as someone posted here, I thought, a while back, the moment they turned into entrepreneurs, all of their interesting research fell into a black hole. Bad Thing.
[Somebody posted "FIRST POST" and stayed anonymous? Pointless Thing.]
Google got my vote when I typed in my name and clicked on "do you feel lucky?" It instantly popped to my home page. Neat Thing.
Post on slashdot 'before they are publicly traded' ? My son, that IS being publicly traded. There are securities laws in these here parts, stranger. Read up on what a prospectus is.
This is intended for serious sport bikers who need to know, for example, how well they did on this route compared to last time, not to mention up-to-the-minute info on how well they are DOING, so they can speed up or slack off as necessary. Also, this is the kind of info that is routinely available on gym exercise equipment, so anyone who prefers getting outside on their bike to sitting in a ho-hum gym should be interested.
I'm so very impressed by the gauntlet of flames that Katz is negotiating here, as if he's the new kid at school who doesn't know how to wear his clothes the "right" way or something. From morons like DaBuzz (a SPELLING flame, fahpetesake, for what is ostensibly a casual posting among friends) and "this sentence shows he doesn't know X" or what the f*(&()*&(* ever. Lord, it's enough to make me stay away from Linux forever, if the personalities that use it are about 14 years old on average.
The key, Confused, is remembering that compilers are only needed for High-Level Languages. C needs a compiler, but assembler code does not. An assembler development program is merely a convenience. Most assembler code used to be hand-written (just as, before that, most punch-card code was). From this evolved the "macro assembler" which let you write out subroutines and such as abbreviations, and from that evolved high-level languages such as B, which was the precursor to C.
I tend to agree. There's a lot of knee-jerk "fight the man" snap-judgement overreaction going on here.
The internet used to be this sleepy little academic/geek thang that you actually had to explain to people. Now that it's intersected with the Real World (tm), it's big business, and yes, there will be lawyers involved.
It was a stretch to go after "veronica.org" but I can see why they did it. I think Hasbro is being obtuse for insisting on "clue.com", though. (A lot of movie sites don't even try to get the film title anymore -- you see domains like "titanicmovie.com" -- but those are ephemeral, anyway.)
It's a bigger problem than just this, because nobody's yet figured out how to properly handle the fact that -- for example -- there are at least 1000 separate "First National Bank" businesses in the US. They had no problem coexisting when they were only in their indivudal communities... but they can't all have firstnational.com....
I bet there might even be another "clue computing" out there.
I know I was dismayed to find that my relatively uncommon company name "Birch Grove SOftware" already had an internet presence in 1994, when I first considered registering with InterNIC. I"m in Illinois, that one is in Texas....
This was written to a filksinger who wrote a song about the controversy (which is NOT new):
Thank you very much for "immortalizing" me in your humorous but thoughtful song "Planet X". I am very flattered! I was aware of your poem but did not know that you had made a song of it and recorded it in your album "Shining My Flashlight on the Moon".
Yes, your song reflects my opinion with regard to the planet Pluto. I still think that it would be a grave mistake to degrade Pluto to a minor planet. Although Pluto is small compared with the other major planets, it is still more than twice as big as the largest known minor planet, Ceres. Furthermore, it is not only Pluto's size that counts, but the entire fascinating story associated with that planet which has been known as such for 67years. Now that Pluto's discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh, is dead, Pluto's status has become even more a closed chapter in the annals of astronomy. WGPSN has started to think about how to commemorate him, preferably by naming some large feature on Pluto or on its moon, Charon, after him.
Kaare Aksnes President -- IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
would you specify exactly what the "more pressing problems" are that the International Astronomical Union should be addressing?
Immigrant rights for Martians? Mining regulations for Ganymede? Food for hungry Titanites?
The IAU are the people who regulate the definition of planet... if we call Pluto one, there's a lot more things that deserve the name, which is probably a bigger mistake than the original one made in 1930 by labeling it Planet IX.
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as someone posted here, I thought, a while back, the moment they turned into entrepreneurs, all of their interesting research fell into a black hole. Bad Thing.
