Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Stefan Krzywicki (3/25/2011)


    Oh wow. That'd be awesome for board games! Imagine playing Avalon Hill or SPI games (or World In Flames, etc...) on a map where you can shift the map and perspective and don't have to worry about stacks of tiny cardboad pieces! I've been wanting that for decades.

    I keep wanting to build a version of Ogre/GEV for it, or at least for a tablet.

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  • GSquared (3/25/2011)


    jcrawf02 (3/25/2011)


    I just want to know who bought a Surface table to play on...

    Ooooohhhhh, I WISH!!! That was the first thing I thought of when I saw a demo of that thing. Made me wonder if the engineers were gamers.

    I wish I could find it. Someone on DumpShock linked a video of a guy who had an interactive map for Shadowrun projected upon a table's surface and was showing how it was used. But now I can't remember the name of the tool... It was seriously cool.

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  • GSquared (3/25/2011)


    Stefan Krzywicki (3/25/2011)


    Oh wow. That'd be awesome for board games! Imagine playing Avalon Hill or SPI games (or World In Flames, etc...) on a map where you can shift the map and perspective and don't have to worry about stacks of tiny cardboad pieces! I've been wanting that for decades.

    I keep wanting to build a version of Ogre/GEV for it, or at least for a tablet.

    This should work, no?

    http://www.vassalengine.org/

    And here's Ogre http://www.vassalengine.org/wiki/Module:Ogre

    EDIT: Made links clickable

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  • Stefan Krzywicki (3/25/2011)


    GSquared (3/25/2011)


    Stefan Krzywicki (3/25/2011)


    Oh wow. That'd be awesome for board games! Imagine playing Avalon Hill or SPI games (or World In Flames, etc...) on a map where you can shift the map and perspective and don't have to worry about stacks of tiny cardboad pieces! I've been wanting that for decades.

    I keep wanting to build a version of Ogre/GEV for it, or at least for a tablet.

    This should work, no?

    http://www.vassalengine.org/

    And here's Ogre http://www.vassalengine.org/wiki/Module:Ogre

    EDIT: Made links clickable

    I think you misunderstood. I don't just want to play Ogre, I want to build a copy. Half or more of the fun would be teaching myself the necessary programming skills.

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
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  • GSquared (3/25/2011)


    jcrawf02 (3/25/2011)


    Stefan Krzywicki (3/25/2011)


    GSquared (3/25/2011)


    jcrawf02 (3/25/2011)


    GSquared (3/25/2011)


    GilaMonster (3/25/2011)


    I just realised I don't have an April Fools day blog post planned. 🙁

    So start a completely serious post with, "I had this idea for an April Fools post ..." Leave everyone wondering where the joke is. Inverted "gotcha".

    Your evil continues to amuse me. 😀

    I'm a DM. Have been since the mid-70s when D&D first came out. I'm essentially infinitely evil. 🙂 Have to be, for the entertainment value.

    What do you think of 3E and 4E or are you still playing with the original hardcovers? Or with the original booklets?! Do you ever run other systems?

    I just want to know who bought a Surface table to play on...

    Ooooohhhhh, I WISH!!! That was the first thing I thought of when I saw a demo of that thing. Made me wonder if the engineers were gamers.

    Surface table... my dream GM toy...

    -Ki

  • GSquared (3/25/2011)


    Stefan Krzywicki (3/25/2011)


    GSquared (3/25/2011)


    Stefan Krzywicki (3/25/2011)


    Oh wow. That'd be awesome for board games! Imagine playing Avalon Hill or SPI games (or World In Flames, etc...) on a map where you can shift the map and perspective and don't have to worry about stacks of tiny cardboad pieces! I've been wanting that for decades.

    I keep wanting to build a version of Ogre/GEV for it, or at least for a tablet.

    This should work, no?

    http://www.vassalengine.org/

    And here's Ogre http://www.vassalengine.org/wiki/Module:Ogre

    EDIT: Made links clickable

    I think you misunderstood. I don't just want to play Ogre, I want to build a copy. Half or more of the fun would be teaching myself the necessary programming skills.

    AH! Wasn't sure if it was "I really want to play this and my only option is to build it myself, so I'd better get cracking" or "Building this game should be fun!"

    I have a wargame I want to build on the computer and I'd like to use VB.Net, but I'm not sure where to start and there are precious few books on how to do so.

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  • Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/25/2011)


    A Facebook friend just asked to start an on-line book club with Dan Simmon' Hyperion. Anyone read it? Just started it and not sure about the first 20 pages.

