This is imperative to the future of both the electronic economy, and business practices. With MS mixing this and that, it's hard to draw any definitive line between segments, delineating separate programs that are bundled in as opposed to integral components (or ones that would be worthless separately). Consider it a modern definition of an OS as well. Would we really want to separate the network functions from the basic OS these days? Should copy/paste functions be considered integral? How about Internet apps, or connectivity programs, calculators and simple text editors? Where is the line drawn? This type of effort will also halp Linux/NonMS OSes in the long run anyway because it will help put everyone on a level playing field, as far as what type of product exactly it is that's being offered.
And to me, the telnet BBS just doesn't cut it. There truly was a closer sense of community and comrarerie on BBSs. The friends you knew in real life also called the local boards, which was an extension of your friendships. Then there was the exotic long distance BBS. It was like exploring a far and distant land, and you, the Marco Polo of your area, brought back strange and intersting tales and files to share. Then there were the nets. Very different from usenet, Fidonet and the like were explicit conversation places with generally fewer lurkers and more posters, with an easier to follow message header scheme. Plus, there was rarely out of order messages due to propagation delays, since most boards propagated once a day. =-]
I could go on for hours, but it just makes me more nostalgic. In the end, it was bound to pass on as modems got faster, computers became more affordable, and we became more technologically advanced as a society. Kids today have no idea of the old BBSs and would certainly laugh at their backward ways, but that's the price of living on the cusp of cultural revolutions.
Well, when a CD "flutters" as you say, it's really a wobble. Now, this may seem like I'm quibbling over the word, but I'm not. The wobble is focused at the spindle axis, while a flutter would be around the edges of the disc. It's caused by cheap manufacturing processes with CDs, where the plastic isn't properly distributed around the disc. With these discs, they're so thin, I'd bet that they'll be much more stable due to Bernoulli forces. Plus, with only 20% of the material present, even with the drive spinning at full stroke, there's less mass in the disc, thus less inertial force to wobble the disc.
The ring would do nothing to stop this, it's only to allow the disc handling mechanism grab on to the disc. The previous poster was incorrect in attributing stability to that.
And evolution is harsh. When languages cease to change, they die. Like Latin. Yes, we still use latin, but in extremely limited areas, and it still doesn't change. No one uses it as a primary language. English is not the most widely spoken first language, but is is the most widely spoken first and/or second language. It's the third largest FIRST language in the world. And english is widely accepted as an international language for communication, as so many different countries choose to teach it as a second language.
As for the influence of english on other languages, it happens in ANY living language. English is influenced my many languages. When you go for a job, you usually send a resume (french word). If you get rejected, you might go eat a taco (spanish) or a hamburger (german). Half of America is named with Indian (Native American) words.
One language influencing another is nothing to be scared of. In reality, a thousand years from now, none of us would be able to regocnize any current languages.
I am so sick of PS2 crap. When the chips powering the system were announced, they were revolutionary. Now they're average. 6 months from now, they'll be sub par. And even outisde the chip, it's crippled RAM wise, it's got subpar DVD play back, the DVD playback feature is a mess in the UK and Europe with a mish mash of cables, etc. The whole thing is a mess, and we need to just bury it. The hype is unbelieve.
at least something like the formula for Asprin is patented so that I don't die..
While it may have been pateneted in the past, that patent would have long expired. Plus, how would a patent keep you from dying? I don't understand that statement.
With the extreme amount of stupid and insanely simple ideas patented here in the US, these other countries need to look long and hard about what to allow and not allow. Things to think about: Software patents with short lives; NO process patents (IE the one-click crap); no retroactive and stealth patents (IE Rambus's sneaky tactics); no overly broad or "rubber" patents (BT's 'hyperlink' patent); no totalyl unenforecable patents, and patents that are not enforced for x amount of time ar invalid (Unisys's LZW/GIF patent). This is dangerous territory.
I'm sorry to say I don't have a specific URL offhand, but read some of the most recent articles on it. I know I read that part in just the past few days on the net. Slashdot, The Register, Wired, CNet, and Yahoo are the only sites where I would have read it. I just reread a Wired article earlier tonight where they allude to this.
The registree would decide. If I were a porn pushed, I'd LOVE to get ahold of sex.sex before my competition. Think of all the other combinations.
hot.sex
wild.sex
wet.sex
gay.sex
lesbian.sex
rubber.sex
animal.sex
slashdot.sex (Nudity for Nerds, Sex that matters)
Cybersquatters would probably kill for that last one.;)
I had hope when ICANN was founded. When I saw that there was a FEE just to PROPOSE new TLDs, I was shocked, but thought, "Well, they have to get funding somewhere, I suppose." Then I learned that whoever recommended the accepted new TLDs got a lock (like NSI had up to a year ago) on the TLD, I was angered. Where went the idea of opening up the net? Then I learned they shot down two of what I felt to be the most important TLDs;.kids and.sex or.xxx. There could have been a lot of good done with.kids, and.sex or.xxx would have helped separate the.coms from the.cums out there. Now this. This is insane. Since I'm a professional, not a corporate entity on my own, I should be able to register a.pro for myself if I WANT to, I shouldn't have to pass some moron's arbitrary judgement.
