From the Compaq FAQ:
The term "any key" does not refer to a particular key on the keyboard. It simply means to strike any one of the keys on your keyboard or handheld screen.
I see... why has nobody told me this earlier? But there are so many keys here, it's confusing! Let's just start on the lower left... with the key that says 'Ctrl'... hmm.. nothing happens. Maybe the key with the funky grid symbol on it; probably a Chinese letter, this stuff is all 'made in China' anyways... nothing. The 'Alt' key... nothing! Well, we've tried enough keys on the keyboard already, and none of them seems to work. Let's look somewhere else... maybe this funny icon with the key symbol on my monitor screen? No, nothing, except that my screen is now full of finger prints... Aha! My computer case has a lock, and the key's still in there! Maybe they are talking about this key! Should have thought of it earlier... no, nothing happens. But wait... there are two buttons here... a circle with a minus sign sticking out of it, I wonder what that means... again, no effect. Maybe I have to press and hold the key down... let's try that with this circle-and-minus -sign key... hey! Why has my screen gone blank? Tech support!!! HELP!!!!
The government could, for example, mandate that only software that fulfills certain requirements may be used in its institutions. Such requirements might be open file formats, full access to source code, etc.
This would be in no conflict with the ideas of free software or free markets.
Actually I never understood, why, on shutdown, you can't simply unmount all file systems, terminate the network connection, and then turn that damn power off. Who cares if any other services are left hanging in a void before they dissapear into nothingness?
I'm sure there are some issues that would never occur to me. But can somebody enlighten me and the rest of the slashdot crowd on what they are?
People that are concerned about their power bill, or about environmental issues, should definitely care.
Just because you can keep your computer running for years without shutting it down or rebooting, doesn't mean you should waste significant amounts of energy this way. Especially since today's machines are getting more and more power-hungry.
And who gives a damn? Since when is the status of a nation dependant on how many people utilize high-tech toys?
Yeah, let's rather keep with the traditional measuring sticks we are comfortable with, namely gas-guzzling SUV's and nuclear weapons.
...but there are smaller companies who other effects of the abuse of government and courts there
I seriously doubt that any of these "smaller companies" will be found guilty of violating antitrust laws. This lawsuit was about Microsoft abusing it's monopoly status, not about the government enriching itself.
Here is the Babelfish translation of the mentioned webpage. Enjoy!
As not needing the private glasses stereoscopic display possible liquid crystal display. Because plane surface indication (the 2d) with stereoscopic display (the 3d) it is possible, to change electrically, until now use and it is possible above by loading onto the liquid crystal applied commodity of existing field not only the new 3d private commodity, to expand the pleasure which is used. For example, if it loads onto the personal computer, when as for composition compilation and chart calculation et cetera in 2d indication, utilizing the 3d private contents of computer graphics and the game et cetera, the appearance impression changing to the 3d indication which overflows with real, you can think the utilization method of enjoying.
* Principle of 3d liquid crystal
* By the fact that the picture which controls the travelling direction of light from display, differs to the eye left and right that tries is visible,
It is possible necessity do, three-dimensional, to make the private glasses indicate.
* It is for a long time known in principle, being something which utilizes " parallax barrier system ", former TFT liquid crystal display and,
It is constituted by with the combination " the switch liquid crystal " of individual development.
* It provides the optical parallax barrier this switch with the liquid crystal, controls the travelling direction of light, in the eye left and right differs
In order for light to reach, it is possible to separate.
* And, with the picture which adds the picture for the right eye and and the picture for the left eye adjusts, as a picture for 3d indication to TFT liquid crystal display
By the fact that it indicates, the picture which responds to the respective eye is visible.
* And, it controls the parallax barrier electrically with the switch liquid crystal, by the fact that light is made to transmit, in the parallax barrier it depends
Separation of light is lost, in order with the contents for 2d indication for the same picture to the eye left and right to be visible, because it is possible, past
Also indication as a general display is possible.
