I love google.
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/div_stats/1638.htm
2. What Are The Federal Antitrust Laws, And What Do They Prohibit?
There are three major federal antitrust laws: The Sherman Antitrust Act, the Clayton Act and the
Federal Trade Commission Act.
The Sherman Antitrust Act has stood since 1890 as the principal law expressing our national
commitment to a free market economy in which competition free from private and governmental
restraints leads to the best results to the consumers. Congress felt so strongly about this commitment that
there was only one dissenting vote to the Act.
The Sherman Act outlaws all contracts, combinations, and conspiracies that unreasonably restrain
interstate trade. This includes agreements among competitors to fix prices, rig bids and allocate
customers. The Sherman Act also makes it a crime to monopolize any part of interstate commerce. An
unlawful monopoly exists when only one firm provides a product or service, and it has become the only
supplier not because its product or service is superior to others, but by suppressing competition with
anticompetitive conduct. The Act is not violated simply when one firm's vigorous competition and lower
prices take sales from its less efficient competitors; rather, that is competition working properly.
Sherman Act violations are punished as criminal felonies. The Department of Justice alone is
empowered to bring criminal prosecutions under the Sherman Act. Individual violators can be fined up to
$350,000 and sentenced to up to 3 years in federal prison for each offense; corporations can be fined up
to $10 million for each offense. Under some circumstances, the fines can go even higher.
The Clayton Act is a civil statute (it carries no criminal penalties) that was passed in 1914 and
significantly amended in 1950. The Clayton Act prohibits mergers or acquisitions that are likely to lessen
competition. Under the Act, the government challenges those mergers that a careful economic analysis
shows are likely to increase prices to consumers. All persons considering a merger or acquisition above a
certain size must notify both the Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission. The Act also
prohibits certain other business practices that under certain circumstances may harm competition.
The Federal Trade Commission Act prohibits unfair methods of competition in interstate commerce,
but carries no criminal penalties. It also created the Federal Trade Commission to police violations of the
Act.
The Department of Justice also often uses other laws to fight illegal activities, including laws that
prohibit false statements to federal agencies, perjury, obstruction of justice, conspiracies to defraud the
United States and mail and wire fraud. Each of these crimes carries its own fines and imprisonment terms
which may be added to the fines and imprisonment terms for antitrust law violations.
So the Sherman act -does- allow for penalties. Unfortunately, at 10 million per offence, that's pocket change for Microsoft.
Most of the talk about the MS case centers around how to keep Microsoft from unfairly clobbering competition, which is good. But how come we never see anything about penalties for past behavior? How 'bout a nice 10 billion dollar fine (only 1/3 of Microsoft's cash reserve...) that we can then throw at the ISS? Yeah...
Yeah! I Agree! And I bet you also wanna beat the shit out of people who eat red meat! And those fuckers who use butter! And don't get me started on those selfish bastards who don't exercise. They're costing ME money! Fuck civil liberties, I want lower insurance premiums!
Ditto on short and specific. Very few topics need a 1000 page book, and if so then it needs to be split up into several subtopics and several sub-books. Any book that is too long is really hard to use as a reference, and probably means the author can't state anything clearly and concisely.
Also, the submitter should really take a huge hint from the animal-book people. I've got 29 O'Reilly books, and all but a couple are great. As stated above, keep things as short as possible and concise. Don't assume the user is using any specific tools other than what the book is about (Like Java books that assume you're using JBuilder or Visual Age or whatever). If other tools are necessary, find a Free (or at least free) version and tell the user where to get it. Don't aim at newbies or retards; assume your target audience is proficient enough to figure out non-related stuff by themselves (like what a "directory" is, what a text editor is and how to use one, and that they are capable of doing stuff at their own pace, unlike the "Teach yourself how to wipe your ass in 21 days" books)
The only time energy is useful is when there is an energy difference to exploit. +12V/Ground gives you electricity to work with; +12V/+12V gets you nothing. 1000C/0C lets you use a thermocouple, 1000C/1000C gets you nothing. Two cars in contact at a relative speed of 200KPH gets you a shitload of energy to tear the cars and occupants apart, two cars in contact because they're just sitting in a parking lot gets you nothing. Energy is only useful when there's an energy transfer, and if two things have the same heat energy, you can't transfer heat between them, so you get nothing out of it.
As for your example, there is indeed something "cooling down", and that's the burning of juice being forced across the resister. If it's a battery, it'll eventually go dead. If it's a generator, you gotta keep giving it fuel. Or, eventually, there'll be no voltage drop between to the ends of the resister, and it'll stop giving off heat. This is the same as two things cooling off to the same temperature.
