It just depends whether or not the PSTN-to-VoIP gateway is just that, or if it's a service run by the VoIP company. There are plenty of PSTN-to-VoIP gateways that allow you to break out onto different networks. I'm not saying it's pretty at the moment, but what I'm suggesting is that the gateway needn't be provided by the company that is providing the registrar services, and thus would be impossible to regulate if they were overseas.
Agreed, it "could" play a factor, but it's only really going to cause problems if the customer is using something like a media proxy to route the voice through. If no media proxy is being used then after call set up the two end points would be talking directly to each other, which would be as fast as you're going to get it regardless of where the VoIP suppliers registrars are sat.
Agreed, it "could" play a factor, but it's only really going to cause problems if the customer is using something like a media proxy to route the voice through. If no media proxy is being used then after call set up the two end points would be talking directly to each other, which would be as fast as you're going to get it regardless of where the VoIP suppliers registrars are sat.
Isn't this going to just push VoIP companies overseas where there won't be as tight regulation? It doesn't matter to the end user in the long run where the physical servers are located afterall.
...it's the people who post their inflated resumes on their that make the whole thing not work. My company has tried using the boards to recruit people for various positions, however it seems that with no hint of human screening/QA process candidates on the whole feel free not to just exagerate a little but blatently lie about their techinical skillsets.
Take for example one candidate who I recently interviewed, they had on their resume a very niche skill that I happen to be trained in, so I asked them about this particular skill and it was then that the candidate responded,"Well, I've not actually worked with *******, but it's something I've thought about getting into". WTF?!?! This candidate had this item listed in their core technical skillsets!! That's like me putting down I'm a doctor then saying,"Well, I've watched ER a few times and I think I like the look of that"
I'd say that 95% of the people we interviewed from job boards turned out to have exceptionally inflated resumes and were demanding the same inflated salaries that they had when they were still in work a year or two ago. We found that going with a recruiting company that has real people there to at least weed some of the wheat from the chaff is a better approach, although we still do get a lot of inflated resumes through that are from people that are good enough to get around the simple questions posed by the headhunter.
At what level though do you say that source was copied? Obviously the code isn't a 100% match, and for each problem a coder faces there is a shortest distance/most efficient solution, what's not to say that two developers wouldn't reach similar conclusions? Seeing as some of the exhibits were based around logging which is a very common task which I'd figure that a large portion of projects tackle the problem in the same fashion, I fail to see you could point out that someone had copied the solution if it was the best answer and other people could arrive at the same conclusion.
If it was a line for line copy then I can see it being different, but IMHO I think there are sufficient difference between the two portions of code. Personally I think if JBoss doesn't have better things to do with it's time and money it should slash the cost of its ridiculously expensive (and pathetic) documentation and spend some time improving it instead!
There's not doubt that what we are witnessing at the moment is the start of the next telecoms revolution, the last bastillion of analog technology - the phone - being brought into the digital age. The embryonic development of the VoIP world has seen the emergence of various protocol such as H.323 and SIP and slowly as the adoption of these tools and technologies the wrinkles in the make up of things to come get ironed out.
Just as we saw with the dot.com boom, there will only be a handful of real winners in the hardware side of things, where the real meat will be will be in the value added services to come as people start to pick up on this technology. VoIP technology does to telephony what Open Source software did for the Internet, which is that it makes it easily accessible for the little guy to turn something into nothing because unlike before in the traditional telephony world the little guy doesn't need $,$$$,$$$ worth of equipment to get their ideas going.
I think we're going to see a lot of waste out there initially, think back to the start of the web when it was "cool" to have a web site that had flashing text & MIDI files playing in the background...the same is going to happen at first with VoIP, but over time, the wheat will be separated from the chaff.
urm....nope, the Budgetone100 is a SIP only phone. Both SIP and H.323 share common supported codecs but that won't in itself allow it to communicate directly with H.323 endpoints. MSN Messenger doesn't use H.323 (are you thinking of NetMeeting?), it uses SIP.
what do the people who can't afford cable do then? For quite a lot of people who work on minumum wage/on welfare, etc., the minimum package cost of satellite or cable is still too expensive.
