There was time when TLD meant something. You knew a.com was a company, a.org was a non-profit, a.net was service provider etc. Now a.org or.net can be any old profit-driven site selling anything. All these new TLDs are just pointless..mobi?
And they're not domains anymore. They're vanity plates. A domain used to mean a bunch of computers that were connected and administered as a group. Now, it's a website.
Go to a newsstand and check how many publications use 30% whitespace on their pages. It's just not practical to do that when your purpose is to present informative articles.
Yeah, but not all of the whitespace is in the margins like on this site. I clicked on the 1024x768 option and got a 1024x768 Flash animation with all of the contents crammed into a 600x480 area in the center. That is just plain wrong.
Just because nobody has completely implemented the OS X APIs doesn't mean they're not open. Eventually, you may be able to develop an app, GUI and all, on OS X then compile and run it on Linux/BSD/Solaris and *gasp* even Windows.
And if being able to compile all kinds of Unix apps on OS X doesn't make it Unix, I don't now what does.
O'Gara is the witch that's been defending SCO all along and seems to be cozy with the management. I wonder if SCO put her up to this for some reason...
No offense, but that's pretty short-sighted. With all their services, Google has a metric shit-load of data at their fingertips. The fact that they're getting into GIS applications is exciting. Do you think they're just going to let the Keyhole app stand on its own? I have no doubt they're coming up with ways to tie everything together. What Apple is doing with media convergance, Google is doing with everything else.
I'd bet that Microsoft can lean on enough people who can lean on the right people over in Asia to crack down.
It doesn't seem to be working for pirated copies of Windows. MS is the one bending over by selling a stripped-down version to the Asian market. (Anyone know how that's doing?)
Hey, here's an idea: The idea of an almost mythical lost civilization is common thread throughout all old human societies - much like, say, really big Floods. Perhaps there could be more then one story that fits? But, no, that wouldn't be a simplistic enough answer to be sound-bitten into oblivion.
Hey, here's an idea. The primary job of an editor is to edit not editorialize.
We're actually moving toward logging our days into a computer, and then when something goes wrong, investigators come in later and go through our personal logs to see what happened in the days leading up to.
Uhmmm... this is different from a diary, how? Nothing new here, move along. Well, the video & computer elements are new but the concept is the same, no?
Who let this guy off of Usenet? I'll give him points for style for using the "hate crimes" line. But, if he follows-up with a RICO threat, I'm taking them back.
I'm not sure if we should be hating him for his stupidity or pitying him for his mental illness. Seriously.
It is not really 10 Gbps per user. New Scientist got that wrong. It's a fiber-optic infrastructure capable with 40 lambdas max. A lambda is a wavelength of light. They use DWDM to split the light on the fiber into 40 lambdas. One lamdda = 10 Gbps.
Now, a single user can, for a period of time, get a whole lambda for himself for a particular application. That's a big deal for researchers. But don't think that everyone at an NLR connected institution automatically has a 10 Gbps link to everyone else on NLR. Most of the users, at best, probably have 1 Gbps ethernet to their desktop. This isn't for browsing the web and playing Doom. It's to connect huge data stores in San Diego to supercomputers in Pittsburgh.
Actually, it's better. A 10 Gbps backbone isn't that big of a deal. It's not just a 10 Gbps network. It's a 40 lambda infrastructure -- 10 Gbps being just on lambda. The 10 Gbps IP network isn't the big news. The big news is the infrastructure.
Consider this: you're a weather researcher modeling tornadoes at the University of Oklahoma. You're running a simulation on a Cray in Pittsburgh and you need transfer terabytes of data back and forth. A 10 Gbps shared network isn't going to cut it. You'll either disrupt everyone else's service or get insufficient transfer rates.
What do you do? Load up a station wagon with tapes? On National LambdaRail you can set up, for a limited time, your own private 10 Gbps network to the supercomputing center. That fat pipe is all yours.
Another application will be experimental networks. Want to play around with MTUs? Auto-tuned hosts? They'll have a network just for the screwing around with network technologies.
NSFnet was important for being the first wide-spread IP network. This is more than just one network. It's flexible, fiber-optic infrastructure. A lot of the tech, especially network tuning stuff, will trickle down. I can't even imagine, though, how this kind of flexibility will influence the future Internet.
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There was time when TLD meant something. You knew a .com was a company, a .org was a non-profit, a .net was service provider etc. Now a .org or .net can be any old profit-driven site selling anything. All these new TLDs are just pointless. .mobi?
