BT has continued to abuse it's power year after year. The question, of course, is whether the cable providers will bother to ramp-up their efforts to fight BT. Ok, so DSL may not take off, but broadband would be nice anyway.
I think given the situation, the cable operators in Britain have done well, and they've made many an American cable operator look sluggish.
Well, correct me if I'm mistaked, but Minitel is run by France Telecom which at least has been a monopoly. If I can make lots of money providing the best service around, why do I need to improve it? It's simple capitalism.
The reason the Internet has taken off instead is because there have been a lot of very smart people with access to and the ability to change the Internet, improving it. Without that, you end up with the same situation that happened to a lot of BBS systems (especially the commercial ones).
I find the whole situation of France trying to legislate the Internet ridiculous. Of course, if we're going to have any kind of legal activity underway, then it must be international, not ruled by France, and definitely not by the illegal ICANN. (Quangos are not allowed in the US.)
I think it's pretty cool if Yahoo! is going back to basics. Let's hope they make it easier than their site is in Lynx. If so, could they perhaps bring the Minitel styling back to their site, at least for text-based browsers?
And a Gopher version would be great. Miss my days at the University of Minnesota (when we used to use gopher exclusively).
I would agree with some form of Quality Assurance. The easiest thing would of course be clear code documentation. I know that many a programmer wouldn't be too fond of it, but it would help for implementation. Companies are for more interested in software that has some kind of built-in reliablity level. We're looking to get some software coded for us, and documentation of the code is really vital to us, so that we can make changes or easily fix any bugs found.
Reading on, I realise that they seems to have a whole Operating System, or so they say. Basically, they provide a platform to running anything on top of.
I'd rather have a real OS interacting with my system first, and then maybe something on top. I wonder what the security implications are of running their 'OS' first, and then running OpenBSD on top... Um... Any takers?
With a web design background, and site that has page 22, page 23, etc., as it's page names, scares the crap out of me. If they can't do a real web site, what's the customer support like. (Anyone remember which program spits pages out like that by default?)
These guys don't seem to be patenting anything really important. They're trying to patent stuff that seems more like copyright and trademark issues (except maybe the restrictive partioning stuff).
Anyway, if they're trying for anything else, well, tough. I think documentation goes back to show that most of what they're coming up with isn't very original, and besides, they look like a low-budget, low-tech outfit.
I think VMWare or Plex86 will be far more useful anyway.
Hey, look. Even with NT, the certification they've had has been for a particular setup. Strip this, reconfigure that, do this.
Of course, admins still change things and then they aren't compliant. The cool thing would be if every time a program was deemed DoD-useful, it would be submitted. I mean, do you know what's in IIS? I don't and I doubt the DoD does. But I'm willing to be some DoD servers have IIS on them.
Oh, I would agree that flicking to the TV news is easier, but I avoid local news like the plague. I usually catch a half-hour or so of BBC News or CNN, but as I am working on setting up my system, it will soon be just as easy to sit down and turn on my web news as well.
With my computer and TV hooked together (since I don't want another DVD drive unnecessarily) and wireless keyboard and mouse, hey, I can just pull up my personalised sites. I can already grab small streaming video pieces off BBC. Why not take a personalised site with the video piece I want and serve them up. Then I'm watching something (not just reading) but I don't have to sit through talking heads unnecessarily.
I like integrated systems of information. It makes my life easy (even better when I get DSL and have 'always-on' capability).
I would agree that people on the Internet spread all over the place. Is the emulation of the biological model of a virus a bad thing? I doubt it.
One of the greatest things about the Internet is the ability of ideas to spread all over, for people to gather information, for minds to meet. When we get together, we can create great things in society. This rampant flow of information perhaps harms the isolated genius, but when lots of great minds are together, they all only benefit.
Facts are facts. Does information spread on the Internet like a disease? Yes! Of course. The questions is whether that spreading is good or bad.
Is it because girls ar more sociable? I mean, guys tend to tinker with things, like cars, VCRs, stereos, computers, etc. It's almost a given that if I give an object to a little boy or a little girl, the boy will try to take it apart, and the girl will try to use it.
I realise this is massive gender stereotyping, but perhaps the majority of girls aren't interested in socially-deprived isolated activities like staring at code for hours?
