In reality, the new domain names will be stored in the DNS as sequences of letters and numbers beginning xn-- in order to maintain compatibility with the existing infrastructure. The characters following the xn-- will be used to encode a sequence of Unicode characters representing the country name.
Any DNS gurus care to explain why they wouldn't simply use UTF8?
If MS included this in Windows, you'd never get to see the login screen because the CPU would be so busy fixing bugs.
Geez... imagine the sheer volume of.CONF files a Linux user would have to waft through just to get this to check a distro for bugs.
Is this some sort of "out-stereotype the operating system" competition? If so, here is my entry:
If the tool from TFA existed already, Mac users wouldn't notice it until Steve Jobs named it the iPatcher and made some cutesy advertisements with Justin Long wearing an eye patch. At that point they'd proclaim it made their systems invulnerable to bugs in a far superior way than Windows and Linux.
I want to see how this plays out. Sparc International and SparkFun aren't direct competitors but they are both in the electronics biz. It's a bit of a stretch but I'd grant that there is the potential for confusion. I'd hope that Sparc sent the letter as a beginning for negotiations and is aiming to sign an agreement with SparkFun that allows both companies to feel that their trademarks are secure for future usage. If it ends with SparkFun being forced to change their name, that will be a pretty big black eye for Sparc.
IANAL, but Sparc International has a legal obligation to protect its trademark, correct? They may not want to pick on SparkFun but if they don't demonstrably protect their trademark, they can lose it.
How do you protect your trademark without sending out C&Ds?
Their astronaut selection process tends to weed out all but the most motivated adventurous go-getters who tend to go crazy when asked to do basically nothing for 6 months.
Amen! As I understand it the first astronauts were test pilots, familiar with confined cockpits, long periods of total boredom, and incredible risk of a human roasting giant fireball. Why they ever went away from those men with way too much bravado, I'll never know.
The Wright brothers kept trying because they were dealing with a new field and improvements to technology were being made.
They were not dealing with a new field. Humans had been attempting flight *at least* since Da Vinci's time. The first thing they did was throw out a lot of commonly accepted knowledge of flight at the time.
"Oh, it's been tried before, it will never work." -- this is crap, and lazy. We've been using the same control scheme for automobiles since before computers existed, there is ample room for investigating new methods. The road to knowledge is littered with failed experiments.
All that you really had to know was to shoot the demons - the player has no other way to interact with the world other than shooting.
Not quite true -- Doom had a "use" key, spacebar by default, that would open doors, flip switches, and summon elevators. This was "streamlined" in Quake so that you would simply press your face against doors and switches for them to activate.
When, exactly, did computer game snobs decide it was cool to call DOOM 'rubbish'?
Well, TFA said "from a story perspective" and I'm sure you agree that Doom's plot wasn't even rubbish, it was simply non-existent. You and I both disagree with TFA's assumption that a plot is necessary.
Sorry if this is overly nit-picky, I agree with your main points.
"Zeke fucked with my resume and I suspect he's not trying too hard.. should I go back to him??"
^-- this is like asking a room full of women if you should go back to your abusive husband. the answer is glaringly obvious but the real question is if you will listen?
We don't yet have the DMCA in Canada. A hosting company in the USA would be legally required to take the infringing material down until served with a counter-notice from the other party.
If this particular case did turn out to be copy infringement, the Canadian hosting company would probably be liable under a treaty between the two countries but not necessarily. However, it's a ridiculous sham of legal bluster, so they're completely in the clear.
How is this different from what Apple does with OS X and Macs?
IBM is screwing with the big boys rather than screwing over "consumers". If someone tried to make an interoperable cell phone that was capable of running iPhone apps they would be shut down so fast your head would spin.
The entire PC industry started when someone reverse engineered the PC bios but those days are long gone and we live with laws like the DMCA, software patents, and other abominations that stifle innovation.
Microsoft is researching 128bit architectures?!?!!! That's, like, DOUBLE what's available now!! I wonder how they chose that number?!# WHAT WILL COME NEXT???????????????
- "Doesn't anyone use their phone as a god damn PHONE anymore? I'm running ($massively_antiquated_cellphone) and other than the hernia from carrying it around it stays charged for 3 months!"