And they're not domains anymore. They're vanity plates. A domain used to mean a bunch of computers that were connected and administered as a group. Now, it's a website.
I'm afraid it's just going to get more confusing.
Yeah, but not all of the whitespace is in the margins like on this site. I clicked on the 1024x768 option and got a 1024x768 Flash animation with all of the contents crammed into a 600x480 area in the center. That is just plain wrong.
That's the best designed scam site I've seen. I like how the top searches are 'Casino, Poker, Credit Cards.' Yeah, right.
One word: GNUStep
Just because nobody has completely implemented the OS X APIs doesn't mean they're not open. Eventually, you may be able to develop an app, GUI and all, on OS X then compile and run it on Linux/BSD/Solaris and *gasp* even Windows.
And if being able to compile all kinds of Unix apps on OS X doesn't make it Unix, I don't now what does.
Probably whatever Vuescan supports.
I remember that movie. I stumbled across while searching for ravioli recipes on Gnutella.
So, Jesus came to take away our sins. Therefore, every baptised Christian is immortal?
... Dr. Aubrey dyes his beard?
I wonder which will happen first:
I have a sneaking feeling that the former will have to happen, conditionally, before the latter.
Linux Business Week is not "various news sources." Hell, I wouldn't even consider it one news source.
O'Gara is the witch that's been defending SCO all along and seems to be cozy with the management. I wonder if SCO put her up to this for some reason...
There is 0-10% chance of snow in hell today.
No offense, but that's pretty short-sighted. With all their services, Google has a metric shit-load of data at their fingertips. The fact that they're getting into GIS applications is exciting. Do you think they're just going to let the Keyhole app stand on its own? I have no doubt they're coming up with ways to tie everything together. What Apple is doing with media convergance, Google is doing with everything else.
It doesn't seem to be working for pirated copies of Windows. MS is the one bending over by selling a stripped-down version to the Asian market. (Anyone know how that's doing?)
Never get involved in a land^H^H^H^H trade war in Asia.
Hey, here's an idea. The primary job of an editor is to edit not editorialize.
Sheesh.Uhmmm... this is different from a diary, how? Nothing new here, move along. Well, the video & computer elements are new but the concept is the same, no?
Whoa. That should be illegal.
I've seen the Polar Express trailer in theaters a couple times, now. Every time I see it I think one thing: Uncanny Valley.
There's nothing in that link about tampering.
Only the ones that aren't in it for the money.
Who let this guy off of Usenet? I'll give him points for style for using the "hate crimes" line. But, if he follows-up with a RICO threat, I'm taking them back.
I'm not sure if we should be hating him for his stupidity or pitying him for his mental illness. Seriously.
It is not really 10 Gbps per user. New Scientist got that wrong. It's a fiber-optic infrastructure capable with 40 lambdas max. A lambda is a wavelength of light. They use DWDM to split the light on the fiber into 40 lambdas. One lamdda = 10 Gbps.
Now, a single user can, for a period of time, get a whole lambda for himself for a particular application. That's a big deal for researchers. But don't think that everyone at an NLR connected institution automatically has a 10 Gbps link to everyone else on NLR. Most of the users, at best, probably have 1 Gbps ethernet to their desktop. This isn't for browsing the web and playing Doom. It's to connect huge data stores in San Diego to supercomputers in Pittsburgh.
Yeah, they're using DWDM.
Actually, it's better. A 10 Gbps backbone isn't that big of a deal. It's not just a 10 Gbps network. It's a 40 lambda infrastructure -- 10 Gbps being just on lambda. The 10 Gbps IP network isn't the big news. The big news is the infrastructure.
Consider this: you're a weather researcher modeling tornadoes at the University of Oklahoma. You're running a simulation on a Cray in Pittsburgh and you need transfer terabytes of data back and forth. A 10 Gbps shared network isn't going to cut it. You'll either disrupt everyone else's service or get insufficient transfer rates.
What do you do? Load up a station wagon with tapes? On National LambdaRail you can set up, for a limited time, your own private 10 Gbps network to the supercomputing center. That fat pipe is all yours.
Another application will be experimental networks. Want to play around with MTUs? Auto-tuned hosts? They'll have a network just for the screwing around with network technologies.
NSFnet was important for being the first wide-spread IP network. This is more than just one network. It's flexible, fiber-optic infrastructure. A lot of the tech, especially network tuning stuff, will trickle down. I can't even imagine, though, how this kind of flexibility will influence the future Internet.