Because that's the logical endpoint of refusing to contain the potential explosion of TLDs: every company in the world has its own TLD. The namespace goes back to flat.
We need *more* structure, not less. If we're gonna rip up the current model, let's build a real global X.500 directory and put hosts and their organizations in it, so we have some chance of sorting through the mess.
Why do I get the feeling that this is driven by a bunch of guys each of whom never was able to grok any hierarchy which doesn't have him at the root?
Looks like #26 -- _Tom Swift and his Sonic Boom Trap_, according to http://users.arczip.com/fwdixon/tomswift/
First MIT is building soldier suits to do vision what Tom's "invisible" sub did to sonar, now this. All we need is a working repelatron and some Space Friends and we're there.
For the rest of you: one of a series of novels published back when knowing stuff was still cool and kids wanted to become famous scientists rather than strung-out rock stars. (See also Danny Dunn, _There's Adventure in $nameyourfavoritescience_, and countless others.)
I for one have no problem with being *exposed to* advertising. I do have a big problem with advertising that actively interferes with my chosen activity. Flashing, crawling, dancing, noisy ad.s are a distraction just short of pain, and are effectively "anti-advertising" for the product portrayed since they produce a negative association with the product. (Yes, I have sworn never to do business with a few companies solely because their ad.s bug me.)
Downgrading to static ad.s could be yet another selling point for dialup.:-) Yeah, I wouldn't do anything to block a normal static, banner-sized ad.
It's amazing how much nicer my experience of the CVS site is now that I took out the Flash plugin and get their static filler in place of the Flash filler. Better living through feature removal. I could get used to this.
Evil idea: go ahead and download the junk (costing them bandwidth), rig your browser to not actually show it (saving you mental bandwidth), and do some QoS magic so that the (unused) download only gets time on the wire when you don't want it for anything else (saving you hassle factor).
Yeah I'm just brainstorming and I've glossed over a lot of detail, but it could be fun to try!
Um, I wonder if Tom Swift, Jr. already has a patent on active noise cancellation. OTOH it's probably expired by now...that was an awfully long time ago.
I suspect some of it is that we've had the ability to goggle and say, "you *must* be joking!" socialized out of us. It feels impolite to point out to someone that what he's just said is utter hogwash.
If we had somewhere to recycle it, I'd be going there. Those eco-friendly green containers sprinkled all over the city only take polyethylene; no types 3, 4, 5, *or* 6. I hate sending polystyrene to the landfill but there's no other place *to* send it around here.
The U.S. isn't rushing toward IPv6 because it wasn't ready in MS Windows yet. That will probably change when Longhorn comes out. Maybe even as soon as XP SP2.
Yeah, what are they thinking, layering is what makes the Internet *work*. Maybe they're thinking network management which, as anybody knows, is "layered" all the way up the side of the protocol stack.
Where have these guys *been* for the last, oh, *fifty* years? One guy doesn't know that guaranteed delivery isn't IP's job because that belongs to another layer, and seems to be unaware that adaptive routing has been in the Internet for decades; another apparently never heard of the memory mapping and protection that's been standard in most computers longer than many of today's hotshot programmers have lived. DHCP and the built-in address initialization stuff in IPv6 (cribbed from earlier work in OSI, btw) are apparently unknown at DARPA.
What would make commercial DVDs truly beautiful to me is exactly a lack of cutesy-poo random-walk menu placement and other intrusive malarkey. It sounds like the OS tools are just what I want!
Because a 100% UCE-free Internet is going to be darned expensive and rather less usable. At what level of filtration does the next incremental improvement begin to cost more than simply being satisfied with what you've accomplished?
I've tuned up a pretty good stack of procmail recipes, set my MTA to refuse unverifiable senders and obvious forgeries, subscribed to a couple of decent blacklists, and trimmed things down to a level I find tolerable. And thus I'm disinclined to do much more.
Through a bit of mental jiu-jitsu I've come to regard the remaining trickle as a moderately challenging puzzle provided to me for free, and a source of amusement first thing in the morning as I make the initial pass through my inbox to weed out the junk unread. I spend a few moments each week enjoying the logs that Exim and my procmail recipes write to show me what they've strained out. Once you push the S/N ratio high enough to get some work done, it's possible to turn the rest of the N into fun if you have the right attitude.
