On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Jim Graham <[email protected]> wrote: >> Great. Just what we need: a bunch of drunk Androids wandering around. >> >> :-) > > Nope, they wouldn't get that far. See, you'd have to combine all > three databases into one app (I'm assuming that there would be no > wild yeast inside the 'Droid) and let the Androids get wet. > Spontaneous fermentation would naturally occur once the warm, wet > 'Droids finished converting the grains. > > But here's the problem: as the Androids are fermenting, CO2 would > not have a way to escape, and they'd quickly become grenades, causing > severe injury or death to anyone holding them. > > :-) > > \newif\ifofftopic \offtopictrue > Seriously, though, for a moment; fermenters, naturally-carbonated > bottled beers that are not done correctly, containers that are > not designed to handle pressure used to force-carbonate beers, > etc, do have the very real ability, if too much pressure > builds, to become what we brewers very seriously refer to as > "glass grenades". They can send shrapnel flying that will slice > through human skin and muscle as if they were wet tissue paper. > \offtopicfalse
Wow. You took that joke waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay farther than I had expected. :-) > Ah, ok. Yes, that makes sense now. I was picturing the in-memory > copy while the app was running. That's fine...just a bit more code > to run the first time around. If you don't need it to be SQLite, perhaps storing the data as an XML resource and loading it into RAM at runtime may make more sense. I don't know how big your data set is. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training...At Your Office: http://commonsware.com/training -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
