The charities chosen to receive the money should be the ones the victims themselves would have chosen. Ask their families what causes they supported or endorsed, and give the money to those. Money can't replace loved ones, and I think they'd appreciate it more knowning that Charity X is receiving a donation in memory of them.
M15 seems OK so far, except for the fact that support for character entities, which was getting relatively complete in M14 and Netscape6PR, is now almost totally broken again.
One of the first things I do with a browser to test it is run by my symbols.shtml test page. M15 has no support for Latin Extended, General Punctuation, Greek, or math symbols anymore. Very surprisingly, 9786 () still works. I don't see anything that amazing about M15 (it seems a little smoother, that's about it)...I'll probably go back to N6PR for this reason. (Don't have the time to play with nightlies, sorry.)
Anybody know if the Mac version is any more stable this time around? My Mac-using coworkers were unable to get M14 or N6PR to work at all.
The Radical Religious Right has got issues with schools because they don't want their children exposed to dangerous ideas like Evolution which might cause them to think for themselves.
How is this different than a member of the Liberal Left having issues with a school because they don't want their kids exposed to dangerous ideas like the existence of a holy and personal Creator which might cause them to think for themselves? I bet you'd be screaming if the schools were teaching that.
The fact of the matter is that only one side of the story is being told. If you were on the other side of the issue, or could even just be objective, you'd realize that. To use evolution as an example, what's wrong with school suggesting the possibility that some Higher Power we can't detect or measure is influencing our universe? You may not agree with it philosophically, but it is possible. Since it is possible, and so many people do believe it to be true, why isn't it mentioned as a possibility in schools? Why is evolution taught as the only theory? Why does your philosophical outlook predetermine what is acceptable to consider?
To address your other points, if the State wasn't responsible for education, the tax burden would be lowered on private citizens. Parents could use that money to fund their children's education in any way they saw fit, perhaps by school choice, or home schooling, or private school...whatever. The point is that the parents are in responsible for raising their children, and not the State, as it should be. (Gosh, sounds like a voucher system. Good idea!)
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Our examples are too simplified. The "rubber sheet" example reduces 3 dimensions to 2. Your tunneling through the earth example reduces 2 dimensions to 1. Granted, there's not much savings. But then consider that mathematicisns posit space having 11 dimensions. A wormhole would make "folds" in directions we can't comprehend in order to bring the two points together.
I wrote a bunch of friends/family about my concerns about this (and UCITA). I guess I serve as a self-appointed "tech watchdog" of sorts. (Most people are ignorant of what's going on in areas they don't have direct daily contact with.)
I only got one response, from a childhood friend who is now a librarian. Basically she said I was off my rocker for thinking the Linux hackers were anything but thieves for trying to get at stuff that "they weren't supposed to." Since she'd studied fair use in her classes, obviously she was right. [sarcasm]
It just helped to show me how brainwashed some people are without realizing it. "If gov't passes a law, breaking that law makes you bad/wrong...right???" Society is too trusting of gov't to work for their best interest. Never give up basic liberties for the sake of increased safety or convenience. They can't guarantee it, and if they do they're lying. Life is tough. Deal with it. Hang on to the freedoms you have.
Whoa, I guess I got a little off-topic there. I suppose I see this issue as just a symptom of a larger problem.
Nope, got a beige G3. And I want to be able to have the *n*x box and the Mac box running at the same time, to experiment with networking also. Getting *n*x simply running isn't much of an accomplishment. I want to be able to do something once it's up. Even if it's nothing more than being able to share files between the two. (Gotta start somewhere.)
Getting everything together for a public release is a very non-trivial task. I know the hassles we go through, and darwin is 100x the size of our codebase.
After all that work, including pressing CD's, it was met with a fairly resounding silence.
The darwin mailing lists were dead. It sometimes seemed like there were a grand total of a dozen people with darwin installed.
