I've been in the subway and I could hear the music some guy is playing on his earbuds. 5 feet away.
So when I ask why he plays it so loud, he answers: "Because i can't hear it otherwise".
And the problem is that in the discos (or whatever they're called now), they play the music too loud, so much that you have to SHOUT so you can hear anything. Has anyone gone to those parties and measure the decibels there? (or course it's much cheaper to play the music at deafening levels than having speakers distributed over the place)
So it turns into a vicious circle, you can't hear so you pump up the volume.:-/
I think the best tech to prevent hearing loss is EDUCATION. If the kids want to become deaf, at least we can say we DID warn them.
Problems with a.xxx domain: 1.Who decides what is required to go under.xxx (and what happens if someone disaggrees)
I think the best case here would be a commitee deciding when a site is ALLOWED to have a non-xxx domain. Use xxx by default.
2.What do you do with a site like, hypothetically, www.hotgirls.co.uk (made up name)? Do you create www.hotgirls.xxx.uk and force them to move? Or do you move it to www.hotgirls.xxx? (and then what about www.hotgirls.com? where does that go?).xxx.uk would be perfectly acceptable, filters can be used for.xxx.??
3.How do you deal with people having to find the sites once they move?
Header("Location: newsite.xxx");
4.How do you deal with something like (again made up) hotgirls.vhost.net or www.someisp.net/~hotgirls/?
I can bet that there would be new www.someisp.xxx domains from your ISP. If not, get a.xxx domain. If your porn site doesn't generate enough revenue to get a domain, you must be doing something wrong.
5.Who polices the internet looking for sites that are breaking the rules (and who pays for that)
Anyone who can file a complaint via e-mail to the ICANN. They're the ones dealing with the domains, aren't they?
6.How do you enforce.xxx accross national borders?
The same way the US has been pushing unilateral commerce laws. Should be easy. Penalize countries with some fine whatever if they don't follow the laws. They've been doing that with copyrights and piracy stuff.
7.What do you do when decides to block.xxx? (could happen, especially if the people running things are in the same camp as the "all TV must be edited before it goes on air to make sure no "wardrobe malfunctions" can happen" people)
When *who*? Please rephrase.
8.Who is going to pay for all this? (the costs for everyone to get a.xxx domain for example)
The website owner, who else? he's the one making money!.xxx domains should have the same price as.com domains. Do you have an idea how many subdomains a porn website can have? My cousin told me the other day that he found about 10 pages of google with different search terms, all pointing to the same website. I did a check and they all had the same IP. Those websites had domains like term1-term2-term3-etc-something.com. So obviously they had money to register all those domains.
9.Having a.xxx domain will make it even easier for payment services like paypal and others to block adult sites (which is bad if you run an adult site operator that needs to do paymeny processing)
Complain to paypal and others. They're the ones blocking.
10.Having a.xxx domain makes it easier for the anti-porn crusaders of this world to go after porn sites.
You mean those anti-porn crusaders who are AGAINST the.xxx domain? Or those who just want effective blocking tools to protect their children?
10.B. I think that a.kids domain should be created specifically for sites that are kid-friendly. For example, LEGO could have www.lego.kids. Barbie could have www.barbie.kids.
Thank you, but I doubt sites like the IEEE or the ACM would like to open a.kids domain. Dude, you're treating 16 or 17-yo's like preschool children. When I was 16 I liked to learn high tech stuff, and while I accept that there are lots of underage/.'ers who love porn, there are those who don't - and sometimes teenagers need access to adult-themed information (like information on cults or war), just not porn. Or tell me, how about having slashdot.kids? Eew.
My point is, why the F*** are you wanting to make the NON-PORN-OWNERS (including non-profit organizations) pay for an extra-domain because something the porn-owners do? Porn is a VERY SPECIFIC commercial business, representative eno
I'm glad the senate is worrying about my ability to quickly locate porn.
This is one of the most filled-with-BS comments i've ever heard in my life.
First of all, this proposal was made by TWO SPECIFIC SENATORS.
Second, if these senators didn't propose this, would the debt disminish? No, it's a COMPLETELY UNRELATED thing.
