What you should know is that IQ is a measure of statistical deviation from the norm. All IQ tests are just given out to a bunch of people, and the average is taken to be 100. So you could design a test with no 'trivia' at all.
Memorizing the answers simply wouldn't help you on a well designed test. Practising "obscure puzzles" probably would, as it would improve your ability to solve various puzzles. In the end, the only way you can gauge intelligence with a test is to ask questions, and this limits the type of intelligence you are testing for.
Now, someone who scores a 120 is probably not noticably smarter than someone who scores a 119, or even (possibly) a 110. However, given 50 people with a measured IQ of 110, or 50 people with a measured IQ of 140, you had better believe that the group with the 140's is going to kick the crap out of the other group in any task requiring rapid learning or tasks which require thinking, even if you exhaustively and equally train each group.
Saying you "resent" the dominant culture is a tell, although it isn't at all clear what you are talking about. A well designed IQ test could be given to a person from China just as well as a person from America, and if you think the cultures are simmilar then you have some kind of weird definition of culture.
Of course, all IQ tests devised by a technological society are going to be biased toward thinking which is useful in such a society. When you give, say, a plant identification test to a member of a non-technological society they will completely drop kick anyone from the industrialized world. However, if you took these two people, and gave them simmilar upbringing and education, then gave them both an IQ test, one might greatly outscore the others. All else being equal and random, you could never guess which person would score better ahead of time, as intelligence doesn't vary much between genetic groups, most measured differences being a result of education and, even more so in the case of raw intelligence, of nutrition.
Now, it is obvious that people enjoy what they are good at, and thus practice it, and become better. Is there any persuit that doesn't have this trait? (maybe kareokee) This doesn't make someone a lapdog. In fact, refusing to cooperate merely out of some sense of self pity or anger, and not a weighing of potential benifits and costs, is a sign of a truely low IQ.
Yea, well, members of the Flat Earth Society have a higher IQ on average than any political party.
See why it doesn't matter yet?
Of course most rich people are Republicans. Is that really a suprise? Most poor people are Democrats? Holy crap, this is blowing my mind. Now, what you're trying to tell me is that when people make alot of money, they vote for the party that favors people with alot of money? JESUS. I can't wrap my mind around this astonishing fact. Now, you say that professors don't vote republican, but do make alot of money. So if I understand correctly, people who make alot of money vote Republican, but the people who get paid to think about things don't. How is this an argument that makes Republicans look good?
Then you have to modify Professors with leftist/marxist. I'm pretty sure that any leftist/marxist would tend to lean, you know, away from voting Republican. It's just a hunch, but I imagine people with strong political beliefs tend to vote with those beliefs, instead of sabotaging themselves.
Then there is the whole "leftist/marxist" labeling issue. Who uses this label? Why, holy crap, Republicans! So basically you, along with most Republicans (and most Democrats) believe in the Conspiracy of Ignorance. The Conspiracy of Ignorance is basically the view that whoever disagrees with your political beliefs secretly really agrees with you, but they are intentionally sabotaging things because they are evil. You can hear more about this daily on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Suppose someone gets in a raft and starts heading to their friends house. The friend happens to be downstream. They get there, and the friend says "I see you decided to come down stream." But he didn't even think about that, he just wanted to get something done. He was successful because he happened to go the way that was possible with the resources he had.
Linus might have just wanted to make a down and dirty kernel to hack on. But it was successful because it was exactly what would have worked, in that there was a scarcity of resources and it gave a very short time to market, among other things. That he didn't realize this ahead of time is just an example of *young* linus's immaturity, nothing else.
So his decision wasn't based on that, yet that is exactly why it was successful.
Because Windows shortcut keys are 1ee7. Seriously, these guys aren't anything special. They download "fancyguiwindowssoftware.iso.zip.rar.r01" from some ftp site and upload it to another one. Maybe they know a guy who gets software at work so they rip the cd. Every once and a while they crack the copy protection, which any moderate programmer who has used a hex editor can do in about an hour anyway, including learning what they are looking for and then doing it.
They're the internet's petty criminals. They don't know why they are doing it, other than it is 7331. Maybe they like getting the newest version of Maya they day it comes out in the vain dream that they'll do something besides render a sphere and brag about having it (but that is exactly all they'll do). They probably like to be able to say to friends, "Man, don't buy that, I'll burn you a copy."
Seriously, not that interesting as people. We might as well have a show about people who hoard recipes and post them to the web, they aren't that different either in computer ability or motivation.
