Sorry, but I find it *VERY* hard to believe that Apple's overhead is 30% of the purchase price of anything on the App Store(s). They're the highest valued corporation on the planet, with well under 10-15% market share. They're making piles of cash.
I think it's more like leaving your garage door open, with a signed copy of the registration/title for all your cars, and the keys sitting on the seat, with the doors unlocked, and open... It's wrong to steal your car... but you made it way too easy.
I don't think there are any libertarians that want to drop police/fbi forces from the budget. They're there for a reason.. though maybe FBI + ATF + CIA + NSA... is a bit excessive and redundant. It's not about no regulation, or not enforcing regulation. It's about all the ancillary agencies that don't serve a purpose in a leaner central government. For that matter, imho this includes reduction of government granted monopolies (copyright, patents, etc) in order to spur greater competition.
Not all applications exit cleanly, or at all by default.. hit the home button... the app may still be running in the background... if it's an app with notifications, there may be a service that is always running. Most people don't know how/where to stop specific apps from running in the background. Often, as with Windows (which can stop app/service execution), it's usually just easier to reboot.
So, if someone is accused of speeding in a courthouse parking lot (not convicted, only accused), the correct reaction is to remove the courthouse from all U.S. maps?
So people should have to pay to sing Christmas Carols, or join in campfire songs? Or kids going outside and playing "tag" should pay who? That's entertainment. Those dirty thieves should have to pay, huh? How dare people entertain themselves without compensation. How dare someone stop and look at a public performance, or piece of art without paying the original artist (dead for over a century).
And to what end does your perpetual view of copyright end? Disney has been dead for far longer than original copyright was, with renewal. IMHO businesses should not be able to own copyright, or patents.. and if they are permitted, it should be considered the after death portion of copyright, since it would be owned by a non-living entity.
Here is a fact for you... Nobody is owed anything. I can write a song that nobody ever hears, that doesn't mean I am owed anything. If someone hums the melody on a public bus does *NOT* mean they should have to pay me (or ascap, or bmi) a performance fee. When I'm dead, I won't be making any more, so copyright protection does not incentivise my corpse to create crap. The only thing that extending copyright past death + 5 years (max) does is protect an industry that actually creates produces nothing. Especially with distribution channels with nearly zero cost.
As long as you have a good internet connection that is... A lot of places (outdoors) where you might want some tunes while cycling don't get the greatest of reception.
I will never, ever be a customer of AT&T again. When I heard about the AT&T offer for T-Mobile, it was a week before my contract was up. I bailed for a pay as you go service elsewhere.
Personally, I would have preferred they used IdentD services on the proxy endpoints, and allowed queries from selected IPs... The technology in place essentially allows you to go to "their" portal and related sites, and have those sites know it is you. In this case, the number is merely an identifier, and doesn't automagically tie your phone number to your person. Though could, combined with other information, be used to avoid privacy. The fact is that phone numbers are rather limited in nature, and given 10K guesses, with your relative home location, could probably come up with your number, as well as your neighbor, etc.
Yeah... just like every other snooping and data retention law so far... the real question is, how much detail is expected to be stored, and how to pay for it... I think if the ISPs sent a letter to every customer letting them know that for residential customers their rate would go up $20/month for a "browsing history storage surcharge per state bill #..." if it passed, and $200/month for businesses, that it would be opposed pretty broadly and quickly.
I don't mind it too much... I mean, Yahoo did essentially the same thing for all their users well over a decade ago. It was actually a nicer integration than google's current efforts. I left Yahoo when they started selling your email address faster than you could opt-out.
Agreed, embedded, OS level code, and some limited use cases should favor performance first. Also, depending on the language and language features (C for example), GOTO is probably the best option for certain types of control flow and cleanup. That said, I think if you are working in most higher level languages, it shouldn't be needed. Personally I think inline functions/lambdas tend to look nicer, but it depends on your needs.
Regarding the strict no function returns except at the end.. I almost unconditionally return early to avoid extra loops for any if/else condition, where the shortest is used as the if or if-not to return early. IMHO this helps mitigate deeply nested code. I also tend to use anonymous functions/lambdas where available as well.
I'm not 100% sure, but this sounds like the file system they've been using with Windows Home Server... I know a few people that love it... I was pretty skeptical early on, but can see some advantages to it.
Mono works pretty well, though it's best if you have a good separation of concerns, or your GUI is very simple... most of my work is web based, and these days would be more likely to use nodejs if targeting *nix for a new project... but having a porting option (even if sometimes cumbersome) for.Net is a nice to have.
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I really wish this wasn't posted as AC, and that I had some mod points available.
Using IRC as a host network for Bittorrent trackers, etc would be pretty effective in terms of not getting shut down though...
China has more population... that doesn't equate to greater or even equal profits.
Umn, MS already has plans for Windows 8 releases for ARM.
Windows has had releases on x86, Itanium, PPC, and other non-x86 platforms... .Net in particular was built with such portability in mind.
