Is it just me, or are these new TLDs misrepresented in the media? The media reports them as "desperately needed" to help with the name space issue, but I can't see that it helps... they're already encouraging people to grab the ".net" and ".org" of their ".com" domains. It's not like "cocacola.biz" is now suddenly up for grabs, or that "FredLawerSmith.pro" is preserving the.com space of the "FredLawerSmith.com" that would otherwise be taken.
It's nice that it gives an idea of what a domain is about, not too helpful otherwise, epecially if they cost extra.
I remember reading in the Drudge Report (was wondering what they were up to since Monica) and they said that if Bush won the popular vote but lost the college, Republicans might try to persuade individuals in the college to change their votes. Which actually is truer to the original spirit of the college of thinking electors, not ones completely controlled by the intense partisanship that got added later.
If Florida goes to Bush the electoral college will still be very close, I think there have been a few loose cannons in there before... could there be a fight on that level as well?
(Course for liberal-leaners like me it's a bit of a lose-lose situation in terms of the surpreme court... if Gore somehow wins then those teetering old justices are gonna sink their talons in and try to hold on until a republic president is finally elected.)
I've been wondering a lot about cryo myself lately. It's so damn optimistic! Is anyone here planning to go through with it? Ever since I read about those characters in Cryptonomicon...
That idea of longlife being a rich guy only thing. Suddenly not being rich seems like a huge philosophical or metaphysical failing! Yikes.
In the spring, a young man's fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of what
The older man, throughout the year,
Has never even once forgot
Isaac Asimov, "The Sensuous Dirty Old Man"
Still, I didn't like the book that much, it seemed to be little more than a goofy parody of some of the sexual selfhelp books of the era.
I thought that the saving thing with Real was much more of a business decision; after giving away players to gain marketshare, Real either to be the exclusive seller of "VCRs" for the content, or wanted to make money with the content providers by providing guarantees against the copy a VCR allows, or both. Apple's done the same thing (get the player for free, splend money for the recorder) with QuickTime, which is even more obnoxious, since these files are made available by the content provider; I've run lynx sometimes when I wanted to grab the damn raw mov file!
I thought the original article was very good. I scoffed at the assertion "you always make sacrifices for ease of use", but then I had trouble coming up with a counterexample; I thought NCFTP was a clear cut ease of use champ over traditional FTP, and it is-- but then going to other command line FTPs would be much more difficult, thus, "choice" *is* reduced.
As far as I know, I'm not using a proxy. My computer is directly connected to the cable modem, though I'm running WinProxy so my girlfriend can connect with her laptop.
Hi- sorry for an offtopic post...
when I try to hit slashdot from home, I get an Apache screen saying "You don't have permission to view / on this server" or somesuch, whether I'm in Netscape or IE. From work it's fine, from my old academic account via lynx it's fine. My home connection is a cable modem via RCN. Any idea if I'm being blocked at the slashdot server level for some reason?
Man, this show is so cool. I know Survival Research has been doing it forever, but bringing it to the mass market is great. The format's a little dorky, but those two brothers are pretty funny.
And hands up-- how many people have always dreamed of a show like this, like since they were a kid? 'Course my dreams had teams of self-controlled humanoid 'bots and tanks, and more guns, but still...
'Course it really is battle of the Remote Control Cars... but I guess it makes for better battles, leave the AI for the lego 'bot warriors.
I disagree. Maybe not for technical groups, but for some of the more conversation groups, the S/N is pretty darn good. rec.arts.sf.written, alt.fan.cecil-adams are my favorites for general browsing.
Usenet's strength is providing a single UI (your choice of newsreader) to thousands of discussion topics. Plus, given its academic roots, I guess that it has a higher level of discourse than some similar multi-topic setups. (Though I know some people who cut their teeth on AOL with its user moderation find Usenet a little more noisy than their liking. Personally I think that a greater "S" could make up for the greater "N" but I'm not going to swap communities or start paying AOL to find out.
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Well, WAP does put on a strict limit on the amount of data sent to a cellphone as the result of a single request-- something like "1492 characters", but it's a little confused since a server between the web server and the cellular anntennas compresses it.
Despite doing WAP/WML at work, I'm not impressed with it. Just because it's big in Japan, Finnland, the Phillipines, etc, does not mean it's going to catch on big worldwide in a reasonable time frame. Someday, it's probably inevitable, but "someday" we'll have SuperPalms with wonderful resolution color screens, richer input devices, and perfect coverage worldwide.
In some way, by being as "traditionally wired" as the USA is, it's going to make it harder for people to accept the limitations of these devices. You really need to have a "killer app" in mind when you get one of these thing, (MUST GET E-MAIL *HERE AND NOW*, or sports-scores, or whatever) or else it's going to remain an underutilized and expensive toy. The web wouldn't have caught on if it were as limited as gopherspace, or lynx-only, much less these tiny tiny screens.
You know, I make probably over double what my non-techie friends are making. I live reasonably sparsely as a 26 year old as well, though my techie fianceé(didn't study computers in college, but is a fast learner) is making 3/4 of what I do, so we'er going for a reasonable nice apartment. Anyway, sometimes I get jittery about the future financially- I just don't have a realistic view of anything. I wonder how my nontechie friends manage...
