Bullshit. I thought I had a tiny splinter in my heel a few months ago, which was seriously annoying me when I wanted to go get shitfaced.
Couldn't see it with my own eye, and couldn't feel it sticking out with my finger.
Went to my local doc who numbed my foot, made a tiny incision and pulled out a 3cm glass shard out of my heel. The thing was around half a milimeter wide; and the only reason I could actually see it up close was because it was covered in blood.
YMMV, of course, but if I couldn't see that from half a meter, I doubt you'd be able to see it on the pavement.
Remember Mega Lo Mania on the MegaDrive? Send cavemen, send armies, send nukes - kill off other "sectors". You need to send armies off to other sectors in order to figure out if they're occupied and what not.
Spore is bigger than this.
Some planets will have life, others won't. The ones that do have life will have it in different stages of development.
If you do end up getting the technology to visit other planets, and for some reason don't like the hairstyle on the inhabitants (fucking hippies!) - don't just nuke the planet. OBLITERATE IT COMPLETELY.
While on the surface it's a glorified version of the Sims, the meta-games inside it and your (most likely overhyped) ability to just Do What You Want(tm) means that you get a Whole New Level Of Gaming Experience(tm).
Yes, to some (a lot?) of extents, it's overhyped.
Then again, I have fond memories of Mega Lo Mania, the early days of Civ, Risk and what not to at least retain some modicum of hope for Spore. I mean, YOU GET TO OBLITERATE PLANETS!:P
I guess I should've clarified or looked back at the thread sooner...:P You can set the database (or default connection e.t.c.) to have utf-8 by standard. Then again, you might be using a third-party admin utility to create a table, and the util might be ignoring the db default and create a latin1 table... or latin1 column.
E.g., things can go wrong (obviously) - but if you specify that the DB is utf8, then any unspecified changes to the tablespace in it will default to utf8.
Not a single day seems to go by without a gnubie or two posting things that are really basic knowledge. If you do insert unicode data into a latin1 table, you will get unexpected results.
What you do is make sure that your: a) database(s) are set to utf8 by default b) table(s) are set to utf8 by default c) column(s) are set to utf8 by default d) connection defaults to utf8 (provided, of course, that it's utf8 you're after)
That way, it'll "Just Work"(tm)
We've gone through upgrades from 3.23 -> 4.0 -> 4.1 -> 5.0 and never had a problem; and yes, our tables were all latin1 from the beginning.
Actually, the only thing separating us here in western Europe from the terrorists is the Atlantic Ocean. Call me a Troll, but I feel safer going for a vacation in Turkey than I do visiting a conference in the US.
Sadly, you're bullshitting. The only thing preloaded for IE when windows starts is the GUI controls and the common-controls (dialog boxes such as print). The IE/mshtml stuff gets loaded: a) If you're starting Explorer (not in shell mode, but as the browsing component) with web-functionality (single-click folder change or common tasks) b) When you load IE, go to a web address with Explorer, or load an app utilizing mshtml
That said, those dlls are kept in memory after that point, but please give up the fucking bullshit.
While at this year's MySQL Users' Conference, I managed to pick this book up at the quiz show. Rather than what the blurb said regarding audiences, I'd say it's geared towards developers and dbas or system administrators - not people migrating from another db vendor.
It does show some common pitfalls; some unique to mysql, some to sql in general. I definitely liked the in-depth chapters regarding the way the core engine and various storage engines work, and all in all I'd have to say it's probably the best book about mysql I've read.
A few glaring omissions are in it, but I'm sure there'll be a new revision in a few months' time.
Hello muppet. Why the fuck would you take care to point out acronyms and provide correct capitalization for most products - yet spell "Windows" "'winders"? Also, what are the "intranetz".
...work a full time job which pays more then the national average.
I am guessing you are doing one of the following:
* Compensating for being bullied when you were a transformers-watching kid
* Compensating for something else.
