No way...I've used both, and they don't compare. The cheap consumer-grade voice-modems simply don't have the DSP's you need to squeeze decent quality out of the limited bandwidth available over voice. It's especially apparent when you try to capture DTMF sequences, or do real time streaming.
The Dialogic API is also very, very nice for setting up simple Finite State Machines, for touchpad navigation. You're not going to get
Another thing..As soon as you want more that say, 4 lines, you're stuck using some fancy serial card, like a DigiBoard, and then you're back to the driver problem again (no, not the Linux driver problem, the whole problem of reliable, long-term vendor supported drivers for whatever OS you choose)
I've tried 3com, GVC, no-name voice modems, and they suck. You gotta use the right tool for the the job.
A $10 voice modem ain't gonna sell many albums...you need some real telephony hardware, like a Dialogic board, which can handle multiple lines, and has great (professional) sound quality to boot. A four line card can be had for about $200, if I remember correctly.
In effect though, upstarts like Napster _are_ the RIAA's equivalent to mass-scale counterfeighters. The RIAA isn't going after individuals, just those that are setting up wide-scale distribution mechanisms.
But that's the whole point of corporate computing..Nobody should be saving important projects on their local drive. User data belongs up on servers with RAID redundancy and nightly, offsite backups.
Giving users local control over machines guarantees that things like missing files are going to occur...
I was once told by a wise person, "the computer is the most flexible machine in the world"
Believe it! If Amazon won't help you, take your superbly flexible computing device and put a stop to this madness...Place a filter on their posts and be done with it! Success! You've won!
seriously...If you want to whine and bitch about this, do the adult thing and begin the formal process of rectifying what I'm sure you're all going to decry as a huge travesty..
Let's see Open Source, the FSF, and the GPL zealots put their money where their mouth is.
The GPL is going to be continually spindled, folded, and mutilated by big corporations. Did you read that suck.com article that was posted here recently? If you're so concerned about shit like this, get a lawyer and send them a cease and desist note...grow the fuck up and take adult measures to deal with this shit...
Does it worry anybody that most of these kind of projects coming down the pipe will be run by corporations that most likely won't release the source to the client software?
How will we know with confidence that we're not signing up to be a part of Echelon or Carnivore or something similar?
I guess if the cash incentive is good enough, it won't matter for most people...
When the Ultima Online server emulators came out, Origin threatened to cancel your subscription with the official service. This was explicitly written into the license agreement for the game. If you check the license agreement for EverQuest, I bet it's the same thing.
Origin also released several client-side patches which required additional reverse-engineering on the part of the emulator authors. Officially it was encryption to reduce "cheating". When I left the UO scene, it was bad enough that only certain patch levels of the client worked with the emulators, but were too old to work with the offical servers. Again, I'd bet the EQ folks will do something similar.
Why is Slashback always posted after business hours in North America have ended? It seems to me that this just makes it ripe for trolling. Most of the heavily trolled articles seem to be the ones posted in the evenings...
It's the apps that make Microsoft rich. Office is the big bread winner, and if they ported it to Linux they'd add a couple million potential customers to their revenue stream.
The last time a checked, Office comprised something like %40 of their revenue.
That's pretty much my whole point. If you put your thesis under an explicit license like the GPL, it could be free for disemmination, but protected from being sold.
Having a license applied to your material gives you a legal leg to stand on, if push comes to shove.
How applicable would the GPL be to essays and thesis papers?
Would anyone be willing to GPL their research the same way they GPL their source? After all, for the majority of Linux hackers, hacking is as much about learning new stuff (research) as it is producing a finished product.
A user in a laundromat will most likely be casually surfing to kill time, not to do research. If you set up a box that limited access to the content available only on AOL or Excite@Home, you'd get news,sports, entertainment, etc, and not much else. Don't set up DNS, and use the hosts file to only point to sites served up by the content provider, and it'll be hard(er) to access porn for the average surfer.
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If you use clamato and vodka, it's a Ceasar..
No way...I've used both, and they don't compare. The cheap consumer-grade voice-modems simply don't have the DSP's you need to squeeze decent quality out of the limited bandwidth available over voice. It's especially apparent when you try to capture DTMF sequences, or do real time streaming. The Dialogic API is also very, very nice for setting up simple Finite State Machines, for touchpad navigation. You're not going to get Another thing..As soon as you want more that say, 4 lines, you're stuck using some fancy serial card, like a DigiBoard, and then you're back to the driver problem again (no, not the Linux driver problem, the whole problem of reliable, long-term vendor supported drivers for whatever OS you choose) I've tried 3com, GVC, no-name voice modems, and they suck. You gotta use the right tool for the the job.
