If they were ripped from CD's, you're selling copies of the CD. That's copyright violation, unless you include the CD.
However, if you bought them off of iTunes, and they are the only copies you have, then it seems pretty clearly legitimate. (Unless there are heinous contractual terms preventing transfers of the music from the original purchaser.)
What if you bought them from Apple but had made some copies? Apple's DRM allows a certain number of copies to be made. Can I sell a few of my copies of the $0.99 song I bought and retain a few of my own? This is where it gets murky...
In a brilliant marketing move, and exhibit about insects in the Natural History Museum in Washington DC is sponsored by Orkin. (Who else would want there name associated with two inch long cockroaches?).
n my experience, most users of Opera and Firefox won't fall back to IE
I completely concur. The only time IE gets used on my machine is when I do windows update. I have to REALLY, REALLY need something from a site that doesn't support Firefox that I know I can't get elsewhere. I did it once when getting something from the USPTO, and once when my wife was using a university's online registration system (and yes I complained to the university tech support.)
I've given up on dozens of websites that weren't critical to what I wanted. I'm not usually this picky (I use lots of design software on Windows at work), but this really bugs me because it's SO unnecessary in most cases.
When my little brother, at age 2 or so, got into my older brothers collection of playboy magazines, he thought it was a "book full of mommies". Boobs had one purpose, as far as he was concerned.
(It was the 70's. People breastfed for a long time. Get over it.)
Swallowed pennies can cause ulcers because the stomach acid attacks the zinc.
Also, TFA puts Zinc in the same category as Copper, as a metal that might be in short supply.
Yet another reason to get rid of this useless coin. Add this to:
Nobody uses them.
They are dangerous to children when swallowed, due to the zinc (unlike all other US coins)
And let's face it, Lincoln already has his picture in enough places!
(Ok, done ranting now...)
Cooking oil is stored at room temperature, even after opening. You don't get bacterial growth. Which isn't to say there might not be better oils to use.
The category that C++ is good for is processor intensive but not hardware tied applications. For example, video games are well served by C++ where the object orientation is extremely useful, but direct hardware interfacing is not crucial for most of it.
When I worked on a real time radio simulator years ago, I used C++ and Python. Python did the initialization and made a call to a function that never returned. That function was C, but it linked to quite a bit of C++ code, which was great for managing the various objects in the simulated environment.
I have to disagree with you. Yes, I think Microsoft's business practices are unfair. Yes, my life as sometimes software developer might be a lot less annoying if the company wasn't a monopoly. Yes, I own a Mac and try, on principle, to give Microsoft as little money as is legally possible.
That being said, go see the movie "The Insider", about the guy who ratted out that cigarette manufacturers knew about the health risks of smoking and lied about it for decades. Think about companies supporting dictators, intimidating people, poisoning people, ruining people... Microsoft is not my favorite company, but they do play by some rules. And the Gates' interest in changing the world through there fortune may be part arrogance and hubris, but they seem to genuinely want to make a difference.
So, my hat's off to the Gates', keep up the good work, and I'm still not buying anything from Microsoft! And to the non-nerd world, I say - even our bullies and tyrants are better than yours.
Well, first, you need to make more than about $120,000, so you don't pay 7.5% social security. Of course, you are pretty foolish to make your money through working instead of investing. Rich people don't work! They pay capital gains tax at 15%.
Of course, the best way to do it is to inherit it - which will be tax free, if the President gets his way. That's the way really rich people do it.
Did you think the tax system was somehow set up so that the percentage of income paid went up as you made more money? That's only true if you work for a living.
At Berkeley, there was a professor who used to start out his graduate condensed matter class with a rap about the subject. All I remember is "If it's 1-D you desire, use lithography to make a real fine wire..."
I think he got tired of it after a few semesters, but it was fun while it lasted.
No, it doesn't mean GPL'd software can't be used in a weapon. It means avoiding unintended consequences that might stifle the freedom of free software development. You'd still be free to make a Linux controlled guided missile.
I've always thought Microsoft came up with "MSN" for their services in the hope of someday having a top level domain of their own. It would be an easy three letter one, and they've put a lot of "branding" into it.
