I always hear people commenting about "PE Ratio", but I still cannot figure out why that number is used. It is used to provide some indication as to whether a company is overvalued or not. However, the price is determined by many things and can change if a company does a stock split.
I feel that it should be the "MCE Ratio" or Market Captialization to Earnings. This is something that will not be affected by the number of splits the company has gone through.
This has nothing to do with what is printed on the package, but rather the name of the product. You can print "Protect your Windows(TM) computer from trouble" all you want on the box. This is perfectly legal. It is when you take a trademark and use it in your product name that the lawyers start getting busy.
Graphically, if there is any overlap, you'll probably get a call from a lawyer.
"Microsoft Windows"
"Windows Defender"
This overlap is asking for trouble, no matter who the trademark holder is. This is because the holder must defend their mark or risk losing it. Being overprotective of a trademark is good corporate practice. AG Bayer learned this the hard way by losing their trademark.
Think about it...you have a product that's designed to accomplish a specific task, and that specific task is based solely on its ability to enhance another product.
Using the name of the other product in the name of your product is legally iffy. The product name should be "Defender". You can show how it works on "Microsoft Windows TM" in letters as big as the box. The name of the product is what this is about.
Which when used in connection with a product constitutes a trademark. Common words can be trademarks (eg Ford Mustang). As far as X Windows is concerned, I'm sure if the program was a Defender clone that ran on X, the trademark conflict would be much less. But since the program runs on Windows and has Windows in the name, this can create confusion in the market as to who produces the software.
If someone made an "Apple Defender", you bet APPL would be all over them, even though apple is a common word.
Microsoft just didn't respect the man's right to use the name and lied to him to *make him* give the rights.
The article specifically states that the guy would have given them the name had they simply asked. He was just irked to see the name he came up with actually _used_ by them.
Keep in mind, from a legal perspective trademark needs to be actively protected, or else you run the risk of losing it (remember the Aspirin story). So if Microsoft does _not_ send infringement letters, they run the risk of losing their trademark. Nevermind if the trademark is legally valid, they have to show that they are actively using and protecting this mark if they want to have a chance at keeping the trademark.
This is also related to all the companies using "Linux" in their product names, sometime in unflattering ways. There has not been a case yet to decide, but Linus stands a good chance of losing his trademark because he did not actively defend it. You have to do more than just say "Trademark" in your product. You need to police other people using this name, and if it can be shown that others used your trademark without consent for a time, then your trademark may become worthless. Linus let others use his trademark for too long before sending out the letter. Time will tell if he waited too long.
I believe that that arose out of a domain name dispute where both parties were trying to assert rights over wwf.com.
World Wildlife Fund was there first, so they got the domain. Knowing that their audience cannot be expected to spell (let alone type) "wrestling", the World Wrestling Federation opted to change the name so their audience can get the easy-to-type wwe.com.
Before you get your panties in a bunch, you need to realize a couple things.
1) Microsoft has a trademark on "Microsoft Windows" and this mark is used in connection with computer software. 2) A computer software developer using the name "Windows Defender" voluntarily handed over the name to Microsoft.
So apparantly Microsoft was able to convince the guy that his case for using "Windows Defender" was weak, and they got him to sign it over.
"Windows Defender" could be argued to generate confusion in the market because when it comes to the word "Windows" with respect to computer software, most of the market (ie. John Q Citizen) is going to assume that it is a Microsoft product. This is the purpose of a trademark.
A vendor who makes a "Windows Defender" that is a laminate to put on your windows to stormproof them, would face absolutely _no_threat_ whatsoever from Microsoft. This is because they are using "Windows" outside of the computer software market. Any attorney worth their retainer would get this thrown out extremely quickly.
I guess this means we still won't be able to see the landing sites in enough detail? Maybe someone with more knowledge can explain why we can't provide a higher resolution for these images if we can see celestial objects millions of light years away.
Because celestial objects are also very large. Galaxies span hundreds of thousands of light years, which is why they are visible.
(from wikipedia) The angular resolution (in radians) of a telescope is roughly wavelength/diameter. Optical wavelengths are in the 500nm range.
The observed radian value of a distant object is given by object width/distance.
So a moon lander, say 5m wide, which is about 385,000km = 385,000,000m would need a resolving power of 5/385,000,000 = 1.29e-8 rad.
206,265 arcseconds = 1 radian
So the moon lander is about 0.002 arc seconds if observed from the vicinity of earth.
According to ID, everything that happens, happens because God wills it. Our experiments show that God usually lets things run according to "science", but that the almighty can step in anytime and do whatever he wants (Raise the dead, etc.). Since there is no way to predict what God is going to do, there is no way to test any human theory.