Third, you don't know these particular senators' stance on the debt.
Fourth, the congress discusses laws and votes in favor or against. Voting for an initiative doesn't make congressmen vote against another.
Fifth, searching for porn would be a LOT EASIER with the.xxx domains (have you thought about how many different domains one single porn site has?). Classification is one of the factors that make searches more effective. It also prevents you from dealing with scam sites that require you to use a long distance dialer and all that crap. Also, filtering "*.xxx" is much easier than filtering (insert very complex regex with lots of nasty words on it).
Sixth, do you realize how much money is spent in porn? If young children find porn, they might like it and later spend your precious american dollars in (either national or overseas) crap, instead of using it for better stuff like cleaning up the planet?
Seventh, the senators are NOT proposing this to limit your ability to search for porn, they're doing it so nobody searches for one thing and ends up with porn on his web searches. Don't children matter? I know it's a cliché saying "think of the children", but let me tell you, if a parent is having trouble with SPAM, do you think he'll be able to block his kid from accessing porn from his computer?
Eigth, there's a lot of porn SPAM arriving to our e-mails daily. Don't you think that forcing porn sites to have a.xxx domain would help at least a bit against the spam which we all dread?
Finally, if you don't agree with what a senator says / does, why don't you vote (or tell your parents to vote) against him?
The GP poster never claimed Firefox passes the ACID2 test. But at least they're working on it, and the current rendering is 100 times better than IE7's blood-stained test.
It's not supported in PHP4. Sure, there are the extensions, but they're NOT installed by default in common server configs, so you'd have to do it by hand, and that's SLOOOOOOWWW.
Well, I think the REAL question is whether cancer is caused / accelerated by the american eating habits and way-of-life (i.e. tons and tons of chemicals, fertilizers, and God-knows-what in your food and beverages).
The grandparent is an example of a recursive statement.
stop talking about this thing called "recursion" that makes me yell at you to stop talking about this thing called "recursion" that makes me yell at you to stop talking about this thing called "recursion" that makes me yell at you to stop talking about this thing called "recursion" that makes me yell at you to...
There are many fields in computing and general science that haven't been explored yet or are just beginning:
Sprite-based video compression, speech recognition which doesn't suck, 3D (holographic) video, motorless robotics (artificial muscles), brain-machine interfaces (there's a working prototype of a brain-operated keyboard), solid-state storage (aka the end of moving parts in computers), hundreds of nanotech discoveries, efficient power generation / storage (boosts in solar cells, efficient hydrogen cells), ultra-efficient home lighting (like with LED's), holographic "touchable" aids for computing a-la Johnny Mnemonic / Minority Report, AI-based audio compression, (sampling the instruments in real-time and generating the notes / effects, or phonemes/variations for speech and songs), photo-realistic computer animated characters which don't suck in the audio sync, the Open Source desktop era which i'm still waiting for...
A simple example of the "next big thing": Do-it-yourself cartoons. A program where you specify certain character designs (or patterns), taking some samples from existing cartoon or anime characters, and specify: "I want this nose, these eyes, a mixture between this and this face", male-female, measurement, body height from 3-heads tall (chibi) to 9 heads-tall characters (ultra-atheltic)...
Or to go to a much simpler example, automatic shading / coloring algorithms. You specify certain spots or lines with certain colors in an area (a drawing you need to colorize), and the paint program interpolates them using AI algorithms, creating a perfect shading for you. That'd render the famous dodge/burn photoshop technique OBSOLETE.
Or how about this? You draw a sketch with paper and pencil and the program creates a 3D model for you, without needing to tweak a mesh like today's 3D drawing programs...
Now combine that with VR-interfaces, and you'll realize that we're still in the stone age in CG art, not to mention computing as a whole. Perhaps we might need another VR or graphics engine-based computing language to do stuff like this.
IMHO, software development becomes the greatest lag in technology. In a couple of years we may already have increased bandwidth capacity but software development keeps stalling, as it depends on something which is very expensive: Work time.
