The choice of GOP.GOV does not lead to one thinking that this is the domain name of a standing committee of the House.
This relationship would be better described as RobLimo suggested; GOP.HOUSE.GOV. This is what is intended in RFC 2146.
An interesting experiment would be, as you suggested, to have the Democrats register DEMOCRATS.GOV, or better yet, INDEPENDENTS.GOV, and see what kind of stink that would raise.
Now what I find even more interesting is that CAIS.COM, the nameservice provider for GOP.GOV, has a banner image of a major city skyline being destroyed in massive, flaming explosion. Coming on the heels of the Senate voting down participation in the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, my paranoid conspiracy theory engine purrs...
What is the future of intellectual property?
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With the promise of very small and very dense storage technologies in the near future, what do you think will happen to our current notion of intellectual property?
I mean, within a decade or two it will 'seem' to be simpler and less time consuming to purchase the encrypted, static equivalent of a large size library and keep it with you in a wearable PC or somesuch. Reading material on it would require a microtransaction to unencrypt it via the PKI. Just cram a good chunk of the world's most desirable static data (Homer in XML, etc.) in a crystalline microstructure and copy it a few billion times. No need to cache most documents in webservers/webclients anymore as they are local. It is the links between the documents that are dynamic.
The network would only be used for new or dynamic data, such as unlocking a book out of the library chunk or finding out the current UV levels at the North Pole.
Ok, I'm rambling. Caffeinated and I really enjoy yr stuff.
Do you think the powers that be will try to stop this from happening? Or do you think they will bless it? Or do you think that hackers will eventually break the encryption anyway? Don't you think the powers that be would want to put together their ideas of the world's most 'useful/needed' data?
Ted Nelson's ideas have influenced a whole gaggle of software developers and such. He seems to have influenced some of the XML spec. His ideas are worth examining, especially his tumbler arithmetic. Sure, he is eccentric. I aspire to be that eccentric.:)
I'm not going to print any t-shirts that propose to remake the Web in Xanadu's image. I'm merely looking at the ideas of a pioneer.
On a tangent: there seems to be more noise than signal on/. as of late. Guess it comes with popularity. Let's not forget that we do this because it is fun and interesting, right?
Sagan was the primary proponent for SETI. As for your comment about Sagan's ego, that is subjective. Your perception of the size of his ego is a misunderstanding of his passion to communicate science to the unscientific masses. I also admire Feynman and would like to know more about his experiments. But, I'll bet there are those that would argue that Feynman was an asshole as well.
Agreed. I didn't buy any RHAT, but I do make my living from implementing OS technology, as well as the "other" kind.
I wonder how the RHAT IPO is going to change the open source and free software communit(y/ies)? Will the two schools of thought become more different? Will the free software movement become forgotten? Will the urge to contribute free software die?
Currently, according to Yahoo! RHAT is trading at 74 3/8 and MSFT is at 83. MSFT has been slowly slipping since this morning (opened at 84 3/16) while RHAT has exploded.
What will the financial pundits say when RHAT closes higher than MSFT? I feel the tide is turning, mon freres'.
The post was not censored. You read it, didn't you? The negative 1 (-1) score is given to everyone who doesn't use a name of some kind. Nothing personal.
I am not knowingly related to Frank Herbert, the original author of the Dune series and many other excellent SF novels. The English surname "Herbert" is believed to derive from the original French surname "Hebert", which roughly translates to "famous army". I'm not too shabby at Dune2000, so bring it on.:)
I am of Cajun (French-Acadian) descent and live in south Louisiana. My surname didn't have anything to do with my appreciation of Frank Herbert's work, only that I love SF and found the world of Dune to be very fascinating, especially after growing up in Louisiana where water and humidity is everywhere and an essential part of life (I grew up on a rice farm).
Ideas are the currency of the Net. Every in this forum asking "Why are they valued so much? How do they make money?" are missing that point.
I believe that many investors in MPPP realize the potential for MP3.com to something really neat with a billion dollars. And that would be the dismantling of the old recording industry business model. The era of rock superstars and big budget multimedia extravaganza concert tours is over, and musicians will be kept in coffee hours and nightclubs where they belong...:) It'll keep em honest if anything.
I mean, c'mon, do you people really want to listen to music created in order to make money, or music created for beauty's sake? Damn, this parallels the Microsoft vs Free Software debate. I personally believe that M$ is better at making money than software. Which is why I hang out wid you idgits.
Check out IPO Central, part of Hoover's Online. Lots of good info on one page concerning the relevant IPO. Another good source is Yahoo! Finance. But beware that not everybody gets to purchase initial IPO stock before it hits the big boards.
