It amazes me people still use NetSol. Two hour hold times (if you don't get a busy signal), domain squatting, and problems transfering. What gets me the most is that they view domains as a phone number. They own it, we just pay for the right to use it. When that went down, I thought people would leave NetSol in droves. I guess the average consumer just does not care enough to find out who they are really doing business with.
Because people don't need to call them because they set up a domain years ago and it's been working just fine (such as myself). Most people don't need all these spiffy tools etc. - they just need their domain registered and working! Plus, no one wants to move their mission-critical domain to a registrar that has <2 years of being in business - especially with all these failing.COM's.
This being said, NetSol does suck in comparison to many of the new registrars. I think as these registrars get more mature, others such as myself will find ourselves looking elsewhere when we get our next yearly domain renewal notice.
BZZZ wrong. The M$ WORM for IIS that the origonal post refered to had a patch released TWO WEEKS AGO (I know because we patched). People just didn't patch their machines (neither did a lot of M$ departments either, ironically). I'm not trying to prove that linux is just as insecure as M$, but it's hogwash to state that M$ is so completely insecure in comparison.
And there are a lot of sites already using.NET. (Beta 2 is very stable, almost a release candidate - no where near "heavily beta"). For example, go to the boycott adobe site and try to buy something from them - their entire storefront is ASP.NET.
It's also BS that I get a flaimbait moderation when posting to an anti-M$ FLAIM that got modded up (but, although mine was purely factual and the other was sensational, since mine wasn't pro J2EE (which I personally like as well) I got modded down).
Common/., I'm not a religious zealot, and neither should you be one (esp. if you are moderating). I've built many solutions using Linux/PHP and Perl. I just choose what's best for the job. For my current business,.NET looks promising, and I'm sick of people bashing it without even knowing what it is other then the "hailstorm" initiative.
what does the future bring with the.Net strategy? Lost privacy? Stupid security bugs everywhere? Pay-to-play software?
Typical anti-MSFT FUD. I haven't lost any privacy using.NET (no, you do NOT have to use passport).
Security bugs? Yes, IIS has had and still has a HUGE problem with these rediculous buffer overflows, but it doesn't look like MSFT is the only one with recent major security problems.
Pay-to-play is a business decision, and is not an inherint attribute of.NET.
what are the chances that.Net vulnerabilities will have reprocussions across all Internet services and platforms?
What are the chances that the same goes for J2EE with Sun ONE? It's the nature of the interconnected beast.
...unless they get a deal with winAmp. Maybe their integrated player will be the ONLY player for music downloaded on Napster. And somehow, it has to be compatible with my hardware player I just spent $300 on.
But your supporting case is a very weak one. Unfortunately, in the United States, not only could that apartment owner be sued criminally, but he could forfeit the building WITHOUT a hearing of any sort.
His ability (or lack thereof) to know about the activity doesn't matter. If illegal drugs are found on property, that property is forfeit. No trial, no appeals. Bend over and kiss your apartment, house, car goodbye.
I don't want to get into this but your post is factually incorrect. Every apartment building has some pot grower and the landlord doesn't even hear about it most of the time (my family has a LOT of Real Estate BTW).
As much as the Athlon people tout their shit as superior, and it took them HOW long to do SMP ?
Just because SMP hasn't been a business priority for AMD doesn't meen that they didn't have the technical competance to do so years ago, nor does it have any relevance to the quality of their chips.
Because TransMeta doesn't make processors to compete on speed, rather battery life and portability.
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Yes, but sometimes one needs more due to the complexity. For example, NURBS are incredibly powerful and incredibly complex. I would imagine learning to model with them would be a LOT easier with some sort of a formal foundation (books, school, etc).
I'm not personally stating my opinion on this matter, but note the attitude change from page 1 to 3 (I assume most of us read page 1 or just the headline).
...districts can purchase subscriptions to Microsoft software suites, which offer a 50 to 90 percent discount, according to Microsoft figures.
Not so expensive now is it?
...Philadelphia school district's chief information officer Ron Daniels, "Microsoft has acted more like a partner than police officer".
Interesting change in attitude.
All and all, Microsoft has been very supportive and has provided us with tools such as an online database to verify our licenses and has even donated over $20,000 to assist our schools.