You can stipulate exactly how you want the widgets to look with Swing, that's the whole point of the L&F aspect of it.....so that you can have an application looking the same regardless of what platform it's rendered on. You can have applications look like they're on a different platform, or create your own L&F if you so desire.
SWT is a toolkit that IBM has been trying to impose on the Java developer community ever since it's first incarnations of VisualAge for Java. They ditched it because of its incompatibilities, and because the problems they were trying to address were fixed when Swing was redesigned.
IBM thought they would dust off the same old toolkit (they've changed practically nada - still haven't updated the code to follow bean practises), in an attempt to get people to use it for Eclipse plugin development. Hello.....same old crappy toolkit, no improvements, just a lot of hinderances, when will they learn?
Don't you think it's funny that IBM's product is called Eclipse btw, as in something that blocks "Sun":)
purrrlease! What kind of newbie would try to use a GUI toolkit to talk directly to something back end? -- "Swing is no longer "a way for database apps to display debugging information in X11""
It's the posts up above that seperate the wanna be hackers that bone up on "Dummies guide to....." from the people who truely know what they're doing.
There's too many interoperability problems with SWT and Swing/AWT, which means that for anyone that uses 3rd party components (eg. JClass) it becomes a pain to have to integrate. Not that it's impossible, but you end up putting in a lot of effort into it which just isn't needed.
As with many things, there's a dozen ways to reach the same end point with Java. There are best practices to ensure that you arrive at efficient solutions. The problem with Java is not with the language itself, but with some of the "developers" that use it. Because Java held the promise of being an easier to learn language, lots of people started hacking away at problems with nothing more than the javadoc to get them through it, people who prior to coding their 1,000,000 line masterpiece had only got as close to coding as some JavaScript and thought that as it had a similer sounding name that it would be just as easy. The developers that have had a proper grounding in patterns, etc. that have been coding for some time realise that Java in essence was just another way express an answer to a solution and that the same ways of solving the problem where still apparent, just the language was different, and they go on to show the newbie that their 1,000,000 line monster can really be accomplished in just a dozen or so lines, if only they'd thought about the problem more and less about the tool they're trying to solve the problem with.
I've worked on many enterprise scale solutions for several Global 500 companies, all of which have used Java for client applications (as well as J2EE backends). Just because you don't happen to see Java in your workplace or in the media as much as you used to doesn't mean that it's not there. A lot of companies decided that when "thin-client" was the in thing to do, to ditch Java in favour of trying to produce sophisticated client applications using HTML/DHTML/JavaScript/CSS/etc. and failing miserably because of the problematic issues between not only different browsers but also different versions of the same browser (for example, an app isn't going to be very "cross-platform compatible" if it only runs on Version xyz of Browser ABC with options 1,2 and 3 on but 4 turned off).
For those large Global 500 companies, usually operating in many sites, quite often operating out of different countries, it's not difficult to imagine that the makeup of their enterprises in terms of deployment environment can be pretty mixed, from Win9X,XP,NT through a range of *nix type environments which still do get used for desktops. Java offers the only true platform independant, scalable, reliable to use when tackling these kinds of solutions, trying to explain to a company of these kind of sizes that they all have to upgrade to some new OS just because there's some DLL that will only run on that platform that is needed for the end solution is not going to happen in a lot of cases.
.....before the computer misuse act, the most common way to prosecute someone for something like that was under an law which related to stealing electricity. Could this law be used to prosecute hackers who it could be claimed have degraded the system's performance merely by logging in, or even portscanning by causing the target machine to do something it wasn't scheduled to do?
The thing that puts me off buying video games for my linux machine is that I'm never sure if my video card is supported or not.
Maybe one cheap and easy solution to this would be it the games manufacturers allowed you to download a tiny test program from their website that just checked to see if your machine is capable of running their games or not.
Another reason that I've not been quick to grab my wallet is that the games that have come out have been typical geek games, not gamers games. Lets see some more arcade type games that you can just do for fun for 1/2 an hour instead of some monster of a game that takes weeks. I want to come home from a hard day at the office and have a brain fart, not figure out how I'm rule the world!
