I was thinking more as a handy reference...I like to look back at things
Think about if maybe it is not your code you are editing--new job, helping an open source project, whatever--when your code calls function1(), it might be nice to know what function1() does as well as what function3() and function4() do when they are called by function1(). I'm envisioning something that brings them all together on your workspace even though they are separated correctly into files of related functions (or incorrectly..maybe the guy before you was crazy and thought functions should be stored alphabetically).
I see it not as a new paradigm for storing code, but a new way to explore and edit code. Quite frankly, on a brand new project with no set standards for what files get what code, it would probably be a worse way to start.
I wonder about that too but I would imagine that it has more to do with the fact that well trained cooks are not taught to cook things for XX minutes but rather learn to cook by feel. Especially if you cook the same things many times a day, you can probably tell by looking/smelling/listening/prodding when it is done.
I like the idea at least as I understand it from the summary.
Might just be more handy as a display mode than an entire paradigm but I can see how it would be nice if you could display functions together from different files.
If you are working on one function that is in file3.c that has to interact with functions in file7.c and file3.c, why not be able to display them all as if they are in the same file (when they will eventually get compiled together anyways). The code already exists in most IDEs to collapse functions, so why not extend that to being able to mash up all the collapsed functions from every file. Then you can display the ones you want to see as if they were all in the same file.
Keeping stuff in separate files and including them is a good organization technique and helps with multiple people working on a project (and you can substitute different files for different platforms, etc.) but I can see where this would be useful if instead of flipping between 5 open files, the IDE could display just the portions you need. Bonus points if the IDE can do this automatically in a semi intelligent manner--like show the collapsed version of functions that might be relevant based on some criteria and then allow you to expand them if you like.
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And you would think it would be a good opportunity for them to leverage their existing contracts, resources, and brand name to push into wind power.
Buying out a small startup player and giving them your established name and relationships with other power companies seems like a big win
Right, because the best choice would be someone who seriously believes that replacing our arbitrarily valued currency with vaults full of arbitrarily valued metal will fix everything wrong with our economy.
I dunno...it always sounds like there are two groups
One is like you, saying that the crappy big commercialized movies beat the really good films.
The other camp says "nobody even saw any of these movies" when they see the list of nominations.
At some level, these arguments are opposing each other--if all the nominations are going to the smaller, more serious films that were not big blockbusters, then you can't have the equivalent of the grammys where every song that is even close to getting nominated is some trashy top 40 piece. I think this years decision to have 10 best picture nominees is actually an attempt to get it out of the "nobody has seen any of this" camp and into having some more "popular" movies show up (I also think this was the idea behind pushing for an animated feature category).
My view is that the last couple of years have generated a bunch of best picture nominations that got more public interest *after* their nomination than they had had at release--of course you may still not agree with the film that wins...but if this was like the grammys, the winners would be Mall Cop and Night at the Museum
well that guy disabled his ad blocker just to view ars...so obviously they would not have any profile on him (and profiles can probably easily get lost if you change IP, clear cookies, etc.)
From there, they probably give him some default set of adds. Ars gets a lot of dude page views...so mens magazines and shaving products seem normal enough. Also, not everyone is using some super high precision, pull a background check on you before serving ads, profiling system...GQ may not care that this guy likes to sit around (unshaven) in his underwear--they may just want their ad displayed to as many users of ars as possible. Also, he admitted that the ad worked when he said he had to figure out what GQ was...now if he decides to clean up one day, maybe he will do a search on how to shave, get a whole list of results, and in the back of his mind he will feel some familiarity with "GQ: How to get the best damn shave ever" that he doesn't feel with "Esquire: The art of the close shave"--that is how brand advertising works.
Of course the real problem here is not the ad content, it is (as everyone else is saying) the fact that the ads are annoying as hell. Ads that slow the page load, make noise, pop shit up when you mouseover text, etc. are all awful. They drive people to block ads in general for performance reasons--I use adblock plus on my eeepc but nothing more than a modified hosts file (blocking out the inline text junk) on more powerful systems because I don't mind seeing ads that don't suck.
