There have been articles about it before, and I know for a fact that some registrars reserve a domain as soon as someone uses their site to do an availability/whois search for it.
If you know this for a fact, how about posting some more info on which registrars do this?
Actually, I prefer a custom coded OS with a revision testing regimen that would make most developers and system engineers cry and a lack of bells and whistles. But what do I know, I only work in a division that supports life support systems.
Unknown process "heart_rate_monitor.dll" is attempting to page a doctor, Cancel or Allow?
Maybe it is time to seriously consider revoking the monopoly provision that the USPS has in terms of being the only legal first class mail deliverer. The last time this was seriously proposed and enacted was over 150 years ago.... I really haven't heard one good reason why we can't let competition into the first class mail market.
I'll give you a good reason: because it's a dying business[1] and no company in their right mind would want to compete there. Low-cost, high-volume mail is sinking fast due to email and other replacements. Maybe it made sense 150 years ago to compete with the USPS for first-class mail, but here in the 21st century it's quite different.
Just don't use credit cards. Really. Using credit gets you into debt anyway.
False. Not knowing how to manage your money is what gets you into debt. I have had a credit card since I was a teenager, I pay off the balance each month, I rack up hundreds of dollars a year in rewards points for gift certificates, and get this: when it was time for me to buy a house, I got a good credit score! When I need to finance a car, I get a preferred interest rate!
You see, using a credit card regularly can be a very good thing if you do it properly and responsibly. Now that even fast food restaurants take them I hardly even carry cash anymore.
Even if you don't see buying a house in your future, the likelihood that you will someday need to borrow money is high enough that you will very much regret having zero credit history at some point. I know too many people who thought they were being responsible by never using a credit card only to find out that people with no history are considered high risk by the banks, even if they have a good job.
mainly for laws aimed at restricting offensive materials from children that are under constant attack in the courts
You need to use more commas; that phrase can be taken about 6 different ways:) (what offensive materials are children distributing, and why are the courts attacking children in the first place?)
For example, you may have a stand-alone java app at multiple locations that can query the database directly, so you'd definitely open up the port.
No, at the very least I would use IP-based rules to restrict access to all but the hosts running the java app. It's a technique known as defense in depth. You never rely on a single point of failure, such as the authentication system of your database server, to protect yourself.
Then the cops involved are suspended with pay during the official investigation, which will find that the cops could not be reasonably expected to have known that the person had a pacemaker, so they will be off the hook, AS USUAL.
You say that as though it's a bad thing. Tragic, yes, but not the fault of the police officers. What other course of action would you propose in such a case as this? Just letting the car escape and perhaps injure or kill other drivers? Pursuing on a high-speed chase through traffic? Shooting the tires?
You seem to imply that all police officers are jack-booted thugs just looking for the next innocent person to kill then "get off the hook" on a technicality. *Most* police officers are brave men and women who put their lives on the line to protect your right to sit on your ass and belittle them on Slashdot. Yes, sometimes they make mistakes but there aren't many people in the world who can step up to the plate and keep a cool head when lives are on the line. If we start sending cops to jail for an accident which they could have no way of anticipating or preventing, then they are no longer capable of performing that job.
It's not like they're going to start driving around and shooting this thing off at anyone who runs a red light. Any device such as this requires rigorous training on its use, dangers, and necessary precautions. Just look at the certifications a cop has to go through to use a radar gun and I'm sure you can imagine what training on a device like this would entail.
Thanks for the info, I will be launching a webapp early next year and am looking for a service that I could scale quickly if demand takes off as I hope. I'll keep you on my list and look back when that time comes. Amazon EC2 is rather interesting but its "roll your own" approach to load balancing is not very reassuring!
I might be interested in kicking the tires on your service if it didn't require me to fill out a contact form to have someone get back to me later. I don't think I could put much trust in a company that wants to manage my infrastructure but hasn't gotten around to building an online order system.
After only months of intense development they managed to build an application that's like a browser except it's only a Gecko control in a window. No tabs, no anything.
Don't be so quick to dismiss this project; it's still in its very early stages. I'm sure that soon they will have an "integrated desktop browser" with tabs, bookmarks, an extensions framework, and automatic updates.
True that. Sadly, this is probably the beginning of the end of eMusic, which is currently the world's second-largest (legal) online digital music store. They carved out a nice niche for themselves by making it very easy for indie bands to get their music to the fans and bypass the labels.