What a great idea! You write two chapters which you publish in monthly installments, meaning that it is likely to be at least three months before the third chapter is published. You get say half a million people to "donate" $1, which you keep in the bank account for a cpl of months. At the end of the holding period you return the copius amounts of $1's via some electronic means (eg. a gift token for his publishers) because returning a $1 any other way would not be worth it, and he wouldn't want to be called a scam artist. What your left with is a couple of months interest of $1/2M plus your publishers are laughing because they've just swept up the $1/2M in the first place in terms of gift certificate payments most of which nobody is ever going to redeem. Very ingenius, or am I just paranoid? V:)
Having worked and currently working in the US coming from the UK, getting a visa over here isn't as easy as the article's originator makes out. Having to wait 6 months like I did this time to get a visa isn't very helpful for employers, and frustrating to the employees. I also noticed that the was a very different time period in the US issuing visa's to people from the UK (average time of 5-6 months) when compared to say collegues of mine that are from India who said they had a quicker time (2-3 months). I wonder if different regions are more deeply looked into than others or am I getting paranoid?:-)
If Microsoft were to open up Windows CE to the open source community, would this be the Windows CE that we have now, or will it be the new version (I forget what they've called it). If it is the old version then it would be just getting PR attention for old rope:-)
One other point though is that if Windows CE was to be open source it would provide a ready made hand held platform for the open source community to develop on that would have software already available, now that would be very nice! L
I noted that on the i-opener netstore that you have to at least sign up for a few months with their service, I think the cheapest you can get away with is paying a further $65, but in the scheme of things what is that? A decent meal out, and in return you get a flat screen Linux terminal, even if it's not too fast it would make a very flashy console device (, just like you see on those high priced servers). I just wonder where I could buy a 10" touch sensitive transparent input device to put over the top of the the LCD panel, now that would be very flash!;-)
This reminds me of a creative piece of writing that appeared a couple of years ago, where the author described a program that would heat up and cool down the CPU at sufficiently high enough rates that it would stress the CPU so much it would physically break. Perhaps this author was a little too close to the true than he might have well thought?:-)
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It just depends whether or not the PSTN-to-VoIP gateway is just that, or if it's a service run by the VoIP company. There are plenty of PSTN-to-VoIP gateways that allow you to break out onto different networks. I'm not saying it's pretty at the moment, but what I'm suggesting is that the gateway needn't be provided by the company that is providing the registrar services, and thus would be impossible to regulate if they were overseas.
Agreed, it "could" play a factor, but it's only really going to cause problems if the customer is using something like a media proxy to route the voice through. If no media proxy is being used then after call set up the two end points would be talking directly to each other, which would be as fast as you're going to get it regardless of where the VoIP suppliers registrars are sat.
Agreed, it "could" play a factor, but it's only really going to cause problems if the customer is using something like a media proxy to route the voice through. If no media proxy is being used then after call set up the two end points would be talking directly to each other, which would be as fast as you're going to get it regardless of where the VoIP suppliers registrars are sat.
Isn't this going to just push VoIP companies overseas where there won't be as tight regulation? It doesn't matter to the end user in the long run where the physical servers are located afterall.
...it's the people who post their inflated resumes on their that make the whole thing not work. My company has tried using the boards to recruit people for various positions, however it seems that with no hint of human screening/QA process candidates on the whole feel free not to just exagerate a little but blatently lie about their techinical skillsets.
Take for example one candidate who I recently interviewed, they had on their resume a very niche skill that I happen to be trained in, so I asked them about this particular skill and it was then that the candidate responded,"Well, I've not actually worked with *******, but it's something I've thought about getting into". WTF?!?! This candidate had this item listed in their core technical skillsets!! That's like me putting down I'm a doctor then saying,"Well, I've watched ER a few times and I think I like the look of that"
I'd say that 95% of the people we interviewed from job boards turned out to have exceptionally inflated resumes and were demanding the same inflated salaries that they had when they were still in work a year or two ago. We found that going with a recruiting company that has real people there to at least weed some of the wheat from the chaff is a better approach, although we still do get a lot of inflated resumes through that are from people that are good enough to get around the simple questions posed by the headhunter.
At what level though do you say that source was copied? Obviously the code isn't a 100% match, and for each problem a coder faces there is a shortest distance/most efficient solution, what's not to say that two developers wouldn't reach similar conclusions? Seeing as some of the exhibits were based around logging which is a very common task which I'd figure that a large portion of projects tackle the problem in the same fashion, I fail to see you could point out that someone had copied the solution if it was the best answer and other people could arrive at the same conclusion.