I am currently using firefox with no addons. I installed it on my work computer not long after I started (and discovered that unlike my previous workplace, nobody was going to come find me every few months and ask why I was running unauthorized software). Since then, I have not needed any addons.
On my home desktop I use use a set of addons that have grown over the years. Download statusbar, some image zoom thing, some exif properties thing, maybe a mouse gesture addon that I don't actually use, maybe a few other things. No adblock or flashblock on that computer right now (though I think I have some hosts file edits to block those inline text ads...I am just too good at ignoring ads to bother).
On my netbook, I have download statusbar (or I think I added it after my most recent ubuntu upgrade), adblock plus, flashblock and maybe something else. The pair of blockers are more there for speed reasons as firefox performs much better on a low powered system when it is loading less stuff (duh)...
From this, it looks like the only time I use one of the listed top addons is on an underpowered system to ostensibly improve performance...using adblock on a page render test seems like cheating...
Yeah, using apt or urpmi or some other package management system really helps with that aspect. The packages update about as frequently but instead of having to figure out the proper way to update acrobat one day and winamp the next, it does it all from the same interface.
Is there a big downside risk to letting apt update by itself? It requires superuser access and given how frequently I am inclined to run it, I can see situations where a user without su priveledges might still want updates flowing.
I feel like my ubuntu system has been pestering me with updates far more frequently lately as well...
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And expert users are the only people who can really browse with the GP's combo. If we stuck everyone on that combo, they would be dead in the water when something breaks.
I skip noscript, only use adblock plus on slower systems (I'd like to let the sites get ad impressions, but my netbook browses so much smoother when the ads are getting blocked) and use flashblock somewhat randomly across systems. Even with flashblock alone, some sites simply can not be made to function properly without whitelisting it and reloading the page. I don't know if there are funny overlays or scripts that trigger eachother or what but sometimes the little play button just isn't enough.
The average user is not going to go around whitelisting, reloading, and otherwise troubleshooting pages.
I am imagining (without looking at either financials) that they are planning to buy it wit a whole ton of leverage and then raid the available cash and future income streams to pay down their debt.
That is usually about how this works and an example of reasons why having a big pile of cash (vs investing in capital or paying dividends) can be risky for a company small enough to be picked up easily.
Most people have completely unmetered water (rolled into rent or a small flat rate to a utility if you own) owing to our large fresh water source...
It is changing now though...new construction (and major renovation) has required a water meter for some time and they have started pushing through meter installs to older buildings. They are pushing some sort of plan where you don't pay higher than your current bill for the next 7 or 14 years (but if your metered usage is actually less, you get the savings).
I think it is more like...anytime anything happens related to the shares of a public company, there is going to be at least one law firm filing suit.
It is mostly filed just in case something bad happens with the deal and there is a big class action suit with the shareholders (and by filing early they have a better shot at being lead plaintiff)
Well, this case seems to be bringing them to court for things that are definitely illegal (hacking, etc.) but there are many ways that violation of a company's policy could still get you into court (and really, they have not been convicted yet...maybe they are being dragged into court now but will be found not guilty).
In your example, if I kept coming back and trying to eat in your restaurant with my dirty shoes after you had put up additional signs and taken extra precautions (captchas, etc) that I then circumvented, you would definitely have cause to call the cops. Many acts of fraud are actually perfectly legal except for the fact that they are fraud--that is, your crime is fraud and not telling lies, trickery, and making promises that are to good to be true.
In this case, I can see how the first eight elements of fraud would easily be argued in court...the only one I can't put a finger on is the 9th that states that Ticketmaster would have had to suffer damage. Lawyers will probably fill that in with something...and while the judge may not agree, it sounds like they have enough of a case to justify going to court.
I'd imagine that ticketmaster has some sort of rule banning automatic and bulk purchase of tickets. They did both of these which is pretty much the definition of fraud--maybe not in the legal arena (since its probably just governed by some click-through agreement) but certainly in that they intended to deceive through trickery.
I would imagine ticketmaster is perfectly free to bar these guys or their affiliates from ever purchasing from them...there are probably some laws there as well.
Small scale scalping is not at issue...large scale scalpers like these guys however are gaining access to the tickets fraudulently and doing all sorts of other behavior that is frowned upon.
