Oh no, I don't see it happening either. Not because it isn't a good idea but because ICANN and the registrars just don't give a shit.
User should be able to simply choose site they want from from a menu like global bookmarks instead of having to type it all in. That's the kind of thing that's meant by 'make use of the structure of the heirarchy'.
Stopping or greatly reducing spam isn't all that difficult.
Create a bogus account.
Set up some procmail rules on the account to pull the from address etc out of any mail sent to that account and store it in a spammer list.
Set up sendmail or procmail to bounce or/dev/null all mail which matches the spammer list.
Publish the spamtrap account or aliases on a couple of web sites and news groups.
Watch the amount of spam you get reduce significantly.
Works quite well but you have to occasionally post to newsgroups etc to keep the account in the various spammers lists. I put it in a couple of.signatures.
You can protect your whole organisation this way. The theory is that the only people who would ever send mail to the spamprobe account are the spammers. You make it clear on the web site and news posts that the address is a spamtrap account.
It's worth using an alias which will sort alphabetically to somewhere near the beginning of a spammers list. Some of them seem to sort the addresses they send to.
Is it just me or are Intel doing the same thing with USB vs FireWire.
At the moment we have USB, nice cheap serial bus used for low bandwidth operations like modems, keyboards, mice, that sort of thing.
We also have FireWire, an IEEE *standard* serial bus for medium bandwidth devices - video cameras seem most prevalent at the moment. Not so cheap though.
*Why* are Intel trying to compete with an IEEE standard with USB 2?
Napster have a fantastic distribution channel. You notice that all the people downloaded the MP3s from Napster, not elsewhere? (I know it's distributed)
The problem is with charging.
Basically, Napster create a private area where files can be stored and downloaded from. It costs 20c for each download from that area, they monitor the number of downloads for each file and pass a percentage (50%?) of the 20c/download back to the relevant band.
Users get a login account and passwd and they 'bank' $10 with their account on Napster. Each download they perform from the private area removes 20c from their banked $10.
Metallica _could_ be making 10c * 700,000 every day...
The box is a Cobalt Qube with a MIPS CPU running Linux. The main difference with a Qube is the colour. It also has some slightly different software installed.
I think this is actually more news than the SOI stuff.
Anyway, PPC in digital cameras, internet appliances etc etc etc...
The finalised design hit the webservers - today so expect a couple of months for the independants to get production running. BTW - anyone can build boards using this design.
IBM site: http://www.chips.ibm.com/products/powerpc/linux/
Well, it looks like the IEEE computer society is the closest to the BCS for Americans.
http://www.computer.org/
I'd advise that you join the society and follow the accredited courses there rather than trying to become certified by each of these vendor specific certification schemes.
There are a lot of people coming into the IT marketplace at the moment, the only way employers will realistically be able to tell the good people from the bad people will be if they insist that everyone is a member of a professional society such as the British Computer Society or the American equivalent (which seems to be the IEEE computer society) which upholds professional standards.
Members who do not uphold the standards can be expelled and then have great difficulty finding good employment.
You may find it's cheaper as well. These vendor certification courses are expensive.
Going on a training course to understand how something specific works is one thing and I'm sure the Red Hat courses are very valuable in that respect but becoming 'certified' by an organisation like Red Hat or Microsoft or Novell is quite another matter.
Don't you USA bods have a professional IT society? The UK has the British Computing Society. It's purpose is:
".... promote the study and practice of Computing and to advance knowledge therein for the benefit of the public"
The BCS is also an Engineering Institution, fully licensed by the Engineering Council to nominate Chartered and Incorporated Engineers and to accredit university courses and training schemes.
Membership of the BCS with a professional grade is a much better indicator of a useful IT person than specific 'certifications' by Microsoft or Red Hat or Novell. In order to become a professional member you must have years of experience and be well educated, either through university or through accredited courses.
The argument here always seems to be between the WinCEs and the Palms yet the best palmtops/PDAs I have come across are the Psion machines running the EPOC operating system.
Have a look at the Psion web site.
http://www.psion.com/
The Psion palmtops really do put the WinCE competition to shame. From the tiny Revo to the Netbook, the machines are *designed* to do a job, they don't just have random feature X bolted on because the marketing department say they must have it.
The next generation of phones won't need WAP at all. They will have larger screens, the Symbian EPOC OS built in, 128Kbps download speed and fast ARM CPUs.
It doesn't really make sense to re-develop entire sites for WAP when the next generation phones do not use it.
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I thought for a moment that you said there would be a memory and LSD shortage. Had me worried there.
I don't think the fact that it's an IEEE spec means that it's patent free.
Anyway, http://www.opencores.org/
And would this make any difference if the issue is patents anyway?
There's nothing to see people. move along. move along.
"Constellations of computers, devices and services."
"Constellations of Web Services."
"Constellations of applications, services and devices."
And here was me thinking that constellations were things to be seen up in the sky at night. What a bunch of pretentious gits.
Lets count the number of times it comes up in ther press announcements. 35 times on their web site as of 23/6/2000.
But no-one in their right mind would ever try to extend the windows paradigm to an Application Service Provider. There's just no way that can work.
Where ASPs will be big:
Oracle Financials, SAP, web mail.
If you can get a web interface on to it then maybe.
# is a hash - what MS make of everything.
So it's CHASH, pronounced "ch-ash".
It's all here baby.
DNS rant at http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/dns/
Contact ICANN. Tell em.
At the moment there are a few applications with spyware and almost exclusively for Windows.
