sending manned-flight to the space will be a huge step for china, as they'll be even closer to checking out the moon, which for centuries, is believe to be the resort for the Moon Goddess and those rabbits.
the implication could be huge, as chinese are known to be very creative and inventive in terms of technologies, but they're somehow restricted at the moment.
in FuturaTruck's website it talked about 13% improvement in fuel efficiency, 25% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions etc etc.. but i couldn't find info about the cost of achieving these results.
will this be another "advancement" that is easy to achieve but difficult to implement? like solar-power car, hybrid cells etc?
in 80's when things were being automated, blue-collars were hit hard.
nowadays, white-collars designed and invented a lot of useful and efficient technologies which are now slowly replacing relatively less efficient white-collars. we should have seen this coming.
i'll be more interested to know what's the next 'collar' to be replaced due to the advancement we have made so far.
i wonder if things will eventually reach a point where it's no longer beneficial to get any smaller?
for instance, mobile phones nowadays are a great improvement from a 1-foot long cellphone our grandparents used, but if things get too small for human-beings to use it properly, then we won't use it.
so with all these nano techonologies going on, even if we can build all the components for a mobile phone so small, don't we still need something reasonable sized to use it?
the article says ICQ Lite build #1211, is this a full product or an add-on?
what if i don't want to have anything to do with anyone from AOL IM? can i somehow block it? you know, you tell your 'lesser' friends that you only have ICQ and you're not allowed to install AOL IM.......:)
i hope it won't turn out like the mobile phone networks, where you have no choice who/where/how to receive a TXT MSG.
do we need to prove that those emails suspected of spamming are truly unsolicited? how do we prove that we never subscribed to a certain mailing list? can spammer 'fake' subscriptions?
and with the "Do Not Spam" registry of e-mail addresses, wouldn't it make it easier for spammers to request such do-not-spam list and spam it??
If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. like the article stated, it might endanger legitimate Internet services.
along with the skulls are some tools, and their way of burial is more than a simple "covering up with dirt and let's move on", which sort of indicates these ancestors are pretty smart and know what they were doing.
are we going to discover even earlier "modern" human remains in order to find out how we really came from??
can't believe no one mentioned Godzil.la yet, although it's already registered.
but wait, zil.la is still available, so you can still have http://god.zil.la/ and this is a better choice because (1) you have a god in your URL, (2) zil is 3 characters, and is more rare than 6 characters domain names:)
In the article it says "Laos originally was assigned the name by ICANN.". Does that mean that Laos has 'sold' the whole TLD? or just leased out like.tv,.ws?
the formality is quite important, if it was just a lease, then these domain names shouldn't be advertised as if L.A. really "receives its own unique Internet address;.la."
Imagine if someone told you can you now purchase.iq domain name and it's a great way to show off your IQs, and you later found out it's still originated from Iraq...
Who's the rightful owner of the UNIX trademark right now?
i reckon if a name was created and used by a company, and that company is still using it commercially or non-commercially, then that name shouldn't be generic. On the other hand, names like Apple, Windows are nouns since the beginning of time (Adam), then they are generic.
i once received a formal notice from Sellotape(tm) which sells, err, Sellotape(tm) tapes, to remove [or to add (tm) to] all references of sellotapes(tm) on a girlguide site that i sponsor and host. i think the innocent girlguide site was asking all girls to remember to bring some sellotapes (now renamed to adhesive tapes) when they're out camping or something...
While Sellotape(tm) is so commonly used even by my grandparents' generation (hey dude, pass me a pen and some sellotapes!), it's still a company trademark and the owner will try his best to protect it.
Is it a crime to use open source codes, keep them and change them to commerical only later? can the open source community take the offender to court for that matter? or they can only complain about it on SlashDot?
And what happens if the codes have been modified significantly? can the open source community still claim the ideas/innovation rather than the coding itself?
i hope this issue has already been addressed and open source codes do remain in the public.
to ensure a smooth and instant LAN party, you could book a computer school with thin-client setup (or similar, with plenty of machines already networked properly) for the weekend, and ask all participant to sign an authorisation form which gives you the right to use their game licenses for that period of time.
in this case you just need to set up all patches etc on the central server, and it'll distribute applications (games) on demand.
the cost will probably be much higher, but nobody needs to bring their own computers, set them up, fiddle with patches, network issues....
cross-platform email virus scanning and spam filtering, integrating with sendmail and postfix on Linux
Is this one way to penetrate Linux server markets and make some money of out it? So even if you switch from Windows to Linux, you might still be paying to MS one way or another.
Will it be built-in in the OS? it could be a good thing, but will other competitors take MS to court for being anti-competitive, like Internet Explorer vs Netscape?
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sending manned-flight to the space will be a huge step for china, as they'll be even closer to checking out the moon, which for centuries, is believe to be the resort for the Moon Goddess and those rabbits.
the implication could be huge, as chinese are known to be very creative and inventive in terms of technologies, but they're somehow restricted at the moment.
this must be the lowest settlement in recent history? is this already the end of the 2nd dotcom boom?
in FuturaTruck's website it talked about 13% improvement in fuel efficiency, 25% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions etc etc.. but i couldn't find info about the cost of achieving these results.
will this be another "advancement" that is easy to achieve but difficult to implement? like solar-power car, hybrid cells etc?
is this article trying to tell us how little 'real' scenes we're going to see from the third episode?
