've been using MySQL since before InnoDB, when it was a glorified query engine for flat files.
It would seem to me that many developers are lazy and expect their tools to do the work for them. People who complain about some of the little MySQL issues (like date ranges) wouldn't be able to write a working C program with compiler errors disabled.
And yes, I think the latter is valid -- if you depend on the compiler to catch your errors, you're still CREATING errors.
I'm sorry, I forgot that many developers expect their storage engine to BE their application instead of writing good code themselves.
Shouldn't you be validating your dates or numbers or other values BEFORE sending them to your storage system? Shouldn't the database's job be to store your data in a logical fashion so its easy to find later, and then find it when you query it?
I don't understand people who expect the database to replace the middleware of their application.
Not that your logic makes any sense in the first place, but the show specifically depicts not only day/night cycles you should be taking into account, but holiday seasons that pass and give a concept of time. The number of Halloween episodes for example.
From the alternate angle, if a real life adult has an ageing disease that causes them to look underage, is their significant other guilty of anything for looking at them naked?
"Children" for the sake of child pornography does not necessarily (depending on your jurisdiction) only apply to pre-pubescent children but includes minors who are very pubescent and sexually available (to their peers).
Some hot sixteen year old cheerleader takes her clothes off for her sixteen year old boyfriend and nothing illegal has happened. However, if she takes pictures of herself for her boyfriend he may be guilty of possessing child pornography (and her of creating it).
When you hear cases on the news, remember that we're not always talking about "children" as you may think of them, but rather not of adult age according to the law.
Actually, an interesting little documentary about the making of "Rick Steve's Europe" which airs on PBS commented that a lot of the footage from such churches and art frescos and such can't be shown on TV because of American purtanism essentially.
Art, high art, made hundreds of years ago, can't be shown on TV because its bad for you.
From a business standpoint, you'd be right, except that Google was designed to be a search engine, not a way to sell advertising, so the GP is correct.
Google is designed to be an excellent search engine with minimal interference that very quickly leads consumers to the sites they were searching for. It also sells advertising within that limitation.
As proof that you're wrong, Google doesn't carry the high-profit pop-up or pop-under ads, flash based ads or image ads on their own search engine, even though they offer them through Adsense. They don't offer them, because they'd be in the way of the primary design functionality of the Google website.
The people complaining have peering arrangements in place with those who serve Google and should renegotiate with THOSE providers if they don't like the results.
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I tell you what, you feel free to trust the DB layer to do that validation work, and I won't.
We'll see who's happier in the end with the results.
Personally, I like my database code to be intelligent and in one place where it can be debugged as a unit. That means I don't have indexing decisions being made in applications any more than I have text format codes in the database.
If your app stuck a date of Feb 31st in a customer's record, then your App is to blame. Jeez.
Its interesting how you think a foreign key has anything to do with validating stored data before putting it into a database.
Of course, I know you're just talking out of your alternate orifice to make a point, and more power to you, but yours is completely invalid.
You made no point, and gave no reason as to why validation of dates should be done by the underlying database system.
Do I expect you to use a language or library capable of basic date manipulation when writing software? You bet I do. Do I expect you to validate data even IF the underlying database system does it? Yes. Trusting the DB layer to do data validation is like trusting your bank to handle your money without a chequebook to validate against.
Except, you're wrong? Transaction support has been in MySQL for many years now. I actually gave a valid performance metric to the questioner.
The only problem you seem to have with Java plugins is the load time -- this is only resolved by Javascript because JS is pre-loaded by the browser at all times (in modern browsers at least).
If other plugins were to be marked as 'frequently used' by the plugin engine and loaded at runtime instead of page load-time, they'd obviously be just as responsive as Javascript (or more so, since Java is compiled to native code in many cases).
Making a browser that integrates Java in a reasonable way and makes it work just as seamlessly as Javascript was tried already (by Netscape) but it was before we had computers with enough RAM to handle it IMHO.
Many girls in North America now begin puberty around age 8. Obviously to most I'd think, this is before the age of consent ought to be. Therefore, the age of consent will probably always be older than girls begin to be sexually developed.
To answer your question directly: play because its fun to play.
I played HOURS of Qbert and Jumpman Jr. when I was younger ... and what did I get out of it? A highscore. What did I get while playing? Nothing. It was just fun.
