I'm sorry, but they simply cannot believe what they're doing. Set aside hypertext systems before the web. HTML/HTTP were fundamentally static and stupid protocols; dynamism on the web is a kludge, and one of two oldest and most common kludges is the distorted GET request: part of a URI names a program which executes on the server, and then a clever program will examine the URI and discern extra components which should guide its behavior.
Of course, it wasn't (and isn't) necessary to encode extra information in the address. For example, look at NCSA's old collection of CGI scripts: one included example from Jan 1994 is a script which outputs an audio file pronouncing the current date: if I submit a GET request for the "saytime" file on somebody's web server, I get back a dynamically generated audio file. The saytime file doesn't move around. It doesn't expect you submit your zip code. It just generates some timely noise. If the owner of the web site wants me to try out his nifty and dynamic "saytime" system, he'll just put a link in his web page which (like all other web pages at the time) was static.
The technique is obvious, and other examples will be numerous. Anyone who touched the web -- the new and exciting hypertext system that _everyone_ was getting into -- by 1996 should have recognized it as obvious and common. Whoever had the brilliant idea of intimidating small web operators with disingenous patent claims deserves a host of harsh words, and it would be hasty to preclude "villian" from that set.
And if Linus put a web browser and a screen saver and a richtext word processor and a bitmap graphics editor and multi-codec video production system inside the kernel, I think he would damn well deserve a lawsuit from Sun and the international association of kitchen-sink manufacturers for leaving them out.:)
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In Internetland, several companies started out offering free services, hoping to later entice users into paying for a similar or enhanced service, and some services (*ahem* slashdot) which had planned to be free/hobby activities grew into commercial services. Their argument might go something like this:
The standard Kazaa system was deployed with two goals. In the short term, the network's ad revenues will cover various logistical expenses. In the long term, it will demonstrate to consumers (home users) and producers (independent artists) the value of P2P. However, because Kazaa run by unpaid users and producers, some participants in the system don't perform consistently: There's no guaruntee that a file will be available, or that the version of a file you download today will be available tomorrow. Our for-pay service, Altnet, will provide higher quality, better selection (artists looking for money will be more willing to participate), and better marketing (prioritization in search results). In fact, all value in P2P is the presence of other parties willing to share disk space and bandwidth. If we hadn't deployed Kazaa as a free and pure service before Altnet, we could not have reached the critical mass required to make AltNet viable.
* How.. did you decide... on... your enunciative style? Was it... like a flash of light, suddenly you knew... that Kirk... did not know... how to enunciate? Or were you... coached? Did it seem... innovative? Do you feel... trapped, unable to break through... to become free... from your type-casting.
* When are you going to finish that one-man production of Julius Caesar?
The article doesn't ascribe this move to any software development ideology -- "Free", "Open Source", or otherwise. IIRC, the rhetoric from OSS-folk emphasizes that sharing produces higher quality; FSF-folk emphasize that sharing empowers people. Hopefully, adopting GNU/Linux will save India money, will provide India with a stronger infrastructure, and will empower Indians to use computers when and how they want. I agree that this could be a very nice coincidence.:)
(Why do I post this? Because I enjoy preaching to the choir. It's good for the children, in this post-9/11 era. The terrorists won't win.)
Let them try. Using their OS monopoly to commandeer the browser market nearly got the company split in two. I should be interested to see what happens when -- using their monopoly power -- they push defective operating systems and take a foothold in the security consulting market.
...Senate Warner's Office (R-VA). Senator Warner, and his compadre, Senator George Allen, both sit on the High Tech Committee, of which Senator Allen is the chairman...
Short answer: Um, no.
Long answer: Senate Republicans have a para-legislative policy committee, which recommends "The Republican" positions on issues in the Senate. George Allen chairs a subunit of that organization, the high-tech task force. The Democrats have a comparable organization, but they don't publicize it right now because they hold a majority in the Senate.
In fairness, Allen is labelled the ranking member of the Science, Technology, and Space subcommittee. This, however, is misleading because Allen is only a freshman Senator, and all the other Republicans on that subcommittee are actually more senior than he.