Especially after 1996 when Microsoft executives said they would crush them in 2 year
can a company said that regarding a competitor?
in 80's when things were being automated, blue-collars were hit hard.
nowadays, white-collars designed and invented a lot of useful and efficient technologies which are now slowly replacing relatively less efficient white-collars. we should have seen this coming.
i'll be more interested to know what's the next 'collar' to be replaced due to the advancement we have made so far.
i wonder if things will eventually reach a point where it's no longer beneficial to get any smaller?
for instance, mobile phones nowadays are a great improvement from a 1-foot long cellphone our grandparents used, but if things get too small for human-beings to use it properly, then we won't use it.
so with all these nano techonologies going on, even if we can build all the components for a mobile phone so small, don't we still need something reasonable sized to use it?
the article says ICQ Lite build #1211, is this a full product or an add-on?
:)
what if i don't want to have anything to do with anyone from AOL IM? can i somehow block it? you know, you tell your 'lesser' friends that you only have ICQ and you're not allowed to install AOL IM.......
i hope it won't turn out like the mobile phone networks, where you have no choice who/where/how to receive a TXT MSG.
are there already many multiple-platform applications to bridges IMs together?
like Easy Message etc?
would this bill be used to attack people you don't like rather than the real spammers??
:)
one would think that sexual harassment lawsuit is used when you're fired by your female superior, not when you're sexually harassed
do we need to prove that those emails suspected of spamming are truly unsolicited? how do we prove that we never subscribed to a certain mailing list? can spammer 'fake' subscriptions?
and with the "Do Not Spam" registry of e-mail addresses, wouldn't it make it easier for spammers to request such do-not-spam list and spam it??
If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. like the article stated, it might endanger legitimate Internet services.
along with the skulls are some tools, and their way of burial is more than a simple "covering up with dirt and let's move on", which sort of indicates these ancestors are pretty smart and know what they were doing.
are we going to discover even earlier "modern" human remains in order to find out how we really came from??
can't believe no one mentioned Godzil.la yet, although it's already registered.
:)
but wait, zil.la is still available, so you can still have http://god.zil.la/ and this is a better choice because (1) you have a god in your URL, (2) zil is 3 characters, and is more rare than 6 characters domain names
In the article it says "Laos originally was assigned the name by ICANN.". Does that mean that Laos has 'sold' the whole TLD? or just leased out like .tv, .ws?
.la."
.iq domain name and it's a great way to show off your IQs, and you later found out it's still originated from Iraq...
the formality is quite important, if it was just a lease, then these domain names shouldn't be advertised as if L.A. really "receives its own unique Internet address;
Imagine if someone told you can you now purchase
When the LCD is activated, you see the display. When it's turned off, you see your reflection
So you can only see either the display OR your reflection, instead of the common assumption that you can shave while checking the stock exchange....
will we get it factory-installed on car's rear and side mirrors too? so when you're not watching the road, you can watch the TV.
Who's the rightful owner of the UNIX trademark right now?
i reckon if a name was created and used by a company, and that company is still using it commercially or non-commercially, then that name shouldn't be generic. On the other hand, names like Apple, Windows are nouns since the beginning of time (Adam), then they are generic.
i once received a formal notice from Sellotape(tm) which sells, err, Sellotape(tm) tapes, to remove [or to add (tm) to] all references of sellotapes(tm) on a girlguide site that i sponsor and host. i think the innocent girlguide site was asking all girls to remember to bring some sellotapes (now renamed to adhesive tapes) when they're out camping or something...
While Sellotape(tm) is so commonly used even by my grandparents' generation (hey dude, pass me a pen and some sellotapes!), it's still a company trademark and the owner will try his best to protect it.
i think it's all about consistency and sticking to the same standard.
if it's acceptable for government to secretly spy on people, then it is acceptable for government to spy on spammers.
otherwise how can the suspects (not convicted yet) be dicriminated by law?
will it work with linux-based xbox?
Is it a crime to use open source codes, keep them and change them to commerical only later? can the open source community take the offender to court for that matter? or they can only complain about it on SlashDot?
And what happens if the codes have been modified significantly? can the open source community still claim the ideas/innovation rather than the coding itself?
i hope this issue has already been addressed and open source codes do remain in the public.
to ensure a smooth and instant LAN party, you could book a computer school with thin-client setup (or similar, with plenty of machines already networked properly) for the weekend, and ask all participant to sign an authorisation form which gives you the right to use their game licenses for that period of time.
in this case you just need to set up all patches etc on the central server, and it'll distribute applications (games) on demand.
the cost will probably be much higher, but nobody needs to bring their own computers, set them up, fiddle with patches, network issues....
but other OS/Platform will not be as "secure" as Windows.....
cross-platform email virus scanning and spam filtering, integrating with sendmail and postfix on Linux
Is this one way to penetrate Linux server markets and make some money of out it? So even if you switch from Windows to Linux, you might still be paying to MS one way or another.
Will it be built-in in the OS? it could be a good thing, but will other competitors take MS to court for being anti-competitive, like Internet Explorer vs Netscape?
actually it's Personal Identification Numerical (PIN) Number, just in case people accidentally enter * or #.