France may have some of its free speech priorities in order, but I keep thinking of the way they try to use legal authority to keep French pure, and generally try to minimize the impact of US and Global culture on their country's culture.
I dunno- renting implies you're using something that existed before you got to use it. Really, domain names aren't like that- ignoring the 877-style bastardizations, there are only, what, 10^7 1-800 numbers. The space is a lot more well defined than that of domains. And there's an issue of ownership of the nwtwork- I'm guessing that the 1-800 authority is a lot closer to the central networking of the phone system, which is relatively centralized, than Internic is to the co-operative venture that is the net...
"You don't own a domain name any more than you own your phone number."-- Oh, come on- what a retarded argument! Standard phone numbers (I'm not sure about the 1-800 world) are, by tradition and network design, tied to geography. People understand that if you move, you probably don't take the number with you. The Net does not suffer from this regionalism, at least in the arena of.com,.net, and.org. Phone numbers are assigned, not chosen, and people and groups are more closely tied and invested in the names they've staked out.
Maybe next they'll argue that as the keeper of the DB they reallyown a.com, aa.com, ab.com, ac.com [...] zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.com, and you just happen to be renting a random string of alphanumerics?
Oh, BS- when it comes to http:// (and we are talking usability for the general population here, not just for the geeks) "domain.com" is a perfectly reasonable alternative to "www.domain.com". It's what companies publicize (including useit.com!) and what people type into their web browser.
Tricks like www.perl.com v. perl.com and just that, tricks for the well-clue'd. Cases where you've told all your news and mail users to point to the same machine as your main web server- besides being extremely short-sighted- are a tiny minority. If you're on the Net, and your desktop is making contact to a large variety of differently domain'd servers, your probably on the Web (and the www. can be assumed) or you're a cracker.
Two thoughts: I had a hell of a time looking for a 'post reply to root' link. Unlike the 'Reply to This' feature, which is a link, it's a button bundled with UI elements dedicated to screening results-- my eye ignored the Reply button because I'd glance at the stuff to the left of it first.
Another issue: on Netscape 4.7 for NT, hilighting text only makes it change color from black to dark blue, which is hard to see. This is mostly an issue with the Netscape search feature that hilights text that it's Ctrl-F found.
Also, is there a way to get a list of all the past quotes? Sometimes I forget to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page (since all the new stuff is at the top!) and would like to peruse these little bon mots...
Something that's been bugging me for a long time: http://useit.com/ doesn't work as a URL, one is forced to enter http://www.useit.com/. It seems to me that the ability to drop the "www." from the front of URLs is a widely accepted convention- considering the title of Nielsen's website leaves it out as well, I was wondering why this isn't taken care of, if it's a technical glitch or some kind of design decision.
I hope you're right. I've heard about the numbers at Tufts, my alma mater, and if anything I've been assuming we're heading towards a glut of people- my class in 1993 had about 50 or 60 people, now they have like 3 sections of 90 each. Sometimes I think that comp sci is a real brain drain- other fields of science are ultimately as important, but many students are drawn towards the "easy money" of compsci.
As of this day anyone with resources can deploy their Web site and be accessible worldwide. Thanks to telcos wanting to charge for use of their infrastructure this might change soon, who knows.
Is this about some new development? And which infrastucture? The telephone companies providing Modem service, or more Internet specific backbone stuff?
the website has a screen saver. It's kind of cool, but way to resource intensive for what it does (imitating the computer screen "rain of information" effect) The thing is it also adds the square "exploding boxes"- and even on a fast Pentium II, everything slows down. Where these exploding boxes even on the screens in the movie?
Slashdot Mirror
It's nice that it gives an idea of what a domain is about, not too helpful otherwise, epecially if they cost extra.
If Florida goes to Bush the electoral college will still be very close, I think there have been a few loose cannons in there before... could there be a fight on that level as well?
(Course for liberal-leaners like me it's a bit of a lose-lose situation in terms of the surpreme court... if Gore somehow wins then those teetering old justices are gonna sink their talons in and try to hold on until a republic president is finally elected.)
That idea of longlife being a rich guy only thing. Suddenly not being rich seems like a huge philosophical or metaphysical failing! Yikes.
lightly turns to thoughts of what
The older man, throughout the year,
Has never even once forgot
Isaac Asimov, "The Sensuous Dirty Old Man"
Still, I didn't like the book that much, it seemed to be little more than a goofy parody of some of the sexual selfhelp books of the era.
I thought the original article was very good. I scoffed at the assertion "you always make sacrifices for ease of use", but then I had trouble coming up with a counterexample; I thought NCFTP was a clear cut ease of use champ over traditional FTP, and it is-- but then going to other command line FTPs would be much more difficult, thus, "choice" *is* reduced.
As far as I know, I'm not using a proxy. My computer is directly connected to the cable modem, though I'm running WinProxy so my girlfriend can connect with her laptop.
Hi- sorry for an offtopic post...
when I try to hit slashdot from home, I get an Apache screen saying "You don't have permission to view / on this server" or somesuch, whether I'm in Netscape or IE. From work it's fine, from my old academic account via lynx it's fine. My home connection is a cable modem via RCN. Any idea if I'm being blocked at the slashdot server level for some reason?
