There's probably a number of size and power constraints as well that result in every single leading cell phone lacking this 'feature.'
I can't remember the last mobile phone I had that didn't have an FM radio built-in; certainly my last one (LG Viewty) and my current (HTC Desire) both do; perhaps the situation is different in the States.
Of course whether or not you consider either of these phones to be "leading cell phones" is another matter; the Desire is pretty popular over here at least though.
Developers absolutely should be writing unit tests, and those tests should be run automatically as part of the build as well as manually from time to time.
"End user" type testing, system integration testing, etc, beyond "yeah, seems to work ok, I wouldn't be wasting the test team's time giving them this" should be performed by someone else. You're too close to it to test your own code in that manner.
I agree, but I would take it further. If you're not testing your code you're not doing your job, but if you're the only one testing your application you are doing someone else's job, and doing it poorly.
Developers should (I would almost say must) write unit tests, which should be automated. However system and integration testing beyond "yeah, it seems to work ok" should be performed by someone else. You're too close to the code to perform "end user" type testing.
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
Not only that, but there are those of us who consider calling a subset of the people who live on the continent of North America "American" but not the rest to be somewhat inaccurate. It gets even worse if you consider North and South America together to be a single continent.
No, I don't; I do remember fully supporting their decision to sue Microsoft due to their breach of the licence though.
If Google truly have breached the licence, then they deserve to lose. If they have not, then they will beat this and Oracle will suffer (bad press, financial loss, etc). Given Google's size I'm really not seeing the problem here, beyond the potential that one company or the other has acted poorly.
I know you're at least partly joking, but you do have a point. We are never going to be able to lift every living human being off this planet and out into space, there simply isn't enough energy available for it.
So if we're going to create viable, self-sustaining colonies, they are going to need to be bootstrapped from relatively small initial populations. In order to achieve a high birth rate you need many more females than males, for reasons that should be obvious. (Of course, you also need to forget any idea of monogamy)
People around you will always have this accusation in the back of their minds.
Not only that, but quite often while the initial coverage of the case is headline news, by the time the wheels of justice have ground out a verdict of "not guilty" and the false accusation has been proven, coverage is much less prominent.
Even if you're on the losing side, it might end the war earlier and save lives, especially if the information gained leads to surrendering in the face of otherwise-unknown insurmountable odds.
It is explicitly legal in the UK to use reasonable force to protect yourself or anyone else you perceive to be in danger. You really are going to have to cite some proof of your assertion.
No, they're not required to sell at the suggested price - but they are required to sell at a price that covers their costs and allows them to make a reasonable profit.
Chances are their costs are simply higher than those of Amazon, and they're not able to make the same volumes to pull in the money they need based on higher volume and lower margins.
None of which means you should pay more and buy from them of course; it just means that it's not moronic, it's simply a business model that's failing in the face of an alternative one.
But I feel the same way about any number of extremely popular games on Facebook, or realistic commercial airline flight simulators - where's the action?
I contend that most downloads or sales of cheap counterfeit merchandise are in fact a direct result of ridiculously high prices for legitimate items, rather than a cause of high prices
This isn't an either/or situation, both of those points of view can be and probably are true simultaneously, to greater or lesser degree.
Wikileaks, OTOH, shows you the actual docs. That's why they are being persecuted as criminals.
They're being persecuted like criminals because some of the documents in their possession are of questionable legality, not because they show the docs full stop.
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There's probably a number of size and power constraints as well that result in every single leading cell phone lacking this 'feature.'
I can't remember the last mobile phone I had that didn't have an FM radio built-in; certainly my last one (LG Viewty) and my current (HTC Desire) both do; perhaps the situation is different in the States.
Of course whether or not you consider either of these phones to be "leading cell phones" is another matter; the Desire is pretty popular over here at least though.
Yes and no.
Developers absolutely should be writing unit tests, and those tests should be run automatically as part of the build as well as manually from time to time.
"End user" type testing, system integration testing, etc, beyond "yeah, seems to work ok, I wouldn't be wasting the test team's time giving them this" should be performed by someone else. You're too close to it to test your own code in that manner.
I agree, but I would take it further. If you're not testing your code you're not doing your job, but if you're the only one testing your application you are doing someone else's job, and doing it poorly.
