Now that is rather odd. I think that AOL's venture into linux will fail miserably. Linux's being open source simply does not support AOL's business strategy of screwing up the system settings so that no other ISP's will work. Linux people would be able to fix the settings, plus, they would probably not be so dumb as to install it in the first place.
Ack. What about the predefined internet links, such as Hotmail and Microsoft's links inside of Internet Explorer? If they are on every computer's preset ie links then they would theoretically be on top of many searches in this site. This is not a good thing (TM).
Now all that we need is a system to self-adjust the "ratings" of posts based on what users like. Oh, wait. That's called moderation. No wonder slashdot is so popular.
Another interesting idea might be self-adjusting trolls. Whenever an article is posted there could be a customized comment of the day based on Natalie Portman and hot grits. It could also moderate itself down and post replys to it.
In case anyone wanted more information about the backround behind this, The New York Times Online has an informative article about it here (free reg. req.). It turns out that Vladimir Kramnik, the winner of this match, was taken on as a student at the age of 11 by Mr. Kasparov at his elite chess school in Moscow. I still think that Kasparov is the best player out there right now, though. He may have lost this one championship match but being the champion for 15 years allows for a few mistakes. Still, I think that it was very impressive that Kramnik was able to defeat him, where no one else had been.
It better not have any type of dependence on Windows, such as with an air traffic control system if it had one. If that were to be the case, it might crash in more way than one.
Actually if you went to the site you would have seen that it isn't real. It is political satire & I was just saying that this "Duke" is like Mayor Quimby, as in being a cartoon character running for president with funny positions. You should go see his position on education...he wants to hire one teacher for each subject and give them a TV channel, lol.
Sounds a lot like Duke, the character from Doonesbury. And I quote, regarding the surplus, "The Republicans worry that it'll all disappear in some pork barrel social program; I worry that it will literally disappear. Vanish. If you put it in the stock market or in some bank, it's just a few bytes of memory on a computer, vulnerable to hacker-terrorists, or worse, daytraders, who can take down our economy in ten seconds of panic...I think we'd better take a good hunk of it, and put it somewhere safe. Change it into small bills, drop it in a bunch of titanium cases, and bury it in strategic sites throughout the 50 states. The feeling of security we'll have knowing that we've got real cash if we need it, will more than compensate for the lost interest."
Yeah, there is an old article about NetSol not releasing expired domain names at http://slashdot.org/asksl ash dot/00/06/16/1941232.shtml. That discussion has some information on their possible motives & was pretty interesting. It also contains a list of three letter domain names held by NSI without payment. It's kind of funny about that article actually... I was slashdotted and didn't even know it until a couple weeks ago (I was out of town at the time)! It's not funny about NSI's business practices though. NetSol did the same thing with the squatting to me; they have been holding mendelson.net without paying for it, and being Jonathan Mendelson, I think I have a proper claim to it.
Here's another way: use Microsoft Windows software on nuclear weapons systems. The system crashes, the missles launch, and it becomes nuclear winter. Another good part of this system is that as a side effect, it breaks up Microsoft.
My opinion of this is that for normal purposes, the newest computers aren't necessary. Sure, if you want to play games with tons of glitzy graphics and the likes it might require a really new computer but there haven't been that many huge computer updates lately, except for ZIP and DVD drives, which can be bought separately. Back in the days of Win 3.1, when Win95 came out it was revolutionary (and I'm not advocating Windoze, but honestly, it is a rather popular product and a lot of people use it). It was a must have update and also required more processor power than ever before and newer computers. For the average Joe that likes to browse the web and use Email and write documents, however, an older computer on Win95 is sufficient for this, and nothing since it has come out and has been as important an update. I'm writing this post on a 200 MHz pentium that is somewhat outdated, but is perfectly sufficient for writing documents, browsing the web, and using all the software programs that I want to. My only complaint is memory constraints, but with RAM and HD updates I'm going to soon be getting in the mail, a whole new computer just isn't necessary. Computers are expensive items and once someone buys a nice new computer, they won't be needing upgrades in a while for the simple, everyday tasks that they do. A faster processor might be nice but my rusty old pentium still does the trick, and it does it quite well.
