The contract clearly stated that they would not forfeit those numbers to us if we cancelled the contract, so I dono about getting out of that.
We're using some ancient PBX system that is too confusing for someone inexperienced like me to decipher what new equipment I would need. Gigantic Nortel box is connected to the PBX, and that has like 4 boxes off of it, and 4 phones for email routing, and 2 ancient fax modems.
I've already done some research on phones, but how would I build my own IP-PBX? I've built many computers in the past if that helps...Also, are there pre-made ones out there to purchase?
I work for a small non-profit (like ~25 users) and I'm sorta interested if there's any sort of good info you could give me for a phone system for them. Currently they're paying 400$/month for 5 years, and at the end of the 5 year contract they must either drop their phone service and lose their numbers or pay 15000$ to keep all of the equipment which is ancient. They got a T1 that they're currently using for voice and data, and I'd like to free them from this hell of renting phones. Any suggestions?
I was thinking of a 2D game on the Wii using the remote like how they used the DS's touch screen to control Kirby in the one game...
I'm just happy that they released Kirby Super Star....I've gone through 3 SNES copies of it until they break lol
They will bring back StarFox. They know they can make money on Barrel Roll t-shirts.
Its sad though with Donkey Kong....that license is so fucked up and owned by 200000 people that nothing will ever get made ever again. I really want a DK tie and I'd have to pay huge money to have a custom tie designer make me one, cause Zazzle slapped me with copywright infringement (which would be true, but screw em).
I'd rather someone close the age gap in History teachers so I can stop hearing about the Cold War like its still going on.
I had one 25yr old History teacher at CCAC, and it was the most incredible experience one could ask for. They need more of them badly. Almost as badly as CS teachers.
When I was younger, I was certain that Milton Bradley stole my idea for UpWords and themed Monopoly boards, because I had developed them years before they did. The same applies to thinking through the internet....I'm damn near paranoid that another one of my great ideas will go and turn into someone else's amazing idea before I can fully realize it.
Errr....Are you saying that what was on our minds was not about philosophy? Cause we were surely discussing an article that we were all given the previous week about the likelihood of a Battleground God and pros/cons to the argument.
I definitely didn't mean random thoughts on our mind were being discussed....I meant philosophic problems and papers that we had written or found.
Microsoft has multiple ways to implement a Windows OS on an ARM-powered netbook, so that would be the solution that they are seeking. Most likely, they would be buying a development team to work on the specific netbook OS rather than have their phone crew from WinMo work on it.
It takes a special sort of person to hold an intelligent internet conversation though. Its easy for a person to be fake through text, but its much harder to pull it off in real life surrounded by intellectuals...you can smell someone who is fake from a mile away.
Also, most published letters on the internet that hold value were written in a style that would easily be read as a speech, which only proves that vocal discussion infront of peers in a community is the best way of conversing about anything.
There is the other side of the coin, however, that shows that someone inexperienced in a field may have a different view populated by wrong ideas that creates something truly grand and unique. n00bs of the internets always find a different way to accomplish something they want to do, and those ways can often be surprising to an expert in a field. I believe that this could also apply to internet conversations of specific fields....in real life, you are less likely to sit down with someone on the other side of the world that is inexperienced in your field of expertise. Online, anomnity (or semi-anomnity through a username) allows us to speak whenever we please to and voice our own ideas about a particular subject. Trolls are the main reason why this sucks, and the other secondary reason is when a site like/. covers many subjects that aren't technology-related in the main RSS feed (that are more law-related than tech) and every technical person out there voices their own opinion as truth, because the site is geared towards tech news. Specialized sites that allow for discourse in specific areas (aka reddit) by allowing you to subscribe to your areas of interest and have a fairly intelligent conversation with a meme or two thrown in for humor is where the future lies, in my opinion.
I'm sure that there are errors in my thinking related to this, but I feel that discussing a field in a subreddit with someone truly interested in it that is a n00b halfway around the world has changed the way that I think and look at certain beliefs.
