that would be all nice if anyone actually reads what those popup boxes say.
and no, no one ever WILL read what the boxes say. this way forces the user to a) read it, b) understand what it means (because if they didn't, they wouldn't be adding an exception)
Having popup windows with the Yes|No really mean "Click yes to make this message go away"
How would a domain registry possibly function without it being a monopoly? Well it probally couldn't. Someone has to publish the root zones, and maintain those servers, and do you really want one company running one root server and another company running another? Well it really can't.
The system we have now is fine as it is, yeah Verisign controls ICANN (they are pretty much the only ones who talk at registrar meetings), but anything they do that is extremely controversial gets rejected.
And as far as competition goes, that has moved to the registrars, who end up finding that gTLDs are not profitable enough without other services making money.
Now another thing that verisign is trying to get passed is to charge 0.15 per domain name for bulk deletions, which may have the effect of killing the recycling business, which is most of these registrar's bread and butter.
Either way, the atm fee i paid at the gas station today is more than this fee increase.. although it does make verisign an extra 30 million
Yes there are alot of those jobs, but many of them will take a skilled programmer of any kind even if they do not have the specific experience in the toolset. With that being said, i believe it is more important to focus on some aspect that you really enjoy more than what you think will make money, especially out of college the better programmers are the ones who did it because they enjoyed it not because they are tailoring their skill set to a particular part of the nerd market.
i guess some post by some random person somewhere is proof of evil doing....
i mean seriously, QoS is a hell of alot easier to reduce bandwidth then sending DMCA letters. Comcast may be evil, but not everything that happens is evil.
most of it's just sloppy, primitive shit compared to what MS is doing. Everytime i have seen "sloppy, primitive shit" written in those languages, it is because the programmer only writes sloppy, primitive shit. I am as open minded to technology as anyone, and i agree that you should use the best tools for the job, but to throw off some tools because of the actions of their some moronic developers IS closed minded.
Crap is still crap even when your IDE formats the code for you....
Your first point: we don't give out that information to them, we do the "cover our ass" paper trail in case we get sued. so no, that information is never given out
Second point: Actually we are implementing pay for service very soon (mainly to cover the cost of re-wiring our older buildings as well as wiring newly purchased properties).. sooo... you're right about this one;)
I've worked at a college, in an average week we would get 10-15 riaa letters (with our seemly small number of 3000 residents), and responding to them gets to be a huge chore. Most campuses are taking the "we don't want to get sued, so we will not put ourselves in that position" approach, so ignoring those letters is not an option.
At the place i worked at, for a while we did try to block kazaa and the like, the problem was that there would always be a new protocol that would pop up to take it's place. We eventually gave up on blocking it because of this.
This story is really not a new thing in the university world, most have a policy of limiting the student's ability to fileshare (some through innocent means like NAT routing, others through throttling the bandwidth for those services).
So before we all get up in arms that people are limiting access, you'd think again when you have to call 20 people in a day, tell them why their access has been shut off, and have every one of them claim that they've never file shared in their lives. Only to get the call the next day where they complain that their their myspace is too slow.
Borland has an IDE that can be used with gcc, called C++BuilderXI have found it a really good IDE, although the personal version is missing some of the features that i liked in C++Builder.
tv makes people kill people. video games make people kill people. rap music makes people kill people.
the only thing that is safe for our children is books... on something completely unreleated: has anyone read that book by Tom Clancy were that one guy crashed that plane into the whitehouse? that so cool and impossible to emulate.
Doesn't X-10 already have a product that controls your tv and your blender? (if you get a appliance module)
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I worked in a television station for a while, and even our station was moving towards digital formats, although we had Betacam SP machines which if i am not mistaken are also digitial formats aswell. The digital formats have a big advantage, they have 3 hours on a tape compared to the one hour that is on a Betacam sp (and if you have ever seen those tapes they are atleast a foot in length.. huge tapes), the downside of the digital formats is that they quality is alot less, that is why all of our masters are on Betacam SP and all of our air clones are on DVC-PRO 50.
i personally believe that when the government has a duty to support American companies, and unfortunately if this passes it will serously limit the options of government to do that. In times like now where the economy isn't doing too well historically government spending increases to boost the economy, and unfortunately if they aren't going to support a corporation, RedHat or Microsoft, then one of their inherited obligations of helping the economy is going to suffor.
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that would be all nice if anyone actually reads what those popup boxes say.
and no, no one ever WILL read what the boxes say. this way forces the user to a) read it, b) understand what it means (because if they didn't, they wouldn't be adding an exception)
Having popup windows with the Yes|No really mean "Click yes to make this message go away"
there is a difference between breaking the law by, say, snorting coke on your desk, and breaking the law by opposing an unconstitutional law.
I guess Microsoft's failure with Passport isn't going to deter MySpace from building a system that no one is going to use either.
