And I disagree with the the editor guy who said "I'm concerned about the people this is going to put out of work,"
Don't look at people as something that needs to be kept occupied. Think of all the more usefull things people can be freed up for when machines handle simple repetitive taskes.
After all, is it a bad thing that there are soda vending machines instead of some guy spending his day standing at a vending stand selling the sodas? Is it bad that traffic lights have taken the place of a policeman standing in the intersection directing traffic? What about the poor scribes who are out of work now that we have copying machines?
These people are all freed up to do something more usefull, and hopefully more interesting. This sort of progress is good.
What openNIC needs to take off is for some very popular site to offer some of its content only to OpenNIC users. Does anyone know if a pop up dialog could be used to reset the users settings? This would be an easy way for the browsing visitor to switch over, and after that they would be ready to visit any sites using OpenNic addresses. Another way would be if Macromedia, Real, or someone similarly pervasive could somehow bundle the process into Flash, Realplayer, etc.
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And I disagree with the the editor guy who said "I'm concerned about the people this is going to put out of work," Don't look at people as something that needs to be kept occupied. Think of all the more usefull things people can be freed up for when machines handle simple repetitive taskes. After all, is it a bad thing that there are soda vending machines instead of some guy spending his day standing at a vending stand selling the sodas? Is it bad that traffic lights have taken the place of a policeman standing in the intersection directing traffic? What about the poor scribes who are out of work now that we have copying machines? These people are all freed up to do something more usefull, and hopefully more interesting. This sort of progress is good.
Yes, if I could run dreamweaver on linux I would be most of the way to switching.
What openNIC needs to take off is for some very popular site to offer some of its content only to OpenNIC users. Does anyone know if a pop up dialog could be used to reset the users settings? This would be an easy way for the browsing visitor to switch over, and after that they would be ready to visit any sites using OpenNic addresses. Another way would be if Macromedia, Real, or someone similarly pervasive could somehow bundle the process into Flash, Realplayer, etc.