Big sellers like this are perfectly capable of buying far more tickets than they can sell (if the event was already close to an equilibrium price) and if they can't unload them, everyone is screwed. Fans get screwed because they can't go and bands often get screwed because they have a smaller/less excited audience (they still get all their ticket returns...though they often are not that high). Also, there are situations where you might rather push your demographic in the opposite direction of money. If you are putting on a show and know that it will sell out but that your most die hard fans will not be able to afford the equilibrium price, you can take other approaches to the tickets (assuming you actually care about your performance rather than maximizing your personal profit). Forcing long waits in line and other similiar tactics (such as...who has time to hammer the ticketmaster website when other people are working) will allow people with less opportunity cost on their time to buy your tickets rather than just people with money.
Sure, some of these people will then realize a gain on their time waiting (or pressing f5) by selling it to the more wealthy person who couldn't wait around but it still provides a good option for the normal high school kid (you know...the one whose parents *didn't* spend hundreds of dollars to take a 5 year old to see miley cyrus) to attend a show that they would not have been able to attend on monetary price alone. Large outfits like this use fraud to cheat the online ticket queues and attempt to corner the market....price fixing is not a good thing.
Paying people to solve the captchas won't work as well as building a database of possible captchas... Ticketmaster only gives you something like a 2 minute window to complete the process so you can't just have somebody hammering through captcha's for a few hours every day...you need access to all of them in the few minutes after the tickets go on sale (as opposed to making fake email accounts or something where the timing is not important).
The real flaw here is that the captchas were reused and identifiable when reused. It sounds like the file name for the image didn't even change...If no two users of any site ever saw the same captcha, this database technique would not work.
Yeah, I worked somewhere that had some software installed on every machine to catch the printscreen key and let you easily save the whole image or take a chunk of it.
I would imagine it mostly existed for these reasons.
What I like about the current though is that it decidedly does not have that college radio vibe. It is a straight up professionally managed station (part of the MPR network) with lots of contact with artists for things like in-studio performances and concert engagements and a staff that has spent a long long time in the industry. One of the aforementioned DJ's used to DJ on a college station and I like his sets a lot better in the past 5 years since the current started and the other one is the sister of Paul Westerberg and has a long history of DJing on some great (albeit short-lived) stations.
DJ's are great.
I stream The Current (89.3 in Mpls/St Paul, streaming link here) all of the time because they are a real independent radio station with DJ's who are free to play what they like and no corporately mandated playlist. Sure, there are artists/songs liked by many DJs that are heard frequently but the amount of stuff they pull out of their music collection is astounding. The benefit of having real DJ's with real opinions is that you can find ones who you like better than others and they will do a good job of guiding you to music you may like.
I particularly like the DJs who cover the afternoon and evening weekday shifts and have been introduced to a lot of music through them.
The jumps in something like a stock price are mostly due to the fact that big chunks if information hit the market at once. If we have an efficient market (meaning the investors are well informed and value the company according to all currently available information), you are bound to see a big hit when a company has an earnings call that goes "hey guys...you know how we said we would earn 23 cents a share? yeah...well we lost 15".
These instances are decidedly not random but tied to the facts of the underlying business and since news is usually released in quarterly calls and SEC filings, there will have to be large one-time corrections rather than random-looking up and down movements over time that trend toward the final price.
Yeah, the new batman game had some sucky parts with locked camera angles...note to game devs: making the controls a PITA (such as by fixing a camera angle and then making you run at an angle somewhere between the down and left keys) is not the same as increasing difficulty...
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What is to stop comcast from taking their unused IP's and filling out the form from addresses where they fail to provide decent service?
How about the mother that was within 3 feet of the child at the time of the accident?
Think about if maybe it is not your code you are editing--new job, helping an open source project, whatever--when your code calls function1(), it might be nice to know what function1() does as well as what function3() and function4() do when they are called by function1(). I'm envisioning something that brings them all together on your workspace even though they are separated correctly into files of related functions (or incorrectly..maybe the guy before you was crazy and thought functions should be stored alphabetically).
I see it not as a new paradigm for storing code, but a new way to explore and edit code. Quite frankly, on a brand new project with no set standards for what files get what code, it would probably be a worse way to start.
