I keep hoping to write my magnum opus...keep an eye on my site, I post new stuff from time to time as I develop my skills...none of it is pure gold yet, in fact most of it is pure "dren"...but its feedback from readers that I use to get better...so what the hell...
1. Elizabeth Haydon 2. David Drake 3. Terry Goodkind(although perhaps not exactly new) 4. George RR Martin(again not exactly new but you didn't mention him) 5. Tim Zahn 6. Brian Herbert - son of Frank
...Who is gonna toil away in some lab as a research assisuant for squat...in a tiny apartment cuase thats all they can afford when friends from school/life are out getting married, buy nice cars, houses etc...
1. Scuff the wheels up the stock wheels are to smooth and sometimes have a ridge...this helps alot...tip put them all on a long nail put the nail in a drill as a bit...spin drill...hold wheels against sandpaper...scuffing takes about 20 seconds and comes out very even if done right.
2. Put all weight on the bottom of the car. Put even amounts near each axle...and the remaining amount dead center of the car.
3. Lots of powder graphite on the inside of the wheel and the axles...but do not apply to the axles till they have been mounted...maybe that mistake one year..wheels came flying off mid run...
4. Different districts seem to apply rules on axle attachment differently so your YMMV on this one. Dont use the slots on the bottom of the block the axles can slip out...if your allowed drill a pilot channel directly through the body from side to side...just make sure the front and back are at even hieghts....this should be done carefully as it must be no more than a 1 -1 1/2 centimeters from the bottom of the car, otherwise the car might not clear the track guide. a. if you must use the channels they might let you glue the axles into them do this if you can...I have seen lots of wheels fall off mid run. b. make sure the wheels are as close to the body as possible without restricting movement c. if allowed use a copper bushing again well graphited, between the body and the wheel, this will allow for maximum stability of the car and maximum wheel turn rate. 5. I have seen conflicting evidence in my time on car shape, and aero dynamics...all I can say for sure is I have seen more cars win that where shaped like airplane wings...and sanded very smooth with a high gloss paint...Hint: nail polish and clear nail top coat. 6. This is supposed to be a fun event don't go overboard concentrate on the fun aspect of building the cars, and having a good time as a father son activity. Winning is good, but not the point. My den was one of 20+ in the troop, there were probably 100+ of us at every derby, and only one person can win...if your in a similar situation, the odds are horendous.
PS. Anyone remeber the Balsa wood hanging rocket races...with the huge propller on the front...I liked that one even better than pine wood...of course that was probably because I won everytime. My designs were consistently the only ones that made it to the end of the hanging track!
Mortgages vs. domain names are apples to oranges. You don't live in your domain name, you don't have your bills mailed to your domain name, you don't have utilities (water, electricity, etc) sent to your domain name. You don't store all of your personal belongings in your domain name. Yes, you "own" it for a period of time but they're nowhere near the same.
Property is property...and perhaps the defination of domain names as property needs to be refined so they are considered the same as "real estate"...The Domain registration fees are the same as paying your taxes if you look at it that way. Well actually I do have utilities sent to my domain names, internet access is that utility. Electricity is needd to make the domain name exist on the internet. The world really needs to break out of the property is a physical thing mind set. I own my domain name its mine...I pay utilities and registration fees as upkeep on that property. Truthfully thus far is have kept my real view in a minimalist perspective. My true feelings are that once you register a name it should be yours for all time. if someone else wants it they have to negotiate with you for it. If you don't pay your internet fees it becomes unavailable period. However I don't believe in domain squating either if you have a domain name you are obligated to do sometihng with it over time and purchasing domain names for the purposes of selling them to cash in on them is wrong. Of course from your replys I suspect thats probably counter to your view of the world.
Yes, with mortgages you get a notice and a grace period. However, don't pay the mortgage long enough and the bank will repo the property. Same with the domain name -- you pay for it for a period of time. When that expires, if you don't pay it goes to someone else (or back in the pool).