- "6 hours on a charge? My anecdote beats that anecdote!"
- "Cell phone designers should stop being lazy and make their phones run on the tears of albino unicorns, then we wouldn't have to read about their problems with power consumption."
- "Technology will advance to take care of this problem. In fact, when the Singularity happens, we won't even need cell phones anymore."
Can Microsoft do it too? They should be able to, they have the resources, but so far they have not shown themselves up to the task. Consider even the ipod: it isn't really that complicated, all it does is play music. You should be able to match it pretty easily, and even add an FM tuner to beat it, right? And yet no one has been able to even come close. Why not?
Excellent point. I would say that the iPod phenomena has been a demonstration of Apple's traditional strengths: integration of software and hardware, industrial design, "simple" interface.
With the App Store, Apple has entered the arena that Microsoft has traditionally dominated: software platform. We already have a few revisions of the iPhone with different processor speed, in several years there will be warnings pasted all over iPhone apps "only compatible with x86 iPhones manufactured 2012 or later". This is where Microsoft thrives, creating a common platform for disparate hardware.
Ripping off Apple has also been a traditional Microsoft strength.
In the end, I don't disagree with you, neither of us can predict the future. Watching Microsoft flail around unsuccessfully is going to be just as enjoyable for me as if they were to build the perfect iPod-killer. Either way, it will be fun to watch:)
Microsoft is very often caught "asleep at the wheel" (eg: the internet) but when they wake up and rejoin the race, they usually overtake and keep the lead permanently.
Honestly, I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but we're all sick of reading stories about how expensive and proprietary the iPhone is. When Microsoft wakes up and really nails what Google's Android is flirting with, ie. non-proprietary iPhones with sexy hardware and standard, user liberated software, it will be a huge win for customers.
It really took Apple to put everything together in one package so that wireless carriers saw "oh yeah, mobile internet", but now it's time for commoditization.
The iPhone is doing gangbuster sales with a chopped version of OS X. Windows Mobile has been around much, much longer yet it was blown out of the water.
The latest Zune doesn't run Windows Mobile since Windows Mobile is crap. The latest Zune doesn't have an app store because Windows Mobile is making an app store and they don't know how it's going to turn out!
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The encoding seems weird to me:
Any DNS gurus care to explain why they wouldn't simply use UTF8?
Is this some sort of "out-stereotype the operating system" competition? If so, here is my entry:
If the tool from TFA existed already, Mac users wouldn't notice it until Steve Jobs named it the iPatcher and made some cutesy advertisements with Justin Long wearing an eye patch. At that point they'd proclaim it made their systems invulnerable to bugs in a far superior way than Windows and Linux.
I want to see how this plays out. Sparc International and SparkFun aren't direct competitors but they are both in the electronics biz. It's a bit of a stretch but I'd grant that there is the potential for confusion. I'd hope that Sparc sent the letter as a beginning for negotiations and is aiming to sign an agreement with SparkFun that allows both companies to feel that their trademarks are secure for future usage. If it ends with SparkFun being forced to change their name, that will be a pretty big black eye for Sparc.
IANAL, but Sparc International has a legal obligation to protect its trademark, correct? They may not want to pick on SparkFun but if they don't demonstrably protect their trademark, they can lose it.
How do you protect your trademark without sending out C&Ds?
I'm imagining the tips being much worse than usual
This is Slashdot. If sitting on my ass for 6 months is an adventure, then I'm Buzz Lightyear.
Amen! As I understand it the first astronauts were test pilots, familiar with confined cockpits, long periods of total boredom, and incredible risk of a human roasting giant fireball. Why they ever went away from those men with way too much bravado, I'll never know.
They were not dealing with a new field. Humans had been attempting flight *at least* since Da Vinci's time. The first thing they did was throw out a lot of commonly accepted knowledge of flight at the time.
"Oh, it's been tried before, it will never work." -- this is crap, and lazy. We've been using the same control scheme for automobiles since before computers existed, there is ample room for investigating new methods. The road to knowledge is littered with failed experiments.
If people didn't try things because others had failed at the same thing before, the Wright brothers never would've left the ground. Kudos to Toyota.
