It's rather hard to do a successful SQL injection attack against a prepared statement. It's not trivial to validate your inputs so as to avoid an SQL injection attack without them. That is IMO the number one reason for using them.
I should perhaps have been clearer. I didn't mean that you should start him on a 6-month project. Rather I was arguing against the view that games nowadays are so complex that there's no point trying to write one.
I'm not sure that mods are the best way to start programming either. That one-line change you talk about probably required understanding hundreds of lines of someone else's code.
Then I right-click the link to the webapp and choose "Open in new window". In fact, as a browser user, the number one feature I'd like to add is an item in that popup menu: "Open in this tab".
Nowadays I wouldn't advise anyone to write a game from scratch at home
Why not? "Game" isn't synonymous with "First person shooter". An intelligent teenager can learn enough to make games better than half the stuff on Miniclip in less than 6 months.
If the submitter or the editors had actually cared about using the scientific name, the confusion could easily have been avoided. Some of us learnt chemistry more recently than the 19th century.
Three - three massive issues! Leakage, interference between that many components in one space, of course heat dissipation, and having a single, expensive, point of failure. Wait, I'll come in again.
Without RFTAing, I would estimate that it's 95% certain that the question behind this story is "How can I get a few thousand people to hit my ad-laden page?" And the answer is "Anonymous posting of a link to Slashdot."
the next step would be to adopt an official royal uniform that again hid the face and body so there would be no telling who was the king.
In fact, you could have the real king pretend to be the fake king's servant. Of course, George Lucas will claim plagiarism, but you can't have everything.
When I left a (small) company in which I'd had some sysadmin duties, I changed the root passwords to randomly generated ones and wrote them down for my replacement. It was the easiest way of guaranteeing that I wouldn't remember them.
Some people think blank keyboards are great for forcing you to touch-type, but others don't want to be challenged that way:-).
And others keep a QWERTY layout of keys but use a Dvorak keymap, to drive anyone who borrows their computer insane. (I'm not that evil: I just use a Spanish keymap with a British keyboard).
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It's not quite as straightforward as that, but there's a valid objection there, and I take the point.
Of course, the real problem is the idea that users manually editing a 32MB file on a regular basis is at all a sensible idea.
SVN is "half-assed" when compared to real version control. Install git.
I find myself wondering why Transys have to send any data. What do these "data tables" contain?
Some mods clearly have no sense of humour.
Excellent. Thank you very much.
It's rather hard to do a successful SQL injection attack against a prepared statement. It's not trivial to validate your inputs so as to avoid an SQL injection attack without them. That is IMO the number one reason for using them.
I should perhaps have been clearer. I didn't mean that you should start him on a 6-month project. Rather I was arguing against the view that games nowadays are so complex that there's no point trying to write one.
I'm not sure that mods are the best way to start programming either. That one-line change you talk about probably required understanding hundreds of lines of someone else's code.
Then I right-click the link to the webapp and choose "Open in new window". In fact, as a browser user, the number one feature I'd like to add is an item in that popup menu: "Open in this tab".
Simple. Not all of the Underground is underground.
Nowadays I wouldn't advise anyone to write a game from scratch at home
Why not? "Game" isn't synonymous with "First person shooter". An intelligent teenager can learn enough to make games better than half the stuff on Miniclip in less than 6 months.
If the submitter or the editors had actually cared about using the scientific name, the confusion could easily have been avoided. Some of us learnt chemistry more recently than the 19th century.
It's no surprise that Shakespeare's orthography differs from current standard usage: it frequently differed from his own usage.
Three - three massive issues! Leakage, interference between that many components in one space, of course heat dissipation, and having a single, expensive, point of failure. Wait, I'll come in again.
Without RFTAing, I would estimate that it's 95% certain that the question behind this story is "How can I get a few thousand people to hit my ad-laden page?" And the answer is "Anonymous posting of a link to Slashdot."
the next step would be to adopt an official royal uniform that again hid the face and body so there would be no telling who was the king.
In fact, you could have the real king pretend to be the fake king's servant. Of course, George Lucas will claim plagiarism, but you can't have everything.
I'm not going to be around in 12008, so why should I care? Besides, it's perfectly possible that my descendants will be the goth kids.
It's currently at #2 for active subscriptions according to mmogchart.com. Unless you define "mainstream mmorpgs" to mean "WoW" I think it qualifies.
There is a big market segment that ALL other mmorpgs were overlooking.
RuneScape?
When I left a (small) company in which I'd had some sysadmin duties, I changed the root passwords to randomly generated ones and wrote them down for my replacement. It was the easiest way of guaranteeing that I wouldn't remember them.
Damp matches.
I want to know how this new character is supposed to "reign in" Hellboy. Does he have a gut full of bacteria with a sophisticated feudal structure?
When did it become necessary for Congress to declare war?
Some people think blank keyboards are great for forcing you to touch-type, but others don't want to be challenged that way :-).
And others keep a QWERTY layout of keys but use a Dvorak keymap, to drive anyone who borrows their computer insane. (I'm not that evil: I just use a Spanish keymap with a British keyboard).
However, it's very effective against nerds, hence the lurking in basements, safe from the evil daystar.
You can't win against an agent following the Nash equilibrium for a game.
Depends on the game. This is probably due in poker due to the symmetry (although I don't play enough to know what asymmetries there are).