I do think "Should I fire-up Subsonic and pre-load a bunch of music for later off-line use or stream now from Pandora?"
And the reason you have to think that way is due to various real world limitations.
Why in the world would you want to pre-load a bunch of music for later off-line use? Well, obviously, because you're going somewhere where you will be unable to access the Internet conveniently. You're taking a plane ride (and don't want to pay for Internet access). You're visiting a canyon or a tropical island where Internet access is not available.
If I have a sudden urge to listen to Illmatic, I think, "I want to listen to Illmatic." What I want is to do is press a couple of buttons on my phone and have it start playing. Wherever I am. That's what I want.
But the reality of the world is that I, unfortunately, have to think about these things.
FPMITA (federal pound me...) would require a reasonably clear case against the person, and therefore require the FBI to cough up whatever reason they can?
Oh, I'm sure there's a crime in there. "Obstruction of Justice" sounds like a good catch-all.
The ones I hear talking about this say that government and regulation should be as SMALL as possible; that OVER REGULATION and large government is bad.
It's interesting, though, that these regulations usually come along when things go wrong. The ones who complain about "over regulation" are the ones who want to get away with something but they can't because there are regulations against it.
In other words, who defines what "Over regulation" is? Can you give me an example of an industry that is "over regulated"? Of what particular regulations would be "over"?
There was nothing preventing concerned citizens from performing their own private testing of products, publishing the results, and then initiating lawsuits against the offenders.
Right. I could take some of the pills I buy and stick it in the DNA analyzer that I just happen to have in my backyard.
What? You don't have a DNA Analyzer in your backyard? I thought everybody had one...
While I don't necessarily disagree with you, I'd point out that the reason "damn near everyone" has a telephone line running to their house is the Communications Act of 1934 and the Rural Electrification Act.
Actually, the one I hate is: if ($variable == false) {
doSomethingInteresting($variable); }
and one of my co-workers does: if ($variable == false)
{
doSomethingInteresting($variable);
}
Of course, my code is beautiful and everyone else's is terse and ugly and everyone should write code the same way that I do. Try suggesting that to a group of programmers and see how far it gets you. Generally, it's not worth the argument--you will waste tons of everyone's time trying to come up with an agreement.
As the thread suggests, one advantage to different coding styles is that you can generally tell who wrote what and, if there seems to be a bug, you can track them down and tell them to fix it in that ugly mess. In our office, we have the rule that if you go around changing code style, you now own that code and are responsible for it. About the only issue we've run into is that people's styles evolve over time. So the guy right out of school may have a certain style that changes as he is exposed to more styles.
My favorite story was when someone was trying to push variable naming standards. If it was a C string, the variable name should begin with "sz" (for string, zero terminated). I suggested that instead of doing that, maybe we should just put a dollar-sign at the end. Laughter ensued and that ended that.
[...] you can reprogram the primary buttons to anything you like.
What about the secondary buttons? And does it seem odd that you have primary buttons? Wouldn't you have a primary button, a secondary button, and a tertiary button?
... just what would the fighter escort hope to accomplish?
About the only thing I can think of would be to escort the plane along it's new route.
I assume that the plane was rerouted on a pretty much direct route from where they were to Atlanta. They'd want to make sure that the airplane stayed over relatively unpopulated areas in the event of an explosion.
Amazon Lockers is something similar. There's a bunch of caveats (it has to be ordered from Amazon, not a partner, etc.) but my roomate used it recently and it worked fine.
A bar wouldn't survive very long if they made a habit of posting embarrassing moments from their surveillance tapes on the web.
You must not watch much YouTube. There are tons of "funny" surveillance camera video from different places. Hell, you can even make money selling them to TV shows.
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I do think "Should I fire-up Subsonic and pre-load a bunch of music for later off-line use or stream now from Pandora?"
And the reason you have to think that way is due to various real world limitations.
Why in the world would you want to pre-load a bunch of music for later off-line use? Well, obviously, because you're going somewhere where you will be unable to access the Internet conveniently. You're taking a plane ride (and don't want to pay for Internet access). You're visiting a canyon or a tropical island where Internet access is not available.
If I have a sudden urge to listen to Illmatic, I think, "I want to listen to Illmatic." What I want is to do is press a couple of buttons on my phone and have it start playing. Wherever I am. That's what I want.
But the reality of the world is that I, unfortunately, have to think about these things.
Unless they are hiding under ground in cities.