You seem to think sessions are something unique to PHP? Perhaps you're unaware that sessions are merely just an identifier (either sent through a cookie, or through the urlstring) telling PHP where it can fetch unique data. This is nothing new, and has been the recommended way of doing persistence/state handling on the web for quite some time.
PHP does not teach you bad coding habits, as there's more than one way to do something - sure, it does offer you "the easy way" quite often, but if you're the one to take it, then that's your problem.
Why you were modded interesting, I have no idea - PHP is a language much like any other. If you can't put it to use in a way that suits you - fine, chose another language more to your liking - but don't go about spouting uneducated nonsense.
Undying was fucking *crazy*! At the time of its release, I was working with video game reviews. Undying was a title I had definitely been waiting for, so when I got home from a business trip late at night and found our review copy of it in the mail, I started installing it.
First of all, the installer set up the mood completely (even though I normally hate installers with background music and invasive interfaces), but when I started playing the game it freaked me out. Ten minutes into the game, I had to quit, turn on the lights, the radio, the tv - you name it.
I did not sleep very well that night thanks to the extremely unsettling experience of seeing the world through the scrying stone (people hanging from lamp posts, rats drinking the blood of dead people, children crying etc).
While most of the game left something to desire, the beginning of it was just too much for me. I continued reviewing the game next day at noon for a few hours at a time.
That's how one of the Internet Cafés in Stockholm are doing it. They've got the local place wired gigabit (with the funny exception of their servers, which are on 100Mbps feeds), but the external pipe is 10Mbps..
It's funny what a nice spin you can put on things.
Let me tell you a story about the rest of the world, or, well - my little corner of it (namely Stockholm, Sweden). We have 5 or 6 major internet cafés in this little town, and all but one of them have 100Mbps pipes.
What's the purpose? Maybe it's because our idea of a internet café is a gaming center with 100+ stations. Most games these days "require" more than a 512kbps pipe to run properly.
The one I used to work at saw peak traffic of around 50Mbps, regular traffic was around 30 - 35Mbps. When you get a 100Mbps pipe for a few hundred euro per month (note: this is commercial grade pipes, no overselling), you might as well go for that - it's great advertising.
In other words, Internet Cafés = Gaming Centers = Internet Cafés.
Central Stockholm (our capitol, for those of you who still think Copenhagen is our capitol) offers 100/10Mbps, but it's far from being available everywhere in stockholm. I'd venture a guess that perhaps 5% of the people in Stockholm can get 100/10.
On the other hand, a very small number of apartments near a few of the universities (Lund?) do have gigabit pipes, but that's more akin to saying Internet2 is available all over America.
I have servers in the same DC (BGC, Stockholm) where the videos were taken; literally a rack adjacent to the TPB rack. They only took that one rack from BGC, but the PRQ DC is another matter entirely.. that's where they went berserk and took everything.
That said, connectivity at BGC went up and down like a yoyo during the bust.. I was not a happy camper, but realized I couldn't really do anything by going there. Servers are still up and running:)
We're in the same spot. We've grown from being ~20 employees about a year ago to being just shy of 50 now (not counting external consultants). We do spend face-to-face time on education, but the company wiki contains lots of information as well; and we really like the people who browse through it and ask questions regarding the material. It's definitely a timesaver.
30-day disposables rock. I've been using them for about two years now. My optometrist recommends I clean them over night once a week, but I usually go with them for 1½ - 2 weeks at a time.
The best thing is obviously the lack of dry eyes that regular 12h contacts gives, but the second best is something I treasure a lot - waking up, and actually being able to see things.
Slashdot Mirror
Bullshit.
I thought I had a tiny splinter in my heel a few months ago, which was seriously annoying me when I wanted to go get shitfaced.
Couldn't see it with my own eye, and couldn't feel it sticking out with my finger.
Went to my local doc who numbed my foot, made a tiny incision and pulled out a 3cm glass shard out of my heel.