And hands up-- how many people have always dreamed of a show like this, like since they were a kid? 'Course my dreams had teams of self-controlled humanoid 'bots and tanks, and more guns, but still...
'Course it really is battle of the Remote Control Cars... but I guess it makes for better battles, leave the AI for the lego 'bot warriors.
Usenet's strength is providing a single UI (your choice of newsreader) to thousands of discussion topics. Plus, given its academic roots, I guess that it has a higher level of discourse than some similar multi-topic setups. (Though I know some people who cut their teeth on AOL with its user moderation find Usenet a little more noisy than their liking. Personally I think that a greater "S" could make up for the greater "N" but I'm not going to swap communities or start paying AOL to find out.
Despite doing WAP/WML at work, I'm not impressed with it. Just because it's big in Japan, Finnland, the Phillipines, etc, does not mean it's going to catch on big worldwide in a reasonable time frame. Someday, it's probably inevitable, but "someday" we'll have SuperPalms with wonderful resolution color screens, richer input devices, and perfect coverage worldwide.
In some way, by being as "traditionally wired" as the USA is, it's going to make it harder for people to accept the limitations of these devices. You really need to have a "killer app" in mind when you get one of these thing, (MUST GET E-MAIL *HERE AND NOW*, or sports-scores, or whatever) or else it's going to remain an underutilized and expensive toy. The web wouldn't have caught on if it were as limited as gopherspace, or lynx-only, much less these tiny tiny screens.
- Had 4 controllers
- Had a decent development kit in at least C
Does thing bring us any closer to the goal? I think would be amazing to make 4 player classic style games.You know, I make probably over double what my non-techie friends are making. I live reasonably sparsely as a 26 year old as well, though my techie fianceé(didn't study computers in college, but is a fast learner) is making 3/4 of what I do, so we'er going for a reasonable nice apartment. Anyway, sometimes I get jittery about the future financially- I just don't have a realistic view of anything. I wonder how my nontechie friends manage...
yeah, too bad they couldn't confirm common space flight, touristable space stations, and moonbases :-(
And I don't think we found that monolith either! ;-)
What then of Google and it's locally cached copies?
France may have some of its free speech priorities in order, but I keep thinking of the way they try to use legal authority to keep French pure, and generally try to minimize the impact of US and Global culture on their country's culture.
I dunno- renting implies you're using something that existed before you got to use it. Really, domain names aren't like that- ignoring the 877-style bastardizations, there are only, what, 10^7 1-800 numbers. The space is a lot more well defined than that of domains. And there's an issue of ownership of the nwtwork- I'm guessing that the 1-800 authority is a lot closer to the central networking of the phone system, which is relatively centralized, than Internic is to the co-operative venture that is the net...
Maybe next they'll argue that as the keeper of the DB they reallyown a.com, aa.com, ab.com, ac.com [...] zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.com, and you just happen to be renting a random string of alphanumerics?
BTW- funny you bring up the Perl as an example and then berate people for being lazy- that's the lazy man's language, man!
Tricks like www.perl.com v. perl.com and just that, tricks for the well-clue'd. Cases where you've told all your news and mail users to point to the same machine as your main web server- besides being extremely short-sighted- are a tiny minority. If you're on the Net, and your desktop is making contact to a large variety of differently domain'd servers, your probably on the Web (and the www. can be assumed) or you're a cracker.
I had a hell of a time looking for a 'post reply to root' link. Unlike the 'Reply to This' feature, which is a link, it's a button bundled with UI elements dedicated to screening results-- my eye ignored the Reply button because I'd glance at the stuff to the left of it first.
Another issue: on Netscape 4.7 for NT, hilighting text only makes it change color from black to dark blue, which is hard to see. This is mostly an issue with the Netscape search feature that hilights text that it's Ctrl-F found.
Also, is there a way to get a list of all the past quotes? Sometimes I forget to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page (since all the new stuff is at the top!) and would like to peruse these little bon mots...
Something that's been bugging me for a long time: http://useit.com/ doesn't work as a URL, one is forced to enter http://www.useit.com/. It seems to me that the ability to drop the "www." from the front of URLs is a widely accepted convention- considering the title of Nielsen's website leaves it out as well, I was wondering why this isn't taken care of, if it's a technical glitch or some kind of design decision.
I hope you're right. I've heard about the numbers at Tufts, my alma mater, and if anything I've been assuming we're heading towards a glut of people- my class in 1993 had about 50 or 60 people, now they have like 3 sections of 90 each. Sometimes I think that comp sci is a real brain drain- other fields of science are ultimately as important, but many students are drawn towards the "easy money" of compsci.
Is this about some new development? And which infrastucture? The telephone companies providing Modem service, or more Internet specific backbone stuff?
the website has a screen saver. It's kind of cool, but way to resource intensive for what it does (imitating the computer screen "rain of information" effect) The thing is it also adds the square "exploding boxes"- and even on a fast Pentium II, everything slows down. Where these exploding boxes even on the screens in the movie?