Finally you are mistaken in the assumption that 31 characters would be limiting for Chinese names. Those chinese characters are much more powerful than letters or digits, so far fewer of them are required to form a name
That's interesting -- that had entirely escaped me. (This from the kid who spent years studying Egyptian and Mayan ideograms. *smack*) And I thought 63 characters was incredibly long in English. You could have an several haikus in Japanese ideograms as a domain name!
Unless I'm mistaken, Unicode is a combination of two ASCII characters to create a single one, which is how Japanese, Chinese, etc., characters are created. 255^2 is a lot of characters. (65025, to be exact.) Doesn't this mean that these domains are limited to 31 characters? Further, can BIND *support* using characters beyond [a-z0-9-.]? I sure wouldn't think that it could.
I didn't find these questions answered anywhere on ICANN or NSI's sites. Anybody have any ideas?
I think it's great to say "IP is evil" and "copyright must die." And it's even better to back that up by distributing your own IP freely.
But it is wrong to wontonly use somebody else's IP against their wishes. This is Linus' perspective on Napster, and I'm inclined to agree. Linux (etc.) is about sharing if you *want* to share. Not forcing others to.
Floyd, I think that you're wise to think about these concerns, but I don't think it matters. (No offense intended.) If we all want Linux to take over the world, we need to make it possible for non-technically-inclined people to use it. HelixCode is the absolute best way, and I wouldn't change a thing if I could.
But I've got to say: Do I trust Nat Friedman with my home computer's security? Hell yeah, I do.
What's incredible about this is that CueCat seems to make money from various other streams (licensing fees, privacy violations, etc.), so I can't imagine why they'd be opposed to geeks embracing their technology. This is extremely shortsighted of them.
What I enjoy knowing is that there's that *one* Linux user that works for them. S/he's quietly sitting in the corner, head shaking, saying "I told you so...."
I just e-mailed copyleft with this rather obvious, but funny idea. Take the core of the code, the part that handles the actual communication with the device, and encode it in a barcode font. Print on t-shirt.
I've got my fake DeCSS page up. I'd put up a real one, but cphack is about all that I can handle at the moment. If I get a nibble on this site, I'll give a holler.
I don't know, it seems like a fairly good guess that most/. readers are from North America. Most Internet users are still in the U.S., the language of choice on Slashdot is English, and many of the stories are largely of concerns to U.S. residents (think the YRO section.) I don't think that's anything to get offended about.
While backpacking, I used Linux in the mountains of Tennessee and Maine. It's really nice. I wish I'd used it in the Whites in New Hampshire, but my laptop was dead at the time. I bet it would be even better in Germany with some beer.:)
FWIW, I was telnetting into a server and using Linux there -- I didn't actually install it on any of my laptops.
My karma is 12 points behind -- I'm stuck at 122, and I'm a little upset about it. I asked CmdrTaco about it, and he told me:
Nope. Not a bug. Code revision;)
(I hope that he won't mind my reproducing his comment via private e-mail in a public form. It seems like a harmless enough thing to reproduce, as bad 'netiquette as it might be.)
I think that Adam Penenberg would be the man to talk to about that. I imagine that Apple would sue the website if they refused to abide by the subpoena. (Also, they'd be found in contempt of court.)
As best I can tell, what Apple really wants to do is issue a subpoena to the websites to find out what Apple employee leaked information. There's little or nothing to be gained from actually suing the sites for monetary damages.
I spent some time this morning trying to set up Publius on my YDL server, but I'm getting series of Perl errors. (I'm a born-again Perl user, but only recently reborn.:) I get a series of errors like:
Bareword "RC_BAD_REQUEST" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/publius_server.pl line 87.
Finally it fails with "Premature end of script headers." I assume it's something related to Status.pm, based on earlier errors, but I dunno.
Can anybody help me out? I'd love to take part in Publius.
I like the Neo-Geo mention -- didn't those things used to cost something like $500 for the machine and $120 / game or something? I remember being about 11 years old when that came out, and utterly in awe of its very being. The price made it all the more desirable. Naturally, I never knew or even heard of anybody owning one. I bet I could get one real cheap now.:)
Anybody have any memories of these things? Anybody every actually *own* one?
update() wrote:
Release early, release often, but don't start issuing press releases about how Microsoft is doomed until you've got something that runs.
That ought to be in the Cluetrain Manifesto. It's fantastic.:)
The language design team consisted of four people. The compiler team had another five developers.