Unfortunately as Apple and others start to get their act together, the real innovators such as eMusic who "did it right" from the beginning will probably suffer. (Of course eMusic's insistence on offering only subscriptions instead of per-track sales is not helping them any...)
Instead they introduced speech-to-text but are charging extra for it. Totally automated services like that ought to be free add-ons to differentiate themselves from "old-fashioned" telephone and nickle-and-diming cellphone companies.
Um, hello and welcome to 2007. Everything is "totally automated". It's probably a good thing you aren't trying to run a business on the "totally automated services ought to be free" model. It's a very common business practice to try to maximize the amount of money you're making from everyone by charging those with less money what they can afford, and those with more money what they'll pay, by differentiating various levels of service. It has absolutely nothing to do with what it costs Vonage to actually run those speech-to-text servers.
I've been with Vonage for years, paying $15 a month for 500 outgoing minutes to anywhere/anytime, unlimited incoming minutes, plus tons of features like voicemail, caller id, and all the other usual stuff the telcos charge out the nose for. The same thing would easily cost me $50 from the big guys. I'd say they've differentiated themselves plenty from the telcos already.
I wish I could boycott Verizon because of this, but I was already boycotting them because of their patent-troll lawsuit against Vonage. Vonage has saved me hundreds of dollars in phone bills over the past few years and it pisses me off that a company like Verizon comes along and sues them for something so obvious as phone-number-to-IP-address conversions instead of competing with them in the marketplace.
I recently renewed my Cingular/AT&T contract with the AT&T 8525 which I'm very happy with... I checked out AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile before buying, but Verizon, I'll never buy anything from you. Can you hear me now?
SVN does what it does very well. What more could you really want from a centrally-managed versioning system?
Exactly. While distributed version control systems may be great for certain scenarios (such as the Linux kernel) there are many situations where it is overkill or even counter-productive. Most commercial systems will never go to a distributed model; it just doesn't make sense there.
Way to sensationalize the title, Zonk. The organization which will form the official position of the US voted against approving the standard. That's quite a leap from saying "OOXML Won't Get Fast-Track ISO Standardization". Guess what the "I" in "ISO" stands for? (Although if MS can't even get the US to vote for them, it's hopefully doubtful that they'll get most other countries...)
On the other hand, I am a pedant. I pay close attention to fonts. I notice when a single character has been substituted because the specified font didn't have a glyph for a particular codepoint. I hate Arial with a passion, and wish my Mac would substitute Helvetica, since Arial was actually designed as a Helvetica clone that cost less to license. Verdana was designed to be legible on low-resolution displays. Courier New is just plain ugly. I want my fixed-pitch text rendered in Monaco.
Wow, you could get a job writing a column about fonts for a newspaper or something.
Perhaps if you cared more about customers than promoting your anti-Microsoft agenda, you'd realize that the Comcast software is, without reservations, worse in every way that the Microsoft software.
That may be true, but it has not yet been shown that Comcast is a company interested in turning its various revenue streams into means of suppressing entire industries and waving FUD over the heads of the FOSS community. Less money in Microsoft's hands is always a good thing, regardless of who has to suffer in the short term.
If Comcast's software sucks that bad, this will turn into less money for them. They'll either fix the problem or lose customers, but the chances of them using that money to threaten and blackmail others with litigation is very small. Therefore, I consider this a win.
The thing that absolutely drives me nuts about both the Windows Command Prompt and Power Shell is its inability to copy a multiline string to the clipboard as a single line. For example, when the output of a command wraps from one line to the next, trying to copy that output will leave that embedded newline intact.
Even worse, all copy operations work on a rectangular block of text, not a true start and end point as in a word processor. It makes it useless for copying the output of a program (whether it be a long filename, URL, stack trace, etc.) and pasting it somewhere else.
When PowerShell came out, that was the first thing I tried, thinking for certain they would have fixed that. But they didn't. At that point I closed PowerShell and haven't used it since; I just stick with Cygwin or use Putty to SSH into a *nix box.
Well, except Mono is a small project that Microsoft would rather see die. It will disappear when they are ready to drop litigation bombs.
Maybe you missed the news, but Microsoft and Novell (which sponsors Mono) entered into an agreement to prevent such "litigation bombs". Plus, both the C# language and the CLI are ECMA standards, and according to the Mono guys, Microsoft has been very forthcoming in their help in implementing Mono.
