As most companies end up buying.com,.org,.net,.biz, etc just to keep their businesses safe against squatting. I can't see any good reason for multiple TLD other than pouring more and more money into registrar's pockets. If you think US situation is bad already, I should inform you my country (Brazil) has (hold your breath) 55 (last time I counted) distinct SLDs!.
The country that got it right in my book was germany. There's only.de as TLD and it is enough.
people get CHARGED PREMIUM to call helpdesk? WTF dude? In my country, helpdesk lines are ALWAYS 800-like (I think it's even mandatory). Of course, you're gonna pay for this in your monthly bill, but I think this is fair.
Being Brazilian, I would say this holds for Spanish-speaking countries in Central/South America: they mostly refer to someone from USA as estadunidense (something like "unitedstatesian"), and to the country itself as Estados Unidos (they don't say "America")
For us, Portuguese-speaking Brazilians, someone from USA is americano (but some communists-wannabes insist on estadunidense) and the country is Estados Unidos.
For the same reasons posted elsewhere in this thread, I prefer "american" over "unitedstatesian". Usually there will be enough context to tell USA from the American Continent, e.g. "Americans wages war against Iraq": we ALL know we're talking USA govt here. Another similar example is United Arab Emirates. "Unitedarabs"? "Emiratians"? "Emirarabs"? I'd stick with "Arabs", even thou it would conflict with other Arab nations.
Language's choices of words sometimes depends more on "soundness" than accurate semantics. That's why we say "South-Korean" instead of "Korean-republicans" and "North-Korean" instead of "Korean-democratic-republicans". I'd also guess there's a good bit confusion regarding demonyms for French Guyana and Guyana, but I lack precise information.
Should you re-read my post, you will notice that I am not saying Brazil is not a bureaucracy nightmare. As an educated Brazilian, I can list every major problem Brazil has and point to solutions, but they won't come to fruition with our negligent, corrupt, politicians and US-style manipulatable (sic?) populace. To government's credit, at least they ARE doing something positive in order to remedy AIDS but, unfortunately, tackling the heart of the problem (bad distribution of wealth) requires a LOT of political will (which we sadly lack) and time (and long-time solutions is a big no-no for any politician).
As a matter of fact, as stated somewhere in this thread, Brazil AIDS prevention model is an example everywhere. They give free condoms, free HIV tests, free counseling, free medicine, LOTS of ads regarding sex safety (and no, no neo-con nonsense like abstinence). I went to carnival parties where I got DOZENS of condoms for free at govt. sponsored stands (and, as a good/.er, haven't used them ever since).
Where people should be condemned by their (or their parent's) sexual behaviour. I won't discuss it here again, for it has been already discussed elsewhere in this thread. People should understand Brazil before judging it.
Oh boy, stop trolling. Brazil maybe a govt bureaucracy hell, but our AIDS prevention program is a fucking example for all nations! Free condoms, free HIV tests, free counseling, free medicine, LOTS of prevention campaign on TV and streets (think carnival). From your post, I infer you are as Brazilian as I am, but you look obviously misinformed and bigoted.
I agree with you, but the problem remains: How do you prove (objectively) someone is dead? I mean, you could always fake a murder scene on camera (Hollywood comes to mind).
Regarding your request for deepening the fight against "piracy" and "theft" activity inside our campi, we regret to inform that, no matter how much we tried, we could not find such activities here. Piracy activity, as we understand, requires sea, large ships, swords, violence and weird accents. Our historical records show that this kind of activity is insignificant nowadays, result of the today's quality in security services and devices. Which, by the way, brings us to the Theft activity. This one is under satisfactory control in our campi, and all incidents are being reported to local police departments.
While we are at it, we kindly request, as a body of tax-paying people, and one of the pillars to the progress of this country, that congressmen spend their time in more important issues, such as the never-ending mess in a formerly foreign sovereign nation, the health care system decline and the growing deficit.
Same thing here. It shocked me the first time I read it, as it looked like Hans Reiser had confessed. I think a better wording would be (in bold):
"Wired is running a story about how an ex-lover of Nina Reiser (the missing wife of accused spouse killer Hans Reiser) has confessed to killing eight people unrelated to the case. While Reiser will still stand trial for the murder, this development will undoubtedly complicate things."
Somewhat related (and probable already discussed here in/.): doesn't a murder case require a body (or parts of it)?
