I hope the NFL enforces this across America. Since most people are apparently too stupid to notice how the greedy bastards are taking away their freedoms, maybe this will wake more than a few of them up.
Suck it NFL, I'm going to use a 3.4" LCD in my projector. I'm only going to be projecting it onto a 150" screen, so is that okay? If not, you can SUCK IT.
Huh? I know it's popular around here to talk about how all America's freedoms are being stoled away by greedy, evil corporations and the dark over-government, but honestly WTF does that have to do with this?
Major sports leagues (NFL, NBA, NHL, etc) have always been pretty strict about enforcing copyright and redistribution rights for their broadcasts. They even put up a big warning like the FBI warning shown at the start of movies. It is their property I suppose so that shouldn't be a big issue of contention.
So basically, the NFL told a church that they cannot redistribute the program to their members. As far as the TV size, I think they are pretty reasonable. After all, where should the line be drawn? 55 inches? 72 inches? Movie theater screens? If you bother to RTFA instead of going on about black helicopters you'll see these gems:
"There is a part of me that says, 'Gee, doesn't the NFL have enough money already?'" said Steve Holley, Immanuel's executive pastor.
Aww, poor guy. Personally I think record companies, many audio artists, software companies, movie studios, and Walmart all have too much money. That doesn't mean that stealing from them is okay.
Large Super Bowl gatherings around big-screen sets outside of homes shrink TV ratings and can affect advertising revenue, McCarthy said. "We have no objection to churches and others hosting Super Bowl parties as long as they...show the game on a television of the type commonly used at home," he said. "It is a matter of copyright law."
The "greedy bastards"!
"It's ridiculous," Whitehead said. "You can go into these stores now and buy 100-inch screens. The law is just outdated."
They just don't get it. Your family and even a large handful of friends can watch it on your 100-inch screen without problems. It's when you invite the entire neighborhood that the NFL/NBA/etc will get upset. Honestly, this isn't even worth a tempestinateapot tag. More like ignorantcrybabies maybe. It certainly warrants !news.
You really expected true standards compliance? I am SHOCKED! SHOCKED I tell you!
Oh come on. You and the OP should take a second and THINK before running your collective mouths off.
There is nothing wrong with using a special (standards compliant) tag to tell the browser to render differently than normal. In addition to preventing tens of thousands of websites from breaking, there are plenty of CDs and other media containing websites written over the last 10 years. Should all these become unusable just because Microsoft updated their browser? Is adding one tag really that much trouble for you?
I know it's fashionable on Slashdot to say things like "NOT STANDARDS COMPLIANT!?! HOW DARE THEY!!1" (and then get modded up for it!), however the real world requires more tact than that. Coming up with a solution like this that unifies the three Trident rendering modes (quirks, IE6, standard) is pretty elegant. It keeps real old sites from breaking. It keeps sites made in the last 7 years from breaking. Above all, it gives web authors the ability to fine-tune the way their page renders without a bunch of hacks.
Is it ideal? Obviously not, but unless you've got a time machine and can fix the problem, please shut up. Bitching about the past doesn't do anything except give people headaches. It's worth wondering if Microsoft's dedication to backwards-compatibility has anything to do with their success. It's popular around here to say "get with the times" but in the business world, that means money. The supposed "bit rot" is an artificial and man-made result of ignoring this fact.
Most companies that can only maintain a small percentage of the market place fold. I suspect that the reason Mac hasn't is due to the exceedingly large size and growth of the consumer PC business.
If you're making a profit it doesn't matter how many customers you have: you're still in the black. Sure, more customers then means more profit, but usually you hit a wall where you have to cut profits in order to stay competitive. If a company is happy with its single digit market share (what most would call a niche) then there's no reason to change anything. If you look at Apple's products (especially their audio division), I imagine they have a significantly higher average profit margin than somebody like Dell.
The Blu-Ray drive was there because Sony realized next-gen games were going to need a bit more room than DVDs could offer.
