"Somebody allways calls or emails after a few days or so reminds me and I renew the errant domain."
Millions of domains and you think they all follow your example and experience? Oh but if it were that simple:)
Contact information goes stale. Changes are difficult if not impossible without help from the original supporting registration agent. Expiration tracking agents and grab tools cost more than the price of the domain. The reasons behind a less than happy outcome are varied and real. Good for you that you can get along without issues - here's hoping you never get tripped up.
In my case, the hosting agent went offline and mute months before the domain expired. I had no control to get in and update my current contact information. There was no active website or email server. There was no one to make calls or send email reminders. No active link to me as the owner.
The outfit that snatched it up sent out robot emails to everyone it could find with the same last name, saying the domain was available, from them, for a fee, of course. A family member got wind of the expiration, registration grab and offer to sell and eventually passed it on to me. All within 7 days of the expiration. If I want it back, it will cost at least ten times the price of a routine renewal. What should have been a simple process is, as stated, a process that is out of control and has been taken over by profiteers.
I'll say. A domain I owned expired recently and was bought up before I could repurchase. There is nothing special about this particular domain name and I can't imagine anyone wanting it except to use it for resale profit on pure speculation only.
Nice system. Gets me loads of spam and doesn't offer shit otherwise.
Bruce might want to snatch up those 6,400 Post-it notes, stuck to the windows of the E2 building @ UCSC by a bunch of frats in an attempt to recreate the first level of Donkey Kong...would look great stuck up on the inside of that tech-retro barn!
Any word on what's up with Africa and internet usage, let alone the most popular domains?
Based on the contracts I've been validating over the last six months (w/the Chinese govt. making loans to help them buy such things...from Chinese suppliers, of course), Africa is just now getting the hardware to support a telecom infrastructure. I'd give it at least another 24 months before it could even think about penetrating any part of CH's listings.
"Wednesday, Apr 11 @ 13:13 PDT
The powerful earthquake struck suddenly, shaking the seven-story building so hard it bent, cracked and swayed in response. But this was no ordinary earthquake. In a groundbreaking series of tests, engineering researchers from UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering jarred a full-size 275-ton building erected on a shake table, duplicating ground motions recorded during the January 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles, California. To record the impact on the building, the structure was fitted with some 600 sensors and filmed as the shake table simulated the earthquake, yielding a flood of data including stress, strain, and acceleration -- so much information that engineers were having a hard time making sense of it all. That's where visualization experts from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego came in. "
but the fact is, if China never gets its act together on IP, it'll never be attractive for more than grunt work R&D
And if China only sold to China, there would still be a ton o' money to be made, so your particular diatribe not only years behind reality, it is DOA, sorry.
Want facts? No problem...
Intel just broke ground on the newest fab center in seven years, worldwide. Location: China.
IBM just moved their world headquarters for one specific division...from: USA - to: China
The largest domestic Chinese telecom saw stock prices rise 13% yesterday. 15 R&D centers inside China and another 10 outside...o u t s i d e - with more on the way.
The 'grunt' work is already being moved offshore, to Vietnam, as one example...soon to North Korea. Foreign companies that want to put up major factories must also build hefty R & D centers, just in case the factory folds. The R & D centers will stay around and work as a foundation to keep the domestic infrastructure intact for the long term. So, every time you hear about some American or European company opening another factory in China, remember that such news also means another research center that isn't being built in the US or EU, UK, etc.
Only when China gets bitten in a fair play on problems with domestic IP will things MAYBE turn around. I suspect they will never return to days of yore, actually, and we can all look forward to new business models, new definitions of IP, etc. that simply don't exist now. Your comments represent the type of staid, off-the-shelf thinking that is not related to what is really going on, sorry. It will take some time before new thinking replaces old and by then, the Chinese will have become comfortable in their new role on the world stage.
A slightly funny situation is currently taking place over the 2008 Olympics and the Chinese govt. finding themselves being tagged by fake products such as keyrings, stuffed toys of the 'official' mascots, etc. Only authorized retail outlets are allowed to pedal these products, but of course, you can buy fakes on any street corner...
