he only way to get a competitive innovative space is to slowly get rid of the generics and allow a competitive space of branded TLDs for resale..yahoo,.dunn,.yellowpages,.google,.wipo, and a hundred other branded resellers
Excuse me, but isn't that exactly what the domain names are for?
I want yahoo in my country, I go to yahoo.dk. With a yahoo TLD I'd go to dk.yahoo. This just doesn't make sense. Can anyone think of a good application for a liberated TLD marked where everybody and his dog has their own TLD?
As far as I can tell the books are still available in HTML. It's just that if you want them in PDF, then they charge you a fee. I have no beef with that.
An online survey of more than 3,500 users who saw the ads found that just 28% said they were annoying
Ok, first of all, I'm pretty sure that number is way too low. But even if it's correct, would you place a technology on your website that's proven to annoy at least 1/3 of your potential customers?
Who cares what manufacturer can deliver the largest disk. In a month the rest will follow. That does not give them the label" capacity king" in my book. On the other hand, what Hitachi has done for the microdrive after they acquired it from IBM should give them a few points. After they got in control, microdrives has increased in capacity and decreased in price. Now all they need is durability, and microdrives are set to conquer the laptop market.
So when the German company "Em Wolb" writes that in giant letters readable from earth, or the Japanese cup noodle "Sruoy Pu" produced giant letters on the sky, what will the aliens see? I mean - they see it from the other side, and read it backwards. This is the end of man kind! Prepare to be invaded by furious aliens!
Aah.. geek humor, and I'm only on my third cup of coffee.
With built-in webbrowser and email client this would be a killer gizmo if it supported WiFi. Since the device supports SD cards, you could buy a Wifi SD card, but I'd prefer if it was integrated from start.
Before anyone jumps to conclusions, let me just clarify that this is not a robocop in the "must destroy man kind" fashion. This is more like the info boxes you find in airports. Only difference is, that this one can move a bit. Coincidentially, I was at the exact spot where the picture was taken last month, and I have no doubts that the robot can move around there, since the place is pretty flat. But I was also walking the streets of Hong Kong, and there's no way this robot can move, let alone navigate, on the busy streets of HK. I reckon this will pay visits to schools and walk around in the school yard answering questions.
This is a very bad idea! The best source for antivirus and spyware-removal software is on the internet. To me, it looks like they're burring the problem instead of fixing it.
Now, here's my humble suggestion for a better solution. If a PC is identified as a compromised machine, it's added to a pool of machines that all gets a special IP and special DNS servers (I assume they run DHCP - if they don't they should). Now, the new DNS servers resolve all addresses to a special page dedicated to downloading anti-spyware and virus checkers. Maybe even an online scanner like housecall.
So, when Joe Luser fires up his web browser, he reaches this page no matter what he types. Once he's machine is cleaned, he will be removed from the compromised pool.
Heh - someone give this guy a +1 funny. And I'm not being sarcastic - I think you have a valid point. And there are many like you who are there for the information and nothing else. When I perform at tradeshows, I always respect a no. There are plenty of people who needs a break and would like to see some magic anyway.
If you don't mind, I'll quote your last paragraph in our (the trade show magicians) next newsletter to remind them, that not everybody wants to see them.
There's a perfectly good reason why a webcrawler doesn't (and shouldn't) crawl the backend databases. I have customers with items and prices in their database. They update that on a daily basis. I have customers that provide directory solutions. We update that information on a daily basis. Now, imagine the turmoil that will arise, when people find outdated items using their favorite search engine which crawls the database once in a blue moon. Nuff said. Bad idead.
I've seen my share of different tradeshows. And by different I mean all possible (and unpossible) types of trade shows. I'm a magician with trade shows as my speciality. That means, I've made it my business to make entertainment suitable for the tradeshows. And, I have to say this, be it a geeky tradeshow about the newest gadgets or a lingerie show about sexy underwear, they all look alike . After a while, I never see the products (unless I'm at one of the two types mentioned above;) - all I see is the same kind of booths - the same setup - the same people. I agree with the article that the general idea of trade shows needs to be upgraded to the new millenium. The only difference I see now and 10 years ago is, that the women hired as eye catchers are wearing lesser clothes. Other than that, it's status quo.
