One of the main reasons that I have kept my box running win98 (because I can't afford a second computer such that 1 box runs linux and the other runs win for gaming) is because the games I like to play are made for windows OSs'. This news makes me very happy. So really, I have nothing intelligent to say about this Mandrake for gamers so I will just keep it simple:
Gene Roddenbery (spelling?) came up with fully integrated autonomic computing with hardware (ie., the Enterprise) ages ago, best expressed for the first time in The Next Generation. Plainspeak computing, graphical/physical interfaces, monitoring systems paramters, generating data and executing instructions at voice-command, the whole scha-bang, all on the bridge of the Enterprise. Of course this is where computing is going. The fine writers at IBM should watch more TV. I am not sure that this is where computing SHOULD go as the paper contends; it puts that much more power in the hands of people wishing to commandeer a business or endeavour by way of its computer control. Doubtless security measures will improve but there is ALWAYS a way to adapt to an obstacle; we see this in nature as we do in computing. Overcoming obstacles is why computers exist in the first place.
I think that once the required skills are taught, and this will take place [at first anyway] largely by individually playing with logic and syntax etc., there should definitely be emphasis group efforts. This is the way it is in the workplace, so that it is good training to start in school. It also makes each individual programmer reconsider the code in light of how other people's minds view it, thus expanding the breadth of understanding and improving the programmer's own skills. And it's fun.
If the government is really all that concerned with material deemed "harmful to minors" then by association it should implement age verification measures for video game vendors and movie theatres. Is anyone really willing to crack down on all venues of sexual graphics? So a kid can't access a web-site, there are many other ways to acquire pornography after all; kill the whole nest or the death of one roach is in vain. Would an enforced age-restriction curtail porn-spam attacks containing samplers in the body, or will there be a mail-checker violating not a few privacy values in the process? Besides which, why is pornography not deemed harmful material for non-minors? At least in the case of real people being viewed, regardless of the age of the viewer, what is being witnessed is quite possibly the exploitation of those being witnessed, and in any case is bound to impact on the mind of the viewer in a degradative way. Why is the year separating minority from majority supposed to be so defining? The whole thing makes me laugh in contempt.
I must admit that 2/300+ domains being [noticeably] used sounds a bit extravagant. I note however that in your post the case for at some domains is that the university simply buys them, rather than forcing the student owners to surrender them. In those cases at least it is the students making the decisions. However the underlying attitude of the university in garnering a useless monopoly does not seem to be a good one, and I think that it takes away from the dynamic essence of a university community that should be what all institutions strive for.
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One of the main reasons that I have kept my box running win98 (because I can't afford a second computer such that 1 box runs linux and the other runs win for gaming) is because the games I like to play are made for windows OSs'. This news makes me very happy. So really, I have nothing intelligent to say about this Mandrake for gamers so I will just keep it simple:
wOOt!!
Gene Roddenbery (spelling?) came up with fully integrated autonomic computing with hardware (ie., the Enterprise) ages ago, best expressed for the first time in The Next Generation. Plainspeak computing, graphical/physical interfaces, monitoring systems paramters, generating data and executing instructions at voice-command, the whole scha-bang, all on the bridge of the Enterprise. Of course this is where computing is going. The fine writers at IBM should watch more TV. I am not sure that this is where computing SHOULD go as the paper contends; it puts that much more power in the hands of people wishing to commandeer a business or endeavour by way of its computer control. Doubtless security measures will improve but there is ALWAYS a way to adapt to an obstacle; we see this in nature as we do in computing. Overcoming obstacles is why computers exist in the first place.
wakka smakka
I think that once the required skills are taught, and this will take place [at first anyway] largely by individually playing with logic and syntax etc., there should definitely be emphasis group efforts. This is the way it is in the workplace, so that it is good training to start in school. It also makes each individual programmer reconsider the code in light of how other people's minds view it, thus expanding the breadth of understanding and improving the programmer's own skills. And it's fun.
Wakka Smakka!!!
If the government is really all that concerned with material deemed "harmful to minors" then by association it should implement age verification measures for video game vendors and movie theatres. Is anyone really willing to crack down on all venues of sexual graphics? So a kid can't access a web-site, there are many other ways to acquire pornography after all; kill the whole nest or the death of one roach is in vain. Would an enforced age-restriction curtail porn-spam attacks containing samplers in the body, or will there be a mail-checker violating not a few privacy values in the process? Besides which, why is pornography not deemed harmful material for non-minors? At least in the case of real people being viewed, regardless of the age of the viewer, what is being witnessed is quite possibly the exploitation of those being witnessed, and in any case is bound to impact on the mind of the viewer in a degradative way. Why is the year separating minority from majority supposed to be so defining? The whole thing makes me laugh in contempt.
I must admit that 2/300+ domains being [noticeably] used sounds a bit extravagant. I note however that in your post the case for at some domains is that the university simply buys them, rather than forcing the student owners to surrender them. In those cases at least it is the students making the decisions. However the underlying attitude of the university in garnering a useless monopoly does not seem to be a good one, and I think that it takes away from the dynamic essence of a university community that should be what all institutions strive for.