How would a domain registry possibly function without it being a monopoly? Well it probally couldn't. Someone has to publish the root zones, and maintain those servers, and do you really want one company running one root server and another company running another? Well it really can't.
The system we have now is fine as it is, yeah Verisign controls ICANN (they are pretty much the only ones who talk at registrar meetings), but anything they do that is extremely controversial gets rejected.
And as far as competition goes, that has moved to the registrars, who end up finding that gTLDs are not profitable enough without other services making money.
Now another thing that verisign is trying to get passed is to charge 0.15 per domain name for bulk deletions, which may have the effect of killing the recycling business, which is most of these registrar's bread and butter.
Either way, the atm fee i paid at the gas station today is more than this fee increase.. although it does make verisign an extra 30 million
I guess they should have used FedEx.
Yes there are alot of those jobs, but many of them will take a skilled programmer of any kind even if they do not have the specific experience in the toolset. With that being said, i believe it is more important to focus on some aspect that you really enjoy more than what you think will make money, especially out of college the better programmers are the ones who did it because they enjoyed it not because they are tailoring their skill set to a particular part of the nerd market.
i guess some post by some random person somewhere is proof of evil doing....
i mean seriously, QoS is a hell of alot easier to reduce bandwidth then sending DMCA letters. Comcast may be evil, but not everything that happens is evil.
Next step: sue TCP/IP.
Crap is still crap even when your IDE formats the code for you....
... but it will cost you $150/hour.
Your first point: we don't give out that information to them, we do the "cover our ass" paper trail in case we get sued. so no, that information is never given out
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Second point: Actually we are implementing pay for service very soon (mainly to cover the cost of re-wiring our older buildings as well as wiring newly purchased properties).. sooo... you're right about this one
i've never met anyone who uses their bittorrent tool.... fileplanet.com downloads at 500k/s
I've worked at a college, in an average week we would get 10-15 riaa letters (with our seemly small number of 3000 residents), and responding to them gets to be a huge chore. Most campuses are taking the "we don't want to get sued, so we will not put ourselves in that position" approach, so ignoring those letters is not an option.
At the place i worked at, for a while we did try to block kazaa and the like, the problem was that there would always be a new protocol that would pop up to take it's place. We eventually gave up on blocking it because of this.
This story is really not a new thing in the university world, most have a policy of limiting the student's ability to fileshare (some through innocent means like NAT routing, others through throttling the bandwidth for those services).
So before we all get up in arms that people are limiting access, you'd think again when you have to call 20 people in a day, tell them why their access has been shut off, and have every one of them claim that they've never file shared in their lives. Only to get the call the next day where they complain that their their myspace is too slow.
The RIAA Beat U-Haul? I'd take a lawsuit over running across the freeway to pickup my belongings that fell out because of the broken lift gate.
Then again I did need new furniture...
Ever had a car fall off on of their trailers because they hooked it up wrong?
Then again I did need a new car...
Odd that all of the things listed in the article's summary are less than 5 years old, will the results after 5 years even be realavent?
(except for the "porn" answer).
Well in the past maybe, but i watch star trek, it works fine there.
Can you imagine how bad it would smell if 188 geeks were in the same place?
Having a woman may convince 25% of them to take a shower.
Sadly those 25% are going to be the ones who already have the ability to get a girl, and they'd smell the best in the first place.
You do what i do, you put everything in one file and call it "misc" and then link it to every program you make. problem solved.
Borland has an IDE that can be used with gcc, called C++BuilderXI have found it a really good IDE, although the personal version is missing some of the features that i liked in C++Builder.
Well because
tv makes people kill people.
video games make people kill people.
rap music makes people kill people.
the only thing that is safe for our children is books... on something completely unreleated: has anyone read that book by Tom Clancy were that one guy crashed that plane into the whitehouse? that so cool and impossible to emulate.
This lies, i have line of site to twin peaks and i can't connect, it's all lies! but i can connect to my neighbors open ap called "default"
Fat and lazy people will be overjoyed that they do not acually have to push the petals.....
Doesn't X-10
already have a product that controls your tv and your blender? (if you get a appliance module)
I worked in a television station for a while, and even our station was moving towards digital formats, although we had Betacam SP machines which if i am not mistaken are also digitial formats aswell. The digital formats have a big advantage, they have 3 hours on a tape compared to the one hour that is on a Betacam sp (and if you have ever seen those tapes they are atleast a foot in length.. huge tapes), the downside of the digital formats is that they quality is alot less, that is why all of our masters are on Betacam SP and all of our air clones are on DVC-PRO 50.
i personally believe that when the government has a duty to support American companies, and unfortunately if this passes it will serously limit the options of government to do that. In times like now where the economy isn't doing too well historically government spending increases to boost the economy, and unfortunately if they aren't going to support a corporation, RedHat or Microsoft, then one of their inherited obligations of helping the economy is going to suffor.