[T]he article is pointing out how odd it is that people running websites would still design new sites demanding one particular browser.
Unfortunately that's very much the case where I work. Decisions on which browsers to support are made by suits who have no clue what they're talking about. Our current supported browsers: IE 5.0+, and Netscape 4+. Yes, that's correct. Except we never actually test anything in Netscape, because no one uses it. So really, our stuff only works in IE.
Now, we developers try our best to actually support other browsers. We test in Firefox/Win32 at least, but we have no resources to test on other platforms. But when half our code is outsourced, and the other guys aren't told to test in Firefox, it makes it pretty difficult to support other browsers.
I work for a company that writes benefits administration websites for some huge companies as well as the government. We get emails from irate Firefox users, Mac users, etc. who can't enroll for their benefits using our site. I can't blame 'em, but there's not much I can do.
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If you know this for a fact, how about posting some more info on which registrars do this?
Merry Fucking Christmas, Darl!
Actually, I prefer a custom coded OS with a revision testing regimen that would make most developers and system engineers cry and a lack of bells and whistles. But what do I know, I only work in a division that supports life support systems.
Unknown process "heart_rate_monitor.dll" is attempting to page a doctor, Cancel or Allow?
I'll give you a good reason: because it's a dying business[1] and no company in their right mind would want to compete there. Low-cost, high-volume mail is sinking fast due to email and other replacements. Maybe it made sense 150 years ago to compete with the USPS for first-class mail, but here in the 21st century it's quite different.
[1] http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04565t.pdf
Issuing patent-troll litigation to shut down Vonage isn't what I'd consider being customer-friendly.
False. Not knowing how to manage your money is what gets you into debt. I have had a credit card since I was a teenager, I pay off the balance each month, I rack up hundreds of dollars a year in rewards points for gift certificates, and get this: when it was time for me to buy a house, I got a good credit score! When I need to finance a car, I get a preferred interest rate!
You see, using a credit card regularly can be a very good thing if you do it properly and responsibly. Now that even fast food restaurants take them I hardly even carry cash anymore.
Even if you don't see buying a house in your future, the likelihood that you will someday need to borrow money is high enough that you will very much regret having zero credit history at some point. I know too many people who thought they were being responsible by never using a credit card only to find out that people with no history are considered high risk by the banks, even if they have a good job.
You need to use more commas; that phrase can be taken about 6 different ways :) (what offensive materials are children distributing, and why are the courts attacking children in the first place?)
No, at the very least I would use IP-based rules to restrict access to all but the hosts running the java app. It's a technique known as defense in depth. You never rely on a single point of failure, such as the authentication system of your database server, to protect yourself.
You say that as though it's a bad thing. Tragic, yes, but not the fault of the police officers. What other course of action would you propose in such a case as this? Just letting the car escape and perhaps injure or kill other drivers? Pursuing on a high-speed chase through traffic? Shooting the tires?
You seem to imply that all police officers are jack-booted thugs just looking for the next innocent person to kill then "get off the hook" on a technicality. *Most* police officers are brave men and women who put their lives on the line to protect your right to sit on your ass and belittle them on Slashdot. Yes, sometimes they make mistakes but there aren't many people in the world who can step up to the plate and keep a cool head when lives are on the line. If we start sending cops to jail for an accident which they could have no way of anticipating or preventing, then they are no longer capable of performing that job.
It's not like they're going to start driving around and shooting this thing off at anyone who runs a red light. Any device such as this requires rigorous training on its use, dangers, and necessary precautions. Just look at the certifications a cop has to go through to use a radar gun and I'm sure you can imagine what training on a device like this would entail.
Thanks for the info, I will be launching a webapp early next year and am looking for a service that I could scale quickly if demand takes off as I hope. I'll keep you on my list and look back when that time comes. Amazon EC2 is rather interesting but its "roll your own" approach to load balancing is not very reassuring!
I might be interested in kicking the tires on your service if it didn't require me to fill out a contact form to have someone get back to me later. I don't think I could put much trust in a company that wants to manage my infrastructure but hasn't gotten around to building an online order system.
Don't be so quick to dismiss this project; it's still in its very early stages. I'm sure that soon they will have an "integrated desktop browser" with tabs, bookmarks, an extensions framework, and automatic updates.
Oh, wait...
True that. Sadly, this is probably the beginning of the end of eMusic, which is currently the world's second-largest (legal) online digital music store. They carved out a nice niche for themselves by making it very easy for indie bands to get their music to the fans and bypass the labels.
