...could be to let suscribers vote on stories, suggest spelling mistakes, notice dupes etc. Not only will it attract more suscribers, it will also help raise the quality of slashdot postings.
Its called Ball lightning, you can often see it in places with dry weather conditions due to static building up in the atmosphere.
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/tesla/ballgtn.html
India isnt as badly off as you presume. Rs 10 isnt really anything nowdays. Cassestes with 8 songs cost Rs 60 ($1.5) and CD about Rs 300 ($8). And only one song among them will be really worth listening to. Therfore 10 bucks for a mp3 is a sweet deal.
True, but suspend still drains power from a battery, and hibernate uses hard disk space. Besides, even from hibernate, you need time to read data from Hard disk, which does take some time.
This solution will mean no power consumption and no data loss. Plus, heat inside a casing will greately reduce. Plus computers can get smaller and big bulky hard disks vanish.
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whoose stupid ? the guy was doing local file searches and not on the internet. so why should his search data go to M$ ?
Were they expecting Staroffice 6.0 for $5 ? That would be ridiculous. This reminds me of some computer company which quoted a price of $200 for a notebook by mistake. Some customers wanted to buy it and were pissed when the company said that it was a mistake (obviously). Were they really expecting a laptop for $200 ? Same case here I guess. By accusing Mandrakesoft of ripping them off they are showing what big hypocrites they are ? These are probably the same people who dont mind paying $400 for Office.
Overcoming ICANN: Forging Better Paths for the Internet
An Open Letter to the Global Internet Community
Despite its best efforts, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has proven overall to be a failed experiment in Internet policy development, implementation, and management. ICANN's lack of meaningful representation, and its continuing pattern of drastic and seemingly arbitrary structural and policy changes (among other shortcomings), have created an unstable and suspicion-ridden environment that is detrimental to the interests of the vast majority of Internet users around the world. The resulting overly politicized situation not only threatens the stability of the Internet itself, but also invites drastic and undesirable interventions by a variety of vested interests.
We will not in this document detail the range of specific problems and issues, which have become widely recognized and known. Key aspects of the problems relating to the Internet and ICANN have been outlined in previous statements [1], [2], [3], along with a set of basic proposed Internet guiding principles [4]. The continuing rapid deterioration relating to ICANN and its impact on the Internet now forces us to recommend the following three actions.
First, as an immediate temporary measure, all Internet policy, operational, and other Internet-related functions currently performed by ICANN should be transferred, as soon as practicable while maintaining continuity, to a different, already existing non-profit organization (or organizations) on a non-permanent, strictly stewardship basis. One potential candidate we would suggest considering for this role would be the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), although there are a range of other possibilities of course. The process to plan and begin a transfer of responsibilities from ICANN should be initiated immediately.
Next, we recommend that an intensive, international study be started at once, with a mandate to propose detailed and meaningful paths for the Internet's development, operations, and management. The goal of this study would be to help guide the formation of purpose-built representative organizations and policies that would be beneficial both to established Internet stakeholders and to the wide variety of organizations and individuals who are effectively disenfranchised in the current Internet policy environment. This study should consider both short-term and long-term alternatives, and could potentially be conducted by the National Research Council (NRC) and related international organizations, among other possible frameworks.
Our third recommended step would be for the results of this study to be carefully considered and, as deemed appropriate, to be implemented. Internet-related functions would be transferred from the temporary stewardship organization(s) to the entities developed from the study results.
Time is definitely of the essence if a potential "meltdown" of Internet policies, functionalities, and operations in the near future is to be avoided. There is in particular an immediate need to begin the process of depoliticizing the situation and providing opportunities for consensus building regarding the range of Internet issues. Wide consensus has already been achieved on at least one key point -- even by ICANN's current president -- ICANN is seriously broken. We agree, and we additionally assert that ICANN's history, structure, and behaviors strongly indicate that the most productive course would be for ICANN's role in Internet affairs to be discontinued.
This is not to cast aspersions on the efforts of any individuals involved with ICANN in the past or present. Rather, we feel that ICANN has failed as an organization, and that the amount of "bad blood" and institutional "baggage" it carries doom "reform" efforts within the organization itself to ineffectiveness at best. We come to this conclusion reluctantly, since in the past we have considered that there might be an appropriate continuing role of some sort for ICANN. Unfortunately, this is no longer possible.
