This may be an odd perspective, but I see this as a question of which philosophy do you agree with more?
(a) I work to live (b) I live to work
I think that people who believe (a) are going to think that the.amazon TLD should go to some sort of amazon conservatory organization because life is more important than commerce.
While I would expect those who identify with (b) to be in favor of amazon.com owning the.amazon TLD. Because for those people, business is more important than life. Maybe not their life, but life of the general population.
Obviously I think (b) is a very small group. However, as small as it is, I would not be surprised to find that group (b) is largely populated by CxO types.
It's neither. The issue here, in my opinion, is putting things to good use and avoiuding confusion (and potential mischief). Creating a TLD of.amazon makes no sense.
If you give it to "some amazon conservatory organization" how many websites are they actually going to create with a URL of "something.amazon"? One? Two? What's wrong with "conserveamazon.org" or something like that? Where is the need for an entire new TLD?
If you give it to amazon (the business), what's the point? They have spent years branding themself as Amazon Dot Com. Everything they do says Amazon Dot Com. There simply is no need for creating a whole new TLD.
They actually make things worse, since any owner of a domain is forced to buy several TLD versions of their domain.
Your point is on the mark, yet the argument is a bit invalid. Facebook becomes popular, company has to get its own name on Facebook. Twitter becomes popular, has to get own name on Twitter. Mobile becomes the new thing, company needs to ensure branding of mobile app. Nothing new here.
The benefit to the market is free revenue from obsessive goofy companies that feel they need to own their name with every single TLD possible.
This really isn't necessary, but free money from misguided companies is a good thing.
"company has to get its own name on Facebook" is irrelevant. That's not the issue. It's not about "obsessive goofy companies that feel they need to own their name with every single TLD possible". It's about a business being forced to spend a lot of money to protect themself from scammers trying to use their name. If Facebook doesn't register their name with every possible TLD, then you end up with facebook.xxx, facebook.sex, facebook.biz, facebook.info, and so on.
Sometimes I wish there were no TLDs at all. They aren't really necessary. They actually make things worse, since any owner of a domain is forced to buy several TLD versions of their domain..
You don't understand. Yes, it's worse for you. But it's great for ICANN because it generates lots of money.
Will all these stupid new TLDs even be used? Right now, how often do you go to a legitimate website (non-spam, non-scam, non-malware) that doesn't use.com,.net,.org,.gov or.edu ? I'll bet it's pretty rare.
On the contrary, it's daily, and multiple domains.
My original statement was poorly worded. I was referring to.info,.biz and all those, Not country-specific ones like.uk,.ca or.au. . I have yet to see any widespread usage of.biz or.info or any of the many other TLDs that exist. All comments I have ever seen have been along the lines of "I registered a [whatever] domain name and it never took off" or "People get confused and think my website is "something.biz.com" due to the fact that so many people associate dot com with the Internet.
And, even when websites use country-specific domains, I see a lot them still using dot com with it -- for example "website.com.au"
Will all these stupid new TLDs even be used? Right now, how often do you go to a legitimate website (non-spam, non-scam, non-malware) that doesn't use.com,.net,.org,.gov or.edu ? I'll bet it's pretty rare.
Creating all of these new TLDs is nothing but a money making scam for ICANN.
You do realise that there are other TLD's that dont end on.com.net et al?
Think.uk,.au,jp,nz and a whole bunch of others...
Yes I do realize that. And I also know that they are country-specific )you can't get a.ca domain if you aren't actually in Canada) and as such they serve a legitimate purpose. Unfortunately you have completely missed the point. All the new domains being proposed serve no purpose other than to make lots of money for ICANN. And to
I go to.ca every days. I live in Canada. I also visit a lot of.fr,.de,.se and.uk, to name a few.
So do I but that's not what I'm talking about. I don't know how it works, but I would imagine that I can't register a.ca domain if I'm not in Canada. (If you can then the system is even more fucked up than I thought).
But anyone can register a domain using one of the hundreds of proposed new domains. And with the combination of those new TLDs, Unicode and a shady registrar, people will be able to create all sorts of sneaky look-a-like websites. Sure, they're doing that now, but things are about to get a whole lot worse.
And meanwhile, nobody is going to type whatever.amazon into their web browser. They're just going to keep going to amazon.com. It's their name. In all of their advertisements, including TV commercials, they don't call themselves Amazon. They call themselves Amazon Dot Com.
Will all these stupid new TLDs even be used? Right now, how often do you go to a legitimate website (non-spam, non-scam, non-malware) that doesn't use.com,.net,.org,.gov or.edu ? I'll bet it's pretty rare.
Creating all of these new TLDs is nothing but a money making scam for ICANN.