I remember dealing with someone who thought that anyone that loved anime couldn't hold an intelligent conversation to save their lives, so I sent them this link... http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/chicks-on-anime...and views were changed quickly. I will definitely be submitting some of the future conversations to/. because of the homework and time put into these intelligent conversations.
Well, they got rid of Addams Family cause it broke fairly often, and they replaced it with a Tournament-Mode Spiderman machine. The 4th machine was a Tournament-Mode CSI machine. Both are fairly lame and nowhere near as fun as the other two. (tournament mode costs 3$ for two players, takes away all extra balls, endgame bonuses, and replays).
In my opinion, if you have enough time to write down your thoughts, it makes more sense to write a letter/email with these thoughts attached and give it to an expert. 98% of the time, I'd say that the internet will just give you a chest-pounding ninny, and to deal with someone so idiotic after you think you've made a breakthrough in a field just doesn't seem worth it.
It can still be productive, but I don't know sometimes if its worth the time.
MS always has WinCE, which is ARM compatible. My statement is that if they wanted to adopt it for netbooks, they would simply buy a company that is in the process of developing an ARM OS and have them work on a netbook version of WinCE.
I'm basically saying that MS has no interest on their own to develop an ARM OS specifically for netbooks unless they can find a company that is considering doing the same and then buying them out. They would need a whole new team of people for the specific task, and instead of opening up 50 new spots on their job site, they would just buy a company out.
I misstated my reply...I meant that they would buy a company that is developing specifically for ARM and have them rework their current ARM-compatible OS into something usable on a netbook.
I just don't predict them making any real effort to develop something on their own for an ARM-powered laptop/netbook without buying some outside help.
The sad fact is that the internet has made such conversations involved in classic philosophy feel disconnected, where I would much rather play pinball as deaf, dumb, and blind then discourse with some chest-pounding ninny halfway around the world who cannot open his goatse-fucked mind to anything other than his own view.
The best philosophic conversations that I've ever had were at a local coffee/tea shop with 4 pinball machines and $2.05 for a 10-cup pot of tea. We would meet regularly and discuss what was on our minds, and then play Addam's Family, Attack From Mars, or Midevil Madness for a few hours afterwards while having pots of good, fresh tea.
My favorite is Kintera's Site Designer. To use it, they require "Internet Explorer 5". Basically, only IE5 or 6 work with it. Their calendar-based addon popup completely crashes IE7 or 8, doesn't even come up in Firefox 1, 2 or 3, and Chrome justs doesn't even load the page.
Yet for some reason, my organization is paying them 100k a year to manage a large non-profit's site! LOLOL!!!!!
From the company-with-a-thousand-different-versions-of-the-same-thing, I would guess that they would buy a company that is developing an ARM OS and create a new WinCE-based solution to be a netbook OS.
You could also consider that they would buy a company that would be developing a way to run an x86 OS (like Windows 7 Starter Edition) through ARM instead of porting it. There are a number of small groups and companies working on instruction comparison engines that would do such a thing for system-level applications and boot loaders.
Again, I see them not actually caring about developing something for ARM if they have the possibility to buy a solution.
2. Make sure your account has a password on it that is always prompted, so when the fast user switching kicks in and they log off the guest account, they can't get into your account without a password.
My friend lent me his laptop once with a guest account, and i merely logged off of it and switched back to his account which wasn't password protected. Huge failboat.
Its easier for Microsoft to just buy a company that has an ARM-compatible OS then to actually develop one. Just throw an XP theme on it and everyone will start using it like MS was saving this for the right moment.
"Skinning is easier than Winning" - someone on the winamp forums complaining about no new features being added in a while
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The contract clearly stated that they would not forfeit those numbers to us if we cancelled the contract, so I dono about getting out of that.
We're using some ancient PBX system that is too confusing for someone inexperienced like me to decipher what new equipment I would need. Gigantic Nortel box is connected to the PBX, and that has like 4 boxes off of it, and 4 phones for email routing, and 2 ancient fax modems.
I've already done some research on phones, but how would I build my own IP-PBX? I've built many computers in the past if that helps...Also, are there pre-made ones out there to purchase?
