You have to realize that we don't live in a utopian society. Everyone in the world isn't an honest person. If that was the case we wouldn't need security at airports. Therefore if a store is going to use a technology such that it is easy for a person to misuse it, they might as well put a sign in their front window saying steal from me. Microsoft is another prime example. Are you going to blame hackers for writing viruses, or are you going to blame Microsoft for making it so easy for one to write viruses. Microsoft would have you believe that the hackers are to blame. I am going to blame Microsft, and I am going to blame the retail store.
The setup that I have for ripping CDs to ogg vorbis files is a two machine process. I have a ripping machine that dumps the wav files into an NFS directory. That process takes about 20 minutes per CD. I have that process automated to the point where I enter one command, and it rips the CD, and then eject it so I can get the next CD in as quickly as possible.
The second machine is a Sun E450 with 4 processors. I have a process that sits out there looking for albums that are ready to be encoded, and keeps 4 albums encoding simultaneously.
The whole process works fairly well and the encoding is almost as fast as the ripping, so the only thing left is an automated way to switch CDs. If anyone can figure that out, that would be sweet. (And I'd be in Ogg Vorbis heaven).
Continuity is what made B5 great and the last best hope for Sci-Fi. In the beginning the viewer doesn't understand anything about what's going on, and every episode added crucial information. It had all the elements of a good mystery, which made it very exciting. Paramount never understood this and is why they have beaten Star Trek like a dead horse. Without continuity each episode becomes little more than a sitcom. And who says B5 isn't on anymore? I watch it every day.
The Internet does not need new TLDs. I remember the day when someone wanted to get a.org domain they needed to be a non-profit organization. Or if you wanted a.net you had to provide Internet infrastructure. Nowadays when you go to Network Solutions they say "Reserve.com,.net, and.org all at the same time before someone else does". They are meaningless. So now that we have.ws,.info, and.biz it just means that a company has to get more domains at the same time. And usually a company only uses.com and just let the other domains sit unused to prevent others from getting it. It seems to me that the only people benefiting from new TLDs are the registrars because they get more money from the additional registrations.
Let me just talk about.ws for a second. This is the most meaningless TLD of them all. The nodename part of a domainname should specify what the service is i.e. www, smtp, ns, nntp, etc... otherwise we need to create all these others as TLDs as well, which I'm sure everyone would agree is silly.
And to those who have posted that we need regional TLDs, we have those already. The are called country code TLDs. In fact I think we should get rid of.com,.net,.org,.edu, and.gov and stick them under.us. It seems to work for the UK and Australia. A company should have to register a.com.ccTLD for the countries they exist in. The Internet is not just the United States anymore.
In summary new TLDs only polute the DNS name space.
I, for one, feel that Paramount has beat Star Trek to death. However, it seems to me that they are trying a fresh new look on the same old universe. I did like the new theme music and I thought that Scott Bacula did an excelent job as the new Captain. If they can resist the urge to link this series with the others through familiar characters I think it will do all right. At least the Trek-no-babble is still there. I love how it makes no sense.:-)
p.s. They could've done without that weirdo scene in the De-Con chamber, however.
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You have to realize that we don't live in a utopian society. Everyone in the world isn't an honest person. If that was the case we wouldn't need security at airports. Therefore if a store is going to use a technology such that it is easy for a person to misuse it, they might as well put a sign in their front window saying steal from me. Microsoft is another prime example. Are you going to blame hackers for writing viruses, or are you going to blame Microsoft for making it so easy for one to write viruses. Microsoft would have you believe that the hackers are to blame. I am going to blame Microsft, and I am going to blame the retail store.
The second machine is a Sun E450 with 4 processors. I have a process that sits out there looking for albums that are ready to be encoded, and keeps 4 albums encoding simultaneously.
The whole process works fairly well and the encoding is almost as fast as the ripping, so the only thing left is an automated way to switch CDs. If anyone can figure that out, that would be sweet. (And I'd be in Ogg Vorbis heaven).
Continuity is what made B5 great and the last best hope for Sci-Fi. In the beginning the viewer doesn't understand anything about what's going on, and every episode added crucial information. It had all the elements of a good mystery, which made it very exciting. Paramount never understood this and is why they have beaten Star Trek like a dead horse. Without continuity each episode becomes little more than a sitcom. And who says B5 isn't on anymore? I watch it every day.
Let me just talk about .ws for a second. This is the most meaningless TLD of them all. The nodename part of a domainname should specify what the service is i.e. www, smtp, ns, nntp, etc... otherwise we need to create all these others as TLDs as well, which I'm sure everyone would agree is silly.
And to those who have posted that we need regional TLDs, we have those already. The are called country code TLDs. In fact I think we should get rid of .com, .net, .org, .edu, and .gov and stick them under .us. It seems to work for the UK and Australia. A company should have to register a .com.ccTLD for the countries they exist in. The Internet is not just the United States anymore.
In summary new TLDs only polute the DNS name space.
I, for one, feel that Paramount has beat Star Trek to death. However, it seems to me that they are trying a fresh new look on the same old universe. I did like the new theme music and I thought that Scott Bacula did an excelent job as the new Captain. If they can resist the urge to link this series with the others through familiar characters I think it will do all right. At least the Trek-no-babble is still there. I love how it makes no sense. :-)
p.s. They could've done without that weirdo scene in the De-Con chamber, however.