I wonder about that too but I would imagine that it has more to do with the fact that well trained cooks are not taught to cook things for XX minutes but rather learn to cook by feel. Especially if you cook the same things many times a day, you can probably tell by looking/smelling/listening/prodding when it is done.
Might just be more handy as a display mode than an entire paradigm but I can see how it would be nice if you could display functions together from different files.
If you are working on one function that is in file3.c that has to interact with functions in file7.c and file3.c, why not be able to display them all as if they are in the same file (when they will eventually get compiled together anyways). The code already exists in most IDEs to collapse functions, so why not extend that to being able to mash up all the collapsed functions from every file. Then you can display the ones you want to see as if they were all in the same file.
Keeping stuff in separate files and including them is a good organization technique and helps with multiple people working on a project (and you can substitute different files for different platforms, etc.) but I can see where this would be useful if instead of flipping between 5 open files, the IDE could display just the portions you need. Bonus points if the IDE can do this automatically in a semi intelligent manner--like show the collapsed version of functions that might be relevant based on some criteria and then allow you to expand them if you like.
Buying out a small startup player and giving them your established name and relationships with other power companies seems like a big win
Right, because the best choice would be someone who seriously believes that replacing our arbitrarily valued currency with vaults full of arbitrarily valued metal will fix everything wrong with our economy.
One is like you, saying that the crappy big commercialized movies beat the really good films.
The other camp says "nobody even saw any of these movies" when they see the list of nominations.
At some level, these arguments are opposing each other--if all the nominations are going to the smaller, more serious films that were not big blockbusters, then you can't have the equivalent of the grammys where every song that is even close to getting nominated is some trashy top 40 piece. I think this years decision to have 10 best picture nominees is actually an attempt to get it out of the "nobody has seen any of this" camp and into having some more "popular" movies show up (I also think this was the idea behind pushing for an animated feature category).
My view is that the last couple of years have generated a bunch of best picture nominations that got more public interest *after* their nomination than they had had at release--of course you may still not agree with the film that wins...but if this was like the grammys, the winners would be Mall Cop and Night at the Museum
From there, they probably give him some default set of adds. Ars gets a lot of dude page views...so mens magazines and shaving products seem normal enough. Also, not everyone is using some super high precision, pull a background check on you before serving ads, profiling system...GQ may not care that this guy likes to sit around (unshaven) in his underwear--they may just want their ad displayed to as many users of ars as possible. Also, he admitted that the ad worked when he said he had to figure out what GQ was...now if he decides to clean up one day, maybe he will do a search on how to shave, get a whole list of results, and in the back of his mind he will feel some familiarity with "GQ: How to get the best damn shave ever" that he doesn't feel with "Esquire: The art of the close shave"--that is how brand advertising works.
Of course the real problem here is not the ad content, it is (as everyone else is saying) the fact that the ads are annoying as hell. Ads that slow the page load, make noise, pop shit up when you mouseover text, etc. are all awful. They drive people to block ads in general for performance reasons--I use adblock plus on my eeepc but nothing more than a modified hosts file (blocking out the inline text junk) on more powerful systems because I don't mind seeing ads that don't suck.
On my home desktop I use use a set of addons that have grown over the years. Download statusbar, some image zoom thing, some exif properties thing, maybe a mouse gesture addon that I don't actually use, maybe a few other things. No adblock or flashblock on that computer right now (though I think I have some hosts file edits to block those inline text ads...I am just too good at ignoring ads to bother).
On my netbook, I have download statusbar (or I think I added it after my most recent ubuntu upgrade), adblock plus, flashblock and maybe something else. The pair of blockers are more there for speed reasons as firefox performs much better on a low powered system when it is loading less stuff (duh)...
From this, it looks like the only time I use one of the listed top addons is on an underpowered system to ostensibly improve performance...using adblock on a page render test seems like cheating...
Is there a big downside risk to letting apt update by itself? It requires superuser access and given how frequently I am inclined to run it, I can see situations where a user without su priveledges might still want updates flowing.
I feel like my ubuntu system has been pestering me with updates far more frequently lately as well...