And I completely agree, I just think your missing the point that Domain Names are property just like a house...and should be treated the same way. If I don't pay my mortgage/taxes they can take it away from me. However if I miss a payment I should get a chance to make restitution, not loose the property immediately. In fact usually that restitution comes with a late fee and if the registrar wants to charge as late fee because I got my payment in late thats fine. I personally monitor my domain names like someone with OCD becuase I can never remember the damn dates and money has been tight so i can't afford to make long term renewals. Your friend that almost lost his domain - that's his fault. Its upto him to make sure that his registrar has the correct info and its upto him to keep an eye on when its about to expire. Ideally, the registrar should initiate getting the domain re-registered (and it sounds like they were trying) however, (1)if the information is incorrect should they waste the manpower to inform him that his record is about to expire? 2. Would he be willing to pay them for their effort? 3. Shouldn't he be obligated to?
Yep he's and idiot no arguement there. as for your questions... 1. They should make a best effort thats what the registration fees are funding in my point of view. At the very least an email to root, postmaster, hostmaster @ domainname when things are getting tight. 2.The effort is already paid for registrations pay for the day to day administration overhead of being a registrar. 3. gain as I siad earlier I have no probalem with the concept of paying a late fee if your late with the payment.
One final comment I have my domains with 3 registars currently...most of the world is still stuck with Network Solutions...they bay far have the worst systems for accoplishing anything related to my domains. Much of the reason my friend had so much trouble is because he onlonger lived at the address or had the email that his domain was orginally registered with...this made it nearly immpossible to reregister his domain because their systems depended on that information. it took him over a week to fix these problems before he could deal with the impending doom...becuase they have zero customer service. They have gotten better since sometihngs can now be managed in a web interface on the netsol site however not everything...many other registrars allow me to change everything related to my domains on my web account. I feeled him as best I could but the netsol clunky outdated systems were as much at fault as hiom not paying attention to his domain registration.
I couldn't disagree more. There definately should be a grace period...there is a grace period if your mortgage is late, and believe me you get plenty of reminders in that case. In the case of doamin names I think a 30 day hold period is reasonable. During this 30 day period the domain is delisted from the root servers so its unreachable (which would be a big sign to the owner something is seriously wrong)...I had friend who nearly lost his domain because his registration expired...however all the information network solutions had in his record was out of date so they couldn't reach him...not an ideal situation...and admittedly soewhat his fault. The biggest problem is even if a domain does become abandoned Network Solutions sometimes doesn't release it for reregistration immediately which is in and of itself wrong.
Once you plunk down your cash for that domain name you absolutely own it unless you abandon it. This needs to be clarified in the rules of the internet (Notice I didn't say law of the land, I think national law should get its nose out of the internet). The real question is what is abandonment, and what is a proper term to wait to see if the owner repays his/her registration fee to keep that name in the registry?
My based issue is that with no way to figure out of the information on the page is going to useful to me I am really not interested in paying for the content. Doing a search for information and turing up a boom is fine. If I have the time I can track down that book, in a brick and mortor store and then if it seems worthwhile I have no problem with laying down the cash to buy it. However, if I do a search and it turns up a site which might have my answer but then I get to the site and it doesn't answer my question or give me the info a need, well I just spent maybe $1.00 or wahtever for useless information...now add up the 20 or so sites might browse in my search for an answer (I use the web extensively these days in the search for answers to various programming problems that I need quick answers to during the day)...Now imagine I have to justify the expense of all that broswing to answer that problem to my boss. Imagine purchase req's for web browsing...I wouldn't mind dropping some cash in the virtual tip jar if I find an answer...but what the article proposes just wouldn't be at all useful from a business prospective and defeats the prupose of the web for many people in a corporate environment...comapnies are strapped enough and make purchasing resources hard enough imagine having to justify web broswing to do ones job. You spend $100 browsing this month what was all that for? Most of it is legitimate research...(face it we all broswe, thats what keeps/. running)
Free the web...free the internet...I pay enough for the bandwidth to be on the web, never mind paying to use sites. Its bad enought that just doing a search these days turns up more sites that want to sell you a book or sometihng with the information your looking for...than sites that actually dispense the information.
I have always liked the AutoCad environment...infact when working in other CAD or simlar environments that don't have it I am lost... I also wish such a thing existed under the various Windoe managers, Explorer, KDE, Gnome, etc where you could use the keyboard and the mouse inconjunction...what a great thing that would be... I can think of all sorts of inovative ways to to use this sort of functionality....