Do you think a poor inner-city school has the
money to hire a MS sysad? I'd bet the odd are good that a local LUG would be willing to help
out setup and run the schools' networks.
If MS was serious, they wouldn't start charging
after 5 years. Well, hell, we KNOW they're not serious because in 5 years todays machines won't be able to run whatever the newest Windows/Office combo is.
They could combine a GPS-enabled phone with
a scent-detecting device. At some point in time, it'll detect the presence of burning bud and have a pizza delivered to wherever you happen to be.
Ooohyeah.
"Technically it is just ``symbol per second'' which can mean bits per second, but usually meant (back then) bytes per second, Bps, so 300 baud would be 300Bps = 2400bps"
Umm. No.
300 baud modems were indeed 300 bits per second.
You're correct in the "symbols per second" thing,
but everything including and below 2400 baud used one symbol per bit, so in those cases baud=bps. Higher modem speeds still run at 2400 baud, but use phase shifting and other tricks so that each symbol stands for N bits. For example, a 9600 bps modem works by each symbol representing 4 bits. 2400 baud times 4 bits/symbol equals 9600 bits per second.
For the purposes of this discussion, "symbols per second" means you're sampling the carrier N times per second.
That's dumb. You shouldn't dislike an idea just because of people associated with it; you should judge the idea on its own merits.
I bet Jesse Helms likes beer. Well, I dislike Helms so that must mean I should dislike beer. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
"the ambulance will be a faster/more equipped option for her any how."
Not if you're out in the middle of nowhere. Also,
there are some places the ambulance crew might not be able to get to.
"Okay, drive down highway 44 'till you pass Buck's place, take the first right, take the first left after you pass the stop where I hit that deer last year, go until you pass the big ass stump, follow the dirt road to the boat ramp, drive up the sand bar to Finney's place, and we'll be right there."
Oh, c'mon. In assembly, the whole segment/offset thing was a freakin' BLAST, especially under MSDOS. How else
can you experience the joy of zeroing out your interrupt vector just 'cause you switched the order of two args?
The articles specifically says that many of the proposed bills/actions say "software libre unless there is no software libre for the particular task; then proprietary is okay."
The US gov't should follow the same route. It makes no sense that the US govm't be beholden to standards of one software company, and it makes no sense that possibly sensitive information be stored on systems running a "black box" OS. I bet the DoD doesn't buy tanks or airplanes without getting blueprints; why should they just do the same with software?
Yeah, they're gonna be hired in the MS Marketing department. There are a LOT of dead people out there, and polls show that 95% of them don't use a computer.
So the "dead people" demographic is about the only place left for growth, so MS is fighting hard for them!
There's a really awesome book I've got a copy of
called _Scientists Confront Creationism_ that does
a very good job of debunking the so-called "science" that many "Scientific Creationists" try to use to discredit theories about evolution and the age of the universe. It specifically deals with that exponential decay argument, and a bunch more.
Specifically, re: magnetic field decay, the person who originally came up with the 10k year limit pulled an exponential curve from a point plot that doesn't seem to suggest an exponential curve. He didn't account for the earth's magnetic field fluctuating, instead of just decaying, and (most importantly) he was under the assumption that there is no energy source in the earth to cause the magnetic field to change. However, we know now that heating caused by radioactive decay in the earth produces a lot of heat...
Info, if anyone's interested:
Edited by Laurie R Godfrey
Publushed by WW Norton & Company, Inc
Copyright 1983
ISBN 0-393-30154-0
I suggest anyone who gets into arguments with people who make claims like "the world is only 6000 years old!" and "Geologic dating has been proven wrong" and such shit go get a copy, at the library or try to find it in a bookstore.
Nope, it didn't require Glide. It supported OpenGL, although (I believe) not "officially". But it ran freakin' AWESOME with my Elsa Erazor X^2 (I ferget which NVidia chip that had) on a PII 450.
Actually, Tribes 1 ran pretty good on an AMD 233
with a Voodoo Banshee, so it's not too resource intensive. Also Tribes 1 doesn't do serial-number comparison or require registration to play online.
You're right. And every linux installer I've seen in the last few years, when it sets up lilo, puts in an entry for booting to Windows. Easy as pi.
Now, if the newbie nukes the windows partition with fdisk during the install, that's a problem. But you can't really blame that on the installer, but rather on user ignorance.
"There are only about 6 Billion people on this planet."
Well, they're secretly funding research into quantum computing, so they can sell service to people in an infinite number of universes. The only drawback is that getting a reasonable username will be a bitch...
They're not talking about click throughts, they studied brand recognition. Given that the person visited a webpage with an ad for "Poopilux" earlier today, do they remember what the company sells?
I bet accidently clicking the popup would certainly help them remember, though. Consider the "Who the fuck would want to buy THAT?" reaction.