Will cause gas prices to rise -- see econ 101 supply vs. demand
Hmmm.... in my econ 101 class we learned that increasing demand leads to increasing prices, while falling demand causes falling prices... that's why spring is the best time to shop for new skiing equipment. So shouldn't the advent of hybrids cause gas prices to fall?
Microsoft prefers competition between software applications to be determined in the free markets rather than by government agencies.
[begin sarcasm]
That's right. Government-sponsored research to produce a more stable and secure operating system is just so unfair, anti-capitalist, and therefore anti-american! If the customers would want a secure operating system, they would just buy one.Let the customer decide, and stop this eternal government interference. And while we're at it, let's also stop all government-sponsored research for alternative energy resources, cleaner cars, et cetera. And no money to the public transportation system either. If people want to ride the subway, they can buy one!
Am I the only one here who read the above comment as an attempt at sarcastic humour? True, it is not entirely politically correct in its French-bashing, which seems so fashionable these days; but the comments about the past performance of the French military are entirely tongue-in-cheek, and are more than outweighed by the last paragraph, which could also have been written:
Okay, so France does not have a whole many military victories to be proud of in its history, but at least they have a few brain cells left that tell them that a war often is the worst possible solution in any conflict.
Overall, the comment seems quite pro-France to me. I'd give it a '+1 Funny' rating.
I guess he wants specifically to test US law with this project. If he were to sell the song into another country, that country's laws, or international laws, might apply, and things would get muddled up even more. The restriction to sell within US only is probably an effort to keep things simple.
Why would I want to pay $50 to see a so-called artist who can't sing for beans? That money is better spent going to a performance of a real musician who doesn't need this sort of equipment!
Would the exact ingredients of Coke be considered a trade secret? It's certainly a secret, but is it a "trade secret" in the technical sense? Now, if I analyze Coca Cola in a mass spectrometer (there may be some difficulties, but let's just pretend there aren't any), would I be allowed to publish the results on my website?
I know Coca Cola and DVDs are entirely different things. But the process of reverse engineering seems to be quite similar to the process of chemical analysis, on a superficial level. Sometimes we can get more insight from every-day life comparisons...
what if the company says, "Okay, we admit that you are entitled to a refund for the copy of Windows XP that shipped with your computer. However, since we sold Windows XP as part of a complete package, we will give you a full refund for the entire system you purchased with us."
This seems to be a reasonable thing to do for the company, but it's not exactly the purpose of the exercise, which was to get a Windows-free system (e.g. a laptop) without paying the Microsoft tax. Any ideas how one could argue in such a scenario?
Can't you just run Win2000 in a "restricted user" account, so that people cannot install programs on your machines? Forgive me if this is a stupid comment; I'm an ignorant Linux user...
It would take a while to type out the whole story. So here's a little "anecdote" from the realm of quantum mechanics:
A proton consists of two "up" quarks and a "down" quark. Let's take a look at the mass balance:
particle rest mass -------- --------- Up quark: 3 MeV Up quark: 3 MeV Down quark: 6 MeV --------- Total: 12 MeV
Proton: 938.3 MeV
Strange. Where are the other 926.3 MeV? The answer is, the missing mass is the result of the incredibly strong subnuclear forces between the quarks. Due to the attractive forces, there is a large amount of potential energy stored in the proton. Following Einstein's equation, it shows up as mass. The mass of the proton is almost entirely due to the quarks' potential energy!
Here is yet another reason why it makes sense to ascribe mass to photons; it has to do with "gravitational lensing": The gravitational field around a black hole bends spacetime, so that light follows a curved path instead of a straight line in its vicinity; an observer percieves this as the light being accelerated towards the black hole. Now, Newton's third law, actio=reactio, dictates that the black hole must therefore also experience an acceleration towards the light beam. This is only possible if the light beam (i.e. the photons) bend spacetime, too. Since the curvature of spacetime is commonly attributed to the presence of mass, it makes sense to regard photons as having a dynamic (as opposed to rest) mass!
Do photons carry mass as suggested by the equation m = hf/c2 ?
