Yet another domain to remember. We've got.info,.biz and now.us all in the past year. Now tell me again how we're better off.
All these domains do is make things more complicated for those of us who have to remember all these web addresses and more expensive for companies trying to protect their trademarks in cyberspace. Maybe we should REDUCE the number of domains... From now on let's just just.gov,.com and.edu. Enough already!!!
Why do we need anonymizing services (essentially hacks) when excellent substitutes are in the works? Projects like Freenet are providing new protocols which are specifically designed with anonymity in mind.
I did a view source on their webpage... <meta name="generator" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
I find it interesting that a company that thinks it is important enough to put linux on a PDA still can't make a web page without Frontpage for Microsoft Windows...
We should not be looking at whether Linux or BSD is better than the other. What we should be thinking about whether one will one be better than the other. All sides can agree that linux development has really taken off as of late and that the various BSDs have been in development much longer.
I wonder, with the growing popularity of the GPL, if the pace of Linux development can be kept up. I think that as products mature, it gets harder and harder to keep the speed of development the same.
Rather than focusing on where they are, we should be focusing on where they will be.
The article says the web is great: reach a world wide audience like never before. Isn't a penny worth more in some countries than in others? A penny a page may seem like very little to the US, but for those in poorer countries, it may be too much.
Also, wouldn't librararies, universities and other places with free internet access be forced to shutdown their access? 1 cent per page may be ok for an average middle-class American citizen, but libraries and such have many people looking at the web day in and day out. No free internet there anymore.
Finally,
The billing mechanism should track for and eliminate charges for... pages that auto-refresh... pages arrived at by pressing the back button, duplicate pages and so on.
Translation: our idea doesn't work... don't tell anyone
In a brilliant new move by a consortium backed by Sony and Microsoft, companies are now beginning to use copy protection that prevents the playing of the CDs in any device whatsoever.
The companies are convinced that this move will keep sales up while thwarting evil hackers.
How many domains to we really need? This is sooo obviously a marketing ploy to get everyone to spend more money on domains they don't need. Owners of Ford.com will buy Ford.biz, Dell.com will soon have dell.biz. Are they any better off for.biz? Of course not.
Sure, some new people will take advantage of.biz domains. But now users have to remember even longer addresses for each website. Let's see, did I want to go to Shopping.com, shopping.org, shopping.net, shopping.biz or shopping.info? Enough already!
I know you all read the article, but did anyone read the web address? http://www.wininformant.com. It's part of the Windows 2000 Magazine Network. Their motto is Windows news and information. Does anyone here see any potential bias when the website says that Windows will rule for the foreseeable future?
The deal is for five years, but it takes Microsoft around 2 or 3 years to come out with a new version of Winows and other software. So... the deal doesn't seem like it will have much of a lasting effect.
Also, there is a section about disclosure of server protocols, they left out what is the most important part: Document Formats. If Microsoft didn't have a monopoly on.doc and.xls, don't think for a minute that offices wouldn't switch to something else.
I didn't see anything that talked about the difference in price between the two units. DVD playback is a nice feature, but as the costs of dedicated DVD players are dropping, I wouldn't pay much for it.
The slashdot lead-in seemed to be missing some of the details, like what the topic of the contest is. I pasted it below, on the off chance that the site gets slashdotted.
In March 2001, the World Intellectual Property
Organisation (WIPO) launched an international
student essay competition. Students were
asked to submit essays with the title 'What
does intellectual Property mean to you in your
daily life?'. It is obvious that WIPO are
expecting a number of self-congratulatory
essays detailing the plentiful benefits of
intellectual property (IP).
I can code a full blown GUI Instant Messenger in less than 100 bytes! apt-get install gaim. But seriously, if you can fit that much information in 7kb, hasn't someone already had to basially write the messenger first?
They seem to be able to write such a small executable by building libraries especially for this project. Is anyone else thinking that a similar projet in C by them would have the following line: #include <guiMessenger.h>
None of these questions can be answered without saying "It depends" and neither can yours.
Very rarely is anything better than everything else is every single way.
I just did a search for "calendar" on freshmeat... 131 projects found
Do we really need mozilla to include yet another thing which we can just find somewhere else? Before we know it, Mozilla will include its own kernel! And they are wondering why 1.0 is soooo far off?