Well, ya know, global warming => rising
sea levels, so Chicago will eventually
be on the East Coast. The race organizers are just being forward-thinking.
Er, Linux is just the OS. The client apps they would need could be proprietary, but the OS doesn't have to be. If they don't want it hacked, they just don't install unneeded services that could cause problems. Hell, they could avoid even putting a shell on there, so if someone did manage to overflow (for example) thier proprietary app, they still couldn't get a shell do do anything useful.
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2. What Are The Federal Antitrust Laws, And What Do They Prohibit?
There are three major federal antitrust laws: The Sherman Antitrust Act, the Clayton Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act.
The Sherman Antitrust Act has stood since 1890 as the principal law expressing our national commitment to a free market economy in which competition free from private and governmental restraints leads to the best results to the consumers. Congress felt so strongly about this commitment that there was only one dissenting vote to the Act.
The Sherman Act outlaws all contracts, combinations, and conspiracies that unreasonably restrain interstate trade. This includes agreements among competitors to fix prices, rig bids and allocate customers. The Sherman Act also makes it a crime to monopolize any part of interstate commerce. An unlawful monopoly exists when only one firm provides a product or service, and it has become the only supplier not because its product or service is superior to others, but by suppressing competition with anticompetitive conduct. The Act is not violated simply when one firm's vigorous competition and lower prices take sales from its less efficient competitors; rather, that is competition working properly.
Sherman Act violations are punished as criminal felonies. The Department of Justice alone is empowered to bring criminal prosecutions under the Sherman Act. Individual violators can be fined up to $350,000 and sentenced to up to 3 years in federal prison for each offense; corporations can be fined up to $10 million for each offense. Under some circumstances, the fines can go even higher.
The Clayton Act is a civil statute (it carries no criminal penalties) that was passed in 1914 and significantly amended in 1950. The Clayton Act prohibits mergers or acquisitions that are likely to lessen competition. Under the Act, the government challenges those mergers that a careful economic analysis shows are likely to increase prices to consumers. All persons considering a merger or acquisition above a certain size must notify both the Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission. The Act also prohibits certain other business practices that under certain circumstances may harm competition.
The Federal Trade Commission Act prohibits unfair methods of competition in interstate commerce, but carries no criminal penalties. It also created the Federal Trade Commission to police violations of the Act.
The Department of Justice also often uses other laws to fight illegal activities, including laws that prohibit false statements to federal agencies, perjury, obstruction of justice, conspiracies to defraud the United States and mail and wire fraud. Each of these crimes carries its own fines and imprisonment terms which may be added to the fines and imprisonment terms for antitrust law violations.
So the Sherman act -does- allow for penalties. Unfortunately, at 10 million per offence, that's pocket change for Microsoft.
Most of the talk about the MS case centers around how to keep Microsoft from unfairly clobbering competition, which is good. But how come we never see anything about penalties for past behavior? How 'bout a nice 10 billion dollar fine (only 1/3 of Microsoft's cash reserve...) that we can then throw at the ISS? Yeah...
Yeah! I Agree! And I bet you also wanna beat the shit out of people who eat red meat! And those fuckers who use butter! And don't get me started on those selfish bastards who don't exercise. They're costing ME money! Fuck civil liberties, I want lower insurance premiums!
Also, the submitter should really take a huge hint from the animal-book people. I've got 29 O'Reilly books, and all but a couple are great. As stated above, keep things as short as possible and concise. Don't assume the user is using any specific tools other than what the book is about (Like Java books that assume you're using JBuilder or Visual Age or whatever). If other tools are necessary, find a Free (or at least free) version and tell the user where to get it. Don't aim at newbies or retards; assume your target audience is proficient enough to figure out non-related stuff by themselves (like what a "directory" is, what a text editor is and how to use one, and that they are capable of doing stuff at their own pace, unlike the "Teach yourself how to wipe your ass in 21 days" books)
The only time energy is useful is when there is an energy difference to exploit. +12V/Ground gives you electricity to work with; +12V/+12V gets you nothing. 1000C/0C lets you use a thermocouple, 1000C/1000C gets you nothing. Two cars in contact at a relative speed of 200KPH gets you a shitload of energy to tear the cars and occupants apart, two cars in contact because they're just sitting in a parking lot gets you nothing. Energy is only useful when there's an energy transfer, and if two things have the same heat energy, you can't transfer heat between them, so you get nothing out of it.
As for your example, there is indeed something "cooling down", and that's the burning of juice being forced across the resister. If it's a battery, it'll eventually go dead. If it's a generator, you gotta keep giving it fuel. Or, eventually, there'll be no voltage drop between to the ends of the resister, and it'll stop giving off heat. This is the same as two things cooling off to the same temperature.
