Shit fuck satan death sex drugs rape
These seven words you try to take.
Shit fuck satan death sex drugs rape
Right or wrong it's our choice to make.
America the beautiful, land of the free
Don't change the words to land of hypocrisy
Since nobody seems to want to read the article, or research any of the info, here is the quick low-down (since I have to deal with this at work right now...)
- This solution is only for web browsers. It requires a special version of a web browser, or a plugin, to be able to use the new encoding scheme. It won't work for email, ftp, telnet, gopher, etc, unless a special version of the program is written.
- DNS doesn't break. DNS still uses ASCII. This scheme uses RACE to encode the multi-lingual character set into ASCII. NSI will put a small prefix at the start of the domain name to identify it as multi-lingual (for example eq- would be found at the start of the domain name. The exact prefix has not yet been released to prevent squatters from snapping them up.)
- The special browsers will detect the prefix, and translate the ASCII gibberish into the specified multi-lingual character set. The browser also does the conversion back to ASCII to allow a DNS lookup.
- WHOIS does not/will not support this. You can only use WHOIS with the ASCII encoded gibberish.
- This is not supported by the IETF. This is a custom solution implemented by NSI. But it looks like they are going to be WAY behind schedule in actually rolling this out.
- They are accepcting registrations right now, but none of these names will resolve for at least a month, probably much longer. In other words, the system isn't useable yet, but NSI can collect money.
- The IETF is working on their own, probably completely incompatible system, to do the same thing.
Not to mention that some folks don't have land-line phone service. What's the point of paying the local phone company for service when you're single and have a cell phone anyhow? It sucks that these folks would be forced to pay the monthly local phone charge just to use their Tivo (or ReplayTV, or pay-per-view cable service, or alarm system...)
With an ethernet connection, there is no need to pay for that otherwise useless phone line.
One question that nags me is "where will the BMG catalog be hosted?"
I would hope that if I am paying a fee for this new service, then I will be guaranteed to find a high quality recording of the songs I am looking for. This means BMG/Napster needs to set up some big honking file servers of their own for me to use.
If, however, BMG is just going to dump the catalog on Napster and let the peer-to-peer network take care of hosting it, where is the value? Can I charge BMG for hosting their songs? If others are paying Napter/BMG to download a song, and that download actually uses my resources, how am I compensated?
I'm wating for a lot more detail on this before passing judgement.
It's not just the electronics, it's just about anything that can be taken apart!
I think I started taking apart all of my X-mas toys when I was about 5 or 6 years old. I was 8 or 9 before I was able to start putting things back together again successfully, though.
The worst is when you crack something open, and all of a sudden all of the parts don't fit inside anymore (like coil-wound springs:-)
>If you remember "Catholic High School Girls in
>Trouble", with a long shot of breasts pressed >against a glass shower door, then you've watched >the real thing.
I was about 13 or 14 when I saw this movie, so this is actually the -only- scene I remember. What was this movie about?
Wireless isn't the only huge screw-up in North America either. Just take a look at the whole DTV/HDTV mess. Take a simple idea, and then let way too many corporations screw around with it until you have a system that doesn't work half as well as the existing system elsewhere on the planet.
Douglas Englebart demo'd hyperlinks to a wide audience back in '68. Hell, Vannevar Bush had the concept of a hyperlink with the "memex" concept back in about 1945.
I think these predate the BT patent by a few years at least.
The quietest computer I have owned is my NeXTstation. Not only does it have a whisper-quiet fan (the sound of your breathing would drown out the sound of this fan!), it has a magnesium-alloy case, which kills any sound coming out of the hard drive. Even the floppy drive is incredibly quiet.
Eliminating the fan isn't the only way to get a quient computer. Even now you can get power supply and cpu fans that are almost silent, but you pay a premium for them.
Do you have any plans to find other locations to house your customers data? I mean, if the British Navy decides to overthrow your island one day due to presure from the RIAA (it could happen!), would you be able to switch to an equally secure loaction elsewhere without loosing data or disrupting service.
Any plans on setting up shop on that new volcanic island in the South Pacific?
How about a -terrible- anime movie?
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For the worst anime movies ever made (well, at least the worst I have ever seen), try Urotsukidoji: The Legend of the Overfiend.
I mistakenly saw this one as it was part of a double feature with Akira.