You know, I was just reflecting on Mozilla. It is a good browser and it's open source, but the thing is, it can get kind of boring. I mean, if there is a bug on it, you can find out what's causing it and prevent it from occurring again. On the other hand, with Microsoft Internet Explorer, there are so many different ways of crashing that it never gets boring. No one can take away that joy from me, because they can't search for them and remove them. Microsoft is a friendly giant and one that obviously wants me to enjoy my web browsing.
Yes, this is in fact one of the seven $1,000,000 Millenium Prize Problems. The other six are The Hodge Conjecture, The Poincaré Conjecture, The Riemann Hypothesis, Yang-Mills Existence and Mass Gap, Navier-Stokes Existence and Smoothness, and The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture. More information is available at Claymath's website. It includes simple examples of the problems as well as lengthy PDF files explaining them mathematically.
You might also find the solution to this problem in Concrete Mathematics, a book of Discrete Mathematics. It is written in one of the side notes there that N=1 implies that P=NP. =-)
It's truly sad that these senate candidates even considered the fact that this might be a bill. It might normally be understandable to not remember every bill by name, except this isn't even the proper syntax for a bill! Bills normally have the preface H.R. in the House of Representatives or S in the Senate. Hillary Clinton and Rick Lazio should go do their homework and find out how their new job will work before running for it!
I currently have a patent pending on a method for allowing other people to see the "source code" for a "software project" so that they may share the code and add to each other's work. It details that if they add to the project and release it, they must also release the alleged "source code."
My homepage gets maybe 10 hits per day and has nothing offensive, so the possibility of people suing me because of it seems remote. On the other hand, the TI-89 section of my webpage gets 200 hits per day. I was recently thinking about this and the fact that it had no Terms of Service or Privacy Policy. Thus, I did a little research and wrote a temporary one. I sort of "borrowed" a bit of the disclaimer from various sites and shifted the wording. This shouldn't matter much, however, since some of the wording is likely standard in many site's policies. For the Privacy Policy, I went to Micro$oft BCentral's page, which had a wizard that automatically creates a privacy policy. Thus, my disclaimer and privacy policy were born. I think that they will be temporary, however, as you can just bet that M$ set up some hole inside of its policy generator in order to let it sue anyone (although TRUSTe was a sponsor of the generator); plus, the modifications might not be worded correctly and could have created loopholes. Anyway, for the long term, TRUSTe has a lot of information about what you need in a privacy policy and it will certify your site for you. Plus, I think that the disclaimer at GNU might be able to be adapted for a disclaimer or a terms of service. "Borrowing" a policy from another site might not be entirely legal but it is ok to borrow GNU's license. I think that creating your own policies is a good idea but you shouldn't have to hire professionals if you just have a site as a hobby and writing your own might create holes in it if you miss certain things. Also, as for avoiding lawsuits, you can put a clause on your site forcing people to pay for your lawyers in any lawsuit that occurs due because of their improper use of your site as dictated by your policy. Then if they lose, which they likely will in a lawsuit of this type, they can pay for your lawyers.
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It would be neat to have the possibility of easily viewing movies from the internet but I highly doubt that it will ever replace going to the movie theater. For one, going to movies is often a social activity for people as they usually go with others. Viewing movies at home would take this away, and it would just be better if only one person wanted to see a movie. Also, there's something neat about seeing a movie on a huge screen. It is just not the same viewing it on something as small as a computer, as you will notice when you watch movies on TV. There's also the memory factor (currently), as high quality movies would take up tons of space.