The deceptive part is where the phone suddenly is due the moment you cancel your "non-contract" with them. It would be ok if they informed the customer explicitly that this is the case.
They advertise no contract cell service and that's what you get. When you sign up with them and agree to buy a phone from them, then at that point you learn that if you cancel your service before you finish paying for the phone that you bought from them., you owe them the balance. T-Mobile may not explicitly put that in their ads -- nobody puts every little detail in their ads -- but I would find it hard to believe that they NEVER disclose this at any point when you sign up with them.
The deceptive part is where they can force people who cannot afford paying off their phone instantly into staying with them because they can't afford getting out.
If you "can't afford" then just maybe you shouldn't be buying a $580 phone.
After reading the article, I see nothing deceptive. They sell you a phone on a monthly payment plan. You can cancel your service with them at any time but you still owe them for the phone that you bought. That's just basic common sense.
Once again a business is being hassled just because their customers are dishonest and/or stupid.
You mean like the DMCA and copyrights that last for a gazillion years?
This so-called "review of copyright law" is being conducted by the same people who work on behalf of the Media Cartel and created the DMCA and extended copyrights to last forever, along with other ridiculous laws.
LOL, so at full load you will need pretty much a secondary PSU to run the damn thing... really decent power management I guess! Though I guess considering the stupid 1000$ price tag, you probably don't care about buying a 200$ 1200-1500W PSU I suppose.
For $1000 they should throw in a new power supply as part of the package.
But seriously, there are stories all over the place about PC sales declining and AMD is losing money --- and this is what they do? A $1000 video card? Even if there's a huge profit margin on this thing, how many of them are they really going to sell?
If only all those millions of security cameras were as good as they are on TV. But they aren't. The images they produce are shitty and worthless. So they identified the suspects by having FBI agents sitting at a monitor and watching video over and over and over.
But that won't stop the FBI from rolling out yet another billion dollar boondoggle facial recognition system.
THalf the problem is stock market expectations. You can't just do well, you must do better than last year. And not just better but the improvement has to be more than the previous year. Its hard to do that when you have pretty much already sold your product to everyone that has a computer..
The stock market is a BIG part of the problem. Look at Apple. Their products are selling really well. iPads and iPhones and iWhatevers by the millions. And Macs are more popular than ever. And yet, since Tim Cook took over as CEO, Apple's stock price has dropped 50%..
Several years ago I worked for a company that reported record profits for 6 consecutive quarters. What happened? The stock price went down 25%..
But very practical, and should have happened sooner. The overall efficiency of our society will increase if people buy more things at local stores. Less gas wasted on shipping, more money staying in its own communities.
Wrong on every count.
While people do buy things online out of convenience, that is only one small part of the story. While I would really like to support local business, I can't because of one simple fact -- local stores rarely have what I want. And so I buy a lot of stuff online. If I need something like computer components, the only "local stores" are a Best Buy which only carries an extremely limited range of products at inflated prices and a MicroCenter 50 miles away. Where's the efficiency in that?
If "local stores" had everything that people wanted, then online business couldn't exist. But they don't. And it's not even possible. You can't have gigantic stores that stock millions of items in every city and every small town. That would be ridiculous, horrendously inefficient and unworkable, not to mention unprofitable. But large online businesses, like Amazon, etc. can have a few big warehouses around the country that stock millions of items. This gives consumers greater choices and the ability to buy what they want rather than be limited to whatever is sitting on a shelf in a "local store".
Buying from large centrally located business, like Amazon, Ebay, Newegg, etc is in fact more efficient than 200 million people driving all over the place, going from store to store trying to find what they want.
It doesn't justify comparison with 1984, but it and its ilk do get us closer to it. A step on the way.
The comparison to 1984 seems a bit over the top, but, some people would argue that you don't get an Orwellian society suddenly, over night, but one small step at a time, and it happens so slowly that you don't notice it until its too late.
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This may be an odd perspective, but I see this as a question of which philosophy do you agree with more?
(a) I work to live
(b) I live to work
I think that people who believe (a) are going to think that the .amazon TLD should go to some sort of amazon conservatory organization because life is more important than commerce.
While I would expect those who identify with (b) to be in favor of amazon.com owning the .amazon TLD. Because for those people, business is more important than life. Maybe not their life, but life of the general population.
Obviously I think (b) is a very small group. However, as small as it is, I would not be surprised to find that group (b) is largely populated by CxO types.
It's neither. The issue here, in my opinion, is putting things to good use and avoiuding confusion (and potential mischief). Creating a TLD of .amazon makes no sense.
If you give it to "some amazon conservatory organization" how many websites are they actually going to create with a URL of "something.amazon"? One? Two? What's wrong with "conserveamazon.org" or something like that? Where is the need for an entire new TLD?