I've been wanting to set up a *n*x box at home for some time. I've been looking at all the alternatives: NetBSD or mkLinux on my old Centris, partitioning the drive on my G3, finding/building an AMD box for cheap. So far they're all too expensive or I'm lacking time, or both. I think it would be great to work with Darwin as soon as I have an extra PPC lying around...ha! like that would happen anytime soon. I'm just out of school and have too much debt.:P In any case, I have too many other interests to devote the time to porting drivers and apps.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that I think there are many people who are wanting to use Darwin, but don't right now because the workload at this time would be too heavy. How many people were using Linux in '92? Most of them were probably people that could actually assist in development. Once it got to a "useable" form, more people jumped on. I think the same will happen with Darwin.
I agree, it's a shady practice, and fraudulent misrepresentation.
But couldn't this be solved by having a standard logo/footer on every page that says "TICKETMASTER" or the equivalent? Then who cares if someone deep links you in a frame. Nobody's going to believe the page belongs to anybody but you.
I agree that it's a pathetic situation. I took two years of Spanish in high school (because that's all that was offered, and it happens to be the 2nd most common language of the US). I've forgotten most of it, though a little came back during a recent trip to Mexico. I've often thought it would be nice to pick up ASL (ranking 3rd in US) too. My sister was learning ASL for a while, but like me, she's forgotten most of what she knew.
Why is this? Precisely what you said. Everyone lets us. There's no pressure or incentive for Americans to learn another language. My Canadian friends largely laugh at the French requirements there (but they're from BC mostly). Unless you have a large amount of self-discipline therefore, it's just not happening.
Here in the Midwest, where there's less exposure to foreigners than the larger cities on the coasts, it's even harder. My TA adviser in grad school was from California, and told me (and the other 4 TA's, all foreigners) that many of these students might have problems with accents because they've never encountered them before. That's true! I didn't care for the spin he put on that, though. It's not our fault we're farther away from other countries than any other area of the US. I really don't like being looked upon as stupid.
What's the solution? Better education in the public school systems. Get rid of all the junk being taught there and get back to basics. We're graduating kids who can't even read after 12 years. There's no excuse for that. Kids should be able to handle basic algebra (as a requirement) in junior high. Teach more literature and geography to expand the young minds to the world. More science to equip them for this high-tech world. More school choice, so parents can better take initiative in getting their children educated. I think my education was stuck on pause for 6 years while we covered and recovered the same old portions of American history again and again.
But the education associations are in the pocket of liberal groups who would rather mold kids' ideologies rather than teach them to critically analyze the world and think for themselves, so this probably won't happen.
Taking votes? Dude, you miss the point. The point is that God listens. God could do anything He feels like, anytime He wants, but He prefers us to take an active participatory role.
Doing business internationally isn't the same as not being based anywhere. There has to be a central corporate headquarters somewhere, right? All the international branches are just that, branches.
If you are truly multinational and don't like the idea of being restricted to a country TLD, we could have a ".int" TLD instead. (Visit www.coke.com.int to quench your thirst!) And that would be the only TLD they could register in. No.us,.uk,.ch, or anything else.
Point is there's a better solution than buying your trademark in every TLD. That effectively negates the TLD. Might as well try to navigate the web by keyword, as I mentioned before. Good luck.
It shouldn't be hard to convert to such a system. If someone tries "www.coke.com" just return all matches of "www.coke.com.*" for the user to pick from.
Why should Coca Cola be entitled to all domains which contain one of their trademarks? [...] almost every word you can think of is a trademark. [...] Trademarks were not designed to scale globally. They are made to work with geographical restrictions, and most importantly, within certain classes of goods and services. [...] we're literally having our language stolen from us.
Exactly my point over here (for those that might not have noticed). Wish I'd said it.
All the more reason to move to national TLD's across the board. Duke it out in your own country if you want. Coca-Cola is an America company, and as such, couldn't say diddly squat about something in the Swiss TLD.
Either that, or open up those new seven TLD's that have been talked about forever. Heck even they could be under a national 2-letter TLD. Big corporations are bullying the web too much.
There are only so many reasonable domain names available, and LOTS of people that want to use them. There is going to be name collision across TLD's. Face it. If every trademark owner has to buy up their trademark names in every TLD, there'll be nothing left for anyone else to use! You might as well eliminate the current TLD's then and go to www.coke, or www.pepsi, or www.nike! Having various TLD's is supposed to allow for exactly the kind of thing they are trying to squelch!
Trademark law needs to be updated to handle this exact situation. And big corporations need to get their hands off domain registration policy-making.