Come on guys, he tried SO HARD. Let's give him a pass since we shouldn't ever give an honest estimate of the quality of something someone tried hard to do. After all, he TRIED SO HARD.
(trying hard == not good enough)
And before someone wants to be an ass and ask me "Where is the great movie you made!?" -- I'm not a cow either, but I know manure when I smells it.
(recognizing crap != producing quality)
The acting was awful. It was even worse than something like a high school drama club. No effort was made to dub voices or scrub sound on the live action scenes. The acting is about what you would expect to see if you grabbed a random person and said, "here, look at the camera and read this."
The CGI was impressive, the sound effects and music were clearly lifted from the Star Wars movies.
Everything else was crudily crippity crap.
Oh, and the evil chick was especially ugly.
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Slow down there. How is there an Apple tax? Let's analyze this.
Apple closely bundles hardware and software => Apple has fantastic quality and loyal customers => Apples sells a bunch of hardware => Apple's PPC hardware is the cheapest available
So the fact you have to get OSX with an Apple is what you're complaining about, since you think you are getting charged more for it somehow.
So this "apple tax" you speak of must be negative, since it directly causes the hardware to be the cheapest available. Or are taking the untenable position that something can be wronged by the conditions which caused it to exist?
Not the sort of tax I would complain about. I mean, feel free to assemble a PPC based computer from non-apple components though, if you have a couple of grand to spare.
Perhaps Apple will someday take people like you into consideration, and let you buy a computer without OSX without the "Apple Tax" (significant markup).
The really sad thing is that you're not much of an outside the box thinker for such a gung ho linux maniac. Here's a hint, buy a second hand mac and nobody will ever know except you and ebay. (Maybe Linus will sell you his G5)
Oh, I forgot to point out that your post is equivelent to "Who knows what the future will bring, just because there is strong evidence that what you say is true, it MIGHT turn out different, and you can always use something else so don't say bad things about C."
"The sky probably will be blue tomorrow, but who knows let's wait and see before we make any hasty judgements. And just because there are serious problems with fossil fuels, nobody is making you use them so they're ok after all."
nobody (me especially) is stopping you from using whatever language you want...
So long as he is the sole propriator of whatever projects he works on.
And since most employed programmers have to work with, you know, other people and code that is already written, there is someone who is making him use C. But when he sits down at night and works on his magnum opus, he's perfectly free to use any language he wants... as long as he does it by himself.
Most of the money would go to the artists IF the artists made most of the contribution, they don't.
Artists can't make it big without recording companies. They don't have the know how or the access. You might say that this is because recording companies have set things up this way. That is specious. As a band starting out, how do you distribute your cd so that radio stations play it? Do you think DJ's will actually sit there and listen to the 10,000 shit bands that are out there just to find the one single from one band that isn't total crap? That is basically what record companies do, along with promotion and distribution.
Face it, most bands are crap, and your favorite band sucks. It is quite ironic that the people who are angry with the RIAA for stopping file sharing make these convoluted and specious arguments about who deserves the money, and these same downloaders are motivated by the desire to download for free the very music the recording companies have been spoon feeding them. This MUST be the case, since unsigned bands aren't protected by the RIAA, and aren't losing a cut to recording companies.
So here is the message from slashdot Recording Companies, "Please keep picking out music for us to like, but don't take a cut."
Except isnt it true that there are versions of the MSAntispyware util that report versions of mozilla/firebird/etc as being untrustworthy security risks?
NO! That was an obvious hoax. Go back to playing with your blocks.
Sorry, performance is NOT more important than stability on desktops, REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO DO! No matter how fast your processor is going if it is causing memory errors and corruption of data. If you don't have ECC memory that corruption will probably go unnoticed. So whatever it is you managed to do is crap. For games, the extra 3 frames per second don't make up for rebooting randomly at essential parts of the game. I'm sure you dorks will say something like "It isn't worth it for YOU, but it is for me." Don't be an idiot. It isn't worth it for you either, you're just to stupid or clueless to know it. "Amino acids are necessary for YOU to live, speak for yourself, you don't know my biology."
The guy who wrote this article was clearly some kind of idiot. His idea of "stable" is that Windows boots. Read the article, he stepped down the clock speed 1mhz at a time until windows finished booting. That isn't "stable". Stable is running under heavy load without having ANY hardware errors, or hard lockups. Stable for software is for it to have functionality and not crash. Stable for hardware is a much more stringent requirement, to the point that for a server to be considered "stable" it will generally have some sort of ECC memory, due to single bit errors caused by cosmic rays.