Oh, there are other things I'd like to do. If most people would crypto-sign their mail, I'd set up recipes to toss unsigned messages, and play around with hacking signature and CA blacklists into my filters to get rid of the more brazen attempts. I'd like to try out some recognizers that would be mighty hard to write as regular expressions. I'd like to tinker with external filters that rip out some of the common obfuscation techniques before procmail even sees the message. But for now I can live without these.
If you're thinking, "but it's costing my company money to deliver this junk," ask yourself how much it's costing your company to have you sitting around trying to find ways to remove the last little morsel of UCE when you could be crafting new competitive advantages for the firm, or at least dealing with the *other* stuff that gets in people's way and which is not actively working against you.
...robot spies a brick-wielding evildoer in an alley and subdues him by dancing while playing an inspirational video about our social responsibilities.
(Why, yes, I *am* thinking of the police robots in Harry Harrison's "Stainless Steel Rat" stories.)
Yup, TOPS-20 COMND% JSYS rocks! (You youngsters who missed TOPS-20 can find a similar style of interaction in Kermit.) It's nice to see younger OSes beginning to pick up some of the neat ideas to be found there.
DEC's documentation was top of the heap, but so is IBM's, at least in the mainframe area. IBM doco is huge and intimidating but at least it's *thorough* and *complete*. They both tend(ed) to split up the manuals into Reference (complete formal description of every feature) and User's Guide (explaining the organization and use of the product as a whole) which IMNSHO is a really useful way to document.
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Because that's the logical endpoint of refusing to contain the potential explosion of TLDs: every company in the world has its own TLD. The namespace goes back to flat.
We need *more* structure, not less. If we're gonna rip up the current model, let's build a real global X.500 directory and put hosts and their organizations in it, so we have some chance of sorting through the mess.
Why do I get the feeling that this is driven by a bunch of guys each of whom never was able to grok any hierarchy which doesn't have him at the root?
Looks like #26 -- _Tom Swift and his Sonic Boom Trap_, according to http://users.arczip.com/fwdixon/tomswift/
First MIT is building soldier suits to do vision what Tom's "invisible" sub did to sonar, now this. All we need is a working repelatron and some Space Friends and we're there.
For the rest of you: one of a series of novels published back when knowing stuff was still cool and kids wanted to become famous scientists rather than strung-out rock stars. (See also Danny Dunn, _There's Adventure in $nameyourfavoritescience_, and countless others.)
I for one have no problem with being *exposed to* advertising. I do have a big problem with advertising that actively interferes with my chosen activity. Flashing, crawling, dancing, noisy ad.s are a distraction just short of pain, and are effectively "anti-advertising" for the product portrayed since they produce a negative association with the product. (Yes, I have sworn never to do business with a few companies solely because their ad.s bug me.)
Downgrading to static ad.s could be yet another selling point for dialup. :-) Yeah, I wouldn't do anything to block a normal static, banner-sized ad.
It's amazing how much nicer my experience of the CVS site is now that I took out the Flash plugin and get their static filler in place of the Flash filler. Better living through feature removal. I could get used to this.
Evil idea: go ahead and download the junk (costing them bandwidth), rig your browser to not actually show it (saving you mental bandwidth), and do some QoS magic so that the (unused) download only gets time on the wire when you don't want it for anything else (saving you hassle factor).
Yeah I'm just brainstorming and I've glossed over a lot of detail, but it could be fun to try!
Won't work for me; I never go to MSNBC anyway if I can avoid it. Other than that you're quite right.
Um, I wonder if Tom Swift, Jr. already has a patent on active noise cancellation. OTOH it's probably expired by now...that was an awfully long time ago.
Well, just because it's natural doesn't mean it isn't bad for you. Just look at forest fires, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.
I think the problem that some people have with warming being natural is that then we can't punish any technocrats for causing it.
Now, that is *really* scary.
I suspect some of it is that we've had the ability to goggle and say, "you *must* be joking!" socialized out of us. It feels impolite to point out to someone that what he's just said is utter hogwash.
Water is low-carb too. Pass the fat-free salt, please.