Hmm. This is good because google has a much better search than yahoo, consistantly finding the good sites at the top. It's bad for the smaller sites (like mine..search TI-89 Games at yahoo) though because of how search engines work. Google goes more by the number of links and my site was recently established. I think that this method can work but they should also use how words occur, because instead of people stocking their pages with keywords, they now pay commercial services to link sites to them. One commercial service that I saw an ad for linked 4000 sites to people for $250, effectively buying them a high place on a search engine like google. Search engines should try to use methods that both prevent people from stocking up on keywords but that prevent people from buying top places even when their site could be worse.
NetSol is such a hypocritical company. They registered Mendelson.net a couple years ago and haven't paid for it since November 14, 1999. I hope they auction it off because they are squatting my family name! In fact, they shouldn't even have the right to auction it off. It should be taken out of their database and I should be able to go register it at gandi.net for $11.
Domain Name: MENDELSON.NET Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com Name Server: DS0.INTERNIC.NET Name Server: RS0.INTERNIC.NET Updated Date: 13-nov-1999
Last update of whois database: Thu, 22 Jun 00 04:29:52 EDT
Registrant: Network Solutions, Inc. (MENDELSON6-DOM) 505 Huntmar Park Drive Herndon, VA 20170 US
Domain Name: MENDELSON.NET Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Network Solutions, Inc. (NSOL-NOC) noc@NETSOL.COM Network Solutions, Inc. 505 Huntmar Park Drive Herndon, VA 20170 US 703-742-4777
Billing Contact: Network Solutions, Inc. (DOMAIN-ORG) domains@NSI.COM 505 Huntmar Park Drive Herndon, VA 20170 [No phone]
Record last updated on 23-Mar-1999. Record expires on 14-Nov-1999. Record created on 13-Nov-1997. Database last updated on 22-Jun-2000 16:41:25 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order: RS0.INTERNIC.NET 198.41.0.5 DS0.INTERNIC.NET 198.49.45.10
Looks like you might have overlooked the year. It says 2010...two months less than ten years from now. It is surprising, however, that they only registered their domain two years ago, considering that they have been around for much longer, probably using that same domain...
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Now that is rather odd. I think that AOL's venture into linux will fail miserably. Linux's being open source simply does not support AOL's business strategy of screwing up the system settings so that no other ISP's will work. Linux people would be able to fix the settings, plus, they would probably not be so dumb as to install it in the first place.
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Ack. What about the predefined internet links, such as Hotmail and Microsoft's links inside of Internet Explorer? If they are on every computer's preset ie links then they would theoretically be on top of many searches in this site. This is not a good thing (TM).
Now all that we need is a system to self-adjust the "ratings" of posts based on what users like. Oh, wait. That's called moderation. No wonder slashdot is so popular.
Another interesting idea might be self-adjusting trolls. Whenever an article is posted there could be a customized comment of the day based on Natalie Portman and hot grits. It could also moderate itself down and post replys to it.
Yeah, that movie really captured the essense of the game and portrayed it in a dramatic, telling way. I really liked it.
In case anyone wanted more information about the backround behind this, The New York Times Online has an informative article about it here (free reg. req.). It turns out that Vladimir Kramnik, the winner of this match, was taken on as a student at the age of 11 by Mr. Kasparov at his elite chess school in Moscow. I still think that Kasparov is the best player out there right now, though. He may have lost this one championship match but being the champion for 15 years allows for a few mistakes. Still, I think that it was very impressive that Kramnik was able to defeat him, where no one else had been.
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It better not have any type of dependence on Windows, such as with an air traffic control system if it had one. If that were to be the case, it might crash in more way than one.
Actually if you went to the site you would have seen that it isn't real. It is political satire & I was just saying that this "Duke" is like Mayor Quimby, as in being a cartoon character running for president with funny positions. You should go see his position on education...he wants to hire one teacher for each subject and give them a TV channel, lol.
