Many years back a CEO of a subdivision of a company wanted to know why his email service was disrupted. I told them that it was because their idiot webmaster took control of their DNS and did not copy the MX record. The webmaster defended himself claiming that a document was not in place explaining how to handle the client's DNS. This went back and forth a bit between the three of us, and ended with me calling the two of them incompetent and irresponsible. I never spoke to the webmaster or the client CEO for better or worse.
A few years later, the CEO of the parent company called wanting to know why his network was suffering intermittent downtime and demanded it be fixed immediately. I explained that his outage was caused by antiquated equipment that could not do debugging, and there was a proposal already on his desk for replacement gear. He was in a huff, but he knew I didn't mince words or advice, and that quote was signed in minutes.
While you can't always directly point to a net gain after a net loss, your experience and attitude will help define how other perceive you. You can go in quite politely, or you can be very blunt. I have been both depending on the situation.
Either way, if you can't call out losers, you'll wind up being one.
The worst I can say is that it sounds generic. If it had a Lil Wayne cameo, it would get plenty of airplay.
And while listening to this crap I immediately thought to myself "How the F*** do we have copyrights for 120 years to protect auto-generated crap like this?"
At some point in the past, the website name was transferred to Nagios to avoid trademark issues but the project continued to be community driven and led.
If all of this is even mildly true, its quite an evil thing by Nagios to do.
A part of this is foolishness. You can never trust a corp that has been litigious over its brand with ownership of your project or its hosting. Everything should have been copied elsewhere to a domain or hosted url with no TMs, and the old site should have been slowly deprecated and forked.
"It's become increasingly clear that we need to devote hackathons, hours and resources to developing a messaging app that protects user privacy"
And should also become quite obvious that you need to start vetting coders who are infiltrating projects on behalf of the government. That good old warped 80's tinfoil hat paranoia is the only thing that will save you anymore because it seems it was never wrong.
Not to mention but managing all those virtual servers, real spreadsheets, serious management software - it's all desktop and 2-3 monitors minimum. Let everyone have their 'gadgets'. Serious PC/Mac users will remain there and leverage the smaller components for remote access or travel work. Productivity on a real system though is at least 150% higher.
You can make any arguments to management that you want, but I've done more with less and I recommend you do the same. Take charge learn your systems and become the expert who doesn't need help. Then go get a new job or start a firm as an IT consultant. Your first client can be the one you leave.
I don't know who owns this neoreactionary.com but the article First Lesbian in Space Dies was too long-winded and hyper-sensitive for me to read thoroughly.
Sure, law abiding people deserve better. They deserve education, healthcare, housing and food. The fact that prisons provide these free of charge to prisoners is irrelevant.
They also deserve lower crime rates, and hopefully schemes of this kind will mean these offenders are less likely to re-offend. It's going to depend on the numbers. It's an unfortunate reality that justice isn't necessarily fair for people who do the right thing.
It seems that criminals who have been convicted of rape, burglary, or fraud are just the type of geek that Silicon Valley has been avoiding. It used to be cool 20 years ago and you could get away with it as long as you proved your pathological profile complimented your crafting genius. Now it just pisses the yuppie geeks off.
Followed by a hell of a lot more secret courts, classified documents, and non disclosures. Until your country-liberating ass is forgotten until the next 8 year term presidency.
I was confused if the op wanted a heavy duty scanner copier like the Kyocera someone mentioned, or two separate devices, which would be far cheaper. Most of our clients continue to run HP LaserJets for B&W and the sustainability and durability remain high. For color inkjets, yes for $125 you can be the king for a day of savings but they are garbage. Definitely get the upgrade to laser by any manufacturer unless you really are printing only 10 color pagers per month and scanning the rest of the time.
Common sense would have dictated a year of probation with a suspended sentence for such a silly offense. Surely Hal has the 'chutzpah' to admit when he's being a shnook.
Microsoft's willingness to buy them out of what appeared to be a pretty hairy situation saved the day for team bean-counter; but I suspect that team engineer is wondering 'How did we go from being fucking Nokia to being eaten by a software company?'
No doubt. Or you could be team engineer at Blackberry wondering "How the fuck did we put ourselves up for sale with no buyers?"
...Given these factors, I would say that.com will be king, for 20 years at least.
