Here are my thoughts on this SLD (Second Level Domain) proposal: It's unnecessary.
Hear me out. New Zealand has 3,908,037 people, give or take a few. I seriously doubt there are even 5,000 geeks who would get those domains. No one would pass up an opportunity to aquire.com domain or any other TLD. This idea is very specialized, hence serves no purpose.
Besides, all my friends from NZ have.com/.net/.org domains already.
I do have a proposal on what type of domains New Zealand government should implement, since the topic came up.
*.holycowmyinternetisslow.nz - for people who are still on 28.8k dialup modems inside of New Zealand *.udpmatch.nz - for packet kiddies who are looking for a mate *.neal.nz - will be reserved for Cowboy Neal in case he ever moves there *.sheep.nz - hot sheep erotic fanfiction *.cliche.nz - will serve as the domain for humor sites incorporating "beowulf cluster" and "In Soviet Russia" jokes all the time! *.rom.nz - domain for Romainians who are considering moving to New Zealand to trade ROMS and Emulators for Atari 9600
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for some NZ official to see these suggestions and put them on a fasttrack.
I know that you were aiming for "Funny", but in all seriousness, Phoenix is little bit behind in loadtime from IE 5.5/6.x on 2000/XP when dealing with launching the browser at first.
But given the tabbed browsing, it gains a 10-fold speed advantage over IE when time is concerned.
Once phoenix.exe shows up in the services, the loadtime beats IE. It's just the fist instance which is a bit slow. (Note that i'm not talking about page rendering time, rather than the browser loadtime set to about:mozilla for the homepage parameter)
Well, according to their forums, last time I checked the poll was split 60/40 in keeping the name Phoenix and battling it out with Phoenix Technologies for rights to use the name.
I would guess either a) They are waiting to change the name with 0.6 -or- b) They are testing the patience of Phoenix Technologies;)
Either way, I don't like the idiotic request from PT. It's not like these two are competing technologies. And phoenix is a generic word. What are they going to do next? Patent the word "Technologies"?
In any event. Phoenix is a straight up IE killer, and it's all that matters.
Uh, for one because slashdot revolves around linux more or less.. maybe? Because linux is the centerpiece of open source software.. perhaps?
I thought MPAA question yielded absolutely no desireable results. "Yes, actors hate them too", Shatner brushed it off.
We could have asked him about his OS of choice. Wouldn't it fucking blow your mind if Shatner revealed that he can compile a kernel without any help from a techie?
Having the CPU 64 bits is quite different, security-wise...
Would you mind elaborating on that part?
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I put Richmond to avoid a lawsuit.
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Three Rings for the Microsoft-Developers under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-VPs in their halls of stone, Nine for IIS System Administrators doomed to die, One for Steve Ballmer on his dark throne In the land of Richmond where shadows lie. One Application to rule them all, One Palladium to authenticate them, On Application to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Richmond where Shadows lie.
...all programs would be able to access all data from all sources if everything was in this kind of database they are talking about
To summarize, MS version of XML concept (not MSXML, mind you).
Seems like a very bad idea. Assuming the data stored by notepad or other lite application can be accessed by a security-demanding applcation and vice-versa, I would imagine there will be a uniform security scheme put in place. And we all know how well Microsoft's security track is.
This could also be ported to windows. The real media spec is basically uniform to be backwards compatible, so the date doesn't really matter. The foundation is there. Just some tweaks in the source and it will be complete.
Lets hope someone is interested enough to give it a spin and make it better.;)
Well, I'll try to give you the general idea in a nutshell.
For those of you who do not follow space-rock, post rock, atmospheric, ambient, organic et al, this is basically a great idea.
There are thousands of artists who release albums which have a similar sound to this one. Take Vir Unis for example. It's ambient as it gets. Sure, he has more substance in his albums than just prolonged note progressions, but one you hear Vir Unis or other musician in the genre you'll get the general idea.
There are other artists too, like Steve Roach, Michael Brook, etc.
For one, I think this is highly innovative. In the past, to reinvent music, one would have to do a remix, play it with different instruments, etc. And the end result would be very similar. What separates these guys from the rest is how they were able to stretch the music and transform it from one genre to a totally new genre. Beethoven would have approved of this, if he was alive. After centuries, his music is going into a new territory which was not even heard of couple of decades ago. And as an added bonus, this is quite listenable. I've heard arrangements of SETI signals, space noise ambience, etc. And this ranks very high on top of that list.
I could understand how many people feel this is pointless, as did I, until I had a chance to hear it. If you're familiar with ambience, you'll understand the significance of this pioneer effort.
Wow. I applaud your company. Pinstruck.com (which you developed, I assume) is simply wonderful. I've been using it to scare the shit out of superficial people I know.
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I'll take 4 iBooks. Make a beowulf cluster out of them and then I won't have to imagine it.
8 years of college is nothing.
Here are my thoughts on this SLD (Second Level Domain) proposal: It's unnecessary.
.com domain or any other TLD. This idea is very specialized, hence serves no purpose.
.com/.net/.org domains already.
Hear me out. New Zealand has 3,908,037 people, give or take a few. I seriously doubt there are even 5,000 geeks who would get those domains. No one would pass up an opportunity to aquire
Besides, all my friends from NZ have
I do have a proposal on what type of domains New Zealand government should implement, since the topic came up.
*.holycowmyinternetisslow.nz - for people who are still on 28.8k dialup modems inside of New Zealand
*.udpmatch.nz - for packet kiddies who are looking for a mate
*.neal.nz - will be reserved for Cowboy Neal in case he ever moves there
*.sheep.nz - hot sheep erotic fanfiction
*.cliche.nz - will serve as the domain for humor sites incorporating "beowulf cluster" and "In Soviet Russia" jokes all the time!
