/agree here.
I stopped reading at the end of book 8 and was convinced (after much gnashing of teeth) by a friend to read book 9. SOMEHOW I managed to get through that, but once book 10 came out I just gave up. When the "final" book comes out and is officially announced as "final", I'll buy the rest of the series, then start from scratch. It's been so long I can't even remember half of the characters' names!
On another note, here's a summary of a standard WoT book (excluding the first):
First quarter of the book: "Prologue", refresher of the entire contents of the previous book.
Most of the rest of the book: Pretty much nothing happens except for one minor "climax" to keep you reading.
Last chapter: Something actually happens that could have been spread across an entire book at half the thickness.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great story and I love it; it's just very long-winded.
> Consciousness will abruptly cease, like a paused DVD player or a saved Diablo game, waiting forever for time to resume.
Ah but you can backup your Diablo savegames and dupe items. Remember carrying around 20 SoJ?
Perhaps we can all keep savepoints in our lives incase we need to undo something stupid (like getting married).
Just FYI, it's not the number of accounts they're counting. From this article on Blizzard's own website:
World of Warcraft's Subscriber Definition
World of Warcraft subscribers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access. Internet Game Room players who have accessed the game over the last thirty days are also counted as subscribers. The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards. Subscribers in licensees' territories are defined along the same rules.
It's probably a lot less if you exclude gold farmers and power-levelers:)
In other news:
Ballistics scientists have developed a new style of 9mm bullet made of a stronger polyethelene form of Dynema SB61.
During a test, at least one police officer wearing a Dynema SB61 vest was killed.
The new bullets are expected to be available at all Walmart stores within the next 6 months.
If we assume that "C" string is meant to be tuned to "B", and that the two E strings are meant to be played open, that's actually a Cmaj/E chord since you have the 5th doubled in the bass:)
"If you see nothing," said a Cern physicist, John Ellis, "in some sense then, we theorists have been talking rubbish for the last 35 years."
Cue the creationists and their banana and peanut butter solutions.
Using a mobile phone (text or voice) while driving is illegal in Australia (unless you install a hands-free kit).
Not even if you're stopped at the lights.
If you get a message, bad luck. If you get a call, pull over to answer or just let it go through to voicemail.
Much safer imo.
I agree wholeheartedly on pretty much everything you've said here.
The major application I maintain has pretty much ALL business logic as PL/SQL stored procedures. Why? Because...
As has been pointed out, having the logic near to the data provides better performance,
Production hotfixes can be applied without an outage--in our situation the frontend is Java, which would require a jar rebuild and deployment,
Triggers can enforce business logic,
Errors in the business logic can be traced with a simple telnet/ssh session without needing access to the client (Citrix, in our case).
ROLLBACK and COMMIT can be decided based on business logic within the one stored procedure rather than waiting from a request from the client or middleware (which means more network bandwidth).
That's the tip of the iceberg in ways of pros. I'm sure there are a bunch of cons too, but the points I've just listed are pretty compelling.
But yes, it all depends on your situation. If you find that it makes more sense to put the business logic elsewhere within your application, then by all means do so. This is just my opinion based on my experience with this application.
BTW this application is BIG with over 900 tables, 2000 stored procedures and 500 Java forms.
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Why did they change the name of the brontosaurus? I liked that name better.
Political correctness. Apparently it was offensive to Charles Bronson.
/agree here.
I stopped reading at the end of book 8 and was convinced (after much gnashing of teeth) by a friend to read book 9. SOMEHOW I managed to get through that, but once book 10 came out I just gave up. When the "final" book comes out and is officially announced as "final", I'll buy the rest of the series, then start from scratch. It's been so long I can't even remember half of the characters' names!
On another note, here's a summary of a standard WoT book (excluding the first):
First quarter of the book: "Prologue", refresher of the entire contents of the previous book.
Most of the rest of the book: Pretty much nothing happens except for one minor "climax" to keep you reading.
