It can often be more work writing the unit tests than writing the code. Yeah, I think this underscores one of the main advantages of test-first coding. Once you've written all the tests, you have a really good idea how to go write the actual code and that process will be much quicker and easier.
"If a man is sitting, it is necessary that the opinion which concludes that he is sitting is true; and on the other hand, if the opinion about the man is true, because he is sitting, it is necessary that he is sitting. There is necessity, therefore, in both statements; in the one that the man is sitting, and in the other that the opinion is true. But it is not because the opinion is true, that the man sits; rather, the opinion is true because it is preceded by the man's act of sitting. So although the cause of the truth proceeds from the one side, there is, nevertheless, a common necessity in either side. Clearly the same reasoning applies to Providence and future events." -Anicius Boethius (ca. 480-524)
Granted, this is an argument for the compatibility of Free Will and God's foreknowledge of all human action, but I think the argument transfers cleanly over to counter the main thrust of TFA. Merely because it is true that the person decided to press a specific button AND that the scanner predicted which button they would press does not say a thing about where the cause of the truth of these statements comes from.
you can do what you want with it. And when I'm renting my music, I don't have to do anything with it, I don't want to try and sell CDs for less than I bought them. Renting is much more cost and time efficient.
I want to own my music. What happens when the music you buy turns out to be music you don't actually like all that much? Or maybe after a few years your tastes mature and you don't really like that album you bought so much anymore, what then?
I own a Zune and gladly pay the bad music insurance because I know my tastes fluctuate wildly. The freedom to download 20 albums at a time (guilt-free mind you), then scrap the 18 I decide I don't like is, to me, paramount to actually "owning" music I might regret buying.
...for baseload power, you're generally going to be using hydro, nuclear, or coal. Psh, duh! Sim City taught me that! You had to start in 2050 though i think to get nuclear right away. Isn't that right?
The language here is all wrong. You say this as if you believe (perhaps you, sadly, do) that a composer wishes or expects for a piece to be played by a robot, precisely as a song has been written on the page. Well, I'm sorry to dissapoint you but they don't.
For instance a peice I played at my peak, was Debussy's "Jardins Sous la Pluie" (Gardens in the Rain), which had many nonmusical phrases scattered about in it. I wish I had it on hand here at my apartment, but one I remember is the beginning is to be played "net et vif", which I believe is "fast and sharp" in French (or something).
Infact, this song is a wonderful example of why musicians aren't "imposing their own prejudices" but rather expressing themselves through emphasis and de-emphasis. Depending on the day, place, mood, etc. in which i happened to play the song, many changes would occur in the form of slight lengthenings of notes, or exaggerated crescendos and decrescendos, tempo changes, wrong notes, and on and on. Of course, I am human (or so Slashdot's CAPTCHA says...), so many of these were unintentional, but I would argue they still were an expression of me.
When a peice is played, a bit of both the performer and the composer is expressed. You may think that a robot playing a song would make it so that only the composer is being expressed, but I say that is completely wrong. There you have the robot expressed and the composer expressed. Chopin playing Chopin would likely sound completely different than a robot playing Chopin.
Try refining your results a bit, perhaps looking at "MP3 Players" (which iPods do indeed dominate), but then selecting the subsection "Hard-Drive Based". Here, Zune takes spots 1,2, and 4 (Brown, Black and White, respectively), iPod gets space 3, and the Zen is 5th.
Obviously this is some sort of evil plot by Microsoft.
Also you might try looking lower in the "Portable Digital Media Player" bestseller list: iPods are there, just very low on the list.
yeah, a google search reveals several other sites discussing the "Fluke". it's amazing how it serves to keep the grass population up by making the cows wary of the longer, greener stuff. awesome! apparently it can infect (inhabit? i don't know parasite terminology) dogs and sheep too.
wow, nice work skimming buddy. they were saying that the old methods were unstable, the new way is much more reliable, as the article said. also, i couldn't find your second quote anywhere in TFA...
a couple bacteria could (accidentally) make it the whole way to mars on one of our probes? Is it possible we could inadvertently populate mars with our Earth-life? How funny would it be to "discover" life on mars when we actually put it there years before on a probe to one of the more life-friendly corners of mars... just a weird though i had while reading this
Dude, sounds like you need to check out the totally awesome and totally free http://www.rsspect.com/!! Plus Ryan North is one classy guy, so you know his stuff is gonna be good!