How long will it be before spyware as a requirement starts making it into the EULAs for new applications?
You know. You're not licensed to use this application unless you agree that information can be sent back to the publishers.
I can see this kind of requirement turning up in stuff that would otherwise be free software. MP3 players etc. Scary.
Not news.
The electronic nose was developed 10 years ago at U.M.I.S.T in Manchester, UK.
http://www.dias.umist.ac.uk/
I hated the place when I was there (Still do, Manchester's a dump) but they definitely had an electronic nose.
The guys who developed it also started a company to sell the things (aromascan).
Oh no, I don't see it happening either. Not because it isn't a good idea but because ICANN and the registrars just don't give a shit.
User should be able to simply choose site they want from from a menu like global bookmarks instead of having to type it all in. That's the kind of thing that's meant by 'make use of the structure of the heirarchy'.
They don't seem to be up to doing much else. The best rant I've seen about what ICANN are planning for our future is at:
http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/dns/
So. What are you going to do when good old Tony sends in the Marines and blows everything up?
Stopping or greatly reducing spam isn't all that difficult.
Works quite well but you have to occasionally post to newsgroups etc to keep the account in the various spammers lists. I put it in a couple of .signatures.
You can protect your whole organisation this way. The theory is that the only people who would ever send mail to the spamprobe account are the spammers. You make it clear on the web site and news posts that the address is a spamtrap account.
It's worth using an alias which will sort alphabetically to somewhere near the beginning of a spammers list. Some of them seem to sort the addresses they send to.
To add a little perspective.
At 35 hours download time per movie over your average modem I don't think it'll take off for a few years yet.
USB 1: 1.5Mbps now
USB 2: 400Mbps (not here yet)
You would put them both on the same bus? That's insane.
IEEE1394 (FireWire): 100-400Mbps now.
Apple changed the licensing from per port years ago.
I can already buy FireWire stuff. All the digital video cameras come with FireWire so why USB 2? It isn't needed.
Is it just me or are Intel doing the same thing with USB vs FireWire.
At the moment we have USB, nice cheap serial bus used for low bandwidth operations like modems, keyboards, mice, that sort of thing.
We also have FireWire, an IEEE *standard* serial bus for medium bandwidth devices - video cameras seem most prevalent at the moment. Not so cheap though.
*Why* are Intel trying to compete with an IEEE standard with USB 2?
Basically.
Napster have a fantastic distribution channel. You notice that all the people downloaded the MP3s from Napster, not elsewhere? (I know it's distributed)
The problem is with charging.
Basically, Napster create a private area where files can be stored and downloaded from. It costs 20c for each download from that area, they monitor the number of downloads for each file and pass a percentage (50%?) of the 20c/download back to the relevant band.
Users get a login account and passwd and they 'bank' $10 with their account on Napster. Each download they perform from the private area removes 20c from their banked $10.
Metallica _could_ be making 10c * 700,000 every day...
It's not news.
Jesus christ.
The box is a Cobalt Qube with a MIPS CPU running Linux. The main difference with a Qube is the colour. It also has some slightly different software installed.
All redundant but so is the bloody article.
The info is in another post.
Looks like there are a few vendors planning POP based motherboards. I'd expect it to take a couple of months to get the boards into production.
I think this is actually more news than the SOI stuff.
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Anyway, PPC in digital cameras, internet appliances etc etc etc
The finalised design hit the webservers - today so expect a couple of months for the independants to get production running. BTW - anyone can build boards using this design.
IBM site:
http://www.chips.ibm.com/products/powerpc/linux
POP PPC motherboard vendors?:
Prophecy systems:
http://www.eternalcomputing.com/psys/index.html
Silicon Fruit:
http://www.siliconfruit.com/fruit/index_html
POP computers:
http://www.popcomputers.com/
Well, it looks like the IEEE computer society is the closest to the BCS for Americans.
http://www.computer.org/
I'd advise that you join the society and follow the accredited courses there rather than trying to become certified by each of these vendor specific certification schemes.
There are a lot of people coming into the IT marketplace at the moment, the only way employers will realistically be able to tell the good people from the bad people will be if they insist that everyone is a member of a professional society such as the British Computer Society or the American equivalent (which seems to be the IEEE computer society) which upholds professional standards.
Members who do not uphold the standards can be expelled and then have great difficulty finding good employment.
You may find it's cheaper as well. These vendor certification courses are expensive.
Going on a training course to understand how something specific works is one thing and I'm sure the Red Hat courses are very valuable in that respect but becoming 'certified' by an organisation like Red Hat or Microsoft or Novell is quite another matter.
Don't you USA bods have a professional IT society? The UK has the British Computing Society. It's purpose is:
Membership of the BCS with a professional grade is a much better indicator of a useful IT person than specific 'certifications' by Microsoft or Red Hat or Novell. In order to become a professional member you must have years of experience and be well educated, either through university or through accredited courses.
Plus you get to put letters after your name. :-)
The argument here always seems to be between the WinCEs and the Palms yet the best palmtops/PDAs I have come across are the Psion machines running the EPOC operating system.
Have a look at the Psion web site.
http://www.psion.com/
The Psion palmtops really do put the WinCE competition to shame. From the tiny Revo to the Netbook, the machines are *designed* to do a job, they don't just have random feature X bolted on because the marketing department say they must have it.
The next generation of phones won't need WAP at all. They will have larger screens, the Symbian EPOC OS built in, 128Kbps download speed and fast ARM CPUs.
It doesn't really make sense to re-develop entire sites for WAP when the next generation phones do not use it.