I work for a small non-profit (like ~25 users) and I'm sorta interested if there's any sort of good info you could give me for a phone system for them. Currently they're paying 400$/month for 5 years, and at the end of the 5 year contract they must either drop their phone service and lose their numbers or pay 15000$ to keep all of the equipment which is ancient. They got a T1 that they're currently using for voice and data, and I'd like to free them from this hell of renting phones. Any suggestions?
I was thinking of a 2D game on the Wii using the remote like how they used the DS's touch screen to control Kirby in the one game...
I'm just happy that they released Kirby Super Star....I've gone through 3 SNES copies of it until they break lol
They will bring back StarFox. They know they can make money on Barrel Roll t-shirts.
Its sad though with Donkey Kong....that license is so fucked up and owned by 200000 people that nothing will ever get made ever again. I really want a DK tie and I'd have to pay huge money to have a custom tie designer make me one, cause Zazzle slapped me with copywright infringement (which would be true, but screw em).
You forgot Kirby. The Wii would be the perfect place to take advantage of that type of gameplay....I'd love it.
I hated Galaxy, but I wouldn't mind a sequel to any other game....even RPG and Sunshine.
Blame babby.
http://www.marcussantiago.com/randumb3/freedom.jpg
^your insightfulness in the flesh
Right, but they're still talking about Cold War I when I wanna talk about Cold War II.
Luckily, my young History teacher was talking about II and how III was going to happen....it was amazing.
I'd rather someone close the age gap in History teachers so I can stop hearing about the Cold War like its still going on.
I had one 25yr old History teacher at CCAC, and it was the most incredible experience one could ask for. They need more of them badly. Almost as badly as CS teachers.
When I was younger, I was certain that Milton Bradley stole my idea for UpWords and themed Monopoly boards, because I had developed them years before they did. The same applies to thinking through the internet....I'm damn near paranoid that another one of my great ideas will go and turn into someone else's amazing idea before I can fully realize it.
That Google thing? My idea ;)
Errr....Are you saying that what was on our minds was not about philosophy? Cause we were surely discussing an article that we were all given the previous week about the likelihood of a Battleground God and pros/cons to the argument.
I definitely didn't mean random thoughts on our mind were being discussed....I meant philosophic problems and papers that we had written or found.
Microsoft has multiple ways to implement a Windows OS on an ARM-powered netbook, so that would be the solution that they are seeking. Most likely, they would be buying a development team to work on the specific netbook OS rather than have their phone crew from WinMo work on it.
It takes a special sort of person to hold an intelligent internet conversation though. Its easy for a person to be fake through text, but its much harder to pull it off in real life surrounded by intellectuals...you can smell someone who is fake from a mile away.
Also, most published letters on the internet that hold value were written in a style that would easily be read as a speech, which only proves that vocal discussion infront of peers in a community is the best way of conversing about anything.
There is the other side of the coin, however, that shows that someone inexperienced in a field may have a different view populated by wrong ideas that creates something truly grand and unique. n00bs of the internets always find a different way to accomplish something they want to do, and those ways can often be surprising to an expert in a field. I believe that this could also apply to internet conversations of specific fields....in real life, you are less likely to sit down with someone on the other side of the world that is inexperienced in your field of expertise. Online, anomnity (or semi-anomnity through a username) allows us to speak whenever we please to and voice our own ideas about a particular subject. Trolls are the main reason why this sucks, and the other secondary reason is when a site like /. covers many subjects that aren't technology-related in the main RSS feed (that are more law-related than tech) and every technical person out there voices their own opinion as truth, because the site is geared towards tech news. Specialized sites that allow for discourse in specific areas (aka reddit) by allowing you to subscribe to your areas of interest and have a fairly intelligent conversation with a meme or two thrown in for humor is where the future lies, in my opinion.
I'm sure that there are errors in my thinking related to this, but I feel that discussing a field in a subreddit with someone truly interested in it that is a n00b halfway around the world has changed the way that I think and look at certain beliefs.