Working with such a small team seems just too cool for Microsoft. To be fair, he says that the "the whole company" was involved with the framework. I think it's actually a good sign for C# that it was made with such a small team.
Both Mozilla and Java have the problem of long development / consumer introduction periods. So the general public (or, in the case of smaller technologies) gets really sick of hearing about them (but knowing that they can't relly use them), until, eventually, they get sick of them.
I've been willing to be part of testing Mozilla, and I love it. So have many of us. But most consumers aren't so forgiving. Be careful of saturating the market with concept so that people have tuned it out by the time you have some substance.
"The new Compaq machine is a sort of souped-up version of a popular and inexpensive supercomputer technique called Beowulf, which links dozens or hundreds of computers connected by a network."
I dunno -- seems to me like the author is saying that it really is a Beowulf cluster.
Jamie pointed out to me via private e-mail that the crux of his prediction is that King will never have to finish his novel under the terms of his agreement -- 75% of people have to pay for each section. The possible stopping point, as best as I can tell, was the 3rd section. But the site confuses me, to be honest.
Anyhow, I stand by my comment that that particular portion of Jamie's prediction was wrong. But I was viewing his comment too narrowly. Jamie meant that people simply won't continue to pay over all 10 sections. I agree, I don't think that they will. By that logic, as he produces each section, the average percentage of people paying will go down until, eventually, it may hover around Jamie's predicted 15%-30%. Making Jamie right.
Er...um...I hope you didn't get that out of my post. We can excuse him because he's a good guy that went out on a limb to make a point that remains interesting and valid, even though it appears King was successful. (If you can consider losing money to be successful.)
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Finally you are mistaken in the assumption that 31 characters would be limiting for Chinese names. Those chinese characters are much more powerful than letters or digits, so far fewer of them are required to form a name
That's interesting -- that had entirely escaped me. (This from the kid who spent years studying Egyptian and Mayan ideograms. *smack*) And I thought 63 characters was incredibly long in English. You could have an several haikus in Japanese ideograms as a domain name!
I like ICANN but
NSI really pisses
me off a lot
-Waldo
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Unless I'm mistaken, Unicode is a combination of two ASCII characters to create a single one, which is how Japanese, Chinese, etc., characters are created. 255^2 is a lot of characters. (65025, to be exact.) Doesn't this mean that these domains are limited to 31 characters? Further, can BIND *support* using characters beyond [a-z0-9-.]? I sure wouldn't think that it could.
I didn't find these questions answered anywhere on ICANN or NSI's sites. Anybody have any ideas?
-Waldo
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I think it's great to say "IP is evil" and "copyright must die." And it's even better to back that up by distributing your own IP freely.
But it is wrong to wontonly use somebody else's IP against their wishes. This is Linus' perspective on Napster, and I'm inclined to agree. Linux (etc.) is about sharing if you *want* to share. Not forcing others to.
-Waldo
-------------------
Floyd, I think that you're wise to think about these concerns, but I don't think it matters. (No offense intended.) If we all want Linux to take over the world, we need to make it possible for non-technically-inclined people to use it. HelixCode is the absolute best way, and I wouldn't change a thing if I could.
But I've got to say: Do I trust Nat Friedman with my home computer's security? Hell yeah, I do.
-Waldo
-------------------
What's incredible about this is that CueCat seems to make money from various other streams (licensing fees, privacy violations, etc.), so I can't imagine why they'd be opposed to geeks embracing their technology. This is extremely shortsighted of them.
What I enjoy knowing is that there's that *one* Linux user that works for them. S/he's quietly sitting in the corner, head shaking, saying "I told you so...."
Don't mess with Tuxas. (Or something like that.)
-Waldo
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I just e-mailed copyleft with this rather obvious, but funny idea. Take the core of the code, the part that handles the actual communication with the device, and encode it in a barcode font. Print on t-shirt.
Beautiful, no?
-Waldo
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Here: http://waldo.net/misc/decss/
I've got my fake DeCSS page up. I'd put up a real one, but cphack is about all that I can handle at the moment. If I get a nibble on this site, I'll give a holler.
-Waldo
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Is here.
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I don't know, it seems like a fairly good guess that most /. readers are from North America. Most Internet users are still in the U.S., the language of choice on Slashdot is English, and many of the stories are largely of concerns to U.S. residents (think the YRO section.) I don't think that's anything to get offended about.
-Waldo
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I guess I'm done submitting stories. Oh,well.
