Micro payment is just too much trouble, once you give your credit number the site can physically charge as much as they want and with dozens of sites at pennies per visit auditing your credit card bill can become impossible.
Maybe we could use web clubs..say you buy a tech club membership...pay one bill and get access to slashdot, arstechnica, acehardware, and freshmeat for example for a year...that would be more manageable.
Or perhaps some better technology, instead of giving out a credit card number have your computer generate for every purchase a one time transaction id that the bank will only recognize as being good for a specific amount, one time, to a specific company.
What we need is a totally distributed database, with no central point to shut down. Sort of like usenet. Every client keeps a local copy of a part of the master database, with routing rules to other hosts that keep copies of all their files as well as files on several other hosts close to them. In order to connect to the network you need only to find a friend who is already connected with another friend, and so on. I'd really like to see something like that:). Have someone try and shut that beast down! Oh yeah, also include a dynamic protocol so that it would be impossible for packet filtering routers to block it.
Before Einstein people thought there was nothing more to be learned about physics. The future of computing will be with quantum or biological computers (probably quantum in my opinion) and these will create the need for totally new kinds of software systems. Perhaps software for silicon is old but we won't be using it for much longer.
It's not suprising that Windows outperforms Linux in the area of graphics acceleration. With all the $$ that Microsoft has it will be the best at whatever it wants to be. Recall what happened to Netscape because Microsoft felt that it needed to enter the brower market. If windows went open source tomorrow Linux would be dead the day after. The fact that Linux is open source and free is what is keeping it alive.
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Micro payment is just too much trouble, once you give your credit number the site can physically charge as much as they want and with dozens of sites at pennies per visit auditing your credit card bill can become impossible.
Maybe we could use web clubs..say you buy a tech club membership...pay one bill and get access to slashdot, arstechnica, acehardware, and freshmeat for example for a year...that would be more manageable.
Or perhaps some better technology, instead of giving out a credit card number have your computer generate for every purchase a one time transaction id that the bank will only recognize as being good for a specific amount, one time, to a specific company.
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Why bother using a ramdisk when the operating system automatically keeps a copy of frequently used data in the cache?
What we need is a totally distributed database, with no central point to shut down. Sort of like usenet. Every client keeps a local copy of a part of the master database, with routing rules to other hosts that keep copies of all their files as well as files on several other hosts close to them. In order to connect to the network you need only to find a friend who is already connected with another friend, and so on. I'd really like to see something like that :). Have someone try and shut that beast down! Oh yeah, also include a dynamic protocol so that it would be impossible for packet filtering routers to block it.
Before Einstein people thought there was nothing more to be learned about physics. The future of computing will be with quantum or biological computers (probably quantum in my opinion) and these will create the need for totally new kinds of software systems. Perhaps software for silicon is old but we won't be using it for much longer.
It's not suprising that Windows outperforms Linux in the area of graphics acceleration. With all the $$ that Microsoft has it will be the best at whatever it wants to be. Recall what happened to Netscape because Microsoft felt that it needed to enter the brower market. If windows went open source tomorrow Linux would be dead the day after. The fact that Linux is open source and free is what is keeping it alive.
I think that your case doesn't apply since I belive that the law about trademarking and domains was made after you bought the domain.