The radio stations are in large part responsible for the decline in CD sales. Commercial radio stations started playing the same popular songs more and more often. As a result there was no need to buy the CD of that catchy tune you heard on the radio. You could just tune in ten minutes later and hear it again.
Therefore the RIAA isn't so much shooting itself in the foot as much as the radio stations already shot at the RIAA and this is their counter strike. Because the radio stations essentially killed the RIAA's business model, the RIAA is left with no choice but to look for new ways to make money. And who better to target than the ones who did the damage?
If that came out of general funds though I'd say that they have some priorities mixed up.....
I don't know where the funds came from, but I do know that the whole community realized benefits from having all that technology come to the area. Because there is no department of technology in government, to school board was playing that role. That's not necessarily a bad thing considering that it is publicly funded.
I say "was" because they don't seem to splurge on technology anymore. The area, despite being a farming community, was once ahead of large cities in many respects with regards to utilization of technology. But we're pretty much back in the dark ages now. It's rather unfortunate. But I guess reducing the class size by a few students is more important than the well being of the community.;)
I graduated from a small rural high school with about 600 students in the year 2000. We had an entire IT staff. Microwave data links with other schools in the region. A high speed connection to the internet (I seem to recall it being in the 40Mbps range). We had a lab full of SGI and high-end Apple computers. Strangely enough, the PCs, the ones that everyone used, were nothing to phone home about.
There was no real emphasis on technology in the curriculum though, so all that cool technology was pretty much wasted.
I have to allow the "app" access to my information just to see a video or to look at a picture.
That's the fault of a poorly developed application. Facebook applications technically do not require you to allow access to your information just to view a video or look at a picture.
I'm wondering why independent shows haven't started popping up and gaining in popularity over the internet. Talk about the perfect opportunity to change how TV is produced and delivered while the majors are down and out.
Why is blocking of port 25 based on the port alone not a firewall? It fits well within the definition. Sure, firewalls can do much more complex operations, but that obviously isn't necessary in this circumstance.
The first person to write a successful Linux or OS X virus would receive just as much fanfare, if not more. So why aren't we seeing more attempts at it?
That's not well written code, I'm afraid. I know that we're talking about minimum and maximum values of something. But what?
Now, if your code looked something more like the following, and given within some more context (a well named function for example), it would be quite obvious as to what you're trying to do. int minimum_age_of_users = maximum_age_of_dogs;
Also, humans tend to read left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Any worthwhile program is filled with loops, branches, conditionals, calls, recursion, etc.
You're not executing the code. It's still read left-to-right, top-to-bottom.
It's not restating, it's clarifying what the code does
But I'm saying that well written code does not need clarification. When it's well written there's nothing more that can be said in any other language that hasn't already been said directly in the code. I'll admit there are border cases where it's almost impossible to write code that is abundantly clear and under those circumstances comments are a good idea, but those should be few and far between.
# Les gars sont agiles droite. Si le code est écrit Bien, il va parler pour lui-même. # Il n'ya pas besoin de Double emploi avec ce que dit le code dans une autre # langue (Anglais). C'est peu comme votre commentant Anglais paragraphes d'une # interprétation française. À moins français est votre langue maternelle c'est # juste aller Pour obtenir de la manière et de rendre la lecture de la même Anglais # Plus difficile. Comme un programmeur, c'est mon travail d'être Parle couramment le # langage de programmation de mon choix. Reading Code devrait être aussi simple que de lire un livre. The agile guys are right. If the code is written well, it will speak for itself. There's no need to duplicate what the code says in another language (i.e. english). It's kind of like commenting your english paragraphs with a french interpretation. Unless french is your native tongue it's just going to get in the way and make reading the english even more difficult. As a programmer, it's my job to be fluent in my programming langauge of choice. Reading code should be as easy as reading a book.
# Cela dit, parfois, vous avez vraiment à écrire Quelque chose d'anormal, et, dans ce cas, vous devriez # Commentaire. Toutefois, ces cas sont rares Entre. That said, sometimes you really do have to write something abnormal, and in those cases you should comment it. However, those instances are few and far between.
What difference does it make to the customer? The iPhone you already own isn't going to magically become a newer model, even if Apple stays tied to AT&T forever.
you plug it in and it shows up in My Computer as a drive and you drop MP3s on it or any other file.
