1. SypeOut is *still* more expensive. Plus you *can't* get cheaper BT line rental if you have an ADSL line. Skype is also v.low quality and not true VOIP - you can't plug an ordinary phone into an adapter.
2. Yes they do. Just read up on it instead of reading the first page of all thse sites and guessing. The cheapest you can get (if you pay enough in rental to cover the calls to BT) is 0845 which is *not* local it's lo_call, which is a marketing scam (it cost around double the local call rate and you don't get any free minutes). Most of them have 0836 at around 45p/minute. Believe me, I've tried every single one of them (except BT, which has astranomical charges in both directions.. you'd be mad to pay that).
3. As I said You are *still* paying 2-3 line rentals. You can't get around that.
4. I've had a VOIP system for around a year now. To date I've had zero calls across it. I know of *nobody* - even geeks - outside slashdot who is even considering it.. I'm close to dumping it myself as a failed experiment.
VOIP has *no* reason to want it. There are no extra feature, other than the cheapest grandstream phones will set you back £50 *per phone* - an amount you could get a good quality DECT phone with SMS for. A good cisco is £200+. It's just a geek curiosity.
To work the pricess have to fall *a lot* - phones shouldn't be more than £10 for a basic model. Incoming calls must be on your existing landline number, no premium rate crap, and outgoing calls must be as cheap or cheaper than the cheap analogue outgoing calls. I believe this is happening to an extent in the US so you're finding people using it.
If you want to avoid vendor lockin then skype is not a good way to go for business.
There are a great many VOIP systems out there that proper transparent PBX systems (like asterisk but with the support contracts basically), and they use the open SIP format so you're not tied to a single manufacturer. Does your boss want a crappy USB headeset of a full featured Cisco phone?
There's virtually no VOIP in the UK so why would they bother?
There are some things holding back takeup:
1. VOIP is more expensive to call out than 3rd party analogue (eg. call18866) 2. VOIP uses premium rate number for incoming calls so unless you hate all your friends you've got to have an analogue/mobile anyway. 3. VOIP runs over DSL - which requires a voice line, so you end up paying rental twice (three times if you count the DSL). 4. You can't buy VOIP retail in this country, and nobody except a few slashdot geeks have even heard of it (there are lots of 'digital' phones but they're all DECT not SIP).
The Mac service guide specifically says that a dealer who opens a mac mini should use a 1.5 inch beveled putty knive (there's even an apple part number for it - 922-6761). Page two of that guide is how to sharpen the edges of a standard putty knife for this purpose.
So if you break a clip (assuming that they're that flimsy) by performing the same procedure that a dealer would, how are they going to tell? You can just say the last dealer did it... not that they'd ask.
I doubt it... they don't exactly pay retail for those parts.
Apple are making a profit from the Mini... probably not a lot of one at the moment (development costs, marketing etc.) but one that's repaid (with a mobo revision or two to bring to cost down) they'll make loads.
I sat through about 4-5 episodes of BSG... by halfway through most of them I was looking at my watch and hoping the bad guys would kill them all and end it gracefully.
Worst acting I've ever seen, and the camera work wasn't 'innovative' it was 'crap'. I could do better myself!
I've never heard the term 'rubber' ever used in the UK.
The only reason I know it for the US is a british comedien (Jasper Carrot) used to make jokes about such word differences and said that was the word they used over there. Obviously it was made up, which has confused absolutely everyone!
Then you've also got to define consent, and child.. the law is complex:)
eg. *can* a child legally give consent - there is in fact a (much younger) age below which this is deemed impossible. It's much harder to define a 14 year old a non-consenting to a 16-year old boyfriend though... which then gets into the definition of 'child'...
Often (in fact usually) programmers make the worst managers. I hate companies that try to force reluctant techies into pen-pushing jobs.... the best companies avoid this.
It's a totally different progression - Junior Manager -> Senior Manager is parallel to Junior Programmer -> Senior Programmer not part of the same progression (I'd expect a Senior Programmer to be paid more than a Junior Manager for a start).
It's nothing to do with the earphones - good earphones can have *excellent* bass.
Compare the output from a decent set of earphones (I use EX71s but I know people that even go as far as Shure S5s... which is *way* overkill IMO) between a decent amp and an iPod.
The iPod is very weak on the lower frequencies.. this can kill some kinds of music. Even an MD player (much cheaper so should be a worse amp in theory) does this better.
I refuse to use EQ or 'bass boost' as mostly these things just destroy the clarity of the music.
The iPod is *just about* acceptable as higher volumes, but is nowhere near as good as it could be.
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1. SypeOut is *still* more expensive. Plus you *can't* get cheaper BT line rental if you have an ADSL line. Skype is also v.low quality and not true VOIP - you can't plug an ordinary phone into an adapter.
2. Yes they do. Just read up on it instead of reading the first page of all thse sites and guessing. The cheapest you can get (if you pay enough in rental to cover the calls to BT) is 0845 which is *not* local it's lo_call, which is a marketing scam (it cost around double the local call rate and you don't get any free minutes). Most of them have 0836 at around 45p/minute. Believe me, I've tried every single one of them (except BT, which has astranomical charges in both directions.. you'd be mad to pay that).
3. As I said You are *still* paying 2-3 line rentals. You can't get around that.
4. I've had a VOIP system for around a year now. To date I've had zero calls across it. I know of *nobody* - even geeks - outside slashdot who is even considering it.. I'm close to dumping it myself as a failed experiment.
