In addition to this, one of the greatest values of units tests lie in regression testing. It's not enough that the code works now, but whether it still works after some changes have been made.
Careful...there is such a thing as an undesirable customer. Comcast could easily say, "You're costing us too much, we don't want your business." Then what?
Conspiracy? Someone who installed the equipment in secret rooms for AT&T has come clean and stated what they were doing. I'd hardly consider that a conspiracy.
The fourth amendment only protects you against unreasonable searches and seizures. Now some will flame away with their own personal views about what unreasonable means and what secure in ones papers, etc. means, but the fact is the view that is in vogue in most political circles is that unreasonable means that the person searched was somehow greatly inconvenienced by the searc
You're making the same mistake that one of our multi-star generals made when he insisted that there was no such right. What he failed to realize what that the litmus test for reasonable is clearly defined as probable cause. If there is no cause for search, it is, by definition, unreasonable.
I am not saying this is good or bad, but I am saying that Charlie Ergen(Dish CEO) has big testicles.
An appearance vs reality problem - I think you meant to say that he thinks he has big testicles. I see this as the root of most of the stupid things that men do.
For all of that, I've read that Dibold never made much money of these things and wants out of the business.
I think Diebold probably made a LOT of money on it - initially. My guess is that they probably lost because they were forced to re-examine, re-implement, and re-certify the crap that they tried to pass off as secure voting machines. Now that the cat's out of the bag, it's understandable that Diebold would want to distance itself as much as possible.
Laptops are good for more than just taking them home every night - as I'm sure you know, they're also great during meetings when you have to show something - like code reviews, presentations, etc.
As far as "indirection" via AR, if you don't want it you're free to not use it. It's one of the truly magnificent things about Rails.
This is one thing that really impressed me. They made it just as functional for people who aren't publishing/managing their own database schema, as they did for those who are. The UI components are completely decoupled from the from whatever mechanism is used to access a data store, so there's a LOT of flexibility.
I fervently believe people should have the right to smoke. It is 100% a personal liberty issue.
I agree. However, there's one minor point you seem to have overlooked. In public, the liberties that we share are concurrent. If someone has to move because a smoker is asserting their alleged right to smoke over another's right to remain unmolested, the concurrency is violated. So yes, in private, smokers have the right to knock themselves out. In public, however, their right to smoke stops at the air that others have to breathe.
And the biggest one of all, the content industry. Let's not forget the terrific amount of attention paid to the DRM that is now a very ingrained part of the OS. The eye candy was just a way of wrapping a piece of aero foil around a rotten turd.
Yay for you- I've done the same thing, except for a bit longer. I admit I slipped recently (bought one CD, but it was worth it). Overall, the RIAA companies have sold 1 CD to me in the past five years- not a very profitable ROI. If the rest of the consumer public would grow a pair and show the RIAA who's really boss (the ones with the wallets), the entire business model would change in very short time.
I swear, it's like, "here's $15, now hit me again!".
That is exactly the argument that applies to copyrighted material and the seeming entitlement people think they have to copy it. Yes, is costs its creators nothing when it's copied, but it does have value. Otherwise, people wouldn't be copying it.
I agree with you - I used to play America's Army quite a bit, and even though I thought it was generally a fun game, one of my favorite maps was always inhabited by morons whose sense of skill came from nothing more than spamming grenades in a certain spot.
If I die because of an opponent's skill, it's fun to be able to sit back and admire the effort. If I die because some idiot thinks good gamesmanship is a matter of finding the shortest and easiest path to a kill, the fun stops and annoyance sets in.
Last I checked they still have plenty of friends in the oil industry, and may want extremely cushy and well paying jobs in a ridiculously profitable industry after they're done running the country.
All those people calling for the government to balance its budget have no idea what they are talking about - if the government did that over the long term it would cause major shocks to our financial system.
Of course it would, because our system depends an an increasing spiral of debt.
Oh god don't get me started on Solitaire. Apple included a version with the ipod nano, and what started as a passing interest has turned into an OCD. : )
The error in this assumption, which the MPAA suffers from as well, is that all other things being equal, a pirate likely would not have payed for the copyrighted work *anyway*, even if the work was not available to 'steal'! That's what is ridiculous about the whole affair.
It's not rediculous at all. That they may not have paid for it is irrelevant. If they don't pay for it, they have no business using it. I despise the RIAA as much as the next sane person, but reasoning like that which you've mentioned is what's fueling the fire. You play, you pay...you don't pay, you don't play - it's a reasonable expectation on the part of the copyright owners.
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In addition to this, one of the greatest values of units tests lie in regression testing. It's not enough that the code works now, but whether it still works after some changes have been made.
It doesn't mean you can't make money from it, either. Open source and capitalistic gain are not mutually exclusive.
