there are places that the best practices aren't being followed 100% of the time
In those cases, there *should* (I'm not saying there always is) be a comment explaining why it was done that way⦠e.g. maybe to work around a third party app bug if there's not another infrastructure way of doing it, or to work around a compiler bug, etc. (Both of those examples should have bugs to REMOVE the hackishness when the workarounds are no longer needed -- e.g. the third party app is no longer supported or the compiler bug is fixed.)
Zynga has a history of directly copying things--without regard to copyright.
Wait, if they violated copyright, why weren't they sued?
*UNfortunately*, IMHO, things like the rules of a game can't be copyrighted. That's why things like Words with Friends can be essentially direct copies of Scrabble, without getting into trouble.
Scrabulous *was* removed due to copyright infringement suits.
I was wondering the same thing; there's nothing in the bible against it that I can see. That said, I refuse to get flu shots, but I don't work in health care. The reason is once when flu shots were new in 1971 and they used live "weakened" virus, a flu shot gave me the worst case of flu I ever had before or since.
Never again
So you're being just as illogical. Is there a risk to flu shots? Yes, to you AND to the community. So you're doing both yourself and the community a disservice by not getting flu shots.
I hope that my taxes aren't paying for your sick days when you're not at work when a flu shot could have prevented it.
So you mean that they CAN be read even without the battery?
Then what is the battery needed for?
i.e. seems to me it would be much more efficient to have the many badges be passive, and whatever is reading them be active/need the electricity.. Which is I think pretty much what basically all work badges use.
Seriously? Do you mean you don't have unit tests and quickie smoke screen tests for developers to run before they check in to prove their new code works and hasn't broken anything?
Seriously? Do you mean you don't actually have huge third party developers that sometimes BREAK the rules, yet you have to support them?
Testing that one tiny specific thing works in isolation is not the same thing from ensuring in the real world that all (ab)users of the APIs are doing the right thing too. Sometimes commented out code/breadcrumbs explain why something was done a certain way in the past, but was changed because of some other reason.
Aren't they just encouraging piracy? What are you going to fill it with? Maybe not those 1TB monsters, but 100GB or even 50GB, what are you going to use them for?
I don't pirate at all, but want bigger disks to use as Tivo drives. Not Flash drives, of course, but heck, maybe when those get huge/cheap, then maybe so.
Even now, I download shows legally with my Tivo Stream to my iPad mini to watch on my treadmill.. (you can also stream them when in the same house, but with a semi-flaky WiFi network, I'd prefer to download them).
But I still record most things in SD, since HD recordings are HUGE. I'm starting to think about doing an off-Tivo backup drive, and the bigger the better for that. (There are already lots of tools to let you do this, I just mean doing it more routinely, with HD recordings.) I record way more than I can watch during the main season, then start to catch up during the summer. Heck, over the Xmas break, I caught up on a lot of things while most shows were in reruns.
So big drives are definitely useful for legitimate media reasons.
for that same $400 you spent, I was able to get a 60GB SSD for my desktop, and a diskless gigabit NAS drive with a pair of 3TB mechanical drives.....
Really? Where? I saw 3 TB drives in the Fry's ad over the weekend for $129. 2x would be $258.. Oh, ok, I guess you may be right.. NAS enclosures are around $100 nowadays for 2 drive ones, right?
Still, more info about the specifics you got would be useful, maybe the 3 TB drives were cheaper than I saw.
Umm, what? Is there another (less common) usage of that TLA?
The most common usage of NFS (citation not provided!) is Network File System, originally developed by Sun. Maybe you mean a specific IMPLEMENTATION of that from MS?
What does it being a chemical reaction have to do with it? That's just an implementation detail.
We're chemical-reaction based computers, as opposed to silicon semiconductor based.
The fact that we're made of DNA, and were able to figure out and modify the DNA is amazing.. But how is that different from a far more advanced version of the check engine light going on in your car and the car figuring out what's wrong and replacing the broken piece?
Perhaps it's a bit expensive, perhaps it's not, depends on your bugedt, but he most likely would enjoy it as a nice addition and compliment to his projects.
I had to give up modding posts to put this up, but it NEEDS to be said how cool Capcom is for supporting this. You could have legally sued this guy's ass, but instead you didn't and thanked him for his efforts.
