What the fuck is .net

[X123]

What the fuck is .net .

[voidmain]

Is that a question?

[wm009]

I think;
XP to .net
is
Win2k to Win2k adv server.

Not 100% sure.

[KernelPanic]

.net is a TLD -- www.icann.org should tell you more.

[voidmain]

Nobody knows what it is. Not even Microsoft. But they are going to rule it's market, whatever that is.

[Stryker]

quote:Originally posted by The Knife Thrower:
What the fuck is .net .

I think .net (other than the TLD... you know, the microsoft thing) is the idea that you use microsoft passports (Eg: @hotmail.com, @msn.com...) to use for credentials for an application or website. They never actually say but that's all that i've grasped.

(EDIT)
please forgive me for linking to microsoft, this is micosoft's "What is .NET" page.
http://www.microsoft.com/net/basics/

[ November 15, 2002: Message edited by: Stryker ]

[TheQuirk]

It's a top-level domain extension, silly!

[rtgwbmsr]

quote:Originally posted by Stryker:


I think .net (other than the TLD... you know, the microsoft thing) is the idea that you use microsoft passports (Eg: @hotmail.com, @msn.com...) to use for credentials for an application or website. They never actually say but that's all that i've grasped.

Other than the TLD

It's the thing that will kill your privacy.

 

quote: use the intruder's IP address to calculate his or her location, improving the chances of locating

[hm_murdock]

it's what Admiral Firmus Piett, the commander of the Super Star Destroyer Executor in Star Wars used to send transmissions back to his family before he and 100,000 crew aboard his ship were slaughtered by the violent rebels.

You know... the Imperial Holo.net?

Or is it a bunch of guys who carry Zip carts and CD-Rs around to share files?

That is... Sneaker.net?

Or is it just the latest thing that Bill found floating in the septic tank?

As in... Microsoft.net?

[Doctor V]

quote:Originally posted by The Knife Thrower:
What the fuck is .net .

Microsoft has this new idea that the future of PC use will change dramatically and rather than people having M$ Office and shit on their PCs hard drive, instead they will load it from a network.  .net is like a group of M$ programming languages or protocols or somthings like that that are designed more for the implementation of applications in this manner.  It has not been widely adopted as of yet.

Note, this is my slightly educated GUESS.  Because I don't really know what its all about.  I've seen large books written about it, but so far I havn't heard of or seen anything about .net that will actually benefit anyone (other than M$ of course).

V

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by The Knife Thrower:
What the fuck is .net .

it's a shoddy and expensive knockoff of this similar service.

[theangelofdeath69]

It is perhaps the worst programming language (or collection of languages) in existence

[Bazoukas]

quote:Originally posted by Doctor V 0.8.7:


Microsoft has this new idea that the future of PC use will change dramatically and rather than people having M$ Office and shit on their PCs hard drive, instead they will load it from a network.  .net is like a group of M$ programming languages or protocols or somthings like that that are designed more for the implementation of applications in this manner.  It has not been widely adopted as of yet.

Note, this is my slightly educated GUESS.  Because I don't really know what its all about.  I've seen large books written about it, but so far I havn't heard of or seen anything about .net that will actually benefit anyone (other than M$ of course).

V

  Dude, not even M$ knows exactly what .NET is.

[TheQuirk]

quote:Originally posted by Calum: Linux Commando:


it's a shoddy and expensive knockoff of this similar service.

I'm pretty sure .NET came before .GNU.

[voidmain]

Quirk, I'm pretty sure this was said tongue in cheek.