I mean, come on. This event is clearly on the same level of the Madonna--whazzisname wedding. I want tabloid photographers hanging out of helicopters! Instead we get Hemos and a handycam. If I didn't know better, I'd think entertainers were more important than geeks.
One distinct problem this initiative could solve is the deliberate "typo" domains. I would not feel comfortable leaving a six-year old to explore online by themselves when they have a good chance of ending up at whitehouse.com instead of whitehouse.gov.
Of course there is no universal-agreed-upon "guaranteed safe way" for net access for children. But a.kids.us domain provides more than a "warm, fuzzy feeling", it provides a voluntary measure of protection from being accidently exposed to undesirable content. This legislation is non-coercive and voluntary on both sides (producer and consumer), and I for one would like to see more government programs follow that model.
I agree wholeheartedly. Get the application process out of the way now, get into a school, then defer your enrollment if you feel you need the time off. Most schools will let you do this at least a year, and my school even encouraged it when I matriculated (they had overenrolled).
I wish I had done this. I took a year off between undergrad and graduate school, and found that I better appreciated the academic environment after working for a year.
How do object databases perform as data warehouses? Intuitively, it seems like OO would not natively be efficient at aggregating data, and would be forced to rely on application-level code for any analytical processing. Or am I missing something?
The key reason for the lack of "killer applications" in XML is that it most immediately benefits information consumers, not producers. XML is most effective at bridging gaps between dissimilar systems. Slashdot's XML usage for the slashboxes are an excellent example. XML makes it possible for Slashdot to offer foreign information in its native audience without having to produce that information internally.
An information producer doesn't get any immediate gain by providing their information in XML. The gain comes when a suitable number of consumer sites have taken advantage of the XML data the producer's supplied, thereby generating traffice returning to the producer. But just the fact that I've offered my entire site's information as XML doesn't profit me at all. The gain is dependent upon consumer sites using that XML information.
I'm sure if I'd been more interested in Economics while an undergraduate I'd be able to pepper this post with impressive sounding econ term. Consider yourself lucky.
It was also nice of them to break the font-resize function, so that we can't change it to a readable size. But to be fair, they broke it in both Netscape and IE.
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I mean, come on. This event is clearly on the same level of the Madonna--whazzisname wedding. I want tabloid photographers hanging out of helicopters! Instead we get Hemos and a handycam. If I didn't know better, I'd think entertainers were more important than geeks.
Congratulations Rob. Treat her right.
One distinct problem this initiative could solve is the deliberate "typo" domains. I would not feel comfortable leaving a six-year old to explore online by themselves when they have a good chance of ending up at whitehouse.com instead of whitehouse.gov.
.kids.us domain provides more than a "warm, fuzzy feeling", it provides a voluntary measure of protection from being accidently exposed to undesirable content.
Of course there is no universal-agreed-upon "guaranteed safe way" for net access for children. But a
This legislation is non-coercive and voluntary on both sides (producer and consumer), and I for one would like to see more government programs follow that model.
I agree wholeheartedly. Get the application process out of the way now, get into a school, then defer your enrollment if you feel you need the time off. Most schools will let you do this at least a year, and my school even encouraged it when I matriculated (they had overenrolled).
I wish I had done this. I took a year off between undergrad and graduate school, and found that I better appreciated the academic environment after working for a year.
"that" should be "whom", not
"which", b/c it refers to "for someone".
#@!(& grammar trolls!
How do object databases perform as data warehouses? Intuitively, it seems like OO would not natively be efficient at aggregating data, and would be forced to rely on application-level code for any analytical processing. Or am I missing something?
Why'd you say 'burma'?
The key reason for the lack of "killer applications" in XML is that it most immediately benefits information consumers, not producers. XML is most effective at bridging gaps between dissimilar systems. Slashdot's XML usage for the slashboxes are an excellent example. XML makes it possible for Slashdot to offer foreign information in its native audience without having to produce that information internally.
An information producer doesn't get any immediate gain by providing their information in XML. The gain comes when a suitable number of consumer sites have taken advantage of the XML data the producer's supplied, thereby generating traffice returning to the producer. But just the fact that I've offered my entire site's information as XML doesn't profit me at all. The gain is dependent upon consumer sites using that XML information.
I'm sure if I'd been more interested in Economics while an undergraduate I'd be able to pepper this post with impressive sounding econ term. Consider yourself lucky.
Why'd you say 'burma'?
It was also nice of them to break the font-resize function, so that we can't change it to a readable size. But to be fair, they broke it in both Netscape and IE.
Why'd you say 'burma'?
Some market capitalizations to ponder:
RHAT: $4.269BSGI: $2.348B
Anybody think that Red Hat is really worth almost twice SGI?
Why'd you say 'burma'?