Trying to make predictions on human behavior on the internet is pointless and for fools. 20 years ago the masses all thought AOL keywords was the only way to search. We've come a LONG way since then, along with a few game-changers along the way (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, smartphones) that change how people act and interact completely with the internet.
All it would take is another game changer to nullify your statement completely to modify behavior like this. We already don't type FQDNs in favor of being lazy and typing a single word into the search bar that is (now) built into every browser instead of having to actually go to your favorite engine search page and type it in. Yet another example of how behavior has modified itself rather quickly. How long before voice commands take over completely? You really think it's going to be 20 years before I'm just speaking a single word into a smartphone to find something? Oh wait, I forgot, we also do that today.
You make bright, salient points, which in contrary to your statements, indirectly validate the concept of.com strength.
When AOL was launched, it was "going to create a whole new internet". They had their own browser, interface, portals, etc.
Smartphones were going to replace all of that silly typing, Siri was the next generation's voice.
Facebook and Twitter did away with the need for any other way of communication, your profile was the place to be and eradicated the internet as a whole.
Every one of these were internet-killers. World changing, revolutionary, mind-numbing behavior modifiers. In the end they are all nothing next to the concept of free internet browsing, with your own browser, your own limitless mind and your exceptionally mindless searching which brings up whatever result has the most cash behind it. And since big companies (all of the examples above used.COM to make their stand), tend to stake the same horse, you will have it this way for a long time.
I am going to make one possible exception however. Govt spying on all fronts has the world incredibly nervous and with good reason. This could be the game changer behavior that drives people to use extensions that simply aren't traceable to a DNS query in the traditional way, or are simply part of a peer network like.bit or.onion or even something far more interesting if it ever gets created.
You make some strong points here, but big companies do not use.COM to "make their stand". That is an old mentality that can die because of the technology and behavior I've pointed out. If your favorite new company was a.ORG or.US, you probably wouldn't even notice it, because you and hundreds of millions of other people simply do not use FQDN anymore when looking for information. Hell, the concept of bookmarks almost killed that in itself by eliminating the need to retype your favorite URLs. How many bookmarks do you have right now that are not.COM? Did you even realize it? I didn't think so.
And to be clear, NONE of your examples were ever meant to be internet "killers". The smartphone was never meant to replace the keyboard as a whole, and hasn't even done it itself. Facebook or Twitter was never meant to replace ALL forms of communication in your life, as neither can even handle voice after years of use. They are internet enhancers that can (and did) modify behavior, and it sure as hell didn't take 20 years to do it.
ALL of this horseshit in the namespace is nothing more than unadulterated greed by Registrars and ICANN. That's it. Find the cheapest TLD you can run with, come up with a catchy yet nonsensical word (you know, like "twitter"
...Given these factors, I would say that.com will be king, for 20 years at least.
Trying to make predictions on human behavior on the internet is pointless and for fools. 20 years ago the masses all thought AOL keywords was the only way to search. We've come a LONG way since then, along with a few game-changers along the way (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, smartphones) that change how people act and interact completely with the internet.
All it would take is another game changer to nullify your statement completely to modify behavior like this. We already don't type FQDNs in favor of being lazy and typing a single word into the search bar that is (now) built into every browser instead of having to actually go to your favorite engine search page and type it in. Yet another example of how behavior has modified itself rather quickly. How long before voice commands take over completely? You really think it's going to be 20 years before I'm just speaking a single word into a smartphone to find something? Oh wait, I forgot, we also do that today.
You make bright, salient points, which in contrary to your statements, indirectly validate the concept of.com strength.
When AOL was launched, it was "going to create a whole new internet". They had their own browser, interface, portals, etc.
Smartphones were going to replace all of that silly typing, Siri was the next generation's voice.
Facebook and Twitter did away with the need for any other way of communication, your profile was the place to be and eradicated the internet as a whole.
Every one of these were internet-killers. World changing, revolutionary, mind-numbing behavior modifiers. In the end they are all nothing next to the concept of free internet browsing, with your own browser, your own limitless mind and your exceptionally mindless searching which brings up whatever result has the most cash behind it. And since big companies (all of the examples above used.COM to make their stand), tend to stake the same horse, you will have it this way for a long time.
