This (while being a cool idea) doesn't really do what I want it to do. First of all I haven't ever seen an ISP offering me one of these. Once registered can I get it hosted overseas? It's way to restrictive for many uses...
So he's the reason that I can't register a domain name! Yes folks, time to move on. The Australian rules may reduce cybersquatting, but they are brain-dead. Check this out:
- You can register a.com.au domain if you are a registered company.
- You can register a.org.au domain if you are a registered organisation.
- You can register a.net.au domain if you are a registered ISP
- You can register a.gov.au if you are a government department
- (I'm sure there is a military one as well)
Guess which ones's I'm not? This is crazy! How are you suppost to register a domain for personal use? Their solution is to register a.com domain . Thank god I kept my.gen.nz domain.
Also, it should be.co.au, not.com.au. Since when did "com" become the abbreviation for company?
Just after Napster started to become popular, one of the ICQ betas (alphas? - for 99a I think), had Napster-like filesharing added. I know this because they posted screenshots of it on icq.com. Boy I wish I had saved a copy of those. I guess AOL told them to remove that feature. Pitty. Did anyone save the screenshots, or get hold of the code?
I saw them at "Big Boys Toys" too...in Melbourne 1998. They are not exactly new, but good to see them still around. For those asking how to stear, they are hinged in the middle. Can't remember about breakes though. They were riding them around the convention centre. Very cool.
Oh! You mean a company that you own has registered several domain names in Australia!
(I stand by my comment. You can't register domain names in Australia)
Zlich.
Not a bad thing in itself, but they need to create a domain structure that people can register for personal or non-profit purposes. I'm happy with the.gen.nz domain in New Zealand.
Having to register a company before you can register a domain really cuts down the internet sites in Australia. What if/. had been an Australian site? (ha!)
See my post above. The chances are these movies are not going to be out on VHS either. And if CD's are anything to go by, in a few years you won't be able to get many of the movies on crappy VHS anymore.
>I'd love to see zoning go away in the US, where it needs to go away most (the home market is the most important market of all) but I just don't think it will. People just don't see how it hurts them because most people aren't even aware that zoning exists.
It needs to go away there the _least_ because that's where they already have the biggest selection and most competition. It's the countries in the "smaller zones" that need the help.
Zilch
Yeah, I have heard something about that before, but I have been away from NZ (and watching one-eyed Aussie TV for too long) to keep up with the news over there. Can anyone elaborate?
It would fit in with NZ's ideas on "the freedom to parallel import" (and the freedom to sell lamb in the USA) quite well. They already told Chrysler to get knotted when they tried to stop people bring in second hand cars. (Not that anyone buys American cars over there anyway - Ha!)
I would even be happy if they just made it 100% legal to de-region players in NZ. Not that it is hard to find region-free players over there, but it could be a good industry for them - selling DeCSS based software and hacked firmware updates to US customers!
Also if everyone in NZ started buying DVD's from the overseas on the Internet (or off someone who had) then they would eventually have to drop the price of disks there, bring out a better selection, and start playing movies in the cinemas on time (rather than 6 months after the rest of the world).
>Our fashions, such as the scooter craze, are direct copies of America's.
Actually some Yanks we had staying with us for the Olympics were out buying scooters (Razor clones) while they were here because they really hard to find in the USA - so "go figure".
Who cares? It's only something you would have to learn once. Also, if you look at the twiddler -http://www.handykey.com - you will see the device is a chording keyboard that does have the keys labled. You can hunt & peck all you like.
I personally think that having the letters on QWERTY keyboards is the reason there are so many people out there that cannot type at all. There is a reason that pianos don't have the letters written on the keys you know...
Although due to the relatively small hole at the top, both of your eyes would be seeing a different part of the mirror (or screen in this case)...but that would mean that you couldn't walk around it.
It was some Russian I think. Clarke borrowed the idea and turned it into a novel. Clarke (sp?) is a bright guy, but he seems to get a lot of credit he doesn't deserve.
(Damn, now I have posted I have lost moderator access!)
Zilch
Sounds like a souped up version of those mirrored sphere-ish (shaped more like two pudding dishes placed on top of each other - top one inverted) things that they sell in magic shops.
You put a coin (or some small object) in the middle of one, and when you look at the top of the "sphere" the image of the object seems to be floating above it. (You are really looking into the small hole at the top of the sphere and seeing the real object, but your eyes are tricked, and the effect is quite real).
I guess at a basic level they replaced the mirrored internal of the "sphere" with a complex 360 degree video screen you would have a similar effect.
Slashdot Mirror
This (while being a cool idea) doesn't really do what I want it to do. First of all I haven't ever seen an ISP offering me one of these. Once registered can I get it hosted overseas? It's way to restrictive for many uses...
But thanks for pointing it out (everyone who did)
Zilch
So he's the reason that I can't register a domain name! Yes folks, time to move on. The Australian rules may reduce cybersquatting, but they are brain-dead. Check this out:
.com.au domain if you are a registered company.
.org.au domain if you are a registered organisation.
.net.au domain if you are a registered ISP
.gov.au if you are a government department
.com domain . Thank god I kept my .gen.nz domain.
.co.au, not .com.au. Since when did "com" become the abbreviation for company?