I have to call BS on this. Modern games that will play on consoles like the PS3 and Xbox 360 will easily fit on a DVD9. With over 8GB to work with you can fit pretty much anything you want (with the exception of a LOT of HD pre-rendered video, but these consoles should be able to render it realtime) with skimpy compression to aide with fast access. A good majority of Xbox games were 3-5GB in size, and ALL Xbox 360 and Wii games are under 9GB.
The only reason Sony included a BluRay drive in the PS3 is because they wanted to push the format at consumers. Joe Gamer buys a PS3 and then after a while is confronted with the choice of HD-DVD or BluRay. Because his game console already doubles as a BluRay player he figures he saves $300-400 and the decision is made. Sony wins.
They included Blu-Ray because it's a true next-gen console, and they needed next-gen storage.
If you buy that then either you're a Sony marketing droid, or you've overdosed on the Koolaid. I'm not saying it's all bad for the consumer; if you want a PS3 then you're almost getting a BluRay player for free. In a sense Sony is subsidizing the PS3 to help push BluRay, a standard practice when it comes to selling game consoles.
The only bright side to this whole thing is that 6 years is plenty long enough for this to get repealed. We're due for a new president here fairly soon and with any luck it will be somebody who won't go along with this crap.
Are these common laser pointers you find for use on PPT presentations and exercising your cat/dog without moving from the sofa? Or are these more powerful items?
My guess is that it was something like this, but it could have been something more powerful like this. Both are consumer devices, but both are still potentially damaging with sustained exposure.
If it was a consumer device I have a hard time buying it "causing pain and discomfort in his eyes for a couple of hours" so maybe I'm wrong. That or the FBI is exaggerating just a bit.
Garry: Making a girl. Actually making a girl. Like Frankenstein... except cuter.
Wait, didn't they do that movie already? I could have sworn... of course!
Fredrick: Would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in? Igor: And you won't be angry? Fredrick: I will *not* be angry! Igor: Abby Someone. Fredrick: Abby Someone. Abby Who? Igor: Abby Normal. Fredrick: Abby Normal. Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name.
There you go. I'm sure Frankenstein and Abby would be quite the couple.
Every fact on Wikipedia has a link back to the primary source. All you have to do is tell kids to look up the fact from the primary source and cite that, and obviously not to cite it if there is no link back or they can't find the material. Any teacher who is too intellectually lazy to take the time to understand this is by definition a bad teacher. You aren't allowed to cite Britannica in any real class either, you have to follow the exact same procedure, so there is no difference. I don't even see how someone could defend a teacher who would lie to kids about the purpose of an encyclopedia.
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Every fact on Wikipedia has a link back to the primary source {citation needed}. All you have to do is tell kids to look up the fact from the primary source and cite that {citation needed}, and obviously not to cite it if there is no link back or they can't find the material {citation needed}. Any teacher who is too intellectually lazy to take the time to understand this is by definition a bad teacher {citation needed}. You aren't allowed to cite Britannica in any real class either {citation needed}, you have to follow the exact same procedure {citation needed}, so there is no difference {citation needed}. I don't even see how someone could defend a teacher who would lie to kids about the purpose of an encyclopedia {citation needed}.
Some of the (obligatory) Pentium jokes were pretty funny. From a text file I've had laying around for quite a while: --------------
Intel's new motto: "United We Stand, Divided We Fall"
Q: How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: 1.99904274017, but that's close enough for non-technical people.
Q: What do you get when you cross a Pentium PC with a research grant? A: A mad scientist.
Q: What's another name for the "Intel Inside" sticker they put on Pentiums? A: The warning label.
Q: What do you call a series of FDIV instructions on a Pentium? A1: Successive approximations. A2: A random number generator.
Q: Complete the following word analogy: Add is to Subtract as Multiply is to:
1) Divide
2) Round
3) Random
4) All of the above
Q: What algorithm did Intel use in the Pentium's floating point divider? A: "Life is like a box of chocolates." (Source: F. Gump of Intel)
Q: Why didn't Intel call the Pentium the 586? A: Because they added 486 and 100 on the first Pentium and got
585.999983605.
Q: According to Intel, the Pentium conforms to the IEEE standards 754
and 854 for floating point arithmetic. If you fly in aircraft
designed using a Pentium, what is the correct pronunciation of "IEEE"? A: Aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee!