If you take Einstein's equation E = m c^2 , where m = mass and c = speed of light, and the Planck equation for the energy of a photon, E = h f , where h = Planck's constant and f = the frequency of the photon, and combine them you get: m c^2 = hf or that m = h f/c^2. This equation says that the energy carried by a photon which has NO REST MASS, is equivalent to an amount of ordinary mass in grams, and that this 'effective mass' varies with the frequency of the photon. This effective mass can be acted upon by gravity which only cares how much mass a particle has; alternately, gravity only cares about how much mass or EQUIVALENT ENERGY a particle has given by E = m c^2. Also, if you prefer the particle description of physics over the wave description, you can approximate all photons as 'bullets' each carrying a mass of m = hf/c^2 and traveling at the speed of light.
That's exactly what I said, just in different words. Your "relativistic corrections" to Einstein's equation apply only if you plug in the rest mass, i.e. E = m0 c^2. Since the dynamical mass is given by m = gamma m0, the equation E = m c^2 already contains all relativistic effects. In summary, photons have a dynamical mass, but no rest mass.
Now, modern terminology tends to give the meaning of "rest mass" to the unspecified term "mass", but I pointed that out in my previous post already.
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There are enough compilations of legal code. Just ask any law student. And as far as I know, most of them were successfully compiled.
I see... why has nobody told me this earlier? But there are so many keys here, it's confusing! Let's just start on the lower left... with the key that says 'Ctrl'... hmm.. nothing happens. Maybe the key with the funky grid symbol on it; probably a Chinese letter, this stuff is all 'made in China' anyways... nothing. The 'Alt' key... nothing! Well, we've tried enough keys on the keyboard already, and none of them seems to work. Let's look somewhere else... maybe this funny icon with the key symbol on my monitor screen? No, nothing, except that my screen is now full of finger prints... Aha! My computer case has a lock, and the key's still in there! Maybe they are talking about this key! Should have thought of it earlier... no, nothing happens. But wait... there are two buttons here... a circle with a minus sign sticking out of it, I wonder what that means... again, no effect. Maybe I have to press and hold the key down... let's try that with this circle-and-minus -sign key... hey! Why has my screen gone blank? Tech support!!! HELP!!!!
This would be in no conflict with the ideas of free software or free markets.
I'm sure there are some issues that would never occur to me. But can somebody enlighten me and the rest of the slashdot crowd on what they are?
Just because you can keep your computer running for years without shutting it down or rebooting, doesn't mean you should waste significant amounts of energy this way. Especially since today's machines are getting more and more power-hungry.
And who gives a damn? Since when is the status of a nation dependant on how many people utilize high-tech toys? Yeah, let's rather keep with the traditional measuring sticks we are comfortable with, namely gas-guzzling SUV's and nuclear weapons.
Did you ever consider that the only reason this "moron" is driving so slow is that you are in his way?
So why don't they? Cost? Size? Display quality? Anyone in the know?
I seriously doubt that any of these "smaller companies" will be found guilty of violating antitrust laws. This lawsuit was about Microsoft abusing it's monopoly status, not about the government enriching itself.
As not needing the private glasses stereoscopic display possible liquid crystal display. Because plane surface indication (the 2d) with stereoscopic display (the 3d) it is possible, to change electrically, until now use and it is possible above by loading onto the liquid crystal applied commodity of existing field not only the new 3d private commodity, to expand the pleasure which is used. For example, if it loads onto the personal computer, when as for composition compilation and chart calculation et cetera in 2d indication, utilizing the 3d private contents of computer graphics and the game et cetera, the appearance impression changing to the 3d indication which overflows with real, you can think the utilization method of enjoying.
* Principle of 3d liquid crystal
* By the fact that the picture which controls the travelling direction of light from display, differs to the eye left and right that tries is visible, It is possible necessity do, three-dimensional, to make the private glasses indicate.
* It is for a long time known in principle, being something which utilizes " parallax barrier system ", former TFT liquid crystal display and, It is constituted by with the combination " the switch liquid crystal " of individual development.
* It provides the optical parallax barrier this switch with the liquid crystal, controls the travelling direction of light, in the eye left and right differs In order for light to reach, it is possible to separate.
