I thought there were other problems, as far as licensing issues for the movies, similar to the MIAA and Napster, etc. Studio types freeking out all over the place.
or was that someone else who got slimed by the hollywood scumbags?
What I am afraid of is that with all of these TLDs, the companies with Trademark Paranoia will go around making sure that they are in the park with all of these.
what I have said before, and it still makes sense, is to have infinite TLDs. Open them all up, have a party. Then at least there is a chance for the freedom that was there before. and if MS wants to spend untold millions registering every possible name variant, they can afford to spend some of the extra cash.
as it is, now everytime a company wants to lock up a site, the need to buy up all of the variants of.com.net.org, regardless of what these meant originally. These were never really well enforced.
And don't forget about the thought police who beat on folks who had a really cool name legitimately years before the "dotcom company" came out. For an interesting story in this regard check out Toywar.com, where the story of etoy.com is documented in humorous style.
with all of the varient site structures, never mind security issues, pay sites, and things like Microsoft constantly rebuilding/breaking its' website, it is hard to see how it would be better results then any meta search across the common search engines sites with prebuilt indexing, etc.
especially with the web running at well over a billion pages by now. Just think of the time to query a billion pages all around the planet, never mind on a small business line, with say a dsl line (forget modem!)
but then I don't get the big bucks for this either....
Given the polarization, and the self serving bias of both sides, I cannot say that either side is deserving.
More and more people I talk to are saying that we need a third party of some sort, because they are disgusted by the dirty politics of BOTH SIDES.
Just because I can't stomach some of the antics of Al "The Internet" Gore does not mean that I am a republican, and any republican who presumes that I am a supporter can take a very long vacation on the dark side of the Moon.
GWB will be the third president named George.
He needs to be very careful that he does not earn the name King George the III.
There has been over the past twenty or more years a trend to "more efficient " business practices. This has led to
"Just in Time" inventory systems, for example, where you save money by not having a large warehouse, but get screwed over if there is a temporary shortage. The upside on shortages if that if you plan it right, you can charge more for product in high demand.
The removing of many layers of middle management. The upside is the removing of many layers of deadwood. The downside is the loss of a place to send workers who can't be fired, but who are harmful to the company in a decision making position.
There is also a trend to lack of company loyalty because of diminished investment by workers and management in the future of the company. The result is that now that there are fewer senior being grown internally. This not only applies to middle managers, but also to Technology Experts. Factually, people have to be imported form overseas. This does not ensure competancy, and may produce other problems because of cultural clashes, sometimes on a subtle level.
Lack of Scalability due to lack of sufficient people at hand to have sufficient organization to grow.
The overall effect is to encourage a cannibalization of resources because it is cheaper in the short term to strip mine what you have, or to pillage your competition for resources. This is horribly short sighted, often encouraged by investment houses and others who scream for higher stock prices so they can make their profits, and the human cost be damned.
It is far more difficult to breath life into an enterprise and to grow it into a stable expanding concern.
Despite all of the management schools in existance, and all of the courses and degrees offered, it is obvious the most of the content beyond the basic machanic of accounting is full of junk ideas.
The management systems of companies are buggy beyond belief. There are resource leaks all over the place. There is no effective garbage collection. There are system conflicts all over the place. Anyone who put together a system like this would not even have the competancy of a script kiddie.
The fundamental expertise required to establish a modern running business has to be at least the level of any experienced system guru out there. And it isn't.
Management science needs to become an actual science based in the real world, with real principles. Right now, management is based far more on individual talent and genius than any real standardized body of knowledge.
Heck, when was the last time you saw the idea of applying the techniques of quality assurance to management? and how would you do it?
It reminds me of when software and hardware was going from the 486 level to the 586.
For most regular software, it did not mean squat. It only mattered for software that was specifically set up to take advantadge of the hardware features.
There were certain Photoshop filters that were fantastic at certain settings, but choked when you used others.
This is typical of new feature.
