Uhm, it'd be more than that, unless all the TLDs were one letter. And the databases wouldn't change much as long as people don't go hog wild registering domains (more than they already do).
Really, all the "any TLD" movement does is remove the dot-com and change the recognizable namespace to include the TLD. Ford.cars becomes valuable, but ford.mostanythingelse is just as worthless as ford-mostanything.com.
Off-topic and I'm bored:
26^n + 26^(n-1) +... + 26^(n-k) when n>k n = maximum length of the TLD
If I remembered my math I could turn that into a sum notation, but I'm not that bored.
Read up the comments a little bit..US domains are excessively hard to obtain and excessively unrecognizable. (microsoft.com becomes microsoft.redmond.wa.us) If.com etc. moved under.US (.com.us) with the same rules regarding registration, I'm sure many more would use them.
Oh, by the way, what's up with the ticks? Some international thing? It looks f-ugly and takes more keystrokes.
Then you don't own the domain anymore; you're merely licensing it from the registrar, which would cause many people problems (especially those who have already perchased domains).
Would playboy be considered xxx? Penthouse or hustler?
Uhm, yes. I think the line should be drawn with websites that feature or advertise pornographic material. (Just what qualifies as pornographic material would be an intense debate I'm sure.) Playboy should be allowed to have Playboy.com still, provided it refered to Playboy.sex (see below) for pornographic content.
About.xxx: I would suggest.sex rather than.xxx, as many adult organizations think of it as "erotica," a difference that escapes many outside of the industry but is important none-the-less.
To enforce the no-porn rule for other domains wouldn't be hard; any site that gets big enough to attract a lot of people, and thus violate the spirit of the new TLD, would be quickly noticed by someone who would report it to ICANN or whomever ICANN appoints.
This shuts up the censorship people, who would only have to block *.sex to "protect the children," as well as the privacy advocates, provided no one makes an attempt to keep.sex from those who want it.
This is exceedingly off-topic and offensive.
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This message has no content and no relevance to the discussion. Ranting about pornography/violence in Anime when talking about Tenchi Muyo makes as much sense as ranting about porn in video stores when talking about Forest Gump.
Anime has nothing to do with porn or violence. There are as many varied types of Anime as there are types of American films or television shows; there are children's shows, thought provoking social commentary, and, yes, even porn. To group them all under one catagory is to ignore the many works of fine artists.
Gervase without an X (done only by replacing "richard_VH.gif" with "gervase_VH.gif")
As well, it seems very likely that the website was completed some time ago; it would be a waste of time to have the webteam make an X-image every time a show aired. If the images are gone or changed when you see this, take my word for it (or just read the board).
But the difference between humans and cows is a difference of degree, not type.
Precisely. A newborn baby has rights because it has the potential to reach the degree of sentience society requires to justify its position in society. No cow, in my opinion, meets the very low intelligence requirements for equal treatment.
Maybe we should breed ugly, emotionally non-responsive food with no sensation of pain...
Ha! Look at American TV for a counterexample, whereby the huge flood of "open" channels has provided nothing of any worth and more mindless drivel, pornographics filth and immoral posturings than any other country. Licensing imposes at least some kind of quality control.
Do we need quality control? We filthy Americans like that sort of "pornographics filth and immoral posturing". As long as it's not illegal and as long as the wrong people (minors) don't have access to it, what's the problem?
Incidentally, if some aspect of pornographic or immoral material is deemed too offensive or detrimental, it should be banned outright, rather than selectively for Internet (streaming) media.
Why? His post is clearly about what he wishs it said. He is proposing to change the letter of the GPL to reflect the spirit of the GPL in a wider context.
When cows can speak and form social groups (as even the most primitive humans have done, including those slaves), we'll reconsider their status as food animals.
The leap from "Africans are people too" to "cows are people too" is a big leap. As lowly as any slaver would rate his slaves, I'm sure he would rate them above cows.
No matter how much shock protection the player has, continual jarring (like jogging) will defeat the player once its memory runs out. Hitting it harder or for less than 50 seconds won't affect it.
It's not "like" a Previous button, it is the Previous button. Someone in China made a mistake, and they haven't corrected it yet. I'm also dismayed a little bit by the arrangment (Next appears before "Preview").
I've released Hello World under the GPL (I'm not joking, though I was then), so do I get helloworld.gnu? Is a single piece of GPL'd software all it takes? What about the BSDs?
What's to stop Microsoft to release something worthless under the GPL and take Microsoft.gnu? They did produce something under the GPL, and qualify according to your conditions.
How about making the first one free? Then again, this could be easily abused by non-trustworthy people and organizations who would register domains to different "people".
Unownable TLDs also ENDS the "domain brokering" business because specific domains cease to possess any value. If you have foo.com, foo.net, and foo.org, you can demand high $$$ from any foo entities. With infinite TLDs, there's always an alternative choice.