It's nice to see that the folks at this Open Source Directory are modeling the software categories after Sourceforge'.s Software/application taxonomies typically vary from site-to-site and distribution-to-distribution. While I appreciate that all the site maintainers out there take time to organize information about software applications, the diversity makes it difficult to synthesize materials from multiple sources. I applaud this directory's deference to a previously-existing taxonomy.
A while back, I started creating a list of software categorization schemes/systems relevent to Linuxland:
Last summer, I was looking into designing an interdisciplinary major relating to computers and social science. I found my school has a 500-level course in the History of Computing taught by a Dr. Thomas Bergin. For some more information:
I've been using.dot on my household LAN for years! I've claimed my territory here in rural Missouri, and I'll be damned if some Rob Malda or some new-fangled international corporation thinks it can take it away from me! Damn Malda-Industrial Complex New World Order intruding on my domain!
If the ICANN board adopts a sponsorship model for special purpose TLDs, and a.gnu domain is authorized, then the FSF would likely gain a good deal of authority over registrations.
I think that Free and Open Source Software movments are taking up a good deal of the second-level name space, and predictably so, given the high level of net-savvy among FS and OSS advocates. Supporters of this type of development certainly span the spectrum from non-profit organizations through corporations and into academia. The creation of a TLD for FS/OSS would be a good courtesy to the rest of the world.
Notably, however,.gnu would be affiliated with RMS and his Free Software Movement. Second-level domains may very well be limited to sites that accept an FSF attitude connecting free software to free speech.
This would be another FSF-sponsored perk that encourages developers to endorse copyleft. Imagine: Gimp.gnu, gnome.gnu, emacs.gnu, and gcc.gnu all become well-known URLs. The FSF could offer a free second-level domain name in this special TLD to young developers who adopt FSF principles.
OSS advocates, BSD advocates, and others who view Stallman may be specifically excluded. They may want their own TLD -- and who knows, if RMS can get his, why can't ESR?
The creation of a.gnu TLD could:
(a) Consolidate free software web sites under a common TLD -- freeing up SLDs under.com and.org and.net.
(b) Leverage a potentially popular TLD to encourage (at a minimum) lip service to the FSF.
(c) Catalyze the conflict that RMS, ESR, et al perceive between free software movements.
I'll be intrigued by ICANN's eventual decision on this.
Every issue tends to be demagogued these days... whether it's how many child seeking perverts are on the internet( probably FAR less than 1 in a million ), how many "innocent" kids died from guns last year( about 4000 child deaths, 85% of which were 16-19, 90% of which were drug/gang related - more innocent kids drowned in pools ), racism, or whatever.
I suppose "whatever" includes the issue of respecting the Constitution.:(
I would agree with you if you said that factionalism is alive, kicking, and (be it proud or futile) beating on the chest of our republic. But I would also take a cue from Madison; I think all the bickering is healthy.
Every once in a while I need a swift kick in the ass to remind me why, for political news, I don't turn to slashdot, Fox News, the Drudge Report, or any of a dozen other sources frowned upon by my friends. That disturbing picture was just the kick I needed.
According to everybody's favorite 'lynx -source http://... > grep Gore', Gore is mentioned five times on that page
1) The indep clause of the lead: "Al Gore's 1996 campaign fund-raising was back in the news Friday."
2) The caption: "Some of the e-mails allegedly involve Vice President Gore's involvement in campaign finance controversies."
3) Once in the article: "Lambuth claims a subordinate told her some of the e-mails deal with 'Vice President Al Gore's involvement in campaign fund-raising controversies'...."
4) The phrase "Clinton-Gore re-election campaign"
5) The phrase "Clinton-Gore White House"
Very little of the article's substance is actually about Al Gore. Instances four and five are superfluous because "Clinton White House" and "Clinton re-election campaign" are more common phrases. Instance two is a copy of instance three, and both are based on hearsay. Instance one is meaningless media-reporting-on-media fluff.
Certainly, a connection between lost email about legal misconduct and Al Gore would be important, but -- despite all the author's implications -- the article hardly deals with Al Gore on a substantive level. The point may seem obvious, but it must be understood if we are to interpret the picture.
