How can Microsoft enforce this? Is it even a binding contract? In a binding contract, both sides have to give something up. What rights does Microsoft give the user that the user doesn't already have by federal statute (17 USC 117)?
As you increase your resolution, set your icon and font scale to be larger. This is an OS/window manager setting, so it applies to all apps immediately.
Unless you must use a proprietary but mission-critical app that's coded poorly with hard-coded pixel offsets so as not to respond correctly to changes in the system resolution.
PageRank(i) = (0.15/N) + (0.85)*Sum(PageRank(j) where j is in {pages that point to i})
However, the PageRank value is only one aspect of Google's ranking; for brand-new pages that haven't had time to gather links yet, Google seems to use straight textual ranking.
As I understand it, a program running as Administrator on NT can elevate its privileges to LocalSystem and do just about anything, such as write sectors to physical drives.
The interesting question would be why the adding machine manufacturers all standardized on the 123-bottom arrangement.
Adding machines are based on the values of numbers. Because nine is higher than three, nine should be higher than three.
With telephones, on the other hand, zero is greater than nine (it sends ten pulses on a rotary-dial phone), so it should be on the side far from 1 and close to 9.
lot of people need to type them into terminal windows (while also requiring quick key, non-strain-inducing shortcuts for copy and paste)
Ctrl+Ins and Shift+Ins work fine for me. I press RCtrl or RShift with my thumb (I use an IBM Model M keyboard without Windows keys so that my thumb can reach the RShift key when needed) and Insert with my middle finger.
Sometimes, a comment contains humor that's so subtle that the average mind doesn't pick it up, and the reflex to help overpowers the reflex to laugh. And sometimes, people respond to sarcastic trolls to set the record straight so that others don't incorrectly take the troll at face value.
When I use sarcasm, I try to make it clear using homebrew XML tags such as <sarcasm/>.
In windows it is supposed to be the equivalent of pressing the right mouse button. Why have a key for that? What a stupid concept... you already have your hand on the mouse so use it.
What about those who because of a physical disability cannot use a mouse or trackball and instead navigate Windows with a keyboard? What about those whose pointing device has only one button? (No redundant Mac jokes please; some early Windows laptops were like this.)
Nice try, but no. The "black" dialects have the same rules for dropping 'r' that British RP or any other non-rhotic English dialect uses. Non-rhotic English drops 'r' only after a vowel sound. Thus, 'r' would not be dropped in the word "project".
and I believe one of the reasons Disney and others had an excuse to request extensions of copyright law (yea right to "harmonize" the old and new law/copyright term).
The Bono Act was designed to harmonize USA copyright law with EU copyright law, which had been harmonized with German copyright law.
But why in the world did the U.S. Congress see fit to let the German Bundestag dictate American copyright policy? Imagine what would have happened had Congress listened to Germany sixty years ago.
And look at how almost all the copyrighted works licensed under a share-and-share-alike license are computer programs. When do we get Free novels? Free still cartoons? Free animated cartoons? Free musical works? Free recordings of those musical works?
How do the IP laws in place in Western economies constitute shooting oneself in the foot?
One problem is the problem of doing an exhaustive check of copyrights and patents. Though trademark checks are easy (use Google search), copyrights and patents are much harder to check in an automatic fashion. Given only the source code of a program, it's nearly impossible to determine whether or not that program infringes any of the more than two million subsisting U.S. patents. Given only the notes and rhythms of a melody, it's nearly impossible to determine whether or not that melody infringes any of the millions of subsisting U.S. copyrights on published musical works. Though copyright law requires access to the original work in addition to similarity, if the original work has hit the pop charts, the burden of proof seems to fall on the alleged infringer to disprove access (Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music).
The terms are too long. Why did Congress feel the need to grant 20 years of exclusive monopoly protection over something as simple as sending the user's identifying information along with the request to purchase something (the Amazon one-click shopping patent)? And why did Congress see fit to grant upwards of 120 years of monopoly on a melody?
However, if you tried to sell your database software you would have to do an exhaustive search to find out if any of the subroutines employed were previously patented.
What made the authors of patent law believe that this would be practical?
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you may not use the SOFTWARE.
How can Microsoft enforce this? Is it even a binding contract? In a binding contract, both sides have to give something up. What rights does Microsoft give the user that the user doesn't already have by federal statute (17 USC 117)?
As you increase your resolution, set your icon and font scale to be larger. This is an OS/window manager setting, so it applies to all apps immediately.
Unless you must use a proprietary but mission-critical app that's coded poorly with hard-coded pixel offsets so as not to respond correctly to changes in the system resolution.
I wonder how many lines of code pagerank really is.
Try one equation, iterated a few times:
However, the PageRank value is only one aspect of Google's ranking; for brand-new pages that haven't had time to gather links yet, Google seems to use straight textual ranking.
In fact, for true(r) long-term storage, it's recommended to copy the data from the commercial tape backup solution copy to plain old tar.
GNU tar doesn't help if the physical format of the tape (before the operating system even gets to it) is unknown.
But unless the seller knows WHY you're not buying, your stand is pointless.