"Just the same, the project took painstaking work and is well worth recognizing."
Hardly...reminds me all too much of those car magazine titles "How to Spend $10grand and turn your 89 HP Honda sedan into a 92.4 HP Honda screacher!!!"
So is this a productive application of technology?
Without digging into the production details and uncovering the carbon footprint, there is no way to know - my guess...not by any means, or they would have mentioned it.
"The popular book author has started the O'Reilly School of Technology... and all students will receive an iPod containing a full library of recent audiobooks, also published by O'Rielly."
First, what does a networking protocol have to do with a business model
Apple: OS X is a cornerstone of their business model - Bonjour is a cornerstone of OS X
France: Great way to get govt. funding for R&D and keep a telecom business alive while you develop
China: Great way to get govt. funding and keep a telecom business or two alive while they develop
And second, how can any company survive with a business model dependent on something not supported by most ISPs?
Apple: What happens upstream, on one side of an ISP is one thing. Still lots of activity happening downstream, inside private IP address space, away from the ISPs.
France: Great way to keep a business alive while you develop
China: Routine way to keep a business alive while you develop
Sure, the RIAA certainly pisses where it lives, but the one thing is...we've been a music drought for some time now. What the industry is pushing is pure crap - everyone knows it. That's why sales are off, etc. Once the cycle bottoms and turns up, look out Jethro:)
Maybe it's just because I've only heard the soundbites on this so far, such as "Report says warming to hit poorest people hardest"...and "The poorest of the poor in the world -- and this includes poor people in prosperous societies -- are going to be the worst hit," Pachauri said. "People who are poor are least able to adapt to climate change."
Fine, but you know what...in terms of problems and people, those billions of po' folk are not just going to hang out and wait for the vultures. They are going to make life just as worrisome for the rich folk, regardless of continent. Didn't we just hear how the US Southwest is the next dust bowl?
In other words, there is no comfort to be taken by anyone once a ball like this gets rolling, so spare the demographic studies and start cleaning out that old bombshelter, cause the hard rain is gonna fall...
Don't be an idiot - that would mean being found for sale on a dirty blanket laid out on a sidewalk outside the Lohou train station in Shenzhen. The Tianyuan Cave is a carefully protected area, listed on UNESCO's World Heritage List, and monitored specifically to prohibit such funny business.
As for what makes sense, well, that was the whole point then...their budget forced them to break away from purpose built stuff and they ended up showing what off-the-shelf equipment was capable of.
But sure, if there is already a form factor, go for it. Somehow I don't think the new guts would be a drop-and-go install into an XServe shell, tho:) I do so want an XServe at home....sigh....
"I am just wondering what applications out there would take full advantage of... "
When the OS takes that assignment, applications don't need to - welcome to OS X.
Business examples? Does the phrase 'grid computing' mean anything? Recall the noise when Apple and Virginia Tech made headlines by networking 1100 Apple G5's together, creating the 3rd fastest supercomputer for the low-low price of $5 million, instead of billions being spent by other projects? Heard about SETI practices being repurposed to fold proteins? How about Google's vast server megafarms and the energy footprint they try to ignore? Ya think Google might just want to carve that down a bit?
7of7! How y'al doing, gal? How's things in the club?
I heard some downright terrible things about you, just last Monday, but I told them NO way - she can give as good as she can take;) & MS hired her for a reason, so they must have heard wrong over all those hair-dryers and other low-heeled yammerers, you know:)
In any case, if it turns out to be true, your secret is safe w/me, so don't worry your pretty little head...
The keyword here is 'footprint', and since the new everything is now software, electrical engineers, as an example, would have a need to reduce the heat and energy 'footprint' of a given piece of equipment used to run the software that accomplishes the hit.
If a hardware engineer can come up with a better search method via software that works quicker, reduces errors and further searching, uses a smaller processor, less heat, etc. then he/she has just reduced the energy footprint, regardless if he/she had to make the software that drove the smaller footprint or not.
