I don't think we need any more TLDs. Especially since silly TLDs like.museum and.aero are created which are either too long, or aren't restricted in use to just museums and aerospace companies. I feel that online commerce has bent themselves on destroying the usefulness of DNS. Nearly one quarter if not more of ccTLDs can be purchased by the public and used for any purpose. What will happen when countries like Tuvalu (.tv) reach technological savyness and find that their entire TLD has been used up by TV networks, domain brokers and companies that felt they needed to register theirname.com,.net,.org,.cc,.mx,.name,.info, and.tv just in case someone actually thought of typing one of those instead.
On top of that, some ccTLDs are being sold for crazy prices. I found one regist rar that was trying to sell.ro extensions for over $500/year. What?!? Why? D oes 'ro' mean something in the same way that 'tv' does?
People need to learn to properly use what they have before we can move on. Unfortunately, this has rarely happened in our society and in the end sadly, money rules the day.
Actually, it really depends on who they would ask in a company. Whether it be
the business executive (probably a higher estimate) the IT middle manager (lower estimate) the IT worker (who would think that they are on time) or the customer (who sometimes have unrealistic expectations)
(personally, if you're using a wizard to configure security you probably shouldn't be admining a server in the first place.
[sarc] But wizards help to let everyone have a server. Its the logical follow up to having spelling and grammar checking in your software. Pretty soon, you won't need to learn about anything to administer a windows cluster. Heck, you won't even need a mouse or schooling. Just a microphone, voice recognition software and that MIT metaphor software. You'll just growl at your computer and it will magically do what you want. [/sarc]
Back in 1997 I saw my computer science professor log into his sun box, which was being projected onto a screen for everyone to see. He started to login, but didn't realize that he was typing his password into the username field, thus making it visible. I looked around the room to see if anyone was hurriedly writing down his password. Amazingly, nobody was. Or they were being conspicuous about it.
Well, I doubt something like this would be used to write the next version of Gimp, but I can see its use in helping people to convey what they want a computer to do. Few people need to write programs and I don't know whether I'd want people who don't understand computers to actually write them. But it would help when someone wants to make something like a 3D scene in Blender. It reminds me a lot of that episode of STTNG (Schizims) where Riker, Troy and Worf are telling the computer to replicate an alien room that they were in.
Honestly, I think that slashdot has really gone to the dogs and this thread really proves that. My original post was first modded up to interesting, then down to troll and overrated and now its up to interesting again. 3 years ago a post like that would have been modded up to +5 Interesting and there would have been many supporting comments. But you take a look at all the reply comments people made now about it not being IE's fault and that its Visual Basic and you wonder, what are these people thinking? When did slashdot take on so many people that don't see the obviousness of this problem. When did we get so many windows supporters on this site. Where have all the great OSS zealots gone that could argue down windows folk with a brilliant point of logic.
Reading slashdot comments anymore feels like crawling through a post-apocolyptic wasteland.
Yes, maybe so, but if it was possible to do this through Firefox running on Linux. I'm sure that the people reporting such a bug would claim that Firefox should not allow such things to occur. And I think that they'd be right to say so.
IE is part of the Windows Operating System so that parts of the OS and other applications can rely on the functionality and APIs being present. To be clear there are no Operating System APIs that IE uses that are not documented on MSDN as part of the platform SDK and available to other browsers and any other software that runs on Windows..
Of course, of course, you're right. I was just trying to be funny by reversing the statement made in the article title. Appearently, I rubbed someone the wrong way. Sheesh.
mobile internet hampers web design. Its a two way street there. Its still annoying to put up with people who use 640x480 or 800x600 resolution on 19" monitors.
"I once went to Target to buy a CD and used my new credit card to pay. After signing the receipt the cashier took my card and looked at the back and said "You haven't signed the back of your credit card.", I took my credit card back and signed the back of it and gave it back to her. She then proceeded to compare the back of my just signed credit card with the signature I had also just made on the receipt and said "Yep, they match". I just shook my head, took my stuff and left."
Actually, despite my experience in the past with this kind of sillyness, I have noticed a lot more cashiers taking more care to make sure that the signature really matches. Just yesterday I went to Half Price Books and thought that the cashier was going to breakout a magnifying glass to ensure that the signature was authentic.
