Was thinking of something similar, an alternative to DNS with a hierarchical structure rather than the current flat one, with extra fields for summary information.
Having an human editor component would be pretty useful actually, the main problem I could think of with it b4 was that people would spam it.
Possibly having a non-edited & || edited summary/keywords (because some sites wouldn't get edited I guess, just too many out there, but it would still be useful to have somethingas they would still be able to be found by drilling down through the heirarchy). Also if it was tied to DNS then it should be fairly complete (except IP & dyndns etc), not just the 30% 'known web'.
* As Russia's economy and drive toward democracy falter, consumption of
vodka increases, but drinking habits long ago created a public health crisis
for the country, according to a June Boston Globe story. Life expectancy is
down to 59; average vodka consumption is three bottles a week; and two-thirds
of all adult men are in fact drunk when they die.
I guess they didn't bid high enough, dunno why everyone is so down on Singapore, it's a great place, and the first one I ever found a shop dedicated to linux in (boy was that weird....)
The whole article sounds like serious hype, if it came from London or a Silicon Valley it would be understandable, but to be honest I am not that happy about being in Scotland right now.
Anyway I wouldn't trust them to find the noses on their faces, they are tracking porn sites to the tune of 20,000 a day, including the number of images available, and they are wasting their time hunting people that mess up outlook users?
[someone, somewhere, playing the game]: "Hey Beowulf!" (drinks cluster) "Woahh just thought of a great Beowulf post myself..." (clickedy click submit)
[someone, somewhere else, also a player]: "Heavens to Betsy! a full brace of Beowulf cluster related posts?!?!? Two more bottles of Buckfast Abbey's finest if you would Jeeves!" (glugugugugug) "Why I do believe that a post to end all posts relating to Beowulf clusters has lodged itself in my counciousness..." (clickety etc)
multiply that by the number of reasons to drink...
Not only that but mdk lost the touchpad on my laptop after I plugged in a serial mouse (worked fine but the k/b dissapeared) anybody want to tell me how to get it back (preferably in baby talk, easily amused) to save me having to RTFM, hmm actually pointers to TFM would do also.
Lazy tonight and wife is hassling me, giving her freeciv to play would make my life peaceful...
If you don't pay they auction off your domain to 'recover their losses', can't find anything about it on their site now though ("Netscape can't find search.networksolutions.com" - and people trust these people with their root records????). I guess the longer they keep the name the more they feel justified in auctioning it for to cover their cost:)
On a related topic I actually renewed a domain with them (dumb I know, but it's the one most of my email goes to and one I tried to transfer they managed to lose for about 3 months and then dropped, luckily a friend noticed it was available and reregistered it for us) and in the renewal email they say "Your FREE personalized T-shirt will be shipped to your Billing Contact in 4 to 6 weeks." even though I only renewed for 1 year and they say a 2 year minimum for da T-Shirt on their site.
If they don't cough up u reckon I can sue them to get it? + of course the mental anguish from having to go barechested (no joke in Scotland at this time of year) for month as I was relying on it arriving (about £1000 000 000 I reckon - I get VERY anguished).
A bit OT, but funny....
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This is supposedly a true story from a recent Defence Science Lectures Series, as related by the head of the Australian DSTO's Land Operations/Simulation division.
They've been working on some really nifty virtual reality simulators, the case in point being to incorporate Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters into exercises (from the
data fusion point of view). Most of the people they employ on this sort of thing are ex- (or future) computer game programmers. Anyway, as part of the reality
parameters, they include things like trees and animals. For the Australian simulation they included kangaroos. In particular, they had to model kangaroo movements
and reactions to helicopters (since hordes of disturbed kangaroos might well give away a helicopter's position).