I can't explain how horrible it is. You have to see it to appreciate the terror.
Sure, the HotWheels Server is a lot cooler than the Matchbox server, but I don't think that anyone would implant one in the back of their neck just for fun. It's a bit on the bulky side.
>Decent cut and paste. X users know the joy of >the three-button mouse and the single click >paste.
Ugh! One of the worst things about X based GUIs is the horrible, horrible support for a real cut-and-paste system. What a nightmare. Sure, it can be handy for a very small set of uses (copy and paste a small amount of text while drinking a coke, for instance, since you don't need to use both hands or remove your hand from the mouse), but it fails in almost all aspects.
Just about every application in an X environment either doesn't support cut and paste at all (relying on the middle mouse-button technique), or has gone and implemented their own incomplete system.
Cut and paste should not be just for text. Anything that you can manipulate on screen should be able to be cut-and-pasted.
>Please let me iconify a window in some better >way that reducing it to it's title bar. That >takes up much too much screen space - even the >dreaded taskbar is better.
I agree, iconified applications are nice. I'd love to see some combination of the task bar (with it's auto hide and scrolling features) combined with the best of desktop icons. I find that the sheer number of icons that start collecting on my X desktop get's unweildly very fast, with every application and every window having it's own icon. Not to mention that I need to close a few dozen windows if I want to find that application icon for the emacs window I lost. There's got to be a better way than just randomly thowing an icon for everything on the desktop (and most 'icon' managers stink, with nothing more than an almost endless scrolling windows of icons.)
What I would love to see is a system where each application got it's own icon on the desktop, and every open window associated with that application are also associated with that icon. Perhaps when you moused over the application icon, all of the other windows for that app would appear along side of it.
Actually, a good UI must first complete the task it was designed to do.
A UI for those FedEx package tacking/customer signature tablets is completely different from the UI for a Boeing 777 Jumbo Jet. Yet both are interfaces to computer systems.
I can't imagine that computers as we know them today will be around much longer than another 20 years or so. Sure, there will probably always be a need for the developers and hackers to get right into a system and program it, but for the average user, the computer needs to become more of an assistant than a tool.
The term 'Intelligent Agent' has really been watered down in the past few years, but I still see that as the way UIs are going to go. The intelligence of the system is going to be far more important then wether you use a keyborad, mouse, voice recognition or telepathy to communicate with the system.
Most developers and hackers today don't delve into dip switches and machine code anymore, but they sure did 25 year ago. 25 year from now a developer or hacker might not ever touch a keyboard. Who knows? It's fun to speculate, but until it happens, no-one knows what it's going to be like.
As for how a general-purpose PC interface could be improved upon today, well, my bets are on MacOS X as being pretty much the best thing since NeXTstep 2.1:-) Sure, it's not going to be perfect, but it's going to be a lot better than everything else currently available.
I don't see why someone would pay $2/month plus $.40 per payment to use this system, when they could probably do it through their bank for free.
I use EasyWeb from CanadaTrust, and I can pay all of my bills every month, and not pay any extra fees (I do, however, pay a fee for EasyWeb, but it does a whole lot more than just let me pay bills!)
All this system seems to do is save the company who -issues- the bill some money, through the lack of postage and paper.
Of course, if you're the type to lose those paper bills and always seem to end up paying late fees because of it, this might be a great system.
If you don't have a phone line, you can't dial-up and get the program info, so the usefullness of a Tivo is really limited.
Damn, I hate the number of things that require a phone line today. DSS, pay-per-view boxes, Tivo, hell, even some appliances can be set to dial-up for service if they are about to break down.
The real kicker was about a month ago when my bank suspended my on-line account. They ran a 'security check' and found that my home phone number and my home address didn't 'match' (I use a cell phone.) I had one hell of a time convincing them to let me get my money out! Apparently, if you don't have a land-line phone, you're not allowed to do business with this bank. Nice.
There is a similar device on the market which doesn't require you to give up your private info, and doesn't require a monthly subscription: ReplayTV.
I'm not sure if Tivo has this feature, but ReplayTV also allows you to pause/rewind 'live' TV broadcasts... it records whatever you are currently watching to allow you to do this. Pretty slick.
I'd buy one, but I'm using an 'odd' TV provider, LOOK TV, here in Ottawa, and Replay TV doesn't support the listings for that yet.