The picture shows an ugly image of Al Gore waving and looking to his right. The blue backdrop suggests that he is speaking at some event to some "Puerto Rican/Hispanic" group. (Of course, you can't actually tell, and the caption doesn't explain the picture.) The article does not tell me a blessed thing about Al Gore's relations with Puerto Ricans or Hispanics, about the event, about hand-waving, or about looking to the right. The picture has absolutely nothing to do with the article, except this: The article weakly references Al Gore a few times, and the picture tells us what Al Gore looks like. And boy does he look ugly!
Thank you Fox News, but I see Al Gore's picture all over the place. I don't really care how long you can sift through wired images to find an unflattering shot.
There are lots of useful ways to avoid gray matter, and that picture was not one of them. Betty Lambuth is a new person to me, and I'd like to know how she looks. I'm not sure I understand who Lambuth's boss is, or how she fits into that strange buraucracy of White House officials and extra-governmental contractors. A diagram would really help. Heck, a timeline comparing the email system to allegations of misconduct would be nice.
By a fine coincidence, I received an assignment to represent Ukraine at a model UN conference this March, so I began some basic research and found this odd snippet from the US Department of State:
[Ukraine] has significant environmental problems resulting from the Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster in 1986 and from industrial pollution. Ukraine has announced that the Chornobyl Atomic Energy Station will be phased out and shut down by the year 2000; it has asked for financial help to achieve this goal and to provide alternative sources of energy for its population.
Reopening a Chornobyl reactor a month before year 2000 doesn't seem to indicate the plant will be shut down. I suppose the Ukrainian government had a change of heart within the past two years or the Department of State just doesn't know what it's talking about.
Won't do you much good. Dispute resolution is uniform and extrajudicial (ie by ICANN), and, for judicial proceedings to be worthwhile, the complaint has to be filed where the main database is stored -- in the US. A judiciary outside the US wouldn't have jurisdiction over the DB. Just because you write the annual check from another country doesn't mean the domain is owned in another country.
If you've been following the recent debate on the $700 billion tax cut, you certainly would have heard that billions of dollars from our last budget were inappropriately tagged as 'emergency funds' (which are excluded from budget balancing calculations). Now we have a trillion dollar 'surplus', and the Republicans want to cut taxes by over $700 billion.
We can't afford it. Our government is still in debt; agencies are being strapped for cash; and 'emergency' spending is running us further down. If this tax cut goes through, then God help us that this Internet tax is imposed lest our teachers be forced to work for free.
According to a post by dariuszon the editor's forum:
Last night, Netscape launched its own built and branded search product. The new Netscape Search combines the breadth and quality of the Open Directory Project with new J-Searchrelevancy ranking, Google's PageRank technology, and innovation of Smart Browsing todeliver the most relevant results on the Web. Netscape Search is available now at http://search.netscape.com/index.html?cp=tafnsr001 . Click here http://search.netscape.com/about.html?cp=tafnsr001 to learn more.
If you don't recall, Netscape purchased Gnuhoo/Newhoo/Open Directory ( directory.mozilla.org) a while back with the intent of tying it to Mozilla. Will OpenDir be dropped come Mozilla final in favor of google, or will the two establish some sort of relationship? For instance, would dmoz abandon its search backend in favor of Google?
"the marketplace" is not the catch-all philosophy on life, which undermines your entire line of argument. If I accept your assertion that government officials and academics don't "get" commercialism, it's because they _shouldn't_ get it. Most modern peoplein this country, when confronted, will say that business is just one of many things that must be balanced to produce a "better" world.
Journalism (or "How I Learned to Love to Flame")
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Years ago in the by-gone era (er, 1994-6) of a boy newly inducted into teenhood, I assumed my responsibilities as a civic member of the Kirksville, MO (pop. 17,904) area computer community. I fell in love with this funky, thought-out, multitasking GUI that showed more depth than anything I or my Kirksville-entrapped camarades had ever seen (ie, Windows and MacOS). OS/2 quickly won the race with Windows and DesqView for processor-ticks and mind share thus winning the honor of hosting Kirksville's third one-line BBS, "Society's Forgotten's BBS." Although they now may seem modest at best, I'll admit that I'm more than naustalgic for the countless conversations my friends, some strangers, and I churned out, and that I secretly basked in the faux glory of being custodian to discussions on religion, communism, and OJ Simpson.