The thing was around half a milimeter wide; and the only reason I could actually see it up close was because it was covered in blood.
YMMV, of course, but if I couldn't see that from half a meter, I doubt you'd be able to see it on the pavement.
Unless you're a midget.
Remember Mega Lo Mania on the MegaDrive?
:P
Send cavemen, send armies, send nukes - kill off other "sectors".
You need to send armies off to other sectors in order to figure out if they're occupied and what not.
Spore is bigger than this.
Some planets will have life, others won't.
The ones that do have life will have it in different stages of development.
If you do end up getting the technology to visit other planets, and for some reason don't like the hairstyle on the inhabitants (fucking hippies!) - don't just nuke the planet.
OBLITERATE IT COMPLETELY.
While on the surface it's a glorified version of the Sims, the meta-games inside it and your (most likely overhyped) ability to just Do What You Want(tm) means that you get a Whole New Level Of Gaming Experience(tm).
Yes, to some (a lot?) of extents, it's overhyped.
Then again, I have fond memories of Mega Lo Mania, the early days of Civ, Risk and what not to at least retain some modicum of hope for Spore.
I mean, YOU GET TO OBLITERATE PLANETS!
I guess I should've clarified or looked back at the thread sooner... :P
;-)
You can set the database (or default connection e.t.c.) to have utf-8 by standard.
Then again, you might be using a third-party admin utility to create a table, and the util might be ignoring the db default and create a latin1 table... or latin1 column.
E.g., things can go wrong (obviously) - but if you specify that the DB is utf8, then any unspecified changes to the tablespace in it will default to utf8.
Hopefully that clears it up
Not a single day seems to go by without a gnubie or two posting things that are really basic knowledge.
If you do insert unicode data into a latin1 table, you will get unexpected results.
What you do is make sure that your:
a) database(s) are set to utf8 by default
b) table(s) are set to utf8 by default
c) column(s) are set to utf8 by default
d) connection defaults to utf8
(provided, of course, that it's utf8 you're after)
That way, it'll "Just Work"(tm)
We've gone through upgrades from 3.23 -> 4.0 -> 4.1 -> 5.0 and never had a problem; and yes, our tables were all latin1 from the beginning.
Actually, the only thing separating us here in western Europe from the terrorists is the Atlantic Ocean.
Call me a Troll, but I feel safer going for a vacation in Turkey than I do visiting a conference in the US.
-- Your Friendly Euro-trash neighbour
Sadly, you're bullshitting.
The only thing preloaded for IE when windows starts is the GUI controls and the common-controls (dialog boxes such as print).
The IE/mshtml stuff gets loaded:
a) If you're starting Explorer (not in shell mode, but as the browsing component) with web-functionality (single-click folder change or common tasks)
b) When you load IE, go to a web address with Explorer, or load an app utilizing mshtml
That said, those dlls are kept in memory after that point, but please give up the fucking bullshit.
Damn commie, go back to cuba!
In production / general availability, it's not there.
I believe it's in the 5.1 betas though.
A lot of the talks at this year's UC related to the storage engine agnostic behavior (backups, FT).
While at this year's MySQL Users' Conference, I managed to pick this book up at the quiz show.
Rather than what the blurb said regarding audiences, I'd say it's geared towards developers and dbas or system administrators - not people migrating from another db vendor.
It does show some common pitfalls; some unique to mysql, some to sql in general.
I definitely liked the in-depth chapters regarding the way the core engine and various storage engines work, and all in all I'd have to say it's probably the best book about mysql I've read.
A few glaring omissions are in it, but I'm sure there'll be a new revision in a few months' time.
Well, camel spiders ARE bad for babies!
Hello muppet.
Why the fuck would you take care to point out acronyms and provide correct capitalization for most products - yet spell "Windows" "'winders"?
Also, what are the "intranetz".
I hate you.
Sounds a bit like ZFS.
