What a bullshit argument. So I guess GCC, Emacs, Bash and the hundreds of other GNU tools that make up the bulk of most Linux distributions are "still-born"?
And for another example of idealism providing great tools via a slightly different ideology, see OpenBSD. Take a look at what they've done with PF and CARP. Neither development would've seen the light of day if it hadn't been for the OpenBSD group's free (BSD) software ideology.
Huh!? where do you get off saying IE isn't "over-represented"? Read the page again, the ONLY version of IE that gets PNG right is IE5/Mac.
In other words, everything *except* IE/Win gets it right now.
I'm not mindlessly bashing MS; when it came out IE5/Mac was one of the best and just about the most standards compliant browser out there. But if they fixed PNG for IE/Mac why can't they fix it for IE/Win?
Anyway, hopefully they have in Longhorn, and good for them. It's not perfect (a point upgrade to IE5/6 would be best), but it's still progress.
Well, as I said, using a search engine to find the content you want, rather that rely on the domain name system to act as a classification directory is what we want to be doing.
Domain names will still be important in the future, just perhaps not as visible, and that would be a good thing. It might help stop the mad rush whenever a new tld comes out of people registering their trademarks, common english words etc.
Re: al.cx, there will be a site there soon enough. I just decided to redirect it to my business's site in the meantime.:-)
The reason I have al.cx is because I wanted a short email address:-)
Country top level domains don't signify anything other than country responsible for that domain hierachy. That country can then make up whatever rules they want, and if they choose to allow registrations from outside their country (especially in the case of the Christmas Islands who hardly need the domains, but do need the money) then more power to them.
Now if.cx used second level domains such as.co.cx,.org.cx etc, and designated them to mean "companies and organisations based in and from the Christmas Islands" then you might have a point.
Anyway, we were talking about generic tlds not country specific ones.
When will people understand that the top level domain is supposed to indicate the type of organisation that holds the domain. They are not supposed to be a tool to classify content of servers, that's the job of search engines and directories.
Allowing companies to create new top level domains will just result in a confused and crowded tld namespace similar to.com situation.
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What a bullshit argument. So I guess GCC, Emacs, Bash and the hundreds of other GNU tools that make up the bulk of most Linux distributions are "still-born"?
And for another example of idealism providing great tools via a slightly different ideology, see OpenBSD. Take a look at what they've done with PF and CARP. Neither development would've seen the light of day if it hadn't been for the OpenBSD group's free (BSD) software ideology.
Because as we all know, Google is a marketing tool designed to drive as many visitors to your website as possible.
It's people like this that are killing Google, and the usefulness of search engines in general.
Huh!? where do you get off saying IE isn't "over-represented"? Read the page again, the ONLY version of IE that gets PNG right is IE5/Mac.
In other words, everything *except* IE/Win gets it right now.
I'm not mindlessly bashing MS; when it came out IE5/Mac was one of the best and just about the most standards compliant browser out there. But if they fixed PNG for IE/Mac why can't they fix it for IE/Win?
Anyway, hopefully they have in Longhorn, and good for them. It's not perfect (a point upgrade to IE5/6 would be best), but it's still progress.
Perhaps PNG support in IE will have been improved then; this is good news for web designers.
( http://entropymine.com/jason/testbed/pngtrans/ )
Because it's cool, dammit.
Yeah, I realise "cool" doesn't pay the bills, but quite frankly, people come out with the most contrived justifications for space exploration.
Corporations are a legal construct within the state. If you do away with the state, then you're also doing away with the corporation.
Let me put it another way; the nation-state *is* the enviroment in which the coporation exists.
Now, If you want an explanation as to what is occuring today...
"Fascism should more properly called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power."
- Benito Mussolini
Well, as I said, using a search engine to find the content you want, rather that rely on the domain name system to act as a classification directory is what we want to be doing.
:-)
Domain names will still be important in the future, just perhaps not as visible, and that would be a good thing. It might help stop the mad rush whenever a new tld comes out of people registering their trademarks, common english words etc.
Re: al.cx, there will be a site there soon enough. I just decided to redirect it to my business's site in the meantime.
Uh huh.
:-)
.cx used second level domains such as .co.cx, .org.cx etc, and designated them to mean "companies and organisations based in and from the Christmas Islands" then you might have a point.
The reason I have al.cx is because I wanted a short email address
Country top level domains don't signify anything other than country responsible for that domain hierachy. That country can then make up whatever rules they want, and if they choose to allow registrations from outside their country (especially in the case of the Christmas Islands who hardly need the domains, but do need the money) then more power to them.
Now if
Anyway, we were talking about generic tlds not country specific ones.
When will people understand that the top level domain is supposed to indicate the type of organisation that holds the domain. They are not supposed to be a tool to classify content of servers, that's the job of search engines and directories.
.com situation.
Allowing companies to create new top level domains will just result in a confused and crowded tld namespace similar to