-Waldo
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While backpacking, I used Linux in the mountains of Tennessee and Maine. It's really nice. I wish I'd used it in the Whites in New Hampshire, but my laptop was dead at the time. I bet it would be even better in Germany with some beer. :)
FWIW, I was telnetting into a server and using Linux there -- I didn't actually install it on any of my laptops.
-Waldo
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My karma is 12 points behind -- I'm stuck at 122, and I'm a little upset about it. I asked CmdrTaco about it, and he told me:
;)
Nope. Not a bug. Code revision
(I hope that he won't mind my reproducing his comment via private e-mail in a public form. It seems like a harmless enough thing to reproduce, as bad 'netiquette as it might be.)
What in the world is going on?
-Waldo
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I think that Adam Penenberg would be the man to talk to about that. I imagine that Apple would sue the website if they refused to abide by the subpoena. (Also, they'd be found in contempt of court.)
-Waldo
-------------------
As best I can tell, what Apple really wants to do is issue a subpoena to the websites to find out what Apple employee leaked information. There's little or nothing to be gained from actually suing the sites for monetary damages.
:)
Hey, where's Jim Tyre when you need him?
-Waldo
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Folks,
:) I get a series of errors like:
/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/publius_server.pl line 87.
I spent some time this morning trying to set up Publius on my YDL server, but I'm getting series of Perl errors. (I'm a born-again Perl user, but only recently reborn.
Bareword "RC_BAD_REQUEST" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at
Finally it fails with "Premature end of script headers." I assume it's something related to Status.pm, based on earlier errors, but I dunno.
Can anybody help me out? I'd love to take part in Publius.
-Waldo
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Speaking of vendor-propriatary time, check out Swatch Beat Time. (I must confess that I own and use one of these watches.)
-Waldo
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I was hoping for a +3 Funny, personally. :) Yes, it's quite out of context, which is what makes it funny. Sorry, but *I* thought it was worthwhile.
-Waldo
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I like the Neo-Geo mention -- didn't those things used to cost something like $500 for the machine and $120 / game or something? I remember being about 11 years old when that came out, and utterly in awe of its very being. The price made it all the more desirable. Naturally, I never knew or even heard of anybody owning one. I bet I could get one real cheap now. :)
Anybody have any memories of these things? Anybody every actually *own* one?
-Waldo
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update() wrote:
:)
Release early, release often, but don't start issuing press releases about how Microsoft is doomed until you've got something that runs.
That ought to be in the Cluetrain Manifesto. It's fantastic.
-Waldo
-------------------
Do y'all think this is for real? Hejlsberg says:
The language design team consisted of four people. The compiler team had another five developers.
Working with such a small team seems just too cool for Microsoft. To be fair, he says that the "the whole company" was involved with the framework. I think it's actually a good sign for C# that it was made with such a small team.
-Waldo
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My favorite part:
Osborn:
So you can't write unsafe code in VB?
Hejlsberg:
No, you cannot.
:)
-Waldo
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This isn't a flame. I swear.
Both Mozilla and Java have the problem of long development / consumer introduction periods. So the general public (or, in the case of smaller technologies) gets really sick of hearing about them (but knowing that they can't relly use them), until, eventually, they get sick of them.
I've been willing to be part of testing Mozilla, and I love it. So have many of us. But most consumers aren't so forgiving. Be careful of saturating the market with concept so that people have tuned it out by the time you have some substance.
-Waldo
-------------------
"The new Compaq machine is a sort of souped-up version of a popular and inexpensive supercomputer technique called Beowulf, which links dozens or hundreds of computers connected by a network."
I dunno -- seems to me like the author is saying that it really is a Beowulf cluster.
-Waldo
-------------------
Jamie pointed out to me via private e-mail that the crux of his prediction is that King will never have to finish his novel under the terms of his agreement -- 75% of people have to pay for each section. The possible stopping point, as best as I can tell, was the 3rd section. But the site confuses me, to be honest.
Anyhow, I stand by my comment that that particular portion of Jamie's prediction was wrong. But I was viewing his comment too narrowly. Jamie meant that people simply won't continue to pay over all 10 sections. I agree, I don't think that they will. By that logic, as he produces each section, the average percentage of people paying will go down until, eventually, it may hover around Jamie's predicted 15%-30%. Making Jamie right.
-Waldo
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Er...um...I hope you didn't get that out of my post. We can excuse him because he's a good guy that went out on a limb to make a point that remains interesting and valid, even though it appears King was successful. (If you can consider losing money to be successful.)
-Waldo
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