After 2 days, tops, every country would have their own ROOT DNS servers and some would even disconnect themselves from the Internet (REad China, Iran, etc.)
Even if ROOT DNS servers would be spread about the world, Just the threat of possibly being cut off from those servers will fragment The internet.
We already had one. It use to be that kids longed to be adults so that they could do adult things.
Now I see so many adults doing stupid things that only kids should be doing. Advertising is also geared toward teens and early 20's kids. It seems if you are older than that, you don't count!
Politicians do this shit to look relevant. So that at re-election time they can go: "see, see. We are all better off because of what *I* did."
Meanwhile cities can't even figure how to save money on the boring stuff. (printing double sided, prevent duplication of work, retuning wrongly ordered stuff to vendors, selling instead of trashing old assets...)
RE: but some programmers still write their code in such a way to require administrator privileges for installation.
I'll go one further: some programmers still write their code in such a way to require administrator privileges for running the program and it only works for the user account that installed it!
I would worry too much. Tape seems to be on the way out because it can't keep up with the density requirements (Data silos anyone?)
Some places now just mirror to other hard drives. -Some are smart and take those HDs off line and treat them like tapes. -Some are idiots and leave them online only to find them corrupt like the main disks (I read that somewhere...)
Anyhow, it seems we are going to mimic Star Trek and just not bother to have backups for computer systems...
I wish Mozilla would make up their minds: are they going to target the Corps or not?
Even if you can get an MSI from Frontmotion (http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/download_firefox.htm), the corps will never go for it unless it comes off the Mozilla servers and is on the same web page as the current XPI installers. It's a "warm and fuzzy" thing that they need.
If Mozilla could somehow sanction those MSIs from Frontmotion then the corps would be more comfortable with it. Even a link from here (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html) would give FrontMotion's MSI package credibility.
MS would probably claim that OpenOffice is GPL-licensed and therefore is legal "poison" to their copyright to Office for their developers to look at the source code.
Where as, all they had to do is look at a *document* that OO created and mimic it.
In Banyan, you had ONE version of the OS to install. It would then look at the dongle hanging of the Parallel port and read which bits were turned on to enable/disable parts of the OS.
The Dongle is just a container digits. If you type them in, DL, or copy them from a Flash drive, it's the same thing.
Slashdot Mirror
The ROOT DNS servers would also be cut off.
After 2 days, tops, every country would have their own ROOT DNS servers and some would even disconnect themselves from the Internet (REad China, Iran, etc.)
Even if ROOT DNS servers would be spread about the world, Just the threat of possibly being cut off from those servers will fragment The internet.
We already had one.
It use to be that kids longed to be adults so that they could do adult things.
Now I see so many adults doing stupid things that only kids should be doing. Advertising is also geared toward teens and early 20's kids. It seems if you are older than that, you don't count!
And the RIAA bought congress critters for cheap!
Otherwise you'd see the gov't suing RIAA and friends for the payola-by-proxy currently going on.
Politicians do this shit to look relevant. So that at re-election time they can go: "see, see. We are all better off because of what *I* did."
Meanwhile cities can't even figure how to save money on the boring stuff. (printing double sided, prevent duplication of work, retuning wrongly ordered stuff to vendors, selling instead of trashing old assets...)
RE: but some programmers still write their code in such a way to require administrator privileges for installation.
I'll go one further:
some programmers still write their code in such a way to require administrator privileges for running the program and it only works for the user account that installed it!
There are a few sites where IE 6.0 displays things badly because the web master stopped kludging for it.
Slashdot.org
some parts of Google.
(Help me here!)
Joe-six paks noticed this and has found out that he has options...
I'd settle for recyclable packaging.
How many plastic packages have you seen without a recycling triangle to identify the type of plastic used?
I would worry too much.
Tape seems to be on the way out because it can't keep up with the density requirements (Data silos anyone?)
Some places now just mirror to other hard drives.
-Some are smart and take those HDs off line and treat them like tapes.
-Some are idiots and leave them online only to find them corrupt like the main disks (I read that somewhere...)
Anyhow, it seems we are going to mimic Star Trek and just not bother to have backups for computer systems...
Hey, that's what my sig says!
and synth trees create liquid CO2 that goes back into the environment in a few hours.
I think you're right.
By that time though, it will be too late for Firefox to get corporate mindshare.
There is one but I don't know if it's still open.
It was promised for version 3.0 but it never happened.
I wish Mozilla would make up their minds: are they going to target the Corps or not?
Even if you can get an MSI from Frontmotion (http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/download_firefox.htm), the corps will never go for it unless it comes off the Mozilla servers and is on the same web page as the current XPI installers. It's a "warm and fuzzy" thing that they need.
If Mozilla could somehow sanction those MSIs from Frontmotion then the corps would be more comfortable with it. Even a link from here (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html) would give FrontMotion's MSI package credibility.
RE: If you watch the weather on TV, temperature will generally be quoted in both units.
I've *NEVER* seen this on a US TV station.
man! for an AC you sure have a great idea.
I beg to differ:
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/internat.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-118736013.html
Meanwhile wolfram alpha doesn't know WTF the metric system is, never mind who uses it.
http://www79.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=metric+system
They should rename it to ADRM where A=AMD or ATI
When I saw "DRM" in the list of feature I cringed.
In the world of computing, DRM has the same effect as calling a product/service NAZI in the rest of the world.
Too bad you did provide an link to it so that we could vote it up.
Stop feeding the trolls
MS would probably claim that OpenOffice is GPL-licensed and therefore is legal "poison" to their copyright to Office for their developers to look at the source code.
Where as, all they had to do is look at a *document* that OO created and mimic it.
In Banyan, you had ONE version of the OS to install. It would then look at the dongle hanging of the Parallel port and read which bits were turned on to enable/disable parts of the OS.
The Dongle is just a container digits. If you type them in, DL, or copy them from a Flash drive, it's the same thing.
Sounds like what happens in Idiocracy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/)
Will it go through ordinary walls?
Those "Joes" would be better served with a Anything-but-Windows OS.
That is wishful thinking.
Back then people didn't have so many distractions.
Today we have: "Yesss, Look! I got a bunch of twits following me! Twitter makes me feel like I'm somebody!"