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Yeah, well, if that's truly the case, I would look for new work as well.
Probably not for Ford, but somewhere else. Isn't ThinkGeek hiring?
The question, of course, is then one of how much control these corporations have over the computers. Are they so that employees still can do work from home when sick? Is it so that they can see which employees are looking for work elsewhere online?
I agree that universal access is a good thing, but the question will always be one of who the gatekeepers are and what are they doing with the information. When I go to an ISP, I'm a customer and they have a professional relationship with me. When my company provides it, they already have a vested interest in me, and perhaps want to get a little closer than I'd like.
How much information will we allow corporations to gather about us?
I don't think you should be able to copyright HTML because the number of terms and ways of doing something are very limited. If you use one technique one place to solve a problem, chances are that you will HAVE to do it that way again in the future.
It's like putting a copyright on using the word snow, or apple, or something like that. Or something even more basic. Like copyrighting the verb 'to be'.
I can see ways to copyright JavaScript and copyrighting the overall look and feel of the site. But copyrighting HTML? Oh my... How stupid.
Of course, given recent rulings by incompetent judges, you never know what precedents may be set.
Ok, PIII Xeons could be nice in a dual-processor setup, but why does Intel continue to insist on using that high latency RDRAM?
Tom's Hardware Guide just had an article which convinced me to stick with SDRAM for quite some time to come. Maybe for highly memory intensive long processes RDRAM is worth it, but how many of us will fin that worthwhile?
Actually, i would consider myself a real web designer in that, well, I use new technologies sparingly. Most DHTML is used for flashy effects, I tend to use it for little things like scrolling info and/or compacting the navigation.
Being that usability is one of my key areas of focus, that's why I don't spend a LOT of time focusing on things like DHTML, but use a repository of simple functions to rework. So, being thrown the DOM and being told to think like a programmer, well, that's a pain in rear.
Of course, I'm already moving towards throwing away HTML 4.01 for XHTML 1.0, so....
As a web designer, I'm really not happy with Netscape 6, at least in its current form.
My main gripe, I guess, its lack of support for DHTML. Layer support is one thing, but being able to do something with them is always nice. Take a look at Dynamic Drive and see how many of the DHTML scripts you can get to run.
I remember when I first heard about Project Gutenberg. It was such a great concept. Unfortunately, I've never had the time to do anything really to help out.
I wonder if anyone who's made a lot of money on these tech IPOs would be interested in contributing to helping support the free dissemination of literature.
Many of us sit and rant and rave about copyright and open source, and everything being free, but I think we get too lost in being the tech elite and forget that, well, there's more to technology than just propagating technology. Technology is designed to help people, and perserving and promoting literature is a great way to help people through exposing them to culture.
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All I got was a nice handy-dandy "this domain has been registered" type screen. Bah!
I think given the situation, the cable operators in Britain have done well, and they've made many an American cable operator look sluggish.
The reason the Internet has taken off instead is because there have been a lot of very smart people with access to and the ability to change the Internet, improving it. Without that, you end up with the same situation that happened to a lot of BBS systems (especially the commercial ones).
I find the whole situation of France trying to legislate the Internet ridiculous. Of course, if we're going to have any kind of legal activity underway, then it must be international, not ruled by France, and definitely not by the illegal ICANN. (Quangos are not allowed in the US.)
And a Gopher version would be great. Miss my days at the University of Minnesota (when we used to use gopher exclusively).
I would agree with some form of Quality Assurance. The easiest thing would of course be clear code documentation. I know that many a programmer wouldn't be too fond of it, but it would help for implementation. Companies are for more interested in software that has some kind of built-in reliablity level. We're looking to get some software coded for us, and documentation of the code is really vital to us, so that we can make changes or easily fix any bugs found.
Well, just as a point, I've been sucked abroad for better pay, and better benefits. Of course, I like living in Europe, so...
Such ignorance drives me nuts, as do all caps posts.
And the point of troll dung is????
I'd rather have a real OS interacting with my system first, and then maybe something on top. I wonder what the security implications are of running their 'OS' first, and then running OpenBSD on top... Um... Any takers?
