I'm wondering why the Open Root Server Confederation isn't running a ICANN to OSRC maping service. It'd seem like it'd make it a lot easier to get people to start using your registry.
It'd be much nicer to say "Oh well tell anyone using ICANN's ROOT servers to use pacific.ocean.alt-root.com instead." rather than "Well only 0.5% of the people on the net will be able to see your pacific.ocean domain."
So here's my idea, go register alt-root.com or some other easy to remember name. Setup up a DNS server with an SOA entry for each TLD the OSRC recognizes that maps to it's root. Then sit back and let the karma roll in.
* Disclaimer, it seems like this would be a relativly simple thing to do but since I'm no BIND hacker I could be wrong.
Oh you mean the start button like the apple on the Macintosh?
No the sub menu on the context menu wasn't there in 95. The new one allows you to open a file that's assocated with one app with another entirely with out changing the association.
Almost every cool thing they've added has come from BeOS. The kill task on exit, Be. Open With menu in Explorer, Be. Now with Whistler the new multiple instances of one app combined, well Be did that back in 4.0. I feel like on of those Mac people now but Windows 2001 = Be 98.
Well the low tech route seems to work pretty good. Put enough explosives into a small boat and you can take out a n billion dollar US destroyer. Seems to contrast with the US's high-tech terrorism (cruise missles to destroy targets "linked" to Bin Laden anyone?). Use this once and you'll get a suicide bomber at a Presidential function.
To para-phrase William Gibson said if they go high tech you go low tech.
um not to be picky or anything but your response had nothing to do with the original post.
Why does it matter where the computing happens? M-w.com defines robot as:
1 a : a machine that looks like a human being and performs various complex acts (as walking or talking) of a human being; also : a similar but fictional machine whose lack of capacity for human emotions is often emphasized b : an efficient insensitive person who functions automatically
2 : a device that automatically performs complicated often repetitive tasks
3 : a mechanism guided by automatic controls
Seems to meet both 2 and 3. Regardlessly the point of the contest is to prove new technology. In five years all the tech they used will be at least half the size and weight and you'll be able to mount it anywhere.
Sounds to me like someone has found a creative way to make money off the fear that big record companies have towards mp3. Sell them some fancy system that will basically just be a big waste of time.
What's the problem? Metalica proved that bands are more than happy to go to quite a bit of trouble to find people illegally distributing their music.
I'd much rather see this used in one of those searches. If it works as advertised it would cut down on false positives, instead of getting five thousand people who just had a cover or remix of the song you'd limit the list of IPs/Users to those with copies of your music.
Since distributing music that's not yours is illegal I'd have no problem with this tech being used to single people out on Gnotella.
I'd like to see them do this, and encompass the myriad of different protocols and formats that abound on the web today, plus the ones that will be designed just to break it.
It seems to me that they'd only need to supply an appropriate codex to decompress it to raw audio before they could analize it.
You're absolutely correct though that all it would take would be to wrap it in a zip file with the password in the file name.
Good call, if he's that worried about it he should go buy the original carts from a thrift store. Then he could have copies of the roms without legal worries.
If successful, the airscooter trial at Nasa's Ames research centre in California could form another stepping stone in the development of personal, individual aircraft that allow commuters to speed over traffic jams, doctors to fly to emergencies and soldiers to leapfrog minefields.
Don't you mean allow commuters to get caught in flying traffic jams?
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I'd rather not pay for interstates, i never leave town and I don't have a car. it's something that i see as a waste of money. so i shouldn't have to pay for it.
I've done a bit of touring (and I commute by bike) and this bike runs completely counter to my cycling philosophy, I try to apply Ray Jardine's backpacking style (he's a very interesting individual I'd encourage everyone to check out the site). Take as little as you can and make sure what you do take has multiple uses.
This bike falls squarely in the "Hey look what we can do" category. The rechargeable nature makes it impractical for touring, it's heavy and you need to keep it charged. The statistics tracking might be cool if you're training but if you were training you sure wouldn't want to be doing it on this bike. In my experience all the electronics would be useless, if not dangerous on a commuter bike, the only time you'd even be able to mess with the Palm is when your out on the highway, in town your focus needs to be on traffic. The other problem is all this stuff just increases the theft value, forcing you to bring it into the building with you or worry about it all the time.
This whole package needs to be on another bike, personally I just don't like electrics, and an upright bike just makes it hard to use the gear while you're riding. A recumbent is the way to go, BikeE has a low cost semi-recumbent that would make a good starting point for someone not inclined to build their own. If you look at Steve Roberts' stuff (read his book too damn it! ; )) all his bikes he built were recumbents.
I usually take my Palm IIIc and PocketMailBackFlip, with it I can keep in touch for a whole lot less money than calling people.
We found chimps work great in Perl, their code is a little tought to read sometimes but it seems to be working so far. Maybe we could get them to comment it...
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I'm wondering why the Open Root Server Confederation isn't running a ICANN to OSRC maping service. It'd seem like it'd make it a lot easier to get people to start using your registry.