Unfortunately as Apple and others start to get their act together, the real innovators such as eMusic who "did it right" from the beginning will probably suffer. (Of course eMusic's insistence on offering only subscriptions instead of per-track sales is not helping them any...)
Um, hello and welcome to 2007. Everything is "totally automated". It's probably a good thing you aren't trying to run a business on the "totally automated services ought to be free" model. It's a very common business practice to try to maximize the amount of money you're making from everyone by charging those with less money what they can afford, and those with more money what they'll pay, by differentiating various levels of service. It has absolutely nothing to do with what it costs Vonage to actually run those speech-to-text servers.
I've been with Vonage for years, paying $15 a month for 500 outgoing minutes to anywhere/anytime, unlimited incoming minutes, plus tons of features like voicemail, caller id, and all the other usual stuff the telcos charge out the nose for. The same thing would easily cost me $50 from the big guys. I'd say they've differentiated themselves plenty from the telcos already.
I wish I could boycott Verizon because of this, but I was already boycotting them because of their patent-troll lawsuit against Vonage. Vonage has saved me hundreds of dollars in phone bills over the past few years and it pisses me off that a company like Verizon comes along and sues them for something so obvious as phone-number-to-IP-address conversions instead of competing with them in the marketplace.
I recently renewed my Cingular/AT&T contract with the AT&T 8525 which I'm very happy with... I checked out AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile before buying, but Verizon, I'll never buy anything from you. Can you hear me now?
When in Rome...
Exactly. While distributed version control systems may be great for certain scenarios (such as the Linux kernel) there are many situations where it is overkill or even counter-productive. Most commercial systems will never go to a distributed model; it just doesn't make sense there.
Way to sensationalize the title, Zonk. The organization which will form the official position of the US voted against approving the standard. That's quite a leap from saying "OOXML Won't Get Fast-Track ISO Standardization". Guess what the "I" in "ISO" stands for? (Although if MS can't even get the US to vote for them, it's hopefully doubtful that they'll get most other countries...)
Wow, you could get a job writing a column about fonts for a newspaper or something.
Us Linux users are not mindless cattle to stampede the shops and get the latest and greatest distro there.
What does any of this have to do with the iPhone?
Vote Giant Douche in 2008!
That may be true, but it has not yet been shown that Comcast is a company interested in turning its various revenue streams into means of suppressing entire industries and waving FUD over the heads of the FOSS community. Less money in Microsoft's hands is always a good thing, regardless of who has to suffer in the short term.
If Comcast's software sucks that bad, this will turn into less money for them. They'll either fix the problem or lose customers, but the chances of them using that money to threaten and blackmail others with litigation is very small. Therefore, I consider this a win.
The thing that absolutely drives me nuts about both the Windows Command Prompt and Power Shell is its inability to copy a multiline string to the clipboard as a single line. For example, when the output of a command wraps from one line to the next, trying to copy that output will leave that embedded newline intact.
Even worse, all copy operations work on a rectangular block of text, not a true start and end point as in a word processor. It makes it useless for copying the output of a program (whether it be a long filename, URL, stack trace, etc.) and pasting it somewhere else.
When PowerShell came out, that was the first thing I tried, thinking for certain they would have fixed that. But they didn't. At that point I closed PowerShell and haven't used it since; I just stick with Cygwin or use Putty to SSH into a *nix box.
Maybe you missed the news, but Microsoft and Novell (which sponsors Mono) entered into an agreement to prevent such "litigation bombs". Plus, both the C# language and the CLI are ECMA standards, and according to the Mono guys, Microsoft has been very forthcoming in their help in implementing Mono.
Unfortunately that's very much the case where I work. Decisions on which browsers to support are made by suits who have no clue what they're talking about. Our current supported browsers: IE 5.0+, and Netscape 4+. Yes, that's correct. Except we never actually test anything in Netscape, because no one uses it. So really, our stuff only works in IE.
Now, we developers try our best to actually support other browsers. We test in Firefox/Win32 at least, but we have no resources to test on other platforms. But when half our code is outsourced, and the other guys aren't told to test in Firefox, it makes it pretty difficult to support other browsers.
I work for a company that writes benefits administration websites for some huge companies as well as the government. We get emails from irate Firefox users, Mac users, etc. who can't enroll for their benefits using our site. I can't blame 'em, but there's not much I can do.