Firewire, aka IEEE 1394, is hardly dead. Pretty much all HDTV/DTV systems use it to communicate between receivers and decoders. It's just not used a lot on PCs is all.
I love Perl. My first real job in the real world was as a Perl hack, errr, programmer. 4 years ago, if you wanted to do web site work, Perl was the way to go.
3 years ago, it was still the way to go.
2 years ago, things like Zope, Cold Fusion and Tango became the way to go.
Unfortunately, all of these have the same problem... they tie the interface and the logic together into one big mess. Great for throwing together a quick web page, or even a large, complex web site, but horrible for trying to maintain that website as new technologies come along. Why do you think that most major websites throw everything out and start over fresh every 6 months or so?
I've started playing around with WebObjects now, and I find it to be a lot more friendly to change. The interface is pretty much completely removed from the back end logic (which is then removed from the back-end data to boot), and I think it's great. Heck, I can take some of my current web-based apps, and throw a WAP-based interface on them with almost no effort at all. I can even take that web-based app and make it a stnad-alone Java application, with very little effort.
Of course, the biggest problem with WebObjects is the cost. Not too many folks can afford the $10,000 entrance fee to get started. The next biggest problem (for me anyhow) is that it doesn't support Perl. Damn. At least I can choose between C, C++, Objective C, and Java, but sometimes you just gotta have Perl.
It's interesting that one of the big problems is with software. Those tiny 16x16 pixel icons all but dissapear when you have a 200dpi monitor.
Perhaps those gigantic 128x128 pixel icons in MacOS X don't seem so huge now. And with their Display PDF system, a properly designed icon should be scalable to any size you want.
And with the Mac's popularity in the imaging business, I wouldn't be surprised if the first major customer of these 200 dpi displays is Apple. Just imagine an iMac with a 17" display and a 200 dpi resolution.
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These seven words you try to take.
Shit fuck satan death sex drugs rape
Right or wrong it's our choice to make.
America the beautiful, land of the free
Don't change the words to land of hypocrisy
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Since nobody seems to want to read the article, or research any of the info, here is the quick low-down (since I have to deal with this at work right now...)
- This solution is only for web browsers. It requires a special version of a web browser, or a plugin, to be able to use the new encoding scheme. It won't work for email, ftp, telnet, gopher, etc, unless a special version of the program is written.
- DNS doesn't break. DNS still uses ASCII. This scheme uses RACE to encode the multi-lingual character set into ASCII. NSI will put a small prefix at the start of the domain name to identify it as multi-lingual (for example eq- would be found at the start of the domain name. The exact prefix has not yet been released to prevent squatters from snapping them up.)
- The special browsers will detect the prefix, and translate the ASCII gibberish into the specified multi-lingual character set. The browser also does the conversion back to ASCII to allow a DNS lookup.
- WHOIS does not/will not support this. You can only use WHOIS with the ASCII encoded gibberish.
- This is not supported by the IETF. This is a custom solution implemented by NSI. But it looks like they are going to be WAY behind schedule in actually rolling this out.
- They are accepcting registrations right now, but none of these names will resolve for at least a month, probably much longer. In other words, the system isn't useable yet, but NSI can collect money.
- The IETF is working on their own, probably completely incompatible system, to do the same thing.
Not to mention that some folks don't have land-line phone service. What's the point of paying the local phone company for service when you're single and have a cell phone anyhow? It sucks that these folks would be forced to pay the monthly local phone charge just to use their Tivo (or ReplayTV, or pay-per-view cable service, or alarm system...)
With an ethernet connection, there is no need to pay for that otherwise useless phone line.
A much more detailed story is found at The Clay Mathematics Institute Website
One question that nags me is "where will the BMG catalog be hosted?"
I would hope that if I am paying a fee for this new service, then I will be guaranteed to find a high quality recording of the songs I am looking for. This means BMG/Napster needs to set up some big honking file servers of their own for me to use.
If, however, BMG is just going to dump the catalog on Napster and let the peer-to-peer network take care of hosting it, where is the value? Can I charge BMG for hosting their songs? If others are paying Napter/BMG to download a song, and that download actually uses my resources, how am I compensated?
I'm wating for a lot more detail on this before passing judgement.