Not quite true -- Doom had a "use" key, spacebar by default, that would open doors, flip switches, and summon elevators. This was "streamlined" in Quake so that you would simply press your face against doors and switches for them to activate.
Well, TFA said "from a story perspective" and I'm sure you agree that Doom's plot wasn't even rubbish, it was simply non-existent. You and I both disagree with TFA's assumption that a plot is necessary.
Sorry if this is overly nit-picky, I agree with your main points.
Oh shit! Processor nerd SMACKDOWN!! This is better than wrestling!
"Zeke fucked with my resume and I suspect he's not trying too hard.. should I go back to him??"
^-- this is like asking a room full of women if you should go back to your abusive husband. the answer is glaringly obvious but the real question is if you will listen?
Schindler's List 2: This time, he's checking it twice
We don't yet have the DMCA in Canada. A hosting company in the USA would be legally required to take the infringing material down until served with a counter-notice from the other party.
If this particular case did turn out to be copy infringement, the Canadian hosting company would probably be liable under a treaty between the two countries but not necessarily. However, it's a ridiculous sham of legal bluster, so they're completely in the clear.
IANAL etc etc
IBM is screwing with the big boys rather than screwing over "consumers". If someone tried to make an interoperable cell phone that was capable of running iPhone apps they would be shut down so fast your head would spin.
The entire PC industry started when someone reverse engineered the PC bios but those days are long gone and we live with laws like the DMCA, software patents, and other abominations that stifle innovation.
Microsoft is researching 128bit architectures?!?!!! That's, like, DOUBLE what's available now!! I wonder how they chose that number?!# WHAT WILL COME NEXT???????????????
The proper usage of "eh?" is following a statement. It's an expression that looks to garner agreement.
Proper usage: Oh man, it's cold out eh?
Improper usage: Did you file those TPS reports eh?
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Canadian Cultural Relations Committee, Winnipeg
I want to ridicule you for leading the most boring life imaginable, but we're both posting to Slashdot, so I will welcome you as a brother..
On a serious note, I am sorry about your hernia.
Let's get the kneejerk comments out of the way:
- "Doesn't anyone use their phone as a god damn PHONE anymore? I'm running ($massively_antiquated_cellphone) and other than the hernia from carrying it around it stays charged for 3 months!"
- "6 hours on a charge? My anecdote beats that anecdote!"
- "Cell phone designers should stop being lazy and make their phones run on the tears of albino unicorns, then we wouldn't have to read about their problems with power consumption."
- "Technology will advance to take care of this problem. In fact, when the Singularity happens, we won't even need cell phones anymore."
"Complying with demands" is not "outmaneuvering".
I personally have been striving to wipe Greece off the map for hundreds of years..
Excellent point. I would say that the iPod phenomena has been a demonstration of Apple's traditional strengths: integration of software and hardware, industrial design, "simple" interface.
With the App Store, Apple has entered the arena that Microsoft has traditionally dominated: software platform. We already have a few revisions of the iPhone with different processor speed, in several years there will be warnings pasted all over iPhone apps "only compatible with x86 iPhones manufactured 2012 or later". This is where Microsoft thrives, creating a common platform for disparate hardware.
Ripping off Apple has also been a traditional Microsoft strength.
In the end, I don't disagree with you, neither of us can predict the future. Watching Microsoft flail around unsuccessfully is going to be just as enjoyable for me as if they were to build the perfect iPod-killer. Either way, it will be fun to watch :)
Honestly, I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but we're all sick of reading stories about how expensive and proprietary the iPhone is. When Microsoft wakes up and really nails what Google's Android is flirting with, ie. non-proprietary iPhones with sexy hardware and standard, user liberated software, it will be a huge win for customers.
It really took Apple to put everything together in one package so that wireless carriers saw "oh yeah, mobile internet", but now it's time for commoditization.
The iPhone is doing gangbuster sales with a chopped version of OS X. Windows Mobile has been around much, much longer yet it was blown out of the water.
The latest Zune doesn't run Windows Mobile since Windows Mobile is crap. The latest Zune doesn't have an app store because Windows Mobile is making an app store and they don't know how it's going to turn out!
Seriously, Apple caught them asleep at the wheel.