> No. The point of the matter is that MS created a music player who's > operation is somehow critically intertwined with the number of days in > the year. I can't imagine how the number of days in the year could be > critical for the function of playing music
I'm speechless. This is simply laughable; it appears to demonstrate a near-total lack of knowledge of computer programming. It has nothing to do with the playing of music. The machine has some date-based functionality. It therefore needs to do date arithmetic. A bug in the date arithmetic caused a crash. It's just that simple. > and think that anyone who would do that is an idiot. Then apparently the iPod programmers are also idiots because it, too, knows the date and time. If there were a bug in iPod's date arithmetic that caused it to go into an endless loop or some such, then it would, in all likelihood, also stop working. It's interesting to note that, now that you know the Zunes aren't dead, you've abandoned your original message, to wit, MS did this on purpose to sell more Zunes. Now you writing as if this new point--how stupid MS programmers are--was what you were talking about all along. It wasn't, but any port in a storm, I guess. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
