I try not to consume any computers ... very hard on the esophagus and stomach.

Wax pencils?

This post really takes me back those 14 years to grad school... like the parent, I found out about /. in the pre-user account days when another grad student in my office kept talking about the site. Again, like the parent, I didn't actually register early enough for a cool UID, but low-5 digits is close enough to old school for this story to bring a single tear to my eye.

Times, they are a changing, and I for one am not too sure I like where they are headed.

Bon voyage, Rob, and indeed, thanks for all the fish wrapper.

No, not the doctrine ... this policy just decreases the likelihood of garnering first sales. What a clever plan. If nobody buys the game in the first place, they've effectively wiped out the after-market.

Brilliant!

NWA, bitchez!

Wow ... I've had entirely different experiences than you have.

http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2222466&cid=36377112

I have had my personal email address for quite some time (5-digit UID and it's the same email address with which I registered my /. account, so 1998?). About a year ago, I got a reply to an Emily Wright. Luckily, the original email had her correct address (same as mine, but with a digit). Apparently, she goofed on setting up the reply-to in her email client.

Anyway, I forwarded her the email explaining the problem and giving pointers on how to fix the problem. Well, Emily replied and accused me of hacking her email account and flat out insisted that she owned my email address and had been using it for the past two years (or about a decade less than I've had the account).

My attitude went from "helpful technology capable guy" to "fuck you, you arrogant bitch". Now, anything addressed to Emily goes straight to the trash can, no matter how important it appears to be.

Deep Sea Pressure and 20,000 feet, 30 days

I think they can up their estimated duration by an order of magnitude now...

Was thinking the same thing. I may check the weather, but I always have to turn off the damn alarm!

Why? Because simply finding the AoY deep in a dungeon is good enough? Let's not make it more difficult by requiring you to actually ESCAPE the pits of hell with the amulet. /sarcasm

I played plenty of rogue, nethack, moria, angband and even a little bit of larn back in the day. Nethack was far and away the best of them, balancing fear of insta-death, inside jokes, variability of game-play, etc. However, moria and angband were solid games in their own right. I particularly enjoyed how easy it was to fiddle with angband without actually touching code. All items/monsters/etc. were defined in plain-text config files.

I suspect that science in Europe will be about as bitter as science in the US, but it'll be a different kind of bitter!

I'm guessing it will be more of a hoppy bitter than a bilious bitter ;-)

If SQL*Injection isn't bad enough, think on this. Writing a single query with bind variables can be parsed once. Then it's just a matter of repeated bind/execute/fetch. Character strings mashed together have to be parsed EVERY SINGLE TIME (assuming you're doing something sane like enforcing exact cursor sharing).

select * from foo where bar = 'ABC'
and
select * from foo where bar = 'DEF'

have different hash values.

select * from foo where bar = :1

has its own hash value and can be reused for all values of :1.

Disclaimer: The above post represents the behavior of Oracle DB. I assume most SQL RDBMS engine work in a similar fashion.

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