I remember dealing with someone who thought that anyone that loved anime couldn't hold an intelligent conversation to save their lives, so I sent them this link... http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/chicks-on-anime ...and views were changed quickly. I will definitely be submitting some of the future conversations to /. because of the homework and time put into these intelligent conversations.
tl;dr - Conversation is good.
Well, they got rid of Addams Family cause it broke fairly often, and they replaced it with a Tournament-Mode Spiderman machine. The 4th machine was a Tournament-Mode CSI machine. Both are fairly lame and nowhere near as fun as the other two. (tournament mode costs 3$ for two players, takes away all extra balls, endgame bonuses, and replays).
In my opinion, if you have enough time to write down your thoughts, it makes more sense to write a letter/email with these thoughts attached and give it to an expert. 98% of the time, I'd say that the internet will just give you a chest-pounding ninny, and to deal with someone so idiotic after you think you've made a breakthrough in a field just doesn't seem worth it.
It can still be productive, but I don't know sometimes if its worth the time.
MS always has WinCE, which is ARM compatible. My statement is that if they wanted to adopt it for netbooks, they would simply buy a company that is in the process of developing an ARM OS and have them work on a netbook version of WinCE.
I'm basically saying that MS has no interest on their own to develop an ARM OS specifically for netbooks unless they can find a company that is considering doing the same and then buying them out. They would need a whole new team of people for the specific task, and instead of opening up 50 new spots on their job site, they would just buy a company out.
I messed up again. I meant that they would buy the outside company to rework WinCE for netbook/laptop use instead of doing it themselves.
I misstated my reply...I meant that they would buy a company that is developing specifically for ARM and have them rework their current ARM-compatible OS into something usable on a netbook.
I just don't predict them making any real effort to develop something on their own for an ARM-powered laptop/netbook without buying some outside help.
The sad fact is that the internet has made such conversations involved in classic philosophy feel disconnected, where I would much rather play pinball as deaf, dumb, and blind then discourse with some chest-pounding ninny halfway around the world who cannot open his goatse-fucked mind to anything other than his own view.
The best philosophic conversations that I've ever had were at a local coffee/tea shop with 4 pinball machines and $2.05 for a 10-cup pot of tea. We would meet regularly and discuss what was on our minds, and then play Addam's Family, Attack From Mars, or Midevil Madness for a few hours afterwards while having pots of good, fresh tea.
My favorite is Kintera's Site Designer. To use it, they require "Internet Explorer 5". Basically, only IE5 or 6 work with it. Their calendar-based addon popup completely crashes IE7 or 8, doesn't even come up in Firefox 1, 2 or 3, and Chrome justs doesn't even load the page.
Yet for some reason, my organization is paying them 100k a year to manage a large non-profit's site! LOLOL!!!!!
From the company-with-a-thousand-different-versions-of-the-same-thing, I would guess that they would buy a company that is developing an ARM OS and create a new WinCE-based solution to be a netbook OS.
You could also consider that they would buy a company that would be developing a way to run an x86 OS (like Windows 7 Starter Edition) through ARM instead of porting it. There are a number of small groups and companies working on instruction comparison engines that would do such a thing for system-level applications and boot loaders.
Again, I see them not actually caring about developing something for ARM if they have the possibility to buy a solution.
You forgot step 2.
1. Enable your guest account.
2. Make sure your account has a password on it that is always prompted, so when the fast user switching kicks in and they log off the guest account, they can't get into your account without a password.
My friend lent me his laptop once with a guest account, and i merely logged off of it and switched back to his account which wasn't password protected. Huge failboat.
Is your name Tommy? Do you have pinball?
GOATSE TIEM!!!!!!
and btw, I'm right.
Its easier for Microsoft to just buy a company that has an ARM-compatible OS then to actually develop one. Just throw an XP theme on it and everyone will start using it like MS was saving this for the right moment.
"Skinning is easier than Winning" - someone on the winamp forums complaining about no new features being added in a while
iWish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy iCal!!!!
Indeed, but don't forget that Microsoft can make money with comfortable computing on a subscription-based model.
There are loads of cheap cases that support 2 PSUs....or you could just grab an old server case.