This is by no means stable. If it were possible to run a P4 at that speed, and have it be "stable" by anything but the "It turned on!" definition it would be widely available. The fact that it doesn't work at all as advertised, that it is likely to destroy your hardware due to condensation, and that only hopeless, clueless wannabe losers "overclock" anyway mean this thing is total crap.
There is no PMU, dope. The entire point is that creating some kind of artificial moral test is retarded. If you feel like something is wrong, don't do it. But if you are so backward that you have this rational construct that you test actions with, then you are a very silly person.
You like that some people have PMU's, because it keeps them from stealing from you? Would you like their PMU when they call 911 because they see you going 10 miles an hour over the speed limit?
Finally, someone can't be better at morality. They just happen to agree with you more, so YOU think they're better. I'm not saying that it is completely relative, I'm saying that there is serious ambiguity in the ethical value of most actions no matter what. Is speeding ethically wrong? What about having sex with a girl one minute before she is the legal age? What about having sex with a girl while she is turning the legal age (start before and finish after). There are always these borderline questions that defy any kind of set of rules, merely because the rule is really locally arbitrary (that is, it is immoral to have sex with children we pretty much agree, but when it becomes not immoral isn't completely certain, though the line is drawn somewhere). But if it is arbitrary you can hardly be considered immoral if you fudge it a little. (It isn't immoral to go 1 mile an hour over the limit consistantly, is it?)
In the end, you are probably some sort of religious "moral compass" lunatic anyway, so I'll stop wasting my time.
Why try to get her to drop windows, if it has the tools she needs? Too many people try to wedge others into using linux and OSS when it just isn't ready for users with their skill level. Buy your sister a Mac Mini and plug office on there for her, and she'll thank you forever.
If you approach the world like this you have problems.
Man, there is opportunity X. Now, I'll plug X into my Personal Morality Unit. Ahh, crap. It seems that I can't do X, since the PMU has decided that it would be necessary to lower my morals.
This is really hilarious to me. "It is wrong to click the box that says you're a student when you aren't". Why? Does it make Jesus cry? Is Kant turning in his grave? I bet when you find loose change you leave it on the ground because you don't know how to report it on your tax return. When the cable guy accidently left HBO on for free you called them and forced them come turn it off, AND charge you pro-rata for the time it was on. You heard your neighbor playing mp3's so you had to go and buy the albums, since otherwise you're getting to hear them free through the wall. (you bought 2 copies, because sometimes your wife hears it too)
Personally I only use Free Software. Free as in Bittorrent, sucker!
If you have cygwin installed you can just edit/etc/Hosts . It is something like a hardlink to the actual file, so it works for all programs, windows and cygwunix.
A thing has mass. The thing is measured in a frame that is at rest relative to it. Now you measure it in a frame moving quickly relative to the thing. The thing weighs more because the energy of the movement is equivelent to mass by E=mc^2. Thus when something moves it weighs more, and the faster it moves the more it weighs.
You can figure out the weight by using an equation (I don't remember exactly, it may have constants) like m/(1-V^2/C^2). Where V is the velocity and m is the rest mass. As you can see, when V = C, the equation is m/0. That is why you say that something has infinite mass when it is moving at the speed of light.
Now, photons have mass because they are a form of energy. Since energy and mass are the same thing, you just figure out how much energy a quanta of light has at some frequency, and convert it to mass using E=mc^2, or rather m=E/c^2.
There is no such thing as 'virtual mass' as you speak of it.
Finally, photons cannot go slower than the speed of light as a result of special relativity. This is not by definition, but rather it is an astounding fact, that regardless of reference frame c remains constant.
Hmmm. Now this leaves me scratching my head. Is po8 a troll or an idiot? I'll assume idiot.
Just in case you actually read this when it pops up on your slashdot homepage po8, he was obviosly saying that Bill Gates spurred OSS by producing windows, and driving out comercial competition. This left people with no supply of quality software, so they did it themselves.
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Clearly you are basing this on internet IQ tests.
What you should know is that IQ is a measure of statistical deviation from the norm. All IQ tests are just given out to a bunch of people, and the average is taken to be 100. So you could design a test with no 'trivia' at all.