[Somebody posted "FIRST POST" and stayed anonymous? Pointless Thing.]
Google got my vote when I typed in my name and clicked on "do you feel lucky?" It instantly popped to my home page. Neat Thing.
Post on slashdot 'before they are publicly traded' ? My son, that IS being publicly traded. There are securities laws in these here parts, stranger. Read up on what a prospectus is.
This is intended for serious sport bikers who need to know, for example, how well they did on this route compared to last time, not to mention up-to-the-minute info on how well they are DOING, so they can speed up or slack off as necessary. Also, this is the kind of info that is routinely available on gym exercise equipment, so anyone who prefers getting outside on their bike to sitting in a ho-hum gym should be interested.
....)
I know I am!
(What a bunch of Luddites
I'm so very impressed by the gauntlet of flames that Katz is negotiating here, as if he's the new kid at school who doesn't know how to wear his clothes the "right" way or something. From morons like DaBuzz (a SPELLING flame, fahpetesake, for what is ostensibly a casual posting among friends) and "this sentence shows he doesn't know X" or what the f*(&()*&(* ever. Lord, it's enough to make me stay away from Linux forever, if the personalities that use it are about 14 years old on average.
The key, Confused, is remembering that compilers are only needed for High-Level Languages. C needs a compiler, but assembler code does not. An assembler development program is merely a convenience. Most assembler code used to be hand-written (just as, before that, most punch-card code was). From this evolved the "macro assembler" which let you write out subroutines and such as abbreviations, and from that evolved high-level languages such as B, which was the precursor to C.
I tend to agree. There's a lot of knee-jerk "fight the man" snap-judgement overreaction going on here.
... but they can't all have firstnational.com ....
....
The internet used to be this sleepy little academic/geek thang that you actually had to explain to people. Now that it's intersected with the Real World (tm), it's big business, and yes, there will be lawyers involved.
It was a stretch to go after "veronica.org" but I can see why they did it. I think Hasbro is being obtuse for insisting on "clue.com", though. (A lot of movie sites don't even try to get the film title anymore -- you see domains like "titanicmovie.com" -- but those are ephemeral, anyway.)
It's a bigger problem than just this, because nobody's yet figured out how to properly handle the fact that -- for example -- there are at least 1000 separate "First National Bank" businesses in the US. They had no problem coexisting when they were only in their indivudal communities
I bet there might even be another "clue computing" out there.
I know I was dismayed to find that my relatively uncommon company name "Birch Grove SOftware" already had an internet presence in 1994, when I first considered registering with InterNIC. I"m in Illinois, that one is in Texas
This was written to a filksinger who wrote a song about the controversy (which is NOT new):
Thank you very much for "immortalizing" me in your humorous but thoughtful song "Planet X". I am very flattered! I was aware of your poem but did not know that you had made a song of it and recorded it in your album "Shining My Flashlight on the Moon".
Yes, your song reflects my opinion with regard to the planet Pluto. I still think that it would be a grave mistake to degrade Pluto to a minor planet. Although Pluto is small compared with the other major planets, it is still more than twice as big as the largest known minor planet, Ceres. Furthermore, it is not only Pluto's size that counts, but the entire fascinating story associated with that planet which has been known as such for 67years. Now that Pluto's discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh, is dead, Pluto's status has become even more a closed chapter in the annals of astronomy. WGPSN has started to think about how to commemorate him, preferably by naming some large feature on Pluto or on its moon, Charon, after him.
Kaare Aksnes
President -- IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Electric Eye,
... if we call Pluto one, there's a lot more things that deserve the name, which is probably a bigger mistake than the original one made in 1930 by labeling it Planet IX.
would you specify exactly what the "more pressing problems" are that the International Astronomical Union should be addressing?
Immigrant rights for Martians? Mining regulations for Ganymede? Food for hungry Titanites?
The IAU are the people who regulate the definition of planet
hoo-yah!
...
Love it, endorse it & second the motion. Proceed to a vote