Q: Did you hear about the new "morning after" pill being developed as a
replacement for RU-486??? A: Its called RU-Pentium. It causes the embryo to not divide correctly.
TOP TEN NEW INTEL SLOGANS FOR THE PENTIUM
9.9999973251 - It's a FLAW, Dammit, not a Bug
8.9999163362 - It's Close Enough, We Say So
7.9999414610 - Nearly 300 Correct Opcodes
6.9999831538 - You Don't Need to Know What's Inside
5.9999835137 - Redefining the PC -- and Mathematics As Well
4.9999999021 - We Fixed It, Really
3.9998245917 - Division Considered Harmful
2.9991523619 - Why Do You Think They Call It *Floating* Point?
1.9999103517 - We're Looking for a Few Good Flaws
0.9999999998 - The Errata Inside
Everyone knows that Apple's products Just Work, and that's no different in this case. The files were moved just like you asked, and if you can't find them. well, that's not Apple's fault, is it? You don't blame the contractor who built you home when you lose your keys, do you?
In any case, you should be using Shadow Copy...er...Time Machine which would have protected you from going and losing track of your own files.
You worked a little too hard. 3.5 inch floppy disks were measured in a bizarre combination of 10-based and 2-based multiples. A "1.44 MB" disk actually had a formatted capacity of 1.44 * 1024 * 1000, or 1,474,560 bytes.
While I understand where you're coming from, the GP simply said "how much 1.44MB is". I was going on the basic idea of a megabyte as 1 byte * 1024 bytes in a KB * 1024 KB in a MB. I know the real formatted capacity of a floppy varies by filesystem.
The name of the law firm in question is Dozier Internet Law. The link is to their web page. Enjoy!
"we also are intimately familiar with the "hacking" industry"
"We maintain records of IP addresses and other information contained in log files"
"We also do not allow any links to our site without our express permission"
Well, you're screwed now. They're hackers, they have your IP, and you linked to their site.
"you should not make any copies of any part of this website in any way"
Of course, I'm in trouble too because the every act of viewing their page required me to download a copy of it. I suppose they could put their website on a CD, then mail it to everybody who calls in and asks to visit their website.
nLite can help that problem and adds a lot of 'hacks' for the install as well.
nLite can also completely frak up an XP install. One specific instance that we encountered when someone in our office used nLite was the inability for anyone who was not an administrator to use USB devices. None. The only way Windows would recognize and install the drivers for things like mice, keyboards, and flash drives was if you were an administrator. I've seen others, but this was one of the most problematic.
I very strongly recommend that nobody use it in a business setting or anywhere else you care about stability. If you want to customize an aspect of the Windows install process, do your homework and learn about it. Don't trust a black box to do it all for you.
The only downside is that the virtual machine image is time-bombed to expire in December 2007. They usually release a new version of the image a month or so before it expires, each image lasting around 6-8 months. Since you only use this for testing it shouldn't be a big deal.
The alternative is to use one of several methods that allow you to have both IE6 and IE7 installed on the same machine, but this rarely works 100%. The most common problems are user agent strings and conditional comments. These settings are stored in the registry and all versions of IE access the same set of values. This means that IE6 will use the IE7 conditional comments and user-agent giving you inaccurate results.
but I went ahead and verified with a pixel color id program (ColorPix) that they are the same color
Indeed they are, but for me at least, this illusion didn't seem as "abrupt" as others do when it's shown that the perception is false. One that always stands out to me is this one (many have probably seen it):
Without thinking too much, look at the colors of the A and B squares in this well-known image. Now, here's an animation I just made showing the truth. That's a solid, unchanging color going from A to B.
I think this a much more drastic difference than the one in TFS, but of course YMMV:)
Also, sorry for the stupid formatting, bloody lameness filter
Woah! I don't usually respond to myself (okay I do, that's beside the point) but it appears I've been able to bypass the lameness filter's "Your comment has too few characters per line" limitation. Neato:)
(Note that here SCO is listed at #88. Domains registered on the same day are presented in random order so SCO.COM may indeed be 86. Also, sorry for the stupid formatting, bloody lameness filter).