Big corps are being challenged and unless they are willing to mutate (quickly), the small furry critters running around at their feet are going to suck the juices right out of their eggs.
Hmm, the Internet as being analogous to the Chicxulub Mass Extinction Event? Yup.
Well, then that could be technically classified as a "BAD" thing.
I guess the unspoken question is: Does RedHat want to be known as the Microsoft of Linux Distributions?
I use RedHat 6.0, having only started my journey with RH 5.0. I like it, it does what I need it to do. The minute Robert Young begins to comb his thinning hair like Bill Gates, he will get a noogie.
The real problem is getting all the suits to trust the all the guys in t-shirts. Isn't there a HOW-TO on this? Just as we don't want suits to force us to use a particular OS, we can't expect to force suits to use our OS. (It is ours, BTW, speaking of everyone.) They will use what gives them an advantage. They guage advantage in dollars. We use Linux because it gives us an advantage. We guage that in control. Now if a suit CHOOSES to use our OS, then they are beginning to see that money isn't the only way to guage advantage. I like those businesses.
Not quite the same thing. There are plenty of apps that run exclusively on certain operating systems. Tivoli should have the same freedom to innovate and choose a particular OS to target and support, especially if that strategy gives them an advantage:
"If the only gateway we supported was Linux, it would be cheap, said chief technology officer Tim Bishop. "It would make configuration testing much easier and it would be easier to support."
I hardly think that Tivoli has a monopoly on network management applications. Whereas it can be argued, indeed, is being argued, that another company has such a monopoly on operating systems.
Besides, if Linus became like Bill, we'd just give him a noogie and tell him to stop it.
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Hear, hear!!!
Totally agree w/ you, Mess. Thanks for saying it better than I wanted to...
The choice of GOP.GOV does not lead to one thinking that this is the domain name of a standing committee of the House.
This relationship would be better described as RobLimo suggested; GOP.HOUSE.GOV. This is what is intended in RFC 2146.
An interesting experiment would be, as you suggested, to have the Democrats register DEMOCRATS.GOV, or better yet, INDEPENDENTS.GOV, and see what kind of stink that would raise.
Now what I find even more interesting is that CAIS.COM, the nameservice provider for GOP.GOV, has a banner image of a major city skyline being destroyed in massive, flaming explosion. Coming on the heels of the Senate voting down participation in the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, my paranoid conspiracy theory engine purrs...
With the promise of very small and very dense storage technologies in the near future, what do you think will happen to our current notion of intellectual property?
I mean, within a decade or two it will 'seem' to be simpler and less time consuming to purchase the encrypted, static equivalent of a large size library and keep it with you in a wearable PC or somesuch. Reading material on it would require a microtransaction to unencrypt it via the PKI. Just cram a good chunk of the world's most desirable static data (Homer in XML, etc.) in a crystalline microstructure and copy it a few billion times. No need to cache most documents in webservers/webclients anymore as they are local. It is the links between the documents that are dynamic.
The network would only be used for new or dynamic data, such as unlocking a book out of the library chunk or finding out the current UV levels at the North Pole.
Ok, I'm rambling. Caffeinated and I really enjoy yr stuff.
Do you think the powers that be will try to stop this from happening? Or do you think they will bless it? Or do you think that hackers will eventually break the encryption anyway? Don't you think the powers that be would want to put together their ideas of the world's most 'useful/needed' data?
Could you supply a URL or some other reference where Microsoft states they have released Open Source software?
Welcome aboard. Need any help? :)
ftp://ftp.ospreysolutions. com/xanadu/xanadu0822rel.tar.z
:)
/. as of late. Guess it comes with popularity. Let's not forget that we do this because it is fun and interesting, right?
Spread it around, its Free©. (thx RMS)
ok, mebbe a little bit more religious rant:
Ted Nelson's ideas have influenced a whole gaggle of software developers and such. He seems to have influenced some of the XML spec. His ideas are worth examining, especially his tumbler arithmetic. Sure, he is eccentric. I aspire to be that eccentric.
I'm not going to print any t-shirts that propose to remake the Web in Xanadu's image. I'm merely looking at the ideas of a pioneer.
On a tangent: there seems to be more noise than signal on
Are you sure there were no other factors for your family member's illness?
Sagan was the primary proponent for SETI. As for your comment about Sagan's ego, that is subjective. Your perception of the size of his ego is a misunderstanding of his passion to communicate science to the unscientific masses. I also admire Feynman and would like to know more about his experiments. But, I'll bet there are those that would argue that Feynman was an asshole as well.