The larger problem, in my mind, is potential memory leaks. In an embedded application, presumably, this thing is going to run forever. Also, not dynamically allocating memory gives you more deterministic behavior, so you can put a little more faith in your testing.
Of course, a lot will depend on how many limitations avoiding dynamic memory will impose on your system. Keeping it to a minimum in an embedded system is always a good idea.
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However, if you bought them off of iTunes, and they are the only copies you have, then it seems pretty clearly legitimate. (Unless there are heinous contractual terms preventing transfers of the music from the original purchaser.)
What if you bought them from Apple but had made some copies? Apple's DRM allows a certain number of copies to be made. Can I sell a few of my copies of the $0.99 song I bought and retain a few of my own? This is where it gets murky...
No one ever thinks of the children. So sad.
In a brilliant marketing move, and exhibit about insects in the Natural History Museum in Washington DC is sponsored by Orkin. (Who else would want there name associated with two inch long cockroaches?).
Also, the only gravitational effect on our system would be from a field gradient, which falls off as one over the radius cubed.
I completely concur. The only time IE gets used on my machine is when I do windows update. I have to REALLY, REALLY need something from a site that doesn't support Firefox that I know I can't get elsewhere. I did it once when getting something from the USPTO, and once when my wife was using a university's online registration system (and yes I complained to the university tech support.)
I've given up on dozens of websites that weren't critical to what I wanted. I'm not usually this picky (I use lots of design software on Windows at work), but this really bugs me because it's SO unnecessary in most cases.
(It was the 70's. People breastfed for a long time. Get over it.)
Hey, now THAT's cool. To think of all the money I wasted on acid as a teenager.
Swallowed pennies can cause ulcers because the stomach acid attacks the zinc.
Also, TFA puts Zinc in the same category as Copper, as a metal that might be in short supply.
Yet another reason to get rid of this useless coin. Add this to:
Nobody uses them.
They are dangerous to children when swallowed, due to the zinc (unlike all other US coins)
And let's face it, Lincoln already has his picture in enough places!
(Ok, done ranting now...)
When I worked on a real time radio simulator years ago, I used C++ and Python. Python did the initialization and made a call to a function that never returned. That function was C, but it linked to quite a bit of C++ code, which was great for managing the various objects in the simulated environment.
Now THAT's funny!
My kids preschool works hard to encourage kids to use proper names for their body parts - surely us grownups can handle the word penis.
That being said, go see the movie "The Insider", about the guy who ratted out that cigarette manufacturers knew about the health risks of smoking and lied about it for decades. Think about companies supporting dictators, intimidating people, poisoning people, ruining people... Microsoft is not my favorite company, but they do play by some rules. And the Gates' interest in changing the world through there fortune may be part arrogance and hubris, but they seem to genuinely want to make a difference.
So, my hat's off to the Gates', keep up the good work, and I'm still not buying anything from Microsoft! And to the non-nerd world, I say - even our bullies and tyrants are better than yours.
. There! No more proposition at the end!
Of course, the best way to do it is to inherit it - which will be tax free, if the President gets his way. That's the way really rich people do it.
Did you think the tax system was somehow set up so that the percentage of income paid went up as you made more money? That's only true if you work for a living.
Doesn't seem weird to me. Methanol is pretty benign (as long as you don't drink it.) No worse than rubbing alcohol.
I think he got tired of it after a few semesters, but it was fun while it lasted.
See, the trouble with the recent tax cuts to the rich is, he won't get much of a tax break, because he's not paying very much in taxes.
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Maybe THAT's why $sys$Kerry lost.
No, it doesn't mean GPL'd software can't be used in a weapon. It means avoiding unintended consequences that might stifle the freedom of free software development. You'd still be free to make a Linux controlled guided missile.
I've always thought Microsoft came up with "MSN" for their services in the hope of someday having a top level domain of their own. It would be an easy three letter one, and they've put a lot of "branding" into it.
Oh, Fnord.
Of course, a lot will depend on how many limitations avoiding dynamic memory will impose on your system. Keeping it to a minimum in an embedded system is always a good idea.