With a web design background, and site that has page 22, page 23, etc., as it's page names, scares the crap out of me. If they can't do a real web site, what's the customer support like. (Anyone remember which program spits pages out like that by default?)
Anyway, if they're trying for anything else, well, tough. I think documentation goes back to show that most of what they're coming up with isn't very original, and besides, they look like a low-budget, low-tech outfit.
I think VMWare or Plex86 will be far more useful anyway.
Of course, admins still change things and then they aren't compliant. The cool thing would be if every time a program was deemed DoD-useful, it would be submitted. I mean, do you know what's in IIS? I don't and I doubt the DoD does. But I'm willing to be some DoD servers have IIS on them.
So, well, maybe we should be investigating whom Microsoft has potentially bribed?
With my computer and TV hooked together (since I don't want another DVD drive unnecessarily) and wireless keyboard and mouse, hey, I can just pull up my personalised sites. I can already grab small streaming video pieces off BBC. Why not take a personalised site with the video piece I want and serve them up. Then I'm watching something (not just reading) but I don't have to sit through talking heads unnecessarily.
I like integrated systems of information. It makes my life easy (even better when I get DSL and have 'always-on' capability).
One of the greatest things about the Internet is the ability of ideas to spread all over, for people to gather information, for minds to meet. When we get together, we can create great things in society. This rampant flow of information perhaps harms the isolated genius, but when lots of great minds are together, they all only benefit.
Facts are facts. Does information spread on the Internet like a disease? Yes! Of course. The questions is whether that spreading is good or bad.
I realise this is massive gender stereotyping, but perhaps the majority of girls aren't interested in socially-deprived isolated activities like staring at code for hours?
Probably not for Ford, but somewhere else. Isn't ThinkGeek hiring?
I agree that universal access is a good thing, but the question will always be one of who the gatekeepers are and what are they doing with the information. When I go to an ISP, I'm a customer and they have a professional relationship with me. When my company provides it, they already have a vested interest in me, and perhaps want to get a little closer than I'd like.
How much information will we allow corporations to gather about us?
I don't think you should be able to copyright HTML because the number of terms and ways of doing something are very limited. If you use one technique one place to solve a problem, chances are that you will HAVE to do it that way again in the future.
It's like putting a copyright on using the word snow, or apple, or something like that. Or something even more basic. Like copyrighting the verb 'to be'.
I can see ways to copyright JavaScript and copyrighting the overall look and feel of the site. But copyrighting HTML? Oh my... How stupid.
Of course, given recent rulings by incompetent judges, you never know what precedents may be set.
Tom's Hardware Guide just had an article which convinced me to stick with SDRAM for quite some time to come. Maybe for highly memory intensive long processes RDRAM is worth it, but how many of us will fin that worthwhile?
Actually, i would consider myself a real web designer in that, well, I use new technologies sparingly. Most DHTML is used for flashy effects, I tend to use it for little things like scrolling info and/or compacting the navigation.
Being that usability is one of my key areas of focus, that's why I don't spend a LOT of time focusing on things like DHTML, but use a repository of simple functions to rework. So, being thrown the DOM and being told to think like a programmer, well, that's a pain in rear.
Of course, I'm already moving towards throwing away HTML 4.01 for XHTML 1.0, so....
My main gripe, I guess, its lack of support for DHTML. Layer support is one thing, but being able to do something with them is always nice. Take a look at Dynamic Drive and see how many of the DHTML scripts you can get to run.
If you get more than one, I'll be amazed.
Wizards of the Coast OWNS TSR. They have for quite some time, and anyone who visits TSR's website would find it painstakingly obvious.
Oh well, now I can't moderate this topic. I just really hate when people post about things they really have no clue about.
That's an excellent idea! Perhaps we could get together and raise some money and exposure for PG as well?
I remember when I first heard about Project Gutenberg. It was such a great concept. Unfortunately, I've never had the time to do anything really to help out.
I wonder if anyone who's made a lot of money on these tech IPOs would be interested in contributing to helping support the free dissemination of literature.
Many of us sit and rant and rave about copyright and open source, and everything being free, but I think we get too lost in being the tech elite and forget that, well, there's more to technology than just propagating technology. Technology is designed to help people, and perserving and promoting literature is a great way to help people through exposing them to culture.