the monarchy is a figurehead and the military likes using "offending the monarchy" as a good way to crack down.
The king is actually very well liked, and the people take it quite seriously when someone offends him. For instance, I was playing golf there and on the 18th green I had a putt to win a bet. My opponent took out the amount of the bet and placed it just behind the hole. Well, the money has the king's picture on it, and the caddies were horrified that his image had been placed on the ground.
The Microsoft 5 button mouse is hands down the best mouse I've ever used. I'm left handed and use the mouse right handed normally and left handed for gaming.
Thanks, that's good to know. Why do you use it right handed normally? I'm left handed and while I can manage with a mouse on the right, I wouldn't do it voluntarily.
nd that's the catch - you don't have to be the copyright holder to make a DMCA complaint.
Yes you do. Or at least be authorized to act on the holder's behalf. Google, for instance, wants you to state it like this:
"I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."
You certainly can't go around filing groundless complaints just because you'd rather it not be available.
It's a great device. It does what I need it to do. I'm happy I own it. I just wish nobody else knew that I own it.
So the people who own the phone because it's trendy are just being silly, allowing their thoughts and actions to be influenced by what other people think....and yet you're deeply embarrassed to own one, and hide it when you can. Hmmm.
Does it have a studio audience? i thought it was a laugh track.
If that's not a laugh track then they need to throw out that audience and get a new one. The absurdly enthusiastic and inappropriate laughs nearly ruin it.
Last week I went to the bank and exchanged US dollars for the local currency. This week to get the same amount of local currency I have to pay $3 more. It's a straight up cash grab on the bank's part.
Let me ask you this - if Apple had raised the price on what you bought last week would you send them the difference? Prices change. Last week was last week.
Just curious why it is critically important for the characters to be in public domain?
Copyright is a contract between you and the public. In exchange for the incentive for producing more work, society is willing to grant a temporary monopoly on that work. It's not the other way around. It has already been abused and warped to where it does too much harm. As has been mentioned elsewhere, a reasonable compromise now would be to impose increasing taxes as the copyright ages. That way the very successful works get a longer monopoly, while the rest naturally fall back into the public domain where everyone can benefit. The "grandchildren" not having to work is not so important. I write this as someone who will one day inherit a fairly large body of copyrighted work. But I still think it's wrong.
Well, line 10 is wrong. Day 366 should not change the year for leap years. Also, days is the number of days since 1980, and you're not dealing with that. What you have to do is walk forward through the years so that you land on the proper year and day.
(And I would probably save the first call of daysInYear(year) in a local variable, which would make the code a bit faster.
Probably so, and I thought about it, but the calculation for daysInYear is pretty darn fast. Plus if this is going to burned into ROM then maybe smaller is better in this case. And "premature optimization" and all that....besides, it looks better this way:-)
Why is it a loop anyway when it's only a one hit event?
They start from 1980. You can see it on line 58. And looking at line 59 you can see that there is planned obsolescence(!) for the year 2080. Zune owners should demand a refund;-)
It's possible I was just too wasted to remember the 366'th day... I should check on the calendar.
If you need to look at a calendar to figure out if it's a leap year then maybe you should cut *way* back. (hint: evenly divisible by four is a good enough approximation, as it will be accurate for the rest of your life.)
The Zune was in effect sold with a predictable and correctable flaw
And if you look at the bug in the code (line 259) it's atrocious. Something a junior programmer would be embarrassed about.
When days is 366 it causes an infinite loop. And also note that simply changing line 263 to use 365 causes a different bug. So the whole approach is wrong. It ought to simply be
while (days > daysInYear(year)) {
days -= daysInYear(year);
year += 1;
}
Yes, absolutely. There should be a law against anything that might cause even the slightest inconvenience. Nothing bad should ever happen to anybody, and if it does, someone has to pay.
And that's why you should take a few minutes to metamoderate.
Metamoderation seems to be broken. All I ever get is a bunch of unmoderated comments, with poorly-defined +- options. If the comments are not yet moderated it is hardly metamoderation.