What was your intake? You ever hear of moderation? You know, I like potato chips, but I don't eat them every day.
I suspect our mental abilities are not dependent on the fact that YOU had no SELF control.
John
Not a coward
Agreed. I didn't buy any RHAT, but I do make my living from implementing OS technology, as well as the "other" kind.
I wonder how the RHAT IPO is going to change the open source and free software communit(y/ies)? Will the two schools of thought become more different? Will the free software movement become forgotten? Will the urge to contribute free software die?
John
Currently, according to Yahoo! RHAT is trading at
74 3/8 and MSFT is at 83. MSFT has been slowly slipping since this morning (opened at 84 3/16) while RHAT has exploded.
What will the financial pundits say when RHAT closes higher than MSFT? I feel the tide is turning, mon freres'.
John
The post was not censored. You read it, didn't you?
The negative 1 (-1) score is given to everyone who doesn't use a name of some kind. Nothing personal.
John
Hmm... probably ennyplace with quasi-French types but NO is the only place I've ever et them.
John
Hey Fizgig,
You should come on down to New Orleans if ya want some good beignets. Try Cafe Du Monde.
John HEBERT (only one 'r')
Ai-yi-yi.
:)
I am not knowingly related to Frank Herbert, the original author of the Dune series and many other excellent SF novels. The English surname "Herbert" is believed to derive from the original French surname "Hebert", which roughly translates to "famous army". I'm not too shabby at Dune2000, so bring it on.
I am of Cajun (French-Acadian) descent and live in south Louisiana. My surname didn't have anything to do with my appreciation of Frank Herbert's work, only that I love SF and found the world of Dune to be very fascinating, especially after growing up in Louisiana where water and humidity is everywhere and an essential part of life (I grew up on a rice farm).
BTW, my little brother's name is Frank...
John Hebert
Yup. You put your finger right on it.
:) It'll keep em honest if anything.
Ideas are the currency of the Net. Every in this forum asking "Why are they valued so much? How do they make money?" are missing that point.
I believe that many investors in MPPP realize the potential for MP3.com to something really neat with a billion dollars. And that would be the dismantling of the old recording industry business model. The era of rock superstars and big budget multimedia extravaganza concert tours is over, and musicians will be kept in coffee hours and nightclubs where they belong...
I mean, c'mon, do you people really want to listen to music created in order to make money, or music created for beauty's sake? Damn, this parallels the Microsoft vs Free Software debate. I personally believe that M$ is better at making money than software. Which is why I hang out wid you idgits.
So there.
Check out IPO Central, part of Hoover's Online. Lots of good info on one page concerning the relevant IPO. Another good source is Yahoo! Finance. But beware that not everybody gets to purchase initial IPO stock before it hits the big boards.
Sing it, sister!!!
Big corps are being challenged and unless they are willing to mutate (quickly), the small furry critters running around at their feet are going to suck the juices right out of their eggs.
Hmm, the Internet as being analogous to the Chicxulub Mass Extinction Event? Yup.
Well, then that could be technically classified as a "BAD" thing.
I guess the unspoken question is:
Does RedHat want to be known as the Microsoft of Linux Distributions?
I use RedHat 6.0, having only started my journey with RH 5.0. I like it, it does what I need it to do. The minute Robert Young begins to comb his thinning hair like Bill Gates, he will get a noogie.
The real problem is getting all the suits to trust the all the guys in t-shirts. Isn't there a HOW-TO on this?
Just as we don't want suits to force us to use a particular OS, we can't expect to force suits to use our OS. (It is ours, BTW, speaking of everyone.) They will use what gives them an advantage. They guage advantage in dollars. We use Linux because it gives us an advantage. We guage that in control.
Now if a suit CHOOSES to use our OS, then they are beginning to see that money isn't the only way to guage advantage. I like those businesses.
So there you are.
Um, could you send me your e-mail address? I think we have the beginnings of a business plan here...
John Hebert
Not quite the same thing. There are plenty of apps that run exclusively on certain operating systems. Tivoli should have the same freedom to innovate and choose a particular OS to target and support, especially if that strategy gives them an advantage:
From the article -
"If the only gateway we supported was Linux, it would be cheap, said chief technology officer Tim Bishop. "It would make configuration testing much easier and it would be easier to support."
I hardly think that Tivoli has a monopoly on network management applications. Whereas it can be argued, indeed, is being argued, that another company has such a monopoly on operating systems.
Besides, if Linus became like Bill, we'd just give him a noogie and tell him to stop it.
John Hebert
Try E-bay: I've gotten a few good deals there and haven't been burned once.
John