* And, with the picture which adds the picture for the right eye and and the picture for the left eye adjusts, as a picture for 3d indication to TFT liquid crystal display By the fact that it indicates, the picture which responds to the respective eye is visible.
* And, it controls the parallax barrier electrically with the switch liquid crystal, by the fact that light is made to transmit, in the parallax barrier it depends Separation of light is lost, in order with the contents for 2d indication for the same picture to the eye left and right to be visible, because it is possible, past Also indication as a general display is possible.
Hmmm.... in my econ 101 class we learned that increasing demand leads to increasing prices, while falling demand causes falling prices... that's why spring is the best time to shop for new skiing equipment. So shouldn't the advent of hybrids cause gas prices to fall?
[begin sarcasm]
That's right. Government-sponsored research to produce a more stable and secure operating system is just so unfair, anti-capitalist, and therefore anti-american! If the customers would want a secure operating system, they would just buy one.Let the customer decide, and stop this eternal government interference. And while we're at it, let's also stop all government-sponsored research for alternative energy resources, cleaner cars, et cetera. And no money to the public transportation system either. If people want to ride the subway, they can buy one!
[end sarcasm]
Okay, so France does not have a whole many military victories to be proud of in its history, but at least they have a few brain cells left that tell them that a war often is the worst possible solution in any conflict.
Overall, the comment seems quite pro-France to me. I'd give it a '+1 Funny' rating.
I guess he wants specifically to test US law with this project. If he were to sell the song into another country, that country's laws, or international laws, might apply, and things would get muddled up even more. The restriction to sell within US only is probably an effort to keep things simple.
Why would I want to pay $50 to see a so-called artist who can't sing for beans? That money is better spent going to a performance of a real musician who doesn't need this sort of equipment!
I know Coca Cola and DVDs are entirely different things. But the process of reverse engineering seems to be quite similar to the process of chemical analysis, on a superficial level. Sometimes we can get more insight from every-day life comparisons...
(I can't keep my eyes off the WD Raptor these days...)
Thanks!
Here are some folks who are doing a great job distributing free software for Windows!
This seems to be a reasonable thing to do for the company, but it's not exactly the purpose of the exercise, which was to get a Windows-free system (e.g. a laptop) without paying the Microsoft tax. Any ideas how one could argue in such a scenario?
But they discovered (and published!) at least one personal email!
Can't you just run Win2000 in a "restricted user" account, so that people cannot install programs on your machines? Forgive me if this is a stupid comment; I'm an ignorant Linux user...
A proton consists of two "up" quarks and a "down" quark. Let's take a look at the mass balance:
Strange. Where are the other 926.3 MeV? The answer is, the missing mass is the result of the incredibly strong subnuclear forces between the quarks. Due to the attractive forces, there is a large amount of potential energy stored in the proton. Following Einstein's equation, it shows up as mass. The mass of the proton is almost entirely due to the quarks' potential energy!Here is yet another reason why it makes sense to ascribe mass to photons; it has to do with "gravitational lensing": The gravitational field around a black hole bends spacetime, so that light follows a curved path instead of a straight line in its vicinity; an observer percieves this as the light being accelerated towards the black hole. Now, Newton's third law, actio=reactio, dictates that the black hole must therefore also experience an acceleration towards the light beam. This is only possible if the light beam (i.e. the photons) bend spacetime, too. Since the curvature of spacetime is commonly attributed to the presence of mass, it makes sense to regard photons as having a dynamic (as opposed to rest) mass!
That's exactly what I said, just in different words. Your "relativistic corrections" to Einstein's equation apply only if you plug in the rest mass, i.e. E = m0 c^2. Since the dynamical mass is given by m = gamma m0, the equation E = m c^2 already contains all relativistic effects. In summary, photons have a dynamical mass, but no rest mass.
Now, modern terminology tends to give the meaning of "rest mass" to the unspecified term "mass", but I pointed that out in my previous post already.
And what will keep those Seelea thingies from munching away at my feet???
Laugh. It's a joke.