If it was a line for line copy then I can see it being different, but IMHO I think there are sufficient difference between the two portions of code. Personally I think if JBoss doesn't have better things to do with it's time and money it should slash the cost of its ridiculously expensive (and pathetic) documentation and spend some time improving it instead!
...it's the services.
There's not doubt that what we are witnessing at the moment is the start of the next telecoms revolution, the last bastillion of analog technology - the phone - being brought into the digital age. The embryonic development of the VoIP world has seen the emergence of various protocol such as H.323 and SIP and slowly as the adoption of these tools and technologies the wrinkles in the make up of things to come get ironed out.
Just as we saw with the dot.com boom, there will only be a handful of real winners in the hardware side of things, where the real meat will be will be in the value added services to come as people start to pick up on this technology. VoIP technology does to telephony what Open Source software did for the Internet, which is that it makes it easily accessible for the little guy to turn something into nothing because unlike before in the traditional telephony world the little guy doesn't need $,$$$,$$$ worth of equipment to get their ideas going.
I think we're going to see a lot of waste out there initially, think back to the start of the web when it was "cool" to have a web site that had flashing text & MIDI files playing in the background...the same is going to happen at first with VoIP, but over time, the wheat will be separated from the chaff.
"Microsoft Netmeeting has SIP support"
wrong, NetMeeting has H.323 support, a different VoIP standard, Microsoft's new Messenger is SIP compliant.
"It doesn't say it uses H.323"
urm....nope, the Budgetone100 is a SIP only phone. Both SIP and H.323 share common supported codecs but that won't in itself allow it to communicate directly with H.323 endpoints. MSN Messenger doesn't use H.323 (are you thinking of NetMeeting?), it uses SIP.
what do the people who can't afford cable do then? For quite a lot of people who work on minumum wage/on welfare, etc., the minimum package cost of satellite or cable is still too expensive.
You can stipulate exactly how you want the widgets to look with Swing, that's the whole point of the L&F aspect of it.....so that you can have an application looking the same regardless of what platform it's rendered on. You can have applications look like they're on a different platform, or create your own L&F if you so desire.
SWT is a toolkit that IBM has been trying to impose on the Java developer community ever since it's first incarnations of VisualAge for Java. They ditched it because of its incompatibilities, and because the problems they were trying to address were fixed when Swing was redesigned.
:)
IBM thought they would dust off the same old toolkit (they've changed practically nada - still haven't updated the code to follow bean practises), in an attempt to get people to use it for Eclipse plugin development. Hello.....same old crappy toolkit, no improvements, just a lot of hinderances, when will they learn?
Don't you think it's funny that IBM's product is called Eclipse btw, as in something that blocks "Sun"
-- never take anyones word for it but your own
purrrlease! What kind of newbie would try to use a GUI toolkit to talk directly to something back end? -- "Swing is no longer "a way for database apps to display debugging information in X11""
....." from the people who truely know what they're doing.
It's the posts up above that seperate the wanna be hackers that bone up on "Dummies guide to
Swing is like HTML? *gulp* What planet are you on? I suggest you do some reading about what Swing really is.
It's like saying apples are like M&M's because you can eat them both.
here here! Well said (typed!) :)
There's too many interoperability problems with SWT and Swing/AWT, which means that for anyone that uses 3rd party components (eg. JClass) it becomes a pain to have to integrate. Not that it's impossible, but you end up putting in a lot of effort into it which just isn't needed.
As with many things, there's a dozen ways to reach the same end point with Java. There are best practices to ensure that you arrive at efficient solutions. The problem with Java is not with the language itself, but with some of the "developers" that use it. Because Java held the promise of being an easier to learn language, lots of people started hacking away at problems with nothing more than the javadoc to get them through it, people who prior to coding their 1,000,000 line masterpiece had only got as close to coding as some JavaScript and thought that as it had a similer sounding name that it would be just as easy. The developers that have had a proper grounding in patterns, etc. that have been coding for some time realise that Java in essence was just another way express an answer to a solution and that the same ways of solving the problem where still apparent, just the language was different, and they go on to show the newbie that their 1,000,000 line monster can really be accomplished in just a dozen or so lines, if only they'd thought about the problem more and less about the tool they're trying to solve the problem with.
