sounds like you made up your mind *before* trying it.
Err. Well. You got me there.
The fact is I haven't tried it. But I made my homework. I have STFW and found mixed reviews and opinions about pair programming. That's why I'm asking here, to get more mixed reviews:-P
But seriously, I really don't believe that pair programming is such a good idea, and I was told that it only works if you really believe it works (no kidding, those are the exact words of the project leader), and of course this made me doubt even more.
1.- Even if you buy an album (or a license ) you cannot legally distribute it.
2.- Why would "RIAA or whomever" had the right to charge money for "all music produced"? Even music produced by non-RIAA artists? Even music produced outside the USA?
3.- What makes you think any artist is going to profit from this?
A lot of sites (like the once really cool but now really pathetic Vintage Gaming Network [vg-network.com]) now block downloads or forum access or other features if you block popups.
So don't go there.:P
Why would I like to visit a "really pathetic", pop-up forcing site again?
This is not about "democratizing" anything. This is about selling web pages to small business. Of course you have to listen to your target market. Nothing new here.
As I said before, this is a boring article, and i decided it was not worth my time.
Now you made me read it all to answer you.
The "other meaning" is more subtle. This weblog focuses on the public opinion in the internet The worldwide population currently connected on the internet is less than 1%. On all the net connected people there are different groups, opinions and goals. This article takes a very little group of people and calls it "The Second Superpower", diluting the meaning of the word.
If I believe for a moment that this little piece of population is what I see on the news or hear on the streets labeled as "Second Superpower", I may think that it's just a bunch of nerds using their free time to complain. What's so super about it? Why would I want to be a part of it?
These are some paragraphs on the article
Meta-blogging sites crawl across thousands of blogs, identifying popular links, noting emergent topics, and providing an instantaneous summary of the global consciousness of the second superpower.
The weblogs are a very little portion of someone's opinion. Calling them "instantaneous summary of the global consciousness" is like asking a kid on the street what is his favorite TV show and concluding that everyone in his city loves that show.
the second superpower is not currently able to match the first.
Wrong. This is not the case. Public opinion is sumarized every election and puts people in power (assuming a legal election). Public opinion IS the power where the First Superpower drains it's own. Again, this is diluting the meaning of "Superpower".
And toward the end of the article, it states we must carefully consider how best to support international institutions, so that they collectively form a setting in which our power can be exercised. Perhaps too often we attack institutions like the World Bank that might, under the right conditions, actually become partners with us in dealing with the first superpower.
Uh? What does the supporting the World Bank has to do with the power of public opinion?
So, after reading this, I may decide that this "Second Superpower" (whatever that means) is not worth my time or my attention.
You see, there are lots of people who never heard the term before (myself included). So one day you hear "Second Superpower" and what do you do?
1.-Search for it on google 2.-Find some useless weblog 3.-Decide that is nothing important 4.-Ignore that there can be any other possible meaning.
The "Second superpower" was supposed to be the power of public opinion. You could be interested in joining it. you could be part of this superpower. But because of disinformation, you are simply not interested.
I wrote a short story on this subject. When they step foot off of their ship, just like any other visitors to a foreign shore we greet them with open arms. They come in peace... they don't want our oil... They don't want our water...
They want to convert us...
I can imagine the pope combating aliens. Thousands of jews throwing David stars as shurikens. Those raelians claming it is a different alien race...
. A childs live may be spoiled or turned to thinking of things they should never have to think about
So, from what I am reading you really believe that a mind is so fragile that just the exposure to people having sex is enough to spoil somebody's life forever. And you really believe your kids should never have to think about sex.
I don't understand why there isn't a mandatory death penalty for tehm [Sic] as it is.
My last name is pronounced HA-U. In 31 years I haven't met a single person that Doesn't say "Like the apache greeting?". And then raise his/her hand and say HAU!
AAARRRGGHH!
Even Carl Sagan tells in a book that one day a cab driver told him "You have the same name as that scientist guy!" (not realizing he WAS "that scientist guy")
two particles of the same type and with the same properties are completely indistinguishable.
Yes, they are equal. Are they the same particle?
This means that a human being destroyed, but replicated exactly somewhere else, will have the exact same properties
Now, suppose you replicate exactly someone, but do not destroy the original. Again I ask, Are they the same person?
Many human cells are constantly dying and get replaced. Not many of the cells in the human body existed when the human was born. This means that your existing body/cells have been destroyed and recreated already - you simply didn't know.