I was always amused by comparing processors running at the same clock speed. Typically, when you do that, the gain in performance is usually about 15% to 25% (YMMV) before you add in the differance in clock speed. All too often the clock speed is a huge factor in the performance boost, not just the design changes.
Both involve something going from point A to point B, with the interaction of a third point/party C
Relay: A sends something to B via C
Broker: C makes arrangements for A to send something to B directly.
Note that the negotiations to initiate all of the above would be a separate set communication packets.
as always, effective communications protocols means correct handling of the data packets sent and received.
Just like in any language.
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Given the yelling and screaming about FrankenFood(tm), I can really appreciate the need for extraordinary caution. But there has GOT to be some way to do this sort of thing right.
or should we start worrying about the balence of nature and the rights of the smallpox virus (which is basically extinct except for a couple of vials under tight security in a couple of research labs)?
this really bothers me given the apparent lack of ethics of the seed companies, vs the wanna be a luddite attitude of some of the protesters.
there are valid points on both sides, and rash stupidity as well.
We should be able to include this sort of thing into a strain of seed, etc. if we do it right. This turbulent fear of "we'll always screw it up" is rather unproductive. since apparently we need a better way to catch the "bugs" in the process.
Open sourcing the process is probably not a good idea though.
I suppose this means that we need to make sure bill gates gets his share of broken glass.
[shrug]
on a more serious note:
the glue is important because solder alone is not used to bind components. but you know this if you read the article. This is because the through hole strength of wire is often not sufficient for the big stuff, among other things.
This is just another step to becoming Borg, y'know.
Someone must have thought of this by watching Star Trek Voyager.
Looking at this, I can see how we become the Borg.
We buy into all of this technology because it all looks so damn cool. Nanaprobes, the enhancement of the brain network interface, etc.
There are certain elements to this that will be very attractive. And others that make 1984 a childrens story for pre-schoolers. At least it will be interesting, right?
Any culture that has elements based on faith will start to take on characteristics of religion.
Given the various factions, as well as the extreme length of time to become a full "initiate" in your chosen area of expertise, the parallels grow.
All one has to do is look at the Microsoft vs Linux/Unix battle. One Holy Church vs a group of dedicated Mystics. This keeps up, and it will start to vaguely start to sound like Dune.(Not that we need to act out that archetype....)
Given these parallels, people will tend tyo act out and act upon the patterns associated with religion in the context of religion. Not that they have to, but the stimulus response pattern is there. So it is easy to succumb to the hypnotic pattern.
of course, if you know what is going on, you have a fighting chance to not fall into the trap.
On the other hand, some like the view, and opt for bungie jumping into the abyss....[obscure joke][Prompted by the image of bungie jumping into a oversized bear trap]
As I originally posted here, I wonder when there will be a big fat pipe going from western europe to east asia that does not depend on the USA.
Routing through the mideast is a little dicey given the political instability. The infrastructure costs make a fat pipe via siberia a real pain. The point is simply redundancy, as well as opening up the net to other areas of the world. a fat pipe going through that part of the world would help this out tremendously.
Now it seems that this point has been brought home in spades. (shudder)
It is somehow appropriate that the people who were involved in the theft would want to make the exchange in the most complicated and convoluted manner possible. It seems very typical of wanna be spook types. Not that real spooks would ever do anything like that. (ha!)
just what we need, another failed example of over complicated solutions to a problem....
I actually recommend complete freedom on TLDs, although I have yet to figure how I would administer it. Probably a sign up for as particulary TLD like each domain name now. and the TLD owner could charge or not charge for domain names in it as they saw fit. Competition would bring the prices down.
and you know that it would irk microsoft to have to pay for something like
This is only going to burn through more of their cash, and make it even more difficult to have any market penetration at all.
Maybe they should read the old classic, "How to Make Friends and Influence People". Or maybe they have read this, and decided that that is the thing NOT to do.
Of course, what most business types are worried about is shelling out the bucks for a Geek Throne as mentioned on Slashdot recently. Not that I blame them. These things can get pricey.
