See my post here - which also references an even earlier post of mine on the subject of a.mail (or.po) TLD for validated mail delivery....
"-.mail (or.po or something for mail systems - maybe requiring some sort of adherence to installation of non-relaying systems based on agreed standards... or something to that effect)"
I knew I should have had Darl patent this for me when I had the chance!
As I had stated in another/. post, I really think that we need to re-think the way we compartmentalize information on the web. There are a number of reasons, but primarily the fact that we let any and all websites sit anywhere on the TLDs that were originally meant to be a *starting point* for site hierarchy just proves that people are being resistive and lazy.
I really think we need several more TLDs for more things than jsut porn;
-.com - company commercial sites. -.org - NFPs and other groups that are not commercially oriented. -.xxx - (or something sim to put all porn and easily allow.coms to block it all based on TLD). -.kid - (or something sim to put youth oriented sites). -.ppl - individuals websites blogs etc. -.net - isps and carriers - including mobiles like nokia and other cellular companies. -.mail (or.po or something for mail systems - maybe requiring some sort of adherence to installation of non-relaying systems based on agreed standards... or something to that effect) -.med?
But since this is not likely to happen until these morons at ICANN die off, I propose that we implement vTLDs on our own.... look here
"Star Wars Galaxies has much more than double the number of subscribers quoted [...] and is the second largest MMO in the North American market."
Well, then i would like to see the hard number of subscribers if this is such a marketing issue that this person feels the need to actualyl email about this.
As for the part about being the second largest in the N American market - where does it rate in the asian market. If you want a hungry mad mob of people wanting to play MMOGs - you would be focusing hard on the asian market. The asian market is nuts for all things online....
For example Ragnarok is an extrodinarily successful game there - and with a *free* *small* client - it has found a perfect market entry point. They still charge a monthly fee which the people are happy to pay.
Here in the US - the market is very fickle when it comes to the games we will play online from a loyalty standpoint. We have the luxury of higher income and more accessible broadband to our homes - but the asian market is different in the way they play the games because 95% of the games are played from internet cafes. Many of the internet cafes have slow access, and because of this many games are played locally.
This is not true of South Korea however, where high speed internet access is available at many internet cafes and homes - but the community of playing the games at the internet cafe is still there.
Not what i expected to hear when I heard "Open Source Insurance"
How about the following model for open source insurance.
Get a group of a couple hundred people together - all within a couple of degrees of eachother. Blue book eachothers cars - then all pay into an investment fund a set rate each month for auto or other insurance. Not into an insurance policy with some other carrier - but an actual investment/savings fund.
Take an umbrella policy out on the whole investment for an extreme case, and pay for that policy out of the combined account. If there is an accident that requires payment over a certain percentage of the value of the fund - then you leverage the policy from some insurance carrier that you have purchased. But, if at the end of the year there are no accidents - the investment OSI can pay a dividend on the money paid in and invested.
All other insurance companies operate this way - but here is a community based insurance. The big guys are just investment companies that take otehr peoples money to invest with in leiu of paying them off if something should happen to them or the property that they are esentially using as an asset backing to the investment. In the sense that the maintaining of the well-being of the object is the incentive for the person to pay to insure its well-being. and in the case of auto insurance - this investment revenue is guarenteed by law.
You must have insurance on your vehicle regardless of whether you have been in an accident. and if, at the end of the year - you dont get into an accident - you do not get any return on your contribution to the insurance companies investment.
I understand DNS fairly well enough. There are several (13-ish last I read) TLD nameservers out there in various spots which manage all the DNS traffic in a hiarachtical fashion, rather straight forward....
What I DONT understand is how ICANN can manage to make everyone think that no other options are available.
Would it not be fairly (menaing without considerable time and expense) easly to setup a peer TLD DNS system with TLDs that we, users of the internet elect and implement.
imagine this scenario:
Various entities with dedicated bandwidth (like a large site like slashdot) setup a vTLD server (virtual TLD server)
A modified DNS client is created to use the vTLD server, and names are registered.
As long as you have the IP of the vTLD and - you can lookup the name of the new site...
Charge 2 bux for a vTLD domain - and make the model open enough to where classes of vTLDs can be identified over time so as to make the compartmentalization of site types easier...
ween our self off of ICANN and other entities that no longer represent the best way to anage information on the internet.
Come shoot holes in this - or flesh it out please...
I would like to have a.ppl (or.me) or some similar TLD for personal pages. (individuals only)
And a.mail TLD with several large established mail servers on the.mail TLD which all mail runs through (encrypted) and has some verification system built in which eliminates spam.
The whole TLD system is pretty lame as it stands now due to the lack of adherance to any sort of standard.
Standard classes should be established and sites should agree to adhere to those classes.
-.com - company commercial sites. -.org - NFPs and other groups that are not commercially oriented. -.xxx - (or something sim to put all porn and easily allow.coms to block it all based on TLD). -.kid - (or something sim to put youth oriented sites). -.ppl - individuals websites blogs etc. -.net - isps and carriers - including mobiles like nokia and other cellular comapnies. -.mail (or.po or something for mail systems - maybe requiring some sort of adherance to installation of non-relaying systems based on agreed standards... or something to that effect) -.med?
shouldnt need to be much larger than this - but this would make organizing of information (and thus navigation) on the web smoother...