Memorizing the answers simply wouldn't help you on a well designed test. Practising "obscure puzzles" probably would, as it would improve your ability to solve various puzzles. In the end, the only way you can gauge intelligence with a test is to ask questions, and this limits the type of intelligence you are testing for.
Now, someone who scores a 120 is probably not noticably smarter than someone who scores a 119, or even (possibly) a 110. However, given 50 people with a measured IQ of 110, or 50 people with a measured IQ of 140, you had better believe that the group with the 140's is going to kick the crap out of the other group in any task requiring rapid learning or tasks which require thinking, even if you exhaustively and equally train each group.
Saying you "resent" the dominant culture is a tell, although it isn't at all clear what you are talking about. A well designed IQ test could be given to a person from China just as well as a person from America, and if you think the cultures are simmilar then you have some kind of weird definition of culture.
Of course, all IQ tests devised by a technological society are going to be biased toward thinking which is useful in such a society. When you give, say, a plant identification test to a member of a non-technological society they will completely drop kick anyone from the industrialized world. However, if you took these two people, and gave them simmilar upbringing and education, then gave them both an IQ test, one might greatly outscore the others. All else being equal and random, you could never guess which person would score better ahead of time, as intelligence doesn't vary much between genetic groups, most measured differences being a result of education and, even more so in the case of raw intelligence, of nutrition.
Now, it is obvious that people enjoy what they are good at, and thus practice it, and become better. Is there any persuit that doesn't have this trait? (maybe kareokee) This doesn't make someone a lapdog. In fact, refusing to cooperate merely out of some sense of self pity or anger, and not a weighing of potential benifits and costs, is a sign of a truely low IQ.
Yea, well, members of the Flat Earth Society have a higher IQ on average than any political party.
See why it doesn't matter yet?
Of course most rich people are Republicans. Is that really a suprise? Most poor people are Democrats? Holy crap, this is blowing my mind. Now, what you're trying to tell me is that when people make alot of money, they vote for the party that favors people with alot of money? JESUS. I can't wrap my mind around this astonishing fact. Now, you say that professors don't vote republican, but do make alot of money. So if I understand correctly, people who make alot of money vote Republican, but the people who get paid to think about things don't. How is this an argument that makes Republicans look good?
Then you have to modify Professors with leftist/marxist. I'm pretty sure that any leftist/marxist would tend to lean, you know, away from voting Republican. It's just a hunch, but I imagine people with strong political beliefs tend to vote with those beliefs, instead of sabotaging themselves.
Then there is the whole "leftist/marxist" labeling issue. Who uses this label? Why, holy crap, Republicans! So basically you, along with most Republicans (and most Democrats) believe in the Conspiracy of Ignorance. The Conspiracy of Ignorance is basically the view that whoever disagrees with your political beliefs secretly really agrees with you, but they are intentionally sabotaging things because they are evil. You can hear more about this daily on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Oh, and you're an idiot.
It doesn't matter what Linus things. Here is why:
Suppose someone gets in a raft and starts heading to their friends house. The friend happens to be downstream. They get there, and the friend says "I see you decided to come down stream." But he didn't even think about that, he just wanted to get something done. He was successful because he happened to go the way that was possible with the resources he had.
Linus might have just wanted to make a down and dirty kernel to hack on. But it was successful because it was exactly what would have worked, in that there was a scarcity of resources and it gave a very short time to market, among other things. That he didn't realize this ahead of time is just an example of *young* linus's immaturity, nothing else.
So his decision wasn't based on that, yet that is exactly why it was successful.
Because Windows shortcut keys are 1ee7. Seriously, these guys aren't anything special. They download "fancyguiwindowssoftware.iso.zip.rar.r01" from some ftp site and upload it to another one. Maybe they know a guy who gets software at work so they rip the cd. Every once and a while they crack the copy protection, which any moderate programmer who has used a hex editor can do in about an hour anyway, including learning what they are looking for and then doing it.
They're the internet's petty criminals. They don't know why they are doing it, other than it is 7331. Maybe they like getting the newest version of Maya they day it comes out in the vain dream that they'll do something besides render a sphere and brag about having it (but that is exactly all they'll do). They probably like to be able to say to friends, "Man, don't buy that, I'll burn you a copy."
Seriously, not that interesting as people. We might as well have a show about people who hoard recipes and post them to the web, they aren't that different either in computer ability or motivation.
I base my morality on the teachings of the tooth fairy.