Slashdot Mirror
[shudder]
or was that someone else who got slimed by the hollywood scumbags?
what I have said before, and it still makes sense, is to have infinite TLDs. Open them all up, have a party. Then at least there is a chance for the freedom that was there before. and if MS wants to spend untold millions registering every possible name variant, they can afford to spend some of the extra cash.
as it is, now everytime a company wants to lock up a site, the need to buy up all of the variants of .com .net .org, regardless of what these meant originally. These were never really well enforced.
And don't forget about the thought police who beat on folks who had a really cool name legitimately years before the "dotcom company" came out. For an interesting story in this regard check out Toywar.com, where the story of etoy.com is documented in humorous style.
especially with the web running at well over a billion pages by now. Just think of the time to query a billion pages all around the planet, never mind on a small business line, with say a dsl line (forget modem!)
but then I don't get the big bucks for this either....
More and more people I talk to are saying that we need a third party of some sort, because they are disgusted by the dirty politics of BOTH SIDES.
Just because I can't stomach some of the antics of Al "The Internet" Gore does not mean that I am a republican, and any republican who presumes that I am a supporter can take a very long vacation on the dark side of the Moon.
GWB will be the third president named George.
He needs to be very careful that he does not earn the name King George the III.
- "Just in Time" inventory systems, for example, where you save money by not having a large warehouse, but get screwed over if there is a temporary shortage. The upside on shortages if that if you plan it right, you can charge more for product in high demand.
- The removing of many layers of middle management. The upside is the removing of many layers of deadwood. The downside is the loss of a place to send workers who can't be fired, but who are harmful to the company in a decision making position.
- There is also a trend to lack of company loyalty because of diminished investment by workers and management in the future of the company. The result is that now that there are fewer senior being grown internally. This not only applies to middle managers, but also to Technology Experts. Factually, people have to be imported form overseas. This does not ensure competancy, and may produce other problems because of cultural clashes, sometimes on a subtle level.
- Lack of Scalability due to lack of sufficient people at hand to have sufficient organization to grow.
The overall effect is to encourage a cannibalization of resources because it is cheaper in the short term to strip mine what you have, or to pillage your competition for resources. This is horribly short sighted, often encouraged by investment houses and others who scream for higher stock prices so they can make their profits, and the human cost be damned.It is far more difficult to breath life into an enterprise and to grow it into a stable expanding concern.
Despite all of the management schools in existance, and all of the courses and degrees offered, it is obvious the most of the content beyond the basic machanic of accounting is full of junk ideas.
The management systems of companies are buggy beyond belief. There are resource leaks all over the place. There is no effective garbage collection. There are system conflicts all over the place. Anyone who put together a system like this would not even have the competancy of a script kiddie.
The fundamental expertise required to establish a modern running business has to be at least the level of any experienced system guru out there. And it isn't.
Management science needs to become an actual science based in the real world, with real principles. Right now, management is based far more on individual talent and genius than any real standardized body of knowledge.
Heck, when was the last time you saw the idea of applying the techniques of quality assurance to management? and how would you do it?
For most regular software, it did not mean squat. It only mattered for software that was specifically set up to take advantadge of the hardware features.
There were certain Photoshop filters that were fantastic at certain settings, but choked when you used others. This is typical of new feature.
I was always amused by comparing processors running at the same clock speed. Typically, when you do that, the gain in performance is usually about 15% to 25% (YMMV) before you add in the differance in clock speed. All too often the clock speed is a huge factor in the performance boost, not just the design changes.
I think I'll go have another beer....
Both involve something going from point A to point B, with the interaction of a third point/party C
Relay: A sends something to B via C
Broker: C makes arrangements for A to send something to B directly.
Note that the negotiations to initiate all of the above would be a separate set communication packets.
as always, effective communications protocols means correct handling of the data packets sent and received.