I wonder how long till weightlifting will be an arrest able offense? I mean, think about it, those guys are just getting strong so they can commit crimes! What other possible reason could there be?!
Well sir, considering that, in the US, being fat seems to be becoming the norm, people who work out are doomed. Our kids should be tubby, weak, dumb, and defenseless. A perfect sissy culture.
[...]I don't think that looking for life outside our galaxy is particularly interesting or useful anyway, considering that the nearest life would be millions of years away by interstellar travel.[...]
People don't seem to grasp the difference between Solar Systems and Galaxies. Think of a scale:
Earth < Sol Solar System < Milky Way Galaxy < Outside our galaxy
We are not trying to find stuff outside our galaxy, because this would be EXTREMELY far. Milky way is about 100,000 light years wide. This is so wide that not even Star Trek technology would cut it. This is one reason why Star Trek happens entirely inside Milky Way (although there's one TOS episode where Aliens from Andromeda (a 2.5million ly away) come to Milky Way, but even then they where using multi-generation ships. For being extremely far, space outside Milky Way is not in the reach of planet-search activities, let alone going there.
This was a generic semantic-rant brought to you by Nazi Astronomers Society
I love his line of thought. He says patents would have hindered IT industry, so the solution is to patent even more! He also says that killing startups is somehow good to the industry and the society. Way to go, Bill... and he still wonders why we hate him?
Oh god, this is one thing I hated about coming to germany. The qwertz thing is not really a problem for me anymore, but is terrible for programming:
the >< is in a horrible place (next to left-shift).
{[]} are on altgr-7,8,9,0
/ is shift-7
" is shift-2
Compare to the layout I was used to (brazilian ABNT2, quite similar to American standards), where >< are in different keys, {[]} are on the top row and/? is near the right-shift.
Gotta love that in Germany (whole Europe? not sure). It is possible to purchase stuff on the Internet (air tickets, amazon), with my bank account's money, WITHOUT any sort of password. I just type in the my bank number and bank account number.
The university I study in Germany has a good solution, IMO. The UNI link in the dorms is capped at 2GB/month per student (2 up, 2 down). HTTP, HTTPs traffic is free (thru proxy), the rest is capped. That limits game addiction, video-conference, voip and torrent quite well.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, additional link. It shows the number of domains registered per second level domain.
As most companies end up buying .com, .org, .net, .biz, etc just to keep their businesses safe against squatting. I can't see any good reason for multiple TLD other than pouring more and more money into registrar's pockets. If you think US situation is bad already, I should inform you my country (Brazil) has (hold your breath) 55 (last time I counted) distinct SLDs!.
The country that got it right in my book was germany. There's only .de as TLD and it is enough.
people get CHARGED PREMIUM to call helpdesk? WTF dude? In my country, helpdesk lines are ALWAYS 800-like (I think it's even mandatory). Of course, you're gonna pay for this in your monthly bill, but I think this is fair.
C'mon... it's not like everyone here read theDailyWTF.com
and that, my friends, is worse than failure
You are obviously forgetting COBOL-like languages.
But don't worry, this is nothing to be ashamed of
Being Brazilian, I would say this holds for Spanish-speaking countries in Central/South America: they mostly refer to someone from USA as estadunidense (something like "unitedstatesian"), and to the country itself as Estados Unidos (they don't say "America")
For us, Portuguese-speaking Brazilians, someone from USA is americano (but some communists-wannabes insist on estadunidense) and the country is Estados Unidos.
For the same reasons posted elsewhere in this thread, I prefer "american" over "unitedstatesian". Usually there will be enough context to tell USA from the American Continent, e.g. "Americans wages war against Iraq": we ALL know we're talking USA govt here. Another similar example is United Arab Emirates. "Unitedarabs"? "Emiratians"? "Emirarabs"? I'd stick with "Arabs", even thou it would conflict with other Arab nations.
Language's choices of words sometimes depends more on "soundness" than accurate semantics. That's why we say "South-Korean" instead of "Korean-republicans" and "North-Korean" instead of "Korean-democratic-republicans". I'd also guess there's a good bit confusion regarding demonyms for French Guyana and Guyana, but I lack precise information.
Well, at least in this world, we would be able to defend ourselves from **AA claiming free speech.
Not that I agree with this Verizon stunt, anyway.
Yeah, but the corporation we are talking about is the government itself. Funny, eh?