    Yes. Read it! It's a little difficult to follow, things seem disconnected at first. Makes the revelations at the of the second book that much more impactful

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  • GilaMonster (3/25/2011)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/25/2011)


    A Facebook friend just asked to start an on-line book club with Dan Simmon' Hyperion. Anyone read it? Just started it and not sure about the first 20 pages.

    Yes. Read it! It's a little difficult to follow, things seem disconnected at first. Makes the revelations at the of the second book that much more impactful

    I have to agree with Gail. I have the read the books as well. Very worth while, and yes, it seems disjointed at first but everything comes together by the end of the second book.

  • Fal (3/25/2011)


    GilaMonster (3/25/2011)


    Gianluca Sartori (3/25/2011)


    Couldn't resist....

    AHHHHHHH!!!!! You beat me of a couple of seconds!!!

    That's cause I cheated. Hit quote and post, then went back and added something meaningful. 😀

    You know, that seems to me to be a form of RBAR. I wouldn't have thought I'd see you engaging in looping practices, Gail. 😛

    Steve.

    BWAA-HAA!!! RBAR does have it's uses but, just like real RBAR, look how long it took! 😛

    --Jeff Moden


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    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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  • Koen Verbeeck (3/25/2011)


    Maybe an article on why it is not necessary to maintain indexes. Who needs them right?

    (but maybe again, someone picks this up not realizing it is a joke)

    Oddly enough, I've seen a couple of posts on SSC and a fair number more on other forums where people say index maintenance is not important if your {GUI} queries usually pick up on one row at a time because a scan won't be involved. Very spooky stuff and I can't believe that anyone would even say such a thing especially where a GUID or a customer account number is being used as the clustered index. I'm sure that some of the folks that listened to that advice will be back in a couple of months wondering how to shrink their database files.

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

  • Gianluca Sartori (3/25/2011)


    GilaMonster (3/25/2011)


    Koen Verbeeck (3/25/2011)


    Maybe a blog post that Microsoft has purchased MySQL from Oracle and that it is integrating it with SQLServer.\

    I like that....

    Edit: The index maintenance suggestion gives me ideas too....

    Research time.... (3)

    If every threadizen blogged about it, more people would be fooled.

    Who's on?

    Why bother? SQL Server CE is available as the best joke yet. 😀

    If you really want something funny (in a "War of the Worlds" fashion where people riot or kill themselves because they think it's true), puplish an AF article that states that "in order to be compliant with Oracle technology, direct returns to the GUI have been deprecated and future versions SQL Server will require the use of 'Reference Cursors' to make returns to the GUI." or that "In order to meet ANSI standards, ISNULL and GETDATE() have been deprecated." 😛

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

  • Jeff Moden (3/26/2011)


    Gianluca Sartori (3/25/2011)


    GilaMonster (3/25/2011)


    Koen Verbeeck (3/25/2011)


    Maybe a blog post that Microsoft has purchased MySQL from Oracle and that it is integrating it with SQLServer.\

    I like that....

    Edit: The index maintenance suggestion gives me ideas too....

    Research time.... (3)

    If every threadizen blogged about it, more people would be fooled.

    Who's on?

    Why bother? SQL Server CE is available as the best joke yet. 😀

    If you really want something funny (in a "War of the Worlds" fashion where people riot or kill themselves because they think it's true), puplish an AF article that states that "in order to be compliant with Oracle technology, direct returns to the GUI have been deprecated and future versions SQL Server will require the use of 'Reference Cursors' to make returns to the GUI." or that "In order to meet ANSI standards, ISNULL and GETDATE() have been deprecated." 😛

    How will people tell the difference between that and a post by Celko?

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  • Jeff Moden (3/26/2011)


    Oddly enough, I've seen a couple of posts on SSC and a fair number more on other forums where people say index maintenance is not important if your {GUI} queries usually pick up on one row at a time because a scan won't be involved.

    That's actually correct (partially).

    The only thing that fragmentation affects are range scans (largish ones) from disk. If all the DB is ever doing are singleton seeks, then fragmentation is not a concern and it's immaterial whether the index is 0% or 99% fragmented.

    However very few systems only ever do singleton seeks.

    In addition, index rebuilds don't just fragmentation, they also can compact the index if there's been page splits and the index pages are now only half full (on average). Rebuild with a higher fill factor.

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  • I have to work through this weekend so I finally get around to swinging by here, and you guys are plotting the end of the community as we know it. Lovely.

    You are all a bunch of evil bastages!

    ... you're my kind of people. 😀


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  • Okay, poll time. How many of you are getting tired of Celko and his high horse?

    I may be wrong, but I think I could count on one hand the number of times any of his posts were truely helpful to the OP.

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