Although I prefer email, e-mail lets it fit in with the other mails:
p-mail - that which comes by letter carrier
v-mail - does anyone still own an answering machine?
t-mail - encryption is your friend
It's not just the electronics, it's just about anything that can be taken apart!
:-)
I think I started taking apart all of my X-mas toys when I was about 5 or 6 years old. I was 8 or 9 before I was able to start putting things back together again successfully, though.
The worst is when you crack something open, and all of a sudden all of the parts don't fit inside anymore (like coil-wound springs
>If you remember "Catholic High School Girls in
>Trouble", with a long shot of breasts pressed >against a glass shower door, then you've watched >the real thing.
I was about 13 or 14 when I saw this movie, so this is actually the -only- scene I remember. What was this movie about?
Wireless isn't the only huge screw-up in North America either. Just take a look at the whole DTV/HDTV mess. Take a simple idea, and then let way too many corporations screw around with it until you have a system that doesn't work half as well as the existing system elsewhere on the planet.
Douglas Englebart demo'd hyperlinks to a wide audience back in '68. Hell, Vannevar Bush had the concept of a hyperlink with the "memex" concept back in about 1945.
I think these predate the BT patent by a few years at least.
The quietest computer I have owned is my NeXTstation. Not only does it have a whisper-quiet fan (the sound of your breathing would drown out the sound of this fan!), it has a magnesium-alloy case, which kills any sound coming out of the hard drive. Even the floppy drive is incredibly quiet.
Eliminating the fan isn't the only way to get a quient computer. Even now you can get power supply and cpu fans that are almost silent, but you pay a premium for them.
Do you have any plans to find other locations to house your customers data? I mean, if the British Navy decides to overthrow your island one day due to presure from the RIAA (it could happen!), would you be able to switch to an equally secure loaction elsewhere without loosing data or disrupting service.
Any plans on setting up shop on that new volcanic island in the South Pacific?
For the worst anime movies ever made (well, at least the worst I have ever seen), try Urotsukidoji: The Legend of the Overfiend.
I mistakenly saw this one as it was part of a double feature with Akira.
I can't explain how horrible it is. You have to see it to appreciate the terror.
Sure, the HotWheels Server is a lot cooler than the Matchbox server, but I don't think that anyone would implant one in the back of their neck just for fun. It's a bit on the bulky side.
>Decent cut and paste. X users know the joy of
>the three-button mouse and the single click >paste.
Ugh! One of the worst things about X based GUIs is the horrible, horrible support for a real cut-and-paste system. What a nightmare. Sure, it can be handy for a very small set of uses (copy and paste a small amount of text while drinking a coke, for instance, since you don't need to use both hands or remove your hand from the mouse), but it fails in almost all aspects.
Just about every application in an X environment either doesn't support cut and paste at all (relying on the middle mouse-button technique), or has gone and implemented their own incomplete system.
Cut and paste should not be just for text. Anything that you can manipulate on screen should be able to be cut-and-pasted.
>Please let me iconify a window in some better
>way that reducing it to it's title bar. That
>takes up much too much screen space - even the
>dreaded taskbar is better.
I agree, iconified applications are nice. I'd love to see some combination of the task bar (with it's auto hide and scrolling features) combined with the best of desktop icons. I find that the sheer number of icons that start collecting on my X desktop get's unweildly very fast, with every application and every window having it's own icon.
Not to mention that I need to close a few dozen windows if I want to find that application icon for the emacs window I lost. There's got to be a better way than just randomly thowing an icon for everything on the desktop (and most 'icon' managers stink, with nothing more than an almost endless scrolling windows of icons.)
What I would love to see is a system where each application got it's own icon on the desktop, and every open window associated with that application are also associated with that icon. Perhaps when you moused over the application icon, all of the other windows for that app would appear along side of it.
Actually, a good UI must first complete the task it was designed to do.
:-) Sure, it's not going to be perfect, but it's going to be a lot better than everything else currently available.
A UI for those FedEx package tacking/customer signature tablets is completely different from the UI for a Boeing 777 Jumbo Jet. Yet both are interfaces to computer systems.
I can't imagine that computers as we know them today will be around much longer than another 20 years or so. Sure, there will probably always be a need for the developers and hackers to get right into a system and program it, but for the average user, the computer needs to become more of an assistant than a tool.
The term 'Intelligent Agent' has really been watered down in the past few years, but I still see that as the way UIs are going to go. The intelligence of the system is going to be far more important then wether you use a keyborad, mouse, voice recognition or telepathy to communicate with the system.