Being good programmers, they just stole some code (which was originally used to model infantry detachments reactions under the same stimuli), and changed the
mapped icon, the speed parameters, etc. The first time they've gone to demonstrate this to some visiting Americans, the hotshot pilots have decided to get "down and
dirty" with the virtual kangaroos. So, they buzz them, and watch them scatter. The visiting
Americans nod appreciatively... then gape as the kangaroos duck around a
hill, and launch about two dozen Stinger missiles at the hapless helicopter. Programmers look rather embarrassed at forgetting to remove that part of the infantry
coding... and Americans leave muttering comments about not wanting to mess with the Aussie wildlife...
As an addendum, simulator pilots from that point onwards avoided kangaroos like the plague, just like they were meant to do in the first place...
Well a wild guess in the dark, but this sounds like a Caymen islands funnel. If they are doing this to such a degree then they have their reasons, they are not going to be losing money, f'sure gag me with a spoon.
And somebody is going to be losing, probably the employees, they are getting big bonuses, and ooops they've gone.
Yeah, shouldn't bring MS into it though, they aren't that big in the scheme of things, but hey at least it brings a tech angle into the matter.
Although I'd take it a bit further, 'everyone' is going to notice when they are no longer able to borrow an album and copy it, or record movies from TV to watch later (timeshifted viewing I know, but when I got Sky digital installed they told me I couldn't [record pay per view], umm even though I can...)
But by then as you said, it will be way too late, the sad thing is I very much doubt there are enough of us here to put any significant dent in the march of progress.
The only solution I can see is more nights down the pub informing the general public of these these abuses, darn:)
Basically I was meaning borrow CD/Tape use incredibly convenient CD to tape, twin tape system to make a copy of original for myown personal use.
Also I'm in the UK and am pretty sure that doing so is illegal, although completely unenforced (have to wonder why, could it be that there are worse crimes than the unlicensed viewing of various types of art going on? but no that is a ridiculous though, what could be worth more than that... [incidentally what's a life going for these days? I need to get a new one])
If non-commercial sharing is legal, umm then what's the beef with napster, they are a.com company, they're not going to make anything anyway, well except headlines when they go bust...
Slashdot Mirror
Now not only can I now monitor myself, but I'll be forced to fire me as well.
Having an human editor component would be pretty useful actually, the main problem I could think of with it b4 was that people would spam it.
Possibly having a non-edited & || edited summary/keywords (because some sites wouldn't get edited I guess, just too many out there, but it would still be useful to have somethingas they would still be able to be found by drilling down through the heirarchy). Also if it was tied to DNS then it should be fairly complete (except IP & dyndns etc), not just the 30% 'known web'.
Ho hum.
What if Mozart could only use the triangle?
What if Van Gogh only had watercolour?
You let people use what they are happy with, they do more...
Running a server/gateway/network is not about what your clients use to connect.
I'd relegate this to 'News of The Weird' for nerds... href
Or give up on 'The Internet' altogether, maybe it been bought and sold too many times already and it's tme for something new...
I guess they didn't bid high enough, dunno why everyone is so down on Singapore, it's a great place, and the first one I ever found a shop dedicated to linux in (boy was that weird....)
lets all create a new ipv6 internet and tunnel through the old one for access, should give them pause for thought anyway...
Anyway I wouldn't trust them to find the noses on their faces, they are tracking porn sites to the tune of 20,000 a day, including the number of images available, and they are wasting their time hunting people that mess up outlook users?
drink || die while (1);
it'd have the same effect...
[someone, somewhere, playing the game]: "Hey Beowulf!" (drinks cluster) "Woahh just thought of a great Beowulf post myself..." (clickedy click submit)
[someone, somewhere else, also a player]: "Heavens to Betsy! a full brace of Beowulf cluster related posts?!?!? Two more bottles of Buckfast Abbey's finest if you would Jeeves!" (glugugugugug) "Why I do believe that a post to end all posts relating to Beowulf clusters has lodged itself in my counciousness..." (clickety etc)
multiply that by the number of reasons to drink...
Lazy tonight and wife is hassling me, giving her freeciv to play would make my life peaceful...
test the system (and new registrar) with another domain first if that one was valuable.