This is a great little feature. Not that I plan to burn great images on the disk. Rather, I plan to burn the contents of the disk - maybe just do an ls -lR | burnlabel. I don't use jewelcases for my CD's or DVD's. They take up too much space. I just keep them in sheets in a binder. The downside is, that the small slip of paper telling me what's on the disk has a limited life span (i.e. I lose it somewhere). This little gimmick will rid me of that problem by fixing the contents to the disk.
What I'd really like to see was a free linux distro among the tested versions. I have no beef with commercial linux distributions, but I'll never use one myself. It would be much easier for me to spread the word of the wonders of linux, if there was a free linux that would score as high as these two apparently does.
What I see here is two windows clones based on linux. If linux is so much better than windows, why try so hard to behave like windows?
So, what I'd really like to see is a Linux version that's easy to install, works out of the box, and stands on its own two legs. To the best of my knowledge, there's no such distro yet. Or what? I'd love it for someone to tell me that I'm wrong and point me in the right direction
In other news:
80% of the raw material used to manufacture a PC is pure water! Water that can be recycled! Compare this to the manufacturing of a car, where 20% is water, you got yourself a very enviromentally friendly piece of equipment.
Tree huggers unite! Buy a PC and save the environment.
In conclusion, numbers and statistics are in the eye of the beholder.
There's nothing indicating that this is real. "An anonymous whistleblower"? What does that mean? He got it from whistleblower392@hotmail.com from a public library IP?
I'd like to see the headers of the email. If the email originates from SCO then I believe it's authentic (judging from Received: lines rather than the From: field). If it's from a dial-up or public IP, I'm pretty sure it's fake. Of course, there's another posibility. OSI know who the whistleblower is, but they claim they don't so they can't be forced to reveal his identity in court. After all, they're the good guys.
This seems like it was written during the dot-com bubble. Quote from the article:
However, that person may also have very clear expectations that the only projects they will ever work on are open source projects.
This is simply not true. Being an open source developer is not a religion. It just means that you believe in the idea. There's absolutely no problem for an open source developer to make closed source for a living. And, more importantly, open source developers (and the comunity) has no beef with that.
Remember - we need to eat as well. While open source gives us satisfaction, closed source gives us our daily bread.
This is very good comment, and in fact an area of very high interest. A few years ago I attended a conference in Holland where a military researcher showed how it, in theory, was possible to give humans extraordinary vision capabilities such as nigh vision, X-ray vision, heat vision etc. Very very exciting lecture.
My first reaction was "WHY YOU LITTLE!!!111" but now I've thought about it, it's okay. After all, he's just buying a little peace of mind. Surely, we all know that SCO is wrong in their claims, but that obviously hasn't stopped them from continuing their quest, and no one can tell for sure that they wont win the battle. The court moves in mysterious way.
I'd like to see linux on the desktop as much as the next guy, but I really don't see why this program, albeit great, helps.
Linux on the desktop will not happen until my mother can install linux. She can install Win XP, but she's not even close to installing a standard Debian.
Since Audacity is cross platform, it really doesn't give linux any edge at all.
Anyone interested in Audacity should pay their Audacity Wiki! homepage a visit.
Audacity is open source, cross platform and it actually works. If you haven't tried it yet, now is the time.
From the article: ... We then walked across the street to a store and purchased aluminum foil. .
"It's a conspiracy! They bugged my money! Quick - get some TINFOIL!" I wouldn't be surpriced if he used the rest of that roll to make a tinfoil hat and put in on his head.
