Personally, I hate classes where you're graded on "what you learn" or "what you got out of it". Something about not having right/wrong answers that can be graded on a scale from 0-100% bothers me...
I guess the other reason I don't like it is that it makes the grading very subjective. So, if you end up with a teacher like my English teacher who doesn't really like you, you don't do well in the course... but that's another story.
Not exactly.
The internet (arpanet) started in the US, and most of the companies controlling TLDs/DNS stuff in general are American, so under the jurisdiction of the American gov't.
It does make sense that the UN should have an internet subcomittee (if it doesn't already) to assist in these decisions though...
Actually, I think it's very real. Down here in Houston they've been part of the group ripping up our downtown streets for a couple months now laying fiber... at least if it doesn't work we have some great fiber infastructure left over...
Yeah, it would be cool, but what happens if my alternative root system has an abc.123 registered, and your alternative root system also has an abc.123 registered, who wins? And how do I check before registering an abc.123 on my system to see if none of the other systems already use that?
By aggregating all the data into one central database, you've just destroyed the concept of alternative root systems. It really doesen't work.
Causing a collision anywhere on the Internet is ethically wrong.
a. He presumes his ethics are the same as everyone else's.
He also presumes that this alternative nameserver is causing the collision-that they are the bad guys. Who made ICAAN god?
I don't think this is really anyone's fault, I think its two groups with different views that now have to recognize the existance of one another and work it out so the internet can be a happy place once again...
If most of the world's computers use the x.root-servers.net nameservers anyway, why does it matter? This is the service you are really paying for, having your domain listed in these servers. There's no way to force the world to point their DNS servers at root-servers.net though... and why would you want to?
Well, if you consider that it has a maximum range of 150 miles (see bottom left corner of image), and a top speed of 80mph, theoretically it should be able to go for 1.875 hours. Or maybe I'm wrong.
These "javascript incompatabilities" aren't really incompatabilities. Their script probably checks the OS/browser, and if it isn't one they recognize (IE winders/mac), they spit out an error. If you tweaked your browser to return a different browser/OS string it might work... =)
It seems to me that it would be rather difficult to have all the textures line up, and not repeat all over the place. Also, is it possible to get the kind of tight curves you often have in architectural designs?
I don't know the name of the package, but the Houston Medical Center has a centralized patient tracking system that I'm almost positive runs some flavor of Unix.
I noticed when I was there a couple months ago that since I had gone to a different doctor to get a cast off my leg almost 10 years ago now, their records still showed that I had a cast on; the nurse was kind enough to ask if she should schedule an appointement to get it removed...
How dumb can you possibly be to think that you can rewrite windows. it didn't get as bad as it did overnight, it took over ten years of careful development to get it that way.
This guy filed for the patent in 1997, and got it just last August, and I have a difficult time believing that he had never visited a website using get/post before that. This prompts me to ask what dumbass at the patent office allowed it to go through? I guess your average web-surfer has never heard anything about get or post, but it doesn't take a lot of research to find out that almost all major websites on the internet use one or the other.
Personally, I am a big fan of Motorola's 68HC12's. You can get all of them for under $50, and many come with copious amounts of either RAM, EEPROM, or both. Some can even be interfaced with up to 1MB of external EEPROM/NVRAM. I have built several small autonomous robots with these, and I don't think I ever spent more than $100 on the chip and its support components. Also, programming it is very easy from a PC, but I've never found an AS12 complier for Linux or the Mac, so if you don't have and old 486 sitting around with windows (because I'm sure you use linux on your desktop), then you might be out of luck.
I thought the whole point of having.com,.org,.net and.edu was to reduce internet overhead, and to sort of categorize sites. But with the recent proliferation of two letter country code TLD's, and other ones like.cc, should we instead just switch to a system where anybody can register a tld? So that means you could have www.slashdot and stuff like that.
There's a $100 fine for littering, would it bother anybody if I got half if I turned litterers in?
Imagine for a second a world where you give everyone say, half of the fines payed by "criminals" they turn in. First, fines would go up because the government still needs the same amount of money, if not more to handle the extra overhead of having to mail all these checks. Also, it will certainly cause people to take the law into their own hands. IMHO, if anyone wants to track down and turn in a serial killer, they're more than welcome to and they should be payed a reward for it. But what about turning in people who litter, or who are speeding? I have a difficult time imagining a world where one driver can pull over another for speeding. And can they issue a ticket on the spot, or do they have to wait for a police officer to arrive.