I am going to make one possible exception however. Govt spying on all fronts has the world incredibly nervous and with good reason. This could be the game changer behavior that drives people to use extensions that simply aren't traceable to a DNS query in the traditional way, or are simply part of a peer network like.bit or.onion or even something far more interesting if it ever gets created.
doesn't matter what other TLDs are announced..com is still king for consumers, anything else is a just a toy for the nerdy.
Your statement is correct but a bit too understated. I would add the following
It is very hard to get people to switch. Even the new internet generation that has no particular preference for.com or.other are hard won when trying to get them to change their defaults. If you tell someone to go to a website they either search, or type in the name and add.com (and an immense number of searchers type the.com part of the domain into the search box too).
Everyone knows you could have another extension but it's not their first choice..ME and.CO were probably two of the biggest recent TLD launches. You can still pick up a premium in either of these extensions for micro-pennies on the.com dollar, registrations are still less than.1 % of total.com, and the US by far outregisters more domains in all extensions than all other countries combined.
Lastly, consider that ICANN is definitely the most inept entity in existence. As long as they keep the US Govt happy, they will always continue to run the rest of their org as a stupendous dung heap. This whole game of rolling out new TLDs will take them at least 5 years, and that's not counting all the supreme screwups that are sure to make the process less and less tasteful for those inside and outside the market.
Given these factors, I would say that.com will be king, for 20 years at least. Yes you can launch "help.apple" or "game.app" and get some traction, but anything less than the uber-premium word is going to have much less draw for an exceptionally long time. If nothing else but due to the way US consumers are trained en masse. You need to start a whole new brainwashing program to rewire people and I don't see anyone coughing up a few billion for that ad campaign anytime soon.
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Many years back a CEO of a subdivision of a company wanted to know why his email service was disrupted. I told them that it was because their idiot webmaster took control of their DNS and did not copy the MX record. The webmaster defended himself claiming that a document was not in place explaining how to handle the client's DNS. This went back and forth a bit between the three of us, and ended with me calling the two of them incompetent and irresponsible. I never spoke to the webmaster or the client CEO for better or worse.
A few years later, the CEO of the parent company called wanting to know why his network was suffering intermittent downtime and demanded it be fixed immediately. I explained that his outage was caused by antiquated equipment that could not do debugging, and there was a proposal already on his desk for replacement gear. He was in a huff, but he knew I didn't mince words or advice, and that quote was signed in minutes.
While you can't always directly point to a net gain after a net loss, your experience and attitude will help define how other perceive you. You can go in quite politely, or you can be very blunt. I have been both depending on the situation.
Either way, if you can't call out losers, you'll wind up being one.
The worst I can say is that it sounds generic. If it had a Lil Wayne cameo, it would get plenty of airplay.
And while listening to this crap I immediately thought to myself "How the F*** do we have copyrights for 120 years to protect auto-generated crap like this?"
At some point in the past, the website name was transferred to Nagios to avoid trademark issues but the project continued to be community driven and led.
If all of this is even mildly true, its quite an evil thing by Nagios to do.
A part of this is foolishness. You can never trust a corp that has been litigious over its brand with ownership of your project or its hosting. Everything should have been copied elsewhere to a domain or hosted url with no TMs, and the old site should have been slowly deprecated and forked.
They just give the marketing people some justification for not ending their lives.
Anytime you need hot pumping lights and dance music to get 'journalists' interested in tech, you've already proved that CES is a waste.
Completely unhackable because there can only ever be one system that can scan all these sources.
Yes it's called the NSA
everyone rocks a neck tattoo now cuz it makes them look like a rich guy who doesn't need a job and just works for "self-actualization".
And like all symbols of perceived status, it is as useless as the hoodie or tie.
"It's become increasingly clear that we need to devote hackathons, hours and resources to developing a messaging app that protects user privacy"
And should also become quite obvious that you need to start vetting coders who are infiltrating projects on behalf of the government. That good old warped 80's tinfoil hat paranoia is the only thing that will save you anymore because it seems it was never wrong.
There were some fragging good times playing that with friends.
Wow if Doom is twenty years old that makes me... scared
Not to mention but managing all those virtual servers, real spreadsheets, serious management software - it's all desktop and 2-3 monitors minimum. Let everyone have their 'gadgets'. Serious PC/Mac users will remain there and leverage the smaller components for remote access or travel work. Productivity on a real system though is at least 150% higher.
