It's an answer to a real demand. We're a subsidiary of GNR, who started out with the Nameplanet.com service, and quickly managed to get 1.5 million registrations of firstname@lastname., where could be anything from.com to.nu,.tc,.ms etc.
In reality, people are very creative about finding combinations that are available, such as using nicknames, initials, including middle names etc..name isn't a total solution, but it helps widen the namespace considerably.
(Disclaimer: I work for Personal Names)
Come on, is this the best you can do?
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.NAME at a Crossroads
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... our web server isn't even getting hot (load average: 0.08):)
Btw., for anyone who might care, we're a pure Linux outfit - except for the marketing peoples desktops), and that's been a vital part in getting this registrar up and running so quickly (writing the fullfilment engine, DNS server, billing system etc. from scratch in about 6 months, with only four people doing development).
Luckily, you're wrong. The second level (smith.name) is NOT delegated from the registry. You have a right to transfer your name, unless your contract with Netsol says something else.
I suggest you contact GNR (the registry) and talk to their customer service people to get help in getting it resolved.
(Disclaimer: I work for Personal Names, the registrar mentioned, and we're a competitor to Network Solutions)
Sure. On the other hand, most people don't have a common lastname. The most common lastnames account for something like 10-20% of the population. Add to that all the people with nicknames, and middle names, and combinations including initials, and most people can get a good address.
You mean "most Americans" think that.com is "the internet". In most countries, the country TLD and is fairly well used, and people are far more used to dealing with other TLD's.
As it is now, to cater for ordinary users, tim.darnit.name's NS records would point to Personal Names nameservers, for the purpose of the web forwarding, however we would be happy to have to pointed to you directly if you choose to register (anyone can get that by mailing customer service for now). On.name no second levels are delegated.
Personal Names doesn't sell domains separate from the e-mail forwarding, but other registrars do. You won't save much, though. And yes, you would have to pay for each third level. Some people choose to register "family.lastname.name" for that purpose.
No second level names can be bought under.name from anyone. So yes, you do get a domain, but it will be on the third level, just as it is for for instance.co.uk, and in a lot of other cases. It's no less a domain name than something at the second level, and it is regulated by ICANN just as any second level.com.
Try searching google for "site:name -dfgdfgadfgaagdfg", and you'll find lots of.name site. Nowhere near the other major TLD's, but growing at a reasonable rate.
.name uses a dispute resolution method that give you automatic right of ownership to the name you have registered if it is your own name, the name of a deceased person that you have the right to control (for instance as the executor of an estate) or the legitimate trademark owner of a fictional name.
So if you really are John Smith, and registered john.smith.name, noone else named John Smith could take it away from you.
The reason we started the registrar was exactly that so few people know.name exists, because very few registrars promote it effectively.
As for getting people to understand it, I personally use my.name a lot, and a few people do ask what it is, but most people have no problems.
Anyway, as long as you have an existing mail address, that is all you need to get your.name address to work, and you can change which address it forwards to at any time.
Considering how spammers can easily autogenerate spam lists for most of the major ISPs by following easy to guess allocation patterns, I don't see why your name would be any easier.
But once one person have bought smith.whatever, the remaining 3 million people with Smith as their lastname will be out of luck. Hence.name, where all of them still have a chance at getting their firstname@smith.name
(Disclaimer: I work for Personal Names)
Why can't you use it? It's e-mail forwarding and web forwarding to wherever you want.
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Re:Does Moore's Law actually hold back development
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I think this is highly unlikely. It would make sense if there were no competition in the CPU space, but certainly if AMD had something vastly superior to their current offerings ready for release, they'd release it to get ahead of Intel, and the other way around - the two of them lose enough business to the other that it would more than outweigh any extra revenue they'd get from holding back technology.
Perhaps if both of them have significant technology to hold back and did a deal to hold it back to keep prices up, but in that case they could've just as well agreed to fix prices and there seem to be no indication of that.
Of course that is based on the fact that most apps are single threaded apps that won't manage to hog more than one CPU at a time. If SMP or HT becomes the common way of increasing speed at some point, then more applications will be heavily threaded and able to exploit this.
Essentially, the effect you're mentioning could be handled on a single CPU machine simply by running a scheduler that guarantee that no process will get any more than every second timeslice, or similar, penalizing single threded applications.
I did, and I still play it from time to time. The greatest shortcoming for me though, was that once you've plaid through the story line, the game is pretty static unless you play it in multiplayer mode, and since it's a commercial closed source game there's not many options for customizing it.
Gimpel's lint has been available for Linux for ages. We have it installed, and use it fairly regularly. You need to look for Flexelint, not PC lint. Flexelint is the Unix version, and is shipped as shrouded source code. But from what I've seen of it, it doesn't do nearly what is described in the PDF article.
Exactly where does it say it is desgiend to last for a short period of time? It is not a throw away car - it's a car designed to have a lower environmental impact during manufacture, operation and finally when it gets scrapped.
"Common sense" also used to tell people that they would get suffocated in trains because the horrendous speeds would mean all the air would get sucked out, and that cars would never succeed in replacing horse carriages. There are few things worth as little as "common sense".
