What no one thought of is that if you lose your iPod, without much effort you will become the RIAA's brand new Public Enemy Number One...
I have a hard time taking this assertion seriously. If I stole someone else's iPod, the first thought in my mind would not be, "Sweet, I'm going to go share all this music with my 10 million P2P friends!" Now someone might do that, but if so, it would be because they had a vendetta against you to begin with.
WTF??? If you don't know the difference between i++ and ++i you have no damn business messing with my code!
It's easy to know the difference. It's also easy to overlook them both when you're trying to find out what's causing a bug.
i++ works. So does i = i + 1, but the latter is self-documenting. Either way, be consistent... if you're a ++i type of person, don't put i++ in your code, and vice-versa. That reduces one level of possible error from the process later on for the person who has to maintain your code after you've retired or moved on.
no, it can only be cleared up after searching your code to realize it is the max number of aliens on the screen, not the max per level, or per game, or whatever the hell you were thinking 2 years ago when you wrote it.
QFT. A better name might be ALIENS_ONSCREEN_MAX, to separate it from ALIENS_MAX (the total number of aliens stored in memory) and ALIENS_LEVEL_MAX (total number of aliens per game).
I'm ambivalent on whether putting the word "number" (or an abbreviation thereof) in a variable name is wasteful. My realm of expertise is PL/SQL, which has strong types and won't let you perform character operations on numbers. How necessary is "ALIENS_LEVEL_MAX_NUM" versus "ALIENS_LEVEL_MAX" in a C++ application?
Just wait until we abandon CSS in order to ensure that an entire page can be rendered by through a single TCP/IPv6 connection. Domain names with vowels! HTML with serifed fonts! Imminent Death of Web 2.0 predicted!
If there's a big boogieman out there, we need to build weapons and tanks and planes and spend big bucks doing it.
At the moment, there're a couple of bogeymen: Iran and China. Hopefully we'll never have to worry about going to war with either one, because it would be damned ugly under the best circumstances.
Not to mention, abolishing copyright would practically impose significantly upon the rest of society. Prices of movies in theatres would be several times what they are now. Consumers wouldn't be able to buy their favorite movies on DVD. Studios would need to keep them running in theatres as long as possible. Entering a theatre would be more security intensive than boarding an airplane. You would probably have to sign a contract when entering.
Really? What copyright-free country have you been to that you can make claims like this? For all you know, a copyright-free country might end up more like China, where movies are $2 for a DVD, if that. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I want to live in China; but the truth is, you don't know what the reality would be, because you've never lived it.
I know I wouldn't accept any of the above-mentioned shit. I should point out, though, that studios already keep movies running as long as they make a profit (i.e., as long as possible). And contracts? Don't give the wankers any ideas. Before long, we'll probably end up seeing "click-thru" agreements on the back of our movie tickets anyway. I can see it now: "Purchasing this ticket means you agree not to say anything negative about our movie or we'll bust your ass for copyright infringement."
Because if you're successful in killing Old Media, that's all you'll have!
At least the folks running into each other with shopping carts care about something other than their net worth. Why are "Old Media" suits getting millions of dollars from artistic works while the artists themselves get shafted?
Nothing to it - all you need is a 12m tracking dish capable of keeping up with a Low Earth Orbit Satellite on a circa. 90 minute orbit, hardware capable of handling the huge bandwidth required (a single QuickBird scene of about 272 km^2 runs to gigabytes, then you can hack into the satellite to persuade it to unload the raw data from the on-board solid-state memory to your PC which knows how to process it into system-corrected data and then...
I have one of those at work, but they won't let me play with it.
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What no one thought of is that if you lose your iPod, without much effort you will become the RIAA's brand new Public Enemy Number One...
I have a hard time taking this assertion seriously. If I stole someone else's iPod, the first thought in my mind would not be, "Sweet, I'm going to go share all this music with my 10 million P2P friends!" Now someone might do that, but if so, it would be because they had a vendetta against you to begin with.
A deliciously ironic response, given the GP's username is Shinra.
I'm sending you the bill for the three gallons of brain detergent it will take to get that image out of my head.
WTF??? If you don't know the difference between i++ and ++i you have no damn business messing with my code!