Come on guys, he tried SO HARD. Let's give him a pass since we shouldn't ever give an honest estimate of the quality of something someone tried hard to do. After all, he TRIED SO HARD.
(trying hard == not good enough)
And before someone wants to be an ass and ask me "Where is the great movie you made!?" -- I'm not a cow either, but I know manure when I smells it.
(recognizing crap != producing quality)
The acting was awful. It was even worse than something like a high school drama club. No effort was made to dub voices or scrub sound on the live action scenes. The acting is about what you would expect to see if you grabbed a random person and said, "here, look at the camera and read this."
The CGI was impressive, the sound effects and music were clearly lifted from the Star Wars movies.
Everything else was crudily crippity crap.
Oh, and the evil chick was especially ugly.
Slow down there. How is there an Apple tax? Let's analyze this.
Apple closely bundles hardware and software => Apple has fantastic quality and loyal customers => Apples sells a bunch of hardware => Apple's PPC hardware is the cheapest available
So the fact you have to get OSX with an Apple is what you're complaining about, since you think you are getting charged more for it somehow.
So this "apple tax" you speak of must be negative, since it directly causes the hardware to be the cheapest available. Or are taking the untenable position that something can be wronged by the conditions which caused it to exist?
Not the sort of tax I would complain about. I mean, feel free to assemble a PPC based computer from non-apple components though, if you have a couple of grand to spare.
Perhaps Apple will someday take people like you into consideration, and let you buy a computer without OSX without the "Apple Tax" (significant markup).
The really sad thing is that you're not much of an outside the box thinker for such a gung ho linux maniac. Here's a hint, buy a second hand mac and nobody will ever know except you and ebay. (Maybe Linus will sell you his G5)
Now THAT is comedy.
Oh, I forgot to point out that your post is equivelent to "Who knows what the future will bring, just because there is strong evidence that what you say is true, it MIGHT turn out different, and you can always use something else so don't say bad things about C."
"The sky probably will be blue tomorrow, but who knows let's wait and see before we make any hasty judgements. And just because there are serious problems with fossil fuels, nobody is making you use them so they're ok after all."
nobody (me especially) is stopping you from using whatever language you want...
So long as he is the sole propriator of whatever projects he works on.
And since most employed programmers have to work with, you know, other people and code that is already written, there is someone who is making him use C. But when he sits down at night and works on his magnum opus, he's perfectly free to use any language he wants... as long as he does it by himself.
is it just me
Yes.
It's one thing not to RFA, but to not even read the headline? SO STUPID!
Most of the money would go to the artists IF the artists made most of the contribution, they don't.
Artists can't make it big without recording companies. They don't have the know how or the access. You might say that this is because recording companies have set things up this way. That is specious. As a band starting out, how do you distribute your cd so that radio stations play it? Do you think DJ's will actually sit there and listen to the 10,000 shit bands that are out there just to find the one single from one band that isn't total crap? That is basically what record companies do, along with promotion and distribution.
Face it, most bands are crap, and your favorite band sucks. It is quite ironic that the people who are angry with the RIAA for stopping file sharing make these convoluted and specious arguments about who deserves the money, and these same downloaders are motivated by the desire to download for free the very music the recording companies have been spoon feeding them. This MUST be the case, since unsigned bands aren't protected by the RIAA, and aren't losing a cut to recording companies.
So here is the message from slashdot Recording Companies, "Please keep picking out music for us to like, but don't take a cut."
Sheeple.
It's called Freenet. Yes, it works.
Except isnt it true that there are versions of the MSAntispyware util that report versions of mozilla/firebird/etc as being untrustworthy security risks?
NO! That was an obvious hoax. Go back to playing with your blocks.
Sorry, performance is NOT more important than stability on desktops, REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO DO! No matter how fast your processor is going if it is causing memory errors and corruption of data. If you don't have ECC memory that corruption will probably go unnoticed. So whatever it is you managed to do is crap. For games, the extra 3 frames per second don't make up for rebooting randomly at essential parts of the game. I'm sure you dorks will say something like "It isn't worth it for YOU, but it is for me." Don't be an idiot. It isn't worth it for you either, you're just to stupid or clueless to know it. "Amino acids are necessary for YOU to live, speak for yourself, you don't know my biology."