Would explaining it in an essay on your web site and sending a copy to the boycotted company's sales department work?
No, because DisneyCo is thought to have a copyright on that.
NT uses a Hardware Abstraction Layer which should prevent any direct access to any hardware
Does the HAL prohibit only writes to the I/O registers, or does it also prohibit writes to disks other than through a file system?
In order to write a defragmenter for NT, Diskeeper had to write a kernel extension which would give them low level access to the disk.
How do you know that TurboTax doesn't install such an extension as well?
As I understand it, a program running as Administrator on NT can elevate its privileges to LocalSystem and do just about anything, such as write sectors to physical drives.
The interesting question would be why the adding machine manufacturers all standardized on the 123-bottom arrangement.
Adding machines are based on the values of numbers. Because nine is higher than three, nine should be higher than three.
With telephones, on the other hand, zero is greater than nine (it sends ten pulses on a rotary-dial phone), so it should be on the side far from 1 and close to 9.
lot of people need to type them into terminal windows (while also requiring quick key, non-strain-inducing shortcuts for copy and paste)
Ctrl+Ins and Shift+Ins work fine for me. I press RCtrl or RShift with my thumb (I use an IBM Model M keyboard without Windows keys so that my thumb can reach the RShift key when needed) and Insert with my middle finger.
I am running XP on my Mac to some DOS/Win games. You should check out Virtual PC.
How do you get Windows platform games to run in Connectix Virtual PC emulation with full frame rate?
Sometimes, a comment contains humor that's so subtle that the average mind doesn't pick it up, and the reflex to help overpowers the reflex to laugh. And sometimes, people respond to sarcastic trolls to set the record straight so that others don't incorrectly take the troll at face value.
When I use sarcasm, I try to make it clear using homebrew XML tags such as <sarcasm />.
In windows it is supposed to be the equivalent of pressing the right mouse button. Why have a key for that? What a stupid concept... you already have your hand on the mouse so use it.
What about those who because of a physical disability cannot use a mouse or trackball and instead navigate Windows with a keyboard? What about those whose pointing device has only one button? (No redundant Mac jokes please; some early Windows laptops were like this.)
why is that computer keyboards have the 1-3 row on the number pad at the bottom
Computers have 123 on the bottom because adding machines and calculators have 123 on the bottom.
while telephones have it at the top?
Telephones have it 123 on the top because rotary-dial telephones had 123 at the top of the dial.
put something nontrivial to defeat on the account creation page. the current "type this" challenge is a joke.
But anything that's not a joke is already patented.
"Hemos mentioned Nazis in the subject line. Therefore, by the Godwin's Law rule, the discussion is over almost before it's started."
Think again. The Godwin's Law FAQ, section II.2, discusses this.
Black people don't pronounce r's
Nice try, but no. The "black" dialects have the same rules for dropping 'r' that British RP or any other non-rhotic English dialect uses. Non-rhotic English drops 'r' only after a vowel sound. Thus, 'r' would not be dropped in the word "project".
birthing canal on a man
Caesarean section. Haven't you seen Junior?
There's plenty of them on the web - look at the explosion of webcomics.
I said "share-and-share-alike license", not "no-derivatives license".
and I believe one of the reasons Disney and others had an excuse to request extensions of copyright law (yea right to "harmonize" the old and new law/copyright term).
The Bono Act was designed to harmonize USA copyright law with EU copyright law, which had been harmonized with German copyright law.
But why in the world did the U.S. Congress see fit to let the German Bundestag dictate American copyright policy? Imagine what would have happened had Congress listened to Germany sixty years ago.
Disney's head is in cryogenic storage.
Walter Elias Disney was not frozen. Quite the opposite; he was burned.
look at all the work licensed under the GPL.
And look at how almost all the copyrighted works licensed under a share-and-share-alike license are computer programs. When do we get Free novels? Free still cartoons? Free animated cartoons? Free musical works? Free recordings of those musical works?
Do I think IP is over-litigated? Yes ... Do I think it will last forever? Nope.
Then how do you explain the decision of the Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ashcroft?
How do the IP laws in place in Western economies constitute shooting oneself in the foot?
One problem is the problem of doing an exhaustive check of copyrights and patents. Though trademark checks are easy (use Google search), copyrights and patents are much harder to check in an automatic fashion. Given only the source code of a program, it's nearly impossible to determine whether or not that program infringes any of the more than two million subsisting U.S. patents. Given only the notes and rhythms of a melody, it's nearly impossible to determine whether or not that melody infringes any of the millions of subsisting U.S. copyrights on published musical works. Though copyright law requires access to the original work in addition to similarity, if the original work has hit the pop charts, the burden of proof seems to fall on the alleged infringer to disprove access (Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music).
The terms are too long. Why did Congress feel the need to grant 20 years of exclusive monopoly protection over something as simple as sending the user's identifying information along with the request to purchase something (the Amazon one-click shopping patent)? And why did Congress see fit to grant upwards of 120 years of monopoly on a melody?
However, if you tried to sell your database software you would have to do an exhaustive search to find out if any of the subroutines employed were previously patented.
What made the authors of patent law believe that this would be practical?