Man, I wish someone would give me some old Macs. I thought awhile about putting NetBSD on my Centris 650, but ended up giving it to my sister. (Now it has some hard drive problem and won't boot.:P I'll have to go try to fix that soon.) What kept me from going ahead with NetBSD (besides the fact my sis needed a 'puter) is that 24/230 MB seems like an awfully limited configuration to be very usable. If anyone out there is actually running *n*x on a low-end Mac, please reply to this and let me know what kind of stuff you're actually able to get done.
[...] you won't believe how people judge a CPU only by it's rated MHz. For them, K6/2 500 == Athlon 500 == Alpha 500.
Oh, I believe it. Anyone using a PowerPC is well-aware of this.:) Comparing a 500 MHz G4 to a 500 MHz PIII is apples and oranges, but you can't forcefeed clues to anyone.
IDE drives were cheap for a reason. They sucked when compared to SCSI drives. When IDE drives started to meet Apple's standard of quality, support was quickly added. My current Mac (couple years old now) has an IDE drive, and I know they had them before that.
Apple invented personal computing. You have to wonder why IBM PCs went off on a divergent tangent to begin with.
My fiancee just learned that you could grab the title bar of a window to move it around the screen, after seeing me do it many times. I think the 2nd button would be totally beyond her.
Simple enough. Code browsers to do a lookup across all country codes if you only specify to the.com or.net level, and return the list of hyperlinked matches.
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Bah. Then.NET's are a subset of.COM's. All the commercial interests out there are a.COM, but if it happens to be a network-providing commercial interest, it gets a.NET.
And if.SHOP gets ratified, that could be treated the same way. Are you a commerical interest with an online store? Then we've got something more specialized for you than the boring old.COM you were looking at.
The proposed.ARTS could be treated the same way as a subset of.ORG.
Seems like a no-brainer to me.
Masem is right, though. The true TLD's should be the country codes. Let individual countries deal with their own trademark laws in their own fashion. Dumping the whole world in one big pool for the.COM addresses has only made the problem that much worse.
IIRC, and if I'm thinking of the right project, Orion was basically a spaceship with a big flat plate in the back. Blow up a bomb behind it. Ride the shock wave. Pretty simple.
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The charities chosen to receive the money should be the ones the victims themselves would have chosen. Ask their families what causes they supported or endorsed, and give the money to those. Money can't replace loved ones, and I think they'd appreciate it more knowning that Charity X is receiving a donation in memory of them.
Have a Good Friday, everybody!
M15 seems OK so far, except for the fact that support for character entities, which was getting relatively complete in M14 and Netscape6PR, is now almost totally broken again.
One of the first things I do with a browser to test it is run by my symbols.shtml test page. M15 has no support for Latin Extended, General Punctuation, Greek, or math symbols anymore. Very surprisingly, 9786 () still works. I don't see anything that amazing about M15 (it seems a little smoother, that's about it)...I'll probably go back to N6PR for this reason. (Don't have the time to play with nightlies, sorry.)
Anybody know if the Mac version is any more stable this time around? My Mac-using coworkers were unable to get M14 or N6PR to work at all.
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Dis Scandinavian says, "Uff-da, dat Windows shoor sucks, dere."
How is this different than a member of the Liberal Left having issues with a school because they don't want their kids exposed to dangerous ideas like the existence of a holy and personal Creator which might cause them to think for themselves? I bet you'd be screaming if the schools were teaching that.
The fact of the matter is that only one side of the story is being told. If you were on the other side of the issue, or could even just be objective, you'd realize that. To use evolution as an example, what's wrong with school suggesting the possibility that some Higher Power we can't detect or measure is influencing our universe? You may not agree with it philosophically, but it is possible. Since it is possible, and so many people do believe it to be true, why isn't it mentioned as a possibility in schools? Why is evolution taught as the only theory? Why does your philosophical outlook predetermine what is acceptable to consider?
To address your other points, if the State wasn't responsible for education, the tax burden would be lowered on private citizens. Parents could use that money to fund their children's education in any way they saw fit, perhaps by school choice, or home schooling, or private school...whatever. The point is that the parents are in responsible for raising their children, and not the State, as it should be. (Gosh, sounds like a voucher system. Good idea!)