I've come to love using smart playlists to automatically manage the music on my iPod. I can't imagine having to dig around the filesystem manually (or write a script to do it) just to get the songs I want onto my player. Granted, I haven't used a Zune, so perhaps there is iTunes-like software that can be used.
In Canada, or at least Ontario, we block roadways we aren't getting what we want from the government. It has generally successful in the past, however recent legislation has made that practice against the law:
Driving two or more motor vehicles side by side or in proximity to each other, where one of the motor vehicles occupies a lane of traffic or other portion of the highway intended for use by oncoming traffic for a period of time that is longer than is reasonably required to pass another motor vehicle.
Therefore, it is up in the air if we will be able to find a new avenue to reach the government in the future.
Also, most small acts couldn't afford the distribution costs on their own.
This is a problem faced by a lot of small businesses (and a small touring band is a small business). As such, record labels aren't the only way to raise capital. But what the record labels do provide is the business expertise, allowing the artists to focus on their art.
What I meant was that it is that there exists no reason what so ever that modern operating systems require at least 300 megabytes of RAM to render a basic GUI when a computer with 32 megs can do it *better* than that.
Yes, there is a good reason. The market isn't willing to pay someone to spend the time to fit a modern GUI into 32MB of RAM. It's much more cost effective for everyone to just have 300MB of RAM instead.
We, the searchers, are Google's product. Therefore it is important that they improve our experience in order to make us more appealing to their customers.
It's amazing how often I've looked at some random stranger's profile on Facebook and then ran into the very same person in real life shortly thereafter. What I wonder is if I've seen these people before and only took notice because of their Facebook profile, or if the encounter was purely a coincidence every single time.
Make, to me, implies the gross amount they collect on the sale. Just like if you make $50,000 a year, you're not going to have that $50,000 sitting in the bank at the end of the year. You have expenses that need to be paid in order to be able to collect that $50,000.
What's different now is that my parent's and even my grandparent's generations are on it. A college student might be quick to jump around, but the older folks will never take the time to learn yet another social networking site. The other services you mentioned never reached the critical mass required to last. Facebook has.
Nobody used MySpace. Everyone uses Facebook. Because of that it was easy to move people away from MySpace, but it will not be so easy to move people away from Facebook in the future.
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The radio stations are in large part responsible for the decline in CD sales. Commercial radio stations started playing the same popular songs more and more often. As a result there was no need to buy the CD of that catchy tune you heard on the radio. You could just tune in ten minutes later and hear it again.
Therefore the RIAA isn't so much shooting itself in the foot as much as the radio stations already shot at the RIAA and this is their counter strike. Because the radio stations essentially killed the RIAA's business model, the RIAA is left with no choice but to look for new ways to make money. And who better to target than the ones who did the damage?
I don't know where the funds came from, but I do know that the whole community realized benefits from having all that technology come to the area. Because there is no department of technology in government, to school board was playing that role. That's not necessarily a bad thing considering that it is publicly funded.
I say "was" because they don't seem to splurge on technology anymore. The area, despite being a farming community, was once ahead of large cities in many respects with regards to utilization of technology. But we're pretty much back in the dark ages now. It's rather unfortunate. But I guess reducing the class size by a few students is more important than the well being of the community.
I graduated from a small rural high school with about 600 students in the year 2000. We had an entire IT staff. Microwave data links with other schools in the region. A high speed connection to the internet (I seem to recall it being in the 40Mbps range). We had a lab full of SGI and high-end Apple computers. Strangely enough, the PCs, the ones that everyone used, were nothing to phone home about.
There was no real emphasis on technology in the curriculum though, so all that cool technology was pretty much wasted.
That's the fault of a poorly developed application. Facebook applications technically do not require you to allow access to your information just to view a video or look at a picture.
I'm wondering why independent shows haven't started popping up and gaining in popularity over the internet. Talk about the perfect opportunity to change how TV is produced and delivered while the majors are down and out.
Why is blocking of port 25 based on the port alone not a firewall? It fits well within the definition. Sure, firewalls can do much more complex operations, but that obviously isn't necessary in this circumstance.
