I am an Oracle DBA for BagOfPucks(tm) company, and I just so happen to chum with a head software security guy at Symantec. He informs me off the cuff everytime there are undocumented zero day breaches, so that if pertinent (which they sometimes are), I can act accordingly to protect the system.

Of course, I offset this with buying pizza and beer. Its a very good bartering system, I would imagine that if they ever needed to rebuild an Oracle backend, I would be tapped :)

We use a firebird DBMS at work, and it is an fairly decent flat file solution, but its not on the level of MySQL.

It can be used to serve multiple clients, I've read into people storing massive amounts of data in it for testing purposes, and it does have some cool features (Instead-Of triggers on views), but I think MySQL is the more "mature" solution.

I'm upset that the americans are spying on us Canadians, so much for our brotherhood. Spying on allies? Sounds like a deal breaker for me. Furthermore, the isolation, polarizing view of those in power, for example Hillary Clinton, is evident. American and Non-American? Why word it like that? I interpet that as "with us, or against us."

Mod parent up hilarious. If I had the mod points, I would.

Hmm, this is interesting, are you using a gravel field or the long lines? I've personally seen fields successfully over many years in much smaller plots of land (sections). Possibly due to the percolation value of the land.

But agreed, too far from starbucks, so the people will selfishly pollute. I know I'm not providing a realistic alternative, I'm just unhappy with the decision, if it does go ahead.

Not necessarily, in less dense population you can use the septic field technology. I realize this might be a hard concept for a lot of people to swallow, but whats comfortable for the individual might not be best for the global society.

They may have to move.

And I don't mean to the ocean, I mean to less dense parts of our planet, spread it out a bit. They might have to make their living off the land, have to forgo certain luxuries, but its better than a constant stream of feces entering into our most valuable and fragile ecosystem.

One word: Septic

The ocean is not your toilet.

Well good for the bean counters then. I'm sure a vastly more important question would be, "where is the largest concentration of tanks?"

Give the guy a break. Honestly I think the big win here is not the simplistic level design, its the fact that Gearbox has allowed the guy to develop using the digital property (likeness of Duke). Its still worth a lot of money.

Probably due to the fact that people slam the phone down 82% more of the time, because of the antenna reception issue.

Just saying.. :)

Arguably, you could say one of the primary reasons Russia was able to successfully defend against the Germans was the fact that the Germans beat themselves, independant of the americans. Combine the ill-planned 'Operation Barbarossa' with a tenacious, motivated, well-led enemy, the Germans really had no chance.

Some factors of the German defeat:

1. Germany sent in a field army, not completely comfortable in urban environments
2. Germany was ill-prepared, both men and equipment for the cold environment
3. Germany was fighting a multi-front war (the only relationship to the americans)
4. Too long of supply lines, later succeptible to air attack (sturmavik)


In conclusion, I won't take anything away from the american involvement in WW2, they did their part, but to attribute any part of the German defeat in the Russian campaign to the americans, would be, in my opinion, disingenious to the Russian people who fought and died to save their homeland. Not to mention revisionism.

Anybody else miss Civ1, Civ2 and feel that all the micromanaging abilitys of >civ2 detract from the fun of the game?

I've bought and paid for every single Nickleback album I have in my collection. Which is none.

I predict michaelville to be home of the trolls.

I'm not sure I'm being trolled here, but compiled code is not garunteed to work properly, ever hear of a little thing called "logic error".