Our examples are too simplified. The "rubber sheet" example reduces 3 dimensions to 2. Your tunneling through the earth example reduces 2 dimensions to 1. Granted, there's not much savings. But then consider that mathematicisns posit space having 11 dimensions. A wormhole would make "folds" in directions we can't comprehend in order to bring the two points together.
I wrote a bunch of friends/family about my concerns about this (and UCITA). I guess I serve as a self-appointed "tech watchdog" of sorts. (Most people are ignorant of what's going on in areas they don't have direct daily contact with.)
I only got one response, from a childhood friend who is now a librarian. Basically she said I was off my rocker for thinking the Linux hackers were anything but thieves for trying to get at stuff that "they weren't supposed to." Since she'd studied fair use in her classes, obviously she was right. [sarcasm]
It just helped to show me how brainwashed some people are without realizing it. "If gov't passes a law, breaking that law makes you bad/wrong...right???" Society is too trusting of gov't to work for their best interest. Never give up basic liberties for the sake of increased safety or convenience. They can't guarantee it, and if they do they're lying. Life is tough. Deal with it. Hang on to the freedoms you have.
Whoa, I guess I got a little off-topic there. I suppose I see this issue as just a symptom of a larger problem.
Nope, got a beige G3. And I want to be able to have the *n*x box and the Mac box running at the same time, to experiment with networking also. Getting *n*x simply running isn't much of an accomplishment. I want to be able to do something once it's up. Even if it's nothing more than being able to share files between the two. (Gotta start somewhere.)
I've been wanting to set up a *n*x box at home for some time. I've been looking at all the alternatives: NetBSD or mkLinux on my old Centris, partitioning the drive on my G3, finding/building an AMD box for cheap. So far they're all too expensive or I'm lacking time, or both. I think it would be great to work with Darwin as soon as I have an extra PPC lying around...ha! like that would happen anytime soon. I'm just out of school and have too much debt. :P In any case, I have too many other interests to devote the time to porting drivers and apps.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that I think there are many people who are wanting to use Darwin, but don't right now because the workload at this time would be too heavy. How many people were using Linux in '92? Most of them were probably people that could actually assist in development. Once it got to a "useable" form, more people jumped on. I think the same will happen with Darwin.
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I agree, it's a shady practice, and fraudulent misrepresentation.
But couldn't this be solved by having a standard logo/footer on every page that says "TICKETMASTER" or the equivalent? Then who cares if someone deep links you in a frame. Nobody's going to believe the page belongs to anybody but you.
I agree that it's a pathetic situation. I took two years of Spanish in high school (because that's all that was offered, and it happens to be the 2nd most common language of the US). I've forgotten most of it, though a little came back during a recent trip to Mexico. I've often thought it would be nice to pick up ASL (ranking 3rd in US) too. My sister was learning ASL for a while, but like me, she's forgotten most of what she knew.
Why is this? Precisely what you said. Everyone lets us. There's no pressure or incentive for Americans to learn another language. My Canadian friends largely laugh at the French requirements there (but they're from BC mostly). Unless you have a large amount of self-discipline therefore, it's just not happening.
Here in the Midwest, where there's less exposure to foreigners than the larger cities on the coasts, it's even harder. My TA adviser in grad school was from California, and told me (and the other 4 TA's, all foreigners) that many of these students might have problems with accents because they've never encountered them before. That's true! I didn't care for the spin he put on that, though. It's not our fault we're farther away from other countries than any other area of the US. I really don't like being looked upon as stupid.
What's the solution? Better education in the public school systems. Get rid of all the junk being taught there and get back to basics. We're graduating kids who can't even read after 12 years. There's no excuse for that. Kids should be able to handle basic algebra (as a requirement) in junior high. Teach more literature and geography to expand the young minds to the world. More science to equip them for this high-tech world. More school choice, so parents can better take initiative in getting their children educated. I think my education was stuck on pause for 6 years while we covered and recovered the same old portions of American history again and again.
But the education associations are in the pocket of liberal groups who would rather mold kids' ideologies rather than teach them to critically analyze the world and think for themselves, so this probably won't happen.