Should you re-read my post, you will notice that I am not saying Brazil is not a bureaucracy nightmare. As an educated Brazilian, I can list every major problem Brazil has and point to solutions, but they won't come to fruition with our negligent, corrupt, politicians and US-style manipulatable (sic?) populace. To government's credit, at least they ARE doing something positive in order to remedy AIDS but, unfortunately, tackling the heart of the problem (bad distribution of wealth) requires a LOT of political will (which we sadly lack) and time (and long-time solutions is a big no-no for any politician).
As a matter of fact, as stated somewhere in this thread, Brazil AIDS prevention model is an example everywhere. They give free condoms, free HIV tests, free counseling, free medicine, LOTS of ads regarding sex safety (and no, no neo-con nonsense like abstinence). I went to carnival parties where I got DOZENS of condoms for free at govt. sponsored stands (and, as a good /.er, haven't used them ever since).
Get your facts right, people.
Where people should be condemned by their (or their parent's) sexual behaviour. I won't discuss it here again, for it has been already discussed elsewhere in this thread. People should understand Brazil before judging it.
Oh boy, stop trolling. Brazil maybe a govt bureaucracy hell, but our AIDS prevention program is a fucking example for all nations! Free condoms, free HIV tests, free counseling, free medicine, LOTS of prevention campaign on TV and streets (think carnival). From your post, I infer you are as Brazilian as I am, but you look obviously misinformed and bigoted.
I agree with you, but the problem remains: How do you prove (objectively) someone is dead? I mean, you could always fake a murder scene on camera (Hollywood comes to mind).
Better yet:
Dear Mr. Douchebag
Regarding your request for deepening the fight against "piracy" and "theft" activity inside our campi, we regret to inform that, no matter how much we tried, we could not find such activities here. Piracy activity, as we understand, requires sea, large ships, swords, violence and weird accents. Our historical records show that this kind of activity is insignificant nowadays, result of the today's quality in security services and devices. Which, by the way, brings us to the Theft activity. This one is under satisfactory control in our campi, and all incidents are being reported to local police departments.
While we are at it, we kindly request, as a body of tax-paying people, and one of the pillars to the progress of this country, that congressmen spend their time in more important issues, such as the never-ending mess in a formerly foreign sovereign nation, the health care system decline and the growing deficit.
Yours sincerely,
The people
Knowing American big media (Fox News comes to mind) and their ability to spin, it would likely backfire.
People don't seem to grasp the difference between Solar Systems and Galaxies. Think of a scale:
Earth < Sol Solar System < Milky Way Galaxy < Outside our galaxy
We are not trying to find stuff outside our galaxy, because this would be EXTREMELY far. Milky way is about 100,000 light years wide. This is so wide that not even Star Trek technology would cut it. This is one reason why Star Trek happens entirely inside Milky Way (although there's one TOS episode where Aliens from Andromeda (a 2.5million ly away) come to Milky Way, but even then they where using multi-generation ships. For being extremely far, space outside Milky Way is not in the reach of planet-search activities, let alone going there.
This was a generic semantic-rant brought to you by Nazi Astronomers Society
I love his line of thought. He says patents would have hindered IT industry, so the solution is to patent even more! He also says that killing startups is somehow good to the industry and the society. Way to go, Bill... and he still wonders why we hate him?
Oh god, this is one thing I hated about coming to germany. The qwertz thing is not really a problem for me anymore, but is terrible for programming:
Compare to the layout I was used to (brazilian ABNT2, quite similar to American standards), where >< are in different keys, {[]} are on the top row and /? is near the right-shift.
But, at least, I didn't go to France like some colleagues of mine. They are really screwed, keyboard-wise.
Well being allergic to them, I really like the concept. Brb, buying another cellphone.
Gotta love that in Germany (whole Europe? not sure). It is possible to purchase stuff on the Internet (air tickets, amazon), with my bank account's money, WITHOUT any sort of password. I just type in the my bank number and bank account number.
How secure is that for you?
Both parent and GP missed the joke. The GGP was talking about our basement-dwelling fellow slashdoters.
The university I study in Germany has a good solution, IMO. The UNI link in the dorms is capped at 2GB/month per student (2 up, 2 down). HTTP, HTTPs traffic is free (thru proxy), the rest is capped. That limits game addiction, video-conference, voip and torrent quite well.