Technically, this would be intractable. You couldn't display a banner on every web page without knowing what was a web page and what wasn't. You couldn't display an ad in people's browsers without forcing them to use certain browsers. Both of these things are impossible in the current state of the network.
Certainly, it would be possible to allow access to only the web, using a special "access method" with the browser. But then things I use the internet for wouldn't be possible: i.e. ssh.
But let us learn from Lawrence Lessig. The minute this kind of thing becomes possible, on all levels of the network (not just WWW browsing), innovation dies. The network can now discriminate content, and that's against the very essence of it. Hopefully, this will never be possible.
Actually, no. It won't be parsed by Perl 5. Perl 6 will be written in classic ol' C. Parsing with Perl 5 would simply be too slow: Think about it. Spawn Perl 6 which then spawns Perl 5, which has to run its parser, which implements a parser, that builds a parse tree and gives it to Perl 6.
Perl wants to be fast with startup as well as running, and this certainly isn't the way to do it.
As for.NET, it's completely different because, um, Perl's, uh, better.
Ah, this one is easy for me. I was installing GRUB and I mindlessly overwrote the master boot record instead of the linux boot block. So, bootmagic no longer booted. I couldn't boot Windows (for some reason GRUB won't do it right), and I haven't since!
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Technically, this would be intractable. You couldn't display a banner on every web page without knowing what was a web page and what wasn't. You couldn't display an ad in people's browsers without forcing them to use certain browsers. Both of these things are impossible in the current state of the network.
Certainly, it would be possible to allow access to only the web, using a special "access method" with the browser. But then things I use the internet for wouldn't be possible: i.e. ssh.
But let us learn from Lawrence Lessig. The minute this kind of thing becomes possible, on all levels of the network (not just WWW browsing), innovation dies. The network can now discriminate content, and that's against the very essence of it. Hopefully, this will never be possible.
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Actually, no. It won't be parsed by Perl 5. Perl 6 will be written in classic ol' C. Parsing with Perl 5 would simply be too slow: Think about it. Spawn Perl 6 which then spawns Perl 5, which has to run its parser, which implements a parser, that builds a parse tree and gives it to Perl 6. .NET, it's completely different because, um, Perl's, uh, better.
Perl wants to be fast with startup as well as running, and this certainly isn't the way to do it.
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> 4. Do not boot to Windows once.
Ah, this one is easy for me. I was installing GRUB and I mindlessly overwrote the master boot record instead of the linux boot block. So, bootmagic no longer booted. I couldn't boot Windows (for some reason GRUB won't do it right), and I haven't since!
Viva Linux!!! (Even if it is accidental)