Funny, after watching the slow-as-molasses action regarding the new TLD's over the past couple years, I've often thought of them as ICANN't.
Taking votes? Dude, you miss the point. The point is that God listens . God could do anything He feels like, anytime He wants, but He prefers us to take an active participatory role.
Well it's obvious it was programmed in C.
That must be why I'm having such a hard time finding jobs in the Midwest. I don't want to live in any of the cities you mentioned.
Why is it so hard to find a tech job in a large town (25k-100k)? Geez I hate cities.
Doing business internationally isn't the same as not being based anywhere. There has to be a central corporate headquarters somewhere, right? All the international branches are just that, branches.
If you are truly multinational and don't like the idea of being restricted to a country TLD, we could have a ".int" TLD instead. (Visit www.coke.com.int to quench your thirst!) And that would be the only TLD they could register in. No .us, .uk, .ch, or anything else.
Point is there's a better solution than buying your trademark in every TLD. That effectively negates the TLD. Might as well try to navigate the web by keyword, as I mentioned before. Good luck.
It shouldn't be hard to convert to such a system. If someone tries "www.coke.com" just return all matches of "www.coke.com.*" for the user to pick from.
Exactly my point over here (for those that might not have noticed). Wish I'd said it.
All the more reason to move to national TLD's across the board. Duke it out in your own country if you want. Coca-Cola is an America company, and as such, couldn't say diddly squat about something in the Swiss TLD.
Either that, or open up those new seven TLD's that have been talked about forever. Heck even they could be under a national 2-letter TLD. Big corporations are bullying the web too much.
There are only so many reasonable domain names available, and LOTS of people that want to use them. There is going to be name collision across TLD's. Face it. If every trademark owner has to buy up their trademark names in every TLD, there'll be nothing left for anyone else to use! You might as well eliminate the current TLD's then and go to www.coke, or www.pepsi, or www.nike! Having various TLD's is supposed to allow for exactly the kind of thing they are trying to squelch!
Trademark law needs to be updated to handle this exact situation. And big corporations need to get their hands off domain registration policy-making.
I recently posted to comp.sys.mac.portables about running *n*x on an iBook, since I'm considering getting one.
Man, I wish someone would give me some old Macs. I thought awhile about putting NetBSD on my Centris 650, but ended up giving it to my sister. (Now it has some hard drive problem and won't boot. :P I'll have to go try to fix that soon.) What kept me from going ahead with NetBSD (besides the fact my sis needed a 'puter) is that 24/230 MB seems like an awfully limited configuration to be very usable. If anyone out there is actually running *n*x on a low-end Mac, please reply to this and let me know what kind of stuff you're actually able to get done.
Oh, I believe it. Anyone using a PowerPC is well-aware of this. :) Comparing a 500 MHz G4 to a 500 MHz PIII is apples and oranges, but you can't forcefeed clues to anyone.
IDE drives were cheap for a reason. They sucked when compared to SCSI drives. When IDE drives started to meet Apple's standard of quality, support was quickly added. My current Mac (couple years old now) has an IDE drive, and I know they had them before that.
Apple invented personal computing. You have to wonder why IBM PCs went off on a divergent tangent to begin with.
I completely agree.
My fiancee just learned that you could grab the title bar of a window to move it around the screen, after seeing me do it many times. I think the 2nd button would be totally beyond her.
Simple enough. Code browsers to do a lookup across all country codes if you only specify to the .com or .net level, and return the list of hyperlinked matches.
Bah. Then .NET's are a subset of .COM's. All the commercial interests out there are a .COM, but if it happens to be a network-providing commercial interest, it gets a .NET.
And if .SHOP gets ratified, that could be treated the same way. Are you a commerical interest with an online store? Then we've got something more specialized for you than the boring old .COM you were looking at.
The proposed .ARTS could be treated the same way as a subset of .ORG.
Seems like a no-brainer to me.
Masem is right, though. The true TLD's should be the country codes. Let individual countries deal with their own trademark laws in their own fashion. Dumping the whole world in one big pool for the .COM addresses has only made the problem that much worse.
IIRC, and if I'm thinking of the right project, Orion was basically a spaceship with a big flat plate in the back. Blow up a bomb behind it. Ride the shock wave. Pretty simple.