You can make any arguments to management that you want, but I've done more with less and I recommend you do the same. Take charge learn your systems and become the expert who doesn't need help. Then go get a new job or start a firm as an IT consultant. Your first client can be the one you leave.
You mean to tell me, when WOPR was busy looking for the launch code in Wargames, it was all a bunch of crap?
They forgot to tell you that if you dial "1" you get a brand new world.
Actually the password might have been eight zeros, but you have to dial a 1 + area code to get the outside nuclear line.
I don't know who owns this neoreactionary.com but the article First Lesbian in Space Dies was too long-winded and hyper-sensitive for me to read thoroughly.
Sure, law abiding people deserve better. They deserve education, healthcare, housing and food. The fact that prisons provide these free of charge to prisoners is irrelevant.
They also deserve lower crime rates, and hopefully schemes of this kind will mean these offenders are less likely to re-offend. It's going to depend on the numbers. It's an unfortunate reality that justice isn't necessarily fair for people who do the right thing.
It seems that criminals who have been convicted of rape, burglary, or fraud are just the type of geek that Silicon Valley has been avoiding. It used to be cool 20 years ago and you could get away with it as long as you proved your pathological profile complimented your crafting genius. Now it just pisses the yuppie geeks off.
1-800-JAIL4ME
Followed by a hell of a lot more secret courts, classified documents, and non disclosures. Until your country-liberating ass is forgotten until the next 8 year term presidency.
I was confused if the op wanted a heavy duty scanner copier like the Kyocera someone mentioned, or two separate devices, which would be far cheaper. Most of our clients continue to run HP LaserJets for B&W and the sustainability and durability remain high. For color inkjets, yes for $125 you can be the king for a day of savings but they are garbage. Definitely get the upgrade to laser by any manufacturer unless you really are printing only 10 color pagers per month and scanning the rest of the time.
Common sense would have dictated a year of probation with a suspended sentence for such a silly offense. Surely Hal has the 'chutzpah' to admit when he's being a shnook.
+1
Sadly Gambling Hansel isn't nearly as dark as Hansel and Gretel or Hans in Luck. So I guess the algorithm sucks?
Microsoft's willingness to buy them out of what appeared to be a pretty hairy situation saved the day for team bean-counter; but I suspect that team engineer is wondering 'How did we go from being fucking Nokia to being eaten by a software company?'
No doubt. Or you could be team engineer at Blackberry wondering "How the fuck did we put ourselves up for sale with no buyers?"
Getting Balmer to cough up 7B for this iterator didn't seem like failure if you ask me. Not to mention they still keep some IP to themselves.
...Given these factors, I would say that .com will be king, for 20 years at least.
Trying to make predictions on human behavior on the internet is pointless and for fools. 20 years ago the masses all thought AOL keywords was the only way to search. We've come a LONG way since then, along with a few game-changers along the way (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, smartphones) that change how people act and interact completely with the internet.
All it would take is another game changer to nullify your statement completely to modify behavior like this. We already don't type FQDNs in favor of being lazy and typing a single word into the search bar that is (now) built into every browser instead of having to actually go to your favorite engine search page and type it in. Yet another example of how behavior has modified itself rather quickly. How long before voice commands take over completely? You really think it's going to be 20 years before I'm just speaking a single word into a smartphone to find something? Oh wait, I forgot, we also do that today.
You make bright, salient points, which in contrary to your statements, indirectly validate the concept of .com strength.
When AOL was launched, it was "going to create a whole new internet". They had their own browser, interface, portals, etc.
Smartphones were going to replace all of that silly typing, Siri was the next generation's voice.
Facebook and Twitter did away with the need for any other way of communication, your profile was the place to be and eradicated the internet as a whole.
Every one of these were internet-killers. World changing, revolutionary, mind-numbing behavior modifiers. In the end they are all nothing next to the concept of free internet browsing, with your own browser, your own limitless mind and your exceptionally mindless searching which brings up whatever result has the most cash behind it. And since big companies (all of the examples above used .COM to make their stand), tend to stake the same horse, you will have it this way for a long time.
I am going to make one possible exception however. Govt spying on all fronts has the world incredibly nervous and with good reason. This could be the game changer behavior that drives people to use extensions that simply aren't traceable to a DNS query in the traditional way, or are simply part of a peer network like .bit or .onion or even something far more interesting if it ever gets created.