As much as I'd like to see MS suffer due grief over things like this, as long as one of the many flavors of VISTA isn't actually named 'The Real Vista'; 'Vista: The Real Enchilada'; 'The Real Chocolate, Anatomically Correct Vista'; 'The One True Vista'; 'Vista... The One You Want, The One You Need, The One You Can Buy Once and Never Have to Buy Again Until We Run It Into The Ground and Come Looking For Your Digital Wallet All Over Again'...no judge, jury or 1st tier retailer in the country is going to be interested.
You see, the 'consumer' can always take advantage of something called an 'upgrade'. 'Ready' doesn't mean what you or I or your naked partner thinks it means... if MS puts it in print, it means what MS says, and in this case, 'upgrade ready' is something MS can argue is one word too many for the hapless user to ponder.
"...are unplayable on the format's leading playback device."
'Leading' playback device....? Leading what...a pack full of dull witted MS beta testers with nothing more to do than count how many times a disc is ejected in a row? Please...
Who wrote that crap? How about...'only' playback device in any quantity perhaps countable at this time. Or how about not even writing about the 'device' at all in such terms. Gonna be sick...
"Why not go the whole hog and have microphones attached to cameras or embedded in street lights?"
Whole hog would be more along the lines of drawing from a page in hitler's book, where we train our children to turn us in as soon as we bitch about the current administration...
"Yes, Lead Teacher, that's right - my Father said the Prime Minister has lemons for testicles and pees sitting down."
Slashdot Mirror
"Somebody allways calls or emails after a few days or so reminds me and I renew the errant domain."
:)
Millions of domains and you think they all follow your example and experience? Oh but if it were that simple
Contact information goes stale. Changes are difficult if not impossible without help from the original supporting registration agent. Expiration tracking agents and grab tools cost more than the price of the domain. The reasons behind a less than happy outcome are varied and real. Good for you that you can get along without issues - here's hoping you never get tripped up.
In my case, the hosting agent went offline and mute months before the domain expired. I had no control to get in and update my current contact information. There was no active website or email server. There was no one to make calls or send email reminders. No active link to me as the owner.
The outfit that snatched it up sent out robot emails to everyone it could find with the same last name, saying the domain was available, from them, for a fee, of course. A family member got wind of the expiration, registration grab and offer to sell and eventually passed it on to me. All within 7 days of the expiration. If I want it back, it will cost at least ten times the price of a routine renewal. What should have been a simple process is, as stated, a process that is out of control and has been taken over by profiteers.
"showing signs of being out of control"
I'll say. A domain I owned expired recently and was bought up before I could repurchase. There is nothing special about this particular domain name and I can't imagine anyone wanting it except to use it for resale profit on pure speculation only.
Nice system. Gets me loads of spam and doesn't offer shit otherwise.
I can't remember the last time I clicked on an ad
Click...don't click - both are data points.
Regardless of your particular response to an ad, the real point is that enough people do click to make data mining a huge industry.
Bruce might want to snatch up those 6,400 Post-it notes, stuck to the windows of the E2 building @ UCSC by a bunch of frats in an attempt to recreate the first level of Donkey Kong...would look great stuck up on the inside of that tech-retro barn!
Any word on what's up with Africa and internet usage, let alone the most popular domains?
Based on the contracts I've been validating over the last six months (w/the Chinese govt. making loans to help them buy such things...from Chinese suppliers, of course), Africa is just now getting the hardware to support a telecom infrastructure. I'd give it at least another 24 months before it could even think about penetrating any part of CH's listings.
Read more...