Imagine in the command window... Rename (click a bunch of files in the dir listing) *.old
Everything I write is xhtml 1.0 compliant...thats easy.... However not all broswers impliment DOM the same way which causes problems...and not all browsers support javascript the smae way either...then there are things I am asked to do that only IE does...such as automatic logins to web sites by readin NT security tokens....
...but more and more my company has been asking m3 for things that only work IE...becuase thats what everyone else in the company is doing...so I gave up I code for IE and IE only now... Really what we need to is (I know I'll get killed for saying it) for all broswers to impliment DOM, CSS and javascript the way MS does...their browser dominates the market...so they should be the standard as sad as it is.... Ideally MS would structly follow the w3c RFC's but they don't...so what are ya gonna do...
I really like slackware's approach...my only issue with it has been that it doesn't clean up after itself on an upgrade very well... Upgradepkg doesn't work as easily as it ought too, and when the distro changed to 8.x is actually got much worse because of the naming convention change. I am also impresses these days with Gentoo...and its ebuilds...the only thing I think they are missing there is the way they handle upgrades...while it think is great they don't wonk your current config files...I really think it would be better to add intelligence to merge the old config files and whatever new might need to be added during the emerge of an upgraded package. The only system I have used that I absolutely hated is the initial install of Debian...way to hard to use that system and totally not intuitive.
Throw them all out of the country....start over! Employeer's must absolutely prove that they need an alien worker to do a job...Employee's of a company must be allowed to anonymously file a grivence if they believe that an Alien was hired when an american worker was available. Employeers should be forced to publish in public records an H1B hires and justify why there was no american worker to fill that postion. This justification should include records of all American workers interviewed for the Postion and why they were unsuitable. These Interviewees shoul again be allowed to file grivences. Heavy fines should be imposed for violations. Corporations should get incentives for hiring American workers who might be under qualified at the interview point and training them up.
Lets all pile on the one company that drove home the standards for the PC industry for years, and made sure that there would be one common platform that everyone could write to, and achived critical mass so there wouldn't be conflicting standards anymore.... For those who are clueless its supposed to be funny...paraphrasing MS themselves...before you troll me, at my comments in the past about good old M$....
While I want to agree with you(a little just because your.sig is most cool, and a don't want to disagree with another Rushfan(tm))...I don't see it as the same thing. Domain names in many cases are a very personal thing, and to have it ripped away as such is disheartening. I also disagree because I think domain names really should be property, and your just paying the registrar to maintain your info about DNS servers and such. You've staked your claim, now you have to pay your taxes on the property so to speak. The registar has an obligation to bill you and you have right to pay the bill(even late) before the property gets sold at auction.
I don't mean to be a pain in the ass here...but if the code has been patched and rebuilt on a different day shouldn't we at least see a different minor version in the help? I can understand fine at 488 is the code freeze version for the 3.0 release however is a bug has been patched and a new release has been done should this be like 3.01(3.0.1) or 488a just so the its more immediately obvious this is an updated version from the 3.0 I have. If I didn't know about the bug, and I went to the site to see if there is a newer version, I wouldn't get the fixed version cause I still see 3.0! Build dates are meaningless...and even less so if they are not even posted on the download page....
Prior Art....this one should be easy to revoke...
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...if they ever try any real inforcement of it.... Humm Quickly... Unix Talk and IRC jump out at me.
We the geeks, who understand the issue care, and can get the message to out community and can get our community to understand. However the uninformed public who doesn't want to, or even care about making an MP3 from their CD or play a DVD on Linux doesn't give a Rat shit about our plight. In the end it would only hurt us in other ways. If we all boycott the Movies we like that translates into less ticket sales for Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Anime, what have you..that means that the studios are less likely to make more of those movies, or will put less money to them in anycase. The same goes for music, boycott Metallica and the next great rock band will not get signed, they will sign that little Britney in waiting instead...they only care about the numbers that tell them waht sells if something sells less as far as they are concerned the world don't want it. Think of it this way...when little Susie wants the latest Disney POS on DVD...is Mommy gonna stop and think about the fact that they are an Evil Money Driven, DMCA supporter...or is she gonna make Susie happy...if Mommy is a geek maybe...but in 90%+ of those cases Mommy is the average uninformed consumer...