If you give it to amazon (the business), what's the point? They have spent years branding themself as Amazon Dot Com. Everything they do says Amazon Dot Com. There simply is no need for creating a whole new TLD.
They actually make things worse, since any owner of a domain is forced to buy several TLD versions of their domain.
Your point is on the mark, yet the argument is a bit invalid. Facebook becomes popular, company has to get its own name on Facebook. Twitter becomes popular, has to get own name on Twitter. Mobile becomes the new thing, company needs to ensure branding of mobile app. Nothing new here.
The benefit to the market is free revenue from obsessive goofy companies that feel they need to own their name with every single TLD possible.
This really isn't necessary, but free money from misguided companies is a good thing.
"company has to get its own name on Facebook" is irrelevant. That's not the issue. It's not about "obsessive goofy companies that feel they need to own their name with every single TLD possible". It's about a business being forced to spend a lot of money to protect themself from scammers trying to use their name. If Facebook doesn't register their name with every possible TLD, then you end up with facebook.xxx, facebook.sex, facebook.biz, facebook.info, and so on.
Sometimes I wish there were no TLDs at all. They aren't really necessary. They actually make things worse, since any owner of a domain is forced to buy several TLD versions of their domain. .
You don't understand. Yes, it's worse for you. But it's great for ICANN because it generates lots of money.
Will all these stupid new TLDs even be used? Right now, how often do you go to a legitimate website (non-spam, non-scam, non-malware) that doesn't use .com, .net, .org, .gov or .edu ? I'll bet it's pretty rare.
On the contrary, it's daily, and multiple domains.
My original statement was poorly worded. I was referring to .info, .biz and all those, Not country-specific ones like .uk, .ca or .au. . I have yet to see any widespread usage of .biz or .info or any of the many other TLDs that exist. All comments I have ever seen have been along the lines of "I registered a [whatever] domain name and it never took off" or "People get confused and think my website is "something.biz.com" due to the fact that so many people associate dot com with the Internet.
And, even when websites use country-specific domains, I see a lot them still using dot com with it -- for example "website.com.au"
The problem is there's no such thing as "indigenous people". There's an old saying -- "If you go back far enough, everyone came from somewhere else".
Will all these stupid new TLDs even be used? Right now, how often do you go to a legitimate website (non-spam, non-scam, non-malware) that doesn't use .com, .net, .org, .gov or .edu ? I'll bet it's pretty rare.
Creating all of these new TLDs is nothing but a money making scam for ICANN.
You do realise that there are other TLD's that dont end on .com .net et al?
Think .uk,.au,jp,nz and a whole bunch of others...
Yes I do realize that. And I also know that they are country-specific )you can't get a .ca domain if you aren't actually in Canada) and as such they serve a legitimate purpose. Unfortunately you have completely missed the point. All the new domains being proposed serve no purpose other than to make lots of money for ICANN. And to
That's a very short-sighted way of looking at it.
Think "books.amazon, movies.amazon, cheap_crap.amazon etc".
And nobody is going to do that. Amazon had spent many years branding themselves as Amazon Dot Com.
I go to .ca every days. I live in Canada. I also visit a lot of .fr, .de, .se and .uk, to name a few.
So do I but that's not what I'm talking about. I don't know how it works, but I would imagine that I can't register a .ca domain if I'm not in Canada. (If you can then the system is even more fucked up than I thought).
But anyone can register a domain using one of the hundreds of proposed new domains. And with the combination of those new TLDs, Unicode and a shady registrar, people will be able to create all sorts of sneaky look-a-like websites. Sure, they're doing that now, but things are about to get a whole lot worse.
And meanwhile, nobody is going to type whatever.amazon into their web browser. They're just going to keep going to amazon.com. It's their name. In all of their advertisements, including TV commercials, they don't call themselves Amazon. They call themselves Amazon Dot Com.
Do we really have to have this shit in EVERY FUCKING THREAD?
Seriously. What the fuck.
Will all these stupid new TLDs even be used? Right now, how often do you go to a legitimate website (non-spam, non-scam, non-malware) that doesn't use .com, .net, .org, .gov or .edu ? I'll bet it's pretty rare.
Creating all of these new TLDs is nothing but a money making scam for ICANN.
The deceptive part is where the phone suddenly is due the moment you cancel your "non-contract" with them. It would be ok if they informed the customer explicitly that this is the case.
They advertise no contract cell service and that's what you get. When you sign up with them and agree to buy a phone from them, then at that point you learn that if you cancel your service before you finish paying for the phone that you bought from them., you owe them the balance. T-Mobile may not explicitly put that in their ads -- nobody puts every little detail in their ads -- but I would find it hard to believe that they NEVER disclose this at any point when you sign up with them.
