the best place to stay? not hardly. there are plenty of situations where MySQL is the worst place to stay. In those situations, Oracle is worth every penny.
Maybe the best place for you, but to assume that MySQL is the best DB for everyone is just plain short-sighted.
the main problem with the final fantasy series in my opinion is all the crappy minigames they make you drag yourself through to get somewhere.
I don't *want* to play blitzball. I don't *want* to hit 7 buttons in a specific order in 2 seconds to unlock a one-use powerful strike that i've already earned by taking several beatings. I don't *want* to be playing cards. etc.
I *want* to play FF7 again on newer hardware with better graphics, because its the only one I've played that ever did anything right.
that out of the box thinking is exactly what established game franchises are trying to avoid.
your example is also not good for the pocketbook of the company running the game.
i played eq2 for a long time, and slowly it is becoming eq1, since players are dropping like dying flies (me included). they have to make the game funner, rather than designed perfectly. a game with perfect balance and design is very different from a fun game.
i could be all wrong though. who really cares, they're games. the challenges of role-playing my own life are much more fun and rewarding. but the graphics aren't as good.
whenever you see people breaking the law with intellectual property, you are looking into the eyes of an untapped market. Apple saw this and created iTunes.
A surprisingly large portion of illegal downloaders download songs, movies, and games because they want to download them, not because they want to steal. So sell it to them electronically.
Problem: Teen blokes in the UK download US games before their native release? Solution: Release the US version in the UK and the US on the same day. Make it available for download in the UK and take $10 off the price because the words are all spelled wrong and the voice overs have that horrible American accent. Also, you don't need to package the box, press the CDs, and ship it to the UK. Give the online purchaser in the UK the same price you give to the chain stores here in the US.
I think you'd see the percentage of illegal downloads go down.
Beta is no longer a technical term for them, it is a marketing term. It is for most people.
and about the address parsing: it isn't sure it can accurately guess what you want, so it prompts you. would you rather it guess incorrectly or prompt? I'll pick prompt, thanks.
just go read boing boing. they have dupes there too but nothing like this place. and this site is CmdrTaco's freaking JOB. Not to mention that OSTG/OSDN/VALinux/VA/Whatever paid CT over $3mil for slashdot. for 3mil and a salary you'd think they can do better. but they don't.
forgive me, some will think this is "sexist" but deep down you all know its true:
Men hunt, women gather.
Give women the opportunity to browse and pick the best [whatever] and they'll do it better than any man. A DVR does this. You can schedule things in advance, wait for them to come in, and pick the fruit when its ripened.
channel surfing without a DVR is similar to hunting. you browse, you pick a target, and you strike at it by putting the remote down. decision made, decision executed, finality. man stuff.
mod me down if you disagree, but before you do, give it some thought. its not as wrong as society would like you to believe.
you can download everquest and the first three expansion packs for free now, with a 30 day trial. The software doesn't cripple after 30 days, only your account.
replace that account with an account on a non-SOE server, and you've obtained the game free, and can now play for free.
i can see that you're angry. perhaps you should drink a glass of wine and loosen up a bit.
This is exactly what the line-item veto was for, but as soon as the republicans got control of the house and senate during Clinton's term, it was removed.
The purpose of the line-item veto is so that unrelated lesiglation placed into a sure-to-pass bill can be removed without striking the entire bill down.
I have the station access pass, and I play all three.
True, mostly its eq2, but I dabble in eq and have several characters in SWG that I play weekly that are all masters of their chosen professions.
True, if you let them, these games can rape your life away, but i'm not out to get to the highest level possible as quickly as possible. I play for fun.
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dudes they are going DOWN. 1400 pictures, many of them on the front page! HAHA FEEL THE WRATH!
"Burning Man"? no: "Burning Servers"!
you should tell us what country you live in.
the best place to stay? not hardly. there are plenty of situations where MySQL is the worst place to stay. In those situations, Oracle is worth every penny.
Maybe the best place for you, but to assume that MySQL is the best DB for everyone is just plain short-sighted.
the main problem with the final fantasy series in my opinion is all the crappy minigames they make you drag yourself through to get somewhere.
I don't *want* to play blitzball.
I don't *want* to hit 7 buttons in a specific order in 2 seconds to unlock a one-use powerful strike that i've already earned by taking several beatings.
I don't *want* to be playing cards.
etc.
