Dude, if you don't like, start your own DNS structure.
Oh please. Do you have anthing practical to add to this discussion?
I registered my own domain about 4 years ago so I'd never have to change my email address again; it happens to be a.net. Now I face what amounts to a retroactive price hike.
It's stupid to allow ICANN to charge whatever the market will bear for an infrastructure service which costs very little to operate. Maybe we should open ICANN's position up to competitive bidding instead.
I also don't think it will help. I object because it's such a special-purpose solution.
I would much rather see a more general-purpose distributed caching mechanism for large files. It might seem like just an aesthetic consideration now, but in the future it might mean the difference between being able to download a movie from any rental service, and having to use the one from your local cable company / ISP, because locally caching huge files like movies could save so much bandwidth.
Apple used code with a BSD license. Do you really think Apple would have made such a decision if it had to comply with the GPL? I certainly don't think so.
Are you saying it would be good if OSX were built on Linux? As a Linux user, I don't think so. I don't see how building closed extensions to Linux would help it at all.
And the GPL didn't scare Apple away from contributing to gcc (which is GPL-licensed), because in that case they (apparently) didn't mind opening their contributions.
The GPL is only repellent to those who don't want to give back. Why reach out to them?
People living in this universe are, sadly, limited to 3 spatial dimensions. You can pinpoint any point in 3-space with 3 scalars. (And for that matter we only have 2 ears, perhaps because we live mostly on the surface of the earth)
13.1 is just silly for a single listener. The speaker system in a theater is doing a different job - it can't be set up with just one sweet spot, because there are people spread out over a huge area in the room. In your living room, you only need the sound to be right in one place. It's entirely possible a 5.1 system does a better job for one listener than a 13.1 in a theater.
I'm having trouble fitting this ruling into the usual scale of liberal vs. conservative. I would think of liberals to sieze private property, but not to give to a corporation. I would think of conservatives to favor big business, but usually they're big on property rights.
In Texas you can shoot somebody for little more than trespassing, yet now a company can push you right off your land legally?
Barring another war taking place on US soil there will not be a draft.
Besides, if we really needed our military for self defense, we could pull out of Iraq tomorrow. It would be a shame to see Iraq revert back to dictatorship, but winning Iraq isn't a tactical necessity for us.
You're right in objecting to the phrase "safe officer slots," but what if we leave out the word "officer?"
I believe a lot of middle-class and above people escaped danger in Vietnam by getting student or job deferrments, or safer slots within the military, leaving most of the dying to the poor. Do you disagree?
Of course there are many individual exceptions. To me Pat Tillman is a true hero. But I know the parents of poor dead soldiers grieve are just as heartbroken.
Someone is paying for the hosting, bandwidth, etc.
And most of that bandwidth is consumed by... you guessed it, the ads.
DoubleClick's pop-up graphical banner ads are like a tanker truck that burns 100 gallons of gas to deliver 50 - inefficient.
Google's more conservative ads are cheaper to deliver and not coincidentally less often blocked.
That's doubleclick's problem - they think of the web as advertising, because that's all they do. They don't even offer a real service like google does. Maybe their bloated, annoying ads will go the way of the dinosaur. You know what? The web will survive.
People use newsgroup readers to view each others' content every day.
Maybe the centralized nature of the Web is the problem here - one server for millions of clients. Let's replace the Web with something like usenet, where the clients are existing web browsers but the servers are a modern p2p network, autoconfiguring and highly distributed.
Just reducing the need for advertising alone would probably cut total bandwidth requirements by half.
I guess the big issue is how to prevent leeching - I don't think what bittorrent does would work for small files.
I was going to make the same point - perhaps TV news selection is a better indicator of the political leanings of the nation than is the membership of congress!
Large corporations buy votes for congressmen by giving them money for their campaigns. Perhaps companies are less savy in swaying policy through their news advertising purchases, because the political effect is more diffuse.
I think you're one step away from addressing the real issue... what ebay needs to fix is SHIPPING COSTS. You have to carefully read every listing to have any idea what the bid amount really means, because it's useless until you add on the shipping!
pricewatch saved itself from ruin by adding shipping costs into the advertized prices. It's long past time for ebay to do the same!
Technological shifts always occur, but not at a continuous rate, and now is a bad time to buy a Mac. Any commercial software you buy in the next year will be obsoleted with the fall of the PPC. Any any Mac hardware will have virtually no new software created for it from now on.
Think about foreign automobile makers and GM in today's world. GM is arguably a behemoth, and that in itself can be what drives a monopoly out of power. Even though this market is arguably very mature, market share can change fairly rapidly with innovation.