The deceptive part is where they can force people who cannot afford paying off their phone instantly into staying with them because they can't afford getting out.
If you "can't afford" then just maybe you shouldn't be buying a $580 phone.
After reading the article, I see nothing deceptive. They sell you a phone on a monthly payment plan. You can cancel your service with them at any time but you still owe them for the phone that you bought. That's just basic common sense.
Once again a business is being hassled just because their customers are dishonest and/or stupid.
I can't believe that cute girl would do such a thing.
. What is wrong with enforcing the laws we have?
You mean like the DMCA and copyrights that last for a gazillion years?
This so-called "review of copyright law" is being conducted by the same people who work on behalf of the Media Cartel and created the DMCA and extended copyrights to last forever, along with other ridiculous laws.
Yet another Set-Top Box.
My TV is less than half an inch thick, nobody is going to 'set' something on top of that.
What I need is a Set-Bottom box so large that I can put my TV on it.
Apparently some people haven't noticed that you can't sit anything on top of any television sold for the past several years.
LOL, so at full load you will need pretty much a secondary PSU to run the damn thing... really decent power management I guess! Though I guess considering the stupid 1000$ price tag, you probably don't care about buying a 200$ 1200-1500W PSU I suppose.
For $1000 they should throw in a new power supply as part of the package.
But seriously, there are stories all over the place about PC sales declining and AMD is losing money --- and this is what they do? A $1000 video card? Even if there's a huge profit margin on this thing, how many of them are they really going to sell?
Only to discover that Amazon has taken away my ability to watch entirely in the name of Digital Restrictions Management.
You're lucky, they saved you from watching the horrible things. It was an act of mercy.
Exactly. It's horrible crap. As bad or worse than anything the TV networks are producing.
http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/353540/amazon-debuted-eight-original-comedy-pilots-and-i-sat-through-almost-half-them
Can anyone explain the presence of Craft International (Security Contractors) at the marathon?
Do Security Contractors frequently monitor events like this?
Maybe they were hired by the Boston Marathon. Or maybe your tinfoil hat is loose.
If only all those millions of security cameras were as good as they are on TV. But they aren't. The images they produce are shitty and worthless. So they identified the suspects by having FBI agents sitting at a monitor and watching video over and over and over.
But that won't stop the FBI from rolling out yet another billion dollar boondoggle facial recognition system.
THalf the problem is stock market expectations. You can't just do well, you must do better than last year. And not just better but the improvement has to be more than the previous year. Its hard to do that when you have pretty much already sold your product to everyone that has a computer. .
The stock market is a BIG part of the problem. Look at Apple. Their products are selling really well. iPads and iPhones and iWhatevers by the millions. And Macs are more popular than ever. And yet, since Tim Cook took over as CEO, Apple's stock price has dropped 50%..
Several years ago I worked for a company that reported record profits for 6 consecutive quarters. What happened? The stock price went down 25%..
Yep, Balmer is definitely the problem.
Ever wonder how Steve Ballmer keeps his job. Well, here it is:
Bill Gates is Chairman of Microsoft's Board of Directors and Microsoft's largest stockholder
Steve Ballmer was best man at Bill Gates' wedding.
But very practical, and should have happened sooner. The overall efficiency of our society will increase if people buy more things at local stores. Less gas wasted on shipping, more money staying in its own communities.
Wrong on every count.
While people do buy things online out of convenience, that is only one small part of the story. While I would really like to support local business, I can't because of one simple fact -- local stores rarely have what I want. And so I buy a lot of stuff online. If I need something like computer components, the only "local stores" are a Best Buy which only carries an extremely limited range of products at inflated prices and a MicroCenter 50 miles away. Where's the efficiency in that?
If "local stores" had everything that people wanted, then online business couldn't exist. But they don't. And it's not even possible. You can't have gigantic stores that stock millions of items in every city and every small town. That would be ridiculous, horrendously inefficient and unworkable, not to mention unprofitable. But large online businesses, like Amazon, etc. can have a few big warehouses around the country that stock millions of items. This gives consumers greater choices and the ability to buy what they want rather than be limited to whatever is sitting on a shelf in a "local store".
Buying from large centrally located business, like Amazon, Ebay, Newegg, etc is in fact more efficient than 200 million people driving all over the place, going from store to store trying to find what they want.
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LOL. The VCR isn't plugged in.
http://ic.tweakimg.net/ext/i/imagelarge/1366532940.jpeg
It doesn't justify comparison with 1984, but it and its ilk do get us closer to it. A step on the way.
The comparison to 1984 seems a bit over the top, but, some people would argue that you don't get an Orwellian society suddenly, over night, but one small step at a time, and it happens so slowly that you don't notice it until its too late.
Shut the fuck up and stop posting shit on twitter.
Problem solved.