Actually, a glowing neon "in stock" sign sounds kind of kitschy. And self-aware kitsch would definitely fly in Soho -- Soho is all about retro trash anyway.
Although, whether Apple wants to fit in to the Soho image - which right now they kind of don't, and frankly, that's a good thing because Soho sucks - is another story...
The reasons you give are interesting but sound an awful lot like the oft-mentioned FUD we hear about on Slashdot from time to time.
You are expressing a shocking (to me) level of doubt in something which is a clearly better alternative to the ridiculous conservatism in the TLD world. The TLDs OpenNIC has chosen aren't good enough for you. Suggest some! Isn't that the point? It's a system that's open enough that everyone can help make it better, instead of something like ICANN. That's the point of OpenNIC. Open. NIC. Not ICANN.
(For the record, I hadn't heard of OpenNIC until today)
Someone in another thread mentioned this, and it's true: what we really want is any TLD at all. Why append three letters to a URL when it's mostly meaningless now?
Most parties purchase.com,.org and.net of their chosen name -- effectively eliminating any meaning the TLDs were meant to have. VeriSign (admittedly, according to something I read on the OpenNIC site) no longer requests any justification for choice of TLD because they realize everybody just wants all of them.
So how is the TLD remotely meaningful?
And FYI there has been acceptance of the new ICANN-endorsed TLD's.
I live in New York City and am a regular user of the MTA's (Metropolitan Transit Authority) services, most obviously and frequently the subway. Everywhere the MTA's old URL used to be on posters and signs, there is a little circle with "new" or something, and their new URL: http://www.mta.info.
".info" used to look stupid to me, too, but now it looks pretty darn normal.
So, general acceptance or not, some people seem to be finding this useful. "Think outside the box" and you'll eventually realize that the TLDs can actually convey useful information about a URL.
All it takes to make the unfamiliar familiar and the awkward comfortable is a little love and clarity. Why wait?
High-end digital imaging devices (mostly digital and analog video cameras, but perhaps some still cameras) have been using 3 CCD chips for a long time to achieve RGB values for each pixel. It's usually done with a prism system that splits the incoming light into different colors which then are registered on different CCD chips.
In 1-chip devices, color is acheived through a matrix of filters which covers the CCD chip, allowing only certain wavelengths of light to reach each pixel on the CCD.
It seems to me that what this will really do is give us smaller, higher quality
imaging devices. Let's hope X10 doesn't launch a while new popunder campaign...
The idea of screwing with the telemarketers occurred to me, probably like most people, soon after I started receiving them myself. I think at some point in college I spent a while thinking about the ethics of the situation and decided that telemarketers are probably fairly well armored against any psychological damage their targets might decide to inflict on them.
Two techniques that I greatly enjoyed (but no longer get to use, unfortunately (?), thanks to the New York State "Do Not Call" registry, which really does work):
#1
them: Hello, this is X and I was wondering if I could speak with Y.
me, in my most serious tone: I'm really sorry, but Y has recently passed away...
them: (some kind of very reserved, skeptical condolences; disconnection.)
#2
This is if you've had a bit to drink or are bored; just start talking to them and try to get them to talk about anything other than telemarketing without causing them to disconnect you. I've spent up to 20 minutes talking to telemarketers about the weather and USA cultural differences between wherever they are and where I am at the time. It's also fun to tell tall tales and boast, but always keep it believable.
#2 evolved when I was struggling with the desire to be nice to the telemarketers because they really do have crappy jobs and, honestly, would most likely rather be doing something else. So I figured if they went home that day with a funny story they could tell their kids|roommates|friends, I'd've succeeded. (This is a more general case of the "screw with the product pitch" idea which has already been described.)
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Actually, a glowing neon "in stock" sign sounds kind of kitschy. And self-aware kitsch would definitely fly in Soho -- Soho is all about retro trash anyway.
Although, whether Apple wants to fit in to the Soho image - which right now they kind of don't, and frankly, that's a good thing because Soho sucks - is another story...
The reasons you give are interesting but sound an awful lot like the oft-mentioned FUD we hear about on Slashdot from time to time.
.com, .org and .net of their chosen name -- effectively eliminating any meaning the TLDs were meant to have. VeriSign (admittedly, according to something I read on the OpenNIC site) no longer requests any justification for choice of TLD because they realize everybody just wants all of them.
You are expressing a shocking (to me) level of doubt in something which is a clearly better alternative to the ridiculous conservatism in the TLD world. The TLDs OpenNIC has chosen aren't good enough for you. Suggest some! Isn't that the point? It's a system that's open enough that everyone can help make it better, instead of something like ICANN. That's the point of OpenNIC. Open. NIC. Not ICANN.
(For the record, I hadn't heard of OpenNIC until today)
Someone in another thread mentioned this, and it's true: what we really want is any TLD at all. Why append three letters to a URL when it's mostly meaningless now?
Most parties purchase
So how is the TLD remotely meaningful?
And FYI there has been acceptance of the new ICANN-endorsed TLD's.
I live in New York City and am a regular user of the MTA's (Metropolitan Transit Authority) services, most obviously and frequently the subway. Everywhere the MTA's old URL used to be on posters and signs, there is a little circle with "new" or something, and their new URL: http://www.mta.info.
".info" used to look stupid to me, too, but now it looks pretty darn normal.
So, general acceptance or not, some people seem to be finding this useful. "Think outside the box" and you'll eventually realize that the TLDs can actually convey useful information about a URL.
All it takes to make the unfamiliar familiar and the awkward comfortable is a little love and clarity. Why wait?
High-end digital imaging devices (mostly digital and analog video cameras, but perhaps some still cameras) have been using 3 CCD chips for a long time to achieve RGB values for each pixel. It's usually done with a prism system that splits the incoming light into different colors which then are registered on different CCD chips.
In 1-chip devices, color is acheived through a matrix of filters which covers the CCD chip, allowing only certain wavelengths of light to reach each pixel on the CCD.
It seems to me that what this will really do is give us smaller, higher quality imaging devices. Let's hope X10 doesn't launch a while new popunder campaign...
The idea of screwing with the telemarketers occurred to me, probably like most people, soon after I started receiving them myself. I think at some point in college I spent a while thinking about the ethics of the situation and decided that telemarketers are probably fairly well armored against any psychological damage their targets might decide to inflict on them.
Two techniques that I greatly enjoyed (but no longer get to use, unfortunately (?), thanks to the New York State "Do Not Call" registry, which really does work):
#1
them: Hello, this is X and I was wondering if I could speak with Y.
me, in my most serious tone: I'm really sorry, but Y has recently passed away...
them: (some kind of very reserved, skeptical condolences; disconnection.)
#2
This is if you've had a bit to drink or are bored; just start talking to them and try to get them to talk about anything other than telemarketing without causing them to disconnect you. I've spent up to 20 minutes talking to telemarketers about the weather and USA cultural differences between wherever they are and where I am at the time. It's also fun to tell tall tales and boast, but always keep it believable.
#2 evolved when I was struggling with the desire to be nice to the telemarketers because they really do have crappy jobs and, honestly, would most likely rather be doing something else. So I figured if they went home that day with a funny story they could tell their kids|roommates|friends, I'd've succeeded. (This is a more general case of the "screw with the product pitch" idea which has already been described.)
That said, #1 is a helluva lot more fun...
...and then the bad guys start spoofing ddos detectors and use the anti-ddos infrastructure itself to deny services.
even better than a traditional ddos attack!