Last chapter: Something actually happens that could have been spread across an entire book at half the thickness.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great story and I love it; it's just very long-winded.
FYI, 1 AU is approximately 8.3 light-minutes.
> Consciousness will abruptly cease, like a paused DVD player or a saved Diablo game, waiting forever for time to resume.
Ah but you can backup your Diablo savegames and dupe items. Remember carrying around 20 SoJ?
Perhaps we can all keep savepoints in our lives incase we need to undo something stupid (like getting married).
Canada's so small that they only have one road...
Are they Tom Cruise Missiles?
IIRC, C&C Generals' swear word filter also filters the words "Saddam" and "Hussein".
No, seriously.
You're forgetting of course that we all split from the Peanuttius Butria gene millions of years ago.
> Driving while on a cell phone is hazard and should be banned, period.
It is in Australia, unless you have a hands-free system installed.
Welcome to the internet.
More like scott:tiger
...or maybe even gaben
:)
I tried to hold'em and poker but she called the cops on me.
Just FYI, it's not the number of accounts they're counting. From this article on Blizzard's own website:
:)
World of Warcraft's Subscriber Definition
World of Warcraft subscribers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access. Internet Game Room players who have accessed the game over the last thirty days are also counted as subscribers. The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards. Subscribers in licensees' territories are defined along the same rules.
It's probably a lot less if you exclude gold farmers and power-levelers
So... open the JPEG, select all, copy, create new image, paste, save.
Camera serial indeed.
Well... where's my DNF! :D
I heard the next version of vim comes with Duke Nukem Forever...
In other news:
Ballistics scientists have developed a new style of 9mm bullet made of a stronger polyethelene form of Dynema SB61.
During a test, at least one police officer wearing a Dynema SB61 vest was killed.
The new bullets are expected to be available at all Walmart stores within the next 6 months.
If we assume that "C" string is meant to be tuned to "B", and that the two E strings are meant to be played open, that's actually a Cmaj/E chord since you have the 5th doubled in the bass :)
"If you see nothing," said a Cern physicist, John Ellis, "in some sense then, we theorists have been talking rubbish for the last 35 years."
Cue the creationists and their banana and peanut butter solutions.
Using a mobile phone (text or voice) while driving is illegal in Australia (unless you install a hands-free kit).
Not even if you're stopped at the lights.
If you get a message, bad luck. If you get a call, pull over to answer or just let it go through to voicemail.
Much safer imo.
The major application I maintain has pretty much ALL business logic as PL/SQL stored procedures. Why? Because...
- As has been pointed out, having the logic near to the data provides better performance,
- Production hotfixes can be applied without an outage--in our situation the frontend is Java, which would require a jar rebuild and deployment,
- Triggers can enforce business logic,
- Errors in the business logic can be traced with a simple telnet/ssh session without needing access to the client (Citrix, in our case).
- ROLLBACK and COMMIT can be decided based on business logic within the one stored procedure rather than waiting from a request from the client or middleware (which means more network bandwidth).
That's the tip of the iceberg in ways of pros. I'm sure there are a bunch of cons too, but the points I've just listed are pretty compelling.But yes, it all depends on your situation. If you find that it makes more sense to put the business logic elsewhere within your application, then by all means do so. This is just my opinion based on my experience with this application.
BTW this application is BIG with over 900 tables, 2000 stored procedures and 500 Java forms.
Seriously though, unless these so-called aliens have invested in billions of dollars worth of peanut butter, we have nothing to worry about! :)
I know what the ????? step is:
"Grub error 21"
Repeat steps 1 to 3 twenty times with various hacks found on the ubuntu forums before finally giving up.
See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Core_2_Duo_Support for more information.
I'll install Ubuntu when it works on my 80gb PATA drive. If XP and Vista install perfectly to a JMicron controller, why can't Linux?
I'm assuming it sends this info when you click "No"?
This is why on a fresh install I never plug my network cable in until all that crap is disabled.
Actually it'd be "set up you" :)