Developers should (I would almost say must) write unit tests, which should be automated. However system and integration testing beyond "yeah, it seems to work ok" should be performed by someone else. You're too close to the code to perform "end user" type testing.
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
Attributed to Socrates by Plato
Similarly, people are Scottish or Welsh, and not United Kingdomian.
Actually, officially-speaking, we are all British. English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish are not nationalities.
Individual people may identify with their country (some taking it to ridiculous levels in my opinion), but that's irrelevant.
Not only that, but there are those of us who consider calling a subset of the people who live on the continent of North America "American" but not the rest to be somewhat inaccurate. It gets even worse if you consider North and South America together to be a single continent.
No, I don't; I do remember fully supporting their decision to sue Microsoft due to their breach of the licence though.
If Google truly have breached the licence, then they deserve to lose. If they have not, then they will beat this and Oracle will suffer (bad press, financial loss, etc). Given Google's size I'm really not seeing the problem here, beyond the potential that one company or the other has acted poorly.
>Spying, inciting unrest, sabotage, assassination- none of these were invented by the USA.
While that's true, it doesn't really seem to make it any better that your country seems to do it so much, and with such gusto.
Disclaimer: I'm a Brit, but I'm nowhere near old enough to be blamed for our imperial days.
He makes one assertion that is demonstrably incorrect and suddenly he's a zealot?
You mean you've never seen an error 500 here? They're rare, but they certainly happen.
Or in my case, have a famous namesake. Zero effort on my part, and any reference to me drowns in the sea of references to him.
I know you're at least partly joking, but you do have a point. We are never going to be able to lift every living human being off this planet and out into space, there simply isn't enough energy available for it.
So if we're going to create viable, self-sustaining colonies, they are going to need to be bootstrapped from relatively small initial populations. In order to achieve a high birth rate you need many more females than males, for reasons that should be obvious. (Of course, you also need to forget any idea of monogamy)
It's a minor nit-pick I know, but with a background in Physics I can't help myself - it's not "degrees Kelvin", it's just "Kelvin",.
No; it was Fermat.
People around you will always have this accusation in the back of their minds.
Not only that, but quite often while the initial coverage of the case is headline news, by the time the wheels of justice have ground out a verdict of "not guilty" and the false accusation has been proven, coverage is much less prominent.
No, but you do see an awful lot of comments on here decrying copyright (and patents, and any concept of IP) full stop.
Yes I know, no single hive-mind exists to hold a coherent opinion.
Even if you're on the losing side, it might end the war earlier and save lives, especially if the information gained leads to surrendering in the face of otherwise-unknown insurmountable odds.
It is explicitly legal in the UK to use reasonable force to protect yourself or anyone else you perceive to be in danger. You really are going to have to cite some proof of your assertion.
Think I'll head to the coast - maybe I'll be safe at the top of a lighthouse...
No, they're not required to sell at the suggested price - but they are required to sell at a price that covers their costs and allows them to make a reasonable profit.
Chances are their costs are simply higher than those of Amazon, and they're not able to make the same volumes to pull in the money they need based on higher volume and lower margins.
None of which means you should pay more and buy from them of course; it just means that it's not moronic, it's simply a business model that's failing in the face of an alternative one.
But I feel the same way about any number of extremely popular games on Facebook, or realistic commercial airline flight simulators - where's the action?
People still seem to like them though.
Oddly enough, this doesn't extend to natural disasters
In the case of casualties of war, they don't tend to show all the gory details because it reminds people that
a) those people are dead because Our Boys killed them; and
b) Our Boys are dying in the same ways
Both of those can have the effect of reducing or destroying popular support for the war.
In the case of natural disasters it's just an act of God, there's no one to blame and no support to be withdrawn.
If he had already been dismissed then how could he be sued for being in breach of a contract that neither party was bound by?
I contend that most downloads or sales of cheap counterfeit merchandise are in fact a direct result of ridiculously high prices for legitimate items, rather than a cause of high prices
This isn't an either/or situation, both of those points of view can be and probably are true simultaneously, to greater or lesser degree.
Wikileaks, OTOH, shows you the actual docs. That's why they are being persecuted as criminals.
They're being persecuted like criminals because some of the documents in their possession are of questionable legality, not because they show the docs full stop.