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.

<monotone>We should all join the brain-slug party</monotone>

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I mean, the USA IS a republic... a (supposedly) democratically elected republic, but a republic nonetheless. Maybe we should leave the terms democratic and republic alone and rename the political parties. How about lazy jackasses and fat ugly elephants instead?

Once upon a time, taking a piss behind a bush was the appropriate way to dispose of your waste material. Funny what several thousand years of "progress" will get you.

That post makes me glad my name is not Gareth! Thanks for sharing.

tl;dr pls sum.<=140 char

It's for when the x-ray comes back positive...

Most people refuse to believe that I don't have a FB account ... LinkedIn is the only "social" media account I have, and that is for business purposes only.

From their support rep Sheldon: It is recommended that you contact us by phone at 1-888-888-3113 or chat via www.clear.com.

If the customer doesn't have internet access, how the hell do you expect them to chat the internet???

Translations would be nice, but to me, the key point is the last line.

USA: 0