In your case, you extrapolate that the segway is a hazard by making assumptions about how dangerous it may be at 12.5mph on a crowded sidewalk. Someone running at 12.5mph (which isn't particularly hard, even for me and I'm a lazy geek;) would also be a hazard, yet we don't ban people from the sidewalks.
Max speed and the speed people will use in situations where it is hard to maneuver is not the same.
You also assume it will be harder, or as hard, for someone on a segway to stop as for someone running. That is not a given.
Most people negative to the segway seem to assume that the it is a hazard just because "common sense" tell them so. If you believe it is a hazard, why not advocate regulation and safety checks instead of advocating that it be forced off sidewalks without any hard facts about whether or not it really is a danger.
He has repeatedly let people run him down in demonstrations, and he has let people run down his investors as well - there are many accounts of that in the news articles about Segway.
Uhm, the technology in the Segway was adopted from a wheelchair. Dean Kamen first invented a wheelchair that could balance on two weels long before he started working on the Segway.
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But in theory, yes. Are you willing to pay trademark registration fees to prevent someone from getting a domain name?
(Disclaimer: I work for Personal Names)
In reality, people are very creative about finding combinations that are available, such as using nicknames, initials, including middle names etc. .name isn't a total solution, but it helps widen the namespace considerably.
(Disclaimer: I work for Personal Names)
Btw., for anyone who might care, we're a pure Linux outfit - except for the marketing peoples desktops), and that's been a vital part in getting this registrar up and running so quickly (writing the fullfilment engine, DNS server, billing system etc. from scratch in about 6 months, with only four people doing development).
I suggest you contact GNR (the registry) and talk to their customer service people to get help in getting it resolved.
(Disclaimer: I work for Personal Names, the registrar mentioned, and we're a competitor to Network Solutions)
(Disclaimer: I work for Personal Names)
(Disclaimer: I work for Personal Names)
Personal Names doesn't sell domains separate from the e-mail forwarding, but other registrars do. You won't save much, though. And yes, you would have to pay for each third level. Some people choose to register "family.lastname.name" for that purpose.
(Disclaimer: I work for Personal Names)
(Disclaimer: I work for Personal Names)
(Disclaimer: I work for Personal Names)
So if you really are John Smith, and registered john.smith.name, noone else named John Smith could take it away from you.
(Disclaimer: I work for Personal Names Ltd)
As for getting people to understand it, I personally use my .name a lot, and a few people do ask what it is, but most people have no problems.
Anyway, as long as you have an existing mail address, that is all you need to get your .name address to work, and you can change which address it forwards to at any time.
(Disclaimer: I work for Personal Names)
(Disclaimer: I work for Personal Names)
But once one person have bought smith.whatever, the remaining 3 million people with Smith as their lastname will be out of luck. Hence .name, where all of them still have a chance at getting their firstname@smith.name
(Disclaimer: I work for Personal Names)
(Disclaimer: I work for Personal Names)
Perhaps if both of them have significant technology to hold back and did a deal to hold it back to keep prices up, but in that case they could've just as well agreed to fix prices and there seem to be no indication of that.
Essentially, the effect you're mentioning could be handled on a single CPU machine simply by running a scheduler that guarantee that no process will get any more than every second timeslice, or similar, penalizing single threded applications.
I did, and I still play it from time to time. The greatest shortcoming for me though, was that once you've plaid through the story line, the game is pretty static unless you play it in multiplayer mode, and since it's a commercial closed source game there's not many options for customizing it.
Which of the Java compilers? This has nothing to do with language, and everything to do with specific compilers and compiler versions.
Gimpel's lint has been available for Linux for ages. We have it installed, and use it fairly regularly. You need to look for Flexelint, not PC lint. Flexelint is the Unix version, and is shipped as shrouded source code. But from what I've seen of it, it doesn't do nearly what is described in the PDF article.
Exactly where does it say it is desgiend to last for a short period of time? It is not a throw away car - it's a car designed to have a lower environmental impact during manufacture, operation and finally when it gets scrapped.
Uhm.. The main excuse for the differences in Nemesis was that Shinzon was a few decades younger. Do you know how captain Picard looked at that age? :)
In your case, you extrapolate that the segway is a hazard by making assumptions about how dangerous it may be at 12.5mph on a crowded sidewalk. Someone running at 12.5mph (which isn't particularly hard, even for me and I'm a lazy geek ;) would also be a hazard, yet we don't ban people from the sidewalks.
Max speed and the speed people will use in situations where it is hard to maneuver is not the same.
You also assume it will be harder, or as hard, for someone on a segway to stop as for someone running. That is not a given.
Most people negative to the segway seem to assume that the it is a hazard just because "common sense" tell them so. If you believe it is a hazard, why not advocate regulation and safety checks instead of advocating that it be forced off sidewalks without any hard facts about whether or not it really is a danger.
So yes, we do need factual evidence.
Looking at the deals they already have in place, I'd be surprised if they haven't made and sold a hell of a lot more than that already.
He has repeatedly let people run him down in demonstrations, and he has let people run down his investors as well - there are many accounts of that in the news articles about Segway.
Uhm, the technology in the Segway was adopted from a wheelchair. Dean Kamen first invented a wheelchair that could balance on two weels long before he started working on the Segway.