I downloaded the torrent for the new 'vette, and unfortunately it's a rip.
It's a bunch of 3d model files connected to a hacked shapeways account. The first rip had no assembly instructions, and so far the PROPERs and REPACKs are still missing everything to the rear of the drivers seat.
It's IT. What is IT? IT's so cool, IT's so hip, IT's alright. IT's so groovy, IT's outta sight. You can touch IT, smell IT, taste IT so sweet. But IT makes no difference cuz IT knocks you off your feet.
I'm all for N-tier architecture, and I'm also all for decoupling business logic from the database, and I'm also all for stored procedures and removing queries from the application. The app ought to have no clue what the db schema is.
"Using the 'advanced features' of databases also tends to make applications harder to develop and maintain, less portable and ultimately less performant in a lot of cases unless you REALLY REALLY REALLY know what you're doing..." That's my point. You need someone who is that competent to run your database. Also, though it may make apps harder to maintain, it makes the db side of things infinitely easier, and if you've got competent developers writing the app code as well as competent dbas/dbdevs working on the rdbms, that's the best of both worlds.
People are very much developing apps using these frameworks, but IMHO and in practice they're spending more on hardware than they need to when they rely upon these toolsets.
Not the main point really. I just threw that in as it's a common reference point here. Regardless of its truth, that's the perception. Mainly trying to say that RDBMS-specific code runs better.
Persistence frameworks? I guess you don't care about database performance then. Like Java, they may make your app portable, but it'll most likely never use the full capability of the RDBMS you're attaching to. Write once, run anywhere but slowly.
You can jack around with Openchange, T-Bird, Lightning, Evolution and various forks until you're blue in the face. And all that is predicated on a series of ifs (IF the admin's enabled smtp, IF the same is true for imap, IF Evolution doesn't just decide to die that day, IF a recent update doesn't frag the libraries you're using for access, etc.)
There just isn't anything else right now that really provides Outlook's functionality for Exchange 2007.
Seinfeld wasn't funny. Existential? Ha. Godot it ain't. Absurdist? Nah.
Artaud's Theatre of Pain, maybe.
God only knows why it was so well-liked. To those saying it's something of an acquired taste, I would imagine after enough exposure to dogshit you'd find variety there too.
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Nah. Married male gay pr0n would run afoul of "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's ass."
You seriously left your kid in your car to go berate someone who was driving erratically? As you've got a kid already, you won't win a Darwin award, so I don't know what you're trying for.
Give me the same pixels and physical screen area, and I don't care if it's 4x3, 16x9, 23x2, 1x39. Aspect ratio is immaterial to me. But it seems that laptop manufacturers are choosing wide-screen as a way to provide fewer square inches of LCD. That's where the problem lies. Laptop displays are in effect shrinking.
Get on the B ark. Leave the rest of us alone. Shoot yourself now.*
I'll surf with Adblock. I'll surf with Flashblock. I'll watch TV that's been downloaded or TIVOed and skip the ads. I'll skip the ads and previews on DVDs. I'll block your spam. I'll block your calls. I'll burn your snailmail.
Welcome to the 21st Century. Change your business model.
So my party encounters a troll and kills it. Thinking it might be useful, and there's not much left, I throw it into my bag of holding. A few days later, my party then finds out we're being followed.
As the players decide what to do, the DM turns green.
Through a combination of various spells and the idea that a troll cannot survive in a bag of holding, but would probably serially regenerate, we drop what we believe to be an extemely pissed off, insane troll on the bad guys following us.
Same character also ran across a portable hole and opened it at the bottom of a lake. The DM went beyond green then.
***Disclaimer*** We weren't rules lawyers, and this probably isn't covered, but it was fun.
Thank you thank you thank you. A lot of people seem to have forgotten Cadigan, but _Mindplayers_ very much belongs in this list. It's often overlooked and sometimes hard to find, but well worth a read.
Well, Mario 64 wasn't much like Super Mario World but it was FRIGGIN AMAZING...
Yeah. Frigging Amazing. I was friggin amazed they released it because the camera was so bad. And then friggin amazed that they brought the same shitty camera system into Donkey Kong Country.
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I downloaded the torrent for the new 'vette, and unfortunately it's a rip.
It's a bunch of 3d model files connected to a hacked shapeways account. The first rip had no assembly instructions, and so far the PROPERs and REPACKs are still missing everything to the rear of the drivers seat.
Yes, yes, and yes.
I thought I was the only one who remembered those drivers.
It's IT.
What is IT?
IT's so cool, IT's so hip, IT's alright.
IT's so groovy, IT's outta sight.
You can touch IT, smell IT, taste IT so sweet.