The funny thing is that if you look up "delusion" in a psychiatry book, they will tell you that it is a belief in things, despite evidence to the contrary except religion. Religion is delusional behavior on a grand scale to the point where we have diagnosed it, but we cannot come to terms with the diagnosis.
Trying to talk logically to people who believe in myth and superstition is not logical. It is like trying to fit 0.5 into a bit.
Math-wise, computers are far more intelligent than the average individual at computation.
Computers are much more accurate at doing computations, but they cannot do anything that a human has not designed it to do. A CPU cannot add without the adder circuit designed by a human. It cannot compute the trajectory to Mars without the program that the human has written.
What they can do is perform the functions in a fraction of the time and do it with great accuracy. This is the function of a machine. But designing the machine and the algorithms is the role of intelligence.
In other words, don't confuse accuracy and speed with intelligence.
ARPA has always been Defense related. They just drop and add the 'D' as the political climate changes. Remember, the internet was developed as a way to create a communications network that could withstand the massive damage of a nuclear exchange and still deliver information among government organizations. Universities and corporate research teams (like PARC) did the work and were paid with grants from the Defense department. So while PARC and UC Berkeley may have had the brains for the work, the money came from the gub'ment.
I hope they don't read the spambox. I don't need any more "Refiance your C1AlI5 payments" emails.
Really, email has never been secure and you should not be shocked that someone could view or search it. If you do have personal stuff you'd rather not be seen, encrypt it or find some other method.
2. (Please don't correct me with a torch, I'm not an expert on this topic) but I don't doubt that MS would find some tiny loophole to sneak their own proprietary crap into OpenDocument formatted Office files which would have an adverse effect upon openning in any non-office program.
All they have to do is put the little balloon that says that "saving to OpenDocument may cause loss of formatting", which will cause 95% of the people out there to save to the proprietary file type.
Grandma installs Windows programs all the time. She puts in the CD, clicks the "Install" button, Clicks all the "Next" buttons until she gets to "Finished". Then she's up and running!
Installing software can be a nightmare on both systems. The difference is that most of the options in the Windows Installer simply requires a mouse click. No typing whatsoever. Also, library dependency on Windows is largely a thing of the past (remember the VBRUNxxDLL errors?).
For example, 5 minutes before leaving for the school bus, your kid tells you that she needs a picture of her pet fish for show-n-tell.
I simply remind him that he needs to do all assignments when he gets home from school instead of waiting until the last minute. A zero on the gradebook serves as a good reminder of this.
Anyway, I find that leaving an inkjet printer idle for too long will cause the ink to dry in the head rendering the printer inoperable. At a minimum you need to clean the heads to remove the cake, and sometimes they just cannot be restored to produce a decent print. I've tried Canons, Epsons and HPs. They all have had this problem. Infrequent use is not their strong suit.
An international standards body like IEEE would be better and hopefully non-political. UN is a treaty organization, not a government. Its representatives are not elected by anyone and you have the problem of various countries' policies directly conflicting with others (free speech in USA vs Germany, France, China, etc.).
Given the choice of having one country being capable of interference vs many countries capable of interference, I choose the devil I know.
Not really. Either side of the line would be only 1 hour apart wherever it lies. On one side it would be 11:00pm on one day, and 12:00am the next day on the other. This happens everyday on every time zone border, not just the international date line. GMT, the date line, etc, are simply artifacts of the development of the longitudinal system done by the Royal Observatory, in Greenwich, England way back when.
I have seen a good number comments in all kinds of projects that can be summed up as... // This is ugly, but it works
Often it is the result of shoddy hardware design or trying to weld pieces of code together that were never designed for it. Sometimes you have to resort to "bad code" to achieve your goals.
If your post were an advertisement, the following legalese would be stated near the bottom.
"10 guys near my desk" is not an accepted marketing survey technique and the results should not be used to estimate global demand. Other demographic groups, particularly females, may show significantly different preferences. Sony and IBM are registered trademarks. So are Dell, HP, Gateway, Intel and AMD but since they are not using POWER this statement is not needed.
Your proposal for eliminating space junk is to launch _more_ satellites?!?
Also, the volume that needs to be patrolled would need to have so many garbage collectors that the garbage collectors themselves would present a hazard.
The best thing to do is to launch "cleaner" systems and let all the junk eventually fall back to earth.
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To make those read-only AOL floppies useful, of course!
I always hear people commenting about "PE Ratio", but I still cannot figure out why that number is used. It is used to provide some indication as to whether a company is overvalued or not. However, the price is determined by many things and can change if a company does a stock split.
I feel that it should be the "MCE Ratio" or Market Captialization to Earnings. This is something that will not be affected by the number of splits the company has gone through.