Its amazing what can happen when things get put to a jury, instead of being decided by a single judge or targeted committe! The Jurors have appearently opted for freedom in a country that values freedom...its really very shocking...
I have often toyed with writting my own storys that have been swirling around in my head since i was young. One of the things I have always thought about was having at least one book in the series told entirely from the perspective of the "bad guy"...its a very interesting notion to look at the role reversal. Does anyone really think of themseleves as the bad guy? Does he/she wake up in the morning and say, "Ok, Yawn...ahhh, time to go be Evil..." I don't thnk so, it think the traditional "good guy" to this person is the "bad guy" whom he/she has some grivence against. This is often the same way I have looked at the Star Wars saga (Well before EP1, and the large round of "maybe the Rebels are really the bad ones, perhaps the Empire has the right idea", talk that has come about recently. Yes, The Epire took a particularly nasty path to power and did some not so nice things to get there, but in general the galaxy seems pretty stable in general at the beginning of EP4, as compared to the relative disaster that it seems in EP1,2. In anycase I had never thought of LOTRs from this reversed prespective before, and had always looked at the evil doers as just that and Frodo et al. as those just trying to stop the evil doer from reaching his goals. Perhaps I had a more child like look at LOTR all along because I first read it when I was still quite young, so its always been a childs tale in my minds eye. Since the story was completely written before my birth, I read the whole thing and left it at that. Stars Wars has been a growing tale my whole life however so with the continuing development of the story I have been able to absorb more and contemplate the ideas more.
In many areas Cable in the US is 3 t0 4 times faster than residential DSL at the same cost.... thats a no brainer choice for who to buy service from...
1. Metal Tonka Trucks 2. A decent Generic lego Set...they used to sell like 300+ piece generic lego sets I can't find these any place now. 3. Tinker toys...Kinda like wooden konentix(sp?) but much cooler. 4. Bristle Blocks 5. Crystal Climbers
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I keep hoping to write my magnum opus...keep an eye on my site, I post new stuff from time to time as I develop my skills...none of it is pure gold yet, in fact most of it is pure "dren"...but its feedback from readers that I use to get better...so what the hell...
1. Elizabeth Haydon
2. David Drake
3. Terry Goodkind(although perhaps not exactly new)
4. George RR Martin(again not exactly new but you didn't mention him)
5. Tim Zahn
6. Brian Herbert - son of Frank
...Who is gonna toil away in some lab as a research assisuant for squat...in a tiny apartment cuase thats all they can afford when friends from school/life are out getting married, buy nice cars, houses etc...
1. Scuff the wheels up the stock wheels are to smooth and sometimes have a ridge...this helps alot...tip put them all on a long nail put the nail in a drill as a bit...spin drill...hold wheels against sandpaper...scuffing takes about 20 seconds and comes out very even if done right.
2. Put all weight on the bottom of the car. Put even amounts near each axle...and the remaining amount dead center of the car.
3. Lots of powder graphite on the inside of the wheel and the axles...but do not apply to the axles till they have been mounted...maybe that mistake one year..wheels came flying off mid run...
4. Different districts seem to apply rules on axle attachment differently so your YMMV on this one. Dont use the slots on the bottom of the block
the axles can slip out...if your allowed drill a pilot channel directly through the body from side to side...just make sure the front and back are at even hieghts....this should be done carefully as it must be no more than a 1 -1 1/2 centimeters from the bottom of the car, otherwise the car might not clear the track guide.
a. if you must use the channels they might let you glue the axles into them do this if you can...I have seen lots of wheels fall off mid run.
b. make sure the wheels are as close to the body as possible without restricting movement
c. if allowed use a copper bushing again well graphited, between the body and the wheel, this will allow for maximum stability of the car and maximum wheel turn rate.
5. I have seen conflicting evidence in my time on car shape, and aero dynamics...all I can say for sure is I have seen more cars win that where shaped like airplane wings...and sanded very smooth with a high gloss paint...Hint: nail polish and clear nail top coat.
6. This is supposed to be a fun event don't go overboard concentrate on the fun aspect of building the cars, and having a good time as a father son activity. Winning is good, but not the point. My den was one of 20+ in the troop, there were probably 100+ of us at every derby, and only one person can win...if your in a similar situation, the odds are horendous.