The problem with people who think "there's no next big thing" is that they've forgotten the meaning of "revolution". There are many revolutions to come in computing. It's just that no one has pictured them yet.
Many people, while not Luddites, are not as tied to technology as many Slashdottes and 20-somethings.
Your logic is flawed. You only took a snapshot of our current day, but fail to see the trends.
Remember the times when the Walkman was an expensive gadget? It wasn't long until it took off. MP3-CD players are inexpensive to get, computers are pretty popular right now (remember you don't need a Pentium 3200 to burn / rip a CD), and cybercafes are available to anyone at $1 / hr.
Also remember that today's 20-somethings grow up and technology comes cheaper. The iPod (and its clones) are here to stay.
On the other hand, if I see one advertisment in Guild Wars...
Magic Boots +1 (sponsored by Reebok) - 1000GP Chain mail +1 (sponsored by Adidas) - 2000GP Regeneration potion (sponsored by Novartis) - 50,000 GP Screwing up your game experience with ads like this one - Priceless.
I really hope this article exposes Blizzard as the greedy bastards they are. Just like the RIAA, they want to have control on everything. Who the **** cares if you use a programmable keyboard or not? Don't you know what carpal tunnel is?
As long as someone is in front of the PC, he shouldn't be banned for botting. A bot is something which plays the game WHEN YOU'RE NOT PRESENT.
Screw them. I really hate evil companies, and this just proved how evil they are. One potential customer less.
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I've been in the subway and I could hear the music some guy is playing on his earbuds. 5 feet away.
:-/
So when I ask why he plays it so loud, he answers: "Because i can't hear it otherwise".
And the problem is that in the discos (or whatever they're called now), they play the music too loud, so much that you have to SHOUT so you can hear anything. Has anyone gone to those parties and measure the decibels there? (or course it's much cheaper to play the music at deafening levels than having speakers distributed over the place)
So it turns into a vicious circle, you can't hear so you pump up the volume.
I think the best tech to prevent hearing loss is EDUCATION. If the kids want to become deaf, at least we can say we DID warn them.
Problems with a .xxx domain: .xxx (and what happens if someone disaggrees)
.xxx.uk would be perfectly acceptable, filters can be used for .xxx.??
.xxx domain. If your porn site doesn't generate enough revenue to get a domain, you must be doing something wrong.
.xxx accross national borders?
.xxx? (could happen, especially if the people running things are in the same camp as the "all TV must be edited before it goes on air to make sure no "wardrobe malfunctions" can happen" people)
.xxx domain for example)
.xxx domains should have the same price as .com domains. Do you have an idea how many subdomains a porn website can have? My cousin told me the other day that he found about 10 pages of google with different search terms, all pointing to the same website. I did a check and they all had the same IP. Those websites had domains like term1-term2-term3-etc-something.com. So obviously they had money to register all those domains.
.xxx domain will make it even easier for payment services like paypal and others to block adult sites (which is bad if you run an adult site operator that needs to do paymeny processing)
.xxx domain makes it easier for the anti-porn crusaders of this world to go after porn sites.
.xxx domain? Or those who just want effective blocking tools to protect their children?
.kids domain should be created specifically for sites that are kid-friendly. For example, LEGO could have www.lego.kids. Barbie could have www.barbie.kids.
.kids domain. Dude, you're treating 16 or 17-yo's like preschool children. When I was 16 I liked to learn high tech stuff, and while I accept that there are lots of underage /.'ers who love porn, there are those who don't - and sometimes teenagers need access to adult-themed information (like information on cults or war), just not porn. Or tell me, how about having slashdot.kids? Eew.
1.Who decides what is required to go under
I think the best case here would be a commitee deciding when a site is ALLOWED to have a non-xxx domain. Use xxx by default.
2.What do you do with a site like, hypothetically, www.hotgirls.co.uk (made up name)? Do you create www.hotgirls.xxx.uk and force them to move? Or do you move it to www.hotgirls.xxx? (and then what about www.hotgirls.com? where does that go?)
3.How do you deal with people having to find the sites once they move?
Header("Location: newsite.xxx");
4.How do you deal with something like (again made up) hotgirls.vhost.net or www.someisp.net/~hotgirls/?