One potential problem I think we face is that the potential aliens that we could talk to will have a wide timeframe of technological development. Some of them may be incredibly advanced and maybe already communicating with many other civilizations themselves (call this time C). So the question then becomes, why would they bother listening to us or would they even care what we are saying? On the other hand, there may be life out there, but it might be underdeveloped (call this time B) and cannot even hear us yet.
Although I think that it is highly likely that their are other civilizations out there, I think that the number of such civilizations that we can currently contact that are between times B and C may be small.
Right now the human race seems to think that whatever they say is worth listening too, much like stories posted by people on slashdot, in their webblogs, or this very comment. But sufficiently advanced minds aren't always interested in these things.
So I think a better way to go about it is, what could we send to an advanced civilization that would be interesting to them? Not to us.
Actually, you're right. I forgot that non-login accounts don't see signatures here. It must be from another forum that I have that sig on then (like gentoo forums)
Another method is link spam, aka "blog comment spam," in which automated bots plaster ads with return links on the comments pages of blogs.
Oh no! I've been exposed. The light! The light! Ahhhhh!
Seriously though, I didn't realize how well this worked until now. Just by posting to slashdot with my signature, I've managed to go to the top of google if you search for "website/email hosting". Impressive. Doing this wasn't my goal however, I was just trying to get some slashdotter's attention. *blushes*
I'm not sure what universe you live in, but $1.8 billion dollars per year is a lot of money.
Of course I know thats a lot of money. For me and you it is. But from Microsoft's point of view, it might be a fair trade off. Especially given their previous tactics.
In all likelyhood, they probably will comply with the EU's regulations in some way or another.
Haha, that would be awesome. Actually Microsoft will probably pay at least $5 million for today or tommorow. At least that money could go towards free software development. $5 million goes a long way if its used right and not pocketed by 15 administrators along the way.
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"We should probably have some more TLDs"
.museum and .aero are created which are either too long, or aren't restricted in use to just museums and aerospace companies. I feel that online commerce has bent themselves on destroying the usefulness of DNS. Nearly one quarter if not more of ccTLDs can be purchased by the public and used for any purpose. What will happen when countries like Tuvalu (.tv) reach technological savyness and find that their entire TLD has been used up by TV networks, domain brokers and companies that felt they needed to register theirname.com, .net, .org, .cc, .mx, .name, .info, and .tv just in case someone actually thought of typing one of those instead.
.ro extensions for over $500/year. What?!? Why? D
I don't think we need any more TLDs. Especially since silly TLDs like
On top of that, some ccTLDs are being sold for crazy prices. I found one regist
rar that was trying to sell
oes 'ro' mean something in the same way that 'tv' does?
People need to learn to properly use what they have before we can move on. Unfortunately, this has rarely happened in our society and in the end sadly, money rules the day.
I'd say its actually closer to 100%.
Actually, it really depends on who they would ask in a company. Whether it be
the business executive (probably a higher estimate)
the IT middle manager (lower estimate)
the IT worker (who would think that they are on time)
or the customer (who sometimes have unrealistic expectations)
(personally, if you're using a wizard to configure security you probably shouldn't be admining a server in the first place.
[sarc]
But wizards help to let everyone have a server. Its the logical follow up to having spelling and grammar checking in your software. Pretty soon, you won't need to learn about anything to administer a windows cluster. Heck, you won't even need a mouse or schooling. Just a microphone, voice recognition software and that MIT metaphor software. You'll just growl at your computer and it will magically do what you want.
[/sarc]
Back in 1997 I saw my computer science professor log into his sun box, which was being projected onto a screen for everyone to see. He started to login, but didn't realize that he was typing his password into the username field, thus making it visible. I looked around the room to see if anyone was hurriedly writing down his password. Amazingly, nobody was. Or they were being conspicuous about it.
Well, I doubt something like this would be used to write the next version of Gimp, but I can see its use in helping people to convey what they want a computer to do. Few people need to write programs and I don't know whether I'd want people who don't
understand computers to actually write them. But it would help when someone wants to make something like a 3D scene in Blender. It reminds me a lot of that episode of STTNG (Schizims) where Riker, Troy and Worf are telling the computer to replicate an alien room that they were in.
Brings new meaning to the word paintball.
how was that flamebait?