Of course, my Dr. Jeckel sysop turned Mr. Hyde on usenet in '95. Evil, dark, inflammatory. Not one step back. Fight the foot soldiers who dare to infiltrate *.os2.advocacy. Remember, though: They are minor pests who have no real power. (Nevermind that I empowered them by dignifying their/ignorant/ remarks.) The real bad guys were the PC magazines. They loved Windows and superficial beauty, hated OS/2 and artificial character. Their articles were glorifed press releases. They _never_ dared do real journalism. They stepped in no mud, manipulated no dirty characters, and never penetrated the blue walls of computerdom.
Not that anyone would care. If wisdom comes with age, I've changed without aging. Sure, now I've taken classes in media. I read my ojr.org and cjr.org, but I'm now one of a million seventeen year old males, disillusioned with high school and non-Unix operating systems, who runs Linux and obligingly, hopefully turns to slashdot everyday.
What keeps this message from being lost as "Offtopic"? The fact that it's "Flamebait" -- almost a "troll." In the spirit of naustalgia, I revert to my bitterness for ZD publications. More, reading this article aroused in me memories of the ideals of the institution of journalism. Investigative reporting. Finding the bad. Independence from government. Above all, though, reading this article made me wonder sardonically: Where was ZDnet when when Norris heard, "As long as you're shipping competitive products... you will suffer."
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sorry, but they simply cannot believe what they're doing. Set aside hypertext systems before the web. HTML/HTTP were fundamentally static and stupid protocols; dynamism on the web is a kludge, and one of two oldest and most common kludges is the distorted GET request: part of a URI names a program which executes on the server, and then a clever program will examine the URI and discern extra components which should guide its behavior.
Of course, it wasn't (and isn't) necessary to encode extra information in the address. For example, look at NCSA's old collection of CGI scripts: one included example from Jan 1994 is a script which outputs an audio file pronouncing the current date: if I submit a GET request for the "saytime" file on somebody's web server, I get back a dynamically generated audio file. The saytime file doesn't move around. It doesn't expect you submit your zip code. It just generates some timely noise. If the owner of the web site wants me to try out his nifty and dynamic "saytime" system, he'll just put a link in his web page which (like all other web pages at the time) was static.
The technique is obvious, and other examples will be numerous. Anyone who touched the web -- the new and exciting hypertext system that _everyone_ was getting into -- by 1996 should have recognized it as obvious and common. Whoever had the brilliant idea of intimidating small web operators with disingenous patent claims deserves a host of harsh words, and it would be hasty to preclude "villian" from that set.
And if Linus put a web browser and a screen saver and a richtext word processor and a bitmap graphics editor and multi-codec video production system inside the kernel, I think he would damn well deserve a lawsuit from Sun and the international association of kitchen-sink manufacturers for leaving them out. :)
In Internetland, several companies started out offering free services, hoping to later entice users into paying for a similar or enhanced service, and some services (*ahem* slashdot) which had planned to be free/hobby activities grew into commercial services. Their argument might go something like this:
The standard Kazaa system was deployed with two goals. In the short term, the network's ad revenues will cover various logistical expenses. In the long term, it will demonstrate to consumers (home users) and producers (independent artists) the value of P2P. However, because Kazaa run by unpaid users and producers, some participants in the system don't perform consistently: There's no guaruntee that a file will be available, or that the version of a file you download today will be available tomorrow. Our for-pay service, Altnet, will provide higher quality, better selection (artists looking for money will be more willing to participate), and better marketing (prioritization in search results). In fact, all value in P2P is the presence of other parties willing to share disk space and bandwidth. If we hadn't deployed Kazaa as a free and pure service before Altnet, we could not have reached the critical mass required to make AltNet viable.
> It only works for software that is a platform for other software...
;)
Zawinski's Law: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
Successful commercial software will eventually become a platform for other software, so it shouldn't really be an issue.
Yes, and I took a screen shot, too!
I have two questions:
* How.. did you decide... on... your enunciative style? Was it... like a flash of light, suddenly you knew... that Kirk... did not know... how to enunciate? Or were you... coached? Did it seem... innovative? Do you feel... trapped, unable to break through... to become free... from your type-casting.