"Wednesday, Apr 11 @ 13:13 PDT The powerful earthquake struck suddenly, shaking the seven-story building so hard it bent, cracked and swayed in response. But this was no ordinary earthquake. In a groundbreaking series of tests, engineering researchers from UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering jarred a full-size 275-ton building erected on a shake table, duplicating ground motions recorded during the January 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles, California. To record the impact on the building, the structure was fitted with some 600 sensors and filmed as the shake table simulated the earthquake, yielding a flood of data including stress, strain, and acceleration -- so much information that engineers were having a hard time making sense of it all. That's where visualization experts from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego came in. "
And if China only sold to China, there would still be a ton o' money to be made, so your particular diatribe not only years behind reality, it is DOA, sorry.
Want facts? No problem...
- Intel just broke ground on the newest fab center in seven years, worldwide. Location: China.
- IBM just moved their world headquarters for one specific division...from: USA - to: China
The largest domestic Chinese telecom saw stock prices rise 13% yesterday. 15 R&D centers inside China and another 10 outside...o u t s i d e - with more on the way.
- The 'grunt' work is already being moved offshore, to Vietnam, as one example...soon to North Korea. Foreign companies that want to put up major factories must also build hefty R & D centers, just in case the factory folds. The R & D centers will stay around and work as a foundation to keep the domestic infrastructure intact for the long term. So, every time you hear about some American or European company opening another factory in China, remember that such news also means another research center that isn't being built in the US or EU, UK, etc.
Only when China gets bitten in a fair play on problems with domestic IP will things MAYBE turn around. I suspect they will never return to days of yore, actually, and we can all look forward to new business models, new definitions of IP, etc. that simply don't exist now. Your comments represent the type of staid, off-the-shelf thinking that is not related to what is really going on, sorry. It will take some time before new thinking replaces old and by then, the Chinese will have become comfortable in their new role on the world stage.A slightly funny situation is currently taking place over the 2008 Olympics and the Chinese govt. finding themselves being tagged by fake products such as keyrings, stuffed toys of the 'official' mascots, etc. Only authorized retail outlets are allowed to pedal these products, but of course, you can buy fakes on any street corner...
"Just the same, the project took painstaking work and is well worth recognizing."
Hardly...reminds me all too much of those car magazine titles "How to Spend $10grand and turn your 89 HP Honda sedan into a 92.4 HP Honda screacher!!!"
So is this a productive application of technology?
Without digging into the production details and uncovering the carbon footprint, there is no way to know - my guess...not by any means, or they would have mentioned it.
"The popular book author has started the O'Reilly School of Technology... and all students will receive an iPod containing a full library of recent audiobooks, also published by O'Rielly."
- Apple's OS X Bonjour relies on it.
- French telecoms have it
- Chinese telecoms have it
First, what does a networking protocol have to do with a business model- Apple: OS X is a cornerstone of their business model - Bonjour is a cornerstone of OS X
- France: Great way to get govt. funding for R&D and keep a telecom business alive while you develop
- China: Great way to get govt. funding and keep a telecom business or two alive while they develop
And second, how can any company survive with a business model dependent on something not supported by most ISPs?Sure, the RIAA certainly pisses where it lives, but the one thing is...we've been a music drought for some time now. What the industry is pushing is pure crap - everyone knows it. That's why sales are off, etc. Once the cycle bottoms and turns up, look out Jethro :)
One word - 'LEOPARD'
:)
If there is a down blip, it's due to people waiting for Leopard, not because of vista, and ho boy...wait 'till you see her hit the track
Maybe it's just because I've only heard the soundbites on this so far, such as "Report says warming to hit poorest people hardest"...and "The poorest of the poor in the world -- and this includes poor people in prosperous societies -- are going to be the worst hit," Pachauri said. "People who are poor are least able to adapt to climate change."
Fine, but you know what...in terms of problems and people, those billions of po' folk are not just going to hang out and wait for the vultures. They are going to make life just as worrisome for the rich folk, regardless of continent. Didn't we just hear how the US Southwest is the next dust bowl?
In other words, there is no comfort to be taken by anyone once a ball like this gets rolling, so spare the demographic studies and start cleaning out that old bombshelter, cause the hard rain is gonna fall...