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he only way to get a competitive innovative space is to slowly get rid of the generics and allow a competitive space of branded TLDs for resale. .yahoo, .dunn, .yellowpages, .google, .wipo, and a hundred other branded resellers
Excuse me, but isn't that exactly what the domain names are for? I want yahoo in my country, I go to yahoo.dk. With a yahoo TLD I'd go to dk.yahoo. This just doesn't make sense. Can anyone think of a good application for a liberated TLD marked where everybody and his dog has their own TLD?
As far as I can tell the books are still available in HTML. It's just that if you want them in PDF, then they charge you a fee. I have no beef with that.
I hope they don't get off on some technicality like no your Honor, I wasn't asking for a BJ, I just said "Give me Head"
An online survey of more than 3,500 users who saw the ads found that just 28% said they were annoying
Ok, first of all, I'm pretty sure that number is way too low. But even if it's correct, would you place a technology on your website that's proven to annoy at least 1/3 of your potential customers?
Site is already slashdottet. Here's Google's cache of the document.
So - how are the plans going with implementing a slashdot cache?
Who cares what manufacturer can deliver the largest disk. In a month the rest will follow. That does not give them the label" capacity king" in my book. On the other hand, what Hitachi has done for the microdrive after they acquired it from IBM should give them a few points. After they got in control, microdrives has increased in capacity and decreased in price. Now all they need is durability, and microdrives are set to conquer the laptop market.
So when the German company "Em Wolb" writes that in giant letters readable from earth, or the Japanese cup noodle "Sruoy Pu" produced giant letters on the sky, what will the aliens see? I mean - they see it from the other side, and read it backwards. This is the end of man kind! Prepare to be invaded by furious aliens!
Aah.. geek humor, and I'm only on my third cup of coffee.
With built-in webbrowser and email client this would be a killer gizmo if it supported WiFi. Since the device supports SD cards, you could buy a Wifi SD card, but I'd prefer if it was integrated from start.
Before anyone jumps to conclusions, let me just clarify that this is not a robocop in the "must destroy man kind" fashion. This is more like the info boxes you find in airports. Only difference is, that this one can move a bit. Coincidentially, I was at the exact spot where the picture was taken last month, and I have no doubts that the robot can move around there, since the place is pretty flat. But I was also walking the streets of Hong Kong, and there's no way this robot can move, let alone navigate, on the busy streets of HK. I reckon this will pay visits to schools and walk around in the school yard answering questions.
This is a very bad idea! The best source for antivirus and spyware-removal software is on the internet. To me, it looks like they're burring the problem instead of fixing it.
Now, here's my humble suggestion for a better solution. If a PC is identified as a compromised machine, it's added to a pool of machines that all gets a special IP and special DNS servers (I assume they run DHCP - if they don't they should). Now, the new DNS servers resolve all addresses to a special page dedicated to downloading anti-spyware and virus checkers. Maybe even an online scanner like housecall. So, when Joe Luser fires up his web browser, he reaches this page no matter what he types. Once he's machine is cleaned, he will be removed from the compromised pool.
Here's some more information.
Heh - someone give this guy a +1 funny. And I'm not being sarcastic - I think you have a valid point. And there are many like you who are there for the information and nothing else. When I perform at tradeshows, I always respect a no. There are plenty of people who needs a break and would like to see some magic anyway.
If you don't mind, I'll quote your last paragraph in our (the trade show magicians) next newsletter to remind them, that not everybody wants to see them.
There's a perfectly good reason why a webcrawler doesn't (and shouldn't) crawl the backend databases. I have customers with items and prices in their database. They update that on a daily basis. I have customers that provide directory solutions. We update that information on a daily basis. Now, imagine the turmoil that will arise, when people find outdated items using their favorite search engine which crawls the database once in a blue moon. Nuff said. Bad idead.
