Industrial and Systems Engineering -- Industrial engineering is the degree program that generally encompasses supply chain management, though it is also covered by technical MBA programs, particularly those at universities without degree programs in industrial engineering.
Don't forget that having UPS as an Atlanta based company has helped in creating logistics oriented companies here. That plus Memphis (home to FedEx) isn't that far either.
True, in an ideal environment the floor is best. But someone lives in the apartment below. I imagine they appreciate my imperfect but - at normal volumes - acoustically sound hack of incorporating rubber stabilizers in the subwoofer base and glass shelving.
The music industry thinks it is morally wrong to do what muxtape is doing. If you are going to share music on the internet though, I don't think it should be crippled to only work for people that can figure out how to get past the interface.
The music should be free or it shouldn't. There shouldn't be a gray area.
The faster any laws about this get resolved, the better. That's why I want this to be public.
You are only making it harder for muxtape, not the RIAA.
There is no question that RIAA is no angel, I'm just saying you're complicating it for muxtape and the direct result might be them not being able to provide an awesome service or them having to make it much less attractive.
If this is public, muxtape potentially shuts down; RIAA does not change its unethical practices. Think about it.
Why should muxtape get to do something unethical when everyone else has to follow the rules? You're basically saying this is ok because no one knows about it. Is it ok for me to steal something from a store as long as no one catches me doing it?
Perhaps a better way of going about this would be to contact the muxtape developers directly, however like you said before, they already know about this.
Also, in this situation, the RIAA would not necessarily be doing anything unethical to shut down this site. They are hosting free music on the internet. Can you think of a more straightforward way to break copyright law?
Unicode ___domain names could be implemented with a one way hash function with ascii output. That would solve the length problem. Depending on the hash algorithm, collisions would be extremely rare, and i doubt many ___domain names are already registered that are equivalent to the output of most hashes.
I guess it would be similar in a way to tinyurl.com
This obviously would only be a good option if the hash didn't need to be reversible. And I don't really see why it would be, since the dns system itself isn't perfectly reversible.
Adding a second mechanism is just not going to work at all, I'm afraid. How would the application know which encoding you're trying to use? There's also no clean way to solve the reverse DNS issue with hashes.
Besides, it took long enough to get IDNs out "into the wild", and they're still struggling. IE6 still doesn't support them out-of-the-box, so there goes about half (or more) of your non-technical audience. I use exactly one site with an IDN regularly, http://öbb.at/ - the rail company here, and they actually advertise their other, non-IDN ___domain, oebb.at, presumably due to lack of browser support.
I think Firefox 3.0 has added a feature to go in this direction. When you start typing in the address bar, it searches the titles and urls to match what you are typing instead of just the url. It's a lot easier to find pages that you visited this way.
In Firefox 2.0 the behavior that already exists seems to be like Google's "I'm feeling lucky" search. doda.jp is the first result from typing "doda" in to google.jp (but not google.com, interestingly) so probably if you have google.jp set as your default search engine in your browser then typing the brand name in to your browser should just work.
It's a very neat Bayesian DWIM thing.
Getting back to the OP, I think it's a non sequitur to go from "URLs have been downplayed in packaging and advertisements" to "URLs are out", though.
Announcing or Broadcasting are still forms of communication. Email, IM, and IRC don't really allow you to do that. That's why I think Twitter fills a gap in communication methods. A lot of people don't like to broadcast their life. I understand that, but some people do like to let other people know what's going on.