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Huh? I know it's popular around here to talk about how all America's freedoms are being stoled away by greedy, evil corporations and the dark over-government, but honestly WTF does that have to do with this?
Major sports leagues (NFL, NBA, NHL, etc) have always been pretty strict about enforcing copyright and redistribution rights for their broadcasts. They even put up a big warning like the FBI warning shown at the start of movies. It is their property I suppose so that shouldn't be a big issue of contention.
So basically, the NFL told a church that they cannot redistribute the program to their members. As far as the TV size, I think they are pretty reasonable. After all, where should the line be drawn? 55 inches? 72 inches? Movie theater screens? If you bother to RTFA instead of going on about black helicopters you'll see these gems:Aww, poor guy. Personally I think record companies, many audio artists, software companies, movie studios, and Walmart all have too much money. That doesn't mean that stealing from them is okay.The "greedy bastards"!They just don't get it. Your family and even a large handful of friends can watch it on your 100-inch screen without problems. It's when you invite the entire neighborhood that the NFL/NBA/etc will get upset. Honestly, this isn't even worth a tempestinateapot tag. More like ignorantcrybabies maybe. It certainly warrants !news.
Viruses have an annoying habit of hiding in cells where treatments can't get to them very well.
Well, kill the damn cells then! That will teach them to stop aiding and abetting the dirty viruses!
They'd better learn now that they're either with us or with the disease.
You really expected true standards compliance? I am SHOCKED! SHOCKED I tell you!
Oh come on. You and the OP should take a second and THINK before running your collective mouths off.
There is nothing wrong with using a special (standards compliant) tag to tell the browser to render differently than normal. In addition to preventing tens of thousands of websites from breaking, there are plenty of CDs and other media containing websites written over the last 10 years. Should all these become unusable just because Microsoft updated their browser? Is adding one tag really that much trouble for you?
I know it's fashionable on Slashdot to say things like "NOT STANDARDS COMPLIANT!?! HOW DARE THEY!!1" (and then get modded up for it!), however the real world requires more tact than that. Coming up with a solution like this that unifies the three Trident rendering modes (quirks, IE6, standard) is pretty elegant. It keeps real old sites from breaking. It keeps sites made in the last 7 years from breaking. Above all, it gives web authors the ability to fine-tune the way their page renders without a bunch of hacks.
Is it ideal? Obviously not, but unless you've got a time machine and can fix the problem, please shut up. Bitching about the past doesn't do anything except give people headaches. It's worth wondering if Microsoft's dedication to backwards-compatibility has anything to do with their success. It's popular around here to say "get with the times" but in the business world, that means money. The supposed "bit rot" is an artificial and man-made result of ignoring this fact.
Most companies that can only maintain a small percentage of the market place fold. I suspect that the reason Mac hasn't is due to the exceedingly large size and growth of the consumer PC business.
If you're making a profit it doesn't matter how many customers you have: you're still in the black. Sure, more customers then means more profit, but usually you hit a wall where you have to cut profits in order to stay competitive. If a company is happy with its single digit market share (what most would call a niche) then there's no reason to change anything. If you look at Apple's products (especially their audio division), I imagine they have a significantly higher average profit margin than somebody like Dell.
The Blu-Ray drive was there because Sony realized next-gen games were going to need a bit more room than DVDs could offer.
I have to call BS on this. Modern games that will play on consoles like the PS3 and Xbox 360 will easily fit on a DVD9. With over 8GB to work with you can fit pretty much anything you want (with the exception of a LOT of HD pre-rendered video, but these consoles should be able to render it realtime) with skimpy compression to aide with fast access. A good majority of Xbox games were 3-5GB in size, and ALL Xbox 360 and Wii games are under 9GB.
The only reason Sony included a BluRay drive in the PS3 is because they wanted to push the format at consumers. Joe Gamer buys a PS3 and then after a while is confronted with the choice of HD-DVD or BluRay. Because his game console already doubles as a BluRay player he figures he saves $300-400 and the decision is made. Sony wins.
They included Blu-Ray because it's a true next-gen console, and they needed next-gen storage.
