Archives: August 2008
Sat Aug 30, 2008
Data repositories
MSIAC has a thoughtful analysis of data repositories for simulation, concluding that small, tightly controlled and focussed repositories are best. Current US practice is to require specific data repositories to be built and used for major military contracts. More...
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Fri Aug 22, 2008
Gold farming
Accoridng to a BBC report, nearly half a million people derive their main income from making virtual goods in online games.
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Dumber is faster
Jeremy Zawodny provides evidence that old-style sequential searching can be faster than using SQL. More...
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