It's easy to know the difference. It's also easy to overlook them both when you're trying to find out what's causing a bug.
i++ works. So does i = i + 1, but the latter is self-documenting. Either way, be consistent ... if you're a ++i type of person, don't put i++ in your code, and vice-versa. That reduces one level of possible error from the process later on for the person who has to maintain your code after you've retired or moved on.
no, it can only be cleared up after searching your code to realize it is the max number of aliens on the screen, not the max per level, or per game, or whatever the hell you were thinking 2 years ago when you wrote it.
QFT. A better name might be ALIENS_ONSCREEN_MAX, to separate it from ALIENS_MAX (the total number of aliens stored in memory) and ALIENS_LEVEL_MAX (total number of aliens per game).
I'm ambivalent on whether putting the word "number" (or an abbreviation thereof) in a variable name is wasteful. My realm of expertise is PL/SQL, which has strong types and won't let you perform character operations on numbers. How necessary is "ALIENS_LEVEL_MAX_NUM" versus "ALIENS_LEVEL_MAX" in a C++ application?
Bad example. The White House has secure Internet and Milstar for that sort of circumstance.
At least the fundies take their holy book by it's word.
Or at least those parts of it that survived the Council of Nicea.
So that's where the missing Zs went. Give them back, scoundrel!
Just wait until we abandon CSS in order to ensure that an entire page can be rendered by through a single TCP/IPv6 connection. Domain names with vowels! HTML with serifed fonts! Imminent Death of Web 2.0 predicted!
Cats and dogs, lying together ... mass hysteria!
"Flamebait"? Guess I shouldn't quit my day job ...
Whom.
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Every time my ex-girlfriend places something on the shelves I put up for her, she has to pay a fee to me.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: sex as legal currency.
If there's a big boogieman out there, we need to build weapons and tanks and planes and spend big bucks doing it.
At the moment, there're a couple of bogeymen: Iran and China. Hopefully we'll never have to worry about going to war with either one, because it would be damned ugly under the best circumstances.
They could call it Digital Consumer Enablement!
Oh, wait ...
Maybe our current administration should have thought of that before they went gung-ho into Iraq.
They can have my real M16 when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
No, really. Come and get it, beefsteaks!
Today it's a troll. Tomorrow it's the next "In Soviet Russia" joke.
Jerry, is that you??
SLAPP.
Not to mention, abolishing copyright would practically impose significantly upon the rest of society. Prices of movies in theatres would be several times what they are now. Consumers wouldn't be able to buy their favorite movies on DVD. Studios would need to keep them running in theatres as long as possible. Entering a theatre would be more security intensive than boarding an airplane. You would probably have to sign a contract when entering.
Really? What copyright-free country have you been to that you can make claims like this? For all you know, a copyright-free country might end up more like China, where movies are $2 for a DVD, if that. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I want to live in China; but the truth is, you don't know what the reality would be, because you've never lived it.
I know I wouldn't accept any of the above-mentioned shit. I should point out, though, that studios already keep movies running as long as they make a profit (i.e., as long as possible). And contracts? Don't give the wankers any ideas. Before long, we'll probably end up seeing "click-thru" agreements on the back of our movie tickets anyway. I can see it now: "Purchasing this ticket means you agree not to say anything negative about our movie or we'll bust your ass for copyright infringement."
(1) Grow pointy hair. ...
(2)
(3) Promotion!
Because if you're successful in killing Old Media, that's all you'll have!
At least the folks running into each other with shopping carts care about something other than their net worth. Why are "Old Media" suits getting millions of dollars from artistic works while the artists themselves get shafted?
Digital Consumer Enfeeblement
Sweet -- it's like a Reader's Digest condensed version of the Book of Leviticus!
I'm going to Hell for this one, aren't I?
Nothing to it - all you need is a 12m tracking dish capable of keeping up with a Low Earth Orbit Satellite on a circa. 90 minute orbit, hardware capable of handling the huge bandwidth required (a single QuickBird scene of about 272 km^2 runs to gigabytes, then you can hack into the satellite to persuade it to unload the raw data from the on-board solid-state memory to your PC which knows how to process it into system-corrected data and then...
I have one of those at work, but they won't let me play with it.