VOIP has *no* reason to want it. There are no extra feature, other than the cheapest grandstream phones will set you back £50 *per phone* - an amount you could get a good quality DECT phone with SMS for. A good cisco is £200+. It's just a geek curiosity.
To work the pricess have to fall *a lot* - phones shouldn't be more than £10 for a basic model. Incoming calls must be on your existing landline number, no premium rate crap, and outgoing calls must be as cheap or cheaper than the cheap analogue outgoing calls. I believe this is happening to an extent in the US so you're finding people using it.
If you want to avoid vendor lockin then skype is not a good way to go for business.
There are a great many VOIP systems out there that proper transparent PBX systems (like asterisk but with the support contracts basically), and they use the open SIP format so you're not tied to a single manufacturer. Does your boss want a crappy USB headeset of a full featured Cisco phone?
There's virtually no VOIP in the UK so why would they bother?
There are some things holding back takeup:
1. VOIP is more expensive to call out than 3rd party analogue (eg. call18866)
2. VOIP uses premium rate number for incoming calls so unless you hate all your friends you've got to have an analogue/mobile anyway.
3. VOIP runs over DSL - which requires a voice line, so you end up paying rental twice (three times if you count the DSL).
4. You can't buy VOIP retail in this country, and nobody except a few slashdot geeks have even heard of it (there are lots of 'digital' phones but they're all DECT not SIP).
Yeah but checkout the duke nukem forever picture...
So is
the g6 powerbook
and
Duke nukem forever
Worked it out yet? This is a non-story.
Wow that's small.. I could put a few thousand of those on my little finger?
But does it come with optical out?
Maybe not even then.
The Mac service guide specifically says that a dealer who opens a mac mini should use a 1.5 inch beveled putty knive (there's even an apple part number for it - 922-6761). Page two of that guide is how to sharpen the edges of a standard putty knife for this purpose.
So if you break a clip (assuming that they're that flimsy) by performing the same procedure that a dealer would, how are they going to tell? You can just say the last dealer did it... not that they'd ask.
90% of tasks can be handled by the free MSDE install.. there's a 2GB limit, but a lot of tasks simply don't need that kind of size.
MySql is expensive too (300 per client, unless you want to GPL all your software).
Post-SP2 IE still sucks... still no tabbed browsing, still has ActiveX, still has security flaws, still doesn't support any standard post-1998.
Not true at all.
It's illegal to murder - are you more likely to do it?
It's illegal to rape a child - are you more likely to do it?
Laws are *extremely* important for defining the boundaries of what is right and wrong. Without them you get everyone making up their own rules.
I thought there were laws against that kind of thing.
Research is one thing... actually creating hybrids (which will inevitably has a short and painful life) is really sick.
I heard tt can be quite difficult to get that stuff off your hands...
Yes I remember this too.
It's a dup, but it's a *really old* dup.
I doubt it... they don't exactly pay retail for those parts.
Apple are making a profit from the Mini... probably not a lot of one at the moment (development costs, marketing etc.) but one that's repaid (with a mobo revision or two to bring to cost down) they'll make loads.
So it's not just me then..
I sat through about 4-5 episodes of BSG... by halfway through most of them I was looking at my watch and hoping the bad guys would kill them all and end it gracefully.
Worst acting I've ever seen, and the camera work wasn't 'innovative' it was 'crap'. I could do better myself!
*lowered* to 18?
:)
Sucks to be where you live...
I've never heard the term 'rubber' ever used in the UK.
The only reason I know it for the US is a british comedien (Jasper Carrot) used to make jokes about such word differences and said that was the word they used over there. Obviously it was made up, which has confused absolutely everyone!
CACert used to be useful, but they're so paranoid now you pretty much get back a blank certificate with the hostname on it now... utterly useless.
Then you've also got to define consent, and child.. the law is complex :)
eg. *can* a child legally give consent - there is in fact a (much younger) age below which this is deemed impossible. It's much harder to define a 14 year old a non-consenting to a 16-year old boyfriend though... which then gets into the definition of 'child'...
That's quite common..
:)
Condom* sales also skyrocket during 'bible weeks' and 'youth conferences'.
Basically if you stop talking about it, it still happens, just in frenetic bursts
* Not sure of the US word for this.. Rubber?
but XML documents themselves are also considerably more open than their binary counterparts.
.. is a perfectly well-formed XML document. Its not parsable into a anything sane though.
Not at all...
<Document Type="MSWord">
(binary crap)
Often (in fact usually) programmers make the worst managers. I hate companies that try to force reluctant techies into pen-pushing jobs.... the best companies avoid this.
It's a totally different progression - Junior Manager -> Senior Manager is parallel to Junior Programmer -> Senior Programmer not part of the same progression (I'd expect a Senior Programmer to be paid more than a Junior Manager for a start).
Really you want something lossless if you don't want it to suck... compression always has an effect.
AAC is DRM'd so I avoid it like the plague anyway.
That's what autoconf is for.
./configure;make).
I've done this with many projects.. and it really is just as easy as typing 'make' (rather
Of course you have to write your code in a cross platform manner in the first place...
It's nothing to do with the earphones - good earphones can have *excellent* bass.
Compare the output from a decent set of earphones (I use EX71s but I know people that even go as far as Shure S5s... which is *way* overkill IMO) between a decent amp and an iPod.
The iPod is very weak on the lower frequencies.. this can kill some kinds of music. Even an MD player (much cheaper so should be a worse amp in theory) does this better.
I refuse to use EQ or 'bass boost' as mostly these things just destroy the clarity of the music.
The iPod is *just about* acceptable as higher volumes, but is nowhere near as good as it could be.