I LOVE dotster.com. I paid $15 flat for a domain, no Network Solutions fee like InterNIC tacks on. I think they are now $25 flat fee for a year, and you get discounts and stuff. I think you cna get a name for 10 years for like $150. The site charges NO fees for moving URLs, and you have a web based login, where you can manage your accounts, change where your URL is pointing to, etc. I have friends who used InterNIC who have switched to Dotster for both price and ease of use. In otherwords, unlike InterNIC, you do not have to spend time on the phone with them simply to get a domain relocated.
I was hoping someone would state this. 08/28/888 was the last day this hapened, and not in December. HOWEVER, weren't we on a slightly different callender in 888? I think we were on the Roman calender by this date, but I know it is not the same calender we use today. Can anyone shed a little more lite on this?
I must say that for me personally, it is not a big deal. I really don't see myself in 20 years using the same data I am today. For nostalgic reasons, I may be interested in playing older games, but by then, it will probobly be through emulators since no modern computer will have equipment that supports such antique technology such as trilinier filtering. =-) However, I am worried about corporations and the government. What is going to happen when the IRS backup tapes decay? Farfetched, I know, but it is a thinking question. Banks and government agencies are going to have the most trouble with this, but I am sure that surely they have came across this problem by now and already have solutions. For people worried about their data: 1) always create a backup 2) if it is really important, have a backup on two different medias. I mean, if the average floppy has a lifespan of 3 years, and you go back 5 years later and realize that both floppies are bad, what are you going to do? and of course 3) never keep your original and backup in the same place. I think I just restated stuff that all of you know. Anyways, back to the original question, no, I am not incredibly worried. At least at the moment. I mean, if a CD starts going bad on me, I can always make a copy of it. Of course eventually, you are going to run into generation errors or something, but, hey, just take care of your CDs, know how to handle them, and always put them back in the case when you are through.
www.mcdonalds.com could always be a big winner. Of course, I perfer www.tacobell.com "Yeah, smell the Chalupa and the gooey cheese." Might want to stay away from porno sites, I don't want to know what kind of weird smells they would have us smell. www.2600.com could smell of twinkies, pizza rolls and Mountian Dew or Jolt Cola. Oh, imagine if this was incorparated in video games. Imagine, Quake deathmatch where the smell of rotting bodies come accross. Need For Speed with fumes and (for you NFS3 fans), the country air or the sea air. Unreal with smells of strange new worlds. Of course, www.halmark.com has to get in with the "send scratch and sniff e-mails by mail" thing. Still, I think the biggest hit would have to be at www.littleceasars.com or any other pizza place. Irish Springs soap has a website where you can smell the soap. I think I am going to stop now.
IM services reside on AOL's network, and even the user name are based on AOL screennames. Meaning that any IM clone is using the AOL network without permission from AOL. I thing AOL is in the right here. Not that I don't use Everybuddy, since I cannot get the AIM TCL client to work, but if I could, I wouldn't be using a clone because it is not right. I mean, that would be like Burger King deciding to sell their Whoppers in the lobby of a McDonalds restraunt. (Strange comparision, I know).
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I LOVE dotster.com. I paid $15 flat for a domain, no Network Solutions fee like InterNIC tacks on. I think they are now $25 flat fee for a year, and you get discounts and stuff. I think you cna get a name for 10 years for like $150. The site charges NO fees for moving URLs, and you have a web based login, where you can manage your accounts, change where your URL is pointing to, etc. I have friends who used InterNIC who have switched to Dotster for both price and ease of use. In otherwords, unlike InterNIC, you do not have to spend time on the phone with them simply to get a domain relocated.
I was hoping someone would state this. 08/28/888 was the last day this hapened, and not in December. HOWEVER, weren't we on a slightly different callender in 888? I think we were on the Roman calender by this date, but I know it is not the same calender we use today. Can anyone shed a little more lite on this?
I must say that for me personally, it is not a big deal. I really don't see myself in 20 years using the same data I am today. For nostalgic reasons, I may be interested in playing older games, but by then, it will probobly be through emulators since no modern computer will have equipment that supports such antique technology such as trilinier filtering. =-) However, I am worried about corporations and the government. What is going to happen when the IRS backup tapes decay? Farfetched, I know, but it is a thinking question. Banks and government agencies are going to have the most trouble with this, but I am sure that surely they have came across this problem by now and already have solutions. For people worried about their data: 1) always create a backup 2) if it is really important, have a backup on two different medias. I mean, if the average floppy has a lifespan of 3 years, and you go back 5 years later and realize that both floppies are bad, what are you going to do? and of course 3) never keep your original and backup in the same place. I think I just restated stuff that all of you know. Anyways, back to the original question, no, I am not incredibly worried. At least at the moment. I mean, if a CD starts going bad on me, I can always make a copy of it. Of course eventually, you are going to run into generation errors or something, but, hey, just take care of your CDs, know how to handle them, and always put them back in the case when you are through.
www.mcdonalds.com could always be a big winner. Of course, I perfer www.tacobell.com "Yeah, smell the Chalupa and the gooey cheese." Might want to stay away from porno sites, I don't want to know what kind of weird smells they would have us smell. www.2600.com could smell of twinkies, pizza rolls and Mountian Dew or Jolt Cola. Oh, imagine if this was incorparated in video games. Imagine, Quake deathmatch where the smell of rotting bodies come accross. Need For Speed with fumes and (for you NFS3 fans), the country air or the sea air. Unreal with smells of strange new worlds. Of course, www.halmark.com has to get in with the "send scratch and sniff e-mails by mail" thing. Still, I think the biggest hit would have to be at www.littleceasars.com or any other pizza place. Irish Springs soap has a website where you can smell the soap. I think I am going to stop now.
IM services reside on AOL's network, and even the user name are based on AOL screennames. Meaning that any IM clone is using the AOL network without permission from AOL. I thing AOL is in the right here. Not that I don't use Everybuddy, since I cannot get the AIM TCL client to work, but if I could, I wouldn't be using a clone because it is not right. I mean, that would be like Burger King deciding to sell their Whoppers in the lobby of a McDonalds restraunt. (Strange comparision, I know).