Careful...there is such a thing as an undesirable customer. Comcast could easily say, "You're costing us too much, we don't want your business." Then what?
Isn't that how cable started? Now it's a mess.
And anyone can post propaganda to color the truth.
Conspiracy? Someone who installed the equipment in secret rooms for AT&T has come clean and stated what they were doing. I'd hardly consider that a conspiracy.
And don't forget all the regular internet traffic being funneled to the NSA by our lovely telecoms.
The fourth amendment only protects you against unreasonable searches and seizures. Now some will flame away with their own personal views about what unreasonable means and what secure in ones papers, etc. means, but the fact is the view that is in vogue in most political circles is that unreasonable means that the person searched was somehow greatly inconvenienced by the searc
You're making the same mistake that one of our multi-star generals made when he insisted that there was no such right. What he failed to realize what that the litmus test for reasonable is clearly defined as probable cause. If there is no cause for search, it is, by definition, unreasonable.
I am not saying this is good or bad, but I am saying that Charlie Ergen(Dish CEO) has big testicles.
An appearance vs reality problem - I think you meant to say that he thinks he has big testicles. I see this as the root of most of the stupid things that men do.
I wonder if this would affect other content delivery services like Comcast.
For all of that, I've read that Dibold never made much money of these things and wants out of the business.
I think Diebold probably made a LOT of money on it - initially. My guess is that they probably lost because they were forced to re-examine, re-implement, and re-certify the crap that they tried to pass off as secure voting machines. Now that the cat's out of the bag, it's understandable that Diebold would want to distance itself as much as possible.
Laptops are good for more than just taking them home every night - as I'm sure you know, they're also great during meetings when you have to show something - like code reviews, presentations, etc.
As far as "indirection" via AR, if you don't want it you're free to not use it. It's one of the truly magnificent things about Rails.
This is one thing that really impressed me. They made it just as functional for people who aren't publishing/managing their own database schema, as they did for those who are. The UI components are completely decoupled from the from whatever mechanism is used to access a data store, so there's a LOT of flexibility.
I fervently believe people should have the right to smoke. It is 100% a personal liberty issue.
I agree. However, there's one minor point you seem to have overlooked. In public, the liberties that we share are concurrent. If someone has to move because a smoker is asserting their alleged right to smoke over another's right to remain unmolested, the concurrency is violated. So yes, in private, smokers have the right to knock themselves out. In public, however, their right to smoke stops at the air that others have to breathe.
And the biggest one of all, the content industry. Let's not forget the terrific amount of attention paid to the DRM that is now a very ingrained part of the OS. The eye candy was just a way of wrapping a piece of aero foil around a rotten turd.
Yay for you- I've done the same thing, except for a bit longer. I admit I slipped recently (bought one CD, but it was worth it). Overall, the RIAA companies have sold 1 CD to me in the past five years- not a very profitable ROI. If the rest of the consumer public would grow a pair and show the RIAA who's really boss (the ones with the wallets), the entire business model would change in very short time.
I swear, it's like, "here's $15, now hit me again!".
That is exactly the argument that applies to copyrighted material and the seeming entitlement people think they have to copy it. Yes, is costs its creators nothing when it's copied, but it does have value. Otherwise, people wouldn't be copying it.
Except that the Mad Max movies were filmed in Australia. : )
I agree with you - I used to play America's Army quite a bit, and even though I thought it was generally a fun game, one of my favorite maps was always inhabited by morons whose sense of skill came from nothing more than spamming grenades in a certain spot.
If I die because of an opponent's skill, it's fun to be able to sit back and admire the effort. If I die because some idiot thinks good gamesmanship is a matter of finding the shortest and easiest path to a kill, the fun stops and annoyance sets in.
Last I checked they still have plenty of friends in the oil industry, and may want extremely cushy and well paying jobs in a ridiculously profitable industry after they're done running the country.
I believe it's spelled ruining.
All those people calling for the government to balance its budget have no idea what they are talking about - if the government did that over the long term it would cause major shocks to our financial system.
Of course it would, because our system depends an an increasing spiral of debt.
Not backed by debt, but is debt.
Oh god don't get me started on Solitaire. Apple included a version with the ipod nano, and what started as a passing interest has turned into an OCD. : )
The error in this assumption, which the MPAA suffers from as well, is that all other things being equal, a pirate likely would not have payed for the copyrighted work *anyway*, even if the work was not available to 'steal'! That's what is ridiculous about the whole affair.
It's not rediculous at all. That they may not have paid for it is irrelevant. If they don't pay for it, they have no business using it. I despise the RIAA as much as the next sane person, but reasoning like that which you've mentioned is what's fueling the fire. You play, you pay...you don't pay, you don't play - it's a reasonable expectation on the part of the copyright owners.
Sure I am. And Operation Northwood never existed. And President Bush is a great leader. And 9/11 was just a bad dream.