Also, police officers go to school for years to learn, among other things, judgement!! Other than the spiffy uniform and legal sidearm, that's the only thing seperating a police officer from bubba sitting in the back of his pickup with his double barreled shotgun. Even though we have a court system to make the final judgement on who's guilty and who's not, it would sure as hell be inconvienent if you had to go to court because some bum under the highway overpass with a stolen radar gun gave you a speeding ticket for going 71 in a 70 zone.
I have no problem with this bill, so long as it doesn't set a precedent for future laws, relating to the internet or to other things.
What exactly do you have to do to get the bounty money? Do you have to find the person's real IP address, or their name, or phone number, or physical address or what? It seems to me that in order to find any physical contact info, you would either have to be extremely lucky, or you would have to do something illegal to get it...
Also, I also think that it might be remarkably easy to frame somebody, and then collect the bounty for finding them. Unless some law enforcement agency checks your findings, thuroughly.
This is an example of one of the drawbacks of having certification courses done by companies. When the company releases a new product, it becomes much easier for them to force the all their certified developers/workers to upgrade, using this or other methods. I also dislike RedHat's certification, not that it's too easy or to hard or whatever, but it's $5000/person, and you have to go to North Carolina.
Perhaps it would be better if there were an organization to handle certifications, either one large organization for all platforms to ensure a consistent level of quality across the board, or maybe a seperate group for each OS's or platform or whatever.
I don't know how well Spielberg can do science fiction movies. I can't think of any he's done in the past, but I could be wrong. I just don't see him being a SF director.
Kubrick is cool though, I have liked every movies of his that I've ever seen.
I seem to remember some other attempt at a real-time version of an OS that crashed and burned pretty bad...I can't remember the name. May have been VMS, I don't know...anybody else?
I must agree with the author in that _some_ advanced technology poses a threat to the human species, but not all of it. In fact, stating that all advanced technology poses a threat to the human species is probably the biggest load of crap I've ever heard.
Its quite obvious that some of our scientific advances could be quite dangerous, and if misused could end life on earth (ie. nuclear/chemical/biological weapons). Its also quite obvious that some of our discoveries have significantly advanced the human race, and will continue to do so (ie. air transportation (which, btw, your friend and mine Ted Kaczynski was blowing up), computers, genetic engineering (that's a controversial one, I'm talking about plants, not humans), and many advances in the field of medicine).
>Anyway, I wonder: how does Adobe plan to make any money off their PDF format now that distiller will be free (beer)?
I wonder how they make any money off of it now. It's just some fancy zipped postscript. Maybe I'll come up with a new, smaller document format that's just zipped ASCII, and bundle pico with bzip2 and make lots of money...?
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Personally, I hate classes where you're graded on "what you learn" or "what you got out of it". Something about not having right/wrong answers that can be graded on a scale from 0-100% bothers me... I guess the other reason I don't like it is that it makes the grading very subjective. So, if you end up with a teacher like my English teacher who doesn't really like you, you don't do well in the course... but that's another story.
Not exactly. The internet (arpanet) started in the US, and most of the companies controlling TLDs/DNS stuff in general are American, so under the jurisdiction of the American gov't. It does make sense that the UN should have an internet subcomittee (if it doesn't already) to assist in these decisions though...
One of the many reasons we need an alternate root NS system...
BSOD for president!!!
One of the many reasons I use a laptop...
Actually, I think it's very real. Down here in Houston they've been part of the group ripping up our downtown streets for a couple months now laying fiber... at least if it doesn't work we have some great fiber infastructure left over...
Yeah, it would be cool, but what happens if my alternative root system has an abc.123 registered, and your alternative root system also has an abc.123 registered, who wins? And how do I check before registering an abc.123 on my system to see if none of the other systems already use that? By aggregating all the data into one central database, you've just destroyed the concept of alternative root systems. It really doesen't work.
a. He presumes his ethics are the same as everyone else's.
He also presumes that this alternative nameserver is causing the collision-that they are the bad guys. Who made ICAAN god?