- You can register a
- You can register a
- You can register a
- You can register a
- (I'm sure there is a military one as well)
Guess which ones's I'm not? This is crazy! How are you suppost to register a domain for personal use? Their solution is to register a
Also, it should be
Zilch.
Just after Napster started to become popular, one of the ICQ betas (alphas? - for 99a I think), had Napster-like filesharing added. I know this because they posted screenshots of it on icq.com. Boy I wish I had saved a copy of those. I guess AOL told them to remove that feature. Pitty. Did anyone save the screenshots, or get hold of the code?
Zilch
I saw them at "Big Boys Toys" too...in Melbourne 1998. They are not exactly new, but good to see them still around. For those asking how to stear, they are hinged in the middle. Can't remember about breakes though. They were riding them around the convention centre. Very cool.
Zilch.
I don't think the US have an Embasy [sic] here. I'm sure if they did I would have seen it. Zilch
...at his "keynote" speech when he was over here for the Olympics.
And they don't like parallel importing? Gee - so they can charge us whatever they like for their software. Well you know what Billy can do with that.
And if we had more trained IT staff M$ would move their labs over here? Suuuuuure.
Zilch.
One day I hope you know how it feels.
Oh! You mean a company that you own has registered several domain names in Australia! (I stand by my comment. You can't register domain names in Australia) Zlich.
Not a bad thing in itself, but they need to create a domain structure that people can register for personal or non-profit purposes. I'm happy with the .gen.nz domain in New Zealand.
/. had been an Australian site? (ha!)
Having to register a company before you can register a domain really cuts down the internet sites in Australia. What if
Zilch.
Yeah? What were they? Did they end in .au?
Zilch.
See my post above. The chances are these movies are not going to be out on VHS either. And if CD's are anything to go by, in a few years you won't be able to get many of the movies on crappy VHS anymore.
Zilch
VHS is auto-regioning because of the differences between formats. Have you heard if PAL/NTSC? (SECAM?)
This is the type of control that the big players are trying to artificially maintain by region codes.
(And yes, I will ignore the fact that VHS is poor quality - I think even you realise that)
Zilch
...that this is the country where you can't register a domain name.
Also, I thought this had been tried in the UK already (by Woolworths I think) and we never heard any more about it.
Zilch
>I'd love to see zoning go away in the US, where it needs to go away most (the home market is the most important market of all) but I just don't think it will. People just don't see how it hurts them because most people aren't even aware that zoning exists. It needs to go away there the _least_ because that's where they already have the biggest selection and most competition. It's the countries in the "smaller zones" that need the help. Zilch
Yeah, I have heard something about that before, but I have been away from NZ (and watching one-eyed Aussie TV for too long) to keep up with the news over there. Can anyone elaborate?
It would fit in with NZ's ideas on "the freedom to parallel import" (and the freedom to sell lamb in the USA) quite well. They already told Chrysler to get knotted when they tried to stop people bring in second hand cars. (Not that anyone buys American cars over there anyway - Ha!)
I would even be happy if they just made it 100% legal to de-region players in NZ. Not that it is hard to find region-free players over there, but it could be a good industry for them - selling DeCSS based software and hacked firmware updates to US customers!
Also if everyone in NZ started buying DVD's from the overseas on the Internet (or off someone who had) then they would eventually have to drop the price of disks there, bring out a better selection, and start playing movies in the cinemas on time (rather than 6 months after the rest of the world).
Zilch
>Our fashions, such as the scooter craze, are direct copies of America's.
Actually some Yanks we had staying with us for the Olympics were out buying scooters (Razor clones) while they were here because they really hard to find in the USA - so "go figure".
- Zilch
I personally think that having the letters on QWERTY keyboards is the reason there are so many people out there that cannot type at all. There is a reason that pianos don't have the letters written on the keys you know...
Zilch
Ahh. Cunning. That explains the hand in the video casting shaddows etc that some people have noticed.
Zilch
Urr...yeah. Good point.
Although due to the relatively small hole at the top, both of your eyes would be seeing a different part of the mirror (or screen in this case)...but that would mean that you couldn't walk around it.
Dang. Now I need to know how it works.
Zilch.
How is the object lit but.
I can't remember there being any holes in the mirrors or anything (but then it has been a good few years since I saw one).
Light must light up the real object somehow.
Zilch
It's all done with smoke and mirrors.
(Well mirrors anyway)
See my post above.
Zilch.
Make that L6526 (can't type)
Zilch.
(Damn 60 second posting delay...)
(Dum...dee...dum...)
...at least that is what it says on their website.
Zilch
It was some Russian I think. Clarke borrowed the idea and turned it into a novel. Clarke (sp?) is a bright guy, but he seems to get a lot of credit he doesn't deserve. (Damn, now I have posted I have lost moderator access!) Zilch
Sounds like a souped up version of those mirrored sphere-ish (shaped more like two pudding dishes placed on top of each other - top one inverted) things that they sell in magic shops.
You put a coin (or some small object) in the middle of one, and when you look at the top of the "sphere" the image of the object seems to be floating above it. (You are really looking into the small hole at the top of the sphere and seeing the real object, but your eyes are tricked, and the effect is quite real).
I guess at a basic level they replaced the mirrored internal of the "sphere" with a complex 360 degree video screen you would have a similar effect.
Cool. Now I want to see one.