Now this is a really interesting argument. Suppose you have some kind of degenerative disease and you need a prostetic leg. Later you need an arm, eben later you need a new heart. Suppose that the disease destroys even your brain cells and you need some kind of artificial storage to yield your conscience.
When do you stop being alive? When do you stop being yourself?. Dang if I know
If you RTFA, it clearly states that the options are there, you just have to use a scroll bar to see them.
Then I don't see what the problem is. You don't sign a contract without full reading it do you. Even if there are checkboxes behind a scroll bar, you must read all and make your infromed consent.
I'm Mexican and I agree with you. However, even if CD's are expensive that doesn't mean every CD-R is used for Piracy.
You mentioned "smaller music stores, whose stock is almost entirely CD-R-based". There are not such stores here*. If there were, then they are the pirates and they are the ones whose stock should be confiscated.
*I'm not saying pirated music CD's are not sold in México, only that they are not on stores. They are sold on the streets, on the subway and among friends, not on a store.
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God is Real... ...unless previously declared as integer
-Old Fortran joke
sounds like you made up your mind *before* trying it.
:-P
Err. Well. You got me there.
The fact is I haven't tried it. But I made my homework. I have STFW and found mixed reviews and opinions about pair programming. That's why I'm asking here, to get more mixed reviews
But seriously, I really don't believe that pair programming is such a good idea, and I was told that it only works if you really believe it works (no kidding, those are the exact words of the project leader), and of course this made me doubt even more.
It's noisy beacuse you have to talk all the time to the other person.
Imagine several teams of pair programmers, all in a reduced space, all talking about their particular task at the same time
Well, have you?
I'm about to start a project using pair programming (not exactly Extreme, but something like that) and I don't like it one bit
Pair programming is uncomfortable on our reduced space. And it's noisy.
Are the inconveniences worth it?
1.- Even if you buy an album (or a license ) you cannot legally distribute it.
2.- Why would "RIAA or whomever" had the right to charge money for "all music produced"? Even music produced by non-RIAA artists? Even music produced outside the USA?
3.- What makes you think any artist is going to profit from this?
I always answer like this
them: what's your sign.
me: Negative
them: oh that is definitely you.
Your agreement to those terms is sealed when you promise to pay $20 for that DVD, and then do so.
What if I slip a note an my $20.00 stating "By accepting this money you agree to give me one DVD for every movie produced in the future"
By your reasoning, the agreement of the movie producers is sealed when they accept the money. It goes both ways or no way at all.
From the article:
he consulted a musicologist who said the riff was commonplace.
The jury agreed, calling the rapper's actions innocent infringement, but fined him anyway.
A lot of sites (like the once really cool but now really pathetic Vintage Gaming Network [vg-network.com]) now block downloads or forum access or other features if you block popups.
:P
So don't go there.
Why would I like to visit a "really pathetic", pop-up forcing site again?
I think.. Who cares?
This is not about "democratizing" anything. This is about selling web pages to small business. Of course you have to listen to your target market. Nothing new here.
it's "wide open" as in "I did not rob this coke can, the damn thing was on a machine that gave it to me after I inserted a coin and pressed a button"
If you put something on a web server, and somebody makes a "request" to download that file, it's yours for the taking.
You can always take the file out your server, or instruct the server not to give it.
As I said before, this is a boring article, and i decided it was not worth my time.
Now you made me read it all to answer you.
The "other meaning" is more subtle. This weblog focuses on the public opinion in the internet The worldwide population currently connected on the internet is less than 1%. On all the net connected people there are different groups, opinions and goals. This article takes a very little group of people and calls it "The Second Superpower", diluting the meaning of the word.
If I believe for a moment that this little piece of population is what I see on the news or hear on the streets labeled as "Second Superpower", I may think that it's just a bunch of nerds using their free time to complain. What's so super about it? Why would I want to be a part of it?
These are some paragraphs on the article
Meta-blogging sites crawl across thousands of blogs, identifying popular links, noting emergent topics, and providing an instantaneous summary of the global consciousness of the second superpower.
The weblogs are a very little portion of someone's opinion. Calling them "instantaneous summary of the global consciousness" is like asking a kid on the street what is his favorite TV show and concluding that everyone in his city loves that show.
the second superpower is not currently able to match the first.
