I use Mobical because it uses the SyncML protocol that my cellphone uses. I can sync all my PIM data (contacts, calendar, notes) easily. Still waiting for one of these web2.0 calendars to take advantage of SyncML.
Wow, I'm writing this on a 400mHz PII. I thought my computer was obsolete, but as soon as this law goes into effect and CD-ROM drives are crippled with regard to ripping, my non-crippled machine will be worth a lot for its content-manipulable hardware. Maybe I'll keep it around a bit longer.
What we need to do is copy as much stuff as we can now to hard disks, before we can do so no longer. Even if they can keep me from transferring a CD to disk, they can't control the circulation of MP3s on the Internet through hardware restrictions. I'll just rename all my MP3s to.doc files.
Even though it's been infused into practically everything we come into contact with, the word "sucks", like the words "cool" and "rules" and "rocks", are slang. And what happens to slang? It gets outdated. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon. Since TLDs are meant to be somewhat permanent and universal, it is especially stupid to make TLDs out of words that won't mean the same thing 5 years from now. Imagine if whoever thought up the original TLDs decided to throw in ".isfresh" and ".isasquare" or whatever. Though that would be kinda funny.
Anyway, point is that when people want to make fun of the way people talked back in the '90-00's, they'll over-use "sucks" and "cool", just like we overuse them today. I don't think we want our TLDs to be a testament to how much our slang sucks. Or maybe it blows. Either way, it's certainly not cool. Or hip. Or even peachy-keen.
"Aren't you going to get into costume?" "I never get out of it."
It's been mentioned a few times, but Contact by Carl Sagan is a fantastic read. Even the movie was better and more faithful to the book than most screen adaptations (though I realize that's not saying much).
I also reccomend Kurt Vonnegut. Cat's Cradle is a lot of fun, though if I had read it when I was 13, I wouldn't have gotten it at all. Vonnegut is entertaining even when you don't get it. Most of the stories in Welcome to the Monkey House are easy. Anyway, if you can read Foundation, you can read anything else on this list.
"Aren't you going to get into costume?" "I never get out of it."
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I use Mobical because it uses the SyncML protocol that my cellphone uses. I can sync all my PIM data (contacts, calendar, notes) easily. Still waiting for one of these web2.0 calendars to take advantage of SyncML.
Wow, I'm writing this on a 400mHz PII. I thought my computer was obsolete, but as soon as this law goes into effect and CD-ROM drives are crippled with regard to ripping, my non-crippled machine will be worth a lot for its content-manipulable hardware. Maybe I'll keep it around a bit longer.
.doc files.
What we need to do is copy as much stuff as we can now to hard disks, before we can do so no longer. Even if they can keep me from transferring a CD to disk, they can't control the circulation of MP3s on the Internet through hardware restrictions. I'll just rename all my MP3s to
Even though it's been infused into practically everything we come into contact with, the word "sucks", like the words "cool" and "rules" and "rocks", are slang. And what happens to slang? It gets outdated. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon. Since TLDs are meant to be somewhat permanent and universal, it is especially stupid to make TLDs out of words that won't mean the same thing 5 years from now. Imagine if whoever thought up the original TLDs decided to throw in ".isfresh" and ".isasquare" or whatever. Though that would be kinda funny.
Anyway, point is that when people want to make fun of the way people talked back in the '90-00's, they'll over-use "sucks" and "cool", just like we overuse them today. I don't think we want our TLDs to be a testament to how much our slang sucks. Or maybe it blows. Either way, it's certainly not cool. Or hip. Or even peachy-keen.
"Aren't you going to get into costume?"
"I never get out of it."
I also reccomend Kurt Vonnegut. Cat's Cradle is a lot of fun, though if I had read it when I was 13, I wouldn't have gotten it at all. Vonnegut is entertaining even when you don't get it. Most of the stories in Welcome to the Monkey House are easy. Anyway, if you can read Foundation, you can read anything else on this list.
"Aren't you going to get into costume?"
"I never get out of it."