I've worked on many enterprise scale solutions for several Global 500 companies, all of which have used Java for client applications (as well as J2EE backends). Just because you don't happen to see Java in your workplace or in the media as much as you used to doesn't mean that it's not there. A lot of companies decided that when "thin-client" was the in thing to do, to ditch Java in favour of trying to produce sophisticated client applications using HTML/DHTML/JavaScript/CSS/etc. and failing miserably because of the problematic issues between not only different browsers but also different versions of the same browser (for example, an app isn't going to be very "cross-platform compatible" if it only runs on Version xyz of Browser ABC with options 1,2 and 3 on but 4 turned off).
For those large Global 500 companies, usually operating in many sites, quite often operating out of different countries, it's not difficult to imagine that the makeup of their enterprises in terms of deployment environment can be pretty mixed, from Win9X,XP,NT through a range of *nix type environments which still do get used for desktops. Java offers the only true platform independant, scalable, reliable to use when tackling these kinds of solutions, trying to explain to a company of these kind of sizes that they all have to upgrade to some new OS just because there's some DLL that will only run on that platform that is needed for the end solution is not going to happen in a lot of cases.
.....before the computer misuse act, the most common way to prosecute someone for something like that was under an law which related to stealing electricity. Could this law be used to prosecute hackers who it could be claimed have degraded the system's performance merely by logging in, or even portscanning by causing the target machine to do something it wasn't scheduled to do?
The thing that puts me off buying video games for my linux machine is that I'm never sure if my video card is supported or not.
Maybe one cheap and easy solution to this would be it the games manufacturers allowed you to download a tiny test program from their website that just checked to see if your machine is capable of running their games or not.
Another reason that I've not been quick to grab my wallet is that the games that have come out have been typical geek games, not gamers games. Lets see some more arcade type games that you can just do for fun for 1/2 an hour instead of some monster of a game that takes weeks. I want to come home from a hard day at the office and have a brain fart, not figure out how I'm rule the world!
Sorry, cannot boot up OS, /boot timeout...
:)
V
What a great idea! You write two chapters which you publish in monthly installments, meaning that it is likely to be at least three months before the third chapter is published. You get say half a million people to "donate" $1, which you keep in the bank account for a cpl of months. At the end of the holding period you return the copius amounts of $1's via some electronic means (eg. a gift token for his publishers) because returning a $1 any other way would not be worth it, and he wouldn't want to be called a scam artist. What your left with is a couple of months interest of $1/2M plus your publishers are laughing because they've just swept up the $1/2M in the first place in terms of gift certificate payments most of which nobody is ever going to redeem. Very ingenius, or am I just paranoid? V:)
Having worked and currently working in the US coming from the UK, getting a visa over here isn't as easy as the article's originator makes out. :-)
Having to wait 6 months like I did this time to get a visa isn't very helpful for employers, and frustrating to the employees.
I also noticed that the was a very different time period in the US issuing visa's to people from the UK (average time of 5-6 months) when compared to say collegues of mine that are from India who said they had a quicker time (2-3 months). I wonder if different regions are more deeply looked into than others or am I getting paranoid?
If Microsoft were to open up Windows CE to the open source community, would this be the Windows CE that we have now, or will it be the new version (I forget what they've called it). If it is the old version then it would be just getting PR attention for old rope :-)
One other point though is that if Windows CE was to be open source it would provide a ready made hand held platform for the open source community to develop on that would have software already available, now that would be very nice! L
I noted that on the i-opener netstore that you have to at least sign up for a few months with their service, I think the cheapest you can get away with is paying a further $65, but in the scheme of things what is that? A decent meal out, and in return you get a flat screen Linux terminal, even if it's not too fast it would make a very flashy console device (, just like you see on those high priced servers). I just wonder where I could buy a 10" touch sensitive transparent input device to put over the top of the the LCD panel, now that would be very flash! ;-)
This reminds me of a creative piece of writing that appeared a couple of years ago, where the author described a program that would heat up and cool down the CPU at sufficiently high enough rates that it would stress the CPU so much it would physically break. Perhaps this author was a little too close to the true than he might have well thought? :-)