Sounds a lot like Duke, the character from Doonesbury. And I quote, regarding the surplus, "The Republicans worry that it'll all disappear in some pork barrel social program; I worry that it will literally disappear. Vanish. If you put it in the stock market or in some bank, it's just a few bytes of memory on a computer, vulnerable to hacker-terrorists, or worse, daytraders, who can take down our economy in ten seconds of panic...I think we'd better take a good hunk of it, and put it somewhere safe. Change it into small bills, drop it in a bunch of titanium cases, and bury it in strategic sites throughout the 50 states. The feeling of security we'll have knowing that we've got real cash if we need it, will more than compensate for the lost interest."
Yeah, there is an old article about NetSol not releasing expired domain names at http://slashdot.org/asksl ash dot/00/06/16/1941232.shtml. That discussion has some information on their possible motives & was pretty interesting. It also contains a list of three letter domain names held by NSI without payment. It's kind of funny about that article actually... I was slashdotted and didn't even know it until a couple weeks ago (I was out of town at the time)! It's not funny about NSI's business practices though. NetSol did the same thing with the squatting to me; they have been holding mendelson.net without paying for it, and being Jonathan Mendelson, I think I have a proper claim to it.
Here's another way: use Microsoft Windows software on nuclear weapons systems. The system crashes, the missles launch, and it becomes nuclear winter. Another good part of this system is that as a side effect, it breaks up Microsoft.
My opinion of this is that for normal purposes, the newest computers aren't necessary. Sure, if you want to play games with tons of glitzy graphics and the likes it might require a really new computer but there haven't been that many huge computer updates lately, except for ZIP and DVD drives, which can be bought separately. Back in the days of Win 3.1, when Win95 came out it was revolutionary (and I'm not advocating Windoze, but honestly, it is a rather popular product and a lot of people use it). It was a must have update and also required more processor power than ever before and newer computers. For the average Joe that likes to browse the web and use Email and write documents, however, an older computer on Win95 is sufficient for this, and nothing since it has come out and has been as important an update. I'm writing this post on a 200 MHz pentium that is somewhat outdated, but is perfectly sufficient for writing documents, browsing the web, and using all the software programs that I want to. My only complaint is memory constraints, but with RAM and HD updates I'm going to soon be getting in the mail, a whole new computer just isn't necessary. Computers are expensive items and once someone buys a nice new computer, they won't be needing upgrades in a while for the simple, everyday tasks that they do. A faster processor might be nice but my rusty old pentium still does the trick, and it does it quite well.
You know, I was just reflecting on Mozilla. It is a good browser and it's open source, but the thing is, it can get kind of boring. I mean, if there is a bug on it, you can find out what's causing it and prevent it from occurring again. On the other hand, with Microsoft Internet Explorer, there are so many different ways of crashing that it never gets boring. No one can take away that joy from me, because they can't search for them and remove them. Microsoft is a friendly giant and one that obviously wants me to enjoy my web browsing.
Yes, this is in fact one of the seven $1,000,000 Millenium Prize Problems. The other six are The Hodge Conjecture, The Poincaré Conjecture, The Riemann Hypothesis, Yang-Mills Existence and Mass Gap, Navier-Stokes Existence and Smoothness, and The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture. More information is available at Claymath's website. It includes simple examples of the problems as well as lengthy PDF files explaining them mathematically.
You might also find the solution to this problem in Concrete Mathematics, a book of Discrete Mathematics. It is written in one of the side notes there that N=1 implies that P=NP. =-)
It's truly sad that these senate candidates even considered the fact that this might be a bill. It might normally be understandable to not remember every bill by name, except this isn't even the proper syntax for a bill! Bills normally have the preface H.R. in the House of Representatives or S in the Senate. Hillary Clinton and Rick Lazio should go do their homework and find out how their new job will work before running for it!
Here is another anecdote about this amusing incident, found at MSNBC.
I currently have a patent pending on a method for allowing other people to see the "source code" for a "software project" so that they may share the code and add to each other's work. It details that if they add to the project and release it, they must also release the alleged "source code."