If MediaSentry implodes, they'll just setup another shell company and new personnel. To have any lasting impact, it's not MediaSentry that needs to go away, but the monentary incentive for it to exist in the first place.
No doubt the tools will survive, but it is going to be mighty tricky to have them testify in any current cases, as the dirty laundry will come to light.
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The king is actually very well liked, and the people take it quite seriously when someone offends him. For instance, I was playing golf there and on the 18th green I had a putt to win a bet. My opponent took out the amount of the bet and placed it just behind the hole. Well, the money has the king's picture on it, and the caddies were horrified that his image had been placed on the ground.
Then you'd have about a quarter million angry helicopter pilots on your hands.
Thanks, that's good to know. Why do you use it right handed normally? I'm left handed and while I can manage with a mouse on the right, I wouldn't do it voluntarily.
If that were actually true then spam would soon disappear.
Yes you do. Or at least be authorized to act on the holder's behalf. Google, for instance, wants you to state it like this:
You certainly can't go around filing groundless complaints just because you'd rather it not be available.
Obviously they would contact the murder's ISP and submit a John Doe warrant based on the IP address. Case closed.
The RIAA would not be the copyright holder.
Yeah well, your phone doesn't have a dial on it anymore either, but you can still dial a number.
So the people who own the phone because it's trendy are just being silly, allowing their thoughts and actions to be influenced by what other people think....and yet you're deeply embarrassed to own one, and hide it when you can. Hmmm.
If that's not a laugh track then they need to throw out that audience and get a new one. The absurdly enthusiastic and inappropriate laughs nearly ruin it.
We heard you the second time.
Let me ask you this - if Apple had raised the price on what you bought last week would you send them the difference? Prices change. Last week was last week.
Copyright is a contract between you and the public. In exchange for the incentive for producing more work, society is willing to grant a temporary monopoly on that work. It's not the other way around. It has already been abused and warped to where it does too much harm. As has been mentioned elsewhere, a reasonable compromise now would be to impose increasing taxes as the copyright ages. That way the very successful works get a longer monopoly, while the rest naturally fall back into the public domain where everyone can benefit. The "grandchildren" not having to work is not so important. I write this as someone who will one day inherit a fairly large body of copyrighted work. But I still think it's wrong.
The presumption was that it would replace the now superfluous isLeapYear function.
Well, line 10 is wrong. Day 366 should not change the year for leap years. Also, days is the number of days since 1980, and you're not dealing with that. What you have to do is walk forward through the years so that you land on the proper year and day.
I notice that your new sig is not a pun. I suggest one of the following:
Probably so, and I thought about it, but the calculation for daysInYear is pretty darn fast. Plus if this is going to burned into ROM then maybe smaller is better in this case. And "premature optimization" and all that....besides, it looks better this way :-)
They start from 1980. You can see it on line 58. ;-)
And looking at line 59 you can see that there is planned obsolescence(!) for the year 2080. Zune owners should demand a refund
If you need to look at a calendar to figure out if it's a leap year then maybe you should cut *way* back. (hint: evenly divisible by four is a good enough approximation, as it will be accurate for the rest of your life.)
And if you look at the bug in the code (line 259) it's atrocious. Something a junior programmer would be embarrassed about.
When days is 366 it causes an infinite loop. And also note that simply changing line 263 to use 365 causes a different bug. So the whole approach is wrong. It ought to simply be
while (days > daysInYear(year))
{
days -= daysInYear(year);
year += 1;
}
Yes, absolutely. There should be a law against anything that might cause even the slightest inconvenience. Nothing bad should ever happen to anybody, and if it does, someone has to pay.
Metamoderation seems to be broken. All I ever get is a bunch of unmoderated comments, with poorly-defined +- options. If the comments are not yet moderated it is hardly metamoderation.
No doubt the tools will survive, but it is going to be mighty tricky to have them testify in any current cases, as the dirty laundry will come to light.
Yeah. Urging people to use your product is so totally illegal.
I used to think that, but then I came back.