If the grinding is fun to do, then its fun. If its just something you do to "get to the fun part" then the game is faulty as a game (although probably successful as a business model).
I've put MONTHS of real time into playing Wurm and enjoyed most of it. Some people would go in and grind for hours to get something they wanted as a skill, while others just did whatever they felt like and had lots of fun doing it. Grind doesn't make a game less fun if the grinding is part of the gameplay.
Managing a WoW raid requires substantially higher managerial skills than those players had before they started. Scary, but true.
Entertainingly, some of those players do NOT have the skills to manage a simple raid, and then wonder why they can't get ahead in their job either.
Oblivion (and Morrowind before it) are much more involved games from a plot and story point of view, and of course much more suited to the single-player mentality.
Incorrect analogy. The Linux user isn't changing the product in any way, just using it.
This is more akin to a handicapped person buying a Big Mac from McDonald's and not being able to figure out how to open the cardboard box its in on their own.
I'm betting a McD's employee would help. Broadcom would tell them to enjoy their Big Mac IN the box.
I'm pretty sure they could actually, they could invest in SCO for example.
Intel Intel Intel.
Intel cards use Intel chips and Intel chips are well-supported.
PS, I'm not pro-Intel in general, but Intel does support Linux.
How about this one? The queries ACID makes (no relation to ACID of DB studies) against the database data generated by Snort are significantly faster in MySQL than Postgresql with certain operations.
PS, that's really old data but I knew where to find it quickly :-).
The only time I've blown a table, I did something stupid to the filesystem MySQL was running on while MySQL was still running.
I might add, I've been using MySQL since before InnoDB, when it was a glorified query engine for flat files.
It would seem to me that many developers are lazy and expect their tools to do the work for them. People who complain about some of the little MySQL issues (like date ranges) wouldn't be able to write a working C program with compiler errors disabled.
And yes, I think the latter is valid -- if you depend on the compiler to catch your errors, you're still CREATING errors.
I'm sorry, I forgot that many developers expect their storage engine to BE their application instead of writing good code themselves.
Shouldn't you be validating your dates or numbers or other values BEFORE sending them to your storage system? Shouldn't the database's job be to store your data in a logical fashion so its easy to find later, and then find it when you query it?
I don't understand people who expect the database to replace the middleware of their application.
I won't be able to look at that logo without chuckling to myself now. Thanks a lot.
Not that your logic makes any sense in the first place, but the show specifically depicts not only day/night cycles you should be taking into account, but holiday seasons that pass and give a concept of time. The number of Halloween episodes for example.
From the alternate angle, if a real life adult has an ageing disease that causes them to look underage, is their significant other guilty of anything for looking at them naked?
You forgot to include "even though no evidence has ever been found to show causation between the two."
"Children" for the sake of child pornography does not necessarily (depending on your jurisdiction) only apply to pre-pubescent children but includes minors who are very pubescent and sexually available (to their peers).
Some hot sixteen year old cheerleader takes her clothes off for her sixteen year old boyfriend and nothing illegal has happened. However, if she takes pictures of herself for her boyfriend he may be guilty of possessing child pornography (and her of creating it).
When you hear cases on the news, remember that we're not always talking about "children" as you may think of them, but rather not of adult age according to the law.
Actually, an interesting little documentary about the making of "Rick Steve's Europe" which airs on PBS commented that a lot of the footage from such churches and art frescos and such can't be shown on TV because of American purtanism essentially.
Art, high art, made hundreds of years ago, can't be shown on TV because its bad for you.
I'd predict you're going to have a hard time convincing the gay rights movement that they're gay because of pollution too :-)
Its not the most glamorous defence of a lifestyle, is it?
They DO already -- its called peering arrangements. If you're overtaxing another ISP's pipes, you pay for that service.
Actually, you're wrong.
From a business standpoint, you'd be right, except that Google was designed to be a search engine, not a way to sell advertising, so the GP is correct.
Google is designed to be an excellent search engine with minimal interference that very quickly leads consumers to the sites they were searching for. It also sells advertising within that limitation.
As proof that you're wrong, Google doesn't carry the high-profit pop-up or pop-under ads, flash based ads or image ads on their own search engine, even though they offer them through Adsense. They don't offer them, because they'd be in the way of the primary design functionality of the Google website.
The people complaining have peering arrangements in place with those who serve Google and should renegotiate with THOSE providers if they don't like the results.