I can bet that there would be new www.someisp.xxx domains from your ISP. If not, get a
5.Who polices the internet looking for sites that are breaking the rules (and who pays for that)
Anyone who can file a complaint via e-mail to the ICANN. They're the ones dealing with the domains, aren't they?
6.How do you enforce
The same way the US has been pushing unilateral commerce laws. Should be easy. Penalize countries with some fine whatever if they don't follow the laws. They've been doing that with copyrights and piracy stuff.
7.What do you do when decides to block
When *who*? Please rephrase.
8.Who is going to pay for all this? (the costs for everyone to get a
The website owner, who else? he's the one making money!
9.Having a
Complain to paypal and others. They're the ones blocking.
10.Having a
You mean those anti-porn crusaders who are AGAINST the
10.B. I think that a
Thank you, but I doubt sites like the IEEE or the ACM would like to open a
My point is, why the F*** are you wanting to make the NON-PORN-OWNERS (including non-profit organizations) pay for an extra-domain because something the porn-owners do? Porn is a VERY SPECIFIC commercial business, representative eno
You people really need to get over the "first amendment + internet = whatever we want" thing.
:D At last some sanity in this flame-filled story. Count me as your fan.
Bravo!
I'm glad the senate is worrying about my ability to quickly locate porn.
.xxx domains (have you thought about how many different domains one single porn site has?). Classification is one of the factors that make searches more effective. It also prevents you from dealing with scam sites that require you to use a long distance dialer and all that crap. Also, filtering "*.xxx" is much easier than filtering (insert very complex regex with lots of nasty words on it).
.xxx domain would help at least a bit against the spam which we all dread?
This is one of the most filled-with-BS comments i've ever heard in my life.
First of all, this proposal was made by TWO SPECIFIC SENATORS.
Second, if these senators didn't propose this, would the debt disminish? No, it's a COMPLETELY UNRELATED thing.
Third, you don't know these particular senators' stance on the debt.
Fourth, the congress discusses laws and votes in favor or against. Voting for an initiative doesn't make congressmen vote against another.
Fifth, searching for porn would be a LOT EASIER with the
Sixth, do you realize how much money is spent in porn? If young children find porn, they might like it and later spend your precious american dollars in (either national or overseas) crap, instead of using it for better stuff like cleaning up the planet?
Seventh, the senators are NOT proposing this to limit your ability to search for porn, they're doing it so nobody searches for one thing and ends up with porn on his web searches. Don't children matter? I know it's a cliché saying "think of the children", but let me tell you, if a parent is having trouble with SPAM, do you think he'll be able to block his kid from accessing porn from his computer?
Eigth, there's a lot of porn SPAM arriving to our e-mails daily. Don't you think that forcing porn sites to have a
Finally, if you don't agree with what a senator says / does, why don't you vote (or tell your parents to vote) against him?
Would the U.S. Government then try and block non .XXX porn sites?
They recently blocked overseas gambling, why not block overseas porn?
Can anyone explain me why tagging a website as "porn" (in the domain) could be declared inconstitutional?
Flames are bright, aren't they? :P
The GP poster never claimed Firefox passes the ACID2 test. But at least they're working on it, and the current rendering is 100 times better than IE7's blood-stained test.
Pics please! =^_^=
Bleh. What's wrong with XML and XSL?
It's not supported in PHP4. Sure, there are the extensions, but they're NOT installed by default in common server configs, so you'd have to do it by hand, and that's SLOOOOOOWWW.
Well, I think the REAL question is whether cancer is caused / accelerated by the american eating habits and way-of-life (i.e. tons and tons of chemicals, fertilizers, and God-knows-what in your food and beverages).
Ironically, "chile" is a mexican innuendo for... well you can figure it out :P
But seriously. There is no nudity.
So that means that 90% of striptease is NOT sexual? We should call it "strip-something" then.
If the DRM could be bios or jumper-disabled, even better.
This one's an ABSOLUTELY MUST-READ for those who don't know what template engines are:
e ngine
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/beyond-template-
The grandparent is an example of a recursive statement.
