The MVVM pattern may be able to help on WPF.

But I beg to differ with your analysis. Nothing about C# promotes what you are describing. It is similar in SLOC (Source Lines of Code) per function point as Java and C++ (link, which shows that Visual Basic actually averages less than any of those languages).

Regardless of language... if you have 10,000 lines in a source code file, you're doing it wrong.

Who said anything about "giving" ideas? Those things cost money, you know.

I thought we learned a long time ago not to use only color, especially red and green, to distinguish between signage.

Changing the license of existing code does not affect those who have copied/derived/distributed/etc. under those terms. So long as someone out there is mirroring the code, you are essentially correct.

Newly derived code may be changed by the copyright holder, since nobody has it and can claim to be licensed to it. The next release of Android may be closed since the changes were never released under open source. It doesn't change the fact that you can distribute the old code, or modify that code on your own to make it more like the new version or compatible with the open APIs for the new version.

(IANAL and all that. This is my understanding of open source in general; I don't know about the particulars of the Apache license.)

Control channels are not free. The iPhone creates many short-lived connections over control channels to reduce battery consumption. Up to that point, most phones maintained fewer longer connections. This change, alongside the iPhone's rapid growth, was blamed as a major cause for reducing AT&T's service quality. While the total bandwidth was capable of handling that many phones, it couldn't handle that many control channel connections. (This is from memory, please correct if I got this wrong.)

I don't know if this would impact text messaging, or even if text messaging would impact call quality of service.

Does the new contract spell out details for the "unlimited" plan? I'm just speculating, perhaps they changed the terms to allow throttling for grandfathered accounts.

I just hope they don't abandon good programming languages for the brokenness that is HTML and JavaScript.

Sorry, but I refuse to believe that the crapload that is and has always been HTML will one day be the only choice.

And to note, every stable release of C# (the latest being 4.0) has enabled more and better fluent syntax.

• C# 1 allowed standard method chaining and the "using" clause.
• C# 2 provided generics and generic parameter type inference, enabling type-safe interfaces without the intrusive generic type parameter.
• C# 3 added lambdas and expression syntax (used well for fluent syntax in Rhino Mocks).
• C# 4 added named and optional parameters, which can be used to create a fluent syntax akin to Smalltalk.

I think the upcoming C# 5 is the first new release that doesn't really add anything useful for fluent syntax.

MP3 is compressed, so the two extracted 160kbps mp3s can't just be added together to exactly recreate the original. WAV is easier for this question, separating every other sample into its own file and halving the sample rate of each.

I would think that this would be the same as splitting an image of copyrighted text, such that every other pixel goes into another file (filling with white or a copy of the adjacent pixel).

In the image case, it would be easy to put one of the copies through various filters and OCR the result, producing the original text in its entirety. I'm pretty sure this is illegal since the text is the material under copyright, not the representation of the text. The same could be said about sound media. The record of the performance is copyrighted, and any work produced from that performance is protected (subject to fair use).

There are a lot of people on here smarter than I am, so please debunk or clarify where needed.

This isn't the problem.

It's a problem when people get what they don't deserve at the expense of people who deserve but don't get. This can work both ways. Some rich people make 1000 times my salary but obviously don't work1000 times as hard as I do or contribute 1000 times as much to society. Some poor people sit around all day and have lifestyles that are not that far from my own.