Wrong. This is not the case. Public opinion is sumarized every election and puts people in power (assuming a legal election). Public opinion IS the power where the First Superpower drains it's own. Again, this is diluting the meaning of "Superpower".
And toward the end of the article, it states
we must carefully consider how best to support international institutions, so that they collectively form a setting in which our power can be exercised. Perhaps too often we attack institutions like the World Bank that might, under the right conditions, actually become partners with us in dealing with the first superpower.
Uh? What does the supporting the World Bank has to do with the power of public opinion?
So, after reading this, I may decide that this "Second Superpower" (whatever that means) is not worth my time or my attention.
And that's the problem.
And that's the problem
You see, there are lots of people who never heard the term before (myself included). So one day you hear "Second Superpower" and what do you do?
1.-Search for it on google
2.-Find some useless weblog
3.-Decide that is nothing important
4.-Ignore that there can be any other possible meaning.
The "Second superpower" was supposed to be the power of public opinion. You could be interested in joining it. you could be part of this superpower. But because of disinformation, you are simply not interested.
Bush will have to invade Turkey
Inodoro pereyra, el renegau
Also, he is from Argentina, not Spain.
I wrote a short story on this subject. When they step foot off of their ship, just like any other visitors to a foreign shore we greet them with open arms. They come in peace... they don't want our oil... They don't want our water...
They want to convert us...
I can imagine the pope combating aliens. Thousands of jews throwing David stars as shurikens. Those raelians claming it is a different alien race...
OK, I'm hooked. Where can I read your story?
. A childs live may be spoiled or turned to thinking of things they should never have to think about
So, from what I am reading you really believe that a mind is so fragile that just the exposure to people having sex is enough to spoil somebody's life forever. And you really believe your kids should never have to think about sex.
I don't understand why there isn't a mandatory death penalty for tehm [Sic] as it is.
Ah. Sex is evil. Killing people is not. Got it.
You are weird
Heh!. You got off easy
My last name is pronounced HA-U. In 31 years I haven't met a single person that Doesn't say "Like the apache greeting?". And then raise his/her hand and say HAU!
AAARRRGGHH!
Even Carl Sagan tells in a book that one day a cab driver told him "You have the same name as that scientist guy!" (not realizing he WAS "that scientist guy")
two particles of the same type and with the same properties are completely indistinguishable.
Yes, they are equal. Are they the same particle?
This means that a human being destroyed, but replicated exactly somewhere else, will have the exact same properties
Now, suppose you replicate exactly someone, but do not destroy the original. Again I ask, Are they the same person?
Many human cells are constantly dying and get replaced. Not many of the cells in the human body existed when the human was born. This means that your existing body/cells have been destroyed and recreated already - you simply didn't know.
Now this is a really interesting argument. Suppose you have some kind of degenerative disease and you need a prostetic leg. Later you need an arm, eben later you need a new heart. Suppose that the disease destroys even your brain cells and you need some kind of artificial storage to yield your conscience.
When do you stop being alive? When do you stop being yourself?. Dang if I know
I find those warnings offensive.
I'm not a criminal, I bought the DVD and I just want to see the damn movie. I want to remove those warnings
If you RTFA, it clearly states that the options are there, you just have to use a scroll bar to see them.
Then I don't see what the problem is. You don't sign a contract without full reading it do you. Even if there are checkboxes behind a scroll bar, you must read all and make your infromed consent.
How about Philip Katz the inventor of PK-Zip
The internet would not be the same without Zip compression, and he made the software Shareware.
why would anyone feel the need to hack or exploit my PC?
Do you have a car? Do you lock the door when you get out? Why would anyone feel the need to steal or use your particular car?
It's the same with your PC. They are not after you they are seeking for any resource they can use to launch a DOS or something like that
uh... so what?
I'm Mexican and I agree with you. However, even if CD's are expensive that doesn't mean every CD-R is used for Piracy.
You mentioned "smaller music stores, whose stock is almost entirely CD-R-based". There are not such stores here*. If there were, then they are the pirates and they are the ones whose stock should be confiscated.
*I'm not saying pirated music CD's are not sold in México, only that they are not on stores. They are sold on the streets, on the subway and among friends, not on a store.
There's a low budget, professional looking, star wars video here
If you visit the site you will find out what they did, what software to use, and general tips to make a movie.
Anyway, the important thing is not the technology, but the history you are trying to tell.
(I'm glad you didn't ask how to get profit, though)