* When are you going to finish that one-man production of Julius Caesar?
Microsoft has more lawyers than the hairs on Eolas' CEO's head.
It must be quite troublesome for him to get a haircut.
The article doesn't ascribe this move to any software development ideology -- "Free", "Open Source", or otherwise. IIRC, the rhetoric from OSS-folk emphasizes that sharing produces higher quality; FSF-folk emphasize that sharing empowers people. Hopefully, adopting GNU/Linux will save India money, will provide India with a stronger infrastructure, and will empower Indians to use computers when and how they want. I agree that this could be a very nice coincidence. :)
(Why do I post this? Because I enjoy preaching to the choir. It's good for the children, in this post-9/11 era. The terrorists won't win.)
Let them try. Using their OS monopoly to commandeer the browser market nearly got the company split in two. I should be interested to see what happens when -- using their monopoly power -- they push defective operating systems and take a foothold in the security consulting market.
...Senate Warner's Office (R-VA). Senator Warner, and his compadre, Senator George Allen, both sit on the High Tech Committee, of which Senator Allen is the chairman...
Short answer: Um, no.
Long answer: Senate Republicans have a para-legislative policy committee, which recommends "The Republican" positions on issues in the Senate. George Allen chairs a subunit of that organization, the high-tech task force. The Democrats have a comparable organization, but they don't publicize it right now because they hold a majority in the Senate.
In fairness, Allen is labelled the ranking member of the Science, Technology, and Space subcommittee. This, however, is misleading because Allen is only a freshman Senator, and all the other Republicans on that subcommittee are actually more senior than he.
Everything comes down to:
x = x
If your friend likes non-sequitors, she might prefer:
x != x
If she's intrigued by Zen, she might like:
x = x != x
Though I suppose a more experienced Zen master would just say:
x
It's nice to see that the folks at this Open Source Directory are modeling the software categories after Sourceforge'.s Software/application taxonomies typically vary from site-to-site and distribution-to-distribution. While I appreciate that all the site maintainers out there take time to organize information about software applications, the diversity makes it difficult to synthesize materials from multiple sources. I applaud this directory's deference to a previously-existing taxonomy.
a re/ / binary-i386/ - types/media-types e nu.html
A while back, I started creating a list of software categorization schemes/systems relevent to Linuxland:
http://freshmeat.net/browse/627/
http://apps.kde.com/na/2/categories&nav=f
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Softw
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/
http://www.gnu.org/gnulist/production/index.html
http://www.userfriendly.net/linux/RPM/Groups.html
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-category/
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
http://www.labs.redhat.com/gug/users-guide/main-m
http://www.linux.com/links/Software/
Last summer, I was looking into designing an interdisciplinary major relating to computers and social science. I found my school has a 500-level course in the History of Computing taught by a Dr. Thomas Bergin. For some more information:
f ault.htm - A dated web site about a history of computing project sponsored by the Sloan Foundation
http://www.csis.american.edu/ - Department web site
http://www.clark.american.edu/~tbergin/ - Professor's web site
http://www.csis.american.edu/museum/sloan/html/de
Hope that helps some!
There is trouble, and it's coming from me!
.dot on my household LAN for years! I've claimed my territory here in rural Missouri, and I'll be damned if some Rob Malda or some new-fangled international corporation thinks it can take it away from me! Damn Malda-Industrial Complex New World Order intruding on my domain!
I've been using
Fierce farm boy,
Tim
If the ICANN board adopts a sponsorship model for special purpose TLDs, and a .gnu domain is authorized, then the FSF would likely gain a good deal of authority over registrations.
.gnu would be affiliated with RMS and his Free Software Movement. Second-level domains may very well be limited to sites that accept an FSF attitude connecting free software to free speech.
.gnu TLD could:
.com and .org and .net.
I think that Free and Open Source Software movments are taking up a good deal of the second-level name space, and predictably so, given the high level of net-savvy among FS and OSS advocates. Supporters of this type of development certainly span the spectrum from non-profit organizations through corporations and into academia. The creation of a TLD for FS/OSS would be a good courtesy to the rest of the world.