If you buy that then either you're a Sony marketing droid, or you've overdosed on the Koolaid. I'm not saying it's all bad for the consumer; if you want a PS3 then you're almost getting a BluRay player for free. In a sense Sony is subsidizing the PS3 to help push BluRay, a standard practice when it comes to selling game consoles.
The PEOPLE DON'T WANT Real ID.
The only bright side to this whole thing is that 6 years is plenty long enough for this to get repealed. We're due for a new president here fairly soon and with any luck it will be somebody who won't go along with this crap.
Are these common laser pointers you find for use on PPT presentations and exercising your cat/dog without moving from the sofa? Or are these more powerful items?
My guess is that it was something like this, but it could have been something more powerful like this. Both are consumer devices, but both are still potentially damaging with sustained exposure.
If it was a consumer device I have a hard time buying it "causing pain and discomfort in his eyes for a couple of hours" so maybe I'm wrong. That or the FBI is exaggerating just a bit.
They push Vista, or they get the hose.
It puts the Vista on it's system, or else it gets the hose again?
Garry: Making a girl. Actually making a girl. Like Frankenstein... except cuter.
Wait, didn't they do that movie already? I could have sworn... of course!
Fredrick: Would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?
Igor: And you won't be angry?
Fredrick: I will *not* be angry!
Igor: Abby Someone.
Fredrick: Abby Someone. Abby Who?
Igor: Abby Normal.
Fredrick: Abby Normal.
Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name.
There you go. I'm sure Frankenstein and Abby would be quite the couple.
I fixed your edit to this discussion.
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Every fact on Wikipedia has a link back to the primary source. All you have to do is tell kids to look up the fact from the primary source and cite that, and obviously not to cite it if there is no link back or they can't find the material. Any teacher who is too intellectually lazy to take the time to understand this is by definition a bad teacher. You aren't allowed to cite Britannica in any real class either, you have to follow the exact same procedure, so there is no difference. I don't even see how someone could defend a teacher who would lie to kids about the purpose of an encyclopedia.
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Every fact on Wikipedia has a link back to the primary source {citation needed}. All you have to do is tell kids to look up the fact from the primary source and cite that {citation needed}, and obviously not to cite it if there is no link back or they can't find the material {citation needed}. Any teacher who is too intellectually lazy to take the time to understand this is by definition a bad teacher {citation needed}. You aren't allowed to cite Britannica in any real class either {citation needed}, you have to follow the exact same procedure {citation needed}, so there is no difference {citation needed}. I don't even see how someone could defend a teacher who would lie to kids about the purpose of an encyclopedia {citation needed}.
Some of the (obligatory) Pentium jokes were pretty funny. From a text file I've had laying around for quite a while:
:)
--------------
Intel's new motto: "United We Stand, Divided We Fall"
Q: How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: 1.99904274017, but that's close enough for non-technical people.
Q: What do you get when you cross a Pentium PC with a research grant?
A: A mad scientist.
Q: What's another name for the "Intel Inside" sticker they put on Pentiums?
A: The warning label.
Q: What do you call a series of FDIV instructions on a Pentium?
A1: Successive approximations.
A2: A random number generator.
Q: Complete the following word analogy: Add is to Subtract as Multiply is to:
1) Divide
2) Round
3) Random
4) All of the above
Q: What algorithm did Intel use in the Pentium's floating point divider?
A: "Life is like a box of chocolates." (Source: F. Gump of Intel)
Q: Why didn't Intel call the Pentium the 586?
A: Because they added 486 and 100 on the first Pentium and got
585.999983605.
Q: According to Intel, the Pentium conforms to the IEEE standards 754
and 854 for floating point arithmetic. If you fly in aircraft
designed using a Pentium, what is the correct pronunciation of "IEEE"?
A: Aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee!
Q: Did you hear about the new "morning after" pill being developed as a
replacement for RU-486???
A: Its called RU-Pentium. It causes the embryo to not divide correctly.
