It looks yellow, yes. But, all the blue comes from the sun (the blue light from the sun is scattered in the upper atmosphere, which is why the sky is blue.) And what do you get if you combine yellow and blue? Yes, that's right, green!
you should think yourselves lucky (if you want to buy an XBox, that is.) Microsoft seem to think that $1=£1, and have set a UK price of £299. When you take account of our sales tax (VAT) that works out at $368.55
Your analysis assumes that each of the computer paid for by MS would have been bought anyway, and that all of them would have had Windows on them. Also, as the computer were to be for schools, surely MS would only be losing to cost of educational licenses (which are cheaper than regular ones.)
Now, according to the links from the slashdot article on the settlement, MS was to provide 200,000 reconditioned machines, so that would reduce the cost a bit.
So, would have MS lost? The cost of buying 200,000 old PCs (or not doing whatever they do with their old ones,) not the 1 million you suggest, and the cost of educational licenses for those if all those PCs would have been bought anyway and all with MS software. I don't know how much old PCs go for in the US, but lets be generous and say $200 per machine (well, some of the parts might be f*cked and need replacing, and a round number makes the maths easier:-) So, for hardware, that's 200,000 * $200 = $40,000,000. Also, I don't know the cost of educational licenses, but let's say $50 for Windows and some software. So, software comes to 200,000 * $50 = $10,000,000 - a total "loss" of $50,000,000, or just under 10% of what you suggested, but still quite a bit more than just the cost of pressing some CDs - at 1 at CD (which is almost certainly too high) and one CD for each of the "more than 14,000 schools" that's a little over $140 for the CDs, or to put it another way, small change to MS.
I think it may have a colour (but see below for why it may not). The wave-particle duality says that the photon has a wave associated with it, and that wave has a frequency given by dividing the energy of the photon by Plank's Constant (E=hf, or f=E/h)
Whether it actually has a colour will surely depend on what that frequency is. If it is ouside the visable part of the e-m spectrum, it has no colour, in the same way that, for example, a radio wave has no colour.
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It looks yellow, yes. But, all the blue comes from the sun (the blue light from the sun is scattered in the upper atmosphere, which is why the sky is blue.) And what do you get if you combine yellow and blue? Yes, that's right, green!
you should think yourselves lucky (if you want to buy an XBox, that is.) Microsoft seem to think that $1=£1, and have set a UK price of £299. When you take account of our sales tax (VAT) that works out at $368.55
Your analysis assumes that each of the computer paid for by MS would have been bought anyway, and that all of them would have had Windows on them. Also, as the computer were to be for schools, surely MS would only be losing to cost of educational licenses (which are cheaper than regular ones.) Now, according to the links from the slashdot article on the settlement, MS was to provide 200,000 reconditioned machines, so that would reduce the cost a bit. So, would have MS lost? The cost of buying 200,000 old PCs (or not doing whatever they do with their old ones,) not the 1 million you suggest, and the cost of educational licenses for those if all those PCs would have been bought anyway and all with MS software. I don't know how much old PCs go for in the US, but lets be generous and say $200 per machine (well, some of the parts might be f*cked and need replacing, and a round number makes the maths easier :-) So, for hardware, that's 200,000 * $200 = $40,000,000. Also, I don't know the cost of educational licenses, but let's say $50 for Windows and some software. So, software comes to 200,000 * $50 = $10,000,000 - a total "loss" of $50,000,000, or just under 10% of what you suggested, but still quite a bit more than just the cost of pressing some CDs - at 1 at CD (which is almost certainly too high) and one CD for each of the "more than 14,000 schools" that's a little over $140 for the CDs, or to put it another way, small change to MS.
I know the ones on Mozilla.org say they're just for testing, but I find the milestone releases are stable and usable.
Both. All photons (and everything else) is always both a particle and a wave, simultaneously.
I think it may have a colour (but see below for why it may not). The wave-particle duality says that the photon has a wave associated with it, and that wave has a frequency given by dividing the energy of the photon by Plank's Constant (E=hf, or f=E/h) Whether it actually has a colour will surely depend on what that frequency is. If it is ouside the visable part of the e-m spectrum, it has no colour, in the same way that, for example, a radio wave has no colour.