Safari on Mac and Chrome on any OS can display PDF inside the browser without any external dependencies. Still, this link is a good alternative for users of other browsers.
Yes, however, if the pdf is huge, it actually creashes the browser (or at least, hangs for me). I never have such a problem with google's viewer, no matter how big the pdf is.
Plus, it saves you from haveing to download the entire pdf first before viewing.
The tutorial is interactive to help new users who aren't to hot with SQL get more comfortable with the language. Your player account is an account on the database itself so I couldn't make the tutorial what I wanted without the reg wall. Registration only requires a username and password though. No email required.
My experience was that I kept clicking links to different parts of the tutorial but was always redirected to a registration page without any explanation.
This reminds me of the old BBS game Tradewars 2002 that in later years (1999-present?) metamorphosed into a scripting based game played primarily by developers and amateur coders. As with Schemaverse, it's also a space-trading game although of course there is an interface - albeit text only.
This is clearly taking programming dependency a step further, and I would love to play it if I still had time to devote to any form of gaming.
Love it. A few years ago we ran http://mysqlgame.com/, similar premise but it was entirely simulated SQL. Implementing the entire game in the database is a great touch.
Thanks for doing that, by the way! I have fond memories of my college friends and I strategically updating our rows and those of our adversaries. It was much more fun than it had any right to be.
I agree that this is cool. I would like to suggest though, that in your 3 hours here, you may not have really gained enough perspective on the community to declare what is and isn't worthy to be posted...
I think that it was entailed that the original parent was indeed doing something wrong. Specifically the post doesn't add much to the conversation, and frankly the "not blogs by butthurt authors whining about someone calling someone else moron" comment is especially nonconstructive.
For no reason I can think of this reminds me of Spacewar. I've no idea why, just does. This was in 1962, see: http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/Spacewar.ht... which predates even me. I didn't know about it until Steven Brand wrote about it in his book described here: http://wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html The book and Brand's enthusiasm is what got me involved with computers in the first place. If Schemaverse does the same for someone else then that is a very good thing. As for the pointy hair folk who mumble about too much time on someone's hands, well, sit them down and make them play!
Since you mentioned Spacewar in a post about an MMO, I feel like I need to plug http://www.mmospacewar.com which is a fork I made of MMO Asteroids (featured here as the top post about a month ago) to make it behave more like Spacewar. It isn't fully polished yet (I'd like to use better sprites, the energy costs may need some tweaking, and I'd like to improve support for choosing instances), but it is functional and you and others might find it interesting.