It's official, ICANN is useless.They're just as useless as they were before they made any decisions.
Now, yes, this is cool. But, on his FAQ page he goes to great lengths to say he will not share (just about) anything about the project above that single page. What the hell good is this to other people who might want to build the same thing? He won't even SELL the spec sheets! There's the hacker spirit for you...
Antiporn! You do realize that if your ideas were enforced, the mere fact you posted a response to this would get you locked up, right? The mere use of the word 'Hell' could be construed as pornographic, and thus illegal under your facist regime.
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HavenCo is the ideal place to host this type of information. I can already hear a few of you screaming, so put a sock in it. This is a great idea whose time has come, and needs support.
You're thinking of Star Trek and the Enterprise A, B, C, D, E, etc. With Windows 95 there was Win95, Win95A, Win95b, and Win95b can be broken down further to OSR2, OSR2.1, and OSR 2.5 (which only added USB to OSR2.1).
Actually, every letter except z is reserved by the IANA back in 1993, as.com.net and.org, and z.net and z.org. Why they didn't get z.com is beyond me. Very unusual...
And they also have all the single digit numbers. If I recall, aren't they used for Zone File Servers?
I had another domain name registered via NSI, who claimed I never paid for it. Not only had I paid for it, I still had the receipt. They waited five months before ever telling me there was a problem with the payment, and only told me after I inquired why I couldn't get any lookups on it. They just clipped it with no warning. After sending copies of the receipt and going through their whole comedy of errors, they said I had to pay the $70 bucks again or nothing. So, I just told them I no longer wanted it and to delete it. I planned of course to register it via someone else, and pay significantly less. That was a long time ago, and it's still regtistered to me. Turns out they now say I have to pay for it (again) before I can authorize them to delete it! Yes! they want me to give them money to throw it away!
In the end, I just quit and started over. I will never work with NSI again.
Well, first, the fact that it runs WinME has no bearing on the ability of it to run Linux. Second, as indicated by the quotes and italics, the gent who submitted the story asked about Linux. third, no one SAID it ran Linux, but was actually wondering how hard it would be to get full functionality of the unit under Linux.
Lastly, why does it sem as though people go out of their way to mention Linux in every post? It's almost as bad as the Mac zealots trying to say Apple invented everything.
Nearly any vendor will sell you a system without an OS if you ask for it. And if you don't want to look, just contact me. I deal in sales as well. I'll sell you anything you want, OS or not. =-]
He could live in the US and be looking for internships for the summer of 2001. A friend of mine currently in law school had internships for the summers of 200, 2001, 2002, and 2003 in December 1999.
As if "fashion conscious geek" weren't an oxymoron
Umm, believe it or not, there are some of us that don't walk around in black anklepants, white shirt, taped-up horn rimmed glasses, and hair plastered in Brylcreem. And rare geeks like me even shower daily.
Anyone who says "geeks" don't care about looks is a liar. Technical points aside, a flat screen LCD monotor is just sexy.
You're correct. It does nothing to prevent duplication. And it's horribly easy to prove this. Take any file you have on your computer, and encrypt it somehow (even PKZIP it with a password). Now, copy that file. Bam! Notice how the encryption did nothing to prevent the copying?
The encryption of the CSS format has nothing to do with copying, and everything to do with use. And it's ALREADY done it's job. Jughead Kaplan's ruling on DeCSS, the MPAA now has a club to beat users into submission.
Under the DMCA, encryption is the equivalent of a magic spell. In PreDMCA times, we had fair use. But now, after the passage of the DMCA, Fair Use is now but a memory once some form of encryption is applied, even the pathetic CSS. Since decryption is now a crime, they can crontrol your fair use by being very conservative with decryption rights.
Flat out, CSS is a joke, and the DMCA is a crime against consumers.
I use NS4.75, and am using it as I speak. As for RAM, yeah, it uses more than IE, but then again it's more secure, and more than half of IE is loaded at boot time anyway, so that memory use is masked.
But as to not being able to view the source, I have no idea what you're talking abotu. NS has a context menu just like IE, and "View Source" is right there. Right click on the page, left click on View Source, and there you go.
Not just IP patents, but silly, absurd, unenforcable, incorrect, and basic-communication type patents are what is pushing the boundaries of patentable ideas. And I think that very shortly, there is going to be a backlash. In our increasingly litigious society (as a world, not just the US, look at the WIPO) lawsuits fly faster than email. Why tell someone they're violating your IP rights when you can just sue them first?