When most people say DC, they usually mean "constant voltage". If a computer mainboard expects +5V and you give it 12, it will not be happy.
Making a reliable constant voltage power source that can handle kilowatts of power , efficiently and reliably, is no small task.
Graphically, if there is any overlap, you'll probably get a call from a lawyer.This overlap is asking for trouble, no matter who the trademark holder is. This is because the holder must defend their mark or risk losing it. Being overprotective of a trademark is good corporate practice. AG Bayer learned this the hard way by losing their trademark.
Think about it...you have a product that's designed to accomplish a specific task, and that specific task is based solely on its ability to enhance another product.
Using the name of the other product in the name of your product is legally iffy. The product name should be "Defender". You can show how it works on "Microsoft Windows TM" in letters as big as the box. The name of the product is what this is about.
Windows is a goddamn common word.
Which when used in connection with a product constitutes a trademark. Common words can be trademarks (eg Ford Mustang). As far as X Windows is concerned, I'm sure if the program was a Defender clone that ran on X, the trademark conflict would be much less. But since the program runs on Windows and has Windows in the name, this can create confusion in the market as to who produces the software.
If someone made an "Apple Defender", you bet APPL would be all over them, even though apple is a common word.
Microsoft just didn't respect the man's right to use the name and lied to him to *make him* give the rights.
The article specifically states that the guy would have given them the name had they simply asked. He was just irked to see the name he came up with actually _used_ by them.
Keep in mind, from a legal perspective trademark needs to be actively protected, or else you run the risk of losing it (remember the Aspirin story). So if Microsoft does _not_ send infringement letters, they run the risk of losing their trademark. Nevermind if the trademark is legally valid, they have to show that they are actively using and protecting this mark if they want to have a chance at keeping the trademark.
This is also related to all the companies using "Linux" in their product names, sometime in unflattering ways. There has not been a case yet to decide, but Linus stands a good chance of losing his trademark because he did not actively defend it. You have to do more than just say "Trademark" in your product. You need to police other people using this name, and if it can be shown that others used your trademark without consent for a time, then your trademark may become worthless. Linus let others use his trademark for too long before sending out the letter. Time will tell if he waited too long.
I believe that that arose out of a domain name dispute where both parties were trying to assert rights over wwf.com.
World Wildlife Fund was there first, so they got the domain. Knowing that their audience cannot be expected to spell (let alone type) "wrestling", the World Wrestling Federation opted to change the name so their audience can get the easy-to-type wwe.com.
That's a half-truth.
Before you get your panties in a bunch, you need to realize a couple things.
1) Microsoft has a trademark on "Microsoft Windows" and this mark is used in connection with computer software.
2) A computer software developer using the name "Windows Defender" voluntarily handed over the name to Microsoft.
So apparantly Microsoft was able to convince the guy that his case for using "Windows Defender" was weak, and they got him to sign it over.
"Windows Defender" could be argued to generate confusion in the market because when it comes to the word "Windows" with respect to computer software, most of the market (ie. John Q Citizen) is going to assume that it is a Microsoft product. This is the purpose of a trademark.
A vendor who makes a "Windows Defender" that is a laminate to put on your windows to stormproof them, would face absolutely _no_threat_ whatsoever from Microsoft. This is because they are using "Windows" outside of the computer software market. Any attorney worth their retainer would get this thrown out extremely quickly.
This is a non-issue.
I guess this means we still won't be able to see the landing sites in enough detail? Maybe someone with more knowledge can explain why we can't provide a higher resolution for these images if we can see celestial objects millions of light years away.
Because celestial objects are also very large. Galaxies span hundreds of thousands of light years, which is why they are visible.
(from wikipedia)
The angular resolution (in radians) of a telescope is roughly wavelength/diameter. Optical wavelengths are in the 500nm range.
The observed radian value of a distant object is given by object width/distance.
So a moon lander, say 5m wide, which is about 385,000km = 385,000,000m would need a resolving power of 5/385,000,000 = 1.29e-8 rad.
206,265 arcseconds = 1 radian
So the moon lander is about 0.002 arc seconds if observed from the vicinity of earth.
So using our equation above,
Radians = wavelength/diameter
or
diameter = wavelength/radians = 500e-9 / 1.29e-8 rad. = 38.75 meters.
That is a BIG telescope. Don't forget to account for atmosphereic effects. And please check my math.
Knoppix?
According to ID, everything that happens, happens because God wills it. Our experiments show that God usually lets things run according to "science", but that the almighty can step in anytime and do whatever he wants (Raise the dead, etc.). Since there is no way to predict what God is going to do, there is no way to test any human theory.
