Why is this a surprise? Company releases current version, starts to work on the next version. Heck, in many cases work on the next version starts even before the current version is released.

Yes, but your teeth don't flex like your heart muscle does...

Give me a choice between the touch-screen keyboard and a physical, I will pick the physical almost every time. (It would have to be a pretty bad physical keyboard for me to pick the touch-screen one...) I've used the Blackberry keyboards since the beginning of Blackberry. They've always been better than the touch-screen versions (Blackberry, Android, iOS, all of them). (Of course, this is all IMHO)

Just to ruin your streak... beta.slashdot.org is _way_ faster on my iPad than m.slashdot.org ....

Eh, Sure there is. Less than 5 seconds searching on Google turned up multiple Thunderbolt to 10GbE interfaces.

Augh! A mirrored folder to the cloud is _not_ backup! If you delete a file from the folder, that gets mirrored into the cloud so it's gone there too. If you overwrite a file in the mirrored folder, that gets mirrored to the cloud and it's changed there too. This is the same story as RAID drives. That's adding redundancy/resiliency. In the event of a failure of your local drive, yes, there's a second copy elsewhere. But in the event of "oops, I accidentally deleted a file I wanted to keep" you're out of luck.

Don't give the 4th parameter a name. You can just specify the type.

Yep... and highlights why I don't even try to use an assignment in that area (both that a certain complier will still warn about it, and that it even gives rise to this problem. Just write the assignment before the test and be done with it.). Whether RVCT should or should not complain about it is a QoI (Quality of Implementation) issue.

Or if you really want to save that 1 line of text:

if ( ( a == b ) ) {
// yadda
}


Now it's no longer an assignment where a boolean expression is expected, it's an expression where a boolean expression is expected.

Sure there is. Your declaration doesn't match your definition. Bad. Fix it.

You are just not trying hard enough. I write various commercial products which compile with _no_ warnings. And yes, this is for performance-critical services, and a few hundred thousand lines of code.

All in the space of a connector the size of your thurmb...

You need to complete your analogy. The ones that "only took a spray can and shot a few seconds" were willfully joining into an expansive coordinated attack with the intent to amplify the damage. This wasn't a case of "wrong place at the wrong time", they knew they were joining a larger group. One of Niven's laws... "Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man."

Actually it doesn't. If they catch the 2nd person, then the 1st person would have standing to sue the 2nd for their portion. Why should the ultimate victim bear the costs?

Why not? If you figure it's that unfair, go sue the rest of the people who were destroying the house to reclaim the portions of the cost that you feel is their responsibility.