*.rom.nz - domain for Romainians who are considering moving to New Zealand to trade ROMS and Emulators for Atari 9600
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for some NZ official to see these suggestions and put them on a fasttrack.
Yes. With a kernel patch codenamed "Omega 9".
I know that you were aiming for "Funny", but in all seriousness, Phoenix is little bit behind in loadtime from IE 5.5/6.x on 2000/XP when dealing with launching the browser at first.
But given the tabbed browsing, it gains a 10-fold speed advantage over IE when time is concerned.
Once phoenix.exe shows up in the services, the loadtime beats IE. It's just the fist instance which is a bit slow. (Note that i'm not talking about page rendering time, rather than the browser loadtime set to about:mozilla for the homepage parameter)
Well, according to their forums, last time I checked the poll was split 60/40 in keeping the name Phoenix and battling it out with Phoenix Technologies for rights to use the name.
;)
I would guess either a) They are waiting to change the name with 0.6 -or- b) They are testing the patience of Phoenix Technologies
Either way, I don't like the idiotic request from PT. It's not like these two are competing technologies. And phoenix is a generic word. What are they going to do next? Patent the word "Technologies"?
In any event. Phoenix is a straight up IE killer, and it's all that matters.
Here's the announcement thread on the forums.
Uh, for one because slashdot revolves around linux more or less.. maybe? Because linux is the centerpiece of open source software.. perhaps?
I thought MPAA question yielded absolutely no desireable results. "Yes, actors hate them too", Shatner brushed it off.
We could have asked him about his OS of choice. Wouldn't it fucking blow your mind if Shatner revealed that he can compile a kernel without any help from a techie?
Congratts on not getting the joke. I was dead serious up until the "Windows NT" part.
You know what bothers me the most?
The fact that none of the questions remotely touched off on OSS, Linux, or stuff that matters to geeks the most.
I wanted to know what Shatner thought about linux, et al. Even my question went unnoticed.
What a waste of opportunity. Great. Now I will know what that interracial kiss was all about. I CAN DIE A HAPPY MAN!
That explains it. Maybe this is why hax0rz talk the way they do.
They are trying to avoid copyright infringement.
It's total cost of Operation.
Would you mind elaborating on that part?
I put Richmond to avoid a lawsuit.
Three Rings for the Microsoft-Developers under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-VPs in their halls of stone,
Nine for IIS System Administrators doomed to die,
One for Steve Ballmer on his dark throne
In the land of Richmond where shadows lie.
One Application to rule them all, One Palladium to authenticate them,
On Application to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Richmond where Shadows lie.
To summarize, MS version of XML concept (not MSXML, mind you).
Seems like a very bad idea. Assuming the data stored by notepad or other lite application can be accessed by a security-demanding applcation and vice-versa, I would imagine there will be a uniform security scheme put in place. And we all know how well Microsoft's security track is.
Well, there is a chance to make it up to date.
;)
This could also be ported to windows. The real media spec is basically uniform to be backwards compatible, so the date doesn't really matter. The foundation is there. Just some tweaks in the source and it will be complete.
Lets hope someone is interested enough to give it a spin and make it better.
Well, I'll try to give you the general idea in a nutshell.
For those of you who do not follow space-rock, post rock, atmospheric, ambient, organic et al, this is basically a great idea.
There are thousands of artists who release albums which have a similar sound to this one. Take Vir Unis for example. It's ambient as it gets. Sure, he has more substance in his albums than just prolonged note progressions, but one you hear Vir Unis or other musician in the genre you'll get the general idea.
There are other artists too, like Steve Roach, Michael Brook, etc.
For one, I think this is highly innovative. In the past, to reinvent music, one would have to do a remix, play it with different instruments, etc. And the end result would be very similar. What separates these guys from the rest is how they were able to stretch the music and transform it from one genre to a totally new genre. Beethoven would have approved of this, if he was alive. After centuries, his music is going into a new territory which was not even heard of couple of decades ago. And as an added bonus, this is quite listenable. I've heard arrangements of SETI signals, space noise ambience, etc. And this ranks very high on top of that list.
I could understand how many people feel this is pointless, as did I, until I had a chance to hear it. If you're familiar with ambience, you'll understand the significance of this pioneer effort.
Captain Open Source to the rescue!
libreal
No need for real player.
an open source implementation of the sims, which doesn't rely on graphics or GUI.
You basically play the MMORPG from $bash. ASCII art is just as good as those fancy sims graphics. As for sound.. the pc beeps as sufficient.
We'll call it GNU/OpenSims.
Take that Maxis!
Fuck! Some asshole picked out my email and cursed me. Is there a way to get uncursed? I need to go somewhere and now I can't leave the house.
Desert. You can only use them in a desert.
Wow. I applaud your company. Pinstruck.com (which you developed, I assume) is simply wonderful. I've been using it to scare the shit out of superficial people I know.
;)
Good job.
Mmmmm this computer looks good enough to eat!
Seeing how it's powered by Windows, it probably eats all the RAM all by itself.
NO LUNCH FOR YOU PENGUIN BOY!
I submitted this yesterday and it got rejected for some bizarre reason.
2002-11-23 05:25:42 Scientist Burns His Genitals With A Laptop (articles,humor) (rejected)
A simple workaround would be to go "dine" at the particular McDonalds restaurant, spill virtual coffee on player's lap and sue Maxis for damages.