It'd be much nicer to say "Oh well tell anyone using ICANN's ROOT servers to use pacific.ocean.alt-root.com instead." rather than "Well only 0.5% of the people on the net will be able to see your pacific.ocean domain."
So here's my idea, go register alt-root.com or some other easy to remember name. Setup up a DNS server with an SOA entry for each TLD the OSRC recognizes that maps to it's root. Then sit back and let the karma roll in.
* Disclaimer, it seems like this would be a relativly simple thing to do but since I'm no BIND hacker I could be wrong.
Oh you mean the start button like the apple on the Macintosh? No the sub menu on the context menu wasn't there in 95. The new one allows you to open a file that's assocated with one app with another entirely with out changing the association.
Um how about this instead.
Almost every cool thing they've added has come from BeOS. The kill task on exit, Be. Open With menu in Explorer, Be. Now with Whistler the new multiple instances of one app combined, well Be did that back in 4.0. I feel like on of those Mac people now but Windows 2001 = Be 98.
Well the low tech route seems to work pretty good. Put enough explosives into a small boat and you can take out a n billion dollar US destroyer. Seems to contrast with the US's high-tech terrorism (cruise missles to destroy targets "linked" to Bin Laden anyone?). Use this once and you'll get a suicide bomber at a Presidential function. To para-phrase William Gibson said if they go high tech you go low tech.
um not to be picky or anything but your response had nothing to do with the original post.
Why does it matter where the computing happens? M-w.com defines robot as:
Seems to meet both 2 and 3. Regardlessly the point of the contest is to prove new technology. In five years all the tech they used will be at least half the size and weight and you'll be able to mount it anywhere.Don't kill your citizens or people in territory your occuping ....unless you're Isreal, in which case well keep the UN off your back too.
and if it doesn't work, so what? the record companies spent some money on vapor?
best freaking idea i've heard all day.
oh i thought you were talking about SDMI...
What's the problem? Metalica proved that bands are more than happy to go to quite a bit of trouble to find people illegally distributing their music. I'd much rather see this used in one of those searches. If it works as advertised it would cut down on false positives, instead of getting five thousand people who just had a cover or remix of the song you'd limit the list of IPs/Users to those with copies of your music. Since distributing music that's not yours is illegal I'd have no problem with this tech being used to single people out on Gnotella.
Worry about the RIAA not altavista scanning your files. You better believe that they'll have it comming from multiple subnets.
A much easier way to get it in place would be to just buy the search engine. Considering that Disney owns GO Networks, it's not a streach.
I'd like to see them do this, and encompass the myriad of different protocols and formats that abound on the web today, plus the ones that will be designed just to break it. It seems to me that they'd only need to supply an appropriate codex to decompress it to raw audio before they could analize it. You're absolutely correct though that all it would take would be to wrap it in a zip file with the password in the file name.
WinNT/2000 and Win95/98/Me
That's always been an NT/2000 thing, doesn't work in win 95 not sure about 98 or ME though.
Good call, if he's that worried about it he should go buy the original carts from a thrift store. Then he could have copies of the roms without legal worries.
Don't you mean allow commuters to get caught in flying traffic jams?
Check out the EFF's Contacting Congress page. It's got a lot of ideas on lobbying Congress and the White House.
As per the already posted Jon Haddock, the artist is 38. So maybe when he graduated back in '86 it might have been on a grant or just as easily he could have paid for it himself, but he'd definately not a kid. More on the project is available here.
I'd rather not pay for interstates, i never leave town and I don't have a car. it's something that i see as a waste of money. so i shouldn't have to pay for it.
I've done a bit of touring (and I commute by bike) and this bike runs completely counter to my cycling philosophy, I try to apply Ray Jardine's backpacking style (he's a very interesting individual I'd encourage everyone to check out the site). Take as little as you can and make sure what you do take has multiple uses.
This bike falls squarely in the "Hey look what we can do" category. The rechargeable nature makes it impractical for touring, it's heavy and you need to keep it charged. The statistics tracking might be cool if you're training but if you were training you sure wouldn't want to be doing it on this bike. In my experience all the electronics would be useless, if not dangerous on a commuter bike, the only time you'd even be able to mess with the Palm is when your out on the highway, in town your focus needs to be on traffic. The other problem is all this stuff just increases the theft value, forcing you to bring it into the building with you or worry about it all the time.
This whole package needs to be on another bike, personally I just don't like electrics, and an upright bike just makes it hard to use the gear while you're riding. A recumbent is the way to go, BikeE has a low cost semi-recumbent that would make a good starting point for someone not inclined to build their own. If you look at Steve Roberts' stuff (read his book too damn it! ; )) all his bikes he built were recumbents.
I usually take my Palm IIIc and PocketMail BackFlip, with it I can keep in touch for a whole lot less money than calling people.
SCSI 2 stuff is cheap now, pick it up it's still faster than IDE and you get multiple drives.
We found chimps work great in Perl, their code is a little tought to read sometimes but it seems to be working so far. Maybe we could get them to comment it...
Word 2.0 was on the MacOS, it's not like they started doing Mac software recently.