If you don't like Dell's service,next time buy from another company... Of course, when you are dealing with a company with significant market power (like DELL or Microsoft), I guess you really can't. I guess we are all screwed.
Isn't it possible to hide a weapon or explosive inside of a working device? I mean, there is plenty of room inside the average laptop to stick some nasties... What's the point of making people turn these devices on?
I don't see why palm would want to opensource BeOS... They spent 11 million on it, and they are not likely to simply give it away. What reason would a pda maker have to release the source code to a desktop OS? Face it, BE is dead, and it ain't coming back.
C'mon, this article is crap. Evidence that Linux is not suited for the dekstop: a guy in a black t-shirt formatted someone's laptop, and Applixware didn't know the word website. I have used Linux as my primary OS for years, and have never had either problem shake my resolve for Linux. In fact, a guy in a black t-shirt never even came near to my computer.
There are several word processors available for linux, such as Word Perfect and Star Office. Just because one word processor didn't know one word doesn't mean linux is done for.
Am I the only person wondering why you can't just stick the terminal in the same room as the server? There would be 0 (zero)chance of monitored communications between the two machines. If both computers are only available in secured locations anyway, what would be the problem with this? It's cheap, easy and effective.
They chose the three biggest names in open source. Let's see, Alan Cox will win next year, then who is left? They really should have paced themselves, they ran out of the big names far too quickly!
I don't think that they can notarize after the fact.. the whole point is that they can only notarize stuff when they see it happening. A copy of a website and the date stamp of the cached copy can both be faked. All he would be able to do is that you had a copy which may have been already altered when he stopped by...
Is it really too much to ask for people to read over their posts before sending them? Every time the moderators post a story with a glaring error, they make slashdot look a bit less credible. Maybe we should change the website to slashdat (sic)
Slashdot Mirror
Yet another domain to remember. We've got .info, .biz and now .us all in the past year. Now tell me again how we're better off.
.gov, .com and .edu. Enough already!!!
All these domains do is make things more complicated for those of us who have to remember all these web addresses and more expensive for companies trying to protect their trademarks in cyberspace. Maybe we should REDUCE the number of domains... From now on let's just just
Why do we need anonymizing services (essentially hacks) when excellent substitutes are in the works? Projects like Freenet are providing new protocols which are specifically designed with anonymity in mind.
I did a view source on their webpage...
<meta name="generator" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
I find it interesting that a company that thinks it is important enough to put linux on a PDA still can't make a web page without Frontpage for Microsoft Windows...
We should not be looking at whether Linux or BSD is better than the other. What we should be thinking about whether one will one be better than the other. All sides can agree that linux development has really taken off as of late and that the various BSDs have been in development much longer.
I wonder, with the growing popularity of the GPL, if the pace of Linux development can be kept up. I think that as products mature, it gets harder and harder to keep the speed of development the same.
Rather than focusing on where they are, we should be focusing on where they will be.
The article says the web is great: reach a world wide audience like never before. Isn't a penny worth more in some countries than in others? A penny a page may seem like very little to the US, but for those in poorer countries, it may be too much.
Also, wouldn't librararies, universities and other places with free internet access be forced to shutdown their access? 1 cent per page may be ok for an average middle-class American citizen, but libraries and such have many people looking at the web day in and day out. No free internet there anymore.
Finally, The billing mechanism should track for and eliminate charges for... pages that auto-refresh... pages arrived at by pressing the back button, duplicate pages and so on.
Translation: our idea doesn't work... don't tell anyone
In a brilliant new move by a consortium backed by Sony and Microsoft, companies are now beginning to use copy protection that prevents the playing of the CDs in any device whatsoever.
The companies are convinced that this move will keep sales up while thwarting evil hackers.
How many domains to we really need? This is sooo obviously a marketing ploy to get everyone to spend more money on domains they don't need. Owners of Ford.com will buy Ford.biz, Dell.com will soon have dell.biz. Are they any better off for .biz? Of course not.
.biz domains. But now users have to remember even longer addresses for each website. Let's see, did I want to go to Shopping.com, shopping.org, shopping.net, shopping.biz or shopping.info? Enough already!