But, people and corporations are starting to fight back. As a whole, the tolerance for excessive civil litigation is dropping. I predict that in the next 5 years (at the max) but probably within 2, the US at least, will start a much more stringent Patent Review process to both weed out silly patents like this one and to rid the current Patent Office of patents like BT's "patent on the hyperlink" and other absurdities.
The tide is changing, and you can't turn it back.
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This is imperative to the future of both the electronic economy, and business practices. With MS mixing this and that, it's hard to draw any definitive line between segments, delineating separate programs that are bundled in as opposed to integral components (or ones that would be worthless separately). Consider it a modern definition of an OS as well. Would we really want to separate the network functions from the basic OS these days? Should copy/paste functions be considered integral? How about Internet apps, or connectivity programs, calculators and simple text editors? Where is the line drawn? This type of effort will also halp Linux/NonMS OSes in the long run anyway because it will help put everyone on a level playing field, as far as what type of product exactly it is that's being offered.
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And to me, the telnet BBS just doesn't cut it. There truly was a closer sense of community and comrarerie on BBSs. The friends you knew in real life also called the local boards, which was an extension of your friendships. Then there was the exotic long distance BBS. It was like exploring a far and distant land, and you, the Marco Polo of your area, brought back strange and intersting tales and files to share. Then there were the nets. Very different from usenet, Fidonet and the like were explicit conversation places with generally fewer lurkers and more posters, with an easier to follow message header scheme. Plus, there was rarely out of order messages due to propagation delays, since most boards propagated once a day. =-] I could go on for hours, but it just makes me more nostalgic. In the end, it was bound to pass on as modems got faster, computers became more affordable, and we became more technologically advanced as a society. Kids today have no idea of the old BBSs and would certainly laugh at their backward ways, but that's the price of living on the cusp of cultural revolutions.
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Well, when a CD "flutters" as you say, it's really a wobble. Now, this may seem like I'm quibbling over the word, but I'm not. The wobble is focused at the spindle axis, while a flutter would be around the edges of the disc. It's caused by cheap manufacturing processes with CDs, where the plastic isn't properly distributed around the disc. With these discs, they're so thin, I'd bet that they'll be much more stable due to Bernoulli forces. Plus, with only 20% of the material present, even with the drive spinning at full stroke, there's less mass in the disc, thus less inertial force to wobble the disc.
The ring would do nothing to stop this, it's only to allow the disc handling mechanism grab on to the disc. The previous poster was incorrect in attributing stability to that.
As for the influence of english on other languages, it happens in ANY living language. English is influenced my many languages. When you go for a job, you usually send a resume (french word). If you get rejected, you might go eat a taco (spanish) or a hamburger (german). Half of America is named with Indian (Native American) words.
One language influencing another is nothing to be scared of. In reality, a thousand years from now, none of us would be able to regocnize any current languages.
I am so sick of PS2 crap. When the chips powering the system were announced, they were revolutionary. Now they're average. 6 months from now, they'll be sub par. And even outisde the chip, it's crippled RAM wise, it's got subpar DVD play back, the DVD playback feature is a mess in the UK and Europe with a mish mash of cables, etc. The whole thing is a mess, and we need to just bury it. The hype is unbelieve.
With the extreme amount of stupid and insanely simple ideas patented here in the US, these other countries need to look long and hard about what to allow and not allow. Things to think about: Software patents with short lives; NO process patents (IE the one-click crap); no retroactive and stealth patents (IE Rambus's sneaky tactics); no overly broad or "rubber" patents (BT's 'hyperlink' patent); no totalyl unenforecable patents, and patents that are not enforced for x amount of time ar invalid (Unisys's LZW/GIF patent). This is dangerous territory.
I'm sorry to say I don't have a specific URL offhand, but read some of the most recent articles on it. I know I read that part in just the past few days on the net. Slashdot, The Register, Wired, CNet, and Yahoo are the only sites where I would have read it. I just reread a Wired article earlier tonight where they allude to this.
The registree would decide. If I were a porn pushed, I'd LOVE to get ahold of sex.sex before my competition. Think of all the other combinations. ;)
hot.sex
wild.sex
wet.sex
gay.sex
lesbian.sex
rubber.sex
animal.sex
slashdot.sex (Nudity for Nerds, Sex that matters)
Cybersquatters would probably kill for that last one.
It's official, ICANN is useless.They're just as useless as they were before they made any decisions.
Now, yes, this is cool. But, on his FAQ page he goes to great lengths to say he will not share (just about) anything about the project above that single page. What the hell good is this to other people who might want to build the same thing? He won't even SELL the spec sheets! There's the hacker spirit for you...
0wnz j00!
