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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on June 5th, 2011, 01:30 PM »
That looks like series 6 there... there's some stuff from series 5 that's relevant in continuity terms but nothing that looking at Wikipedia won't provide for you.
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on June 5th, 2011, 12:57 PM »
For our US friends, I would suggest they do this, actually - because the US delayed episode 6 for a week because of last weekend's Memorial Day stuff, so while we've finished the half-season, I think they only just got episode 6...
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on June 5th, 2011, 12:39 PM »
Well, you can go through a UK proxy to watch it on BBC iPlayer, which will get you the entire run of series 6 so far. (It's all being kept available until the end of the run, which was yesterday, and I think for the next week the entire 7 episodes are available)
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on June 5th, 2011, 12:41 AM »
Yes, it's about who River is. And yes, we did touch on it here, and yes, I was disappointed too at how obvious it actually was in practice. There was actually a video from Moffat in the buildup to this episode where he even said 'By now, we know who River Song is.'
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Most of the fans I know where ruling this specific thing out due to the timing being wrong, but I think it's fairly clear how the timeline got sorted out in that respect, if that makes sense.
Long story short, I'm now waiting to see what the second half brings - I'm not quite sure we've had the rising-so-high part yet, and really not sure of the falling-further-than-ever-before moment... I just feel like this episode didn't quite bring that scale to it.
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on June 4th, 2011, 11:02 PM »
Oh, it was an awesome episode, but I had actually guessed it, there were enough clues given to call the final outcome. It's been set up for a while, ever since we saw River at the crash of the Byzantium, where hints were given.
The double double cross, that I didn't see coming, and I still speculate that the "good man going to war" is not who we've been lead to believe. But I think it settles a few questions raised earlier in this thread.
The double double cross, that I didn't see coming, and I still speculate that the "good man going to war" is not who we've been lead to believe. But I think it settles a few questions raised earlier in this thread.
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Features: Upcoming / Re: Floating topics
« on June 4th, 2011, 03:58 PM »
They are, assuming memory isn't an issue. It used to be the case that the overhead of FIND_IN_SET outperformed joins on the typical caseload of a forum, especially on shared servers because machines didn't generally have the RAM to cope with everything in memory for joining when you get massive table sets as the result (where you end up multiplying rows because you're trying to keep as few queries to the server as possible, only to end up making stinking huge queries)
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Features: Upcoming / Re: Floating topics
« on June 4th, 2011, 02:28 PM »
*nods* Having lots of tables and proper relationships isn't the bane of performance it used to be, especially now that InnoDB is in the core of MySQL and is default in 5.5, wherein it is a lot more performant on handling such things.
Incidentally it will actually solve a few fringe bugs in the core...
Incidentally it will actually solve a few fringe bugs in the core...
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Features: Upcoming / Re: Floating topics
« on June 4th, 2011, 01:34 PM »
*rolls eyes* The reasons Unknown created SMF's structure to not use 3NF (using that bastardisation of comma separated values in place of actual table joins etc.) are long since out of date. Back in MySQL 3.x times, it made a difference, but with the advancements made in the quite numerous years since then, there is no practical reason not to move closer to 3NF.
I wouldn't necessarily pile entirely to 3NF, since there are some reasons why you might, for example when you explicitly need to handle orphan cases (messages without a valid author, for example, where you store the data in-row rather than referencing an entity) but certainly a move closer to 3NF is on the cards. Some of this work has already been carried out, in fact.
I wouldn't necessarily pile entirely to 3NF, since there are some reasons why you might, for example when you explicitly need to handle orphan cases (messages without a valid author, for example, where you store the data in-row rather than referencing an entity) but certainly a move closer to 3NF is on the cards. Some of this work has already been carried out, in fact.
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Off-topic / Re: iHate Apple
« on June 4th, 2011, 04:05 AM »
It's dark, sure, now maybe too dark - and it doesn't fit with the tones of the others... I'd fire up GIMP and play but it's a bit late now and I need a shower before bed...
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Off-topic / Re: iHate Apple
« on June 4th, 2011, 02:13 AM »
A deeper blue, darker than that one. I'd have started by looking at the images in GIMP and starting to adjust the colour balance and hue so I'd get a tone-range consistent image so it still fitted in, but would have ended up a darker blue, probably somewhere between royal blue and navy blue.
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Off-topic / Re: iHate Apple
« on June 4th, 2011, 02:07 AM »
It's funny, someone else only the other day commented to me that it was a nice theme but that the red was bit too much... blue would be good but you need to match the tonal range - the blue used there is a bit bright compared to the tone the header etc should have.
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Other software / Re: SMF 2.0 final THIS MONTH?
« on June 3rd, 2011, 03:44 PM »Is there an explanation about the bug somewhere, and a test case for reproducing it?
Oh, and just for shits and giggles, Antechinus has admitted the infamous IE8 jumping textbox bug is 'not a blocker', and that, again, people can reproduce it on sm.org but not on his test site...
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Features / Re: Hello... and my request
« on June 3rd, 2011, 02:18 AM »
It is my experience that people do not know what they want - only what they think they want. See http://innovatenotimitate.com/?p=225 ;)
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Features / Re: Hello... and my request
« on June 3rd, 2011, 01:59 AM »3 mods for SMF that wraps text around an image? Do you know the name of them?
a little buggy
Yes, I appreciate that 'creative types' find bbcode limiting, but I find more people have trouble trying to cudgel a WYSIWYG editor into behaving than they ever do once they start trying bbcode, assuming bbcode is flexible enough - which it usually isn't. Making bbcode more flexible balances this out quite well in practice. (I should note: I used to work in an office in London. I spent at least 30% of my day helping people fight with Word to lay things out how they wanted, for exactly the same reason.)
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Features / Re: Hello... and my request
« on June 3rd, 2011, 01:31 AM »
To your last point, regarding using CKEditor or something similar... well, I envisage us having a bbcode that handles wrapping text around an image. There are at least 3 mods for SMF to achieve this with a new bbcode!
As much as I like the idea of something like CKEditor, I find myself reluctant to commit to any one of them - though CKEditor is easily my preference compared to the others. Firstly, they're all huge, and secondly they all carry an inherent security risk as well as an increased regimen of updates for browser compatibility that I'm finding myself unsure about committing to. It's one of those that sounded fantastic but the more I look at it the more I find myself unsure, you know? But it's likely we'll use CKEditor in the end - I know others are doing so, and with good reason.
But honestly, as a technical person, I can write so much faster in bbcode than I can ever manage fighting with those editors - on my WP blog, which has TinyMCE built in, I gave up trying to use much in the way of formatting simply because it has a habit of just getting it wrong no matter what I do with it. And if I as a technical user have that trouble I can only imagine what regular users go through - it is not for nothing that Facebook's Notes feature is very limited!
As much as I like the idea of something like CKEditor, I find myself reluctant to commit to any one of them - though CKEditor is easily my preference compared to the others. Firstly, they're all huge, and secondly they all carry an inherent security risk as well as an increased regimen of updates for browser compatibility that I'm finding myself unsure about committing to. It's one of those that sounded fantastic but the more I look at it the more I find myself unsure, you know? But it's likely we'll use CKEditor in the end - I know others are doing so, and with good reason.
But honestly, as a technical person, I can write so much faster in bbcode than I can ever manage fighting with those editors - on my WP blog, which has TinyMCE built in, I gave up trying to use much in the way of formatting simply because it has a habit of just getting it wrong no matter what I do with it. And if I as a technical user have that trouble I can only imagine what regular users go through - it is not for nothing that Facebook's Notes feature is very limited!