PS. Anyone remeber the Balsa wood hanging rocket races...with the huge propller on the front...I liked that one even better than pine wood...of course that was probably because I won everytime. My designs were consistently the only ones that made it to the end of the hanging track!
Mortgages vs. domain names are apples to oranges. You don't live in your domain name, you don't have your bills mailed to your domain name, you don't have utilities (water, electricity, etc) sent to your domain name. You don't store all of your personal belongings in your domain name. Yes, you "own" it for a period of time but they're nowhere near the same.
Property is property...and perhaps the defination of domain names as property needs to be refined so they are considered the same as "real estate"...The Domain registration fees are the same as paying your taxes if you look at it that way. Well actually I do have utilities sent to my domain names, internet access is that utility. Electricity is needd to make the domain name exist on the internet. The world really needs to break out of the property is a physical thing mind set. I own my domain name its mine...I pay utilities and registration fees as upkeep on that property. Truthfully thus far is have kept my real view in a minimalist perspective. My true feelings are that once you register a name it should be yours for all time. if someone else wants it they have to negotiate with you for it. If you don't pay your internet fees it becomes unavailable period. However I don't believe in domain squating either if you have a domain name you are obligated to do sometihng with it over time and purchasing domain names for the purposes of selling them to cash in on them is wrong. Of course from your replys I suspect thats probably counter to your view of the world.
Yes, with mortgages you get a notice and a grace period. However, don't pay the mortgage long enough and the bank will repo the property. Same with the domain name -- you pay for it for a period of time. When that expires, if you don't pay it goes to someone else (or back in the pool).
And I completely agree, I just think your missing the point that Domain Names are property just like a house...and should be treated the same way. If I don't pay my mortgage/taxes they can take it away from me. However if I miss a payment I should get a chance to make restitution, not loose the property immediately. In fact usually that restitution comes with a late fee and if the registrar wants to charge as late fee because I got my payment in late thats fine. I personally monitor my domain names like someone with OCD becuase I can never remember the damn dates and money has been tight so i can't afford to make long term renewals.
Your friend that almost lost his domain - that's his fault. Its upto him to make sure that his registrar has the correct info and its upto him to keep an eye on when its about to expire. Ideally, the registrar should initiate getting the domain re-registered (and it sounds like they were trying) however, (1)if the information is incorrect should they waste the manpower to inform him that his record is about to expire? 2. Would he be willing to pay them for their effort? 3. Shouldn't he be obligated to?
Yep he's and idiot no arguement there.
as for your questions...
1. They should make a best effort thats what the registration fees are funding in my point of view.
At the very least an email to root, postmaster, hostmaster @ domainname when things are getting tight.
2.The effort is already paid for registrations pay for the day to day administration overhead of being a registrar.
3. gain as I siad earlier I have no probalem with the concept of paying a late fee if your late with the payment.
One final comment I have my domains with 3 registars currently...most of the world is still stuck with Network Solutions...they bay far have the worst systems for accoplishing anything related to my domains. Much of the reason my friend had so much trouble is because he onlonger lived at the address or had the email that his domain was orginally registered with...this made it nearly immpossible to reregister his domain because their systems depended on that information. it took him over a week to fix these problems before he could deal with the impending doom...becuase they have zero customer service. They have gotten better since sometihngs can now be managed in a web interface on the netsol site however not everything...many other registrars allow me to change everything related to my domains on my web account. I feeled him as best I could but the netsol clunky outdated systems were as much at fault as hiom not paying attention to his domain registration.
I couldn't disagree more. There definately should be a grace period...there is a grace period if your mortgage is late, and believe me you get plenty of reminders in that case. In the case of doamin names I think a 30 day hold period is reasonable. During this 30 day period the domain is delisted from the root servers so its unreachable (which would be a big sign to the owner something is seriously wrong)...I had friend who nearly lost his domain because his registration expired...however all the information network solutions had in his record was out of date so they couldn't reach him...not an ideal situation...and admittedly soewhat his fault. The biggest problem is even if a domain does become abandoned Network Solutions sometimes doesn't release it for reregistration immediately which is in and of itself wrong.
