So if we ignore their registrar and let people register chinese character domain names at Verisign, what will happen when no one on the outside can get to *their* fang.ch (whatever the chinese character spelling is) and instead gets some porn site; I smell a new kind of cybersquatting.
And what happens when they later want to have these mainland china names recognized, but find that they are already taken by folks that registered through Verisign?
English should be the Lingua Franca for Internet domains? YOu truly believe that only English language words should make up domain names? English (Latin?) characters is one thing, but the English language is another.
For example, what the heck is a verisign; I don't see that in the english dictionary? And if you know Chinese, you can easily use pinyin spellings instead of Traditional or Big 5 characters, which would be comprised of English characters, but would not match your proposition of being from the English language.
Which English, by the way? Should it be color.com, or colour.com? Or in your casee, git.com.
Ugh! Could you imagine a field of cubicles with people chatting away at their computers? Blah blah blah n^n-1*(n-1) distractions for each and every person? A like the current office environment where you walk by and hear the occasional click of a mouse or keyboard. Language is just a clumsy attempt to express our minds. The only thing to shoot for is mind controlled machines that immediately interpret what we need, rather than taking the intermediary step of putting it out our vocal orifice. I know I've traded good handwriting for speedy typing; one day we'll trade good speech for thought input. And the office will still be quite. "And the figures from last quarter are...look at the babe from accounting...oops didn't mean to think that! And that either! Erase! No, delete. Arggghh!!" The question is, will the programmers be any less buggier at that point? =)
in universal terms, anyway, you'll find that unless we get off this planet in a meaningful way, which I find not really likely, you'll find a sharp drop in that exponential curve back to zero when our Sun eats this planet. All that info, the buggy code someone you know wrote last year, and that broken umbrella will all be truly recycled in the biggest reset button to hit near you.
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So if we ignore their registrar and let people register chinese character domain names at Verisign, what will happen when no one on the outside can get to *their* fang.ch (whatever the chinese character spelling is) and instead gets some porn site; I smell a new kind of cybersquatting. And what happens when they later want to have these mainland china names recognized, but find that they are already taken by folks that registered through Verisign?
English should be the Lingua Franca for Internet domains? YOu truly believe that only English language words should make up domain names? English (Latin?) characters is one thing, but the English language is another. For example, what the heck is a verisign; I don't see that in the english dictionary? And if you know Chinese, you can easily use pinyin spellings instead of Traditional or Big 5 characters, which would be comprised of English characters, but would not match your proposition of being from the English language. Which English, by the way? Should it be color.com, or colour.com? Or in your casee, git.com.
Ugh! Could you imagine a field of cubicles with people chatting away at their computers? Blah blah blah n^n-1*(n-1) distractions for each and every person? A like the current office environment where you walk by and hear the occasional click of a mouse or keyboard. Language is just a clumsy attempt to express our minds. The only thing to shoot for is mind controlled machines that immediately interpret what we need, rather than taking the intermediary step of putting it out our vocal orifice. I know I've traded good handwriting for speedy typing; one day we'll trade good speech for thought input. And the office will still be quite. "And the figures from last quarter are...look at the babe from accounting...oops didn't mean to think that! And that either! Erase! No, delete. Arggghh!!" The question is, will the programmers be any less buggier at that point? =)
in universal terms, anyway, you'll find that unless we get off this planet in a meaningful way, which I find not really likely, you'll find a sharp drop in that exponential curve back to zero when our Sun eats this planet. All that info, the buggy code someone you know wrote last year, and that broken umbrella will all be truly recycled in the biggest reset button to hit near you.