How do you know he released it to ANYONE before showing it to them?
If he made it for his own use only and made NO copies, could they (successfully) sue him if they somehow found out about it?
Maybe he did it entirely for himself, and would have shelved it if they said no. (or changed all the graphics)
People are still harping about this? Get over it. Python doesn't care how you do your indentation, as long as you do it in a consistent way. You also aren't wasting lines putting curly braces on everything.
But you are wasting time/characters putting colons in various weird places.
I actually LIKE Python, despite hating indentation == scope. If there's a way I could "turn it off" in a way that I could import into any script (i.e. not require a specific hacked Python interpreter), I'd like it even more. I don't care if it's {} or even BEGIN/END, while I want scope for *human* readability, requiring it for proper parsing is a pain in the !@$. Specific example -- you want to temporarily comment out an if statement but have the body run all the time.. Can't do it without reindenting.
Yes, because your eyes do a move, stop, move, stop thing that (AFAIK) prevents you from having the same sort of choppy look.. or the brain interpolates, or something.. I don't know, but it sure doesn't look as bad simply swinging your head around really quickly.
I admittedly am not providing a citation, but in tons of previous discussions like this, people have provided citations showing the actual price of the physical part of a book is not the majority of the price. While I too 'feel' like the price should be way lower for eBooks, it doesn't necessarily mean that it really makes sense for it to be so. (Though I did buy the eBook of the original book the new Hitchcock movie is based on when it was like $2.99 at Amazon⦠So low prices can obviously get new buyers.)
Please, someone else reply with confirming or refuting data.
24FPS is fast enough to fool the brain into thinking it's not a series of still images
Except when you're panning, for example. (There's a scene in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" when they're out in the city and there's a WAY too fast right to left pan, and it's really choppy.)
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You could argue that maybe I overstated it a bit. I didn't do an exhaustive search, but here's part of the kind of thing I was talking about, from the Wikipedia article:
Even though the software is open-source, device manufacturers cannot use Google's Android trademark unless Google certifies that the device complies with their Compatibility Definition Document (CDD). Devices must also meet this definition to be eligible to license Google's closed-source applications, including Google Play.
So you could have a device based upon the Android source, but doesn't meet the CDD, so it can't call itself Android. That's arguably minor, but not being able to have Google Play and other Google apps seems to me like it would be less wanted by customers than a phone that had the first party applications.
I admit that doesn't say that the "license" actually requires a fee, but I think it does. I haven't been able to find a citation for that specifically.
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In those cases, there *should* (I'm not saying there always is) be a comment explaining why it was done that way⦠e.g. maybe to work around a third party app bug if there's not another infrastructure way of doing it, or to work around a compiler bug, etc. (Both of those examples should have bugs to REMOVE the hackishness when the workarounds are no longer needed -- e.g. the third party app is no longer supported or the compiler bug is fixed.)
Yours is bad English, because English should be capitalized.
(I'm a grammar Nazi, but this is intended to be humorous.)
Wait, if they violated copyright, why weren't they sued?
*UNfortunately*, IMHO, things like the rules of a game can't be copyrighted. That's why things like Words with Friends can be essentially direct copies of Scrabble, without getting into trouble.
Scrabulous *was* removed due to copyright infringement suits.
So you're being just as illogical. Is there a risk to flu shots? Yes, to you AND to the community. So you're doing both yourself and the community a disservice by not getting flu shots.
I hope that my taxes aren't paying for your sick days when you're not at work when a flu shot could have prevented it.
So you mean that they CAN be read even without the battery?
Then what is the battery needed for?
i.e. seems to me it would be much more efficient to have the many badges be passive, and whatever is reading them be active/need the electricity.. Which is I think pretty much what basically all work badges use.
Seriously? Do you mean you don't actually have huge third party developers that sometimes BREAK the rules, yet you have to support them?
Testing that one tiny specific thing works in isolation is not the same thing from ensuring in the real world that all (ab)users of the APIs are doing the right thing too. Sometimes commented out code/breadcrumbs explain why something was done a certain way in the past, but was changed because of some other reason.
I don't pirate at all, but want bigger disks to use as Tivo drives. Not Flash drives, of course, but heck, maybe when those get huge/cheap, then maybe so.