But IT makes no difference cuz IT knocks you off your feet.
Yep. The last place I worked, all our Verizon Blackberries (CDMA) did this, most noticeably on speakerphones during conference calls.
Wrong Gonzo, Jabberwokk.
He's the Gonzo Scientist.
Mod parent up. Fix the link.
I'm all for N-tier architecture, and I'm also all for decoupling business logic from the database, and I'm also all for stored procedures and removing queries from the application. The app ought to have no clue what the db schema is.
"Using the 'advanced features' of databases also tends to make applications harder to develop and maintain, less portable and ultimately less performant in a lot of cases unless you REALLY REALLY REALLY know what you're doing..."
That's my point. You need someone who is that competent to run your database. Also, though it may make apps harder to maintain, it makes the db side of things infinitely easier, and if you've got competent developers writing the app code as well as competent dbas/dbdevs working on the rdbms, that's the best of both worlds.
People are very much developing apps using these frameworks, but IMHO and in practice they're spending more on hardware than they need to when they rely upon these toolsets.
Not the main point really. I just threw that in as it's a common reference point here. Regardless of its truth, that's the perception. Mainly trying to say that RDBMS-specific code runs better.
Persistence frameworks? I guess you don't care about database performance then. Like Java, they may make your app portable, but it'll most likely never use the full capability of the RDBMS you're attaching to. Write once, run anywhere but slowly.
Pointless but indicative of the general nature of the whole discussion. Anybody seen Godot?
Not at all. I, for one, welcome our new Android Duck overlords.
Even better than the Discovery Channel, your theory's also backed up by Gene Ray and the TimeCube.
Rock Chalk indeed.
That's the short answer.
You can jack around with Openchange, T-Bird, Lightning, Evolution and various forks until you're blue in the face. And all that is predicated on a series of ifs (IF the admin's enabled smtp, IF the same is true for imap, IF Evolution doesn't just decide to die that day, IF a recent update doesn't frag the libraries you're using for access, etc.)
There just isn't anything else right now that really provides Outlook's functionality for Exchange 2007.
Mod parent up.
Seinfeld wasn't funny. Existential? Ha. Godot it ain't. Absurdist? Nah.
Artaud's Theatre of Pain, maybe.
God only knows why it was so well-liked. To those saying it's something of an acquired taste, I would imagine after enough exposure to dogshit you'd find variety there too.
Nah. Married male gay pr0n would run afoul of "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's ass."
You're nick's all too accurate.
You seriously left your kid in your car to go berate someone who was driving erratically? As you've got a kid already, you won't win a Darwin award, so I don't know what you're trying for.
Exactly.
Give me the same pixels and physical screen area, and I don't care if it's 4x3, 16x9, 23x2, 1x39.
Aspect ratio is immaterial to me. But it seems that laptop manufacturers are choosing wide-screen as a way to provide fewer square inches of LCD. That's where the problem lies. Laptop displays are in effect shrinking.
And the Matheson novella any day over any movie of it.
At his blog, The Artful Writer
Fuck You.
Seriously.
Get on the B ark. Leave the rest of us alone. Shoot yourself now.*
I'll surf with Adblock.
I'll surf with Flashblock.
I'll watch TV that's been downloaded or TIVOed and skip the ads.
I'll skip the ads and previews on DVDs.
I'll block your spam.
I'll block your calls.
I'll burn your snailmail.
Welcome to the 21st Century. Change your business model.
*(Apologies to Bill Hicks and DNA.)
So my party encounters a troll and kills it.
Thinking it might be useful, and there's not much left, I throw it into my bag of holding.
A few days later, my party then finds out we're being followed.
As the players decide what to do, the DM turns green.
Through a combination of various spells and the idea that a troll cannot survive in a bag of holding, but would probably serially regenerate, we drop what we believe to be an extemely pissed off, insane troll on the bad guys following us.
Same character also ran across a portable hole and opened it at the bottom of a lake. The DM went beyond green then.
***Disclaimer***
We weren't rules lawyers, and this probably isn't covered, but it was fun.
Cadigan's _Mindplayers_
Thank you thank you thank you. A lot of people seem to have forgotten Cadigan, but _Mindplayers_ very much belongs in this list. It's often overlooked and sometimes hard to find, but well worth a read.
Fire ruled "Not cold."
64 it is. Just referring generically to the series. Loved the SNES 2d ones.
And yes, they eventually improved upon it, but I thought those first couple iterations were awful.
Well, Mario 64 wasn't much like Super Mario World but it was FRIGGIN AMAZING...
Yeah. Frigging Amazing. I was friggin amazed they released it because the camera was so bad. And then friggin amazed that they brought the same shitty camera system into Donkey Kong Country.