It must be true -- there were some Peanuts strips about it! :-)
No, you Californiacs can keep Hollywood and all its works. I just want to pick up Indiana as-is and move it to a warmer latitude.
If we had somewhere to recycle it, I'd be going there. Those eco-friendly green containers sprinkled all over the city only take polyethylene; no types 3, 4, 5, *or* 6. I hate sending polystyrene to the landfill but there's no other place *to* send it around here.
The U.S. isn't rushing toward IPv6 because it wasn't ready in MS Windows yet. That will probably change when Longhorn comes out. Maybe even as soon as XP SP2.
Yeah, kinda like rebuilding Illiac IV out of Athlons. :-)
Seriously, this idea is a lot older than you seem to think it is.
Yeah, what are they thinking, layering is what makes the Internet *work*. Maybe they're thinking network management which, as anybody knows, is "layered" all the way up the side of the protocol stack.
Where have these guys *been* for the last, oh, *fifty* years? One guy doesn't know that guaranteed delivery isn't IP's job because that belongs to another layer, and seems to be unaware that adaptive routing has been in the Internet for decades; another apparently never heard of the memory mapping and protection that's been standard in most computers longer than many of today's hotshot programmers have lived. DHCP and the built-in address initialization stuff in IPv6 (cribbed from earlier work in OSI, btw) are apparently unknown at DARPA.
Did I miss something?
What would make commercial DVDs truly beautiful to me is exactly a lack of cutesy-poo random-walk menu placement and other intrusive malarkey. It sounds like the OS tools are just what I want!
Because a 100% UCE-free Internet is going to be darned expensive and rather less usable. At what level of filtration does the next incremental improvement begin to cost more than simply being satisfied with what you've accomplished?
I've tuned up a pretty good stack of procmail recipes, set my MTA to refuse unverifiable senders and obvious forgeries, subscribed to a couple of decent blacklists, and trimmed things down to a level I find tolerable. And thus I'm disinclined to do much more.
Through a bit of mental jiu-jitsu I've come to regard the remaining trickle as a moderately challenging puzzle provided to me for free, and a source of amusement first thing in the morning as I make the initial pass through my inbox to weed out the junk unread. I spend a few moments each week enjoying the logs that Exim and my procmail recipes write to show me what they've strained out. Once you push the S/N ratio high enough to get some work done, it's possible to turn the rest of the N into fun if you have the right attitude.
Oh, there are other things I'd like to do. If most people would crypto-sign their mail, I'd set up recipes to toss unsigned messages, and play around with hacking signature and CA blacklists into my filters to get rid of the more brazen attempts. I'd like to try out some recognizers that would be mighty hard to write as regular expressions. I'd like to tinker with external filters that rip out some of the common obfuscation techniques before procmail even sees the message. But for now I can live without these.
If you're thinking, "but it's costing my company money to deliver this junk," ask yourself how much it's costing your company to have you sitting around trying to find ways to remove the last little morsel of UCE when you could be crafting new competitive advantages for the firm, or at least dealing with the *other* stuff that gets in people's way and which is not actively working against you.
"Mean \while, the Triad is has spent HK$300,000 trying to develop a martial arts technique that can take out a 300 lb. steel-clad robot."
Two strong guys snap magnetic grapples onto the machine, flip it on its back, and carry it away to a waiting truck.
"Remember what happened last time -- a flame thrower would've come in *really* handy!" -- Zurg
...robot spies a brick-wielding evildoer in an alley and subdues him by dancing while playing an inspirational video about our social responsibilities.
(Why, yes, I *am* thinking of the police robots in Harry Harrison's "Stainless Steel Rat" stories.)
Well, that's why there's rule 3A: don't use Outlook or OE, and do write Microsoft asking for a way to remove them completely.
Yup, TOPS-20 COMND% JSYS rocks! (You youngsters who missed TOPS-20 can find a similar style of interaction in Kermit.) It's nice to see younger OSes beginning to pick up some of the neat ideas to be found there.
DEC's documentation was top of the heap, but so is IBM's, at least in the mainframe area. IBM doco is huge and intimidating but at least it's *thorough* and *complete*. They both tend(ed) to split up the manuals into Reference (complete formal description of every feature) and User's Guide (explaining the organization and use of the product as a whole) which IMNSHO is a really useful way to document.