We do not have all of the answers regarding Internet issues -- nobody does. The proposals above are not presented as any kind of fait accompli, but rather as an attempt to stimulate recognition that the Internet is facing serious problems that are in need of serious solutions. The search for solutions will be difficult, and will be a continuing effort that far transcends matters relating to ICANN. But half-measures will no longer suffice, and the status quo (however it might be disguised or "spun") can no longer be tolerated.
Some persons genuinely fear that alternatives to ICANN might lead to situations even worse than the current dysfunctional ICANN environment. That is indeed a non-zero probability, but the increasingly chaotic situation with ICANN makes degeneration a decided likelihood if ICANN remains involved with Internet matters.
The day of reckoning is already upon us. Work should begin immediately to define and implement collaborative processes that can provide hope of assuring that the Internet will be the best possible resource for the population of the entire world. The risks in change are real, but the need for change and the possibilities for meaningful and beneficial progress are even greater. If we do not take these steps, we may well be dooming the Internet to a future of mediocrity at best, or of decay, fragmentation, greed, and even worse outrages.
This is what I get when I try to view the page. Poor guy might not have even shown the page to his mom, before you slashdotters killed his site:(
This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade".
According to what previous articles said, I can guess RMS may not be too happy with this.
Any idea, what happened to the election for Gnome Board. RMS was fighting for it in order to counter the Mono threat. Poor guy already had his hands full of Microsoft when this comes along.
I do find Google good, but dont like people telling me all the time that is the ultimate search engine. People used to say that about Yahoo/Altavista before Google came along. And ow look where they are.
One thing that really jars me is that when I search for my name on Google, I find more links to amazon given to my own home page.
After hearing honey flow from some Democrats about SSSCA, heres finally someone who seems to be making some sense and a democrat at that. As a more recent article points out, the democrats have become friend of the RIAA and MPAA and are quashing the little guys.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,47296,00.html
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Only free as in free MP3z....well, nevermind
...could be to let suscribers vote on stories, suggest spelling mistakes, notice dupes etc. Not only will it attract more suscribers, it will also help raise the quality of slashdot postings.
(yes, i do read k5)
Read the email - its a gal, not a guy.
rebuttal : the act of rebutting especially in a legal suit; also : argument or proof that rebuts
Apparently, you arent too good a lawyer. Read the article again, it says that the studios and Mr. Lee had an agreement all along.
Its called Ball lightning, you can often see it in places with dry weather conditions due to static building up in the atmosphere. http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/tesla/ballgtn.html
Does it run Linux ? If so, how much time would it take to compile the kernel.
Now you can literally eat your way to a long life, lol.
India isnt as badly off as you presume. Rs 10 isnt really anything nowdays. Cassestes with 8 songs cost Rs 60 ($1.5) and CD about Rs 300 ($8). And only one song among them will be really worth listening to. Therfore 10 bucks for a mp3 is a sweet deal.
True, but suspend still drains power from a battery, and hibernate uses hard disk space. Besides, even from hibernate, you need time to read data from Hard disk, which does take some time.
This solution will mean no power consumption and no data loss. Plus, heat inside a casing will greately reduce. Plus computers can get smaller and big bulky hard disks vanish.
whoose stupid ? the guy was doing local file searches and not on the internet. so why should his search data go to M$ ?
did the irish want to make us april fools so many thousands of years ago ?
just wondering whether robots can be infected by it ? that would pretty much sink us into terminator realms
i think it is that air-o-net device uses with imacs for wireless communication.
Were they expecting Staroffice 6.0 for $5 ? That would be ridiculous. This reminds me of some computer company which quoted a price of $200 for a notebook by mistake. Some customers wanted to buy it and were pissed when the company said that it was a mistake (obviously). Were they really expecting a laptop for $200 ? Same case here I guess. By accusing Mandrakesoft of ripping them off they are showing what big hypocrites they are ? These are probably the same people who dont mind paying $400 for Office.