Not quite. I can still snatch up hot.sex, free.sex, gimme.sex, etc. and sell them all for lots of money. All this does, really, is strip the ".com" and add a dot somewhere in the middle. Someone will still have the common names, as the bidding war moves from linux.com to linux.gnu.
If you want a common domain + TLD combo, you're still going to have to fight with everyone else just as we fight over.com. There is a near infinite amount of.com domains already, provided you don't want an obvious one. Apple-computers.com is available, but you don't see Apple gearing up to snatch it. The domain war has never been about the shear number of available domain names, but the number of recognizable names, which won't change without regulation.
This doesn't solve the trademark issue either: Apple (as the richest of all Apple * companies) will snatch up all the obvious Apple related names (apple.store, buy.apple, etc.). If I go to buy.apple, am I looking to buy actual apples or Apple hardware and software? Who decides? And does Apple own everything in the.apple TLD because its trademark is in the name?
Anyway, if it ever goes through, I'm going only going to get stuff in the *.tld TLD, for obvious humor-related reasons. (domain.tld anyone?)
200 megabits a second is rather, uhm, fantastic, even for cable (even your PCI bus would have problems trying to keep up). Perhaps you mean kilobytes or kilobits a second?
Kilobits are used generally for linespeed (ie, 56K, 1.5Mbps). Kilobytes are generally used for file transfer and are 8 times larger (ie, 7k/s, 192k/s).
Blizzard has said openly in the past that they have no interest in porting any of their games to any platform that isn't made by Microsoft or Apple.
Part of it, I think, is Blizzard's commitment that "if it isn't a blockbuster, it's not Blizzard." Witness WarCraft: Lord of the Clans, a canceled Blizzard game that didn't look very promising. Early on in Diablo II development, they weren't even sure if there would be a Mac port!
I think he's got it wrong. I couldn't imagine why you would design a subconscious interface rather than a conscious interface. For example:
Rather than having the computer anticipating your commands (and perhaps getting them wrong), you would will the computer do things, consciously. You do it all the time with your body: you can daydream about hitting your boss all day long, but you have to make the conscious choice to move your arm if you really want to do it. I imagine it would take a little training for most people, but I don't think it'd end up as misdirected daydreams on your desktop. (Anyway, who needs a desktop when you've got a direct neural interface? Just project it into your vision.)
That programmers will use more complex i/o methods is just natural. Normal users will never see them, but programmers, repairmen, etc. will use them when necessary. Sony didn't use directional controllers to program the PSX; phone repairmen don't punch buttons to install your phone.
The problem with all this is that as it becomes easier for normal people to use the less complicated (and less powerful) interface, fewer people will use it.
First off, it is a two-handed hot key because you're clicking with the mouse and holding down a button to get the contextual menu. If new users are confused by a second mouse button, they'll surely be confused when trying to watch the screen, hit and hold the right key among many, and click.
Apple is throwing the wrong bone here. They admit the contextual menus but refuse the second button; they accept the bad UI design, turn around and make it worse!
I concurr that extra mouse buttons are unnecessary, but that's not to say that they're worthless. Windows doesn't require a third button, a scroll wheel or any of the other fancy additions made to mice these days, yet people buy them. While not necessary, they do enhance and facilitate normal operation.
And again, don't think the MacOS is anything special; Windows has had complete keyboard navigation for quite some time (my friends always call me when their mice don't work). In my mind, it is a requirement rather than a feature.
I think the point is not that people aren't aware of the gender imbalance, but that the media don't give it the same attention. (I don't see articles bemoaning this.) The most racist and sexist industry in this country is the same one we rely on for our news and entertainment. Rather sad really. Makes me want to vote Nader and sell my TV. Ahh, on second thought I couldn't live without South Park and Nader's stances on foreign affairs put me off.
This makes me think. Obviously the new mouse is designed to be ergonomic, or at least shaped to fit the hand. All of the ergonomic mice I've ever seen have been right-only or left-only; is it even possible to have an ambidexterous ergonomic design?
I'm reminded of Microsoft's IntelliMouse Explorer. I own one and I feel it's the most comfortable mouse I've ever used. Microsoft tried to cover the lefties by releasing the IntelliMouse "Optical" a while later. I've tried it in the stores and it seems to lose all of the feel of the Explorer (mostly due to a button you're forced to hit with your pinky).
Oh, as to why we hate the puck: the raised hand movement is absolutely terrible for control and produces strain. It is the absolute antithesis to ergonomic design.
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Uhm, it'd be more than that, unless all the TLDs were one letter. And the databases wouldn't change much as long as people don't go hog wild registering domains (more than they already do).