Once you plunk down your cash for that domain name you absolutely own it unless you abandon it. This needs to be clarified in the rules of the internet (Notice I didn't say law of the land, I think national law should get its nose out of the internet). The real question is what is abandonment, and what is a proper term to wait to see if the owner repays his/her registration fee to keep that name in the registry?
My based issue is that with no way to figure out of the information on the page is going to useful to me I am really not interested in paying for the content. Doing a search for information and turing up a boom is fine. If I have the time I can track down that book, in a brick and mortor store and then if it seems worthwhile I have no problem with laying down the cash to buy it. However, if I do a search and it turns up a site which might have my answer but then I get to the site and it doesn't answer my question or give me the info a need, well I just spent maybe $1.00 or wahtever for useless information...now add up the 20 or so sites might browse in my search for an answer (I use the web extensively these days in the search for answers to various programming problems that I need quick answers to during the day)...Now imagine I have to justify the expense of all that broswing to answer that problem to my boss. Imagine purchase req's for web browsing...I wouldn't mind dropping some cash in the virtual tip jar if I find an answer...but what the article proposes just wouldn't be at all useful from a business prospective and defeats the prupose of the web for many people in a corporate environment...comapnies are strapped enough and make purchasing resources hard enough imagine having to justify web broswing to do ones job. You spend $100 browsing this month what was all that for? Most of it is legitimate research...(face it we all broswe, thats what keeps /. running)
Free the web...free the internet...I pay enough for the bandwidth to be on the web, never mind paying to use sites. Its bad enought that just doing a search these days turns up more sites that want to sell you a book or sometihng with the information your looking for...than sites that actually dispense the information.
I have always liked the AutoCad environment...infact when working in other CAD or simlar environments that don't have it I am lost...
I also wish such a thing existed under the various Windoe managers, Explorer, KDE, Gnome, etc where you could use the keyboard and the mouse inconjunction...what a great thing that would be...
I can think of all sorts of inovative ways to to use this sort of functionality....
Imagine in the command window...
Rename (click a bunch of files in the dir listing) *.old
Everything I write is xhtml 1.0 compliant...thats easy....
However not all broswers impliment DOM the same way which causes problems...and not all browsers support javascript the smae way either...then there are things I am asked to do that only IE does...such as automatic logins to web sites by readin NT security tokens....
...but more and more my company has been asking m3 for things that only work IE...becuase thats what everyone else in the company is doing...so I gave up I code for IE and IE only now...
Really what we need to is (I know I'll get killed for saying it) for all broswers to impliment DOM, CSS and javascript the way MS does...their browser dominates the market...so they should be the standard as sad as it is....
Ideally MS would structly follow the w3c RFC's but they don't...so what are ya gonna do...
I really like slackware's approach...my only issue with it has been that it doesn't clean up after itself on an upgrade very well...
Upgradepkg doesn't work as easily as it ought too, and when the distro changed to 8.x is actually got much worse because of the naming convention change.
I am also impresses these days with Gentoo...and its ebuilds...the only thing I think they are missing there is the way they handle upgrades...while it think is great they don't wonk your current config files...I really think it would be better to add intelligence to merge the old config files and whatever new might need to be added during the emerge of an upgraded package.
The only system I have used that I absolutely hated is the initial install of Debian...way to hard to use that system and totally not intuitive.
Throw them all out of the country....start over!
Employeer's must absolutely prove that they need an alien worker to do a job...Employee's of a company must be allowed to anonymously file a grivence if they believe that an Alien was hired when an american worker was available. Employeers should be forced to publish in public records an H1B hires and justify why there was no american worker to fill that postion. This justification should include records of all American workers interviewed for the Postion and why they were unsuitable. These Interviewees shoul again be allowed to file grivences. Heavy fines should be imposed for violations. Corporations should get incentives for hiring American workers who might be under qualified at the interview point and training them up.
Do you lots of glass walls....then I would suggest for you...!
The fishbowl!
Free...
Multiplayer...
Lightwieght....
Did I meantion its free...
Better yet its civilization, can kill hours(days) easily...
