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Highlight compatible, but some of the earliest CD-ROM software could read only High Sierra format disks. Highlight 1. to make a menu item prominent (either lighter or darker than the oth- ers) to show that it is selected. In most graphical user interfaces, you can choose the highlighted item by pressing Enter. 2. the lightest [...]

Guideline fairly. They play to lose, and they dish out insults, misinformation, and harassment in the process. Grokster Grokster a file sharing service found liable for inducing its users to violate copyright law, in the case Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios et al. v. Grokster (545 U.S. 913 (2005)), decided by the Supreme Court in 2005. See also [...]

Google Desktop GO TO, GOTO a statement in Fortran, BASIC, and other programming languages that transfers execution to another place in the program. For example, here is a BASIC program that prints “Hello” 1000 times: 10 LET X=0 20 PRINT ”HELLO” 30 LET X=X+1 40 IF X<1000 THEN GO TO 20 Use of the GO [...]

Gigahertz gigahertz (GHz) one billion cycles per second, a unit of frequency equal to 1000 megahertz; a measure of the frequency of a radio signal or the clock speed of a computer. See CLOCK; HERTZ; MEGAHERTZ; MICROPROCES- SOR; RF; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION. GIMP GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) a freely distributed paint program for UNIX and [...]

Gigabyte Gcc see CC. Geek geek (slang) an enthusiastic computer specialist; a person with an intense interest in computers to the exclusion of other human activities. The term is not normally an insult. Compare NERD. Gelatin Silver Print gelatin silver print a conventional black-and-white photograph. (Black- and-white photographic paper uses a gelatin emulsion containing silver [...]

G <g>, *g* e-mail abbreviation indicating a grin. g2g chat-room abbreviation for “[I’ve] got to go.” Gadgets gadgets in Windows Vista and in Google Desktop, add-ons to the sidebar often done by developers other than Microsoft or Google, which provide additional functions such as displaying the weather in your area or pro- viding a place [...]

Free Software Foundation Free Software Foundation see GNU. Freescale the company that was formerly the microprocessor division of Motorola. See MOTOROLA. freeware see FREE SOFTWARE. Freeze Date freeze date a date after which the specifications for a software project can- not be changed. See SOFTWARE ENGINEERING. Freeze Up freeze up to stop responding to input; [...]

Free Software Figure 118 shows the appearance of this page when displayed by the browser. If the right-hand frame did contain a large amount of text, the user could scroll through it while the links on the left-hand side always stayed in the same place, making it easier to jump to other sections of the [...]

Fanfic The essential characteristic of fair use is that it does not decrease the market for the original; it may in fact increase it. Fair use does not per- mit reproduction of a complete essay, poem, or other copyrighted work, nor does it extend to music, artwork, or software. See COPYRIGHT. fanfic (fan fiction) stories [...]

External Viewer Extends extends in C++ and Java, a keyword indicating that a class inherits all of the functionality of another class, and then adds additional data or meth- ods. Instead of extends, C# uses a colon (:). For example, all program- mer-defined Java applet classes include a declaration similar to this: class myapplet extends [...]