... + 26^(n-k) when n>k
Really, all the "any TLD" movement does is remove the dot-com and change the recognizable namespace to include the TLD. Ford.cars becomes valuable, but ford.mostanythingelse is just as worthless as ford-mostanything.com.
Off-topic and I'm bored:
26^n + 26^(n-1) +
n = maximum length of the TLD
If I remembered my math I could turn that into a sum notation, but I'm not that bored.
Read up the comments a little bit. .US domains are excessively hard to obtain and excessively unrecognizable. (microsoft.com becomes microsoft.redmond.wa.us) If .com etc. moved under .US (.com.us) with the same rules regarding registration, I'm sure many more would use them.
Oh, by the way, what's up with the ticks? Some international thing? It looks f-ugly and takes more keystrokes.
Did the FSF pay $50k to apply for .gnu? Or are they reacting to the work ICANN has to do to consider .gnu?
.sex?
Hmm, which porno company has enough money to apply for
Then you don't own the domain anymore; you're merely licensing it from the registrar, which would cause many people problems (especially those who have already perchased domains).
Would playboy be considered xxx? Penthouse or hustler?
.xxx: I would suggest .sex rather than .xxx, as many adult organizations think of it as "erotica," a difference that escapes many outside of the industry but is important none-the-less.
.sex from those who want it.
Uhm, yes. I think the line should be drawn with websites that feature or advertise pornographic material. (Just what qualifies as pornographic material would be an intense debate I'm sure.) Playboy should be allowed to have Playboy.com still, provided it refered to Playboy.sex (see below) for pornographic content.
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To enforce the no-porn rule for other domains wouldn't be hard; any site that gets big enough to attract a lot of people, and thus violate the spirit of the new TLD, would be quickly noticed by someone who would report it to ICANN or whomever ICANN appoints.
This shuts up the censorship people, who would only have to block *.sex to "protect the children," as well as the privacy advocates, provided no one makes an attempt to keep
This message has no content and no relevance to the discussion. Ranting about pornography/violence in Anime when talking about Tenchi Muyo makes as much sense as ranting about porn in video stores when talking about Forest Gump.
Anime has nothing to do with porn or violence. There are as many varied types of Anime as there are types of American films or television shows; there are children's shows, thought provoking social commentary, and, yes, even porn. To group them all under one catagory is to ignore the many works of fine artists.
Richard with an X (who hasn't been cast off yet)
Gervase without an X (done only by replacing "richard_VH.gif" with "gervase_VH.gif")
As well, it seems very likely that the website was completed some time ago; it would be a waste of time to have the webteam make an X-image every time a show aired. If the images are gone or changed when you see this, take my word for it (or just read the board).
The host was on The Daily Show (a Comedy Central interview/news/comedy show), and confirmed that the show was already done taping.
But the difference between humans and cows is a difference of degree, not type.
Precisely. A newborn baby has rights because it has the potential to reach the degree of sentience society requires to justify its position in society. No cow, in my opinion, meets the very low intelligence requirements for equal treatment.
Maybe we should breed ugly, emotionally non-responsive food with no sensation of pain...
Wasn't that what I said?
Ha! Look at American TV for a counterexample, whereby the huge flood of "open" channels has provided nothing of any worth and more mindless drivel, pornographics filth and immoral posturings than any other country. Licensing imposes at least some kind of quality control.
Do we need quality control? We filthy Americans like that sort of "pornographics filth and immoral posturing". As long as it's not illegal and as long as the wrong people (minors) don't have access to it, what's the problem?
Incidentally, if some aspect of pornographic or immoral material is deemed too offensive or detrimental, it should be banned outright, rather than selectively for Internet (streaming) media.
Why? His post is clearly about what he wishs it said. He is proposing to change the letter of the GPL to reflect the spirit of the GPL in a wider context.
When cows can speak and form social groups (as even the most primitive humans have done, including those slaves), we'll reconsider their status as food animals.
The leap from "Africans are people too" to "cows are people too" is a big leap. As lowly as any slaver would rate his slaves, I'm sure he would rate them above cows.
No matter how much shock protection the player has, continual jarring (like jogging) will defeat the player once its memory runs out. Hitting it harder or for less than 50 seconds won't affect it.
It's not "like" a Previous button, it is the Previous button. Someone in China made a mistake, and they haven't corrected it yet. I'm also dismayed a little bit by the arrangment (Next appears before "Preview").
I've released Hello World under the GPL (I'm not joking, though I was then), so do I get helloworld.gnu? Is a single piece of GPL'd software all it takes? What about the BSDs?
What's to stop Microsoft to release something worthless under the GPL and take Microsoft.gnu? They did produce something under the GPL, and qualify according to your conditions.
I love this.
How about making the first one free? Then again, this could be easily abused by non-trustworthy people and organizations who would register domains to different "people".