Just my plug for my favorite time waster
Lets all pile on the one company that drove home the standards for the PC industry for years, and made sure that there would be one common platform that everyone could write to, and achived critical mass so there wouldn't be conflicting standards anymore....
For those who are clueless its supposed to be funny...paraphrasing MS themselves...before you troll me, at my comments in the past about good old M$....
While I want to agree with you(a little just because your .sig is most cool, and a don't want to disagree with another Rushfan(tm))...I don't see it as the same thing. Domain names in many cases are a very personal thing, and to have it ripped away as such is disheartening. I also disagree because I think domain names really should be property, and your just paying the registrar to maintain your info about DNS servers and such. You've staked your claim, now you have to pay your taxes on the property so to speak. The registar has an obligation to bill you and you have right to pay the bill(even late) before the property gets sold at auction.
I don't mean to be a pain in the ass here...but if the code has been patched and rebuilt on a different day shouldn't we at least see a different minor version in the help? I can understand fine at 488 is the code freeze version for the 3.0 release however is a bug has been patched and a new release has been done should this be like 3.01(3.0.1) or 488a just so the its more immediately obvious this is an updated version from the 3.0 I have. If I didn't know about the bug, and I went to the site to see if there is a newer version, I wouldn't get the fixed version cause I still see 3.0! Build dates are meaningless...and even less so if they are not even posted on the download page....
...if they ever try any real inforcement of it....
Humm Quickly...
Unix Talk and IRC jump out at me.
Bad patent Office, no cookie.
We the geeks, who understand the issue care, and can get the message to out community and can get our community to understand. However the uninformed public who doesn't want to, or even care about making an MP3 from their CD or play a DVD on Linux doesn't give a Rat shit about our plight. In the end it would only hurt us in other ways. If we all boycott the Movies we like that translates into less ticket sales for Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Anime, what have you..that means that the studios are less likely to make more of those movies, or will put less money to them in anycase. The same goes for music, boycott Metallica and the next great rock band will not get signed, they will sign that little Britney in waiting instead...they only care about the numbers that tell them waht sells if something sells less as far as they are concerned the world don't want it.
Think of it this way...when little Susie wants the latest Disney POS on DVD...is Mommy gonna stop and think about the fact that they are an Evil Money Driven, DMCA supporter...or is she gonna make Susie happy...if Mommy is a geek maybe...but in 90%+ of those cases Mommy is the average uninformed consumer...
Its amazing what can happen when things get put to a jury, instead of being decided by a single judge or targeted committe! The Jurors have appearently opted for freedom in a country that values freedom...its really very shocking...
I have often toyed with writting my own storys that have been swirling around in my head since i was young. One of the things I have always thought about was having at least one book in the series told entirely from the perspective of the "bad guy"...its a very interesting notion to look at the role reversal. Does anyone really think of themseleves as the bad guy? Does he/she wake up in the morning and say, "Ok, Yawn...ahhh, time to go be Evil..." I don't thnk so, it think the traditional "good guy" to this person is the "bad guy" whom he/she has some grivence against. This is often the same way I have looked at the Star Wars saga (Well before EP1, and the large round of "maybe the Rebels are really the bad ones, perhaps the Empire has the right idea", talk that has come about recently.
Yes, The Epire took a particularly nasty path to power and did some not so nice things to get there, but in general the galaxy seems pretty stable in general at the beginning of EP4, as compared to the relative disaster that it seems in EP1,2. In anycase I had never thought of LOTRs from this reversed prespective before, and had always looked at the evil doers as just that and Frodo et al. as those just trying to stop the evil doer from reaching his goals. Perhaps I had a more child like look at LOTR all along because I first read it when I was still quite young, so its always been a childs tale in my minds eye. Since the story was completely written before my birth, I read the whole thing and left it at that. Stars Wars has been a growing tale my whole life however so with the continuing development of the story I have been able to absorb more and contemplate the ideas more.
In many areas Cable in the US is 3 t0 4 times faster than residential DSL at the same cost....
thats a no brainer choice for who to buy service from...
1. Metal Tonka Trucks
2. A decent Generic lego Set...they used to sell
like 300+ piece generic lego sets I can't find these any place now.
3. Tinker toys...Kinda like wooden konentix(sp?) but much cooler.
4. Bristle Blocks
5. Crystal Climbers