And why there is never one of these normal individuals around to put a quick stop to the idiot?
I wouldn't say there is never one of these normal individuals around.... In this incident, there were three of them.
October 29, 1994: Francisco Martin Duran fired at least 29 shots with a semi-automatic rifle at the White House from a fence overlooking the north lawn, thinking that President Bill Clinton was among the men in dark suits standing on the lawn (Clinton was in the White House Residence watching a football game). Three tourists, Harry Rakosky, Ken Davis, and Robert Haines, tackled Duran before he could injure anyone. Duran was found to have a suicide note in his pocket and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
If you had a gun, would you want to fight a guy with nothing to loose?
I know I'm just voicing what every logical reader is thinking while reading this rhetorical question....
If I am to fight a guy with nothing to loose (SIC), I would most certainly want to be holding a gun.
Seth
Wasn't BSNES the one that achieved perfect emulation, what else is there to do?
The progress of computer hardware architecture and operating systems is steadily creating more work to do in order to maintain 'perfect emulation.'
Seth
Microsoft's General Manager for Strategy and Business Development, Kostas Mallios, said that Windows Phone will be an "ad-serving machine", pushing advertising and brand-related content to the user.
It looks like this is a core component of Redmond's business plan in all their OS offerings.
"....and watching how that movie director Robert Rodriguez successfully preaches low-budget artistic control vs. bigger-budget studio-control has taught me how raw talent, motivation, and perseverance can still succeed against 'the odds'."
That dude hasn't made a worthwhile movie since Sin City. He uses low budgets as an excuse for making crappy movies. There was no reason Predators had to suck with that budget. It was all him. He's infatuated by Hollywood's adoration of him. Crammed so many celebrities into Machete, he bloated out the story to fit them all in. Should have turned the camera off when Booth was killed. That was the end of the story that mattered. Same with his career.
Here's a wonderful music video Robert Rodriguez shot that may-or-may-not be self-aware that it's the story of Rodriguez banging a Hollywood Starlet (Rose McGowan) and then stressing over whether or not his kids from his divorce will accept the younger woman. Bob Schneider plays the Robert Rodriguez role while Kat Demming fills in for Rose McGowan. His kid plays himself in the video. I can't tell if he's tipping his hat to Nena with the release of the red balloons at the end or is just outright ripping the ending off.
Seth
A good example is a test db box for testing your SQL scripts. Such a box can have the exact same software, OS and patches, and with equivalent database configuration and schemas, but on lower-cost hardware and with a fraction of the data.
I don't want to pick nits here because Luis is giving out a lot of very valid information and observations here. Just want to take it one step further.
Mirror the production environment DB with an identical amount of data. The data doesn't have to match row-for-row. But the test environment DB should have the same scale as the production DB. Here's why: If you want to run an alter table or alter index command, you want a sense of how much of an impact that is going to have on the database before running the operation in production. If you only have 10k rows in the table in test and run the command, it'll complete pretty quickly. You run that against a 2-million-row table in production, depending on the vendor, that could mean a table lock that takes down your production environment until it finishes (could be hours). Been there. Done that. It ain't pretty.
Seth
If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law. -- Roy Santoro