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"If a man is sitting, it is necessary that the opinion which concludes that he is sitting is true; and on the other hand, if the opinion about the man is true, because he is sitting, it is necessary that he is sitting. There is necessity, therefore, in both statements; in the one that the man is sitting, and in the other that the opinion is true. But it is not because the opinion is true, that the man sits; rather, the opinion is true because it is preceded by the man's act of sitting. So although the cause of the truth proceeds from the one side, there is, nevertheless, a common necessity in either side. Clearly the same reasoning applies to Providence and future events." -Anicius Boethius (ca. 480-524)
Granted, this is an argument for the compatibility of Free Will and God's foreknowledge of all human action, but I think the argument transfers cleanly over to counter the main thrust of TFA. Merely because it is true that the person decided to press a specific button AND that the scanner predicted which button they would press does not say a thing about where the cause of the truth of these statements comes from.
I own a Zune and gladly pay the bad music insurance because I know my tastes fluctuate wildly. The freedom to download 20 albums at a time (guilt-free mind you), then scrap the 18 I decide I don't like is, to me, paramount to actually "owning" music I might regret buying.
...for baseload power, you're generally going to be using hydro, nuclear, or coal. Psh, duh! Sim City taught me that! You had to start in 2050 though i think to get nuclear right away. Isn't that right?"imposing their own prejudices"
The language here is all wrong. You say this as if you believe (perhaps you, sadly, do) that a composer wishes or expects for a piece to be played by a robot, precisely as a song has been written on the page. Well, I'm sorry to dissapoint you but they don't.
For instance a peice I played at my peak, was Debussy's "Jardins Sous la Pluie" (Gardens in the Rain), which had many nonmusical phrases scattered about in it. I wish I had it on hand here at my apartment, but one I remember is the beginning is to be played "net et vif", which I believe is "fast and sharp" in French (or something).
Infact, this song is a wonderful example of why musicians aren't "imposing their own prejudices" but rather expressing themselves through emphasis and de-emphasis. Depending on the day, place, mood, etc. in which i happened to play the song, many changes would occur in the form of slight lengthenings of notes, or exaggerated crescendos and decrescendos, tempo changes, wrong notes, and on and on. Of course, I am human (or so Slashdot's CAPTCHA says...), so many of these were unintentional, but I would argue they still were an expression of me.
When a peice is played, a bit of both the performer and the composer is expressed. You may think that a robot playing a song would make it so that only the composer is being expressed, but I say that is completely wrong. There you have the robot expressed and the composer expressed. Chopin playing Chopin would likely sound completely different than a robot playing Chopin.
You are welcome to keep enjoying your MIDI performances of art, but I'll stick with the delighfully imperfect humans.
yeah and i can already hear the cries of "NERF BANKERS!" and "That's totally farmer gear"
Try refining your results a bit, perhaps looking at "MP3 Players" (which iPods do indeed dominate), but then selecting the subsection "Hard-Drive Based". Here, Zune takes spots 1,2, and 4 (Brown, Black and White, respectively), iPod gets space 3, and the Zen is 5th.
Obviously this is some sort of evil plot by Microsoft.
Also you might try looking lower in the "Portable Digital Media Player" bestseller list: iPods are there, just very low on the list.
yeah, a google search reveals several other sites discussing the "Fluke". it's amazing how it serves to keep the grass population up by making the cows wary of the longer, greener stuff. awesome! apparently it can infect (inhabit? i don't know parasite terminology) dogs and sheep too.
If you find this amazing, check out the wikipedia article on these amazing parasites!
The licenses CLEARLY govern distribution... did you even read them?
Shouldn't we instead be making keyboard safe dishwashers?
sparse?
wow, nice work skimming buddy. they were saying that the old methods were unstable, the new way is much more reliable, as the article said. also, i couldn't find your second quote anywhere in TFA...
"technology is also potentially useful" oh man, understatement of the century?!
a couple bacteria could (accidentally) make it the whole way to mars on one of our probes? Is it possible we could inadvertently populate mars with our Earth-life? How funny would it be to "discover" life on mars when we actually put it there years before on a probe to one of the more life-friendly corners of mars... just a weird though i had while reading this
people who don't realize the difference between "then" and "than"
Dude, sounds like you need to check out the totally awesome and totally free http://www.rsspect.com/!! Plus Ryan North is one classy guy, so you know his stuff is gonna be good!