On a related topic I actually renewed a domain with them (dumb I know, but it's the one most of my email goes to and one I tried to transfer they managed to lose for about 3 months and then dropped, luckily a friend noticed it was available and reregistered it for us) and in the renewal email they say "Your FREE personalized T-shirt will be shipped to your Billing Contact in 4 to 6 weeks." even though I only renewed for 1 year and they say a 2 year minimum for da T-Shirt on their site.
If they don't cough up u reckon I can sue them to get it? + of course the mental anguish from having to go barechested (no joke in Scotland at this time of year) for month as I was relying on it arriving (about £1000 000 000 I reckon - I get VERY anguished).
This is supposedly a true story from a recent Defence Science Lectures Series, as related by the head of the Australian DSTO's Land Operations/Simulation division.
They've been working on some really nifty virtual reality simulators, the case in point being to incorporate Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters into exercises (from the data fusion point of view). Most of the people they employ on this sort of thing are ex- (or future) computer game programmers. Anyway, as part of the reality parameters, they include things like trees and animals. For the Australian simulation they included kangaroos. In particular, they had to model kangaroo movements and reactions to helicopters (since hordes of disturbed kangaroos might well give away a helicopter's position).
Being good programmers, they just stole some code (which was originally used to model infantry detachments reactions under the same stimuli), and changed the mapped icon, the speed parameters, etc. The first time they've gone to demonstrate this to some visiting Americans, the hotshot pilots have decided to get "down and dirty" with the virtual kangaroos. So, they buzz them, and watch them scatter. The visiting
Americans nod appreciatively... then gape as the kangaroos duck around a hill, and launch about two dozen Stinger missiles at the hapless helicopter. Programmers look rather embarrassed at forgetting to remove that part of the infantry coding... and Americans leave muttering comments about not wanting to mess with the Aussie wildlife...
As an addendum, simulator pilots from that point onwards avoided kangaroos like the plague, just like they were meant to do in the first place...
maybe she thought you said nada :)
you've gotta be wasted to write perl, but it works anyway...
Next you'll be after Keroak (sic) and ruben carter.
but you won't take perl, you might have the speed, but we have the numbers.
There's got to be something left for those of us for whome the 'box' is an abstract concept....
"you raised a pint"
The above post is actually subliminal spam from the United International Breweries Corporation.
Now stop hunting for your jacket and wallet and sit down!
grassnake was good (ZX81, now available!), but why oh why would anyone want to play a game they couldn't write???
sounds fun though, where can you get the tgz?
should be: And cars for that matter....etc
And for that matter, they're just more famous for sewing machines.
Have you been forgetting to take your medication again?
And somebody is going to be losing, probably the employees, they are getting big bonuses, and ooops they've gone.
Yeah, shouldn't bring MS into it though, they aren't that big in the scheme of things, but hey at least it brings a tech angle into the matter.
Ulcers need food y'know...
Although I'd take it a bit further, 'everyone' is going to notice when they are no longer able to borrow an album and copy it, or record movies from TV to watch later (timeshifted viewing I know, but when I got Sky digital installed they told me I couldn't [record pay per view], umm even though I can...)
But by then as you said, it will be way too late, the sad thing is I very much doubt there are enough of us here to put any significant dent in the march of progress.
The only solution I can see is more nights down the pub informing the general public of these these abuses, darn :)
You'd think I'd get a new one, or possibly revive one of the 30 or 40 old 12 ton olde-style ones I've got in the garage, then there ya go...
Basically I was meaning borrow CD/Tape use incredibly convenient CD to tape, twin tape system to make a copy of original for myown personal use.
Also I'm in the UK and am pretty sure that doing so is illegal, although completely unenforced (have to wonder why, could it be that there are worse crimes than the unlicensed viewing of various types of art going on? but no that is a ridiculous though, what could be worth more than that... [incidentally what's a life going for these days? I need to get a new one])
If non-commercial sharing is legal, umm then what's the beef with napster, they are a .com company, they're not going to make anything anyway, well except headlines when they go bust...