Although I agree that no company should bully an education institution for software licensing, I think these quotes alone point out that it is possible that M$ was not as violent (at least in this case) as the article would like us to believe at first glance.
True. The issue here is that we have mulitple governments trying to regulate a global entity. IMHO this is actually kind of scary because there are so many diverse beliefs globally that nearly EVERYTHING on the Internet could get censored for one reason or another. I think that this could set really bad precidance if the US decides to comply with the French government on this one.
Keep the Internet free, and if someone doesn't like something on a site, they don't have to go there.
I don't think he's prejudice, rather, I think he's honestly aknowledging a socialogical problem and doing good by attempting to help it. The unfortunate reality is, there are "ghetto's" (regardless of race), and they do have statistically lower standards of education. I think you are being more "racist" by bringing "race" into the discussion in the first place. And please do not argue facts with Politcally Correct propaganda - it's intellectually dishonest.
American media is the worst. By far.
The reason is simple, the business of America is business, the research of America is business, the government of America is business and art in America is just business.
I've only live in the US, and I have to say that you couldn't have put it better.
their case for public good is quite a strong one:
protecting the livings of musicians
First, I am a musician (IAAM?). Second, this post is hogwash. Musicians don't have a "RIGHT" to make millions of dollars off their music. Good music from LOCALS is good for the public, not over priced, over engineered crap. I know many musicans that have 0 to do with the RIAA, and are NOT negatively affected by any form of piracy. Musicians will always be around for the public at clubs, on the Internet, and at festivals - without the RIAA.
Thanks to real musicians who love music as an art, the entire "music industry" could collapse and we'd still have great music for all to enjoy.
Heck, our music would probably be more cultured and less expensive to enjoy.
This may sound ignorant, but can't they code a plugin for their modler to take plain-text dialog and animate the mouth? Then they could just re-type the scenes and re-render. Even with 3DS max, a broadcast and game quality plugin JeteReyes let's you accomplish this task to a reasonable degree of realism (while being free as in beer for R3). Any thoughts?
This post should be rated as -1 Troll. Starvation = food distribution and economic problems. It's != lack of food. And, I weigh 135 pounds and work 6 days a week thank you very much Mr. Ignoramous
There are groups in the USDA, in Universities, etc. who work specifically to keep seed samples of the original species so that they are not lost.
Oh, that comforts me (not). Why don't we just use those "original species" in the first place? The parent to your post is right - no one is looking at the "playing God is going to FUBAR our veggies" factor.
Why are we so set on genetically modifiying our veggies in the first place?
It has NO benefit to humans, and a HUGE potential to fsck things up with our [health|crops|economy]. Oh wait, I forgot, corporations can make more money... never mind, forget I was even here!
You are still missing the inherint problem with the dating methods. We can only _prove_ that they are accurate to maybe ~100 years back. We then assume that based on how something has aged for a century or so that it will keep aging like that, therefore we have a dating method. IMHO this is bad science - the sample size is WAY TOO SMALL.
It will take humanity (if we exist long enough) 1,000's of years to produce a dating method that is even halfway scientifically sound.
Wow, looks like if you say ANYTHING against our scientific methods you get modded as a Troll here - that's a GREAT way to improve our science. Common moderators, this was an extremely valid post - please don't MOD based on your opinion (see: moderator guidlines).
Give me a BREAK. Acadamia's arrogance towards many "different" students ("geeks" or otherwise) is an insult to academic integrity - and so is your graceless comment.
You are still missing the inherint problem with the dating methods. We can only _prove_ that they are accurate to maybe ~100 years back. We then assume that based on how something has aged for a century or so that it will keep aging like that, therefore we have a dating method. IMHO this is bad science - the sample size is WAY TOO SMALL.
It will take humanity (if we exist long enough) 1,000's of years to produce a dating method that is even halfway scientifically sound.
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It amazes me people still use NetSol. Two hour hold times (if you don't get a busy signal), domain squatting, and problems transfering. What gets me the most is that they view domains as a phone number. They own it, we just pay for the right to use it. When that went down, I thought people would leave NetSol in droves. I guess the average consumer just does not care enough to find out who they are really doing business with.
.COM's.