You make some strong points here, but big companies do not use .COM to "make their stand". That is an old mentality that can die because of the technology and behavior I've pointed out. If your favorite new company was a .ORG or .US, you probably wouldn't even notice it, because you and hundreds of millions of other people simply do not use FQDN anymore when looking for information. Hell, the concept of bookmarks almost killed that in itself by eliminating the need to retype your favorite URLs. How many bookmarks do you have right now that are not .COM? Did you even realize it? I didn't think so.
And to be clear, NONE of your examples were ever meant to be internet "killers". The smartphone was never meant to replace the keyboard as a whole, and hasn't even done it itself. Facebook or Twitter was never meant to replace ALL forms of communication in your life, as neither can even handle voice after years of use. They are internet enhancers that can (and did) modify behavior, and it sure as hell didn't take 20 years to do it.
ALL of this horseshit in the namespace is nothing more than unadulterated greed by Registrars and ICANN. That's it. Find the cheapest TLD you can run with, come up with a catchy yet nonsensical word (you know, like "twitter"
...Given these factors, I would say that .com will be king, for 20 years at least.
Trying to make predictions on human behavior on the internet is pointless and for fools. 20 years ago the masses all thought AOL keywords was the only way to search. We've come a LONG way since then, along with a few game-changers along the way (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, smartphones) that change how people act and interact completely with the internet.
All it would take is another game changer to nullify your statement completely to modify behavior like this. We already don't type FQDNs in favor of being lazy and typing a single word into the search bar that is (now) built into every browser instead of having to actually go to your favorite engine search page and type it in. Yet another example of how behavior has modified itself rather quickly. How long before voice commands take over completely? You really think it's going to be 20 years before I'm just speaking a single word into a smartphone to find something? Oh wait, I forgot, we also do that today.
You make bright, salient points, which in contrary to your statements, indirectly validate the concept of .com strength.
.COM to make their stand), tend to stake the same horse, you will have it this way for a long time.
.bit or .onion or even something far more interesting if it ever gets created.
When AOL was launched, it was "going to create a whole new internet". They had their own browser, interface, portals, etc.
Smartphones were going to replace all of that silly typing, Siri was the next generation's voice.
Facebook and Twitter did away with the need for any other way of communication, your profile was the place to be and eradicated the internet as a whole.
Every one of these were internet-killers. World changing, revolutionary, mind-numbing behavior modifiers. In the end they are all nothing next to the concept of free internet browsing, with your own browser, your own limitless mind and your exceptionally mindless searching which brings up whatever result has the most cash behind it. And since big companies (all of the examples above used
I am going to make one possible exception however. Govt spying on all fronts has the world incredibly nervous and with good reason. This could be the game changer behavior that drives people to use extensions that simply aren't traceable to a DNS query in the traditional way, or are simply part of a peer network like
doesn't matter what other TLDs are announced. .com is still king for consumers, anything else is a just a toy for the nerdy.
Your statement is correct but a bit too understated. I would add the following
.com or .other are hard won when trying to get them to change their defaults. If you tell someone to go to a website they either search, or type in the name and add .com (and an immense number of searchers type the .com part of the domain into the search box too).
.ME and .CO were probably two of the biggest recent TLD launches. You can still pick up a premium in either of these extensions for micro-pennies on the .com dollar, registrations are still less than .1 % of total .com, and the US by far outregisters more domains in all extensions than all other countries combined.
.com will be king, for 20 years at least. Yes you can launch "help.apple" or "game.app" and get some traction, but anything less than the uber-premium word is going to have much less draw for an exceptionally long time. If nothing else but due to the way US consumers are trained en masse. You need to start a whole new brainwashing program to rewire people and I don't see anyone coughing up a few billion for that ad campaign anytime soon.
It is very hard to get people to switch. Even the new internet generation that has no particular preference for
Everyone knows you could have another extension but it's not their first choice.
Lastly, consider that ICANN is definitely the most inept entity in existence. As long as they keep the US Govt happy, they will always continue to run the rest of their org as a stupendous dung heap. This whole game of rolling out new TLDs will take them at least 5 years, and that's not counting all the supreme screwups that are sure to make the process less and less tasteful for those inside and outside the market.
Given these factors, I would say that
I'd like to have "dot". Can you imagine the confusion when people try to communicate what the URL is?
Or could you imagine some madman calling his site "slash" "dot", it would be twice as confusing.