Just like in any language.
or should we start worrying about the balence of nature and the rights of the smallpox virus (which is basically extinct except for a couple of vials under tight security in a couple of research labs)?
this really bothers me given the apparent lack of ethics of the seed companies, vs the wanna be a luddite attitude of some of the protesters.
there are valid points on both sides, and rash stupidity as well.
We should be able to include this sort of thing into a strain of seed, etc. if we do it right. This turbulent fear of "we'll always screw it up" is rather unproductive. since apparently we need a better way to catch the "bugs" in the process.
Open sourcing the process is probably not a good idea though.
[shrug]
on a more serious note:
the glue is important because solder alone is not used to bind components. but you know this if you read the article. This is because the through hole strength of wire is often not sufficient for the big stuff, among other things.
Someone must have thought of this by watching Star Trek Voyager.
Looking at this, I can see how we become the Borg.
We buy into all of this technology because it all looks so damn cool. Nanaprobes, the enhancement of the brain network interface, etc.
There are certain elements to this that will be very attractive. And others that make 1984 a childrens story for pre-schoolers. At least it will be interesting, right?
Sign me up right now!
feh ...
and there would be no bandwidth wasted on ads, etc. just pure music.
you would also have to be more than a technology wannabe to get your tunes, of course.
an iron clad way to keep aol, etc goof balls in their play pen.
{smile}
even though it is still a little dicey for the EU to start taking over such things on a continental basis.
As a contrast, imagine patent law in the USA if all 50 states had their own patent offices. It gets scary very quickly.
I wonder what the bandwidth of that pipe is....
Given the various factions, as well as the extreme length of time to become a full "initiate" in your chosen area of expertise, the parallels grow.
All one has to do is look at the Microsoft vs Linux/Unix battle. One Holy Church vs a group of dedicated Mystics. This keeps up, and it will start to vaguely start to sound like Dune.(Not that we need to act out that archetype ....)
Given these parallels, people will tend tyo act out and act upon the patterns associated with religion in the context of religion. Not that they have to, but the stimulus response pattern is there. So it is easy to succumb to the hypnotic pattern.
of course, if you know what is going on, you have a fighting chance to not fall into the trap.
On the other hand, some like the view, and opt for bungie jumping into the abyss....[obscure joke][Prompted by the image of bungie jumping into a oversized bear trap]
Routing through the mideast is a little dicey given the political instability. The infrastructure costs make a fat pipe via siberia a real pain. The point is simply redundancy, as well as opening up the net to other areas of the world. a fat pipe going through that part of the world would help this out tremendously.
Now it seems that this point has been brought home in spades. (shudder)
y'know, now that I think of that, this might not be a bad idea at all. Imagine the headlines:
I swear, this is ripe for something on the Onion, if anything was..
"Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem"
(as seen on a bulletin board in Fermi lab)
just what we need, another failed example of over complicated solutions to a problem ....
and you know that it would irk microsoft to have to pay for something like
www.microsoft.fnord
www.microsoft.sucks
www.microsoft.myboyfriend
etc.
the possibilities are endless
Maybe they should read the old classic, "How to Make Friends and Influence People". Or maybe they have read this, and decided that that is the thing NOT to do.
Even Machiavelli (Gates) has more tack that this.
that said, fees for huge subsections (say IBM or Microsoft) where everything is mapped out in grand detail, that I can see.
but they should be featured is a special section so you know what they are, specific commercial listings.
beyond that, not a big deal.
Let me think ....
Let me think ....
Wasn't he associated with ...?
No! Wait!
I got it wrong.
I was thinking of the RONCO company, the makers of all of those wonderfully cheap infomercial gadgets.
Nothing to do with this at all
Nothing to do with this at all
Really!
The guys who used the pyramids to pump water into the sky to terraform the planet and shut if off because of political infighting and ....."
[muffled thumps are heard as a bunch of Men in Black drag the speaker away into a waiting limozine]
Please ignore the above, we obviously had a fruit loop trying to take over the topic .....