Because people don't need to call them because they set up a domain years ago and it's been working just fine (such as myself). Most people don't need all these spiffy tools etc. - they just need their domain registered and working! Plus, no one wants to move their mission-critical domain to a registrar that has <2 years of being in business - especially with all these failing
This being said, NetSol does suck in comparison to many of the new registrars. I think as these registrars get more mature, others such as myself will find ourselves looking elsewhere when we get our next yearly domain renewal notice.
BZZZ wrong. The M$ WORM for IIS that the origonal post refered to had a patch released TWO WEEKS AGO (I know because we patched). People just didn't patch their machines (neither did a lot of M$ departments either, ironically). I'm not trying to prove that linux is just as insecure as M$, but it's hogwash to state that M$ is so completely insecure in comparison.
.NET. (Beta 2 is very stable, almost a release candidate - no where near "heavily beta"). For example, go to the boycott adobe site and try to buy something from them - their entire storefront is ASP.NET.
/., I'm not a religious zealot, and neither should you be one (esp. if you are moderating). I've built many solutions using Linux/PHP and Perl. I just choose what's best for the job. For my current business, .NET looks promising, and I'm sick of people bashing it without even knowing what it is other then the "hailstorm" initiative.
And there are a lot of sites already using
It's also BS that I get a flaimbait moderation when posting to an anti-M$ FLAIM that got modded up (but, although mine was purely factual and the other was sensational, since mine wasn't pro J2EE (which I personally like as well) I got modded down).
Common
what does the future bring with the .Net strategy? Lost privacy? Stupid security bugs everywhere? Pay-to-play software?
.NET (no, you do NOT have to use passport).
.NET.
.Net vulnerabilities will have reprocussions across all Internet services and platforms?
Typical anti-MSFT FUD.
I haven't lost any privacy using
Security bugs? Yes, IIS has had and still has a HUGE problem with these rediculous buffer overflows, but it doesn't look like MSFT is the only one with recent major security problems.
Pay-to-play is a business decision, and is not an inherint attribute of
what are the chances that
What are the chances that the same goes for J2EE with Sun ONE? It's the nature of the interconnected beast.
Does anyone know who uses .US now? And why is it America has not used this TLD like most other countries have had to do? (IE: www.myDomain.or.jp, etc.)
...unless they get a deal with winAmp. Maybe their integrated player will be the ONLY player for music downloaded on Napster. And somehow, it has to be compatible with my hardware player I just spent $300 on.
It doesn't have to be 100% effective to be effective.
Tell that to the Napster Judge.
The Supreme Court ordered that /. posters stop posting until they verify all their facts instead of checking the at the door.
/. posters use the "Preview" button to ensure 100% spelling and grammer compliance.
In a similar ruling the Supreme Court ordered that
But your supporting case is a very weak one. Unfortunately, in the United States, not only could that apartment owner be sued criminally, but he could forfeit the building WITHOUT a hearing of any sort. His ability (or lack thereof) to know about the activity doesn't matter. If illegal drugs are found on property, that property is forfeit. No trial, no appeals. Bend over and kiss your apartment, house, car goodbye.
I don't want to get into this but your post is factually incorrect. Every apartment building has some pot grower and the landlord doesn't even hear about it most of the time (my family has a LOT of Real Estate BTW).
As much as the Athlon people tout their shit as superior, and it took them HOW long to do SMP ?
Just because SMP hasn't been a business priority for AMD doesn't meen that they didn't have the technical competance to do so years ago, nor does it have any relevance to the quality of their chips.
Because TransMeta doesn't make processors to compete on speed, rather battery life and portability.
Yes, but sometimes one needs more due to the complexity. For example, NURBS are incredibly powerful and incredibly complex. I would imagine learning to model with them would be a LOT easier with some sort of a formal foundation (books, school, etc).
I'm not personally stating my opinion on this matter, but note the attitude change from page 1 to 3 (I assume most of us read page 1 or just the headline).
...districts can purchase subscriptions to Microsoft software suites, which offer a 50 to 90 percent discount, according to Microsoft figures.
...Philadelphia school district's chief information officer Ron Daniels, "Microsoft has acted more like a partner than police officer".
Not so expensive now is it?
Interesting change in attitude.
All and all, Microsoft has been very supportive and has provided us with tools such as an online database to verify our licenses and has even donated over $20,000 to assist our schools.