Notably, however,
This would be another FSF-sponsored perk that encourages developers to endorse copyleft. Imagine: Gimp.gnu, gnome.gnu, emacs.gnu, and gcc.gnu all become well-known URLs. The FSF could offer a free second-level domain name in this special TLD to young developers who adopt FSF principles.
OSS advocates, BSD advocates, and others who view Stallman may be specifically excluded. They may want their own TLD -- and who knows, if RMS can get his, why can't ESR?
The creation of a
(a) Consolidate free software web sites under a common TLD -- freeing up SLDs under
(b) Leverage a potentially popular TLD to encourage (at a minimum) lip service to the FSF.
(c) Catalyze the conflict that RMS, ESR, et al perceive between free software movements.
I'll be intrigued by ICANN's eventual decision on this.
Every issue tends to be demagogued these days... whether it's how many child seeking perverts are on the internet( probably FAR less than 1 in a million ), how many "innocent" kids died from guns last year( about 4000 child deaths, 85% of which were 16-19, 90% of which were drug/gang related - more innocent kids drowned in pools ), racism, or whatever.
I suppose "whatever" includes the issue of respecting the Constitution. :(
I would agree with you if you said that factionalism is alive, kicking, and (be it proud or futile) beating on the chest of our republic. But I would also take a cue from Madison; I think all the bickering is healthy.
Tim
Every once in a while I need a swift kick in the ass to remind me why, for political news, I don't turn to slashdot, Fox News, the Drudge Report, or any of a dozen other sources frowned upon by my friends. That disturbing picture was just the kick I needed.
...."
According to everybody's favorite 'lynx -source http://... > grep Gore', Gore is mentioned five times on that page
1) The indep clause of the lead: "Al Gore's 1996 campaign fund-raising was back in the news Friday."
2) The caption: "Some of the e-mails allegedly involve Vice President Gore's involvement in campaign finance controversies."
3) Once in the article: "Lambuth claims a subordinate told her some of the e-mails deal with 'Vice President Al Gore's involvement in campaign fund-raising controversies'
4) The phrase "Clinton-Gore re-election campaign"
5) The phrase "Clinton-Gore White House"
Very little of the article's substance is actually about Al Gore. Instances four and five are superfluous because "Clinton White House" and "Clinton re-election campaign" are more common phrases. Instance two is a copy of instance three, and both are based on hearsay. Instance one is meaningless media-reporting-on-media fluff.
Certainly, a connection between lost email about legal misconduct and Al Gore would be important, but -- despite all the author's implications -- the article hardly deals with Al Gore on a substantive level. The point may seem obvious, but it must be understood if we are to interpret the picture.
The picture shows an ugly image of Al Gore waving and looking to his right. The blue backdrop suggests that he is speaking at some event to some "Puerto Rican/Hispanic" group. (Of course, you can't actually tell, and the caption doesn't explain the picture.) The article does not tell me a blessed thing about Al Gore's relations with Puerto Ricans or Hispanics, about the event, about hand-waving, or about looking to the right. The picture has absolutely nothing to do with the article, except this: The article weakly references Al Gore a few times, and the picture tells us what Al Gore looks like. And boy does he look ugly!
Thank you Fox News, but I see Al Gore's picture all over the place. I don't really care how long you can sift through wired images to find an unflattering shot.
There are lots of useful ways to avoid gray matter, and that picture was not one of them. Betty Lambuth is a new person to me, and I'd like to know how she looks. I'm not sure I understand who Lambuth's boss is, or how she fits into that strange buraucracy of White House officials and extra-governmental contractors. A diagram would really help. Heck, a timeline comparing the email system to allegations of misconduct would be nice.
Tim
By a fine coincidence, I received an assignment to represent Ukraine at a model UN conference this March, so I began some basic research and found this odd snippet from the US Department of State:
http://www.state.go v/www/background_notes/ukraine_0697_bgn.html (Updated June 1997)
[Ukraine] has significant environmental problems resulting from the Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster in 1986 and from industrial pollution. Ukraine has announced that the Chornobyl Atomic Energy Station will be phased out and shut down by the year 2000; it has asked for financial help to achieve this goal and to provide alternative sources of energy for its population.
Reopening a Chornobyl reactor a month before year 2000 doesn't seem to indicate the plant will be shut down. I suppose the Ukrainian government had a change of heart within the past two years or the Department of State just doesn't know what it's talking about.