I skip noscript, only use adblock plus on slower systems (I'd like to let the sites get ad impressions, but my netbook browses so much smoother when the ads are getting blocked) and use flashblock somewhat randomly across systems. Even with flashblock alone, some sites simply can not be made to function properly without whitelisting it and reloading the page. I don't know if there are funny overlays or scripts that trigger eachother or what but sometimes the little play button just isn't enough.
The average user is not going to go around whitelisting, reloading, and otherwise troubleshooting pages.
That is usually about how this works and an example of reasons why having a big pile of cash (vs investing in capital or paying dividends) can be risky for a company small enough to be picked up easily.
Most people have completely unmetered water (rolled into rent or a small flat rate to a utility if you own) owing to our large fresh water source...
It is changing now though...new construction (and major renovation) has required a water meter for some time and they have started pushing through meter installs to older buildings. They are pushing some sort of plan where you don't pay higher than your current bill for the next 7 or 14 years (but if your metered usage is actually less, you get the savings).
It is mostly filed just in case something bad happens with the deal and there is a big class action suit with the shareholders (and by filing early they have a better shot at being lead plaintiff)
In your example, if I kept coming back and trying to eat in your restaurant with my dirty shoes after you had put up additional signs and taken extra precautions (captchas, etc) that I then circumvented, you would definitely have cause to call the cops. Many acts of fraud are actually perfectly legal except for the fact that they are fraud--that is, your crime is fraud and not telling lies, trickery, and making promises that are to good to be true.
In this case, I can see how the first eight elements of fraud would easily be argued in court...the only one I can't put a finger on is the 9th that states that Ticketmaster would have had to suffer damage. Lawyers will probably fill that in with something...and while the judge may not agree, it sounds like they have enough of a case to justify going to court.
I would imagine ticketmaster is perfectly free to bar these guys or their affiliates from ever purchasing from them...there are probably some laws there as well.
Big sellers like this are perfectly capable of buying far more tickets than they can sell (if the event was already close to an equilibrium price) and if they can't unload them, everyone is screwed. Fans get screwed because they can't go and bands often get screwed because they have a smaller/less excited audience (they still get all their ticket returns...though they often are not that high). Also, there are situations where you might rather push your demographic in the opposite direction of money. If you are putting on a show and know that it will sell out but that your most die hard fans will not be able to afford the equilibrium price, you can take other approaches to the tickets (assuming you actually care about your performance rather than maximizing your personal profit). Forcing long waits in line and other similiar tactics (such as...who has time to hammer the ticketmaster website when other people are working) will allow people with less opportunity cost on their time to buy your tickets rather than just people with money.
Sure, some of these people will then realize a gain on their time waiting (or pressing f5) by selling it to the more wealthy person who couldn't wait around but it still provides a good option for the normal high school kid (you know...the one whose parents *didn't* spend hundreds of dollars to take a 5 year old to see miley cyrus) to attend a show that they would not have been able to attend on monetary price alone. Large outfits like this use fraud to cheat the online ticket queues and attempt to corner the market....price fixing is not a good thing.
The real flaw here is that the captchas were reused and identifiable when reused. It sounds like the file name for the image didn't even change...If no two users of any site ever saw the same captcha, this database technique would not work.
I would imagine it mostly existed for these reasons.
What I like about the current though is that it decidedly does not have that college radio vibe. It is a straight up professionally managed station (part of the MPR network) with lots of contact with artists for things like in-studio performances and concert engagements and a staff that has spent a long long time in the industry. One of the aforementioned DJ's used to DJ on a college station and I like his sets a lot better in the past 5 years since the current started and the other one is the sister of Paul Westerberg and has a long history of DJing on some great (albeit short-lived) stations.
I particularly like the DJs who cover the afternoon and evening weekday shifts and have been introduced to a lot of music through them.
These instances are decidedly not random but tied to the facts of the underlying business and since news is usually released in quarterly calls and SEC filings, there will have to be large one-time corrections rather than random-looking up and down movements over time that trend toward the final price.
Yeah, the new batman game had some sucky parts with locked camera angles...note to game devs: making the controls a PITA (such as by fixing a camera angle and then making you run at an angle somewhere between the down and left keys) is not the same as increasing difficulty...