Obviously there is some headache in making a transition of this sort - but only complain because you are lazy - think about the long term implications of applying a logical hiararchy to information destinations, as opposed to the fleeting pain it will cause at a site that likely wont be around for an extended period of time.
well actually what would be interesting is combining this with the segway's balancing algorithym.
If you have one who can move his legs enough to fire offthe robo-legs sensors, but are not strong enough to support the body, and thereby balance - the segway's brains may keep the thing upright....
the other issue is a parking frame, while this thing is great for ambulating about a flat area... I doubt a single user would be able to don the cyber-garment, or sit or remove himself from it without the assistance of at least several others... if it had som frame that could straddle a wheel chair, which you walked up to it - and hooked the thing to via connectors at about the shoulder area, then it would support the unit while you de-mount it, and slowly lower yourself into the wheelchair below.
I just was turned down for a position at a major biotech here in SF. It was the first interview I had had in several years, while I have been at my current employer for ~2 years now, before that I was unemployed for over a year.
I have a realyl good resume, and a fantastic skillset - and seemed to be a very good match for the position - but I didnt interview well... I was really nervous - and they interviewed me rather oddly.
They asked me one specific question "What is the distance limitation on cat5e"
All the otehr questions were behaviour based questions "Describe how you multitask well" "describe a time where setting up a template helped you succeed"
While these are fine questions to ask to get an idea of how someone thinks - I dont think that an interview should be based 100% on these...
So i wanted to change companies - but interviewing with completely ambiguous questions on top of nervousness was hard...
A twenty dollar bill so that the back side is face up long ways.
holding the bill horizontal - fold one side of the bill down with the crease towards the center line of the bill, so that it runs perpendicular to the original horizontal angle with a 45 degree crease at the edge angle, then fold the other side the same way (the bill will look like an arrow) - you will see the two towers afer being hit by the planes, before the collapse.
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Would we call that "War Bumming"?
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I like that quote - it should be a bumpersticker...
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See my post here - which also references an even earlier post of mine on the subject of a .mail (or .po) TLD for validated mail delivery....
.po or something for mail systems - maybe requiring some sort of adherence to installation of non-relaying systems based on agreed standards... or something to that effect)"
"-.mail (or
I knew I should have had Darl patent this for me when I had the chance!
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As I had stated in another /. post, I really think that we need to re-think the way we compartmentalize information on the web. There are a number of reasons, but primarily the fact that we let any and all websites sit anywhere on the TLDs that were originally meant to be a *starting point* for site hierarchy just proves that people are being resistive and lazy.
.coms to block it all based on TLD). .po or something for mail systems - maybe requiring some sort of adherence to installation of non-relaying systems based on agreed standards... or something to that effect)
I really think we need several more TLDs for more things than jsut porn;
-.com - company commercial sites.
-.org - NFPs and other groups that are not commercially oriented.
-.xxx - (or something sim to put all porn and easily allow
-.kid - (or something sim to put youth oriented sites).
-.ppl - individuals websites blogs etc.
-.net - isps and carriers - including mobiles like nokia and other cellular companies.
-.mail (or
-.med?
But since this is not likely to happen until these morons at ICANN die off, I propose that we implement vTLDs on our own.... look here
"Star Wars Galaxies has much more than double the number of subscribers quoted [...] and is the second largest MMO in the North American market."
Well, then i would like to see the hard number of subscribers if this is such a marketing issue that this person feels the need to actualyl email about this.
As for the part about being the second largest in the N American market - where does it rate in the asian market. If you want a hungry mad mob of people wanting to play MMOGs - you would be focusing hard on the asian market. The asian market is nuts for all things online....
For example Ragnarok is an extrodinarily successful game there - and with a *free* *small* client - it has found a perfect market entry point. They still charge a monthly fee which the people are happy to pay.
Here in the US - the market is very fickle when it comes to the games we will play online from a loyalty standpoint. We have the luxury of higher income and more accessible broadband to our homes - but the asian market is different in the way they play the games because 95% of the games are played from internet cafes. Many of the internet cafes have slow access, and because of this many games are played locally.
This is not true of South Korea however, where high speed internet access is available at many internet cafes and homes - but the community of playing the games at the internet cafe is still there.
Not what i expected to hear when I heard "Open Source Insurance"
How about the following model for open source insurance.
Get a group of a couple hundred people together - all within a couple of degrees of eachother. Blue book eachothers cars - then all pay into an investment fund a set rate each month for auto or other insurance. Not into an insurance policy with some other carrier - but an actual investment/savings fund.
Take an umbrella policy out on the whole investment for an extreme case, and pay for that policy out of the combined account. If there is an accident that requires payment over a certain percentage of the value of the fund - then you leverage the policy from some insurance carrier that you have purchased. But, if at the end of the year there are no accidents - the investment OSI can pay a dividend on the money paid in and invested.
