Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 1

It happens in basketball as well. People flopping, which annoys me just as much. I like it when the referees let them play more, but what I don't like is them inconsistently calling the impact.

I'd like to see technical fouls there for play acting.

Maybe we ought to get penalty kicks for play acting in soccer. Might make the game more exciting.

Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 2

Trey Staker (6/29/2010)What is new are the dang vuvuzelas. I watched most of the world cup with the volume off. Just watching one game with the volume on will haunt my nightmares for years to come.

...it just so happens that the sound produced by the vuvuzela is generated in a relatively narrow frequency range - mostly at 233 Hz, 466 Hz, 932 Hz, and 1864 Hz.[/url] Block those frequencies electronically and you remove that buzzing while preserving most of the rest of the noise of the games.

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Steve Jones - Editor (6/29/2010)
Or just let them hit a little harder 🙂

Hit what a little harder? The opponent or the ground? :hehe:

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 4

The noise from those things is annoying. I wish they'd block them from the broadcast. I watched a touch of US/Ghana and Eng/Ger and it was very, very annoying. I'd ban them from the stadium. Couldn't imagine being there and listening to that the whole time.

GabyYYZ SSCertifiable Points: 7913 More actions · Answer 5

The England team went to visit an orphanage in South Africa this morning, "its so good to put a smile on the faces of people with no hope, constantly struggling, and facing the impossible" said Jamal, aged 6.

Note: I am an England fan, so this quote is said in as loving and bitterly disappointed a manner as a parent who supports their underachieving children.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004363 More actions · Answer 6

rjohal-500813 (6/28/2010)
Chris Morris-439714 (6/28/2010)The question reads "What will be the output of the following?" and none of the answers is correct.
If the question was "Which of these options best represents the output" then there would be a correct answer.
It's not the loss of a point which folks find frustrating - it's knowing that they've been prevented from providing a correct answer by a clunky and unnecessary error.
I agree with you up to a point - the question and answers are clumsy. However 7 pages worth of people whining is laboring the point (no pun intended:-)).

Heh... no whining about 7 pages of whining. 😛

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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 7

I like a little cheese with my whine.

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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 8

The Dixie Flatline (6/29/2010)
I like a little cheese with my whine.

One Dairylea triangle to four bottles of Merlot...? 😀

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Dave Ballantyne SSC-Dedicated Points: 33667 More actions · Answer 9

Coincidence ? , homework ? or left hand not talking to right hand ?

Both similar problems , 2000 to 2008 upgrade , udf performance

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic945233-392-1.aspx

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic945210-392-1.aspx

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spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 10

Dave Ballantyne (6/30/2010)
Coincidence ? , homework ? or left hand not talking to right hand ?
Both similar problems , 2000 to 2008 upgrade , udf performance
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic945233-392-1.aspx
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic945210-392-1.aspx

I initially posted a cross-post warning on both threads and I realized they were not the same problem and different OPs...

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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 11

This is the first time that one my articles did not bring out any discussion. It was rated very good, but it is very quiet... 🙂

-Roy

GabyYYZ SSCertifiable Points: 7913 More actions · Answer 12

Roy Ernest (6/30/2010)
This is the first time that one my articles did not bring out any discussion. It was rated very good, but it is very quiet... 🙂

Lucky...still shell-shocked from the discussion on mine. For my next topic, I will keep away from talking about cursors and stay with something everyone can agree on, why autoshrink is a good thing. 😀

Happy Canada Day for all Canadians north of the 49th and in the diaspora!

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 13

GabyYYZ (6/30/2010)
Roy Ernest (6/30/2010)
This is the first time that one my articles did not bring out any discussion. It was rated very good, but it is very quiet... 🙂
Lucky...still shell-shocked from the discussion on mine. For my next topic, I will keep away from talking about cursors and stay with something everyone can agree on, why autoshrink is a good thing. 😀
Happy Canada Day for all Canadians north of the 49th and in the diaspora!

Maybe a really big article on the best way to nest views inside of views inside of views all while joining views. I think that would really help the community... Oh, and, I have this nifty bridge in Brooklyn that I'd like to sell you, cheap.

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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 14

Maybe I can try to write how nHybernate can create optimized code if we configure it bad... :hehe:

-Roy

Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 15

GabyYYZ (6/30/2010)
Happy Canada Day for all Canadians north of the 49th and in the diaspora!

Is it not Canada Day for Canadians in Canada south of the 49th?

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