My homepage gets maybe 10 hits per day and has nothing offensive, so the possibility of people suing me because of it seems remote. On the other hand, the TI-89 section of my webpage gets 200 hits per day. I was recently thinking about this and the fact that it had no Terms of Service or Privacy Policy. Thus, I did a little research and wrote a temporary one. I sort of "borrowed" a bit of the disclaimer from various sites and shifted the wording. This shouldn't matter much, however, since some of the wording is likely standard in many site's policies. For the Privacy Policy, I went to Micro$oft BCentral's page, which had a wizard that automatically creates a privacy policy. Thus, my disclaimer and privacy policy were born. I think that they will be temporary, however, as you can just bet that M$ set up some hole inside of its policy generator in order to let it sue anyone (although TRUSTe was a sponsor of the generator); plus, the modifications might not be worded correctly and could have created loopholes. Anyway, for the long term, TRUSTe has a lot of information about what you need in a privacy policy and it will certify your site for you. Plus, I think that the disclaimer at GNU might be able to be adapted for a disclaimer or a terms of service. "Borrowing" a policy from another site might not be entirely legal but it is ok to borrow GNU's license. I think that creating your own policies is a good idea but you shouldn't have to hire professionals if you just have a site as a hobby and writing your own might create holes in it if you miss certain things. Also, as for avoiding lawsuits, you can put a clause on your site forcing people to pay for your lawyers in any lawsuit that occurs due because of their improper use of your site as dictated by your policy. Then if they lose, which they likely will in a lawsuit of this type, they can pay for your lawyers.
It would be neat to have the possibility of easily viewing movies from the internet but I highly doubt that it will ever replace going to the movie theater. For one, going to movies is often a social activity for people as they usually go with others. Viewing movies at home would take this away, and it would just be better if only one person wanted to see a movie. Also, there's something neat about seeing a movie on a huge screen. It is just not the same viewing it on something as small as a computer, as you will notice when you watch movies on TV. There's also the memory factor (currently), as high quality movies would take up tons of space.
Hmm. This is good because google has a much better search than yahoo, consistantly finding the good sites at the top. It's bad for the smaller sites (like mine..search TI-89 Games at yahoo) though because of how search engines work. Google goes more by the number of links and my site was recently established. I think that this method can work but they should also use how words occur, because instead of people stocking their pages with keywords, they now pay commercial services to link sites to them. One commercial service that I saw an ad for linked 4000 sites to people for $250, effectively buying them a high place on a search engine like google. Search engines should try to use methods that both prevent people from stocking up on keywords but that prevent people from buying top places even when their site could be worse.
NetSol is such a hypocritical company. They registered Mendelson.net a couple years ago and haven't paid for it since November 14, 1999. I hope they auction it off because they are squatting my family name! In fact, they shouldn't even have the right to auction it off. It should be taken out of their database and I should be able to go register it at gandi.net for $11.
Domain Name: MENDELSON.NET
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: DS0.INTERNIC.NET
Name Server: RS0.INTERNIC.NET
Updated Date: 13-nov-1999
Last update of whois database: Thu, 22 Jun 00 04:29:52 EDT
Registrant:
Network Solutions, Inc. (MENDELSON6-DOM)
505 Huntmar Park Drive
Herndon, VA 20170
US
Domain Name: MENDELSON.NET
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Network Solutions, Inc. (NSOL-NOC) noc@NETSOL.COM
Network Solutions, Inc.
505 Huntmar Park Drive
Herndon, VA 20170
US
703-742-4777
Billing Contact:
Network Solutions, Inc. (DOMAIN-ORG) domains@NSI.COM
505 Huntmar Park Drive
Herndon, VA 20170
[No phone]
Record last updated on 23-Mar-1999.
Record expires on 14-Nov-1999.
Record created on 13-Nov-1997.
Database last updated on 22-Jun-2000 16:41:25 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
RS0.INTERNIC.NET 198.41.0.5
DS0.INTERNIC.NET 198.49.45.10
Looks like you might have overlooked the year. It says 2010...two months less than ten years from now. It is surprising, however, that they only registered their domain two years ago, considering that they have been around for much longer, probably using that same domain...