Come up with your own cliches. ;)
Err, um, all trademarks are trademarks of the people of whom they are trademarks.
Won't do you much good. Dispute resolution is uniform and extrajudicial (ie by ICANN), and, for judicial proceedings to be worthwhile, the complaint has to be filed where the main database is stored -- in the US. A judiciary outside the US wouldn't have jurisdiction over the DB. Just because you write the annual check from another country doesn't mean the domain is owned in another country.
If you've been following the recent debate on the $700 billion tax cut, you certainly would have heard that billions of dollars from our last budget were inappropriately tagged as 'emergency funds' (which are excluded from budget balancing calculations). Now we have a trillion dollar 'surplus', and the Republicans want to cut taxes by over $700 billion.
We can't afford it. Our government is still in debt; agencies are being strapped for cash; and 'emergency' spending is running us further down. If this tax cut goes through, then God help us that this Internet tax is imposed lest our teachers be forced to work for free.
According to a post by dariuszon the editor's forum:
1 . Click here http://search.netscape.com/about.html?cp=tafnsr001 to learn more.
Last night, Netscape launched its own built and branded search product. The new Netscape Search combines the breadth and quality of the Open Directory Project with new J-Searchrelevancy ranking, Google's PageRank technology, and innovation of Smart Browsing todeliver the most relevant results on the Web. Netscape Search is available now at http://search.netscape.com/index.html?cp=tafnsr00
If you don't recall, Netscape purchased Gnuhoo/Newhoo/Open Directory ( directory.mozilla.org) a while back with the intent of tying it to Mozilla. Will OpenDir be dropped come Mozilla final in favor of google, or will the two establish some sort of relationship? For instance, would dmoz abandon its search backend in favor of Google?
"the marketplace" is not the catch-all philosophy on life, which undermines your entire line of argument. If I accept your assertion that government officials and academics don't "get" commercialism, it's because they _shouldn't_ get it. Most modern peoplein this country, when confronted, will say that business is just one of many things that must be balanced to produce a "better" world.
Years ago in the by-gone era (er, 1994-6) of a boy newly inducted into teenhood, I assumed my responsibilities as a civic member of the Kirksville, MO (pop. 17,904) area computer community. I fell in love with this funky, thought-out, multitasking GUI that showed more depth than anything I or my Kirksville-entrapped camarades had ever seen (ie, Windows and MacOS). OS/2 quickly won the race with Windows and DesqView for processor-ticks and mind share thus winning the honor of hosting Kirksville's third one-line BBS, "Society's Forgotten's BBS." Although they now may seem modest at best, I'll admit that I'm more than naustalgic for the countless conversations my friends, some strangers, and I churned out, and that I secretly basked in the faux glory of being custodian to discussions on religion, communism, and OJ Simpson.
/ignorant/ remarks.) The real bad guys were the PC magazines. They loved Windows and superficial beauty, hated OS/2 and artificial character. Their articles were glorifed press releases. They _never_ dared do real journalism. They stepped in no mud, manipulated no dirty characters, and never penetrated the blue walls of computerdom.
Of course, my Dr. Jeckel sysop turned Mr. Hyde on usenet in '95. Evil, dark, inflammatory. Not one step back. Fight the foot soldiers who dare to infiltrate *.os2.advocacy. Remember, though: They are minor pests who have no real power. (Nevermind that I empowered them by dignifying their
Not that anyone would care. If wisdom comes with age, I've changed without aging. Sure, now I've taken classes in media. I read my ojr.org and cjr.org, but I'm now one of a million seventeen year old males, disillusioned with high school and non-Unix operating systems, who runs Linux and obligingly, hopefully turns to slashdot everyday.
What keeps this message from being lost as "Offtopic"? The fact that it's "Flamebait" -- almost a "troll." In the spirit of naustalgia, I revert to my bitterness for ZD publications. More, reading this article aroused in me memories of the ideals of the institution of journalism. Investigative reporting. Finding the bad. Independence from government. Above all, though, reading this article made me wonder sardonically: Where was ZDnet when when Norris heard, "As long as you're shipping competitive products... you will suffer."