The first person to write a successful Linux or OS X virus would receive just as much fanfare, if not more. So why aren't we seeing more attempts at it?
Ask for a SIN (social insurance number)?
That's not well written code, I'm afraid. I know that we're talking about minimum and maximum values of something. But what?
Now, if your code looked something more like the following, and given within some more context (a well named function for example), it would be quite obvious as to what you're trying to do.
int minimum_age_of_users = maximum_age_of_dogs;
You're not executing the code. It's still read left-to-right, top-to-bottom.
But I'm saying that well written code does not need clarification. When it's well written there's nothing more that can be said in any other language that hasn't already been said directly in the code. I'll admit there are border cases where it's almost impossible to write code that is abundantly clear and under those circumstances comments are a good idea, but those should be few and far between.
# Les gars sont agiles droite. Si le code est écrit Bien, il va parler pour lui-même.
# Il n'ya pas besoin de Double emploi avec ce que dit le code dans une autre
# langue (Anglais). C'est peu comme votre commentant Anglais paragraphes d'une
# interprétation française. À moins français est votre langue maternelle c'est
# juste aller Pour obtenir de la manière et de rendre la lecture de la même Anglais
# Plus difficile. Comme un programmeur, c'est mon travail d'être Parle couramment le
# langage de programmation de mon choix. Reading Code devrait être aussi simple que de lire un livre.
The agile guys are right. If the code is written well, it will speak for itself. There's no need to
duplicate what the code says in another language (i.e. english). It's kind of like commenting your
english paragraphs with a french interpretation. Unless french is your native tongue it's just going
to get in the way and make reading the english even more difficult. As a programmer, it's my job to
be fluent in my programming langauge of choice. Reading code should be as easy as reading a book.
# Cela dit, parfois, vous avez vraiment à écrire Quelque chose d'anormal, et, dans ce cas, vous devriez
# Commentaire. Toutefois, ces cas sont rares Entre.
That said, sometimes you really do have to write something abnormal, and in those cases you should
comment it. However, those instances are few and far between.
I've been working with Rails long before 1.0 and I don't recall it ever requiring auto-incrementing primary keys. It's just the default.
What difference does it make to the customer? The iPhone you already own isn't going to magically become a newer model, even if Apple stays tied to AT&T forever.
I've come to love using smart playlists to automatically manage the music on my iPod. I can't imagine having to dig around the filesystem manually (or write a script to do it) just to get the songs I want onto my player. Granted, I haven't used a Zune, so perhaps there is iTunes-like software that can be used.
Therefore, it is up in the air if we will be able to find a new avenue to reach the government in the future.
If you've only got $900 saved, just wait longer. Why waste that kind of money on something you don't really want (i.e. a PC)?
This is a problem faced by a lot of small businesses (and a small touring band is a small business). As such, record labels aren't the only way to raise capital. But what the record labels do provide is the business expertise, allowing the artists to focus on their art.
Considering that the Macbooks already come with a motion sensor, the odds are pretty good.
Yes, there is a good reason. The market isn't willing to pay someone to spend the time to fit a modern GUI into 32MB of RAM. It's much more cost effective for everyone to just have 300MB of RAM instead.
We, the searchers, are Google's product. Therefore it is important that they improve our experience in order to make us more appealing to their customers.
It's amazing how often I've looked at some random stranger's profile on Facebook and then ran into the very same person in real life shortly thereafter. What I wonder is if I've seen these people before and only took notice because of their Facebook profile, or if the encounter was purely a coincidence every single time.
Make, to me, implies the gross amount they collect on the sale. Just like if you make $50,000 a year, you're not going to have that $50,000 sitting in the bank at the end of the year. You have expenses that need to be paid in order to be able to collect that $50,000.
What's different now is that my parent's and even my grandparent's generations are on it. A college student might be quick to jump around, but the older folks will never take the time to learn yet another social networking site. The other services you mentioned never reached the critical mass required to last. Facebook has.
Nobody used MySpace. Everyone uses Facebook. Because of that it was easy to move people away from MySpace, but it will not be so easy to move people away from Facebook in the future.
But to be a good programmer, aesthetic ability is a requirement. The visual appearance of code is the most important factor in maintainability.