Sorry, but I find it *VERY* hard to believe that Apple's overhead is 30% of the purchase price of anything on the App Store(s). They're the highest valued corporation on the planet, with well under 10-15% market share. They're making piles of cash.
I think it's more like leaving your garage door open, with a signed copy of the registration/title for all your cars, and the keys sitting on the seat, with the doors unlocked, and open... It's wrong to steal your car... but you made it way too easy.
I don't think there are any libertarians that want to drop police/fbi forces from the budget. They're there for a reason.. though maybe FBI + ATF + CIA + NSA... is a bit excessive and redundant. It's not about no regulation, or not enforcing regulation. It's about all the ancillary agencies that don't serve a purpose in a leaner central government. For that matter, imho this includes reduction of government granted monopolies (copyright, patents, etc) in order to spur greater competition.
Not all applications exit cleanly, or at all by default.. hit the home button... the app may still be running in the background... if it's an app with notifications, there may be a service that is always running. Most people don't know how/where to stop specific apps from running in the background. Often, as with Windows (which can stop app/service execution), it's usually just easier to reboot.
Oh yeah.. and the Phone Company ordered to remove said courthouse from their telephone directories, and 411 services.
So, if someone is accused of speeding in a courthouse parking lot (not convicted, only accused), the correct reaction is to remove the courthouse from all U.S. maps?
So people should have to pay to sing Christmas Carols, or join in campfire songs? Or kids going outside and playing "tag" should pay who? That's entertainment. Those dirty thieves should have to pay, huh? How dare people entertain themselves without compensation. How dare someone stop and look at a public performance, or piece of art without paying the original artist (dead for over a century).
And to what end does your perpetual view of copyright end? Disney has been dead for far longer than original copyright was, with renewal. IMHO businesses should not be able to own copyright, or patents.. and if they are permitted, it should be considered the after death portion of copyright, since it would be owned by a non-living entity.
Here is a fact for you... Nobody is owed anything. I can write a song that nobody ever hears, that doesn't mean I am owed anything. If someone hums the melody on a public bus does *NOT* mean they should have to pay me (or ascap, or bmi) a performance fee. When I'm dead, I won't be making any more, so copyright protection does not incentivise my corpse to create crap. The only thing that extending copyright past death + 5 years (max) does is protect an industry that actually creates produces nothing. Especially with distribution channels with nearly zero cost.
He may be referring to android players specifically... since WinAMP took a while to come up with a mobile version...
As long as you have a good internet connection that is... A lot of places (outdoors) where you might want some tunes while cycling don't get the greatest of reception.
Do you go at 6-7AM? Tends to be more women in the morning... however, I'm inclined to go in the evening.
I will never, ever be a customer of AT&T again. When I heard about the AT&T offer for T-Mobile, it was a week before my contract was up. I bailed for a pay as you go service elsewhere.
Personally, I would have preferred they used IdentD services on the proxy endpoints, and allowed queries from selected IPs... The technology in place essentially allows you to go to "their" portal and related sites, and have those sites know it is you. In this case, the number is merely an identifier, and doesn't automagically tie your phone number to your person. Though could, combined with other information, be used to avoid privacy. The fact is that phone numbers are rather limited in nature, and given 10K guesses, with your relative home location, could probably come up with your number, as well as your neighbor, etc.
Yeah... just like every other snooping and data retention law so far... the real question is, how much detail is expected to be stored, and how to pay for it... I think if the ISPs sent a letter to every customer letting them know that for residential customers their rate would go up $20/month for a "browsing history storage surcharge per state bill #..." if it passed, and $200/month for businesses, that it would be opposed pretty broadly and quickly.
I don't mind it too much... I mean, Yahoo did essentially the same thing for all their users well over a decade ago. It was actually a nicer integration than google's current efforts. I left Yahoo when they started selling your email address faster than you could opt-out.
Agreed, embedded, OS level code, and some limited use cases should favor performance first. Also, depending on the language and language features (C for example), GOTO is probably the best option for certain types of control flow and cleanup. That said, I think if you are working in most higher level languages, it shouldn't be needed. Personally I think inline functions/lambdas tend to look nicer, but it depends on your needs.
Should probably link to the original source. :)
Regarding the strict no function returns except at the end.. I almost unconditionally return early to avoid extra loops for any if/else condition, where the shortest is used as the if or if-not to return early. IMHO this helps mitigate deeply nested code. I also tend to use anonymous functions/lambdas where available as well.
I'm not 100% sure, but this sounds like the file system they've been using with Windows Home Server... I know a few people that love it... I was pretty skeptical early on, but can see some advantages to it.
The problem is, that each person's 10 watchable channels are different channels.
Mono works pretty well, though it's best if you have a good separation of concerns, or your GUI is very simple... most of my work is web based, and these days would be more likely to use nodejs if targeting *nix for a new project... but having a porting option (even if sometimes cumbersome) for .Net is a nice to have.