Honestly, I think that slashdot has really gone to the dogs and this thread really proves that. My original post was first modded up to interesting, then down to troll and overrated and now its up to interesting again. 3 years ago a post like that would have been modded up to +5 Interesting and there would have been many supporting comments. But you take a look at all the reply comments people made now about it not being IE's fault and that its Visual Basic and you wonder, what are these people thinking? When did slashdot take on so many people that don't see the obviousness of this problem. When did we get so many windows supporters on this site. Where have all the great OSS zealots gone that could argue down windows folk with a brilliant point of logic.
Reading slashdot comments anymore feels like crawling through a post-apocolyptic wasteland.
Yes, maybe so, but if it was possible to do this through Firefox running on Linux. I'm sure that the people reporting such a bug would claim that Firefox should not allow such things to occur. And I think that they'd be right to say so.
IE is part of the Windows Operating System so that parts of the OS and other applications can rely on the functionality and APIs being present. To be clear there are no Operating System APIs that IE uses that are not documented on MSDN as part of the platform SDK and available to other browsers and any other software that runs on Windows..
You mean like being able to eject the client's CD drive from a website.
(Actually, this might not work on IE 6.0+. Can you believe they actually fixed the problem.)
testing what happens if you don't close a link.
yep.
Let's see if the length of the threads talking about the oversize length of the blurb will end up being longer than the blurb was. ;-)
Of course, of course, you're right. I was just trying to be funny by reversing the statement made in the article title. Appearently, I rubbed someone the wrong way. Sheesh.
mobile internet hampers web design. Its a two way street there. Its still annoying to put up with people who use 640x480 or 800x600 resolution on 19" monitors.
Or if you don't like this slashdot article, you can read the same one that was posted on slashdot exactly one year ago (well, almost exactly)
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Cool, sounds like the perfect place to store Rooftop Warrior [warning, bad quality homemade ninja movie]
Unless I'm missing something, this ended in a settlement, not an in court win backed up by a judge.
A story I heard once somewhere on the web:
"I once went to Target to buy a CD and used my new credit card to pay. After signing the receipt the cashier took my card and looked at the back and said "You haven't signed the back of your credit card.", I took my credit card back and signed the back of it and gave it back to her. She then proceeded to compare the back of my just signed credit card with the signature I had also just made on the receipt and said "Yep, they match". I just shook my head, took my stuff and left."
Actually, despite my experience in the past with this kind of sillyness, I have noticed a lot more cashiers taking more care to make sure that the signature really matches. Just yesterday I went to Half Price Books and thought that the cashier was going to breakout a magnifying glass to ensure that the signature was authentic.
then Here are a bunch of other things that have been tied to lower test scores
If anything, its a problem with education not competiting enough with other distractions.
One potential problem I think we face is that the potential aliens that we could talk to will have a wide timeframe of technological development. Some of them may be incredibly advanced and maybe already communicating with many other civilizations themselves (call this time C). So the question then becomes, why would they bother listening to us or would they even care what we are saying? On the other hand, there may be life out there, but it might be underdeveloped (call this time B) and cannot even hear us yet.
Although I think that it is highly likely that their are other civilizations out there, I think that the number of such civilizations that we can currently contact that are between times B and C may be small.
Right now the human race seems to think that whatever they say is worth listening too, much like stories posted by people on slashdot, in their webblogs, or this very comment. But sufficiently advanced minds aren't always interested in these things.
So I think a better way to go about it is, what could we send to an advanced civilization that would be interesting to them? Not to us.
Actually, you're right. I forgot that non-login accounts don't see signatures here. It must be from another forum that I have that sig on then (like gentoo forums)
Thanks a lot.
Another method is link spam, aka "blog comment spam," in which automated bots plaster ads with return links on the comments pages of blogs.
Oh no! I've been exposed. The light! The light! Ahhhhh!
Seriously though, I didn't realize how well this worked until now. Just by posting to slashdot with my signature, I've managed to go to the top of google if you search for "website/email hosting". Impressive. Doing this wasn't my goal however, I was just trying to get some slashdotter's attention. *blushes*
I'm not sure what universe you live in, but $1.8 billion dollars per year is a lot of money.
Of course I know thats a lot of money. For me and you it is. But from Microsoft's point of view, it might be a fair trade off. Especially given their previous tactics.
In all likelyhood, they probably will comply with the EU's regulations in some way or another.
Haha, that would be awesome. Actually Microsoft will probably pay at least $5 million for today or tommorow. At least that money could go towards free software development. $5 million goes a long way if its used right and not pocketed by 15 administrators along the way.