Never mind which was first, ZFS is available today.
* Compensating for being bullied when you were a transformers-watching kid
* Compensating for something else.
Yours trolly,
- r
You seem to think sessions are something unique to PHP?
Perhaps you're unaware that sessions are merely just an identifier (either sent through a cookie, or through the urlstring) telling PHP where it can fetch unique data.
This is nothing new, and has been the recommended way of doing persistence/state handling on the web for quite some time.
PHP does not teach you bad coding habits, as there's more than one way to do something - sure, it does offer you "the easy way" quite often, but if you're the one to take it, then that's your problem.
Why you were modded interesting, I have no idea - PHP is a language much like any other. If you can't put it to use in a way that suits you - fine, chose another language more to your liking - but don't go about spouting uneducated nonsense.
Undying was fucking *crazy*!
At the time of its release, I was working with video game reviews.
Undying was a title I had definitely been waiting for, so when I got home from a business trip late at night and found our review copy of it in the mail, I started installing it.
First of all, the installer set up the mood completely (even though I normally hate installers with background music and invasive interfaces), but when I started playing the game it freaked me out.
Ten minutes into the game, I had to quit, turn on the lights, the radio, the tv - you name it.
I did not sleep very well that night thanks to the extremely unsettling experience of seeing the world through the scrying stone (people hanging from lamp posts, rats drinking the blood of dead people, children crying etc).
While most of the game left something to desire, the beginning of it was just too much for me.
I continued reviewing the game next day at noon for a few hours at a time.
URL Turns google into a dupe-checker
That's how one of the Internet Cafés in Stockholm are doing it.
They've got the local place wired gigabit (with the funny exception of their servers, which are on 100Mbps feeds), but the external pipe is 10Mbps..
It's funny what a nice spin you can put on things.
You should live in a HSB apartment, 295:- per month for me here! :)
Let me tell you a story about the rest of the world, or, well - my little corner of it (namely Stockholm, Sweden).
We have 5 or 6 major internet cafés in this little town, and all but one of them have 100Mbps pipes.
What's the purpose?
Maybe it's because our idea of a internet café is a gaming center with 100+ stations.
Most games these days "require" more than a 512kbps pipe to run properly.
The one I used to work at saw peak traffic of around 50Mbps, regular traffic was around 30 - 35Mbps.
When you get a 100Mbps pipe for a few hundred euro per month (note: this is commercial grade pipes, no overselling), you might as well go for that - it's great advertising.
In other words, Internet Cafés = Gaming Centers = Internet Cafés.
Central Stockholm (our capitol, for those of you who still think Copenhagen is our capitol) offers 100/10Mbps, but it's far from being available everywhere in stockholm.
I'd venture a guess that perhaps 5% of the people in Stockholm can get 100/10.
On the other hand, a very small number of apartments near a few of the universities (Lund?) do have gigabit pipes, but that's more akin to saying Internet2 is available all over America.
I have servers in the same DC (BGC, Stockholm) where the videos were taken; literally a rack adjacent to the TPB rack.
:)
They only took that one rack from BGC, but the PRQ DC is another matter entirely.. that's where they went berserk and took everything.
That said, connectivity at BGC went up and down like a yoyo during the bust.. I was not a happy camper, but realized I couldn't really do anything by going there.
Servers are still up and running
We're in the same spot.
We've grown from being ~20 employees about a year ago to being just shy of 50 now (not counting external consultants).
We do spend face-to-face time on education, but the company wiki contains lots of information as well; and we really like the people who browse through it and ask questions regarding the material.
It's definitely a timesaver.
Do they speak English in What?
30-day disposables rock.
I've been using them for about two years now.
My optometrist recommends I clean them over night once a week, but I usually go with them for 1½ - 2 weeks at a time.
The best thing is obviously the lack of dry eyes that regular 12h contacts gives,
but the second best is something I treasure a lot - waking up, and actually being able to see things.