TOP TEN NEW INTEL SLOGANS FOR THE PENTIUM
9.9999973251 - It's a FLAW, Dammit, not a Bug
8.9999163362 - It's Close Enough, We Say So
7.9999414610 - Nearly 300 Correct Opcodes
6.9999831538 - You Don't Need to Know What's Inside
5.9999835137 - Redefining the PC -- and Mathematics As Well
4.9999999021 - We Fixed It, Really
3.9998245917 - Division Considered Harmful
2.9991523619 - Why Do You Think They Call It *Floating* Point?
1.9999103517 - We're Looking for a Few Good Flaws
0.9999999998 - The Errata Inside
Worth a laugh anyway
Apple must be using some discount programmers
Of course not! Don't be a troll.
Everyone knows that Apple's products Just Work, and that's no different in this case. The files were moved just like you asked, and if you can't find them. well, that's not Apple's fault, is it? You don't blame the contractor who built you home when you lose your keys, do you?
In any case, you should be using Shadow Copy...er...Time Machine which would have protected you from going and losing track of your own files.
You worked a little too hard. 3.5 inch floppy disks were measured in a bizarre combination of 10-based and 2-based multiples. A "1.44 MB" disk actually had a formatted capacity of 1.44 * 1024 * 1000, or 1,474,560 bytes.
While I understand where you're coming from, the GP simply said "how much 1.44MB is". I was going on the basic idea of a megabyte as 1 byte * 1024 bytes in a KB * 1024 KB in a MB. I know the real formatted capacity of a floppy varies by filesystem.
Slashdot certainly doesn't. I tried being clever and replying with the first 1.44MB pi (1 char = 1 byte) and got this error:
No discussion or comments found for this request. To create your own discussion, please use journals.
Kind of an odd error to get when it seems like something along the lines of "Post too large" would be more appropriate. A possible bug?
For the record, it was the first 1,509,949 digits of pi and I was quite proud of it.
The name of the law firm in question is Dozier Internet Law. The link is to their web page. Enjoy!
"we also are intimately familiar with the "hacking" industry"
"We maintain records of IP addresses and other information contained in log files"
"We also do not allow any links to our site without our express permission"
Well, you're screwed now. They're hackers, they have your IP, and you linked to their site.
"you should not make any copies of any part of this website in any way"
Of course, I'm in trouble too because the every act of viewing their page required me to download a copy of it. I suppose they could put their website on a CD, then mail it to everybody who calls in and asks to visit their website.
Morons.
Rest assured, it takes you four mouse-clicks to disable them. Every tried that under Vista?
Five clicks to change to Windows Classic or Aero Basic. This includes the click to "Apply" the new settings.
nLite can help that problem and adds a lot of 'hacks' for the install as well.
nLite can also completely frak up an XP install. One specific instance that we encountered when someone in our office used nLite was the inability for anyone who was not an administrator to use USB devices. None. The only way Windows would recognize and install the drivers for things like mice, keyboards, and flash drives was if you were an administrator. I've seen others, but this was one of the most problematic.
I very strongly recommend that nobody use it in a business setting or anywhere else you care about stability. If you want to customize an aspect of the Windows install process, do your homework and learn about it. Don't trust a black box to do it all for you.
Is there a better way to handle multiple IEs on one PC?
Yes.
The only downside is that the virtual machine image is time-bombed to expire in December 2007. They usually release a new version of the image a month or so before it expires, each image lasting around 6-8 months. Since you only use this for testing it shouldn't be a big deal.
The alternative is to use one of several methods that allow you to have both IE6 and IE7 installed on the same machine, but this rarely works 100%. The most common problems are user agent strings and conditional comments. These settings are stored in the registry and all versions of IE access the same set of values. This means that IE6 will use the IE7 conditional comments and user-agent giving you inaccurate results.
So, are you suggesting that /. should re-colorize the site? Everything shades of PINK!
Been there, done that.
In fact, there are those who still push to have the YRO theme replaced with OMG Ponies. Easier on the eyes they say.
but I went ahead and verified with a pixel color id program (ColorPix) that they are the same color
:)
Indeed they are, but for me at least, this illusion didn't seem as "abrupt" as others do when it's shown that the perception is false. One that always stands out to me is this one (many have probably seen it):
Without thinking too much, look at the colors of the A and B squares in this well-known image.