Most developers and hackers today don't delve into dip switches and machine code anymore, but they sure did 25 year ago. 25 year from now a developer or hacker might not ever touch a keyboard. Who knows? It's fun to speculate, but until it happens, no-one knows what it's going to be like.
As for how a general-purpose PC interface could be improved upon today, well, my bets are on MacOS X as being pretty much the best thing since NeXTstep 2.1
I don't see why someone would pay $2/month plus $.40 per payment to use this system, when they could probably do it through their bank for free.
I use EasyWeb from CanadaTrust, and I can pay all of my bills every month, and not pay any extra fees (I do, however, pay a fee for EasyWeb, but it does a whole lot more than just let me pay bills!)
All this system seems to do is save the company who -issues- the bill some money, through the lack of postage and paper.
Of course, if you're the type to lose those paper bills and always seem to end up paying late fees because of it, this might be a great system.
If you don't have a phone line, you can't dial-up and get the program info, so the usefullness of a Tivo is really limited.
Damn, I hate the number of things that require a phone line today. DSS, pay-per-view boxes, Tivo, hell, even some appliances can be set to dial-up for service if they are about to break down.
The real kicker was about a month ago when my bank suspended my on-line account. They ran a 'security check' and found that my home phone number and my home address didn't 'match' (I use a cell phone.) I had one hell of a time convincing them to let me get my money out! Apparently, if you don't have a land-line phone, you're not allowed to do business with this bank. Nice.
From Amazon.com:
ReplayTV: 20 hours, $499.99, $0 subscription fee
Tivo: 30 Hours, $699.99 plus $199 subscription fee
14 hours, $399.99 plus $199 subscription fee
How is ReplayTV $200 more than Tivo?
I wonder if either of them supports adding external storage? I think ReplayTV has a firewire port, but I am not 100% sure on that.
There is a similar device on the market which doesn't require you to give up your private info, and doesn't require a monthly subscription: ReplayTV.
I'm not sure if Tivo has this feature, but ReplayTV also allows you to pause/rewind 'live' TV broadcasts... it records whatever you are currently watching to allow you to do this. Pretty slick.
I'd buy one, but I'm using an 'odd' TV provider, LOOK TV, here in Ottawa, and Replay TV doesn't support the listings for that yet.
>Apple killed firewire -- nobody needed to help.
Firewire, aka IEEE 1394, is hardly dead. Pretty much all HDTV/DTV systems use it to communicate between receivers and decoders. It's just not used a lot on PCs is all.
I love Perl. My first real job in the real world was as a Perl hack, errr, programmer. 4 years ago, if you wanted to do web site work, Perl was the way to go.
3 years ago, it was still the way to go.
2 years ago, things like Zope, Cold Fusion and Tango became the way to go.
Unfortunately, all of these have the same problem... they tie the interface and the logic together into one big mess. Great for throwing together a quick web page, or even a large, complex web site, but horrible for trying to maintain that website as new technologies come along. Why do you think that most major websites throw everything out and start over fresh every 6 months or so?
I've started playing around with WebObjects now, and I find it to be a lot more friendly to change. The interface is pretty much completely removed from the back end logic (which is then removed from the back-end data to boot), and I think it's great. Heck, I can take some of my current web-based apps, and throw a WAP-based interface on them with almost no effort at all. I can even take that web-based app and make it a stnad-alone Java application, with very little effort.
Of course, the biggest problem with WebObjects is the cost. Not too many folks can afford the $10,000 entrance fee to get started. The next biggest problem (for me anyhow) is that it doesn't support Perl. Damn. At least I can choose between C, C++, Objective C, and Java, but sometimes you just gotta have Perl.
It's interesting that one of the big problems is with software. Those tiny 16x16 pixel icons all but dissapear when you have a 200dpi monitor.
Perhaps those gigantic 128x128 pixel icons in MacOS X don't seem so huge now. And with their Display PDF system, a properly designed icon should be scalable to any size you want.
And with the Mac's popularity in the imaging business, I wouldn't be surprised if the first major customer of these 200 dpi displays is Apple. Just imagine an iMac with a 17" display and a 200 dpi resolution.
It could beat all but the best tic-tac-toe players of the day!
I bent my wookie.