I don't think this is really anyone's fault, I think its two groups with different views that now have to recognize the existance of one another and work it out so the internet can be a happy place once again...
At least, that's my $0.02 USD
If most of the world's computers use the x.root-servers.net nameservers anyway, why does it matter? This is the service you are really paying for, having your domain listed in these servers. There's no way to force the world to point their DNS servers at root-servers.net though... and why would you want to?
0x1A = 26 The UK is obviously switching to base-16 as their official number system. It makes perfect sense, just like the metric system...
Well, if you consider that it has a maximum range of 150 miles (see bottom left corner of image), and a top speed of 80mph, theoretically it should be able to go for 1.875 hours. Or maybe I'm wrong.
These "javascript incompatabilities" aren't really incompatabilities. Their script probably checks the OS/browser, and if it isn't one they recognize (IE winders/mac), they spit out an error. If you tweaked your browser to return a different browser/OS string it might work... =)
It seems to me that it would be rather difficult to have all the textures line up, and not repeat all over the place. Also, is it possible to get the kind of tight curves you often have in architectural designs?
I noticed when I was there a couple months ago that since I had gone to a different doctor to get a cast off my leg almost 10 years ago now, their records still showed that I had a cast on; the nurse was kind enough to ask if she should schedule an appointement to get it removed...
How dumb can you possibly be to think that you can rewrite windows. it didn't get as bad as it did overnight, it took over ten years of careful development to get it that way.
This is really quite pathetic...
Personally, I am a big fan of Motorola's 68HC12's. You can get all of them for under $50, and many come with copious amounts of either RAM, EEPROM, or both. Some can even be interfaced with up to 1MB of external EEPROM/NVRAM. I have built several small autonomous robots with these, and I don't think I ever spent more than $100 on the chip and its support components. Also, programming it is very easy from a PC, but I've never found an AS12 complier for Linux or the Mac, so if you don't have and old 486 sitting around with windows (because I'm sure you use linux on your desktop), then you might be out of luck.
Just my worthless two cents
-- zaius --
Imagine for a second a world where you give everyone say, half of the fines payed by "criminals" they turn in. First, fines would go up because the government still needs the same amount of money, if not more to handle the extra overhead of having to mail all these checks. Also, it will certainly cause people to take the law into their own hands. IMHO, if anyone wants to track down and turn in a serial killer, they're more than welcome to and they should be payed a reward for it. But what about turning in people who litter, or who are speeding? I have a difficult time imagining a world where one driver can pull over another for speeding. And can they issue a ticket on the spot, or do they have to wait for a police officer to arrive.
Also, police officers go to school for years to learn, among other things, judgement!! Other than the spiffy uniform and legal sidearm, that's the only thing seperating a police officer from bubba sitting in the back of his pickup with his double barreled shotgun. Even though we have a court system to make the final judgement on who's guilty and who's not, it would sure as hell be inconvienent if you had to go to court because some bum under the highway overpass with a stolen radar gun gave you a speeding ticket for going 71 in a 70 zone.
I have no problem with this bill, so long as it doesn't set a precedent for future laws, relating to the internet or to other things.
-- zauis --
Also, I also think that it might be remarkably easy to frame somebody, and then collect the bounty for finding them. Unless some law enforcement agency checks your findings, thuroughly.
-- zaius --
Perhaps it would be better if there were an organization to handle certifications, either one large organization for all platforms to ensure a consistent level of quality across the board, or maybe a seperate group for each OS's or platform or whatever.
Any thoughts?
Kubrick is cool though, I have liked every movies of his that I've ever seen.
I seem to remember some other attempt at a real-time version of an OS that crashed and burned pretty bad...I can't remember the name. May have been VMS, I don't know...anybody else?
Its quite obvious that some of our scientific advances could be quite dangerous, and if misused could end life on earth (ie. nuclear/chemical/biological weapons). Its also quite obvious that some of our discoveries have significantly advanced the human race, and will continue to do so (ie. air transportation (which, btw, your friend and mine Ted Kaczynski was blowing up), computers, genetic engineering (that's a controversial one, I'm talking about plants, not humans), and many advances in the field of medicine).
I wonder how they make any money off of it now. It's just some fancy zipped postscript. Maybe I'll come up with a new, smaller document format that's just zipped ASCII, and bundle pico with bzip2 and make lots of money...?