Even now, I download shows legally with my Tivo Stream to my iPad mini to watch on my treadmill.. (you can also stream them when in the same house, but with a semi-flaky WiFi network, I'd prefer to download them).
But I still record most things in SD, since HD recordings are HUGE. I'm starting to think about doing an off-Tivo backup drive, and the bigger the better for that. (There are already lots of tools to let you do this, I just mean doing it more routinely, with HD recordings.) I record way more than I can watch during the main season, then start to catch up during the summer. Heck, over the Xmas break, I caught up on a lot of things while most shows were in reruns.
So big drives are definitely useful for legitimate media reasons.
Really? Where? I saw 3 TB drives in the Fry's ad over the weekend for $129. 2x would be $258.. Oh, ok, I guess you may be right.. NAS enclosures are around $100 nowadays for 2 drive ones, right?
Still, more info about the specifics you got would be useful, maybe the 3 TB drives were cheaper than I saw.
Umm, what? Is there another (less common) usage of that TLA?
The most common usage of NFS (citation not provided!) is Network File System, originally developed by Sun. Maybe you mean a specific IMPLEMENTATION of that from MS?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System
What does it being a chemical reaction have to do with it? That's just an implementation detail.
We're chemical-reaction based computers, as opposed to silicon semiconductor based.
The fact that we're made of DNA, and were able to figure out and modify the DNA is amazing.. But how is that different from a far more advanced version of the check engine light going on in your car and the car figuring out what's wrong and replacing the broken piece?
ARM doesn't build their own processors. Should they be able to have patents?
I think a dictionary would be a good gift. Pique.
At 90, I think anything would surprise him, over and over and over.
3d printer: Projects, you're nice.
Projects: Thanks.
How do you know he released it to ANYONE before showing it to them?
If he made it for his own use only and made NO copies, could they (successfully) sue him if they somehow found out about it?
Maybe he did it entirely for himself, and would have shelved it if they said no. (or changed all the graphics)
When TFA is about decoy building spiders, talking about salaries is off-topic!
But you are wasting time/characters putting colons in various weird places.
I actually LIKE Python, despite hating indentation == scope. If there's a way I could "turn it off" in a way that I could import into any script (i.e. not require a specific hacked Python interpreter), I'd like it even more. I don't care if it's {} or even BEGIN/END, while I want scope for *human* readability, requiring it for proper parsing is a pain in the !@$. Specific example -- you want to temporarily comment out an if statement but have the body run all the time.. Can't do it without reindenting.
Written, not wrote.
Woah, where are you getting a 3TB drive for $90? I saw 4 TB drives in a Fry's ad a few weeks ago for $199, but it hasn't repeated.
Maybe not worse, but equivalent⦠visitors after 3 days.
http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_wit_franklin.html
Apparently he didn't actually originate all of themâ¦
"Fish and visitors smell after three days."
Yes, because your eyes do a move, stop, move, stop thing that (AFAIK) prevents you from having the same sort of choppy look.. or the brain interpolates, or something.. I don't know, but it sure doesn't look as bad simply swinging your head around really quickly.
Is it the resolution? Have you seen the high resolution screens? (e.g. Apple uses the term Retina)
BTW, I'm not refuting that you like e-Ink better, I just don't know if you've seen the highest resolution screens. The text has gotten a lot better.
I admittedly am not providing a citation, but in tons of previous discussions like this, people have provided citations showing the actual price of the physical part of a book is not the majority of the price. While I too 'feel' like the price should be way lower for eBooks, it doesn't necessarily mean that it really makes sense for it to be so. (Though I did buy the eBook of the original book the new Hitchcock movie is based on when it was like $2.99 at Amazon⦠So low prices can obviously get new buyers.)
Please, someone else reply with confirming or refuting data.
Except when you're panning, for example. (There's a scene in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" when they're out in the city and there's a WAY too fast right to left pan, and it's really choppy.)
You could argue that maybe I overstated it a bit. I didn't do an exhaustive search, but here's part of the kind of thing I was talking about, from the Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#Licensing
So you could have a device based upon the Android source, but doesn't meet the CDD, so it can't call itself Android. That's arguably minor, but not being able to have Google Play and other Google apps seems to me like it would be less wanted by customers than a phone that had the first party applications.
I admit that doesn't say that the "license" actually requires a fee, but I think it does. I haven't been able to find a citation for that specifically.