The funny thing is that if you look up "delusion" in a psychiatry book, they will tell you that it is a belief in things, despite evidence to the contrary except religion. Religion is delusional behavior on a grand scale to the point where we have diagnosed it, but we cannot come to terms with the diagnosis.
Trying to talk logically to people who believe in myth and superstition is not logical. It is like trying to fit 0.5 into a bit.
Math-wise, computers are far more intelligent than the average individual at computation.
Computers are much more accurate at doing computations, but they cannot do anything that a human has not designed it to do. A CPU cannot add without the adder circuit designed by a human. It cannot compute the trajectory to Mars without the program that the human has written.
What they can do is perform the functions in a fraction of the time and do it with great accuracy. This is the function of a machine. But designing the machine and the algorithms is the role of intelligence.
In other words, don't confuse accuracy and speed with intelligence.
ARPA has always been Defense related. They just drop and add the 'D' as the political climate changes. Remember, the internet was developed as a way to create a communications network that could withstand the massive damage of a nuclear exchange and still deliver information among government organizations. Universities and corporate research teams (like PARC) did the work and were paid with grants from the Defense department. So while PARC and UC Berkeley may have had the brains for the work, the money came from the gub'ment.
I hope they don't read the spambox. I don't need any more "Refiance your C1AlI5 payments" emails.
Really, email has never been secure and you should not be shocked that someone could view or search it. If you do have personal stuff you'd rather not be seen, encrypt it or find some other method.
2. (Please don't correct me with a torch, I'm not an expert on this topic) but I don't doubt that MS would find some tiny loophole to sneak their own proprietary crap into OpenDocument formatted Office files which would have an adverse effect upon openning in any non-office program.
All they have to do is put the little balloon that says that "saving to OpenDocument may cause loss of formatting", which will cause 95% of the people out there to save to the proprietary file type.
Does it say "gaah" ?
What?
Does it say "gaah"? He wouldn't write it, he would just say it.
Perhaps he was dicating.
Houseflies live for about a month, not 3 days.
There is an organism that does live only three days, but I do not recall which one it is. I think it is a mosquito of some variety.
Grandma installs Windows programs all the time. She puts in the CD, clicks the "Install" button, Clicks all the "Next" buttons until she gets to "Finished". Then she's up and running!
Installing software can be a nightmare on both systems. The difference is that most of the options in the Windows Installer simply requires a mouse click. No typing whatsoever. Also, library dependency on Windows is largely a thing of the past (remember the VBRUNxxDLL errors?).
For example, 5 minutes before leaving for the school bus, your kid tells you that she needs a picture of her pet fish for show-n-tell.
I simply remind him that he needs to do all assignments when he gets home from school instead of waiting until the last minute. A zero on the gradebook serves as a good reminder of this.
Anyway, I find that leaving an inkjet printer idle for too long will cause the ink to dry in the head rendering the printer inoperable. At a minimum you need to clean the heads to remove the cake, and sometimes they just cannot be restored to produce a decent print. I've tried Canons, Epsons and HPs. They all have had this problem. Infrequent use is not their strong suit.
An international standards body like IEEE would be better and hopefully non-political. UN is a treaty organization, not a government. Its representatives are not elected by anyone and you have the problem of various countries' policies directly conflicting with others (free speech in USA vs Germany, France, China, etc.).
Given the choice of having one country being capable of interference vs many countries capable of interference, I choose the devil I know.
Not really. Either side of the line would be only 1 hour apart wherever it lies. On one side it would be 11:00pm on one day, and 12:00am the next day on the other. This happens everyday on every time zone border, not just the international date line. GMT, the date line, etc, are simply artifacts of the development of the longitudinal system done by the Royal Observatory, in Greenwich, England way back when.
I have seen a good number comments in all kinds of projects that can be summed up as...
// This is ugly, but it works
Often it is the result of shoddy hardware design or trying to weld pieces of code together that were never designed for it. Sometimes you have to resort to "bad code" to achieve your goals.
If your post were an advertisement, the following legalese would be stated near the bottom.
"10 guys near my desk" is not an accepted marketing survey technique and the results should not be used to estimate global demand. Other demographic groups, particularly females, may show significantly different preferences. Sony and IBM are registered trademarks. So are Dell, HP, Gateway, Intel and AMD but since they are not using POWER this statement is not needed.
Heh. They do report problems. The error message is "Lost Carrier".
Your proposal for eliminating space junk is to launch _more_ satellites?!?
Also, the volume that needs to be patrolled would need to have so many garbage collectors that the garbage collectors themselves would present a hazard.
The best thing to do is to launch "cleaner" systems and let all the junk eventually fall back to earth.