Unownable TLDs also ENDS the "domain brokering" business because specific domains cease to possess any value. If you have foo.com, foo.net, and foo.org, you can demand high $$$ from any foo entities. With infinite TLDs, there's always an alternative choice.
.com. There is a near infinite amount of .com domains already, provided you don't want an obvious one. Apple-computers.com is available, but you don't see Apple gearing up to snatch it. The domain war has never been about the shear number of available domain names, but the number of recognizable names, which won't change without regulation.
.apple TLD because its trademark is in the name?
Not quite. I can still snatch up hot.sex, free.sex, gimme.sex, etc. and sell them all for lots of money. All this does, really, is strip the ".com" and add a dot somewhere in the middle. Someone will still have the common names, as the bidding war moves from linux.com to linux.gnu.
If you want a common domain + TLD combo, you're still going to have to fight with everyone else just as we fight over
This doesn't solve the trademark issue either: Apple (as the richest of all Apple * companies) will snatch up all the obvious Apple related names (apple.store, buy.apple, etc.). If I go to buy.apple, am I looking to buy actual apples or Apple hardware and software? Who decides? And does Apple own everything in the
Anyway, if it ever goes through, I'm going only going to get stuff in the *.tld TLD, for obvious humor-related reasons. (domain.tld anyone?)
200 megabits a second is rather, uhm, fantastic, even for cable (even your PCI bus would have problems trying to keep up). Perhaps you mean kilobytes or kilobits a second?
Kilobits are used generally for linespeed (ie, 56K, 1.5Mbps). Kilobytes are generally used for file transfer and are 8 times larger (ie, 7k/s, 192k/s).
Blizzard has said openly in the past that they have no interest in porting any of their games to any platform that isn't made by Microsoft or Apple.
Part of it, I think, is Blizzard's commitment that "if it isn't a blockbuster, it's not Blizzard." Witness WarCraft: Lord of the Clans, a canceled Blizzard game that didn't look very promising. Early on in Diablo II development, they weren't even sure if there would be a Mac port!
I think he's got it wrong. I couldn't imagine why you would design a subconscious interface rather than a conscious interface. For example:
Rather than having the computer anticipating your commands (and perhaps getting them wrong), you would will the computer do things, consciously. You do it all the time with your body: you can daydream about hitting your boss all day long, but you have to make the conscious choice to move your arm if you really want to do it. I imagine it would take a little training for most people, but I don't think it'd end up as misdirected daydreams on your desktop. (Anyway, who needs a desktop when you've got a direct neural interface? Just project it into your vision.)
That programmers will use more complex i/o methods is just natural. Normal users will never see them, but programmers, repairmen, etc. will use them when necessary. Sony didn't use directional controllers to program the PSX; phone repairmen don't punch buttons to install your phone.
The problem with all this is that as it becomes easier for normal people to use the less complicated (and less powerful) interface, fewer people will use it.
In response:
First off, it is a two-handed hot key because you're clicking with the mouse and holding down a button to get the contextual menu. If new users are confused by a second mouse button, they'll surely be confused when trying to watch the screen, hit and hold the right key among many, and click.
Apple is throwing the wrong bone here. They admit the contextual menus but refuse the second button; they accept the bad UI design, turn around and make it worse!
I concurr that extra mouse buttons are unnecessary, but that's not to say that they're worthless. Windows doesn't require a third button, a scroll wheel or any of the other fancy additions made to mice these days, yet people buy them. While not necessary, they do enhance and facilitate normal operation.
And again, don't think the MacOS is anything special; Windows has had complete keyboard navigation for quite some time (my friends always call me when their mice don't work). In my mind, it is a requirement rather than a feature.
I think the point is not that people aren't aware of the gender imbalance, but that the media don't give it the same attention. (I don't see articles bemoaning this.) The most racist and sexist industry in this country is the same one we rely on for our news and entertainment. Rather sad really. Makes me want to vote Nader and sell my TV. Ahh, on second thought I couldn't live without South Park and Nader's stances on foreign affairs put me off.
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This makes me think. Obviously the new mouse is designed to be ergonomic, or at least shaped to fit the hand. All of the ergonomic mice I've ever seen have been right-only or left-only; is it even possible to have an ambidexterous ergonomic design?
I'm reminded of Microsoft's IntelliMouse Explorer. I own one and I feel it's the most comfortable mouse I've ever used. Microsoft tried to cover the lefties by releasing the IntelliMouse "Optical" a while later. I've tried it in the stores and it seems to lose all of the feel of the Explorer (mostly due to a button you're forced to hit with your pinky).
Oh, as to why we hate the puck: the raised hand movement is absolutely terrible for control and produces strain. It is the absolute antithesis to ergonomic design.