Sorry, I just had to do that. Larry is the coolest guy around... (Except CmrTaco, of course)
Antiporn! You do realize that if your ideas were enforced, the mere fact you posted a response to this would get you locked up, right? The mere use of the word 'Hell' could be construed as pornographic, and thus illegal under your facist regime.
For your daily injection of perversion, visit Stile Project. Officially endorsed by AntiPorn!
HavenCo is the ideal place to host this type of information. I can already hear a few of you screaming, so put a sock in it. This is a great idea whose time has come, and needs support.
You're thinking of Star Trek and the Enterprise A, B, C, D, E, etc. With Windows 95 there was Win95, Win95A, Win95b, and Win95b can be broken down further to OSR2, OSR2.1, and OSR 2.5 (which only added USB to OSR2.1).
Actually, every letter except z is reserved by the IANA back in 1993, as .com .net and .org, and z.net and z.org. Why they didn't get z.com is beyond me. Very unusual...
And they also have all the single digit numbers. If I recall, aren't they used for Zone File Servers?
I had another domain name registered via NSI, who claimed I never paid for it. Not only had I paid for it, I still had the receipt. They waited five months before ever telling me there was a problem with the payment, and only told me after I inquired why I couldn't get any lookups on it. They just clipped it with no warning. After sending copies of the receipt and going through their whole comedy of errors, they said I had to pay the $70 bucks again or nothing. So, I just told them I no longer wanted it and to delete it. I planned of course to register it via someone else, and pay significantly less. That was a long time ago, and it's still regtistered to me. Turns out they now say I have to pay for it (again) before I can authorize them to delete it! Yes! they want me to give them money to throw it away!
In the end, I just quit and started over. I will never work with NSI again.
Read the TNG novel called Vendetta. It's the sequel to this episode of TOS.
YES! STAR TREK! Some people actually LIKE it.
Well, first, the fact that it runs WinME has no bearing on the ability of it to run Linux. Second, as indicated by the quotes and italics, the gent who submitted the story asked about Linux. third, no one SAID it ran Linux, but was actually wondering how hard it would be to get full functionality of the unit under Linux.
Lastly, why does it sem as though people go out of their way to mention Linux in every post? It's almost as bad as the Mac zealots trying to say Apple invented everything.
Nearly any vendor will sell you a system without an OS if you ask for it. And if you don't want to look, just contact me. I deal in sales as well. I'll sell you anything you want, OS or not. =-]
He could live in the US and be looking for internships for the summer of 2001. A friend of mine currently in law school had internships for the summers of 200, 2001, 2002, and 2003 in December 1999.
Am I bent yet?
Umm, believe it or not, there are some of us that don't walk around in black anklepants, white shirt, taped-up horn rimmed glasses, and hair plastered in Brylcreem. And rare geeks like me even shower daily.
Anyone who says "geeks" don't care about looks is a liar. Technical points aside, a flat screen LCD monotor is just sexy.
You're correct. It does nothing to prevent duplication. And it's horribly easy to prove this. Take any file you have on your computer, and encrypt it somehow (even PKZIP it with a password). Now, copy that file. Bam! Notice how the encryption did nothing to prevent the copying?
The encryption of the CSS format has nothing to do with copying, and everything to do with use. And it's ALREADY done it's job. Jughead Kaplan's ruling on DeCSS, the MPAA now has a club to beat users into submission.
Under the DMCA, encryption is the equivalent of a magic spell. In PreDMCA times, we had fair use. But now, after the passage of the DMCA, Fair Use is now but a memory once some form of encryption is applied, even the pathetic CSS. Since decryption is now a crime, they can crontrol your fair use by being very conservative with decryption rights.
Flat out, CSS is a joke, and the DMCA is a crime against consumers.
I use NS4.75, and am using it as I speak. As for RAM, yeah, it uses more than IE, but then again it's more secure, and more than half of IE is loaded at boot time anyway, so that memory use is masked. But as to not being able to view the source, I have no idea what you're talking abotu. NS has a context menu just like IE, and "View Source" is right there. Right click on the page, left click on View Source, and there you go.
Not just IP patents, but silly, absurd, unenforcable, incorrect, and basic-communication type patents are what is pushing the boundaries of patentable ideas. And I think that very shortly, there is going to be a backlash. In our increasingly litigious society (as a world, not just the US, look at the WIPO) lawsuits fly faster than email. Why tell someone they're violating your IP rights when you can just sue them first? But, people and corporations are starting to fight back. As a whole, the tolerance for excessive civil litigation is dropping. I predict that in the next 5 years (at the max) but probably within 2, the US at least, will start a much more stringent Patent Review process to both weed out silly patents like this one and to rid the current Patent Office of patents like BT's "patent on the hyperlink" and other absurdities. The tide is changing, and you can't turn it back.