"has a very high likelihood of being a forgery"
Don't be an idiot - that would mean being found for sale on a dirty blanket laid out on a sidewalk outside the Lohou train station in Shenzhen. The Tianyuan Cave is a carefully protected area, listed on UNESCO's World Heritage List, and monitored specifically to prohibit such funny business.
Take a look at some of the details surrounding the original effort...pretty interesting.
:) I do so want an XServe at home....sigh....
As for what makes sense, well, that was the whole point then...their budget forced them to break away from purpose built stuff and they ended up showing what off-the-shelf equipment was capable of.
But sure, if there is already a form factor, go for it. Somehow I don't think the new guts would be a drop-and-go install into an XServe shell, tho
"I am just wondering what applications out there would take full advantage of... "
When the OS takes that assignment, applications don't need to - welcome to OS X.
Business examples? Does the phrase 'grid computing' mean anything? Recall the noise when Apple and Virginia Tech made headlines by networking 1100 Apple G5's together, creating the 3rd fastest supercomputer for the low-low price of $5 million, instead of billions being spent by other projects? Heard about SETI practices being repurposed to fold proteins? How about Google's vast server megafarms and the energy footprint they try to ignore? Ya think Google might just want to carve that down a bit?
I'm off topic and Stephanie wasn't....is that the best you can do? C'mon...I can take it :)
7of7! How y'al doing, gal? How's things in the club?
;) & MS hired her for a reason, so they must have heard wrong over all those hair-dryers and other low-heeled yammerers, you know :)
I heard some downright terrible things about you, just last Monday, but I told them NO way - she can give as good as she can take
In any case, if it turns out to be true, your secret is safe w/me, so don't worry your pretty little head...
- VBootKit bitch slaps VISTA
- Animated cursor panic/fix
- EMI/Apple DRM shun ropa-dopes WMA
- XBox Elite HD-DVD chokes on popular title
- XBox Elite HDMI only v1.2
- Class action suit for bait/switch 'VISTA Ready' claims
Can't wait to see how the rest of the week plays out....hehehehehC'mon...get with the times.
The keyword here is 'footprint', and since the new everything is now software, electrical engineers, as an example, would have a need to reduce the heat and energy 'footprint' of a given piece of equipment used to run the software that accomplishes the hit.
If a hardware engineer can come up with a better search method via software that works quicker, reduces errors and further searching, uses a smaller processor, less heat, etc. then he/she has just reduced the energy footprint, regardless if he/she had to make the software that drove the smaller footprint or not.
As much as I'd like to see MS suffer due grief over things like this, as long as one of the many flavors of VISTA isn't actually named 'The Real Vista'; 'Vista: The Real Enchilada'; 'The Real Chocolate, Anatomically Correct Vista'; 'The One True Vista'; 'Vista... The One You Want, The One You Need, The One You Can Buy Once and Never Have to Buy Again Until We Run It Into The Ground and Come Looking For Your Digital Wallet All Over Again'...no judge, jury or 1st tier retailer in the country is going to be interested.
You see, the 'consumer' can always take advantage of something called an 'upgrade'. 'Ready' doesn't mean what you or I or your naked partner thinks it means... if MS puts it in print, it means what MS says, and in this case, 'upgrade ready' is something MS can argue is one word too many for the hapless user to ponder.
"...are unplayable on the format's leading playback device."
'Leading' playback device....? Leading what...a pack full of dull witted MS beta testers with nothing more to do than count how many times a disc is ejected in a row? Please...
Who wrote that crap? How about...'only' playback device in any quantity perhaps countable at this time. Or how about not even writing about the 'device' at all in such terms. Gonna be sick...
Yes / No ~ I am willing to help test Slashdot's New Server Overloading System.
"Why not go the whole hog and have microphones attached to cameras or embedded in street lights?"
Whole hog would be more along the lines of drawing from a page in hitler's book, where we train our children to turn us in as soon as we bitch about the current administration...
"Yes, Lead Teacher, that's right - my Father said the Prime Minister has lemons for testicles and pees sitting down."