I've seen my share of different tradeshows. And by different I mean all possible (and unpossible) types of trade shows. I'm a magician with trade shows as my speciality. That means, I've made it my business to make entertainment suitable for the tradeshows. And, I have to say this, be it a geeky tradeshow about the newest gadgets or a lingerie show about sexy underwear, they all look alike . After a while, I never see the products (unless I'm at one of the two types mentioned above ;) - all I see is the same kind of booths - the same setup - the same people. I agree with the article that the general idea of trade shows needs to be upgraded to the new millenium. The only difference I see now and 10 years ago is, that the women hired as eye catchers are wearing lesser clothes. Other than that, it's status quo.
This is a great little feature. Not that I plan to burn great images on the disk. Rather, I plan to burn the contents of the disk - maybe just do an ls -lR | burnlabel. I don't use jewelcases for my CD's or DVD's. They take up too much space. I just keep them in sheets in a binder. The downside is, that the small slip of paper telling me what's on the disk has a limited life span (i.e. I lose it somewhere). This little gimmick will rid me of that problem by fixing the contents to the disk.
What I'd really like to see was a free linux distro among the tested versions. I have no beef with commercial linux distributions, but I'll never use one myself. It would be much easier for me to spread the word of the wonders of linux, if there was a free linux that would score as high as these two apparently does.
What I see here is two windows clones based on linux. If linux is so much better than windows, why try so hard to behave like windows?
So, what I'd really like to see is a Linux version that's easy to install, works out of the box, and stands on its own two legs. To the best of my knowledge, there's no such distro yet. Or what? I'd love it for someone to tell me that I'm wrong and point me in the right direction
In other news:
80% of the raw material used to manufacture a PC is pure water! Water that can be recycled! Compare this to the manufacturing of a car, where 20% is water, you got yourself a very enviromentally friendly piece of equipment.
Tree huggers unite! Buy a PC and save the environment.
In conclusion, numbers and statistics are in the eye of the beholder.
There's nothing indicating that this is real. "An anonymous whistleblower"? What does that mean? He got it from whistleblower392@hotmail.com from a public library IP?
I'd like to see the headers of the email. If the email originates from SCO then I believe it's authentic (judging from Received: lines rather than the From: field). If it's from a dial-up or public IP, I'm pretty sure it's fake. Of course, there's another posibility. OSI know who the whistleblower is, but they claim they don't so they can't be forced to reveal his identity in court. After all, they're the good guys.
This seems like it was written during the dot-com bubble. Quote from the article: However, that person may also have very clear expectations that the only projects they will ever work on are open source projects. This is simply not true. Being an open source developer is not a religion. It just means that you believe in the idea. There's absolutely no problem for an open source developer to make closed source for a living. And, more importantly, open source developers (and the comunity) has no beef with that.
Remember - we need to eat as well. While open source gives us satisfaction, closed source gives us our daily bread.
This is very good comment, and in fact an area of very high interest. A few years ago I attended a conference in Holland where a military researcher showed how it, in theory, was possible to give humans extraordinary vision capabilities such as nigh vision, X-ray vision, heat vision etc. Very very exciting lecture.
My first reaction was "WHY YOU LITTLE!!!111" but now I've thought about it, it's okay. After all, he's just buying a little peace of mind. Surely, we all know that SCO is wrong in their claims, but that obviously hasn't stopped them from continuing their quest, and no one can tell for sure that they wont win the battle. The court moves in mysterious way.
I'd like to see linux on the desktop as much as the next guy, but I really don't see why this program, albeit great, helps. Linux on the desktop will not happen until my mother can install linux. She can install Win XP, but she's not even close to installing a standard Debian. Since Audacity is cross platform, it really doesn't give linux any edge at all.
Anyone interested in Audacity should pay their Audacity Wiki! homepage a visit. Audacity is open source, cross platform and it actually works. If you haven't tried it yet, now is the time.
From the article: ... We then walked across the street to a store and purchased aluminum foil. .
"It's a conspiracy! They bugged my money! Quick - get some TINFOIL!" I wouldn't be surpriced if he used the rest of that roll to make a tinfoil hat and put in on his head.