That's no asteroid...
(Sorry. Had to be said...)
Not to mention the giant ones in space.
FPMITA (federal pound me...) would require a reasonably clear case against the person, and therefore require the FBI to cough up whatever reason they can?
Oh, I'm sure there's a crime in there. "Obstruction of Justice" sounds like a good catch-all.
The ones I hear talking about this say that government and regulation should be as SMALL as possible; that OVER REGULATION and large government is bad.
It's interesting, though, that these regulations usually come along when things go wrong. The ones who complain about "over regulation" are the ones who want to get away with something but they can't because there are regulations against it.
In other words, who defines what "Over regulation" is? Can you give me an example of an industry that is "over regulated"? Of what particular regulations would be "over"?
GABA GABA HEY!
(Sorry...couldn't resist)
There was nothing preventing concerned citizens from performing their own private testing of products, publishing the results, and then initiating lawsuits against the offenders.
Right. I could take some of the pills I buy and stick it in the DNA analyzer that I just happen to have in my backyard.
What? You don't have a DNA Analyzer in your backyard? I thought everybody had one...
Because it came with the phone.
And how else would you propose to move in space?
Maybe if we built a really tall ladder...
nu-cle-er radiashun
That's nu-cu-lar radiashun.
While I don't necessarily disagree with you, I'd point out that the reason "damn near everyone" has a telephone line running to their house is the Communications Act of 1934 and the Rural Electrification Act.
Actually, the one I hate is:
if ($variable == false) {
doSomethingInteresting($variable);
}
and one of my co-workers does:
if ($variable == false)
{
doSomethingInteresting($variable);
}
Of course, my code is beautiful and everyone else's is terse and ugly and everyone should write code the same way that I do. Try suggesting that to a group of programmers and see how far it gets you. Generally, it's not worth the argument--you will waste tons of everyone's time trying to come up with an agreement.
As the thread suggests, one advantage to different coding styles is that you can generally tell who wrote what and, if there seems to be a bug, you can track them down and tell them to fix it in that ugly mess. In our office, we have the rule that if you go around changing code style, you now own that code and are responsible for it. About the only issue we've run into is that people's styles evolve over time. So the guy right out of school may have a certain style that changes as he is exposed to more styles.
My favorite story was when someone was trying to push variable naming standards. If it was a C string, the variable name should begin with "sz" (for string, zero terminated). I suggested that instead of doing that, maybe we should just put a dollar-sign at the end. Laughter ensued and that ended that.
Hey, you can't keep a good astronomer down!
That's pretty ridiculous. The Big Mac is made with 100% pure beef.
McRibs and McNuggets, on the other hand...
Depends on the situation.
F-16: "Flight 17, you are off course. Come to heading 271."
Jet: "Oops. Sorry. A little stressed up here."
On the other hand...
F-16: "Flight 17, you are off course. Come to heading 271."
Jet: "Kiss my ass, yankee imperialist swine! We're blowin' up Tallahassee!"
will probably get you shot down.
[...] you can reprogram the primary buttons to anything you like.
What about the secondary buttons? And does it seem odd that you have primary buttons? Wouldn't you have a primary button, a secondary button, and a tertiary button?
Then again, I use a trackpad...
... just what would the fighter escort hope to accomplish?
About the only thing I can think of would be to escort the plane along it's new route.
I assume that the plane was rerouted on a pretty much direct route from where they were to Atlanta. They'd want to make sure that the airplane stayed over relatively unpopulated areas in the event of an explosion.
Amazon Lockers is something similar. There's a bunch of caveats (it has to be ordered from Amazon, not a partner, etc.) but my roomate used it recently and it worked fine.
A bar wouldn't survive very long if they made a habit of posting embarrassing moments from their surveillance tapes on the web.
You must not watch much YouTube. There are tons of "funny" surveillance camera video from different places. Hell, you can even make money selling them to TV shows.
Two words: X-Ray Specs.
But no Marvel characters?
"No Soap, Radio!"
You have never heard of a Shaggy Dog Story?
Yeah. 99% of all users don't care about stability (3, 4) or security (5).
Just because he uses ugly computer terms doesn't mean that those don't translate into improvements that a mother could love.
Kh-11 SSL FBI cypherpunk Attorney General HAMASMOIS Roswell Power Syria Food Poisoning cryptanalysis North Korea Verisign halcon Nuclear facility
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz, Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law, Rock and Roller Cola wars, I can't take it anymore.