Although I agree that no company should bully an education institution for software licensing, I think these quotes alone point out that it is possible that M$ was not as violent (at least in this case) as the article would like us to believe at first glance.
A $10,000 machine dedicated to a single game knocks the socks off a PS2/XBox any day.
Except that 6-8months later the console/computer will meet or beat the quality of that $10K machine for a 10th of the cost.
True. The issue here is that we have mulitple governments trying to regulate a global entity. IMHO this is actually kind of scary because there are so many diverse beliefs globally that nearly EVERYTHING on the Internet could get censored for one reason or another. I think that this could set really bad precidance if the US decides to comply with the French government on this one.
Keep the Internet free, and if someone doesn't like something on a site, they don't have to go there.
They believe their cars can go 500 miles without refueling...
My (gas only) Honda Accord already does this. I was under the impression that fuel cells would be a lot more dramatic then this.
I don't think he's prejudice, rather, I think he's honestly aknowledging a socialogical problem and doing good by attempting to help it. The unfortunate reality is, there are "ghetto's" (regardless of race), and they do have statistically lower standards of education. I think you are being more "racist" by bringing "race" into the discussion in the first place. And please do not argue facts with Politcally Correct propaganda - it's intellectually dishonest.
American media is the worst. By far. The reason is simple, the business of America is business, the research of America is business, the government of America is business and art in America is just business.
I've only live in the US, and I have to say that you couldn't have put it better.
their case for public good is quite a strong one: protecting the livings of musicians
First, I am a musician (IAAM?). Second, this post is hogwash. Musicians don't have a "RIGHT" to make millions of dollars off their music. Good music from LOCALS is good for the public, not over priced, over engineered crap. I know many musicans that have 0 to do with the RIAA, and are NOT negatively affected by any form of piracy. Musicians will always be around for the public at clubs, on the Internet, and at festivals - without the RIAA.
Thanks to real musicians who love music as an art, the entire "music industry" could collapse and we'd still have great music for all to enjoy.
Heck, our music would probably be more cultured and less expensive to enjoy.
This may sound ignorant, but can't they code a plugin for their modler to take plain-text dialog and animate the mouth? Then they could just re-type the scenes and re-render. Even with 3DS max, a broadcast and game quality plugin JeteReyes let's you accomplish this task to a reasonable degree of realism (while being free as in beer for R3). Any thoughts?
This post should be rated as -1 Troll. Starvation = food distribution and economic problems. It's != lack of food. And, I weigh 135 pounds and work 6 days a week thank you very much Mr. Ignoramous
There are groups in the USDA, in Universities, etc. who work specifically to keep seed samples of the original species so that they are not lost.
Oh, that comforts me (not). Why don't we just use those "original species" in the first place? The parent to your post is right - no one is looking at the "playing God is going to FUBAR our veggies" factor.
Why are we so set on genetically modifiying our veggies in the first place?
It has NO benefit to humans, and a HUGE potential to fsck things up with our [health|crops|economy]. Oh wait, I forgot, corporations can make more money... never mind, forget I was even here!
You are still missing the inherint problem with the dating methods. We can only _prove_ that they are accurate to maybe ~100 years back. We then assume that based on how something has aged for a century or so that it will keep aging like that, therefore we have a dating method. IMHO this is bad science - the sample size is WAY TOO SMALL. It will take humanity (if we exist long enough) 1,000's of years to produce a dating method that is even halfway scientifically sound.
Wow, looks like if you say ANYTHING against our scientific methods you get modded as a Troll here - that's a GREAT way to improve our science. Common moderators, this was an extremely valid post - please don't MOD based on your opinion (see: moderator guidlines).
Give me a BREAK. Acadamia's arrogance towards many "different" students ("geeks" or otherwise) is an insult to academic integrity - and so is your graceless comment.
You are still missing the inherint problem with the dating methods. We can only _prove_ that they are accurate to maybe ~100 years back. We then assume that based on how something has aged for a century or so that it will keep aging like that, therefore we have a dating method. IMHO this is bad science - the sample size is WAY TOO SMALL. It will take humanity (if we exist long enough) 1,000's of years to produce a dating method that is even halfway scientifically sound.
Yup, they have one running with the left case panel replaced with plexiglass so you can see in... really cool :)