...
stop talking about this thing called "recursion" that makes me yell at you to stop talking about this thing called "recursion" that makes me yell at you to stop talking about this thing called "recursion" that makes me yell at you to stop talking about this thing called "recursion" that makes me yell at you to
There are many fields in computing and general science that haven't been explored yet or are just beginning:
Sprite-based video compression, speech recognition which doesn't suck, 3D (holographic) video, motorless robotics (artificial muscles), brain-machine interfaces (there's a working prototype of a brain-operated keyboard), solid-state storage (aka the end of moving parts in computers), hundreds of nanotech discoveries, efficient power generation / storage (boosts in solar cells, efficient hydrogen cells), ultra-efficient home lighting (like with LED's), holographic "touchable" aids for computing a-la Johnny Mnemonic / Minority Report, AI-based audio compression, (sampling the instruments in real-time and generating the notes / effects, or phonemes/variations for speech and songs), photo-realistic computer animated characters which don't suck in the audio sync, the Open Source desktop era which i'm still waiting for...
A simple example of the "next big thing": Do-it-yourself cartoons. A program where you specify certain character designs (or patterns), taking some samples from existing cartoon or anime characters, and specify: "I want this nose, these eyes, a mixture between this and this face", male-female, measurement, body height from 3-heads tall (chibi) to 9 heads-tall characters (ultra-atheltic)...
Or to go to a much simpler example, automatic shading / coloring algorithms. You specify certain spots or lines with certain colors in an area (a drawing you need to colorize), and the paint program interpolates them using AI algorithms, creating a perfect shading for you. That'd render the famous dodge/burn photoshop technique OBSOLETE.
Or how about this? You draw a sketch with paper and pencil and the program creates a 3D model for you, without needing to tweak a mesh like today's 3D drawing programs...
Now combine that with VR-interfaces, and you'll realize that we're still in the stone age in CG art, not to mention computing as a whole. Perhaps we might need another VR or graphics engine-based computing language to do stuff like this.
IMHO, software development becomes the greatest lag in technology. In a couple of years we may already have increased bandwidth capacity but software development keeps stalling, as it depends on something which is very expensive: Work time.
The problem with people who think "there's no next big thing" is that they've forgotten the meaning of "revolution". There are many revolutions to come in computing. It's just that no one has pictured them yet.
does it get you banned in WoW? :P
And I nominate Jupix for the next slashdot cliché!
Votes please?
I looked at the screenshots, but where's the "Time for slashdot!" prompt?
Many people, while not Luddites, are not as tied to technology as many Slashdottes and 20-somethings.
Your logic is flawed. You only took a snapshot of our current day, but fail to see the trends.
Remember the times when the Walkman was an expensive gadget? It wasn't long until it took off. MP3-CD players are inexpensive to get, computers are pretty popular right now (remember you don't need a Pentium 3200 to burn / rip a CD), and cybercafes are available to anyone at $1 / hr.
Also remember that today's 20-somethings grow up and technology comes cheaper. The iPod (and its clones) are here to stay.
Ironically enough, Open Office is more compatible with old MS Office formats than modern MS Office is
Borland's Turbo Assembler was more compatible with MS' Macro Assembler than Macro Assembler itself.
Nothing new under the sun...
On the other hand, if I see one advertisment in Guild Wars...
Magic Boots +1 (sponsored by Reebok) - 1000GP
Chain mail +1 (sponsored by Adidas) - 2000GP
Regeneration potion (sponsored by Novartis) - 50,000 GP
Screwing up your game experience with ads like this one - Priceless.
It even has a cute tortoise as the logo :)
Solitaire! :D
I really hope this article exposes Blizzard as the greedy bastards they are. Just like the RIAA, they want to have control on everything. Who the **** cares if you use a programmable keyboard or not? Don't you know what carpal tunnel is?
As long as someone is in front of the PC, he shouldn't be banned for botting. A bot is something which plays the game WHEN YOU'RE NOT PRESENT.
Screw them. I really hate evil companies, and this just proved how evil they are. One potential customer less.