I *want* to play FF7 again on newer hardware with better graphics, because its the only one I've played that ever did anything right.
that's what user stylesheets are for, so you can override a site's formatting.
the styles CASCADE down from the page to your browser, taking new styles on the way. the first "c" in css stands for "cascading".
create a user stylesheet and tell your browser to use it.
that out of the box thinking is exactly what established game franchises are trying to avoid.
your example is also not good for the pocketbook of the company running the game.
i played eq2 for a long time, and slowly it is becoming eq1, since players are dropping like dying flies (me included). they have to make the game funner, rather than designed perfectly. a game with perfect balance and design is very different from a fun game.
i could be all wrong though. who really cares, they're games. the challenges of role-playing my own life are much more fun and rewarding. but the graphics aren't as good.
oh where, oh where have my post mod points gone?
oh where, oh where could they beeeeeeee?
but it was a mail client where all the mail was stored in an SQL database.
the mail was POP'd in, and it went straight into an SQL database somewhere; it was actually very fast and very reliable.
Perhaps you could do something similar. SQL is pretty ubiquitous.
whenever you see people breaking the law with intellectual property, you are looking into the eyes of an untapped market. Apple saw this and created iTunes.
A surprisingly large portion of illegal downloaders download songs, movies, and games because they want to download them, not because they want to steal. So sell it to them electronically.
Problem: Teen blokes in the UK download US games before their native release?
Solution: Release the US version in the UK and the US on the same day. Make it available for download in the UK and take $10 off the price because the words are all spelled wrong and the voice overs have that horrible American accent. Also, you don't need to package the box, press the CDs, and ship it to the UK. Give the online purchaser in the UK the same price you give to the chain stores here in the US.
I think you'd see the percentage of illegal downloads go down.
but Wordpress is the one for me. It is insanely easy to set up and use, while at the same time, very powerful and adaptable.
Wordpress recommended by me.
what http://vistawindows.com/ is gonna do.
Beta is no longer a technical term for them, it is a marketing term. It is for most people.
and about the address parsing: it isn't sure it can accurately guess what you want, so it prompts you. would you rather it guess incorrectly or prompt? I'll pick prompt, thanks.
nothing has to be said.
you don't need itunes, you just need a web browser with quicktime installed (or a plugin that can play .mov files)
just go read boing boing. they have dupes there too but nothing like this place. and this site is CmdrTaco's freaking JOB. Not to mention that OSTG/OSDN/VALinux/VA/Whatever paid CT over $3mil for slashdot. for 3mil and a salary you'd think they can do better. but they don't.
http://boingboing.net/
except he said he uses outlook.
forgive me, some will think this is "sexist" but deep down you all know its true:
Men hunt, women gather.
Give women the opportunity to browse and pick the best [whatever] and they'll do it better than any man. A DVR does this. You can schedule things in advance, wait for them to come in, and pick the fruit when its ripened.
channel surfing without a DVR is similar to hunting. you browse, you pick a target, and you strike at it by putting the remote down. decision made, decision executed, finality. man stuff.
mod me down if you disagree, but before you do, give it some thought. its not as wrong as society would like you to believe.
he rewired his house without killing himself, which proves to me he's smart enough to know to get it all inspected.
you can download everquest and the first three expansion packs for free now, with a 30 day trial. The software doesn't cripple after 30 days, only your account.
replace that account with an account on a non-SOE server, and you've obtained the game free, and can now play for free.
i can see that you're angry. perhaps you should drink a glass of wine and loosen up a bit.
if the gave it away for free they'd have near 100% market share.. ah maybe its just me that thinks so. can anyone hear me? is this thing EVEN ON?!
mod parent up. judges are appointed by the president, who belongs to a particular party, but the judges carry no political offiliation.
the grandparent post's reactionary anti-reaction post is self-conflicting, not to mention plain wrong.
This is exactly what the line-item veto was for, but as soon as the republicans got control of the house and senate during Clinton's term, it was removed.
The purpose of the line-item veto is so that unrelated lesiglation placed into a sure-to-pass bill can be removed without striking the entire bill down.
old bearded type? fah!
When I got my ID i actually twiddled my thumbs for two hours wondering what to choose as a nickname. what would my ID be if I had not? hehe.
I have the station access pass, and I play all three.
True, mostly its eq2, but I dabble in eq and have several characters in SWG that I play weekly that are all masters of their chosen professions.
True, if you let them, these games can rape your life away, but i'm not out to get to the highest level possible as quickly as possible. I play for fun.
have faith in your friendly neighborhood hacker.
a workaround that enables generic x86 hardware to run OSX will be found shortly after OSX on x86 is released.
windows scripting host is not a shell.