A $10 voice modem ain't gonna sell many albums...you need some real telephony hardware, like a Dialogic board, which can handle multiple lines, and has great (professional) sound quality to boot. A four line card can be had for about $200, if I remember correctly.
In effect though, upstarts like Napster _are_ the RIAA's equivalent to mass-scale counterfeighters. The RIAA isn't going after individuals, just those that are setting up wide-scale distribution mechanisms.
I'm not sure I get the point..
But that's the whole point of corporate computing..Nobody should be saving important projects on their local drive. User data belongs up on servers with RAID redundancy and nightly, offsite backups.
Giving users local control over machines guarantees that things like missing files are going to occur...
I was once told by a wise person, "the computer is the most flexible machine in the world"
Believe it! If Amazon won't help you, take your superbly flexible computing device and put a stop to this madness...Place a filter on their posts and be done with it! Success! You've won!
Fuck off you goddamn troll...
beOS OS/2 WindOwS macOS ecOS freedOS Which OS are you talking about?
You won't find many facts around here, sonny.
Yeah right..A PDC on a 486..get real, uncle fucker...Try that when you have 12,000 desktops doing authentication
Now we can finally figure out how many dirty words are in the majority of Open Source software... I wonder how long it'll take to grep 23 gigs :)
seriously...If you want to whine and bitch about this, do the adult thing and begin the formal process of rectifying what I'm sure you're all going to decry as a huge travesty..
Let's see Open Source, the FSF, and the GPL zealots put their money where their mouth is.
The GPL is going to be continually spindled, folded, and mutilated by big corporations. Did you read that suck.com article that was posted here recently? If you're so concerned about shit like this, get a lawyer and send them a cease and desist note...grow the fuck up and take adult measures to deal with this shit...
How about a contest to write an open source Slashdot spell checker?
Does it worry anybody that most of these kind of projects coming down the pipe will be run by corporations that most likely won't release the source to the client software?
How will we know with confidence that we're not signing up to be a part of Echelon or Carnivore or something similar?
I guess if the cash incentive is good enough, it won't matter for most people...
When the Ultima Online server emulators came out, Origin threatened to cancel your subscription with the official service. This was explicitly written into the license agreement for the game. If you check the license agreement for EverQuest, I bet it's the same thing.
Origin also released several client-side patches which required additional reverse-engineering on the part of the emulator authors. Officially it was encryption to reduce "cheating". When I left the UO scene, it was bad enough that only certain patch levels of the client worked with the emulators, but were too old to work with the offical servers. Again, I'd bet the EQ folks will do something similar.
Why is Slashback always posted after business hours in North America have ended? It seems to me that this just makes it ripe for trolling. Most of the heavily trolled articles seem to be the ones posted in the evenings...
Just wondering...
Jealous?
Don't they test this crap before putting it into production?
Wouldn't YOU change ALL the DEFAULT passwords in a newly configured system?
If you're getting paid to be a Sys Admin, then it is YOUR responsibility to check this kind of stuff before going into production.
Microsoft ISN'T going to do it for YOU.
In all honesty, I don't understand why this story even qualifies as news...
It's the apps that make Microsoft rich. Office is the big bread winner, and if they ported it to Linux they'd add a couple million potential customers to their revenue stream.
The last time a checked, Office comprised something like %40 of their revenue.
I wonder if the uptake on Transmeta's products has been slow enough that their venture capital is drying up.
Also, I hope a "mere" $200 million IPO doesn't make them vulnerable to take-over by certain other chip manufacturers...
Is all their secrecy a sign of great things coming soon, or are they more smoke than substance?
That's pretty much my whole point. If you put your thesis under an explicit license like the GPL, it could be free for disemmination, but protected from being sold. Having a license applied to your material gives you a legal leg to stand on, if push comes to shove.
How applicable would the GPL be to essays and thesis papers? Would anyone be willing to GPL their research the same way they GPL their source? After all, for the majority of Linux hackers, hacking is as much about learning new stuff (research) as it is producing a finished product.
A user in a laundromat will most likely be casually surfing to kill time, not to do research. If you set up a box that limited access to the content available only on AOL or Excite@Home, you'd get news,sports, entertainment, etc, and not much else. Don't set up DNS, and use the hosts file to only point to sites served up by the content provider, and it'll be hard(er) to access porn for the average surfer.
Is anyone else getting sick of stories about software that promotes rampant piracy? Maybe these stories deserve a new slashdot category...