Overcoming ICANN: Forging Better Paths for the Internet An Open Letter to the Global Internet Community Despite its best efforts, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has proven overall to be a failed experiment in Internet policy development, implementation, and management. ICANN's lack of meaningful representation, and its continuing pattern of drastic and seemingly arbitrary structural and policy changes (among other shortcomings), have created an unstable and suspicion-ridden environment that is detrimental to the interests of the vast majority of Internet users around the world. The resulting overly politicized situation not only threatens the stability of the Internet itself, but also invites drastic and undesirable interventions by a variety of vested interests. We will not in this document detail the range of specific problems and issues, which have become widely recognized and known. Key aspects of the problems relating to the Internet and ICANN have been outlined in previous statements [1], [2], [3], along with a set of basic proposed Internet guiding principles [4]. The continuing rapid deterioration relating to ICANN and its impact on the Internet now forces us to recommend the following three actions. First, as an immediate temporary measure, all Internet policy, operational, and other Internet-related functions currently performed by ICANN should be transferred, as soon as practicable while maintaining continuity, to a different, already existing non-profit organization (or organizations) on a non-permanent, strictly stewardship basis. One potential candidate we would suggest considering for this role would be the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), although there are a range of other possibilities of course. The process to plan and begin a transfer of responsibilities from ICANN should be initiated immediately. Next, we recommend that an intensive, international study be started at once, with a mandate to propose detailed and meaningful paths for the Internet's development, operations, and management. The goal of this study would be to help guide the formation of purpose-built representative organizations and policies that would be beneficial both to established Internet stakeholders and to the wide variety of organizations and individuals who are effectively disenfranchised in the current Internet policy environment. This study should consider both short-term and long-term alternatives, and could potentially be conducted by the National Research Council (NRC) and related international organizations, among other possible frameworks. Our third recommended step would be for the results of this study to be carefully considered and, as deemed appropriate, to be implemented. Internet-related functions would be transferred from the temporary stewardship organization(s) to the entities developed from the study results. Time is definitely of the essence if a potential "meltdown" of Internet policies, functionalities, and operations in the near future is to be avoided. There is in particular an immediate need to begin the process of depoliticizing the situation and providing opportunities for consensus building regarding the range of Internet issues. Wide consensus has already been achieved on at least one key point -- even by ICANN's current president -- ICANN is seriously broken. We agree, and we additionally assert that ICANN's history, structure, and behaviors strongly indicate that the most productive course would be for ICANN's role in Internet affairs to be discontinued. This is not to cast aspersions on the efforts of any individuals involved with ICANN in the past or present. Rather, we feel that ICANN has failed as an organization, and that the amount of "bad blood" and institutional "baggage" it carries doom "reform" efforts within the organization itself to ineffectiveness at best. We come to this conclusion reluctantly, since in the past we have considered that there might be an appropriate continuing role of some sort for ICANN. Unfortunately, this is no longer possible. We do not have all of the answers regarding Internet issues -- nobody does. The proposals above are not presented as any kind of fait accompli, but rather as an attempt to stimulate recognition that the Internet is facing serious problems that are in need of serious solutions. The search for solutions will be difficult, and will be a continuing effort that far transcends matters relating to ICANN. But half-measures will no longer suffice, and the status quo (however it might be disguised or "spun") can no longer be tolerated. Some persons genuinely fear that alternatives to ICANN might lead to situations even worse than the current dysfunctional ICANN environment. That is indeed a non-zero probability, but the increasingly chaotic situation with ICANN makes degeneration a decided likelihood if ICANN remains involved with Internet matters. The day of reckoning is already upon us. Work should begin immediately to define and implement collaborative processes that can provide hope of assuring that the Internet will be the best possible resource for the population of the entire world. The risks in change are real, but the need for change and the possibilities for meaningful and beneficial progress are even greater. If we do not take these steps, we may well be dooming the Internet to a future of mediocrity at best, or of decay, fragmentation, greed, and even worse outrages.
maybe we could have a 9 foot tall xbox now...oh wait..thats a IBM mainframe
This is what I get when I try to view the page. Poor guy might not have even shown the page to his mom, before you slashdotters killed his site :(
This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade".
Thank you,
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besides your URL links to the same page that was posted by guusbosman
I think this article may be referring to the recent posting on Mono website that MCS now compiles on Linux. Read about it at http://www.go-mono.com
According to what previous articles said, I can guess RMS may not be too happy with this. Any idea, what happened to the election for Gnome Board. RMS was fighting for it in order to counter the Mono threat. Poor guy already had his hands full of Microsoft when this comes along.
I do find Google good, but dont like people telling me all the time that is the ultimate search engine. People used to say that about Yahoo/Altavista before Google came along. And ow look where they are.
One thing that really jars me is that when I search for my name on Google, I find more links to amazon given to my own home page.
After hearing honey flow from some Democrats about SSSCA, heres finally someone who seems to be making some sense and a democrat at that. As a more recent article points out, the democrats have become friend of the RIAA and MPAA and are quashing the little guys. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,47296,00.html