To restate the facts, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) will attempt to
settle its claim with Microsoft. As part of the bargain, the DOJ will
attempt to force regulations on Microsoft. Microsoft will have to agree to
restrict themselves from certain business practices. Maybe they won't be
able to reduce CPU speed any time "wp.exe" is run, anymore. (Ha ha).
But this doesn't require the states attorneys general offices to drop
their antitrust suits. Any one state could still ask the US District Court
to break Microsoft up. The Federal Trade Commission is independent of the
DOJ and it could also act. Moreover, the European Union has begun to
investigate Microsoft's anti-competitive practices.
The bottom line remains, however, that the only alternative for the next
few years to the Microsoft monopoly will be open source and/or free
software.
The probe's trajectory is smooth. If the probe ran into something, the trajectory wouldn't have been smooth. For example, if it had run into a cloud of cosmic dust, the probe would have slowed down. The cloud would have reduced the probe's acceleration relative to Earth due to friction. This would have caused a one-time change in the trajectory. No such one-time change has been observed. The trajectory is smooth. Thus, the probe didn't run into something.
Furthermore, it couldn't have been some other type of temporary force. That rules out the possibility that a "tractor beam" might have deflected the probe. It also rules out the possibility that the emission of energy in the form of radio waves had any effect on the probe's trajectory, since that emission would not have been constant over time.
The slowdown in the probe's acceleration has been constant over time. The observed difference between the predicted acceleration and the observed acceleration should be reducible to a constant. If this is true, the slowdown should be proportionately the same early in the probe's voyage as it is now. A wild card here is that the probe might not have been always headed away from the sun. I'm not sure. Maybe they used a gravity slingshot or something to send the probe into deep space.
The continuing slowdown of the probe indicates that this force does not depreciate over the distances so far observed. This contrasts with the strong and weak nuclear forces, which both depreciate over smaller distances. Gravity does not depreciate over any known distance. We might assume that this hypothetical force is like gravity in not depreciating over any distance. At this point we could analogize this force to gravity. Maybe this new force is like gravity in other ways, too.
The probe is slightly off-course, but not much. Thus, the force is not as powerful as gravity.
This is just speculation. Maybe it's crazy. It will be interesting to eventually learn the answer. Is it really a new force?
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But this doesn't require the states attorneys general offices to drop their antitrust suits. Any one state could still ask the US District Court to break Microsoft up. The Federal Trade Commission is independent of the DOJ and it could also act. Moreover, the European Union has begun to investigate Microsoft's anti-competitive practices.
The bottom line remains, however, that the only alternative for the next few years to the Microsoft monopoly will be open source and/or free software.
How does an article by Jon Katz on e-mail get posted in the hardware section? Maybe they'll correct this in a Slashback!
I have my Katz filter on, but then he appears under a different category, like "Reviews." Is there any justice left in the world?
Sorry if this is redundant. I found this URI with a Google search:
h at snew/whatsnewpublicpreview.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/essentials/w
It suggests using this meta tag:
<meta http-equiv="MSThemeCompatible" Content="Yes">
to ENABLE Smart Tags on IE 6 beta. So maybe the actual meta tag to disable it would be either no meta tag or:
<meta http-equiv="MSThemeCompatible" Content="no">
I don't have IE 6 beta to test it, though.
I found this URI with a Google search:
h at snew/whatsnewpublicpreview.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/essentials/w
It suggests using this meta tag:
<meta http-equiv="MSThemeCompatible" Content="Yes">
to ENABLE Smart Tags on IE 6 beta. So maybe the actual meta tag to disable it would be either no meta tag or:
<meta http-equiv="MSThemeCompatible" Content="no">
I don't have IE 6 beta to test it, though.
This doesn't seem to work on Win32 Moz 0.9.1. For example, the /. ads are still animated
Furthermore, it couldn't have been some other type of temporary force. That rules out the possibility that a "tractor beam" might have deflected the probe. It also rules out the possibility that the emission of energy in the form of radio waves had any effect on the probe's trajectory, since that emission would not have been constant over time.
The slowdown in the probe's acceleration has been constant over time. The observed difference between the predicted acceleration and the observed acceleration should be reducible to a constant. If this is true, the slowdown should be proportionately the same early in the probe's voyage as it is now. A wild card here is that the probe might not have been always headed away from the sun. I'm not sure. Maybe they used a gravity slingshot or something to send the probe into deep space.
The continuing slowdown of the probe indicates that this force does not depreciate over the distances so far observed. This contrasts with the strong and weak nuclear forces, which both depreciate over smaller distances. Gravity does not depreciate over any known distance. We might assume that this hypothetical force is like gravity in not depreciating over any distance. At this point we could analogize this force to gravity. Maybe this new force is like gravity in other ways, too.
The probe is slightly off-course, but not much. Thus, the force is not as powerful as gravity.
This is just speculation. Maybe it's crazy. It will be interesting to eventually learn the answer. Is it really a new force?
Scalable Processor ARChitecture.
Slackware has a SPARC port. (LINK).