Did you actually believe that story? The urban-myth post aside, think about this for a second (or as long as you need). Do you think Newton went out and physically built the thing with his own hands? If not, there were surely workers around that could help rebuild it, and/or blueprints that could help.
Usually urban myths are at least _somewhat_ likely:)
That's very probably because you don't understand what it's going to be used for. For example,.name is not called so because it's a domain name, it is because it is a personal name, ie john.smith.name (the global name registry will only allow third level domain names to give more people a chance to get their own domain). As for what it can be used for? You lack vision if you can't see uses for this. For one, mail@john.smith.name is pretty unambiguous and easy to remember. Also, in the future, imagine all the personal services a personal domain name can be used to cover.
In my opinion,.name and.biz are the most attractive TLDs on the list allowed, but that doesn't mean I'm right, and that doesn't mean the other TLDs are useless/stupid/whatever. This is pretty well thought through.
A complaint a lot of the people who are posting here are making, is that "what about the.tld_I_like, why didn't they add that?". ICANN are not looking to introduce all the TLDs that will be introduced, this is a proof of concept. They are trying for the first time ever to introduce new TLDs, and they are worried about the stability of the internet, because, for example, if the people in charge of a TLD are not capable of keeping their DNS servers up all the time, you will face instability. Also, the extreme rush for registrations once these new TLDs are opened are a matter of great concern for ICANN. This rush could take down a registry that is not very well prepared and very capable of handling these registrations.
If the introduction of new TLDs works this time, maybe your favourite TLD will be introduced next time, and maybe from then on, TLDs will be introduced more often.
Also, someone asked why there has to be limits on TLDs, and not an infinite number. This is because you have to have the root-servers on the internet where a name lookup can start if you are looking up a name, and the way DNS works is to cache lookups around the net, since it is hierarchical, thus alleviating the root-servers' workload. The stability of the root-servers are actually essential to the stability of the internet as it is used today.
For what you are talking about, Bochs is probably better. FreeMWare, like VMware, is only about virtualization. They make an operating system think it's controlling the CPU entirely. It will only work on x86-based computers. Bochs, on the other hand (http://www.bochs.com/ ) is a complete portable x86-emulator. It is MUCH slower, though, cos it has to emulate every command. (VM|FreeM)Ware only emulate the protected instructions (or something like that).
Anyway, it seems the VMware people have patented some of their technology, so I hope the FreeMWare project doesn't run into any trouble there. I was unable to find out exactly what the patent was.
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Did you actually believe that story? The urban-myth post aside, think about this for a second (or as long as you need). Do you think Newton went out and physically built the thing with his own hands? If not, there were surely workers around that could help rebuild it, and/or blueprints that could help.
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Usually urban myths are at least _somewhat_ likely
Copycat! ;)
Oh my god, is that....? No, it can't be????!?!?!
AAAAAAAAAH
It's CowboyNeal!!!!!
*kills self in desperation*
In my opinion, .name and .biz are the most attractive TLDs on the list allowed, but that doesn't mean I'm right, and that doesn't mean the other TLDs are useless/stupid/whatever. This is pretty well thought through.
If the introduction of new TLDs works this time, maybe your favourite TLD will be introduced next time, and maybe from then on, TLDs will be introduced more often.
Also, someone asked why there has to be limits on TLDs, and not an infinite number. This is because you have to have the root-servers on the internet where a name lookup can start if you are looking up a name, and the way DNS works is to cache lookups around the net, since it is hierarchical, thus alleviating the root-servers' workload. The stability of the root-servers are actually essential to the stability of the internet as it is used today.
Anyway, it seems the VMware people have patented some of their technology, so I hope the FreeMWare project doesn't run into any trouble there. I was unable to find out exactly what the patent was.