Do you think a poor inner-city school has the
money to hire a MS sysad? I'd bet the odd are good that a local LUG would be willing to help
out setup and run the schools' networks.
If MS was serious, they wouldn't start charging
after 5 years. Well, hell, we KNOW they're not serious because in 5 years todays machines won't be able to run whatever the newest Windows/Office combo is.
They could combine a GPS-enabled phone with a scent-detecting device. At some point in time, it'll detect the presence of burning bud and have a pizza delivered to wherever you happen to be.
Ooohyeah.
Well hot damn! You're certainly correct. Thanks for the clarification.
"Technically it is just ``symbol per second'' which can mean bits per second, but usually meant (back then) bytes per second, Bps, so 300 baud would be 300Bps = 2400bps"
Umm. No.
300 baud modems were indeed 300 bits per second. You're correct in the "symbols per second" thing, but everything including and below 2400 baud used one symbol per bit, so in those cases baud=bps. Higher modem speeds still run at 2400 baud, but use phase shifting and other tricks so that each symbol stands for N bits. For example, a 9600 bps modem works by each symbol representing 4 bits. 2400 baud times 4 bits/symbol equals 9600 bits per second.
For the purposes of this discussion, "symbols per second" means you're sampling the carrier N times per second.
That's dumb. You shouldn't dislike an idea just because of people associated with it; you should judge the idea on its own merits.
I bet Jesse Helms likes beer. Well, I dislike Helms so that must mean I should dislike beer. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
Not if you're out in the middle of nowhere. Also, there are some places the ambulance crew might not be able to get to.
"Okay, drive down highway 44 'till you pass Buck's place, take the first right, take the first left after you pass the stop where I hit that deer last year, go until you pass the big ass stump, follow the dirt road to the boat ramp, drive up the sand bar to Finney's place, and we'll be right there."
Well, that's just the demo version. You can later get the full version; it's shipped in a UHaul truck and comes on about 14,000 DVDs.
Christ, what kind of childhood would I have had with THAT kind of advice?
can you experience the joy of zeroing out your interrupt vector just 'cause you switched the order of two args?
It kept you on your toes! Kids these days...
Lego floats fine! Just the other day I built a smallish Lego boat, as sort of a prop for our 7th Sea game, and on a whim I tossed it in the sink.
It was a bit leaky, but still floated.
The US gov't should follow the same route. It makes no sense that the US govm't be beholden to standards of one software company, and it makes no sense that possibly sensitive information be stored on systems running a "black box" OS. I bet the DoD doesn't buy tanks or airplanes without getting blueprints; why should they just do the same with software?
Yeah, they're gonna be hired in the MS Marketing department. There are a LOT of dead people out there, and polls show that 95% of them don't use a computer.
So the "dead people" demographic is about the only place left for growth, so MS is fighting hard for them!
Specifically, re: magnetic field decay, the person who originally came up with the 10k year limit pulled an exponential curve from a point plot that doesn't seem to suggest an exponential curve. He didn't account for the earth's magnetic field fluctuating, instead of just decaying, and (most importantly) he was under the assumption that there is no energy source in the earth to cause the magnetic field to change. However, we know now that heating caused by radioactive decay in the earth produces a lot of heat...
Info, if anyone's interested:
Edited by Laurie R Godfrey
Publushed by WW Norton & Company, Inc
Copyright 1983
ISBN 0-393-30154-0
I suggest anyone who gets into arguments with people who make claims like "the world is only 6000 years old!" and "Geologic dating has been proven wrong" and such shit go get a copy, at the library or try to find it in a bookstore.
Actually, Tribes 1 ran pretty good on an AMD 233 with a Voodoo Banshee, so it's not too resource intensive. Also Tribes 1 doesn't do serial-number comparison or require registration to play online.
Now, if the newbie nukes the windows partition with fdisk during the install, that's a problem. But you can't really blame that on the installer, but rather on user ignorance.
Well, they're secretly funding research into quantum computing, so they can sell service to people in an infinite number of universes. The only drawback is that getting a reasonable username will be a bitch...
I bet accidently clicking the popup would certainly help them remember, though. Consider the "Who the fuck would want to buy THAT?" reaction.
Well, ya know, global warming => rising sea levels, so Chicago will eventually be on the East Coast. The race organizers are just being forward-thinking.
Clever, clever.
Er, Linux is just the OS. The client apps they would need could be proprietary, but the OS doesn't have to be. If they don't want it hacked, they just don't install unneeded services that could cause problems. Hell, they could avoid even putting a shell on there, so if someone did manage to overflow (for example) thier proprietary app, they still couldn't get a shell do do anything useful.