Now, here's an animation I just made showing the truth. That's a solid, unchanging color going from A to B.
I think this a much more drastic difference than the one in TFS, but of course YMMV
I remember seeing a documentary that mentioned this at least 10 years ago.
Actually, The Core came out in 2003.
They've been using this for years to translate instruction manuals.
You're not joking. It is completely worth your time to read this entire image.
Also, sorry for the stupid formatting, bloody lameness filter
:)
Woah! I don't usually respond to myself (okay I do, that's beside the point) but it appears I've been able to bypass the lameness filter's "Your comment has too few characters per line" limitation. Neato
That's an interesting tidbit- where did you find the list of the oldest domains?
Not sure about it's source, but here's one a lot of people reference: http://theforrester.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/the-100-oldest-domains-on-the-internet/. Here's the list for the click-impaired:
(Note that here SCO is listed at #88. Domains registered on the same day are presented in random order so SCO.COM may indeed be 86. Also, sorry for the stupid formatting, bloody lameness filter).
1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM
3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM
4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM
5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM
6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM
7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM
8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM
9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM
10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM
11. 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM
12. 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM
13. 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM
14. 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM
15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM
16. 08-May-1986 GMR.COM
17. 08-May-1986 TEK.COM
18. 10-Jul-1986 FMC.COM
19. 10-Jul-1986 UB.COM
20. 05-Aug-1986 BELL-ATL.COM
21. 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM
22. 05-Aug-1986 GREBYN.COM
23. 05-Aug-1986 ISC.COM
24. 05-Aug-1986 NSC.COM
25. 05-Aug-1986 STARGATE.COM
26. 02-Sep-1986 BOEING.COM
27. 18-Sep-1986 ITCORP.COM
28. 29-Sep-1986 SIEMENS.COM
29. 18-Oct-1986 PYRAMID.COM
30. 27-Oct-1986 ALPHACDC.COM
31. 27-Oct-1986 BDM.COM
32. 27-Oct-1986 FLUKE.COM
33. 27-Oct-1986 INMET.COM
34. 27-Oct-1986 KESMAI.COM
35. 7-Oct-1986 MENTOR.COM
36. 7-Oct-1986 NEC.COM
37. 27-Oct-1986 RAY.COM
38. 27-Oct-1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM
39. 27-Oct-1986 VORTEX.COM
40. 05-Nov-1986 ALCOA.COM
41. 05-Nov-1986 GTE.COM
42. 17-Nov-1986 ADOBE.COM
43. 17-Nov-1986 AMD.COM
44. 17-Nov-1986 DAS.COM
45. 17-Nov-1986 DATA-IO.COM
46. 17-Nov-1986 OCTOPUS.COM
47. 17-Nov-1986 PORTAL.COM
48. 17-Nov-1986 TELTONE.COM
49. 11-Dec-1986 3COM.COM
50. 11-Dec-1986 AMDAHL.COM
51. 11-Dec-1986 CCUR.COM
52. 11-Dec-1986 CI.COM
53. 11-Dec-1986 CONVERGENT.COM
54. 11-Dec-1986 DG.COM
55. 11-Dec-1986 PEREGRINE.COM
56. 11-Dec-1986 QUAD.COM
57. 11-Dec-1986 SQ.COM
58. 11-Dec-1986 TANDY.COM
59. 11-Dec-1986 TTI.COM
60. 11-Dec-1986 UNISYS.COM
61. 19-Jan-1987 CGI.COM
62. 19-Jan-1987 CTS.COM
63. 19-Jan-1987 SPDCC.COM
64. 19-Feb-1987 APPLE.COM
65. 04-Mar-1987 NMA.COM
66. 04-Mar-1987 PRIME.COM
67. 04-Apr-1987 PHILIPS.COM
68. 23-Apr-1987 DATACUBE.COM
69. 23-Apr-1987 KAI.COM
May I be the first to offer condolences to Darl McBride.
:P
:)
Except that I tagged the story 'poordarl' right after it was posted
Of course I also tagged it 'poorsco' and 'makethempayforwhattheyvedone'. What can I say, I try to be descriptive