Sure, some new people will take advantage of
There are several different packages which are easier for individuals to configure. PHP Nuke comes to mind. Could anyone tell me how, or if, slashcode's difficult setup procedure is mitigated by administration or scalability?
I know you all read the article, but did anyone read the web address? http://www.wininformant.com. It's part of the Windows 2000 Magazine Network. Their motto is Windows news and information. Does anyone here see any potential bias when the website says that Windows will rule for the foreseeable future?
The deal is for five years, but it takes Microsoft around 2 or 3 years to come out with a new version of Winows and other software. So... the deal doesn't seem like it will have much of a lasting effect.
.doc and .xls, don't think for a minute that offices wouldn't switch to something else.
Also, there is a section about disclosure of server protocols, they left out what is the most important part: Document Formats. If Microsoft didn't have a monopoly on
I didn't see anything that talked about the difference in price between the two units. DVD playback is a nice feature, but as the costs of dedicated DVD players are dropping, I wouldn't pay much for it.
The slashdot lead-in seemed to be missing some of the details, like what the topic of the contest is. I pasted it below, on the off chance that the site gets slashdotted.
In March 2001, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) launched an international student essay competition. Students were asked to submit essays with the title 'What does intellectual Property mean to you in your daily life?'. It is obvious that WIPO are expecting a number of self-congratulatory essays detailing the plentiful benefits of intellectual property (IP).
I can code a full blown GUI Instant Messenger in less than 100 bytes! apt-get install gaim. But seriously, if you can fit that much information in 7kb, hasn't someone already had to basially write the messenger first?
They seem to be able to write such a small executable by building libraries especially for this project. Is anyone else thinking that a similar projet in C by them would have the following line: #include <guiMessenger.h>
Which is the best car?
Who is the best actor?
Where is the best place to live?
None of these questions can be answered without saying "It depends" and neither can yours. Very rarely is anything better than everything else is every single way.
I just did a search for "calendar" on freshmeat... 131 projects found
Do we really need mozilla to include yet another thing which we can just find somewhere else? Before we know it, Mozilla will include its own kernel! And they are wondering why 1.0 is soooo far off?
If you don't like Dell's service,next time buy from another company... Of course, when you are dealing with a company with significant market power (like DELL or Microsoft), I guess you really can't. I guess we are all screwed.
Isn't it possible to hide a weapon or explosive inside of a working device? I mean, there is plenty of room inside the average laptop to stick some nasties... What's the point of making people turn these devices on?
I don't see why palm would want to opensource BeOS... They spent 11 million on it, and they are not likely to simply give it away. What reason would a pda maker have to release the source code to a desktop OS? Face it, BE is dead, and it ain't coming back.
C'mon, this article is crap. Evidence that Linux is not suited for the dekstop: a guy in a black t-shirt formatted someone's laptop, and Applixware didn't know the word website. I have used Linux as my primary OS for years, and have never had either problem shake my resolve for Linux. In fact, a guy in a black t-shirt never even came near to my computer.
There are several word processors available for linux, such as Word Perfect and Star Office. Just because one word processor didn't know one word doesn't mean linux is done for.
Am I the only person wondering why you can't just stick the terminal in the same room as the server? There would be 0 (zero)chance of monitored communications between the two machines. If both computers are only available in secured locations anyway, what would be the problem with this? It's cheap, easy and effective.
> How much does the British Pound weight?
The same as ours... 16 ounces
They chose the three biggest names in open source. Let's see, Alan Cox will win next year, then who is left? They really should have paced themselves, they ran out of the big names far too quickly!
According to the universal currency converter (xe.com/ucc), 100 million yen is $824,744.81 US. Not bad at all.
I don't think that they can notarize after the fact.. the whole point is that they can only notarize stuff when they see it happening. A copy of a website and the date stamp of the cached copy can both be faked. All he would be able to do is that you had a copy which may have been already altered when he stopped by...
Is it really too much to ask for people to read over their posts before sending them? Every time the moderators post a story with a glaring error, they make slashdot look a bit less credible. Maybe we should change the website to slashdat (sic)