We were all supposed to be residing in apartments in the sky and driving flying cars by now, weren't we? Seems to me future predictions always underestimate how long it will take to reach a certain milestone by a factor of 10 or more. And of course they miss completely the radical new developments--notice there's no Internet in "the Jetsons?"
With so many businesses relying on the Internet, it will be like pulling teeth to bring IPv6 to fruition, whether or not Windows Vista said it was ready for it.
I'm not saying these changes don't need to be made--of course they do. But with every business on Earth pulling in the other direction, I don't believe I'll see these changes in my lifetime.
Of course I would have said the same thing about seeing an African-American President, too...
Is the technology in a DSL modem really the same as the Discrete Multitone (DMT) in a 56K? Since it a) doesn't make a phone call, and b) sounds much different from my old dialup, I always assumed two different technolgies.
No matter--the transceivers for cable internet connections are called "modems," too. I think the two are called "modems" for the same reason WinXP PPPoE connections are called "dialers"--they are easy approximations.
Hmmm, for the car to really avoid crashes, someone's gonna have to come up with the speech recognition algorihm to be able to respond to "Aaaaiiiiiiiihh!!"
Many people think of Mensa as an elite secretive cabal of brainiacs. In reality it's more of a lonely-hearts club for awkward geeks. Only requirement is that you score high enough on an "intelligence" (whatever that is) test based largely on the Stanford-Binet "IQ" thing (do people still believe in this nutty stuff?). But you never met a more delightfully flakey bunch of interesting and accepting people.
At ~900 pages, a "way more than I'll ever need" book, which is exactly why I bought it. Step-by-step yet quite in-depth (of course, RHL 7.1 CD-ROM's were enclosed). Published by Hungry Minds.
Here is a similar story from last year, where the mega-corp prevailed--
Briefly: German domain-name squatter snaps up "Shell.de." The German division of Royal Dutch/Shell negotiates to buy it in 1996, but won't pay the freight, and drops the matter. Couple years later Andreas Shell, owner of a publicity and translation business, buys the domain name (I'll bet the price had dropped a ton now that the oil giant had taken a pass), and set up his Web site.
Then Shell Oil tried to win in court what it lost in negotiations, and sued for the rights to the domain name. Astonishingly, the German high court ruled in the oil giant's favor. The judge's decision is full of flip-flops--on the one hand, he says everyone has the right to the domain name of his own name, whether for personal or business use--then he contradicts himself and says that such a right evaporates when you look at the relative sizes of the two. His ruling was based in part on what he conjectured the average user would expect when surfing to that site.
Why couldn't the judge have simply ordered Herr Shell to prominently display a link to Shell Oil on his Web site?
I'm not so conservative as to hold the "ownership is nine-tenths of the law" kind of views, but that, plus the fact that it was the guy's *name*, for heaven's sake, makes me think this was a really rotten decision. I'm sorry that I can't see a better or fairer way to award domain names than first-come-first-served, squatters be damned.
*Thank you* for posting the Quicktime file--NASA only provides RealMedia files, and I'll be damned if I'll install that again! hate the way it wrestles for control of your media files...
Can anyone tell me what the fat dark line in the upper part of the screen is? starts out looking like a shadow but it's way too long. Thanks.
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We were all supposed to be residing in apartments in the sky and driving flying cars by now, weren't we? Seems to me future predictions always underestimate how long it will take to reach a certain milestone by a factor of 10 or more. And of course they miss completely the radical new developments--notice there's no Internet in "the Jetsons?" With so many businesses relying on the Internet, it will be like pulling teeth to bring IPv6 to fruition, whether or not Windows Vista said it was ready for it. I'm not saying these changes don't need to be made--of course they do. But with every business on Earth pulling in the other direction, I don't believe I'll see these changes in my lifetime. Of course I would have said the same thing about seeing an African-American President, too ...
- stand by your principles, reject censorship, and kiss off about 1/4 of the world's population from using your service, or
- remember your bank account, your kids' college fund, your retirement fund, swallow hard, and knuckle under
Grown-ups only need reply.Wouldn't that be "chili con spider"?
Does anyone else find it odd that a the story linked to appears in Whiznews?
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Is the technology in a DSL modem really the same as the Discrete Multitone (DMT) in a 56K? Since it a) doesn't make a phone call, and b) sounds much different from my old dialup, I always assumed two different technolgies.
No matter--the transceivers for cable internet connections are called "modems," too. I think the two are called "modems" for the same reason WinXP PPPoE connections are called "dialers"--they are easy approximations.
Hmmm, for the car to really avoid crashes, someone's gonna have to come up with the speech recognition algorihm to be able to respond to "Aaaaiiiiiiiihh!!"
Seconded.
Many people think of Mensa as an elite secretive cabal of brainiacs. In reality it's more of a lonely-hearts club for awkward geeks. Only requirement is that you score high enough on an "intelligence" (whatever that is) test based largely on the Stanford-Binet "IQ" thing (do people still believe in this nutty stuff?). But you never met a more delightfully flakey bunch of interesting and accepting people.
ha ha, charade you are ...)
(you say 'charade,' and I say 'shurrahd'
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Anyone else have problems with MPFC's Web site? Main page links won't left-click for me ... IE6, WinXP (maybe that's my problem).
so I know this material has been here on earth since the "Dawn of Man."
At ~900 pages, a "way more than I'll ever need" book, which is exactly why I bought it. Step-by-step yet quite in-depth (of course, RHL 7.1 CD-ROM's were enclosed). Published by Hungry Minds.
Briefly: German domain-name squatter snaps up "Shell.de." The German division of Royal Dutch/Shell negotiates to buy it in 1996, but won't pay the freight, and drops the matter. Couple years later Andreas Shell, owner of a publicity and translation business, buys the domain name (I'll bet the price had dropped a ton now that the oil giant had taken a pass), and set up his Web site.
Then Shell Oil tried to win in court what it lost in negotiations, and sued for the rights to the domain name. Astonishingly, the German high court ruled in the oil giant's favor. The judge's decision is full of flip-flops--on the one hand, he says everyone has the right to the domain name of his own name, whether for personal or business use--then he contradicts himself and says that such a right evaporates when you look at the relative sizes of the two. His ruling was based in part on what he conjectured the average user would expect when surfing to that site.
Why couldn't the judge have simply ordered Herr Shell to prominently display a link to Shell Oil on his Web site?
I'm not so conservative as to hold the "ownership is nine-tenths of the law" kind of views, but that, plus the fact that it was the guy's *name*, for heaven's sake, makes me think this was a really rotten decision. I'm sorry that I can't see a better or fairer way to award domain names than first-come-first-served, squatters be damned.
*Thank you* for posting the Quicktime file--NASA only provides RealMedia files, and I'll be damned if I'll install that again! hate the way it wrestles for control of your media files ...
Can anyone tell me what the fat dark line in the upper part of the screen is? starts out looking like a shadow but it's way too long. Thanks.