All other insurance companies operate this way - but here is a community based insurance. The big guys are just investment companies that take otehr peoples money to invest with in leiu of paying them off if something should happen to them or the property that they are esentially using as an asset backing to the investment. In the sense that the maintaining of the well-being of the object is the incentive for the person to pay to insure its well-being. and in the case of auto insurance - this investment revenue is guarenteed by law.
You must have insurance on your vehicle regardless of whether you have been in an accident. and if, at the end of the year - you dont get into an accident - you do not get any return on your contribution to the insurance companies investment.
Silicon, Glass, Station Wagon, Copper, Pigeon.
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I understand DNS fairly well enough. There are several (13-ish last I read) TLD nameservers out there in various spots which manage all the DNS traffic in a hiarachtical fashion, rather straight forward....
What I DONT understand is how ICANN can manage to make everyone think that no other options are available.
Would it not be fairly (menaing without considerable time and expense) easly to setup a peer TLD DNS system with TLDs that we, users of the internet elect and implement.
imagine this scenario:
Various entities with dedicated bandwidth (like a large site like slashdot) setup a vTLD server (virtual TLD server)
A modified DNS client is created to use the vTLD server, and names are registered.
As long as you have the IP of the vTLD and - you can lookup the name of the new site...
Charge 2 bux for a vTLD domain - and make the model open enough to where classes of vTLDs can be identified over time so as to make the compartmentalization of site types easier...
ween our self off of ICANN and other entities that no longer represent the best way to anage information on the internet.
Come shoot holes in this - or flesh it out please...
I would like to have a .ppl (or .me) or some similar TLD for personal pages. (individuals only)
.mail TLD with several large established mail servers on the .mail TLD which all mail runs through (encrypted) and has some verification system built in which eliminates spam.
.coms to block it all based on TLD). .po or something for mail systems - maybe requiring some sort of adherance to installation of non-relaying systems based on agreed standards... or something to that effect)
And a
The whole TLD system is pretty lame as it stands now due to the lack of adherance to any sort of standard.
Standard classes should be established and sites should agree to adhere to those classes.
-.com - company commercial sites.
-.org - NFPs and other groups that are not commercially oriented.
-.xxx - (or something sim to put all porn and easily allow
-.kid - (or something sim to put youth oriented sites).
-.ppl - individuals websites blogs etc.
-.net - isps and carriers - including mobiles like nokia and other cellular comapnies.
-.mail (or
-.med?
shouldnt need to be much larger than this - but this would make organizing of information (and thus navigation) on the web smoother...
Obviously there is some headache in making a transition of this sort - but only complain because you are lazy - think about the long term implications of applying a logical hiararchy to information destinations, as opposed to the fleeting pain it will cause at a site that likely wont be around for an extended period of time.
Next? Hand cranked content?
Oh, wait....
And all generalizations are false!
Aside from being my address... 3133 virus files on that machine constitutes 13.8% of all files tested on that system....
Who was running that box - and what were they doing with it?
well actually what would be interesting is combining this with the segway's balancing algorithym.
If you have one who can move his legs enough to fire offthe robo-legs sensors, but are not strong enough to support the body, and thereby balance - the segway's brains may keep the thing upright....
the other issue is a parking frame, while this thing is great for ambulating about a flat area... I doubt a single user would be able to don the cyber-garment, or sit or remove himself from it without the assistance of at least several others... if it had som frame that could straddle a wheel chair, which you walked up to it - and hooked the thing to via connectors at about the shoulder area, then it would support the unit while you de-mount it, and slowly lower yourself into the wheelchair below.
Ya, but what happenes when you fall out of love with what you do - or new things are discovered that interst you more and now you are stuck....
I've been known to lay a lot of pipe in my spare time....
I just was turned down for a position at a major biotech here in SF. It was the first interview I had had in several years, while I have been at my current employer for ~2 years now, before that I was unemployed for over a year.
I have a realyl good resume, and a fantastic skillset - and seemed to be a very good match for the position - but I didnt interview well... I was really nervous - and they interviewed me rather oddly.
They asked me one specific question "What is the distance limitation on cat5e"
All the otehr questions were behaviour based questions "Describe how you multitask well" "describe a time where setting up a template helped you succeed"
While these are fine questions to ask to get an idea of how someone thinks - I dont think that an interview should be based 100% on these...
So i wanted to change companies - but interviewing with completely ambiguous questions on top of nervousness was hard...
Kind of ironic that his personal quote is "The nation has limited resources that must be used wisely."...
A twenty dollar bill so that the back side is face up long ways.
holding the bill horizontal - fold one side of the bill down with the crease towards the center line of the bill, so that it runs perpendicular to the original horizontal angle with a 45 degree crease at the edge angle, then fold the other side the same way (the bill will look like an arrow) - you will see the two towers afer being hit by the planes, before the collapse.
Somone set us up the mirror!
I just sold windows 95 on 3.5" floppies that was still sealed in the box for 27.50 on ebay...
I put it up as a joke - saying it was a piece of computing history... people started bidding on it!
Woot.
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