The guy who wrote this article was clearly some kind of idiot. His idea of "stable" is that Windows boots. Read the article, he stepped down the clock speed 1mhz at a time until windows finished booting. That isn't "stable". Stable is running under heavy load without having ANY hardware errors, or hard lockups. Stable for software is for it to have functionality and not crash. Stable for hardware is a much more stringent requirement, to the point that for a server to be considered "stable" it will generally have some sort of ECC memory, due to single bit errors caused by cosmic rays.
This is by no means stable. If it were possible to run a P4 at that speed, and have it be "stable" by anything but the "It turned on!" definition it would be widely available. The fact that it doesn't work at all as advertised, that it is likely to destroy your hardware due to condensation, and that only hopeless, clueless wannabe losers "overclock" anyway mean this thing is total crap.
That fat slut Tasha Yar.
like I said in my first post in this thread, sucker!
There is no PMU, dope. The entire point is that creating some kind of artificial moral test is retarded. If you feel like something is wrong, don't do it. But if you are so backward that you have this rational construct that you test actions with, then you are a very silly person.
You like that some people have PMU's, because it keeps them from stealing from you? Would you like their PMU when they call 911 because they see you going 10 miles an hour over the speed limit?
Finally, someone can't be better at morality. They just happen to agree with you more, so YOU think they're better. I'm not saying that it is completely relative, I'm saying that there is serious ambiguity in the ethical value of most actions no matter what. Is speeding ethically wrong? What about having sex with a girl one minute before she is the legal age? What about having sex with a girl while she is turning the legal age (start before and finish after). There are always these borderline questions that defy any kind of set of rules, merely because the rule is really locally arbitrary (that is, it is immoral to have sex with children we pretty much agree, but when it becomes not immoral isn't completely certain, though the line is drawn somewhere). But if it is arbitrary you can hardly be considered immoral if you fudge it a little. (It isn't immoral to go 1 mile an hour over the limit consistantly, is it?)
In the end, you are probably some sort of religious "moral compass" lunatic anyway, so I'll stop wasting my time.
Why try to get her to drop windows, if it has the tools she needs? Too many people try to wedge others into using linux and OSS when it just isn't ready for users with their skill level. Buy your sister a Mac Mini and plug office on there for her, and she'll thank you forever.
If you approach the world like this you have problems.
Man, there is opportunity X. Now, I'll plug X into my Personal Morality Unit. Ahh, crap. It seems that I can't do X, since the PMU has decided that it would be necessary to lower my morals.
This is really hilarious to me. "It is wrong to click the box that says you're a student when you aren't". Why? Does it make Jesus cry? Is Kant turning in his grave? I bet when you find loose change you leave it on the ground because you don't know how to report it on your tax return. When the cable guy accidently left HBO on for free you called them and forced them come turn it off, AND charge you pro-rata for the time it was on. You heard your neighbor playing mp3's so you had to go and buy the albums, since otherwise you're getting to hear them free through the wall. (you bought 2 copies, because sometimes your wife hears it too)
Personally I only use Free Software. Free as in Bittorrent, sucker!
If you have cygwin installed you can just edit /etc/Hosts . It is something like a hardlink to the actual file, so it works for all programs, windows and cygwunix.
Wrong hotshot, hardware margins are marginal, hahaha.
Microsoft makes more off of a copy of Office than Apple does selling you a mini.
I'm sorry, but this is just false.
A thing has mass. The thing is measured in a frame that is at rest relative to it. Now you measure it in a frame moving quickly relative to the thing. The thing weighs more because the energy of the movement is equivelent to mass by E=mc^2. Thus when something moves it weighs more, and the faster it moves the more it weighs.
You can figure out the weight by using an equation (I don't remember exactly, it may have constants) like m/(1-V^2/C^2). Where V is the velocity and m is the rest mass. As you can see, when V = C, the equation is m/0. That is why you say that something has infinite mass when it is moving at the speed of light.
Now, photons have mass because they are a form of energy. Since energy and mass are the same thing, you just figure out how much energy a quanta of light has at some frequency, and convert it to mass using E=mc^2, or rather m=E/c^2.
There is no such thing as 'virtual mass' as you speak of it.
Finally, photons cannot go slower than the speed of light as a result of special relativity. This is not by definition, but rather it is an astounding fact, that regardless of reference frame c remains constant.
Hmmm. Now this leaves me scratching my head. Is po8 a troll or an idiot? I'll assume idiot.
Just in case you actually read this when it pops up on your slashdot homepage po8, he was obviosly saying that Bill Gates spurred OSS by producing windows, and driving out comercial competition. This left people with no supply of quality software, so they did it themselves.