GM's situation is entirely different. Cars are interchangeable, there is no problem switching brands. The operating system, on the other hand, is a natural monopoly.
Will Apple stay the dual-processor course when they move to Intel? I don't mean dual core Pentiums. I mean two slabs of silicon, like a dual Xeon setup.
IMHO, probably not. Dual processor is a stop-gap measure to compete with dual-core Intel and AMDs for the next year, before the switchover to Intel takes place. By then, you just get a 4 core Pentium if you want high-end.
I recently bought a new drum for my Brother laser printer. I knew it was more expensive than the printer's cash value, but it was worth it to me - I have the printer all set up how I want it, it works fine, it's linux compatible... even though no sensitive data was at stake, the hassle of picking out a new one and getting it all set up wasn't worth it.
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I registered my own domain about 4 years ago so I'd never have to change my email address again; it happens to be a .net. Now I face what amounts to a retroactive price hike.
It's stupid to allow ICANN to charge whatever the market will bear for an infrastructure service which costs very little to operate. Maybe we should open ICANN's position up to competitive bidding instead.
I would much rather see a more general-purpose distributed caching mechanism for large files. It might seem like just an aesthetic consideration now, but in the future it might mean the difference between being able to download a movie from any rental service, and having to use the one from your local cable company / ISP, because locally caching huge files like movies could save so much bandwidth.
And the GPL didn't scare Apple away from contributing to gcc (which is GPL-licensed), because in that case they (apparently) didn't mind opening their contributions.
The GPL is only repellent to those who don't want to give back. Why reach out to them?
I didn't think so.
13.1 is just silly for a single listener. The speaker system in a theater is doing a different job - it can't be set up with just one sweet spot, because there are people spread out over a huge area in the room. In your living room, you only need the sound to be right in one place. It's entirely possible a 5.1 system does a better job for one listener than a 13.1 in a theater.
Who would repel all the Iraqi invaders storming our beaches?
Anyways, I feel the billion dollar bailouts repeatedly handed over to the airlines deserve some mention here.
I'm just glad terrorists didn't do this in the US. Who knows what would have happened.
Then I realized, most people will never read the book.
In Texas you can shoot somebody for little more than trespassing, yet now a company can push you right off your land legally?
That's the sad thing. The swell of support (at home and abroad) for fighting terrorism has been wasted by diverting our efforts to Iraq.
(And why do the other 2 previous posts rebutting your error have such crappy mod scores?)
I believe a lot of middle-class and above people escaped danger in Vietnam by getting student or job deferrments, or safer slots within the military, leaving most of the dying to the poor. Do you disagree?
Of course there are many individual exceptions. To me Pat Tillman is a true hero. But I know the parents of poor dead soldiers grieve are just as heartbroken.
DoubleClick's pop-up graphical banner ads are like a tanker truck that burns 100 gallons of gas to deliver 50 - inefficient.
Google's more conservative ads are cheaper to deliver and not coincidentally less often blocked.
That's doubleclick's problem - they think of the web as advertising, because that's all they do. They don't even offer a real service like google does. Maybe their bloated, annoying ads will go the way of the dinosaur. You know what? The web will survive.
Maybe the centralized nature of the Web is the problem here - one server for millions of clients. Let's replace the Web with something like usenet, where the clients are existing web browsers but the servers are a modern p2p network, autoconfiguring and highly distributed.
Just reducing the need for advertising alone would probably cut total bandwidth requirements by half.
I guess the big issue is how to prevent leeching - I don't think what bittorrent does would work for small files.
Large corporations buy votes for congressmen by giving them money for their campaigns. Perhaps companies are less savy in swaying policy through their news advertising purchases, because the political effect is more diffuse.
pricewatch saved itself from ruin by adding shipping costs into the advertized prices. It's long past time for ebay to do the same!
I meant, "I'm not saying the 7800 GTX" is a good deal..."
I'm not saying the 6800 is a good deal (I'm certainly not buying one), but the 6800 Ultra is not poster child for value either.
Technological shifts always occur, but not at a continuous rate, and now is a bad time to buy a Mac. Any commercial software you buy in the next year will be obsoleted with the fall of the PPC. Any any Mac hardware will have virtually no new software created for it from now on.
The question isn't whether microsoft will eventually fall, but whether it will be in time to matter to any of us.
I recently bought a new drum for my Brother laser printer. I knew it was more expensive than the printer's cash value, but it was worth it to me - I have the printer all set up how I want it, it works fine, it's linux compatible... even though no sensitive data was at stake, the hassle of picking out a new one and getting it all set up wasn't worth it.